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As has been the case with several other Ambrose books that were recently discovered to have borrowed from other authors, the best-selling historian marks the passages with footnotes citing Lavender as the source, but does not put the words between quotation marks.
Here, for example, is Ambrose (page 48) on the childhood of railroad baron
And here is Lavender (page 3): "Almost at once young Huntington bedazzled Noble by memorizing both the wholesale and retail cost of every item in the cluttered stock and then effortlessly calculating, without pen or paper or even moving his lips, the profit that could be expected from each piece, either in cash or in barter." (Both books concern the building of the first transcontinental railroad. For more text comparisons, see "When Ambrose Met Lavender.")
The paperback edition of Nothing Like It is one of three Ambrose books currently lodged on various bestseller lists–and one of six Ambrose books recently found to contain passages copied in whole or in part from other authors, without being placed between quotation marks.
The Weekly Standard first uncovered Ambrose's transgressions two weeks ago, finding fault with Ambrose's newest book, The Wild Blue. Forbes.com subsequently has uncovered similar problems in four other Ambrose books–Crazy Horse and Custer, Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, Citizen Soldiers and now Nothing Like It in the World.
Several problematic passages have also turned up in Ambrose's massively popular Lewis & Clark book, Undaunted Courage–including one example turned up by Forbes.com in which Ambrose borrows some 19th-century prose from the legendary historian
Old book reviews are starting to turn up that had registered complaints about Ambrose but were little noticed until now. The Weekly Standard found one review from 1997 that focused on a passage from Undaunted Courage that was a "wanly cited echo" of a similar passage by
So, despite Ambrose's continued dominance of the bestseller lists, 2002 is shaping up as a year to forget for America's favorite celebrity historian. He apologized immediately for not putting quotation marks around the purloined Wild Blue passages; since then, as the other five books have been identified one or two at a time, he generally has declined to comment. He did, however, defend himself last week to the New York Times: "I wish I had put the quotation marks in, but I didn't. I am not out there stealing other people's writings. If I am writing up a passage and it is a story I went to tell and this story fits and a part of it is from other people's writing, I just type it up that way and put it in a footnote. I just want to know where the hell it came from."
His critics say that by omitting the quotation marks, he is passing off other writers' work as his own–and that Ambrose, a former history professor, should be well aware that what he is doing amounts to plagiarism. In the critics' view, an author who footnotes stolen passages is like a thief who leaves a polite thank-you note at the scene of his crime, with an address where he can be reached. It mitigates the offense, but he's still a thief.
As a historian, Lavender had been following the Ambrose controversy with interest, but not having read Nothing Like It in the World, he was not aware until yesterday that Ambrose had taken liberties with Great Persuader. Lavender said footnoting the material does not allow an author to present the words as his own–a point Lavender makes when he meets with students. "I tell people, don't swipe it–at least rewrite it," says Lavender, who is based in Ojai, Calif. "A lot of people aren't as meticulous as they ought to be."
Lavender, who says he has never met Ambrose, was not pleased to learn about the similarities between parts of Great Persuader and Nothing Like It, especially after the earlier reports about problems with other Ambrose books. "It is reaching a point where I'm beginning to get a little scornful of the man and a little jealous of his reputation, which he does not deserve," Lavender says. "The guy should be held accountable for every word when he gets paid the way he does."
Ambrose reportedly earns advances in the million-dollar range from
Passages in
Lavender, pg. 9: | "Only three females were aboard–twenty-four-year-old Jessie Benton Fremont…Jesse was on her way to California, escorted by a young brother-in-law, to meet her explorer husband, John Charles Fremont, at the conclusion of his fourth expedition through the western reaches of the continent, this one in search of a usable railroad route to the Pacific." |
Ambrose, pg. 49: | "Twenty-four-year-old Jessie Benton Fremont…was on the ship, on her way to California to meet her explorer husband, John Charles Fremont. He had just completed his fourth expedition through the Western reaches of the continent, this one in search of a usable railroad route to the Pacific." |
Lavender, pg. 16: | "All contemporary accounts of the beach at Panama agree that it was appalling. Rain poured. Mud, mildew, and fungus oozed over everything. Sanitation in the improvised tent city was inadequate. Unwashed raw fruit caused epidemics of dysentery. Malaria swept through the weakened sufferers. There were outbreaks of cholera, threats of smallpox…Bayard Taylor, who also crossed the isthmus in 1849, was horrified by the vice, depravity and selfishness that he encountered on all sides." |
Ambrose, pg. 50: | "At the end of the trip, all were appalled by Panama City. It rained continually. Mud, mildew and fungus oozed everywhere. Sanitation in the tent city was lacking or completely absent. Unwashed raw fruit caused epidemics of dysentery. Malaria and cholera were common, as were threats of smallpox. Vice, depravity, and selfishness thrived." |
Lavender, pg. 49: | "Out of shared interests and troubles, Old Huntington and Uncle Mark, as the clerks called Hopkins, developed an abiding affection for each other." |
Ambrose, pg. 53: | "Out of shared interests and mutual troubles, they developed an abiding affection for each other, different though they were in ages and personalities." |
Lavender, pg. 87: | "What interested him were those widely spaced saddles in the ridgetop. By weaving in and out of them, his railway–he was already coupling the possessive to the noun–could ascend toward the ultimate crest of the mountain on an even grade not in excess of the capabilities of the locomotives of his time." |
Ambrose, pg. 69: | "What interested him most were the widely spaced saddles in the ridge line. By weaving in and out of them, the railroad could ascend toward the ultimate crest of the mountains on an even grade not in excess of the capability of the locomotives, or a maximum of a hundred feet per mile." |
Lavender, pg. 105: | "In spite of the difference, Aaron Sargent prepared a long speech rehashing the same arguments that had been used over and over in favor of the railroad: the government would save upwards of seven million dollars a year in transporting troops, munitions, and mail; the western Indians would be quelled; emigration to the Coast would be speeded; the intervening territories would be developed; trade with the Orient would jump; California's loyalty to the Union would be assured; foreign aggressors would be confounded; the nation's prestige would soar." |
Ambrose, pg. 78: | "He made all the familiar arguments: the government would save millions of dollars in transporting troops, munitions, and mail; the Western Indians would be quelled; emigration to the coast would speed up; the Great Plains would be developed; trade with Japan and China would jump; California's loyalty to the Union would be assured; no foreign army would dare attack California." |
Lavender, pg. 108: | "The fierce attacks and counterattacks that swirled around this first version of the bill led Justin Morrill of Vermont to comment sourly that capital was not interested in building the Union Pacific through uninhabited territories, but only in grabbing off the subsidies at either end. Anyway, he added, the nation could hardly afford both guns and railroads. Why not wait until after the war?" |
Ambrose, pg. 79: | "Representative Justin Morrill of Vermont, who could be farsighted on some matters, commented sourly that those who were putting up the capital were not interested in building a railroad west from the Missouri River, or in the Central Pacific, if it went farther east than the Nevada silver mines, through uninhabited territories. The railroad, he charged, was interested in grabbing off subsidies at either end. Besides, Morrill grumbled, the nation could hardly afford both guns and railroads. Why not wait until after the war?" |
A passage from Ambrose's Undaunted Courage (Simon & Schuster, 1996) and one in Lavender's The Way to the Western Sea (Harper & Row, 1988):
Lavender, pg. 374: | "Lewis dashed off what became the most frequently quoted sentence he ever wrote: 'The Missouri…'" |
Ambrose, pg. 398: | "Thus he opened the third paragraph of his report to Jefferson with a sentence that became the most frequently quoted one he ever wrote: 'The Missouri… '" |
A passage in Undaunted Courage and one in History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (Library of America, 1986) by
Adams, pg. 6: | "The entire population, both free and slave, west of the mountains, reached not yet half a million; but already they were partly disposed to think themselves, and the old thirteen States were not altogether unwilling to consider them, the germ of an independent empire, which was to find its outlet, not through the Alleghenies to the seaboard, but by the Mississippi River to the Gulf." |
Ambrose, pg. 52: | "Fewer than one out of ten Americans, about half a million people, lived west of the Appalachian Mountains, but as the Whiskey Rebellion had shown, they were already disposed to think of themselves as the germ of an independent nation that would find its outlet to the world marketplace not across the mountains to the Atlantic Seaboard, but by the Ohio and Mississippi river system to the Gulf of Mexico." |


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The Rebels will play Georgia Tech in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 30 in a pairing announced Sunday night. Ole Miss opened the season beating Vanderbilt a couple miles from LP Field, home of the bowl game. Now the Rebels are back in this bowl for the second time.
