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"I had a friend who volunteered in Ghana in the past... and they only had good things to say about it," she said.
However, she will not be going alone; her friend and former peer at Keene State, Brian Finocchiaro, will be volunteering with her.
After searching through different volunteer programs, she began working through International Volunteer HQ to begin planning her 12-week stay in the eastern-African country.
"They have some of the worst living conditions and they need the most help," she said of why she chose Kenya. "And it has a unique culture... it's completely different."
Stearns' volunteering will begin in October and run through January; however, she explained that sometimes the host family will invite the volunteer to stay longer, as long as the volunteer can help pay their way.
Despite her excitement to spend her gap year doing something new in a place she has never been, Stearns realizes that there is a risk involved.
"It's definitely a risk to do this at this point in my life... with college loans... just up and leaving somewhere, and then coming back halfway through the school year."
As a secondary education and social science major, she explained that it would be difficult to come back to the country halfway through the school year and find a teaching job right away.
However, she will be doing plenty of teaching while she is in Kenya; her volunteer position is in an orphanage just outside Nairobi teaching some of the aproximately 300 children any one of four subjects - English, math, science and social studies.
"I will live with a host family, and the family might actually live within the orphanage," she said.
Stearns has been reaching out to the community, both in Manchester and at Keene State, to donate money to help her reach her goal. Finocchiaro and she will each be trying to reach a goal of $7,000. Out of that money, $1,579 will go toward the fees she will owe International Volunteer. That money will cover her accomodation with her host family, food and water within her accomodations, volunteer support services, administration costs, and an orientation service that will help her adjust to the drastically different culture and continue to teach her Swahili.
The rest of the money Stearns is looking to donate to the orphanage itself.
"We want to help rebuild the school if we have enough, and possibly buy them new school supplies," she said.
She also explained that the exchange rate between the U.S. and Kenya is very high; one US Dollar to 87.65 Kenyan Shillings to be exact. Often, volunteers are encouraged to buy more goods in the country rather than have things sent over from the U.S. because of the exchange rate and to help boost the local economy.
On top of what she hopes to give to the school, Keene State will be sending over text books and sports equipment upon Stearns' arrival in Kenya.
What she is planning to fundraise will not cover her plane ticket; she said that she plans to pay that out-of-pocket.
Stearns is raising money for her trip in two ways - through local bottle drives and from an online donation site.
"I work at the Manchester Country Club... so members will tell me when they have a lot of recyclables... and friends and family... and we go pick them up," she said of the bottle drive.
Online, through the website Go Fund Me, she has already raised $755. Some of the donations were made offline, but have been tracked on the website regardless. Stearns said that she has already made aproximately $1,200 across all methods.
"I wanted to get some first hand experience," she said. "When I'm teaching... I want to make sure that I make competent citizens... and I thought I can't push that on them until I have done it myself."
In order to get ready for her trip, in addition to raising money, Stearns has been hard at work on a variety of preparations.
"I just got my shots," she said, "but I need to get three more. And I'll have to start taking live typhoid pills. I've been working with the travel clinic in Bennington and they gave me a nice medical kit."
She said that she has also been learning Swahili, the official language of Kenya.
"My friend and I have been texting in Swahili to practice," she said.
Stearns also has been putting together some non-necessities.
"I was trying to figure out a present to bring to my host family," she said. "My mother recommended I bring them some maple syrup, but I can't imagine what they would do with a bottle of syrup."
Stearns will be given her exact assignments, including her host family, before she begins her work on October 1. In the mean time, she can be contacted at 802-379-5535 or by email at email@example.com for inquiries about bottle donations. Her online donation site can be found at www.gofundme.com/37s9bk.
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Black Swan — Darren Aronofsky's dazzling psychological thriller set in the cutthroat world of New York ballet plays like a kitschy mash-up of The Red Shoes, All About Eve, Rosemary's Baby, and Carrie. Natalie Portman delivers a bravura performance as Nina, a young dancer battling internal demons and a crazy, infantalizing mother (Barbara Hershey, terrifying) after being chosen to replace an aging prima ballerina (Winona Ryder, perfectly cast) and threatened (as well as possibly seduced) by a sensuous newcomer (Mila Kunis, excellent). You'll never look at manicure scissors the same way again.
I Love You Phillip Morris — After endless delays, this same-sex rom-com finally gets a U.S. release, and it's a hilarious, deranged romp that was worth the nearly two-year wait. It's based (perhaps loosely) on the improbably true story of a religious family man with serious abandonment issues turned- ay con man who finds true love in prison. As charismatic, flamboyant Steven Russell, Jim Carrey finds a role that brilliantly exploits his full range, while Ewan McGregor as the title character is winsome and appealing. As this comes from the filmmakers responsible for Bad Santa, the film is deliriously politically incorrect and full of the expected unhinged raunch, yet the love story at its center is surprisingly touching.
