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Brachioplasty, or armlift, is a surgical procedure designed to remove excess skin from the upper arm. It is a procedure that commonly is performed in patients who have lost a large amount of weight and are left with loose sagging skin on the arms. This procedure can tighten the loose skin on the arms, but comes with a visible permanent scar that runs along the inside of the upper arms. The appearance of the arm scar is unpredictable, but the scars tend to fade with time.
Patients of any age with loose skin on the upper arms may be candidates for this procedure.
Your plastic surgeon will perform a comprehensive evaluation of your arms, including any limitations in range of motion or previous injuries or surgeries. You will receive specific guidelines about preparing for surgery, including:
Your plastic surgeon will listen carefully to your concerns about excess skin on your arms, as well as your surgical goals and expectations. The length and position of the scar on your arms will be discussed, and the surgeon can draw the approximate scar location on your arm with a medical skin marker.
The most common alternative to removal of the skin is liposuction. Although this option usually avoids a scar, it can make loose skin worse. Another option is a "short scar" brachioplasty, which keeps the scar in the armpit region, but it will not be useful for patients who have excess skin encircling the arm. Risks and benefits specific to all procedures will be discussed in greater detail during your initial consultation.
In addition to the aesthetic evaluation, your surgeon will perform a careful evaluation of your overall health, as well as issues that could cause complications, such as:
A brachioplasty usually is done in a hospital as outpatient surgery. You must be driven to and from the hospital by a friend or family member. If you are combining a brachioplasty with another body contouring procedure, you probably will stay one night in the hospital.
Brachioplasty typically is done under general anesthesia.
In most cases, patients may experience pain in the arms for the first 24 to 48 hours, and compressive wraps are placed on the arms. You may have drains that typically stay in for one week.
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A brachioplasty tightens the skin on the upper arm, but involves a permanent scar and is considered major surgery. Brachioplasty does not correct loose skin on the forearm and there may be a noticeable transition where the newly tightened skin of the upper arm meets the forearm. In addition to the risks associated with anesthesia, you may experience some patches of numbness on the forearm because of the skin removal but this improves with time and does not affect the function of the arm or the hand.
Not every person is a candidate for this procedure, and your risks may be greater or different than those of other patients. Your plastic surgeon will review all potential risks and complications with you prior to the surgery.
Portions of the wound may be slow to heal, especially in the armpit where it is moist and there is a lot of motion. Infection and bleeding are uncommon with brachioplasty, but can occur. In rare cases, patients may experience prolonged or even permanent arm swelling (lymphedema).
Brachioplasty usually produces a tightened and more youthful and attractive appearance to the upper arm. The permanent scar may stay thick and red, but tends to fade over time and reaches its final appearance over 12 to 18 months.
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I purchased my very first new car in 1999 from Pierre Auto Centers in Seattle, Washington. It was a Dodge Caravan 6 cylinder. I was excited as I was 5 months pregnant and assumed this would be a very safe family car. My first service issue with the Caravan just seemed like luck of the draw. Something went wrong with the output turbine speed sensor. This happened twice, once in 2002 and then 4 months later. The van had 27,000 miles on it and was covered by an extended warranty - non-Chrysler as our dealer preferred a company called One Care. Keep in mind this is my first car.
What's two turbine speed sensors on your first car?! Little frightening to just suddenly decelerate on the freeway, but flashers and a good shoulder later... Everything was okay. I had already had steering lines replaced due to a TBS on that and had the Solenoid Pack looked at as the Dodge, from the moment we got it, seemed to be shifting gears up and down even when in park or at a stoplight - it would accelerate and then sound like shifting. The mechanic said it needed a solenoid update kit but that warranty wouldn't pay for the repair as it wasn't hurting anything - just annoying.
It wasn't until May of 03 - exactly one month off of warranty by date - and 1,000 miles under warranty by mileage (28,899) - that we started in with the so far seven year nightmare of the tensioner, tensioner pulleys and serpentine belt replacements at every 5000-25,000 miles. It has been non-stop since the car was three years and 28,000 miles old.
The first service - Pierre Auto Centers - Seattle WA, 5/14/03 - inv.# ** -- note on invoice "Inspect serp belt to see if it needs to be replaced. "S" belt is okay, AC belt is dirty, and the belt tensioner is weak and should be replaced. Replaced belt and tensioner." At under 30,000 miles I first replaced the tensioner and belt. On 9/25/03 I have invoice # ** from courtesy tire that notes "check for belt squeak" as the belt was whining and I was concerned. He didn't find anything notable at that time. Mileage 35,813.
