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SOURCE: Nextrials, Inc.
February 26, 2013 08:00 ET
Prism's Features for Information Sharing Between EHRs and Clinical Research Systems to Be Demonstrated at the HIMSS13 Interoperability Showcase™
Prism's Features for Information Sharing Between EHRs and Clinical Research Systems to Be Demonstrated at the HIMSS13 Interoperability Showcase™
SAN RAMON, CA and NEW ORLEANS, LA--(Marketwire - Feb 26, 2013) - HIMSS 2013 -- Nextrials, Inc. (www.nextrials.com), a leader in clinical research software and services, will demonstrate the interoperability of its Prism® clinical trial management platform with platforms used for electronic health records (EHR) at the 2013 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference and Exhibition. This year, the company will emphasize how physicians could potentially use Prism to participate in medical research by initiating access to clinical data registries within their practices, something the new American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 encourages through financial incentives.
According to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, 85 percent of today's clinical trials are facing delays due to patient recruitment. If physicians and private clinics establish patient registries containing patient characteristics, patterns of care and outcomes -- information already being collected by EHRs -- researchers could then access that data. It would open up huge new pools of potential participants for upcoming studies and help researchers better understand healthcare expenditures.
"With family physician EHR adoption rates approaching nearly 70 percent nationwide, an integrated data platform such as the one offered by Nextrials presents new opportunities for healthcare providers and researchers," said James Rogers, CEO and co-founder of Nextrials. "We've demonstrated that an integrated EHR/EDC platform such as Prism can pre-identify sites with appropriate patients and facilitate patient randomization, resulting in lower study costs. Now, clinics and physicians that have never participated in medical research can do it easily, without a major increase in IT cost -- providing researchers with a bigger pool of potential participants. It's a win-win."
This is Nextrials' fifth consecutive appearance at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase and the conference, being held March 3-7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Visitors to the showcase, located in the La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom, can see the flexibility of Prism®, its award-winning clinical trial management platform that is one of the clinical research industry's few EDC platforms fully integrated with platforms used for EHR by the healthcare industry.
About Nextrials
Founded by pharmaceutical researchers in 1999, Nextrials offers today's most novel products and services for speeding the delivery of life-saving drugs and medical devices to market. Prism®, its award-winning Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution, has been used at over 1,500 research sites to streamline the initiation and management of clinical trials. Nextrials has achieved the status of Registered Solutions Provider with the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) for EHR integration. The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area. For more information, visit www.nextrials.com or call 925-355-3000.
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San Giuseppe Italian restaurant, located uptown in Hoboken near the city's only movie theater, goes far beyond what you might expect from a place describing itself as "coal-fired pizza and cucina" – offering everything from linguine with lobster tails to ribbon pasta in veal sauce to unique gourmet pizzas in an elegant setting with 40 tables. It's a great place to take a date (soft music is usually playing) or to bring the family, and in fact, there were three families with babies dining there when we went.
The appetizers and desserts are as unique as the entrees, with four varieties of dessert pizzas, including one containing caramelized apple, candied walnuts, and vanilla sauce.
New idea
Joseph Russo grew up in the small town of Carini, outside Palermo, Sicily. He and his wife, Hoboken native Maria, were married in St. Anne's Church, so their Hoboken roots go deep.
The couple opened the restaurant, named after their devotion to St. Joseph, this past December after closing the place they ran in Staten Island for 30 years. They wanted to try something different, so they returned to Hoboken, where they raised their kids.
"We chose this area because we see a need for a good Italian restaurant in this new part of Hoboken; where people don't have to go too far for a relaxing cozy intimate meal," Maria said.
The menu reflects both traditional and unique homemade food, from both the northern and southern Italian cuisine that are part of their heritage.
"We like to be creative," said Maria with a smile.
"It's a great location [the Peachtree Hollow Commons]," said Joseph. "There's plenty of parking. It's a new part of Hoboken. People are coming from word of mouth."
Plenty of customers have taken advantage of the free parking outside the restaurant, although others walk from the theater or the newer condo developments in the area.
Despite the fact that it's in a very small shopping center near the Clearview Cinemas theater near the Viaduct, people are finding out about it. Friday and Saturday nights are getting busier, and the restaurant takes reservations.
What we ate
The waiter brought out warm, seasoned foccacia thins. Then we ordered our appetizers.
We started with the popular coal-fired chicken wings with caramelized Vidalia onions. We also ordered coal-fired roasted vegetables and a Tuscan salad. Appetizers and salads run from $8.95 to a combo selection of meats and cheeses for $21.95.
The wings were a delicious twist, not spicy at all. The vegetables – yellow sweet peppers, zucchini, eggplant, onions – were well presented and soft, a nice, healthy dish. The salad contained chick peas, tomatoes, parmigiano reggiano shavings, Gaeta olives, and lettuce, another tasty, healthy start to the meal.
Main courses to choose from included gnocchi, penne in an "angry, spicy tomato sauce," two spaghetti dishes, and then the list of creative "San Giuseppe Signature pasta dishes." Among those: Nero di Seppia (black linguine with cuttlefish/little squid, sautéed with garlic, oil, and black squid ink, $16.95), and Pasta Buona Sera, rigatoni with sweet sausage, chicken, Gaeta olives, coal-fired peppers and onions in a balsamic sauce, 16.95.
I ordered the popular Pasta Amore, which is Orecchiette pasta served with sweet sausage, peas, plum tomato, and fresh basil, in a white wine sauce, $15.95. The hubby got Pappardelle Bolognese, 13.95, which is flat, wide ribbon pasta in a ground veal sauce with a touch of cream ($13.95).
I also had to try the butternut squash pizza. Other pizza varieties include prosciutto di parma and figs, and a pizza called the Romanza: Fontina cheese, coal-roasted mushrooms, and truffle oil. Signature pies, 14 inches, range from $16 to $20.
Everything was delicious and filling. The sausage and peas were a nice touch to my bowl of Pasta Amore. I also sampled hubby's ribbon pasta and wanted more: The long, thin ribbon woven through the tomato sauce was a delight. There were also carrots and celery.
As for my pizza – delicious! The sweet, soft squash puree was abundant and well complemented the fontina cheese. The coal-roasted crimini mushroom slices on top were a fresh, juicy delight.
We were also brought the standard margarita pizza, with mozzarella and tomato sauce. San Giuseppe's pizzas are thin-crust, hot, and crispy. I loved the melted fresh white mozzarella.
The restaurant offers more than a dozen toppings you can add, from caramelized onions to coal-fired roasted sweet peppers.
"We are the only ones in town that will make you a heart shaped pizza." – Maria Russo
The dessert offerings were very unique – including four 12-inch dessert pizzas, and four pastries.
The cheesecake ($6) was described as more creamy than bready. I enjoyed it more than the standard cheesecake, and liked the thick, fruity crust.
The Linzer torte in a hazlenut crust ($6) was also thick, more crust than jam, and unique but not too sweet. It was dappled with confectioner's sugar and streaked with raspberry dressing. The restaurant recommends the Baci pizza, which has Nutella and fragole sprinkled with confectionary sugar, $12. Also popular are La Dolce Vita, which has caramel apples, candied walnuts, and vanilla icing, $12, and Sogni Dolci, which has pear, sweet gorgonzola, and candied walnuts ($14).
I enjoyed the La Dolce Vita, especially the sugary walnuts and the vanilla drizzle. There was plenty to go around.
Other pastries include cannoli ($4) and profiteroles ($6).
As for drinks, the restaurant is BYOB, and several customers on Saturday had brought their own wine.
The lowdown
The restaurant doesn't have its own website yet, but it does have a Facebook page with its complete menu. Right now, they are open Monday through Saturday, but they will expand to Sundays at some point in the future.
They also have started delivering, but usually not at their busiest times – which are Friday and Saturday nights. Reservations are accepted those nights. They also offer curbside takeout.
San Giuseppe's is located at 1320 Adams St. in the Peachtree Commons shopping center next to Clearview Cinemas. It is open from 4:30 to 10 from Monday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. For more information call (201) 942-9200.
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Beyonce is reportedly pregnant with her second child, Mariah Carey snubs Jennifer Lopez during the American Idol finale, and Denise Richards reveals a slim bikini body: See Us Weekly's top 5 stories from Friday, May 17 in the roundup!
1. Beyonce Pregnant With Second Child: Report
Another baby for Bey? Citing sources, E! News claims that Beyonce is pregnant with her second child. The reported baby-to-be would join Blue Ivy, Beyonce's 16-month-old daughter with husband Jay-Z. The Grammy-winning singer, 31, has been the subject of rampant second-pregnancy rumors since earlier this month as she continues her massive Mrs. Carter World Tour.
