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ASH Daily News for 17 November 2016
- Thousands of mums-to-be are still smoking while pregnant
- Kent parents could be banned from smoking outside schools
- New research highlights risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome
- USA: Nationwide event aims to help smokers give up tobacco
- ASH/CRUK: Cutting down: The reality of budget cuts to local tobacco control
- Parliamentary Questions
Thousands of mums-to-be are still smoking while pregnant
Despite multiple warnings from the NHS and healthcare professionals over one in ten expectant mothers still smoke whilst pregnant. This equates to around 65,000 infants born to mothers who smoke.
Birmingham fairs slightly better than England's other major cities with a smoking rate among mums-to-be of 7.4%, coming second only to London which has an overall rate of 4.9%.
Overall national figures work out to mean that over 65,000 infants are born to smoking mothers each year.
Amanda Sandford from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) said: "Smoking during pregnancy reduces foetal growth and increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and cot deaths. Although there has been significant progress in reducing the rates of smoking during pregnancy it's vital that work continues to ensure that pregnant women who smoke are offered support to quit."
Source: Birmingham Mail – 16 November 2016
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Kent parents could be banned from smoking outside schools
Parents could face being prohibited from smoking outside school gates under voluntary schemes being considered by Kent County Council. The Council is in discussion with a series of schools about introducing schemes to reduce smoking outside schools.
The Council could not enforce a ban but is looking into creating signs about the effects of secondhand smoke and urging adults to adhere to the voluntary restriction.
A statement from KCC said: "We are considering the smoke-free school gates initiative in various parts of Kent identified as having higher than average smoking prevalence rates. The aim is to provide a smoke-free environment for children and their families to enjoy, help protect children from the effects of second-hand smoke, and reduce the number of children who start smoking after being influenced by those who do."
Source: Kent Online – 17 November 2016
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New research highlights risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome
Research has shown that maternal tobacco smoke exposure is strongly associated with instance of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). This research has examined whether maternal tobacco smoke exposure causes maladaptation of an infant's homeostatic control network – the network that regulates the body's response to environmental factors such as heat.
The study examined rats first in the womb and then post-natally, at both times in a low oxygen environment. The smoke-exposure group was found to have more episodes of apneas (temporary interruption of breathing), higher rate of cytokines production during an infection challenge (cytokines are small protein particles which act as messengers from the immune system), faster heart rate at warmer temperatures in rats with bacterial infection, and more inflammation-signalling proteins.
The researchers explained that in addition to the negative findings in the smoke-exposure group, "high body temperature and infection suppressed the heart rate response normally seen during low oxygen environment."
See also:
– Interactive Effects of Maternal Cigarette Smoke, Heat Stress, Hypoxia and Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on Neonatal Cardiorespiratory and Cytokine Responses, American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Source: Medical Xpress – 16 November 2016
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USA: Nationwide event aims to help smokers give up tobacco
Today, Thursday 17th November, the American Cancer Society will mark its annual: 'Great American Smokeout', a day which encourages people across the US to give up smoking.
Spokeswoman Evelyn Barella said that the event, which has been running since 1976, has helped educate Americans about the dangers of smoking and change attitudes towards the habit.
Source: Gwinnet Daily Post – 16 November 2016
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ASH/CRUK: Cutting down: The reality of budget cuts to local tobacco control
Further to yesterday's article: Budget cuts to services that help people quit smoking could have devastating impact, covering the ASH/Cancer Research UK report on the state of local tobacco control work please see below for further coverage of this item:
See also:
– Cutting down: The reality of budget cuts to local tobacco control, Cancer Research UK
– South West Stop Smoking Services under threat, Exeter Daily
– Government budget cuts 'may jeopardise smoking cessation services', Zenopa News
– Call for help as Stop Smoking Services face funding cuts, Hastings Observer
– Stop Smoking Services facing budget cut: Report, ET Healthworld
– Smoking cessation specialist nurses facing council funding cuts, Nursing Times
– Call for help as Stop Smoking Services face funding cuts, Chichester Observer
– Six out of ten councils forced to cut stop smoking services, LocalGov
– Call for help as Stop Smoking Services face funding cuts, Crawley and Horley Observer
– Quit smoking services face budget cuts, Health Business UK
– Stop Smoking services under threat due to budget cuts, On Medica
– Stop Smoking Services across England facing ongoing budget cuts, News Medical
– Stop Smoking Services Under Threat as Budgets Are Cut, Science Newsline Medicine
Parliamentary Questions
PQ1: Tobacco Control Plan
Bob Blackman Conservative, Harrow East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on developing a tobacco control strategy.
Nicola Blackwood The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
The United Kingdom is a world leader in tobacco control and the government has a proven track record in reducing harm caused by tobacco, through the introduction of standardised packaging, the display ban on tobacco in small shops, and ending smoking in cars with children.
The Government is developing a new tobacco control plan which will build on our success in reducing smoking rates to date.
Source: Hansard – 15 November 2016
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PQ2: Electronic cigarettes
Royston Smith Conservative, Southampton, Itchen
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the potential contribution to savings to NHS resources of the introduction of e-cigarettes?
Royston Smith Conservative, Southampton, Itchen
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of those who use electronic cigarettes returning to smoking tobacco?
Nicola Blackwood The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
Using electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) is likely to be considerably less harmful to health than continuing to smoke. However, we have insufficient evidence on any residual health harms associated with long term use, and the numbers of users that relapse to smoking, to make an estimate on the impact of their use on National Health Service costs.
