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More pics of RPattz at the Dills Concert Last Night
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oh my gosh! huge FML moment! I Was supposed to go to the Met last night, but my friends talked me out of it!!! I would have met them!!!!! *SOB*ReplyDelete
kristen looks like shes doing a science experiment in thoughs glasses, lol.ReplyDelete
Oh my. I love tuxedo vests on guys.ReplyDelete
How can Nikki look so bored while listening to Rob? I'm probably weird but I think Kristen looks super cool in those glasses.ReplyDelete
hey it looks like Nikki stole Rob's beany style :)ReplyDelete
NR is soo annoying, can she jusg leave so KS and RP have a chance? yes, I am annoying but NR is a fame-whoreReplyDelete
ew. nikki go away!ReplyDelete
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Seriously Nikki.. WE CANT STAND YOU....ReplyDelete
I think Kristen's glasses are strange, but in a great way. The more I look at them, the more I dig them. She's so unique, I just love her.ReplyDelete
It's cool that she doesn't have to copy anyone else's styles. She paves her own way :)
yeah, KS's style is totally cool. dig the glasses too. I like how she's so casual looking and not all dressed-up like NR. KS is aware there are going to be photo-ops obviously but choose to be herself. which is more than i can say for NR.ReplyDelete
Nice pics- to be honest they all look tired to me. Rob looks like he needs a night out with just the boys. I know they're probably a big family with working so many long hours together, it's only natural, but sometimes you just need to have some space. Maybe I'm just speaking from my own life work family. Just a thought!!ReplyDelete
Anyone notice KS's t-shirt is too big for her? I swear I saw the same t-shirt on Rob a few days ago...just sayin...ReplyDelete
Poor things - they all do look tired. They've been working their butts off.ReplyDelete
nikki has like 2 scenes in the movie... so she has no reason to be tired..ReplyDelete


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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Locutus of Bored, Mar 14, 2014.
Red Yellow kills a fellow, red black venom lack
Makes me wanna watch Kill Bill for some reason.
Heh... oh, that saying is for North American snakes, Coral snakes elsewhere can have red on black bands.
Formation of a snowflake:
^ Dang it! Game over, man.
Yep, Locutus wins the thread yet again. The rest of us are just here for the wine spritzers and canapes.
Canapes? *looks around* No one offered me canapes!
I got a can o' creamed corn, if that helps.
wow! that's a cool topic and just the thing for a biologist. What a splendid surprise for my return to here!
Sorry that I was awol for almost 3 months - real life was a bit demanding lately: tons of deadlines to meet, meetings to attend, samples to take and examine, 4 shipwrecks (why the [insert un-ladylike vocabulary here] can't people read their nautical maps and hire a certified pilot?!), slight health issues & spring cleaning
I'll try to defend my position as best as I can and come up with something really special. The prob is that there are so many to choose from...
*chompchompchompgulp* I have no idea what happened to them. *wipes crumbs off distended stomach*
Not to mention the axial tilt problem.
JiNX, your image was taken down. I don't know if you did it like it says or if it's a Photobucket hiccup, but let me know if you still want to be in the contest and replace the image if you do.
Oh, thanks, that's nice of you to say. But if it does win, I'll give the next round to whomever comes in second place. I don't want to hog the game.
I was clearing out duplicates in my photobucket, and I guess I got carried away.
Here's my entry:
^ Thanks.
So, tomorrow is the last day for entries, everyone. I'll post the voting thread Saturday.
My favourite freshwater algae: Pediastrum
(If you'd like to take a look for yourself: you find them in every puddle, rain-barrel etc). Here's a particularly pretty specimen:
Last chance to get entries in! The voting thread will go up tomorrow.
Argh, hang on. I hope you still accept my entry.
Yep, you're good. I'll still keep taking them until I get the thread up and running.
that's beautiful, selina! This poll will once again be a very difficult choice.
Please give my regards to all your fellow Flaptains in the lounge Hope to see you all in the Commodores' Lounge soon!
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Candy Herrera came to the United States from Chile with her mother, Teresa, when she was 4 years old. They were both on six-month visas as tourists. They've never gone back.
Candy Herrera came to the United States from Chile with her mother, Teresa, when she was 4 years old. They were both on six-month visas as tourists. They've never gone back.
Thanks to help from her grandfather, who was already an American citizen, eventually Candy and Teresa were able to shed their illegal status and become permanent U.S. residents.
Now, Candy is 27 and working toward a master's degree in Latin American studies from the University of Florida. She is in the process of becoming an American citizen.
"When you grow up here, you're more than likely to stay here as an immigrant," she said. "My family's here, and my friends are here, so I'm going to stay here."
But for more than half of her life, she was an illegal immigrant for whom higher education seemed an unreachable dream.
"I couldn't go to college, so I just got these crappy, under-the-table jobs," Herrera said. "I would take jobs where I strongly suspected that my employers were keeping wages from me."
As an illegal immigrant who needed to earn a living, she was in a vulnerable position that made it difficult to contest possible exploitation by her bosses.
While she worked as a restaurant server, one employer refused to give Herrera a raise along with the other employees when the minimum wage increased because her boss told her she wasn't paying taxes.
She spent three hours on the bus each way as she headed to both of her jobs in Palm Beach County, where she grew up, because she couldn't get a driver's license.
Despite those hardships, Herrera said she has been more fortunate than other illegal immigrants. For that, she thanks her family.
Entering the U.S. on a visa and staying after it expired was the only option Herrera's mother could see to get a better life.
She had gotten a divorce and brought her daughter to the United States to be with her parents.
Herrera's grandfather, Hernan, had earned his U.S. citizenship after more than two decades of living as an illegal immigrant. He had arrived through a legal port of entry and faced multiple dead-ends in his attempts to become a citizen, including a run-in with an attorney who took $5,000 and then reneged on his promise to secure his citizenship.
Millions of other illegal immigrants, however, don't have family in the United States to rely on as a path to citizenship.
Two plans — one proposed by President Barack Obama and the other by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators — seek to provide a better road map for the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants in America today.
Herrera sees some problems with both plans — she cited a weak focus on reunifying families torn apart by a parent's deportation — but she is hopeful this push will result in long-needed reforms.
While the support of congressional Republicans is uncertain, she said she thinks the GOP could back the reforms because the party must adapt if it wants to survive. That means showing support for immigrants and their struggles, especially given the growing power of Hispanic voters nationwide.
While Herrera said she is bothered by the sense that Republican support for this attempt at immigration reform could be motivated by a "thinly veiled pandering to the Latinos of the United States," she said it could be key to finally improving the system and benefiting millions of illegal immigrants.
Establishing a way for these people to become citizens would be a radical shift to their benefit, giving them the freedom to leave jobs where they're being taken advantage of without fear of retribution or deportation, she said.
"You can imagine how these folks would feel disenfranchised and not want to go to the police because they have been the victims of racism while in the United States," she said.
Herrera also pointed out that immigration reform would give them the chance to improve their lot and gain some upward social mobility, which in turn would allow them to pump more money into the economy as consumers.
One of her main concerns about the so-called Gang of Eight's proposal in the Senate is the high priority it places on border security. It would establish a commission to evaluate U.S. border security and require the completion of enforcement measures before allowing illegal immigrants to begin the process of earning their citizenship.
But the majority of illegal immigrants didn't come here because the border was easy to cross, she insisted. They came here to work, and she considers pouring billions of dollars into border enforcement a "massive waste" of taxpayer money.
"The strongest pull factor for people to come to the United States is jobs — and so when the jobs aren't there, they don't come," she said. "All they want to do is work."
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text: Just came back from my usual league sessions at my local club and i'm feeling so mad, I just feel like calling it quits and hanging the racquet. I've been taking private lessons this past couple of weeks because I want to address weakness in my games and take it to the next level (i'm 4.5). While i've noticed improvements in the aspects of my game I was working on, i'm still getting burned by grinders. I played 3 matches today (we play 3 matches, 40 minutes each) and the first 2, I was playing people that I consider to be at my play level but that don't have any "big shots". I was hammering my serve/forehand and hitting my 1 handed backhand the best i've hit it in my entire life. I had some great angles, but that didn't prevent me from getting burned 6-1. Even the club's pro was watching my game and he thought I was serving great, that even he wouldn't of done the return, but the grinder just kept putting everything in play. Similar story in the 2nd match, lost 6-4. 3rd match was against some guy that's a 5.0, needless to say I got burned 9-0. I hit a total of 4 aces in my 3 matches, which is about my usual average. While I didn't expect to beat him, I once got a 6-3 out of him. Thing is, I feel I've improved a lot in the past couple of weeks, and it's not like i'm playing bad, yet I always loose badly when I attend that league. In the last weeks of attending, I have a 5-21 record which is awful and it's gotten to me mentally, I just feel like breaking my frame and selling all my gear and quitting. The pro and my 3rd opponent think i'm nut, they say I have way over average power and a good baseline based offensive game that maybe needs to be slowed down a bit and tuned, and that I need to finish my points better, my net game lacks. But then again, that's why i'm taking lessons (worked on my net game yesterday), I feel I've improved, yet I have no result in terms of Win-Loss. For sure my game could always be better, that's the case for all of us, but when you get the feeling you played pretty good and you get burned, it's very tough to take mentally. My confidence level is at an all time low now and i'm not sure i'll get through this. It's not like i've lost matches before or had some tough loss in my 15 years of playing, believe me I did, but it never made me doubt my ability as a tennis player, and I always felt like I would get over this. This time I don't feel like I can do anything to shake this up, feels very different.