"We have one of the great bowl traditions in all of college football, and I'm excited that we have earned a bowl berth in each of our first two seasons," Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. "I appreciate the unbelievable support Rebel Nation has provided our team, and I look forward to seeing a sea of Red and Blue in Nashville."
Ole Miss (7-5) finished on a two-game skid that dropped the Rebels out of the Top 25 rankings. The Rebels played in the BBVA Compass Bowl last season.
This will be the 35th bowl appearance all-time by Ole Miss. The Rebels are 22-12, including last season when Ole Miss beat Pittsburgh 38-17 at the BBVA Compass Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., to cap Freeze's first season.
The last time Ole Miss played in the Music City Bowl, David Cutcliffe was the coach and Eli Manning was the Rebels' quarterback. That's the only bowl the Rebels have lost over the past 10 bowl trips going back to the 1992 Liberty Bowl.
Ole Miss lost 49-38 to West Virginia in their first Music City Bowl. These Rebels have plenty of Tennessee connections starting at quarterback in Bo Wallace, a native of Giles County, and a running back in I'Tavius Mathers from nearby Murfreesboro.
Rebels athletic director Ross Bjork said Ole Miss has 126,000 alumni within a day's drive. Added to the Rebels' season opening win over Vanderbilt, he said Nashville is a stronghold for Ole Miss.
"We know our fans will continue our stellar reputation of supporting our team and filling up LP Field," Bjork said. "Last year was Lock the Legion and now we have the Music City Encore."
Georgia Tech (7-5) will be making its first appearance in the bowl sponsored by Franklin American Mortgage as the Atlantic Coast Conference's representative. This is the Yellow Jackets' 17th straight bowl berth, tied for the second longest streak nationally, and 42nd overall. They went to the Sun Bowl the past two seasons and beat Southern California 21-7 last year.
"Ole Miss is a very talented football team and they are well-coached, so we certainly have our work cut out for us," Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said. "It should be an entertaining football game."
This will be the first game between these teams since 1971 when Ole Miss beat the Yellow Jackets 41-18 in the Peach Bowl. Georgia Tech won the other two games in this series in 1956 and at the 1953 Sugar Bowl, the last capping an undefeated season.
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"Mom, can I have cookies for breakfast?"
I know we've all heard it at some point in time getting the kids ready for school, or (insert early morning sport) practice, or even just on a lazy Sunday morning when they think they can catch you off guard. Well, how'd you like to be able to say "Yes?" Wouldn't that just beat all, and leave your offspring thinking you've finally gone over the edge? Not really…
But it sure would be funny to see their expressions! These days many of us are up and on the go early, and full breakfasts just aren't always part of the plan.
We know the deep-down truth about fast food even if it tastes good, and even many "healthy" granola bars on the market are loaded with artificial colors and unpronounceable ingredients. Not all, mind you. There are some great ones out there to serve to your family without a hint of guilt, but wouldn't it be nice to whip up something delicious and be able to add just what YOU want for ingredients?
I've been making these Breakfast Cookies for nearly 20 years now. I've tweaked the original recipe many times over, quite a few since coming to work here at King Arthur. The greatest thing I've found about this recipe (besides sharing it with many, many parents of my students over the years) is that it's very adaptable, and each person can really tailor it to their tastes. Don't like coconut? Leave it out. Love walnuts? Throw 'em in! To quote the famous jingle, "Have it your way!"
Just a quick note before you break out the rope to string me up. These are still cookies, and I'm certainly not advocating them for breakfast every day of the year. BUT, these cookies can be loaded with fiber and protein and can be part of a balanced breakfast in moderation. Fair 'nuff?
I'm pretty darn happy with this latest variation, so let's get started on our Breakfast Cookies.
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After I took the picture I found my cup full of coconut on the counter. I really did use it, you just can't see it in the photo.
Combine the King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour with the peanut butter mixture. Have I told you lately how much I love this flour?
I like knowing that the flour isn't bleached and that we don't add bromates, either. I love the fineness of the grind, too. Sometimes you'll catch me running my fingers through the flour, making little mounds and rivers, just for the feel of it – smooth as silk.
After the flour is incorporated add your heapin' helpin' of mix-ins. The dough will get much thicker, but shouldn't dry out and get clumpy.
Use a generous 1/4 cup measure to scoop out the dough onto parchment- lined cookie sheets. These cookies don't spread much, so you can place them fairly close together.
Somehow I missed the photo of the unbaked cookies on the sheet, but this should give you a good idea of spacing. If you like mounded cookies, don't press the dough down. If you like flatter cookies like these, press the dough down gently with your fingers.
Bake at 350°F for 18 to 22 minutes, until lightly browned. Over-baking these cookies will dry them out, so try a test cookie or two to get the feel for them in your oven.
Ah, breakfast is ready! Give me two of these cookies, a piece of fruit and a glass of juice and I'm set for hours.
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These sweet little bits ARE going to be available from us this coming holiday season, but I was so excited about them I just had to show them to you now.
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Study Design: | Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase 2 Study of MK-2206 in Previously Treated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients Enriched for PTEN Loss and PIK3CA Mutation |
- Overall response rate (CR+PR) evaluated using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 [ Time Frame: Up to 18 months ]
- DR [ Time Frame: From the time measurement criteria are met for CR or PR (whichever is first recorded) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented, assessed up to 18 months ]Estimated using the Kaplan and Meier product limit method. Cox proportional hazards regression model will be used to identify prognostic factors for DR.
- OS [ Time Frame: Up to 18 months ]Estimated using the Kaplan and Meier product limit method. Cox proportional hazards regression model will be used to identify prognostic factors for OS.
- PFS [ Time Frame: From start of treatment to time of progression or death, whichever occurs first, assessed up to 18 months ]Estimated using the Kaplan and Meier product limit method. Cox proportional hazards regression model will be used to identify prognostic factors for PFS.