The surveys that are undertaken often capture use at one point in time and we know that smokers often make repeated attempts to quit, using a variety of mechanisms to support them before success. E-cigarettes can help some smokers to quit for good and is currently the most popular quitting aid in England. Action for Smoking and Health data (May 2016) estimates that of the 2.8 million current users, around 1.3 million are ex-smokers, i.e. e-cigarette users who only vape. That is an increase from 2014 when around one third of users were ex-smokers.
Source: Hansard – 16 November 2016
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From Web 2.0 to School 2.0 – VermontFest 2007 Pre-Conference Workshop
Lucie deLaBruere (Northstar 2 October 31, 2007 6:00 – 9:00) –
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The potential of Web 2.0 to bring the pedagogy of John Dewey back in focus in today's educational landscape has everyone talking about School 2.0 . This hands on workshop will introduce participants to Web 2.0 tools that can support John Dewey's tradition of active, engaged, constructivist learning. Come learn how to redesign research assignments using social bookmarking tools like __del.icio.us__ , use YOU-Tube and other video sites,~ work on group projects using Wikis, publish to a global audience by blogging and podcasting, collaborate with Google Docs and Spreadsheet, and more. Examples of real teachers using Web 2.0 with their students will accompany practical hands on instructions during the workshop.

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Mr Mujica, a former guerrilla leader, spoke disparagingly of Cristina Kirchner without realising his microphone was turned on at a press conference. He also said that she was "worse" than her late husband Nestor, president before her who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2010 and had an eye condition.
"This old hag is worse than the cross-eyed man," he told Carlos Enciso, the governor of Uruguay's Florida province.
"Cross-eyes was more of a politician, she's just stubborn."
He criticised his neighbouring leader for her overtures to Pope Francis, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, who she wants to mediate over sovereignty of the Falklands.
"You're not going to go to an Argentine pope explaining him what's a map, what's mate (Argentine tea) and what's a flask."
Hector Timerman, the Argentine foreign minister, said the remarks were "unacceptable" and "denigrating," adding that they offended the memory of the deceased.
An official protest was delivered in the form of a note to Uruguay's ambassador to Argentina, Guillermo Pomi.
An hour after making his comments, Mr Mujica, 77, told a Uruguayan newspaper that he hadn't been talking about the Kirchners, and as his comments weren't public he would not be apologising.
"I'm not going to get down on my knees nor run around the world clarifying anything," he said. "They can invent all the nonsense they like."


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As 15,000 people cycled the penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2016, from Megeve to Morzine in the Etape du Tour on Sunday, the drama of the actual race was unfolding in the Pyrenees.
Going into the first rest day of the 2016 tour, we have no doubt that this break is welcomed by all the riders and especially those who have worked so hard over the past week to secure points in all the jersey competitions. From domestiques* to GC** contenders the teams of professional cyclists have certainly entertained us.
On Friday, stage seven, from L'Isle-Jourdain to Lac de Payolle saw British rider, Stephen Cummings take his second ever stage victory in the Tour de France. Riding away from his breakaway companions to take 38 seconds over the 2nd and 3rd placed riders. There was more drama for the British riders as young Adam Yates crashed when the 'flamme rouge', the large inflatable arch that signals just 1km to go (see video below). It was unwittingly disconnected by a fan who managed to catch his belt on the power cable. Sadly the timing was such that it hit Yates just as he reached it and was catapulted through the air. Luckily he sustained only minor injuries (including a cut to his chin that required stitches) and has continued to show his strength and skill in the following stages. The race was brought to a stand still as the rest of the peloton tried to negotiate their way around or through the fallen structure.
Stage eight on Saturday 9th July saw Chris Froome take the stage victory, and the yellow jersey, as he cruised home to his first ever downhill win from the top of the Col de Peyresourde. His 6th stage win at the Tour de France since 2012, he is now the leader of the race and will have to defend that position over the coming two weeks.
Yesterday was a stage filled with extremes as riders spend much of their time trying to cool themselves down in the unbearable heat of the Pyrenees, before the cycling through hail stones on the final climb of the day. Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin took his first ever Tour stage win in an incredible stage. Sadly though, GC rider, Alberto Contador abandoned the race after a failed attempt to test his strength in an attack. He climbed off his bike after battling through the first week with injuries sustained on day one.
Further fan disruption during yesterdays stage has caused plenty of chatter on social media, after a spectator was knocked down by New Zealand cyclist, George Bennett. The spectator walked out in front of Bennett on the final Arcalis climb. It was the second spectator contact incident in consecutive days. Chris Froome was fined by the UCI race jury for pushing away an over-enthusiastic fan on Saturday.
It sounds like a rest day is in order for the fans as well as the riders. Let's hope for some safer cycling when the race continues tomorrow with stage ten, Escaldes-Engordany to Revel.
*Domestiques are those riders who work hard on behalf of their team leader, fetching water, giving over a tyre during a punture, attacking with the rest of the team, or helping to keep their team leader out of trouble within the peloton.
**GC contenders - those team leaders who are in contention for the top podium spots at the end of the three weeks of racing. GC stands for General Classification.


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July 5, 2013
Lakeland, FL
William H. (Bill) Clouse, 93, of Lakeland, FL, passed away peacefully at home on July 5, 2013.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Helen; two daughters: Barbara Madrick (Steve) and Kay Van Horn (Walter), both of Florida; two stepdaughters: Beverly Kolassa (Arthur) of Arizona and Ann Marie Mc Ginnes (Mike) of Newburgh, NY; one sister, Marie Smith of Florida; two brothers: Roland of Florida and Roger of Maryland. He is survived by 11 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and many friends. He was preceded by one sister; three brothers and one stepson.
