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Feb 16, 2014 - 12:43 pm
New to this board, but unfortunately, long time "lurker" and occassional contributor to the breast cancer board, starting 6 years ago.
Being treated for BC mets to the adrenal since last April. Last scan showed hydronephrosis in kidney on other side. Ended up this week getting a nephrostomy tube. Not that hard to handle , but I was hoping to get some tips on the everyday stuff. I don't wear dresses or skirts unless I'm pushed to the wall, and since I'm now retired---no walls!
So how do you all handle the yucky plastic sticking to your leg and bobbing around in your pants leg thing? Yes, I have it pinned to my blouse/shirt, but that means I have to tuck in the top which I usually don't do. I'm not much on sewing, but could make a pouch, but how do you hold the pouch in place? Leg bands?? And will I always have to wear stretch waist pants?
I would love to hear from anyone whose dealt with all the daily "froo-froo" (always like to use the technical terms, when possible)
Feb 17, 2014 - 9:11 am
Hi J, I am sorry to hear that you have had so much to deal with. I have not seen anyone on the site recently that has a nephrostomy tube. So you may not have much imput relating to accommodating the bag. I did come across this site though http://www.URineStyles.com/, which may be of use. This is a family business, they styled these bags to help a family member who is in the same position as you. It can be worn inside or outside your clothing.If it works for you it will save you making something!
Do you have to wear this permanently or are they going to be able to remove the blockage? Hope you find something that helps, all the best:)
Djinnie x
Feb 17, 2014 - 12:46 pm
Hi Djinnie,
Thanks so much for the site info. I will check them out.
As for how long I will have this thing is anyones guess at this point. My next step is a biopsy to see what the blockage is all about---not looking forward to that one, But I've had 4 of those in the last 6 years for the breast cancer (2 recently for mets to my adrenal), so I know how "fun" any biopsy can be!
Thanks again---the fact that you haven't seen many posts about nephrostomy tubes, helps, and explains why I couldn't find much in my short hunt.
Feb 17, 2014 - 1:25 pm
Hi Jan,
I hope all goes well with the biopsy and the tube becomes redundant. I had a kidney biopsy recently, not the most comfortable experience, so I sympathize. I hope you find the bag site useful, the design is quite innovative:)
Djinnie x
Feb 17, 2014 - 2:04 pm
Jan I had a kidney biopsy done about 3 weeks ago and it was nothing. Dr wasn't sure he could do it because the colon was by it but he was able to get 2 samples. The worst part of it was having to lay in the bed for 4 hours after.
Good luck
Feb 17, 2014 - 6:05 pm
I recently heard about an acquaintance who has had 2 types of breast cancer and spent part of last summer dealing with mets to the stomach area, which has left her with a pot belly. She is wearing maternity pants with the elastic front panel along with the longer, floaty type tops. She's still able to work part-time as a CPA.
Good luck.
Feb 24, 2014 - 5:43 pm
Thanks all. It helps to hear from people who've gone through it all.
Unfortuantely, my biopsy will be to my ureter where the blockage is and possibly my bladder as they saw a thickening there--whoopee!
I've had a number of biopsies, and I can absolutely agree that there is no "fun biopsy". Have had some with soreness and pain during, and after.
Donna, I'm not into "fashionable" at this stage, only comfortable, and preferably hidden. I have had bilat. mastectomies and eventually, had reconstruction, so I know about loose clothing. I had a prosthesis for about a year until my chemo and rads were done, and I have to say, I LOVE having the new (undroopable) girls.
One of the sites I saw with a homemade bag holder was actually over the shoulder. I think it was made more for someone with a larger bedside sized bag (and probably a male). Mine is a small leg bag, and I already carry an over the shoulder purse, so I'm in danger of running out of shoulders!
Thanks to everyone for all the help,


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suprchunk (147) EffOff, Florida | January 6, 2015
The typical Spec's feel. Big store, big liquor selection. Small beer selection however, and what is up with them and not putting stuff out in singles? Nobody bothered me with questions while I was browsing, but they seemed to be eyeballing me. Prices are a bit higher than others, but that's expected. And they still have the stupid cash is less than credit crap.
Travlr (3482) Charlotte , North Carolina | April 10, 2014
This place is massive. In a strip mall, obviously, as are all places in San Antonio. Beers are on the left, mostly bombers, very few 12 ounce singles. But they did have stuff from all the nanobreweries in the area, like Five Stones, the only place I saw those beers. A must stop.
bhensonb (642) Woodland, California | September 15, 2013
Rating in absentia. My wife got me some very nice beers here. She said the bottles were nicely arranged, and that staff was eager to help when she asked about local beers. Can't get much better than that.
brewballs (7) | September 9, 2013
Excellent brews and service! Knowledgeable staff! Friendly and helpful.

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The Once and Future UN
The United Nations is not going to be transformed by the election of a new secretary general, as Barbara Crossette writes, no matter the transparency of the process ["In 2016, the UN Will Be Transformed," Jan. 11/18]. It is the other election in the autumn of this new year—the election of the president of the United States—that has that possibility. Ban Ki-moon is a noble leader, a man of decency, ideals, and judgment, but he cannot force the Security Council after four years of slaughter and anguish to place the Syrian war on its priority agenda. His predecessor, Kofi Annan, was and is a man of "dignity, confidence, courage, and compassion." He could not stop the American invasion of Iraq despite mighty efforts.
Terrorism is an international enemy against which the strongest military force in history has only limited effect. It is an enemy that can only be defeated by the universal coalition that the UN represents.