- Validation of the enrichment biomarker signature in metastatic sites [ Time Frame: Up to 18 months ]Samples will be analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank test. Chi-square or Fisher's exact test where appropriate will be used to determine whether high levels of marker expression correlate with PTEN status.
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Study Start Date: | March 2013 |
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I. To determine the response rate to MK-2206 (Akt inhibitor MK2206), defined as complete response (CR) + partial response (PR).
I. To determine response rate to MK-2206 in patients with phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) loss or phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase, catalytic subunit alpha (PIK3CA) mutation in a pretreatment biopsy from a metastatic site.
II. To determine progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). III. To determine the time to treatment failure (TTF), and duration of tumor response (DR).
IV. To determine the safety profile and tolerability of this regimen in this patient population.
V. To determine effect of PTEN, v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF), PIK3CA, and AKT mutations and semi-quantitative grading of PTEN expression on clinical response.
Patients receive Akt inhibitor MK2206 orally (PO) on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 24 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 6 months.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have histologically confirmed, radiologically measurable metastatic or locally advanced unresectable colorectal adenocarcinoma that is amenable to image-guided biopsy; disease in previously radiated regions may not be considered measurable unless there has been demonstrated progression in the lesion
- Patients must have progressed on or been intolerant to a fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy regimen; there is no limit on the number of prior treatment regimens permitted
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 1 (Karnofsky >= 70%)
- Life expectancy of greater than 12 weeks
- Leukocytes >= 3,000/mcL
- Absolute neutrophil count >= 1,500/mcL
- Platelets >= 100,000/mcL
- Total bilirubin =< institution upper limit of normal
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT]) =< 2.5 X institutional upper limit of normal or =< 5 X institutional upper limit of normal for patients with known liver metastasis
- Creatinine =< institution upper limit of normal OR creatinine clearance >= 60 mL/min/1.73 m^2 for patients with creatinine levels above institutional normal
- Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (double barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation, and 4 months after completion of MK-2206 administration; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately; men treated or enrolled on this protocol must also agree to use adequate contraception prior to the study, for the duration of study participation, and 4 months after completion of MK-2206 administration
- Patients must be able to swallow whole tablets; nasogastric or gastrostomy (G) tube administration is not allowed; tablets must not be crushed or chewed
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
- Tumor must be wild type for the v-Ki-ras2 Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) and BRAF oncogenes, and must have known PIK3CA, AKT mutation status and PTEN expression status
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study; if the patient has residual toxicity from prior treatment, toxicity must be =< grade 1 (or =< grade 2 for peripheral neuropathy and/or alopecia)
- Patients who are receiving or have received any other investigational agents within 30 days of study day 1, or who have previously received MK-2206 at any time
Patient has known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis; however, patients with CNS metastases who have completed a course of therapy would be eligible for the study provided they are clinically stable for at least 1 month prior to entry as defined as:
- No evidence of new or enlarging CNS metastasis
- Off steroids that are used to minimize surrounding brain edema
- History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to MK-2206
- Patients receiving any medications or substances that are inhibitors or inducers of cytochrome P450, family 3, subfamily A, polypeptide 4 (CYP450 3A4) are ineligible
- Patients with diabetes or in risk for hyperglycemia should not be excluded from trials with MK-2206, but the hyperglycemia should be well controlled on oral agents before the patient enters the trial
- Cardiovascular baseline corrected QT by Fridericia's (QTcF) > 450 msec (male) or QTcF > 470 msec (female) will exclude patients from entry on study
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
- Pregnant women are excluded from this study; breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with MK-2206
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients on combination antiretroviral therapy are ineligible
- No other prior malignancy is allowed except for the following: adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, adequately treated stage I or II cancer from which the patient is currently in complete remission, or any other cancer from which the patient has been disease free for five years
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01802320
United States, Texas | |
M D Anderson Cancer Center | |
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 |
Principal Investigator: | Edmund Kopetz | M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
Responsible Party: | National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01802320 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
NCI-2013-00487 NCI-2013-00487 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) ) 2012-0431 2012-0431 ( Other Identifier: M D Anderson Cancer Center ) 9340 ( Other Identifier: CTEP ) N01CM00039 ( US NIH Grant/Contract Award Number ) P30CA016672 ( US NIH Grant/Contract Award Number ) |
Study First Received: | February 27, 2013 |
Last Updated: | December 13, 2016 |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma Adenocarcinoma Rectal Neoplasms Colonic Neoplasms Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Colorectal Neoplasms |
Intestinal Neoplasms Gastrointestinal Neoplasms Digestive System Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Digestive System Diseases Gastrointestinal Diseases Intestinal Diseases Rectal Diseases Colonic Diseases Neoplasms, Cystic, Mucinous, and Serous |
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Werner Herzog to Direct a Concert Performance of the Killers
From the folks that united Jack White and Gary Oldman, Arcade Fire and Terry Gilliam, and Duran Duran and David Lynch comes... Werner Herzog and the Killers. The American Express Unstaged live webcast series will host the auteur for a concert in the Bronx next month. "He has ideas for someone crowd-surfing with a camera on," Killers bassist Mark Stoermer told Rolling Stone. "He's gonna put cameras on Ronnie [Vannucci, Jr.] while he's playing drums."
Herzog did his homework and studied previous installments in the music series so he could figure out what worked and what didn't. "He wanted to not make any mistakes that any of the other directors may have made," Stoermer said. "He definitely wanted to make the best version of this live AMEX performance of any director so far." We can't imagine it being any less than perfect. The band chose the Cave of Forgotten Dreams director for his "unique ideas," which he'll be putting to spectacular and profound use as always in his upcoming documentary projects, On Death Row and Hate in America. The first is a three-part follow-up to Into the Abyss, featuring interviews with convicted felons and their families. The latter is a four-part study in hate crime.
We're guessing Herzog really needs this Killers gig to make sure dinner conversations with his wife stay light — at least until the solemn filmmaker stars as a villain in Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher. The concert airs live on YouTube September 18 at 7 p.m. Check out the teaser trailer below to get in the mood.
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HCA Completes Sale of Five Hospitals to Capella Healthcare
Nov 30, 2005, 00:00 ET from HCA
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- HCA (NYSE: HCA) today announced completion of the sale of five rural hospitals in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Washington to Capella Healthcare for approximately $260 million. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050825/CLTH069LOGO ) The facilities involved in today's transaction include Grandview Medical Center, Jasper, Tenn.; River Park Hospital, McMinnville, Tenn.; Southwestern Medical Center, Lawton, Okla. and Capital Medical Center, Olympia, Wash. Sale of the fifth hospital, North Monroe Medical Center, Monroe, La. was completed on Oct. 31, 2005. These facilities are part of a previously announced divestiture of hospitals located primarily in rural and non urban markets. The company's remaining hospitals are primarily located in larger urban and suburban areas. As previously announced, the company expects to record a gain of approximately $.05 per diluted share during the fourth quarter of 2005 on the sale of the five hospitals to Capella. HCA believes the divestitures will not have a material effect on its future financial position or results of operations. This press release contains forward-looking statements based on current management expectations. Those forward-looking statements include all statements other than those made solely with respect to historical fact, including those relating to the results of the divestiture of the hospitals to Capella, the anticipated use of proceeds from the divestitures, and the anticipated impact of the divestitures on the Company's financial statements and results of operations. Numerous risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward- looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to the ability of the Company to smoothly transition the divested hospitals and other risk factors detailed in the Company's filings with the SEC. Many of the factors that will determine the Company's future results are beyond the ability of the Company to control or predict. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect management's views only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements, or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. All references to "Company" and "HCA" in this press release refer to HCA Inc. and its affiliates. All references to "hospitals" or "facilities" in this press release refer to hospitals owned by HCA or its affiliates prior to the completion of the divestitures.


