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MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. middle distance runner Treniere Moser is dropping out of the world championships with a strained hamstring.
Moser, who won the 1,500 meters at the nationals in June, picked up the injury at a Diamond League event in Monaco. She said she had hoped it would heal in time, but "it became clear just this week that the injury had not progressed enough to be able to perform as I, my coach and Team USA would expect. I had to make the difficult decision to scratch from the team."
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I have a generally happy, healthy 6 week old who has gained a ton of weight (6 lb 12 oz at birth to 10 lb 9 oz at 1 month), probably partly thanks to oversupply. That has caused its share of issues but what I've been dealing with today and on other recent occasions doesn't seem to be related.
I've been capping my daughter's time between feedings at 2 hours during the day, to help with the oversupply and possible reflux. This was the pediatricians recommendation, and as soon as I implemented it last week (as opposed to going on demand, constantly watching for hunger cues in my baby, who very often confuses me in that regard!) we had several days of the most blissfully smooth, regular feedings. Today, though, we had a complete regression to this horribly frustrating pattern: baby is sleeping soundly, I notice it's been 3+ hours since her last feeding (which today happened to be a very big/long one for her, hence my decision to let her sleep), I start trying to wake her. She's not hard to rouse generally, but as soon as I get her latched, even if she was rooting and looking very alert and panting---her main hunger cues as far as I can tell--she falls back asleep and is impossible to wake up, except by putting her back down and walking away. Within two minutes she will be screaming in protest. I go over and repeat the same process of latching, watching her suck a couple of times, and falling asleep. This even happens when I've just had a letdown and milk is actively spraying out into her mouth. I also do massage/ breast compressions in desperation at these times. Nothing works. I would be happy at this point to let her keep sleeping, but then things suddenly turn much worse: she reaches the point where it infuriates her if she latches and there isn't immediately something coming out. (I recognize this is just my interpretation but I can't think of any other explanation.) She gets hysterical and is only calmed by being put on my chest. Then when she starts bobbing and rooting again, or after a few calm minutes I'll start to turn her back into position. Immediately she starts crying again, as if remembering the frustration.
My only semi-successful method of trying to break this pattern is "teasing" her with milk dripping from a bottle down into the corner of her mouth while latched, until letdown happens and she's happy, but assuming I can even get her latched it is quite difficult to do alone. Today I had to resort to just bottle feeding her a couple ounces of milk from the freezer and pumping, then going back to trying to BF after a short nap. That cycle repeated from about 2 to 7. It seems to be happening again right now---I'm letting her sleep, but she seemed hungry about an hour ago, I put her on, she fell asleep, I gave her a bath, same thing, and then, just like that, she was too mad to wait and teasing her with the bottle didn't work. I'm dreading when she wakes up now.
I can't imagine this is normal because how could anyone with more than one child function? How could anyone function with this as the norm, period? Am I inadvertently causing this behavior by doing/not doing something? Is there any way to discourage it? Thanks so much for any tips.
(I recognize many people on these forums have serious, much more stressful problems, and I feel guilty even asking about what is essentially an inconvenience, but it has almost put me over the edge not knowing all day WHAT my baby wants/needs, and having to rely on a bottle to get us through the day.)

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The Tattooed Girl : The fascinating stories behind what have been rightly called the "hottest books on the planet": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Through insightful commentary and revealing interviews, you will enter the unique world of Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist---and of Stieg Larsson himself---discovering the fascinating real-life experiences and incidents involving Swedish politics, violence against women, and neo-Nazis that are at the heart of Larsson's work.John-Henri Holmberg, a Swedish author and close friend of Larsson for more than three decades, provides a unique insider's look into the secrets of the author's imaginative universe, his life, and his ideas for future books---including the mysterious "fourth book" in the series, which Larsson had started but not finished at the time of his death.Included within are answers to compelling questions on every Larsson fan's mind: · What makes the Lisbeth Salander character so unique and memorable? Why have so many people from all backgrounds and with all kinds of tastes found The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so riveting?· What are the speculations---and what is the truth---about Stieg Larsson's tragic death at age fifty, just before the publication of his novels, and the bitter battle over his legacy?· What changes were made in the plots and translations of the novels after Larsson's death---and why?· How did Larsson's early interest in science fiction and American and British crime writers feed into his creation of the Millennium trilogy? · What were Larsson's ideas for the fourth book, and are there any clues to the plots he imagined for his ten-book series? Will we meet Lisbeth's twin sister, Camilla, or any of her other seven siblings that Zalachenko tells her she has? · Does Lisbeth Salander give feminism a new definition? · What will happen in the contentious battle between Stieg Larsson's life partner, Eva Gabrielsson, and his father and brother over the future of the books, as well as the billion dollars at stake in his legacy?· Who are the emerging Swedish crime writers we should pay attention to now?· And much, much more!
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The Boston Architectural College is pleased to celebrate Leslie-jon Vickory an Instructor in the Professional & Continuing Education Kitchen and Bath Design Certificate Program, currently teaching construction applications. Boston Magazine has named Leslie-jon as Best of Boston 2011: Kitchen Design. "My heartfelt thanks to Boston Magazine for naming me in their issue of "Best of Boston 2011" for Kitchen Design! I have worked with so many talented people over the years--builders, architects, tradesmen and product specialists--every day I learn something new. And, as always, the enthusiasm and faith of my clients continues to inspire my love of design and dedication to the craft. Indeed, I am very fortunate!" says Vickory.
Over the past two years, her work and studies have focused on Classical Architecture and European product and furniture design. Leslie-jon traveled to France to meet with the designers and craftsmen of furniture, draperies, custom doors and windows, and custom millwork, culminating in the installation of finishes and custom designed and crafted furnishings from Paris and the Franche-Comté region of France for the interiors of a new home in Virginia. In Fall 2011, Leslie-jon will introduce a new course, A Place for Everything: Cabinetry Design Throughout the Home Studio, which will teach students how to combine creative, beautiful design solutions with functional needs.


