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Ross to visit noted concussion specialist
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
BOSTON -- The Red Sox should get a better idea of how David Ross is responding to his second concussion of the season when the backup catcher goes to Pittsburgh to see Dr. Michael Collins on Thursday.
"I don't know if there's ever a normal recovery type or time with these -- they take on a life of their own," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "After the foul ball Friday night down in Baltimore, there was further onset of symptoms. While he's not as severe as the first time he went on the DL, there's still some things that are lingering. We're going to send him out there to be examined."
Collins is the same noted concussion specialist that Boston shortstop Stephen Drew went to see during Spring Training.
Farrell, Red Sox sticking with Bailey as closer
BOSTON -- Though Red Sox manager John Farrell knows that Andrew Bailey needs to start pitching better, he is not ready to make a change in the vital role of closer.
"Well, any time you can go to a guy to lock down a game in which you're supposed to win, I think that keeps momentum going within our clubhouse," said Farrell. "It keeps a positive atmosphere within that group, and yet, every good player is going to go through some ups and downs along the way, and that's where our job as a staff comes in to get him back on track and have them perform to their capabilities."
Bailey has given up runs in three of his last four appearances, posting an 11.25 ERA in that span. This, after the closer allowed runs in just three of his first 19 games.
A couple of things have been at work during the slide. Bailey, according to Farrell, has lost the "second gear" on his fastball. Also, Bailey hasn't been able to command his breaking ball.
"I think over the last four outings, it's been pretty clear that any time he throws a breaking ball, guys are spitting on it until he has thrown it for a strike," Farrell said. "An increase in consistency to his breaking ball will go a long way."
The Red Sox don't detect any health problems with Bailey, who was on the disabled list from April 29-May 20 with a right biceps strain.
"There's been no complaints of soreness, no adjustment to his warmup routine, so all those are consistent," Farrell said. "We're dealing with a human being."
"Andrew's had a couple tough outings here recently, but if you look at the total body of work, his performance over the course of the season, he's still having a very solid year," general manager Ben Cherington said. "Every player goes through slumps. When your outfielder goes through slumps, those 0-for-5 days, nobody really notices. When it's the closer, it gets more attention. He's going through that, but we're really confident he'll get back on track and start closing out games again. Certainly no one is working harder at it than he is."
The one thing Boston does have is a reliable core of setup men, including Junichi Tazawa, Koji Uehara, Andrew Miller and Craig Breslow.
But no bullpen can function fully unless the closer is getting the job done.
"Right now, I want to make sure there's some level of stability and continuity with that group," said Farrell. "I firmly believe that there's a mental side out there for this group that's important. For them to know where they stack up -- albeit adjustments are willing to be made -- that's still the approach."
Tireless Salty draws another start for Red Sox
BOSTON -- Jarrod Saltalamacchia will finally get a chance to rest on Thursday night, when the Red Sox open a four-game series in Detroit.
But even after playing both ends of a day-night doubleheader on Tuesday and catching all 18 innings, Saltalamacchia was right back behind the plate on Wednesday.
David Ross was supposed to start Tuesday's nightcap, but had to go on the seven-day disabled list with a concussion.
"[Saltalamacchia] felt good coming out of yesterday," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "We felt like, with today's matchup, and then with [Jose] Alvarez a left-hander going tomorrow, it's likely [Ryan] Lavarnway will be back there handling [John] Lackey over in Detroit, first game."
If the Red Sox seem to be relying a lot on Saltalamacchia lately, it's because he's earned that trust.
"I think even from the beginning of this year, there's been, I think, more familiarity with the guys on the mound, what their capabilities are," said Farrell. "And his ability to read swings is, I think, has shown up in the pitch selection that he's used. He's had obviously a couple of good games where his throwing and his transfer has been quick and efficient. He's always had arm strength, but I think his overall game has taken a step forward."
Saltalamacchia is eligible for free agency at the end of the season, and his stock within the organization seems to be growing.
"I think he has taken a step forward all around," said Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington. "You get feedback from pitchers and you see it yourself with the job he's doing behind the plate managing the game, the respect he's getting from pitchers and umpires. I thought [Farrell] might give him the day off today, but he's [in there]."
Remy to return to NESN booth Tuesday
BOSTON -- Jerry Remy has a piece of good news for Red Sox fans. The popular color analyst will be back in his familiar perch in the NESN broadcast booth on Tuesday night, when Boston opens its next homestand against the Colorado Rockies.
Remy has been out of work since May 28 after suffering an allergy attack and then pneumonia.
Due to his two bouts with lung cancer -- the most recent of which occurred a few months ago -- Remy did not immediately respond to oral medications, prolonging his recovery.
"I'll be able to return to the booth with no restrictions on Tuesday, and what caused this relapse or whatever it is, everything I've said at the beginning was true," said Remy. "I was working a Sunday game [May 26] and I had an allergy attack. I thought that would improve within a couple of days, and it actually got worse on the Monday night that I worked.
"So I went to the doctor on the following day and I was told at that time that I had pneumonia. So at that point, they put me on oral medication, which I thought would clear things up within a matter of days. Unfortunately, my body rejected the antibiotics that they put me on and continued to get worse, so from that point on, they admitted me to Mass. General, where I spent five days and was on a heavy dose of antibiotics. Within 48 hours, that made a tremendous difference in how I felt."
Remy has had several short-term illnesses in recent seasons.
"It's hard, because the same thing has happened three years in a row," Remy said. "I've come down with these allergies, and then in the process, now we're trying to find out what I'm allergic to and what's starting this stuff. Now, obviously my lungs are compromised because of having cancer twice.
