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> > Am I the only person in the world who doesn't use commercial mulch?
Same here, Auralie, I'd rather use homemade compost, etc, I just don't have
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> You are lucky Auralie... wish I had the stuff to make my own mulch...
> not much here yet... heck, I am still going over to the older
> neighborhoods and stealing leaves in the fall to cover my plants...
> geesh....my neighbors are about to have me committed as it is.. :)
> Donna
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> > Am I the only person in the world who doesn't use commercial mulch? I
> > won't
> > say I have never bought mulch - some years ago I invested in a few
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> > cocoa hulls for a bed that needed more help than I could provide, and
> > use salt
> > hay in the vegetable garden when I can find it. Other than that I use
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Aimee Shattuck was the first professional staff coordinator of the Women's Resource Center, serving from November 2002 to August 2007. She facilitated the Center's transition from a student group to a Student Services professional department. Many of our programs and services were shaped by her vision and founded on her efforts. Aimee has long worked in the feminist activist movement, serving as a director on the boards of the Portland Women's Crisis Line and Portland International Women's Day. A tireless advocate for students, she brought this activist spirit to PSU and has left a legacy that supports the development of women leaders on campus and prevents violence against women at Portland State.
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Dana Hills High graduate drives 'Forward' with jazz
Emma Werderman, a Dana Hills High School graduate born and raised in Laguna Niguel, released her first album this month.
She began singing at a young age and started taking voice lessons in middle school. Since then, Werderman has performed in musicals, operas and concerts and has received several vocal accolades – including first place in the 2011 Stars of Tomorrow competition and the Singer of the Year title from both the Monarch Beach and San Juan Capistrano rotary clubs.
When she started college two years ago, Werderman began creating her album "Forward" in between school and other commitments.
"During the time that I was recording the album, a lot of difficult things occurred in my life," Werderman said. "I started when I just turned 18, and when I would feel down, I would think about putting this project out as a means of moving on with my life, swallowing my pride and pushing through. Going 'forward,' if you will."
"Forward" is a jazz album featuring 12 songs, including jazz standard "Lost in a Fog," which Werderman's grandpa requested.
"I love singing jazz because the entire band and I can improvise so much upon really interesting chord progressions and rhythms," said Werderman.
Werderman recorded the album in a Long Beach studio with the assistance of pianist and composer Peggy Duquesnel, who also wrote two of the songs.
Werderman would practice the songs at Duquesnel's house, followed by a day of recording in the studio.
Although Werderman has experience performing live, starring in "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and "West Side Story" at Dana Hills High – in addition to performing in three UCLA operas – she noted that recording in a studio presents its own challenges.
"When performing for an audience, you get to show your talent off to a lot of people who are just glad to be there and watch you perform," Werderman said. "In the studio, you don't get your energy from an audience. You are your own motivation, and you spend upwards of six hours working on the same few songs."
Despite the demanding process, she said she enjoyed learning the ropes of recording in a studio and working with a talented professional band.
"I had never recorded an album, and I felt like it was about time to make something that I could call my own," Werderman said. "My dad's parents are extremely well-versed in all the jazz greats and their tunes since they grew up in that era.
"They have completely funded the album, and I wanted them to have a great recording of me singing their favorites."
"Forward" will be released nationally in February, but it is now available for purchase as a CD or MP3 at emmagoesforward.com/music, where there are also free clips of the songs.
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guppies dieing
I'm having trouble with my gupies, I added 3mollies awhile back 2 dide 1 got very sick but servived. Now one by one my gupies start dieing. First they start swimming at an angle and cant get their tales up then over the course of a few days they cant swim at all and sit on the bottom and die. I'm using prima fix for any fungle infections ive tride seperating the effected fish but they just die. Any help would be great.
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Hi and welcome to the forum! I'm sorry you are having trouble with your tank. Could you give us some more information about it? How long has the tank been set up? Is the tank cycled? Have you tested for ammonia and nitrite? What is a Blue gamura? I'd love to help, but I need some more information to know just what I am dealing with.
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Ive had it up and tuning for 4 months its cycled.I have a full test kit every thing is normal it all started after those damnable mollies., but the gullies are showing different symptoms, I just check an hour ago and another red guy is swimming with his back arched and cant swim up without a lot of effort. He'll probably be dead in 3. Days
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Welcome. So sorry about your guppies. You might be able to save some of them. How often do you change water? What temp is your tank at? Do you use dechlorinator? First thing I would do before any questions would be 25% waterchange with conditioned d water that has been brought up to tank temp
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Try keeping the light out for a couple days. Guppies can usually shake off sickness if they are in good water and eating good food and are not stressed. When water quality is poor they become vulnerable to all sorts of fungus and disease, parasites, finrot. Symptoms you describe sounds like ammonia or nitrite poisoning. I would try daily water changes of 25-50%. It won't hurt .
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Ill try the lite thing didn't. Really think about stress since they've been ok should I change wat more than once a week?