The Beginning by the Black Eyed Peas — After the best-selling The E.N.D. comes The Beginning — at least in the world of the Black Eyed Peas. And while lyrics still aren't their strong suit ("Girl you stole my heart like a klepto / Now the flies in my tummy need Pepto" is a shining example from "XOXOXO"), but the fun party beats the Peas have become known for are better than ever. Fergie takes a bit of a backseat on this album — which isn't really a good thing — but when she is allowed to take center stage, she shines, particularly on the mid-tempo, guitar-laden "Whenever."
Endlessly by Duffy — Blue-eyed soul songstress Duffy has a assembled a classy, catchy — albeit too brief — collection of 10 tunes for her long-awaited sophomore album, Endlessly. As she did on her first album, Rockferry, she sings of love with the yearning of a lovesick teen and the skill of a modern-day Dusty Springfield. Plenty of tracks here have the potential to be this album's "Mercy," her runaway hit. Whether radio will embrace this unique sound once again remains to be seen.
Boys Life 7 — Four LGBT-themed short films culled from recent Sundance festivals are compiled in the seventh installment of the popular series. Most intriguing, despite somewhat awkward tech credits, is Larry Kennar's Spokane, which stars Kyle Bornheimer as a straight guy attending his brother's wedding who finds himself fascinated by a gay man's attention.
Flipped — Rob Reiner has perhaps been better known among gay fans in recent years for his financial support of the federal effort to overturn Prop. 8 than he has for his directing, but with Flipped, he should capture your attention again. This sweet and innocent look at young love boasts a stellar cast (Rebecca De Mornay, Anthony Edwards, Aidan Quinn) and is fun for all.
Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise by Sam Irvin — The multifaceted career and complicated life of Thompson gets a long-overdue examination in this rather breezy bio. The versatile entertainer is best-known to contemporary audiences for her scene-stealing turn in the 1957 Audrey Hepburn musical Funny Face, and a behind-the-scenes look at her feud with costar Fred Astaire makes for some of the book's most entertaining passages. But her legacy endures as author of the beloved Eloise books, vocal coach to Sinatra, Dietrich, and Horne, godmother to Liza Minnelli, and, with gossipmongers, for her long-rumored affair with Judy Garland, an allegation the author thoroughly dispels. (Simon & Schuster, $26.99)
Leonard Bernstein at Work by Steve Sherman — Ah, to be Leonard Bernstein, one of American music's bona fide geniuses and a man who seemingly relished every moment of life — at the podium, at the piano, at the after-party. The final six years of the maestro's life are chronicled in the new Leonard Bernstein at Work. As historical photo books go, this one can border on monotonous — seeing a conductor again and again with baton in hand is not always as scintillating as, say, Maria Callas event-hopping in endless couture dresses by Marcel Escoffier — but Bernstein's sheer vitality as seen through the lens of Steve Sherman is instantly endearing, as is the foreword by Lauren Bacall. A must for any classical music lover this season. (Amadeus Press, $34.99)
Caught — The world premiere play focuses on the pending wedding of Kenneth and Troy, a committed gay couple living in Los Angeles, but examines the greater issue of the contentious debate raging over same-sex marriage. The play is performed at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles through January 23. CaughtThePlay.com

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Mailman Blogger Chronicles the Dogs Who Want to Eat Him
The old cliche about dogs and mailmen is no myth. Dogs really do attack postal carriers — 2,863 of them last year alone. Ryan Bradford, a mailman from San Diego, has taken pictures of every growling, snarling, slobbering beast on his route. As Ryan explains, "The mailman/dog relationship is no lie. It's like they can smell it on you, a scent that triggers their hunting instinct." These encounters had to be pretty terrifying at the time, but — forgive me employees of the USPS — they're also kind of hilarious. [ryancbradford.com]


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Bama lands first 2016 commit, Benito Jones, 4 star DT from Wayne County HS in MS.
Bama lands first 2016 commit, Benito Jones, 4 star DT from Wayne County HS in MS.
Roll Tide!!
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Wayne County has been great for years! I'd love a link to see about this kid.
me too!
Welcome, Benito..and Roll Tide!
Welcome and RTR !
Welcome Mr. Jones we're glad to have your commitment!
Roll Tide!
Welcome to the Tide, Mr. Jones.
Here's his 247Sports profile:
Lily (age 6): Daddy, I know what I want to be when I grow up: an artist.
Bodhi (internally groaning): Yeah? What kind of artist?
Lily: A balloon animal artist!
Bodhi (face palm)
RTR! Great way to start the 2016 class!!
I'm thinking he's a bit like Gentry/Chapman for an interior DL guy.
