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Rated: R for prolonged sequences of strong gruesome horror violence and gore, a rape and language Reviewed by: Jim Release date: March 23, 2007 Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
It's not surprising that The Hills Have Eyes II is arguably more vicious and lurid than its profitable predecessor.
Creator Wes Craven collaborated on the script which isn't too complicated in a slasher movie that is fairly unnerving, even if it all gets a bit murky, more so than something more coherent like The Descent.
Flex Alexander is the supercilious sergeant leading a group of eight rookies from the National Guard. The mission way out in the New Mexico desert is to dispatch supplies to some nuclear researchers. Their destination happens to be somewhat of a ghost town, and a diversion leads to a search in the hills.
The grisly horror-fest, with plenty of Grand Guignol has the deranged, sinister mutants eradicating members of the group in ways that become hard to watch. One senses what they are up to when they eye two women, played with much steeliness and grit by Daniella Alonso and Jessica Stroup.
The Hills Have Eyes II mostly abounds in genre cliches, especially in undeveloped characters played by Lee Thompson Young as the overachiever, Jacob Vargas as a dolt, Michael McMillian as the nerd trying to fit in, and Reshad Strik as the clean-cut guy.
If Craven and German helmer Martin Weisz try to add some interesting strokes here, one might consider how the deceased end up and the armed victims.
The posturing and dialogue is bombastic and overly blantant at various turns, even if the cast is well suited for this gory, boneheaded regiment. The direction works well in the early sections with effective foreshadowing that is to come. Yet, the plotting seems to devolve into an abyss as mineshafts become the setting for gruesome activity.
This brutal, arguably extreme installment gets a bit absurd as those rookies still alive meet a friendly mutant who could have been cast in an X-Men feature. More about dismemberment and division, the warped creativity doesn't really generate genuine shock, though perhaps logical enough for another tale about those affected by atomic bomb testing.
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Generous Brits spend TWICE as much on Christmas as any one else
GENEROUS British shoppers spend twice as much as their European counterparts on Christmas gifts.
The average Brit will splash out £500 on pressies for friends and family this Christmas.
The research, carried out by Groupon, showed big spending Brits splash out nearly twice as much on gifts as their French cousins who fork out £269.
Germans spend £252 per head, with the slightly less generous Belgians spending £232, With Spanish scrooges only coughing up £211.
"Britain has always been a very generous nation, and this research proves that"Matthew Hull, Trend Analyst at Groupon UK
There's clearly a bit of Father Christmas in us in the UK because we also top the charts in the number of gifts bought with a whopping 14 each – again almost double how many the rest of Europe buy.
Interestingly, while Italy may not buy that many presents for each other they are masters at "self-gifting" with 87% admitting to splashing the cash on themselves rather than loved ones.
Britain was just below the European average for "self-gifting" with 60% of us taking part in the self-serving practice.
Shopping frenzies like Black Friday and Cyber Monday have made Britain the consumerist capital of Europe.
Matthew Hull, Trend Analyst at Groupon UK said: "Britain has always been a very generous nation, and this research proves that.
"As we continue to become smarter in the way we shop, we've noticed a real surge in people looking for gifts they can experience with a loved one, such as a cocktail making class or event tickets.
"As people look for maximum bang for their buck, these experiences are often cheaper and have more of an emotional impact, compared to just giving the 'latest gadget'."

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by Richard Furleigh
I never really enjoyed "going out" in the same way many of my other friends did during college and into my 20's. Being around the people I liked was always important but I would much rather be with a few friends having a couple drinks talking with one another than bar hopping from place to place or the club scene that I loathed. Kristen and I have lived in Reno for over two years now and we've been downtown to the casinos for anything more than walking around only once or twice, and entered one of Reno's many clubs twice: both of those for events friends were having.
Living life creatively has been able to give me more of a focus as to the why of it. For clarification by no means am I antisocial, ask my wife and she'll tell you it seems I prefer other people to her sometimes (not true, I love you Kristen!), or see me at work laughing and joking with coworkers and customers alike as we talk about anything and everything. Rather after looking back my dislike was always more about the crowds of people and the impersonal nature of the whole thing. Near pitch black lights, music to the point where conversation was impossible, and spending $10 for a beer never appealed to me. I would much rather hang out by staying in.
I have found much more joy from small get togethers at people's houses or game nights with friends than any of the times in college I dragged myself out to one of the numerous clubs on San Marcos' Square or headed up to 6th Street in ATX. The ability to have a more than superficial connection and to have more meaningful conversations if you want speaks so much more to me than anything those places have to offer.
Game nights especially have found a special place for us and our time with our friends here in Reno as a chance to relax, laugh way too much, and just enjoy each other. Our go to classic is Settlers of Catan, or for me Settlers of Catanananana. This one in particular has lead to some fun rides home as many of you are aware, and Kristen and her friend Shar debating never trading each other wheat again. One of our new favorites is a little more cooperative in nature and was actually thought up by a duo that Kristen went to high school with in Texas!
Random Encounters is a simplified version of your favorite old school dungeon type games where you pick a character and go beat up some bosses!
We've had a lot of fun with this one since it plays out very differently every time. The cooperative nature of the game as well has you thinking and debating the best ways forward so that (hopefully) you don't die deep in the forest of Kwee-quaag.
Is there a particular game you love playing for game nights, or do you prefer doing something else for those nights you and friends stay in? We always welcome new ideas that we can try! Keep those dice rolling…Until next time Pengminions!
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On Wednesday the 27th of March, the second day of North London Literary Festival, Faber Academy will chair a panel on how to get published. We have had a look at how it all started as a warm up for this exciting event. Faber How to Get Published panel will consist of Clare Conville (Literary Agent at Conville & Walsh), Angus Cargill (Senior Editor, Faber & Faber) and will be chaired by Richard Skinner (Author and Director of Fiction Programme, Faber Academy).
In 1929, together with T.S.Eliot, Frank Morley, Richard De La Mare and Charles Stewart. Geoffrey Faber opened the publishing company Faber and Faber. Although there was only ever one Faber, he named it twice – he said it sounded better.
From the beginning, the company covered a wide range of genres including poetry, biographies, memoirs, fiction, political and religious essays, art and architecture, monographs, children's books and pioneering ecology.
Faber's success continues: the company has published 12 Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize-winners, and more recently have set a brilliant example for writing in the future through Faber Digital. So far it has published different book-related apps for the iPhone and iPad. One of their apps The Waste Land for iPad was their second collaboration with Touch Press which followed the Solar System for iPad which did win the Futurebook Award for Digital Innovation at the Book Industry Awards in 2011.
For nearly 100 years Faber has never stopped surprising the public; they are able to capture the essence of great literature and spread it for all to enjoy.
Via its groundbreaking creative writing school, the Faber Academy, Faber will be sharing some exclusive and important tips about the world of publishing, so come along and grab a seat and get ready to learn the best ways to get published.
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Well done to Maia for her fantastic work in gymnastics! Maia took part in a competition at Preston and competed on the beam, bar, vault and floor. She came 1st in the floor competition and 2nd in the bars competition. An amazing achievement Maia, we are very proud of you!
Well done Zachary!
Zachary has achieved his blue strip in Taekwondo which he takes part in at Edge Hill.
Well done Zachary, we are very proud of you!
Fantastic footballers!
We are very proud of Jessica Keenan and Sienna Fallows who took part in a cup football match for their Sefton girls team. The team competed against Wirral girls football team and won! Well done girls, we are sure you will both win many more trophies and cups in the future!
Sefton Girls football team
Well done to Jessica Keenan and Sienna Fallows for being part of the Sefton girls football team. The girls have worked very hard and had trials to get into the team. We are looking forward to hearing about the games you will have throughout the season.
Successful sisters
Well done Jessica and Hannah Keenan for winning medals in our Maghull cross country competitions. The competitions took place at Maricourt, Maghull and Deyes high school. We are very proud of you both. Keep up the fantastic work girls!
Autumn term Sports stars!
So much sport has taken place already this year! We are very proud of our children and the sportmanship they show when taking part in sport. Look below at the children's achievements from clubs and teams in and out of school.
Brilliant bronze!
Well done to Cameron Ravell, Annie Colton - Banon, Lucy Edwards, Sam Colford, Joe Howarth - Lewis, Freya Hartley, Tom Broadfoot and Lucy McKenzie for coming third in our first ever Maghull swimming gala at the Meadows leisure centre.
Well done Ethan Lowe!
Ethan took part in a kickboxing competition in Ireland. He worked very hard in his own competitions and with his team. As a result of this the team came away with a bronze medal. Great teamwork!