A Memorial will be held at a later date.
Donations can be sent to Compassionate Care Hospice, 2525 Drane Field Rd., Suite 4, Lakeland, FL 33811.


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1437days since Month 3 Attendance Due November 14, 2014
Charter News
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself: but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. " ~Roberta F. Kennedy
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare,Othello
Dear Families,
You have probably heard that there was vandalism on the SLVHS campus over the last week-end. Charter portables 4 and 5 were broken into and vandalized. The windows of both of our portables were broken, however it appears that they only entered Portable 5, our Math room, where they ripped open the computer cart and stole all the laptops. They also broke signs in the CRHS student garden. Dr. Bruton discovered the incident around 5 pm last Monday, when she heard that vandals had thrown various items into the high school pool.
It is very unsettling when vandalism strike so close to home. Our school is a place where we feel safe, supported, where teachers and staff devote their days to building a positive learning environment for our students. We feel offended, saddened, violated, angered, wronged with this break in. The speculative reasons for vandalism and thievery include revenge, boredom, a challenge by peers, drug involvement... really we don't need to know the exact reason. It doesn't matter for our purposes right now. Whatever the reason, what is true is that it was heartless and senseless. They stole. They knew they hurt others.
~ But our supportive learning environment is still intact!
A huge thanks to everyone who has helped clean up our rooms and garden area. We have had our wonderful district staff helping with the repairs since the night we learned of the incident. Our teachers and staff and children continue to work in their successful way together.
The police are still working with us to find out who the culprits were. Because it is under investigation, we ask you to please keep the details of the vandalism descriptive and informational only. We want to minimize any unfounded rumors. And if you know any information about this incident, please contact the Sheriff's Department.
NOTE: Due to the damage, we have moved the math classes up to the Annex until the windows can be replaced, which should be sometime early this coming week. Replacement computers have already been ordered.
And thank you again for supporting your students and holding true to the positive and unified community that is a hallmark of this district.
What's Going on in Our Charter School? ...little snippets of some of our programs.
BC Homeschool: First Play practice on Thursday, January 29th.
SLV Homeschool: The Make-o-Rama on Friday was a big success for students and by students from various Homeschool programs
Nature Academy: Volcanos in Mr. K's class, Children's book making and Yosemite preparations in Ms S and Mr. M's rooms.
CRHS: On-site classes have resumed. And their classroom phone is finally fixed (Yay!).
Nature Academy Info Night: Please join us for the Nature Academy Info Night to hear all about this wonderful program. Wednesday, March 18, 2015; 6-7 pm; MS Library.
SLVUSD Charter School Info Night: Please join us for the Charter School Info Night to hear about all of the Charter School's wonderful homeschool options. Tuesday, March 24, 2015; 6-7 pm; MS Library
Date of Charter Science Fair: Friday, Feb. 6
Date of SC County Science Fair: March 7
Join Young Author tour de force Jandy Nelson plus local YA author and teacher Annameekee Hesik for a Young Adult fiction double-header and conversation. Jandy Nelson is the author of the much beloved and critically acclaimed The Sky is Everywhere. She lives in San Francisco, CA. I'll Give You the Sun (a Bookshop staff favorite and New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Time Top Ten YA of the Year (#3), NPR Great Reads of the Year, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year) Driving Lessons is Hesik's follow-up to the first The Young Know Who Girls novel: Abbey Brooks
(Please refer to your program's newsletter for greater detail regarding dates and details specific to your program's Field Trips and class events.
February 3 & 4 - High School Exit Exam for all 10th grade students (required) and 11th and 12th graders who have not yet passed
February 6 - Homeschool Science Fair
February 9 - Holiday
February 16 - Holiday
February 27 - All Charter Skate Day
February 27 - End of Second Trimester
March 18 - SLV Charter: Nature Academy Information Night
March 24 - SLV Charter: Homeschool programs Information Night
March 30th- April 6th: Spring Break
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Growing markets
In the new campaign by WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Cisco attempts to show how its products can help businesses secure data, improve storage, save money on Internet telephone systems and use wireless communications. Cisco executives see those markets growing exponentially through 2005, with Internet phoning becoming a $2.8 billing business and security a $4.9 billion one. In the Internet phone space, Cisco has 52% market share, executives said.
"Companies need to invest in their
Dan Burrier, chief creative officer at Los Angeles-based Ogilvy, said, "We want people to rethink their notion of the network. Is it just a bunch of connections and boxes or a serious business tool? We want business to look at the net as an investment and consider what they can do. The network becomes bigger than the dot-com network."
Integrated campaign
The integrated campaign, slated to run in eight countries including the U.S. and Canada, carries the tagline "This is the power of the network. Now." Each element of the campaign begins with the word "meanwhile" and a location, starting with "meanwhile, on planet Earth" in a 60-second anthem spot that shows how the Internet connects people and improves lives and businesses around the world.
The San Jose, Calif.-based company's campaign launches today with an eight-page insert in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, San Jose Mercury and The Washington Post. In addition, commercials will run on prime-time TV programming. A second four-week flight of ads will run later this year.
The TV campaign will direct viewers to a Web site that includes return on investment calculators and case studies designed for business and technical decision-makers.
"We'll solicit their feedback and integrate it into the ongoing conversation ... and we hope many of them will turn into leads to drive our business," Cisco said in a statement announcing the campaign. Other aspects of the interactive campaign include online banner ads and one-to-one e-mailers.
War with Iraq
One concern for the marketer was that the campaign, with its "meanwhile, on planet Earth" introduction, launches at a time when the U.S. is poised to attack Iraq.