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My other fish get too stressed during a water change I don't want to freak them out
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text: For A More Comic-Accurate X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Play The GameMike Fahey5/24/14 6:24pmFiled to: App ReviewX-Men: Days of Future PastGlitchsoftioskotakucorekotakumobilepanel discussion1085EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink While movie-goers flock to theaters to see a re-imagined version of one of the X-Men's greatest stories, iOS gamers can now play through the original comic book storyline in Glitchsoft's X-Men: Days of Future Past. Let's get this out of the way right off the bat — this is a $2.99 game with no in-app purchases. It's not free-to-play and it's not pay-to-win. It's pay-to-play while the developer nervously watches sales figures and hopes they made the right decision. Fortunately for Glitchsoft, they've made a game with the same name as a major motion picture now in theaters, so they should be okay. Advertisement Advertisement As I mentioned previously, this X-Men: Days of Future Past follows the 1981 comic book story (and goes far beyond it) which inspired the 2014 movie. In a dystopian future on the verge of nuclear holocaust, an older Kitty Pryde (Kate) has her mind projected back in time, in order to prevent the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly by Mystique and her Brotherhood of Evil mutants. Saving Kelly should derail the events that led to all of her friends dying horrible deaths in the future. Players switch between X-Men characters — Wolverine, Kitty, Colossus and more — as the game's story unfolds, level by level. It all begins in the dark future, where the X-Men battle human thugs and sentinel robots, collecting experience points to upgrade their abilities along the way. Eventually Kitty makes her way to the 1980s X-Mansion, where she convinces the younger X-Men to aid her in her mission. The game plays like the evolution of another Glitchsoft game, He-Man: The Most Powerful Game In The Universe. The animation is purposefully still, the characters styled to look and move as if they'd been pulled from the comic book page. There's a lot of punching, kicking and exploring, with the odd super move tossed in for good measure. It's a solid game, enjoyable but not without its faults. As a comic book fan I'm having trouble reconciling Shadowcat's basic attacks doing the same damage as Wolverine's and Colossus'. Along those same lines, I should not have to punch down walls as Shadowcat — her entire thing is being able to pass through solid objects. And time travel, apparently. Being able to pass through solid objects and time travel. If you're going to pick up the game, I urge you to swap the control style from A to B immediately. Style A is on-screen virtual controls, and it's a bastard. Style B's reasonable touch and swipe controls are the way to go. Advertisement Sponsored The X-Men: Days of Future Past game is a throwback to the 2D side-scrolling comic book games of old, and as such it has to take certain liberties with power levels and special abilities. That said, it's a delightful little trip down memory lane that's well worth the cost of a comic book. X-Men: Days of Future Past Genre: Side-scrolling action-adventureDeveloper: GlitchsoftPlatform: iOSPrice: $2.99Get X-Men: Days of Future Past on iOS Reply108 repliesLeave a reply


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|Ray Allen is optimistic but Doc Rivers is cautious about Game 3
|05.03.12 at 1:43 pm ET
WALTHAM, Mass. — Doc Rivers has been around way too long to get over overly excited – let alone ahead of himself – when players tell him they're optimistic they can play.
But still Rivers was pleased Thursday when Ray Allen showed up, announcing that his left ankle felt good enough to allow him to practice as the team prepares for Game 3 against the Hawks on Friday at the Garden.
"[Friday] matters a lot more. I thought you said he said he was definitely playing," Rivers said. "That would be great news. He's going to practice but it's going to be under my watch. He told me [Wednesday] he was going to practice and I told him, 'we'll see.' Really, I don't even know what to do. Honest to God. Eddie and our doctors have all talked. We don't know the answer. We don't know if practicing is a good idea or not. If he practices today but doesn't play [Friday], I'm going to be upset at myself."
Allen took part in the full 75-minute Celtics practice Thursday, which was mostly comprised of half-court sets. Allen tried working out before Game 2 and had a bad setback that kept him from playing in Game 2 Tuesday.
"He biked [Wednesday], I guess that is good. I think he has a better shot but we'll find that out," Rivers said. "He wants to do more today so we'll see. We did that the other day and it didn't work so we have to maybe limit Ray from Ray. He's such a creature of habit, and I actually thought that may hurt him for any chance of him to play. Obviously, it reacted that poorly after just the workout he did, it's probably good he didn't play, at the end of the day.
"He's a tough one because he's such a creature of habit. He does his workouts the night before every game and does his two hours of shooting and then before the game does his hour of shooting. That's a lot of work. We have to figure out a way of allowing him to try to do some of it but not doing so much where when he finishes he can't play because I'd rather take 10 minutes of him on the floor than nothing, if that's what it comes to."
Allen sounded as optimistic as he has since missing the final 11 games of the regular season with the left ankle injury and the first two playoff games.
"Last couple of days, I've been in a really good place so I'm optimistic," Allen said before Thursday's practice. "If I'm sitting here [Friday] feeling good, that's a different story. I am optimistic about practicing today so that's definitely a great step for me moving forward. Read the rest of this entry »
|Donny Marshall on M&M: 'Would not surprise me' if Rajon Rondo suspended two games
|04.30.12 at 2:24 pm ET
After what could be aptly called an interesting Game 1 loss for the Celtics Sunday night, CSNNE analyst Donny Marshall joined Mut & Merloni to discuss all things surrounding the Celtics' 83-74 loss to the Hawks.
Understandably, no topic was given more weight than the ejection of Rajon Rondo for making contact with official Marc Davis and, specifically, the potential fallout for Rondo's actions. Marshall said that Rondo will definitely be suspended, and while it should only be for one game, it may end up being for two.