I'm having a hard time keeping up with the joneses...Christion, Cyrus, Hootie, Tyren, Walker. But I'm not complaining. Nice start to 2016.


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MacMillan Bloedel Limited
List of Deals
MacMillan Bloedel's roots lie in three companies: Powell River Paper Company Limited; Bloedel, Stewart & Welch; and the H.R. MacMillan Export Company.
Powell River Paper got its start in 1901, when Dwight Brooks and Michael J. Scanlon formed the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company in Minnesota. Brooks-Scanlon invested heavily in British Columbia, in Canada, buying tracts of forest. The company moved to British Columbia in the early 1900s, where logging had been under way for several decades. In 1908 Brooks-Scanlon abandoned plans to build two new sawmills and instead used the capital to merge John O'Brien's company, becoming Brooks, Scanlon & O'Brien. The company entered the newsprint business in 1909 after acquiring land and water rights on the Powell River. The mill was incorporated as the Powell River Paper Company Limited. Complications with mill construction led to the reorganization of the subsidiary in 1911 as the Powell River Company Ltd. Its first newsprint was produced the following year.
In 1911 Julius Harold Bloedel heard about an anticipated Canada-U.S. reciprocity treaty to lift tariffs on lumber and other products and decided to expand his logging operations into British Columbia. Bloedel united with railway contractors Patrick Welch and John W. Stewart that year. Bloedel, Stewart & Welch (B, S & W) was then incorporated in British Columbia. World War I hurt an already ailing lumber industry, and in 1914 exportation was nearly impossible because of a shortage of non-military shipping. B, S & W managed to keep open its logging camps at Myrtle Point during most of the war. When servicemen returned home in search of work, only two-thirds of the mills in the province were operating. At that time, Powell River Company enjoyed a boom market and rising prices.
During World War I, Harvey Reginald MacMillan was tapped by the Canadian government to find world markets for Canadian lumber. He found that nearly everywhere he traveled, lumber, including that from British Columbia, was sold through U.S. firms. In 1919 MacMillan shook hands with British lumber importer Montague Meyer on a deal that created the first privately owned lumber export brokerage in British Columbia. The H.R. MacMillan Export Company was incorporated in 1919.
B, S & W unintentionally became a manufacturer in 1924, following the failure of the Shull Lumber & Shingle Company, which owed B, S & W money. B, S & W, Shull's main creditor, bought the Shull mill. B, S & W, however, still focused on logging and buying timber. In 1930 B, S & W, like other firms, got caught in the Depression, experienced decline, and the following year lost money. Despite the Depression's effects upon the newsprint and pulp markets, Powell River maintained production, although to a reduced extent. In 1935 B, S & W joined Seaboard Lumber Sales, a subsidiary of the Associated Timber Exporters of British Columbia Limited (Astexo), a cooperative and the main competitor of the H.R. MacMillan Export Company. When Astexo, representing about thirty firms, formed Seaboard, it stopped allowing MacMillan to market its British Columbia lumber supplies, forcing MacMillan into a major mill operation and the purchase of timberland. The firm not only survived but expanded, handling logging, sawmilling, plywood and door manufacturing, railway-tie production, and shipping and sales. The H.R. MacMillan Export Company was a pioneer in vertical integration; it purchased firms involved in all parts of the lumber trade.
Powell River was one of a group of pulp and paper companies that, along with several of their company officers, were indicted in 1939 by a grand jury in San Francisco, alleging conspiracy to fix prices. World War II brought tight shipping and a shortage of labor, but also growth. British Columbia's forest industry was breaking production records by the end of 1940. Powell River expanded its sulfite pulp mill to produce market pulp for export. At the end of the war, when it became a public corporation, Powell River was in good financial shape.
B, S & W went public in 1948. Serious reforestation efforts began after World War II, with B, S & W in the forefront of that endeavor. By the late 1940s the company handled 70 percent of all reforestation in the province by private industry. During World War II the H.R. MacMillan Export Company's most important acquisitions were timberlands. That company went public in 1945. Convinced that smaller firms had no future, B, S & W approached MacMillan in 1950 about a merger. MacMillan had a larger marketing operation, and B, S & W had more timberland. The merger would result in British Columbia's largest lumber and pulp operation. MacMillan & Bloedel Limited was established in 1951.
Powell River's best year in production, sales, and earnings was 1950. During the early years of that decade, the company considered five mergers, all of which were rejected. In 1957 MacMillan & Bloedel's first newsprint machine made a better product than did Powell River, one of Canada's largest newsprint makers and owner of the world's largest newsprint mill. In 1957 Powell River decided against a merger with MacMillan & Bloedel, but the following year it sold the firm half interest in a paper-products company. Serious talks about a merger began in 1959, and in 1960 MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Limited, the largest forest products company in Canada, was established. With its emphasis on solid wood products, the firm experienced significant growth in pulp and paper manufacturing during the 1960s, becoming an international corporation with production in Europe, the United States, and Asia. In 1963 the company bought container plants in Great Britain. The next year it bought a minority interest in the Royal Dutch Paper Company. In 1966 the company was renamed MacMillan Bloedel Limited.