2. Denise Richards Reveals Slim Bikini Body By the Pool With Her Kids
Denise Richards knows how to make the most of a day off! The Twisted actress got a break from work on Wednesday, May 15, so she treated her kids to an afternoon of leisure. The 42-year-old mom to daughters Sam, 9, Lola, 7, and Eloise, 22 months, was spotted enjoying some family time by a Beverly Hills Hotel pool. "Had the afternoon off," she tweeted Thursday. "Fun in the sun today with the family . . . feels like summer! Staycation."
3. The Office Series Finale: 5 Key Moments From Dunder Mifflin's Last Goodbye
We'll always have Scranton. After eight years, nine seasons, a lot of laughs, and countless "That's what she said" jokes, The Office closed its doors for good on Thursday, May 16, with a moving series finale that saw the beloved Dunder Mifflin staff get the happy endings they all deserved. (Spoilers ahead!) The 75-minute episode was jam-packed with one-liners, tributes, and surprises — too many to list here — so to recap, here's a look at five key moments from the NBC comedy's last outing.
4. Mariah Carey Refuses to Give Jennifer Lopez Standing Ovation on American Idol
Mariah Carey, she could not be moved. When former judge Jennifer Lopez delivered an energetic 10-minute performance on the season finale of American Idol on May 16, Carey kept a fixed smile on her face but refused to join the other three judges in giving Lopez a standing ovation. She played with the streamers and grinned straight ahead instead.
5. Exclusive: Lisa Ling Introduces Baby Daughter Jett!
Lisa Ling is a mom at last! After suffering miscarriages in 2010 and 2011, the TV journalist and her oncologist husband, Paul Song, proudly welcomed a little girl, Jett, on March 8. Married since 2007, the couple share exclusive pictures of their daughter in the May 20 issue of Us Weekly. "We weren't trying," Ling, 39, says of getting pregnant in the summer of 2012. "My travel schedule is erratic, and I only saw Paul once a month, so it was a shock. We had considered adoption, but we got very lucky. We believe this is the child we were supposed to have."
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NEWARK — Thousands of swimmers will flock to the Jersey Shore and to local pools this summer, and families should be mindful of the danger of drowning for children of all ages. Drowning is the second leading cause of accidental death for persons aged 5 to 44, according to the United States Lifesaving Association (USLA).
"For children in the one- to two-year age range, drowning is the leading cause of injury death," says Joshua Rosenblatt, MD, Chairman of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. "For every ten children who die by drowning, 140 are treated in emergency rooms, and 36 are admitted for further treatment, and may suffer long-term disability."
Children's Hospital of New Jersey and the USLA offer the following swimming safety tips for children and families:
- Swim Near A Lifeguard: The chance of drowning at a beach without lifeguard protection is almost five times as great as drowning at a beach with lifeguards.
- Learn To Swim: Learning to swim is the best defense against drowning. Teach children to swim at an early age. Children who are not taught tend to avoid swim instruction as they age, probably due to embarrassment.
- Never Swim Alone: Many drownings involve single swimmers. When you swim with a buddy, if one of you has a problem, the other may be able to help, including signaling for assistance from others.
- Don't Fight the Current: 80 percent of rescues by lifeguards at beaches are caused by rip currents. Swimmers in a riptide should follow these measures:
– Stay calm, tread water or float- call or wave for assistance
– Don't swim against the current
– Swim parallel to shore when in the rip current
– Once out of the current, swim directly to shore
- Leash Your Board: Surfboards and bodyboards should be used only with a leash. Leashes are usually attached to the board and the ankle or wrist. With a leash, the user will not become separated from the floatation device.
- Don't Float When You Can't Swim: Non-swimmers often use floatation devices, like inflatable rafts, to go offshore. If they fall off, they can quickly drown. No one should use a floatation device unless they are able to swim.
- Life Jackets = Boating Safety: Some 80 percent of fatalities associated with boating accidents are from drowning. Most involve people who never expected to end up in the water, but fell overboard or ended up in the water when the boat sank. Children are particularly susceptible to this problem.
- Don't Dive Headfirst, Protect Your Neck: Serious injuries, including paraplegia, occur every year due to diving headfirst into unknown water and striking the bottom. Check for depth before diving.
- At Home, You're the Lifeguard: Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death in many states for children age one and two. Many of these deaths occur in the few moments it takes a parent to answer a telephone or doorbell. NEVER leave a child alone anywhere near a pool. Make sure it is completely fenced and that there is no access from the home to the pool.
A daily rip current outlook is issued by many National Weather Service offices. Visit Surf Zone Forecast.
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
BHV DIY Xmas
23 comments:
- Peggy5:09 PM
Hi Carol, Still interested in a watercolor of my son and his wife's new house! Please be in touch!ReplyDeleteReplies
How? No photo and no links.Delete
No can do.
Love the cuisine windows..and your art:-)ReplyDelete
This is great. I love the creativity going on there.ReplyDelete
Super yum orange on that mandarine…ReplyDelete
I am head over heels in love with BHV! Will immediately start wiring all my kitchenware for lights. There will be nothing left to cook Christmas dinner in, but we will have crackers!
All the wit and perspicacity here do take the prize in my book! Thank you! Your delight is our delight!ReplyDeleteReplies
have to admit it took a 2nd and 3rf look to notice all the tricks BHV was up to in these vitrines. I'm going back for some bubble bath christmas balls - multi-tasking at a very high level IMHODelete
OMG, a knitted saucission! AMAZING!!!ReplyDelete
Could br a wine bottle too...Delete
Get knitting D!
This is indeed astounding. BHV to me is so old and behind the times and now this! Cutting edge Christmas windows/decor! I'll have to go and check this out with the children.ReplyDelete
Ah, Christmas crackers? I love them and it has always been our tradition - except every 2 yrs I bring them out for the French family and they look at me as if I'm mad. 'Tis not in their culture, boohoo.ReplyDelete
Cute post, Carol!
My French father used to take a tangerine, cut it in half through the middle, remove the fruit, use the pulp as a wick and make an orange candle with oil inside and a hole in the top. It was a tradition for Christmas and New Years and I carry on that tradition with my own children. It is just a little tangerine that makes our celebration a bit more magical!
Suzanne@ Le Farm
Use the pulp ss a wick?ReplyDelete
I'd love to see that!
- Anonymous5:54 PM
Bonjour, Carol! We will be headed to Paris for the holidays in a few days, and are excited to be staying quite near the BHV, in the Marais. The link you embedded is fantastic; however my French is quite rusty! I am very interested in reading the history- do you happen to know if the site has a version en anglais?ReplyDeleteReplies
I didn't realize there was so much text...It does look interesting.Delete
I have Google Translate and you can directly translate to English simply by highlighting the French text but only works on the computer..
The only thing missing is your Bear!ReplyDelete


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Garage explodes in town of Hartford
Garage explodes in town of Hartford
TOWN OF HARTFORD, Wis. —
A town of Hartford man suffered burns when his garage exploded Friday morning.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office said the man's wife called at 9:05 a.m., worried that her 79-year-old husband was in the garage at the time of the explosion.
When deputies arrived, they found wife had gotten the man out of the destroyed garage.
He had burns to his face, arms and hands.
The cause of the explosion is under investigation. The building was heated by a natural gas heater and had electrical service.
A neighbor across the street was also reported damage from the blast resulting in cracked drywall, as well as several walls and ceiling areas.


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The two overall types of window blinds are ready-made blinds and made to measure. Made-to-measure blinds are made to fit a given or measured window size. Ready-made blinds are manufactured in set sizes that can be cut down to fit any window. Window blinds can be classified broadly into six different categories: roller blinds (which do not have slats but consist of a single piece of material), Roman blinds, pleated blinds, Venetian blinds, Shoji Japanese blinds and vertical blinds.
Horizontal blinds use a thin woven corded ladder system to suspend the slats and enable them to be closed or opened via a rotating drum to which each upper end of the woven ladder is wrapped and attached. A lift cord allows the blind to be pulled up and stack tightly to top of the window when desired.
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What will Bruno do?
The LA premiere of Bruno went ahead as planned yesterday and Sacha Baron Cohen, in character of course, also stopped by The Tonight Show for a visit with Conan O'Brien during which Conan could not stop looking at his kugelsack.
Bruno hits theatres July 10th but last night on Larry King, Morley said there's some speculation that the film may need to be recut because there's apparently a moment when Bruno punks LaToya Jackson into calling Michael Jackson, or something. The segment tested very well with audiences and elicited a huge laugh but obviously we're now living in an MJ-less world. Will be interesting to see what decision the studio ultimately takes.
