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Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Joshua P. Moss, M.D. was always fascinated by tinkering with and fixing "things" of all kinds. Dr. Moss went on to attend the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, where he graduated with highest honors and was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy through the NROTC program. It was at Notre Dame where Dr. Moss's love of fixing things and problem solving met his passion for helping people, leading to his choice to pursue a career in medicine. Dr. Moss completed his medical degree at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN, finding orthopaedic surgery to be a perfect fit for personality and interests. He then completed his residency training in orthopaedic surgery at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill before continuing on to the Mary S. Stern hand, upper extremity, and microvascular fellowship at the University of Cincinnati.
With a passion for hand and upper extremity surgery, Dr. Moss is an expert in treating problems involving the entire upper extremity from the shoulder to the fingertips. His specific practice interests include arthroscopic and open surgery of the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. He has extensive experience with minimally-invasive endoscopic nerve decompression techniques for carpal tunnel syndrome and cubital tunnel syndrome and is excited to offer these techniques to his patients. Dr. Moss also performs surgery for the full spectrum of upper extremity arthritis problems, tendon and nerve injuries, tennis and golfer's elbow, and upper extremity and general orthopaedic trauma. He is also skilled intreatment of Dupuytren's contracture, including XIAFLEX injections. Dr. Moss is diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery with the additional ABOS Subspecialty Certificate in Surgery of the Hand. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and an active member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.
In 2008, following completion of his fellowship, Dr. Moss began surgical practice as an active duty medical officer at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, just north of San Diego, CA. Dr. Moss spent his entire military practice at Camp Pendleton, providing outstanding surgical care for thousands of active duty marines, sailors, soldiers, airmen, military dependents, and retirees. Dr. Moss's notable experiences while in the military include a seven-month combat surgery deployment to Afghanistan in 2011, and temporary duty in Okinawa, Japan in 2012. From 2013 through 2015 Dr. Moss served as the Department Head for Orthopaedic Surgery at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton.In 2011 he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for his performance during wartime deployment. In the summer of 2016, after fulfilling his obligated service time, Dr. Moss resigned his commission with an honorable discharge at the rank of Commander, United States Navy.
Dr. Moss has been in practice with University Orthopaedic Surgeons since 2016. He and his wife, Leslie, have three beautiful children and a spoiled golden retriever. They are thrilled to be back in Tennessee and part of the Knoxville community.
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Case Study : Coleg Cambria
Coleg Cambria was formed on 1st August 2013 by the merger of Yale College in Wrexham and Deeside College. It covers a wide geographical area in North East Wales. The College is one of the largest in the UK with over 27,000 full and part time students and international links on four continents. The College has recently become the only Welsh member of the prestigious 157 Group.
I am an Assistant in the Learning Centre of Coleg Cambria's Wrexham site (formally Yale College). The College has six sites with permanent LRC's at five of them.
The LRC has always recorded programmes. This has changed over the years as technology has developed. Originally on VHS, then on DVD (we removed all video tapes last year). We became interested in digitising our recordings some years ago, and purchased our own equipment to do this in 2010. We began to place digitised programmes on our Moodle's LRC Page. We became aware of streaming systems such as eStream the following year and began to look into these. The digitised programmes were very popular, but we were aware of the limitations. There were space restrictions on the College server, time restrictions - digitising recordings took time, and we were limited in how much we could do, and the programmes would not play outside of college or on Mobile devices, which are increasingly in use. We became convinced that the obvious next stage in the development of recordings was to move to a streaming system. After demos and trial periods we had eStream installed in June 2013.
Programmes recorded off air are used in Classrooms and are also set as homework by tutors. So far this has been the primary use of the system. It has proven enormously popular. We have over 1,600 as of time of writing (17 October) and are adding to this all the time. It has been used successfully at all six of our sites, on laptops and iPads. We have recently recorded two talks by local politicians, both of which have been made available to students via eStream. The ability for all staff and students across the six sites and the fact that they can view them from home has been a big winner. We plan to roll out other features, including live broadcast over the next few months.
The ability to view on any browser across all six sites and from home, the ability to view on tablets and other mobile technology. The huge memory size and the ease of recording means that we have been able to massively increase our recorded resources - in the past where we might have recorded one or two programmes a day, and sometimes not have been able to make them available on DVD or in digital form for another few days, now we can have a programme recorded and available almost immediately. Hence the huge number that have been recorded in the fairly brief time we have had it. One class has plans to use eStream by having each student (22) sit at their computer and watch different sporting events - football, rugby, tennis - so that each student can do their work on their individual projects within the same class. I can sum up our experience by this - having demonstrated eStream to a Tutor and his class, he said "The more I see of this, the more I like it".
At the time of writing, due to the merger taking place, we are still in the process of rolling it out. We are concentrating on the recording aspect and will gradually introduce staff to the other features over the coming academic year.
The best feature for me personally has been the fact that we can buffer programmes - I can't tell you how many times a tutor would ask if we'd recorded a programme and we'd missed it. Now we can, almost always, say "Yes, we did!". To give an example of this. A few weeks ago a tutor asked if we'd recorded a programme on four days before. I was able, while she was there, to go into eStream and add it straight away - she was able to watch it in her classroom a couple of hours later. This is just brilliant!
We have an increasing use of mobile technologies in the College - Chromebooks, laptops and netbooks but also iPads and other tablets. The fact that eStream works on these is a major advantage - classes here have previously used online sites such as TED on iPads within classrooms - now they can also use eStream.
The product has been great - it's worked as it was meant to. The only issues we've had have been with local transmission, which is a known problem here. Even there, Planet eStream were able to help by retuning the Freeview Module to different transmitters. I have been very impressed that the Helpdesk has taken the trouble to check the system, unasked, and contact me to say they have noticed issues that might need looking at. They are also very prompt (sometimes minutes) answering emails from me. To quote my manager - eStream has provided some of the best customer service we have ever had.


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What color is everyone using for the V Comm bodies? I tried a black metallic that looked perfect from the spray can cap but not good on the Comm body at all.
What color is everyone using for the V Comm bodies? I tried a black metallic that looked perfect from the spray can cap but not good on the Comm body at all.
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Forgot to mention, very we'll done kit. The castings are perfect..
They look really nice. I also like the way the mid-plate came out on the STIII version.
I'm looking forward to seeing how these look when finished.
The mid plate on that one looks good in the pic but it looks like ass when you see it up close . I put some rub n buff on there to get an idea what it looks like but I am not happy with it. I am going to order some brass palate as soon as I get paid and cut the mid plates out of that. It just does not match the lid.
Are you just going to do the brass plate for STIII Comm or are you going to do it for both versions and paint the brass on the STV Comm?
Here's my Trek V comm all finished up. Luckily I had a lid from a build I did a few years ago. I used a metallic black and added a light dusting of silver. The midplate is a charcoal silver and the buttons are Dove Gray. I'd like to add some electronics whenever I find the time.
That looks really nice.
What is the deal with the white paint between the lid hinges on most of the replicas I see. I dont see that in any of the photos of the screen used ones I have seen Is that supposed to be there? (I don't know a lot about the movie comms). Sorry if I posted a photo of an RPF members comm, it was just to show the area I was asking the question about.
The grills turned out really nice and the finished STIII Comms, other than electronics, look great. Can't wait to see how the STV look.
The white piece on the replicas is just a section of the case painted white. But the screen cap shows something that extends past the mid plate, filling the space between the lid and case.
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Very nice.
Real nice...