'Any contact you make with an official, it means you're going to be suspended a game," Marshall said. "And I'll take it one step further — I wouldn't be surprised if the NBA says, 'You know what? We're going to suspend you two games.'
"David Stern is not one of those guys who gives you the benefit of the doubt. It would not surprise me if it were two games. I hope it's just one, it should only be one, but in the past David Stern has come down.'
While Rondo's actions certainly could be detrimental to the Celtics' success going forward, Marshall said that Rondo's teammates would be best served to be supportive of him.
"You know as a teammate, especially at that level, you don't overreact to what your teammates do," Marshall said. "You step back and say, 'Look, what would I have done? Would I have reacted that way?' Guys have emotions and you can't judge your teammates based off one emotional mistake.
"Rondo has given so much to that team and done such a great job of leading that team sometimes when they've been down guys. You can't overreact because the last thing you want is for that incident to blow into something bigger and now it become a personal thing in that locker room."
|Irish Coffee: Banged-up Celtics 'hoping everybody is'
|04.27.12 at 1:12 pm ET
He might not be a real doctor, but he must feel like one after all the injuries he's seen in the past four months.
"We've got to be careful with them, even in the playoffs," said Celtics head coach Doc Rivers. "It just doesn't take much, it seems like, right now, for a guy to not be able to play the next night. So we have to be very careful.'
Take Paul Pierce as Exhibit A. The Celtics captain began this lockout-shortened regular season with a bone bruise in his right heel and ended it with a sprained big left toe. The original plan was to rest Pierce's ailing feet for the final two games, but his desire to stay in rhythm won out, so Rivers played him 18 minutes on Tuesday and just 2:18 on Thursday before March's Eastern Conference Player of the Month limped back to the locker room.
"He hurt it," said Rivers, referencing the toe that led the C's to list Pierce as likely unable to return. "That's why he's been sitting. And then he wanted to play. We're not sure if it was the tape, or whatever, because when he wanted to come back, he just kept saying, 'I just needed to get it loose.' So we had a long discussion, because I had no interest in putting him back in, but he really wanted to play a couple minutes just to get up and down the floor."
The Celtics dodged a bullet, as Pierce returned for the final 4:24 of the first half to score seven quick points and ease fans' fears. The same can't be said for Ray Allen, who missed his ninth straight game with bone spurs in his right ankle. On Thursday, Rivers dubbed him probable for Game 1 against the Hawks, but the Celtics announced via Twitter on Friday, "Allen will not practice today and his status for Game 1 on Sunday is still unknown."
|Fast Break: Rajon Rondo, Celtics stop Bucks season here
|04.26.12 at 10:11 pm ET
Rajon Rondo, Kevin Garnett and Mickael Pietrus all returned to the lineup, and the Celtics cruised to an 87-74 victory against the Bucks in their regular-season finale.
The trio combined for just 13 points, but Rondo dished out 15 assists despite taking just one shot. Avery Bradley (14 points) and Paul Pierce (12 points) were the only Celtics to reach double digits, but the Celtics (39-27) cruised nonetheless.
Recovery act: At times, Rondo ran the floor like, well, a guy with a bad back, but it appeared more like an act than anything worth concern. He toyed with defenders at will, improving his streak of games with at least 10 assists to 24 by halftime. Meanwhile, Pietrus returned from his four-game absence to register nine points off the bench. Garnett only played 11 first-half minutes, but he showed no signs of the sore hip flexor that kept him out against the Heat. All in all, the trio of walking Celtics wounded appeared ready to go for the playoffs.
S'Moore: After totaling seven points and seven rebounds against the Heat on Tuesday night, rookie E'Twaun Moore put together another nice performance. At one point against the Bucks, he was a plus-18 in his time on the floor. Moore finished with eight points, five assists and four rebounds.
Hollins of Fame: It took all of 51 seconds for Ryan Hollins to put together his most productive stretch of the season. He scored seven points in just under a minute, including a pair of dunks — one of which even came on a putback after a rebound — that helped the Celtics establish a double-digit advantage early in the second quarter. After a month of discouragement, Thursday night was an encouraging sign for Hollins.
My left big toe: Just minutes into the game, Pierce limped back to the Celtics locker room accompanied by team Dr. Brian McKeon — a scary sight for a Celtics team hobbled by injuries entering the playoffs. Scarier still was the Celtics diagnosis that Pierce had sprained his left big toe and was "probably not likely to return." Naturally, the C's captain returned before halftime, scoring seven of the team's final 11 points before the break. The feet have been an issue for Pierce ever since his heel injury during training camp, but on a night he accept an Eastern Conference Player of the Month trophy, his injuries don't appear too serious.
Ray of hope: While Rondo, Pietrus and Garnett all returned, Ray Allen missed his ninth consecutive game — and 15th in his last 20 — with bone spurs in his right ankle. Celtics coach Doc Rivers pronounced Allen "probable" to play Game 1 of the Hawks series, but even if he does play, there has to be some doubt about his effectiveness after such a long absence. As for Greg Stiemsma, his foot problems shouldn't keep him from his first career playoff game, even if he missed a second straight game on Thursday.