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Ever wondered how much fun a banjo obsessed vegetarian piranha would be? No, well not surprising really, but the answer is loads!
Banjo Piranha is an addictive physics arcade game that puts the player in control of Banjo, the vegetarian piranha with a fondness for, well, banjos.
Players swim around fun and progressively more difficult stages - collecting as many banjos as they can, to score as highly as possible. By diving deep and jumping into the air, players can attempt to skilfully land on a desired banjo, or simply crash into things an knock them into the water for later collection.
While on this epic banjo hunt, players also have to keep an eye out for fruit and vegetables. As Banjo is a vegetarian, collecting these will score more points, and activate progress to the next stage.
But they shouldn't leave it too long before munching on the food! There are other piranhas chasing them, and they will get hungrier and hungrier and faster and faster. Avoiding them is essential, either by slick manoeuvres or distracting them with meat, because if Banjo gets eaten it's game over.
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And You Thought Grand Theft Auto Was Bad
Should the United States ban a Japanese "rape simulator" game?
For a brief window in the mid-2000s, video games became politicians' favorite piñata. Joe Lieberman and Ted Kennedy spoke out against 2004's JFK Reloaded, a game that let you re-enact the Kennedy assassination. The "Hot Coffee" modification to Grand Theft Auto—which allowed players to (poorly) simulate intercourse with in-game girlfriends—left Lieberman and Hillary Clinton in a huff in 2005. That same year, the Illinois Legislature (among many others) banned the sale of violent games to minors, with then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich sending a message to "the parents of Illinois" pointing out that "98 percent of the games considered suitable by the industry for teenagers contain graphic violence."
The last couple of years haven't been as fruitful for video game scolds. Jack Thompson, the longtime face of the anti-game-violence movement, was recently banned from practicing law in Florida. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors was unconstitutional. There is a Wii in the White House. With America's pro-gaming forces gathering strength, crusading politicians must now journey beyond our shores to find games to rail against. Enter New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has joined with the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault in calling for a stateside ban of a Japanese "rape simulator" game called RapeLay.
Quinn is half-right about RapeLay. While the council speaker is right to say that the Japanese title is deeply disturbing, talk of a ban is just grandstanding—the game has already been barred from Amazon and eBay, and it isn't available in any brick-and-mortar stores in the United States. Like every other illicit entity in the universe, though, RapeLay is available online. Thanks to an elaborate network of software pirates, persistent copy-protection hackers, and devoted fan translators, a free, fully functioning English-language version of the game turns up after 30 seconds of Googling. In fan forums, the feedback on RapeLay is as creepy as the game's premise—"hours of fun," one user posted.
After downloading and playing the game myself, I would have to disagree with that review—a more accurate assessment might be "hours of getting depressed about the fate of humankind." The game begins with a man standing on a subway platform, stalking a girl in a blue sundress. On the platform, you can click "prayer" to summon a wind that lifts her skirt. She blushes. Once she's on the train, the assault begins. Inside the subway car, you can use the mouse to grope your victim as you stand in a crowd of mute, translucent commuters. From here, your character corners his victim—in a station bathroom, or in a park with the help of male friends—and a series of interactive rape scenes begins.
Early on, RapeLay operates like a visual novel—the exposition comes via text that scrolls over a series of static images, explaining your character's plan to enslave three women one by one, and his eerie delight in the premeditation. Although the interactive assaults are difficult to endure if you have a conscience, the game's text actually provides the most unsettling material. RapeLay relies on the horrendous, wildly sexist fantasy that rape victims enjoy being attacked. After the exposition, the game essentially becomes a simulator of consensual intercourse. There's kissing. The women orgasm.
It's an old cliché that the more repressed a society, the more extreme its pornography—but more upsetting than RapeLay is the social environment that birthed it. The premise here is that a wealthy man is out for revenge against the schoolgirl who had him jailed as a chikan, or subway pervert. The epidemic of chikan is an enormous problem in Japan, particularly in major cities, where trains are so crowded that it's easy for predators to conceal their crimes. In Declan Hayes' 2005 book, The Japanese Disease, the author describes a community of salarymen who organize online "groping associations" and subscribe to publications that suggest ideal train lines and timetables for attacks.
In an oft-cited 2004 survey, 64 percent of Tokyo women reported that they'd been groped on a train. While Japanese women are frequently too ashamed to report attackers, the country's legal system does boast a high conviction rate, so the chikan who are charged generally do jail time. Male commuters fear being accused by mistake; a 2007 movie called I Just Didn't Do It, based on a true story, follows the legal battle of an innocent man accused of groping. * Though there's no question of the groper's guilt in the game, this social conflict is RapeLay's backdrop.
Although many violent Japanese sex games feature happy endings in which formerly victimized women end up as fulfilled, adoring wives, RapeLay allows only for dark outcomes. The first possible conclusion has the original subway victim stabbing you to death during sex. There's also the possibility that you can impregnate one of the victims. If the player doesn't force her to have an abortion, the game's protagonist, fittingly, throws himself under a train.
While the moral outrage from the New York City Council and Web sites like Jezebel and Shakesville is obviously well-placed, there's little hope that legislation or activism can stem the perversion. Not only is RapeLay rooted in a social illness that's embedded in Japanese society, it's just one game in a niche industry that's more closely related to the porn business than to the video game world.
Risquè PC games, or eroge, are big business in Japan, and legions of Japanese software-development houses are devoted to churning them out. They're usually sold alongside glossy comics, figurines, and animated smut in shops that cater to a common fetish for animated women; they don't share shelf space with Super Mario and Halo. Eroge enjoys a broad, if underground, following in Japan, and titles with violent subtexts are actually in the minority. More common are gauzy high-school dating stories, standard soap-opera melodrama that prioritizes narrative, and plenty of oddball pap starring cat girls and alien maids.
The Japanese government has never placed restrictions on eroge themes, though they are subject to censorship laws. The absurd result: games in which violent sex scenes feature genitalia that's tastefully obscured. When resourceful software pirates funnel eroge to Western audiences, they can implement hacks that remove the mosaics—which means the version of RapeLay that I saw is actually more graphic than the Japanese intended. Nevertheless, RapeLay can actually be called tame compared with its more extreme peers. It's almost insultingly nonviolent for a game ostensibly about a brutal act. The idea of a "rape simulator" is repellent—what's worse is that the game trivializes the reality of rape.
Considering the impossibility of policing the Internet, as well as the availability of English RapeLay translations and forums for years before any politician caught wind of the game, it's unrealistic to think that the game could be banished from America. Very few Japanese developers make an effort to sell eroge to the West, and those that do, like Peach Princess and G-Collections, make content modifications to suit foreign norms and laws. (For example, all underage characters' ages get rounded up to 18, no matter how young the character looks.) These Westernized versions are sold in the United States via import sites like J-List and Play-Asia. Neither company sells RapeLay, but they do offer the popular eroge Yume Miru Kusuri. That game, while more edgy than it is violent, does focus on sex-crazed, underage-looking high schoolers with drug problems and suicide fetishes. RapeLay is appalling, but titles like Yume Miru Kusuri—sold in America after being unconvincingly modified so the protagonists are "18," making it tough to peg the games as outright illegal—would make far more constructive targets for political outrage.
Correction, March 12, 2009: This article originally mischaracterized the 2007 Japanese movie I Just Didn't Do It. While it's based on a true story, the film is not a documentary. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Construction begins on new Kingdom Hall for Jehovah's Witness congregation in ManchesterBy BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 11. 2014 8:36PM
MANCHESTER — A new Kingdom Hall for the local Jehovah's Witness congregation will soon rise on Candia Road, built entirely by volunteers.
"We have brothers and sisters who are very skilled and are able to give their tie and resources to get it done," said Doris Ammann of Manchester, one of the local members helping the construction effort.
The membership outgrew the Manchester Kingdom Hall that stood on South Mammouth Road for a quarter century. It was sold two years ago to the Church of the Redeemer, a Presbyterian congregation.
Work began at the new location this past week with site preparation work. Heavy equipment was used to remove debris, dig the foundation and set utility trenches on the site. Some volunteers who own construction companies pulled heavy equipment off their commercial jobs and trucked it to Manchester.
Jehovah's Witness members from Vermont and New Hampshire work as volunteers through a regional building committee. Other construction is planned during the construction season, including a hall in Lancaster in October. A Kingdom Hall in Merrimack was the scene of another volunteer project last year.
Glenn Partridge, one of the organizers of the work in Manchester, said the number of volunteers on the site will peak in June after the preliminary work is finished. Hundreds of members are expected to turn out to perform the manual labor that goes with getting the structure ready.
"Our main work is preaching the Bible," Patridge said. "Once we get the building up, we can get back to what we do."
Volunteers commit for days at a time. Some stay in campers they drive to the community where a new hall is being built; others stay with host families in the community.
The Manchester Planning Board approved the one-story, 5,000-square foot-building several weeks ago.
Representatives promised that the new structure would be used only for religious-oriented activities — worship, bible study, and occasional funerals and weddings.
In its official application, members said they do not "conduct dinners, bake sales, rummage sales, concerts or Bingo games," and don't use the building for such secular purposes as day-care or food pantries.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police say a pair of eyeballs found in a medical box in a Kansas City gas station's trash bin aren't human.
Police spokesman Steve Young said Thursday that the police lab examined the eyeballs and determined they likely came from a pig.
Young says a worker at a Conoco gas station in northern Kanas City called police after finding the cardboard box late Wednesday. The box was labeled, "Keep refrigerated."
Surveillance video shows two men in a blue Toyota leaving the package on the trash bin.
Young says police aren't investigating further because no crime appears to have been committed. Earlier, police had said that no eye banks or hospitals in the area were awaiting delivery of any eyeballs.