I wish I had my lid to finish mine
Good news. I heard back from gmprops. He said he is currently busy with a big electronics contract for a professional client but he does plan to get to doing the communicators eventually when he has time. He already has a set of samples from Stapleton Prods on which to base a board.


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Line Cinema. 92 minutes.
Katie Coltrane: Whoopi Goldberg
Voice of Teddy Rex: George Newburn
Voice of Molly Rex: Carol Kane
Elizar Kane: Armin Mueller-Stahl
Commissioner Lynch: Richard Roundtree
Also starring Juliet Landau, Bud Cort (of Harold and Maude).
Executive Producer: Stefano Ferrari
Produced: Richard Abramson, Sue Baden-Powell
Written and Directed: Jonathan Betuel
Dinosaurs by Criswell Productions.
Billionaire DNA researcher Elizar Kane plans to destroy this futuristic
world and launch a New Eden missile which will serve as a Noah's
Ark for the frozen creatures he has stored. Two of his workers,
a "softskin" (human) and a dinosaur (Kane has brought
them back) intend to blab and are killed.
Teddy Rex aspires to be a detective while Katie
Coltrane busts crooks "out in the [urban] jungle.".
The human corpse has no identification and the dinosaur corpse
is mourned by Teddy: "It's kind of like we feel for each
other." Coltrane rescues a dog and is set up by a kid, Sebastian,
with his father. Teddy goes to a high-class party to talk to
the Commissioner. He asks a waiter, "So what do we have,
Frenchy? Meat, meat, meat and meat. You know I'm a recovering
carnivore." The politics of "interspecies relations"
prompts the Commissioner to appoint Teddy a detective to investigate
the "dinocide," and to team him with Coltrane.
After some driving slapstick, the two visit
the Natural History Museum where Teddy waxes sentimental about
his ancestors: "If dinosaurs weren't extinct, we'd be running
the world." Autopsy details lead to Molly Rex at a nightclub
where they serve hydroponic seaweed. Coltrane remarks, "I
thought you people eat meat." Teddy's "kind of on the
wagon," and complains that the only time softskins pay attention
to animals is to "shoot them, eat them, or wear them."
Molly sings "I'm No Angel" and the two inquire about
the late Oliver. Teddy is smitten ("glando").
Another autopsist says "we're all slaves
to our DNA" and connects the human clone corpse with Kane.
Coltrane and Teddy stop to see Sebastian and his hockey team
and Teddy wins praise. The two go to Kane's lab, "where
I was cloned" Teddy waxes nostalgic. Kane shows them icefish
which can be thawed back alive but claims to know noting about
the murders. Meanwhile Sebastian is kidnapped and Oliver's funeral
shows his recycling into liquification to fertilize flowers which
the mourners take home--he's recycled. Kane promises a better
Teddy escorts Molly to his apartment where
they dance. He and Coltrane must go question "The Toymaker"
who crafted a deadly butterfly which was the instrument of death.
He confesses about Kane when Teddy threatens to eat him. Molly
is kidnapped too now.
Various henchment are shot and Kane reveals
to Teddy his "survival of the fittest" scheme to be
the new god and create an ice age. Molly and Teddy are to be
a pair on the Ark. Katie is shot into a paralysis and refuses
to give Teddy a gun: "use your brain." He stops the
evil plot and is afterwards honored by being made Detective First
Class by the Commissioner, who delivers a speech involving
There have been more obnoxious dinosaur movies for kids than
this one, but sitting through this film was alleviated only by
Bud Cort and the occasional albeit waffling meat commentary.
Noah's Ark is a frighteningly ubiquitous theme
in the mid- and late-'90s, appearing on all manner of merchandise,
and this movie uses the idea as a way of combining futurism, cataclysm,
and dinosaurs (with the damned Jurassic DNA crap thrown
in obligatorily). One can detect this post-apocalyptic/saurian
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ABC buys two comedy pitches
Projects star Carlos Mencia, Cedric the EntertainerWith the broadcast networks already in a pilot-pickup mode, two multicamera comedy pitches fronted by familiar faces scored last-minute sales at ABC.
The projects, one starring Carlos Mencia and the other toplined by Cedric the Entertainer, hail from Sony TV and studio-based Tantamount.
The Mencia sitcom, from veteran comedy writers Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein, is a family comedy based on Mencia's life and stand-up act.
Co-produced by Brillstein Entertainment, it centers on a man in the middle of his very large multigenerational immigrant family.
The Cedric comedy, from Al Higgins (" 'Til Death") and Devon Shepard ("Cedric the Entertainer Presents"), will feature the comedian as a retired baseball player-turned-radio host forced to re-evaluate the type of father he has been when his son and 6-year-old granddaughter re-enter his life.
In their initial comedy pilot orders this season, the networks have shown preference for projects that have talent attached: ABC picked up "Awkward Situations for Men," starring British humorist and on-air personality Danny Wallace, and NBC greenlighted a starring vehicle for Adam Carolla.
Katlin and Bernstein are repped by UTA and Rigberg Entertainment. Mencia, Cedric and Higgins are with CAA, Shepard with APA and New Wave.


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Huntsman seems to be tackling the company's challenges nicely as well, which gives me enough reasons to be bullish about it. Let's take a look.
Gassing up margins
Huntsman is trying to rev up MDI's contribution margin, as it has been under some pressure due to high variable costs, and MDI is a key product of the company's largest division, polyurethanes. Huntsman plans to accomplish this by raising product prices and taking advantage of the dip in the price of natural gas -- a key input. In an interview to Bloomberg, CEO Peter Huntsman said the company will "incrementally be expanding capacity and continuing to look at capacity in North America to take advantage of the gas situation" over the next year and a half. Such moves could be a big push to the segment's margins – and that's a great reason to be optimistic.
Lots of restructuring
Huntsman has been busy restructuring two of its divisions -- textile effects and advanced materials -- because of falling sales and rising costs. The appreciation of the Swiss Franc against the U.S. dollar has further exacerbated the situation. Huntsman is closing down its textiles facility in Switzerland and shifting operations to China. Although the transition costs involved have been pressuring margins, the benefits should be visible from the second half of this year.
Huntsman is reducing the advanced-materials business' currency exposure by expanding its North American capacity, and it expects higher earnings from the division this year. It is projecting an overall annual savings of $20 million from the restructuring.
Not so worrisome
One challenge that remains is titanium dioxide (TiO2) -- a key pigment that has been a boon not just for Huntsman but also for chemical biggies like DuPont
This could hurt Huntsman's pigment division earnings this year. That said, I don't see a drastic fall for two reasons: One, Huntsman has already booked some low-price contracts that will take care of nearly 40% of its input requirements; and two, like DuPont, Huntsman has hinted at further TiO2 price hikes this year. And when the world's largest TiO2 producer is expecting the pigment markets to improve by mid-year and remain strong overall, Huntsman needn't worry too much.
The Foolish bottom line
Huntsman is poised to make the most of a housing market recovery, as higher home sales would mean more takers for Huntsman's paint pigments, epoxy and other products. Its share prices have already surged more than 35% this year, and the stock is yielding a handsome 3% dividend.
I have high hopes from Huntsman and wouldn't want to miss out on any updates about its moves. You should keep a tab too, by adding the company to our free stock-tracking service, MyWatchlist.