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For Lemon Marmalade :
Before slicing the lemon, cut off both ends, remove seeds and inner pith completely. Tie up the unused lemon parts in a cheese cloth and set aside to use it to make pectin later on. Then soak sliced lemon for 6 hours or overnight. Boil the lemon once it's ready with the unused lemon parts for about 1/2 hour or untill soft. Remove the cheese cloth and try to squeeze out the natural pectin from there. Now, add in sugar and keep boiling for another 1/2 hour or untill became a little thickened. Test the jelly by placing a teaspoon of the hot jelly on a chilled plate. If the jelly holds its shape a bit, like an egg then its ready.
- off the heat, pour the jelly out into jars and sealed.
To prepare jars : You can either bake them in the oven at 200'c for about 5-10 mins and then leave aside for cooling. Or boiling them in a pot of water, drain & dry up fast and then leave aside to cool slowly.
To seal the jars : quickly put on the lids once finished filling in the jam. Then over turn the jar and leave cool completely upside down.
For Dragon Fruit Jam :
Combine dragon fruit, lemon juice, lemon skin and water into a non-stick pot. Simmer over medium heat untill the fruit became soft & juicy. Add in sugar and leave to boil by increasing the heat. In the other hand, try to press on the lemon skin for the pectin. keep stirring the mixture constantly untill thickened. Again place a teaspoon of the hot jelly to a chilled plate to test if it is ready for canning. Finally, off the heat and pour out the jelly into jars.


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Max Planck scientists in Jena, Germany, have discovered an unusual regulation of enzymes that catalyze chain elongation in an important secondary metabolism, the terpenoid pathway. In the horseradish leaf beetle Phaedon cochleariae a single enzyme can trigger the production of two completely different substances depending on whether it is regulated by cobalt, manganese or magnesium ions: iridoids, which are defensive substances the larvae use to repel predators, or juvenile hormones, which control insect's development. Insects unlike plants do not have a large arsenal of the proteins called isoprenyl diphosphate synthases. Therefore they may have developed another efficient option to channel metabolites into the different directions of terpenoid metabolism by using metal ions for control.
Natural products: 40,000 terpenes
Apart from the primary metabolism which produces substances that ensure the survival of the cells, there are additional biosynthetic pathways in all organisms. Their products may be less important for a single cell, but they can nevertheless be essential for the whole organism. These pathways are summarized as secondary metabolism. One of them is the terpenoid pathway: with more than 40,000 different known structures it generates one of the largest classes of natural products. Terpenoid molecules have diverse functions and can act as components in molecular signaling pathways, as toxins, fragrances or hormones.
The basic unit of all terpenes is a simple molecule containing five carbon atoms that can be joined to chains of different length. There are monoterpenes (C10 units, 2 x C5), sesquiterpenes (C15, 3 x C5), and even polymers, such as natural rubber, which comprises several hundred C5 units. Special enzymes mediate chain elongation. These enzymes have attracted the curiosity of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, and the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry in Halle. They studied mechanistic alternatives of how chain elongation is regulated.
Metal ions instead of specialized enzymes
Enzymes involved in chain elongation belong to the group of isoprenyl diphosphate synthases. Such an enzyme was isolated from larvae of the horseradish leaf beetle Phaedon cochleariae. It raised the interest of Antje Burse, project group leader in the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology.
Experiments with larvae in which the enzyme encoding gene was silenced showed that the protein was involved in the formation of the C10 monoterpene chrysomelidial that larvae produce to defend themselves against predators. The larvae accumulate this monoterpene in special glands and release it as a defensive secretion when they are attacked by their enemies, such as ants.
However, surprising results emerged after comprehensive biochemical characterization of the enzyme. "After we had conducted an in vitro analysis of the protein, including measurements of product formation in the presence of different metal ions as co-factors, we were surprised to discover that only geranyl diphosphate (C10), a precursor for the defensive substance chrysomelidial, was produced after addition of cobalt and manganese ions. On the other hand, adding magnesium ions resulted in the formation of farnesyl diphosphate (C15), a potential precursor for juvenile hormones, which is 5 carbon atoms longer," says the scientist. All three metals were found in larval tissue, leading to the assumption that enzyme catalysis is directed by the different metal co-factors in the larvae, whichever is predominant in amount: Towards toxin or hormone − physiologically a major difference.
Sequence comparisons cannot replace a thorough biochemical analysis
How the different metal ions modify the product range of the enzyme is still unclear. It is very likely that the varying atomic radii of the metal ions involved in the catalysis effect changes in the spatial structure of the enzyme, which prevent or allow the admission of a third C5 unit and hence result in the production of C10 or C15 molecules.
"Our experiments provide two important findings," says Wilhelm Boland, director at the Max Planck Institute. "First, the directing influence of metal ions on the product formation of isoprenyl diphosphate synthases is a novel "control element" in the regulation of the terpene metabolism which should be included in future experimental settings. And secondly: The diversity of terpenoid molecules cannot be attributed solely to the broad substrate specificity of some enzymes in the last steps of the metabolic pathway, but is in fact already inherent in early biosynthetic steps." Nature continues to provide interesting answers to the question how organisms manage to produce tens of thousands of different secondary metabolites.
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- Ron said...
Well, of course... it was trying to light his bong while huffing the gas of his 18th aerosol can that caused him to blow up...
The pop rocks and coke only made it impossible to cremate the body. - 12/17/11, 9:23 AM
- edutcher said...
Nice to hear it.
In any case, RIP Mrs Stevenson, you gave us a nice little piece of Americana. - 12/17/11, 10:01 AM
- Joe Schmoe said...
"He likes it; hey Mikey!"
I always thought that last line was awkward; the instant switch from 3rd person to 1st. I wondered why she did that.
I could probably look it up in Wiccaperpia. Maybe later. - 12/17/11, 12:40 PM
- Ann Althouse said...
"I always thought that last line was awkward; the instant switch from 3rd person to 1st. I wondered why she did that."
I think the 2 older boys are aloof from the younger one, and are even pranking him, getting him to try the mysterious food.
But when they suddenly see that the cereal is good, they finally talk to him. They are no longer aloof. They want him to give them the cereal.
The deep psychic message is: Sure, you're an outcast now, but if you eat this cereal, people will finally talk to you. - 12/17/11, 5:34 PM


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WAAAM has several wonderful motorcycles scattered around the museum.
