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Veterinarians in Carteret County, NC
Comprehensive list of Carteret County, North Carolina based veterinary clinics and animal hospitals offering advanced medical diagnostics or pet treatment. Find a veterinarian for your dog, cat or other pet.
Carteret County, NC
- Atlantic
- Atlantic Beach
- Beaufort
- Cedar Island
- Davis
- Emerald Isle
- Gloucester
- Harkers Island
- Marshallberg
- Morehead City
- Newport
- Salter Path
- Sealevel
- Smyrna
- Stacy
- Stella
- Williston
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Conveniently situated in Morehead City, NC PetDocks has been delivering complete service companion animal pet care to the Crystal Coast since June 2000. PetDocks Veterinary Hospital, an AAHA accredited hospital is dedicated to delivering all pets with the highest possible service and services at a higher standard.
We're a staff of veterinary specialists who consistently supply our customers and patients exceptional medical care, uncompromising service, and genuine concern. Our commitment to our job and our commitement to excellence is established in our unified love and concern for animals. Morehead Animal Hospital has been at its current location since July of 1992.
It is the aim of Arendell Animal Hospital of Morehead City to supply our customers with outstanding customer service and outstanding patient care in a friendly, family oriented environment. We would like our customers to feel welcome and know that we'll offer them the finest service and care possible. We aim to be an integral part of their family health care staff.
Animal Hospital of Onslow County offers the Jacksonville area emergency vet care as well as surgical, and dental services. With our in-house pharmacy, our facility is a one stop shop for your pet's health needs. Dr. David H Altman is one of the best veterinarians in the Jacksonville area and is committed to your pet's health and well being. Animal Hospital of Onslow County excels in pet care and the
Providing affordable, high quality veterinary care in a friendly ambiance. All 4 Paws Animal Hospital is a place where pets get the excellent quality of care they deserve. Our staff of animal care specialists provides you the peace of mind that comes from receiving knowledgeable, compassionate care and individualized attention. We trust that a visit to the veterinarian should not be a stressful or
We at Carver Street Animal Hospital strive to offer our clients and patients excellent quality care with compassion and understanding. Our veterinarians and staff reach for the highest standards to make you and your family member as comfortable and secure as possible. We understand what our pets can mean to us and will work with you to offer the best care possible. Our oal is your pet's happy and healthy
Nhah.com provides the Durham animal community emergency veterinary services together with surgical, and dental veterinary care. Our facility provides a one stop for your pet's health and medical care.
Our amazing veterinarians are available in your neighborhood to care for your pets and guide you on their well-being. Our services include comprenhensive veterinary care from the first pediatric visit through the senior stages of your dog or cat's life, emphasizing client education, preventative care, dental care and surgery. We want to help your pets live the longest and healthiest lives possible.
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Good Day Doodles is a multi-generational Australian Labradoodle breeder based in Greensboro, North Carolina. We proudly sell our puppies around the world, take pride in our dedication to quality, & adhere to ALAA standards. Our puppies come from the founding blood lines in Australia - Rutland Manor and Tegan Park. Visit our website to learn more today!
New Location : Just in case you haven't seen us in a while, we currently have moved! Our new location is 1720, US Highway 17 in Williamston. We are situated between the Ross Motel and the U-haul center, directly across from the Ford Dealership and the New Super Wal-Mart location!
Dr. Burnett performs acupuncture on a dog to relieve pain in his paw. Burnett Veterinary Hospital offers superior medical care for all animals, including dogs,cats, birds, exotic/pocket pets and huge animals. Dr. Burnett has extensive knowledge in well-pet care, treating illnesses and injuries, and all aspects of surgery, including orthopedic procedures.
Situated in Wilmington and Carolina Beach, North Carolina, College Road Animal Hospital, PLLC and Carolina Beach Animal Hospital, respectively, are dedicated to delivering quality, friendly care to the cats and dogs of New Hanover County. Each veterinarian and staff member is deeply dedicated to the health and well-being of your pet. We love animals as much as you do!
This association of veterinarians, established in 1970, is a non-profit organization whose purpose and objectives includes the advancement of the personal's knowledge and skills of tiny animal medicine and surgery through post-graduate study; the promotion of the highest levels of veterinary medicine and services; and the promotion of fellowship opportunities for veterinarians with similar interests.
Optiview is a digital retinal imaging system that enables the veterinarian to view and document the retina. This valuable for cats with hypertension, hyperthyroid disease, or any ophthalmic diseases. A number of new cases of rabies as of April 22have been reported in the city of WIlmngton.
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In 1988 the Animal Hospital of Nags Head was built by Dr. Barrett Welch, as a result of an inspired vision to bring a higher standard of quality Veterinary care to the Outer Banks. At this state of the art facility, our care extends beyond just that of the pet, but to their families as well. Our focus is to supply the very highest in Veterinary care in a modern, clean, safe and caring environment.
Serving greater Goldsboro for over fifty years. Wayne Veterinary Hospital is run and run by Dr. George R. Silver and his son Dr. George R Silver Jr. Dr. Silver is a graduate of Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine and Colonel in the North Carolina National Guard. Is a 2005 graduate of St. Georges University and the Vice president of membership with the Goldsboro Jaycees.
It is our priority to supply the best veterinary care to our patients. Our mission is to ensure that every owner is well informed and comfortable with the decisions that are made regarding their pets care. Our team members are committed to the care of animals and they are willing to do whatever is necessary to make your pet comfortable.
The staff at River Road Animal Hospital is dedicated to surpassing customer expectations. We will supply exceptional client satisfaction with advanced medical services in a friendly, welcoming atmosphere. We will respect our customers, our co-workers and most of all the animals in our care.
For over three decades, Wilson Veterinary Hospital has been delivering caring and professional veterinary care to pets in Wilson County. We have true dedication and concern for our patients. Providing them with the finest health care is our aim, and doing so with compassion and the highest standards of expertise is our aim each and every day. Appointments are preferred but not required.
Please join us as we welcome Dr. Brenda S. Owens to our practice. With a portion or our monthly proceeds, we're able to donate items to World Vision to aid impoverished kids. We donated a Dairy Cow in April and a Flock of Sheep in May. Keep an eye out for what we'll send in June.


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- 02-09-2013 #71
You don't need a coach,you're fine. I was in the PUA community and read up for awhile and really it's very simple.
1.) Have confidence
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3.) Act like a man and be a GOOD guy but not a nice guy!
4.) Don't be Needy, huge turnoff
5.) Be the one who chooses your dates, don't let them choose you. In other words think of yourself like the dodge ball captain that picks the girls he wants to date haha
6.) Start striking up a conversation with everyone around at all times(old people, dudes,fat chicks, hot chicks whoever doesn't matter....) this helps you from being shy and eventually you'll naturally strike up a conversation with women your attracted to because its a habit.
I work in the mall and I constantly approach everyone for to buy my product and this gives me an excuse to hand my number and get the number of women I find attractive.
Hope this was of some help and you do NOT need a coach!