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I would like to make a quilt as a gift to my son and his bride for their upcoming wedding. I am considering the Double Wedding Ring quilt pattern but with a modern twist. There seems to be several approaches to making this quilt. I would like to hear from quilters who have made this quilt, what method did you use and how would you give it a modern twist? Sallie M
In the book, "Relax and Quilt" (edited by Patricia Wilens and published by Oxmoor House) has a great pattern called "Chains of Love". It was very easy to do and looks great as a scrappy quilt. I saw that it is available at amazon.com
Pat--"Keep Calm and Carry On"
hi sally, welcome to the group. DWR's look very modern in batiks, and they're beautiful too.
gini in north idaho
Gini's idea of batiks sounds wonderful. Makes me want to make another one. I used the book and templates from a book I purchased from Joann's.Sorry, I don't recall the author.
Welcome to the site.
Sally, if you go to google images and type in 'double wedding ring quilts' there are all kinds of ones to look at.
Also fons and porter sells a kit for a pre-cut batik DWR quilt here https://www.shopfonsandporter.com/product/Batik-Double-Wedding-Ring-Pre-cut-Quilt-Kit/best-sellers?m=cfpics
Sally - we also have a DWR group that I have posted that shows you how to make one using John Flynn's method...check it out!
Sally I used Eleanor Burns pattern from her book "Egg Money Quilts." She has free videos on her website that you can watch over and over. I used this method because it is so much quicker and easier than the traditional pattern. It uses pre-printed fusible interfacing which really helps a lot.
My modern twist....I used batiks for the rings and white Kona cotton for the background. It really came out great! I enjoyed making this quilt so much, I am thinking of making 2 more to put away for my children when they get married.
Mooresville, NC
I have the DWR dies for my Accuquilt Studio and could pre cut the pieces with fabric you choose.
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I too have the DWR dies from accuquilt. I am now trying to figure out how many jelly rolls I will need to do the arches on the accuquilt for a queen quilt for my son and his soon to be wife. Does anyone know?
Sallie...I have also used the Eleanor Burns way from the same Egg Money Quilts book...it is very simple to follow and comes with the templates...I also ordered the acrylic template when I ordered the book and the printed fusible interfacing. I actually started on one on wednesday and have one block completed, I am using scraps and the arcs are coming out quite colorful.
newport, tennessee
"may there always be work for your hands to do"
newport, tennessee
"may there always be work for your hands to do"
There was a beautiful one on the thread of the Modern Quilt Show in Texas. Very different and still oh so lovely.


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The song by Nightwish called "last of the wilds" ALWAYS reminds me of the first Twilight book. Especially when Bella and Edward are in the forest and the meadow scene.
Also my apartment back in San Antonio will always remind me of that book. But I shaint ever see it again ¬_¬.


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As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education seeks to improve patient care by further limiting the hours worked by medical residents, the Journal of Surgical Research has published a new study reporting that outcomes in two common surgeries – appendectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy – were similar among residents who had worked less than 16 hours and those who had worked more than 16 hours.
The research team, led by investigators at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, concluded that requiring a five-hour rest period at night for surgical residents after 16 hours of work is unlikely to improve the outcomes for these commonly performed operations.
The researchers compared outcomes in these two operations when they were performed during the day by surgical residents who had worked less than 16 hours and at night by surgical residents who had worked 16 or more hours. The researchers concluded that appendectomy and cholecystectomy operations performed at night by less rested and possibly sleep-deprived residents had similar good outcomes compared with those performed during the regular work day.
"In terms of the two most commonly performed operations by surgical trainees, the study suggests that limiting resident shifts to 16 hours of work is unlikely to improve surgical outcomes," said corresponding author Christian de Virgilio, MD, a LA BioMed principal investigator.
"Training surgeons takes more time than many other medical disciplines because the residents must learn the craft of surgery along with patient care. By reducing the hours per day available for surgical training, residents would miss out on critical aspects of a patient's care. It will also further increase the costs and length of time to train surgeons."


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|Thymely career move
|Written by CAROL POMEDAY
|Wednesday, 15 September 2010 15:01
When Amy-Mae Miller was told her marketing job was being eliminated in an effort to streamline the company she worked for, she agreed it was a good business decision.
"I'm probably the only person in the Milwaukee area who was downsized in the last couple of years and yet happily left their office smiling and joking," Miller said.
"Although I was good at my job and making a good salary, I had been asking myself, 'Is this is what I really want to be doing? Is this following my bliss?'"
Losing her job, she said, allowed her to delve into her passion for herbs and show people how to use plants not just in cooking but also to maintain or improve their health with herbal teas, salves, oils and other products.
She sells her products at farmers markets in Port Washington, Cedarburg, Thiensville and Menomonee Falls. When the season winds down, she will be at Weeds, a fair-trade home and garden shop scheduled to open in Cedarburg in October.
"We're working on having part of one wall filled with bulk herbs, spices and teas," Miller said. "I'll have a number of my products in the shop and I'll be available to answer people's herbal questions."
She also plans to hold workshops to teach people how to make a variety of herbal products.
It seems her two-year-old company, Thymely Herbals, is slowly evolving into the business she hoped it would be.
Miller is a master herbalist who grew up using plants to stay healthy and energized.
Her maternal great-grandparents were Swiss pharmacists who filled European physicians' prescriptions for herbal remedies, Miller said.
"I also grew up in a botanically friendly household. Both my folks have advanced degrees in scientific fields, and I spent my childhood being exposed not only to how plants grow but, maybe more importantly, how they can be used," Miller said.
"My mom's chemistry background and my dad's tenure at a large pharmaceutical company often made for some interesting dinner table conversation when I was growing up."
Now her parents are retired and live in North Carolina, giving Miller access to a growing network of herbalist friends in Black Mountain and Asheville.
"Our annual family get-togethers are always either by water or gardens," Miller said. "As a child, I learned plants by their botanical names. To this day, I struggle to remember the names most people use, like Monarda fistulosa is commonly called bee balm."
Miller moved to Wisconsin in 1992 and got her master's degree in advertising from Marquette University in Milwaukee.
When she and her husband built their rural Grafton home in 2000, she wanted to have a garden and sought advice for working with clay soil, something she had not experienced before since she grew up in the southwest.
She joined the University of Wisconsin Extension Master Gardeners program. The five-inch-thick binder she received remains a vital resource, she said.
"I can't say enough about the Master Gardeners," Miller said. "Other than the great opportunity to learn about gardening and clay soil, the one tenet that helped me most was 'You don't have to know everything.'
"I always felt driven to learn all I could about everything. Now, I'm not afraid to say, 'I don't know that, but I know where to get you the answer.'
"Being honest and saying, 'I don't know' is so freeing, and it opens the door to knowledgeable research. I find the answers not only to the question asked, but 30 other questions as well."
When customers tell her they read something on the Internet and want to know if it's true, she tells them she will check it.
"The Internet is a wonderful thing, but you have to validate the source," she said. "If it's from a dot-com, they're probably trying to sell you something. I have a lot of contacts and resources to check information."
Miller hoped people would embrace the idea of using herbs to improve their health, but found customers at farmers markets showed little interest.
"Most folks shop the markets looking for something to eat or something that smells good," she said.
"I'm finding that (medicinal) herbs aren't something the Midwest is comfortable with yet. They're embraced on the East and West coasts and in the Carolinas, which are very herb positive.
"To me, herbs are a return to common sense. They're natural, organic things we should consider for prevention of many illnesses. Having an herbal awareness is being proactive, as is knowing your body. Everybody should get an A+ in that, but we're often quite naivé about our own bodies."
So instead of creating tinctures and salves from her homegrown herbs, Miller makes vinegars, cooking oils and a variety of pestos from not only basil but other items, such as cilantro and almonds.
She also makes herbal soaps, sachets, and lotions.
Miller grows her herbs, including 17 varieties of thyme, on one-half acre of a former farm field that has below-average soil, which she says is ideal for herbs.
"Herbs aren't vegetables. Most don't want all that water and humus-rich soil. They like it fairly dry with lots of sun, a true Mediterranean-like climate," Miller said. "Just consider that Egyptian lavender can be more fragrant than French lavender. Herbs are fascinating."
Miller does all the work herself, from growing the herbs to mixing the concoctions to bottling and labeling them. She even knits bath mitts for her soaps.
"The reason I chose to do farmers markets is that they're a direct entry into the marketplace without any overhead.
They're also very hands-on and I get to talk to people about how to use the products," she said.
"I don't want to grow too fast. Most new businesses fail because they try to grow too quickly. I'm trying to follow the tenet 'Keep it small and keep it simple.' I want to produce a good product at a fair price and offer something others don't offer."
Talking to people about how to use the products is important to her, she said. Being at Weeds will allow her to do that on a regular basis.
"I have to be honest. I couldn't do this if my husband didn't have a job that pays the bills and has health insurance," Miller said.
"He's my biggest supporter and the king weed puller in the thyme garden."
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repped for taking the worst GT Creator title from me lol but seriously can we have good luck charms at least
Lets take it to the bulls, and play like a team hungry for a win.
The way we been playing you wouldn't be surprised if like Scalabrine and Taj Gibson put up career high in points, reb, steals and blocks.
I guarantee a win tonight
Echo what people said, this team doesnt deserve any GT or hype.
must be sickening for guys like Lin, Fields and Chandler seeing STAT and Melo giving no heart towards winning...
Will we ever win a championship again? Id like to think so!
Well, this is the NBA, the NBA in a season where the Pistons can beat the Lakers, the Golden State Warriors beat the Mavericks, and the Bobcats beat the Magic. Anything's possible.
This is a great game thread, considering how disappointing the Knicks have been all year.
If the Knicks lose this game, you can kiss the playoffs good-bye. The Knicks will be at the point of no return, if they lose tonight. The 9th and 10th seed is only a game behind, and the Knicks don't have the coaching or team chemistry needed to overcome a 5 game losing streak.
If the Knicks plan on winning, Jeremy is going to have to start Linning again. The Knicks need 25 points and 8 assists from him, if they want to win. And JELLO is going to have to pass the ball for once in his life.
Jeremon Linbury
Chandler speaks pre-game. few minutes ago:
Back in Chicago, where Tyson Chandler began his career, he had a large group of media around him before the game. Asked about the Knicks, Chandler said, "Weve got to get back and look back at what we were doing when we were winning. We had a fast-paced offense, getting up and down the floor. Our defense was getting set. We were communicating out there. I think a lot of times now were letting our offense dictate our defense."