Here's a fun game to play with our motorcycles when you come to WAAAM. Most of our motorcycles are tucked under the wing of an airplane or surrounded by cars. Sometimes people even miss out on this spectacular part of WAAAM's collection because they are so focused on the bigger objects around the motorcycles. Our challenge to you is to see how many of our nearly 30 motorcycles you can spot on your next visit. Some people catch a small handful - others are able to find them all. Ask the front desk at the end of your trip to see if your number is correct!


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SuicideGirls - Page 18
Gallows Suicide — Today's SuicideGirl
Meet Gallows – a 21-year-old clerk from Ohio who's into 'Clerks' (the movie), 'Clerks 2′ (the so-so sequel), Choonimals (we have no idea) and Bath and Body Works. What works for us? A bath with her body. We're dreamers.
Georjah Suicide — Today's SuicideGirl
Meet Georjah – a 20-year-old Canadian vegetarian who's really into Marilyn Manson, horses, and zombies. She's also into sex. Isn't that always the way? If you find a woman who rides horses, you've got yourself a lady who's down to get down. It's science.
Discoquette Suicide — Today's SuicideGirl
Meet Discoquette – a 25-year-old designer, producer and fashion stylist who likes listening to Crystal Castles, Muse and Phoenix, watching 'Closer' and 'Natural Born Killers', and playing Silent Hill and Resident Evil. We've got sinful thoughts after seeing her pics.
Ilana Suicide — Today's SuicideGirl
Meet Ilana – a 25-year-old Colombian columnist and editor who's into Nutella, coke, sex, and Vampirism. Her favorite forms of entertainment include Nosferatu, 'Interview with a Vampire', and True Blood. She might want to hold off on sucking our blood because we had a rough night.
Episkey Suicide — Today's SuicideGirl
Meet Episkey – a 22-year-old SuicideGirl who loves arts & crafts, Harry Potter, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, King Henry VIII, 'South Park' and anything Tim Burton. She also hates bills and shopping. That's a keeper. Will you be OUR Corpse Bride?
Satelina Suicide — Today's SuicideGirl
Meet Satelina, a SuicideGirl from the Ukraine that loves veggies and doesn't do drugs.
Rourke – Today's SuicideGirl
Meet Rourke – a 23-year-old electronica snob who loves Bloody Marys, robots, gnomes, getting naked, and Italians. Do 1/4 Italians work? Not midgets… although, she does like gnomes. Do Italian gnomes work? We'll make it work.
Ellys Suicide – Today's SuicideGirl
Meet Ellys – a 23-year-old SuicideGirl from Colombia who loves to drink, smoke pot, and get hot over a good musician. She also plays a hard death metal guitar, has a voodoo doll and takes pride in her oral abilities. Let's just say her favorite number is between 68 and 70.
Suicide Girl of the Day – Radeo [PICTURES]
Meet Radeo, a SuicideGirl who hates weak handshakes, is very superstitious and thinks her only vice is listening to love songs...


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10 Interesting Facts about the Sun
The sun is a powerful source of energy and has been used for centuries. In fact, its history goes as far back as 7th century BC, when magnifying glasses were used to concentrate the sun's rays to start fires.
How much do you know about the sun? Here are some fun facts to get you started.
- The Sun makes up about 99.8% of the weight of our entire solar system.
- The Sun is about 4.5 billion years old and is expected to shine for another 5 billion years.
- The sun is also known as the "yellow dwarf star".
- 75% of all the stars in the Universe are smaller and less massive than the Sun.
- The sun is about 92.96 million miles away and is the closest star to Earth.
- The sun's temperature is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit at its core (that equates to 15 million degrees Celsius).
- Energy from the sun comes in the forms of light and heat. Light from Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth
- Only the Sun's exterior shines bright, while its inside is entirely dark. If the outside of the sun were to disappear, so would the glow.
- Gravity holds the Sun together.
- In just one hour, the earth receives more energy from the sun than the whole world uses in an an entire year.
Outdora carries an extensive selection of solar products for your backyard and garden area. From solar fountains to bird baths to solar lighting, Outdora has a plethora of merchandise that will not only add aesthetic appeal to your outdoor living space but will reduce your dependency on electricity and will ultimately pay for itself in electric bill savings.


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Amrita and I are delighted to introduce a new project: Masala Zindabad, a podcast series that we hope will be affectionate and thoughtful look at the broad range of themes that define Bollywood and make Bollywood defy definition. As the series grows, we'll have lots of conversations with other bloggers and fans to discuss themes, trends, ideas, and people, as well as particular films.
Our inaugural episode, in which we discuss Gaddaar (1973), is here. Forgive the audio quality - we have a lot to learn.
Friday, November 12, 2010
New project!
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- November 12, 2010 11:31 AM
- Bolly Blogger said...
Ooo! This sounds fun! Would love to get in on the discussion on thoughts.
- November 15, 2010 10:29 AM
- Killdaggy said...
Nice post!
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Title: Kinetics of the reactions of the hydroxyl radical with CH3OH and C2H5OH between 235-360 K Journal: J. Photochem. Photobio. A Chem. Volume: 157 Page(s): 237 - 245 Year: 2003 Reference type: Journal article Squib: 2003JIM/GIL237-245
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Radio duo Lex and Terry have filed suit against a Jacksonville radio station, claiming that the station improperly canceled the contract that would have paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Their attorney, John Phillips, filed the lawsuit last week in Circuit Court against Seven Bridges Radio LLC, the owner of WJXL (1010 AM), also known as 1010XL.
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The station dropped the duo in October, just six months after signing a contract to air the syndicated program through the end of 2013.
Check out photos of Lex and Terry through the years
The contract called for the station to pay about $800,000 plus bonuses for the right to air the show. The payment was to be $12,500 every two weeks throughout 2012 and 2013.
The contract also included bonuses for ratings and half of all advertising dollars above the $1 million mark this year.
There was nothing in the contract that allowed the station to break it, Phillips said.
"I don't know what they were thinking," he said. "They won't return my calls."
The station did not return the Times-Union's calls, either.
Lex and Terry got their start in Jacksonville in 1992 but have been in national syndication since 1997.
The show is currently based in Dallas and airs on 18 stations around the country as well as Sirius XM satellite radio.
"Sports Final Radio" with Jeff Prosser and Dan Hicken replaced Lex and Terry in the 6 to 10 a.m. slot.
Phillips said the only reason WJXL dropped the duo was listener preference.
"They said listeners wanted to hear sports rather than a shock jock sort of thing," he said. "But they knew what Lex and Terry's show was.
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JPEG Tone Curves / dynamic range
Our Dynamic Range measurement system involves shooting a calibrated Stouffer Step Wedge (13 stops total range) which is backlit using a daylight balanced lamp (98 CRI). A single shot of this produces a gray scale wedge from the camera's clipped white point down to black (example below). Each step of the scale is equivalent to 1/3 EV (a third of a stop), we select one step as 'middle gray' (defined as 50% luminance) and measure outwards to define the dynamic range. Hence there are 'two sides' to our results, the amount of shadow range (below middle gray) and the amount of highlight range (above middle gray).
To most people highlight range is the first thing they think about when talking about dynamic range, that is the amount of highlight detail above middle gray the camera can capture before it clips to white. Shadow range is more complicated; in our test the line on the graph stops as soon as the luminance value drops below our defined 'black point' (about 2% luminance) or the signal-to-noise ratio drops below a predefined value (where shadow detail would be swamped by noise), whichever comes first.