April 4, 04, Nov. 12, 04 - I also had Courtesy Tire check the squeak, put on new brakes, etc. They tightened the tensioner and suggested checking it every few thousand miles. I stopped driving it for a while - used my old Toyota P/U (25 years old, no problems still) instead. Began driving it again in March 2005. At 55,000 miles the belt broke while on a trip. I had a local replace it not remembering that the new belt had only 20,000 miles on it. That was 12/30/05.
Less than 9 months and 20,000 miles later, I had the belt again replaced. This time by Firestone - 9/12/06, mileage 70,000, invoice # **. Two months later, Firestone replaced the belt again and the tensioner invoice # **. They charged me to do this work, but took off the cost of the serpentine belt from two months before. It hadn't even been 2,000 miles.
Ledoux Auto then came into the mix, putting a belt on in Mar. 07 @ 76,000 mile and again in Dec. @ 90,000 Miles. Note: It would be nice to use your same mechanic each time for these repairs. But when you are having a breakdown that stops every system in the car, you have to take what you can get.
By Feb. 09, the serpentine belt again shredded @ 102,000 miles. This time I was barely able to limp it into a Chrysler garage off of the freeway in the Dalles, Oregon. C. H. Urness Motor Co, service (invoice #) ** diagnosed the problem as the serpentine belt fraying - needs new belt and tensioner.
Six hours down the road from that repair, I was in Parkway Chevrolet's repair shop in Deer Park Washington, where they, concerned about the tracking of the belt and the longevity of the repair, removed the a/c fan belt thinking that I stood a better chance of making it back to Salem, Oregon if I wasn't stressing anything. When I got home, I parked it for a couple of months until I could save some more money to have it repaired again.
This time, Withnell Dodge in Salem put on a new tensioner and replaced the belt again. They were good enough to charge me a cut rate since the tensioner was a Dodge part and since it had only been two months since the previous repair and since the mileage was now only 106,000. (Invoice # **). I took the van in for brakes in June 09. Things looked good. An oil change in Sept. 09 - Still good. In March '10 replaced the ignition switch, thermostat and gasket. 15,000 miles on the new belt and tensioner!
At 30,000 miles -- thunk, thunk, thunk. Serpentine belt is sheared. This time, Withnell Dodge in Salem, invoice # ** wrote on the invoice - the following note: "Tensioner replaced here 4/9. Replaced belt. Needs pulley update kit - belt moves to side of power steering pump when started - temporary fix right now." The mechanic suggested that I call Dodge as surely they would help considering the documentation and the fact that I had this problem since the car was one month over the 3-year warranty and still under miles when all of this began.
Also, there has been an update kit available through Dodge since 2005. How many times have I had this replaced and by how many Dodge Authorized Repair shops?? No one thought to mention the pulley update kit??? Out since 2005??? Hmm. The Dodge Caravan has been recalled because of this issue in Brazil. You can go on the internet and read hundreds upon hundreds of complaints with the same m. o. as mine.
I do live in the Pacific Northwest and it is quite rainy and snowy here. As you can see from my repair dates, the serpentine belt was always shredding during our rainiest times of years so that would make sense as to other people mentioning rain/water as a factor. When I called Dodge, the case manager basically said, "Too bad, so sad, tell someone who cares." I asked him why they wouldn't do a recall, or admit to a design flaw (when the Dodge certified mechanics are saying just that) and yet they have created a kit that fixes the original tensioner system design.
He offered me a free year's worth of oil changes instead of giving me a real answer - like why would I need to change oil on a car that has lost power steering on the freeway due to a snapped belt and has killed me and all the passengers in the van because I was unable to control it.
No thanks Dodge! I don't think that I will take a chance driving on the freeway in your super-sized family coffin on wheels. A crash in town going 25 mph is one thing - but most people I have read about are shelving the vans for any real driving until they can find and/or afford the fix since you will not do the right thing and fix your design flaw and make your consumers safe. My advice, before you buy Dodge - buy something else.
ANTIOCH, ILLINOIS -- I bought a Dodge Caravan new in 2006 from local dealer. Within the first yr. tail gate started rusting on the inside lip. I complained to service dept and they told me it was my fault I didn't keep it clean enough. I didn't want to argue so went on my way and paid attention to cleaning my van more often. Let me tell you this van is garage kept and now it has bubbling rust all over and major rust on engine hood, inside lip and tailgate inside lip, all door inside panel bottoms. I really don't understand why. I'm thinking manufacturer defects. Is there anything to be done about this problem? Rust has been a problem since I got it. It looks like bad.
