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How To : Use recovery mode on the Sony PSP
Watch this video to learn how to use recovery mode on the PSP. Recovery mode allows you to go into the PSP and change settings you normally can not. Recovery mode requires a Custom firmware.
Watch this video to learn how to use recovery mode on the PSP. Recovery mode allows you to go into the PSP and change settings you normally can not. Recovery mode requires a Custom firmware.
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All adults in our school have a responsibility for Safeguarding. All staff have completed Basic Awareness of Safeguarding Training, led by the school Designated Safeguarding Officer. The most recent whole school staff training took place in September 2017.
All adults in school are required to wear a Smarden Primary School identification Badge, and they must sign in at the school office to receive this.
All staff, governors, students and volunteers undertake a DBS check and details of these checks are kept in a single central record in school.
All the policies in school are kept centrally, the safeguarding policy is reviewed annually and its related policies and practices are reviewed regularly. Our practices and policies reflect the guidance outlined in "Keeping Children Safe in Education".
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We believe that it is important to make children and young people aware that unacceptable behaviour towards them should not be tolerated. Our PSHE curriculum supports children to be able to recognise when their safety becomes compromised and to know what they can do about it.
At Smarden Primary School we believe that educating our children about being safe on-line is very important. As part of our ICT curriculum all children from Foundation Stage to Year Six follow our E-safety Scheme of Work focusing on identifying some of the risks about being on-line and how to keep themselves safe.
In school we have clear rules about using the internet and these are displayed in every classroom.
The rules are regularly discussed with the children by their class teachers.

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Almost two full weeks after hurricane Arthur dealt us a crippling blow, I watched NSPI front line staff continue to struggle with the aftermath of the tropical storm as weakened branches and limbs continued to break and fall in the heavy rain. When I spoke to an obviously very tired NSPI employee he said the one thing he most valued right now was a full night's sleep. That comment in turn prompted the question – How much did the power outages and ancillary damage caused by hurricane Arthur really cost, when extraordinary costs are considered, for example – everything from overtime by NSPI employees, to special contractors, to losses from defrosted fridges, to other personal losses (wages) and the like?
When all of these costs are accumulated the next step would be to estimate what the costs would have likely have been if the damage repair costs and losses had been applied to right of way maintenance prior to the arrival of the storm. A very simple first cost analysis would seem to indicate that we as ratepayers are further subsidizing NSPI by absorbing massive losses (food losses, wage losses, repair costs and so on) as a result of unacceptable right of way maintenance practices on their part. Trying to get a handle upon these numbers is very difficult but not impossible and I certainly wish the Public Utilities Review Board well in their recently announced endeavours in this regard.
At one time not that long ago; the Shelburne Power Corp depot had 5 full time staff for the express purpose of clearing and maintaining distribution line right of ways. In addition, there were three trucks and their staff stationed here that also did right of way maintenance when required. Today there is neither staff nor trucks at the Shelburne depot. I am sure the savings of 8 full time staff and 3 line trucks, summed over 20 or so years is pretty impressive when applied to the bottom line. Unfortunately it is more than paid for by the losses accrued by those who are forced to use the power utilities services. For example just imagine what it costs to restock a Sobeys's store after a three day power outage.
What is even more worrisome is the demonstrated fact that the present utility has difficulty attempting to manage a simple distribution utility – then what is it going to do with the proposed multi-billion dollar Muskrat Falls system when it comes on line. We can only hope that the Public Utilities Review Board will be able to manage their responsibly for which they will be held accountable.
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In case you landed here looking for the person behind the credentials, here's my story in a nutshell:
Having grown up in northern Michigan as the daughter of a doctor and a teacher, I will always be a small-town girl at heart. I credit my parents for fostering the interests and values reflected in the list of fields in which I now translate. My love for the German language, culture, and people grew out of a summer exchange-student experience and a Junior year abroad, and I went on to earn a Master's degree in German. After a brief teaching career, I married and settled into life as a full-time homemaker, mom and volunteer (no regrets). I took up genealogy as a hobby around 1975 and subsequently published three family histories, all with German connections. In the process, I learned to read German script and established ties with my family in Germany, the source of the vintage photos on this site.
German was not offered in public schools where we lived, so in 1983 I began to look for what else I could do with a foreign language and discovered the American Translators Association. I promptly joined it, sat for an exam, and a year later, as an ATA-certified German-English translator, followed my husband's job to North Carolina. Aware that I still had much to learn about the art and business of translation, I invited five colleagues to my home in 1985 for the purpose of organizing what would eventually become an ATA chapter. This was a turning point in my career.
In the years since then, the language services industry has come of age, and the Internet has revolutionized the way we work. I was privileged to witness this development through two decades of service to ATA at the chapter and national levels. I am now a rank-and-file life member, still cultivating friendships and refreshing knowledge at annual conferences, but choosing to devote most of my time to the work I love and life's other pleasures.


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Yoze Erceg, 89, of 818 Kossuth St., Freemansburg, died Friday in Muhlenberg Medical Center. He was the husband of Anna (Domian) Erceg.
He was employed by Bethlehem Steel Corp. until retiring in 1961 from the quarry.
Born in Dolmatcia, Yugoslavia, he was a son of the late Marte and Eva (Erceg) Erceg.
He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Bethlehem Township.