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Watch Miley Cyrus in Official Trailers for 'LOL'
Miley Cyrus plays a hard-partying teen in 'LOL' alongside Demi Moore. While we've seen bits and pieces, the official trailers hit the Internet last night (April 10), revealing more plot points than before.
The first clip opens with Cyrus, as Lola, going back to school, kissing her boyfriend and taking photos with pals. In her voice over, Cyrus says, "Every year, it's weird going back to school, but here we are, just going with the flow, trying to love and laugh out loud."
Turns out, that cute boyfriend of hers cheated, and it sends Lola — known as "Lol" — into a tailspin. She tries to fight her mom, played by Demi Moore, for treating her like a child and scolding her over grades. She also fights her own feelings for her cute male BFF, who also happens to be buddies with her ex. Awkward!
The video ends with her handsome love interest serenading her at a rock concert.
The second trailer has a lot of similar footage to the first, but approaches a more comedic side than the romantic drama the first one portrayed. More party scenes and a whirlwind trip to Paris are featured in the second trailer, as well as a funny locker room vignette.
They're both very Miley and very cute!
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How To : Visually Record Ideas Using an iPad
Visual recording is similar to audio recording: they both use the same concept that is : recording. One uses voice and the other uses visual cues like diagrams, charts, lines, arrows...etc. Think about visual recording as visual mind mapping.
This is Visual Recording and NOT (in this case) Visual Facilitation
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Eddy Punch Clock wrote:I'm waiting for RD to chime in before I'll form my own opinion.
Ya well aren't we all...
My opinion is that we desperately needed an actual NHL center. Giving up the 2nd is quite a price but considering the market...Gillis didn't get fleeced. I mean 2x2nds for Murray? WTF was Shero thinking????
KC is likely never going to play a significant role in the NHL.


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Greenwood delivers in overtime
UNM 77, Indiana State 68
Greenwood delivers in overtime
UNM 77, Indiana State 68
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. —
University of New Mexico guard Hugh Greenwood saved his best for last, scoring eight of his 14 points in overtime to guide the Lobos to a 77-68 victory over Indiana State.
Kendall Williams poured in a career-high 24 points in 43 minutes of work. Senior Chad Adams chipped in a career-high 12 points and 10 rebounds.
UNM lead by as much as 19 points before the Sycamores rallied back to force overtime tied at 64.
The Lobos shot just 38.6 percent from the field, but another solid performance from the free-throw line carried the team, shooting 82.4 percent hitting 28-34.
UNM (8-0) is off to its best start since the 2009-2010 season, when the Lobos reeled off 12 in a row.
Steve Alford and company will be back at the Pit to host USC on Dec. 5.


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3-Cheese Tomato Tart & More: Top 10 Recipes of July 2011
Our readers' favorite recipes in July included this three cheese tomato tart, and a breakfast banana split, as well as Lucky Charms ice cream sandwiches!
• 1 Three Cheese Tomato Tart
• 2 Breakfast Banana Split
• 3 Lucky Charms Ice Cream Sandwiches
• 4 Tomato, Broccoli and Mozzarella Pasta Casserole
• 5 Italian Macaroni Salad
• 6 Summer Squash with Baked Eggs
• 7 Iced Green Tea Elixir with Ginger and Lemon
• 8 Colorful Lentil Salad with Walnuts and Herbs
• 9 Peanut Butter and Jelly Icebox Cookies
• 10 Black Bean And Heirloom Tomato Quinoa With Lemon Dressing
Welcome to The Kitchn's Best of 2011 roundup! From December 19 through January 1 we are rounding up some of our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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CARSON, Calif. – The LA Galaxy's trade of Mike Magee for Robbie Rogers is one of the hottest topics for conversations heading into 2014, but LA head coach and general manager Bruce Arena insists that there are no regrets with the deal.
After being dealt to the Chicago Fire on May 25 in exchange for the rights to Rogers, Magee enjoyed an MVP-type season by tallying 15 goals and four assists as Chicago barely missed out on a postseason berth. Meanwhile, Rogers dealt with a series of injuries that limited him to just 16 appearances in all competitions.
With Rogers expected to be a major part of the Galaxy in 2014, Arena insists there was no second guessing on anything going forward.
"Who knows, we scored more goals than last year and Mike Magee's team didn't make the playoffs," said Arena. "I'd rather make the playoffs.
"No regrets on anything, you move forward," Arena later added. "There are a lot of reasons for that trade that you can [see when you] start ordering my book. They will be in my book."
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This Week In Island History
Compiled by Sue Maden
Week of September 22
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Journal, Sept. 22, 1911 The double service of the ferries was discontinued Wednesday, the boats going on an hourly schedule. The Western Union and Postal Telegraph offices have closed for the season. [A runaway horse] caused some excitement by straying on the property of Mr. F.R. Hull and falling down an unused well. The animal was pulled out without injury but the well will need a new covering to make it safe.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 21, 1936 It was voted [at the Town Council meeting] that the communication from Daniel A. Newhall, requesting the loan of the fire hose reel, which he will purchase, as additional fire protection to his property, the "Round House," at the Dumplings, was granted. From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 22, 1936 Mr. [Peyton R.] Hazard read a paper [at the Jamestown Historical Society meeting] on "Fifty years ago in Jamestown." He spoke of the sailing and fishing vessels in the harbor in those days, the summer families on the Dumplings, and the summer sports. From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 24, 1936 The new tuition rate for Jamestown students at Rogers was announced as $133.02, which is $7.64 less than last year, and somewhat under the $135 rate set two years ago. The high school enrollment of pupils from Jamestown totals 88. 50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 20, 1961 Jamestown has taken precautions against Hurricane Es-
ther should it strike this area. The family at Beavertail Light, which includes seven children, will leave before dark tonight as the Navy placed the area on Condition 2, requiring such action. From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 21, 1961 The cessation of ferry service as a hurricane precaution cut Jamestown from Newport today but little damage was reported within the town. Jamestown School was closed, as were others in the state. Town Hall offices were closed excepting that of the highway department, which was ready for emergency. 25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 18, 1986 The long-stalled Bay View condominium project finally got on track Wednesday when developers filed an application for a building permit. The project has been on hold for almost a year while developers have been attempting to solicit buyers for the 35 luxury condominiums. From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 19, 1986 A drive to raise money for new lights in the Jamestown School gymnasium has not found easy sledding on the fundraising road. While working on the project since April, the Jamestown Gym Improvement Committee has barely reached half the expected cost of badly-needed lights for the gym. From the Newport Daily News, Sept. 20, 1986 The former ferryboat Newport has become "The Pride of Portland's Waterfront." The ferryboat is one of the largest floating restaurants in the United States. It can seat 800 guests. 15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Sept. 19, 1996 Jamestown so far is free of mosquitoes carrying Eastern Equine Encephalitis and no pesticides have been sprayed on the island. "A Critical Time," a 15-minute film about volunteers and mentors helping women in prison to make the transition back into society, will be screened at the Jamestown library tonight at 7:30. The film was made by Jamestown residents Robin Costello, a newscaster for ABC6 and her husband Albert Gamble, a cameraman for WJAR TV10. Jamestown students scored above the state average in every measure of academic performance in the recently released 1995 statewide school district profiles and student performance records. 10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Sept. 20, 2001 The Town Council heard representatives from the Department of Transportation Monday give a presentation to the proposed bike path the state plans to build across the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge and into Jamestown. A desire to come together, to help, and to pray has infused islanders in the days since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack that rocked New York City and Washington, D.C. The island's churches were packed to the rafters last weekend. The Jamestown Ambulance Association, who planned their well-timed Sept. 12 blood drive a few months ago, said they were "overwhelmed" by the turnout that kept the professionals busy well beyond the allotted time. (Ninety-five pints of blood were taken, more than twice the average of around 45 pints.)


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Merry Christmas and happy holidays and enjoy the snow. Snowed six inches in Minneapolis last night. Rented a great car, so I'm slipping and sliding in style.
My pick today is Dallas. I'm on a roll. After a disasterous week 15, I picked Pittsburgh to beat Carolina Thursday. NostraThomas, right?
Have fun with the white stuff.