The structure is in place to allow and cause the needed transformation of the UN, whose basic mission is defined in its charter as saving "succeeding generations from the scourge of war." The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The General Assembly should act now to designate 2020 as UN/75, a year to confront "the scourge of war." The intervening years could then demonstrate the possibilities of bringing peace on earth by mobilizing the public and private sectors, by organizing the new energy of social media, by recognizing the extraordinary groups that have carried the struggle for peace against the seeming inevitability of violence, and by inviting "the peoples of the United Nations," in whose name the charter was adopted, to find their voice in supporting what has to be done. If the new president of the United States and the new secretary general of the United Nations welcome and encourage such a movement, the needed transformation of the UN will be well under way.
William vanden Heuvel
Former US representative to the United Nations
new york city
Barbara Crossette was the best UN reporter, but it is not helpful to leave Nation readers without a strong reminder of the accomplishments of the world's premier multilateral institution. Yes, the UN has many deficits. But a list of what it could accomplish in this new year would have been very much appreciated.


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Late Asleha Khatun, a direct student of Begum Rokaiya of Sakhawat Memorial School, was deprived of higher education due to fundamentalism but she dreamt of providing education to girls belonging to socio-economically backward, illiterate families, underprivileged and marginalized groups. To implement her thought, she transferred her properties in Mouza Bogtui & Kalisara (including a 'mud ghar' treated as private family mosque, built on one cottah (.02 acrc) of land in Dag No. 801, Mouza Bogtui, which was later converted to a brick-built one storied mosque by her) to her only son, Justice (Retd.) Nure Alam Chowdhury, a former Acting Chief Justice of High Court, Calcutta and also a Former Cabinet Minister of the Government of West Bengal, with an instruction to establish girls' colleges for providing education at minimum cost. To fulfill the dream of his mother, Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury duly constructed 2 three-storied buildings completed and 2 two-storied buildings (3rd storey not yet completed) in the said property and thus established "Asleha Girls' College" in 2009 after obtaining 'No Objection' and "approval" from the Government of West Bengal with much difficulties and requisite affiliation from the University of Burdwan, with an initial admission fee of Re. 1/- (one) only. Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury is the Donor, Founder and President of Asleha Girls' College and also many other Schools and colleges. The said College was functioning smoothly and the students were performing very well by often securing the top positions in the University examinations. In the said campus, another two educational institutions, namely "IGNOU Study Centre, New Delhi" and "Asleha Computer Centre" were also operational while a B.Ed. college was under construction by the same charitable Trust management.
Unfortunately, from the very beginning, few fundamentalists with extremists in support of the political parties, land grabbers, miscreants and anti-socials always desired for control and / or closure of Asleha Girls' College on the plea that education of girls is barred by religious tenets. In order to meet their target, these politicians, anti-socials, extremists and fundamentalists used to threaten the students, guardians and employees of the college so that they do not enter the college premises. Forcibly, they used to enter into the ladies' toilets, use the computer and other instruments of the college and hold anti-India meeting inside the college at late night. These politicians, anti-socials, extremists and fundamentalists, on the plea of offering Namaaz used to enter the college premises, pass obscene remarks and gestures, make sexual assaults, etc. to the girl students and female teachers and employees. Some of these miscreants used to even enter the said mosque in drunken condition and hold anti-Indian meetings, inside the mosque as a part of conspiracy to close the colleges and grab the entire property including the college buildings and mosque after the introduction of "IMAM & MUEZZIN" 'bhata' (allowance) without the consent of the recorded owner of the mosque.
As prevention, the girl students of Asleha Girls' College wanted to put up a brave fight and they circulated a leaflet in Bengali calling upon the guardians, students and others for holding a protest meeting on 3rd September, 2013 at 10.00 a.m. at the college premises, against these politicians, miscreants, anti-socials and those conspirators. In order to frustrate the said meeting, in which girl-students of nine other neighboring colleges of the district of Birbhum wanted to participate, another highly defamatory leaflet in Bengali was circulated, by the fundamentalists with extremists in support of the political parties, land grabbers, miscreants and anti-socials, against Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury, as a motivated and preplanned strategy for causing permanent shut down of the Asleha Girls' College and also grab the entire properties on which stood the college with its sister educational institutions "Study Centre of IGNOU New Delhi", "Asleha Computer Centre", the proposed building for B.Ed College (under construction), the said private mosque and the huts as residence of the security personnel of the college.
Justice (Retd.) Nure Alam Chowdhury is a devout Muslim and has performed Haj with his wife Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita. Dr. Mamtaz Sanghamita has also served the devouted Muslims earlier during the pilgrimage at "Jeddah", as a doctor. They religiously follow all the dictates of Islam with utmost devotion. The said mosque situated inside the college campus was built by his maternal grandfather and mother. There cannot be any conceivable reason for such a man to destroy the said mosque knowing it fully well that a "masjid" is the abode of the Great Almighty Allah. In fact, Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury dedicated the said mosque for performance of namaaz by the females attached to the college, in terms of his mother's wishes. He had constructed and renovated more than two dozen of mosques in the district of Birbhum, Murshidabad and Burdwan and has also constructed several schools and colleges in various places. Being a secular character, Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury had also renovated and constructed various temples in several places.
Sooner the President entered the college premises in midday on 1st September, 2013, Asleha Girls' College, a minority self-financed private college, first of its kind in West Bengal, affiliated to the University of Burdwan, an institution for the undergraduate studies of girls, belonging to poor illiterate Muslim, Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, OBC and physically challenged families, it was completely destroyed, looted and burnt, along with "Study Centre of IGNOU, New Delhi" and "Asleha Computer Centre" in presence of the top officials of the Administration of the District Birbhum namely the D.M., A.D.M., S.P Birbhum, S.D.O., S.D.P.O. and O/C Rampurhat and three O/Cs of the neighboring police stations namely Nalhati, Margarm and Mayureswar with their sub - ordinates and forces, who were collectively standing as mute spectators with RAF, for the reasons best known to them, ignoring and disregarding their statutory official duties. A collective criminal conspiracy amongst the protagonists of Islamic fundamentalism, Jammait-A-Ulema Hind, who believe educating Muslim girls is against Islam, the Ruling Political Party in West Bengal, the District office at Suri and Bolpur and the local office at Rampurhat within 200 yards of the college complex, local police and the high police officers of the district, forcible land-grabbers, occupiers, and even the local municipality Panchayet etc. were the main force behind this most uncivilized, unimaginable and horrible destruction of Asleha Girls' College, "Study Centre of IGNOU, New Delhi" , "Asleha Computer Centre" and the "Girls' Hostel" (under construction) with minority scheme and detaining the Donor, Founder, President in a room.