On the road again: With the Hawks holding a 20-point lead midway through the fourth quarter against the Mavericks, they appeared well on their way to claiming home court advantage in their first-round series against the Celtics. The C's will own the fourth seed as the Atlantic Division winners, but will have to travel to Atlanta for Game 1 (on Sunday). The Celtics finished 2-1 against the Hawks (1-1 in the ATL) this season, but 2-0 when they weren't missing five of their top eight rotation players.
|Home court is still in play, thanks to Sasha Pavlovic
|04.25.12 at 12:46 am ET
If the Celtics do wind up hosting Game 1 of their playoff series with the Hawks, they'll have enigmatic swingman Sasha Pavlovic to thank. With Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Mickael Pietrus, Kevin Garnett and Greg Stiemsma all sitting out of Tuesday's game against the Heat, Pavlovic got the start in the backcourt and promptly went scoreless in six minutes of play. In the second half, he made 7-of-8 shots and scored a game-high 16 points in a 78-66 Celtics win that is best left to the dustbin of history.
"Well, someone had to win the game and we did, which was really nice," was how Doc Rivers summed it up.
It was a game that had some meaning with home court still on the line and was also totally meaningless in that Paul Pierce was the only player of consequence on the floor and he played only 18 minutes. In that it was an appropriate conclusion to a season that has been rushed, hurried and physically taxing.
"It's not good on your body as an athlete," guard Keyon Dooling said. "It's your vehicle to make your money. As a basketball player, recovery is very important. We haven't had that luxury this year. It's not just us, it's everybody. It's not a normal season."
As Pierce put it on Monday, "All you can say is you got through it."
Like many teams, the Celtics decided a week ago that gaining an extra home game simply wasn't worth it. They may still get it, even after giving forgotten souls like E'Twaun Moore, JaJuan Johnson and Ryan Hollins extended looks. If they beat the Bucks on Thursday and the Mavericks beat the Hawks, then Game 1 will be in Boston. If not, they'll be getting on a plane just like they've done basically every other day since December.
"We're going to play our guys Thursday anyway, especially since they didn't play today," Rivers said. "I said that the other day and I thought they were going to play today, so, we'll see."
The playoffs promise to be just as unpredictable with health playing a dominant factor. The Hawks are waiting on Al Horford. The Celtics presumably will have Rondo, Pietrus and maybe Allen back in time for the opener.
"I think Ray will be ready," Rivers said. "I don't know that. I do think he will be ready, but if he's not someone else has to be."
If Allen can play then their rotation is basically set. It's the five starters plus Allen, Pietrus and Stiemsma. If Pietrus or Allen is limited, Pavlovic has put himself in position to be the ninth man depending on matchups. Dooling, the consummate pro, will be ready when called upon. In other words, Tuesday's game didn't change anything in the Celtics world, even with home court still in the balance.
|Irish Coffee: How Celtics re-match up against Hawks
|04.23.12 at 4:27 pm ET
UPDATE: Since Al Horford's original claim that playing against the Celtics in their first-round series was unrealistic, the Hawks center has changed his tune. A consultation with his surgeon resulted in a prognosis that he could return to the court on Thursday in a limited role, according to the most recent Yahoo! Sports report.
"It remains to be seen what I can bring," Horford told reporter Marc J. Spears. "But I hope to bring some scoring. They can't expect a lot from me defensively because it's been a while since I've even played. That's one of the things that will hold me back, but scoring I can help. And also with presence with the team in general."
It's official. When the NBA's Eastern Conference playoffs begin at month's end, the Celtics will face the Hawks — the same team that in 2008 took them to seven games in the first round. That was then, when the championship nucleus of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen was just finding its groove. This is now, five years later.
The first four of this core's 43 playoff wins came against Atlanta, but will its last also come against the Hawks?
|Irish Coffee: Avery Bradley 'beautiful' in Kevin Garnett's eyes
|04.19.12 at 2:10 pm ET
Twice after their division-clinching victory against the Magic, Kevin Garnett made his case to the Celtics organization for rewarding Avery Bradley financially after his successful sophomore campaign.
"I love seeing young guys who work hard and it pays off," said Garnett. "I love young guys who listen and actually put in the work. Just from seeing where he's come from to where he's at now is just beautiful, man. I hope they're able to reward him with some longevity and some loyalty — something long-term. I've always said to him, 'Continue to work, because that's what's got you here,' so I'm happy for him."
The problem is Bradley isn't slated to become an unrestricted free agent until the 2015-16 NBA season. He'll make $1.6 million next season, $2.5 million in 2013-14 and at least the qualifying offer of $3.6 million in 2014-15, facts that may have escaped Garnett, who has made at least $14 million in each of his last 14 seasons.
It's a great problem for the Celtics, because Bradley has established himself as one of the best bargains in basketball. With Rajon Rondo also locked up through 2014-15 at an average of $12 million over the three years, the C's have one of the youngest, most affordable starting backcourts and two of the best trade chips in the NBA.
"Avery's emerging," said Keyon Dooling, "so we might have to give him like a Big Five or something."
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Former member of Motown group Temptations Richard Street died at a Las Vegas hospital at the age of 70 his widow confirmed today.
Cindy Street said her husband died on yesterday at St. Rose Dominican Hospital suffering from a blood clot in his lung.
She had taken him to the emergency room on Friday after he had trouble breathing.
"He was fighting to the very last moment," she said in a telephone interview from Las Vegas. "He was very happy. He had the kind of life he wanted. We laughed all the time."