- 02-11-2013 #72
I have confidence, but I guess not as much as I thought. I can talk to people and certain women, but as I said, some can't. I can sometimes be to nice, but I try and stay neutral, I am the least needy person in the world, I can't stand that myself, UGH! As far as the rest, I might have to move to a bigger city or lower my standards if I ever not want to be single. Not many here, I know I keep saying that, but is true. I am a manager in an Allstate office, so I am always talking to everyone, young, old, fat, skinny, man, woman, but when one comes in I am attracted to, freeze, lol... I was joking a lil bit about the coach thing, but I mean it too. I just never been that guy to walk to women I like and talk, but I have always wanted to be...smaLLer than beFore
- 02-23-2013 #73
you still doing the 90 days lol?
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I definitely feel thicker after not masturbating, I think by cutting down it significantly helps.
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Apparently I am something called an "insurrectionary socialist". I've never called myself this and until now nobody has ever called me this. Gavin Mendel-Gleason and James O'Brien, who I take it are involved in the Left Forum in Ireland, used this newly-invented term casually and repeatedly in an article they wrote called "The Strategy of Attrition".[1]
The article is an argument for the idea that socialism should be achieved without breaking any capitalist laws, by winning a majority in parliament and using the state to reform capitalism out of existence gradually.
An argument for reformism, in other words. But they won't admit this.
A recent Left Forum debate had the title "Revolution, Reform, and everything in between". The reformists present, of course, saw themselves in the "in between" bracket. At this debate O'Brien described himself as a "revolutionary reformist"! Today's reformists, with the shameful failures of reformism in the 20th century still hanging over them, don't want to call themselves by that soiled name. It has become a dirty word on the left (and it deserves to be). To gain some credibility today's reformists have to spend a lot of time blurring the boundaries between reform and revolution.
So every time the authors write "insurrectionary", they mean the following: "revolutionary – but we don't want to use that term because it's an admission that we are not revolutionary."[2]
This need to invent a new term to cover their own asses leads the reformists to say some very silly things, like:
"As the experience of the last century has shown the far left, it is not so easy to organise insurrection against a democratically elected government, especially in the advanced capitalist countries."
What do they expect us to say? "Yes, you're damn right, I'm sick of taking part in failed insurrections. I'm blue in the face taking up arms and manning the barricades on Henry Street only to be shot down by the FCA time and time again. The lads in Les Mis thought they had it bad! Insurrections in 21st-century Dublin are really, really difficult to organise!"
To use their own language, calling revolutionary socialists "insurrectionaries" is "entirely unhelpful" and "vacuous".
The State – Don't mess with it, you never know what could happen!
"A large bureaucracy is a very complex machine and complex machines are far easier to break than to improve… changes which haven't been carefully thought through in advance can quickly lead to severe social crisis." This is just Edmund Burke rephrased.[3]
By contrast, the existing state institutions, to quote what the authors say on laws, "Limited as they may be, they have the under-appreciated virtue of actually existing — not a trivial accomplishment."
Existing is actually a very trivial accomplishment. What is decisive in making me value something is not whether it exists, but whether it is useful, and whether it has a future. The phrase "actually existing" made me laugh out loud. It made me think of Stalinist parties, which pledged allegiance to "actually existing socialism" in the USSR. Bad enough that it wasn't socialism, a time came when it ceased to be "actually existing".
Dialectical thinking is about discerning the outlines of what might arise in the future, and seeing everything "actually existing" as mutable and dependent on historical conditions. The dinner I plan to eat tomorrow does not have the virtue of actually existing. Disparate existing elements (rice, peppers, sauce) need to be brought together from diverse sources, and placed in extreme heat, in various conditions, which will cause them to change form. Still I plan to eat it. Capitalism has "the virtue of actually existing". So did feudalism before it. Big deal. It's going to take more than existence to impress me.
But as the quotes above show, the Reformists are scared of the consequences of change even though it's a condition of this existence which is such an achievement. They think terrible things might happen if we try to change the state too much. If that is their view, then how can they justify even believing in socialism, which, whatever bizarre way they want to implement it, would mean radical changes on every level?
That terrible things might happen if we leave the state substantially as it is doesn't cross their minds; that constant change is a condition of existence doesn't seem to occur to them. Revolutionary change happens not when we feel like it but when it is a necessity and a possibility for all of society – and when that moment comes, you'd better not muck about. In any conceivable scenario where capitalism is overthrown, there's already a "severe social crisis" going on. A new order is necessary to fix this crisis. That's the whole point! How did they miss it?
The State Machinery
To be fair, our Reformists do believe that the state machinery has a future and is useful. The state machinery for them is neutral. It is not essentially capitalist – it just operates in a capitalist context! The whole lot, parliament, elections every five years, the army, the guards, could run a socialist society without much change. In fact, almost every change will be enacted by the state!
To use their own image, they imagine that a tool designed to "bash heads and extract the surplus" can be used not only to govern a socialist society, but to decree from on high the transition to socialism. This head-bashing and surplus-extracting tool, it doesn't take a genius to see, would not be ideally suited to creating and running a planned socialist economy. It'd be like trying to tighten screws with a hammer, or drive in nails with the butt of a screwdriver.
It is a surprise to me that they can imagine that there could be another mode of production, when they can't even imagine that there could be another type of state.
They imagine a socialist government which has broken none of the laws (that were, by the way, designed to preserve capitalism), trying to enact a "revolution", from above, with a parliamentary majority, with all the i's dotted and t's crossed, saying please and thank you all the way. It's like Stalinism in a drawing-room.
One Eventuality in which the Reformists will allow physical struggle
"Of course, should the democratic process itself come under attack, either through a frontal coup d'état or through a prolonged form of technocratic government installed by the IMF or the ECB, then an old-fashioned street revolution becomes not only desirable but inevitable."
What is this "democratic process"? Bourgeois democracy, which was pretty impressive in the 18th century. Today it means vote every five years for which group will kowtow to the markets and lie to you. It means a range of freedoms to organise, assemble, publish (subject to how much money you have) which are narrowing, not expanding, which are increasingly coming under attack in the advanced capitalist countries.
Why, even for a moment, would anyone hold on to the idea that there would be no decisive physical confrontation before capitalism is overthrown? It is a remote and bizarre possibility. What kind of political idea rests on a remote and bizarre possibility?
And what's "old-fashioned" about a "street revolution"? Has everything since 2011 flown over their heads?
And what's all this about not doing anything physical until the bourgeoisie "fires first" by attacking their own "democratic process"? What's all this about refusing to allow the working class to fight meaningfully until the capitalists have violated their own mythical democracy?
It's wrong to attempt any kind of revolutionary mass action when the mood of the working class is not favourable, when the workers are not convinced of the necessity. Many factors influence this mood, make the class bolder or make it more timid. One of these factors might be, and in most historical situations has been, that the state has committed some atrocity. Depending on the conditions, it might shock the class into action, or terrorize it into submission. Who has ignored this factor, this one factor among other factors? Not the revolutionary socialists, or even, if you like, the "insurrectionary" ones.