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Evaluation of the Clause Today.—It should not be inferred that the obligation of contracts clause is today totally moribund. Even prior to the most recent decisions, it still furnished the basis for some degree of judicial review as to the substantiality of the factual justification of a professed exercise by a state legislature of its police power, and in the case of legislation affecting the remedial rights of creditors, it still affords a solid and palpable barrier against legislative erosion. Nor is this surprising in view of the fact that, as we have seen, such rights were foremost in the minds of the framers of the clause. The Court's attitude toward insolvency laws, redemption laws, exemption laws, appraisement laws and the like, has always been that they may not be given retroactive operation,1984 and the general lesson of these earlier cases is confirmed by the Court's decisions between 1934 and 1945 in certain cases involving state moratorium statutes. In Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell,1985 the leading case, a closely divided Court sustained the Minnesota Moratorium Act of April 18, 1933, which, reciting the existence of a severe financial and economic depression for several years and the frequent occurrence of mortgage foreclosure sales for inadequate prices, and asserting that these conditions had created an economic emergency calling for the exercise of the[p.396]State's police power, authorized its courts to extend the period for redemption from foreclosure sales for such additional time as they might deem just and equitable, although in no event beyond May 1, 1935.
The act also left the mortgagor in possession during the period of extension, subject to the requirement that he pay a reasonable rental for the property as fixed by the court. Contemporaneously, however, less carefully drawn statutes from Missouri and Arkansas, acts which were not as considerate of creditor's rights, were set aside as violative of the contracts clause.1986 "A State is free to regulate the procedure in its courts even with reference to contracts already made," said Justice Cardozo for the Court, "and moderate extensions of the time for pleading or for trial will ordinarily fall within the power so reserved. A different situation is presented when extensions are so piled up as to make the remedy a shadow. . . . What controls our judgment at such times is the underlying reality rather than the form or label. The changes of remedy now challenged as invalid are to be viewed in combination, with the cumulative significance that each imparts to all. So viewed they are seen to be an oppressive and unnecessary destruction of nearly all the incidents that give attractiveness and value to collateral security."1987 On the other hand, in the most recent of this category of cases, the Court gave its approval to an extension by the State of New York of its moratorium legislation. While recognizing that business conditions had improved, the Court was of the opinion that there was reason to believe that "'the sudden termination of the legislation which has dammed up normal liquidation of these mortgages for more than eight years might well result in an emergency more acute than that which the original legislation was intended to alleviate."'1988
And meantime the Court had sustained legislation of the State of New York under which a mortgagee of real property was denied a deficiency judgment in a foreclosure suit where the state court found that the value of the property purchased by the mortgagee at the foreclosure sale was equal to the debt secured by the mortgage.1989 "Mortgagees," the Court said, "are constitutionally entitled to no more than payment in full. . . . To hold that mortgagees are entitled under the contract clause to retain the advantages of[p.397]a forced sale would be to dignify into a constitutionally protected property right their chance to get more than the amount of their contracts. . . . The contract clause does not protect such a strategical, procedural advantage."1990
More important, the Court has been at pains most recently to reassert the vitality of the clause, although one may wonder whether application of the clause will be more than episodic.
"[T]he Contract Clause remains a part of our written Constitution."1991 So saying, the Court struck down state legislation in two instances, one law involving the government's own contractual obligation and the other affecting private contracts.1992 A finding that a contract has been "impaired" in some way is merely the preliminary step in evaluating the validity of the state action.1993 But in both cases the Court applied a stricter–than–usual scrutiny to the statutory action, in the public contracts case precisely because it was its own obligation that the State was attempting to avoid and in the private contract case, apparently, because the legislation was in aid of a "narrow class."1994 The approach in any event is one of balancing. "The severity of the impairment measures the height of the hurdle the state legislation must clear. Minimal alteration of contractual obligations may end the inquiry at its first stage. Severe impairment, on the other hand, will push the inquiry to a careful examination of the nature and purpose of the state legislation."1995 Having determined that a severe impairment had resulted in both cases,1996 the Court moved on to assess the justifica[p.398]tion for the state action. In United States Trust, the test utilized by the Court was that an impairment would be upheld only if it were "necessary" and "reasonable" to serve an important public purpose. But the two terms were given somewhat restrictive meanings. Necessity is shown only when the State's objectives could not have been achieved through less dramatic modifications of the contract; reasonableness is a function of the extent to which alteration of the contract was prompted by circumstances unforeseen at the time of its formation. The repeal of the covenant in issue was found to fail both prongs of the test.1997 In Spannaus, the Court drew from its prior cases four standards: did the law deal with a broad generalized economic or social problem, did it operate in an area already subject to state regulation at the time the contractual obligations were entered into, did it effect simply a temporary alteration of the contractual relationship, and did the law operate upon a broad class of affected individuals or concerns. The Court found that the challenged law did not possess any of these attributes and thus struck it down.1998
Whether these two cases portend an active judicial review of economic regulatory activities, in contrast to the extreme deference shown such legislation under the due process and equal protection clauses, is problematical. Both cases contain language emphasizing the breadth of the police powers of government that may be used to further the public interest and admitting limited judicial scrutiny. Nevertheless, "[i]f the Contract Clause is to retain any meaning at all . . . it must be understood to impose some limits upon the power of a State to abridge existing contractual relationships, even in the exercise of its otherwise legitimate police power."1999
Clause 2. No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the[p.399]Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress.
Duties on Exports or Imports
Scope.—Only articles imported from or exported to a foreign country, or "a place over which the Constitution has not extended its commands with respect to imports and their taxation," are comprehended by the terms "imports" and "exports."2000 With respect to exports, the exemption from taxation "attaches to the export and not to the article before its exportation,"2001 requiring an essentially factual inquiry into whether there have been acts of movement toward a final destination constituting sufficient entrance into the export stream as to invoke the protection of the clause.2002 To determine how long imported wares remain under the protection of this clause, the Supreme Court enunciated the original package doctrine in the leading case of Brown v. Maryland. "When the importer has so acted upon the thing imported," wrote Chief Justice Marshall, "that it has become incorporated and mixed up with the mass of property in the country, it has, perhaps, lost its distinctive character as an import, and has become subject to the taxing power of the State; but while remaining the property of the importer, in his warehouse, in the original form or package in which it was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a duty on imports, to escape the prohibition in the Constitution."2003 A box, case, or bale in which separate parcels of goods have been placed by the foreign seller is regarded as the original package, and upon the opening of such container for the purpose of using the separate parcels, or of exposing them for sale, each loses its character as an import and becomes subject to taxation as a part of the general mass of property in the State.2004 Imports for manufacture cease to be such when the intended processing takes place,2005 or when the original packages are broken.2006 Where a manufacturer imports merchandise and stores it in his warehouse in the original[p.400]packages, that merchandise does not lose its quality as an import, at least so long as it is not required to meet such immediate needs.2007 The purchaser of imported goods is deemed to be the importer if he was the efficient cause of the importation, whether the title to the goods vested in him at the time of shipment, or after its arrival in this country.2008 A state franchise tax measured by properly apportioned gross receipts may be imposed upon a railroad company in respect of the company's receipts for services in handling imports and exports at its marine terminal.2009
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Justice Thomas has called recently for reconsideration of Woodruff and the possible application of the clause to interstate imports and exports. Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison, 520 U.S. 564, 609, 621 (1997) (dissenting).
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The Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch offers a luxury dude ranch dining experience in several of its restaurants and bars. Each one gives guests an authentic taste of the American West.
Trailhead Great Room
This grand timber dining room features soaring 28-foot ceilings and massive views. It is an opulent setting for memorable multi-course meals paired with selections from the 800-bottle wine cellar.
The Chuckwagon
In an impressive log structure with its own kitchen, barbecue, and open fire pit, The Chuckwagon serves family-style feasts outdoors around hewn-log picnic tables.