"So any time I get some kind of illness, it seems to gravitate to my lungs and that makes things obviously more complicated. It's frustrating, but yet, on the other hand, things could be a lot worse. I'm just glad I'm past this recent episode and looking forward to getting back to what I enjoy doing the most -- and that's doing Red Sox games."
During his stay at Mass. General, Remy got good news on a follow-up CT scan on his lungs.
"The results of the radiation treatment [from March] were very, very good," Remy said. "That's a bit of a load off my mind. I guess that's probably about it. I can't think of anything else I might be missing except I miss doing my job and I'm thankful for NESN for being so understanding for everything I've been through and I'm looking very much forward to getting back into the booth and following this club into the playoffs."
Don't look for Remy to cut back on his schedule, be it for home games or road games.
"I'm going back full bore," Remy said. "There's no restrictions on travel. Until that Sunday, I felt fabulous. I had no after-effects of radiation, no after-effects of anything. I felt great and I just, all of a sudden, I went down in the dumps in a matter of days. But no, going forward, I had planned to complete my schedule and plan to complete it for a long time to come."
The 60-year-old Remy - who has been broadcasting Red Sox games since 1988 -- doesn't plan on putting away his microphone any time soon.
"Look, it's what I love to do," Remy said. "It's hard for me to sit back and not be able to do my job. Unfortunately, things like this are going to pop up. It's hard for me to deal with them. The fact is, I'm really looking forward to Tuesday night.
"It's part of my life and it's what I enjoy doing the most, and as I've always said, when I eventually retire from doing this, it will be much harder than when I retired as a baseball player. I still have the passion and love for what I do. I just plan on doing it for as long as NESN will have me."
Remy just had one more thing to add at the end of his conference call with reporters.
"Go Sox and go Bruins."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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True story. My wife and I disembarked the RS (second from left) to go into the Grand Mesa Visitor Center, leaving it in an empty parking lot. When we returned, all these other bikes had gathered. Just goes to show you how utterly attractive the RS is. I thought that guy on the right might be pretend-peeing on an "S", but no it's a Ducati.
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Mark M, St. Louis, '13 R1200GS
Thinking that the lone RT will not denigrate the S-ness of this pic......
Ride Safe, Ride Lots
Can't stop myself . . .MOA Rally 2011 009.jpg
"all things in moderation - including moderation"
It would be fun to think what they might look like today.
R11S ran from 1999 to 2005, then a 1 year R12S version (the barber pole bike in my earlier 4 pack pic.)
. and just so those dang RSs don't get ahead of us....
Ride Safe, Ride Lots
That 4 Pack Pic is pretty cool. How did you end up getting four in the same shot? You weren't at Sheads...I mean S riders anonymous were you?
1838 was a Pelican ride aong Peak-to-Peak Hiway, near Allenspark, CO.
1847 was a Pelican Gathering at TOR a few years back.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, January 25, 2013, 12:50 PM
Town Square
Disabled adults to have a place of their own
Original post made on Jan 25, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, January 25, 2013, 12:50 PM
a resident of Castro City
on Jan 25, 2013 at 2:39 pm
It sounds like a handpicked few will benefit. I wonder when true "affordable housing" will actually happen for those in need.
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Jan 25, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Hmm. 10.3 million for 27 tiny apartments. Nearly $1,000 per square foot.
Somebody is playing with a different definition of "affordable" than I am used to.
a resident of Willowgate
on Jan 25, 2013 at 4:03 pm
400 square foot studios have a market rent of about $1300 a unit the affordable amount should be about $800. Who makes up the difference? We do need more affordable housing for the elderly as there is a shortage. Maybe some of that gas tax money for transit centers and BRE.
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Jan 25, 2013 at 7:12 pm
Did I read that right? $176,000 to relocate 6 households? 30 grand a family?
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Jan 25, 2013 at 9:51 pm
now McCalister can hire some of these folks to work in his ice cream shop for minimum wage


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Item # 689USBWIFI | MFR # AN-WF100
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Connect a compatible LG HDTV to the Internet without running Ethernet cable across your floor or through your walls. LG's AN-WF100 Wi-Fi adapter plugs into the USB port of your Internet-ready TV, giving you access to content from Netflix®, YouTube®, Picasa®, and more. Broadband Internet connection and wireless home network required.
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So far so good! Works great!
We had a little trouble getting it going so we had our daughter come over and she called LG and a lady on the phone talked her through the setup process and it was done in about 5 minutes. Then it went through a couple of updates. After that we had no problems. We get Netflix and Youtube and it sometimes will do a little buffering at the beginning but after that there are no interruptions.
Pros: Easy to install on your TV.
Cons: Setup might be a little tricky if you're a novice at such things as this.
Plugged it in and it immediatly communicated with my wireless router. Since the TV was 1 1/2 years old, it had to go through 4 or 5 software updates, otherwise easy to install. Haven't downloaded anything from Netflix yet so I can't comment on the speed.
Pros: Easy to install
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It took me about 20 minutes to get it set up and start streaming movies from netflix.
The adapter works very well. I attached it to the TV, addressed it to my router and everything was done. The streaming is great. No glitches or stops. Glad I got it.
This products works as advertised. It's a shame that a more generic dongle cannot be used instead, and the price is a bit high, but it works as it should, and helps me stream Vudu and Netflix through my LG 42LD550. So, one can argue the value is not good, but then again, the cost of this product is only a fraction of the total cost of the new system most of us buy that includes this accessory. So, I consider it the cost of total purchase, which is easily absorbed. I am sure that all TVs (and several do now), will soon have built-in wi-fi, making these dongles obsolete. Until then, fine.
