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Darbre PD, Aljarrah A, Miller WR, Coldham NG, Sauer MJ, Pope GS. Concentrations of parabens in human breast tumours. J Appl Toxicol. 2004;24(1):5-13. http://www.naturalmedicinejournal.com/article_content.asp?article=60
Harvey PW, Everett DJ (Jan 2004). "Significance of the detection of esters of p-hydroxybenzoic acid (parabens) in human breast tumours". Journal of Applied Toxicology 24 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1002/jat.957. PMID 14745840.
McGrath, Kris (2003 Dec). "An earlier age of breast cancer diagnosis related to more frequent use of antiperspirants/deodorants and underarm shaving"(PDF). European Journal of Cancer Prevention 12 (6): 479–85. doi:10.1097/00008469-200312000-00006.PMID 14639125.
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[On the Ecology and Behavior of the Mud Dragon] Breezy, but dangerous
December 21, 2010, 09:38:21 PM »
So I wrote a game five years ago called "On the Ecology and Behavior of the Mud Dragon." It's been played, like, twice I think, once by me which didn't go well and once by some Poles who apparently had a pretty good time.
The game is about Mud Dragons, which are the less majestic but more evolutionarily competent 2-3' cousins of great dragons. Mud Dragons are pathetic, stupid, cowardly, etc. They're the protagonists of the game. They have some sort of wild scheme to avoid boredom, steal some shiny things, or kidnap a princess.
The way the game works right now, you have an attribute (all of which are negative: patheticness, for instance, or clumsiness). You have to roll over that attribute on a 20-sided die to succeed. Otherwise, you fail.
Additionally, there are tokens, which you get from swapping a success to a failure by saying how, despite your dragon's success, circumstances conspire against him. You can spend these tokens when you fail to "succeed in spite of yourself" basically your dragon fails, but gets what they want anyway.
The problem right now is threefold:
1) The token economy is too locked up: people really don't like to turn their (rare) successes into failures.
2) Challenges don't happen unless the dragons try to do something. This ends up encouraging the players to be really passive.
3) If the GM pushes the players into challenges (by having them be attacked, etc.) then we end up a in situation where failure is simply boring, because as written right now there are no particular consequences for failure.
This is all lame. Can anyone throw out some ideas on how to fix it?
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Re: [On the Ecology and Behavior of the Mud Dragon] Breezy, but dangerous
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Hi Ben! Hee, hee, heeee!
OK, for consistency with the game text and because it's funny, I want to explain that "success" in this game by calling it "failing at being lame," in which lameness comes in various flavors: Patheticness, Laziness, Stupidity, Clumsiness, and Petty Greed. So to seize a person's ankle, for instance, as I might care to have my dragon do, I must roll above its Clumsiness of (say) 12 on d20, thus failing at being clumsy and indeed seizing the person's ankle.
The more I look at the token rules now, the more unnecessary they seem. In fact, they kind of undercut the fun. It seems to me that Mud Dragon play ought to embrace spectacular failures and successes, with no particular investment in juicing certain rolls. So the fundamental incentive for getting tokens at all seems missing. Also, as you mentioned, it means giving up on some of that very fun right here in the moment. Therefore the means seems like no fun at the same time as the end seems irrelevant. My current thought is simply to junk the tokens.
If it seems like some other technique is needed to give the dice a little "jump" (in the emotional sense, not the boost-the-roll sense), then it shouldn't involve success or failure, and should be conceived from scratch. I was going to leave that up to your fertile imagination but then flashed on those three plastic dragons sitting in my Blue Moon box ... ooh! could there be three plastic dragons sitting there on the table, usable for something, or gettable in some way? Yeeeahhh ... OK, now I turn it over to you.
Regarding #2 and its unfotunate corrector #3, my take is that we have to go back to the game's primary Color. This is the ultimate underdog game. OK, we're brownish, underfoot, and probably smelly, and if I read one phrase in the text correctly, possibly not above congress with sheep, but ... we're dragons, dammit! If I want to hoard foil gum-wrappers, you can bet your sweet ass there is nothing in the world that can stop me from trying, even if I do have to get run over by a Mac truck in pursuit of my dream. If Farmer Barnaby tries to get me out of my garden patch ("his," he calls it, ha!), I'ma gonna bite his ankle, you see if I don't. And no matter how much my own patheticness, laziness, stupidity, clumsiness, and petty greed trip me up, I'm in there pitching. Yah! Yah, yah, yah!
In dragons of yore, it was arrogance, majesty, and wholesale carnage. Now, it's impudence, kooky determination, and whatever it is you call it when you totally acknowledge all your shortcomings but dare your opponents to tell you something you
So, what I'm saying, is that the players have to embrace the Goals with all the smelly pride they can muster. I especially call attention to Petty Greed, and suggest that if a Goal is to, for instance, acquire shiny things, we should all know what those shiny things are, and distinguish them carefully from other shiny things that we'd have to avoid being distracted by, through failing at Petty Greed. Or to put differently,
Goals aren't petty
. Err, to our characters, anyway.
I'm almost tempted to say play should start with the player-characters in their planning session. OK, I just used an internet dice-roller to make my character. Patheticness, Laziness, Stupidity, Clumsiness all start at 11, and Petty Greed's at 14. Now I roll: I am Sleepy Booger, boosting Laziness and Stupidity to 14 but getting two of whatever non-dice mechanic is going to replace Tokens. I also have groucho glasses, the perfect disguise!