But the Reformists have elevated this factor to the level of a box that must be ticked. Why this factor and not others, such as how organised the masses are, how confident they are, how weak the ruling class is? Because they are very impressed with bourgeois democracy. They think it's the bee's knees. They use phrases like "a legitimate government sanctioned by a democracy." When they use phrases like this I get the feeling that they are not really of our movement at all.
Effectively they seem to say, "We will approve of physical confrontation only after a violation of democracy by an embattled ruling class, something which is practically inevitable, happens. Until that happens we should base our entire perspective on the idea that this inevitable event won't happen." They're gas, these reformists.
And the most obvious point of all: If you let the enemy fire first, you risk ending up dead. An atrocity by the government may provoke outrage and a response… Or it could be a brilliant coup that disarms and scares the masses, that sets off an unstoppable reactionary momentum, that exposes not the state, which is already exposed, but the leadership of the masses. The masses decide they do not want to risk life, limb and freedom for these "leaders" who have stood by and let the enemy savage them.
When two cowboys face each other, feet apart, arms tense by their sides, waiting for the darting hands and the pistol shot that will leave one of them dead, what's going to happen to the cowboy who's determined not to fire first? And why is he determined not to fire first? Is it because his head is full of the thoughts, ideas and instincts of his enemy?
Bourgeois Democracy
The reformists have elevated bourgeois democracy to a celestial level and bathed it in golden light. They even think it's wrong to use the term "bourgeois democracy". For them, it seems, its is the only possible form of democracy.
Apparently, the elections we have in Ireland are "broadly considered free and fair". In reality only an eccentric minority think they're "free and fair". In society at large, now more than ever before, there is a huge frustration and cynicism with the political establishment and system. It's a long, long way from Robert Mugabe but it's not "broadly considered to be free and fair." I don't know where the Reformists got that one from.
Proletarian democracy, another, far superior form of democracy, involves councils directly elected from workplaces and communities, with every rep subject to recall and on the average workers' wage. Organised on local, regional, national and international levels, on workplace and industry levels, this mass participatory democracy is the only form of state that can carry through a revolution and provide the mass input necessary to democratically plan a whole economy.
The Reformists' trump card that they play against this argument is one word: Russia. So they use bizarre and ignorant phrases like "Lenin's break with the Marxist Centre through his gigantic gamble on the soviet horse". Elsewhere in the article they are very concerned with how massively capitalism and the state have changed since the early 20th century. But when it comes to the Russian Revolution, all concerns for context and historical change go out the window.
For all the attention they pay to the context, from the way they crudely graft its lessons onto today's world, ("A temporary dictatorship will be necessary to bridge the gap between the collapse of capitalist political power and the institution of a new mode of production, a gap that may well last some decades") it seems that for them the Russian Revolution might as well have happened in any advanced capitalist country in the last 20 years.
The USSR was not just a workers' state in the abstract. It was a workers' state in a backward, largely feudal country with a working-class that was a small minority of the population, that had lost 2 million people and been thrown into chaos by three years of total war, that faced isolation, siege, invasion and a vicious civil war on its advent. This brutalizing, deforming context is actually more important than the form of government that was instituted. But I have found that reformists generally, when they discuss the Soviet Union, show little understanding of this context, or even much interest. For O'Brien, it is sufficient to say that when power passed to the soviets, chaos ensued. Was there not chaos before power passed to the soviets? Was the year 1917 one of supreme and placid order? Chaos from what source? And what brought this chaos under control? This doesn't interest these formalists.
The belief that things would be better if the working class democratically ran society, the economy and politics is not some freak eccentricity of us Trotskyists. It did not constitute "Lenin's break with the Marxist centre." It's the essence of Marxism. If the Reformists can't recognise that they should stop calling themselves Marxists.
What Practical Steps do They Propose?
I see socialism coming about through revolution. Revolutions happen in moments of extreme crisis, when it is intolerable for the mass of the people to continue living under the old conditions, and are organised and confident enough to go on the offensive. Revolutions are a fact of history. Ireland saw two revolutionary situations in the past century, one in 1917-1923 and another in the North in the late 1960s. Several revolutions have shaken the world since the beginning of the Tunisian revolution in 2011. An economic and political crisis and a continuing radicalisation characterise the global situation.
Despite all this, these Reformists seem to think that believing in revolution is like believing in Santa Claus. They say that basing your perspective on revolution is like waiting for the rapture. It clearly isn't. It's absurd that I have to point out that the rapture has never happened, anywhere. Revolutions have happened in the vast majority of countries. The rapture is not likely to happen because there is no evidence that it will. Revolutions are happening right now, and are likely to happen in the future because capitalism is not sustainable and is becoming less and less tolerable.
But the dumbest thing they say is that we "insurrectionaries" don't actually have anything to do when there's no revolutionary situation. I wonder are they the same people who, in the next breath, will accuse us of "frenetic activity".
In fact revolutionaries have two main tasks. First: build a revolutionary party, to act as a decisive political force in a revolutionary situation. Second: build, strengthen, empower and embolden the working class in every way possible, through trade unions, community struggles and the building of a mass party of the working class. Which to place emphasis on, and how to approach them, are extremely flexible questions and depend on the situation.
By contrast, what kind of activity do these Reformists propose? Organise co-ops and build a mass party. Good luck with the co-ops, where's your capital? The mass party idea is one I wholeheartedly support. But they don't seem to have much of a clue on this question.
They talk about the SPD, the huge pre-WW1 social-democratic party in Germany. It had all kinds of groups attached to it, from smoking clubs to sports clubs to this, that and the other. But the SDP was the political expression of an advancing working class. Everyone wants to attach themselves to a movement that's marching forward.
Is the Irish working class on the advance right now? No. It's beaten back. It may go on the advance soon and there will be a prospect of a new mass party. But right now it's not happening. So you're not going to succeed in building a mass party at this moment, and copying some of the symptoms of the SPD's success is not going to help your case, it's going to add to your workload.
How Will Socialism Enter the World?
The Reformists repeatedly show a massive aversion to disruption, hassle and risk:
"The resulting break in the chain of production will see a severe decline in living standards and an immediate, perhaps irrevocable, plummeting of political support for seeing the transition out."
This and many other such passages reveal the authors' inability to visualise a socialist transformation of society. To any revolutionary, a level of disruption, even chaos, is justified if it could potentially lead to socialism. In any conceivable revolutionary situation, the working class will understand this damn well. But the reformists don't think socialism is worthwhile if, to get to it, we have to go through serious disruption or suffering. They think the working class will bail out at the first sign of discomfort.
They don't understand that it wouldn't be a couple of bods at the top forcing changes on a foot-dragging, grumbling working class who will jump ship the moment things get tough. The class would make the revolution, not impatiently put up with it.
Socialism will not come into the world bowing and scraping, apologising for its own existence. It will not dispossess the most powerful people in the world using a state designed to dispossess the least powerful. It will not win power through an election where both sides worship some made-up thing called the "democratic process". It will have to fight for every inch the capitalist world yields to it. Its only engine can be the enthusiasm of millions.