Overview: LG's AN-WF100 is a Wi-Fi USB adapter that provides instant access to LG's NetCast content such as Netflix, YouTube, Skype, Picasa, and Yahoo! TV Widgets; as well as audio/video content stored your DLNA certified PC through your compatible 2010 LG HDTV featuring NetCast.
Note: You will need a broadband internet connection, modem, and wireless router.
TV Compatibility: The LG Wi-Fi USB dongle (AN-WF100) can only be used to access NetCast content and audio/video content stored on your DLNA certified PC through the following 2010 LG series televisions featuring NetCast.
USB 2.0 Compliant: The LG AN-WF100 features a USB 2.0 type-A connector which plugs into your compatible LG television's USB 2.0 type-A port.
Wireless LAN and DLNA Compatible: The LG Wi-Fi USB adapter (AN-WF100) enables wireless LAN for Broadband and DLNA service.
Wireless Network Compatible: The LG Wi-Fi USB dongle brings wireless Internet access (NetCast service only) and DLNA content to your compatible LG television from any wireless network protocol- 802.11 a, b, g, or n.
|Recommended Use
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DLNA Certified: The LG Wi-Fi USB adapter lets your compatible LG television wirelessly join your home network of DLNA Certified devices (such as your Windows PC), increasing the possibilities of sharing and enjoying your PC's stored media on your television.
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Note: A minimum connection speed of 1.5 Mbps is required. For the be playback condition, a connection speed of 4.0 Mbps is required.
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802.11b: 16.5 dBm (11, 5.5, 2, 1 Mbps)
802.11g: 14 dBm (54 Mbps)
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802.11n: (5 GHz) 13.5 dBM (20 MHz)/13.5 dBm (40 MHz)
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802.11b: 11Mbps
802.11n: 300 Mbps (40 MHz)
|802.11a: -72 dBm (54 Mbps)
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The Bugaboo Buffalo
Reversible seat for your child's every mood – facing you, facing the world.
All-Terrain Suitability ready to go on any terrain with 4 large wheels.
Spacious and easily accessible luggage options – take up to 35lbs with you by using the large underseat basket along with the integrated bag hooks on the handlebar.
One piece fold and self-standing (with both bassinet and seat) for easy storage.
Use from infant to toddler ready to go from day one; the bassinet easily converts into a seat and vice versa.
Extendable sun canopy for extra protection against sun, wind and rain. (Sold separate from Bugaboo Buffalo Base)
Car seat compatible. Graco SnugRide Classic Connect, Graco SnugRide Classic Connect 30, Graco SnugRide Classic Connect 32, Graco SnugRide Classic Connect 35, Maxi-Cosi Mico, Peg-Perego Primo Viaggio SIP 30/30, Chicco-Keyfit, Chicco Keyfit-30, Britax B-Safe, Maxi-Cosi Prezi, Maxi-Cosi Mico AP, Cybex Aton, Cybex Aton 2, Cybex Aton Q, NUNA Pipa
-Two-wheel position allows you to ride through sand and snow.
-Reclinable seat allows baby or toddler to sit up straight, recline or lie flat.
-Compact fold is easy to store at home or in the car.
-Independent seat and bassinet.
-Rotating carry handle.
-Height-adjustable handlebar is a comfortable ride regardless of your height.
-Spacious bassinet and seat; suitable from birth up to 3 years. (The Bugaboo Buffalo is engineered to be robust - even up to a seat load of 50 lbs)
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-Bag hooks to hang your bag (up to 13 bls certified).
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Members of the Juneau Garden Club pose next to a newly-planted Kwanzan flowering cherry tree last week at the Juneau Pioneer Home.
Volunteers with the JGC have gotten to work helping to beautify the grounds near the Pioneer Home. In late April they scrubbed and scraped an aging greenhouse, which was donated in the 90s by the State Governor at the time. Now, fresh shoots of begonias are beginning to pop up and plans are being made on what other vegetables and flowers may flourish in the greenhouse's balmy interior.
The Juneau Pioneer Home will be spruced up in the coming year; the Legislature approved $60,000 for grounds cleanup and more than $100,000 for deferred maintenance at the state run organization, which opened in 1988.


text: That's a great reference. A lot of fan films and other small productions assign credits incorrectly. Co-Producer is one of the worst, as the people who get it rarely do anything related to a co-producer job. As a member of the Producers Guild myself it's nice to see the new p.g.a. mark mentioned in the article.


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New Movies This Week: 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' 'Blended'
It's been like three whole weeks since we've had a new major comic-book movie hit theaters, so you can all relax now—the X-Men are back! As are Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, in their their third rom-com together.
'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
Your favorite mutants are back, this time joining the universes of the original 'X-Men' trilogy with that of 'X-Men: First Class.' In this tale, Wolverine is sent back in time to help prevent the creation of a terrifying future in which mutants (and humans) are hunted by super-robots called Sentinels. (See more about 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' here.)
Directed by Bryan Singer
Starring Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Peter Dinklage
In this reunion of the cast and crew of 'The Wedding Singer,' a man and a woman have a horrible first date then wind up at the same family resort vacation spot, where hijinks start ensuing. (See more about 'Blended' here.)
Directed by Frank Coraci
Starring Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale, Jessica Lowe


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Students build instant messaging system -- instantly
Nineteen high school students from Trenton and Lawrence arrived on
the Princeton campus Thursday with a mission: to assemble cutting-edge
optics devices under a tight deadline so that by the end of the day
they could instant message each other using computers connected by
nothing more than two beams of light.