Knowing Sacha, he'll fight to leave it in.
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A Gold Mine of Naturalization Records in New England
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Great Migration Begins Index: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33
Original source: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
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Professor of Nature Based Tourism and Recreation
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My research is broadly centered in human-environment interactions and the intersection of conservation and development. Within this, my focus is on ecotourism, community development and natural resource management, particularly in mountainous areas and developing countries. The pursuit of these investigations has taken me to a wide range of geographic locations where I have had the opportunity to study a diversity of topics. These include adventure tourism and economic crisis in Argentina, Scientific Tourism in Patagonia, Women's roles in ecotourism in India and population and development issues in Nepal. Since 2005 I have been conducting field courses with university students in the Indian Himalaya. This experience has been both challenging and immensely rewarding for me and my students. My experiences in India led my wife and I to start a small ecotourism venture called the Nature-Link Institute. We now run several courses a year to the Himalaya. In my free time, I enjoy being outdoors and moving through the landscape. My passions include trail running, rock and ice climbing, snowboarding, high altitude mountaineering and teaching and learning with students in a field setting.
PhD., 2006 University of Georgia, Department of Geography, Dissertation: "The Local Effects of Global Conservation Policy: Political ecology, environmental justice and the production of scale in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, India."
M.A., 2000 Appalachian State University, Department of Geography. Thesis: "Developing a Low Impact Model for Tourism: A case study of the Garhwal Himalaya, India."
B.S., 1998 Appalachian State University, Department of Geography. GIS concentration.
Field of Study
Nature-based tourism
Community development
International conservation and development
Geographies of Tourism
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Peer-reviewed Publications
Bosak, K. and Schroeder, K. 2005. "Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Gender and Development." Development in Practice. 15:(2) 233-39.
Bosak, K. and Schroeder, K. 2004. "Community Based Conservation and Ecotourism: A Struggle for Resource Rights in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve." Focus on Geography. 48:(1) 1-6.
Other Publications
Bosak, K. 2006. "From Global Events to Local Livelihoods: The Struggle to Maintain Sustainability in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve" Green Life Magazine. (Forthcoming)
Bosak, K. 2004. "Community Based Ecotourism in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve." The American Alpine News. 11 (244) 16-19.
Bosak, K. 2002. "Sex Ratio Variation in Nepal." Population Specialty Group Newsletter. 26 (fall 2002).
Bosak, K. 2001. "Nepal's Secret." (edited by Neal Lineback) Geography in the News. 579.
Bosak, K. 2006. "Adventure Tourism and Economic Crisis: Aconcagua Provincial Park, Argentina." Association of American Geographers Annual Conference.
Bosak, K. 2005. "Nature, Conflict and Biodiversity Conservation in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve." Association of American Geographers Annual Conference.
Bosak, K. 2004. "Pursuing Environmental Justice through Ecotourism: The Case of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve." Association of American Geographers Annual Conference.
Bosak, K. 2003. "Conservation as Environmental Racism?" SEDAAG Student Honors Competition.
Bosak, K. and Rawat, R. 2003. "Local Control and the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, India." Sustainable Mountain Communities Conference. The Banff Centre for Mountain Culture.
Bosak, K. 2002. "Government Policies and Local Communities: Conflict and Change in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve." Society For Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting.
Bosak, K. 2001. "Sex Ratio Variation in Nepal: Implications for Development." SEDAAG Student Honors Competition.
Bosak, K. 2000. "The Sacred Geography of the Garhwal Himalaya." SEDAAG Student Honors Competition.
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Raycom Media and Cox Communications reached an agreement late Friday that returned WAFB-TV to the cable company's lineup shortly before 9:30 p.m., WAFB general manager and vice president Sandy Breland said in an email.
The contract dispute affected about 165,000 Cox subscribers in the WAFB market, according to the station. The new agreement covers WAFB/CBS-Channel 7; WAFB HD/CBS-Channel 1007; WBXH/MyNetwork-Channel 16; and WAFB/Bounce TV-Channel 121 in the Baton Rouge area.
In addition to the Baton Rouge area, Raycom pulled programming in the Franklin/Patterson areas and in the Lake Charles area: KPLC/NBC-Channel 7, KPLC HD/NBC-Channel 1007 and KPLC/Bounce TV-Channel 130.
Raycom stations in Louisiana, Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Arizona also went dark as a result of the dispute, which began Jan. 1 when the old contract between the companies expired.
Details of the agreement, which came only hours after Cox and Raycom issued statements sharply criticizing each other, were not immediately available late Friday.
In a statement emailed by Cox spokeswoman Sharon Bethea earlier on Friday, the cable company accused Raycom of misleading customers by saying Cox refused to air Raycom's channels.
Cox said instead Raycom sent Cox a threatening certified letter on Dec. 27, warning Cox that airing those channels without Raycom's permission would violate federal law. In the letter, Raycom said Cox could face "significant fines" for copyright infringement, and Raycom will enforce its legal rights "to the fullest extent."
Meanwhile, WAFB posted a video on its website of an unidentified woman giving Raycom's point of view of the dispute.
In the video, the woman says Cox is refusing to reach a fair deal to keep WAFB on the air even though Cox customers are still paying for the service.
"That's not fair," she says. The Raycom spokeswoman advises Cox customers to demand a rebate or switch to another provider.
Raycom has said it asked Cox for an increase that amounts to around 2 cents a day per household.
In its statement, Cox said that amount represents an increase of more than 200 percent.
Multiplying 2 cents per day by 30 days per month by the number of Cox subscribers works out to millions of dollars more each year than the cable company is already paying Raycom, Cox said in its statement. If Cox agreed to the same percentage increase for all the programming it carries, the average customer's cable bill would increase more than $75 a month.
The dispute centered around retransmission fees, which cable companies pay to broadcast companies in order to air their programs.
The fees have become an important source of profit for broadcasters, who have seen ad revenue dwindle, and a growing source of contention.
In 2012, broadcasters cut off programming 91 times, a jump of 78 percent over 2011, according to the American Television Alliance, which represents cable companies and other distributors.
Craig Freeman, an associate professor at LSU, said retransmission fees were originally designed to support local television programmers and broadcasters. But the fees have become a kind of necessity for networks and the operators of smaller stations, he said. The Federal Communications Commission is looking at ways to defuse the issue.
"It's tough to say a cable operator has to negotiate with every single station in order to set the fees," Freeman said.
"It may be un-American to approve a kind of scale," he said, " but I could easily see a situation where you say, this station has this rating or has these numbers so they (the cable company) should pay this amount."
However, Freeman said it's impossible to say when or if that idea would be adopted.
"Everyone wants their slice of the pie, and nobody wants to give up anything in this, including what you see now with Cox and Raycom," Freeman said.
One solution for consumers who tire of spiraling cable rates: get an antenna, Freeman said. A lot of the newer television sets can decode high-definition signals.
Freeman, a Garden District resident, said he paid $16 for an antenna and can watch HD programs for free.


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Music included new Richard Thompson and Hopo Nephews of Uncle Frank; plus Eilen Jewell, Buckwheat Zydeco, CJ Chenier, Bob Dylan, Deadstring Bros…..Thanks to the Union Suits for performing an in-studio session this week. They'll be opening for the Deadstring Brothers at my Freewheelin' 1st Friday show at Lee's on 2/15. If you want to listen to the show, click "Episode Details" where you will see the entire playlist and be able to stream the program archive.
Newer music by Richard Thompson, Eric Burdon, James Hunter Six, Mary Gauthier, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, The Slide Bros. w/ Rbt. Randolph, White Iron Band; phone interview with Kurt Marschke of the DEADSTRING BROTHERS; plus some old favorites by the likes of Hot Tuna, T.Rex, Anders Osborne, Marcia Ball, Fred Eaglesmith….etc.etc.etc…If you'd like to see the entire list, click "Episode Details" to check it out. You may also link into the archive of the show from that page, too.
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Cauliflower Recipes
Cauliflower Salad with Roasted Bell Pepper Dressing
Here's a recipe for a delicious, inexpensive and healthy dish. I prepared a simple cauliflower salad with two entire heads of cauliflower. The wow factor resides in its delicious salad dressing; I made it with roasted bell pepper, which gave a warm and inviting tone to the dish. Additionally, I used pine nuts for extra creaminess and a more complete protein source.
Stay tuned and check out what I pair the red cauliflower salad with tomorrow. If you like meat, I promise you won't be disappointed!
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Roasted Cauliflower Pumpkin Soup Recipe
I hope it's not going to be too cold next Thursday for our family gathering. But I'm keeping this soup recipe as a "maybe" in case the temperature drops too much and we crave something soothing and warm.