[1] I have heard of a trend in anarchism that calls itself "Insurrectionary". As far as I can tell they are very anti-Marxist and do the whole black-block thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrectionary_anarchism. As far as I know this is the only tendency on the left that calls itself, or that anyone else calls, "insurrectionary". The reformists have displayed some cheek in inventing a new meaning for this word and applying it to us because they couldn't think of a word for themselves that wasn't "reformist".
[2] Revolution is the process of one class physically defeating and replacing a ruling class. Eg, the dates of the French Revolution are usually given as 1789-95 or 1789-1799 or even 1789-1815. This encompasses a whole revolutionary process – multiple insurrections, battles, wars and shake-ups of various kinds. Insurrection is a more specific term, referring to a specific uprising, eg Easter Week 1916 in Ireland or the Bolsheviks' uprising in October/November 1917. A revolution without any insurrections would be a very strange-looking revolution; that's why it's wrong to pose the terms "revolutionary" and "insurrectionary" as if you could be one without being the other.
[3] Edmund Burke, a Westminster politician, wrote a tract against the French Revolution, "Reflections on the Revolution in France", in which he argued that a bunch of uppity lawyers shouldn't tinker with feudalism because terrible things were bound to happen if commoners attempted change. Kings and queens were awesome and knew what they were doing through long habit (this was literally his argument). Incidentally, in his only reference to the mass of the people he used the words "the swinish multitude".


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Because doctors and scientists believe that the drastic reduction in sunshine in fall and winter are partially to blame for seasonal affective disorder, they recommend that you take advantage of natural light as much as possible. While it would be nice if you could sneak away to a tropical destination during the winter, it's not very likely that you can, so you need to make a few changes around the house to help yourself get as much light as possible.
First, change the curtains or drapes around your home. If you must have window coverings for privacy, choose those that are sheer and still allow light into your home while giving you some security. Swap out room-darkening blinds in your bedroom for light-filtering blinds so that you get more light as you awake. As soon as you get out of bed, open your blinds and push back drapes to get as much exposure to natural light in the morning as possible.
If your home is cluttered, you won't get as much natural light in winter as you could be. Declutter, organize, and make sure not to block windows in any way. Ensure your windows are clean in order to allow light to enter your home (make sure that if you use a housekeeper, they understand the importance of this). You should also make sure that vegetation outside is not blocking sunlight from making its way inside.
While it may be tempting to hibernate during the winter, don't allow yourself to sit or lie around. You will feel worse and put your mental and physical health at risk. Instead, find ways to stay active at home. Make your bed every morning. Organize your home and donate unwanted items to get some pleasure out of helping others. Keep up with dirty dishes and laundry. Cook healthy meals.
It's also a good idea to stay active by exercising to help you cope with your seasonal affective disorder. Exercising helps all forms of depression because it improves the mood and reduces stress. One hour of aerobic exercise outside, even if it is cloudy, offers the same benefits of 2.5 hours of indoor light treatment for those with SAD. Try walking briskly, going for a run, skiing, taking the kids sledding, or having a snowball fight to exercise away SAD this winter.
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Sometimes, the best way to work through the symptoms of SAD is to release them in healthy, positive ways. For some people, that means keeping a journal about their feelings and working through them on paper. For others, it means writing a poem or a letter to themselves or someone else. Artistic people find that creating drawings, sculptures, or other art forms is therapeutic and results in some stunning pieces. Still others find that playing music, writing songs, or singing helps them cope with their seasonal affective disorder.
If you don't have the skills to get creative to express your feelings in positive ways, seek out an art therapist or music therapist in your area. If these services are unavailable in your area, find an art class or music class at a nearby community center or institution of higher learning. Some artists and musicians give private lessons if you would prefer to learn on an individual basis rather than as part of a group.
No matter which coping strategy seems right for you, the key is to pursue a strategy that you think you can adopt as part of your daily or weekly routine so that you are taking charge of your mental health and facing your seasonal affective disorder head on this winter season.


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It's a Small (Mobile) World After All
Malaria, infant mortality, and maternal health are the three biggest health concerns in developing countries and their populations are often rural. What would it take to help these countries tackle their most vexing health issues? It's going to take quite a bit, but developing countries are where the growth in the tech market will be, and many tech companies are stepping up to the plate because it makes good business sense as well as fulfills a corporate responsibility.
Intel announced its World Ahead program to assist emerging countries through the use of technology. Its latest effort, the 1Mx15 Health Program promises to bring healthcare training to one million healthcare workers through the dissemination of medical information on laptop computers. The first country targeted for the program is Sri Lanka. Mike Gan, from the World Ahead program, said that Intel's experience with ethnographic research, as well as its open platform for content providers and equipment all contribute to the company's interest in the program.
According to The Economist "the emerging world is enjoying the most spectacular growth in history. Its share of global GDP (at purchasing-power parity) increased from 36% in 1980 to 45% in 2008 and looks set to grow to 51% in 2014. Emerging-market consumers have been outspending the Americans since 2007; by last year their share of global consumption had gone up to 34% against America's 27%".
Clearly Intel seems to be on the right track with their "doing well by doing good" strategy.


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Melbourne also has a large Turkish community, so it is keen to attract services operated by Turkish Airlines, although that carrier is also in talks with Sydney Airport. Melbourne is under-served from some markets, concedes Jones, pointing to Japan, for example, with travellers currently having to go via Sydney. The airport is in continuing discussions with Japanese carriers and Qantas and Jetstar on potential services to that country. There are also opportunities in South Africa -- following V Australia's decision to drop its Johannesburg services after allying with Etihad -- and South America. Melbourne has an attractive operating environment (being curfew-free), with a single terminal precinct, high service quality and lower operating costs than Sydney and Brisbane, says Jones. The airport is also investing A$1 billion (US$1 billion) over the next two years on expansion and upgrade work, having recently completed a A$330 million upgrade that included five new gates and aerobridges, expanded check-in and a new retail precinct. -- Emma Kelly The Changi Airport Group (CAG) has announced plans to develop a new Air Cargo Express (ACE) Hub at Singapore's Changi Airport -- the first such facility in the region, according to the company. The ACE Hub, which will be located within the airport's Free Trade Zone, is scheduled for completion in the first half of next year. It will further strengthen Changi's position as a key centre for air-express companies and provide them access to express cargo markets in South- East Asia, South Asia and Oceania, says CAG. Some 80,000 square metres of land has been allocated for development of the ACE Hub, which will have direct airside access to allow unrestricted cargo flow to and from aircraft. 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Air-freight movements for the first 11 months of 2010 were up 11.7 percent to 1.66 million tonnes. -- Emma Kelly Melbourne announces record year Airport News Changi plans new air cargo express hub NEWS IN BRIEF SHELL AVIATION has expanded its operations to 12 airports across India. Shell MRPL Aviation Fuels and Services (SMA), a joint venture between Shell and Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals, is now providing fuel to operators at Mumbai, Goa, Chennai, Calicut, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Coimbatore and Mangalore airports, in addition to the hubs at Bangalore and Hyderabad -- where the company has been providing service since 2008. The aviation industry in India is growing rapidly and Shell is keen to meet the demand for improved fuel-delivery in the country, the company says. Shell is now the only multinational oil company with a government license to market aviation fuels in India. 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Dear Abby: My husband, "Vinny," and I were married 11 years when he left me for another woman. Eight months later, he came back. Our marriage is better now than it was before the affair.