The students worked in the electrical engineering lab in the basement of the Engineering Quadrangle as part of Materials Science Day, an event sponsored by the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials and the Princeton Center for Complex Materials.
The day was an abridged version of a lab session that Dan Wasserman, a postdoctoral fellow, and Claire Gmachl, an associate professor of electrical engineering, used last semester in "Hands-on Optical Engineering," an innovative course in optics that they developed for Princeton students not majoring in science or engineering.
"There is not that much of a knowledge gap between a non-science Princeton student and a high school student who is interested in science," said Wasserman. "The main challenge was time." The high school students had to squeeze four weeks of college-course material into less than six hours.
The students had to build software using a visual programming language called Labview and then assemble a circuit board. After much testing and troubleshooting, they were able to send typed messages from one computer to another wirelessly, with the help of devices that transmitted and received pulses of light emitted from a laser diode. The technology is similar to that used in fiber-optic cables except that the light signals are transmitted through the air rather than through cables.
After he built his software, Nyle Ross, a sophomore at Lawrence High School, watched an oscilloscope visually translate the letters of his first name into the 0s and 1s of computer language as he typed them into the computer keyboard.
"Pretty cool," observed Noel Powell, a classmate of Ross' at Lawrence.
Erik Gonzalez, Michael Davila and Leeshua Pica, all of Trenton Central High School, built their circuit board as a team. When they were done Pica typed a test message in pink (to match her pink shirt and pink sequined slippers): "Hello!!:)," she wrote. "Michael's taller than Leeshua and Erik wants 2 b famous."
The students were guided in their efforts by volunteers from MentorPower, a program that serves economically disadvantaged students. Also assisting the students were Princeton graduate students Anthony Hoffman, Afusat Dirisu, Guillaume Sabouret, Fatima Toor and Weiwei Zheng and postgraduate fellow Sylvia Smullin.
"It's invaluable for these kids to see the science behind the technology that they use every day," said Tony Jordan, senior project manager of MentorPower.
The students have been invited back to the Princeton campus March 21 to participate in the Science and Engineering Expo, which 1,000 middle school students are expected to attend. That is when the students will really demonstrate their newly acquired skills and knowledge, according to Daniel Steinberg, educational outreach director at the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials. "We are expecting them to teach the middle school students what they learned today," he said.


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Moore making immediate impact
Rookie throws seven scoreless innings in Game 1 of the ALDS
Two starts into his Major League career, more than a few Rays fans are mentioning "Matt Moore" and "ace" in the same sentence.
That's understandable, considering the opposition: the two winningest teams in the American League -- each a division champion -- and what the 22-year-old left-hander did to both teams.
Sept. 22 at Yankee Stadium: Five scoreless innings, four hits allowed, 11 strikeouts and a 15-8 win that snapped the Rays' three-game skid and pulled them within two games of Boston in the Wild Card chase.
Sept. 30 at Rangers Ballpark: Seven scoreless innings, two hits allowed, six strikeouts and a 9-0 win over Texas in the opening game of Tampa Bay's divisional playoff.
He was eligible to play in the postseason because he replaced right-hander Alex Cobb on the Rays' roster after Cobb went on the disabled list Aug. 7 following ribcage surgery.
Moore left the first game with a 13-0 lead and the second with an 8-0 cushion.
"It really takes the air out of the other team," Moore said. "It does make it that much easier when these guys are putting up that amount of runs because I can challenge hitters. If it's a close game, you don't want to challenge guys with fastballs as much."
His fastball is remarkable, not only because it routinely reaches the high 90s, but because he seems to throw it so effortlessly, making his changeup even more baffling. But there's more to great pitching than that.
"A lot of times you'll see pitchers come up with this great stuff," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "You'll see 95, 97, 98. That's wonderful. You'll see a decent curveball. That's great. Or a changeup.
"But you have to be able to handle the moment. You have to have the right pulse or the right heartbeat. He does. I haven't known him for a long time. I've had different conversations with him. He looks you right in the eye. His answers are straightforward. He already shows that he's very accountable. ... And this is like I know this guy from one handshake in the parking lot at Port Charlotte," Maddon said.
In fact, Moore wasn't invited to Spring Training this year.
Left-hander David Price, who made his Major League debut Sept. 14, 2008, exactly three years earlier than Moore, said the rookie southpaw is "above me where I was at the same time period. His changeup and his breaking ball, his slurve at 84, 85, 86. His fastball and his changeup are so good he probably doesn't need that breaking ball."
Moore was the 2007 New Mexico High School Player of the Year, but "I knew I probably wasn't going to go in the top 100 picks or so (in that year's Draft). I thought there was a chance I could go in the fourth or fifth round. After the fifth round, when I didn't get picked, I went to bed.
"On the second day the sixth round went by, and the seventh, and my stomach started to hurt a little bit. But before I knew it, the first pick in the eighth round popped up, and there it was."
He was the 245th player selected. Price was No. 1 overall that year.
A year ago, he had an undistinguished fourth pro season. He lost his first seven decisions and finished the year 6-11 with a 3.36 ERA with Class-A Charlotte. It certainly didn't presage this year's performance, a combined 12-3 and 1.92 ERA in 27 starts with 210 strikeouts in 155 innings at Double-A Montgomery and Triple-A Durham before being called up Sept. 12.
Still, Moore probably couldn't have imagined he'd become the first pitcher to start a postseason game with only one Major League start to his credit.