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Rethmann Petra, Professor | Director/Graduate Advisor of IGHC
Petra Rethmann
Professor | Director/Graduate Advisor of IGHC
Department of Anthropology
Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
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Dr. Petra Rethmann is professor of Anthropology, a faculty member in the Cultural Studies & Critical Theory program, and a member of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. She is the author of Tundra Passages (2001) and co-editor ofGlobality: Frictions and Connections (in press), and the author of numerous articles that have appeared in edited volumes and in journals such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropologica, Cultural Critique, and Anthropologie et Société. Her research is based in two main areas: Russia and South Africa. Over the past decade, she has devoted her attention to thinking about a number of interrelated issues concerning: cultural creativity and agency; the afterlife of particular historical movements and moments; the production of history and the place of art within it; fetishization and the violence of culture. In her writings on all of these issues she attends to questions of cultural politics and representation. Petra Rethmann is currently working on two book-length projects. The first one examines the cultural politics of left-wing collectives and movements that emerged in West Germany in the 1980s. The second project involves a critical interrogation of the South African anti-apartheid struggle, examined from a perspective of the future that never came into being.
PhD McGill, 1996
2018 Russia: Anthropological Insights. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2010 Cultural Autonomy: Frictions and Connections. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2001 Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania University Press.
n.d. Collectivism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1980.
Journal and Book Articles
2017 The Curtain in Room 101. In Pink & Green. Edited by Robyn Lew and Maxine Proctor. Toronto: Toronto Art Book Fair Publications. Pp. 39 – 51. (This is a piece of creative writing).
2017 Zines Hanging from a Wall. In Pink & Green. Edited by Robyn Lew and Maxine Proctor. Toronto: Toronto Art Book Fair Publications. Pp. 27 – 33. (This is a piece of creative writing).
2016 Yugoslavism: History, Temporality, and the Search for Alternative Modes of Political Critique. In Time, Globalization, and the Human Experience. Edited by Paul Huebener, Susie O'Brien, Tony Porter, Liam Stockdale, and Yanquiu Rachel Zhou. New York: Routledge. Pp. 160 – 174.
2016 What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia. In Impulse to Act: A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice, edited by Othon Alexandrakis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp. 152 – 179.
2015 Internationalism, Temporality, and Hope: a View from Eastern Europe and the Left. Social Anthropology 23 (4): 480 – 491.
2014 Wither Left-Wing Nostalgia. In Anthropology and Nostalgia. Edited by Olivia Angé and David Berlinger. Oxford: Berghahn. Pp. 198-213.
2013 Imagining Political Possibility in an Age of Late Liberalism and Cynical Reason. Reviews in Anthropology 42 (4):227-242.
2013 The Discreet Charm of Lenin. Journal for Historical Sociology 26(4): 227-242.
2012 Socialism, Anew?" Russia's New Left, Chevengur, and the Rethinking of Failure. McMaster Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition Working Paper Series 12(2):1-35.
2011 West German Radical History as Seen from the 1980's: Projekt Artur and the Refusal of Political Confiscation. Seminar47(1): 46-63.
2011 A Few Notes on the Question, What is Radical Imagination? Affinities: a Journal on Radical Culture, Thought, and Action 4(2): 48-54.
2010 Domesticity, Gender, and Change in Northern Kamchatka. The Anthropology of East Europe Review 28(2):85-101.
2010 Prizrachnoje vospominanije. Kommentarij k tsiklu Gerharda Richtera "18 Oktjabrja 1977 goda." Sinij Divan 15: 61-81.
2010 Global Activism and the Visual Grammar of Nature. In Cultural Autonomy: Frictions and Connections, edited by Rethmann, Petra, Imre Szeman, and Will Coleman. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2009 Post-Communist Ironies in an East German Hotel. Anthropology Today 1:19-42.
2009 After the Thrill: Global Capitalism and the Search for South African Autonomy. Globalizations 6(3): 365-377
2008 Nostalgie à Moscou. Anthropologie et Société 32 (1).
2008 Fantasies at the International Whaling Commission. In Institutions, Governance, and Global Ordering. Edited by Pauly, Lou, and William Coleman. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2007 On Presence. In Extra/Ordinary Anthropology. Edited by Jean-Guy Goulet, Bruce G. Miller. Foreword by Johannes Fabian. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Pp. 36-53.
2006 On Militancy, Sort Of. Cultural Critique 62: 67-92.
2004 Violence and the Politics of Ethnographic Writing. Anthropology News 45(8): 13-14.
2004 Politique et Imaginaire à Tchoukotka. Anthropologie et Société 28(1): 112-134.
2004 A Dream of Democracy in the Russian Far East. In In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects, and Globalization, edited by Mario Blaser and Harvey Feit. London: Zed Press. Pp. 256-279.
2003 The Social Uses of History in the Russian Far East. Arctic Anthropology 39 (1-2): 122-155.
2000 Skins of Desire: Poetry and Identity in Koriak Women's Gift Exchange. American Ethnologist 27 (1): 52-71.
1997 Chto Delat': Ethnography in the Post-Soviet Cultural Context. American Anthropologist 99 (4): 770-774..