Now I prep. I get 4, 19, 2, for the first three tables. We're in the Swamp, we can get a Princess (!!), and opposing us is our own ineptitude. (H'm, more on that later) The Princess is ... um, roll 17, so she's, well she's, she's so, ummm, OK, she has a nice smile. For the elements of the plan, a 19 and a 1 tell me we're going to use grave-robbing and brute force.
Let's stop here for a second. Do these tables really help me? I think they mostly do with a couple of major problems. First, "our own ineptitude" as opposition is no good - because by definition, we're facing that anyway via the resolution system. That's gotta get replaced by something else. Second, a princess is a big deal, and I think a key factor in princess-ness that ought to be brought forward is that she might
to get captured by a dragon. But I'm willing to let that be less imperative; it's just an idea to help cement the scenario a little better. It also strikes me that the higher the Hotness roll a Princess gets, the more she might be helpful and friendly.
How about the plan? H'mmm again. It seems to me that it's kind of a bummer to lock this down for the scenario. I'm thinking maybe the two rolled elements are the core of the
plan, which we'd concoct in the first scene perhaps. Then maybe we can get access to the table again somehow. Oh, and it strikes me that by definition, although we have not quite managed to acquire and utilize these elements yet, they are of course available, and if seized, will be very helpful to our rolls.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm already pumped about the Goal and the plan. I want to do this. Sleepy Booger wants to do this. And if whatever technique is used to replace tokens - and I suggest that it be fucking fun, not merely tweaking already-existing mechanics like rolled values,
More ...
1. Experience and Throwbacks are currently related to Tokens, so would need some adjustment.
2. Going to 21 should not remove a character from play as stated. Failure is supposed to be fun in this game. It should do something else quite significant. Hell, maybe that's the Throwback right there!
So, those are my thoughts at present.
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I think you're right that the tokens are pretty superfluous. The thing that I would like to keep is the "fail, but succeed in your goal despite yourself."
I'm thinking now that I might be able to keep that through a different mechanic. Say "rotten luck," which you could retest with to get that result*. Experience could just be a flat reward for failure, or something like that, or maybe you just get experience from accomplishing goals. Like now, Throwback could be triggered by too many successes, or by player choice.
I think I want to keep the dynamic nature of the attributes, and draw that out more, maybe with them going up with failures, going down with successes, or something.
I think maybe "your plan involves" should be more of a random stuff table and less of a pre-set whatever, or maybe just needs to get axed entirely. I think I need to fine-tooth the prep tables and take out things which don't exactly work (your own ineptitude and monsters! were pretty big ones, for me).
*I'm not particularly happy with this mechanic: It's just what I came up with off the top of my head.
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The top lawmakers on the Congressional Agriculture Committees are prepared with a plan to avert the dairy cliff, NBC News has learned. This is an agreement between Democrats and Republicans who run those committees and oversee the massive FARM bill that affects the entire food industry and 16 million agriculture related jobs.
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CORVALLIS – Jeff Lewis can tell you exactly how many steps each one of his 240 cows take each day.
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Stabenow said that a simple extension would have to be passed under expedited procedures. She said any member filibustering the extension would face massive ire.
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WASHINGTON — The leaders in both parties on the House and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in October, a move that could head off a possible doubling of milk prices next month. But House leaders have yet to say whether they will allow a vote on it.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and House Agriculture Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., announced Sunday that they had agreed on a last-minute extension that would extend the farm bill and replace dairy programs that expire at midnight Tuesday. Expiration of those dairy programs could mean higher milk prices at the grocery store within just a few weeks.
But the House GOP has yet to endorse the committees' extension agreement, and leaders are also considering two narrower extension bills: a one-month extension and an even smaller bill that would merely extend dairy policy. As of Sunday night, Republican leaders had not scheduled a vote on any of them.
The farm bill talks come as negotiators are still at an impasse on averting a broader fiscal cliff combination of higher taxes and spending cuts Jan. 1. Farm leaders had originally hoped to wrap the larger bill in a fiscal cliff deal.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday that Republican leaders had not decided how they would proceed on the farm extension, though a vote could come as soon as Monday.
One potential hurdle for the one-year extension is its cost: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Sunday estimated the extension, which also includes disaster assistance for farmers affected by drought, could cost more than $1 billion this budget year.
Boehner has pushed back on passage of a new five-year farm bill for months, saying there were not enough votes to bring it to the House floor after the House Agriculture Committee approved it in July. The Senate passed its version of a farm bill in June. The farm bill, generally passed every five years, includes domestic food aid, farm subsidies and other help for rural areas.
But the prospect of higher milk prices has prompted some action. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has said Americans face the prospect of paying $7 for a gallon of milk if the current dairy program lapsed and the government returned to a 1948 formula for calculating milk price supports.
Instead of just extending current dairy policy, the extension bill includes an overhaul of dairy programs that was included in both the Senate and House committee bills. The new dairy programs include a voluntary insurance program for dairy producers, and those who choose that new program also would have to participate in a market stabilization program that could dictate production cuts when oversupply drives down prices — an idea that hasn't gone over well with Boehner.
In July, he called the current dairy program "Soviet-style" and said the new program would make it even worse. Large food companies that process and use dairy products have backed Boehner, saying the program could limit milk supplies and increase their costs.