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By Harriet McLeod
NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Boeing Co.'s South Carolina 787 Dreamliner manufacturing plant got a large tax break when the North Charleston City Council voted to slash in half the current top rate used to calculate annual fees for businesses earning $250 million or more.
The City Council approved a measure on Thursday that cuts the annual business licensing fee Boeing, the city's largest private employer, pays to the city to 0.1 percent on gross revenue from Boeing's local plant. The new rate applies to revenue that exceeds $7.5 billion a year.
For revenue between $250 million and $7.5 billion, the rate was cut to 5 percent from 10 percent.
The South Carolina plant, Boeing's second assembly facility after its main factory in Everett, Washington, currently builds 1.5 Dreamliners a month and wants to increase that to three a month by mid-2014, spokeswoman Candy Eslinger said. Boeing says the annual production rate target remains 10 a month for the combined output of both facilities. So far, the company is producing an average of 7 planes a month.
At a list price of $207 million, 36 Dreamliners a year would yield about $7.45 billion in annual revenue, but airlines typically get discounts on planes.
The tax measure "was not introduced to benefit a particular business or industry," North Charleston finance director Warren Newton said, but rather "to promote future business growth."
In April, Boeing announced plans to invest at least $1 billion to expand production in its South Carolina factory over the next eight years, creating at least 2,000 additional jobs. Boeing has more than 6,000 workers in the state.
The company has received tax breaks and incentives from the city, Charleston County and the state totaling more than $1 billion.
Boeing shares were down about 5 percent in early afternoon trade on Friday after a Dreamliner, operated by Ethiopian Airlines, caught fire and closed London's Heathrow Airport.
(Corrects to show Boeing is largest private employer in city, not state, paragraph 2)
(Reporting by Harriet McLeod; Editing by Alwyn Scott and Leslie Gevirtz)


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16 U.S. Code § 1866 - Shark feeding
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Shark feeding
Except to the extent determined by the Secretary, or under State law, as presenting no public health hazard or safety risk, or when conducted as part of a research program funded in whole or in part by appropriated funds, it is unlawful to introduce, or attempt to introduce, food or any other substance into the water to attract sharks for any purpose other than to harvest sharks within the Exclusive Economic Zone seaward of the State of Hawaii and of the Commonwealths, territories, and possessions of the United States in the Pacific Ocean Area.
(Pub. L. 94–265, title III, § 317, as added Pub. L. 109–479, title I, § 119, Jan. 12, 2007, 120 Stat. 3607.)
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Since the beginning of school this fall, the King University men's volleyball team has been volunteering at the Bristol, Tenn., YWCA. Two nights a week, members of the team have taught volleyball to young girls at the YWCA Youth Volleyball League.
The league is comprised of boys and girls from ages 4-12. Members of the King men's volleyball team have run practices on Monday and Tuesday nights for the last six weeks, and coached their teams in games on Saturday mornings. The Tornado have been helping out with the YWCA Youth Volleyball League for each of the last four years.
This is a great outreach for the men's volleyball team to be active in the Bristol community and to promote the sport of volleyball. It also serves as good learning experience for the players as they get to coach young girls and boys the skills that they have learned throughout their playing careers. It also serves as a great way for the King men's volleyball team to be integrated into the community.
"We are always happy to work with the community, especially at the YWCA," head coach Ryan Booher said. "Our team has enjoyed our time with the young boys and girls in the league, especially teaching the game of volleyball. It's always good to give back to the community that supports our team and King Athletics."
The Tornado open their 2014 season at home on January 17 and 18 when the host the King University Invitational.


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KALAMAZOO—Eleven University staff members will be honored for receiving semiannual Make a Difference awards at a reception at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in 157 Bernhard Center. The University community is invited to attend.
The winners were selected by a committee of peers from the participating employee groups of AFSCME, APA, MSEA, POA and PSSO. The recipients will each receive $300 (before taxes) and a commemorative certificate at the award reception.
Semiannual award recipients
- Joanne Beverage, English
- Don Beyer, Intercollegiate Athletics
- Deanna Bowling, Facilities Management-Landscape Services
- Bruce Carpenter, Chemistry
- Myla Edmond, College of Arts and Sciences
- Paul Hildenbrand, Haworth College of Business
- Steve Keto, Facilities Management-Landscape Services
- Nicole Millar, Student Activities and Leadership Programs
- Patrick Niemi, Theatre
- Dorilee Schieble, History
- Kevin Villadsen, Facilities Management-Maintenance Services
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The WMU Make a Difference awards program is a campuswide peer-to-peer program that recognizes University staff members for their outstanding accomplishments and daily investment of energy and creativity. Up to fifteen staff members may be selected in each of two semiannual award periods; those winners are eligible for one of four Annual Awards, with a prize of $1200 (before taxes).


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Arctic Sun
July 29, 2010 2 Comments
Sometimes even medicine has rather poetic, heart-stopping concepts – Arctic Sun is one of them. Take a patient who has flatlined – died momentarily, if you will, with a motionless heart for up to 60
minutes – and freeze him down to a temperature of 93F (34C). Make him cold as death. It is closer to science fiction than it is to medicine – but it is fast becoming a procedure which we use for patients who have suffered a cardiac arrest. Overall, it seems to improve outcomes. The goal is to slow metabolism after a cardiac arrest in order to minimize damage to the brain and. heart.
Taking care of patients on "Arctic Sun" is difficult for physicians and families. It is a waiting game, at least in the beginning. There is very little we can do for the patient during this period except care for them as best we can and hope that they make it through. And then we watch – as they rewarm, information is slowly revealed to us about how effective the cooling process was.
The concept of cooling cardiac arrest patients emerged as early as 2006 in medical news, refer to articles such as Cooling Techniques Help Save Heart Attack Patients. Stories continue to emerge about survivors who have made it through Arctic Sun. Interestingly, cardiothoracic surgeons have been using the concept of cooling patients for repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms for several years – patients are cooled, then placed on a heart lung machine, and surgery is performed. The concept is now spreading to emergency departments and coronary care units across the country. Several articles published in 2009 Critical Care Medicine discuss some of the important aspects of "therapeutic temperature management," as it is called.
It is a strange concept – to touch these patients at their coldest phase in the process is quite surprising. And to watch them go through the slow process of rewarming is equally strange – it is as if you are watching them come to life again. In any event, it provides us with still more evidence that we continue to push the boundaries of medicine – and of life and death – in this country. The name is fitting – these cooling gel pads can sometimes represent a sharp white ray of hope in an otherwise desolate land of poor outcomes.


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Last week in a post about "punitive liberalism" I offered the view that "it is possible that [Eduardo] Severin [the Facebook co-founder who renounced his citizenship] will actually pay more in taxes to the U.S. by leaving the country than if he'd stayed for a simple reason. If he'd stayed, he'd only owe taxes on his Facebook wealth if he sold his Facebook stock. If he never sold much of his stock, he'd never owe anything. If he wants cash, he could borrow against his stock; ditto for investing in some other business (as he says he wants to do). Heck, the interest might even be tax deductible if he used the borrowings for another investment.
Sure enough, CNBC has reported on the technique by which Mark Zuckerberg may never pay U.S. income taxes ever again. He can use the very technique I speculated about in my post:
When you have the net worth of Zuckerberg, you can live for a very, very long time on tax-free debt that you can use as income. Let's say that Zuckerberg needs $2 million of spending power per year and lives another 60 years. That's $120 million of spending. If he gets an interest rate of 4 percent and just rolls it over as new debt, he'll eventually accumulate around $520,919,997. Some of that interest, of course, may be deductible against other income.That might seem like a lot of debt. But for Zuckerberg—who will likely be worth around $25 billion when Facebook goes public—it's a drop in the bucket. What's more, if Facebook continues to grow, Zuckerberg's worth will grow along with his debt. His debt burden will be negligible compared to his net worth. The unimaginably rich really are different from the rest of us.
It gets worse. He could even quality for various low income assistance programs from the government. Is this a great country or what?