"This is a different level I have never been to, and everybody here is really good," Moore said after beating the Rangers.
But as Rays designated hitter Johnny Damon said, "I don't think he realizes how good he is just yet."
Bruce Lowitt is a freelance writer based in Tampa, Fla.
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Thank goodness for Bjork! Those of us who write about celebrity fashion often lament over how alike everyone dresses — no one takes risks anymore. No one, that is, except for our favorite Icelandic singer. After a four-year hiatus, the queen of bizarre fashion is back! Bjork appeared at the Coachella Music Festival this weekend wearing some sort of magical mushroom headdress with an orange and green hula skirt underneath. About to launch a new world tour in support of her next album Volta, Bjork has said that the album is mostly about what being feminine means. Since Bjork wears her heart — and her art — on her sleeve, we can't wait to see what those sleeves are gonna look like. Some people consider her a fashion darling, while others, a fashion disaster. Tell us: What do you think of Bjork's Coachella look? If the swan dress she wore to the Academy Awards in 2001 is a ten, where does this fit in on the Bjork-o-meter fashion scale?
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LAKEWOOD RANCH — Brian Johnson has watched East County teenagers transform before his eyes.
Teens who used to swear and do drugs have traded in their wayward days under the mentorship of volunteers and staff members at Lakewood Ranch YMCA's Teen Outreach Program.
"You see their life change, and it's amazing," Johnson said.
But the change would not have been possible without funding from the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund, which has donated $30,000 in each of the last two years. At a special check presentation at the Lakewood Ranch YMCA July 21, the fund did it again — this time reaching deeper into its pockets to do so.
This year's contribution accounts for 37.5% of all monies the fund will donate to local charities this year.
"We love the program, and we support it 100%," Community Fund Vice President Ron Masseo said.
In years past, the Community Fund has doled out more than $100,000, usually splitting the monies amongst well more than a dozen charities, including Southeastern Guide Dogs, and Manasota Bringing Up Down Syndrome, among others. But because corporate sponsorships were down considerably this year because of the economy, the fund had only about $80,000 to allocate this year, Masseo said.
The remaining $50,000 will be distributed Oct. 16 at a ceremony at Lakewood Ranch Town Hall.
The Community Fund first discussed the idea for a teen outreach program with YMCA officials several years ago after talking with residents in the community, who all said the area needed more activities for its youth. YMCA officials already had been hoping to develop such a program and the groups joined forces.
"As a board, we decided to make an impact," Masseo said. "We wanted to pick one charity and make a significant (investment)."
The program now hosts activities such as its fifth-quarter event, in which the YMCA is open from 9 p.m. to midnight once a month for games, activities such as a skate park and dodge ball and free food and drinks.
The fund had planned to sponsor the pilot program for just its first two years, but decided to continue its support when the YMCA again sought funding this year, Masseo said.
Contact Pam McTeer at [email protected].
LAKEWOOD RANCH — Brian Johnson has watched East County teenagers transform before his eyes.


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Scrutiny has largely centered around whether the Obama administration rushed approval of the company's $535-million federal loan for political reasons. But the scandal runs a lot deeper and indicates that lots of people in the government — and the private sector — ignored huge red flags about the start-up solar company.
Emails show that Solyndra's loan application, to build an advanced manufacturing facility in California, was fast-tracked through the Department of Energy, despite the fact that the department had not completed its review of the company's financial viability.
When the Solyndra review was finally completed in August 2009, it raised major concerns about the company's capital shortfalls. One email obtained by Congressional investigators even predicted that the "project would run out of cash by September 2011."
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Romance Report: Miley's Tears Dry Up; Ashlee & Pete's Tabloid Defense
It didn't take long for Miley Cyrus to go from blue to bubbly in the wake of her split from boyfriend Justin Gaston, but does her mood swing have something to do with first love Nick Jonas? "I am so happy :)," the newly nose stud-sporting Disney powerhouse, 16, Twittered on Thursday. That's quite a change from her post-breakup message on Sunday, when she sniffled, "Tears are words the heart can't express." What happened in between? A reported visit from Nick. On Wednesday, Cyrus was snapped jetskiing with the nonthreatening teen idol on Georgia's Tybee Island, where she's filming her new flick, "The Last Song." "He's my best friend," she said during an interview with a Tennessee radio station not long after the wave-riding. "We've definitely reconnected. We don't know what's going to happen in the future, but right now we're just kind of kicking it and hanging out as much as we can." And when they're not hanging out, Nick doesn't seem to be far from Miley's thoughts. "We're miles and miles apart but I'm still holding on to your heart," she wrote after he winged back to New York, quoting a line from the Jonas Brothers song "Inseparable" (not that we're familiar with their oeuvre or anything).
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Meanwhile, the London Sun dubiously claims she's also holding onto the heart of a badly coiffed British guitarist who appeared in "Hannah Montana: The Movie." "They hit it off straight away," a source says of her alleged connection to 22-year-old Steve Rushton. "She is still young but she is smitten with him."
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Evan Rachel Wood says there's no ookiness surrounding her fledgling romance with Shane West, even though the two co-starred as siblings on "Once and Again" a few years back. "Yeah, we played [brother and sister], but at least we're not related in real life! Good God!" the former Marilyn Manson-smitten starlet tells the New York Daily News. "I thought it would be creepy for him, but it's not."


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MILL CREEK — For many people who visit Mill Creek City Hall, Michelle Conner is a pleasant surprise.