"We talked about that with Cisco," Mr. Burrier said. "But to some extent life has to go on," he said, adding the global nature of the campaign offers a "positive message. We're one Earth."


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How flea-market am I? My curved, soft welcoming 1940's design is so inviting. I've a sprung back and feather topped seat cushion that are extra deep and super soft. All handmade in England and finished in Old Boot's charismatic, worn-and-loved, specially developed Vintage Leather and I will come with my very attractive sister.
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I am a pair of Leather Club Chairs. I think we can agree on that. Now. How flea-market am I? If you'd found me yourself, if my beautiful rounded back and cello-curved arms had caught your eye, you'd have sworn I was the real 40s thing. I am a true bass-note pair of leather club chairs. Another piece can take the limelight and I will sit to one side, wearing Old Boot's wonderful, supple, authentically aged Vintage Leather and looking like I really am well over 70. And I could be! I have a proper, solid hardwood frame with a sprung seat base so you can drop onto me, but never bother me! And my back's sprung too, to keep it full and round when you settle into my arms. A seat cushion made with a solid foam core for shape, topped with a soft, duck-feather pad that's comfy as can be. And admire my piping, won't you? Beautiful leather trimming that seat cushion, my arm fascias and my front footboard. I implore you: let me be your lifelong leather club chairs.


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Helen G Events has launched the Jamaica Weddings App and its website www.jamaicanweddingvendors.com to help persons getting married in Jamaica indentify wedding vendors in Jamaica. Not only can you find wedding vendors with the app but you can access wedding deals and specials being offered by wedding vendors in Jamaica. The Jamaica Wedding Vendors app also features a review and rating system so persons can rate the Jamaican Wedding Vendors they have actually used. You also also find Jamaican Wedding Vendors on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaweddingvendors/
In addition to the Jamaica Weddings App and the Wedding Vendors Facebook page and the Jamaica Wedding Vendor website they have also launched a Wedding Channel called the Jamaica Weddings Channel www.jamaicaweddingchannel.com and on that channel they have a series called Wedding Vendor Spotlight which features Jamaica Wedding Vendors.
Never has finding wedding vendors in Jamaica been made easier. With these resources you are sure to find the Jamaica Wedding Vendors you need for your wedding in Jamaica.


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Pakistani high commissioner, Seema Ilahi Baloch expresses her thanks to SriLanka
Any common would know the relationship of its own country with the neighboring countries and its ties. India and Pakistan had never maintained their political or diplomatic relationships in a cordial way though there were/are bilateral talks and other exchange programs go by its schedule to occupy the positive column in the news about the ties between these two countries; India and Pakistan.
Even a cricket match between these two countries is seen as war in the cricket ground between India and Pakistan. How about SriLanka with India? SriLanka has its own civil issues with Eelam Tamils demanding for a peaceful country for Tamils and war crime charges against the President Mahinda Rajapakse are issues that spills over to the neighboring countries which impacts the relationships and diplomatic stand of a country in this geopolitical era.
As a common man, no one sees SriLanka and Pakistan in the same view for India. However, the fact stays far behind a common man's idea about our neighbor's relationships and ties which being a citizen everyone must know for our future generation.
Its reported that the Srilankan Navy has tortured and killed about 550 Indian fishermen (from Tamil Nadu) till date. Where does the cordial relationship exist between India and SriLanka? During an official visit to SriLanka the late Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi was attacked by a security guard in Colombo. Where exist a relationship better between these two countries? SriLanka welcomes China and Pakistan to their country extending red-carpet for their economical developments, welfare schemes, business investments and military enhancements. Yes, India too is another added country to give all these to Srilanka. Here, what is the foreign policy of India with which it has the relationship with Srilanka?
Today, Pakistani high commissioner, Seema Ilahi Baloch in her speech addressed to a Lanka-Pakistan business council in Colombo on Friday, expressed Thanks to SriLanka in helping them during the war against India in 1971.
Here is the complete report from Hindustan Times – Pak thanks Lanka for help in war against India


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Jen on 02/07/2009
Sometime in October 2008, I started to notice a series of large, red itchy bumps in various places and shrugged it off as a spider living somewhere in my room that I could not see (nor did I want to). This kept becoming more frequent so I was hoping it was possibly an allergy I wasn't aware of until I randomly woke up in the middle of the night and noticed a bed bug on my bed. I caught it and saved it in a plastic bag and after much research, I had confirmed that it was a bed bug. That night,
I texted my landlord and told him what I found and that he needed to bring an exterminator with him the next day (i had to add that because he is notorious for not fixing things/attempting and failing to fix things himself). He told me on the phone the next morning that he was licensed, came and sprayed my room and my roommates room that night, said he'd be back and has not been back since. He said he would come re-spray in a couple of weeks and spray downstairs, but the downstairs unit has been abandoned for a month and he still hasn't sprayed (he has acknowledged that he saw evidence of bedbugs down there). He claims that bed bugs only move up and down and that the neighbors across the hall don't need to be treated, which is the first sign that he is not qualified to take care of the problem. He is no longer returning phone calls about it (or any other of the many issues in our building) so needless to say, we are moving out as soon as our lease is up. I have tried to control the problem with lots of plastic bags and double sided tape but it is just a matter of time before they come back.
-apt 3F, Feb 7th, 2009
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A literal fire opens Celeste Ng's absorbing second novel. Adolescent Izzy Richardson, the rebellious youngest daughter in an otherwise seemingly well-adjusted suburban family, pours patches of gasoline on the beds of her three older siblings and outside the locked door of her parents' bedroom, and sets them ablaze.