By spreading false rumours, propaganda and distributing defamatory leaflets stating that Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury, Founder of Asleha Girls' College and also a Hon'ble cabinet Minister of the Govt. of West Bengal at that relevant time, would destroy the mosque, which stands near the main college building, and taking advantage of the religious sentiments of the illiterate and poor masses, the said conspirators were successful in looting, burning and shutting down the Asleha Girls' College with loss worth several crores of rupees . Hundreds of people at the time of noon on 01-09-2013 armed with lathis, iron rods, crowbar, bombs, etc. started to destroy the college buildings; looting books, computers, laboratory equipments, the wooden doors, windows, tools, desks, almirahs, etc.; burning vehicles, furniture, library, all relevant official records of the students, teachers, staff, etc., stealing cash from the iron-safe kept in the cash-room for the payment of remuneration of the teachers and employees, construction of girls' hostel, B.Ed. College and meeting other necessary expenses for development of the college. A crane was used for breaking and removing the main entrance Strong Iron Gate with other Gates of different Buildings of the said College. Personnel of the pilot car, PSO and EA, who were with Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury, were brutally assaulted. The Minister himself a Former Acting Chief Justice , Calcutta High Court was not spared from assault and attempts were made for killing him and burnt alive. He, being a 73 years old Blood pressure and heart patient was confined and detained with fearful and threatening surroundings for more than 8 hours without food, water and medicine. The National Highway and all approach roads to the College were blocked and fire brigade and ambulance were also prevented from entering at the time when continuous looting, ransacking and setting the college properties and Building on fire were going on in presence of police force and Administration allowing the Muslims to fight against Muslims with carefully well planned conspiracy, while the real conspirators remained in ambush at Rampurhat, Bolpur, Suri and Kolkata to avoid any focus of the colour of communalism behind the occurence.
The top officials of the Administration of the Sub- division and District Birbhum appearing active initially turned into mere spectators of all those incidents shortly and did not provide any resistance and prevention, for the reasons best known to them. Minister's personal and college car was set ablaze and dumped in the pond inside the College Compound. Attempts were made in the evening to obtain Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury's signature on stamp papers for transferring his entire property including the said college and the said mosque to an unknown entity, "Masjid Committee" and also on a pre-written letter of his resignation from the post of a cabinet Minister of the Govt. of West Bengal through the S.D.O. Rampurhat A.D.M. Birbhum along with others , with a threat of loss of his life in case of refusal to oblige them. All those incidents happened amidst outcry and slogans in high pitch (Nara-E-Taqbir, Allahu Akbar, Bandemataram, Inquilab Zindabad) with the demand of handing over Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury to the mob, for executing the evil desires of divesting Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury of his aforesaid properties and the Ministry and of killing him as expressed from loud utterances of some persons claiming to be leaders of the Ruling and other Political Party also claiming that they received order from Higher Authorities for what to do and declaring their presence among the mob with minors and rustic women at the vanguard. Building materials stocked of several lakh of Rupees for the completion of the incomplete Girls' Hostel with aid of minority Department and College, were also looted. In spite of the police guards in college premises and the property, looting continued for four consecutive subsequent days, with full knowledge of the concerned Administration. Unfortunately, the elected representatives of the Parliament, State Assembly, Municipality and Panchayat, all belonging to the Ruling Political Party, being well versed with the incidents though some of their residences and offices are within 200-500 yards away from the place of occurence have not yet come forward to help and undo the wrongs and support a cause for the upliftment of women and education and re-opening of the said minority institution.
Three F.I.R.s related to the said incident with names of some of the accused were lodged and like the fate of other earlier F.I.R.s no investigation appears to have commenced thereto till now. Injunction and Orders of the Civil Court has been violated, Order u/s 144 of Cr. P.C. and Order of the Barshal Gram Panchayat were also violated without any respect to laws and Court order by the land grabbers and fundamentalists who have encroached upon the land and made illegal and unauthorized construction therein with Building material of the college. These miscreants have been given shelter by high level politicians, political parties, fundamentalists, extremists, government officials and antisocial groups who are also involved in this heinous crime.
Declaration of "Imam and Muezzin bhata" lured and prompted the politicians, fundamentalists and extremists to jump upon the Masjid, college with its Buildings and lands belonging to others and grab it. The well planned and false propaganda for the demolition of the mosque is totally belied from the very fact that no damage in any manner to the originally recorded Masjid can be seen or even discovered till now and on the contrary the Masjid on the land of one cottah belonging to private individual has been expanded forcibly and illegally as above to cover about 3 cottahs of college land in violation of the specific dictates of Islam that no Namaj can be performed in a Masjid forcibly occupied and extended constructed on forcibly occupied land and thus the propaganda over loud speaker that "Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury had come to demolish the Masjid" was only cleverly planned ploy for destruction of all the buildings of Asleha Girls' College complex by tickling the sensitive religious fanatism of the poor illiterate Muslims, ignorant of the dictates of Islam.
It has been prayed in writing to all the concerned authorities including university and Government for the restoration, continuance and reopening of Asleha Girls' College, Rampurhat with all facilities available earlier along with the safety and security of the students, teachers and staff from fundamentalists, selfish politicians etc., expeditious trial and punishment of the offenders mentioned in the F.I.R.s along with others and use of the mosque for exclusive use of females attached to the Asleha Girls' College campus but there has been no response to the said prayers.