To ensure the soup keeps up the Thanksgiving theme, I used a combination of fall-friendly veggies like pumpkin and roasted cauliflower. I also added duck prosciutto for texture and thyme-infused whipped cream for extra creaminess.
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Cauliflower Asparagus Manicotti Pasta Recipe
I've been feeling kind of miserable since getting home from our trip to Paris. Not only have I caught a nasty cough, but I'm still heavily jet-lagged. What's worse, I haven't visited the gym in almost a month and I have a mountain of tasks I need to complete very soon before I become totally overwhelmed. As you may have guessed, my cure for most problems is cooking, and today, I made one of my favorite comfort foods, something creamy, cheesy and filled with vegetables: an asparagus and cauliflower manicotti pasta.
To reduce the amount of cheese, calories and guilt in the béchamel sauce, I blended cauliflower into the white sauce. Once softened, the cauliflower became very creamy and gave extra body to the dish.
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Cauliflower Cold Soup with Grilled Shrimp
Cold cauliflower soup is a refreshing first course during the hot weather, especially with the heatwave that we've been experiencing these past few days. I blended cauliflower, sweet round rice, ginger garlic paste and crème fraîche with a few spices such as cumin, coriander and turmeric. I served it in bowls (you could also use chilled glasses) topped with grilled shrimp covered with mango and sungold cherry tomatoes.
My husband Lulu is a vegetarian so I simply omitted the shrimp and prepared a separate batch using flavorful homemade vegetable stock. That way Lulu and I were able to share the meal together.
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Veal Scallopini with Curried Cauliflower
Baby Aria now has eight teeth and two more coming in. And boy, does she like to use them! She's not fussy at all when it comes to food. Aria and I usually eat the same meal. This evening, I prepared an "escalope de veau au chou fleur", which translates from French to "veal scallopini with cauliflower".
First, I browned slices of veal, then cooked a combination of cauliflower, Granny Smith apples and Sweet Million tomatoes as a side. I tied the dish together with gravy, and for added crunch, I added almond slivers at the last minute.
I have to admit that Aria's favorite part of the meal was the cauliflower, and she wouldn't have touched the veal if I hadn't made her eat it. Lulu often reminds me that he never really liked the taste of meat when he was a child and by the time he was a teenager he happily gave up the idea of ever eating it again. I believe that if you train children to eat everything at a young age, they'll eat anything as adults. What do you think? Should I influence Aria to become a meat eater?
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A month into the school year, the classroom doors remain closed for 700 young children in south Los Angeles County. Head Start preschools in Compton, Lynwood and Paramount have been taken over by non-profit agency, Volunteers of America (VOA).
The transition between the administering agencies occurred over the summer. In June, the federal government awarded VOA the grant to take over from the Community Development Institute, another non-profit that had been running the sites for the previous three years.
Frustrated parents are calling VOA daily, demanding to know when school will open. VOA spokesman Orlando Ward cannot give a date. He explains that his organization must comply with many federal regulations before it reopens the preschools.
From "parent orientations and home visits," Ward explained, his staff is busy, "securing all the state licensing that is required to operate Head Start in this area."
VOA is also hiring completely new staffs for all its preschool sites. The non-profit that used to run the preschool laid off teachers and aides who staffed these schools last year. Some of them had decades of experience.
The union that represents Head Start employees, SEIU Local 99, has been pushing to have teachers rehired. "The only reason folks were given for losing their jobs was that CDI was no longer their employer," union representative Terry Carter said.
"They were encouraged to re-apply for the centers where they had been working." Carter added that "VOA has interviewed fewer than one-forth of the folks who have applied for their jobs. And they have hired fewer than 10 percent."
Parents are fuming too. Many had already gone through the enrollment and eligibility process for their child in the previous school year, and are now being asked to do it all again.
"To enroll my child, I had to get the paperwork from the school — the dental records, immunization and physical records. Then you have to take that to the doctor. But first you have to make an appointment at the doctor's office. Then you have to go to the dentists office, make an appointment for that... then you have to take it back to the school," said mother Tamara Jones. "Once you take it back to the school you have to have all your income, proof of residence, and that was sufficient enough for enrollment."
For low-income parents like Jones, a single mother working two jobs, this means missing time at work.
Another Compton mother, Harvesha Knight, has her 4-year-old, Daryl Junior, in tow as she tries to figure out when his preschool, Small World, might reopen. She is one year away from getting her certification to be a licensed vocational nurse, but she's missing school to look after him. For Knight, making sure her son does not miss out on his education is more important than finishing hers.
"I have to be his teacher now," she said. "I have to teach him how to spell his name. He already know his 1-2-3s and ABCs, but other stuff that he would learn from school, I have to teach him."
As the days drag on, it's unclear when the schools might open. Parents and teachers are putting pressure on VOA to expedite the process, and to hire back their beloved teachers and classroom aides.
It doesn't have to be this way, said one teacher, who didn't want to give her name because she feared retribution for speaking out. "When we transitioned from our previous employer to CDI, it was a smooth transition," she said. "Under this transition, I think they felt like the community was too poor, wasn't going to stand up and fight back."
VOA's Orlando Ward asked patience from parents and teachers, saying his agency is ensuring they do everything by the book for "the longer term good of the children."
Clarification: We removed the reference to VOA being a new non-profit. Although VOA is new to the area and the school system, it was founded in 1896.


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Set two years after the events of the award-winning Tales of Symphonia for the Nintendo GameCube™, Dawn of the New World follows the journey of two new young heroes, Emil Castagnier and Marta Lualdi, as they seek to uncover the mystery of why their world has fallen into ruin. In their quest, their paths will cross with the original cast of Tales of Symphonia including Lloyd and Colette, as well as a summon spirit known as Ratatosk who claims to be the lord of all monsters.
Advancing the combination of story, characters and real-time battles that made Tales of Symphonia one of the best-selling and highest-rated role-playing games for the Nintendo GameCube, Dawn of the New World introduces a new monster recruitment feature in which players can capture more than 200 unique enemies and train them to actively participate in battle. Players can then feed these monsters to make them more effective, and even evolve them into several new fearsome forms. The game also features an updated real-time battle system that lets players move freely in all directions around the battlefield, execute powerful unison attacks and take advantage of a new elemental alignment system for even more strategic depth. Dawn of the New World gives players complete control over a full roster of Tales of Symphonia characters and ally monsters, letting them customize their adventure party into hundreds of unique combinations.
"The Tales series is one of our most successful and well-regarded franchises, and we're celebrating its 10th anniversary in a big way with two new games that redefine role-playing on the Xbox 360 and Wii," said Todd Thorson, Director of Marketing and Public Relations for NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. "Not only can gamers look forward to playing these two incredible titles later this year, but we'll be supporting special anniversary-themed programs throughout the year to thank all the fans of the series for their dedication and enthusiasm."
Tales of Vesperia for the Xbox 360 and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for Wii will be available in stores later this year.
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Highlight Reel of the Day: Worst Fouls in MMA, Part 2
Props to TheMontageKing — who previously created those amazing referee blooper reels — for unleashing another video compilation of the gnarliest MMA fouls in history. Featuring: Jon Jones poking everybody in the eye, Wanderlei Silva giving and receiving nut-shots, Michael Bisping being a dick as usual, Mike Kyle fighting really dirty, Bob Schrijber's execution-style axe-kick to the back of Daijiro Matsui's head, and Bobby Green's history of violence against groin-protectors. Check out the first "Worst Fouls in MMA" highlight reel right here, and follow us after the jump for some unrelated madness from TheMontageKing…Read More DIGG THIS


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Sedalia's Weekend Events – Weekend of May 16
Here's a look at some of our events happening this weekend.
The Supportive Services for Veteran Families are having a Toiletry Drive and a Non Perishable Food Drive.
Missouri's veterans need your support in meeting everyday needs. They need : toilet paper, shampoo and conditioner, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, body soap, disposable razors, feminine hygiene products, shaving cream, baby wipes, and Chapstick. The drop off location for these items will be the Sedalia Family Resource Center at 505 South Kentucky, Suite A. The SSVF will also have a food drive. Non perishable food like canned or boxed items, beans, spaghetti, rice, vegetables and pasta can be dropped off at the Bi-Lo Grocery Store and the Dollar General in Warrensburg. The items will be distributed at the SSVF Veteran Health Fair on June 20. For further information, call 660-886-7476 ext 853.


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W. Pa. man gets 15 years-plus in nail bomb plot
Michael Steven Cech pleaded guilty last year
W. Pa. man gets 15 years-plus in nail bomb plot
Michael Steven Cech pleaded guilty last year
A Pittsburgh-area man has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison for teaching an FBI informant how to build a nail bomb that the defendant believed was meant to kill a federal witness.