Street, who had suffered from a blood clot more than a decade ago, was the second ex-member of the versatile Motown band to die this month after Otis "Damon" Harris died at age 62.
The Temptations was one of the leading male vocal groups of the 1960s and early 1970s, surviving several personnel changes to tackle a wide range of musical styles with tight harmonies and well choreographed dance routines.
Street was not in the original 1960s lineup but joined the band in the early 1970s and continued for more than 20 years before pursuing a solo career.
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They say war is hell. So was one of the numbers on tonight's Dance War. The humanity…oh, the humanity. But on the bright side, thanks to the hour-long format there was hardly any filler. Huzzah!
This week we're treated to a Motown theme and the opening group number is "Land of 1,000 Dances" by Wilson Pickett. I keep bringing up Fame during these big group numbers because it's really quite appropriate – it's too pop to be Broadway and too Broadway to be pop, but still enjoyable. One other thing I noticed is that pretty much every male on the show is a tenor. That may be an issue considering the songs in the Motown repertoire.
First up is Team Bruno's pre-taped package. At the top of the segment, The Big B announces to the team that they're going to be performing Aretha Franklin's "Think." He makes this big deal about giving the lead to someone really soild and blah blah blah, trying to build up suspense but everyone knows it's going to Lacey. Because, really, the only other girls who can pull off that song ain't on Bruno's team. Also, we see that they're doing another team/trust building excersise at the beginning of a rehearsal. It's that "fall back and let us catch you" one. Lacey can't bring herself to do it because, as she explains to Bruno when he has a sit-down with her afterwards, her life experiences makes it hard for her to trust people quickly. He says that that's life and something she'll have to deal with. Only it sounds a little less harsh when he said it.
So, the number was okay. I didn't really like the arrangement so much and Lacey lost her support on a few notes, leaving her sounding breathy, but this is an Aretha song so you can only be so judgemental. The choreography was good, though it kind of reminded me of the opening to the Emmy Awards. Bruno heaps praise upon praise on his team, which is such old hat at this point, while Carrie Ann points out that if Charity and Kelsey can only hold two lines in the song, that maybe his team isn't as strong as he thinks it is. The Big B gets his panties all in a twist about that but she's totally right. There's no way Charity or Kelsey could ever hold down this song, though Kelsey wins the vocal duel between the two but only marginally.
For Team Carrie Ann's first taped segment, Chris says he felt bad about the mic going out during the performance of "Run It" last week until a mob of teenies accosted him in the hallway and had him autograph some stuff and sing. The next day at rehearsal, Carrie Ann congratulates the team on a good job and plays a little indoor football to lighten things up (which she did in high heeled boots, thank you very much). The clip ends with C to the A addressing her troops and saying that Bruno's team thought they had it in the bag, that you could tell by their behavior. But, she's adds, they ain't seen nothing yet.
"Papa Was A Rolling Stone" by the Temptations is their first number and, accordingly, everyone's dressed in the same outfit – a pinstripe suit with a hat and some layered hoodie action. Modern, yet classic, as C to the A had mentioned several times. Qis starts out – very solid. Bradley started off a little shakey again (he was off in the opening) and we actually got to hear Chris this week, who thankfully did well. I really liked the vibe of the whole thing. They had hand-held microphones with stands as well as headsets and, unlike Bruno's team in the the first number, used the props to their fullest. There were a few note baubles but really good overall. As a matter of fact, I expected the audience to start chanting "Served! Served! Served!" after they did a step sequence in the middle of the number. Carrie Ann is happy with the performance overall and then Bruno once again talks about how they're not together or "slick enough." Everytime he says that I want to smack him because it's such a one-dimensional, cop-out thing to say.
While evaluating the team as to who would have to go home in the second taped segment, Bruno points out that Charity and Tony both have presence issues. Their second song is "Caught Up" by Usher, a great song that I'm sure they're going to senselessly bludgeon to death. And man, sometimes I hate being right. Tony and Philip started out in the wrong key…but different wrong keys. I'm not sure how that's possible. Yet it happened. Holy crap…AND Zack is wrong – right key, bad notes. I…I just can't write about it anymore. They hurt my feelings. And after the mercy tonguebath from Cap'n Bruno, Carrie Ann was so even-keeled and nice about her feedback she should be an Ambassodor for the UN. She could negotiate hostages out of war-torn countries because that ish was terrible. She generously gave them credit for singing a difficult song that has very little musical support for solos. Which is true, but geez. The singing was so bad, I can't even critique the dancing. Oh…it burned my eyes. Happily moving on.
"Extend it. Move it. Look it." That was C to the A's dance mantra while showing the girls the choreography for their second number. It's so random, I'd wear it on a shirt. Alyssa, Elizabeth and Bradley are on her watch list so she talks to them one on one to let her know her concerns and hear their sides.
Diana Ross' "Upside Down" is the second number. Bradley starts off with a fantastic dance solo. The vocals weren't as great as last week but it's a difficult song – Ms. Ross isn't exactly known for her vocal prowess so when people who have big pipes cover her tunes, they often have uneven results. But the girls were all good and had some really nice harmonies at the end. It was a welcome salve for my injured and weeping eardrums. Plus, we got some kick-can partner work from Bradley and Alyssa. It was leaps and bounds better than Team Bruno's second number. I mean, not even the same league. And what I don't get is how Bruno has the nerve to tell them that their vocals were off and that they have to really "pull it together" and "focus" considering he just slobbered all over his peeps' sub-standard vocal serial killing. The nerve.