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Analogous to Tower 7 Ameaning
True American Beauty - Poem by Analogous to Tower 7 Ameaning
How does the American facade now fade
Victim of the causes made
The wars we waged
Against ourselves
Baring weapons while 'there' to help
Overthrow some meager leader
Sticking to the plan
to spread our 'free' democracy
Across the heathen land
With righteous bullets radiated
And greedy egos elevated
Land and life we mutilated
Declaring it 'emancipated'
Giving rule to our chosen people
Consistently corrupt and consistently evil
Is murder all we offer equal
With unmanned drones
And hand signed bombs
We share 'our freedom' all day long
Celebrating war in our national song
Making a weapon to show those cowards
What we think of the fallen Towers
And so we sow the seeds of violence
Nurtured by indifferent silence
Watered with whole families' blood
Who missed the mark
Of our godly love
We say US is what they should be
Americans, please stop and see
The causes of our agony
The rampant poor
We now ignore
Chemicals that fill the grocery store
Our toxic water is fading too
America war's killing you
Even in this moment
Unless we choose to own it
The part we play
The way we live
What we offer
And what we give
There is no switch in politics
To bring about the change
The power lies solely in
The person with your name
Write a poem, give a speech
Muster what you can
To stand for peace in solitude
Bring revival to this land
So that our future
Those born tomorrow
Can live in peace
Without war's sorrow
Unslip the knot
That's held its place
And bound Us in this violent state
Set a goal for a generation
To be the first in this Nation
To grow and live
In our population
Never facing war's devastation
Though even the first
Will have the stain
Of OUR wars and OUR pain
Muster faith
All you can
Denounce all war as best you can
Have no doubt
That you're the wave
Tread the path
Your life will pave
In saving them
We'll all be saved
From this violent fate
Begin the change
That will last
Beyond 10,000 years
As steadily we face and fight
All our inner fears
Learning how to transform
The weapons that we wrote
Into means of making peace
Or at least of spreading hope.
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Excellent, a well crafted piece, I feel this would be a very powerful spoken poem due to its strength of rhythm. Voilence breeds violence a strong message delivered. Yet you also touch upon the violence against nature and chemical use and interweave them effortlessly into the body of your poem, well done. (Report) Reply
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Since you are filing reports and other documents with the SEC, you are subject to the new rules regarding conflict minerals if you manufacture or contract for manufacture of any product. No exception exists for smaller reporting companies, voluntary filers, or foreign private issuers, and the analytical procedures we recommend you adopt are being implemented in one form or another at thousands of SEC-reporting companies in the U.S. and around the world.
Getting Ready – Organize and Train the Conflict Minerals Team
To establish a compliance base for the new rules, each reporting company will need to create a working group of personnel who together know what products the company produced during each year (including through its subsidiaries); chemicals used in their manufacture; the raw materials used and third-party-sourced components included in the products; the raw material content of the parts; and the sources of the chemicals, raw materials, and parts. Group members should familiarize themselves with the three-step process for determining the extent of the company's reporting obligations, as we described in our previous client alert and the related SEC Adopting Release and, to the extent practicable, the general overview of the issues involved, contained in the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas.
We recommend, as an initial matter, that an issuer adopt a formal corporate policy regarding maintaining a responsible global supply chain of minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas. Although no specific requirement to do so exists, the SEC noted in the Adopting Release that an issuer should describe its conflict minerals policy in its Form SD conflict minerals report. In addition, the benefits of encouraging and fostering a corporate culture of compliance are tangible and should mitigate issuer liability for an individual failure to ensure proper reporting, as well as reflect favorably on the issuer's good faith and in any private-sector audit that may be required, as discussed below. A model policy is available in the OECD Guidance.
We also suggest that you include specific language governing conflict minerals in your purchase orders with your vendors. (See our suggested model language here.)
Step One – Determine Whether Your Products Contain Conflict Minerals
Although each company will create its own method of addressing Step One, based on its method of data collection and existing internal control systems, we suggest that a current list of the issuer's product codes, model numbers, or stock-keeping units, taken from the most recent sales books, distributor order forms, or catalogs, could serve as a starting point. Team members drawn from the sales function might review this initial list of products to ensure that outdated products are not included, that "special order" or bespoke products are not overlooked, and that the descriptions contained in the initial list are not too generic or technical for analysis by those working in the compliance function.
The next review of this list is to determine whether your company manufactures or contracts for the manufacture of products that you place into the stream of commerce. Although, according to the SEC, the term "manufacture" is to be given the meaning ascribed in common parlance, the Adopting Release states that the term "contract to manufacture" includes those situations in which an issuer "…has 'any' influence over the manufacture of that product." Also, the SEC "expressed [its] belief that an issuer that offers a generic product under its own brand name or a separate brand name should be considered to be contracting to manufacture that product, if the issuer had contracted to have the product manufactured specifically for itself." As a result, you will need to examine most component supplier relationships to determine whether your company exerts any control over the design or manufacture of the component.
Once you have compiled the final list of products that the company manufactures or contracts to manufacture, the working group should determine whether any such product contains gold (Au), tin (Sn), tantalum (Ta), or tungsten (W) (each a Potential Conflict Mineral). If a product does contain any of these elements, the group should determine whether the element is "necessary to the functionality or production" of the product. The SEC included this phrase in its final rules without specific definition, intending that each issuer determine the proper application of the language based on its own facts and circumstances. The SEC included extensive guidance in the Adopting Release on this issue, so we recommend that, unless it is very clear to the relevant engineer that a Potential Conflict Mineral is or is not necessary to functionality or production of a particular product, the team refer the determination to a member of the legal department for further analysis. We note, however, that materials used solely for ornamentation are considered not necessary to the product's functionality but that trace elements in a product left behind from the manufacturing process are considered necessary to its production. Product packaging is not part of a product unless the producer sells the packaging independent of the product itself (in which case it would itself be considered a product).
If you are unable to determine whether any third-party-sourced material or component part does not contain a Potential Conflict Mineral, you should inquire of your vendor.
If none of the products that you manufacture or contract for manufacture contain any Potential Conflict Mineral necessary to the functionality or production of the product, then no further analysis is necessary and you need not proceed to Step Two.
Step Two – Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI)
After reducing the list of products to those containing Potential Conflict Minerals necessary to the products' production or functionality, the working group must conduct an RCOI to determine whether the Potential Conflict Minerals came from one of the Covered Countries – the DRC or a country that shares a border with the DRC (i.e., Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, or Zambia).
As with the "necessary to the production or functionality" determination, the SEC has declined to issue specific factors that would satisfy the RCOI standard, stating that "such a determination depends on each issuer's particular facts and circumstances. What is reasonable can differ among issuers based on the issuer's size, products, relationship with suppliers or other factors." On the other hand, a few basic elements emerge from a review of the Adopting Release:
- You must reasonably design an RCOI to determine if a Potential Conflict Mineral originated in a Covered Country or from recycled or scrap sources;
- You must perform an RCOI in good faith – in other words, it is insufficient to design an RCOI but then fail to undertake the steps necessary to carry it out;
- You may rely on representations of the facility at which the Potential Conflict Minerals were processed, if the facility has been audited by a recognized trade association; and
- Failure to receive representations from all suppliers or processors would not prevent you from concluding that your products are "conflict free," absent any red flags.
Compliance tools, such as lists of conflict-free smelters and a Conflict Minerals Reporting Template and Dashboard, which includes forms of vendor questionnaires and cover letters, are available at http://www.conflictfreesmelter.org. You might also consult with industry trade groups with respect to RCOI initiatives.
Step Three – Due Diligence Inquiry and Conflict Minerals Report/Private-Sector Audit
If you are able to conclude, based on the RCOI, that the identified Potential Conflict Minerals did not originate in the Covered Countries or, alternatively, that you have no reason to believe that the Potential Conflict Minerals may have originated in the Covered Countries or reasonably believe they came from recycled or scrap sources, then you must file with the SEC a Form SD (Special Disclosure) to disclose this determination and briefly describe the RCOI you undertook. If you are unable to so conclude, a more extensive process is mandated, which Loeb & Loeb would need to discuss separately with your conflict minerals working group.
In light of the need to address these issues by the end of 2013, if you have not already done so, we strongly encourage you to begin organizing the activities you should be undertaking and to develop a timetable to ensure compliance. As usual, please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.


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In the 1960s, John Kerry was distinctly a man of his times. Kennedy-esque, he went from Yale to Vietnam to fight in a lost war. When popular sentiments on that war shifted, he became one of the more poignant voices raised in protest by antiwar veterans. Now, skip past his time as a congressman, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, senator, and presidential candidate (Swift Boated out of the race by the Republican right). Four decades after his Vietnam experience, he has achieved what will undoubtedly be the highest post of his lifetime: secretary of state. And he's looked like a bumbler first class. Has he also been—once again—a true man of his time, of a moment in which American foreign policy, as well as its claim to global moral and diplomatic leadership, is in remarkable disarray?
In his nine months in office, Kerry's State Department has one striking accomplishment to its name. It has achieved a new level of media savvy in promoting itself and plugging its highest official as a rock star, a world leader in his own right (complete with photo-ops and sophisticated image-making). In the meantime, the secretary of state has been stumbling and bloviating from one crisis to the next, one debacle to another, surrounded by the well-crafted imagery of diplomatic effectiveness. He and his errant statements have become global punch lines, but is he truly to blame for his performance?
If statistics were diplomacy, Kerry would already be a raging success. At the State Department, his global travels are now proudly tracked by the mile, by minutes flown, and by countries visited. State even has a near-real-time ticker page set up at its website with his ever-changing data. In only nine months in office, Kerry has racked up 222,512 miles and a staggering 482.39 hours in the air (or nearly three weeks total). The numbers will be going up as Kerry is currently taking a 10-day trip to deal with another NSA crisis, in Poland this time, as well as the usual hijinks in the Middle East. His predecessor, Hillary Clinton, set a number of diplomatic travel records. In fact, she spent literally a full year, one quarter of her four years in office, hopscotching the globe. By comparison, Cold War Secretary of State George Schultz managed less than a year of travel time in his six years in office.