Seven months later, his younger brother "Nicky" got divorced and moved in with us. A short later, Vinny and Nicky joined a band.
It has been a year now, and my brother-in-law is still here. I want him to move out, but every time I mention it, Vinny says Nicky has "just" gone through a divorce and "we're all he has."
I hate all the time Vinny devotes to the band. I know how much he enjoys it, but I'm miserable. They practice in our basement on Mondays and Wednesdays, and every Friday and Saturday night is spent performing.
I have no privacy! How do I get Nicky out of here? Should I push the issue with the band or let it go?
My parents are furious with Vinny. They say he's reliving his childhood, Nicky is taking advantage and Vinny is taking me for granted. What do you say?
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Dear Hurting: Your brother-in-law should have been out of your house a month after he moved in. Tell Vinny you've had it with this experiment in communal living, set an exit date for Nicky and stick to it. If your husband refuses to listen to reason, he is sending you a strong message that your wishes are not important.
As for Vinny's participation in the band, he and the other band members must be talented or they wouldn't be booked every Friday and Saturday night. Look at the bright side: When they're rehearsing in your basement, at least you know where your husband is and what he's doing. Marriage is a compromise, so learn to enjoy the music, but cultivate interests and hobbies of your own.
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Arsene Wenger was in a much better mood as he faced the daily newspapers after his week from hell.
Even after losing to Bayern Munich and Blackburn, the Arsenal manager took all of the questions head on to give a fascinating insight into his future, the club and his plans.
Wenger had already insisted he would not quit in his broadcast press conference but here's the full Q&A, which offers more of an insight into his mind and thoughts given to the newspapers.
QUESTION: It's been a bad and difficult week, today you seem much more defiant?
ARSENE WENGER: "I'm in a strong mood because if I am not I don't see how my team can be. I have enough experience in my job to know you have to deal with all kind of situations and this is one that is difficult to handle but it's also a good opportunity to show that we have strength and we don't have to go too 'over-disastrous' about it. We are fighting for a Champions League place, not against relegation and we have to take that in a positive way if we are to stay at the top. For us the status of the club goes through the Champions League and we need some strength to get into the Champions League and I think everyone realises that."
Q: Is this your hardest test as Arsenal manager and has it been your hardest week?
AW: "It is a hard time, I'm not saying it's easy. But it is also a time where I can use my experience and knowledge to ensure the squad stays together and fights together."
Q: For you, is it a case of the harder it gets, the harder you work?
AW: "I try to analyse objectively what's going on. I try to take a little distance from things that are said and analyse well things that happened and why we lost games and then make the right decisions. That's our job."
Q: You have received the full backing of the board, you've got money to spend, but in the past why do you always seem so reluctant to spend?
AW: "I'm not reluctant to do so. First of all, we only had money recently. Secondly, in England there is a way of thinking that every problem is sorted out just by spending money but that's not always the case. If it was like that, the same teams would win the Champions League every year. There are two or three clubs in Europe who are richer than everybody else and do not play in the Champions League. I believe that the problem today is not the money, it's to find the talent that strengthens your team. And, as well, I believe we have to be faithful to what this club is about, which is to give a chance to the young players we educate - that is vital - and therefore to bring in the players only who give us really a plus. If we find tomorrow a player of top, top, top quality, we will take him."
Q: So, Falcao costs £40m, on 5-year-contract, would you sign him?
AW: "We can do it. If we can afford it, we will not say no. But, today, we have to focus on tomorrow [Aston Villa].
Q: If you finish fourth, you pay off the stadium. You're keeping a lot of people here happy...
AW: "No, I want to keep everybody happy, you know. I want to win the championship and the Champions League and if we can't do it, we have to question ourselves. But, to do that, first we have to be at that level and, for years, it was vital we were there to pay it back. I think, now, we are in a stronger situation where, like you say, we can spend some money. We went out to spend money at Christmas but we didn't find the players."
Q: If the club had been a bit more open about not competing in the transfer market after moving to the Emirates then would the fans have swallowed the trophy drought more easily?
AW: "Well, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You cannot come out and say, 'Look, we cannot win the championship'. We were close during this period, you know, we were very close. Because I feel we had the quality. But, I think what angered more our fans is that we lost the players we educated, and that was much more difficult to swallow then all the rest, I believe, and that's what we have to change."
Q: You'll be able to change that now because of the money?
AW: "Yes, of course, There were many major issues we were fighting to keep our best players. You can only keep your best players, let's be realistic, by paying the wages of the market. To pay the wages of the market we have to put the ticket prices up. And then the fans turn against you and say 'but you lose the best players and we pay high prices for tickets' and they are right. But that was the consequence of the unfair competition that we faced. Having said that the fans are ready to pay the ticket price if you win the championship, but we didn't."
Q: Do you feel the fans are still with you?
AW: "I feel they are with the club, and that is very important. I work for the club and I try to keep the fans happy. If they are not happy then I am unhappy as well. That's part of my job, not everybody is always with you, and not everybody is always against you."
Q: You've said before that you would consider your position if you could not take the club forward. Do you still believe you can?
AW: "Yes of course I can take the club forward."
Q: Sticking with your philosophy, it must be tough, when others spend money and win trophies?
AW: "Depends on what you call trophies. Trophies for me is basically the Championship and Champions League because that is where the real quality comes out. This year you have first to consider the quality comes through the championship and not through the FA Cup or through the Capital One Cup. The real quality of the team is judged on where you are on a consistent level in the Championship and where you are in the Champions League. We are a bit short, we are not far away and we have to reduce that gap. I think it's difficult for everybody, the competition in the Premier League is absolutely massive for everybody. It's difficult to guarantee for anybody that they will win the Premier League. This year Man United looks well ahead, but usually it is very tight."
Q: For season after season, you fought to keep Cesc Fabregas, probably longer than you might have expected, but he went eventually. How long before there's a repeat of that with Jack Wilshere?
AW: "He has just extended to his contract. I believe in the longer term Wilshere will be the leader of this club and lead the club to trophies. That's what it is about as well for the great players and we have to make sure they they all stay here."
Q: What do you need to do as a club to join the likes of Bayern as a club?
AW: "Bayern is in the position where Manchester United is in England. They can afford to do what they want. They are the strongest financial club. You send Chelsea and Man City to Germany and we will speak about Bayern again. You have to compare what is comparable. They do what they want in their country and they can spend the money when they want as they are the only financial dominating club. They have no competition financially in Germany."
Q: To get to that level, do you need to spend money?