Michael Steven Cech, of McKees Rocks, pleaded guilty in September to trading a .45-caliber handgun and $300 in exchange for providing the equipment and instructions needed to build the bomb.
He was sentenced to 15 years, eight months in prison on Wednesday after federal prosecutors played video recordings in May during which the 42-year-old Pittsburgh-area man believed he was teaching someone how to blow up a federal drug trial witness.
As part of his plea bargain, the government agreed not to recommend a sentence of more than 20 years in prison.


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The jingling of bells announced visitors from the North Pole at the 19th Annual Christmas Open House on Sunday.
The Dispatch
The jingling of bells announced visitors from the North Pole at the 19th Annual Christmas Open House on Sunday.
As a gust of wind swept the smell of roasting chestnuts across the streets of Lexington, Santa and Mrs. Claus rode into the Square from the majesty of a horse-drawn carriage.
"(Christmas Open House) is just magical. The day is pure magic," said Mrs. Claus (Gwinnie Smith).
Children of all ages scuttled about, some hopping from foot to foot as they waited in line to tell Santa their Christmas wishes.
"I want a pogo stick and no clothes," said Landon Queen, 5.
His trip to The Candy Factory awarded him a hat as tall as himself created from multicolored balloons. Landon, a rambunctious boy with quite the imagination, soon found the balloon hat to be too tame for his taste. Like a gallant knight protecting his land, he swung the tall hat like a sword, eventually popping a few of the noodle-shaped balloons.
To get the boy to stand still for even a few seconds proved to be a task. When asked if he was having fun, he responded, "You betcha I am!"
But fun and wonder was not only to be had by Landon. Neida Ramirez, 7, stood in line, waiting for her first horse-drawn carriage ride. Before the day was over, she would visit Santa to tell him she wanted an Easy Bake Oven.
"We come every year to see Santa," said her mother, Sarah Ramirez. "I like being outside and getting into the Christmas spirit."
Pictures with Santa and storytelling with Mrs. Claus were undeniably an important moment of the day for children. After hesitation and silently counting, Smith reported this was about her 10th year entertaining the children. Santa (Paul Warfford) was new to the uptown scene although with his full white beard, extra padding and jovial personality, it wasn't his first time being Santa for other organizations.
"I enjoy doing this for the kids," Warfford said.
Saturday he dressed up and went to a breakfast event as Santa. In the past, he has donned his costume, climbed into a red Pontiac Trans Am and "hit the drive-thru at the bank." Warfford said he likes making people smile.
The elves, Karstyn Orrell, Marisa Drake, Carson Everhart and Sarah Rigaud, were all participants of the Lexington Youth Theatre. Their velvet vests and hats kept their upper body warm, but the temperature's chill was getting through the thin fabric of the candy-cane striped leggings.
"It's OK. We told everyone (Saturday) night (at the Light That Tree Spectacular) that we were used to it because it was a lot colder at the North Pole," Everhart said.
"We joked it was so warm we could almost get a suntan," Drake added with a smile.
With a slight nip in the air, Victorian carolers from Thomasville's Rich Fork Baptist Church and Christmas characters such as gingerbread men and the Grinch wandered around uptown Lexington marking the beginning of the Christmas season. Every so often while strolling around town, Snoopy, the Grinch, Cat in the Hat and gingerbread men would stop, stoop slightly and smile at a camera as children bound into the street for a shared photo.
"It just feels like a Christmas spirit is in the air," said Jo Ellen Edwards, Uptown Lexington Inc. executive director.
One little boy, not quite ready to give into the Christmas holiday, wore an Indian headdress made from paper. He stood close to a stage by himself and wiggled to the sounds of The Gathering Band.
"It's great to see people going in and out of stores. Just look at how cool and busy it is uptown," Edwards added. "It makes us feel like we're doing something good."
As people filled the streets and crowds at each activity began to appear, one little girl, Marley Phelps, 2, was worried about getting to see Santa. She was afraid he would leave before she made it through the line of people.
"I want to give him a hug," Marley said.
Her Christmas wish was for a baby doll, but she repeated she just wanted to hug Santa. As she walked away, toward The Candy Factory, she shouted the season's apropos farewell.
"Merry Christmas!"
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Biology from a Christian Perspective
There are few academic or professional disciplines that hold as much intrigue with regards to the world God has created than that of biology.
At Covenant, we believe that a faithful response to God's living world requires breadth and depth in the academic discipline of biology, as well as consideration of various aspects of the discipline as a human endeavor; therefore, we engage in critical analysis of how biology is done and how it is represented in our culture, based on our Christian perspective.
The Biology Program at Covenant College
Biology can be taken as a major or a minor and is also an integral part of many related academic areas, including pre-medicine, pre-nursing, pre-physical therapy, pre-veterinary studies, pre-dentistry, and pre-ophthalmology. There are three tracks within the biology major—the biomedical option, the environmental option, and the general professional option—each of which includes a standard set of courses in general biology, chemistry, and physics.
Hands-on Learning
As a student in Covenant's biology program, you will have an abundance of opportunities to apply your knowledge and skills in hands-on settings. Students may assist professors in research, making use of the department's three primary labs and senior research lab. The Biology Club is another great forum for discussions, projects, activities, and events with peers and professors.
The Results
The biology program's rigor, emphasis on hands-on learning, and deeply committed and caring faculty thoroughly prepare students for their post-college careers. Our graduates have entered the professional world in such areas as medical research, biotechnology, aviculture, teaching, banking, politics, and writing. Others have pursued graduate and professional training at such institutions as:
- Vanderbilt University College of Medicine
- University of Alabama School of Dentistry
- Notre Dame University
- University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
- California College of Podiatric Medicine
- Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
- Georgetown University College of Medicine
- Stanford University College of Medicine


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Dear America: A Letter to Our Nation
Dear America,
Well, we did it, didn't we? We elected an African-American President! It's amazing to think that in just a couple of days Barack Obama, the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, will be our President. There are some who said it couldn't be done. At least not yet. Not in the first decade of the twenty-first century. We're only a couple of generations away from Selma and Montgomery and Birmingham. From the police dogs and the fire hoses. From the lynchings and Jim Crow and whites-only lunch counters. From Brown vs. the Board of Education and Bloody Sunday and James Reeb. From that hotel balcony in Memphis where some say a dream died on April 4, 1968. As they used to say in those cigarette commercials, "You've come a long way, baby!" I'm so proud of you, America. I hope we can all bask in the glow of this moment on Tuesday, and that despite the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, maybe we can even let these feelings linger for a bit.
Martin would have been proud, too, wouldn't he? This was his dream, right? We've judged Barack not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character. That's what you wanted, wasn't it Martin? What you fought for and died for? It's so tempting to say that we've reached the land that Martin viewed from the mountain top, that Promised Land. I look at my children, at our children, at the children of this church and I see how color-blind they are, how accepting they are, how loving they are. How prepared and willing they are to sit together in brother- and sister-hood with those of any race or ethnicity. I watched last November as young people voted. Voted for the first time in their lives. And they voted with such faith, such optimism, such hope, for the man they thought could best lead you, America, without regard to his skin color or his lineage. And I say to myself: "Yes! We are living the dream. Today. Right now."
And then an email comes across my desk about the murder of Oscar Grant. Oscar was pulled from a subway train in Oakland, California on New Year's Eve by transit police who were investigating reports of a fight. Oscar, an African-American, was lying face down on the subway platform and showing no signs of resistance. Then a white transit cop walked up and shot him in the back of the head. All in front of a crowd of onlookers, some of whom videotaped the whole thing. It took almost two weeks for the county prosecutor to charge the officer and arrest him, as he lounged comfortably in his vacation home in Nevada. When was Rodney King brutally beaten by the LAPD? That was nearly 18 years ago. America, have we learned nothing in the intervening generation? Or do we just write this off as an isolated incident of police brutality that has nothing to do with race?
I'm afraid, America. I'm afraid we are placing too much stock in Obama's election, pinning too many hopes to him. Yes, in two days a black man will become the so-called "leader of the free world," and that is a huge accomplishment. President Obama has erased color as a barrier to the highest office in the land, and in so doing he has opened up a world of possibility to all Americans of color. But his election does not signal the end of the struggle, nor does it not relieve us, America, of our ongoing responsibility to pursue the dream. And while we want to believe in a dream that is as simple and pure as a vision of children of former slave owners sitting down in fellowship with the children of former slaves, the dream is so much more complex than the realization of one man's—albeit a black man's—dream to become President. And it runs deeper than Martin's vision, offered up in front of the Lincoln Memorial, for his children and how they might someday be judged.