It is most unfortunate that discrimination of Muslim girls is apparent from the facts that there has been wide-spread media coverage in respect of damage caused to 'Christ Church School' (a Christian Organization) and 'Belur Ramkrishna Mission Technical College' (a Hindu Organization) but no media coverage, investigation or action was taken by the administration for the vandalism and looting of Asleha Girls College, a minority teaching institution, for five days. There has been no call from any quarter for restroration and declaration of compensation for damages to properties, person and reputation worth about rupees thirty crores.
It has been prayed in writing to all the concerned authorities including university and Government for the restoration, continuance and reopening of Asleha Girls' College, Rampurhat with all facilities available earlier along with the safety and security of the students, teachers and staff from fundamentalists, selfish politicians etc., expeditious trial and punishment of the offenders mentioned in the F.I.R.s along with other and use of the mosque for exclusive use of females attached to the Asleha Girls' College campus but there has been no response to the said prayers.
Presently the college buildings stand deserted and empty with the walls only standing bare like naked skeleton. The concealed electrical wiring and other stuff from inside the buildings have been stolen and the looting of the remaining articles have been still continuing in presence of the police and other security personnel posted therein and the entire college complex is under the control of the fundamentalists, land grabbers and anti-socials elements and they are not allowing anybody to enter into the said college complex. In fact, they have also burnt the forms and official records of the college, students and the University of Burdwan. The Police and Administration of the Government of West Bengal appears to have surrendered before the wrongdoers. Attempts are on for illegal transfer of title and ownership of the property, with the assistance of a few government officials. Once a beautiful and reputed minority institution has now become a field for cattle grazing, a heaven for drug peddlers and a joint for prostitution and squatters.
As there are no chair, table, desk, tools, books, blackborads or anything to continue classes in the empty skeleton buildings of the Asleha Girls' College, it is not possible to continue any classes there but all are grateful to the Management of the college for arranging classes temporarily at Nalhati, so that the education is not hampered in any manner. IGNOU Study Centre and Asleha Computer Centre have also been temporarily shifted to Nalhati ,Birbhum. In fact, the miscreants under the guidance of some high level politicians, political parties, fundamentalists, extremists, government officials and antisocial groups also made an attempt on 2nd September, 2013 to destroy and illegally takeover the Sofia Girls' College, Nalhati, Birbhum a sister concern as well. But due to brave effort and resistance from the OC of Nalhati Police Station, at that point of time, the said attempt of the miscreants did not materialize and a belated F.I.R was lodged at the Nalhati P.S. The wrongdoers are still trying their best to repeat the act of destruction and illegally takeover Sofia Girls' College. The failure and non-function as well as achieve support of the Administration of the Government of West Bengal has given and is giving immense power to the wrongdoers in fulfilling all their unlawful and criminal acts.
Even though all the aforesaid incidents happened in presence of the S.D.O, Rampurhat and other abovementioned officials and knowing it fully well that almost all the articles have been looted away or destroyed by fire and there is nothing left in the empty buildings of the college, the S.D.O. sent a surprising Memo containing unauthorized and illegal order in the garb of a purported resolution, without any notice to the Secretary or authority of the College, referring to a "Masjid Committee" unknown to any legally authorized Government records and thereby transferring the right, title, interest and possession of the private Minority property of the college and mosque including the main Gate of entrance and exit to the complex to such committee, with malafide intention and ulterior motive. It is very much evident that the miscreants in aids with some politicians, political parties, land grabbers, fundamentalists, extremists and government officials were toying around with law and order, as per their own whims and fancies, to meet all their unlawful ends ignoring their statutory official duties. It is significant that the Sub-divisional officer, Rampurhat purportedly sent a late illegal ,insubordinate and unauthorised notice to justice (Retd.) Chowdhury, also then a cabinet Minister, to appear before him, a much junior officer without any authority and he acted like a judicial officer in passing unauthorized and illegal order and also like a police officer in participating with the OC in dictating a resolution violating Civil Court order and thus playing a dubious and arbitrary role in the matter of occurrence on 01.09.2013 including some Teaching Staff and employees of the college also as members of the purported Masjid committee without the knowledge and consent of the said employer.
It may be worth mentioning here that the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India and the Hon'ble Chief Minister, West Bengal in their appeal to the people clearly stated that spreading of education of women and empowerment of women are their main object and thus Government have started to implement and encourage higher education, vocational training, advancing honour as "Beti Bachao", "Beti Parao" in whole India and providing financial aid to make each girl in each family "KANYASREE" and to uplift them and thereby set West Bengal an example for the rest of our country. The entire incident was informed to the Hon'ble Chief Minister on several occasions. But unfortunately, the Hon'ble Chief Minister instructed Justice (Retd.) Chowdhury, the Donor, Founder and President of Asleha Girls' College, not to proceed with the matter without any information to her and thus no relief or effort has been made, till date, for reopening the said minority institution and to help the 'kanyas' to fulfill their dreams.
It is specifically stated that immediately after the occurrence on 1.09.2013 the authorities of Asleha Girls' College informed the details of the incidents beside His excellency The President of India and the Hon'ble Chief Minister West Bengal, all the executives of the administration, the Vice – Chancellor , Registrar , Deputy Registrar Controller of Examination Inspector in-charge of the University of Burdwan and Secretary , Director of the Higher Secondary council and the Hon'ble Minister -in- Charge, department of education but no reply has been received from anybody or any quarter and no remedy of compensation for the damage or restoration there of has been received from anybody till now as well as no action has been taken in respect of the information both oral and written.