AW: "It costs a lot of money, it costs intelligent work. We are not so far when people think at the moment from Bayern. We need to be intelligent and strong in this period and not just think.....we have to keep a guideline of what we have done until now. Strengthen the team where in the positions we feel where we are a bit weaker. But we have a basis of a team that is very strong for me."
Q: Do you feel, then, that you are not that far away? How close are you? What do you need to change to get there?
AW: "We are not far away. Difficult to convince you today. We have to be clever. I believe in some areas of our team we can compete with anybody in the world as we are analyse all the European and English teams and in some areas of our team we are very competitive. We speak about the Wilsheres, the Cazorlas and we have a very strong technical basis but we have to be more efficient."
Q: Battle for fourth place, did you cheer that Spurs goal? Does Spurs being in Europe help Arsenal?
AW: "The goal was coming slowly. Is it good or bad for us? I don't know. It's not easy, but it is down to us. We play Tottenham and if we are consistent in the Premiership we will come back."


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Evelyn Norah Shullai lives life to the hilt. There is nothing surprising about that, except that she is 86 years young and still enjoys teaching, partying and embellishing herself with the finest clothes and jewellery. Though arthritis and gout have slowed down her gait, Shullai's dauntless spirit has given her vibrant persona an evergreen quality.
A pioneer of the Girl Guides Movement in India, Shullai — popularly known as Rani — has the rare distinction of being the second Padmashree awardee in Meghalaya. She is also the proud recipient of the Silver Star from the President, in addition to the Silver Elephant for outstanding contribution to the Girl Guides movement. As a dedicated social worker, Shullai won the Meghalaya state award in 1992. But then, the former Inspector of Schools has always been a silent worker, never seeking rewards but job satisfaction.
There are two aspects to this compassionate octogenarian. She is as much a known figure in the Girl Guides movement as she is as an avant garde educationist. Both have co-existed in her chequered career like the two sides of the same coin. Her involvement with Girl Guides began at the Welsh Mission Girls' High School (now called Presbyterian Secondary School) in Shillong, and continued right upto Scottish Church College in Calcutta, where she passed her graduation and BT to embark on a teaching career.
"While at college, I was an active ranger (senior girl guide), engaged in social service. For six years, we adopted a village near Sreerampore, teaching villagers all about hygiene and enabling them to dig wells," recalls Shullai. And even later, when she came back to Shillong and worked as the headmistress of the Assamese M.E. School, Shullai became the commissioner for the Guides and Scouts movement in the state.
By the time she retired at age 55, Shullai was not only appointed as the honorary state secretary of Meghalaya, Bharat Scouts and Guides, but she even took an Indian contingent to the international camp in Sydney in 1980. It was around this time that she attended a seminar-cum-workshop of the Red Cross Society as chairman of the Meghalaya branch of the Indian Red Cross Society. Four years later, she represented India at the International Conference of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in New York, earning accolades for being the perfect ambassador for her country.
"As I travelled to different states in the US, I was looked after by the various Girl Guide families without having to even spend a penny," she remembers. Shullai confesses that her love for people has been an offshoot of the Girl Guide movement. Needless to say, it has shaped her exuberant personality and joie de vivre as well.
Even more challenging was her role as a teacher when she would travel 33 miles on foot to reach her school at Jowai in the Jaintia Hills, soon after the holidays. As Shullai recalls, "In those day, there was hardly any motorable road. I had no choice but to walk up and down the slopes." Her stint at the Jowai Government School was memorable for more than one reason. It was here that she met and fell in love with her late husband H. Pariat, a fellow teacher. But even before her daughter Judith was born, Shullai was widowed.
Not one to get bogged down by self-pity, she applied and got selected as the head teacher at the American Ludlow Jute Mill School at Chaingail, 28 miles from Calcutta. But her parents' death brought her back to Shillong, where she opened a montessori school in the Assamese M.E. School campus. Simultaneously, she became M.E. School's headmistress and even raised it to high school status.
But her career's biggest turning point came when she was appointed the first assistant Inspector of Schools for hill areas of composite Assam and later as Inspector of Schools in Shillong for a decade. In between, the Assam government had sent her to do her M Ed from the Central Institute in Delhi. "Most of my journeys as an Inspector of Schools were confined to the rural areas of Garo, Jaintia, Mikir and North Cachar Hills. And all along, I either walked or boarded rickety old buses," reminisces Shullai, who once got a marriage proposal from an official from the soil conservation department right in the middle of the jungle.
Though she would come back home often at one in the morning "looking like a monkey", Shullai knew that she was doing her best for improving the education system. When she retired, village students likened Shullai's absence to a feeling of being orphaned. Most of her predecessors would visit the schools like VIPs but Shullai would go to work with the teachers and students as their friend and guide.
Post-retirement, Shullai's daughter suggested that she open a school in her name. And that's how the Shullai Progressive School — which now has 600 students — came into being. While her two grand daughters handle most of the administrative duties, Shullai still takes English composition and grammar classes from 9am to 12.30 pm daily. "My grandchildren felt that I was exerting myself but I told them that I am still going strong," says Shullai, reclining on a cane chair, her walking stick resting by her side.
Her students at the school are mostly children of manual labourers. That explains why monthly fees have never exceeded Rs 160. While in class, Shullai blends discipline with kindness, and all the while, she is a friend and mother to her pupils. Fingers aglitter with bejewelled rings, Shullai does not believe in sparing the rod and spoiling the child. "But corporeal punishment should be limited to a few occasions or else the child would grow indifferent," she avers. Harbouring a strong dislike for passive listeners, Shullai encourages her students to interact and ask questions. As her days go by keeping them busy, Shullai feels that one cannot grow old among children. "I become one with them," she muses.
Shullai laments the lack of politeness and eternal values such as punctuality and honesty among generation next. "But even as yesteryear's children were shy and reserved, the present generation does not hesitate to speak out in class. They are also overburdened with heavy school bags. The system is such that they need a tutor to do their homework while their own knowledge gets limited," she sighs.
When not teaching students at the Progressive School, Shullai enjoys wine-making, cooking and catching up with friends. At one time she used to do a lot of knitting and gardening. And even now, she makes it a point to be all dressed up with make-up and go partying with friends.
In a life where she has upheld the belief that whatever we do is assigned by God, Shullai has tried to be sincere in her efforts. Having brought up two boys without expecting any returns, Shullai believes in the adage that "don't expect the water to go up, it always comes down". Following a diet of boiled food and one glass of brandy everyday, Shullai attributes her longevity to a disciplined regimen. She has no regrets: "I sleep the sleep of the dead", and insists that when she leaves this world, it should be without any speeches: "If people don't know me while I am alive, why should they hear my praises when I am dead?" And even as Shullai spends her twilight years with grace and dignity, it is with the satisfaction that she has done her bit for a crying humanity.


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These two work hand in hand, and Gore gets the credit. Miller hardly minds.
"Bruce is a baller, he's a smart player," Gore said. "He can catch, he can block."