Creekside Dinner Camp
This venue captures the spirit of ranch-style dining with campfire meals enjoyed under the stars along the banks of Brush Creek.
Falcon Peak Overlook
A captivating natural setting for outdoor meals and special events, Falcon Peak Overlook offers guests majestic views of the Sierra Madre Mountains from the deck.
The Saloon
In true Western style, the ranch's bar is outfitted with swinging saloon doors and a fireplace. Guests can also enjoy billiards, piano, poker tables, jukebox, shuffleboard, wide screen televisions, and karaoke.


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Isha Flowers remembers vaguely hearing Dr. Karen Fish and her staff begin a countdown minutes before delivering Flowers' newborn girl: "11:58, 11:59 ..."
At the stroke of midnight, baby Kameale made her entrance, leading Stroger Hospital officials to declare her as Chicago's firstborn in 2010.
A few miles away, the tension rose in Linda Tanni's delivery room at St. Joseph's Hospital. As the seconds wound down to midnight, Tanni's husband and a medical team urged her to "push-push-push!" The baby, Miya Manae Tanni, arrived at 10 seconds past the hour at the Lakeview hospital.


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Beijing loves IKEA -- but not for shopping -- latimes.com:
With no plans one Saturday, Zhang Xin told his wife, son and mother to wear something smart and hop into the family sedan. He could have taken them to the Forbidden City or the Great Wall, but he decided on another popular destination -- IKEA.
Riding an escalator past a man lying on a display bed with a book opened on his belly, the clan sauntered into the crush of visitors squeezing onto the showroom path, bumping elbows and nicking ankles with their yellow shopping trolleys.
Zhang said the family needed a respite from the smog and a reliable lunch.
"We just came here for fun," said the 34-year-old office manager. "I suppose we could have gone somewhere else, but it wouldn't have been a complete experience."


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Caption: Baby at 6-weeks of development
An American photographer, who is calling herself "Jane Young", is claiming to have taken pictures of her abortion at six weeks and posted them online. I have a few things to say about this.
By her own admission, "Jane Young" is trying to justify her decision to abort her baby by showing pictures of the jar holding the remains of her unplanned pregnancy. Is she comforted by the fact that she can't see arms, legs, a torso, a head? Maybe she is relieved, but I don't think she has found the comfort she sought.
In her own words Jane writes,
"My intention in documenting and sharing my abortion is to demystify the sensationalist images propagated by the religious and political right on this matter. The perverse use of lifeless fetus photographs are a propaganda tool in the prolife/prochoice debate in which women and their bodies are used as pawns to push a cultural, political, and religious agenda in the United States.
At 6 weeks of pregnancy, my abortion looked very different than the images I saw when I entered the clinic that day."
Of course Jane, the images the pro-lifers had on display were probably not of a six week aborted fetus. My guess, they were much later in gestation. The fact being that most abortions are done at 12 weeks or later. In fact, after your abortion, the collection jar you displayed would have been taken into another room where a clinic worker's job would be to sift through the bloody remains to identify the parts of your baby. Hence your photo display of your abortion is not complete. My question is why did the clinic do a surgical abortion at 6 weeks? The usual protocol would have been an RU486 abortion.
Jane was driven by an ideological impulse to help other women who have made, or will make, the same choice, but she has not been completely honest. Most abortions are done in the first trimester, but later than six weeks. It's actually a little unusual these days for a woman to have a surgical abortion at six weeks; usually at this stage, it's a chemical abortion. Had Jane Young taken RU 486, she likely would have seen the fetal remains in her bathroom. Would that have been a comfort to her? I think not. No matter what you try to say or do, abortion is not good medicine nor good reproductive health for women. It stops the woman's body from doing what it is naturally supposed to do. In fact, all surgeries help people to correct something their bodies are not doing correctly, except of course abortion.
If you want to see Jane Young's site for yourself, go to www.thisismyabortion.com Please think about leaving a pro-life comment there, although chances are it will never be posted.
Tags: Propaganda, Reproductive Health, RU486


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I am M.A student in AL-Qadissiya university My study is"investigating the difficulties faced by EFL Iraqi learners in using conversion"zero derivation" please help in answering my question: what are the sources of errors in using conversion by arabic learners,e.g, they don't know how to discriminate between adjectives and verbs in a sentence like 'he dirtied his clothes'
In the example 'he dirtied his clothes', I presume youmean that some will associate the verb with the adjective 'dirty' and not see that it is a verb. Am I right? I haven't taught many Arabic speakers, so I'm not aware of the issue. What is the underlying problem in your opinion? In Arabic, can word change grammatical category easily?


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The truth is whether you are in leadership, sales, or the front line you are expected to produce more in less time with fewer resources, while staying positive and engaged. The reality is we are stressed out, tightly wound, and exhausted trying to meet and exceed expectations. We have the best intentions that seem to go out the window before lunch as we are constantly changing schedules, demands and priorities. Too often lunch gets skipped or inhaled while hunched over our desk. Enough already! Create the focus, energy and mindset necessary to make healthy choices in our 24/7 world. It's no longer about time management, it's about YOU management. Get ready to laugh-out-loud and walk away ready to make positive, long-lasting change the next day.
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• Know when to let go or take control
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The bottom line: Stress kills. Work-life balance is dead. It's time to face the truth and employ do-able strategies to take back control of your life to gain focus and energy!
The Language of Leadership
Successful leaders understand the nuances in communication that make a big difference when inspiring action and cooperation. Leaders know the power of their words and understand that words alone do not generate trust, allegiance and loyalty. A leader must be authentic and exhibit the behaviors conveyed in their message to maintain respect for their authority. Advance your communication style, increase your credibility, earn respect, and gain support by learning how to:
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A message from Bob Bob Baldwin: As you know, I have been a staunch supporter of causes, using music as the ultimatevehicle.... 2010 - Jazz for Haiti (over 60k raised with the Red Cross of NNJ); 2013 - Jazz for Dave Valentin. WIth that said, Bassist phenom Victor Bailey has been dealing with a rare muscle disease.
See below in his own words.
World Renown Bassist, Artist, Producer, who is dealing with Charcott Marie Tooth disease. Funds are to assist Victor's exorbitant medical costs associated with this incurable disease.
From Victor.... To everyone who has been wondering why you haven't seen or heard from me, it's time for me to let you know what's going on. Quite simply, I am just not in the best of health. I have been dealing with a form of muscular dystrophy called Charcot Marie Tooth disease for the last 25 years. You've all seen me using a cane as my legs are getting weaker. Now it is affecting my upper body. My arms and hands are very weak and at this point in time too weak to perform. I need help with all daily living activities, so for the past three months I have been living at an assisted living facility in Newton, Massachusetts. I have taken a leave of absence from teaching at Berklee College of music and from touring. Right now, I could use your prayers and positive vibes. I will be keeping you guys updated on my condition. It is possible that I can get stronger again, so please send me positive energy. I'll keep you posted.
Victor's credits as a bassist include Wayne Shorter, George Howard (RIP), Lenny White, Walter Beasley, Joe Zawinul (RIP), Force MD's, Najee, Carmen Lundy, Santana, Marion Meadows, Will Downing, Nelson Rangell, Billy Cobham, and that's the short list!
Mt. Vernon native Bob Baldwin comes to the Paramount for a rare local performance. Pianist/Composer has 22 solo releases, the most of any Westchester native ever. His latest release "The Brazilian-American Soundtrack" was recorded on 3 continents. He brings to the stage his Latin/Brazilian influences, this time bringing a World vibe, featuring Chieli Minucci (Guitar), and Latin Jazz Nominee Chembo Corniel.