I was hit on the driver's side front fender and the knee buffer airbag deployed. I pinned both my lower legs back against the seat and I felt like my legs were on fire! I had to struggle to free my legs from the hot steel plate and my lower legs began to bruise and swell immediately. Two weeks later I am still in pain daily and struggling to walk as my legs continue to swell daily from this massive crush injury. I also have a large deep tissue hematoma on the left aspect of each lower leg. These hematomas are visible externally due to the massive slowly draining blood blister that sits atop each one!
I received more bodily injury from this "safety feature" than I did from the seat belt, driver's side airbag, and broken right hand. This knee buffer is deployed at 200 mph by a blast that creates enough heat to burn your legs! I actually thought my car was on fire due to the excruciating burning pain in my legs. These crippling airbags are in the 2005 and newer Caravans. DO NOT BUY A DODGE MINIVAN!

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It's mid-afternoon and I am still feeling shaky from early this morning, when I read Amanda Ruggeri's recent New York magazine account of being drugged and raped while a student at Yale. After the rape, she had no access to even a rape kit on campus, despite rape generally being dealt with as an on-campus problem rather than as a violent crime requiring actual police. She was silent about it for years: she had little access to help, prosecuting the rapist would be nearly impossible, etc. Mostly it seems she remained silent in order to survive in a place where being a victim and speaking up about it turns you into a piece of gossip, into a scapegoat.
Speaking up about being raped at a place like Yale diminishes your status as a human being and an achiever, and achieving is what just about every ounce of that place is devoted to. Every waking moment seems devoted to keeping one's armor shiny and intact, the competition and the stakes are high.
(Note: Ruggeri's impeccably written article will slay you, so don't make the mistake I did of wandering afterwards into the ignorant troll rape-apologist comments. There are not enough showers in the world to get that off. I am already securing a shot of bourbon and a bunch of sage incense for 7 p.m. on the dot to shake those hideous victim-blaming vibes the hell out of my realm.)
I went to Yale. I don't make a lot of money. But many of the guys I was friends with in college in the '90s do. These were boys I stood around watching smoke a six-foot bong who have now been running hedge funds and the like for over a decade. HEDGE FUNDS, dammit. Back then these guys were pretty cool during the day, but became an all-night radio station of boring-at-the-bong: obsessing over "Kind Legs" (not a sexual reference: this was what they called Grateful Dead bootlegs). I remember a friend who was not in the white-straight-male-bong crew joking, "You know they'll all be bankers someday, right?" and laughing. I guess we did know it was true.
Now most of them have blossomed into quite fascinating, non-Dead-focused men, and quite a few of them have eight gazillion dollars.
Quite a few of them also have daughters.
I know that they would be happy to see their daughters go to Yale. And I also know that these fathers probably have a high level of cognitive dissonance about rape culture at Yale -- not wanting to mar their Yale halo/memories by acknowledging rape culture's current dominance or even existence, yet underneath that, on a feeling level, likely terrified that their daughters could be under siege in this awful way some day. So terrified that they probably have to create a mental fortress where that can't be a possibility: their brains constructing the necessary denials of rape culture's existence by insisting they are adequately teaching their daughters to protect themselves. Making sure that their daughters will not get into any situation where they could be hurt in any way.
Every minute of their day, now, as grown-ass men, is about protecting and providing for their kids. It is unthinkable that their daughters could be unsafe when their every waking moment goes to that very goal. As fathers, the possibility that what happened to Amanda Ruggeri could happen to their own daughters does not exist.
These are men who have achieved everything -- it is simply not possible that they could fail at Mission #1: protecting their family. And it is by extension also impossible that their alma mater, whose education and prestige has provided the entry pass to this constant success, could fail to protect their family, or by extension the collective family.
This kind of denial, of course, does zilch to protect anyone from harm (and in fact just perpetuates rape culture's necessity of blaming the victim). Their daughters are exactly as at risk as Amanda Ruggeri and the many women in her Yale secret society who were also raped, and who also remained silent in order to avoid stigma and survive.
These women (and thousands of other raped Yale students) have remained silent because there was no safe system in place for them to access their legal right to report a crime and have it prosecuted. They were silent because their identities would not have been protected and the shame ALWAYS, ALWAYS gets displaced onto the victim in rape culture.
When I went to Yale with my excellent feminist women friends and my guy friends who went on to own/run the planet, it was a deeply feminist place. (I mean -- not STRUCTURALLY in terms of percentage of women tenured and who makes the money in the end. It was the dudes who loved Kind Legs making bank immediately after graduation despite women often running circles around them academically. A few of my guy friends had secretaries their first year out of school, while my women friends and I often were secretaries to be able to pay rent while we figured out grad school or whatever.)