Note: this page features our new interactive dynamic range comparison widget. The wedges below the graph are created by our measurement system from the values read from the step wedge, the red lines indicate approximate shadow and highlight range (the dotted line indicating middle gray).
Cameras Compared
The EOS 650D uses the same tone curve we've seen many times before from Canon - including that found on its predecessor, the EOS 600D. It has a dynamic range of around 3.3 stops EV above middle grey and a gentle roll-off as you move towards the highlights. Overall this is exactly what we're used to seeing from Canon DSLRs, meaning a bit less highlight range by default than is typically obtained from Nikon and Sony competitors as well as the best of the Micro Four Thirds offerings we've seen.
Color Modes
The 650D, like it predecessor has five discrete Picture Styles, in addition to an Auto option. The Neutral (shown by default in the graph above) and Faithful Picture Styles offer a different tone curve compared to the others, employing slightly lower contrast in the upper mid-tones but clipping a bit more abruptly to white (although at the same point relative to middle grey).
Highlight tone priority mode
The Highlight Tone Priority option (Custom Function II.3) offers a method for capturing more information in the brightest parts of the scene. It does this by applying less amplification to the signal coming from the sensor, then compensating for it by using a different tone curve to ensure the correct brightness in the final image. Turn this on and the 650D captures an extra stop in the highlights, resulting in a dynamic range that is at least the equal of Sony and Nikon DSLRs.
Because it works by using a lower signal amplification, HTP cannot be employed at base ISO. The minimum value that can be used is ISO 200. When used at ISO 200, the effect is the same as underexposing an ISO 100 shot by one stop, then pulling up the midtones and shadows to compensate. The result is an image at a 'normal' exposure but that retains the extra highlights you've captured. This approach - common to many other manufacturers - comes at the potential cost of increased noise in shadow regions. We discussed the real world benefits and consequences of activating HTP in our earlier review of the Canon EOS 600D.


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Southampton will have to wait until next week to secure their top managerial target Nigel Adkins.
Saints have yet to agree a compensation package with Scunthorpe, so the npower Championship club have confirmed Adkins will still be in charge of their match against Bristol City on Saturday.
A Scunthorpe statement read: "The situation involving the vacant manager's post at Southampton has yet to be resolved and as a result the management set-up which oversaw the 3-0 triumph over Crystal Palace a fortnight ago will remain as it was for the immediate future."
Adkins has held talks with Southampton but refuses to resign from Glanford Park in order to ensure the Iron are compensated.
The delay means Saints caretaker boss Dean Wilkins, who took over following Alan Pardew's dismissal last month, will be in charge of their League One trip to Swindon.
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Thanks. I have been poking around on autopia, but haven't found anything yet (that site definitely has enthusiasts, but not surprisingly, not too many in NYC). I may just have to give it to my dealer and overpay for a mediocre job.
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Jets bench Sanchez, will start McElroy vs. Chargers
Published: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 4:01 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 4:01 p.m.
NEW YORK — Mark Sanchez blew the second chance Rex Ryan gave him. Now, it's Greg McElroy's turn to be the New York Jets' starting quarterback.
And, Tim Tebow? Well, he was leapfrogged by the third-stringer, fueling speculation that the team has little confidence in him as a quarterback.
Ryan decided to bench Sanchez on Tuesday after the fourth-year quarterback had another miserable performance, throwing four interceptions Monday night. He also mishandled a low snap with the game on the line as the Jets were eliminated from playoff contention with a 14-10 loss at Tennessee.
Ryan said after the game that he wasn't ready to decide who would start against the Chargers, but chose McElroy over Sanchez and Tebow after talking with his staff and others in the organization Tuesday.
McElroy, a seventh-round pick last year out of Alabama, helped lead the Jets to a 7-6 win over Arizona on Dec. 2 when Ryan pulled Sanchez from that game late in the third quarter. Ryan decided to stick with Sanchez after that game, saying that the one-time face of the franchise gave the Jets their best chance at winning as they remained in the playoff hunt.
But Sanchez struggled in a 17-10 win over Jacksonville and again even more in the loss to Tennessee. McElroy, who gave the Jets a huge spark in his first NFL action, was inactive for both games. That hurt New York Monday night when Ryan was unable to turn to McElroy, but instead went to Tebow for one unproductive series before putting Sanchez back in.
Sanchez leads the league with 24 turnovers, including 17 interceptions, and has turned the ball over 50 times since the start of last season. His future with the team is uncertain because he signed a contract extension with New York in March that included $8.25 million in guaranteed money for next season.
Tebow, acquired from Denver in March, has had a minor role in the offense after being expected to play a major part. He is recovering from two broken ribs that sidelined him for three games, but he returned Monday night and had little impact. It would seem unlikely that Tebow, who helped lead the Broncos to the playoffs last season, will be back with New York next season.
The Jets could opt to mutually part ways with the popular quarterback by cutting him after the season or try to trade him.
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You have a job, maybe even a good one, but your paychecks never seem to stretch as far as you think they should and ends never quite seem to meet. You know you should be saving more and spending less, yet you never manage to do either. You're hoping your financial fortunes will somehow turn around. In the meantime, the debts keep piling up. Sound familiar?
Instead of waiting for your situation to magically improve, it's time to take a hard look at all the things you're doing that are contributing to your financial woes. That's right: It might actually be your own fault that you have no money. Here are ten common reasons why people find themselves broke. A few will probably look very familiar to you. Follow our advice for fixing your finances and you should be able to dig yourself out of your hole.
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Your parents nagged you about the importance of getting an education. Well, guess what? They were right. The difference in lifetime earnings between a typical high school graduate and a typical college grad with a bachelor's degree is staggering. Over a 40-year career, a worker with a bachelor's will earn $1 million more than a worker with just a high school diploma -- $2.42 million versus $1.37 million, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections. A master's degree bumps up that figure to $2.83 million.
Simply going back to school doesn't guarantee a bigger paycheck. As you mull over what to study consider what majors are more likely to lead to a lucrative career. (Hint: Think about studying finance, pharmacy, nursing or just about anything computer-related.) Also, be wary of how much debt you take on to get your sheepskin. A good rule of thumb for student loans is to graduate from college having borrowed no more than you expect to earn in your first year of work. Check out our list of schools with the lowest average debt at graduation.
Your best friend wears Prada, your colleague commutes to the office in a new Porsche and your neighbor is moving into a McMansion. If they can have it all, you feel entitled to it, too. But should you? "Keeping up with the Joneses is a trap that's easy to fall into," says J.D. Roth, founder of GetRichSlowly.org, a personal-finance blog.
Simply put, never attempt to maintain a lifestyle you can't afford. As Knight Kiplinger writes in The Invisible Rich, "The biggest barrier to becoming rich is living like you're rich before you are." So instead of buying an expensive car with a big monthly payment, check out our best values in new cars, consider a used car or, perhaps the thriftiest option of all, drive your clunker until it drops. And if you're thinking about buying a home, save enough to put 20% down and keep your monthly mortgage payment below 28% of your gross monthly income.