Year 3 Rugby star
Matthew Waywell from 3F plays rugby for Ormskirk rugby club. He competes in lots of games and with his team won a trophy! We are very proud of you Matthew, but more impressive than that, Matthew scored 17 tries! Amazing work Matthew, well done!
Super swimmer!
Lucy McKenzie, 6R, is part of the Liverpool city swimming club. She has swam in many gala competitions and is a strong member of our St Andrews swimming gala team. Thank you for all of your hard work Lucy and good luck in future competitions.


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Gainesville Police Department's sting operations may cause people to complain, but even bad publicity can help save the lives of pedestrians.
'There's no such thing as bad publicity," Oscar Wilde famously said. And Sgt. Joe Raulerson can certainly relate to that.
Raulerson heads the Gainesville Police Department's traffic unit. And he wrote the grant that funded GPD's enhanced pedestrian enforcement efforts.
Including its now infamous crosswalk "sting" operations.
These days, GPD's program is being held out as a national model for communities that want to make to walking a safer experience in Auto America.
But when other police departments call to ask about GPD's program, Raulerson says he always cautions them to be prepared to receive complaints.
Lots of complaints.
During a bike/pedestrian law enforcement workshop at the downtown public library the other evening, Raulerson gave a presentation on GPD's efforts to improve pedestrian safety.
He pointed out that in 2011, the last year for which figures are available, 497 pedestrians were killed in Florida ... an astounding 20 percent of all traffic deaths. This makes the Sunshine State America's leader in killing pedestrians.
Gainesville, with its large student population, experiences two to three pedestrian-related accidents a week. And when GPD began to study the problem it discovered that only about 30 percent of motorists were yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalks.
"A law that is not enforced is a law ignored," Raulerson said.
Hence the sting operations that have been the grist for so much spirited discussion on talk radio and TV, in The Sun's opinion pages and elsewhere.
Motorists stuck with a $154 ticket for failing to yield have complained bitterly about "entrapment." Some say it's nothing but a cheesy GPD money-making scheme.
No surprise there. We live in an automobile culture. For at least half a century we have been engineering our streets and roads with the primary purpose of enabling drivers to get from one place to another as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
In that context, having to stop in deference to someone who ventures onto the street without a protective cocoon of Detroit steel is an alien concept.
During his presentation Raulerson showed a short video of one of GPD's sting operations, near Gainesville High School. And I have to admit that even I flinched a little bit as I watched a "decoy" stand on the sidewalk and place a single foot onto the crosswalk.
At which point GPD officers began to flag down one motorist after another after another for ignoring said foot.
Listen, I'm a "walkable streets" guy. But watching the video, I doubted that even I would have noticed that single foot and reacted in time to safely stop and allow the pedestrian to cross.
On the other hand, getting a ticket for failing to heed a foot might ruin my day. But hitting, and possibly killing, a pedestrian because I wasn't paying attention would haunt me for the rest of my life.
Which is why all of the invective being hurled at GPD by stung motorists bothers Raulerson not at all. Because every time someone goes on the radio to complain about entrapment, a listener sitting in a car somewhere is likely to pay a little bit more attention when he sees a pedestrian standing at a crosswalk.
And GPD can show that the percentage of motorists who yield to pedestrians has been rising since enhanced enforcement began.
In his book "Walkable City," Jeff Speck poses the question: "Will the pedestrian survive?
"Will potential walkers feel adequately protected against being run over, that they will make the choice to walk? This is clearly the central question of any discussion of walkable cities."
Gainesville aspires to be a walkable city. Changing attitudes hardened by half a century of car culture will not be easy or painless ... or cheap.
Oscar Wilde had it right. There really is no such thing as bad publicity when it comes to keeping pedestrians alive.
Ron Cunningham is the former editorial page editor of The Sun. He is executive director of Bike Florida.


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The official opening of Our House, the latest exhibition at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery will take place on Saturday 29 July from 2-4 pm.
This exhibition presents the colourful works of artists Tania Alexander, Nuha Saad and Victoria Lobregat.
It will be opened by the dynamic Annalisa Capurro. Popularly known as 'Ms Modernism', she is an Interior Designer, Design Educator, Architectural & Design Historian, Architectural Photographer and Writer. Annalisa lives in the Russell Jack house Wahroonga and she is passionate about modernist design.
Our House artists explore the psychological complexities of the home through their interactions with colour, pattern and form. They bring varied material choices to this exhibition, from paint to found object, and each reflect on the idea of the house as an accessible space filled with subtle links and personal associations to family, memory and imagination.
Tania Alexander uses the geometry of angles and lines to remind us of the patterns that we use to personalise our home. She reveals this geometry in layers of decorative washi tape and links the gendered hobby craft nature of the material to the art of abstract painting.
The inspiration for Victoria Lobregat's gouache paintings and installations is drawn from houses in her Newcastle area and reveals her nostalgia for the bland suburban homes and bright fabrics of 1950s Australia. She approaches the home with nostalgia and a sense of loss for the ordinary scenes taken for granted and quickly changing.
Chinoiserie House with Parrots by Victoria Lobregat.
Through ornament and colour Nuha Saad transforms spaces using readymade interior moldings and wallpapers. She references the world of Federation and Victorian interiors, strengthening and intensifying their patterns and colours in her sculptural/painting installations.
The exhibition will be on display in the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery until 16 August.
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Previously, we have highlighted multiple types of naturally occurring biological glues ("bioglues") that have been studied for their potential to be applied to human surgical/medical applications. (See "Bio Glues: Crab shells, spider webs, gecko feet, burrowing frogs, mussels and c. crescentus bacteria").
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Nature-inspired surgical glue. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital are developing a poly(glycerol sebacate acrylate) (PGSA), a gel-like biomaterial that is composed of glycerol, a common ingredient in pharmaceutical, food and other human use, and sebacic acid, a naturally occurring fatty acid. This biomaterial compound will potentially enable strong, non-toxic adhesion of tissues while being water insoluble, a set of key requirements for effective surgical glues that can function in internal (as opposed to topical) applications. See link.
Oysters. Research is being done by Jonathan Wilkder at Perdue University on the naturally occurring cement used by oysters to secure their shells to each other and to reefs making extensive structures. The "cement" has turned out to be 10% organic (a protein) and 90% inorganic calcium carbonate, which turns out to be only slightly different in proportions than the oysters' shells. Most importantly, and this is an important consideration in the study, this cement is wet-setting, which is a valuable characteristic of surgical glue or bone cement.
Since manufacturers wish to develop a surgical glue with the requisite strength while also being biocompatible, the bioglues of oysters, mussels and other organisms become acutely of interest. By contrast, synthetically developed high strength glues are often cyanoacrylate-based or similar and are therefore characterized by toxicity in local tissues, limiting their use to topical applications.
Bioglues are a topic of coverage in MedMarket Diligence's analysis of the global products, technologies and markets surgical sealants, glues and wound closure. See "Worldwide Market for Surgical Sealants, Glues, Wound Closure and Anti-Adhesion, 2012-2017", Report #S190, publishing February 2012.


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This course aims to help students understand 20th-century literary theory concerning some of the key issues explored and debated in the West. We will focus on such theories as psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, deconstruction, new historicism, queer theory, post-colonialism, postmodernism, and age as performance. Related issues include self and other, man and woman, history and ideology, knowledge and power, speech and writing, nature and culture, experience and identity, postmodern space, age and aging, etc.
Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-friendly Guide. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Optional Texts
Barzilai, Shuli. "Borders of Language: Kristeva's Critique of Lacan." PMLA 106.2 (1991): 294-305.
Berg, Maggie. "Luce Irigaray's 'Contradictions': Poststructuralism and Feminism." Signs 17.1 (1991): 50-70.
Greenblatt, Stephen. "Toward a Poetics of Culture." The New Historicism. New York: Routledge, 1989.1-14.
Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke UP, 1991. (Chapter 1: "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism")
Laz, Cheryl. "Act Your Age." Sociological Forum 13.1 (1998): 85-113.
McLellan, David. Ideology. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. (Chapters 2 &3: "Marx" "The Marxist Tradition").
Nealon, Jeffrey T. "The Discipline of Deconstruction." PMLA 107.5 (1992): 1266-79.
Shiner, Larry. "Reading Foucault: Anti-Method and the Genealogy of Power-Knowledge." History and Theory 21.3 (1982): 382-398.
Tiffin, Helen. "Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse." Kunapipi 9.3 (1987): 17-34.
Wilkerson, William S. "Is There Something You Need to Tell Me?: Coming out and the Ambiguity of Experience." Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism. Paula M. L. Moya and Michael R. Hames-Garcia, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 251-78.