An unheralded third-year fullback whose job is considered among the most important in the 49ers' ground game, Miller has thrived after switching sides of the ball two years ago as a rookie.
He's making a living in front of Gore — and loves it that way. Miller does more than just block, too: He has nine receptions for 82 yards with his best being a 17-yard catch, and all his regular work on offense this year has cut his role on special teams.
"Frank," Miller said, smiling as Gore walked by, "having backs like him and Kendall (Hunter) and LaMichael (James), those guys make you look good. And definitely experience, knowing the system, those things help."
Miller made a key block for Anthony Dixon's 2-yard touchdown run in Sunday night's 34-3 home victory against the Houston Texans. Gore ran for 81 yards and a score on 17 carries, while four others had runs of at least 11 yards as the Niners piled up 177 yards rushing in their most balanced performance yet.
"Oh, man, it was an excellent week," Miller said. "We have so much firepower back there. They make me look good, so it's fun blocking for them."
After San Francisco was outscored 56-10 in consecutive losses against Seattle and Indianapolis, the 49ers (3-2) have overwhelmed their opponents 69-14 over the last two games.
And they did it Sunday against a Houston defense then ranked No. 1 in the NFL.
"We were able to pop some runs in the red zone and had some multiple 10-plus gains in the running game and that's hard to do, especially against any defense in the NFL, but the Texans defense who is extremely good," coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday.
Miller helped get things going again in the fourth quarter, making a 4-yard reception on the first play as Colin Kaepernick snapped a string of seven straight incompletions.
It took a couple of weeks for this group to find its groove. Gore had no doubts it would happen.
"If it's that type of game, smashmouth football, we're willing to do it," Gore said after Sunday's win.
Miller said for him the slow start had to do with his technique, footwork and alignment early in the season. Though you'd never know it watching the efficiency with which Gore and the others are now running.
After gaining 60 yards on 20 carries over his first two games, Gore has had a pair of 80-yard rushing performances and a 153-yard effort in a road rout of the Rams on Sept. 26.
Miller has worked closely with running backs coach Tom Rathman to make adjustments.
"I feel great about it," Miller said. "We've been really been effective in the run game, and I think everyone sees what it can do for our passing game."
Two years ago as a rookie, Miller caught the 49ers' lone touchdown in a 19-11 win at Washington and emerged as a feel-good story in Harbaugh's first season.
For Harbaugh, that hasn't changed one bit — he continues to love and respect Miller more by the day.
Especially considering Miller was open to the idea of converting from defensive end to fullback. That switch earned him a regular job with the two-time reigning NFC West champions, and Miller knows that. He played tight end at Woodstock High in Georgia.
His coaches and teammates admire how seamlessly Miller made the position switch — and how hard he worked.
"One of the real lead stories on our team. He made that switch coming out of college and I couldn't be more pleased with Bruce," Harbaugh said. "Someone that has a very special place in my heart and with the team as well."
He was a dominant defensive end for Central Florida, earning Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year honors while becoming the school's all-time sacks leader with 36. Then, the 49ers told him they wanted to draft him to play fullback.
"Bruce is like our Swiss Army Knife, he does everything from special teams to everything on offense," Kaepernick said. "Whether it's blocking, running, catching passes, he's someone that really makes this offense go and he's a vital part of it. So, as he develops and as he continues to get better, our offense will continue to get better as well."


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Only so many holiday seasons can pass before your loved ones tire of receiving the thoughtfully chosen hemp T-shirts and Putumayo CDs that were once the mainstays of the socially conscious gift arsenal. Now that the Internet connects progressive consumers to indigenous craftspeople in developing countries–and to crafty people all over our country–do-gooder gifts are just a click away.
Since most people are always hoping for a cashmere sweater, don't be annoyed if they exhibit mild but visible disappointment when you give them a book. (Hint: Tuck a crisp $20 bill between the pages to generate more enthusiasm.) Books are often the most cherished present years down the line, none perhaps more so than classics like William Strunk and E.B. White's Elements of Style, which has just been updated with illustrations by New Yorker contributor Maira Kalman.
Actions Speak Louder Than Bumper Stickers features ninety-six of the funniest decals currently on the road, each accompanied by sobering facts that ground the punch lines in the harsh reality from whence they spring. Young New Yorkers Aaron Rudenstine and Olivia Greer have captured the zeitgeist in a time capsule of leftist one-liners.
If humor is your preferred coping mechanism for dealing with three more years, Jon Stewart's America (The Calendar) will make each morning a little brighter, until you read the newspaper.
When no wit is strong enough to dull the pain of W.'s foibles, drink reality away with a case of organic wine. Chartrand Imports brings in organic wines from all over Europe; founder Paul Chartrand discovered many while working on organic farms in France.
As long as it's not a leaden fruitcake, gifts of food are always welcome. The Lower Eastside Girls Club's bakery, Sweet Things, was created to familiarize girls ages 8 to 18, and their mothers, with the principles and day-to-day details of entrepreneurship. They'll send a gift tin of their fabulous gingerbread or iced butter cookies to your loved ones for a $25 donation, or you can order trays of cookies for the office, a mother-daughter apron set with the secret butter cookie recipe, or individual cookies
There are a number of organic fair-trade chocolates on the market, but Art Bars from Ithaca Fine Chocolates goes an extra mile, donating 10 percent of its profits to art education.
Shopping for a vegan can be trying, but Yachana Gourmet's "Jungle Chocolate" is pure cacao nibs with just a bit of sugar cane juice, and all profits go toward saving the rainforest and supporting sustainable development programs in the Ecuadorian Amazon.


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CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on Chance the Rapper and education funding for Chicago Public Schools (all times local):
3:40 p.m.
Grammy-winning artist Chance the Rapper is calling on Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner to use executive powers to better fund Chicago Public Schools and has donated $1 million to a foundation for schools.
The hip-hop performer from Chicago, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, announced the donation Monday from an elementary school on the city's South Side near where he grew up. It comes after a meeting Friday with the first-term Republican that the artist said didn't go well.
Chance told reporters Monday that conversations continued over the weekend, but weren't successful. He criticized Rauner for not funding schools "without caveats or ultimatums."
The two sat down for a highly unusual, one-on-one meeting last week to discuss CPS funding amid a two-year state budget standoff. The meeting was set after Chance won three Grammys last month and Rauner tweeted congratulations. Chance asked for a sit-down.
Rauner's administration circulated a memo Monday with options for recovering $215 million in pension relief he vetoed last year. Rauner says he wants long-term reforms.
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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration is circulating a memo with options for funding Chicago Public Schools days after a meeting with Grammy-winning artist Chance the Rapper.
A Monday memo first reported by the Chicago Sun-Times outlines two options for the nation's third-largest school district to receive $215 million in pension relief Rauner vetoed last year. The cash-strapped district had factored the funding into its annual budget. Rauner says it should've been tied to larger pension reforms.
The Chicago-native rapper, whose name is Chancelor Bennett, planned a news conference Monday at a school.