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Progress on Scrappy Quilt
by, 11-20-2011 at 05:00 PM (979 Views)
I still have 3 borders left to put on this. I've been using the Scrap Therapy program to make this quilt. The pattern is called "Minnow Brook."
It has a very interesting way of piecing that yields practically no waste. I'm very impressed with that part of it.
It took a lot of patience to square everything up the way it was supposed to be. I don't care for doing that, but the results are worth it.
I have enough scraps of purple and green to do the first two borders, but the third border will have to be bought. Fabric hunting on Tuesday morning!


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Bailey back with Boston once more
First baseman/outfielder called up to take Lowell's spot
By Jeff Seidel / Special to MLB.com
"I'm used to it by now," Bailey said with a smile. "I know the drill."
He certainly should -- this was the sixth time he was called up to the Majors. The 30-year-old first baseman/outfielder was summoned to fill the roster spot left open when third baseman Mike Lowell was placed on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 28.
Bailey played in the Minors from 1997 until 2007 before getting his first callup. He was brought up three times last year, and now twice this season.
Manager Terry Francona put the right-handed-hitting Bailey into the starting lineup for Tuesday's game, playing first base and batting ninth. He walked in his first at-bat, in the second inning, and came around to score on Dustin Pedroia's double. He singled and scored again in the fourth, on a Kevin Youkilis double.
Bailey hadn't played first base in three weeks but said before the game that he would be ready. He seemed rather calm about the whole thing, standing in front of his locker, joking about the fact that his parents are vacationing in Branson, Mo., and how he didn't call everyone he knows to tell them about the callup.
After all, he's been through it before.
"I just put in a call to the folks, and that's about it," he said.
Entering Tuesday's game, Bailey was hitting .188 (13-for-69) with the Red Sox in 23 games, with three homers and nine RBIs. He was hitting .259 with seven homers and 13 RBIs for Triple-A Pawtucket when he received the call.
There's no question that the Red Sox like his attitude, and Bailey's personality has been noted by his teammates.
"He's an awesome guy," Pedroia said. "I think he knows his job when he comes up here. He's going to give you a great at-bat, and he's going to play good defense. He fits in great. Obviously his personality is great."
That personality keeps Bailey grounded in the up-and-down world of someone trying to make it in the Major Leagues. He knows what he has to do, now he just wants to go out and do it.
"I'm going to try and put up some numbers," he said.
Jeff Seidel is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Catholic Health Sponsors Heart Fair
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January 22, 2010
Do something healthy for your heart during Heart Month by attending the Catholic Health Heart Fair on Saturday, February 27, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Mercy Hospital, located at 565 Abbott Road in Buffalo.
All are invited to attend the Heart Fair, which will include a free "Heart Risk Assessment" and valuable health information to reduce the risk of heart disease. The Heart Risk Assessment includes a free cholesterol screening, diabetes screening, pulse and blood pressure check, body fat analysis, and ejection fraction (EF) ECHO reading.
In addition to free screenings, the Heart Fair will also feature:
- Information on the various rehabilitation programs available for heart patients, presented by a representative from Catholic Health's AthletiCare and Cardiac Rehab
- A review of the Heart Strong rehabilitation program
- Emergency (911) information for chest pain, CPR and heart rhythm screening, presented by Paramedics from Rural Metro Ambulance
- Tips on heart healthy eating, provided by registered dieticians from Catholic Health
- An opportunity to ask questions of Mercy Hospital's Pharmacy Department regarding cardiac medications
- A presentation by UB School of Dental Medicine that will show you how dental health can affect your heart
- Information on sleep apnea and how it relates to your heart, presented by the Mercy Hospital sleep lab
The Heart Fair is sponsored by the Catholic Health Heart Center at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo.
All screenings and activities are free.
For more information, call Catholic Health's HealthConnection at 706-2112.


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This Fetus Has a Facebook Page
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Facebook has been taking heat for letting kids under 13 use Facebook. So, people should be absolutely freaking out about this four-month-old fetus whose parents signed her up on Facebook and friended dozens of people.
Oh, no, what if little Marriah gets cyberbullied in utero? Plus, with so many naked pictures placed on her Facebook profile even before birth, she'll never be able to get into a good kindergarten.


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This thread has been five years in the making.
Since it's the final season, I think it deserves it's own thread.
I started watching it like 6 months ago and then for reasons I don't recall stopped after the first few episodes of the series.
Just been rifling through watching as many episodes as I can, sometimes four a night and like all together 6 in a 24 hour period. Trying to get up to date for the season premiere.
Unfortunately, I had to stall cause I had to absorb all of the stuff that happened because of how fast I've been watching it. So, I'm only up to episode 9 of s4.
I've had to dodge amc and sites like imdb. I've had to dodge talking to people because everyone watches it and I was watching Conan last night and he had Cranston on. I heard cranston mention magnets and had to change the channel.
Basically, I've had to be like a schizo afraid to leave the house. lol
Anyways, discuss away. I'm going to get caught up by sunday and then I won't be able to stop talking about it.
On a personal level, i'm glad it's ending after five seasons. Although, I'm all for a six season show. It degrades after season five.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting next year, people living in the nation's capital who don't have legal permission to reside in the United States will be able to get driver's licenses.
Democratic Mayor Vincent Gray is set to sign a bill on Monday that would allow the District of Columbia's Department of Motor Vehicles to issue licenses to people who can't prove their immigration status. It would take effect May 1 unless Congress intervenes, which isn't considered likely.
The bill would create a two-tiered system of licenses in order to comply with federal law. The licenses for immigrants who can't prove their legal status would be marked as invalid for federal purposes.
The district will join 10 states that have granted licenses to people living in the country illegally.