Stabenow blamed Boehner for getting to the point where an extension is the only option. "The lack of action by the House Republican leadership has put us in a situation where we risk serious damage to our economy unless we pass a temporary extension," she said.
One of the reasons Boehner has balked at bringing up a farm bill is disagreement among House Republicans over how much money should be cut from food stamps, which make up roughly 80 percent of the half-trillion-dollar bill's cost over five years. Lucas has unsuccessfully pushed his leadership for months to move on the legislation despite the disagreement over food aid.
On Sunday, Lucas said he hoped the extension would pass both chambers quickly as GOP leadership mulled their options.
"It is not perfect — no compromise ever is — but it is my sincere hope that it will pass the House and Senate and be signed by the president by Jan. 1," he said.
The extension would make modest cuts in a controversial farm subsidy known as direct payments, which pays farmers whether they farm or not. According to the CBO, the extension would cut $1.3 billion from the subsidy's $50 billion cost over 10 years. Both the House and Senate farm bills eliminated that subsidy completely.
The extension would also extend and pay for several farm bill programs that expired in October, from a small watershed rehab program to funding for rural "microentrepreneurs" to help for farmers' markets and organic producers. The bill budgets about $850 million for immediate disaster assistance, with most of that money going to livestock producers.
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A whole 17% of the farm bill actually goes to farmers. The rest is entitlements and spending unrelated to ag.
That being said, I think with a little better fraud controls, most of the entitlement spending is worthwhile from a societal perspective. WIC is really good. Food stamps needs fraud controls, but providing food to needy people is worthwhile. Perhaps we need some controls to keep lifers from being lifers, but on the whole I don't hate the idea of foodstamps. School lunch programs I think are solid.
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Milk cliff.
How about the welfare cliff?
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(Reuters) - An aspiring TV producer who was being held captive by a knife-wielding man in West Hollywood was mistakenly shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies as he tried to escape his assailant, the sheriff's department said on Thursday.
John Winkler, 30, was one of three men being held and attacked by a 27-year-old man with a knife at an apartment on Monday night, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
He and another man ran out of the apartment to get away, but sheriff's deputies called to the scene thought he was the assailant and shot him, the department said.
"The apartment door suddenly opened and a male victim came rushing out," the department said. "He was covered in blood and bleeding profusely from the neck. Simultaneously, victim Winkler ran out of the door, lunging at the back of the fleeing victim."
Both men ran directly at the deputies, the statement said.
"Believing Winkler was the assailant and the assault was ongoing and he would attack the entry team, three deputies fired their duty weapons at him."
The deputies then heard sounds of a fight from the apartment and went inside to find the attacker, identified as Alexander McDonald, assaulting another person.
McDonald, the roommate of one of the victims, was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and torture. Winkler was taken to a hospital, where he later died, the sheriff's department said.
The Los Angeles Times, citing a friend of Winkler's, said he moved to West Hollywood from Washington state last year in hopes of breaking into the entertainment business as a producer.
He had landed a three-day job filling in as a production assistant on the Comedy Central show "Tosh.0," a spokeswoman for the network told Reuters.
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Brent Musburger Said Piss, And Kirk Herbstreit Couldn't Keep His Shit Together
On Saturday night, we all speculated about what Brent Musburger could have said that was bad enough that ABC felt the need to cut off the audio while he and Kirk Herbstreit pulled themselves together. Today, we have the unedited version: piss. He said "piss," instead of "pick."


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45 Years Ago: Creedence Clearwater Revival Release 'Bayou Country'
January 1969 announced the big-time arrival of Creedence Clearwater Revival, the unassuming, denim-and-flannel-clad quartet comprised of brothers John and Tom Fogerty and pals Stu Cook and Doug Clifford.
They unveiled their iconic sophomore album, 'Bayou Country,' during the early part of 1969, and nothing was ever the same for them. Nobody could have guessed that this was only the first of three historic studio albums the group released that year.
'Bayou Country' found CCR shedding much of their 1968 debut album's remnant psychedelia (salvaged on the distortion-packed closer 'Keep on Chooglin'') in order to become an unlikely cornerstone of the southern-rock movement. Not bad for a bunch of northern Californians.
But the South was the spiritual home of frontman John Fogerty's heart, so there was little doubt that his swampy muse flowered so fully in the deep blues, Americana and other roots-music hallmarks spread over 'Bayou Country.'
The album's timeless opening cut, 'Born on the Bayou,' sets the tone, floating down lazy, murky waters that eventually wind past the moonshine boogie of 'Bootleg' and funeral blues of 'Graveyard Train' before arriving at the watershed 'Proud Mary,' which reached No. 2.
The song not only broke CCR, it became one of the most covered songs of the era, including a rousing interpretation by R&B great Solomon Burke and Ike & Tina Turner's epic "nice and rough" recording, which borders on definitive. In a way, 'Bayou Country' may be the definitive CCR album from a career, and year, that offered plenty of candidates.
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Kansas City Wedding Guild is hosting their first luncheon of 2013 at the Sporting Club Events at Sporting Park located at One Sporting Way Kansas City, KS on Tuesday January 22, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Tickets for the event must be purchased in advance or the day of the event at http://www.kcweddingguild.org/reservations.asp The cost is $18 for Perfect Wedding Guide Advertisers or $22 to Non-Advertisers.