But the discussion at Yale back then was deeply feminist, as much as at any of the few intense liberal arts institutions in the US at that time. Feminism was the lens you read books through. I read "This Bridge Called My Back" in five different classes. Feminism was Sandra Cisneros and Laura Mulvey and bell hooks and the Guerilla Girls and it infiltrated everything.
So I ask you, Yale alums of the eight gazillion dollar variety and also all of the feminists who have graduated from this place: Why are we not withholding alumni donations until the university protects students from sexual assault, actively enables prosecution of rapists, and provides a safe way for women to report what has happened to them?
I'm surprised this is not already a thing. Can someone whose donations actually mean something to the Alumni Fund please start this in a big bold way?
If not, let me start it now.
If you donate money, please read Amanda Ruggeri's article about being drugged and raped at Yale.
And if you're thinking these problems have been resolved since her experience in 2005, think again. In 2011, the Department of Education opened a Title IX investigation into Yale for a "hostile sexual environment," due to rampant violent misogyny, including the DKE fraternity chanting "No means yes, yes means anal" on a campus quad. Yale paid no fine under the resolution of this Title IX complaint, and as of 2013, students and advocates were disappointed that very little had changed.
As a result of the 2011 investigation, Yale created a "University-wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct." Which sort of tells you all you need to know: Rape should be classified as a crime, not as sex. Not including "crime" in the name of this committee means that Yale is not truly considering rape a crime.
Also: Rapists are not being prosecuted.
Last year, "the university determined that over a period of six months, six students were guilty of 'nonconsensual sex'...Of the six Yale students found guilty, four were given written reprimands, one was placed on probation, and one student given a one-year suspension. All six will graduate with Ivy League degrees after committing a crime, which if committed outside the bounds of campus, would lead to far more serious repercussions," according to the Feminist Wire. (Emphasis mine.)
Written freaking reprimands.
It is thus inarguable that the campus is still unsafe for women, but quite safe for rapists.
We know that the university puts a very high value on cash from alums.
We know that it is so wrong, 100% unacceptable, for rape culture to go unchecked and for basic protections and legal rights to not be in place.
We are feminists (well, many of us are).
We are the grown-ups now (all of us).
We are in a position where we actually might have some leverage.
It is our responsibility to stand up and demand fair, legal, safe treatment of rape victims.
Classmates and friends, feminists and fathers, those of you from other rape culture universities: I am not asking you to join a political cause.
What I am asking you is to take on the role of the responsible grown-ups of this community. We are now the town watch. We are the ones with wisdom, responsibility, and resources.
There are crimes being committed on our turf. There is a culture that allows physical violence and emotional intimidation not to just go unpunished, but to rule the roost.
Yale is allowing young women to be raped, intimidated, traumatized, and silenced and we are paying them to eff up this badly.
How can we allow this? It is not a political issue. It is a town-policing issue. We do not live in New Haven anymore, but many of us contribute money and we certainly benefit from our association with the institution despite its vile negligence of young women's well being.
Right now, the people we are giving money to are failing miserably at the most basic task: Physically protecting the community they are entrusted with.
We must not turn a blind eye.
Environments of physical and emotional terror must be dismantled so that Yale is safe and functional.
Laws must be enforced.
Victims must be protected.
Criminals must be prosecuted.
Until there is a safe way for victims to report and prosecute crimes, until there is a true campus-wide erasure of rape culture, until rapists and guys who indiscriminately drug women with GHB (what do you even call that? God help us) are prosecuted as the norm, why don't we take the simplest, most responsible action, and write the following on the response forms to all those Alumni Fund requests:
I am withholding my donation until Yale ends rape culture on campus and provides safety for women.
This might speed up the pace of change. Notably, it requires not giving away money. If Yale alums still want to donate somewhere, I'm sure Planned Parenthood will take the cash. But really -- what is easier than not writing a check? Easy, and it could have a big effect.
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I've never mixed pork with my venison, but a lot of the people around here do that. I always ground the majority of my venison into burger, without admixture. Makes great chili, but if you fry it - like hamburger patties - you'll have to add some sort of grease (lard, butter, vegetable oil - whatever is close to hand), because there isn't enough in it natively to keep it from sticking to the frying pan.
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Hey OP (MI5edtodeath).....Nong Shim Shin Bowl noodles ARE DEEP FRIED contrary to what you said in the OP. Any thoughts or comments about that? That they're not deep fried (according to you) was one of the main points of this thread, right? Maybe you, and seemingly everyone else, missed my strikingly on topic post back on page 5? Here's the link again just in case you didn't see it....and yes the link IS specific to Nong Shim's manufacturing process.....THEIR NOODLES ARE FRIED IN PALM OIL.
Nong shim noodles ARE fried in palm oil just like nissin top ramen, cup noodles, maruchan etc.