And, because the gods don't like ugly, Team Carrie Ann won and she gets to keep all her people. Now, Bruno must kick one member to the curb. He keeps Lacey, Philip, Tony and Zack, leaving Charity and Kelsey to sing solos for their preverbial lives. I'm surprised Tony wasn't in the bottom two because he messed up bad.
To make matters worse, the girls have to round robin "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Thelma Houston. Why don't you just have them sing "All By Myself." Both are such weaksauce singers, it really doesn't matter who stays and who goes. That being said, it's absolutely no surprise that The Big B keeps Kelsey since he's been all over her since day one. And now Drew Lachey has the unenviable task of sticking a microphone in her face while she's crying for her final words.
And I still don't know what they win at the end of the series.
Am I the only one completely horrified by that second number from Team Bruno? Is it possible that it actually sounds good on-stage to justify Bruno's completely unfettered bias? Do you care that Charity left? Any thing else you want to add?


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(Aim 2) To evaluate inhibitor-ER interaction in vitro and in cells, we will use ER mutants containing large ER domains and then do studies with smaller mutations. Photoaffinity labeling, NMR comparison of chemical shifts of free ER and ER-inhibitor complexes, and isothermal titration calorimetry will be used to assess direct interaction of the inhibitors with ER. If feasible, structural studies of ER domain-inhibitor complexes will be performed. We will evaluate potential inhibitor effects on ER dimerization, degradation, phosphorylation and synergy with known antagonists.
(Aim 3) Using Tam-sensitive and Tam-resistant breast cancer cells, we will assess the ability of the inhibitors to block tumor growth or induce tumor regression. These small molecule inhibitors are powerful new probes for ER action in breast cancer.
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|Jiang, Xinguo; Shapiro, David J (2014) The immune system and inflammation in breast cancer. Mol Cell Endocrinol 382:673-82
|Zhang, Chen; Nordeen, Steven K; Shapiro, David J (2013) Fluorescence anisotropy microplate assay to investigate the interaction of full-length steroid receptor coactivator-1a with steroid receptors. Methods Mol Biol 977:339-51
|Huang, B; Qu, Z; Ong, C W et al. (2012) RUNX3 acts as a tumor suppressor in breast cancer by targeting estrogen receptor ýý. Oncogene 31:527-34
|Andruska, Neal; Mao, Chengjian; Cherian, Mathew et al. (2012) Evaluation of a luciferase-based reporter assay as a screen for inhibitors of estrogen-ER*-induced proliferation of breast cancer cells. J Biomol Screen 17:921-32
|Woo, Ho-Hyung; Yi, Xiaofang; Lamb, Tiffany et al. (2011) Posttranscriptional suppression of proto-oncogene c-fms expression by vigilin in breast cancer. Mol Cell Biol 31:215-25
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1. Animal Comfort
For about ten years I've been going to the Russian River resort area in Northern California at the end of July with my friend Lou and her family. We stay at a place called Summerhome Park, situated at a bend in the green, snaky river. Hills of redwood trees rise from its banks, and the air, carrying the combined fragrances of redwood, bay, and running river water, is so fresh and clean you wish you could bottle it and bring it home.
I sleep in the cabin with Lou's sister-in-law, Tina, and over the years a small group of what I've come to call cranky middle-aged women have emerged as a core of regular yearly guests. Besides Lou, who's been my closest friend for over a decade, and me, the group includes Tina and her longtime friend Theresa, both of them labor and delivery nurses.
Each year I watch the passage and progress of an osprey or a family of ospreys that appears precisely around the bend in the river each morning and late afternoon to fish. It announces its presence with a distinctive whistle my father taught me to recognize on one of our bird-watching trips to the Everglades and is always an exhilarating sight. I once observed the parent ospreys taking their fledgling children on a trial flight, leading them on with a fish skeleton one parent held in its mouth.
Summerhome Park is one of those resorts built in the 1920s or 1930s, when wealthy families from San Francisco went to the Russian River to summer. It is an idyllic place for children, woodsy and mysterious, with a wide, safe beach, a lodge where teenagers can hang out, buying candy and hamburgers and shooting pool, and many secluded spots along the river for canoeing, fishing, and Huck Finn-type imaginative wilderness adventures.
While the kids are hanging out at the lodge or around campfires on the beach, we women play a card game called Spite and Malice. It is a complicated form of multihanded solitaire. I'm sure Spite and Malice got its name from the viciously competitive way it must be played. The game's objective is to get rid of your pile of cards before anyone else does, and one way of doing it is by purposely blocking your opponents' progress. Since Tina learned it from an elderly woman she helps care for named Lucille, we call our game Lucille.
In the long, lazy evenings after dinner at the river, we women play many games of Lucille. I am a bridge player and can endure almost anything with good games of cards. I used to say that the best thing about being in jail was that there were always enough people to play cards with, and in the course of many stays in rehab, I survived by playing spades, a simpler form of bridge, with my fellows. When I was a child on Long Island, and hurricanes or thunderstorms knocked out our power and flooded the only bridge to town, my father would light candles and play leisurely games of canasta or Steal the Old Man's Bundle with the kids.