The fate of about 1000 students (approx. 70% being Muslim girls), teachers, staff and future students became uncertain and doomed by this attack of the fundamentalists in connivance with the present Ruling Political Party in West Bengal, evil designed contested and defeated politicians, land grabbers, forcible encroachers and occupiers of land besides the members of the Jammait-A-Ulema Hind, Fundamentalists, antisocials, miscreants and mischief-mongers. It is heartening to notice however that the aforesaid happenings have not daunted the spirit and courage of girl students to continue their learning and higher education and their earnest endeavor to uplift the conditions of women with full faith and conviction that there shall be resurrection of their idea from the ruins of Asleha Girls' College which will echo beyond the limits of states, territories, countries, nations and establish all women to their rightful deserving status and position in society. The idea is inspired from the words of Swami Vivekananda "Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached".
Thus, this is an extremely painful and heart-breaking appeal to the concerned authorities for taking immediate steps against the squatters and re-opening the Asleha Girls' College, providing safety, security and protection to the girls, faculties and staff, re-installing the main gate along with other gates of the college, with damaged Boundary wall which was removed by using crane, allowing the females attached to the said college to offer Namaaz, in the private mosque inside the college premises, and punishing the abovementioned wrongdoers and miscreants for causing destruction and illegal takeover of the said college and properties due to the failure of the administration of the Government of West Bengal. The management and girls of the Asleha Girls' College, a affiliated minority self-financed private college, with zeal and thirst of acquiring knowledge are still waiting for re-opening of the said institution at the same earlier place at Rampurhat with the prayer and help of Students, Guardians, Educationists well wishers, Government and everybody.


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The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner has emerged victorious in the 2017 YASF Battle of the Books!
It wasn't ever a sure thing. You can reread some past posts and follow the book's triumphs over noble opponent Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland, and on to best esteemed competition like Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon, and If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo.
In the end, though, it was your votes that declared it our winner over We are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson.
Congratulations to Mr. Zentner and The Serpent King!
UPDATE: His response!
And thank you to all of you who voted and read along with us.
But most of all, an enormous round-of-Internet-applause for our reviewers.


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I installed a set of four Pulstar plugs on my Saturn VUE. After a few months of improved gas mileage my vehicle began having momentary bouts of lost power. After a week or so I thought to pull the plugs to have a look and found the first plug to no longer have a sparking point and was missing a significant amount of glass where the sparking point would have been. The Pulstar company replaced the plugs. A few weeks later I noticed that my oil was down, off the stick. I had never had to put oil in between changes. The oil had never even seemed to lower between changes.
With the sudden loss of so much oil I figured could only be associated with the failed plug. The plug had deteriorated quite a bit of glass and metal into the cylinder. The folks at the Pulstar company assured me their spark plug wasn't the cause of my vehicles oil loss. I inquired how to be sure of that. The Pulstar company's representative did not suggest any diagnostic.
The oil loss continues at about a quart per thousand miles.
Monetary Loss: $1000.
I feel bad for you. If an electrode or smallest piece of ceramic drops into a cylinder, it's trashed.
A single grain of sand will destroy a cylinder...think about the damage that a piece of hardened electrode will do. The more you drive, the worse it will get. Any rep. who claims no damage occurred by a piece of metal falling into your engine is blowing smoke up your ***.
A mechanic can examine the cylinder without removing the head by inserting a borescope camera down the spark plug hole.
It won't cost much and you'll be able to see and record all the damage. I'd get all the evidence and take them to small claims court for the cost of having the engine rebuilt.
If that happened to me and they refused to take responsibility, I'd spend a a few spare minutes a day for the next year posting to every car and motorcycle forum with my story and pictures.
Word will spread and any Google search will bring it up within the first few hits. I doubt they'd like that.
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This unique home is an art lovers dream. With neutral walls, open spaces and picture ledges to display your art, this house is truly a showpiece.
I never expected the interior of this home to look like it does. What a surprise!


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A Connecticut man charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a home invasion said he was sexually abused as a boy and later turned to self-mutilation and drugs, according to a report introduced Thursday at his trial.
Joshua Komisarjevsky said he was raped and burned with a cigarette by a 15-year-old foster boy his parents were caring for, according to a report by a psychologist hired by his defense. The psychologist, Dr. Leo Shea, testified Wednesday that Komisarjevsky told him he was repeatedly sexually abused from the age of 4 to 6.
Komisarjevsky's defense rested Thursday, 2 1/2 weeks after the start of the trial. Closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday.
He faces a possible death sentence if convicted of the 2007 attack in which he and Steven Hayes were charged with breaking into the Cheshire house, beating Dr. William Petit with a bat, tying him and his family up, dousing the house in gas and leaving his two daughters to die in a fire.
Hayes was sentenced to death last year after he was convicted of raping and strangling Petit's wife, Jennifer Hawke Petit, and killing the girls. Komisarjevsky is also charged with sexually abusing Petit's 11-year-old daughter Michaela.
Dr. Petit managed to escape to a neighbor's house to get help.
Defense attorneys called the psychologist in an effort to bolster their argument that Komisarjevsky suffers from "cognitive difficulties" that make him unable to make quick decisions in stressful situations. Komisarjevsky blamed Hayes for the killings in an audiotaped confession but could not explain why he did not untie the girls.
Komisarjevsky, who referred to the abuse as "my earliest memories," said in the report his parents eventually tried to get him help through the church and "got the elders to put their hands on me, to cast out sin, to heal me. I was so scared and felt smothered. I felt desperate to get out of that circle of people."
Komisarjevsky said he was taught Bible studies at home and "to exorcise the demons within." He said he was seen by pastors and church counselors to help him deal with his perceived sinful nature.
"My entire childhood was part church and part reason," Komisarjevsky is quoted as saying.
He said he worked as a lighting technician for The Continentals as the religious band toured the United States and Europe. He continued in musicals and dramatizations of Bible stories, according to the report.
Komisarjevsky, who was adopted at birth and later home-schooled, said at around age 9 he began wandering in the woods and monitoring others' houses out of curiosity. He said it was exhilarating and frightening and led to more risk-taking behavior.