Also coming to the party to add the Brazilian vibration is Edson Da Silva, who has worked with Jobim, Djavan, Eliane Elias and the legendary Ivan Lins. Come enjoy the music of Bob Baldwin at the Paramount.
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Speaker Knockerz: Rapper's Death Sparks Huge Mourning On Twitter
The death of Speaker Knockerz on Mar. 7 has sparked a huge outcry of support from friends and fans on social media.
Speaker Knockerz, 19, passed away on Mar. 7, in his home in South Carolina. His death has sparked an even bigger following on social media than his music ever did when he was alive. Thousands have taken to Twitter with the hashtag #RIPSpeakerKnockerz to express just how shocked they are at the young emcee's passing.
Speaker Knockerz — Death Of Rapper Creates Huge Twitter Following
The death of Speaker Knockerz, whose real name is Derek McAllister, has shocked many. People who are friends and family of the deceased rapper have taken to Twitter to express their shock, sadness, and disbelief.
Reactions to Speaker's death range from angry, to confused, to just heartbreaking sadness. Here are just a few of the reactions that have hit Twitter so far. We here at HollywoodLife.com are sure that there are more to come:
Damn it's sad that he actually gone -,- A silence Of moment for speaker knockerz❤ R.I.P .Your music Always… https://t.co/keedLU9kCR
— #SBSB ✈ (@Guwapp_Gleesh) March 8, 2014
speaker knockerz is really dead? 😩😴
—  (@_noliesjuslovee) March 8, 2014
I refuse to believe that speaker knockerz is dead 😭
— Flow Along the Nihle (@_nihle) March 8, 2014
Speaker Knockerz Death Still A Mystery
Speaker was discovered in his garage at his house on Two Notch Road in Columbia, SC. Coroner Gary Watts stated that he did not suspect foul play and an autopsy performed on the emcee turned up no sign of trauma.
Results are pending for a toxicology test to determine if Speaker had any legal or illegal substances present in his body at the time of his death.
The case and mystery are still very much open as the Richland County Sheriffs Department is still investigating the death.
What do you think HollywoodLifers? Were you a fan of Speaker's music? Leave us your thoughts in the comments.
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You strive for a balanced diet for your kids, a happy mix of time with the whole family together and separate outings, a juggled trick of work, life, routine, fun. But wait -- just where is all this "doing" doing? Indoors, most likely. And there's another ball to add in: is your child getting enough nature?
We at Savvy are the last people to toss you more than you can keep in mid-air, but we do think this is an essential check-in, a spring cleaning moment for the family. How much time does your little one spend outside? Are there at least short periods of time each day when he plays outside? Does she sometimes, every so often, get a chance to walk, to climb a tree, to look for a ladybug? Do you sometimes brave the elements just for fun? Could you do it more, even just a little bit?
It was Richard Louv who first crystallized the problem defining our kids' lives, whether in city, suburb or exurb. His arguments in Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder grabbed national attention -- and galvanized parents to add daily doses of unstructured outside play to their children's vitamin intake.
From Louv's diagnosis of the "disorder" came Jennifer Ward's splendid call to action, I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature. (Smartly, Amazon offers a bundled price for Ward's book and the Savvy favorite by Amanda Soule, A Creative Family.) Dirt and its delights was also the recent topic of a New York Times piece -- which you really ought to read just to see your reaction to the play-outside-and-don't-wash-your-hands theory! More seriously, the findings about what immediate and profound help some exposure to nature offered for older kids with attention problems piqued our interest. Our little ones are just learning to sit still in circle time, just struggling to make it through all the pages of a story. Are their struggles intensified by their indoor lives? Would being outside more be not just fun but also restorative to their little minds?
All of these arguments and research make us stop, snap closed our ever-present Purell and take a second to think. First we think that we're glad our preschoolers can't read for themselves the Times's suggestion of getting two dogs and a cat! Then we think that we can do it. We can shake things up a bit and get our wee ones some fresh air play!
But how?
The treasure trove of Savvy activities offers a rich section on The Great Outdoors.
Our careful, Savvy selection of science books and toys get your kiddos outside exploring and experimenting -- and brings a connection to the outside in where needed too!
Perhaps some family goals are in order. One head of school we know "assigns" her students a summer project of catching, cleaning, cooking, and eating a fish. You could make a list and pin it to the fridge: climb a tree, find a worm, pick an apple, roll down a grassy hill, jump in twenty puddles. There, now you've got nature chores -- all of you!
As always, our best inspiration comes from Ginger Carlson's Child of Wonder, who fills a whole chapter ("Wonder World") on creativity outdoors, chock full of ideas to get your out the door pronto!
So, as your mother always told you: go outside and play!
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Advanced SDAIE Web Tools (8:00am - 3:00pm)
This full day workshop will explore high-tech and low-tech teaching strategies to engage all students, including EL, special education, and underperforming students. These strategies will help students build critical thinking skills which are a necessary component of the common core standards, as well as practice literary techniques applicable to all disciplines. Practical and easy-to-use web tools will be demonstrated and practiced throughout the day. Participants will also be given planning time for use of these tools in the classroom.
The Google Centric Classroom (8:00am - 3:00pm)
Over the course of this workshop, learn how to digitally transform your traditional classroom lessons and activities. Participants will learn how to integrate Google Classroom, Drive, Docs, Presentations, Forms, YouTube, and more into their classrooms. Time will be provided to work on digital lesson planning.
ELA & Google for Beginners (8:00am - 3:00pm)
This full day workshop will help you modernize your English classroom with 21st century skills and increase student engagement. You will learn specific strategies that combine ELA Common Core standards with Google Documents, Forms, and Drive. Provide techniques and tips will be shared and practiced throughout the day.
ELA & Google - Even More! (8:00am - 3:00pm)
This full day workshop builds on the ideas presented in the Chromebook and ELA Workshops. Examine more approaches for bringing reading and writing strategies into your classroom. Methods for increasing your efficiency when using these tools will also be covered. Tools include Google Classroom, Drive, Docs, and Forms.
The Flipped Classroom (8:00am - 3:00pm)
There is a lot of buzz these days about flipping the classroom. This session will go through the different flipped models and explore the free online tools available to bring some aspect of flipped learning to your classroom this fall.
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Fireroast Cafe states on their website:
"We believe [art] to be the heart of our community, and serve to reflect the creative expressions of those around us. You will find a different artist's work on display every month with a chance to meet them and learn more about their work."
Art is the heart of our community at Spectrum ArtWorks too! Congrats to Peter and Andrew on their show! The show opens April 8. The reception is on April 15th from 3-7 PM.
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Mixed Media on Paper
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Shipping Costs!
'Getting there is half the fun,' Cunard used to say in the days when its passenger liners dominated the seas. But getting the goods there is anything but fun for the Third World. Instead, it's a major headache and, worse, a drain on precious foreign exchange in those parts of the world where progress is still measured in inches rather than miles.
A significant portion of this financial drain comes from the transport costs that Third World countries pay to export their commodities and to import manufactured goods.
'Of course, you can't talk about shipping freight rates separately from commodity prices, 'says F.D.C. Wijesinghe, a Sri Lankan specialising in shipping and transport issues. 'The whole pricing system for freight is so complex that the less developed countries often suffer simply because they do not have the knowledge to penetrate the rate structure, putting them at the mercy of the shipping liner conference.'