Wedding professionals will learn about creativity, collaboration and passion in "Behind The Castle Walls: A Wedding Professional's Guide To Exceeding Expectations," presented by Kansas City wedding entertainment director and "Disney geek," Ron Ruth. Here, he will take you on a fun and entertaining journey that explores these three vital processes and show you how we, as an industry can leverage them to provide our brides and grooms with the ultimate wedding day experience.
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Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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First intention, then enlightenment..
Ars Pyronomica
" Life is programmed. Whether death is programmed or not is yet to be determined."
In my hands I hold your smile and in my heart it runs so wild You are the one you are unique I'm so in love you make me weak And the reason that I feel is like a shadow from a light so if you have the chance to be with me be my shadow in the night
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Black Friday alcohol sales surge at Va. ABC stores
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Black Friday discounts offered by Virginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control stores were a hit with customers.
Figures released Wednesday by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control show liquor and wine sales on the day after Thanksgiving were up 86 percent from the same day a year ago. Sales totaled $5.9 million.
ABC spokeswoman Rebecca Gettings tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the discounts allowed customers to buy premium brands for gifts and holiday entertaining.
A Virginia Beach store had the highest sales, $63,287.
This article was provided by The Associated Press. (Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Karl (Carl) Johannes Christian Hofer (1878-1955)
Hofer was born in 1878 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was strongly influenced by the classical idealism of Hans von Marees; also Cezanne. He lived in Paris between 1908 to 1913, then settled in Berlin, where he achieved considerable success. At the end of World War II, he was appointed Director of the Hochschule Fur Bildende Kunste in Berlin.
His painting was expressionist in style but more restrained and poetic. Hofer was the first German ever to win first prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition. He was not a Nazi, and was forbidden to exhibit in Germany as a "degenerate" artist during the Nazi regime. He died in Berlin in 1
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For many, being confident can be a struggle. According to life coach and author Jim Fannin, the amount of people who are suffering from low self-esteem is rising at an alarming rate.
"In all my 60-plus years, I've never seen more stress, worry, despair, anguish — it's just magnified," said Fannin, author of the book, "The Pebble in the Shoe, 5 Steps to a Simple and Confident Life."
Fannin said confidence dissolves when we worry too much about the future, dwell on the past, or judge ourselves and others.
"After listening to one of my clients and being around him, I told him if, 'I talked to you the way you talk to you, you'd fire me already!'" he said. "People today are judging themselves, judging other people, comparing themselves to neighbors, friends, co-workers, team members. It won't lead to a confident life."
Here are Fannin's tips to increase confidence:
Be the palm tree.
"This is the concept of absorbing the negative energy, and being flexible and moving and once the storm blows by, saying, 'Hey sunshine. How are you doing?' There's a reason there are no oak trees on the beach. I think we are being oak trees in life — not bending and not absorbing. And in the workplace — if something doesn't go right, you become the oak tree. You need to be the palm tree and be flexible."
Turn on your light switch.
"Just like the light switch on the wall, your head moves up and down, and people who hold past tense and negative thoughts have their head in down positions. With your head up, you come up with solutions. It brings confidence. So your mom was right when she said, 'Keep your chin up.'"
Reboot your mind.
"If you have a computer, and you have too many programs open and it starts to move slow or even freezes, you reboot and it brings a clear simple screen. The brain works like a processor so if something is not going in your favor, you have some news and it starts to get you thinking in a negative way, turn your brain off. Shut your eyes and shut off your brain. Think about nothing, and hold it for a few seconds. That will reboot your brain. I've had a baseball pitcher reboot during the World Series on the mound, so you can reboot at any time.
Remember your mentor.
"Have an image — and this could be a mentor, a deity, a parent, an uncle that has guided you or a grandparent — and any time you need some confidence or something to hang your hat on, picture them in your mind. I had a mentor and I always carried that mentor image that inspired me. And my mother and father — 'What would my mother say?' and 'What would my father do?' I think all of us had that but we forget it. We need to be reminded."
Look ahead, and not behind.
"We evaluate the residue after a performance and then we should move on. Just the word 'next' takes you out of the past and it propels you to your next step which is going to where you want to go. And there are a lot of people who go to bed thinking about what they don't want. The last 30 minutes before you go to sleep, whatever you think, feel, whatever sensations you have, it's replayed 15-20 times during the night — even if it's bad for you. So you better think about what you think about before you go to sleep. Don't go to bed mad or disappointed."
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I like the book "Kirsten Learns A Lesson". I like this book because it teaches about the past. I think that other kids will like this book because Kirsten has a secret friendship. I also think that kids will like this book because of the lesson in the book. My favorite part of this book is when Kirsten and Singing Bird meet. This is my favorite part of the book because in those times they said that Indians were bad people.
I think kids age 7 and up would like this book because it is so much fun for kids and it is about a kid.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Elise Testone and Joshua Ledet successfully channeled icons of the opposite sex on "American Idol."
Shaking her wavy blond hair and sporting a pair of tight bellbottoms, Testone delivered a faithful rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," while Ledet soared by embracing Mariah Carey's vocal acrobatics on Badfinger's "Without You" during the Fox singing competition's idol-themed performance round Wednesday night.
"You made everybody get up," Jennifer Lopez told Testone. "It was crazy."
The 28-year-old teacher from Charleston, S.C., and the 19-year-old student from Westlake, La., both earned standing ovations from the panel - as did three other finalists: 16-year-old student Jessica Sanchez of San Diego with Beyonce's "Sweet Dreams"; 21-year-old pawn shop worker Phillip Phillips of Leesburg, Ga., with Jonny Lang's "Still Rainin"'; and 17-year-old student Deandre Brackensick of San Jose, Calif., with Eric Benet's "Sometimes I Cry."