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AG Healey Reaches First-of-its-Kind Agreement with Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Following Increased Price of Nasal Naloxone; Payment Made to State's New Bulk Purchasing Trust Fund
BOSTON – In an effort to make the life-saving drug Naloxone more widely available to police and firefighters statewide, Attorney General Maura Healey today announced her office has reached an agreement with Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. that will require the company to pay $325,000 to help offset the costs of the drug that counters the effects of opioid overdose.
The first-of-its kind payment from the manufacturer to a state will go into the Commonwealth's Municipal Naloxone Bulk Purchase Trust Fund, approved in the state budget this past July to increase access to the nasal spray version of Naloxone through a discounted program. This payment is the equivalent cost of nearly 10,000 units of naloxone. The trust fund was established with initial state funding of $150,000, making available, in total, the equivalent of 15,000 doses.
"The demand for Narcan to help save the lives of overdose victims has risen sharply, and with that, so has the price, making it tough for police and fire departments to access this critical drug," AG Healey said. "This money will help us get Narcan into the hands of every first responder, giving them a tool they need to help save lives."
The agreement with California-based Amphastar resolves AG Healey's concerns over the sharp price increase for Naloxone (generic version of Narcan) in late 2014, when the wholesale price more than doubled from less than $15 per dose to more than $30. Although the purchase price from distributors has varied between municipalities, some first responders report having paid more than $65 for a single unit of the drug.
The AG's Office sent a letter to Amphastar earlier this year stating that the increase in pricing could adversely affect access to the drug for state agencies and municipalities in Massachusetts.
In March 2014, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick declared a public health emergency in response to the growing opioid addiction epidemic. The Department of Public Health issued emergency regulatory amendments permitting first responders to carry and administer Naloxone. Since then, numerous first responders have purchased naloxone kits for use in reversing the effects of a heroin or opioid overdose.
Naloxone is a medication that reverses an overdose from heroin or other opioids. It cannot be used to get high and is not addictive. The Naloxone for intra-nasal use is given with a foam tip attached to a syringe that is placed into the nostril. It acts to wake the person up and keep them breathing.
Today's announcement comes as the world marks International Overdose Awareness Day. In Massachusetts last year, the heroin and opioid epidemic claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people.
This announcement is another way the Attorney General's Office is working to address the growing addiction crisis in Massachusetts. The AG's Office is looking at a host of other practices, from marketing by pharmaceutical companies, to dispensing by pharmacies, to pill diversion and drug trafficking by criminal entities, to coverage for substance abuse treatment by insurance companies. The AG's Office is also working on solutions that include eliminating barriers to treatment, and supporting prevention and education initiatives across the state.
Today's agreement was handled by Eric Gold of AG Healey's Health Care Division.
Statements of support:
Marylou Sudders, Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services and chair of the Governor's Opioid Working Group:
"We heard through our listening sessions across the state -- from parents, siblings, and those who struggle with addiction themselves -- about the life-saving ability of naloxone. Today's announcement will help broaden access to this intervention, which was an important recommendation of the Working Group and will expand this life-saving measure."
Senate President Stan Rosenberg:
"This settlement more than triples the amount allocated for the bulk purchasing of Narcan program that was included in this year's budget. As a result, local cities and towns will save on the cost of this life saving drug and local first responders will have another tool to save lives and fight the opiate epidemic. The quick action by the Attorney General to address the increased cost of Narcan and the action by the Legislature to set up the bulk purchasing program have delivered significant results in a relatively short amount of time. We still have work to do in fighting the opiate scourge but this is a significant step in the right direction."
Senator John Keenan:
"I'm proud of Quincy's pioneering work in changing the way we approach drug addiction, and of the efforts by first responders throughout the Commonwealth who have saved thousands of lives. Today we take an important step to support cities and towns, and I'm thankful to my fellow legislators for establishing this bulk purchasing fund, and to Attorney General Healey for providing the first major push that will get this fund into operation. We must also remember, however, that this is only one small part of combatting drug addiction, and that every overdose reversal is a last minute save. We need to continue building programs and policies that prevent addiction, and provide access to addiction treatment, long before that overdose can occur."
Boston Fire Commissioner/Chief Joseph Finn:
"Since 2014, Boston's firefighters have seen firsthand the value of Narcan. We have administered it over 450 times with great success. Cost should never be a factor when first responders are called to help. This agreement will ensure all of us continue our mission of helping those in need."
Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts President Rick DeLorie:
"President of the Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts, Chief Rick DeLorie of Wellesley applauds the work of Attorney General Maura Healey in obtaining funds for the Municipal Naloxone Bulk Purchase Trust Fund which will assist local public safety departments offset the high cost of providing the necessary life-saving drug for use in reversing the effects of opiate overdose."
William Brooks III, Norwood Police Chief, Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association Vice President:
The purchasing arrangement announced today by Attorney General Healy is in important one for public safety in Massachusetts. Every day police officers across Massachusetts administer Narcan to people in the throes of opiate overdoses, in keeping with our core mission to protect human life. Centralizing its purchase and establishing a stable price will go a long way to helping first responders on their important work.
Gloucester Police Chief Leonard Campanello:
"In launching the Gloucester ANGEL Initiative earlier this year, the availability and unfair pricing of Naloxone was one of the first and most pressing challenges we faced. The Attorney General's continuous and tireless efforts to ensure Naloxone is available and affordable for not only public safety officials, but for every person who needs this life saving drug, is admirable, and pharmaceutical companies must be made to understand that they do not have the right to unfairly capitalize on human suffering. The Gloucester Police Department is proud to stand with Attorney General Healey today on this issue. The Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (PAARI), a nationwide support system of law enforcement officials concerned about the disease of addiction, also lends its voice in support of Attorney General Healey's achievement. She is a tremendous partner to law enforcement."