The sharply observed novel then backtracks to reveal how things got to such a state of affairs in the well-run Richardson home, which is in the cozy suburb of Shaker Heights, outside Cleveland.
Shaker Heights, where Ng grew up, is portrayed as the ultimate planned community, a well-intentioned, liberal, wealthy hamlet established in 1912, where the many rules about, for example, the permissible colors and styles of houses are meant for the betterment and comfort of all.
Mrs. Richardson — Ng uses the formal designation throughout the novel, distancing her slightly from the reader — is more than happy with life in the suburb. Born and raised there, she returned after college to raise her kids and work at the small-town newspaper.
The well-designed life she has made is upended when peripatetic art photographer Mia Warren — Mrs. Richardson's polar opposite — moves, along with her daughter Pearl, into a rental owned by the Richardsons.
The lives of the two families soon become intertwined. The younger Richardson son, Moody, develops a crush on Pearl, but she is infatuated with the older son, Trip. Pearl is entranced with the stability and comfort of the Richardson household, while Izzy finds Mia a mother more suitable than her own. Mrs. Richardson, threatened, begins to investigate Mia's past and finds more than she expected.
Meanwhile, a drama is unfolding elsewhere in Shaker Heights that polarizes the community. A 2-month-old Chinese baby, abandoned at a fire station, is in the process of being adopted by a white couple when her mother, who works at a restaurant in town, reveals herself and asks that the child be returned to her.
Ng does her level best to be fair to both parties: The prospective adoptive mother, Mrs. McCullough, has been through a devastating series of miscarriages, and birth mother Bebe Chow, a recent immigrant, had no way to properly care for her baby.
It's clear, however, where Ng's heart lies. Mrs. McCullough often borders on the cartoonish. Asked what she is doing to connect the baby she has named Mirabelle to her culture, she replies, "She already loves the rice. Actually, it was her first solid food."
Plot-wise, "Little Fires Everywhere" is as well-constructed as Shaker Heights, with the same faint feeling of claustrophobia. Each action is balanced by a relevant counter-action.
What keeps it alive is the flexibility of Ng's narrative voice, which moves between lightly snarky social satire, distanced compassion for the characters and ambivalence about the strong bonds between mothers and daughters.


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We consider the following Maximum Budgeted Allocation(MBA) problem: Given a set of m indivisible items and n agents; each agent i is willing to pay b_ij amount of money on item j, and in addition he species the maximum amount (budget of B_i) he is willing to pay in total over all the items he receives. Goal is to allocate items to agents so as to maximize the total payment received from all the agents. The problem naturally arises as auctioneer revenue maximization in first price budget-constrained Auctions (For e.g. auctioning of TV/Radio ads by Google). Our main results are: 1) We give a 3/4-approximation algorithm for MBA improving upon the previous best of 0.632 [Anelman-Mansour, 04]. Our factor matches the integrality gap of the LP used by the previous results. 2) We prove it is NP-hard to approximate MBA to any factor better than 15/16, previously only NP-hardness was known. Our result also implies NP-hardness of approximating maximum submodular welfare with demand oracle to a factor better than 15/16, improving upon the best known hardness of 275/276 [Feige-Vondrak, 07]. Our hardness techniques can be modified to prove that it is NP-hard to approximate the Generalized Assignment Problem (GAP) to any factor better than 10/11. This improves upon the 422/423 hardness of [Chekuri-Kumar, 04]. We use iterative rounding on a natural LP relaxation of MBA to obtain the 3/4-approximation. Recently iterative rounding has achieved considerable success in designing approximation algorithms. However, these successes have been limited to minimization problems, and as per our knowledge, this work is the first iterative rounding based approximation algorithm for a natural maximization problem. We also give a (3/4 - \epsilon)-factor algorithm based on the primal-dual schema which runs in O(nm) time, for any constant \epsilon > 0. In this talk, I will present the iterative rounding based algorithm, show the hardness reductions, and put forward some directions which can help in solving the natural open question of closing the approximation gap. Joint work with Deeparnab Chakrabarty.


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If you've been waiting for the Nexus One to hit Verizon, you can stop waiting. The HTC Droid will take the place of the Nexus One on the Verizon network, Google announced via a blog post Monday. It's supposed to support better multi-touch sensors, so, win? Perhaps given the customer service issues that arose after the initial Nexus One launch – they didn't even offer any phone support at first – Google decided it would be better to get out of the retail business. [Google via PhoneScoop]
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You know you don't have to stop loving her, you just have to move forward. If you quit associating the two then you will see the future. I know that sounds complicated but here is the long version:
Just because you fall in love with someone and marry them, and it doesn't work out, doesnt mean you have to stop loving them. As we all know there are different forms of love and you should always keep as much love in you as you can (it helps with depresion). Moving forward in your life, be it alone or with someone else is not a bad thing (moving forward and seeing a progression of you life will also help minimize your depression).
The best thing anyone an do for themselves is grab a pen and a piece of paper, make two colums, one for GOOD and one for BAD. Fill the colums with the things in your life that are good and bad, include everything. Then walk away. When you think things are so awful look at that list and see what can be moved to the opposite colum and you will see that sometimes the things we get depressed over are the mole hills that we have made into mountains.