Komisarjevsky, 31, was a paroled burglar at the time of the Cheshire crime and had been convicted of numerous nighttime home invasions.
He said he began self-mutilation at age 13, and carved the word "hate" into his arm as a teen.
"I hated everything about my life," he said. "I had been abused and wanted others to know what it was like to hurt, to lose something. I had so much pain inside and cutting was a way to get at it."
Komisarjevsky said he abused drugs daily when he was 20 to 21, including injecting crystal methamphetamine.
His history of sexual and drug abuse and concussions increased the likelihood of criminal activity, Shea testified Thursday. He said such a history does not mean someone will automatically turn to crime, but makes them more predisposed to criminal behavior.
Under cross-examination, Shea acknowledged sexual abuse of children is common.
"It does not necessarily lead to criminal behavior, I would agree with that," Shea said.
Shea said Komisarjevsky has a narcissistic belief in how smart he is.
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Single-minded and dutifully on a mission, Leah Shmist is sitting at her mother's kitchen table in Ashdod, sorting through a box of papers. Her father, Dr. Aharon Arkady Shmist, was among the first Jewish lay leaders in Ukraine who began to rebuild the Jewish community as soon as Mikhail Gorbachev initiated Perestroika and Glasnost in the mid 1980's – allowing for greater freedom to religious groups. Much has been written about Shmist, documenting his work as a Jewish lay leader, and now his daughter Leah says she wants to complete the last project he was in the middle of before his untimely death.
Shmist grew up in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine's third-largest city with a population of one million people. It was the mecca of the former Soviet Union's space, nuclear, and arms industries and the entire city consisted of military factories. Under communist rule, Dnepropetrovsk was a "closed city," where no one was given visas to travel abroad, and no tourists were allowed to visit. The Jewish community was largely isolated and by the 1980's, other than a few individuals who traveled to Moscow and Kiev where there were active shuls and where tourists could visit and smuggle books, very few of Dnepropetrovsk's 50,000 Jews openly identified as Jews.
Despite the newly relaxed restraints, government tolerance had yet to be tested when Shmist decided to organize a Purim party for all the Jews in the city. Since Shmist could not publicize the party in a newspaper, he came up with a plan to send his young daughter, and other youngsters who began showing up at the city's only shul, to the factory buildings to sell tickets for a Purim carnival. With the ticket proceeds, he rented circus grounds and hired actors. Meanwhile, at home, his wife, Dr. Bella Shmist, worked around the clock baking hamantaschen. Leah says, "We baked close to 1,200 hamantaschen and even though each person at the Purim party received a package with just one hamantasch, there wasn't enough because 2,000 Jewish people showed up."
Emboldened by the success of the Purim party, which most doubted at first would draw any interest, Shmist wanted to maintain the sudden enthusiasm for Jewish celebration. Although Shmist kept his own goats to assure he had kosher milk, he knew the community needed a rabbi, a leader who could build the necessary framework to sustain religious life. He lobbied Chabad to send a shliach to Dnepropetrovsk, the same city where the Lubavitcher Rebbe grew up, whereupon Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky took on the mantle of leadership in 1990.
Rabbi Kaminetsky, the Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk who has successfully just completed building the largest Jewish Community Center in the world at the cost of $66 million, downplays his own role in the success of Jewish revival in Dnepropetrovsk. Instead, he says his work is an expansion on the groundwork laid by Shmist, whom he refers to endearingly as Arkady. "When I first arrived to Dnepropetrovsk, Arkady was waiting to greet me at the train station and he was unmistakable with his long beard and clothing," Rabbi Kaminetsky says. "Not only did he look like a yid from Ukraine 300 years ago, but he didn't belong to our generation. He was like a person from the times of the Baal Shem Tov, totally selfless, and only concerned about Jewish life and Jewish people."
On the anniversary of the mass killing in Dnepropetrovsk in 1941, when 13,000 Jews were rounded up at the center of town and marched through the city to a mass grave where they were all shot, Shmist began leading an annual procession of Jews through the city, all holding candles and Israeli flags, as they marched to the murder site. "Most people in his generation didn't even know it happened, and certainly didn't know where," Leah says. "Some thought this march was a bit radical, but over the years many non-Jews join and march in this annual procession, too."


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This 2-day course will focus on the most common and important agreements used in the international upstream petroleum industry. It covers agreements with resource holders, agreements between co-venturers, agreements with suppliers, and agreements for the transportation and sale of production. It gives an overview of these various agreements, and identifies the really important issues raised by each of them. It will be of interest to upstream commercial and technical professionals and managers who are involved in the negotiation and implementation of upstream agreements. A complete set of course materials and lunches are included.
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Imagine living in these surroundings: No Summerlin Parkway, no Anasazi Drive, no Suncoast, no JW Marriott, no Summerlin Library, no Summerlin post office and no Summerlin Hospital. No Smith's. In fact, no shopping centers at the corner of Lake Mead and Rampart boulevards.
In addition, Rampart Boulevard was a narrow side street that went almost nowhere. But it did provide the only entrance to Sun City Summerlin, by way of Lake Mead Boulevard. That's where the first homes were being built in the senior retirement community.
And you had to take U.S. Highway 95 to the Lake Mead Boulevard exit to get to Sun City. There were no traffic lights on Lake Mead Boulevard between U.S. 95 and Rampart Boulevard. That's because there was no traffic. Lake Mead Boulevard consisted of only two narrow lanes. Some of it was still only dirt and cinders.
You wanted to play the slots or a little blackjack? It was either driving east along Lake Mead Boulevard to one of the new casinos at Texas Station and Fiesta Rancho or driving U.S. 95 back to downtown or the Strip.
And that's the way it was 25 years ago. Whether or not they were the good old days depends on your thinking or whether you were one of the first resident families of Sun City among the more than 25 originals who still dwell in the age-restricted community. If you were one of those pioneers, then you also remember having to trudge in mud due to the ongoing construction of streets, sidewalks and other infrastructure.