These liner conferences transport a fifth of the world's sea freight, and carry the greatest variety of cargoes among all the world's ports. They are shipping companies operating on regular schedules and defined routes who agree at annual conferences to charge uniform prices. They are the result of the cutthroat competition of the late nineteenth century. As the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) puts it:
'The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 led to severe competition for traffic in the Far Eastern trades and elimination of rate competition was considered necessary by the liners for the successful operation of service. The first conference was formed in 1875 in the UK-Calcutta trade.' From this modest monopolistic beginning, about 370 conferences have emerged.
There is a rough parallel between the liner conferences and the scheduled airlines cartel, IATA.
An essential feature of both is regular service on advertised dates and times on specific routes at fixed prices.
Given that the conference liners perform an essential service several questions affecting developing countries arise:
* Are the conferences' freight charges fair?
* Do Third World ships have access to the conferences?
* Is it even desirable for developing countries to make the enormous investment necessary to establish and maintain national fleets?
Of course the conferences were established to eliminate price competition (and to exclude outsiders altogether), Mr Wijesinghe points out that shippers in the developing countries want the conferences regulated... they feel that freight rates are being kept too high in cost... (and) they complain that the conference rates do not reflect correctly the prevailing market trends.'
A senior official of a British shipping line - who insisted on anonymity - responded: 'Plainly, the net profits of the world's shipping lines are hardly exorbitant. The rates established within the conferences reflect realistic costs which are continually increasing. It is interesting to note that freight charges have, if anything, declined as a percentage of the price of goods transported.'
Well, maybe. The table below indicated a mixed picture: liner freight rates as a percentage of price have decreased for those commodities whose price has skyrocketed in recent years (coffee, tin) and increased for products whose markets have remained steady or shrunk (rubber, jute, sisal.)
Deciding whether the freight charges are exploitative or reasonable is like judging the length of the proverbial piece of string. What, after all, is fair? An examination of shipping companies' annual accounts indicates no dramatic profits from their conference liner section - but then accounts can show substantially what the company wants them to show.
The stark reality remains that it is the Western shipping companies that still set the freight rates and ensure that they maintain their monopolies on their established shipping routes. Well, then, if the developing nations can't beat them, can they join them?
UNCTAD, in its habitually guarded prose, says: 'There is a tendency among the established operators in closed conferences' (and believe it, they're closed), 'to concede rights of participants in liner trades to new lines only to the extent that it is forced on them by circumstances.'
But circumstances do have a way of developing in the most unforeseen ways. Consequently, a number of African nations (see box 'West Africa - Steaming Ahead') have managed to build liner fleets and gain access to the appropriate conferences. India has long had a considerable merchant fleet and South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia have recently put together substantial cargo liner fleets which conferences have been forced to accept.
Yet the combined African fleet (excluding South Africa), though it doubled in size between 1975 and 1979, totalled only 1.1 per cent of the world's liner fleet last year. In Asia the percentage is higher, but still pint-size compared with the liner fleets of the industrialised nations.
A great deal of the shipping world seems to be sailing these days on a sea of good intentions projected by the United Nations, Mr Wijesinge remarks, adding that he's speaking only for himself. The UN started in the early 1970s telling shipping executives that they must admit developing nations' fleets to conferences (which they've done, if with less than good grace); that they should hand over some of the business to these developing countries' lines (which they've done, with even the shadow of a smile omitted) and that developed nations shouldn't increase their shipping tonnage faster than developing nations (at which the conference executives have groaned even as they ordered more ships in a day than many nations can afford in a decade).
Then came the vaunted UNCTAD 'Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences', which has been something between a joke in the big shipping campaigns' boardrooms and a desperate hope for many a poor country. The code attempted to elaborate on the 1970 principles by a complex series of guidelines, the most important of which was that developing nations must indeed have access to the conference liner trade. In fact, the code simply provides a few ground rules for carving up international trade and for establishing the rights of each group of national lines to claim a share if they wish.
If then, access to the world's shipping is grudgingly being prised open to the developing nations' fleets, the third question - should the Third World buy ships - is the key to the issue. If you want a piece of the shipping action, you must have ships. But ships are expensive, as are the training of crews to sail them, maintain them, schedule them, and so on.
'As regards the idea that a country's possession of its own ships brings "independence" and balance-of-payments savings.' notes Richard Holland of the London School of Ecnomics, 'there is no indication that investment in shipping provides any greater return or saving on balance-of-payments than other investments, In fact, if ships are bought and the port handling and internal distribution system are not improved, such investment on a social basis can show a negative return.'
This leads to the key question of the money required for even a minimal shipping fleet, especially with the essential back-up infrastructure. Few developing nations have the surplus cash or credit - and the minimum initial investment must be thought of in tens of millions of dollars - to allocate to development of merchant fleets when a billion people in those nations are underfed. As the British shipping executive quoted earlier in this report remarked: 'Creating a liner fleet isn't like starting an airline, where a couple of Boeings, one or two airports, and crews usually hired from Pan Am or Lufthansa are at first all a developing nation needs. A national airline is a piece of cake compared with the complexities of any kind of ocean freight and the port facilities needed for it - without even beginning to consider the complex requirements of liner conference membership.'
One would expect such sentiments from a spokesman for an established British shipping company. But there is a measure of truth in them. Starting a liner conference fleet is not necessarily the best way of avoiding shipping charges any more than the best way of cutting down on taxi fares is to run an automobile.
Nonetheless, the picture is not altogether bleak, Regional co-operation is one key to increasing developing countries' roles in their external trade; pooling of national shipping fleets is another. And a number of developing nations already have conference liner fleets. In global terms they may be small potatoes; but regionally, they can loosen the liner conferences' grip on developing nations' international trade.
It's no easy task to tackle Goliaths - as David found out - especially when your slingshot is a twenty-year-old rust bucket, leaking at the seams.
West Africa Steaming Ahead
Less than 4 per cent of Africa's trade is within the continent, and West Africa depends on nothern Europe for approximatey 70 per cent of its overseas commerce. In 1976, no country in Africa carried as much as 20 per cent of its imports and exports in its own ships. Given the average annual increase of 15 or 20 per cent in shipping freight rates costs, it's easy to see why a relatively advanced developing country like the Ivory Coast is compelled to spend no less than 6 per cent of its GNP on overseas transport costs. The percentage for other countries can be even higher.
Put all this together, stir gently, and you have a compelling case for regional co-operationto reduce dependence on foreign shipping.
In a series of conferences since 1976 that developed substantial co-operation between the Francophone and the Anglophone nations of West Africa, it was decided to develop national conference liner fleets and shippers' councils (see Shipping Costs!). It is no accident that during this period, Australian shipping expert Stanley Sturmey - the moving spirit behind the UNCTAD liner code - was technical advisor to the Ivory Coast's Minister of Marine, Lamina Fadika. Professor Sturmey was helping the Ivory Coast to establish not only its cargo fleet but the essential infrastructure to support and maintain it. And the conferences that initiated regional co-operation also decided on co-operation in the essential back-up to healthy fleets of ships: port authorities, cargo pooling systems, and training schools for crews and for ancillary shipping personnel.
The regional conferences also broke new ground by facilitating uniform maritime legislation in each of the area's nations and by granting landlocked countries in West Africa like Mali and Upper Volta preferential status in handling of exports and imports. All this was complemented by the regionalisation of the area's two maritime colleges: in sum, a very smart step toward selfsufficiency in shipping: the long-term goal.
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In tonight's episode of the Geocaching Podcast:
Hosts Corey Stephens and HeadHardHat talk about a PC application that seems to give GSAK a run for it's money and it's FREE. They hit the highlights hopefully enough for you to go check it out and decide for yourself.