America, land where our fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, what will it take for you—for us—to make Martin's dream a reality? To build the Beloved Community of which he spoke? Do we even know what that is? What it looks like? Beloved Community is so much more than mere desegregation of the races and dismantling of the institutions that separate us. For Martin, it was heaven incarnate, the kingdom of God on earth. Donald Chinula, professor of religion and philosophy at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama has said that Martin's beloved community "was a society that had achieved 'optimal integration,' not just desegregation." He tells us that Martin's beloved community "has achieved a sense of human togetherness and solidarity and is vigilantly intentional about promoting human togetherness… The beloved community is a transformed society committed to justice, peace, and love."[1]
This optimal integration, America, this transformed society, is not just about the relationship between the races. It is a new way of being for all the races, for all humankind. Let us not forget that, by the time of his death, Martin had expanded his calling from working to achieve equal rights for African Americans to the task of peacemaking, bringing an end to systemic poverty, and seeking economic justice for all. He vehemently opposed our involvement, America, in the Vietnam War and on the day he died he was in Memphis to support the striking sanitation workers of that city. Martin's beloved community is, as Professor Chinula tells us, "a society at peace with itself and the world, one that is devoid of obscene pockets of poverty; a society that loves justice and righteousness."[2]
And so, my country, there are outward and visible signs that will tell us whether we have achieved this state of beloved community and, I'm sorry to report, that we are far from it. All it takes is one look at our inner cities, where these obscene pockets of poverty persist. Where unemployment exists at two and sometimes three times the national rate. Where the dropout rate at urban high schools exceeds seventy and sometimes eighty percent. Where the life expectancy of our urban poor is years less than our suburban and rural brothers and sisters. Where people die because they cannot afford to replace the battery in their smoke detectors, or their space heaters catch fire after their gas has been shut off.
I'm afraid that these statistics are but visible symptoms of a persistent, insidious disease. It is a disease that plagues us all, and it's as old as your very founding, America. The truth is that we are not ready to build the beloved community, you and I, America. We are not committed to it, as a nation or as a people. Because, you see, we are not a "we," but merely groupings of "I's," individuals seeking what is best for ourselves. We have not outgrown the rugged individualism that you, America, promoted through your founding and your infancy. Our capitalist systems promote a Darwinian "survival of the fittest" mentality when it comes to financial security and success, attitudes that we have seen come home to roost in the recent collapse of the housing and investment markets. America, it may be a hard truth to hear, but the truth is that you value more highly the principle of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps than you do the commitment to put boots on the feet of the men and women and children who are bootless. Beloved community escapes you, it escapes us, because we are not, at heart, communitarians, people who value those around us as highly as we value ourselves.
Listen to the words that Martin wrote from his jail cell in Birmingham in 1963, and tell me, America, that these are the values you treasure above all others, the beliefs you hold dear: "Injustice anywhere," Martin wrote, "is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly." Another man arrested and killed for his beliefs nearly 2,000 years ago said it a little differently, but he meant the same thing: "What you do to the least of my brothers and sisters, you do unto me." Like Jesus before him, Martin saw the reality of our relatedness which lies behind the illusion of our individuality.
America, your commitment to the individual pursuit of perfection and pleasure is no longer sustainable. The bubble has burst and we can, if we but open our eyes, see that this particular emperor has no clothes. The "grab all you can get for yourselves" economy has failed you, America, just as it has failed the least of your brothers and sisters since your Founding Fathers guaranteed your privileged, educated and able-bodied citizens life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness some 230 years ago. Have you noticed that the purveyors of the Prosperity Gospel have fallen strangely silent over the past few months? Parker Palmer takes aim at the so-called mainstream churches of our nation and their failure to advocate for the establishment of beloved community in our land when he writes that "the religion of the American middle class…aims at enhancing the self-esteem of persons who have material comfort while ignoring conditions of poverty and pestilence which deprive a whole class of people of life itself, let alone feelings of self-worth." [3]:
I am sorry to say that even we liberals, members of liberal churches who proclaim a gospel of justice, equity and compassion, have been caught up in this misperception of essential reality. Theologian Paul Rasor points out the errancy of our liberal churches, saying that they tend "to protect the individual from the community, from true engagement with the other." He goes on to say that "this kind of negative freedom tends to produce a constricted sense of self. But a love-based understanding of community would extend the individual and expand the self outward toward the other."[4] The fallout from this persistent perspective of a constricted self, even of those claiming to be liberal, is that we are inhibited from engaging in vigorous social action to eradicate systemic discriminations like racism and classism. "Overturning the existing system," Professor Rasor tells us, "would be contrary to our own interests."[5] And so we dabble in causes that make us feel better about ourselves, never really investing our souls or our skin in effecting meaningful change.
America, I confess that I am as much to blame as anyone. I am a creature of my environment, conditioned by the media and the messages that have bombarded me since birth. I was raised with the expectation, even perhaps a sense of entitlement, that each generation's standard of living would exceed that of the previous. I want what I want, when I want it. Forgive me, America, for buying into your dream. But you did a heck of a sales job.
There are times, though, America, moments in history that define us, and that can define generations to come. December 7, 1941, was one, and September 11, 2001, another. But defining moments don't come only with violence and loss and tragedy. They come at times when there is an historic convergence of events. Like the inauguration of our first black President on the day after Martin Luther King Day, at a time when our economy is in crisis and our standing in the world at an all-time low. These are the times that call for bold answers to persistent, vexing questions. Like how to put all our people to work. How to provide quality education to all our children, and affordable, comprehensive health care to all our citizens. How to reverse generations of environmental degradation and literally save our planet. How to eliminate the threat of nuclear annihilation.
At times like these, America, we have the opportunity to shift our paradigms. To break with old habits and outdated ways of being. To choose a new path and to pursue new horizons. We cannot, we must not, squander this opportunity. We must not shrink back from these challenges for fear of failure, or resort to former strategies that we know to be deficient. America, I call on you to become your best self, the self that, as Martin said, cannot be itself without other selves. The "I" that does not exist except in relation to the "Thou." The transformed society of equity, compassion, and love. The Beloved Community of Martin's dream, where justice rolls down like water, and peace like an ever-flowing stream.
America, I wish you love and hope and that abiding peace that passeth all understanding.
Love, Peter
- Donald Chinula, Building King's Beloved Community, 60.
- Chinula, 62.
- Quoted by Paul Rasor in Soul Work, 107.
- Paul Rasor, from "Liberal Theology and the Challenge of Racism" in Soul Work, 109-110.
- Ibid.


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Wow. Big news for some of us. I am intrigued by the eBay/PayPal deployment of multi-factor authentication tokens. They'll be eBay branded tokens, but will be VeriSign Unified Authentication Service devices. RSA and AOL made an annoucement last year that they were doing this, but I haven't heard or seen anything about it since then. I saw a web mock up of an AOL token...basically the SecurID SD600 in a baby blue tinge with AOL branding.VRSN press release
eBay note from PayPal president
San Jose, Calif. and Mountain View, Calif, Oct. 10, 2005
eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) today announced a strategic alliance that calls for the two companies to collaborate on payment services and security initiatives for e-commerce. Under the terms of the agreements, PayPal, an eBay company, will acquire VeriSigns payment gateway business and combine it with PayPals leading merchant services platform. VeriSign will also provide eBay and PayPal with a suite of security services that includes the deployment of two-factor authentication, a security system that gives customers a one-time password or digital certificate to help protect against online identity theft.
With the acquisition of VeriSigns payment gateway, which processed more than $40 billion in total payment volume in 2004, PayPal plans to accelerate its merchant services business by expanding its customer base to tens of thousands of new small and medium-sized business customers online. The payment gateway is a real-time, scalable Internet payment platform that allows merchants to authorize, process and manage online payments. The combination of VeriSigns payments gateway with PayPals existing services will provide merchants with multiple processing choices from a single provider, including VeriSigns gateway, PayPals Website Payments Standard, Express Checkout or Website Payments Pro.


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Single Serving's Manouschka Guerrier is a savvy single girl, with an affinity for planning quick affordable meals for herself and for throwing lavish dinner parties on a tight budget. Her style of cooking is delicious, inexpensive, swift, stylish and figure-friendly. She whips it all up and manages to have a ball in the kitchen in her Louboutins and her Le Creuset. This ain't your Mama's kitchen!
She's not a classically trained chef by any means, but a cook who received lessons from her Grandmother Olga (who attended a prestigious French Culinary School in Haiti). She started a thriving private catering company "To Serve With Love." She found success by combining inspiration from her Grandmother's classics with her appreciation for international cuisine (which she developed upon her travels around the world as a former Model and Miss Hawaiian Tropic Miss Caribbean America).