The next time someone asks, "Are you working hard or hardly working?," don't just laugh off the question. In fact, the answer may truly be that you are hardly working -- and you're all the poorer for it. An it's-not-in-my-job-description attitude will inevitably lead to small paychecks and poor career prospects, says Tom Corley, a certified financial planner and author of Rich Habits: The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals.
To get ahead, don't just do your job -- do it well. "Nothing says you're worth it like the high quality of your work," says Karen Elizaga, an executive coach and author of Find Your Sweet Spot: A Guide to Personal and Professional Excellence . Don't stop there. Make sure your superiors are aware of your accomplishments by documenting the value you bring to the business, be it through new customers you landed or projects you completed under budget. As your successes pile up, ask your boss for a raise or promotion because, chances are, you won't get either unless you make a case for yourself, Elizaga says. Be sure to build relationships beyond your boss as well, by networking with people both inside and outside the workplace. If you need more skills to advance, find out whether your company will pay for professional-development training.
You drink, you smoke, you like fast food and you don't run unless someone's chasing you. So maybe your health isn't great, but at least you're having fun, right? Chances are, though, your finances aren't healthy, either, because bad habits are a big financial drain. And there's nothing fun about that. GetRichSlowly's Roth says that most of the people he knows who struggle with money have a slew of bad habits.
But give up those bad habits and you -- and your wallet -- will be healthier as a result. Considering a pack of cigarettes costs $6, on average, you'll spend about $2,200 a year on a pack-a-day smoking habit. Plus, each pack comes with $35 in health-related costs, according to the American Cancer Society. That's an extra $12,775 a year if you smoke a pack a day. As for alcohol, even moderate drinking adds up. Just two glasses of wine a day runs you more than $1,000 a year, and that calculation is based on sipping the cheap stuff at home. If you prefer Bordeaux at a bar, you're paying a lot more. See Six Healthy Habits That Will Save You Money.
We've all been there: You're standing in line when something catches your eye, and you put it in your cart without thinking. One industry survey found that about 1 in 5 supermarket shoppers makes an impulse purchase at checkout. The occasional pack of gum won't break the bank, but multiple unplanned purchases will, warns Jeff Rose, a certified financial planner and creator of the Good Financial Cents blog. It's amazing, he says, how often he hears from people who are struggling financially as a result of uncontrolled spending.
To regain control, track your spending for a month to see how much money you're throwing away on unnecessary items. You don't have to cut out all discretionary purchases, but you do need to come up with a budget to determine how much you can afford to spend after paying bills and setting aside savings. Then, whenever you do go to a store, make a list and stick to it. To resist the temptation to spend impulsively, unsubscribe from retailers' e-mail lists and avoid window-shopping at the mall or browsing store Web sites when you're bored.
You buy Powerball tickets every week hoping to strike it rich. Dream on. The odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 175 million. Yet, Corley discovered in the course of researching his book, Rich Habits, that 77% of those who struggle financially play the lottery weekly. A $20-per-week lottery habit adds up to $1,040 per year wasted. In contrast, he found that just 6% of those who are financially successful play the lottery weekly. Why? Because successful people don't count on luck for their wealth, he says.
Instead of throwing away a grand a year on lottery tickets, put that money to better use by opening a Roth IRA. Invest $1,040 every year in a fund that earns a 7% annual return, and the Roth's balance will grow tax-free to $105,000 after 30 years. Not bad when you consider that your total contribution is $31,200. See 5 Better Investments Than the Lottery for more ideas.
Rose, of the Good Financial Cents blog, says that many of his financial-planning clients who were struggling when they first came to him didn't have a clue how much they owed, much less have a plan to pay off their debts. As a result, many were making minimum payments without fully appreciating the interest implications. But consider this: If you send in just the monthly minimum (2% of the balance) on a credit card with a $5,000 balance and 15% interest rate, it will take 32 years to get rid the debt, and you will pay nearly $8,000 in interest on the original $5,000 balance.
Ask your card issuer if it is willing to lower your interest rate to keep you as a customer. Even if you continue paying the minimum on the $5,000 balance, trimming the rate to 11% from 15% will shave nine years and almost $4,000 off the repayment. Alternatively, buckle down and boost your payment to $250 a month, which will erase the $5,000 balance in just a couple of years and the interest will total less than $800. True, $250 a month might stretch your budget in the short term, but the thousands you save on interest in the long run can be put to better use building wealth rather than servicing debt. (Look for lower interest credit cards.)
If you're not rich, you probably wish you were. That's natural. Yet there's a big difference between a wish and a goal, says Corley. The wealthy individuals he surveyed for Rich Habits consider a goal to be something that requires action to achieve. However, of those surveyed by Corley who had household incomes of $35,000 or less and liquid assets of $5,000 or less, just 5% said they had ever set annual financial goals; only 2% had spent a year or more working toward a goal.
Be as specific (and realistic) as possible when setting your financial goals. Otherwise, says GetRichSlowly's Roth, you won't prioritize your spending, so one use of your money seems just as good as another. Let's say you wish to buy a house. Don't give yourself the vague goal of saving up for a down payment. Instead, commit to saving, say, $250 a month, which you can achieve by cutting expenses. Transfer the money you save every month from your checking account to your savings account until you reach your desired down payment. See How to Set Financial Goals for more advice.
When you were a kid, didn't your mom warn you that hanging around the wrong people would lead to trouble? Well, the advice is still valid when you're an adult and your finances are involved. It's hard to get ahead financially if you associate with others who have bad money habits, says GetRichSlowly's Roth. The reason: You're less inclined to change your ways when those around you are reinforcing them.
Roth admits that when he was spending recklessly and mired in debt, he spent most of his time with others doing the same. But what ultimately helped him take charge of his finances was associating with people who were successful with money. When he heard people talking about the wise financial decisions they had made -- not get-rich-quick boasts but practical choices, such as starting a rainy-day fund -- he sought out their advice and cultivated relationships. It's important to find a role model or mentor, he says. Reach out to a superior at work, a successful relative or even a former classmate who's doing well.
At the end of the day (and perhaps in the beginning and middle of the day as well) there's nothing you like to do more than kick up your feet and watch television or surf the Web. But if you're having trouble making ends meet, then you're wasting potentially valuable time. Corley's research for Rich Habits found that 77% of those struggling financially spend an hour or more a day watching TV and 74% spend an hour or more using the Internet recreationally. In contrast, the majority of wealthy individuals spend their time engaging in self-improvement, volunteering, working side jobs or pursuing some dream that could lead to more financial rewards, Corley says.
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Of the Lakers, SI states, "No team in the four major professional sports -- NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB -- won more titles during the 2000s than the Lakers (four). Los Angeles made six appearances in the NBA Finals during the decade, reached the playoffs nine times and had seven seasons with at least 50 victories." It also voted Phil Jackson as coach of the decade.
The magazine notes, however, that the team slumped mid-decade after trading Shaquille O'Neal and seeing its star, Kobe Bryant, injured. Bryant, by the way, ranked seventh among the decades top athletes.
Southern California native and sometime philanderer Tiger Woods took the number one spot there and also beat out tennis' Roger Federer (number two), swimmer and bong-hitter Michael Phelps (number three), Lance Armstrong (number four) and runner Usain Bolt (number five).