Everyone is depressed in some way. It's how you see your life and how you approach the problems. You all might be saying , yeah its easy for her to say, but the reality is we are all screwed up. My son died 10 months ago, and he was only 19. This was my only son, and all i have left is my daughter. I lost 5 months of my life because of his death and my depression. One day I woke up and looked at myself in the mirror and thought " what in the heck am I doing?" I have my daughter (GOOD) my husband (GOOD -even though he is my second husband) my house (GOOD) the rest of my family (GOOD) and the list went on and on and on. Then I looked at the BAD and I saw, my son's death, but the GOOD part is at least I had 19 years with him, at least I know what he did for those 19 years and then all the GOOD he did in that short 19 years. Oh My GOD!!! I have to move forward...and I did, I got a new job, I fought the depression and made an effort to make GOOD and ignore BAD.
The key, as hard as it is and as much as we dont want to, we have to MAKE AN EFFORT.....
Nate, what you are feeling is NORMAL, but dont stop living, dont stop being yourself, its OK to move forward and its ok to be happy and its OK to remember all the great/fun times you had with your ex, but MOVE FORWARD, its only one step at a time.


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Wichita Wild defensive back Kendrick Harper intercepted a pass from Allen quarterback David Knighton in the end zone as time was running out to seal the Wild's 43-40 win over the Wranglers in the Intense Conference semifinals on Monday in Allen, Texas.
The Wild improved to 9-6 with the victory and advanced to play the top-seeded Tri-Cities Fever (13-2) in the conference championship on Friday at Kennewick, Wash.
After a touchdown and two-point conversion from Allen tied the score at 40-40 with 58 seconds left to play.
Wichita got the ball back and kicker James Chandler nailed a 52-yard field goal with 19 seconds left that would prove to be the game-winner.
Wichita running back and Butler Community College product Tywon Hubbard had a big day, rushing for 129 yards and one touchdown. Wild quarterback Marcus Jackson was 13-for-18 passing for 129 yards and one touchdown.


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Surf World Cup Sylt 2008 Registration Day
The long wait is almost over, as the athletes of the PWA World Tour sign up for the forthcoming nine days on Sylts Westerland beach for the start of the 25th annual Sylt Super Grand Slam.
With a whole day set aside for registration, rigging and general preparation, it's been a fairly relaxed opening day for the sailors and spectators alike.
However, the casual ambiance is to be short lived, as the event swings into full-on competition mode tomorrow. A promising forecast combined with the huge weekend crowds, means proceedings are to set to start with a bang.
The first shock to proceedings is the news that German freestyler, Normen Günzlein (JP, NeilPryde) has suffered an unfortunate injury while training in the Baltic Sea. Günzlein, who came seventh in the last freestyle event in Fuerteventura, is reported to have broken his jaw after a collision with another sailor. The injury requires Günzlein to have an operation before he'll be fit to windsurf again; we wish him the best of luck with his recovery.
On a more positive note, top slalom racer Micah Buzianis (JP, NeilPryde, MFC) is making a solid recovery after breaking his leg racing in Fuerteventura. Buzianis will be back on his board and training for the 2009 season in the near future. In the meantime, he's made the surprise decision to come to Sylt and share his wealth of windsurf knowledge with the crowds, as he takes up the roll of assistant event commentator.
Over the course of the afternoon we chatted to some of the riders and crew about the days that lie ahead, here's what they had to say.
Head wave/freestyle judge, Duncan Coombs.
funsporting: From your experience, what can we expect the weather to deliver over the coming days?
DC: "Sylt's just so unpredictable, but I'd say we'll definitely get to do all three disciplines. With waves it's sometimes a hard call, but there's plenty of low pressures stacked up ready to deliver some classic Sylt conditions….Hopefully this year we'll be able to run a full double, we'll just have to wait and see. It's all about contrast here, expect anything from 7-70 knots!"
Slalom/Wave competitor Matt Pearch (Mistral, North).
funsporting: Is it hard to compete at an event where the conditions are so variable?
MP:"Yeah, it's really tough. You're constantly on hold, then the wind might pick up and you have to start racing, and all of a sudden it might die back down to nothing. It's especially hard as I'm competing in waves as well, so I have to try and stay focused on both disciplines. You never get a day off, as regardless of the forecast there's always a possibility of competing"
PWA Veteran and part owner of MauiSails, Phil McGain.
funsporting: After a two-year absence from competition, is your return to compete at Sylt in part to help promote MauiSails, or are you motivated by racing alone?
PM: I'm here for both. I want to promote MauiSails, and have a chance to test the products out on the race course so I can get a feel for where we're at. But also, once you've raced, that bug never goes away, I'm definitely here to do the best I can, and I'd like to try and make the top ten"
Following the events much hyped opening ceremony this evening, the sailors will be down on the beach and ready for competition at tomorrow's skippers meeting, scheduled for 10.30am.
Surf Worldcup Sylt: Day 1
Nine heats down in the first slalom race, and theres already plenty to talk about from day one in Sylt. Following a typically high profile Sylt opening ceremony the previous day, all the PWA fleets were rigged ready to compete in whatever day one threw at them.
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Tests of samples stored by a company called Freeza Meats in Northern Ireland contained 80%t horse, the Food Standards Agency said.
It said the discovery was "potentially linked" to the Silvercrest Foods factory in the Irish Republic where horse DNA was found in beef burgers.
Tests have suggested that the contamination at Silvercrest – which led to the removal of 10 million burgers from Irish and British shops last month - came from a meat supplier in Poland.
In a statement released at 10pm on Monday night, the FSA said of the tests at Freeza Meats: "Of the 12 samples from the suspect consignment that have been tested, two of the samples came back positive for horse meat, at around 80 per cent.
"The investigation into the traceability of these raw materials and their source is under way. As this meat was detained, it has not entered the food chain."