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Emphasize your ability to learn things. We've all watched you here and know that's one of your strong points. No job requires the exact skillset any new hire has. Let them know that you will be up and running rapidly with whatever they need you to know, and that you'll do a better job picking it up than anyone else.
For a more long-term job, emphasize the fact that you are always learning new things and improving yourself.
I do want to ask: Do you mean emphasize it during the interview, on the resume, or both? On the resume, would this be listing self-taught languages/protocols/libraries?
Emphasize it on both, but particularly during the interview. Mentioning things you've self-taught yourself on the resume sounds like a good idea. Remember, though, that the resume should be concise. Conventional wisdom says never go over one page.


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MADISON, Wis.—Two people from Milwaukee involved in a medical transportation company have been convicted of Medicaid fraud.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says Joseph Roberts and Tracy Roberts were each convicted of party to medical assistance fraud. They operated Community Transportation.
Tracy Roberts is listed as the owner of the company and is a certified Medicaid provider of transportation services. She was placed on one year of probation.
Joseph Roberts was on a federal exclusion list for prior convictions of Medicaid fraud. It prohibited him from working for a Medicaid provider. The complaint says Joseph Roberts provided the transportation services for the company.
His sentencing is scheduled February 28, 2013.


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Matthew 13
54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, that they were astonished, and said, "Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?"
55 "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?"
56 "And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?"
57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house."
Matthew 14
22. .Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side.
23 And.he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear."
27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, "Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid."
28 And Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water."
29 And he said, "Come." And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, "Lord, save me."
31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?"
I am a drunkard. You may believe it or not, but I am a drunkard. You can look into my eyes and you can see it - I am drunk with Jesus. And Jesus is a wine; he is not a man, he's an intoxication. And once you have tasted of him, then nothing of this world will ever be meaningful to you. Once the meaning from the beyond enters into your life, this whole world becomes futile, immaterial, insignificant.


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Doctor 'vindicated' by tribunal
A heart doctor who turned whistleblower to expose NHS safety fears said he felt "vindicated" after winning an unfair dismissal case following a prolonged dispute with hospital bosses.
Cardiologist Raj Mattu warned that there was insufficient protection available for whistleblowers in the NHS and said he wanted a meeting with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to discuss his concerns.
Dr Mattu publicly exposed overcrowding and fears for patient safety at Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry in 2001, claiming that there may have been avoidable deaths as a result.
He was then "vilified and bullied" by the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust during a years-long "witch hunt", according to his lawyers Ashfords LLP.
Dr Mattu told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I was rather concerned that the reason I came into medicine, which was to care for patients and to hopefully save lives, was not a priority or certainly a primary aspect of what managers in the hospital in Coventry were focused on. Patient safety was regularly put at risk and patients were dying that I felt would not have died at other hospitals I had worked at."
He said he was forced to turn whistleblower because the trust repeatedly ignored his complaints about the treatment of patients, including a policy which allowed five patients to be put in a ward designed for four.
A year after speaking out the £70,000-a-year doctor was suspended by the trust on full pay after being accused of bullying. He was dismissed in 2010.
Dr Mattu said that following his decision to blow the whistle, the hospital's head of security was asked to monitor him and "try and find as much information to use against me as possible" in an attempt to blacken his name.
"I was accused of fraud, I was accused of sexual impropriety, assaults, not doing my duties and so on," he said.
He was cleared this week of wrongdoing by Birmingham Employment Tribunal, which ruled the trust unfairly dismissed him and subjected him to "detriments" because he was a whistleblower.
Dr Mattu said: "I'm absolutely relieved that one of the things that has come out of this case that I have won is that I have been vindicated for what I did, because one of the other key findings of the tribunal is that they found that I had not caused or contributed to towards my dismissal."
But he said the trust's actions were typical of the response of NHS managers.
"Unfortunately that is a common practice of many managers within the NHS, this denial of what the primary reason is as to why you are targeted," he said.
"It is very hard to believe that it is sheer coincidence that, having never faced from 1979 to 2001 any allegations or complaints, that suddenly I should have become so altered in my nature and personality that suddenly more than 200 allegations were justified, I was suspended for five-and-a-half years, and prevented from doing the job I had so much wanted to do since the age of 18.
"I just find it quite difficult to overcome the fact that there is always this attempt to put forward a plausible alternative when the real reason at the heart of why all these allegations were suddenly mustered up is the fact that I had whistle blown, spoken out as an advocate for the patients and was not prepared to accept what was in the best interests of the managers."