Rauner and Chance met Friday to discuss CPS funding after the artist asked for a sit-down. He attended city schools.
However, Chance says the meeting didn't go as planned and Rauner left him with "vague answers."
This story has been corrected to reflect that Chicago Public Schools is the nation's third-largest district, not second-largest.


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This one's going in my wallet. It's the last pretty picture of MAX, on its way to a date with destiny. An hour later, MAX was in Eureka, stopped behind a van that had stopped for pedestrians, and the car behind me didn't stop for anything.
According to the accident report, the driver was progressing at a legal 30 mph and failed to notice that us other drivers weren't progressing at all. MAX is much shorter now, and wrinkly from stern to prow, since the impact from the back pushed me into the van in front.
So, what can we learn from this experience? We can learn how quickly we can make a new car, that's for sure. MAX is totaled, and though officially it's being rebuilt, it's going to be a bit like the joke about Abe Lincoln's axe:
"Yep, it's an heirloom, that axe has been in our family for 150 years."
"Gosh, it looks brand new."
"We've given it the best of care, generation after generation. My great grandfather replaced the handle, and my grandfather replaced the head."
Or this could become like the true story of the Vin Fiz, the first aircraft to fly transcontinental across America back in 1911. It crashed and was repaired 22 times along the way; the only original parts left on the plane were the engine oil drain plug and one wing strut.
One lesson from this is it's better to sacrifice a car than a life. The front and rear of the chassis absorbed the impact as they crumpled, but the passenger compartment stayed its original shape, as did I. All in all I'm pleased with how well MAX "took one for the team."
Another lesson is defensive driving is a full time job. I was stopped, in neutral, and I'd pretty much checked out of the driving experience. I had half an eye and about twelve neurons devoted to noticing when the car in front of me started to move, but otherwise I was giving my brain a little time off. In retrospect, I think the middle of the road is a bad place to take a break, and I should have been scanning for traffic despite being parked. Maybe it wouldn't have made a difference. But then again, maybe if I'd been pumping my brakes (and thus flashing my brake lights on and off) and screaming like a little girl, maybe my assailant would have noticed me two seconds earlier and saved us both a bunch of paperwork.
Live and learn. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a car to rebuild.
Follow our progress at Kinetic Vehicles and through the MAX Updates on this blog.
Aw shucks, Eddie (blush). I'll pass your comment along with my request for a raise...oh, wait, that won't work, I'm self-employed. There are a couple more MAX articles scheduled before the PIAXP race begins (September '09), and some peeks at what the other competitors are doing.
I'd like to say that this MAX column is really a great idea, I read the first article , enjoyed it alot, now I am looking forward to the next article. I am sure lots of other subscribers will feel the same. This is gonna be a big hit with subscribers and non-subscribers. I am also reading the MAX blog, but lots of people who only get the magazine will want new MAX articles in the magazine. Please continue telling this great X-Prize story, it has everyone's attention.
Thank you Bill, MAX (now code named Lincoln's Axe) should be on the road again in a week or so. Sad but true, your advice re clamming up at the scene of the accident is sound. Our legal system is geared toward adversaries, not consensus; that's why this particular MAX Update had to wait 'till fault was determined--for example, I'd hate to have to explain (particularly to a jury of my peers) why I failed to scream like a little girl when it might have done some good. The flip side is, I believe I can best improve my skills by focusing on ways I can do better rather than ways other people can do better, and "It was all her fault" wouldn't leave me much room for personal improvement. In closing, here's a little highway safety diddy from the '50s: He was right--dead right--as he drove along, But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong
Dear Mr. McCornack, I read with great interest your article about MAX, and was sorry to hear about its untimely demise. I am glad to hear that you were unharmed, and wish you luck getting your car back in shape for the upcoming contest. Now if may give one word of advice, and this comes directly from personal experience. When you are the victim in an accident, never, under any circumstances, even intimate that you could have done something different that would have resulted in the accident being avoided. You will leave yourself open to being blamed by the other person's insurance company, who will take your statement and twist it to suit their needs, and then refuse payment, leaving you with the deductible, if not the whole bill. When you are in an accident, never give more information than is legally called for. It's safest that way. Even if the other person admits fault. I learned the hard way. Anyway, good luck, and thank you again for your articles about MAX. Bill Broughton
Thanks Warner, I'm real glad she hit me with a passenger car instead of a jacked-up pickup truck. We're going to add a few more (more?) safety features (MAX had safety features?) this time around.
Thank goodness you weren't hurt. Good luck fixing the car.
Yes indeed. We're painting the chassis this weekend and will start final assembly next week. It's an awfully simple car, it doesn't take long to build one.
Will the car be repaired in time to compete for the X prize?
Where's Eureka (I was asked off list)? It's a charming coastal town in Baja Oregon. Not to be confused with Yreka, which is exactly what our sec/treas/denmother did when she came down to fetch me. Yreka is on I-5, quite a ways from Eureka, I told her it would have been a scenic drive if night hadn't fallen but she didn't want to hear about it.


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This is usually the most feared form of alimony for a paying spouse and the most desired form of alimony for a receiving spouse. Generally, permanent periodic alimony is awarded in long-term marriages (over 17 years in duration). Some of the aspects of this type of alimony are: that payments continue until the death of either party, the remarriage of the receiving spouse or upon a court order demanding modification or termination of support. It is generally tax deductible to the paying spouse which in turn becomes taxable income for the receiving spouse.
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Murray Thompson murder: Cannabis gardener guilty
A man has been found guilty of murdering a fellow cannabis factory "gardener" whose body has never been found.
After a trial at St Albans Crown Court, James Evans, 23, of Watford, was convicted of killing Murray Thompson, 34, who disappeared in April 2010.
Lee Sullivan, 47, of Watford, was convicted of perverting the course of justice and three counts of intimidating a witness.
The men will be sentenced on Friday.
Sullivan was cleared of a single count of intimidation.
Mr Thompson was a courier for a Hemel Hempstead firm and lived with his Zimbabwean girlfriend Rachel McDowell in St Peter's Street, St Albans.
He also worked as a gardener at a Watford cannabis factory.
He was last seen on the afternoon of 20 April 2010 parking his van near a flat on St Albans Road in Watford, one of five used to grow potent cannabis in the town.
Blood evidence
The court heard that Evans was at the flat, and a third man may have been there as well.
Prosecutor John Price QC said: "It is not possible to state how he died because his body has not been found.
"But whatever happened to Murray Thompson to cause his death in that flat, we do know it was something which caused him to shed a great deal of blood."
The court did not hear a motive for the killing, but Mr Price said it took place against a background of "serious, organised criminal activity involving the production for commercial supply of controlled drugs".


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What would you sell your soul for?
There's always a price.
Some sell for little,
Some for much,
And some for nothing at all.
Tell me your price and I'll take it,
Give me your price and I'll buy it.
There's always a price.
Let me buy your soul,
For I'll sell you an hour.
Don't throw back your head,
Don't try to stand tall,
For I know your price.
And you can be bought.