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There's also pics floating around of Zan and Gleek from the Superfriends. No further info is available, but it's most likely a Matty or SDCC exclusive, presumably coming with Jan. I always thought the Wonder Twins were pretty hooky, but I'm down for that pack. Add a blue skinned space monkey makes it even better.
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Pot pies are one of the most comforting things in the entire universe to eat.
Especially this particular pot pie. I'm not just saying that because I created it.
Just pulling them from the oven with their golden brown crusts, bubbly filling and mouth-watering aroma made me feel all warm and cozy inside.
Underneath the tender, flaky crust you will find chunky bites of Italian sausage, soft cubes of sweet potato and corn swimming in a sea of smoked cheddar cheese sauce. Not your traditional pot pie.
I always hear how sweet potatoes and yams are the same things but I've found that to not be true. Sweet potatoes have a thinner skin that is easy to peel and the flesh is easier to cut through than yams. More like a white potato.
Yams have a thick, unyielding skin and cutting through them is similar to cutting through a raw butternut squash. It's hard work. Even with the sharpest knife in your kitchen.
If given the choice I will always chose sweet potatoes. Not only because they're easier to work with but they cook up creamier, sweeter and just all around more delicious.
The crust uses both butter and shortening. Shortening adds a tenderness that butter alone doesn't and if you have to re-roll the scraps it won't toughen out as much. If you're against shortening you can use all butter or substitute your favorite double crust recipe. You can also use a good quality crust from the market.
I'm obsessed with smoked cheese. Especially cheddar. It has incredible flavor. I don't even know if I can go back to the regular stuff. It is best friends with every single thing in this pie, especially playing nice with the sausage and crust.
Chunky bites of Italian sausage, soft cubes of sweet potato and corn swimming in a sea of smoked cheddar cheese sauce baked over a tender, flaky crust.
- Sift flour and salt together into a medium bowl. Cut in the butter and shortening with a pastry blender or two knives used scissor fashion until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in 4–5 tablespoons of ice water until dough just holds together.
- Divide into 2 uneven balls one a little bigger for the bottom crust (if using small ramekins make the 2 balls even). Pat each into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate while you make the filling.
- Add the sausage to a large, deep-sided skillet over medium heat and cook it all the way through breaking it apart as it cooks. Drain off the grease and remove the sausage to a platter or bowl.
- Add oil to the same skillet and cook onion until tender and translucent; add garlic and saute until fragrant. Add the sausage back in along with the sweet potatoes, corn, Italian seasoning and red pepper. Gently mix to combine and remove from heat.
- In a medium saucepan melt the butter over medium-low heat, whisk in flour and cook 2 minutes. Whisk in broth then cream. Bring to a simmer and cook 2-3 minutes. Whisk in cheese and parsley.
- Carefully pour into the skillet over the sausage mixture. Stir gently to combine, return to medium-low heat and cook 5 minutes stirring often. Remove from heat.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. and set a baking sheet on the bottom rack to catch drips.
- On a floured surface roll out the pie crusts (one 10-11 inch for the bottom and one 9 inch for the top). For individual pies roll both crusts to 10 inches. Cut with a biscuit cutter or use a small bowl or plate and sharp paring knife to cut 5 - 6 rounds to fit your ramekins. You may need to combine the scraps and reroll.
- Place the bottom crust into a 9-inch deep dish pie plate, spoon in filling and cover with the top crust. Beat the egg with 1 tablespoon water and brush over top. Cut a few slits to allow steam to escape. Bake 30 - 35 minutes until golden brown and bubbly. Allow to set 5-10 minutes before slicing.
- Place 5-6 well greased ramekins on a large baking sheet. Spoon in the filling leaving 1/2 inch of room at the top. Cover with crust, brush with egg and make a slit in the middle to allow steam to escape. Bake 18-20 minutes until golden brown and bubbly.
Pie crust adapted from Saveur


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Saracens 28 Gloucester 23: Hodgson marks return by kicking hosts back into second
17:21 GMT, 2 December 2012
17:21 GMT, 2 December 2012
Fly-half Charlie Hodgson kicked 23 points as Saracens moved back into second place in the Aviva Premiership table with victory over Gloucester at Vicarage Road.
Hodgson, returning to the side after four weeks out with a fractured cheekbone, landed seven penalties and a conversion – with only one miss – to hand captain Steve Borthwick victory on his 100th appearance for the club.
But they were pushed all the way by Gloucester who competed superbly but were ultimately sunk by replacement Richard Wigglesworth's crucial second-half try for Sarries.
Kicking on: Charlie Hodgson marked his return to Saracens by scoring 23 points
Gloucester, who had two players sin-binned, replied with tries from prop Dan Murphy and flanker Akapusi Qera, with Billy Twelvetrees kicking their other 13 points.
Twelvetrees, switched from centre to fly-half with Freddie Burns on England duty as a replacement in the Twickenham triumph over New Zealand, kicked Gloucester into an early 6-0 lead with penalties in the second and seventh minutes.
Hodgson's second penalty levelled the scores at 6-6 in the 27th minute but, two minutes later, Gloucester scored the first try of the match after the former England fly-half's clearance kick was charged down.
Prop Murphy, who blocked the kick, produced a neat one-touch to control the ball with his boot and a clean pair of hands to collect it and drive over the line, with Twelvetrees converting.
But, three minutes later, Murphy became the villain when he was sin-binned by referee Sean Davey for killing the ball at a ruck.
Hodgson made partial amends for his earlier blunder by kicking the resulting penalty.
Crunched: Billy Twelvetrees of Gloucester runs into trouble
Coming together: John Smit (right) tries to power past Twelvetrees
Gloucester sent on Nick Wood as a temporary front-row replacement for Murphy but his first scrum was penalised on the halfway line and Hodgson made his fourth kick appear effortless from the halfway line to reduce the deficit to a single point four minutes before the interval.
Hodgson struck again to kick Saracens ahead three minutes into the second half after Gloucester were penalised for failing to roll away at the tackle.
But Gloucester responded with number eight Sione Kalamafoni making a surging run through the middle from the halfway line before their pack mounted a concerted series of forward drives.
They moved the ball wide before Qera crashed over in the left corner, with Twelvetrees adding the conversion from the touchline.
Saracens, stung into action, came storming back and when Kalamafoni blatantly killed the ball at a ruck he became the second visiting player to be yellow-carded.
Gloucester were forced to defend desperately as Sarries, attempting to capitalise on their second extra-man advantage, threw everything at them in a series of forward assaults.
Easily done: Richard Wigglesworth dives over the line to score a try
Gloucester somehow kept them out but they were conceding penalties and Hodgson landed his sixth in the 54th minute before suffering his first miss at the seventh attempt three minutes later as he tried to kick the home side ahead from long range.
But Saracens took the lead for the second time in the match when full-back Chris Wyles, back from international duty with the United States, split the Gloucester defence before releasing replacement scrum-half Wigglesworth who crossed in the corner for a real winger's try, converted by Hodgson.
Twelvetrees cut the gap to two points with his third penalty before Hodgson responded with his seventh.
Gloucester mounted a desperate late assault which saw Wigglesworth sin-binned but Saracens managed to soak up the pressure.


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"Hjertets melodier VII (Jeg elsker dig - dig, som jeg ej tør sige)" [Danish title] is number 1622 in the Hans Christian Andersen Center's register of Andersen's literary works, i.e. no. 122 in the category poems (the range 1501 - 2900). BFN 137.
"Hjertets melodier VII (Jeg elsker dig - dig, som jeg ej tør sige)" [Danish title] was first published 10 January 1831, cf. the bibliographic description (in Danish) in : Digterens danske Værker 1822-1875, number in bibliography: 137:
7. (Jeg elsker Dig - Dig som jeg ei tør sige) p. 117
The work was published as a part of Hjertets Melodier [Danish title]. (Number 1402. Category/genre: Cycles of poems).
Show this work in its context: all new Andersen publications from 1831.
In modern Danish on p. 161 in Johan de Mylius (editor): H.C. Andersen. Samlede digte ('Collected poems', Copenhagen, 2000).


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The Bruins' 3-6 record in non-Game 7 elimination games under Claude Julien doesn't do anything to deter the coach heading into Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals Friday night at TD Garden.
"I'm trying to make it 4-6 tonight. How's that?" said Julien after his team's morning skate.
The only distraction the Bruins might have in their pursuit of a second-round berth is an injury to Wade Redden. Julien declared the veteran defenseman out for Game 5. Matt Bartkowski, who was recalled from Providence Thursday, and Dougie Hamilton are the candidates to replace Redden.
"Well, we've got two [options]," Julien said. "One's a right shot [Hamilton] and one's a left shot and we have to decide what we want to do with our pairings here. Once we decide that we'll know who to put in. They've both been kind of told that, 'We'll let you know.' It's one of those two guys."
Redden is a left shot that usually skates next to Adam McQuaid.
The Maple Leafs will also have a change on defense. Mark Fraser is out after he took a puck to the head in Game 4. He had to have surgery and is now home resting. John-Michael Liles, a healthy scratch since Game 1, will be in for Fraser.
As usual, the two goaltenders will be front and center in this game. Tuukka Rask has compiled a .932 save percentage through four games for Boston, while James Reimer has lost three times and compiled a .914 save percentage.
"I think that when you're sitting in a situation where you're down 3-1 in games, I think he's [Reimer] not any different than any other member of our hockey club. There's more for him to give," Maple Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said. "And I think the message is consistent. We don't like to single people out and say that this guy's got to do this and this guy's got to do that. You're in a playoff series, you need your team to do it. And he's a part of our team. He's a big part of our team. And obviously goaltending gets the most praise and gets the most criticism – the last line of defense. And we could do things in front of him that could possibly help him from a stand point of not give that quality, Grade-A chance up as often. Those are things that we've talked about. That's part of the team game. If we're better in front of him, he doesn't have to be lights out goaltender. We just want goaltending that's good enough to win."
On the other side of the coin, the Bruins know they never have to sweat Rask's play because he's almost always on top of his game.
"It's great. I don't know, we've been spoiled, you know? We've had some great goaltending over the last few years and it's never really come up as an issue for our team, which is nice," Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference said. "So I guess, in a way, we are spoiled and we've come to expect big things out of them and we've had guys that have been able to shoulder pressure pretty well and make us concentrate only on our own jobs."