"That's what your voice was made to do," Steven Tyler beamed to Brackensick.
Heejun Han, the goofy 22-year-old nonprofit organizer from New York, found his way back into the judges' good graces after last week's silliness with a serious take on Leon Russell's "A Song for You." Tyler, the most critical of Han's wacky antics, said he made the song "come alive in such a way that no one else can."
"You don't make it this far by mistake," said Lopez.
This week's performances kicked off with consistency from a pair of front-runners: 20-year-old rocker Colton Dixon, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., with an emotional version of Lifehouse's "Everything," which he called his favorite worship song, and spunky 18-year-old country rocker Skylar Laine of Brandon, Miss., with Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder and Lead."
"You are a powerhouse singer," Jackson informed Laine.
Jackson and Tyler weren't as fired up about the song choice from 18-year-old singer Hollie Cavanaugh of McKinney, Texas. Cavanaugh tackled former "Idol" champion Carrie Underwood's "Jesus, Take the Wheel" to mixed results. Jackson cited pitch problems, and Tyler claimed that it didn't show off her vocal range.
"I wish you sang a different song," said the Aerosmith frontman. "It was just OK for me."
One of the remaining nine finalists will face elimination Thursday.
Follow AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/derrikjlang .
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Weathered and Worn: Seriously Rustic Farm Tables
The rustic farm kitchen table in my childhood home was like a topographical map, its ridges, marks, gouges telling the story of our family and the families who owned the table before us. Our lives unfolded around this old pine table. This was were we ate meals, drew pictures, had fights, mixed cake batter, did homework. I remember using pencils and knives to lift out bits of gunk that had receded into the table's deep grooves. Its surface was never smooth, even or shiny. But it never looked stained or dirty, either, because any blemishes would simply become absorbed into the rich, textured patina.
This is the kitchen table I grew up with, shown here in my parents' current home in the countryside of Australia. It is composed of just two thick planks of heavy pine. The knobs on the drawers are mahogany. My parents stripped a layer of linoleum that had been applied to the table top. The table legs had been painted so had to be stripped and oiled. My parents bought the table for just a pound at a thrift shop in rural England in the 1960s, at a time when the locals were upgrading to Formica and chrome and ancient pine furniture was being chucked out left and right. For another pound they snagged a set of 6 old English Windsor chairs that are now valued at a about $450 each.
Rustic farm tables, especially those with reclaimed or salvaged wood, have been popular for a while now, their popularity reaching its apex during the last few years. But trendy or not, I will always love them. If you are not a fan of the shabby chic aesthetic, pair your farm table with modern chairs or in an otherwise modern, sleek dining room. Farm tables can also be dressed up to look quite elegant and formal in more traditional settings. But what really makes these tables so appealing is their easy maintenance. No coasters. No stress. These are tables you can really live with.
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• 1 Brown Dress With White Spots.
• 2 (greyish) Frugal Farmhouse Design.
• 3 (mod) Frugal Farmhouse Design.
• 4 (white) Frugal Farmhouse Design.
• 5 Kate Madison.
• 6 Skona Hem via Greige
• 7 Primitive Folks.
• 8 Cal Interiors.
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Nuggets' Gallinari lost for season
Denver, CO – An MRI taken Friday on Denver Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari's left knee revealed a torn anterior cruciate ligament that will sideline the team's second-leading scorer for the remainder of the season.
Gallinari had to be helped off the court by teammates after his left knee buckled during the second quarter of Thursday's 95-94 win over Dallas. He will undergo surgery at a date yet to be determined.
The native Italian was having one of the most productive seasons of his five- year NBA career at the time of the injury, having averaged a career-best 16.2 points along with 5.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists over 71 games for the 52-24 Nuggets.
"We're extremely disappointed for Gallo. He was having a career year in scoring and rebounding and was a huge reason for our success," Nuggets executive vice president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri said. "We will obviously support him and be there for him throughout his recovery. "Knowing his work ethic and commitment to getting back on the floor, we are confident he will come back stronger than ever next season."
Gallinari's injury comes at an inopportune time for the Nuggets, who currently own just a half-game lead on Memphis for the No. 3 playoff seed in the Western Conference with six remaining in the regular season.


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As you may already know, the most ACTIVE and current Extreme Mom hub can be found on Facebook.
It's updated more frequently than this WP blog simply because posting is convenient and it's much easier to navigate.
If you're interested you can check it out here- https://www.facebook.com/ExtremeMom
Last week I added two social networking GROUPS to the Extreme Mom Facebook family called Extreme Mom Lounge and Extreme Mom Laundry Room- Rants & Advice.
The purpose of this post is to introduce, explain and archive the same groups missions.
Not at all my usual blog post. Apologies to my WordPress subscribers for that.
These groups are distinctly different from the primary Extreme Mom Facebook page as they're intended to be a more interactive and supportive forum. They're also PRIVATE meaning you must request membership and the content of these pages- posts and comments can only be viewed by members. Your boss, husband and family members can NOT view it.
How refreshing and therapeutic.
You're cordially invited to stop by and hang out.
ABOUT the LOUNGE…
Extreme Mom Lounge is a subgroup of the Extreme Mom Facebook page and blog. It's the VIP lounge where you can sip Martini's, guzzle beer, eat popcorn and speak fucking candidly.