Golf courses? Swimming pools? Community centers? Restaurants? They were still only blueprints. A phone call to the Sun City Security Patrol if you needed help? There was no security patrol at that time.
Indeed, it will all be recalled by some — perhaps with a degree of nostalgia — and rededicated by others, including the high command at Las Vegas City Hall, starting Oct. 1, when Sun City begins the celebration of its 25th anniversary.
Today Sun City Summerlin measures among one of the 10 largest population centers in Nevada, some 2,400 acres that is home to more than 14,000 residents living in close to 7,800 individual housing units.
It's a playland for seniors that grew out of a vision first laid down by Del E. Webb, a land developer with an extraordinary penchant for how to make a buck. He was an old pal and sometimes casino competitor of Howard Hughes, that grand old recluse who possessed an equally extraordinary penchant for how to make a buck. Together, the two entrepreneurs made Sun City Summerlin possible.
Hughes had purchased 25,000 acres from the federal government in the early 1950s for less than $3 an acre. The tract eventually became known as Summerlin, which was the maiden name of Hughes' grandmother. In later years Hughes' company generated cash flow for development by selling off parcels of Summerlin, which is how Del Webb entered the picture.
Webb was the majority owner of the New York Yankees baseball team from 1945-64. It was during the Yankees' dominance of the baseball world in the 1950s that I first met Webb during one of the team's World Series victory parties. I was a neophyte sports writer at the time. We talked briefly. I was impressed by the man's demure attitude. But that's a story for another day.
More to the point, and how Webb provided the template for senior living in the sunny climes: It began with a "risk" that his company undertook in the late 1940s to build 600 retirement homes and a shopping center in Tucson, Ariz. But the "risk" was a laugher. According to Wikipedia, "the opening weekend drew 100,000 people, 10 times more than expected, and resulted in a Time Magazine cover story."
Next came Sun City Arizona, outside of Phoenix. Then, on to Summerlin. The first time Fran and I drove off of Lake Mead Boulevard, onto Del Webb Boulevard, and witnessed Palm Valley Golf Course on both sides of the street, we were in awe. It was love at first sight.
Unfortunately, neither Del Webb nor Howard Hughes lived to see Sun City Summerlin.
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Director's Notebook: David Gordon Green on Creating His Favorite Scene In 'Joe'
In this monthly column we spotlight new Blu-ray/DVD releases by interviewing directors about the scenes that stood out most for them while making their movies. This month, we talk to David Gordon Green about his Nicolas Cage-starring dark drama Joe (out today on DVD/Blu-ray).
The last few years have been filled with highs and lows for David Gordon Green. He directed episodes and was a consulting producer for the cult hit series Eastbound & Down but also felt the sting of back-to-back studio comedy flops, Your Highness and The Sitter. Thankfully the return to his indie-film roots with the oddball comedy Prince Avalanche and the dreamlike character study Joe showed Green still has it. Especially the latter, as Joe is Green at his best. A gritty drama adapted from the novel of the same name by Larry Brown, Nicolas Cage plays the title character, a bearded gruff ex-con who tries every day to keep his head low and out of trouble. But when 15-year-old Gary Jones (Tye Sheridan) needs his help that's when we see the real Joe, a crazed madman that the cops are even scared of.
Green and Cage show what is really behind Joe's dark eyes in a haunting, highly improvised montage in the middle of the film where Joe in voiceover explains why sticking his neck out for the kid may do more harm than good.
Here Green took some time out to break down the scene and explains its unorthodox origin.
"The Exploration of Nic"
"In the two-minute montage with voiceover and music I'm trying to capture a 400-page novel. [The scene is] literally excerpts from the book that I wanted to make sure to get in. Subtext of character, things like that, I was trying to find an intelligent, nonpretentious, nonexpositional way to give insight to Joe and his internal struggle. We've seen his frustration with the law and his inner turmoil with this kid's father. Now he deals with his own sense of justice and morality, so a lot of it is subtext and a moment of pause in the film. It's a reflection with Joe.
"We ended up playing with a nonlinear editing style when we did it. We sat Nic down at the dining room table and a lot of it was [excerpts from] Larry and we also had Nic improvise. We would just have a camera on a dolly rocking back and forth and filmed 10-minute takes of Joe basically discussing his demons. One of the things that I found exciting about this character and this project was the exploration of Nic, on how to really embody somebody that has that struggle. A guy who considers himself a decent man but doesn't quite know how to fit into what culture expects of him or what he expects of himself. At one point previous to that scene Joe says, 'You know how I get, I can't get my hands dirty with every little thing.' Because I think Joe is scared of himself and he's scared of what the world thinks of him. Later in the film the sheriff says, 'Why do you want to go back to the penitentiary so bad?' This alludes to the fact that Joe might have to be protected from himself, or thinks he needs to be protected from himself.
Typically when I do a montage I rarely conceive it. I take images that are excerpts from scenes that end up on the editing-room floor or some B roll that when we are waiting for the rest of the crew or actors to show up that day we kind of shoot some beauty shots, but with this we really designed all of these as elements of production. Everything from Joe paying his crew and adding weird elements like Gary putting the money in his shoe or the spirit of the work crew, one of the guys dancing in the background. These are things that I think help illustrate Joe's world, meanwhile we hear him talking about his struggle looking at a guy who is almost seeing into the world of Gary Jones. Its almost like he has this spiritual connection, which we established earlier when he's in the woods and Joe can sense Gary around him. Then in this montage we see flashes of Gary in his home life sitting in the kitchen with his mother and his sister, just little images that shows Joe connected to this kid.