Zerilli, Linda M. G. "A Process without a Subject: Simone de Beauvoir and Julia Kristeva on Maternity." Signs 18.1 (1982): 111-35.
Requirements and Grades
1. Term paper, 60%.
2. Ten-minute group presentation on a theory to be applied in the term paper, 10%.
3. Ten-minute presentation on the term paper, 15%.
4. Active class participation, 15%.
Tentative Schedule
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 Psychoanalytic Criticism (Tyson, 11-52)
Barzilai, "Borders of Language: Kristeva's Critique of Lacan."
Week 3 Marxism (Tyson, 53-82)
McLellan, Ideology. (Chapters 2 &3 on Marx and Marxists, 9-30).
Weeks 4-5 Feminism (Tyson, 83-134)
Zerilli, "A Process without a Subject: Simone de Beauvoir and Julia Kristeva on Maternity."
Berg, Maggie. "Luce Irigaray's 'Contradictions': Poststructuralism and Feminism."
Weeks 6-7 Deconstruction (Tyson, 249-80)
Nealon, "The Discipline of Deconstruction."
Week 8 Knowledge and Power (Tyson, 281-316)
Shiner, "Reading Foucault: Anti-Method and the Genealogy of Power Knowledge."
Week 9 New Historicism (Tyson, 281-316)
Greenblatt, "Toward a Poetics of Culture," 1-14. (Library book)
Week 10 Queer Theory (Tyson, 317-58)
Wilkerson, "Is There Something You Need to Tell Me?"
Week 11 May Day
Week 12 Postcolonialism (Tyson, 359-450)
Tiffin, "Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse."
Week 13 Postmodernism and Special Topics: Space, Age as Performance
Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. (Chapter 1)
Laz, "Act Your Age."
Week 14 Group presentations on theory.
Weeks 15-16 Presentations on term papers.
Academic Honesty
To plagiarize is to use someone else's work (words, ideas, etc, published or unpublished) as if it was one's own. Any act of plagiarism in this class will be reported to the dean.
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Is Having the Latest Technology the Sign of a Top Hospital?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 12, 2014 | Trudy Lieberman
When choosing a hospital, pay little attention to advertisements, testimonials from sick patients, boosterish stories based on press releases, or wisdom-of-the-crowd comments you find on consumer rating websites. Look for reports that measure a hospital's quality – only these can offer clues to the kind of care you might get...
We Don't Ration Health Care in America. Or Do We?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | October 29, 2014 | Trudy Lieberman
As narrower insurance networks begin to limit where we can get our care and contradict the American notion of abundant choices, I thought about the Canadian health care system and rumors of its long waiting lists that grab U.S. headlines. Yet, narrow insurance networks, sky-high deductibles, co-insurance and co-pays are ways of controlling our medical expenditures. Instead of rationing with waiting lists, America rations with price...
Have You SEEN Your Options? Patients Should Make Safe, Effective, Economical, Necessary Choices
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | October 2, 2014 | Wendy Lynch
My friend Jane is quite a perfectionist, at least usually. I was almost certain that if she was having work done on her kitchen, she would be getting competitive bids, asking for references and reviewing vendors. But not for her shoulder surgery. Perhaps we need a concise mantra for what it means to be a health care consumer...
From Wonder Drug to Medical Reversal
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | August 19, 2014 | John Schumann
One thing seems to be sure in medicine: if we just wait long enough for excellent science to guide us ahead, things we trust as ironclad rules often change. Case in point...
Has Patient-Centered Health Care Run Amok?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 22, 2014 | Trudy Lieberman
In the late 1990s, when the Institute of Medicine released their landmark Quality Chasm report saying that patients "should be given the necessary information and the opportunity to exercise the degree of control they choose over health care decisions that affect them," I don't think this is what they had in mind...
Don't Let the Sun Shine Down on Me (It's Too Complicated!)
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | June 18, 2014 | Jessie Gruman
I'm impressed by how much we struggle with seemingly simple health decisions when faced with sorting through too much information. Every week we view diverse arrays of products with health, convenience and cosmetic claims competing for our attention. Think yogurt, Gatorade, running shoes, breakfast cereal...Given the ubiquity of such products and the swirl of marketing and science- or non-science-based information surrounding each, I'm wondering three things...
Not So Easy to Stop Care When the Patient Is a Loved One
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | June 16, 2014 | Margaret Polaneczky
To those of us who have had a loved one succumb to cancer, who had to negotiate the frightening choice between the rock and the hard place, always holding out hope for another round of chemo...we know that reining in health care costs will mean more than just raising co-pays and lowering drug costs and funding more effective interventions. It will also mean quashing hope. And learning to tell ourselves the truth...
Stop Expecting Antibiotics to Be Handed Out Routinely: Here's Why
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | June 10, 2014 | Trudy Lieberman
For years, my colleagues on the Prepared Patient site have preached the importance of being an advocate for your own care. And they've noted that at times it is necessary to push back against doctors' recommendations if a suggested treatment does not seem right. I just returned from a visit to the U.K., which drove home the importance of that advice...
Cancer Screening: Understanding 'Relative Risk'
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | June 3, 2014 | Kenny Lin
I have offered before a few reasons for eligible patients to consider not getting screened for lung cancer. I concede, however, that reasonable people might conclude that the potential harms are outweighed by the benefit of reducing one's risk of dying by one-fifth. The next critical question that needs to be asked is: one-fifth of what?
Getting Good Care: 'I Wish It Were More Newsworthy. I'm Afraid It's Not.'
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | May 21, 2014 | Jessie Gruman
Unfortunately, the nitty gritty of getting good care is not really newsworthy, unless we're talking about how poor it is. However, there are opportunities for journalists and writers to report "news you can use" that would be very helpful to many people, and there is a big gap in reporting on most of these necessary tasks...
So Much Incorrect Health Information Online
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | May 13, 2014 | CFAH Staff
How do we know which search results are true and which ones aren't? While you can find high-quality health information online, search results related to nutrition, fitness and preventive health vary widely in quality. And the actions we take (or don't take) as a result of the information we find can be hazardous...
Shared Decision Making: Blending Beliefs and Attitudes With Evidence
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 7, 2014 | Don S. Dizon
My patient, Mary, was a 28-year-old woman who had completed chemotherapy for stage II breast cancer. After discussing surveillance, frequency of follow-up and ASCO guidelines, I recommended against further testing or imaging. Mary was well aware of the evidence, but she had different plans...
The Goldilocks Approach to Our Health Knowledge: How Much Is Just Right?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | March 26, 2014 | Jessie Gruman
Most professional health care stakeholders believe that the more we patients and caregivers know about our health and diseases, the better our outcomes will be. When faced with the facts about our health risks and dangerous habits, they think we will rationally change our behaviors and correct our misunderstandings. As a patient, I want to know: At what point do I know enough to reap these hypothetical benefits?
Patients Unlikely to Deliver on the Promise of Price Transparency
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | February 19, 2014 | Jessie Gruman
The idea that knowing the price of our care will encourage us to act like wise consumers is a hugely popular topic on blogs, in editorials and in the news. But relying on access to price information to drive changes in our health care choices is full of false promises to both us and to those who think that by merely knowing the price, we will choose cheaper, better care...
What Do I Tweet – and Why?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | January 22, 2014 | Jessie Gruman
Twitter has figured prominently in the heated discussion about Emma and Bill Keller's respective editorials about Lisa Bonchek Adams. I have followed Lisa for a long time and greatly admire her thoughtful, highly personal tweets about the ups and downs of what it takes for her to face the challenges of metastatic breast cancer. In comparison, I am a different type of tweeter, posting a weekday stream of tweets aimed at addressing generally the subject that Lisa talks about so personally: finding and making the best possible use of health care...
NBC Vastly Exaggerates the Potential Benefits of Lung Cancer Screening
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | January 16, 2014 | Gary Schwitzer
When we talk about a consistently clear pattern of news stories that exaggerate or emphasize benefits while minimizing or ignoring harms, we are talking about stories exactly like this one...
What Does It Take to Get 'Better Living Through Medications' These Days?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | January 15, 2014 | Jessie Gruman
Lately, the public's faith in the safety of prescription and over-the-counter drugs has been making me uneasy. Why do so many of us continue to purchase pills that are not effective in causing weight loss, swallow syrups that promise to cure diabetes, and fiddle with our medication-taking regimens?...
"We Are All Patients." No, You're Not.