After stretching, strands of noodles with about 43% moisture are conveyed through a steam tunnel, where they are cooked before entering a steam-fired palm-oil fryer.
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Well, even if they were not fried but just sprayed with oil it's still in there but the Nong Shim Site states:
After stretching, strands of noodles with about 43% moisture are conveyed through a steam tunnel, where they are cooked before entering a steam-fired palm-oil fryer.
So yes they are fried.
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Don't kid yourself, if it contains the same amount of oils as other noodles, then it doesn't matter how the oils got in there.
Why would you not be able to eat you're noodles? Forget what your neighbors said and just enjoy.
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A public announcement in the June 21, 1762 issue of The Gentlemen's Magazine described new guests to England:
"Three Cherokee Indian Chiefs arrived in London from South Carolina. They are well made men, near six feet high, were dressed in their own country habit, with only a shirt, trowsers, and a mantle round them; their faces are painted of a copper colour, and their heads adorned with shells, feathers, ear-rings, and other trifling ornaments." The writer added later that "cloaths have been given them in the English fashion."
The "well made men" — who apparently, by their appearance alone, were straining English notions of propriety — were none other than the Cherokee commander-in-chief Ostenaco; another chief, Cunne Shote; and an aide named Woyi.
The English were hungry for sensation, and during a month-and-a-half tour of the country, the three men made all the papers, were described in detail in ladies' diaries and gentlemen's memoirs, sat for countless portraits, and were even immortalized in a lithograph by William Hogarth. Their guide to Albion was Henry Timberlake, an English lieutenant who came, as part of the terms of a treaty, to live with the Cherokee earlier that same year.
Timberlake may not be a household name (except as regards a contemporary R&B singer of questionable talent and permanent five-o'clock shadow), but the young lieutenant's diary from that period is today considered one of the most faithful and vivid descriptions of Cherokee life and culture, ranking alongside works by the Philadelphia botanist William Bartram and the 19th-century observations of James Mooney.
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Through its faithful attention to Timberlake's accounts and reliance on artifacts, the display should disabuse any images of the Cherokee involving rubber-tipped spears and ceremonial headdresses. The idea for it came originally from Dr. Duane King, former director of the museum, says Ken Blankenship, the venue's current director.
"About eight years ago we got a little more serious about it and started some planning," says Blankenship. "At the time we were just designing it. We had no idea what it would cost."
Fundraising followed for the exhibit, whose final tally was $750,000. An additional $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities has allowed Emissaries to go on the road.
"We felt it was important to get the truth out to the people about this period of history," says Blankenship. Emissaries heads next to the University of Tennessee. In spring 2007, the exhibit will carve out a spot at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Emissaries is the museum's most ambitious exhibit since it opened at its current location in 1976. More than 250 artifacts are on display, including the odd (a coil of brass used for plucking hair), the beautiful (wampum belts, earrings), the ornate (silver gorgets worn by British soldiers and Cherokee warriors alike) and the dual-purpose (a combination tomahawk-pipe.)
The floor plan is laid out chronologically, walking visitors through the series of historical events leading up to Timberlake's sojourn with the Cherokee, his travels (long on both hardship and miles covered), his stay with the Indians, later travels to England, and summary details.
At the time of Timberlake's visit, the Cherokee were one of the most culturally advanced tribes in North America, inspiring respect among some English and colonists.
But while choice aspects and figures from the culture were celebrated (a young Thomas Jefferson described his "awe and veneration" at Chief Ostenaco's "sounding voice, distinct articulation and animated action"), indifference or violence were more often the English's ready responses.
In fact, the years leading up to Timberlake's stay with the Cherokee were epically bad for the tribe. Waves of disease had devastated the Cherokee, shaking the culture to the root. And in spite of their faithful aid to the British during the French and Indian war, bad things kept coming. In the spring of 1761, a British force of 2,600 led by Lt. Colonel James Grant burned 15 of the Cherokee's middle towns, destroyed 1,500 acres of crops and drove, according to a contemporary observer, "five thousand Cherokees into the mountains to starve."
Out of this mess, in 1762, came a spot of repose in Timberlake's gentle observations of daily life and ceremony among the tribe. Archaeological digs in the 1960s and 1970s confirmed as fact many of his descriptions.
Timberlake put words to the sight of the Cherokee war dance, on less bellicose ceremonies, on agriculture, commerce and crafts. On the appearance of Cherokee men, Timberlake wrote: "Their countenance and actions exhibit [an] air of magnanimity, superiority and independence. Their complexion of a reddish brown or copper colour; their hair long, lank, coarse and black as a raven, and reflecting the like luster at different exposures to light."