"Things That Trigger"
"Nic came out a month early to Austin, Texas where we filmed, and I just started interviewing him in character. My sound guy came out and I have a little house behind my house, it's kind of a workshop office, and we would sit and talk about Joe and I would interview Nic as Joe. And through those dialogues and through that creative process I learned a lot about Joe and the Joe that Nic was creating. We took that dialogue and infused that into the narrative and into the screenplay. So what you see in the scene is a blend somewhat of excerpts from Larry Brown's book, that weren't in the original screenplay, and then a good bit of it is Nic's voice being interviewed by me.
"I don't have everyone sit around a table for rehearsal and memorize their lines and look in the mirror and fix their hair. I say, 'Let's get to know you.' Let's go out and get a drink, let's go to locations and start to get a sense of the characters and the environment and I do a lot of interviews because I want to keep the imperfections. If I asked you questions about yourself you'd have to think about them, even though you live in your own skin all day everyday, but to verbalize it to someone: Who you are? Who you represent? What you struggle with? I find that really vulnerable and can bring a nice realistic, imperfect pattern to the character. And when you have somebody like Nic who's willing to play… I've been really fortunate to work with very playful actors that are into this kind of exploration and discovery of actors. There are a lot of directors who are way more prepared than I am, that are like, 'This is the script and you have to say these lines,' or 'Here's the composition, I storyboarded it three months ago.' I don't have any of that done. But I do know things that trigger, music that triggers something special or background of an actor's real life that can trigger something special. I get to know people in a way that I feel really fortunate that they trust me in this way to get a little weird. But part of that process is an audio, not on camera, but on audio interview.
"We Deserve to Know More About Joe"
"This is a weird movie for me because I feel like it has a very straightforward narrative, and that's rare for me. Most of my projects, everything from George Washington to Pineapple Express, I find more of my structure in the editing room but with Joe there was something that just felt very straightforward and a lot of this is Nic's technical approach to the character. He would know when to unravel a little bit here, reveal a little bit of himself there, so it just felt right after the woman living in his house poses him some morality questions and there's this kid that he has a very fatherly affection for, it felt right for that moment to do a montage.
"We actually put in some scenes earlier that gave you some of these notes, we saw an ex-wife that worked at the post office and a few others things that gave you more about Joe, and we ended up lifting those because once we got to that montage I felt that's when we deserve to know more about Joe. I didn't what to know it six minutes into the movie. There are a lot of movies that want you to know who you're watching a movie about right away, identify the character and get the exposition out of the way so then you can get onto your high concept, but with this one we could afford to revel a little bit who this guy is and what's his problem. I think at the point of the montage it felt natural to open up more. And the montage is scripted. It's in the final shooting script of the movie but it's incorporated from the elements of discovery that we had in our rehearsal process.
"I Want to Show the World of Conflict"
"The only thing we struggled with was the music for it. Finding what that tone was. Do we go emotional and sympathize with Joe? Do we go cold and calculated? And that's what we ended up doing. It's actually one of my favorite queues in the movie. But it was the only one that we went back and forth on a few times. There are these little pulses and synthetized sounds, it got pretty trippy and we also recorded sounds and slowed them down like 10,000 percent and use that as elements of music, so it ends up being a really dreamy sound.
"And then the moment where G-Daawg [Gary's father] is digging through the garbage [was a challenge]. In the script the shop owner comes out with a gun and scares him off by shooting the gun, and when we started looking at it in the context of Joe's struggle we thought that was cliché. Here's this monstrous character and here's another guy who's pissed. So instead we shot it with the cook coming out with a plate of food to give him. Because if I'm dealing with a conflicted character I want to show the world of conflict. Let's show not everyone is bad. There's a moment of humanity and G-Daawg says 'thank you.'
"This Movie Came from My Gut"
"Sometimes you make things that you anticipate great audience enthusiasm for and you love that moment of praise or success, this movie came from my gut and my heart in a way that it was kind of a creatively liberating movie that you would go with the organic tangents of opportunity. You very quickly lose design and expectations you have of yourself and you roll up your sleeves, work hard and trust your collaborators and make a f**king movie. I read an interesting quote from Seth Rogen the other day where he said, 'It's easier to make a movie than get a movie made,' which I thought was really interesting. With this movie, it was literally a phone call to a board of financiers and go make a movie and everyone goes their way. Cast an eccentric cast, there were no struggles on it. So in a world of making difficult movies or challenging movies or nontraditional films, this was a really joyous experience. It reminded me how creative and how fun the filmmaking process can be no matter how difficult the subject matter. I'm over the point of trying to design a signature fan base or certain things that will always be confusing to people. I see myself as a character director. You see these great actors that can just disappear in a role and can do comedy or a drama or a TV show or spokesperson for Velveeta, all these things, why not do that as a director as well?"
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InCyte represents a step forward into optimization from Giga Scale IC's Time Architect(R) chip estimation product. It is used during the specify and create phases of IC design to capture specification, generate estimates, quotes and perform architectural and implementation optimization.
During chip creation, design teams want to optimize key elements, including logic and analog intellectual property (IP), embedded memory and repair, I/Os, power leakage and switching activity. Managers and architects need a quick, accurate method to compare and visualize various tradeoffs in library characteristics, semiconductor process nodes, memory configurations and IP.
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Teams implementing a design perform continual tradeoff analysis. With today's EDA tools, tradeoffs are laborious, time consuming and expensive. InCyte-Create provides the ability to "seed" initial chip estimation into commercial floorplanners through LEF/DEF or custom interfaces. Designers can see how the layout is intended at the start of the project and prior to having any electronic design automation (EDA) data to implement. Register transfer level (RTL) estimation, via an optional RTL Calculator or as synthesis proceeds, can revalidate assumptions on soft IP or its implementation.
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InCyte-Specify lets architects enter a design with a ready-to-use system and experiment with design concepts in minutes because Giga Scale IC's new generic server includes models of industry average processes from 90nm to 0.35um. It provides an economical way to evaluate a chip concept and select a particular process node and available IP.
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