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | December 19, 2013 | Carolyn Thomas
I read recently about a medical conference on breast reconstructive surgery following mastectomy, to which not one single Real Live Patient who had actually undergone breast reconstructive surgery following mastectomy was invited to participate...
For Many People with Diabetes, Lifestyle Changes Trump Medications
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 21, 2013 | Milly Dawson
Three key patient engagement themes emerged from this year's 'Diabetes + Innovation 2013' conference in Washington, D.C., organized by Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School...
Do "Experts" Value Patient and Family Input?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 20, 2013 | Jessie Gruman
Current efforts to make health care more "patient-centered" include inviting some of us to advise on research priorities, care organization and delivery under the assumption that, as patients, we understand what patient-centered outcomes and care are. What do patients know about the inner workings of health care, after all?
Evidence Is Only One Data Point in Our Treatment Decisions
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 13, 2013 | Jessie Gruman
I'm concerned that the frantic drive toward evidence-based medicine as a strategy for quality improvement and cost reduction sets clinicians and patients up for a conflict about our shared picture of health care.
My BlogTalkRadio Interview: Patient Engagement
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | October 30, 2013 | Jessie Gruman
Last week, I was interviewed by Dr. Pat Salber and Gregg Mastors on their BlogTalkRadio show, This Week in Health Innovation, about patient-centered care, patient engagement, shared decision making and the cost/quality trade-offs involved, and what all of this means for health care delivery.
Accuracy of Health News: Pressure on Journalists, Consequences for Us
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | October 2, 2013 | Jessie Gruman
What's your assessment of the health news and information produced by the media these days? Is it accurate? Useful? Interesting? Improving, or worse than five years ago?
Waiting. Again.
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 24, 2013 | Lisa Bonchek Adams
The evil of "waiting" is well known among those with illnesses. We spend copious amounts of time in waiting rooms, exam rooms, lab offices. We wait for test results, scan results, to see if treatment is working. I'm in one of those waiting periods right now...
Expecting Great Beginnings – and Endings
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 23, 2013 | Amy Berman
It tickles me to report that I live with incurable cancer and I am expecting. I am expecting that the cancer will take its toll, that I will need to make choices about my health and care, that I will need the support of my family and that I will need resources.
The Patient
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 4, 2013 | Beth Nash
My doctor can help me figure out what is right for me by considering my values and preferences and helping me to understand the scientific evidence.
Scary Coffee Stories – Add Cream and Two Lumps of Caveats
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | August 27, 2013 | Gary Schwitzer
You may have seen the story the other day about a paper pointing to an association – not proof of cause – between heavy coffee consumption and higher death rates in people younger than 55. At last check, there were more than 170 stories about this study that turned up on a simple web search. But there was a point that didn't make it into most stories...
Robotic Surgery Roundup: Take Me Out to the Ballgame and Much More
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | August 16, 2013 | Gary Schwitzer
Robotic surgery systems are spreading so quickly across the U.S. and across the globe that trying to keep up with the news could become a fulltime beat. Here are just a few nuggets in an attempt to catch up on things you may have missed...
Even More Studies You Should Ignore
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 29, 2013 | Albert Fuchs
Back when I was a medical student (in the Cretaceous Period) we were taught that someone once did a study comparing folic acid levels in the blood of cancer patients compared to the blood of healthy patients. The cancer patients had, on average, significantly lower folic acid levels. And the ones with the largest, fastest growing tumors tended to have the lowest folic acid levels. "Aha," they thought. "Something about folic acid deficiency predisposes them to cancer. We should give folic acid to cancer patients." Bad idea.
Traditional Research Leaves Out a Critical Stakeholder: Patients
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | June 13, 2013 | Leana Wen
What's wrong with the following picture? Two medical researchers at a major academic center collaborate to study disease X. They come up with the research question, design the project, obtain grants, and collect data. Their results are published in a scientific journal and presented at several medical conferences. Based on this first study, the researchers start another cycle of idea generation, data generation, and publication.
What Do I Tweet – and Why?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 3, 2013 | Jessie Gruman
Who would have thought that Twitter, this tiny aperture – a mere 140 characters – could connect me with so many smart, feisty, tough people who share, amplify, and improve on my efforts to spread carefully chosen health and health care content through their responses, retweets, modified tweets and acknowledgements? Here's why I tweet what I tweet...
Whatever Happened to Underuse of Medical Services?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 2, 2013 | Trudy Lieberman
Twelve years ago, in its landmark study Crossing the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) found that "the health care industry is plagued with overutilization of services, underutilization of services, and errors in health care practice." In simple English, the IOM reported that health care was riddled with overuse, underuse and misuse of medical services.
False Alarms and Unrealistic Expectations in Preventive Care
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | March 28, 2013 | Kenny Lin
Shortly after we moved to Washington, DC, my wife and I purchased a basic home security system, the kind with a programmable keypad, multiple door alarms and a motion sensor. All things considered, it's hard to argue that the benefits of this preventive measure have outweighed its cumulative harms.
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Louise Vetter, CEO of the Huntington's Disease Society of America
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | March 27, 2013 | Louise Vetter
There are 30,000 Americans alive today with symptoms of HD, and an additional 200,000 are at risk...Generally, we see CER as an important priority to inform clinician decision making.
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Marty Tenenbaum, Founder & Chairman of Cancer Commons
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | March 13, 2013 | Marty Tenenbaum
There is a large disparity of information across the medical world. If you consult 6 doctors, you'll likely get 6 opinions about how to treat your cancer. And 5-year survivals may vary as much as 50%. This is inexcusable.
Too Much Medical Care: Do We Know It When We See It?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | March 11, 2013 | Kenny Lin
If I didn't object to receiving what I recognized as too much medical care, it should not be a surprise that, according to one study, many inappropriate tests and treatments are being provided more often, not less.
True Informed Consent Is Elusive
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 26, 2012 | Harriet Hall
Most of us would agree that doctors should not treat patients without their consent, except in special cases like emergency care for an unconscious patient. It's not enough for doctors to ask "Is it OK with you if I do this?"
Using Press Releases for Preliminary Pilot Data
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 24, 2012 | Conversation Continues
Steven Novella of the Science Based Medicine blog asks, 'If this is a pilot study only and we should not base any firm conclusions on the results, then why the press release?
Research that Incorporates the Patient's Perspective
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 17, 2012 | Conversation Continues
Josh Freeman, M.D., argues for research that looks at the patient as a whole. CFAH President Jessie Gruman cautions that if researchers are not advised, supported, and required to include the patient's perspective, it will not occur.
Tweetchat with Jessie Gruman Today at 2PM on Overtesting and Overtreating in Health Care
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | February 1, 2012 | CFAH Staff
Join @jessiegruman, Otis Brawley MD, Executive VP of ACS and other experts on Twitter today at 2PM with ABC's @DrRichardBesser for a Tweetchat about overtesting and overtreating in health care. Use hash tag #abcdrbchat.
How People's Stories Support Evidence-Based Care
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | December 5, 2011 | Kenny Lin
I was recently asked how evidence from clinical trials can possibly overcome powerful emotional stories of "saved lives." My answer: evidence-based medicine's supporters must fight anecdotes with anecdotes. Statistics show that, while some are saved, many people are temporarily or permanently injured as a result of screenings/testings - and their stories matter too.
Conflicts of Interest and the FDA
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 17, 2011 | Inside Health Care
Patients rely on panels of experts to review and approve new treatments and products. The hope is that these experts are unbiased in their evaluations. Here, health care insiders debate whether there are enough conflict-free panelists to go around.
The Rocky Adolescence of Public Reporting on Health Care Quality: It's Not Useful Yet, and We're Not Ready
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 9, 2011 | Jessie Gruman
The American people, long protected from the price of health care by insurance, are now forced to act as consumers. This situation is a free marketer's dream.
Guest Blog: When Patients Demand Treatments That Won't Work
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 4, 2011 | Carolyn Thomas
When my son Ben came down with a sore throat this past summer, he went to his doctor for antibiotics. Both agreed it sure sounded like strep, so without having to wait for the throat swab test results, Ben left the office with a prescription for antibiotics. But were they the appropriate treatment? Do all bugs need drugs?
Getting the Patient's Perspective in Research: Will PCORI Deliver on its Promise?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 2, 2011 | Jessie Gruman
One major challenge for the new Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is to make good on its stated mission to improve health care by producing evidence "that comes from research guided by patients, caregivers and the broader health care community."
"That's Not What I Wanted to Hear!": Evidence-Based Medicine and Our Hard Choices
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | October 19, 2011 | Jessie Gruman
American health care treads a fine line between trying to serve the good of the many and the interests of the individual. But no one has yet figured out a cost-effective, yet humane, way to do both.