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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
I can't believe certain things either.
Tonight? For example? A lady who was about sixty or so came and got on the elliptical next to mine.
I try not to ever make judgements on people at the gym because, presumably, we are all there for the same reason. This woman had on more make-up than I would generally wear in a year and I have serious doubts her elliptical was even actually moving, but whatever.
I don't like to chit-chat with people at the gym really, but I'm always pleasant enough. I smiled at her as she climbed upon the machine and I suppose that gave her the invitation to let her freak flag fly. I don't know.
The television was turned to the news and the story was, not surprisingly, about Barack Obama.
We watched in silence for a while and she turned to me and said,
"I never thought I'd see the day that an N-word was in office".
No. Seriously. She said that. But she didn't say "N-word" so much as she ACTUALLY SAID THE WORD.
Now, this woman was about my mother's age and also had no business being such a bitch. Why she felt the need to share her blatant racism with me is still unknown but I figured I could hit her where she would really hurt. So I did.
So I said, "Well, since you are SO OLD I guess that's why you feel that way. Did women even have the right to vote when you were born?"
She made a huffy noise and left the room.
I hummed a little tune and enjoyed the rest of my work-out.
I love the gym sometimes.
39 comments:
- SJ said...
Oh my god Chick you are my hero! That was awesome! Enough that it made me laugh out loud (but that's something you most generally make me do anyway, so yeah, not worth much). I have no tolerance for ignorant people. I'm glad you don't either. Way to go, I'd high five you if I could!
- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:26:00 PM
- Angie said...
Just. . . wow.
Oh, yeah, and you rock.
- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:38:00 PM
- Dawn~a~Bon said...
My GOD I cannot believe she said that! But I'm LMAO at your reply.
- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:54:00 PM
- giants fan said...
oh holy hell!!! I can't believe that!!! I am so proud of you for making her feel like the idiot she is!!!
- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:46:00 PM
- notsosmallfries said...
Holy crap. She did not. Just no.
You, are awesomeness for your response. I'm so impressed with your quick thinking. I'm always so stunned when people pull crap like this that I can't come up with a coherent response.
- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:13:00 PM
- stepmomof2 said...
Wow! You rock for that!
- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:20:00 PM
Just know that one of these days she's going to open her fly trap to the wrong person.
Perhaps a person with a gun.
- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:57:00 PM
- Ammie (Used to be Sleeping Mommy) said...
I love your come-backs. I could never think of something that good to say in the moment. I'd have stood there in shock, unable to figure out what the hell to say in response.
I need to start using the gym for material on my blog. If I do, just know, I am totally copying you.
- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:56:00 PM
- Roxanne said...
Seriously. Can I hang out with you sometime? I always think of good comebacks about 3 days after the fact. You're on a roll, baby!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:26:00 AM
- Coal Miner's Granddaughter said...
Yep. It's official. I love you. :)
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:22:00 AM
- judy in ky said...
No wonder we all love you!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:32:00 AM
- judy in ky said...
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- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:32:00 AM
- Patience said...
No excuse for saying the N-Word. Ever. Period.
I'm glad you called her on that. I hope I would have done the same thing!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:35:00 AM
- Lily's Mommy said...
I love you.
Maybe you could write a book on snappy comebacks?
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:42:00 AM
- Chelle said...
i heart you.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:55:00 AM
- Jocelyn said...
Good for you and thank you!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:08:00 AM
- Tami said...
Awesome comeback!!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:34:00 AM
- Stephanie said...
That is just horrible and so out of line. Old people think they can get away with crap that the rest of us never could.
I was shopping the other day and this OLD woman pretty much badgered this cashier to give her a sale on a pair of pants that were not on sale just because they were the same brand as a pair she was buying that were on sale. And the lady did it, just to get her out of there.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:36:00 AM
- Karen - Mommy to four sweeties said...
I am so glad you had a come back for the hag!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:46:00 AM
- AndreAnna said...
I think I would have been too stunned for words to form properly. Good thing you had a quick comeback.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:22:00 AM
- I am Trish Marie said...
No. Seriously? I am glad you put her in her place.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:34:00 AM
- I am Trish Marie said...
No. Seriously? I am glad you put her in her place.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:34:00 AM
- Mrs. Scuba said...
OMG!! You are AWESOME!!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:39:00 AM
- Lynnbug said...
Perfect response. I hear crap like that all the time from people (I think because I live in Alabama). It makes my skin crawl and my eye twitch. Now I have a comeback! I WILL copy you!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:58:00 AM
- Betsey Booms said...
Oh my God, I love you.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:06:00 AM
- Amanda Daybyday said...
THAT was an awesome response! I wish I could think of stuff to say like that when in those kinda situations. Good for you!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:17:00 PM
- Scarbrough Family said...
I think those things all the time. Have the guts to say them? Not so much. Glad you did it for all of us...
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:38:00 PM
- Liz said...
Good for you. I wouldn't know what to say.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:59:00 PM
First of all, 60 isn't so old that the N word was commonly used--at least among folks I knew here on the west coast. It is reprehensible that she would think she could say that anywhere, anytime. She's just a hateful, sorry ass old bag who will die alone. And good for you to call her on it. By the way, I'm over 60 and never use my age to do something antisocial or cruel.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:03:00 PM
- NGS said...
I think I would have just stared at her like a slack-jawed yokel. I mean, really? Who says things like that OUT LOUD? I thought most racists knew that it is considered inappropriate (at the very least) to actually admit racism in a vocalized form?!
Way to actually say something!!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:04:00 PM
- zentmrs said...
Did you really??! You totally ROCK!!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:04:00 PM
- That Chick Over There said...
notmuchofacook, that was my point. Her age wasn't really the important part...she's about the age of my mother and my mother would NEVER say something like that. My point was that she was a racist.
It was pretty obvious that it would offend her if I talked about her age, because she was trying to act like SHE WASN'T that age. Not that there is anything wrong with that either, necessarily, but she needed to get told.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:12:00 PM
- Bethany said...
Oh my Lord, I love you.
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:17:00 PM
- KrustyLynn said...
Fan-stinkin-TASTIC! this is reason number 54,663,454 why we love you!!!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:10:00 PM
- Teena in Toronto said...
Ha! Nice comeback!
- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:54:00 PM
- velocibadgergirl said...
You? Are the wind beneath my wings.
- Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:27:00 AM
- Nen said...
you have more guts than i!! this post made me laugh!!
- Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:14:00 PM
- Amira said...
:0 LOL! Oh, Chick. You are quick and dead-on. That is the thing that I would have WISHED I said long after the workout.
Racism. It's just unbelievable what people say, think and do.
- Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:38:00 PM
- Rachel said...
I cannot believe anyone would have the audacity to say anything like that to a complete stranger! I wouldn't even say it to people I know, but I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinion. Racism will probably never go away, but I feel like a big step has been taken.
- Monday, January 12, 2009 1:54:00 PM