Theresa came to Summerhome Park as a child. Her aunt and uncle owned a small general and grocery store she helped out in. It had long been boarded up, though still scenic, when we discovered Summerhome Park and began to go there.
I don't know that Tina, who is goodhearted and generous almost to a fault, would describe herself as cranky. But Theresa's eccentricities would make her embrace the description wholeheartedly. Together, the four of us generate a powerful female energy that reminds me of matriarchs in an elephant or buffalo herd. I once saw a buffalo cow give birth in Golden Gate Park. The other females surrounded her in a circle of protection. That is the sort of energy we possess.
Of course I bring my knitting to the river. One year I was experimenting with luxury materials. I had begun to knit with a fiber known as qiviut that had recently come onto the commercial market. Qiviut is spun from the downy underhair of the musk ox, a shaggy Arctic beast that roams the frozen tundra and puts one in mind of a smaller, stubbier version of the woolly mammoth.
The animal is little changed from the Ice Age. According to an article by Donna Druchunas in the Fall 2003 issue of Interweave Knits, the musk ox, which was hunted nearly to extinction in the 1860s, lives in remote areas of Greenland, Alaska, and Canada, "where it grows an underwool that is . . . eight times warmer than sheep's wool. This layer of qiviut protects the animals in --100°F weather; in fact, captive herds must be protected from overheating when temperatures rise to just 70°F."
To the Yupiit people of Alaska, the animal is known as the oomingmak ("the bearded one"). And qiviut, the yarn spun from its soft, downy underfleece, is said to be finer, warmer, and lighter than cashmere. "With each animal producing just five to seven pounds of qiviut each year," Druchunas writes, "the fiber remains rare and expensive." There are cooperatives of Inuit women in the Yukon who make garments from qiviut and sell them by mail order. They are costly and exquisite. But the fiber became available for the home knitter only in the past decade, when a woman named Nancy Bender began raising musk oxen on a farm in Hamilton, Montana, and having the underfleece spun into yarn.
At about the same time, a company somewhere began producing luxurious knitting needles made of rosewood and ebony. I bought a pair of ebony straight needles with rosewood knobs and imagined myself knitting qiviut on ebony in the very height of luxury.
The needles didn't work out too well for me; the wood was hard and hurt my hands. But the qiviut worked out fine.
It was at that time available only in taupe brown, the natural color of the fleece, a color that seemed as though it would be comforting in a cozy animal way. Warmth for weight ratio is a big deal in the fiber world. Mohair, for instance, has a very high degree of warmth for its light weight, and cashmere has been coveted for years because of this quality. Of course not all cashmere is created equal. The diet of the goats, the altitude at which they are raised, the processing of the fleece, and the spinning, as well as the raw fleece itself, make the feel of the fiber vary widely.
Downy fibers such as qiviut and cashmere possess what is called a halo, the fine hairs that surround the core of spun fiber and make it more or less fuzzy depending on the yarn. They are also said to bloom with washing. As the fiber absorbs water and the tightness of the spin relaxes, the yarn fluffs up and softens in an appealing way. This works particularly well with lace patterns, as the halo blooms and occupies the empty spaces formed by the yarnovers or holes in the lace.
By this point I had been knitting so much and so passionately that I had caught up with most new developments in the knitting world, had become current, as it were, and was hungry for novelty and variety.
I found in a book of classic British Isles knitwear a pattern for a lace shawl that was pictured wrapped around a baby. It didn't look very large. I ordered a couple of skeins of qiviut from Nancy Bender and began knitting my first lacy shawl. Did I mention that the yarn was extravagantly pricey? It made cashmere look like a bargain.
The shawl was in the pattern known as feather and fan, or old shale, which makes a scallopy edge to the design. Though it was not the first time I knitted lace, it was the first of many shawls I was to knit and started me on a major binge of lace shawl knitting. This piece had a simple triangular shape rather than the large squares I later made, and it featured only one lace pattern rather than the varying patterns of the others.
Who knows why one pattern feels so pleasurable and comfortable to knit while another feels frustrating and irritating? This for me is one of the enduring mysteries of lace knitting. But the rhythm and feel of the feather and fan appealed to me right from the start. I loved the rhythm of its yarnovers and decreases, the mathematical arabesque of adding and subtracting stitches, the alternating columns and arches that appeared with each repetition of the pattern.
But the quantity of yarn required for the piece had not been precisely delineated in the instructions, and its finished size had been concealed in the folds wrapped around the baby. So I kept running out of yarn. Every week it seemed I was calling Nancy Bender to tell her I needed more qiviut while the price for the project mounted ever upward. Also, since the fleece had been gathered from different animals and was available only in its natural color, the skeins did not match exactly in color, weight, or finish of thread. Some were lighter in color, some darker, some smoother, some fluffier, with a shaggier feel more like mohair.
I was about midway through the shawl when I went to the Russian River that year, in 1997, and the price of the yarn had already soared to about $250, with no end in sight.
Theresa pulled it right out of my knitting bag. "What is this?" she demanded as the shawl fluffed up into its shaggy, lacy animal beauty. "I want this," she said. "I have to have it."
"I can't possibly sell it for what the materials cost," I said. "The yarn has already cost two hundred fifty dollars, and I'm nowhere near finished."