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'thoughts''Inner Sakura'
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Today was the day. The day that she was going to confess. That is if she didn't chicken out first. Like she had so many times before... But she would do it today!!
Sakura's Memories
Sasuke had come back 5 months ago, dragged back by Naruto, Shikamaru, Chouji, Neji, and Kiba, the original retrieval team. That day was a joyous one. Everyone was so happy to have him back. Even Sasuke had smiled a bit. She had run up to him and tackled him in a hug. She was crying and laughing at the same time. When he hugged her back, she was so surprised and happy. She cried some more, and her laughter increased. After many greetings, they left for the Hokage Tower.
Tsunade was firm and strict. That was only expected though. She had put him on house arrest for three months, and he wasn't allowed to go on missions for 1 year. But even that couldn't down the mood.
They had a party at the Uchiha District. And what a party it was. Sake was passed around, and drinking contests ensued. Merry laughter rang through the rooms, as everyone had fun. A dance floor was set up in the living room and Naruto was losing very badly. There were screams from some rooms where scary movies were playing. And noises from upstairs where, ahem, activities were taking place.
The party had ended at 2 a.m. and Sasuke had escorted Sakura home after everyone else had gone. She had stumbled all the way home, leaning on Sasuke for support. When they had gotten to Sakura's apartment, after many falls, Sakura pulled out her keys and fumbled with the lock.
"Thank you-" a hiccup came. "Sasuke-kun." She had kissed him, her first kiss, and ran into the room. She fell promptly and passed out. When she woke up the next morning, she was snuggled up in warm blankets on her bed, her pink locks spread on the pillow. She sighed in contentment.
Back To The Present
Sakura giggled at the memory of the kiss. Sasuke hadn't brought up the kiss, but she was pretty sure she had seen him blush on several occasions, when he was looking at her. 'Oh god. I'm acting like Ino now. Telling myself that he really does like me, when I have absolutely no idea." She quickly stopped giggling and sighed. She then spotted Sasuke leaning against a tree on the playground. Sakura walked forward, then stopped. She backed up a few steps and then she started to turn around. She then walked foward again, into the sandbox. The pink-haired kunoichi started to turn around yet again.
'Sasuke doesn't like me. He said I was annoying. And weak. And pathetic."
'You better not be chickening out now! You already did that so many times!!'
'And plenty of reason too! There are so many girls around him!'
'There are no girls now, so suck it up woman! Just tell him and get it over with. Besides, with the way you've been acting, you might as stick a big neon sign on your forehead that says: I'M IN LOVE WITH UCHIHA SASUKE!'
'You're loud.'
'That's not the point here! Do it now!'
Sakura got a push from behind and turned to see whom it was. Only to find no one there. She quickly pulled a kunai out of her kunai pouch and crouched into her fighting stance. Even if she was standing in the sandbox with kids staring up at her in wonder, looking like a complete idiot.
'Now go!'
Sakura growled and straightened up when she realized where the push came from. Her arms went back to her side, cutting herself accidently. 'How the hell did you do that?'
'Again, not the point! Damn it woman! Go!'
'I hate you so much! I'll get you back for this!'
Sakura slowly walked up to Sasuke, kunai still in hand, as she hoped some rouge ninja would pop out of nowhere, so she wouldn't have to go through on this.
His eyes were closed and he looked so peaceful. "What do you need Sakura?"
She bowed her head. "Gomen Sasuke-kun for disturbing you. I n-need to tell y-you s-something." She began to sound like Hinata when she was around Naruto.
He cocked open an eye and looked at her. When she didn't speak he began getting impatient. "Yes Sakura? What is it?"
"I lo-lo-lo…. I loathe Icha Icha Paridise!" She blurted out.
Both of Sasuke's onyx eyes were open as he stared at her weirdly. "Okay…." He began to walk away, wondering if that had any real meaning to it.
"Wait Sasuke-kun! That's not it!" Sakura yelled out to him.
He stopped and went back to her. "Then what is it?" he asked irritated. He had his precious tomatoes to attend to!
"I lo-lo…. I loaded my snowboard to go snowboarding with you!"
"Sakura…." He said slowly. "It's summer. There's no snow. Are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine! It's just that... I lo…. I look like a private investigator!"
Sasuke looked at her green tank top and white skirt. She had green accessories and pink lip gloss. "Right…. Sakura, you seem a bit... different today. Delusional maybe?"
"What I meant to say is…. I lost my strawberry ice cream!"
"Uh…. sorry?"
"I mean…. I locked my chopper pilot!"
"You don't have one... You don't, right?"
"That's not it…. I long for ice-cold water!"
"Um…. I don't have one. You can go to the vendor over there. Here, let me go." Sasuke started to run towards the vendor, in hopes of escaping Sakura and her weird outbursts. Those hopes were burst however, when Sakura grabbed him and spun his around. He almost went flying before she put her hands firmly on his shoulders. He groaned inwardly at the fact he couldn't run away.
She looked at him, somehow hoping that she could get her feelings out if she did. If anything, it only made her feel more nervous. She let go of him. "It's not that…. I loiter away the night with sleeping!"
"Well, most people usually do that Sakura."
"No! It's…. I lodged in a small cabin during my vacation last summer!"
"That's nice…." Sasuke was a bit confused now. He scratched his head lightly.Was she trying to tell him something? Damn it! Women were confusing!
"No! No! No! I logged 20 miles the first day of training with Lee!" Oh good lord, she was getting desperate now.
"Do I need to know this? Cause..."
"Hold on! I lopped off Naruto's penis!"
Sasuke's eyes widened in horror. "W-what?" The great Uchiha was stuttering and he had good reason too. He quickly put both his hands over his ahem lower region. "Uh... What did Naruto do exactly? You wouldn't happen to be looking for another victim would you?" She was waving her arms around in desperation. He looked at the kunai in her hand warily. Now that he noticed it, was that red stuff on the the tip blood?
Sakura groaned in frustration. Was it THAT hard to tell someone you love him? "I looped around in squares today!" Yes, apparently it was.
"Sakura…. That makes no sense. We should take you to the hospital. I think you've been drugged." He reached out to take her arm.
"I looted Tsunade-sensei's precious sake!"
He instantly drew back his arm, looking around as if expecting to see a raving mad woman running around with a chainsaw. No one appeared. 'What the hell is going on?' Sasuke thought. And then he realized it. He leaned against the tree and smirked. And Sasuke's smirk grew bigger and bigger with each sentence.
"I loosened the tie of my imaginary friend! I lowered my skirt! I lope like a horse! I lo-"
Sakura was suddenly cut off with something warm on her mouth. Her eyes widened when she realized that it was Sasuke's lips were on her own. A few seconds later, her eyes closed and she responded to the kiss. After a minute they pulled apart.
"There," Sasuke said softly. "Does that help?"
Sakura nodded. "I love you Sasuke-kun," she said just as softly, hope shining in her eyes.
He looked at her blankly and then he smiled. "I love you too Sakura."
They caught each other's hands. Then the two teens walked off to the ramen stand where Naruto and Hinata surely were. The tomatoes could wait.
'Yes Outer?'
'Did I mention how much I love you?'
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WICHITA — A year ago Shawnee Heights 170-pounder Carter Hall couldn't even stand up without pain, let alone put together a serious run at a state wrestling title.
The T-Bird junior made up for lost time Friday night at Hartman Arena, advancing to Saturday's championship match with a first-period semifinal pin to cap a three-pin day in the Class 5A state meet.
"Last year I tore a tendon in my foot and I had to wrestle through regionals and state on my knees because I couldn't stand up and put any weight on it,'' said Hall, who will take a 30-5 record into the finals. "Last year after my injury, my coach (Chad Parks) texted me and he said, 'Sometimes bad things happen, but in the end it's only going to make you stronger for something else.' ''
That something else was Hall's shot at a state championship, which he earned with a pin of Wichita West senior Jesse Oliver (29-5) just 1:41 into the semifinal match.
"My freshman and sophomore year I dealt with injuries and I just came here with no regrets, looking to really do something with the opportunity I've been given,'' Hall said. "I've had an injury-free season and I just came in looking to come in and take advantage of it, take state.''
Hall, who has earned his first state medal, will take on St. James junior Matt Pratt (50-6) in the finals.
Hall will also have company in the 5A finals, with T-Bird senior 285-pounder Tyson Toelkes also posting three straight pins to improve to 32-0.
Toelkes, who was third at 220 pounds as a junior, pinned senior Vincent Scott of Hays (31-12) at the 2:44 mark of his match.
Toelkes was going to be hard to beat anyway, but got added incentive after watching teammate and friend Hall get to the finals a few matches ahead of him.
"He's my best friend and watching your teammate and your brother work all season just as hard as you have and for it to pay off for him, that was huge for me,'' Toelkes said.
"That really, really, really got my hyped up for my semis match.''
Toelkes will take on Newton senior Raymond Gallegos (36-0) in the finals.
� Like most coaches, Seaman's Pat Kelly is always looking for more, but Kelly pronounced the first day of the 5A state meet a success for his Vikings after 120-pound junior Jaelynn Gay and 160-pound senior Sam Mizell reached the semifinals and a total of nine Seaman wrestlers remained alive for a chance at a medal.
"It's been OK,'' said Kelly, whose Vikings were a 5A regional champion and qualified 12 wrestlers for state. "I wouldn't say we over-wrestled ourselves or anything, it was just pretty much OK today. We had a few tough losses and that kind of clouds it a little bit but the first round tomorrow is big and the next one is even bigger.''
The unquestioned highlights of the day were the performances of Gay and Mizell, who assured themselves of their first state medals by reaching the semifinals with two straight wins to start the day.
Gay (34-11) dropped an 11-2 major decision to Wichita Kapaun senior Parker Howell (36-1) in the semifinals while Mizell (25-15) was pinned in the first period by Aquinas junior Isaac Dulgarian (39-1).
"It's really exciting to see Jaelynn and Sam come through,'' Kelly said. "(Jaelynn) has just kept on developing and if he keeps going he's a college prospect, I think. And Sam, before the beginning of the season I told the guy who does the rankings for 5A, 'Look out for this guy. He's really put a lot of time in and he's looking good.' It's a very deep weight, 160 is, so for him to be on the stand is something to celebrate.''
Seaman junior 113-pounder Khamin Crow, junior 145-pounder Daemeion Gay, senior 170-pounder Shannon Dobbs, 195-pound sophomore Bailey Kelly and senior 285-pounder Malcolm Mikkelsen all won their first-round matches before losing in the quarterfinals.
Those five wrestlers will return to action at 9 a.m. Saturday as will freshman 106-pounder Dawson Podlena and sophomore 152-pounder Mason Ray, who lost in the first round before rebounding to take consolation wins.
� Topeka West junior 106-pounder Zach Campbell, who entered the state tournament with a perfect 35-0 record, took a 17-6 major decision in his first-round match before dropping a 9-1 major decision to Maize South sophomore Rylan Kasitz in the quarterfinals.
Despite the loss Campbell remains in the running to earn his first state medal, but will need a big day Saturday.
� Shawnee Heights sophomore 113-pound Payton Reynolds received a first-round win by forfeit when St. James Academy sophomore Stephen Tujague, who came into the tourney with a 37-6 record, wasn't allowed to wrestle Reynolds, who came in at 6-16, because she is a female.
Parochial schools have a rule prohibiting male competitors from wrestling females.
"He's a great wrestler, but Payton has put her heart and soul into this as well,'' Parks said. "Anyone who earns their way here has the right to wrestle, whether it's a guy or a girl.''
Reynolds was pinned in her quarterfinal match but will wrestle again Saturday morning.
Also still alive for the T-Birds are junior 160-pounder Blake Younger and junior 220-pounder Cameron Hicks.