Cherokee women he described as "tall, slender, erect and of a delicate frame, their features formed with perfect symmetry, their countenance cheerful and friendly, and they move with a becoming grace and dignity."
As fate would have it, the Englishman died in poverty just three years after his stay with the Cherokee, too soon to see his Memoirs in print. But the images they contain, of a complex culture accommodated to the fertile, green "wilds," would help inspire a generation of Romantic poets, including Byron, Keats, Shelley and Coleridge. That, and a traveling exhibit to boot, is perhaps compensation enough — at least for Timberlake.
Emissaries of Peace is on display at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian (Hwy. 441 at Tsali Boulevard, in Cherokee) through Friday, Sept. 15. Call (828) 497-3481 or visit cherokeemuseum.org.


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Antonio Valencia is suspended while Henrikh Mkhitaryan has joined Luke Shaw and Chris Smalling on the sidelines. There are plenty of options to replace the Ecuadorian and the Armenian in the team with Eric Bailly and Ashley Young among those in contention for right-back and Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata and FA Cup final hero Jesse Lingard possible selections in Mkhitaryan's role. Palace's only absentee is suspended midfielder Jason Puncheon, another scorer in last May's big game at Wembley.
This will be the 10th time United have played away to the team the Reds beat in the previous season's FA Cup final - the previous nine have produced three wins but six defeats. United did not play against Brighton and Millwall in the campaigns after the 1983 and 2004 finals as those two sides were not in the top flight.
Wilfred Zaha was Sir Alex Ferguson's final signing as manager of United, although he never got to play for him, and he has been in outstanding form for Palace of late. "There was a magnificent performance by Wilf [against Hull]," said Pardew. "He was sublime and they couldn't cope with him." Campbell is another Old Trafford old boy while the Eagles' record buy Christian Benteke is a real danger man as he has a good record against us with his former clubs Liverpool and Aston Villa.
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First Analog Sheep Music Video: I Miss My Amiga 500
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Finally! The first music video by my electronic music project Analog Sheep, "I Miss My Amiga 500" is out.
Cover-art-still-image versions and music videos of all future songs will be added to the Analog Sheep YouTube channel. So be sure to subscribe on YouTube.
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The music video is produced by me. 3D animations and valuable creative and technical support are supplied by Ugur Engin Deniz.
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The Young Scholars Program offers academically talented high school students who live within commuting distance of Stony Brook the opportunity to complement their high school study with part-time coursework at Stony Brook for a reduced fee. The courses are scheduled in the late afternoon, early evening, and on Saturday. In past semesters, course offerings have included Calculus III: Differential Equations, Spanish Composition and Conversation, Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Psychology, and Logical and Critical Reasoning.
For each course the title, credits, and grade will be recorded on an official Stony Brook transcript. The student may later use these courses toward a degree at Stony Brook or offer them as transfer credit at another college or university.
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Essington Rugby club are mindful that they are responsible for not just the rugby club as a building but also for everyone that visits us. We are the Guardian of the club and its visitors.
A few years ago we had unwanted visitors (not mice!) break through the walls of the club, not just once but many times. The only way that we could stop this was to plate the outside wall with metal, so hopefully we have managed to secure the building itself.
Now we want all visitors and members to feel safe within the walls of the club by adding CCTV. This would enable the club to monitor all of its visitors whether they are welcome ones or not.
CCTV cameras can act as a very successful deterrent to thieves and burglars, certainly making them think twice at the very least!
Within the rugby community there is a history of thieves walking into changing rooms while teams are playing and stealing valuables, cameras monitoring entrances would capture such people.
With CCTV we would be able to monitor functions at the club to ensure the safety and well being of the families that visit us.
It would seem that the local Parish council is also concerned about vandalism and thefts in the local area!
CCTV at the club would work along side the council installation.
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18th Aug 2009 - 19th Aug 2009 - South American Adventure
Iguazu Falls
Not too much happened on the 18th of any interest. I caught my boat at 4:30am and made it with plenty of time to catch my flight to Iguazu. I arrived in Puerto Iguazu without any hassles at all. However, my booking with hostelworld.com didn´t go through to the hotel and the guy at Iguazu House speaks no English. In fact, his solution for someone who doesn´t understand is to speak faster. Not to point at something helpful, use an online dictionary (he was too busy with his MSN) or anything. Man, it was frustrating. I took a walk around town to get information for the next day and was interested by the man cutting his lawn with a massive machete. I didn´t take a picture, for I feared he might come after me with his machete. I had dinner out at a nice restaurant and went for another steak dinner. Man, they can do a mean steak here. However, they cannot do vegetables...especially salad. I ordered a Caesar salad, as I was ecstatic to see it on the menu (a true rarity here). It was horrific. The worst thing I have ever tasted. Man, I miss vegetables.