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Helping others is natural to Victorino
Effervescent Hawaiian always ready to lend a hand
Shane Victorino is like the Energizer Bunny -- he keeps going and going.
"I've been known to drive some people crazy," Victorino quipped.
The Gold Glove center fielder for the defending World Series champion Phillies is a kid wrapped up in an adult's body. All jokes aside, Victorino has channeled his exuberance and energy into becoming a Major League player worthy of selection to Team USA for March's World Baseball Classic.
Before a game, Victorino jokes around with teammates' children and takes the time to interact with them. He's that way in all facets of his life. That same outgoing nature has sparked Victorino's involvement with many charities and foundations.
"I like giving my time," Victorino said. "I like helping people. I like talking to kids. If there's anything I can do, I like to do it because of the way it makes me feel and the impact it has on people. I can't tell you how many different people have said 'thank you' to me for winning the World Series and what it did for someone's family. One guy told me he was closer with his son than he had been in years. I was like, 'Wow.'
"I've also had people tell me how happy they were that I took a couple of hours to help out at a charitable function and how it changed their son's or daughter's life. It's amazing to think you could have that much of an impact, but it's an unbelievable feeling for me."
Victorino is aligned with a number of charities, highlighted by his involvement as a member of the Players Trust's Action Team youth volunteer program and his individual work with the ALS Foundation.
ALS, commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," is a neurodegenerative disease that usually attacks both upper and lower motor neurons and causes degeneration throughout the brain and spinal cord. A common first symptom is a painless weakness in a hand, foot, arm or leg, which occurs in more than half of all cases. Other early symptoms include difficulty speaking, swallowing or walking.
"When you talk to someone affected by ALS, it makes you appreciate everything you have and how lucky you truly are," Victorino said. "Some of these people affected by ALS have trouble just walking down a hallway. Many of them need canes or crutches or wheelchairs. It breaks your heart to see how much difficulty some people have just in functioning in their everyday lives. If I can provide some hope and some inspiration, that's an absolute no-brainer for me."
In January, Victorino had another moving experience with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Eight-year-old Brandon Crosby wished to meet Victorino, his favorite player. That wish was granted, and Brandon and his family traveled to Citizens Bank Park by limousine to meet Victorino, play catch and get a tour of the clubhouse and batting cages.
"So many kids are not worried about their next Little League game but rather whether they're going to live or not," Victorino said. "To help as many kids as possible by meeting with them and hanging out with them is as great for me as it is for them. I just really like meeting people and talking to them. These kids are so positive when I meet them. That makes me feel great."
Victorino doesn't stop there.
He has also been involved in "A Round to Remember," a celebrity golf tournament featuring athletes, sports personalities and entertainers. The tournament provides an entertaining event to raise funds and awareness for the Alzheimer's Association Aloha Chapter.
"I'm very fond of anything I can do to help in Hawaii," said Victorino, who is from Wailuku, Hawaii. "Not many athletes make it to the pros from Hawaii. If there are things I can do in my home state, I'm going to do it."
Victorino's personality is infectious to his teammates. That demeanor spreads off the field. When one of his teammates asks for a favor, Victorino is quick to oblige.
"I have a hard time saying no," Victorino said. "But that's a great thing. I'm blessed to be playing Major League baseball, making good money. I know how fortunate I am. Helping others just seems to come naturally to me. That's how I'll always be."
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Stanford ventures into the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2008, but the Cardinal has played on a big stage before. The current senior class won the National Invitation Tournament in 2011 on the floor of Madison Square Garden.
Aaron Bright, who was forced to miss his senior season but who will be playing at St. Mary's next year, was named the tournament MVP.
Anthony Brown, named to the Pac-10 All-Freshmen Team, appeared in 30 games, with 12 starts, and was a major contributor to the title.
This week, Brown nervously sat with his teammates watching the selection show and waiting for Stanford to be named.
"I was anxious," Brown said. "I didn't know what my reaction would be. Once we were announced, I thought we get a chance to play on the national stage."
Dwight Powell started nearly every game for the Cardinal in 2011, bringing a masterful pedigree with him from Canada, and Josh Huestis was a valuable player off the bench.
Stephen Nastic and Andy Brown were both out for the year with injuries and Robbie Lemons, who walked on to the team, wasn't playing a lot. John Gage made 20 appearances, making one start.
Chasson Randle, committed to Stanford, was completing an All-American senior season at Rock Island (Illinois) High, where he left as the school's all-time scoring leader.
"We'll be extremely focused," Randle said. "Once we found out we were going, we were excited but we want to make some noise once we get there. We'll be ready for New Mexico."
The Cardinal fulfilled one of its top goals of this season by qualifying for the first time under coach Johnny Dawkins.
The South Regional features overall No. 1 seed Florida and Pac-12 opponents Colorado (seeded eighth) and UCLA (seeded fourth).
The Stanford-New Mexico winner most likely will meet No. 2 Kansas in the second round. The Jayhawks meet No. 15 Eastern Kentucky in their first game.
For Powell, Huestis, Gage, Lemons, Bright, Brown and Nastic, the at-large berth is the realization of a dream they all brought to Stanford out of high school.
"I was nervous just not knowing what would happen and where we would be placed," Randle said. "Crazy things have happened to teams with better resumes than us. So it was a waiting game."
Stanford has been dreaming large for years, but has had to wade through the College Basketball Invitational and the NIT before getting the call to the Big Dance, something that may spark a trend, with Randle, Brown and Nastic returning next year.
A top 25 recruiting class joins the program following the quality of freshmen Marcus Allen, Malcolm Allen, Scott Woods and Schuyler Rimmer brought to the table this season.
Dawkins, under the pressure of a directive made by athletic director Bernard Muir following last year's disappointing finish, continued to believe in his team all year even as the Cardinal seemed to underachieve.
Stanford played its best basketball when it needed, winning twice in the Pac-12 Tournament last week after finishing in a five-way tie for third, to assure its berth in the NCAAs, which includes five other conference teams.
"It was a relief," Randle said. "We finally get the chance to make a run in the tournament. A lot hand shakes going around the room. We're excited for the opportunity on Friday."
A tough preseason schedule, which included NCAA qualifiers Pittsburgh, Michigan and Connecticut on the road and BYU at home, also helped the Cardinal in reaching its goal.
Overall, Stanford was 7-9 against the NCAA field this season.
Stanford, however, possesses a 21-15 record in NCAA Tournament competition and is making its 17th appearance overall. The Cardinal was a No. 3 seed during its last tournament appearance in 2008, falling to Texas in the Sweet 16 following victories over Cornell and Marquette.
The Cardinal is 2-1 against the Lobos, who have won nine of their past 10 games. The teams last met during the 2001-02 season when Stanford defeated New Mexico, 81-66, in Albuquerque.
Anthony Brown and New Mexico's Kendall Williams played together on the same AAU team during the sixth and seventh grades.
Stanford achieved 20 wins for the 22nd time in school history, and third during Dawkins' six-year tenure. The Cardinal finished 3-2 against Top 25 opponents this year.
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BERLIN – Berlin wastewater customers should pay less than $3 a month more to fund the improvements to the Berlin wastewater treatment plant, and the special connection fee should be much less than predicted a year ago after the award of substantial grants and low-interest loans to the project.
The $15.7 million project will be funded by $8 million in grants, $6 million in loans, with the remainder, about $2 million, from Berlin's coffers.
That leaves $365,000 to roll over for the spray irrigation land and facility, projected to cost another $8.7 million. Unused contingency funding, included in the project budget against unanticipated costs, could also be rolled over to purchase spray irrigation land.
Russ Tatman and Mark Prouty of URS Engineering went before the Berlin Mayor and Council Tuesday night to present the financial picture of the improvements and expansion.
"It's good to be back because the picture is much brighter this time [than when] we were here a year ago," Tatman said. "The present projection is you have to raise your rates 6.5 percent."
Tatman offered the option of raising rates in January, at a lesser percentage, or raising rates in July, at 6.5 percent.
The town also has to consider an additional rate increase to handle the new spray land and facility.
Raising the rates earlier, which URS recommends, saves ratepayers about 1 percent.
"You and the BUC [Berlin Utilities Commission] need to think about this," said Tatman.
With the funding in place, URS was able to make the calculations necessary to determine EDU charges.
Special connection charges, according to Tatman, came in substantially less than the projections made a year ago, when URS estimated that the town would have to charge between $14,929 and $19,029 per EDU. With the grants in place, that cost has been dramatically reduced to $12,261. The grandfathered charge remains $8,338 per EDU.
If the town can garner another substantial grant for the spray irrigation facility, Tatman said, the special connection charge would fall to $10,118, with the grandfathered charge reduced to $6,195.
"Historically, Berlin has been good at setting a rate and letting it stand for several years without adjusting for inflation," Tatman said.
Tatman explained that rates were calculated with certain dates in mind: the purchase of new spray land in January 2010, the start-up of the expanded and improved plant and lagoon in July 2010, and the start-up at the new spray facility in December 2012, as required by the state.
The new rates are also predicated on 20 new wastewater connections in 2009-2010, with 30 more new connections each fiscal year to follow.
"The good news is if there's more than 30 you'll be given more cash," Tatman said.
Building 30 new units of housing a year will extend the life of the wastewater expansion for decades.
"We'll be alright for 50 years," said Berlin Mayor Gee Williams.
The improvements to the treatment plant and the addition of spray irrigation land to handle additional effluent should remove any need to keep upgrading treatment levels.
Removing concerns over sewer capacity will allow the town to concentrate on the quality of future developments, Williams said.
Spray irrigation preparation will continue with the new spray land Berlin intends to purchase in Newark. With the site testing complete, the town will move on to aerial surveys over the winter, which will gather information necessary for the design of the new spray facility.
The source of funding for the land purchase and the construction of the spray facility caused some confusion at the meeting.
"It was my understanding we had that money in our special connection fees," said Councilwoman Paula Lynch. "I've asked this question a lot of times."
The special connection fees have not historically been set aside in a separate fund to be held against future system improvements, as they are meant.
"Our special connection fees have always been going into an operating budget and they shouldn't," said Lynch.
"I think we spent it," said Council member Troy Purnell.
A special fund designation was created for special connection fees last spring, said Carson.
"Where are we going to come up with the money to pay for the land we're buying?" Lynch asked.
The plan is to borrow the money from the Berlin General Fund, then to pay that back, with interest, from loans or grants, Tatman said.
"That has never been said before. It's been said we have the money," said Lynch. Now it seems like the money has been spent twice, she said.
The town does need a reserve so the work can be done without interim financing, Tatman said.
"If this isn't the opportunity or time to use the reserve when is?" asked Williams.
The reserves are nearly $2 million higher than they were a year ago, Williams said. The reserve fund is roughly $2.6 million. About $2 million will be paid out on the wastewater treatment plant project, leaving $589,000 unspent.
Erik Quisgard, chair of the BUC, asked where the money would come from to pay for the expansion if less than 30 new houses are built in a year.
"The ratepayers would have to do it. The rates would have to be adjusted," said Williams.