Now with Single Serving… she brings her simple "super sexy single secrets" from her kitchen to yours, helping other singles serve up delicious meals whether they are eating alone, entertaining friends or looking to impress someone special.
I have to say I'm pretty blessed, I am so not a Starving Artist. Between my work as an Actor & Writer I have had some great success as a cook, a caterer & bartender. With that being said, I am beyond picky of where I go to eat. I figure if I'm going to go somewhere & pay for the food & pay for the service it's got to be ridonkulous! Or I should stay at home make something myself & suck it up & clean the dishes after. When I moved here many, many moons ago I made it my personal mission to find the best places to eat on a budget (I have a shoe fetish I prefer to spend my money on that) & with the state of the economy I really feel like my research has paid off, pardon the pun. Here are four of my top places to eat in the Land of LA for $12 & under – a tour with my tongue & wallet as your tour guides shall we say?
Noshi Sushi (best sushi) 4430 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles CA 90004 (323) 469-3458
Not only is this my NUMBER 1 sushi choice but honest to God this is my number 1 place to eat! If I were ever on death row, arrested for the crime of being a 34 year old Black girl still addicted to Hello Kitty, THIS would be my final meal hands down! I've been coming to this place since early on into moving to LA so I've had years comparing this spot to many sushi spots all over LA, especially on the infamous Sushi Row aka Ventura Blvd (how do any of those places stay open?!) In the mood to beat the crap out of someone instead of playing punch buggy? Drive down Ventura & punch someone every time you see a Sushi Restaurant. You won't go an entire block without being completely covered in welts!
Sorry, rambling! Yes it's amazing you can get an array of sushi for $3 & under but what really makes this place stand out for me is the flavor of it… it's bloody fantastic & talk about getting a bang for your buck. The rolls are the size of hockey pucks – so I swear, 3 rolls in you need for someone to rub your belly after & take a nap. I suggest their infamous spicy tuna rolls. I have been all over the world & have been to the so called "best sushi places" around & I swear no one has been able to hold a candle to Noshi's tuna roll… it's BRILLIANT! What I like about Noshi also is that they give you the freedom to create your own roll. For texture I created a squid legs cut roll with sweet eel sauce & no sesame seeds. Even people I have had try it that are terrified of squid love it.
For $12 I usually order 2 spicy tuna rolls, squid legs roll & a bottle of hot sake… YES that's 3 bones too. Other suggestions is their creamy, chewy, decadent & delicious Dynamite for $6. It's a mix of scallops,shitake mushrooms, scallions, masago (roe) in a creamy mayo based sauce broiled in the oven for this crispy au gratin-like topping served with lemon wedges… To. Die. For! You may kick your mother in the face for this one. A half order of salmon sashimi for $7 that just melts in your mouth?! And for $7.50 (although it is a half order but it is MASSIVE) try the Albacore salad.
Oh btw… it's cash only & there's a long list of rules like no babies & if sitting at the bar there's a minimum…Yeah the list is long & can rival Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi," but the service is kind-natured & it's worth abiding by all the rules.
Kassava (best lunch) 8600 W 3rd St Los Angeles, CA 90048 (310) 385-0233
Maybe I am biased picking this spot because I am Haitian, but honestly Haitian food is thee best, most underrated cuisine in the world. It's a lot like Cuban & Jamaican food with the staples being rice, beans, plantains & a protein. But Haitian food is spicier, bolder & more flavorful. If you like Cajun/Creole food you will LOVE Haitian food (well of course you should, being that Haiti is the birthplace of the Creoles). I can pretty much make everything Haitian, but alas as I said earlier I don't like doing dishes, so when I want a day off from the kitchen this is my DEFINITE go-to spot… OH & they deliver too… in a snazzy tricked out Cadillac Escalade… oh how the food Gods LOVE me!
Even though the median price of all their food is roughly around $16 what I love about them is their daily lunch specials from 11am- 3pm, M-F for get this…. $6 flippin' 95!!!! $6.95. Depending on the day, you can get Creole chicken which is chicken baked in a light tomato sauce loaded with aromatics & spicy seasoning and a heaping side of my all-time favorite red beans & rice. Aside from my grandmother's & my stepmother's, their red beans & rice is the best I have ever had! They offer a choice of sweet yellow plantains (which is a ripe fried plantain) or green plantains (which is a crispy green plantain flattened) fried & sprinkled with salt. I love both ways so much I can never pick, so I have both & the sweet sexy ladies of the kitchen Vanessa & Jessie cater to my indecisive whim. This is touted as a Caribbean spot because they also make Jamaican staples such as Jerk Chicken or Jerk Ribs (the ribs for $7.95). Both from time to time also make appearances as a lunch special. Succulent Tassot which are beef bites or their beef stew… Jamaican patties (Beef, Chicken, Seafood & Veggie) & Champagne Cola… oh dear God I'm going to call them NOW to deliver. The Haitian Pumpkin Soup makes me want to cry & can be a meal within itself.
In America it's the burger, in Italy it's pizza, for Haiti our national dish is Griot, savory pork shoulder bites boiled to make them tender, the seasoned & then fried and topped with our favorite condiment piklis (which is a shredded cabbage & habanero pickled hot salad that we like to put on EVERYTHING!) The mix of crunch, heat, tang & acidic flavor of the vinegar will bring a tear to your eye & not just because of the heat hidden in what you would assume was an innocent slaw but how damn good it is! The fried chicken will make the Colonel rise from the dead & my personal favorites Oxtail stew & Crispy goat are truly what dreams are made of.
Make sure to grab one of the juices & shakes, they are so authentically Caribbean. They are also available for catering your next event. So if I'm not available to cater for you definitely spread the Haitian love & get all the praise for enlightening your guests to such flavorful food & hire them.
Blue Marlin (best Italian) 2121 Sawtelle Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90025(310) 445-2522
I know I have rated a Japanese spot as best Italian but hear me out for a second. This little gem hidden in a neighborhood in Sawtelle Village I am branding the "Little Tokyo of West LA" has jacked the crown from my favorite Italian spot Amalfi. It's a fusion spot that melds the best elements of Japanese, Italian & French cuisines. The portions are massive & I swear it doesn't matter what you order – everything on the menu is divine… a party in your mouth every time. My favorites are the Uni spaghetti & the uni Risotto. Now for years I thought I hated Uni (urchin). After having it here I can kick myself for the years I have missed out not ordering it.
Last week I went to Noshi & I ordered the uni. It was good, I won't lie, but the Uni at Blue Marlin is something truly special, and when mixed with their cream sauce in the spaghetti you will have many moments oohing & aahing with your eyes closed (note - if you're the type that fakes the big O, I suggest not to come here with the person you faked it with, they will KNOW instantly you were faking it… I'm just sayin'). These are over the $12 (about $13 or $14) but worth chucking the extra pennies for. The carbonara & bolognese are incredible for under $10. I like to order extra crispy bacon of $2 and they have an array of extras you can add to your meal.
The chicken cutlet with spaghetti in an arrabiatte sauce is so crispy, creamy & dreamy & HELLO comes in a cute Le Creuset pot (another obsession of mine I prefer to scrounge my few measly dollars to invest in ) – that's how massive the portions are for one person.
Everything either came in a 2 qt cast iron french oven or a cute paella pan. Speaking of French the toasty, tangy & soft inside hot French bread is thee best French bread I have ever had & I go through about three loaves just mopping up their fantabulous sauces. There are heaps of pasta dishes for under $12 & I also suggest if going for their wonderful Japanese curry opt for the spaghetti instead of rice… oh my! If you don't want to take my word for it how fantastic the pasta is PLEASE try their Omu-rice. It's a dish I have never heard of until I've gone there. It's fried rice, wrapped with an omelet on top & you can top it with anything from a pork or chicken cutlet to shrimp or beef or my favorite Uni… this is definitely a sensory experience you MUST have!
El Cochinito (best Cuban) 3508 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90026(323) 668-0737
Now I am from Miami so this too can be considered as biased but good food is damn good food no matter WHERE you are from! When LA people talk about Cuban food, often mentioned is Versailles. Yeah that place is great for amateurs of flavor, but if you want real down home smack-everyone-in-the-room food, that is filling, delicious & by the good-grace-of-the-ghost-of-Desi -Arnaz cheap, I suggest heading over to El Cohinito in Silverlake. Hands down this is my second favorite Cuban spot EVER! It blows away plenty of places I have had in Miami even. It's second to my fave La Carreta in my old hood & just narrowly, beating La Caridad, a Chinese/Cuban spot I ALWAYS go to when I hit NYC. The reason it beats La Caridad is because I usually stay in Flatbush, Brooklyn, & La Caridad is in the Upper West Side in Manhattan & I loathe subways & the chances of getting a cab ride back from Manhattan to Flatbush are as good as Megan Fox winning an Oscar! I've had cabs refuse to take me back at 4am in front of 1 OAK & I missed my flight… that's just RUDE!