You're encouraged to post, interact and make friends.
Social networking and support at it's finest.
Although it bears the like name of my blog Extreme Mom, it is not exclusively for moms. It's more of a grown-up hang-out for men and women alike .
The lounge is also the main communication hub for all that is Extreme Mom- the WordPress blog, Facebook page, Google plus community, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest boards. Members are guaranteed to get all notifications and posts, unlike fb PAGES which are randomly selected by the fb Gods themselves.
Again, as a private group, ONLY members can view posts and comments, meaning your Facebook friends, family, boss or kids in your class do NOT have access.
Pretty sweet.
Facebook PRIVACY… at last.
A FUN place to hang out.
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Also, no raunchy or graphic sex stuff. If it borders on porn… DON'T. There are plenty of special kinky sites on the Internet for THAT.
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The views and opinions posted on this page are not necessarily those of Extreme Mom. Individuals are solely responsible for their own content. Post and comment at your own risk… I will not necessarily mediate or get involved in disputes.
Questions and/or concerns can be messaged to me through the Extreme Mom PAGE.
I don't know about you, but my regular fb newsfeed makes me want to gouge my eyeballs out. Let's take the DREADFULLY BORING repetition out of Facebook.
ABOUT the Extreme Mom Laundry Room- Rants & Advice (Group #2)
I also created a spin-off group of Extreme Mom Lounge called Laundry Room- Rants & Advice.
Incidentally, this was done after a bar fight broke out and plenty of panties got knotted up.
It's the Extreme Mom Lounges brassy uncensored cousin.
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It's an ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK zone.
Clearly some people have the need to LET LOOSE without reservations. We're going to attempt to keep those things confined to the LAUNDRY ROOM page and OUT OF THE LOUNGE.
Unfiltered rants go here. Judgement free.
Have at it.
Need advice or an opinion? Ask here.
*Extreme Mom is in no way accountable for the advice offered by others, because let's face it, their well-intended counsel could be complete and utter BULLSHIT.
One thing is certain. Many people NEED this outlet. It's therapeutic, therefore POSITIVE.
People with uninhibited personas and brassy dispositions may feel more comfortable here.
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It's easy to tell which side of the argument you're on: Do you say 'illegal immigrant' or 'undocumented worker?' Whichever, there are 11 million of them and the question of what to do is heating up yet again. Figure out a way to provide a path to citizenship or send them packing? Neither one of these choices is an easy solution.
An overview of what has transpired in this country within the last 40 or so years tells us we are all complicit, that all have contributed to the current state of affairs. To keep prices low and gain a competitive edge, businesses of every stripe have recruited and exploited low-wage workers from Latin America for decades. The construction industry and supporting services are the most obvious offenders, filling positions from those requiring zero skills to those demanding the highest skilled craftsmen. Agriculture is right up there in the same category, from peppering the fields of America with Latinos performing the most back-breaking, mundane tasks, to the more hazardous meat and food processing jobs, and on to produce packaging and shipping to grocers nationwide.
There is not a single one of us that has not participated in and benefited from the low-wage labor. I, for example, worked as a manager with one of the largest homebuilders in the country. We did not employ illegal immigrants, but our subcontractors did. Knowing that many of these same subcontractors also worked for our competitors made it easy to accept. To call our subcontractors on the carpet for their hiring practices would have meant business suicide. So every family that purchased one of our homes - which were built on the order of tens of thousands a year - got a deal that should have cost a whole lot more. And at least some portion of my personal salary had to be attributed to the excellent margins we enjoyed.
Millions of people working at sub-par wages and without employer-provided benefits have impacted pricing across the entire spectrum of products and services in America.
On the other hand, these workers are the same that clog our emergency rooms exactly because they have no medical insurance. Their children attend our public schools, and because of the language gap, pull down grade averages and push up educational costs. Some studies show that illegal immigrants' drag on the national economy far exceeds their contribution.
That doesn't mean our dilemma can be boiled down to a balance sheet; and whether the bottom line comes out in our favor is irrelevant. The fact is that all illegal immigrants have also greatly benefited from their stint in this country. After all, they came here to advance their lot in life and take advantage of opportunities not available in their homeland. In that regard a call for an end to the party can be made without guilt.
Supposedly, we are a nation of laws; yet for a very long time we've all winked at the law breaking - which makes us all lawbreakers. It's disingenuous to point fingers only one way. Yet ironically, admitting mutual guilt also makes a return to law the obvious option.
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Sadly, I'm just not educated enough on subjects like this, but from what I understand from those that are, the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries are pretty impressive, combining low resource usage with advanced functionality and great performance. With the support from companies like Samsung, development has been given an impulse, leading to this beta release.
"These libraries were created after E16 to help with E17, the goal was to build infrastructure to aid development of rich graphical user interfaces that would be both fast and easy to use," the team writes, "They went through major rewrites over these past 10 years, but they have settled nicely over the past and now feel ready to be released."
The libraries were already pretty stable (my usage of DR17 a few years ago was already quite pleasant), so the act of stamping them with beta is done to indicate the team has hit API and ABI stability. This could lead to more widespread usage of the EFL.
All this also means that the final release of Enlightenment DR17 will arrive before the end of this year. "After 1.0 final the work force will be put behind Enlightenment DR17 and Elementary, the widget set, with the goal to have everything 1.0 final before the end of the year," the team adds.