He added: "Emotionally it has been very draining. I have mixed emotions over the judgment: I am relieved that I have won the case, I am also pleased that my detriments have been recognised by the employment tribunal.
"But the saddest thing out of all of this for me is that the people who have lost out the most are the patients and the public because for 13 years the trust management have prevented me from looking after patients. They have also, in the way they have treated me, discouraged any further whistleblowers in the NHS from coming forward and risking having their career and livelihood destroyed."
He said he wanted talks with Mr Hunt and NHS chief executive Simon Stevens about his case and the treatment of whistleblowers.
"I am hoping Jeremy Hunt will now grant me a meeting and Mr Stevens, the new chief executive of the NHS, will eventually meet with me so that we may discuss my experiences and, perhaps most importantly, learn important lessons that will prevent any other doctor from being treated this way," he said.
For doctors and nurses who expose problems "the protection presently available in the NHS is not adequate".
Dr Mattu's solicitor Stephen Moore believes the trust spent more than £6 million defending itself during the long-running case in a "David v Goliath battle".
Mr Moore said: " The tribunal's findings - that Dr Mattu was a whistleblower and was unfairly dismissed - completely vindicate him.
"Dr Mattu was a fantastic cardiologist and it was tragic that his pursuit of safety and the highest standards in care led to him being vilified, bullied and harassed out of a job he loved."
After being suspended Dr Mattu won a disciplinary hearing and the trust was forced to reinstate him in 2008.
A year later an inquiry by the General Medical Council also cleared him of the long-standing bullying allegations.
But Dr Mattu continued to experience hostility from management and in 2009 launched grievance procedures.
This was met with counter-allegations of more bullying and breach of confidentiality and in 2010 Dr Mattu was dismissed by the trust while on sick leave.
The trust defended its actions and said it was looking into the tribunal's decision " to consider its grounds for appeal".
It said in a statement: "We are disappointed by the Employment Tribunal's decision that the dismissal of Dr Mattu was unfair, given that the procedure followed by the Trust was reviewed by the Court of Appeal in March 2012 when it found in the Trust's favour.
"The Trust now needs to examine the Tribunal's decision in more detail (which runs to over 400 pages) to consider its grounds for appeal.
"However, we are pleased that they have firmly rejected his primary claim that his dismissal in 2010 was in any way linked to whistle-blowing about patient care.
"As a Trust, we will continue to support all our staff to raise issues of concern in our effort to provide continuous improvement in our services to patients.
"The Tribunal judgment also states that his dismissal was not on the grounds of race discrimination or victimisation and further rejected Dr Mattu's claim that he should be reinstated as a consultant at this Trust.
"Members of the public have rightly expressed concern over the time it has taken to resolve this case and it is of regret to the Trust that it could not have been resolved sooner.
"We will be making no further comment on this matter at this time."


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Economics, Issues, and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election (ICPSR 1112)
Principal Investigator(s): Alvarez, R. Michael; Nagler, Jonathan
This research was a multinomial probit analysis of 1992 National Election Studies data including individual-specific and alternative-specific variables. It consisted of simulations based on counterfactual scenarios of ideological positions of the candidates and of voter perceptions of the economy. Results of the study show that the economy was the dominant factor in accounting for voter decisions in 1992, and that Clinton, not Perot, was the beneficiary of economic discontent. Issues played an important role in this election, but Clinton was not perceived as a "New Democrat". The authors found little support for the hypothesis of angry voting. Also, they discovered that Perot took more votes from Bush than from Clinton.
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Alvarez, R. Michael, and Jonathan Nagler. Economics, Issues, and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election. ICPSR01112-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1996-01-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01112.v1
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Everybody's following Sandra Bullock to Austin.
First, lovelorn horndog Jesse James relocated from LA to the Texas city in what seems like a bid to woo back the Oscar winner. And now, James' pre-Bullock ex, former porn star Janine Lindemulder has told RadarOnline she's going to Austin to live in a trailer and be near the daughter she shares with James.
"I will live in a modest trailer park, and I've already told Sunny that she will go from the mansion (where her dad lives) to the trailer but I'll do whatever it takes to be close to my daughter," Lindemulder said. "It will be good for her to see both sides of life and I have promised her a puppy so she seems to be happy enough," she said.
Lindemulder, 41, said James has increased his child support payments to $3,000 a month and is paying for therapy for her and her daughter. Once in Austin, she says she plans to get a waitressing gig and enroll in college.
"Seriously, I am a good mom and I want to set a good example for my daughter," she said
"It will be a big change moving down to Texas but I need to be close to my daughter - whatever happens in the future Sunny will be fine," she said. "She has two parents that love her, brothers and sisters, plus a stepmom too."