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This week Brocade will be busy at Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara. If you're at the event, here's where you can hear from our technical leaders:
Kelly Herrell, VP/GM of our Software Networking BU, talks on Wednesday at 11:00am about "SDN for Service Providers: Open Source Approaches".
Colin Dixon, OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee Chair and Brocade Principal Engineer is giving 3 talks:
Kevin Woods, Director of SDN Product Management, speaks on Thursday at 2:00pm on "Network Control and Orchestration for Virtual Functions."
Sultan Dawood and I will be discussing "From Awareness to Automation: Augmenting Your Existing Networks with SDN" in the Visionary Theater at the following times:
You can visit our booth (#400-402, right next to the Solutions Showcase area) to see demos of the Brocade SDN Controller with the Brocade Flow Optimizer application, running on the Brocade MLXe and ICX platforms. We will also be showing how to integrate OpenStack with the Brocade SDN Controller, using OVSDB southbound, as well as the Brocade vRouter.
In addition, visit the Tallac Networks booth to see a joint demo of its SDN LAN-as-a-service solution with the Brocade SDN Controller and Elbrys Networks SDN Application for K-12 Education environments.


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November 20, 2013 (CHICAGO) --Chicago police are reminding shoppers to watch your belongings as you shop for holiday gifts. Sometimes, thieves work in teams.
A police demonstration shows how one person distracts you and his partner makes off with your laptop or backpack.
One scam has the victim briefly stuck in a revolving door as a pickpocket makes off with his wallet.
Police say keep your wallet in your front pocket, and women should always carry purses in front of them.


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Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is annoyed with the injury that has derailed his rookie season, but says he still has 13 games — the length of a college season — to get it right.
"It's frustrating but it's a long season," said Kelce, a third-round pick from Cincinnati.
Kelce did not practice Thursday. He has been hampered for more than a month because of what he called a microscopic stress fracture to a bone in his knee and said he didn't think the injury would take this long to heal.
"It was one of those things were doctors told me they've … dealt with an injury like this before, and they said it was kind of something I had to fight through," Kelce said. "But as the MRI showed, it was just something I couldn't get rid of. At this point in time, it's feeling a lot better than what it was, but I'm not quite there yet."
Kelce said he's been told his injury is caused by a lot of "work" and "loading" on the leg, and that it gradually became a problem. He started dealing with the injury during the preseason and has missed two of the Chiefs' first three regular-season games, logging only one special-teams snap against Dallas in week two.
The shame of it, he said, is that he felt he was really starting to come into his own when it became a problem.
"I was starting to get really comfortable," Kelce said. "It's football. The more and more I get back at it, the more and more I'll progress. But until I get out on the field, I won't be able to show anybody."
Kelce, however, is confident he'll return soon.
"Oh yeah, I'll definitely be back within the next couple weeks," Kelce said. "It's just whichever comes first ― the healing or the team needing me to get out there.
"We know how to treat it, you know, how to make it better and how to fix it. It shouldn't bother me and if it does, I'm sure we'll have guys like (Sean) McGrath and (Kevin) Brock step up."
According to offensive coordinator Doug Pederson ― who expressed sympathy for Kelce's situation ― McGrath and Brock did just that last week, when each were counted on to replace Kelce and starter Anthony Fasano, who is battling knee and ankle issues.
"McGrath and Brock did a nice job last week filling in for Anthony ― it's the 'next guy steps up' mentality," Pederson said. "Kevin was with us in training camp, so he's very familiar with our offense. McGrath coming in and doing what he's done, my hat is off to him. We just have to get Anthony healthy and back out on the field."More attention for Houston?
Chiefs defensive coordinator Bob Sutton expects Justin Houston to start attracting more attention from offenses after his blistering 7 1/2-sack start, but here's the thing ― he's not so sure it will matter.
"I think anybody that has done well at his position, whether it's the running back or the wideout or rusher, people are going to start to do some things to try to offset what you do," Sutton said. "One of the strengths that Justin has is that he is a really good all-around football player. He's not a one-trick pony; he doesn't just rush the passer. When you're a really good football player and you can do something like he's been doing rushing, sometimes those answers aren't as easy to find."
Sutton added that the presence of outside linebacker Tamba Hali also makes it difficult to devote resources toward stopping Houston.
"It's hard to say you're going to gang up on Justin because this guy has this other side and he's a pretty tenacious guy," Sutton said. "It's hard to say 'Hey, we're not going to worry about 91 (Tamba Hali) over here' because a lot of things that have come his (Justin Houston) way have been because of the relentlessness of the other people rushing the passer. That's not to downplay what Justin has done, but there are a lot of people working here to get that done."Injury report
Guard Jeff Allen (groin) and tight end Anthony Fasano (ankle/knee) did not practice Thursday, while cornerback Brandon Flowers (knee), safety Kendrick Lewis (ankle), defensive end Mike DeVito (neck) and tackle Branden Albert (shoulder) were limited participants.
For the Giants, center David Baas (neck), tight end Adrien Robinson (foot), guard Chris Snee (hip), cornerback Corey Webster (hip), linebacker Jacquian Williams (knee), cornerback Terrell Thomas (knee) and defensive end Justin Trattou (ankle) did not practice, while fullback Henry Hynoski (shoulder) was moved to injured reserve.
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Warm weather usually means more outdoor living, both in the daytime and after dark. Many homeowners are installing outdoor lighting, not only for the convenience it adds to outdoor living, but also for security and safety.
In addition, more people find it esthetically pleasing to light up their gardens, yards and large plantings at night. Proper lighting can highlight a beautiful tree, a shrub or a group of plants to create an unusual nightscape that adds immeasurably to outdoor entertaining or relaxing. Garden lights can also be used to display and accent foliage or flowers that would otherwise be invisible after dark.


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Welcome to Really Really Short Reviews were the name is long and the reviews are short! Because sometimes short is that much sweeter. (Also, because I'm really lazy!) And there might be quotes too! (Because everyone loves quotes, right?)
Publisher: Avon (August 30th 2011)
Paperback: 372 pages
Series: Spindle Cove #1
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Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
Welcome to Spindle Cove, where the ladies with delicate constitutions come for the sea air, and men in their prime are… nowhere to be found. Or are they?
Spindle Cove is the destination of choice for certain types of well-bred young ladies: the painfully shy, young wives disenchanted with matrimony, and young girls too enchanted with the wrong men; it is a haven for those who live there.
Victor Bramwell, the new Earl of Rycliff, knows he doesn't belong here. So far as he can tell, there's nothing in this place but spinsters… and sheep. But he has no choice, he has orders to gather a militia. It's a simple mission, made complicated by the spirited, exquisite Susanna Finch—a woman who is determined to save her personal utopia from the invasion of Bram's makeshift army.
Susanna has no use for aggravating men; Bram has sworn off interfering women. The scene is set for an epic battle… but who can be named the winner when both have so much to lose?
There was a sheep named Dinner. I laughed.
Sometimes it's nice to have a couple who like each and is willing to admit it without all the drama.
"No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence."
"She realized she was still hugging the wall. Pride propelled her two steps forward. As she advanced, something bleated at her, as though chastising her for trespassing. She stopped midstep and peered at it. "Did you know there's a lamb in here?"
"Never mind it. That's dinner."
She gave it a smile and a friendly pat. "Hullo, Dinner. Aren't you a sweet thing."
"It's not his name, it's his…function."
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Earlier this month, a 9-year-old boy wrote a letter to Kansas City police asking whether a 10-year-old boy who found $10,000 in a hotel room last year got to keep the cash.