Freeza meats said it was storing the meat for a meat trader based in the Irish Republic, adding: "This raw material was not purchased by Freeza Meats and never reached the food chain through this company."
The 80 per cent level of contamination is the highest found in the ongoing investigations into the presence of unlabelled horse DNA in the Irish meat trade.
In the latest reverberation of the scandal, which emerged last month, Rangeland Foods in Co Monaghan has been shut down after one sample of raw ingredient was discovered to contain 75 per cent horse DNA.
Rangeland Foods supplies burgers to the Irish fast food chain Supermac's. Supermac's chief executive Pat McDonagh insisted that all his burgers were 100 per cent Irish.
Professor Alan Reilly, whose research at the Food Safety Authority of Ireland first exposed the contamination of processed beef burgers, said: "We are no longer talking about trace amounts... We are talking about horse meat.
"Somebody, some place is drip-feeding horsemeat into the burger manufacturing industry. We don't know exactly where this is happening."
Ireland's fraud squad has been called in to help the investigation.
source: www.independent.co.uk
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Shaking down the Tigers-A's series
Random thoughts in honour of the late, great Jim (Shaky) Hunt from Games 3 and 4 of the Oakland Athletics-Detroit Tigers Division Series:
— Miguel Cabrera looks like he's auditioning for a role in the Walking Dead.
The Tigers third baseman and the fulcrum in their lineup, the guy who is supposed to initiate the most fear in their batting order is so immobilized by hamstring problems that he can hardly move. Watching Cabrera in Tuesday's game was painful.
Any time he had to move at third to make a play, even the routine ones, Cabrera seemed to be feeling a lot of pain. He was wincing on the field and when moving back to his position he was walking/shuffling/limping along like Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy.
At the plate, Cabrera is no longer a force to be reckoned with. He has no legs under him to drive the ball leaving just his arms to generate power. Without his legs there is no oomph in his swing, which gives him, at best, warning-track power.
Right now he is strictly a singles hitter.
On the bases, the Tigers need three hits to score him.
He is playing on sheer guts, heart and desire and for that you have to give him his due.
But in no way is that the real Miguel Cabrera in the lineup.
Just a thought, but I wonder why the A's don't drop a few bunts his way to take advantage of his immobility? I know it might be considered bad form, but do you want to win or what?
— The hitting hero for the Tigers the past two days has been Jhonny Peralta.
In Game 3 he hit a two-run single in a Tigers' loss and on Tuesday in Game 4, it was his three-run homer in the fifth inning that tied the game 3-3 and set the Tigers on their way.
Peralta, of course, is one of the players that were caught in the Biogenesis doping scandal, received a 50-game suspension and returned to the team in the final week of the regular season.
When he started in left field on Monday, he received a mildly enthusiastic response from the fans. When he stroked the two-run single, they went crazy.
On Tuesday, the fans went nuts when he tied the game with his blast.
So, what to make of drug cheats who return to the scene of the crime?
It seems fans don't know what to do — cheer them or turn their backs and shun them.
By the reaction of the fans at Comerica Park, it seems that if you come through with three-run home runs, they love you and it's live and let live. No baggage.
He may be a no good cheating bum but he's the Tigers cheating bum.
On the Jays this season they had a drug cheat in the form of Melky Cabrera. However, there was no past history with the Jays as Cabrera got caught while playing the year before for the San Francisco Giants. So there was no reaction whatsoever.
Everybody in the game pays lip service to cleaning up the game and handing out stiffer penalties — unless it happens to be the guy on your team.
The only people who may be upset and indignant about Peralta are probably Athletics' fans.
— You have to be impressed with the play of Oakland's Coco Crisp.
The A's centre fielder and leadoff hitter has been a force at the plate and smooth in the field.
In Monday's game, a 6-3 Oakland win, Crisp was 3-for-4 with an RBI — on a sacrifice fly — scored one run and stole a base.
The next night the went 4-for-5 with a triple and three singles, scored three runs and drove in another.
He has been the A's table-setter and one of their leaders game in and game out.
"He's our ignitor, no doubt about it," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said of Crisp. "He can hit, he steals bases, he gets on base, he takes the pitcher's attention off the pinch‑hitter a lot of times and he's had an awfully good year. He is our engine."
— After watching the pitchers in the post-season, it is painfully obvious just how far away the Blue Jays are from contention. You look at the starters on the Dodgers and the Tigers for instance and it's light years from where the Jays are now.
On the A's, they have some terrific young starters that can bring it and have poise and talent. Same with the Braves. Same with the Pirates.
When you see how large the gap is between the Jays and the playoff teams as far as starting pitching goes, the task of general manager Alex Anthopoulos borders on the impossible.
DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers are prepared to live or die with Justin Verlander.
They expect to live.
Verlander, the former MVP and Cy Young Award winner, will be starting for the Tigers in Game 5 of the best-of-five Division Series Thursday night against the Oakland Athletics.
For Verlander, it's a case of 'been there, done that' as he was the winning pitcher in last year's Game 5 between the same two clubs.
He knows what's in store and thankfully doesn't insult anybody's intelligence by trying to say it's just another game and that's how he's going to treat it.
"Well, you don't pretend," Verlander said after Tuesday's victory by the Tigers. "It's not just another game. The season is on the line. It was on the line for us tonight, too. This whole season, the way we battled and played as a team, comes down to one game, may the best team win.
"You can't treat it just like another game, you know. It's a little bit different. There is more to it."
Verlander was the starter in Game 2, which the A's won 1-0 with a ninth-inning walkoff RBI single by catcher Stephen Vogt.