Lindemulder married James in 2002, but the pair split after a year when she was arrested for assaulting him. The tattooed former adult film star served six months in jail for tax evasion in 2008 and lost custody to James of eight-year-old Sunny last year.
Selected Reading: Radaronline, New York Daily News, Access Hollywood.


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Wax vanitas, Europe, 1701-1800
Vanitas are works of art intended to remind the viewer of the shortness of human life, the uselessness of vanity and the certainty of death. This example features many symbols typical for this type of object, such as a skull and insects that feast on decaying flesh. The other side of the model shows the face during life. The verse scratched on to the front is from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes and reads "vanity of vanities, all is vanity".
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Glossary: vanitas
A type of still-life painting in which the objects are reminders of mortality. These often include hourglasses, scales, mirrors or skulls. Popular in Dutch painting in the 1600s.
Glossary: mortality
The number of deaths which occur in a given area or period, from a particular disease, etc.; the average frequency of death; death rate.


text: A comment on another thread inspired this. A lot of the Star Trek movies have got plot holes. But which one do you think has got it the worst? And which one do you think manages to sail through with the least plot holes? For the most plot holes I think Generations. The nexus ribbon is just one big headache that tears holes right through that script like it's been written on tin foil. Nemesis is a close second thanks to Shinzon's rapid mood swings from one motivation to another. And which one has the least plot holes? I don't know. Maybe The Motion Picture or The Voyage Home are the most 'straight-forward' of all the movie plots, so neither of them really stretch credibility. Maybe TMP just edges it. But what do you guys think?


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It's a well known fact that the British are a self deprecating bunch and, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, we've got much to be self deprecating about. We're rubbish at lots of things, such as getting trains to run on time (or even run), speaking other languages, or winning at games we invented, which is most of them.
There are some things though that we're very good at, and it must be said, Hi-Fi is one of them. We've got many UK based manufacturers that can sit with or even outperform anything the rest of the world can produce, and for that we should be proud. Arcam, B&W Speakers, and Naim audio are just three that spring to mind. Another is Acoustic Energy (AE) and it's this company that has made the Aego M 2.1 sub-sat system that we've got here.
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While some Hi-Fi companies have turned their noses up at the iPod as a Lo-Fi product not worthy of consideration, the more egalitarian have embraced the device and others of its ilk. Then again, the success of the iPod has made it essentially impossible to ignore for many speaker manufacturers. Acoustic Energy is certainly making no secret on its web site that the iPod is where the Aego M is aimed. The white styling of the speakers is a pretty strong visual cue and naturally the set is also available in black to match up with the black iPod or PSP, assuming, of course, that you haven't turned your PSP blue.
Unlike the Acoustic Authority set I reviewed here, there's no iPod dock with this product just a line level audio input. Therefore, for a more elegant solution that adds a remote control you can get something like the Onkyo iPod dock though inevitably that adds to the price.
The set consists of two remarkably small satellites and a sub-woofer that are very smart to look at with soft rounded edges and a smooth finish. The satellites are constructed of a heavy alloy – and when AE say heavy, they mean it. Despite being only 103mm tall and 68mm wide, they weigh 9k, far heavier than something of that size looks. If you're in need of an offensive weapon these would be scarily effective.
This is very good news sonically though, as a solid housing means less wasted resonance and more actual music in your lug holes. The white speaker is finished off with black grilles.
In contrast with the satellites, the sub-woofer is actually quite light. The design matches the satellites very well – white surrounds and curved edges with a black grille. The base is designed so that the speakers rest firmly on the desk but are angled slightly upwards so that the sound is projected into the room rather than onto the desk.
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There's an on/off control at the top edge that also acts as a volume level and a small red light to indicate power. The amplifier is built into the sub-woofer cabinet, so the speakers attach directly to that via clip on plugs. The other end is a phono plug, which slots neatly into the rear of the satellites. With only two speakers this makes it child's play to set the speakers up.


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Wake Up & Smell the Bagels
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Many of us are truly living in the golden age of humankind.
I don't want to dispatch the butler to fetch my angry trousers, but I do feel moved to say something. More and more these days, I am noticing people wishing their lives away and/or moaning about "how hard things are" (and not in a good way).
I know it's easy to dwell in the past ("We'll never see days like that again"). I also know it's easy to long for the future ("Just a few more days, and it will be the weekend.") The problem with both of these scenarios is that we end up missing out on the moment.
If all we do is long for days gone past or things to come, we neglect the good things going on all around us. When you come to think about it, for the vast majority of human existence on this planet, our species has lived in horrendous conditions and painfully eked out a pitiful existence. To this day, a tremendous number of people around the globe live in abject poverty, and many of them live in fear of their lives.