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GREENACRES CITY — A videocassette recorder was taken Tuesday from a home in the Chalet IV townhouse community, police said.
The burglary occurred between 8 a.m. and 5:45 p.m., according to a police report. Entry was gained by prying open the sliding glass door leading to the den.
The victim said he noticed last week that the door casing of the sliding glass door had been separated from the door. The damage leads police believe someone may have tried to break into the home earlier, according to Sgt. Larry Bigney.
Hand tools and two truck tires were stolen Tuesday from a flatbed truck parked at the Pine Ridge North Village IV construction site.
The items were stolen from the site between midnight and 8 a.m., according to a police report.
The thief pried open tool boxes mounted on the truck and took the tools, valued at $1,000. The tires were stolen from the truck.
Pine Ridge North Village IV is being built east of Pine Ridge Village III, at Cresthaven Boulevard and Jog Road.
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The false teeth and purse were recovered in a nearby alley four hours after they were reported missing, police said.
The dentures belonged to an employee of Crest Manor Nursing Center, 504 Third Avenue S., police said. She left her purse in a dining room where a door to the outside was unlocked, police said.
Apparently, someone saw the purse on the table, walked in and took it, police said. A woman strolling in the alley found the purse and dentures at 7:30 a.m., police said.
An unlocked boy`s multi-speed Peugeot silver bicycle, valued at $179, was stolen late Monday from a carport on South N Street, police said.


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Wow. Is this my life? Can you meet a great guy in a major city who is funny, smart, has feelings and is not afraid to feel them. Oh, did I mention cute? Like majorly foxy, and tall. With blue eyes. And cheek bones!
I'm in a serious state of swoon.
Thank you, Adventure Bowl. If you don't know how it all started, how I reached into my Adventure Bowl and pulled out, "Ask A Guy Out on A Date" then go down a few posts and read it all. I thought I would be happy just to go out on a date that night and not be murdered. The fact that I have gone on several MORE dates with someone I like, and like to kiss, is icing on the cake.
Me and my Craigslist List mystery man met at a beer and wine bar near me. I didn't have huge expectations for the night. I don't think I even showered, LOL... beyond showering that morning. I put on makeup, a cute top and perfume but I hadn't felt that "indescribable something" that you want to feel when you see someone's picture in your inbox, so yeah, I didn't want to have all this build up before the date just to be disappointed (if that makes any sense.)
But the second I saw him, shyly peek his head around the corner and meet my glance, I thought, "Oh, shit, I should have showered! He's so cute." And he was. Tall, (6'3), blue eyes, funky glasses, a warm smile. The smile is everything, isn't it? I, of course, was immediately thrown and nervous and spoke a mile a minute about what I knew about the bar and all the different craft beers they had while an inner monologue was running through my head, "Dear God, don't blow it... wow, he smells good. JUST ACT NORMAL!!!!" Smile. "Hi."
He grabbed us some beers and we talked and laughed. And he was funny and sweet and smart and one thing that struck me was he had this beautiful optimism about life and that is something I really want in a person. Soon we were running off to the bar across the street and then the bar across from that. We talked all night long... my time in NYC, his job, his future, he might go back to school, his nieces and nephews, my nephews, my dogs, our dating life.
And then... he brings this up even now, how I reached over and just touched his face. And I don't know what made me do it. I think he was talking about something really personal (he is out of a very long relationship) and he looked a little sad talking about it, how painful it had been for it to end in the way it did and I just think I wanted to comfort him. Something I might not have done had the beer not been flowing but he looked at me, his attention just sort of, took all of me in as if to say, thank you.
I can't explain it.
We kissed but I was conscious of knowing this needs to be taken slow.
So we did.
Our second date was dinner at a nice restaurant. More laughing and talking. Less huge fireworks. Hey, where did all the chemistry go? Perhaps I'm just scared. We kissed goodbye on a street corner and went our separate ways. The next morning, there was an email, he had had so much fun and was looking forward to our next date. Was I available Saturday evening? He already knew the perfect place in mind.
We met there at 6:30pm. At 2:00am we were still talking as the bar closed. Laughing, being silly. Holding hands.
I won't lie. I'm scared. I haven't liked anyone in 3 years. Oh no, maybe 5 years. In this real way. A grown up way.
So there we are. I don't know what will happen. It's sometimes easy and wonderful and other times, I'm quite scared. I don't want to get hurt. I don't have the time! Or the energy! I can't be down again. I can't be let down.
I'm afraid I won't get up.
Yet there are times, too, when all of a sudden, his hand is on my back or his he pulls me in for a hug and I think... just go for it. Stop over analyzing it. Stop trying to break it. Stop trying to end it before it even begins.
So that's where I am. Feeling the reward of taking a crazy chance. Taking an ad out for a man, essentially ordering him up like a pepperoni pizza, LOL, and it being pretty damn great.
I don't know what it will all be. It might just be for right now. Or it might be a lesson in just putting myself out there. But I'll take it.
That's enough for me.
What are you doing to take a chance? It's the new year, you must want to. I swear, if shy ol' me can advertise for a man, you can not only do that, but you can DO ANYTHING you want. What's your adventure? Tell me in the comments!