Why Patient Care Needs To Get Personal
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | October 19, 2011 | David L. Katz
Evidence-based medicine, in other words, is population-based medicine. The care of any individual patient is based on the experiences of patients who have come before. And while to some extent that is unavoidable, it is also a great peril.
Contagion: Action! Adventure! The Value of Science?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | October 12, 2011 | Jessie Gruman
Our country is politically polarized. The economy is teetering. Distrust of government and its employees is at an all-time high. Scientists are criticized as biased money-grubbers.
Patient Engagement: Expert Molly Mettler Talks about Challenges
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 26, 2011 | Molly Mettler
This interview with Molly Mettler is the third in a series of brief chats between CFAH president and founder, Jessie Gruman and experts - our CFAH William Ziff Fellows - who have devoted their careers to understanding and encouraging people's engagement in their health and health care.
We Interrupt This State Fair for a Little Prostate Cancer Screening
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 7, 2011 | Gary Schwitzer
There are a few things a man should think about seriously before rolling up his sleeve for the supposedly "simple" blood test. 'But here, prostate cancer screening is hawked in the same setting as the modern-day carnies pitching their slice-'em-and-dice-'em devices and inventions you only see at the state fair - "only at this price today!"
Guest Blog: Laurel & Hardy and Prostate Cancer Chemoprevention
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | August 10, 2011 | Gary Schwitzer
A drug currently used for benign prostate problems is now being pushed for prostate cancer prevention. But the FDA warns there's evidence it may actually result in more advanced cancers.
Guest Blog: Evidenced-based Medicine or Easy-bake Oven: Tension Between Evidence and Reality
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | August 8, 2011 | Kelly Young
This post was inspired by the article "Patient Advocates: Flies in the Ointment of Evidenced Based Care" at the Health Affairs Blog. Patient advocacy and evidenced-based medicine are both intimately entwined with several matters in rheumatological care, but first a word about flies. Patient advocates probably are flies in the ointment, and there would certainly be no flies in a perfect world. But in a perfect world, we wouldn't be sick. In a perfect world, doctors could comprehend our pain.
Guest Blog: NIH to Drop Requirement for Websites Disclosing Researchers' Ties to Industry
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | August 5, 2011 | Elaine Schattner
Word comes from Nature News that the NIH is dropping a proposed requirement for universities to disclose researchers' financial ties to industry on websites. This is a loss for patients, who may not be aware of their doctors' relationships with pharmaceutical companies and others who fund clinical trials, fellowships, conference junkets and other perks for physicians.
Guest Blog: The Confusing Morass of Medical Evidence
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 28, 2011 | Ken Covinsky
Practitioners of evidence-based medicine use published evidence from the medical literature to guide them as they try to provide the best care for each patient. But sometimes the medical literature just feels like a big morass.
Our Preference in Health News: Uncertainty or Naked Ladies?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 27, 2011 | Jessie Gruman
News of the World wasn't read by 15 percent of the British public because it told people what they should know. It got there by giving them what they wanted: stories about the peccadilloes of the rich and famous, accounts of the gross incompetence of government and of course, pictures of naked ladies.
Guest Blog: Niseritide, the 'Lost Decade', and the Pinto
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 21, 2011 | Patricia Salber
Eric Topol, MD wrote an interesting commentary in the July 7, 2011 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, titled 'The Lost Decade of Nesiritide.' Nesiritide is a drug for heart failure symptoms (e.g., shortness of breath) that was approved by the FDA in 2001. Since that time, according to Dr. Topol, 'well more than $1 Billion was wasted on purchasing the drug.'
Patient Advocates: Flies In The Ointment Of Evidence-Based Care
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 18, 2011 | Jessie Gruman
The women recounted how their lives had been saved as they pleaded for the Food and Drug Administration not to withdraw approval for Avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. They did so even without evidence that it provides benefit and with evidence that it confers risks.
The Hidden Secrets of Evidence
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 15, 2011 | Connie Davis
I have a fear. My fear is that the public has an unrealistic view of medicine and the science behind it.
Inside Health Care: Show Me the Evidence
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | June 2, 2011 | CFAH Staff
Being actively engaged in your health care means understanding how the care you are receiving will benefit you. We expect the care we receive and the health advice we are offered to be evidence based, using the best research available. Journalists, a researcher, and a doctor call attention to common practices where evidence is lacking.
The Cognitive Traps We All Fall Into
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | May 26, 2011 | Harriet Hall
In my recent review of Peter Palmieri's book Suffer the Children I said I would later try to cover some of the many other important issues he brings up. One of the themes in the book is the process of critical thinking and the various cognitive traps doctors fall into. I will address some of them here. This is not meant to be systematic or comprehensive, but rather a miscellany of things to think about. Some of these overlap.
Guest Blog: The Role of Experience in Science-Based Medicine
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 21, 2011 | Harriet Hall
Before we had EBM (evidence-based medicine) we had another kind of EBM: experience-based medicine. Mark Crislip has said that the three most dangerous words in medicine are 'In my experience.' I agree wholeheartedly.
Guest Blog: Death Panels and Decision Making: A Radio Interview
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 15, 2011 | Amy Berman
Diana Mason, former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing, interviews Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation, Amy Berman, and The New York Times blogger and nurse, Theresa Brown. Amy Berman was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer earlier this year, and in this interview, she says, 'Nothing was off limits.'
Guest Blog: Quality or Value? A Measure for the 21st Century
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | March 24, 2011 | Marya Zilberberg
Fascinating, how in the same week two giants of evidence-based medicine have given such divergent views on the future of quality improvement. Donald Berwick, the CMS administrator and founder and former head of the Institute for Health Care Improvement, emphasizes the need for quality as the strategy for success in our healthcare system. But one of the fathers of EBM, Muir Gray, states that quality is so 20th century, and we need instead to shine the light on value. So, who is right?
Guest Blog: The Beautiful Uncertainty of Science
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | February 2, 2011 | Marya Zilberberg
I am so tired of this all-or-nothing discussion about science! On the one hand there is a chorus singing praises to science and calling people who are skeptical of certain ideas unscientific idiots. On the other, with equal penchant for eminence-based thinking, are the masses convinced of conspiracies and nefarious motives of science and its perpetrators. And neither will stop and listen to the other side's objections, and neither will stop the name-calling. So, is it any wonder we are not getting any closer to the common ground?
Prevention Magazine Pushes High-tech, Non-Evidence-based Heart Screenings More Than Basic Prevention
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | January 26, 2011 | Gary Schwitzer
The February issue of Prevention magazine has an article, "Surprising Faces of Heart Attack" profiling "three women (who) didn't think they were at high risk. Their stories are proof that you could be in danger without even knowing it." No, their stories are not proof of that.
A Fighting Spirit Won't Save Your Life
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | January 26, 2011 | Richard Sloan
Dr. Sloan's piece 'A Fighting Spirit Won't Save Your Life', that recently ran in The Opinion Pages of the New York Times, calls into question our belief that we can affect our health through optimism and positive thinking.
Prepared Patient: Sorting Out Medical Opinion Overload
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | December 28, 2010 | Health Behavior News Service
When her grandmother experienced a sudden onset of dizziness, slurred speech and facial drooping, Kafi Grigsby found herself in an emergency department waiting room, surrounded by five doctors with four different opinions on what had occurred and how to treat it.
More Can Also Be Less: We Need a More Complete Public Discussion about Comparative Effectiveness
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | December 1, 2010 | Jessie Gruman
Media coverage of the government's new investment in comparative effectiveness research leans heavily toward the effects of such research on new drugs and technologies: Will such evaluations lead to restricted access to the latest innovations? Will insurance no longer cover a drug that might give my aunt another year to live? Will such research hinder the development of a drug that could cure my nephew of type 1 diabetes?
Book Review: Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 29, 2010 | Connie Davis
I've been following evidence-based medicine for many years and I've been appalled by the way it is playing out. We have pay-for-performance that does not understand that the reliability we are after is not in reliably (read blindly) applying a guideline to a patient population, but rather reliably considering how the evidence applies to the individual in a health care interaction. We have guidelines that are based on expert opinion, often influenced by drug company funding, or based on bad science. And we have a news media that seems unable to present medical findings in a balanced and understandable way.
Integrating Patient Experience into Research and Clinical Medicine: Towards True Personalized Medicine
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 12, 2010 | David Gorski
We advocate science-based medicine (SBM) on the Science-Based Medicine blog. However, from time to time, I feel it necessary to point out that science-based medicine is not the same thing as turning medicine into a science. Rather, we argue that what we do as clinicians should be based in science. This is not a distinction without a difference. If we were practicing pure science, we would be theoretically able to create algorithms and flowcharts telling us how to care for patients with any given condition, and we would never deviate from them.