When my mother was a young girl, her family didn't have air conditioning, central heating, or hot running water. All they had was a single cold water supply to the tiny kitchen, along with an outside toilet at the far end of the yard. Any hot water was heated on the coal-fired stove in the kitchen. They took a bath only once a week. This involved bringing the tin bath up from the cellar and slowly filling it pan by pan with hot water. My mom's grandfather would have the first bath, followed by her mom and dad, followed by my mom and her sister and brother... all in the same water.
They lit the house using candles and gas lights. They didn't have electricity installed until 1941. I'm sure the delight of getting electricity was offset by the fact that my grandfather, who was in the Royal Navy, was busy being sunk on a series of ships (he was not considered a good luck charm), and bombs were falling whenever the Germans had a spare moment. As a major steel producer, our hometown of Sheffield was a prime target.
Today we have the most amazing medical facilities and capabilities. Our homes are heated and cooled. We have hot and cold running water, and we can take a shower or have a bath multiple times a day if we so desire. We have high-definition color televisions in almost every room of the house (living in the hope that one day there will be something worth watching), and we have access to cheap and plentiful food beyond the wildest dreams of our ancestors.
Once again, I know that an uncountable number of people still live in the direst of circumstances. When I paint my rosy picture, I'm talking about the people I know in America, Australia, Europe, and many other places around the world -- the sort of people who have access to the Internet and the time to read this blog.
Many of us are truly living in the golden age of humankind. The vast majority of our ancestors -- and the vast majority of people living in the world today -- would say we're enjoying the lives of emperors and empresses.
Life is very short. We diminish it by wishing our hours away and belittling our lot. We should all begin each and every day by reflecting on our blessings. I, for example, have my extraordinary good looks, incredible sense of fashion, extreme intelligence, and cutting wit, to name but a few. (You, for example, have my columns to enjoy.) After that, we should seize each moment and enjoy it to the fullest, remembering that these moments are finite in number, and that others are not as fortunate as we are.
Wake up and smell the bagels. {Pontification mode = OFF}
PS See also my chum Martin Rowe's column: Bagels: Official Food of Test & Measurement.
— Max Maxfield, Editor of All Things Fun & Interesting
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Cubs prepare to fill void left by Soriano's pending trade
By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com
PHOENIX -- How do the Cubs fill the opening in the lineup with the pending departure of Alfonso Soriano?
"You say you're prepared for it, but I don't think you're really prepared to lose somebody of that nature," manager Dale Sveum said Thursday. "All the things he brings to a team, the fourth hole, the character, the clubhouse, the leadership and everything. You just don't replace that."
Soriano was pulled from Thursday's Cubs lineup against the D-backs at the request of president of baseball operations Theo Epstein, and appears to be headed to the Yankees.
Physically, Sveum said he'll mix and match in the outfield, using rookie Junior Lake as well as Cole Gillespie in left field. Brian Bogusevic, on the disabled list with a strained left hamstring, could return in early August.
The Cubs may decide to add a pitcher when they make a roster move rather than an outfielder because the bullpen has been overworked, and they have a doubleheader coming up on Tuesday.
Soriano, 37, was one of the few veterans in the clubhouse.
"You have [Kevin] Gregg, [David] DeJesus, and other than that, it's a lot of young guys," Sveum said. "With the addition of Lake, now we're getting pretty young."
The Cubs were busy at the Trade Deadline last year, and this season, have made six deals before July 31. The only players who were on the Chicago roster when Jim Hendry was the general manager are Starlin Castro, Darwin Barney, Welington Castillo and Jeff Samardzija.
The Cubs may find another left fielder, but can't replace Soriano's professionalism.
"You don't replace that," Sveum said. "Hopefully, down the road you do. You don't have a Band-aid right now to replace that kind of guy in your clubhouse."
Sveum mindful of Gregg's extensive work
PHOENIX -- Kevin Gregg could use a breather.
The Cubs closer won't say that, but manager Dale Sveum feels the right-hander might be a little tired this month. In nine games, he's given up seven runs on 12 hits and nine walks over 10 innings, and was six for eight in save opportunities.
"Overall, I've given up more [hits and walks] in the last month than prior, but it's inflated by one outing," Gregg said of his July 14 outing against the Cardinals when he gave up four runs in one inning.
"I look at [Wednesday], and I gave up three hits, and two were broken-bat hits," he said of an outing against the D-backs. "You have to roll with the punches a little bit. Some things just didn't go your way. Yesterday was one of those outings. It seems like I've had a couple of those. I didn't feel that bad, and didn't get the results I wanted."
One of the things that frustrated the Cubs about Carlos Marmol was the amount of players he walked. Sveum would like to see Gregg cut down on that.
"The walks have hurt him," Sveum said. "The fastball down is not quite as down as it was earlier. Because we play so many of these same games, and we're one swing away from tying the game, and he gets up. We've been winning games on the road and he's had to pitch, and [warm up in] tie games, so his arm has been used a lot. We have to find ways to give him some rest."