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Six months ago, Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh was battling cancer in the United States and wondering if he would live, let alone play cricket again.
He returned after energy-sapping chemotherapy treatment in April, began light training in June and two months later found himself fast-tracked into the Indian team for the World Twenty20.
Former players like Ravi Shastri and Sanjay Manjrekar questioned the left-hander's selection when he failed to deliver in the first few games, with many wondering if the selectors had made the correct call.
He was not fully fit, they said, he was short of match practice and needed to make way for another player.
Yuvraj answered his critics in the crunch game against Pakistan on Sunday night with two wickets in three overs, a direct hit to effect a run out before partnering Virat Kohli in an unbroken half-century stand to see India home.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was delighted with Yuvraj's return to form, saying he never had any doubts about the 30-year-old's fitness or his ability with bat or ball.
"Yuvi was already in the team, it wasn't even a consideration whether he would play or not," Dhoni said after the eight-wicket win over Pakistan in Colombo.
"It is a good option to have a left-arm spinner, someone who takes the ball away from the right-hand batsman. Everyone knows Yuvraj is a very good fielder, and he effected a good run-out too.
"If we play with four bowlers, it will be difficult to keep Yuvraj out of the team. And the way he batted today, it will give him a lot of confidence."
Dhoni also emphasised he was not worried about the fitness of Yuvraj, who was diagnosed and treated for a rare germ-cell cancer between his lungs.
"As far as the T20 format is concerned, he looks very fit," the Indian captain said. "He has done a lot of work in the last few months. I am really not worried about his fitness.
"He will take a lot of positives out of the games he has played here. We all know that once he gets going, he is a terrific batsman to have in the side."
Yuvraj has scored 45 runs in four matches so far, including a best of 19 not out off 16 balls against Pakistan. He has also claimed six wickets, the most by an Indian bowler alongwith seamer Lakshmipathy Balaji.
In a recent interview to the 'Week' newsmagazine, Yuvraj said: "I am just happy I have another life -- a second chance. But there were times when I was not sure I would play again."
Yuvraj was a key figure in India's 50-over World Cup triumph last year, scoring 362 runs and taking 15 wickets in nine matches to be named man of the tournament.
The flamboyant all-rounder rose to fame when he smashed England's fast bowler Stuart Broad for six sixes in one over during the inaugural World Twenty20 in South Africa in 2007, which India went on to win.
India failed to reach the semi-finals in the next two editions in 2009 in England and 2010 in the West Indies.
India take on South Africa in the last Super Eights match on Tuesday night, needing a win to remain in contention for the semi-finals.
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Ive been thinking about it, and I speculate it might be an useful idea to split up the battle pet rating into two seperate ratings.
Namely one for pve and one for pvp.
Chrominius is a strong example of how a pet can be strong in one field, but weak in the other. Very potent against npc trainers, but fairly weak against a competent player as they just will swap out of the howl debuff.
And some abilities are not terribly useful in pve, but strong in pvp. Such as force-swaps, as pve petbattling encourages a decoder ring style of fighting mobs, so you bring the pets the specific tamer's pets are weak against. So you can rarely if ever benefit from upsetting the order in which you are destroying them. Stuns and other CC abilities, which strong in pvp, also can disrupt a pve battleplan as it will force the npc to swap.
You could go further and have a pve and a pvp top 20 as well.


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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake on Tuesday sent MF Enzo Martinez on a short-term loan to the Carolina RailHawks of the second-division North American Soccer League (NASL).
A second-year player out of the University of North Carolina, Martinez has not appeared in any of RSL's first-team games this year. The versatile midfielder started all six of RSL's Reserve League matches and its exhibition match against BYU, playing 561 minutes in the seven games.
Currently sitting in a three-way tie at the top of the NASL standings, the Cary, N.C.-based RailHawks will play three league games in May, starting with this Saturday's match at Minnesota United FC. Cary is located about three hours from Martinez's hometown of Rock Hill, S.C.
Real Salt Lake will return to action this Saturday, when it will take on Vancouver Whitecaps FC at 7:00 p.m. MT at Rio Tinto Stadium. RSL will host Star Wars Day at Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday, with interactive games, costumed characters and special promotions all featured as a part of the "May the 4th" festivities.


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hunter x hunter, by the way the story progresses in op, it could last another decade at least
Hiatus answers your question.
tough one, I'd have to just go with one piece. Unless Togashi decides to go on a spree just to be done with it. If he even cares that much at this point.
These pretzels are making me thirsty
One Piece will i think ^^
Caught up in One Piece!! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ *confetti*
bleach then naruto then one piece then hxh....and yes i cry while i say this cuz i luz all so much
You cant learn to tell the truth till you learn to lie
I hope they shall never end......
Wish I was on more...o(≧o≦)o
It's really too hard to say who will finish first at this rate, but it really bothers me that people are throwing around the idea of Togashi passing away so casually. D:
Don't give up on the guy. Don't say ominous things like that so easily. What are we going to do if he does die?
OP before HxH.....I honestly don't think HxH is returning. xD
Gintama' Yorozuya
HxH will never have a proper ending, OP might have one since it has had fewer hiatus.
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Actually One Piece started before HxH.
This is a tough one. Togashi has introduced many new possibilities with the Dark Continent and we don't know how deep is he planning to build this new huge world.