"I read an article in school," the Massachusetts boy wrote about the article first published in The Star. "The article made me think about who might find money and keep it."
It was the second student letter received by Kansas City police in recent months about the treasure-finding lad, Tyler Schaefer, who stumbled upon the neatly stacked bills, still in money wrappers, in a hotel drawer last May 25. An article about the discovery is posted on an educational website as part of a critical-thinking exercise.
"What would you do if you found $10,000?" the website asks students in a question that generated more than 1,000 responses. "Would you give it to police?"
Many of the students who posted answers online said they would have kept the cash, or at least part of it. But Tyler and his father, Cody Schaefer, of South Dakota, immediately handed all the loot to two uniformed off-duty officers working at the hotel, who filed a police report.
Nearly a year later, the Police Department is still storing the money, per state law. If an owner is not identified after four more years, the department will give the cash to the state treasurer's office, which will keep it in a trust forever if an owner doesn't step forward.
A Missouri law written in 1939 outlines the steps finders must take to claim lost cash, including filing an affidavit with a state court judge within 10 days, physically posting a list describing the money on the courthouse door and at four other public places within the city and publishing ads in a local newspaper for three consecutive weeks.
Tyler and his father missed the 10-day deadline and didn't tack posters around town. But they did immediately notify authorities in a selfless act that made national news headlines — generating a much larger audience than any local posters could.
Although they appeared to have met the spirit of the law, they did not meet its letter. Experts say the honest pair won't get the cash.
Cody Schaefer said Tuesday that he had trouble understanding Missouri's legalese. He approached a lawyer for help but was told he needed to put up a $1,000 retainer, which he didn't have.
Police Capt. Tye Grant said the boy deserves the money.
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For all the money spent on 11 new players last summer, there is something refreshing about the fact it's an AC Milan youth player in Patrick Cutrone who continues to deservedly capture the limelight this season.
After joining the club at just 8 years of age, he proceeded to impress through the youth levels before making his senior debut last May. From that point onward, the 20-year-old has gone from strength to strength.
With 12 goals in 28 appearances in all competitions so far this season, only Paris Saint-Germain phenom Kylian Mbappe can boast a better goal-scoring record for a player aged 20 or under in Europe's major leagues.
However, there's much more beyond the numbers and statistics that suggest Cutrone is capable of establishing himself as a key figure for the Rossoneri for years to come.
For such a young player, his positional play in the box and his ability to sniff out a goal is hugely impressive. Cutrone seemingly has that killer instinct in front of goal that takes others years to perfect, and naturally it had led to early comparisons with a Milan hero: Filippo Inzaghi.
It's undoubtedly a natural gift that he possesses, and despite seeing significant competition arrive last summer in the form of Andre Silva and Nikola Kalinic, it's the youngster who has continued to be a fundamental piece in the puzzle for Gennaro Gattuso.
Silva and Kalinic have 12 goals combined in 51 total outings, so that just goes to show how important Cutrone has been. His brace at the weekend in the win over SPAL kept Milan on track as they try to force their way back up into the European qualification spots.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Cutrone's emergence has been that he has been able to pair his youthful exuberance and energy with quality. It's one thing as a young player coming on in games and working hard for the team, but he has consistently made a positive impact in the final third.
His intensity and work ethic set the example from the front, and it could even be argued that he now provides his teammates with a lift whenever he takes to the field, setting the tone for the rest and delivering goals in key games.
From his extra-time winner against Inter in the Coppa Italia, to three goals in his last two Serie A games to help Milan secure maximum points, he has made his case to be a regular starter for Gattuso. And despite splashing out on Silva and Kalinic last summer, there is a strong argument to stick with young Cutrone.
At this stage of his career though, there are unsurprisingly areas in which he can improve. The Milan youngster possesses a real cleverness on the pitch, which can be seen in his movement off the ball, but he must add more to his game overall.
From his hold-up play to linking things together rather than being a mere predator in the box, he'll have to become a complete package, especially if Milan continue to play with a sole striker in a 4-3-3 system.
Nevertheless, the Rossoneri are seeing more of his quality on the ball as he can use his pace and skill in possession to run the channels and take on a defender. In turn, there is plenty to work with in the short-term while also continuing to develop his talent for the future to ensure he isn't one-dimensional.
While new signings always provide a boost and lift spirits, they can't replicate the feeling of when a club sees "one of their own" make a breakthrough and establish themselves as a key figure.
Manuel Locatelli has dropped off from his impressive campaign last year, but there will be hope that he can still be an important part of Milan's future. Meanwhile, Davide Calabria and Gianluigi Donnarumma are two others hoping to keep up the tradition of youth players going on to become first-team stalwarts.
However, they've all had to take a step back behind Cutrone so far this season, and Milan will undoubtedly be hoping that he can continue to deliver in the coming weeks as they make their charge for a Champions League spot.
Sumeet Paul covers AC Milan for ESPN FC. Follow him on Twitter: @SP_Calcio.


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That's what this idea has been for close to a year now, and it's finally becoming a reality.
When I was in middle school, I had a little jewelry design business. Simple necklaces, bracelets and earrings, not bad for a 12-year-old, but certainly nothing spectacular. The important thing was that I had fun doing it, and even made a decent profit when I went to craft shows.
Lately, I found myself missing the creativity that goes into designing jewelry and the sense of accomplishment I got from seeing my ideas become a tangible reality. I'd been toying with the idea of designing jewelry again, but never followed through on it.
Until last week.
I decided to take a little bit of my own money and invest it in some supplies. I took a trip to the craft store and stocked up on tools, storage, beads and findings. I was there at least 2 hours, rather overwhelmed by the vast selection. I started out with about 20 different types of beads made from glass and semi-precious stones, as well as beading wire, earring hooks, head pins, clasps, crimp beads and jump rings in silver, gold and copper.
Thanks to a decent sale and some coupons, I didn't spend nearly as much as I'd expected. I spent the weekend making necklaces and earrings. 5 matching sets, as well as 2 necklaces and 5 pairs of earrings that will be sold as stand-alone pieces. I expect to continue improving, but what I made was a vast improvement over what I'd made with thread and plastic seed beads in the 6th grade.
I made a few more pieces during the course of this week, and last night I made another trip to the craft store to pick up some additional pieces. I wanted to start working with metal chains, since they lay a bit nicer and are more substantial than anything I could make using beading wire.
Working with the chains is definitely more time-consuming, but I've found that the final product is really worth the effort. I'll most likely continue working with the wire as well, since certain styles and materials seem to work better with it, but it's nice to know that I am capable of using either.
Also, it should be noted that an undergraduate degree in business is turning out to be both a blessing and a curse.
On one hand, I already have knowledge about accounting, advertising, creating business plans, etc. that will help me make good decisions about my little business. (I hope!) I've already figured out a good method for tracking inventory, revenue, expenditures, etc. and there will probably be much less trial and error involved in my recordkeeping that if I was going into this without a business background. This in turn will make things LOT easier come tax time.
On the other hand, I have been overcomplicating things quite a bit. This is a SMALL business. I have no employees. It's just me, myself and I. I need to stop thinking this is going to be as complex as a large corporation. There are no personnel issues to worry about. I am my only investor(and technically so is my husband, since I borrowed our mutual money for my startup costs). As long as I can accurately track my revenue and my expenses, as well as whatever sales tax I owe, there's not much else I really need to worry about, at least from a legal standpoint.
So here's hoping that I can make my business at least a modest success. 2 weeks until Mischievous Kitty Jewelry is officially open for business!