text: Could the debate over Cumberbatch not resembling Montalban be summed up by the fact that future Khan was killed in the Genesis Wave and was regenerated in favor of a new matrix? Sure, Spock was brought back to life and suffered no change as a result of Genesis, but Spock was dead already. Khan was killed by the Genesis Device. Maybe future 'reborn' Khan comes back to settle scores? I hope not. Time travel is beginning to bore me. lol I'm only putting this out there because there appears to be another rush of opinions that BC is going to end up being revealed as Khan. I don't know, I don't care. I just want a really great movie.


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A tool for securing DNS communications between a client and a DNS resolver.
A polyhedral extraction tool (PET).


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Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
by Iyanla Vanzant
New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned—from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughter's 15 months of illness and death on Christmas day. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Iyanla shares why everything we need to learn is reflected in our relationships and the strength and wisdom she has gained by supporting others in their journeys to make sense out of the puzzle pieces of their lives.
Chapter 1
Here is Also There
It is often difficult to identify the exact moment that your life falls apart. In most cases, it is not a one-shot deal. If you ask most people who have had the ex-perience of losing everything they love or believe in, they will probably say it was not one telephone call or one letter, one revelation or realization that caused the collapse of life as they knew it. I now understand that my life fell apart one piece at a time. Piece by piece; one experience, one situation, and one circumstance at a time, until I found myself standing in the midst of a heap of broken prom-ises, splintered relationships, and shattered dreams. It is not a place I ever imagined I would find myself again, after I had gotten through it the first and second times.
The breaking down into pieces of a life is a painful thing to watch and even more painful to endure. Even more devastating is that as your life begins to unravel, day by day, piece by piece, there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. You see what is happening. You know what is happening. And you want anything other than what is happening to happen. You see, somewhere deep inside, we all know that lives are not built to fall apart. That is just not what lives are meant to do. The lives we are given by God are meant by God to grow, to blossom and flourish. The reality is, however, lives to crumble.
I now realize that lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. Lives fall apart when the foundation upon which they were built needs to be relaid. Lives fall apart, not because God is punishing us for what we have or have not done. Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren't built the right way in the first place. I came to this realization one day, after many days, weeks, months, and years of trying to fix the cracks in my foundation. One day, one moment of time, as I sat helplessly surveying the broken pieces of my mind, heart, and life, I recognized that a broken life is a test of faith of the high-est order.
In that testing moment, I thought I had only a few choices. I could take a hand-full of pills I was holding in my left hand, or I could take the gun in my right hand, raise it to my temple, and pull the trigger. I just wanted the pain of the broken-ness to stop. I had another choice, but it was the last thing i thought I could do. The other choice was to give myself permission to feel the pain, fear, and devas-tation of all that confronted me, hoping that something miraculous would occur.
Obviously, I didn't take the pills or pull the trigger. And somewhere amid my bro-ken mental and emotional pieces, I knew that any attempt to manage my misery would be futile. That moment of helplessness led me into a moment of surren-der. I buried my face in my pillow and cried for hours. It was a single act of hu-man surrender, one instant of being willing to trust myself and my Creator, that was as close as I could get to lifting my eyes toward the hills, from where I hoped my help would come. My help did come and it only took five and a half years to reach me.
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From Russia With Love (PSP) Q&A
It might be hitting stores a little later than its console counterparts, but
EA isn't just taking their time with the PSP version of From Russia With Love -
they're improving it. Much of the work behind the PSP version has gone into
adding bots into the game's multiplayer. Want to know more? Check out this short
Q&A session with Laffy Taylor, the game's producer.
Why was the decision made to add bots to a game that supports WiFi multiplayer?
EA: Our primary motivation for adding bots to FRWL PSP multiplayer was to make the experience accessible to everyone, not just groups of friends who wanted to play WiFi deathmatches. We also knew from the message boards that this feature was something fans really wanted to see in the PSP version of the game.
Was it a technical hurdle to get bots running on the Sony PSP?
EA: It wasnt easy getting the bots in FRWL PSP to their current state. Our challenge was not just getting the bots to behave accordingly we had to be certain that they didnt cause any latency issues with our WiFi functionality. We partnered closely with our QA team by asking them to rigorously test the bots in multiplayer so we could get them up to spec. Ultimately our combined efforts paid off the end result is a multiplayer experience that has few rivals on the PSP.
Do the bots follow waypoints for each map or are they dynamic?
EA: The bots in FRWL PSP multiplayer behave according to a motivational network system. Their actions are determined by their needs at any given time. Although their primary function is to seek out and kill other players, bots will actively seek ammo when they are running low and go for powerups when theyre on a streak. Theyre not predictable by any means and this is what makes them so challenging.
How would you rate the difficulty level of playing against the new bots? i.e. Are they harder than humans?
EA: The bots were tuned to be very aggressive. Its not uncommon to have bots win in 6 player games that have 4 or 5 human players on the normal difficulty setting. The hard difficult setting is just brutal and is tuned for experienced gamers. The bots are manageable on the easy difficulty setting, so theres fun to be had by gamers of all abilities.
Do you have any hints or tips on how to approach and defeat the bots?
EA: Ranged weapons such as grenades, the rocket launcher and the sniper rifle are particularly effective against the bots when cover is nearby. Otherwise, keep moving and dive roll when you see the target lock indicator icon appear on your screen.
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Windows 8 Hardware
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Windows 8 Hardware to Look Forward To
Though the Windows 8 user interface is similar to sleek Windows Phone 7 devices, that doesn't mean Windows 8 will be limited to mobile devices. Microsoft showed off some of the Windows 8-compatible hardware at the Build conference in Anaheim, CA, today, which will include desktop PCs, tablets, and touchscreen all-in-ones. Check out some of the units up close in the gallery!
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text: AirAsia deploys 350 volunteers at klia2 AirAsia Allstars from various departments join forces to assist guests Sepang, 11 MAY 2014 AirAsia deployed 350 volunteers to assist guests at klia2 airport. AirAsia Allstars (employees) from various departments join forces to assist guests at the newly launched airport. An initiative led by the AirAsia People Department, volunteers are divided into four shifts which start as early as 5am and ends at 12am daily, including weekends. Adzhar Ibrahim, AirAsia Group Head of People Department said "AirAsia volunteers are a dedicated team whose mission is to provide a helping hand to our guests travelling in and out of klia2 airport. For the past three days, our volunteers served as information resource specialists equipped to assist passengers with finding their way, gate locations, flight status, baggage claim, ground transportation and general enquiries". Identified by their distinctive red T-shirts, AirAsia volunteers can be found at various points located klia2 airport as well as Gateway mall. A volunteer, Yvonne Lady Diana ak John Brian Anthony from the airline's Corporate Culture Department said, "Majority of guests were unfamiliar of the new airport and had no idea where to go; and found the signages confusing. It is our job as volunteers to ensure that they go to the right place. Another volunteer, AirAsia Pre-Flight Department employee Elizabeth Soon Sze Chin said, "Among the regular advice given to guests is to get to their respective departure gate on time, as some do get distracted by the various shopping outlets available here at klia2 and loses track of time. Unlike the LCCT, it takes more time to get from one point to the other and guests need to plan their time properly. The volunteers consist of AirAsia corporate and non-operations staff, who willingly offered their services to complement and assist the airline's Ground Services staff working at the new airport, to ensure smooth flow of operations and passenger movement. When the airline's People Department opened the registration for volunteers, it received overwhelming response from AirAsia Allstars from all over Malaysia, including Thailand and Indonesia. The number of volunteering requests even exceeded the actual total needed by the airline. Their readiness to help fellow colleagues reflects AirAsia's high camaraderie spirits and family values, setting the airline apart from the rest of the field. The volunteering exercise even provides a great experience to many AirAsia employees. One of them, Chua Cher Lin from the airline's People Department said, "We are excited to be volunteers as it gives us the opportunity to interact with our guests and to make new friends. It gives us great pleasure to present a great and memorable flying experience to all our guests." The volunteering program will continue for the next one month, a mark of commitment by the airline and its dedicated employees in ensuring a smooth flow of operations at the new klia2.