Gregg hasn't retired the side in order in any of his July outings. He'd converted his first 12 save opportunities.
"The first two months, a lot of things went my way and I got balls hit to people, and they weren't getting those seeing eye balls," Gregg said. "I should be in the middle of that, and the balance will come out over the full season."
Castro's English lesson to Lake paying off
PHOENIX -- After Junior Lake's first four-hit game on Monday, he met with the media for the normal interview session. Lake was able to answer the majority of the questions in English.
Starlin Castro, who is three days older than Lake, 23, pressed his Dominican countryman to learn English.
"When I was in the Minor Leagues, I told him, 'You have to speak English at this level because you don't know who doesn't like you,'" Castro said. "If you have somebody [who] doesn't like you [is the interpreter], and [the media] asks a question, the other guy can say something different."
Castro got that advice from Oneri Fleita, who was the Cubs player development director for 12 seasons before he was dismissed in August 2012. Fleita is now a consultant for the Reds.
"One day, [Andres] Blanco translated for me," Castro said. "[Fleita] told me, 'I don't want to see you do that.' He said, 'You have to do interviews at this level by yourself.' I'm not scared to say anything. I watch TV and listen to English music."
Listening to English-language television shows and music supplemented the lessons given the Latin players in the Cubs system. Castro did take part in those but said it wasn't enough.
"You can say one word or two words, but [it doesn't teach how to have] a conversation," he said.
Castro, who made his Major League debut in May 2010, needed an interpreter early in his career. Now, he handles interview requests on his own.
"I'm not afraid to talk," he said. "If I say something bad, 'OK, how should I say that? How do I say that?' and I learn. When I text with my agent, I see how he texts me. I watch what he tells me, and I can write it, too."
Baker progressing slowly in rehab assignment
PHOENIX -- Cubs pitcher Scott Baker, rehabbing from Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, hasn't shown much improvement after his third rehab start.
On Wednesday, Baker gave up three runs on five hits over three innings in his third rehab start for Class A Kane County.
"It was kind of like the other ones, not super sharp, not a lot coming out," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said Thursday. "He topped out at 88 [mph]. He's a little bit short right now."
The right-hander, who the Cubs hoped could pitch for the big league team this season, now has been charged with 13 runs on 17 hits and six walks over 8 2/3 innings in his three rehab starts.
Could Baker be hesitant to just let it go with his pitches?
"That's hard to say," Sveum said. "He's got that personality that he might not be letting it go yet. That comes with the territory. Sometimes just one, let it go, and it's like, 'OK, I'm all right.' It's a fine line, I'm sure, for guys who have had those kind of surgeries."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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NCUA Establishing Security Office
The NCUA will establish a new office focused solely on agency security and continuity, Public Affairs Specialist John Fairbanks told Credit Union Times.
"We anticipate naming a director of the office in the near future," he said.
The announcement was in response to questions about examiner safety, prompted after court documents revealed NCUA employees discovered 10,000 rounds of ammunition and semi-automatic weapons in a storage room when they seized the $23.6 million Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union in Cleveland earlier this year.
NCUA employees also discovered a go bag in the office of former CEO Alex Spirikaitis, which was packed with blank identification cards, clean underwear, a razor, a map of a Los Angeles address and a variety of prepaid mobile phone cards, Marriott hotels cards and stored value cards, prosecutors said.
(Read more about the arsenal discovered at Taupa Lithuanian CU)
Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, told Credit Union Times in a statement that the situation in Cleveland was unusual, but NCUA employees have ongoing concerns about personal safety.
The NTEU represents approximately 950 of NCUA's nearly 1,200 employees, and about 150,000 bargaining unit employees in 30 federal agencies and departments.
Kelley also said the NTEU will work with the NCUA to explore ways to enhance and improve the safety and security of employees.
Fairbanks confirmed that statement, saying the NCUA is presently working in partnership with the union to identify and address additional on-the-job safety concerns.
The NCUA continually reviews policies and procedures for enhancing the security of employees working in the field and in office environments, Fairbanks said. Police officers don't regularly accompany NCUA employees to credit unions when the regulator places them into conservatorship. However, Fairbanks said when necessary, the regulator will work with law enforcement and security specialists to protect NCUA employees.
A former NCUA examiner, who agreed to speak anonymously, said the NCUA does a good job sheltering inexperienced examiner staffers from volatile situations. If there is a perceived threat, law enforcement coordination is used to assist in serving conservatorship orders, the former field employee said.
"There truly is another side to the industry that most people never see or hear about," the person said.
The NCUA was not able to immediately provide additional details regarding the new office, such as how the office would be funded and if it would impact the 2014 operating budget.


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