Inside Health Care: Trusted Sources?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | October 29, 2010 | Inside Health Care
The increasing presence (sometime hidden) of advertisers in health care websites - including the new Sharecare - was discussed this week by healthcare journalists Gary Schwitzer and Pia Christensen, Dr. Elaine Schattner, M.D. and marketer and advertiser Dan Dunlop
Atlantic: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | October 18, 2010 | Society for Participatory Medicine
There's an extraordinary new article in The Atlantic, 'Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science.' It echoes the excellent article in our Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM) one year ago this week, by Richard W. Smith, 25 year editor of the British Medical Journal: In Search Of an Optimal Peer Review System.
Do Scientists Understand the Public? And Does It Matter?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 16, 2010 | Jessie Gruman
Exploring these questions is relevant to all who are working to support people's engagement in their health and health care. They are also relevant to the debate about the value of comparative effectiveness research. Science journalist Chris Mooney reports a couple of provocative points in this account of four meetings on the topic sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences over the past year.
The People and Evidence-Based Medicine: We are All Above Average
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 1, 2010 | Jessie Gruman
Problems with evidence-based guidelines and comparative effectiveness research all have at their core the conflict between averages and individuals.
Antibiotic Resistance, Evidence-Based Medicine and the End of the World as We Know It
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | August 24, 2010 | Jessie Gruman
Delivering evidence-based medicine is a deceptively elegant and simple goal.' But new findings about the increase in antibiotic resistance challenge us to consider just how complicated and challenging it is to actually define and deliver evidence-based care.'
Who's Got My Back?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 27, 2010 | Jessie Gruman
Last week The New York Times published a front-page feature about how diagnosing breast cancer can be surprisingly difficult, prone to both outright error and case-by-case disagreement over whether a cluster of cells is benign or malignant.
Risky Treatment Decisions: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 22, 2010 | Jessie Gruman
Tuesday's New York Times ran a story about the unreliability of the tests and the variation among laboratory standards that determine the potential effectiveness of new targeted cancer treatments. Linda Griffin, a physician with breast cancer, described the series of treatment decisions she made with her doctors about whether or not to take the very expensive, fairly disruptive and potentially very effective drug, Herceptin, based on a genetic test that was inconclusive and further, which produced different findings when the same material was retested.
Evidence and Trustworthy Intermediaries
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 20, 2010 | Jessie Gruman
2009 was not a good year for the public's understanding of evidence.


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WASHINGTON, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - The White House on Monday pressed Russia to use all options to expel NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who is assumed to be still in Moscow.
The White House now expects Russian authorities to look at all the options available to them to expel Snowden to face charges in the U.S. for releasing secret surveillance information, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
He slammed China for allowing the leaker of secret U.S. government surveillance secrets to leave Hong Kong. "We are just not buying that this was a technical decision by a Hong Kong immigration official," Carney said. "This was a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant, and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the U.S.-China relationship."
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RIAD ZINEB is an historical house, belonging since centuries to a rich family, who was producing candles for the city.
Located in the antic heart of the Medina, she is close to Museum de Marrakech, and at a few minutes of the so famous piazza Jemaa el Fna, through the souks.
Recently to totally renovated, this riad has maintained his strong and imposing architecture.
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It I composed of 6 bedrooms with their individual bathroom and large Moroccan salons.


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I can tell you right now that you haven't met anyone quite like this bunch. We're a family made up of a very Type B husband with a very Type A wife that got lucky enough to have what we call "Type C" kids...they're the weirdest and most fickle mix of both of us. As much as you would think a Type A woman would follow only logical decisions and well thought out plans and processes... it's been proven by the leaps of faith and bold moves that this little mama has a wild and INSPIRED side that has kept this family feeling adventurous since day one. The way we've shared this journey has inspired so many others and our most asked about topics include: sharing our journey of growing a family and business concurrently, living a simpler life, using Dave Ramsey's practices, decluttering and living with less material items, coping with losing family to drug addiction, making the bold move to the Outer Banks from a life we had grown elsewhere and choosing HAPPINESS and braveness post car-accident. We aren't perfect. Sometimes we argue and some days we are sad. We make mistakes and we get back up again. We don't think we're more special than the next family, but we think most families and people generally don't realize how incredible they are and the potential they have to create a BETTER LIFE for themselves...and that's why we're here to inspire and motivate others to
I'm 5 feet tall and an excellent climber of all the things for a good angle. And I have a step stool in my car just in case. But mostly, I end up on Mike's shoulders :)
I will color code anything and ALL the things. I'll even color code things for you. And don't worry, I'll laminate it nicely for you when I'm done.
I would do anything for these people. They inspire me, fight over me and kiss me way more often than I deserve...but I sure am thankful for every second with them.
Talk to me about sea glass, Nicholas Sparks movies, marsh grass, salt air, being okay with sand in your car + home, windchimes and we're already friends.
Our favorite local treats are coffee from Front Porch Cafe and everything bagels from Barrier Island Bagels...it's like Christmas every single time!
If you have come here looking for a cool person to work with, you are not in the right place. If you are okay with real life and charmingly awkward, I'm your girl.
I have an embarrassing tutorial on the blog about how to do my bun you see above. I am not a hair blogger but people sure do love this bun enough to ask, lol!
We often are asked about the necklace with our girls names. It's from one of the sweetest local businesses around, All Washed Up Jewelry!
I'm [way] taller than Amanda yes, I do let her climb me some weddings. I'm loving getting to be a part of this business with the woman I fell in love with ten years ago.
Rest assured, brides...I'm really good at hanging the wedding dress for a good dress shot. I treat my daughter's princess dresses with equal caution at home.
I'm the designated transportation for all the girls in the house. Even Amanda. It's always, carry me! Carry me! No carry me!
Before becoming a second shooter + working in insurance, I worked on a golf course for 10 years. I can happily be your cart guy on wedding day.
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I was told when I started my business that you shouldn't start your family at the same time, one thing at a time...your business is your baby. That wasn't going to work for me...I didn't like the idea that I couldn't have both. When she was born ... I knew I had given birth to my absolute best friend. She's brilliant, she's ambitious, extremely Type A and her creativity sometimes shocks us... think crazy colorful artist mixed with nifty engineer! It's unreal!! Proud of you baby girl!! :)
It's hard to sum up this free spirit in a paragraph. Ellie is classic middle child in so many ways and has been charming us since she was born almost four years ago. You can't get a better hug and kiss from anyone else, she's SUCH a pro and when her little arms are wrapped around your neck you KNOW she loves you and you feel it and it just takes you somewhere else because it's like heaven! The best "middle mermaid" we could have ever hoped for!
Named after the song "Autumn" by Ben Rector..her soul matches that melody so well. Light and airy and inspiring. THAT is our baby girl. This kid has been smiling literally since the day she was born. She's SUPER fast and watching her run is stressful, LOL! I love her little eyebrow flexed expressions & her silly voices she makes so that we'll laugh at her. Autumn Jean you inspire our hearts to love more deeply and to enjoy life WELL!


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Aidan: Younger people, kids, can sometimes take to an activity much more quickly. They can get the basics and then fly with it much more quickly than adults who might have some already packaged-up expectations.
So in the same respect the younger generations, like the kids of the families in the support groups, they're light-years ahead of their parents at nine years old, in terms of understanding gender and who they are in the world.
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Brian Bacchus
Brian Michel Bacchus was an A&R man for Verve, Antilles, RCA and Blue Note before moving into production and doing stellar work with Randy Weston, Patricia Barber and Gregory Porter. His A&R work with Norah Jones contributed mightily to her debut, one of the biggest selling albums in history" writes Michael Jarrett from Pressed For All Time.
Bacchus was producer for Gregory Porter's 'Liquid Spirit', which was awarded with a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album 2013.
Jamie Cullum
With nominations for a Grammy, Golden Globes, GQ Man of the Year, Brits and Sony Radio under his belt, Jamie Cullum is a success story around the planet. The release of his breakthrough album 'Twentysomething' (Universal) made him the fastest- and best-selling British jazz artist in history. Jamie presents his own award winning weekly radio show for BBC Radio 2 where he interviews and features the world's best jazz artists.
Mikhail Fridman
Mikhail Fridman is an international businessman and philanthropist – and founder of the International Jazz Festival in Lvov, where he was born. Born into a Jewish family, Mikhail loves opera, theatre, literature and music, and especially jazz. It has been a part of his life from a very young age and the Lvov Jazz Festival is a gift to his native city that has a rich tradition of European music and culture. Besides a yearly visit to the Lvov festival Mikhail travels around the world and visits various jazz festivals and venues. In his spare time he also plays piano.