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Pert was a graduate student in her mid-twenties when she discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular bonding site for endorphins, the body's natural painkillers, which she calls our "underlying mechanism for bliss and bonding." This breakthrough presaged a sea-change in scientific understanding of human internal communication systems, pointing the way toward the information-based model that is now supplanting the long-dominant structuralist viewpoint. Ironically, she achieved her eureka moment after having been ordered by her supervisor to stop her research, which he had concluded was a dead-end street. But in this and many other instances, once inspired, Pert is not easily dissuaded.
In the years since, Candace Pert has focused her research on developing non-toxic pharmaceuticals that selectively block receptor sites for the AIDS virus. She has also pursued the "threateningly interdisciplinary" relationship between the nervous and immune systems, developing documentation of a bodywide communication system mediated by peptide molecules and their receptors, which she perceives to be the biochemical basis of emotion and the potential key to many of the most challenging diseases of our time.
In this interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood, Dr. Pert discusses the two areas of research about which she is now most passionate: the possible role of vaccines in causing autism, and her work on Peptide T, which she believes may herald a major breakthrough in AIDS treatment. She also articulates her vision for the Institute for New Medicine, which she founded in affiliation with the Georgetown University School of Medicine to fund further research on alternative paradigm medicine.
Dr. Pert was awarded her Ph.D. in pharmacology, with distinction, in 1974, from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Previously, she had completed her undergraduate studies, in biology, cum laude, in 1970, at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Pert conducted a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins from 1974-1975. After 1975, she held a variety of research positions with the National Institutes of Health, and until 1987, served as Chief of the Section on Brain Biochemistry of the Clinical Neuroscience Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She then founded and directed a private biotech laboratory. Dr. Pert currently holds a Research Professorship in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.
Dr. Pert is an internationally recognized pharmacologist who has published over 250 scientific articles on peptides and their receptors and the role of these neuropeptides in the immune system. She has an international reputation in the field of neuropeptide and receptor pharmacology, and chemical neuroanatomy. She has lectured worldwide on these and other subjects, including her theories on emotions and mind-body communication. Dr. Pert holds a number of patents for modified peptides in the treatment of psoriasis, Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, stroke and head trauma. One of these, Peptide T, is currently in a Phase II trial, in San Francisco, for the treatment of AIDS and neuroAIDS.
The Institute for New Medicine website can be accessed at www.tinm.org
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DANIEL REDWOOD: What current research interests you most?
CANDACE PERT: The cause and cure for autism. I'm most interested in that because I'm very interested in the human brain, and in this disease what's impaired are the two things that make us human: language and bonding patterns. That's what's deranged in the autistic kids.
REDWOOD: What studies on autism are most needed?
PERT: I feel that it's critical to evaluate the vaccine hypothesis as to the possible cause of the disease. It has to be a national priority to see why this disease is an epidemic right now. When we had an AIDS epidemic there was a lot of money thrown at it, appropriately, and a lot of progress was made. There's an autism epidemic right now and I'd love to get to the bottom of that.
REDWOOD: What would you say to those who argue that rather than there being an epidemic, the statistics are the result of changed definitions of autism and increased reporting of cases?
PERT: I would say that they're wrong, in a self-serving, ostrich-like, head-in-the-sand way. It's very sad. It's overwhelming both by statistics and experience. Better diagnosis might account for a 30 percent or 50 percent increase. But we're talking about 500 to 600 percent increases, and this is being catalogued not by the Centers for Disease Control but by the education departments across the country. That's compared to a baseline of ten years ago. If you compare it to a baseline of 20 years ago, the increase would be more like 1000 percent.
Also, the disease is appearing in certain forms that it never had before, such as the regressive form. It used to be that most autistics, by far, were born and not made. Now it's called regressive disorder, where they seem totally fine and then they regress when they're about a year and a half old. This is just around the time they get the vaccines. Many mothers believe that it's the vaccine.
REDWOOD: Do you believe that vaccination should be mandatory?
PERT: I'm not enough of a socio-legal expert, but I think it's very strange that we have this one form of medical treatment that hasn't really been tested carefully, and yet it's mandatory. It seems unbelievable. There's no long term testing of safety. As I understand it, the vaccine trials are just a few weeks long and do not include long term follow-up.
REDWOOD: As to where we go from here on this issue of autism, is your own focus, and should society's focus, be primarily set on determining the degree to which vaccines are responsible and thereby preventing it by changing vaccination policies? Or is your interest also in new methods of treatment?
PERT: You can't separate them. I always say that in order to cure a disease, you have to understand exactly what causes it. The cure part is easier; it's the cause part that's the hard one. So what's interesting about the vaccine hypothesis is that there is a plausible mechanism, whereby if you can document it and understand it, you will really understand the disease at the cellular and the molecular level. And that could lead to treatment.
REDWOOD: With autism, is this an issue that relates to vaccines across the board or are there certain vaccines that seem most problematic?
PERT: The one that many of the parents are talking about, and which the new data from England has implicated, is the MMR vaccine—mumps, measles, and rubella. At this point a kid needs 34 separate shots before he's five years old. The number of vaccinations has been increasing exponentially each decade.
REDWOOD: Why? What's the rationale for that?
PERT: The tragedy is that it's well-meaning. There's this feeling that diseases are caused by microbes and that they can be eliminated. There are now vaccinations (the Hepatitis-B vaccine) that are given to newborns before they leave the hospital. These problems may be from a particular vaccine, but in some cases I'm sure it can be a general inflammatory reaction, if someone is genetically predisposed. Our lab last year showed that chemokines, a class of peptides, play a role in inflammation, and they actually can regulate which neurons [nerve cells] survive and which neurons die. The key is that the brain is still developing at 18 months, and the parts that are developing are language and eye contact, the very things that become deranged in autism.
REDWOOD: What specific findings would be necessary to prove the link between vaccines and autism?
PERT: The gold standard would be a study that's actually been proposed by Dr. Marie Bristol-Powers, who is the head of autism at the National Institutes of Health. It would be a prospective study where you would have to follow many women, perhaps 100,000 women, through their pregnancies. You would keep complete vaccine records, look at reactions to the vaccines, see which children develop autism, and follow the ones that do. By some estimates, there's one in 200 births now that are turning into autistic children. So maybe statistically she wouldn't need to do quite so many.
That's the gold standard, but what Michael Ruff and I are working on (he's an immunologist, I'm a neuroscientist), using well-controlled samples of blood from autistic children and matched controls, is to determine whether there are certain antibodies against certain viruses or viral products. It might be possible to find something in the blood of children with autism and get a really good indication of what's going on. I like that because the other study would take at least three years.
REDWOOD: Is the other study actually going to happen?
PERT: That's an interesting question. I know that Dr. Bristol-Powers very much wants it to happen. I saw her in action at a meeting with the parents. She is open-minded and thinks it's necessary to look at the vaccine. The study is going to cost $70 million. But it seems like most of the health professionals have the wagons circled on this one. It's just too horrible, and they don't even want to look at it.
REDWOOD: Do other nations, in Europe and elsewhere, require a course of vaccines similar to that in the United States? Or is this unique?
PERT: I'm not an expert on this, but as far as I know nobody's got as extensive a program as we've got. In fact, one of the most controversial, but to me most interesting aspects of the evidence is that when the MMR was introduced in the United States, in the next two years there was a five-fold increase in autism. But England, for example, required more proof and kept it out for ten more years. And when it was introduced there, they had the same increase. So they had a parallel curve. Unfortunately, the whole debate about whether vaccines play a role in autism has now been framed in terms of this question about whether the English data (put together by Wakefield) is true, or whether it's a statistical fluke. Everybody's focusing on the data in the UK and whether autism actually increased before or after the vaccine. There have been many exchanges in The Lancet and in various medical journals. It's silly that the debate is focused on the UK when all you really have to do is look at the education statistics in the United States.
After the release of my book, Molecules of Emotion, I've given many lectures to education groups. Principals, superintendents, teachers. They have come to me; they're the ones who alerted me to it. People would say, "I've been teaching 30 years in the school system, and what's going on? There used to be so few Special Ed students, and now there are so many."
REDWOOD: The other area of research in which you're deeply involved relates to HIV and AIDS. Please tell us about your work.
PERT: You happen to be calling at a critical moment. Starting next week at the St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, there will, for the first time, be a small, careful trial to see if Peptide T makes the virus levels go down. Even though the drug Peptide T was invented in 1986, it's taken until now to reach this point.
REDWOOD: If there is a significant decrease in the viral levels, where does that lead?