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The daughter of a 52-year-old woman who was pushed to the floor and punched in the face last night hopes Facebook could help bring her attackers to justice.
She posted about the attack on the Everything Berko page of the social networking website not long after it happened outside her mother's house near Tesco Express, Northchurch, at 6pm.
After explaining the details of what had happened, two separate people identified the alleged attacker.
Police today arrested a 42-year-old woman from Berkhamsted on suspicion of assault and she is now in police custody.
Spokesman Giles Cooper said: "Police are investigating an alleged assault that is reported to have occurred around 6.10pm on Sunday, May 11, in Northchurch High Street.
"There was an altercation, which was reportedly over a parking dispute, between two women and it is alleged one woman assaulted the other.
"The investigation is on-going and anyone with information in relation to the incident should contact Hertfordshire Constabulary via the non-emergency number 101, citing crime reference D2/14/377.
"Alternatively call Crimestoppers, the independent charity, anonymously on 0800 555 111."
The victim – who is blind in one eye – was left with a cut lip, bleeding around her mouth and smashed glasses after the assault. She will not be able to see until her glasses are fixed.
Her daughter – who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals – said her mother is shocked and now recovering.


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"As your teams prepare for the opening face-off of the 2012-13 season, we thank you for your patience and we apologize to you for the time we've missed. From today forward, we will do everything we can to make this season worth the wait.
"We are committed to earning back your trust and support the same way it's earned on the ice: with hard work and unwavering dedication. Your cheers drive us forward, and we're committed to making you proud to be a fan—by delivering a game with the action the skill and the intensity you deserve.
"Like you, we've missed NHL hockey. We've missed the clutch goals, the big hits, the electrifying saves. We've missed the flash of the red light, the sound of the siren, and the way the building shakes when the home team scores.
"It's time to focus on the best athletes in the world, on the enduring greatness of the game, and—above all—on the connection that binds, fans, players and families everywhere. NHL hockey is the best in the world. The future in incredibly bright. So let's drop the puck and marvel at all the remarkable things the players do with it."
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Prosecutor Scott Ellington filed a motion Thursday in Poinsett County Circuit Court to seek the death penalty against 28-year-old John Anthony Arnoult of Jonesboro.
Arnoult is charged in the Sept. 2 killings of 57-year-old John Poff and 56-year-old Constance "Connie" Cole. Authorities say Poff and Cole both suffered blunt force trauma and were shot with a .40-caliber handgun.
Authorities arrested Arnoult after a maintenance worker found Cole and Poff dead in Poff's mobile home in Trumann.
The Jonesboro Sun reports (http://is.gd/eJtXjY ) that Arnoult is due in court Monday morning for a motions hearing.


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July 28, 2009
New Moon Wolf Pack Merch!
Oooooooh - I'm Team Edward but I want it all! :D
Spotted at Comic Con - thanks Alison of TwiFans
- Lorabell
P.s. I also noticed this Cullen buckle at the official store - too cool:
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*sigh* November, are you here yet?
Totally Team Edward but Id sport a Wolf girl Bracelet on the other wrist(One wrist would be taken up by a vampire girl bracelet of Course!)
Not feel'n the merchandise here, a wee bit boring. Now if I could take the wolf pack home, then I'd be happy!!ReplyDelete
Yeah i really don't care for any of that stuff either. I understand that they are going for a more "rustic" look for the wolf stuff, but it could be a lot better than this stuff!ReplyDelete
Hello, we are the Fã club TwiMoon-Brazil, you have e-mail for contact? Thanks.ReplyDelete
I love the wolf tattoo shirt and buckle!
Is it just me who thought that the feathers looked like handcuffs?ReplyDelete
Just saying ya know...
Ooh how I wished they had this in abundance in England. Time to make a christmas wish list me thinks...