Early the next morning, I caught the bus to the Iguazu National Park and then immediately hopped on the first ´eco-train´ to the Devil´s Throat. This is considered the main attraction at the falls. It was great being among the first handful of people there as it was easy to get the photo that you wanted without other people blocking your way. As it is high water levels right now in Argentina, the amount of water flowing over the falls was quite high when I was there and it resembled Niagara. Although, the water flowing over Iguazu is a brown-capucchino colour. It looked a lot like they were frothing chocolate (that comparison might have something to do with the fact that I watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on TV last night).
From the Devil´s Throat, I decided to go do the lower trail walk (instead of upper trail). All of the travel agents sugges doing the upper walk first, but I decided to go lower first to avoid the crowds. I was happy that I did. On the way, there were a bunch of monkeys frolicking in the trees on the path to the lower trail. They were incredibly cute and tiny. The baby monkeys (were about the size of my hand) were riding on their moms´ backs across the trail to the other set of trees. I spent close to an hour watching and photographing the monkeys before heading out to the lower trail.
On the lower trail, when you reach Salto Bossetti there is a walkway that leads you straight to the edge of the cascading waterfall. I went out there by myself and got soaked in 5 seconds. Unfortunately, I don´t have a picture of this as I was protecting my camera under my coat. I have seen so many internet pictures of the falls that seem to only have a trickle of water, and thus was not expecting this.
The upper trail is a bit disappointing. There are a couple of spots for some panoramic shots that are nice, but the view from up top is nothing compared to the lower trail. Furthermore, there were three tour groups blocking the tiny trail, making it very frustrating to pass through to the few good spots.
The flight home to BA was good. I was sitting beside an interesting couple from California and enjoyed some great laughs on our 2 hour flight. I was surprised after getting my luggage from the carousel at the length of the line for taxis. This was the first time in my entire trip where taxi people weren´t hounding you before you are out the door. Instead, the line consisted of 2 flights worth of people. It took me 50 minutes to make it to the front of the line. I was incredibly frustrated to learn that it was due to the fact that you wait for this man to help you into the taxi. Meanwhile, there were 7 taxis behind the first one just waiting for him to finish hugging the babies and talking to the people. Had we all jumped the line and then grabbed a cab, I could have been home at least 40 minutes earlier. I was so annoyed at this system that the first thing I did when I got home was start drinking my bottle of red wine.
Buenos Noches.
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Saints turn back early challenge from Bellevue
Mt. Hood advances to the Northwest quarterfinals with sweep over Bulldogs
The Mt. Hood CC volleyball team turned back and early challenge from Bellevue to sweep the Bulldogs 25-22, 25-18, 25-19 in the second round of the Northwest championships Friday afternoon.
The Saints recovered from a four-point deficit in the first set, using back-to-back blocks by Charlene Manning and Kaycie Kitzmiller to move ahead 16-14 midway through the opening game.
Maycie Abenschein and Keely Siegel combined on another block on the right side, watching the ball spin off their hands and find a hole in front of the Bellevue bench to widen the gap to 22-19 and prompt the Bulldogs to call time out.
Bellevue put up a fight at set point. Mt. Hoods Tori Kemper fired a blast into the middle only to see two Bulldogs swing fists at the ball to keep it in the air. Kemper came again with an attempt down the sideline that sent another pair of Bulldogs diving to the floor to keep the point alive.
The rally finally ended when Manning closed out a block on the right side.
The Saints never trailed in either of the last two sets and advance to face East Region champ Blue Mountain in tonights quarterfinals at 6:30 p.m.
Blue Mountain swept South runner-up Umpqua in its second-round matchup.
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(1938–) American biologist
Born in Missoula, Montana, Hood was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he obtained his PhD in biochemistry in 1964, and at Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, where he qualified as an MD in 1964. He immediately joined the staff of the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, working in the area of immunology. In 1970 Hood returned to the California Institute of Technology and was appointed professor of biology in 1975.
In May 1985 at a meeting in Santa Cruz, California, plans were laid to map the human genome (the Human Genome Project). As the genome consists of 3 billion base pairs of DNA, the ability to sequence the genes rapidly would be a crucial factor.
Fortunately an automatic sequencer was almost at hand in 1985, developed by Hood and his colleague Lloyd Smith. The sequencer operates with fluorescent dyes. Each of the four DNA bases – adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T) – can be tagged with a different dye. Unsequenced dye-tagged DNA fragments are analyzed by gel electrophoresis, in which they migrate at different rates. The dyes are excited by an argon laser and the light emitted is turned into a digital signal by photomultiplier tubes. The digital signals can be analyzed by a computer and identified as A, T, C, or G.