For the past 10 years, she's been a passport technician at the Mill Creek Police Department. People from all over the world come to her counter to apply for, renew and replace passports.
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Conner, 48, speaks seven languages: English, Spanish, Russian, German, French, Swedish and Japanese. She's learning an eighth, Greek.
All those languages come in handy at her job, helping people prepare for international travel.
Conner was born in the U.S. When she was young, her parents, a rancher and homemaker of German descent, moved to Mexico. She grew up speaking Spanish at schools in Guadalajara until 11th grade, when her family moved back to the U.S., to New Mexico.
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Cuts before compromise?
Congress returns Monday with all eyes on a last Senate attempt to forestall across-the-board spending cuts March 1 that threaten to cripple government services this spring and roll back the clock to before Barack Obama's presidency.
Discretionary spending is slated to fall below 2008 levels for the first time in Obama's tenure, even allowing for the recent Hurricane Sandy emergency aid bill. When adjusted for inflation, POLITICO's calculations show that Obama will have billions less than former President George W. Bush in nondefense appropriations — so important to his second-term agenda.
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Slow to see the danger, Obama is now campaigning full throttle, trying to raise the alarm at the local level to put pressure on lawmakers.
Sunday saw the release of reams of new data from the White House purporting to break down the impact on a state-by-state basis. And the Senate will vote this week on a Democratic plan that promises $110 billion in alternative revenues and savings to buy time to work out a larger deficit deal including at least corporate tax reform.
"This needs to start in the Senate," Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said on CBS News's "Face the Nation." But much still depends on whether Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) opts to open his bill to floor amendments that might gain traction with swing Republicans whose votes he needs for passage.
Thus far, the outlook is not promising, and all signs indicate the cuts must first go into effect Friday before there can be any real movement toward a deal.
Indeed, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a moderate voice in his party, told POLITICO that the president's aggressive style is only driving Republicans closer together.
"He is running a great political campaign, but as a legislative strategy, it is catastrophic," Cole said. "He seems to want to break us. But he is making it hard for those of us who want to work with him to work with him."
With four days and counting, there's a bit of March Madness feeling to it all. Even author Bob Woodward has jumped in, crossing the stage like some Greek chorus in ancient Athens to announce periodically who's been "moving the goal posts." But make no mistake, this is a genuine watershed event for Washington — and Obama.
In 2008, Bush's last year, discretionary spending reached an estimated $1.18 trillion, of which $494 billion represented nondefense appropriations. In today's dollars, that would be about $1.262 trillion and $528 billion, respectively.
Post sequester, it's now estimated that Obama will be left with total discretionary funding of $1.139 trillion, or 10 percent less in real dollars than his Republican predecessor. Most sensitive, nondefense appropriations will be about $520 billion post-sequester, or $8 billion less — even counting the Sandy emergency funds.
In fact, POLITICO's calculations show the true gap is double that if one were to separate out all emergency aid in the two years as well as veterans' programs, which are largely exempt from the automatic cuts now.
Until Friday, the precise percentage cuts won't be known for sure. But about $70 billion in 2013 budget authority would be wiped out with defense expected to face a 7.7 percent reduction and nondefense about 5.2 percent.
Those numbers might seem manageable, but agencies will be halfway through the fiscal year, meaning the true cuts are almost double what they seem. The impact won't be immediate: no shuttered buildings like the government shutdown in 1995. Instead Cabinet secretaries predict a steady, escalating war of attrition that will be felt more by everyday Americans in April and May.
Sunday's circus of morning news show sound bites followed by the afternoon data dump from the White House captured this information war.
"Give me a break," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) snapped on "Fox News Sunday" before rushing to add that the rigid sequester mechanism is a "stupid way to cut spending."
"There's easy ways to cut this money that the American people will never feel," Coburn said. "Some of it's not smart, but it's the only way … that you are ever going to get out of both parties some spending cuts."
Hours later, the White House weighed in with hundreds of pages of detail seeking to puncture these Republican defenses.
No more rounding up or down with these numbers: Precisely 1,490 children would lose vaccines in Oklahoma, and there'd be $298,000 less for senior meals. South Carolina, a hotbed of Republican resistance to Obama, could see 11,000 civilian defense workers furloughed.


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Part II. Yesterday: Sister Vianney, for 51 years a teacher or principal at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Costa Mesa, reluctantly agrees to accept the Mayor's Award for continuous service to the city. I attend the morning assembly and find it remarkably the same as my Catholic school assemblies in the 1960s.
When she arrived, she was one of five nuns of the order in residence at the parish complex on Baker Street. The school was just three years old and parts were still under construction. This was the boom era for Catholic schools in America.
My school limited class size to 40 because our classrooms literally wouldn't hold more, but at St. John the Baptist, they found the room. Sister Vianney's first second-grade class had 58 students.
When Mayor Jim Righeimer and I knocked on Sister Vianney's door after the assembly last Thursday and asked her for a few minutes, this was one of the issues that came up. It was the first time I had ever voluntarily gone to a principal's office.
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At that moment, I feared I hadn't silenced my cellphone. But I couldn't bring myself to reach into my pocket and look. There was something about sitting across the desk from a nun in an immaculate office splashed with morning sunlight that revived a 40-year-old survival instinct. It told me, That desk drawer probably is full of rulers.
"So besides, teaching, you have to run a show," she continued. "Teaching is not enough. We're down to 35 students (per class); we could never have 58 today. Children are just as loving, but they are struggling (to be attentive). It's hard for them to sit all day and listen to a boring teacher trying to get something across.