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Furry 2 is a vast overhaul of an older game of mine, with revamped graphics, effects, controls, AI and difficulty balance, as well as a brand new world map. It's a retro platformer with 20 levels over 4 worlds with 4 huge bosses. Music is from http://www.freepd.com and 10% of the proceeds will go there because it's a cool site.
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My favorite is the one with wide roads for your own airplane to get home.
Liam Michelsohn's curator insight,
December 10, 2013 4:13 PM
A very interesting article on changes in landscape, while looking though this I came aross so many little things i never noticed about the topical layout of housing. The main thing that is apparent is density, how closely each house is put together, the amount of land each has as well as the view from the property. Its aslo interesting to see how the design of the area can be made for easy access or be desigend to keep people out with only one enctancte and exit. All of these charasticts make up how the land is desired as well as econimcly priced, which then determins who will be able to live there.
Jacqueline Landry's curator insight,
December 15, 2013 8:53 PM
Having the streets interconnected allows for easy traveling throughout the area. when there is more density in an area it means there are more houses , more people. The sprawl has the center on the place and the streets go out around it. The way the streets are made are for different reasons,.
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December 16, 2013 12:57 AM
This article talks about twenty different housing patterns and how we base these housing patterns around our society or enviroment. How looking at housing patterns can tell you what kind of neighborhood one lives in from the sky. Looking down and seeing a golf course with lush grass and big backyards shows you that this neighborhood is very expensive. Or Canal houses that utilize every inch of the waters edge to financially make them able to charge higher prices for the homes because each house has a water view and is on the waters edge.


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Very cool!!!! Nice job!!!
How did you build that phase 2 Rex? That this is awesome. It almost makes me want to stop my boba and start the PH2 Rex. It will definitely be my next build.
Thanks, nice of you to say.
Most of the armour is bozotheclone movie clone armour. Most people use animated but I wanted my Rex to look real. To that I added Steelblitz parts - belt and straps and holsters. The pauldron was from General Fidelis from Ct.net and is easily the nicest pauldron I've yet seen, comes pre painted and he really went to town on it. Added to that is a real MP40 leather pouch - my rom/fx voice amp sits in that with the speaker behind my chestplate and the sound effects buttons run down my sleeves to my fingers. The kama I made from black pleather with some iron on blue hemming material to edge it correctly. The pistols I made myself, along with the rifles.
The helmet is from Skip here in the UK, and I modded the visor using P38 - bondo for my American readers. The range-finder array is one of bobamakers - it fits to where I flattened the ear cap, with a couple of small tabs to stop it from moving too far to the front or back. The helmet has the seam line where Rex added his phase 1 visor to it, cut in using a dremel - slightly nerve wrecking!
The jetpack is a Fett jetpack from BFUK that I modded extensively, when Rob saw what I had done to it, he set about making his own version to sell.
The whole thing is finished off with a internal back plate mounted speaker, transmitter and mp3 player that not only allows me to play the 2hr long clone trooper radio chatter I created, on a loop, but also to transmit it to any nearby clone trooper with a radio inside their armour!
That is awesome. I recently was at an event with GF so next time I see him ill ask him about starting a Rex, since he did one already.
Been a fair while since I updaed this thread - been a busy little Captain!
Rex has had an overhaul ready for Celebration Europe in a couple of weeks. This has included a set of Season 4 Umbara arc helmet macros
A clone trooper backpack - comes with added sound in the form of several hidden speakers and an mp3 player - the pack fits into the same slots as the jetpack.
repainted jetpack to match the one seen in season 5
And some reapplied weathering. The end result is far better in my opinion - although when wearing the helmet macros I have less then 40% of the vision I have without them, so will only wear them at CE when I am sure of my surroundings...
Looking good Jo, "job done eh?". Although if you add any more bits of kit to that bucket of yours you'll have trouble staying upright ;)
Lmao! Something like that!
Actually with a few more possible appearances of Rex in the upcoming extra content there's a chance that he will have more kit I just HAVE to make!
And from Celebration Europe 2:
Phase 2 Rex with Umbara arc helmet macros
Captain Rex with Commander Wolffe and Corporal Comet
And the clone trooper - Dave Filoni photoshoot
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Some fun this past weekendL
Captain Rex and ARC Trooper Fives
Medix Kix and Trooper Jesse
Sergeant Sinker and Corporal Comet
Dor breaching, clone trooper style...
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UC leads research in palliative care services for minority groups
December 5, 2012
Elderly people of Asian background are least likely to access palliative and hospice services in New Zealand due to language and cultural barriers and lack of information, according to the findings of a University of Canterbury (UC) project.
The study was supervised by UC health sciences researcher Kate Reid and it involved collaboration between UC postgraduate audiology student Bible Lee, Partnership Health Canterbury's ethnic liaison Wayne Reid and members of the Korean, Chinese and Japanese communities.
The research found while the majority of the Korean, Chinese and Japanese respondents reported little understanding of palliative and allied health services available in New Zealand, many were interested in knowing more about the services.
Reid said she believed it was the first study in New Zealand where palliative care needs of Asian migrants had been assessed. Palliative care is a major issue as in the next 15 years the New Zealand population is expected to increase by almost 20 percent.
In the UC study, Korean respondents were the oldest with many aged 75 years and older. Yet the study found that only a quarter of them knew that bereavement support services were available in New Zealand. Similar findings were found for the Japanese and the Chinese groups.
Lee said the reason why elderly Asian people were under-utilising care services could be due to a set mentality of not wanting to make a fuss. So they were not actively asking for help or seeking information, but cultural and language differences played a big part.
``The New Zealand population is ageing as a whole, but I think that the Asian elderly are not as commonly talked about," Lee said.
``Yet statistics show that by 2026, the number of Asian people aged 65 years and over will be five times as great as it was in 2006. Migrant population groups from the 1980s and 1990s - the permanent settlers - are baby boomers. They are also ageing and have real needs. The question is `how much do we know about this group and their health needs too?' '' Lee said.
The study also found that perspectives associated with terminal illnesses, death and dying could also vary across different cultures. The majority of respondents strongly valued the opportunity of being able to speak in their mother tongue and being offered written information by health professionals in their native language.
``Hiring even just one or two nurses in hospices, district nursing services and nursing homes who are bilingual or multilingual would help staff and the future service users," Lee said
The results from the study were recently presented to the fifth International Asian and Ethnic Minority Health and Wellbeing Conference and the 20th Hospice NZ Palliative Care Conference.


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playing to largely sold out audiences. Frayn's behind—and in front of—the scenes stage comedy has been insanely successful at all times since its premiere almost 30 years ago. Director Lindsay Posner doesn't mess with a formula that works well. Frayn's play, much like the other one his characters are rehearsing, "Nothing On," is all about boxes, doors and plates of sardines. There's a huge amount of stage business, and much of the laughs and wonderment it inspires comes from the mechanics of getting all of these details right even when they appear to be random mistakes. Probably the biggest star in the cast is Celia Imrie who plays Dotty, the actress playing the housekeeper in "Nothing On." But everyone has big moments here including Robert Glenister, Jamie Glover, Janie Dee, and Karl Johnson. It's very well done and everyone manages the physical elements well though I admit the show didn't necessarily feel urgent to me in any way which is probably more a product of the source material than the production itself.
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