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The Northern Irishman has had a chequered year, missing the cut in his first competition with new Nike clubs after signing a high profile multi-million pound sponsorship deal.
He followed that up with a first-round defeat in the Accenture Match Play, a controversial withdrawal from the Honda Classic - and subsequent apology - and the loss of his world No 1 ranking.
McIlroy stuttered to a first round 72 at the Texas Open yesterday, but insists he is focused on the sport's majors rather than the smaller tournaments.
"It would mean everything," said the 23-year-old when asked about winning The Masters. "I'm halfway to the career Grand Slam and that's one of the pieces of the puzzle. The Open Championship is the other.
"That's a big goal for me - to try to win more major championships. I feel like I'm at a stage now where, sure I want to win other tournaments, but the majors are the focus.
"I don't care if I miss 10 cuts in a row if I win a major a year. That's what it's all about - winning the big tournaments. Of course, it's not going to be great for your confidence going into those majors if you're missing 10 cuts in a row, but when people look back on a person's career, you don't say 'Jack Nicklaus was so consistent'.
"You could say he finished 19 times second in a major. But what you think about is the 18 majors he won. That's what people remember. People remember the wins.
"They don't remember that I shot 65 at Doral to finish eighth. They remember the wins and they remember the high points. It's only a minority that will remember the low points and will get on you for that.
"I remember last year, my five wins, my second major championship, the Ryder Cup, winning player of the year. I don't remember missing four or five cuts or whatever it was in the middle of the season. I mean, I remember, but that's not what I think about. I think about the high points."
McIlroy carded two birdies and two birdies to leave him five shots off the pace in Texas, having changed his pre-Masters plans at the last minute in a bid to find some form.
He said: "The way I started the round I would have hoped for a little bit better. But I'm relatively pleased with the way I played. It could have been a little better, but it could have been a little worse too.
"It's just about limiting those mistakes and it's definitely a more mental mistakes than it is physical."


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In a world where obesity is killing thousands of people a day in the world, it's almost joyous to hear that there are startups and app builders out there trying to use any means necessary to create the simplest apps to defeat life-threatening lifestyles and habits.
The folks at Bodeefit,one of the BizSpark teams I met at SXSW, has actually created a solution that is supposed to take away that mental barrier of not wanting to work out, and they are banking on the ease and simplicity of the Windows 8 (and formerly Metro) interface. And they are doing it fully committed to be in bootstrapping mode.
This blog post was written by Douglas Crets, Community Manager, Microsoft BizSpark
Blake Miller, co-founder of Bodeefit, says that in about thirty days the team will come out with a Windows Phone version of their new lifestyle and fitness app, which uses crossfit and paleo diet fundamentals to help people get off their butts during their work week and get in some cross-training.
The main hurdle was just convincing people that they can do it. The Windows UI made it easier for the team.
"The way that the UI worked out and played was easy," says Miller. "We limit [each workout] to two or three movements. There's not a ton you have to do. And the way the UI displayed it…it doesn't look that intimidating. It's very clean, it doesn't look like there is a lot you have to do."
The cross-fit app will eventually be on the phone, and when it is, aspects of the paleo diet and recipes that you can surf while shopping will be introduced, as well. Miller didn't say how long it will take to the get the Windows Phone app as fully capable as the Windows 8 app, but from talking to him it seemed like the team works very quickly. In fact, they seem to be wedded to the lean startup model, purposefully not seeking out investors because they want to make their money by generating revenue from consumers.
"We are purposefully trying to bootstrap this. We are investors as it is, we invested our resources to get it to market. The capital we put in is just the resources on our bench," says Miller. This is gutsy, or its necessity. It's apparently very hard for startups / app builders to get anything more than angel investing, given this ongoing rumor about a Series A Crunch, which is keeping serious Series A rounds from making it to the market.
This is even more gutsy when you consider what Miller says to investors with whom he just happens to have casual conversations. Their "addressable market" is gigantic.
"We are going after the entire fitness market. It's a pie in the sky kind of answer, but this is great for entrepreneurs on the road all the time," says Miller. Though, I think that the market for fitness apps on the phone is bigger than just entrepreneurs on the road. That's a hint, though, about how this app was generated. It came from personal experience, and usually the hardest problems find their best solutions because the entrepreneur personally experiences them.
Miller says that in his work with Microsoft BizSpark, he's found it easier to work on the challenges of building a great app.
"You guys sponsored our accelerator program. We [also] understood and saw the vision [of the App Marketplace], and we could own an entire section in a branded store. Business wise, we looked at it that way. We saw it in terms of downloads," says Miller.


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About ten years ago, as part of a group visiting UN peacekeeping troops, I found myself in a meeting with the parliament of the Republic of Abkhazia, a country that had just lost the flower of its youth in a bloody war with Georgia after the Soviet Union collapsed. One of our delegation had given the lawmakers some unwelcome advice on foreign policy, but it was on me that they focused their anger, since I had been introduced as an investment banker. "You financiers love war!" their leader shouted. "You profit from it!"
It is true that sectors of the economy can profit from war in certain circumstances, but Wall Street really doesn't like war–at least not the one now raging in Iraq, which is beginning to look like a write-off. The defense industry does like military expenditures. And US capitalists in general do appreciate the role of a robust military budget in bolstering the dollar as the ultimate reserve currency, in assuring that the rules of global finance are favorable to our interests and in protecting access to petroleum products. But we really do not like uncertainty. We like an environment we think we understand, one in which a return- on-capital analysis can be based on reliable assumptions of a predictable level of risk.
Wall Street hated the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Not only were they dramatically disruptive to the business of Wall Street; they also sowed immense uncertainty in the minds of CEOs and consumers, slowing capital and consumer expenditures. Risk premiums skyrocketed for property and casualty insurance. Nonproductive investments of time and money for security were required. But in time, with the delegation of the Bush Administration's "war on terror" to professional soldiers, for-profit contractors and first responders, and with casualties occurring at "acceptable" levels, the Street returned to business as usual.
Today, the shares of all the big investment banks, along with the Dow Jones and Nasdaq indexes, are trading at or near their five-year highs. Stimulated by the fiscal deficit, huge consumer debt and a chronic trade deficit that recycles our dollars back to us, the economy has been growing at from 3 percent to 5 percent a year since the shock of the 2001 attacks wore off. There remains, of course, the problem of too many dollars chasing too few deals, a fact reflected in corporations massively buying back their own stock, paying down debt and paying cash for acquisitions where possible. Nevertheless, although there are none of the huge capital-eating growth industries we have liked to finance in the past, such as railroads, automobiles or telecommunications, we have invented other ways, such as derivatives, securitizations and proprietary trading, of tailoring returns on capital to the risk involved.