"Our Catholicity hasn't changed. Our spreading the good news hasn't changed. Our parent interest hasn't changed. It's just harder."
About those parents. Many parents of today's St. John the Baptist students are former students of Sister Vianney. "I feel like a grandparent now," she said. "It's a great feeling because it means they like what they got."
Several students have come back as teachers. Of the 26 teachers, three are nuns (the school is down from a high of 11 nuns at one point) and 23 are lay teachers. Of the latter, three are former students and two are married to former students.
About 80 percent of the eighth-grade graduates go to Catholic high schools, most of them to Mater Dei. Perhaps the best-known St. John/Mater Dei alum is Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart.
Of the 20 percent who don't go to Catholic high schools, it's not necessarily because they can't do the work. Some just can't afford it. One of the defining characteristics of St. John the Baptist is that it is not in a wealthy neighborhood, and many of the families struggle to send their children. (In fact, says Righeimer, the diversity of income is one of the reasons he sends his girls there.)
Some families who have money pay extra tuition to help subsidize the poorer ones. But help is not always available for high school, where tuition is roughly twice as much.
"Many of them take the high school test just to prove they could go if they had the money," Sister Vianney said.
The conversation returns to patience. It turns out that the awards handed out at the morning assembly were not for high achievement in academics but rather were given to students who had demonstrated the virtue of patience.
"There's more to life than A's, B's and C's," Sister Vianney said. "It's what's going on in the heart."
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Oh, christ. It's the philosopher's version of the Courtier's Reply. There's been some back and forth about Christopher Hitchens on Salon, with the first hack at Hitchens by Curtis White (and a ghastly bafflegab it was), followed by a defense by Dellora, and now Joe Winkler charges in, arguing that Hitchens wasn't a philosopher.
All right, stipulated. He was not a philosopher. Much as I may respect some philosophy, you know that it's no insult to state that someone is not a philosopher, and when someone uses philosophy as a clumsy bludgeon as does this Winkler fellow, it's actually a compliment.
It's another terrible effort at religious apologetics through confusion. This one paragraph ought to be enough to indict him on charges of sowing doubt and discord through dissembling noise.
Religion itself, especially the avant garde thought of religion, has been grappling with the issue of historicity in an honest manner for decades. What's worse is that Hitch doesn't really do justice to the systems of countless of thinkers (Wittgenstein, Jung, Heschel and Niebuhr) who discuss the nature of religious claims and their relationship to truth. At no point does Hitch think to ask himself in this respect, what kind of truth are we talking about, historical truth, experiential truth, or maybe symbolic truth?
Jebus. I throw up my hands and throw up my lunch.
So what is, for instance, the claim of an afterlife? Historical? Nope. No one has died and come back to credibly summarize the event for us. Experiential? Have you died lately? Symbolic? Symbolic of what? We can play this game for every single contrivance of religion — it's authority in morality, the power of prayer, transubstantiation, salvation, whatever. I don't give a good god damn what label you give it or whether somebody believes in it fervently — it doesn't make it true in any reasonable sense of the word.
And I mean true in the good old practical, pragmatic sense of being repeatable or verifiable, having some material evidence for its reality, or having verifiable consequences that cannot be explained by mundane, plausible phenomena.
How about true in the sense of it actually happened, or the process actually works?
You know, in the kinds of masturbatory games some philosophers and theologians play with the truth, they could just as well argue that Harry Potter is "true", in the same sense as Jesus. Winkler tries to argue that what he calls "polemics", or what I call cutting through the pretense, are "interesting, enlightening and often compelling, [but] rarely further the conversation." That's true, but only because he seems to regard spewing more bullshit as "conversation". Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is shut down the stupid conversation by tearing apart its counterproductive premises, and simply ending the circle jerk.


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She was born Sept. 5, 1957, at Chester, Calif., the daughter of Barbara Oakes and the late Tom Stout.
She was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary Post No. 2283 and served as secretary and treasurer.
She worked in the medical field as a nurse and finished her career in medical records at Stella Manor Nursing Home.
She was an avid bingo player and was of the Catholic faith.
She is survived by her husband, Frank Sears of the home; one son, Christopher Stout of California; one daughter, Eliesha Wolverton of Conway; one stepson, William Sears; and one stepdaughter, Shelley Carter.
She loved her three grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren, and was loved by several aunts, cousins and many friends.
Memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at U.S. National Cemetery, Fort Smith with an additional memorial service at V.F.W Post 2283 in Russellville at 1 p.m. on Dec. 1, 2012.
Cremation arrangements by Lewis Funeral Chapel in Fort Smith with burial at Fort Smith National Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in her honor may be made to the Ladies Auxiliary Post No. 2283, Cancer Aid and Research, Bonnie Armstrong, 1713 S. Atlanta Ave. Russellville, AR 72908. To place online tribute go to www.lewisfuneral.net.
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Sleep disorders in the elderly involve any disrupted sleep pattern, such as problems falling or staying asleep, too much sleep, or abnormal behaviors with sleep.
Sleep problems are common in the elderly. In general, older people need 30 to 60 minutes less sleep than younger people. Their sleep is less deep and more choppy than sleep in younger people. A healthy 70 year old may wake up four times during the night without it being due to disease.
Some causes or contributors to sleep disturbances in older adults include:
The health care provider will take a history and perform a physical exam to look for medical causes and determine which type of sleep disorder is causing the problem.
Relieving chronic pain and controlling medical conditions such as frequent urination may improve sleep in some people. Treating depression can also improve sleep.