Karen Frivik
Karen Frivik is a journalist for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK Kultur), specialized in Jazz. On her radioshow 'Jazzklubben' she features both new and established artists, new releases and festivals and concerts throughout Europe. In addition, Karen has produced prize winning documentaries and was asked to be a jury member for Prix Europe – Europe's largest annual tri-medial festival and competition.
Sébastien Vidal
Sébastien Vidal studied at the American School of Modern Music and Berklee College of Music. He performed with jazz greats suchs as Clark Terry and Al Casey. Sébastien is now the artistic director of the Nice Jazz Festival, the Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival and programmer of the Duc Des Lombards in Paris. In addition, he is the director of TSF radio du jazz and organizes the annual TSF Jazz evening 'You And The Night And The Music' at L'Olympia.


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Head of Boys' Boarding, Bradford
Start date: September 2018
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
Head of Boys' Boarding
We seek to appoint an energetic, committed, proactive houseparent to manage and lead our boys' boarding house. The successful candidate in this non-teaching role will have excellent interpersonal, communication, administrative and organisational skills, and will be fully committed to the aims and ideals of boarding school life. Any additional interests that will help to add value to the boarding experience for our pupils will aid your application.
Supported by our Head of Boarding, and working in tandem with our Head of Girls' Boarding, this is a wonderful opportunity for candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds to help challenge and invigorate our boarding students in a caring and homely environment.
A three bedroomed flat for the Head of Boys' Boarding adjoins the Boys' House.
Closing date: 9am on Friday 20th April.
How to apply:
Please find and submit your application form with your covering letter (no more than 500 words) via: https://www.gtjobs.co.uk/job/head-of-boys-boarding/
We look forward to welcoming your application
Woodhouse Grove School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Woodhouse Grove School is part of the Methodist Independent Schools Trust. Registered Office: Methodist Church House, 25 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5JR. Charity No. 1142794. Company No. 7649422.
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Doctor Who (1963)
1 audio problem in The Trial of a Time Lord 13-14 (aka The Ultimate Foe)
Starring: Colin Baker, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Tom Baker, William Hartnell
The Trial of a Time Lord 13-14 (aka The Ultimate Foe) - S23-E4
Audio problem: All of the scenes of the trial have some sort of sound problems. Among other things, sound bites from earlier on appear from seemingly nowhere, and, if you listen carefully, you can hear someone calling out the cue "Take 6", which should have been edited out quite easily, but wasn't.
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When John Kasich came into office in 2011, he immediately scrapped Governor Strickland's "evidence based" school funding plan. Kasich promised his own plan in a few months.
Two years later, Kasich finally revealed his plan to a room full of school superintendents, who were initially impressed. Kasich promised poor districts would be getting more money under his plan.
But just as we predicted, the whole thing was a lie. Per pupil funding dropped, the majority of poor districts saw no increases in state funding after seeing massive cuts in the last budget, and poorly performing charters got a bump in funding at the expense of public schools,
School superintendents revolted. Republican state legislators expressed grave concerns.
And Richard Ross, Kasich's chief education advisor and co-architect of the plan, defended the new funding model by making jokes about teaching kids music using computers instead of hiring an expensive music teacher.
Kasich developed his plan in a vacuum with no input from key stakeholders. He even excluded legislators from his own party who would ultimately be responsible for passing the plan through the General Assembly.
So it should come as no surprise that Republicans in the legislature are now planning to completely scrap Kasich's school funding plan and start from scratch.
And Mr. Ross?
He's getting a promotion.
After spending $50K on headhunters to conduct a "thorough search" for a new Schools Superintendent, they ultimately decided to hire Kasich's education czar and architect of the failed Kasich school funding plan.
Ross will be replacing Stan Heffner, the former superintendent who was forced to resign because of a scandal first brought to light here at Plunderbund.
Hmmm. I'm sure Kasich's charter school donors had some input into the failed plan. And I'm sure they'll have a great deal of input into the new one too. I'm only surprised that Kasich hasn't pushed for Creationism yet….
In business, it is called the "Moses Complex". Some executive(s) with an inflated ego go up on the mountain (usually some swanky retreat), think they talk to God, ignore the people doing the work, and mystically reappear with a plan carved on tablets. Always an epic fail.
I'm waiting for the legislature to scrap Kasich…
School treasurers, superintendents, and local association leaders can read a ledger and the revenue data–rhetoric and flaccid, flippant faux support don't hold much sway with the real bottom line–which has been, by the way, unconstitutional in Ohio since 1997 except for the Evidence-based model our current governor scrapped.
Many times I am embarrassed to say I am from Ohio and I have to teach under these circumstances. This is one of them.
A Kasich failure. Imagine that. Keep digging, Johnny!
Kasich's "funding plan" is the payback to educators for the massive defeat of SB5–Kasich's middle name is "revenge". He wants to ruin public education in Ohio. He believes in Charter Schools because his big donors run them. Our Super from Franklin was 100% correct in his outcry about the lies Kasich told Super's–then Kasich sent out his Warren County Prosecutor(henchman) to quiet him down. Please hurry 2014 and get rid of this boob!


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- Spanish man went to Kawit, Cavite with one mission
- He seeks to apologize for his entire race for what they did
- Know the story of Johhny Barnreuther
As history has taught us, the Philippines was first colonized by the Spaniards. They conquered most parts of the Philippines for over 300 years.
This is why Filipinos are heavily ingrained with Spanish influences in the culture, food, language, and many more.
For most of the Filipinos back then, it was hell for them because of the things they changed and conditions they've brought our countrymen to. As of present time, however, one Spaniard wants to repent for all of these.
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A man named Johnny Barnreuther went to Kawit, Cavite to meet with the leaders of that region. He went to the exact location where the Philippines "became an independent nation over 100 years ago."
He seeks forgiveness for his ancestors' wrongdoings to the Filipinos. He said in his post, "I asked for forgiveness for what we as a people have done to them in this historical place!!!"
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In the photos, he is holding the Philippine flag as a powerful gesture of humility and gave it back to the region leaders while kneeling in front of them. As a Spaniard, he is representing his country for the "healing of nations."
Many netizens from all over the world, not just Filipinos, were moved by this touching and important act.
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Today started off with the doctors putting some staples in Ben's head to stop the bleeding from his skull surgery. (He has been leaking fluid a bit.)
The good news is that they took him off of the drugs that keep him in a medically induced coma. The drugs stay in the system for several days, so Ben should wake slowly. The nurse told my wife that it would probably be five more days, at least, before he wakes.
Also, Ben has pneumonia still, so he coughed up a little fluid today. That's good. It was the first cough so far. Also, Mary said that he moved his lips slightly today. That's good, too. He hasn't moved any body part since the accident.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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Take your workout to a new level with functional training at Benders Gym Madison
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Using your body's natural mechanics to improve strength, balance, and flexibility, functional training provides movements that echo the activities in your sport or daily life – like bending, tugging, twisting, and lifting.
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"Our designers' mission is to help you create the perfect bathroom"
We want a visit to Ripples to be more than a simple shopping trip - we make sure our design service will open your eyes to the hidden potential of your bathroom. This includes paying attention to detail and this is where we add those all-important personal touches, which include designs that are hand-drawn to help you create your own, individual bathroom scheme.
All of our designers are selected first and foremost because of their design skills and their ability to provide a specialist service to our customers. Training is an on-going activity we take very seriously: whether it's learning about the latest products, water regulations or how to be creative with the limited space typically afforded to the British bathroom. It is this focus that has enabled us to win more awards within our industry than any other bathroom retailer. See our Awards page for more details.
Our beautiful showrooms are owned and operated by carefully selected franchise partners who understand the Ripples values of providing a personal service, using high quality products and being innovative through bathroom design.
To meet our team, why not visit your nearest Ripples showroom today. We look forward to meeting you.
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I have always wanted to go to Tokyo ever since I was a teen. I have had such a great love for Japanese anime, video games, music and fashion. I was over the moon when I finally had the opportunity to visit Tokyo a few weeks ago. I was out there to cover Tokyo Fashion Week and to meet with creatives, build business connections and view the beautiful city. Visiting was nothing short of an amazing experience. Tokyo Fashion Week felt smaller but full of talent, innovation and creativity, some of my favourites were Tae Ashida, Pachy Cake Eater, Taakk to name a few. I also had the opportunity to meet some Japanese bloggers such as Yuri Nakagawa and Ma Yu which was great.