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HUMOR - Area liberal worried his Asian dry cleaner doesn't like himgreenspun.com : LUSENET : Current News - Homefront Preparations : One Thread
SAN FRANCISCO—Despite his open-mindedness and deep commitment to multiculturalism, Steve Bern, 32, expressed fear Monday that Rei Luo, the Chinese woman who does his dry cleaning, does not like him.
"Whenever I come into [Luo's Laundry & Cleaners], I'm always very friendly," Bern said. "I say hello and ask her how she's doing, but she never reciprocates. She just smiles and hands me my receipt. I hope I haven't done anything to offend her."
"Maybe she's mad about my tags," Bern said. "A lot of my stuff says 'Made In China' or 'Made In Hong Kong,' and I know that a lot of those places run sweatshops. I'd feel awful if she thought I was supporting the exploitation of her people."
Bern, a features editor at the alternative weekly Bay Area Free Press, has been familiar with Rei since March 1998, when he started taking his laundry to her store on Visidero Street. Though there is another dry cleaner closer to his apartment, Bern wanted to patronize a minority-owned establishment.
"I like to interact with and support people of other cultures," Bern said. "This country is a tapestry of many different beliefs and backgrounds, so I try to foster that by spreading my business around to everyone, not just Caucasians like myself. I always tell Rei how much I admire the way an immigrant like her could rise from poverty to run her own store, but she never really gives me much of a response."
Despite his best efforts, Bern has been unable to transform his relationship with Rei into something approaching a friendship, or even a mild acquaintanceship.
"I found out that Rei came of age in a remote mountain village during the height of the Cultural Revolution, so I'd been fascinated to hear her stories," Bern said. "A few months ago, while she was pulling a 50-pound box of soap off a high shelf, I asked what it was like to grow up under Chairman Mao and the Great Leap Forward. She just stopped and muttered something to herself in Chinese, then went back to work. I'm starting to think maybe I was a little too forward."
When he returned to pick up his clothes, Bern perceived a possible change in the quality of service he received.
"I brought Rei a pair of gabardine pants with a salsa stain on the left leg," Bern said. "But when I got the pants back, the stain was still kind of there. It was faint, but if you held it up to a bright light, you could see it. I wonder if maybe not getting rid of the stain was her way of telling a white, middle-class oppressor like myself to mind my own business."
Undeterred, Bern decided that the best way to get on Rei's good side would be to learn more about her culture.
"I got a few short phrases from an Internet site about Chinese to help break the ice," Bern said. "The next time I saw her, I said 'Hello' and 'Have a nice day' in her native Mandarin. But she didn't even look up from the stack of dresses she was steam-ironing. Maybe she didn't hear me. That machine is pretty loud."
To improve relations, Bern has refrained from complaining about his dry cleaning.
"There was this gray wool sweater I brought in a few weeks ago that I never got back," Bern said. "I didn't want Rei to think I was dissatisfied, so I never brought it up. Losing a sweater is a small price to pay compared to the struggles she must go through daily as a Chinese-American."
Even though Bern firmly supports Rei's right to befriend whomever she chooses, he admitted to being disappointed by her snubs.
"I know that, culturally speaking, the Chinese tend to be low-key and not overtly demonstrative, but it would mean a lot to me if she occasionally took a break from scurrying around the shop's backroom to give me the occasional smile," Bern said. "Is that too much to ask? Well, maybe it is. After all, how can I judge someone if I've never walked in her shoes?"
When asked her opinion of Bern, Rei was unable to recall who he was. She then shooed reporters out the door, saying, "I too busy, too busy."
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A judge who sits in a specialist court which handles cases involving sick and vulnerable people has told barristers to stick to the issues and "have regard to the public purse".
Mrs Justice Parker said advocates who appeared in Court of Protection cases had a "particular responsibility" to ensure that arguments focused on facts not theory.
She said every penny spent on Court of Protection litigation came from the public budget and was a penny taken away from care provision.
The judge has made her comments in a written ruling on a Court of Protection case about whether a mentally-ill woman who lives in a care home was capable of making decisions about where she should live.
She said there had been many court hearings during the litigation "most of which" had achieved "almost nothing".
Mrs Justice Parker did not identify the woman involved, b ut she said the local authority with responsibility for the woman was Norfolk County Council.
"I stress that I do not wish to criticise the advocates in this case," said Mrs Justice Parker, who also sits in the Family Division of the High Court. "But I take this opportunity to offer some general guidance derived from my experience in Court of Protection cases."
The judge told lawyers that adopting a "practical approach" did not "detract from intellectual analysis and rigour".
"All those who practice in the Court of Protection must appreciate that those who represent the vulnerable who cannot give them capacitous instructions have a particular responsibility to ensure that the arguments addressed are proportionate and relevant to the issues, to the actual facts with which they are dealing rather than the theory, and to have regard to the public purse, court resources, and other court users," she added.
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You must be forgetting that this was a 'book' and you have no right to deny someone the rights to read a book. Sure most of the Authors audience are teenagers, but what average teenager hasn't been cuddled lovingly with another in a bed being male or female? The media being Radio, Music, TV, books, or a simple sign DOES NOT! make decisions for people at ANY age, they only influence them, those decisions are left for that person and that person alone. If you plan to censor your daughters readings, you might as well withdraw her from the world and lock her in a room with nothing but plain white walls. Would you rather her reading a book and making her decision to follow Bella's and Edwards example in True love, or out with some hooligans making irrational decisions? A perfect example would be me, here I am about to turn 19 (Which is awesome ^__^ Sep 13th), and ever since I was young I saw the world as it is, corrupt and evil. And yet, being surrounded by school shootings, movies, books, music, thugs and druggies..., seeing and understanding what they have, and not allowing them to alter my life decisions....., I have had a fine life so far.
I have mixed thoughts on the book in question and I really don't feel like writing a miniature novel on them.
All I will say is that "Breaking Dawn" IS a good book but SM moved the story line to fast threw the book and ended it to abruptly. (premature) I, myself am not a reader of books unless I'm interested in the book(s) and when I am, pages amounting in 500 or more fall like dominoes in a chain reaction and before I know it, the book is over and on the shelf to collect dust particles. (I just don't know what else to say...)
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Hi there,
I was talking with someone today who mentioned a crystal called amezez. I can't find any information about it other than nonsensical ramblings about its magical properties on those crystal-healing hippy sites.
Can anyone shed any light on it? But not the "nameless light" which you will no doubt read all about if you google amazez.
Thanks in advance.
Its the commercial suppliers name for Chevron Amethyst
PS i'm also a non believer
Thanks Steve. Can you tell me anything more about it? Where it's found and is it scarce? Is it found anywhere else apart from "off the coast of africa"?
Is it worth $120???
Wow tis a price. is it worth it in my opinion no, google Banded Amethyst its the same thing As far as I am aware its quite common in Southern Africa Asia and the Americas
I am no expert in these things and may be wrong I just love the beauty of crystalline minerals regardless of their worth


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Discussion in 'Odds & Ends' started by jamesblakefan#1, Mar 22, 2010.
Currently sitting for breaking dawn to start with my girlfriend
Wild Target (2010)
found it browsing on netflix.. surprisingly good
Thor and Green Lantern. I don't know why I keep getting these movies and thinking they'll be any good. But redbox is only a buck so no big deal.
Going to watch Facing The Titan's right now
Talking about wine, you have to discuss it with poster SOBAD. He is an expert in this.
The Town-an action/drama that both my wife and I enjoyed. It's a fun ride.
The town. It is well made, well plotted, excellent performance by Ben and others. Two thumbs up
Not what I expected. It has some car chases, but it is really more like Scorsese's After Hours crossed with The Departed. Definitely has an eerie mood to it.
An excellent movie.
The Muppets!
Hugo (3D)
good movie, reminds me of Cinema Paradiso
beautiful to watch in 3D
It is much better than Green Lantern.
The Age of Stupid
Just saw Requiem For A Dream. It was mind-blowing.
who is the player in your display pic ?
What a great film... What could have been so bad is potentially one of the best sport films ever made.
Roger Federer.
It's Michael and Justine's wedding night, and a newly discovered planetoid may be about to collide with Earth. If you immediately perceive the symbolism here, you're ready to sit through the long and slow "Melancholia," a film that can only be experienced on a level of intense symbolic imagery and actions. Everyone left the theatre shaking their heads and looking confused.
I loved Thor
Last thing I saw was the new Twilight movie. I really liked it actually.
I have heard of this guy, is he the one who cried in Australia ?
haha, saw that today with the gf. it was surprisingly better than the surprisingly good sequel.
saw limitless on netflix the other day. good movie
With that title you were forewarned.
^^ "Insomnia" (Pacino and Swank) didn't sound promising either, but was a pretty run-of-the-mill suspense film.
I saw DRIVE yesterday night.
What a great fkin movie.
A classic. Great score. Great story. Awesome acting. Movie of the year imo.
In Bruge.
It was a bit weird, but okay.
Haha the best part was when he karate chopped the midget!!!
^^^ Colin Farrell gets my vote for most underappreciated actor. Great bewildered thug/lover in this film, macho technocrat in "Minority Report," country singer in "Crazy Heart," hilarious boss's son in "Horrible Bosses," performs well "on any surface."
Great movie!!
Great cast!!
Saw "Transformers 3" last night with my 13 year old nephew.
While he enjoyed the movie I got bored really quick.
While the Fx were incredible (on BD on a high-def TV), it lacked anything when it comes to storytelling and character developing.
Furthermore I missed Miss Fox in it, she was the highlight of parts 1 and 2.
Miss Fox ... this reminds me of :
Captain America, great, far better execution than Green Lantern or Thor but it's no Hamlet.
I liked Green Lantern. Brotherly love looked cool even though action was not perfect.
Oh man, When I saw Megan F. in the first Transformer, I couldn't believe my eyes. She was absolutely breathtaking. Now she is trying to be like Angelina Jolie? Why? I don't like A. Jolie at all. I try not to watch the movies she is in.
megan fox isnt that attractive.
but i enjoyed transformers. prob because it had giant robtos
Vertigo.. a classic.
Sort of a serious High Anxiety?
Seriously, they are all good except the first one, it was horrible to me.
2010:The Year we make Contact (1984) -What a flaming bag of dog-poop that was, in comparison with Kubrick's 2001.
Drive was easily the worst movie i have ever seen...
just saw the movie 'last night' starring keira knightley and sam worthington.
was disturbing in many ways
Funny, while I liked the vehicle and set design in Captain America, I didn't like the movie that much. Just seemed like not much happened - spent to much time on that U.S. Bonds tour, felt like the action only kicked in in the last 15 mins.
I like Thor better. It was a little goofy, but it seemed to not take itself too seriously.
Green Lantern is sitting at home. Haven't watched it yet.
Anyway, currently watching limitless. I'm about half-way through. Prob watch the rest later this week.
Have to agree with you about "Drive." Wife makes me see anything with Gosling, this film set his career back a bit.
Yeah, I'm sure you'd turn her down if she approached you in a bar. :/
lol that was good one. But I think Zapvor is female so she wouldn't be attracted to another female unless she is Lesbian:mrgreen:
Agree, butt Melissa McCarthy, booyah!
Not sure if people will recognize her in the bar unless she always has a make up artist and a photoshop geek with her all the time...
Melancholia. Beautiful film. Incredible acting.
Saw 'Immortals' yesterday.
Summary: steaming pile of rubbish.
You'd be better off watching something good in this sort of genre like the Game Of Thrones TV servies..
The one by Von Trier? His movies are usually emotionally draining.
Yup, Lars' newest movie. A bit more mature than his previous work, I think.
lol i wouldnt turn her down. but shes way overrated. and i would be after her bank account not her looks. theres about 205726752105025712 more attractive girls out there
thor was better than i thought. captain america sucked. green latern too. limitless was ok
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text: hi all, for over 25 years (i'm 39 now) off and on i've had a one handed backhand, which for the most part has never been a weapon as i use it to slice and i occasionally come over it when attacked. not to say a slice can't be a weapon, but its definitely not a finishing shot. at any rate, over the years i've slowly noticed a gradual shift in tennis, probably due to new racquet technology, string technology, and more modern techniques implemented. as a result i've had, for a number of years, consistently had a harder time dealing with all the power, spin, and angles of balls hit to my backhand. i find myself constantly on the defense (being pushed back) on my bh side and even when on court i'm in an offensive position i find it difficult to attack. perhaps i don't trust my bh anymore or never have, but now i'm losing to players who simply take advantage of my bh. my goal is to make it bh more of a weapon and a shot i can trust by converting it to a 2hbh. has anyone converted from 1 to 2 and what was your experience and end result? did you revert back, or stay the course? any info, comments, suggestions, thoughts would be greatly appreciated. thanks, TF