Oda has started his 2nd half with the New World, and IMO the Dark Continent can be considered the 2nd half in the story of HxH. OP has a good 11-12 years left, but in HxH's case, it's tough to estimate.
I'd go with OP ending first. It took Togashi 8 years to finish the Chimera Ant arc so god knows how long will it take him to finish the current plots that are in need for progression (Kurapika's quest, Chrollo's return and his fight with Hisoka ....etc). Add to that the newly introduced Dark Continent, so we got a long way ahead of us. Unless he surprisingly ends the series without fully exploring these things.
I would cry so hard if Togashi did that
I'd say One Piece will end first. I don't think that Togashi is going to come back from his hiatus anytime soon. I hope he does soon though
The freaking anime is pretty much milking even more manga sales, for Hunter X Hunter,despite its rough artwork.
Togashi should just team up with his brother and finish the damn thing. He could only do the writing and his brother should do the art. I mean it almost seems like this manga is begging for an Ashirogimuto team up, like Bakuman. Afterall, his brother also a mangaka. Did you guys know he drew hentai? lol But it's actually Togashi's own fault that he ended up doing so many hiatuses, lately. Back when he did Yu Yu Hakusho, he suffered from an immense amount of stress because of not having assistants. He insisted on doing it alone. Bad move, Togashi. Now look at him, suffering from the after effects of that stress to this day. I just hope he gets well soon.
ANYWAYS, Hunter X Hunter, will probably end before One Piece does.
I chose HxH over OP nuff said :P.
Togashi went to the hospital before and now I'm pretty sure he's just taking his time with Hunter x Hunter, which he has every right to do. He's done so much already and it's his story, after all. He has so much money that he doesn't have to do anything. I don't think he's bored of Hunter x Hunter; I get the feeling he's drawing it out at his own pace because he's doing it just for fun.
I don't know how much is left though. If it's just one or two arcs, I think it'll be finished before One Piece. If it's like four and they're all of pretty good length, maybe not. I have faith that Hunter x Hunter will be finished eventually, and I assume Togashi won't go on a ten year hiatus because of my feeling that he likes Hunter x Hunter.


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More than three-quarters of Massachusetts residents see health care costs as a serious problem, and they want state government to do something about it, according to a new poll commissioned by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
Among 1,002 Massachusetts residents randomly selected and interviewed by phone last month, 78 percent said the high cost of care has reached the level of being a major problem, or even a crisis. Eighty-eight percent said it is important for the state to address this issue in an aggressive way - an assessment shared by a majority of Democrats, Republicans, and independents.
"People want action,'' said foundation President Sarah Iselin. "The public is looking for results.''
The survey did not ask those polled what kind of government action is necessary. But the bipartisan support for action, at a time when the nation is divided over government's role in changing health care, surprised Robert J. Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at Harvard School of Public Health, which conducted the poll. Blendon was the lead researcher on the report.
"I just took for granted that all the Republicans would be against this and half the independents who tend to lean Republican would be against this,'' Blendon said. "When people think, in the state, about the health care laws that will happen in the future, they are less polarized than they are when they talk about the national legislation.''
The poll is reminiscent of one Blendon led in 2003, early in the debate over expanding insurance coverage. At the time, respondents said reducing the number of uninsured should be government's top priority.
Governor Mitt Romney signed a law in 2006 creating an independent state agency to vet and sell health plans, providing new subsidies for coverage, and requiring most state residents to have health insurance.
Today, about 98 percent are covered, and policymakers have turned their attention to costs.
Governor Deval Patrick proposed legislation in February aimed at changing how doctors and hospitals are paid, moving from a system that pays for every service provided to one that pays for patients' overall care.
There has been little public action on the bill since a series of hearings held this spring.
Amy Whitcomb Slemmer, executive director of the consumer group Health Care for All, said the Blue Cross poll shows that the public is eager for the next phase.
"Given the priorities reflected here, I think the decision makers should feel confident in making the next step and that we need to move quickly to address what Health Care for All sees every day, which is that people are struggling to pay for their health care,'' she said.
Among them is Chuck Green of Ashland, 57, who went shopping for health care in 2009 after his wife left her job as a teacher to give private art lessons. After their first insurance provider increased their monthly premium by more than half, the couple signed on with Blue Cross Blue Shield, paying $1,292 per month, he said.
In April of this year, their premium jumped to $1,589. With a $1,000 deductible each, their annual health care costs total more than $21,000 - more than their mortgage and property tax combined, said Green, who recently started his own video production business. He said he is hopeful that action by the state government could improve the situation.
"If anywhere, Massachusetts has the promise of again providing leadership to the country and making the appropriate changes to the health care system,'' Green said.
He may be more optimistic than most. Fewer than half of respondents to the Blue Cross poll said they were at least somewhat confident state action would reduce costs. Still, 32 percent said government must lead the effort, compared with 27 percent who picked insurance companies to lead, and 19 percent who picked hospitals and doctors.
Asked about the top drivers of health care costs, those polled named drug companies, insurers, and hospitals that charge too much, along with waste and fraud and people who overuse the system. Low on the list were factors that reflect individual decision-making, such as overuse of expensive technology or higher-cost hospitals.
"A lot of experts are worried about how many prescriptions people take, and the public is worried about the cost per pill,'' Blendon said.
The results of the poll will be presented today at an 8 a.m. forum hosted by the foundation at the Boston Harbor Hotel.Chelsea Conaboy can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @cconaboy.


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