I stayed in Keio Plaza based in the Shinjuku. It is a great lavish hotel made up of forty-seven floors, it has fantastic service and all the facilities that you would need and more. There is a twenty-four hour front desk, eleven restaurants, a hotel business centre offering PCs with Internet access. Overall, the hotel was very clean and all the staff were accommodating. I would definitely stay there again. The hotel was minutes away from shopping central and Shinjuku station which is the busiest station in the world. It was great as it was only stops away from most central locations such as Shibuya, Harajuku, Omotesando, Akihabara and Roppongi.
I spent most of my time wandering the streets of Shibuya before and after fashion shows. There were great traditional eating spots and high street shopping in Shinjuku. Harajuku is a super cool for trend spotting, as it was great to see all the experimental styles on show, it also had with great little hang out spots and dessert restaurants. I also made it to the Akihabara, the world of arcade gaming with buildings dedicated to video games. I couldn't visit Tokyo without having some arcade fun.
Overall Tokyo is a must see destination for everyone. It's a city full of excitement and I will definitely be visiting again.


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Gorgeous cities, poignant wartime history and a surprising abundance of railway heritage, Belgium has many attractions for such a small country - and is heaven for beer connoisseurs!
A tour packed with festive cheer, designed with fans of Belgian beers in mind, but also featuring Christmas Markets amidst the timeless gables, belfries and waterways of Bruges and Gent. We visit three Christmas Markets, three breweries, cruise the waters of Gent and trundle along the North Sea coastline on a privately chartered vintage tram, all from our brand new 4* hotel in Bruges.
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Are you tired of being sick and tired? The CDC estimates that each year in the United States, 20% of the population gets the flu, and more than 200,000 Americans are hospitalized from seasonal flu-related complications. So many people make a mad dash to the drugstore every day to combat a cold, but why wait to act until it's too late?Read More
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How many times have you heard someone say, "I'm doing a detox" or "I need to detox my body?" Especially over the past few years, the word detox appears to have become a hip buzzword, or something you're supposed to do, because it's cool.
With so many different detoxes out there, trying to keep up with half the trend seems more tiring than practically doing something about it! So if you're not sure where to even begin with this word, or what it means–we get it!Read More


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Comics historian and critic R.C. Harvey has written an excellent assessment of the Mort Walker studio style. The following is an excerpt from his definitive book, The Art of the Funnies, first published in 1994.
"By the late fifties and early sixties," Harvey begins, "Walker's patented stylized forms had emerged. Not since Cliff Sterrett surrealized human anatomy in the futuristic manner have we had such charming comic abstractions of the human form. The simplest shapes suggest human dimensions. Beetle's head is a cantaloupe; Sarge's, a giant pear. Upon these pulpy craniums, Walker's grafts billiard balls for noses. Bodies in repose hang limply from these heads like uninhabited suits of clothes weighted to the ground by monster shoes (not feet), and hands are doughy wads, dangling at the ends of empty sleeves. Clothing shows no wrinkles: sleeves and pantlegs are simple geometric shapes vaguely approximating arms and legs."


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May 21
This morning at church, we sang "I want to be close to you/I want to be close to you."
And I thought, that has to be the scariest desire on earth. Because every time I've asked God to get closer to Him, He's given me a situation where my only hope was in Him. And while it's the best feeling ever to have His presence that intensely on you, it makes for some pretty freaky moments.
Like one year ago today, when I experienced the wildest day of my life.
I was alone in Armenia, adopting a daughter who spoke zero English, was paralyzed from the waist down, had no idea what a mother was, was very attached to one specific nun at her orphanage, needed catheterizing three times a day and refused to eat/sleep/take medicine from me.
And that was the easy part.
Because Nick and I were Americans adopting from Armenia while living in the UK, the authorities didn't exactly know what to do with us. The normal visa process for an adopted child wouldn't work, since we weren't going back to America anytime soon. And thanks to very few flights in and out of the country, my two options for getting back to England were through either Iran or Russia, both of which I was not supposed to be in as a military wife, let alone alone as a military wife, let alone as a lone military wife with a paralyzed Armenian chatterbox with no visas of any sort and who clearly was not my biological child strapped to my back.
I chose to take my chances in Russia, where people roamed around the airport with "Mr. President" T-shirts emblazoned with Putin's face.
Our contact at the American embassy prepared me for the worst, writing letters in Armenian, Russian and English explaining our situation, and why we didn't need a visa for Guyana to either get out of or enter any country. "Here's a number to call if they arrest or detain you," he said. "How much Russian do you speak?"
But it wasn't just the possible arrest (or let's give my imagination credit for the "Seven Years in Tibet" scenario it came up with) or detainment that freaked me out (and as it turns out, we did get detained temporarily in Armenia). It was the fact that I had no idea if I was making the biggest mistake of my life, if I was destroying my wonderful little family, by adopting Guyana.
Guyana and I struggled for our two weeks in Armenia. She didn't hate me, but she certainly didn't want to be my kid, or leave the only home she had ever known. And I doubted, so dang much. How much? On most days, I neither ate nor ran. Skipping food is one thing, but skipping a run? The last and only time that happened, I was recovering from intense birth trauma.
In a way, this was birth trauma, too.
For many hours of each day, I lay on the hard tile floor of my downtown apartment, sobbing, totally paralyzed, Bible in hand but its words stuck on the page or in my throat. What got me up off the floor at any given moment were the worship songs that my closest friends sent me, horror stories from more experienced adoptive moms (they made me feel better!) and the many, many prayers from all over the world on our behalf. I physically felt them, as crazy as that sounds. I knew God was near, I knew He had called us to add Guyana to our family, I knew He would come through in my darkest hour — but I didn't know how much it would hurt. And that scared me.
In the middle of the night on May 21, I woke up, met my driver, picked up Guyana from the orphanage (she sobbed as I pulled her from a teary Sister Mieke's arms, adding my to heartache) and headed to the airport. From there, it was just us.
I have never been more terrified.
A group of men corralled us into a private, windowless room, staring at Guyana's visa-less passport and talking amongst themselves for quite a while. The clock was ticking; I worried we would miss our plane. I remembered what a good friend had told me before I left: "Be firm, and act like you know what you're doing. Tell them how to treat you, if you get in trouble." So using every acting skill I had, I ordered them in English to let me go, trying to sound as large and smart and rich and whatever as possible.
To my great shock, the head man immediately handed me our passports and opened the door. It had worked.
We made it into Russia, where I knew better than to act American or speak English. The lady at the first visa checkpoint was practically sleeping, and she returned Guyana's passport without a word. But at the second, the man was checking thoroughly, and sometimes checking bags, too. Gulp. Would he not only deem us crooks, but discover the several thousand dollars in American cash I was carrying (long story)?
I whispered the name of Jesus, over and over. A miracle, Jesus, please give us a miracle.
The lady directly in front of us dropped her bag, and papers flew everywhere. The official bent down to help her, then glanced at me and the long line behind us. He had no one to help him process everyone. He nodded to me and said hello in Russian. I replied in English. "Oh, you are American?" I gulped and nodded; it wasn't a lie, because I was, even though Guyana wasn't.
He waved us on. "Just go." I didn't argue, or ask if he wanted us to leave his country without the proper documentation because he hated or loved Americans. I practically ran down the jetway.
We sat next to an Australian immigration official on the plane from Moscow to London. I showed him the letter I had from the embassy: "Do you think this will work?" He shook his head no. "I can't imagine that it will. I've never seen such a thing done."
I got in the line of the happiest-looking customs checker I could find at Heathrow and explained our situation. It took about 45 minutes to convince them to let us through, but finally, he smiled at me and handed me Guyana's passport. "Congratulations on your new daughter."
I have never felt more relief than when I staggered through the doors, child on my body and one hand trying pathetically to steer a dolly with all our luggage, Guyana's carseat and a running stroller on it and saw this:
I stunk like Eastern European cigarettes and Yerevan humidity. My hair was a mess from the 16-hour journey, I had no makeup on and my mouth tasted like city (translation: gross). But I had one thought as Avinly ran up to me: That is the most beautiful child I have ever seen, and she's mine. "Where's Guyana?" she asked excitedly.
And for the first time ever, I could answer, "Right here."
We were finally together.
Guyana has changed so much in the past year; her progress is for another post (or follow her Facebook fan page, if you'd like). But today, as we celebrated her one-year-out-of-Armenia day with friends at a minor league baseball game, I was overwhelmed with the memories, and this one thought:
To God be the glory, great things He has done.