"I would pay you five or six hundred dollars for something like this," she said. Theresa lives near the ocean in San Diego. Both her husband and her daughter are avid surfers. She was already imagining the comforting fluffy shawl wrapped around her shoulders on chilly evenings at the beach.
When it was finished, I sold it to her. To my exacting knitter's eye, the shawl was far from perfect. There were mistakes in the lace, so the columns and arches didn't line up precisely. The color wasn't uniform, as it would be if one were to buy all the yarn at one time, in the same dye lot. It varied from light to dark, from finer to thicker, from smooth to furry in various parts.
The shape was asymmetrical, and the size somewhere between a shawl and a scarf, not the generous enveloping wrap I'm sure Theresa had imagined. I hadn't yet learned how to block lace, so it was lumpy and bumpy. It possessed plenty of that quality the Japanese call wabi sabi, the charm of the imperfect.
But Theresa didn't think so.
"I don't know what I ever did to deserve anything as beautiful as this," she said, "but it must have been good."
In truth the shawl was cozy and comforting, not so very far from the animals that had given their downy underhair to create the yarn, and of course it had absorbed all that female energy that the four of us, plus Tina's other nurse friends, generated on the river.
It was also the first time I was ever paid what I thought was a fair price for my labor and materials.
Theresa loved it. She kept it in a special box. Enshrined, she said, like the relic of a saint. And since she, Tina, and Lou all had grown up in Roman Catholic families, Theresa thought of a singularly Catholic use for the shawl.
"This is the sort of thing," she said, "that I want to be wearing in my open casket."
"I never would have thought of that," I said, "but now that you mention it, it seems fine."
Over the years we've been going to the Russian River all of us have lost members of our families. Lou has lost a brother; Tina's lost both parents and two brothers; Theresa's brother and my father have died. Though we are together for only a short, intense time each year, we have used our connection and companionship to mourn and console, to comfort and succor one another. We have shared the deaths in our families that have occurred between each season.
Theresa, who is from a large Mexican family, liked to regale us with stories about her late brother Louie, who had been something of an outlaw and reprobate. He rode a Harley, trafficked in illicit substances, and had a large number of girlfriends who streamed through the house in a steady procession as he lay dying upstairs of liver disease.
"Louie's fools," Theresa called them. According to her, the women remained devoted to Louie even though she did everything in her power to dissuade them. "You don't want to go up there," she would tell one of them. "Mary is already there, and you know how much you hate her."
"I couldn't really blame them," Theresa said, "because Louie was so appealing. But I'm glad I was his sister, so I didn't have to be one of his fools."
The women mourned en masse at Louie's funeral, a colorful affair that naturally featured the deceased in an open casket. Some of Louie's buddies had thoughtfully provided him with some sustenance for the afterlife, several joints of marijuana placed in the breast pocket of his shirt.
Theresa marched right up to the casket and took the joints out of Louie's pocket, "because," as she said, "he wouldn't be needing them where he was going, and I needed them right then."
Theresa and Tina saw each other between times at the river, and Lou and I lived close to each other at home, but the four of us rarely gathered except at the river. One winter Lou went with Tina to San Diego, and Theresa conducted what she called a showing of the shawl in its special box.
Tina's mother had been ill and on dialysis for some time, but when she died suddenly, Tina was devastated. Theresa wasn't able to attend the funeral, but she offered Tina what, to her mind, was the next best consolation to her presence.
"I told her I was sorry I couldn't come to the funeral," she said. "But I said she could borrow the shawl to wear."
She called it the shawl as though it were the only one in the world and everyone would know what she meant. As though it possessed magical powers. As though it could function as an intermediary between worlds, between animals and humans, between the living and the dead.
For Tina and Theresa, who were so often present at the mysteries of birth, the occasions of birth and death required a kind of animal comfort. The swaddling of the baby. The shrouding of the corpse. The wearing of a magic shawl to ease the pain of grief. All these times demanded a kind of bundling or wrapping that would somehow aid the body's passage between the states of being and nonbeing.
A shawl is a garment to be wrapped around the wearer. It envelops the person in warmth. It is a natural project for the contemplative nature of knitting. Prayer shawl ministries have now sprung up in many areas of the country. They are groups that knit for members in distress, stitching their work with prayer and positive intention. Then they wrap the recipients in the shawls as a blessing.
The last time I saw Theresa, she told me she had loaned the qiviut shawl to her mother. Her mother suffers from lymphoma, and Theresa thought the shawl might ease the pain of the tumors in her neck.
Theresa's mother is something of a fancy lady. According to Theresa, she never goes out even to do her gardening in anything but nylon hose and immaculate Ferragamos. Now she has a shaggy, imperfect, hand-stitched shawl to warm the achings of her heart and her neck. And since the shawl has a life of its own, like a child you've given birth to, she will probably never know it comes to her courtesy of the great, shambling Arctic beasts whose coats provided the yarn, and of the nimble fingers of the knitter that was me.
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Symantec announced it is planning to offer Symantec Data Loss Prevention for Tablet, the first comprehensive data loss prevention (DLP) solution for the monitoring and protection of sensitive information on tablet computers. Available first for the Apple iPad, Symantec Data Loss Prevention for Tablet will help solve one of the most urgent problems facing security organizations today by providing content-aware protection for this remarkably popular new corporate endpoint. The solution is designed to maintain user productivity and protect an organization's confidential data at the same time.