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Steve Nash battling ex-wife in courtPosted by Inside Hoops
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Steve Nash, the Suns former point guard, said Thursday morning on the witness stand in Maricopa County Superior Court that he expects to come back to the Valley after he ends his NBA career. Nash, who now plays for the Los Angeles Lakers and leases a home in Manhattan Beach, Calif., said he intends to keep his permanent residence in Paradise Valley, where he has made recent renovations.
His residency has become an issue in a two-day "relocation trial" regarding his ex-wife and three children, and whether he would be involved in their lives. Nash's ex-wife, Alejandra Amarilla Menrath, wants Family Court Judge Thomas LeClaire to approve the relocation of their children from the Valley to Southern California.
Menrath has said she wants to move with the children to Southern California so the three kids can be closer to their father. She also has indicated the move may allow her to obtain child support from a California court…
Nash, under terms of a sealed divorce settlement, does not pay child support. He pays for the children's private education and health-care insurance through his employer, according to testimony.
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The streets of New York are always safer when Ryan is around. First he breaks up a fight and now he's rescuing damsels in distress!
Ryan Gosling — A-List celebrity and New York City hero.
British journalist Laurie Penny tweeted that the actor stepped in before she was hit by a car crossing the street.
"I literally, LITERALLY just got saved from a car by Ryan Gosling. Literally. That actually just happened," she wrote on April 3.
"I was crossing 6th avenue in a new pink wig. Not looking the right way because I am from London. Ryan Gosling grabbed me away from a taxi," she added.
This isn't the first time Ryan's proved he's the most amazing man ever. Back in August of 2011, he broke up a fight on Manhattan's Lower East Side. (Watch the video here.)
Could Ryan be anymore perfect? He's hot, talented, a good boyfriend (from what we can tell), likes babies, and he spends his off-hours saving people's lives. Clearly, he has this song playing in the background of his life.
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It's looking increasingly likely that $85 billion of automatic federal budget cuts known as a sequester will come to pass if Congress doesn't act by March 1.
Congress and President Obama agreed on the cuts, which will be divided evenly between defense and domestic programs, including health care, back in the summer of 2011 as part of a last-ditch effort to force a deficit-reduction deal and avert a debt limit default.
Daniel Werfel of the Office of Management and Budget explained last week in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee: "Agencies would be required to implement the cuts over the remaining seven months of the fiscal year, meaning that in many programs the effective cuts would be closer to 9 percent for nondefense programs and 13 percent for defense programs when compared to what agencies would spend during this period under normal circumstances."
The Obama administration has been arguing for months that such cuts would have, if not devastating, at least highly painful effects on programs that affect real people.
According to a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee from Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the required cuts "would result in about 3,000 fewer inpatient admissions and 804,000 fewer outpatient visits provided in [Indian Health Service] and tribal hospitals and clinics."
Sebelius said the reduced funding would also result in 424,000 fewer HIV tests conducted by grantees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and "2,100 fewer domestic and foreign facility inspections of firms that manufacture food products to verify that domestic and imported foods meet safety standards" by the Food and Drug Administration.
Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program are exempt from the automatic cuts, as are many other safety-net programs and Social Security. But Medicare is not. Well, not completely.
Under a specially negotiated provision, Medicare beneficiaries will not be subject to benefit cuts. But Medicare providers can be docked up to 2 percent.
That has prompted a loud outcry from the health care industry. A joint study funded last year by the American Hospital Association, American Nurses Association and American Medical Association estimated that should the cuts take effect, nearly a half a million health care jobs could be lost in just the first year.
Also not exempt from the cuts is most of the funding for the Affordable Care Act, despite the last-minute efforts of states and the federal government to prepare for next year's rollout of most of the law's big benefits.
A program that will not be cut, however, is the one providing insurance for people with pre-existing conditions. Last Friday the administration announced it would not accept any new applications for the program, to preserve the program's remaining funds until the end of the year. That's when those currently enrolled can transition into new health insurance coverage under the law.
Now more on how these automatic spending cuts would work and what impact they might have on one huge sector of the economy: health care. NPR's Julie Rovner is here to talk about that. Hey, Julie.
JULIE ROVNER, BYLINE: Hey, Melissa.
BLOCK: And first, Julie, let's talk about this $85 billion in cuts. Why don't you put that number in some perspective for us?
ROVNER: Well, according to the Office of Management and Budget, if Congress fails to reach a deal before March 1st, which is next Friday, it would be required to order agencies to cut that $85 billion by September 30th, which is the end of the fiscal year. That would be about a 9 percent cut for domestic programs like health care and a 13 percent cut for defense programs.
BLOCK: OK, 9 percent for domestic programs, 13 percent for defense - not a government shutdown, though, when spending for federal programs stops outright.
ROVNER: That's right. And it's an important distinction. Now, we could have a government shutdown at the end of March. That's when the temporary spending bill Congress passed last year runs out. But that's a fight for next month. And it's one of the reasons why some people think that it's likely that these cuts will happen because under a government shutdown, programs, well, shut down. In this case, programs can continue to operate just at a somewhat reduced level. This is sort of a brownout, if you will, compared to a blackout.
BLOCK: And if it's that brownout scenario that you're describing, big question is how will people feel the impact of those cuts?
ROVNER: Well, some people will feel it a lot, some people will feel it really not very much. Now, the administration has been trying to make it feel pretty dramatic. The Agriculture Department has been warning that cuts of this magnitude would require furloughs of inspectors at food processing plants. That could temporarily shut down those plants and cause disruptions in the food supply. Similarly, the Food and Drug Administration says it would have to forgo some 2,100 inspections of domestic and foreign food facilities due to the cuts. And many people who are getting government services now will simply not get them.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, an estimated 800,000 fewer outpatient services would be provided by the Indian Health Service, 900,000 fewer people would be able to get care at community health center and 500,000 fewer people could get vaccines. Now, how terrible are all of these individual cutbacks? That's not at all clear, and it's not at all clear yet how the public would react to them.
BLOCK: Julie, what about the Affordable Care Act, which is now law; it's in the process of being implemented this year. How would that be affected by the sequester?
ROVNER: That's an interesting question. The administration doesn't seem to have a hard and fast answer, but it seems clear that many of the programs in the law are subject to these reductions even as the federal government and states are scrambling to get things up and ready for next January when most of the big parts of the law take effect. But the thing that many governors are most worried about, that the federal government won't pay its share of the Medicaid expansion, is not affected because Medicaid is one of the few programs that's actually exempt from these automatic budget cuts.
BLOCK: So Medicaid is exempted. What about Medicare?
ROVNER: Medicare patients are not subject to the cuts, but Medicare providers - hospitals, doctors and the like - would be cut by no more than 2 percent.
BLOCK: OK. NPR's health policy correspondent Julie Rovner. Julie, thanks.
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Dinner Tonight: Pantry Pasta & Salad
Capers, sardines, garlic, lemon zest. All such wonderful flavor bombs, all things that good weeknight cooks need up their sleeves, or, even better, in their kitchen. A little bit of any one of these can transform a ho-hum plate of pasta/chicken/fish/whatever into a savory, bright treat. Put them all together, with a simple salad-and-pasta meal as their base, and you've got one boldly killer meal. A real midweek perker-upper, ready in just about an hour, of course.
Click through on the photos or recipe titles below to see (and save and print) the full recipes, but we've also written you a handy game plan and grocery list.
The Menu
April Bloomfield's Lemon Caper Dressing by Genius Recipes
Linguine with Sardines, Fennel and Tomato by lastnightsdinner
Quite honestly, if you have a well-stocked pantry & fridge, you probably won't need to make a trip! The only things you may need to grab are:
1 tin sardines packed in olive oil
1 small fennel bulb
Salad greens (your favorite)
But we're guessing you've got Dijon mustard, extra virgin olive oil, sugar, Maldon or another flaky sea salt, capers, lemons, linguine (or something similar), shallots, bread crumbs, canned tomatoes, chili flakes, and garlic. If, for whatever reason you don't have those things -- like, for example, you've never actually gone grocery shopping ever -- you'll need those, too!
1. Much like the grocery list, this plan is quite straightforward. The dressing can just sit in the fridge waiting for the pasta, so make that first!
2. Once the dressing is done, set a pot of water on the stove to boil. Prep your salad greens & set aside.
3. Make the sardine-erific pasta sauce. When the water is ready, toss your pasta in.
4. After you add the pasta to the sauce to finish cooking and absorb all that lovely sauce, dress your salad.
5. Serve! Scarf. Dinner's really good, so you might need seconds, and that's okay.