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The American Civil War Overview
With the fall of Corinth, Mississippi at the end of May, it was clear that Memphis could not be held. It fell on June 6th with the defeat of the Confederate ram fleet defending the city. The Mississippi River was now open to Federal gunboats as far south as Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The Federal command organization underwent major changes during this time period. The end of June, 1862, Major General Pope was ordered east to meet his fate at Second Manassas, relinquishing his command to Major General Rosecrans before departing. On July 11, 1862, Hallack was made commander-in-chief of all Federal armed forces, east and west, and went to Washington, D.C. Grant, who had seriously considered resigning following the close call at Shiloh, was appointed to overall command of Rosecrans' army and other forces in the theater, giving him control of some 75,000 troops.
Major General Buell's forces, having been ordered to march on Chattanooga, Tennessee, were having a rough time of it. With constant pressure from Washington and additional pressure in the form of Confederate cavalry and guerrilla attacks on his supply lines, his army slowly crawled forward on half rations. Then on August 12, 1862, John Hunt Morgan's cavalry destroyed an 800 foot-long tunnel on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and cut off Buell from his base of supply at Louisville, Kentucky. This, combined with intelligence that Bragg was advancing north, led him to conclude he must fall back to protect Nashville.
General Braxton Bragg, now in command of Confederate forces in the theater, was not going to stand on the defensive, but was determined to go over to offensive operations to recover both Tennessee and Kentucky for the Confederacy. The campaign began favorably as Confederate forces in East Tennessee, under the control of General Kirby Smith and in cooperation with Bragg, moved north into Kentucky with 12,000 troops. At Richmond, Kentucky they met, on August 30, a command of 7,000 new Federal recruits defending the city. In a one-sided victory, Smith's casualties numbered only about 450 while the Federals lost 206 killed, 844 wounded, and 4,303 captured or missing. Lexington, Kentucky was captured by Smith's forces, unopposed, the following day.
On September 13, Bragg had reached Glasgow, Kentucky which placed him between Buell, now at Bowling Green, and Smith in Lexington. Bragg's forces moved north to the Green River and forced the surrender of another 4,000 man Federal garrison at Munfordville.
Buell advanced his forces again northward to Louisville, and then began a movement to the southeast towards Bragg's suspected location. The two armies eventually stumbled into each other outside Perryville, Kentucky on October 8, 1862. Bragg, who was outnumbered three-to-one, but did not think so at the time, ordered an attack by Hardee and Polk. This assault routed the Federal Left Wing under General McCook. On the opposite flank, Joe Wheeler's 1,200 Confederate cavalry managed to immobilize Crittenden's corps of 22,500 Federal troops in an impressive performance. When the battle closed at the end of the day with no decisive results however, Bragg decided to retreat southward. Buell's pursuit was unenthusiastic, and Bragg arrived back in Knoxville on October 22. Lincoln was unhappy with the turn of events and on October 24, ordered Buell to turn over his command to Major General Rosecrans.
Meanwhile, further west, on September 20, Grant almost succeeded in trapping Major General Sterling Price's command of Trans-Mississippi troops at Iuka, Mississippi, about 20 miles east of Corinth. Again, with Confederate high command confusion, Price and Van Dorn could not decide whether to move their forces north, to link up with Bragg or to advance on some other objective. Van Dorn finally decided to assault Corinth, thinking it now only lightly defended. A total Confederate force of about 22,000 men advanced to the attack on October 3, 1862. Corinth however, was not lightly defended. It contained an equal number of Federal troops and was encircled by a double ring of fortifications backed by artillery, the outer ring which had been built by the Confederates themselves before evacuating the town earlier that year. In some of the most vicious fighting of the war, the Confederate advance actually broke through to the town itself but were outflanked and a Union counterattack quickly drove them back out with heavy losses. A continuation of the fight on October 4 produced no gains for the Confederates and Van Dorn ordered a retreat. Almost trapped by Rosecrans' pursuit and a converging Federal column ordered out by Grant, Van Dorn's forces suffered well over 4,000 casualties to Federal losses of 2,500. The western flank of Bragg's offensive campaign had suddenly collapsed.
After Rosecrans took command from Buell, Lincoln had expected some rapid offensive action to be taken. Despite repeated urging, Rosecrans found excuses to delay his movement from Nashville until almost Christmas. Then, having learned that one of Bragg's divisions had been detached to Vicksburg and that Forrest's and Morgan's cavalry commands were on raids elsewhere, he moved his Army of the Cumberland to the southeast. The march route was in three columns under Generals McCook, Thomas, and Crittenden. The opposing armies collided on December 31 just north of Murfreesboro at Stones River.
Both commanders had planned to attack the enemy right flank, but Bragg beat Rosecrans to the punch and the Federal army quickly had to go over to the defensive. Hardee's and Polk's Corps drove McCook's and Thomas' men back with a "hinge" at a point in the Federal line called the Round Forest. Rosecrans' line was bent at almost ninety degrees to his previous position by sunset but it had not broken. Apparently bolstered by Thomas' council at a meeting of his officers that night, Rosecrans decided not to retreat, even though he had suffered about 12,000 casualties to Bragg's 9,000.
Bragg was now faced with a dilemma. His remaining strength was really inadequate to force Rosecrans from his new position, so on New Year's Day, 1863, he waited, hoping Rosecrans would make the logical decision and retreat. When January 2 found him still in position, Bragg ordered an ill-advised assault on the Federal left flank by Breckinridge's division, which, despite some initial success, was blasted apart by the Federal massed artillery. Thus, January 2 only brought Bragg another 1,700 casualties which he could ill afford. Finally conceding defeat, Bragg retreated during the night of January 3 back to Tullahoma, Tennessee. Rosecrans' army was too battered to attempt a pursuit, but Stones River could be claimed as a Federal victory due, more than anything else, to Rosecrans' stubbornness.
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100 Days In, Trump's Chipping Away At Religious Freedom
Tomorrow is President Donald J. Trump's 100th day in office. Although he campaigned on his 100-day "Contract with the American Voter," he no longer seems enthusiastic about the milestone. Perhaps that's because he is facing criticism for failing to achieve any major legislative victories. One thing he has accomplished: He has caused real harm to religious freedom and has made promises to do even more.


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so my question is what will that actually mean for XP users when support finally ends next year, will it make XP completely un-usable forcing users to upgrade to a more up to date OS ?
what will it mean for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, is this an opportunity for Canonical to increase it's market share to a point where third party hardware and software vendors will have to sit up and take notice and start seriously supporting Linux
I have heard people say that macs are superior to windows but I don't know why this so.
I bow to your superior judgment and knowledge.
Why is there no spell checker for this forum ?.
I can't see that happening untill we see Linux PC's and laptops pre-installed on retail shelves
Oh, you mean like Chromebooks.
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