The roast pork with moros & cristianos (mixed black beans & rice) & yucca in a tangy garlic sauce called mojo is just so incredible. Please, I repeat please always ask for a side of mojo sauce as soon as the bread comes out & dip errythang in that & I mean errythang – take some home even & spread that sweet, sweet garlic love & rub it all over your meat… yes, I use it to marinate my meat… oh what did you think I meant? TERRIBLE! The pork is spiced brilliantly & cooked perfectly. The layers of crispy, tender & juicy perfectly proportional marbled meat is just *swoon* – where are the friggin words I want to describe this?!?!? Listen, if you LOVE pork belly but are sick of dishing out the $20+ for it & it only comes on top of a frisee salad, this is definitely the place to get your porktastic fix! EVERYTHING I mean EVERYTHING on their menu is mind-blowingly good! Another favorite is the medianoche, Cuba's national sandwich made with the decadent roast pork, topped with Swiss cheese, ham & mustard in between glorious soft Cuban bread toasted in a flat Cuban press, like a panini press sans the grill marks.
Order TWO of these, you hear me? Eat one there & take one to go so the next time you're piss drunk & come back home there is no better meal to have. Unlike Miami when you can get Cuban food 24/7 especially this amazing sandwich… oh MAN you will be on the floor slop-PY making sweet, sweet love to this sandwich, rivaling David Hasselhoff with that gross Jack in the Crack burger! The Cuban style fried rice is KILLER as well as the bistec de palomilla (flat steak) & the garlic chicken (for $15.95 as a takeout special you can get a whole roasted garlic chicken, a large order of rice & beans & plantains…). QUE RICO!
Definitely walk into your house screaming "Lucy I'm Hoooooome" as you proudly wave the bag over your head. Sometimes on Wednesdays or Thursdays they make red bean soup you can pour that over your rice instead of the black beans, so be sure to ask for it. You can also substitute their white rice & have the yellow saffron rice with your beans. Another great tip, every winter for $14 I buy two huge orders of their chicken soup & freeze it just in case I may become too sick to make my own. Whole pieces of chicken bone & all, noodles & veggies mixed with fresh lime juice will DDT the H1N1 for sure. Don't believe me? How many Cubans have died from the swine flu? I'll wait. I discovered this place around the same time I discovered Noshi so I have been coming here for EONS & it always makes me feel good. Treat yourself & someone you love to one of the best flavor experiences you may ever have in your entire life.


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By John Whitesides
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney launch a two-month sprint to the November 6 election on Friday, hours after Obama closed the Democratic convention with an urgent plea for more time and patience to finish his economic agenda.
Obama's high-stakes nationally televised acceptance speech for a second term capped two weeks of back-to-back nominating conventions for Obama and Romney.
The address opened the last phase of a White House battle that polls show is essentially deadlocked amid deep voter concerns about the economy, which the president argued he had put on the road to recovery even though growth remained lackluster.
Both candidates will hit the campaign trail on Friday hours as the U.S. Labor Department releases its jobless report for August, a crucial economic indicator that both camps are watching anxiously.
With unemployment remaining at a stubbornly high 8.3 percent nationally, even a slight shift could strengthen the economic arguments for either Romney or Obama during a campaign dominated by the debate about job creation.
A rise in unemployment would boost Romney, the former head of a private equity firm who has made his business experience the centerpiece of his campaign. He argues he is uniquely qualified to create job growth and says Obama is not up to the job.
But a dip would bolster Obama's case that job growth is moving in the right direction, even if it has taken longer than expected to turn the economy around.
Private employers added 201,000 jobs in the month of August while jobless benefits fell last week in a potential sign of a slightly improving jobless rate.
"Despite the frenzy of the conventions, Friday's jobs numbers should not result in great political shifts despite great political scrutiny," Republican strategist Tony Fratto said in a note to clients.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden head on Friday to the toss-up states of Iowa and New Hampshire for joint campaign events. Romney also will head to those two states, which could be critical to piecing together the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
They are among eight to 10 battleground states that are likely to decide the election, a list that also includes Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Colorado, Nevada and Wisconsin.
Those states have been flooded by tens of millions of dollars in television advertisements by the campaigns, and hundreds of millions more from outside groups allied with both candidates.
The Romney camp announced that it would release 15 new television ads on the economy, called "A Better Future," in eight states on Friday - Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.
Polls show the economy is the top issue for voters, and Obama addressed their anxieties head on in his acceptance speech on Thursday.
"You elected me to tell you the truth, and the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades," he said.
"But know this, America: Our problems can be solved. Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place."
Republicans were unimpressed.
"Americans will hold President Obama accountable for his record - they know they're not better off and that it's time to change direction," Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades said in a statement.
The Obama speech, moved indoors to a 20,000-seat basketball arena after threats of severe weather canceled plans to hold it in a 74,000-seat football stadium, in many ways failed to capture the energy and excitement of his 2008 nomination in Denver.
But Democrats said they were pleased with the three-day convention, which also featured energetic speeches by first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton that galvanized the crowd and sent Democrats home with a renewed energy for the fall campaign.
"That was inspiring. I'm more motivated than I've ever been," Azziem Underwood, a delegate from Renton, Washington, said after Obama left the stage.
With the conventions out of the way - Republicans met last week in Tampa, Florida - the next big event on the political calendar is the first of three presidential debates on October 3 in Denver.
Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential contender Paul Ryan also will meet in one debate on October 11 in Danville, Kentucky.
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January 24, 2011 — Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) on Monday announced legislation that would prohibit abortion after 20 weeks of gestation in Washington, D.C., The Hill's "Healthwatch" reports (Pecquet, "Healthwatch," The Hill, 1/24). The bill -- called the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act -- is based on model legislation from the National Right to Life Committee, which claims that fetuses can feel pain around 20 weeks. State legislatures in Alabama, Idaho, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas have approved similar legislation.
The legislation would allow abortion after 20 weeks only to save a woman "whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, but not including psychological or emotional conditions or any claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage in conduct which she intends to result in her death."
The bill is attracting opposition from advocates for D.C. budget autonomy. Ilir Zherka, executive director of D.C. Vote, said that although his organization does not take a position on abortion rights, it does "have a very strong position on who gets to decide that question [in the district], and it's D.C. residents."
In a statement issued on Friday, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) pledged opposition to the bill. "We do not intend to succumb to the insatiable Republican obsession with interfering with the rights of women in our city," Norton said (DeBonis, "District of DeBonis," Washington Post, 1/20).
Franks released the bill in conjunction with an annual antiabortion-rights event in D.C. that marks the anniversary of Roe v. Wade ("Healthwatch," The Hill, 1/24). House Speaker John Boehner and several other members of Congress spoke at the event (Nuckols, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 1/23).
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Franks said he hopes the bill will draw attention to abortion-related issues and President Obama's record going into the presidential election. According to "Healthwatch," polls show voters do not view abortion as a major issue in the election.
A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that respondents did not rank abortion among their top eight issues when asked an open-ended question about what matters most to them. Similarly, a CBS/New York Times poll found that respondents ranked abortion last among five issues that matter to them in the presidential election, with 3% choosing that option. The majority -- 56% -- said the economy is the most important issue ("Healthwatch," The Hill, 1/24).
NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan said in a statement, "Anti-choice politicians and their allies promised to focus on creating jobs, yet they are attacking a woman's right to choose at near-record levels." She added, "This extreme agenda is out of touch with our country's values and priorities" (AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 1/23).


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For the first time since Tuukka Rask led the Providence Bruins to the Eastern Conference finals in 2009, the P-Bruins are heading to the postseason after they topped Albany, 4-1, Friday night.
The P-Bruins are 42-21-0-5 on the season and sit atop the Eastern Conference.
In the win over Albany, the Jarome Iginla non-trade continued to pay off. Alexander Khokhlachev scored his first two professional goals. Combine Khokhlachev's impact with the solid play Boston is getting out of Matt Bartkowski and you wonder if someday Bruins general manager Peter Chiraelli will look like a genius for getting hoodwinked.
Niklas Svedberg made 18 saves in goal. He's now 33-8-2 on the season and he's won eight of his last nine decisions.
Ryan Spooner is leading the P-Bruins in scoring with 49 points (13 goals) in 52 games so far this season.
There are eight games left in Providence's regular season schedule before the playoffs start.