Sleeping in a quiet place and drinking a glass of warm milk before bed may improve the symptoms. Other ways to promote sleep include following these healthy lifestyle tips:
If you can't fall asleep after 20 minutes, get out of bed and do a quiet activity such as reading or listening to music.
Avoid using sleeping pills to help you sleep, if possible. They can lead to dependence and can make sleep problems worse over time if you don't use them correctly. Your health care provider should assess your risks of daytime sleepiness, mental (cognitive) side effects, and falls before you begin taking sleep medications.
WARNING: The FDA has asked manufacturers of certain sleep medicines to put stronger warning labels on their products so that consumers are more aware of the potential risks. Possible risks while taking such medicines include severe allergic reactions and dangerous sleep-related behaviors, including sleep-driving. Ask your doctor about these risks.
For most people, sleep improves with treatment. However, others may continue to have sleep disruptions.
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if a lack of sleep or too much sleep is interfering with daily living.
Avoiding as many causes of sleep disruption as possible and getting regular exercise may help control sleep problems.
Juergens TM, Barczi SR. Sleep. In: Duthie EH, Katz PR, Malone ML, eds. Practice of Geriatrics. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2007:chap 22.
Mahowald MW. Disorders of sleep. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 429.
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So is there any real reason to fill your bathrub with water?
I've read this is a good idea in case you lose your water service, and you can use that water to flush your toilet (by pouring water in your terlet).
Wife thinks I am overreacting and 'scaring the children' but personally I'm ready to tie her to a tree outside at this point.


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These three thick art glass sculptural pieces are individually mouth-blown, so each is a unique work of art.
Set of three includes powder-coated steel stakes that are covered with protective rubber
sleeves. Simply install the stakes and then slip the glass pieces over the stakes. In sandy
soils, we recommend embedding the stakes in concrete for stability.
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These are very beautiful and the glass is thicker than I thought they would be. I did add some clear hose to the metal stake to two pieces, since it only came for one. Can get the hose easily at home improvement store.
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OK, we all miss Princess Di, but this is just weird. And gross.
Jam made with the late icon's hair is on sale as part of a London art exhibit. The jelly was made using a tiny piece of Lady Di's hair, infused with gin and then combined with milk and sugar, according to The Associated Press.
"We thought about it and the most mundane food of all is jam," said creator Sam Bompas. "So we made it a surreal object."
The preserve, called "occult jam," is part of a surrealist art show at London's Barbican Art Gallery and sells for $7.60 a jar.
The hair was bought on eBay for $10 from a U.S. dealer who collects celebrity hair.
Bompas said he decided to make the bizarre product to provoke people into thinking about food marketing and how language enhances the everyday eating experience, he said.


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Hey everyone again, this is Jeff Verkoeyen and I have recently started working on a compiler for my scripting language; OpenScript.
If you haven't heard of OpenScript, it is a scripting language that allows you to make quick OpenGL applications VERY easily and without having to buy an expensive compiler or worrying about window creation. The program also handles a lot of the things that usually take a long time to implement, like sound (using FMod), user input, rendering OpenGL (correctly ), and window creation/handling.
OpenScript1.0 is already finished (and actually has been finished for quite some time now, it was developed in April of 2003), however, OpenScript1.0 used a "direct" scripting/interpreting method where it would actually read through the file over and over for each frame. The end result of this actually wasn't too bad, but it is time for OpenScript's true power to be shown. I am now designing a compiler for OpenScript which (if you will notice) looks and works very much like visual C++. The one catch however, is that this entire project is being done from scratch.
I started coming up with ideas for the compiler last saturday (October 25, 2003) and now on Oct. 29, 2003, I have a decent-enough demo that shows off the working project/workspace system. Here are the features included in the compiler so far:
Workspace: This basically just holds everything for the current "instance" of the compiler, the workspace itself isn't modifiable, but you can add multiple projects in to the workspace.
Projects: A project is basically an OpenScript program. Each individual project, when compiled, will generate an OpenScript program.
Groups: Projects can contain multiple groups for easy file management. Groups can have notes stored with them, can be changed, inserted, and removed.
Items/Files: These are what allow you to compile your OpenScript programs. In the current version of the compiler, OpenScript programs can only run off of one .ost file (Source file) and as many .osh files (Header files) as it chooses. Future versions of the compiling engine will see the ability for multiple source files.
If you download the current demo of the compiler, you will notice a couple of things that look VERY much like visual C++, and I intended it this way. First off, the workspace viewer works nearly identical to VC++'s workspace viewer, and I am quite happy with the way that it works currently. Also, an MDI (Multiple Document Interface) is integrated in to the program so that you can have multiple files open at once for working on them.
Note: the demo below is NOT finished, please don't ask questions like "Why can't I compile programs?" the answer to that is that the compiler engine hasn't been integrated in to the actual compiler interface yet. I have the code for compiling completely finished, I just have to translate it over so that it works correctly in the interface (like putting together a very complex puzzle).
If you do download the demo and find any bugs (IE: the program crashes randomly) please post here with the following items:
Computer specs (OS, speed, ram):
When the bug happened (see if you can recreate it):
I am open to any suggestions, as the actual interface is still in development, so if you would like to have something put in there that isn't in there already, just post here and I'll get on it.
Thank you in advance for trying out the program, I look forward to seeing some replies!
-Note: The actual OpenScript2.0 compiler engine should be integrated sometime within the next month, depending on how soon I competely finish the interface and am sure that it's relatively bug-free.
-edit- no, it's NOT opensource the name merely merges OpenGL with the word script, OpenGL/Script==OpenScript