Hood's automatic sequencer enabled work that once took a week or more to be carried out overnight. Later commercial models of the device can read 12,000 base pairs a day, and operate more accurately than any manual sequencing.
In 1992 Bill Gates of Microsoft presented the University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, with $12 million to establish a department of molecular biotechnology. Hood was persuaded to move to Seattle to head the new department, to work on a faster DNA sequencer, and to analyze the genes controlling the human immune response. That same year Hood, in collaboration with Ronald Cape, a former head of the biotechnology firm Cetus, founded Darwin Molecular in Seattle. Their aim is to develop new drugs utilizing processes comparable to natural selection.
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Bill Wilkerson woke up early in his Halifax hotel room one Tuesday morning last August. A busy day loomed as usual - at 8 a.m., he was supposed to deliver a one-hour keynote address to more than 1,000 people. He was well-rehearsed. There was just one snag: He wasn't sure he could get out of bed.
"There was a fuzziness behind my eyes. My arms felt limp." He felt heavy and frightened for no apparent reason. The man who for a decade had been giving speeches around the world and lobbying for political action as one of Canada's top mental-health experts was now, himself, battling depression.
Desperate to fight the feeling, he did sit-ups, spoke out loud just to hear his own voice, shadow-boxed and swung an imaginary baseball bat - "anything to get to a point where I could get back to a physical presence," he recalls. "Because if I stepped in front of the mirror, I wasn't sure if I would see anybody."
Ultimately he made it to the conference. He spoke. He urged businesses to make mental health a priority. He joked (giving a Top 10 list of "management practices now driving us crazy"). And the crowd gave him a standing ovation.
When Mr. Wilkerson gathered together a host of prominent Canadians 10 years ago to address the social and economic effects of mental illness, he wasn't motivated by personal problems.
But along the way, as head of the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health - whether because of his own makeup, stress, frustration or some mix of causes - his own mental and emotional state began to fray. Tensions grew between his public and private personae.
"There's such a surrealism to it," he says now, sitting in the sun-drenched dining room of his century home in Port Hope, Ont. "It's like ... there is Bill, this person, and there is Bill, the other person" - the effusive, approachable Bill who was at home in any social situation and the inner, angry Bill who saw health-care bureaucracies and indifferent employers cause so much misery for people in need of help. "I had to leave that Bill behind."
Today, he is also leaving the Roundtable, winding the organization down after hitting the one-decade mark. He doubts he could have found a replacement, as he wasn't drawing a salary for much of that time. In any case, other groups and individuals are now carrying the torch.
As he prepares to write a book on the Roundtable experience, this skilled professional crisis manager is finally willing to reveal his own crisis to the public.
It's a struggle he kept private for three years, telling no one but his wife, Olga, of his diagnosis.
He never wanted to make his crusade personal - he wanted to present "bulletproof" research to employers and policy-makers to persuade them, with hard-nosed logic, to take the mental-health issue seriously.
"If I'd declared my illness earlier," he says, "I would have become another voice who got religion because they went through it. I got religion long before I had any notion of being affected by it."
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Alysia Reiner Says Sharing Milk Was an 'Unexpected Gift'
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Since welcoming daughter Livia Charles in Dec. 2008, Alysia Reiner has learned to expect the unexpected — especially when it comes to breastfeeding.
"I didn't even know if I would make enough [milk] for one baby, as a small-breasted woman I was actually very concerned about that," she admits in a new interview with Best for Babes.
However, when her fears were put to rest — Reiner, 39, eventually discovered her concerns are a common myth — the Sideways actress began storing her extra supply for emergencies, only to find she'd build up a stock she had no need for.
"So I started looking into donating it to a milk bank," she explains. But a simple twist of fate led Reiner to coordinate with a friend in need instead.
"I spoke to a friend who was having a very hard time with breastfeeding and suggested she look into milk banks," Reiner shares. "Then it dawned on us … to just do a direct donation. So I am happy to be able to share my milk with another mom's baby."
And while nursing Liv "is heaven and such a gift," Reiner admits sharing her milk "was the most incredibly unexpected gift of all."
(Best for Babes cautions moms about potential health risks of milksharing, and recommends that moms wishing to donate or access human milk go through the Human Milk Bank Association of North America.)
As for her initial breastfeeding timeline, Reiner, having already surpassed her goal, is still going strong 16 months later!
"I didn't expect to love it so much. To feel so miraculous. To do it for so long," she raves, adding that it has become "so easy" over time.
"I thought I would stop when she could ask for it, but then she started talking really early — oops."
To read the full interview, visit Best For Babes.
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