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Zyrtec Vs Claritin For Dog Allergies. Allergies are a number of conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment. These diseases include hay fever, food allergies, atopic dermatitis, allergic asthma, and anaphylaxis. Symptoms may include red eyes, an itchy rash, sneezing, a runny nose, shortness of breath, or swelling. Food intolerances and food poisoning are separate conditions. Read more …
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The active ingredient in Zyrtec is cetirizine. In Claritin, it's loratadine. Both cetirizine and loratadine are nonsedating antihistamines. However, newer antihistamines like Zyrtec and Claritin are less likely to cause this side effect. Apr 11, 2018 – Zyrtec vs. Claritin for treating allergies. Antihistamines can reduce allergy symptoms, such as watering eyes, itchy skin, hives, and swelling. They may also help with dermatitis or even mosquito bites, but are usually marketed for specific allergies. Zyrtec and Claritin are in the same class of medications.
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Dec 18, 2017 – Cetirizine (Zyrtec) and loratadine (Claritin) are non-sedating antihistamines used to treat symptoms of allergic reaction such as symptoms of seasonal hay fever (allergic rhinitis) such as sneezing, runny nose, red/watery/itchy eyes, hives, and allergic skin rash. Mar 18, 2015 – If you have seasonal allergies, how can you be sure you're on the right med? Ratings for oral antihistamines (Claritin and Zyrtec) vs. nasal et al and I don't even have seasonal allergies, so I don't have a dog in this fight,
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Mavericks-Trail Blazers Preview
The Dallas Mavericks keep catching the Trail Blazers off
First it was Jason Kidd, then it was Peja Stojakovic – as if
defending Dirk Nowitzki wasn't enough.
The surprising success of those two veterans has put the Mavs in
control as they head to Portland with a 2-0 lead in their
first-round playoff series against the Blazers.
So it begs the question, who will break out for Dallas in Game 3
Thursday night at the Rose Garden? Jason Terry? Shawn Marion?
Nowitzki said the Mavs have been trying to spread it around all
"We've been doing that second scorer by committee. Marion had a
great finish to the season, Jet (Terry) has been there all season
long and Peja was a great addition at the trade deadline because
he's still a great knockdown shooter," Nowitzki said.
But even collectively, visiting the Rose Garden could pose a
challenge for the Mavs. They split the regular season series
against the Blazers, with each team winning on their home court
Portland is 30-11 this season at the Rose Garden, winning 10 of
their last 11. Overall against Dallas, the Blazers have a 46-18
advantage at home in the regular season, and they're 6-1 in playoff
"We know that they (Portland) are a very good home team so we
wanted to hold home court here and go up there with a 2-0 lead but
this series is far from over," Nowitzki said. "They play well at
home, they make shots, and they play tough D so we've got to be
prepared for a tough game on Thursday."
Dallas is 2-1 overall when they've opened 2-0 in 15 previous
best-of-7 series. The exception was the 2006 NBA Finals when the
Miami Heat defeated the Mavericks in six games. The Heat were just
the third team to claim a championship after trailing 0-2.
The last time Dallas and Portland met in the playoffs was 2003.
The Mavs claimed the first three games before the Blazers won the
next three. The Mavericks took the deciding game in Dallas.
The third-seeded Mavericks opened this year's series with an
89-81 victory. Kidd had 24 points, including a playoff career-best
six 3-pointers. Nowitzki had 28 points – 18 in the fourth quarter
alone – and 10 rebounds.
In a 101-89 Game 2 victory, Stojakovic tied his career playoff
best with five 3-pointers and finished with 21 points, while Kidd
pitched in 18. Nowitzki, showing more resolve than in the opener,
finished with 33.
Dallas signed Stojakovic in January after he was waived by
Toronto. He'd hardly played because of injuries.
"His shot-making was great and very timely, but his defense was
better," Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. "He just was really
solid. He didn't let anybody drive by him all night, which was
huge, and he just played a terrific all-around game."
Dallas is shooting 47 percent from 3-point range in the
playoffs, as opposed to 36 percent in the regular season.
Obviously Portland will need to do a better job with perimeter
defense in Game 3.
"We've got to do a better job of getting first control of the
ball. The basketball is getting to the paint, which is forcing the
defense to collapse, and we're losing these guys on the three point
line – Jason Kidd, Stojakovic," coach Nate McMillan said.
And Portland needs to get more production out of their reserves.
In Game 2, the Mavs' backups outscored Portland's 39-11. Nicolas
Batum had 10 of those points, Rudy Fernandez had 1, and Brandon Roy
and Patty Mills both went scoreless.
Roy's role in particular was becoming something of an issue for
the Blazers.
The three-time All-Star struggled during the regular season with
knee issues, finally undergoing arthroscopic surgery on both knees
in mid-January.
Upon his return, Roy struggled to find his place with the
Blazers, who had moved on without him. The playoffs have
intensified that problem. In Game 2 he played just eight minutes,
missing his lone shot.
McMillan said he limited both Roy and Fernandez because Dallas
was successful in defending them.
But Roy sparked controversy Wednesday in Portland with comments
he made to The Oregonian newspaper after the game.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little hurt or
disappointed," Roy told the paper. "I just always thought I would
be treated a little better. That was a little disappointing for
The Blazers could do without the distraction as they prepare for
Game 3. McMillan gave the team a break with a maintenance day on
"We will protect home! We know yall are with us," Wesley
Matthews posted on Twitter.
It certainly wasn't all bad for the Blazers, who are getting
production from their starting five. Dallas native LaMarcus
Aldridge is averaging 25.5 points and eight rebounds in the first
two games. Matthews and Gerald Wallace were solid in Game 2 after
both had a shaky opener, and Andre Miller has been dependably solid
with 18 points in each of the two games.
"We've got to win the two on our home court and get this thing
back to an even ballgame," Wallace said.
Sports Writer Jaime Aron in Dallas contributed to this


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As apple picking, harvest, and pumpkin patches give way to Christmas shopping, snow, and snowboarding I'd like to take a minute to reflect on this Fall's fashion trends. "Why," you ask? Because I'm ecstatic that in the past season fashion and functionality finally became friends! Take a look at these 2015 fall trends and just TRY to deny the fact that
farmers have had it goin' on all along!
Flannel button downs were hot this season for both men and women. Slip a puffer vest over that and you have the perfect outfit to run your morning errands in… OR haul corn in! Country folks have been sporting flannel since the beginning of time. This breathable, soft fabric is the perfect blend of durable, lightweight, and warmth. It allows a guy to go from temperature-controlled combine, to field, to grain truck, to elevator office without breaking a sweat. Its vast array of colors and patterns also make this the ideal transition piece from fall to winter.
Outerwear vests are another fashionable item that we ripped right off the backs of farmers and outdoorsmen. I like them because they allow me to go from car to mall without the bulk of sleeves to carry around with me while I tote a 7 pound purse and numerous shopping bags… Humph! Imagine that! Farmer's feel the same (almost). Plus there's that macho aspect of withstanding the cold without an actual coat.
Farmers wear boots. Cowboy boots, mud boots, work boots, steel toe boots. There are LOTS of boots. On my front porch. I think I have 6 pairs of boots myself… (mud, snow, riding, flat, heal, and a cute little pair of oxblood colored booties) and that still does not rival my farmer's boot collection. You know that you're an amateur in the boot dept. when your husband schools you on tight rolling your jeans.
Skinny jeans
Speaking of tight rolling jeans… Farmers have a version of skinny jeans of their own. They're called Wranglers. Bear in mind not all Wranglers are skinny, and they certainly aren't 5% spandex like women's skinny jeans. But they have the same ability to tuck easily into boots… and desirable effect on the rear. And I am not complaining.
Thanks to these popular 2015 trends, this harvest my farmer was able to brush off bees wings, switch out boots and head out the door in a flash. And I have to say, I coordinated with him quite nicely!


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