In that game, Verlander tossed seven scoreless innings.
"We didn't score any runs off the guy last weekend, but we had some good at-bats and a few opportunities to score off of him," A's right fielder Josh Reddick said. "We're not going to go in with our heads down just because of the name on the back of his jersey. We'll go in there and play our game and have the utmost confidence we can."
Facing Verlander, they'll need it.
DETROIT — For the Oakland A's they hope that Sonny days are here again.
To the surprise of nobody, Oakland manager Bob Melvin on Wednesday announced that rookie Sonny Gray will be going head-to-head against Justin Verlander in Thursday's Game 5 of their Division Series.
Verlander was a no-brainer for the Tigers while Melvin could have gone back to his Game 1 starter Bartolo Colon or a Game 2 rematch of Gray and Verlander. He chose the latter.
"Sonny Gray will start tomorrow night," Melvin told reporters Wednesday afternoon in Oakland. "Obviously we had two great options there with Bartolo. We looked at it a bunch of different angles, we have a lot of smart people in our front office and baseball operations and the short of it is, it came down to Sonny's last game that he pitched in similar conditions in our ballpark. So that's the route we're going to go.
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There are going to be a lot of negative reviews for Mr. Deeds, Adam Sandler's latest "nice guy comes of age and finds true love" story. Many of those reviews were probably already written in the minds of the writers before the light came on in the projector. While I'm not going to sit here and try and make you believe that Deeds is a good movie or even a decent remake of Frank Capra's classic film of the same name, I will say this: it doesn't suck. Grading on the Sandler Film Bell Curve, this one ranks higher than most but still ranks far behind The Wedding Singer, easily his best film to date.
It's not that the film isn't predictable &#Array; this is the same film Sandler has been making since he broke free of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Even Sandler himself admitted that he plays the same character in all of his films in a recent appearance on HBO's Dennis Miller Live. Fortunately, the character Sandler plays in all of his films turns out to be a fairly decent, likable kind of guy. He usually doesn't swear, is loyal to his friends and family and generally seems to pretty happy with his life. An Adam Sandler film is more like hanging out at a buddy's house than a cinematic experience. It's kind of hard to fault them for not being The Importance of Being Earnest.
Anyone who has read my past reviews knows exactly what I think about "formula" films, so why would I even think about recommending a film from the King of Formula? Quite simply because Sandler makes the formula work. Despite the fact the entire plot, the typical fish out of water story, has been revealed in the trailers and television ads, the film still has some genuinely funny moments. Deeds' contract re-negotiation with the quarterback for the New York Jets (which he discovers he owns) is priceless. If only some of the real NFL owners would dish out some of the same kind of tough love come contract time....
The real scene-stealer in the film is John Turturro (Quiz Show) as Deeds¿ manservant, Emilio. He gets to ham it up in ways only possible during an Adam Sandler film. While Turturro is the obvious standout, almost everyone in the cast gets their comedic moments, another reason Sandler's formula works where others don't. He's not greedy about making sure he gets all the laughs.
Sandler has been good about surrounding himself with strong supporting casts in the past and he's assembled a pretty good one here. Winona Ryder can play her part in her sleep but still turns in a good job. Peter Gallagher puts in a decent performance as the standard rich guy villain but his right hand lackey, played by Erick Avari gets some great moments. A cameo by John McEnroe has its moments as well.
About the only person who looks like they don't belong here is Steve Buscemi. His character, "Crazy Eyes," looks like he was just thrown in so the audience could point at the screen and say "Hey, look, it's Steve Buscemi with messed up eyes." He's like a punch line without a joke.
Despite its many flaws, Mr. Deeds is worth the time if you're sick of spies, science fiction or animation and don't want to think too hard. Sure, it's a dumb comedy but at least it's not a comedy that makes you feel like you just lost a hundred IQ points.


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xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Apr 15 09:57 AM
April 15, 2008: Faster, Faster.....
Run what ya brung.
Cloud Tuesday Apr 15 09:59 AM
reindeer games!
sweetwater Tuesday Apr 15 10:09 AM
top pix: Polar Express
Cloud Tuesday Apr 15 10:11 AM
I'm trying to figure out where that guy's other leg is in the bottom pic.
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Imigo Jones Tuesday Apr 15 12:54 PM
CHURCHILL, MANITOBA--Triple Krona threat
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glatt Tuesday Apr 15 01:27 PM
I think the leg is behind the cow. You can see two parts of it.
HungLikeJesus Tuesday Apr 15 01:35 PM
I can appreciate why the guys in the first picture are wearing gas masks.
glatt Tuesday Apr 15 01:37 PM
too bad they cut the antlers off of the deer. That would have made a much more impressive picture if they had huge racks on them. Like that famous National Geographic Laplander image.
Flint Tuesday Apr 15 01:52 PM
I agree with glatt. See the two visible leg parts; the natural, balanced stance; and the part where "rear hoof 2" is seen against the leg.
sweetwater Tuesday Apr 15 02:57 PM
I admit I was less concerned about the man's missing leg than the presence of what glatt helpfully labeled Rear Hoof 1. Startled, I mean. I mean, Yikes.
Cloud Tuesday Apr 15 03:46 PM
impressive labeling and deduction, guys!
lumberjim Tuesday Apr 15 04:29 PM
you're all crazy
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Cloud Wednesday Apr 16 02:02 PM
by the expressions on their faces, those reindeer sure look like they're having a good time, though.
Shawnee123 Wednesday Apr 16 02:38 PM
I love their tongues dangling out the sides of their mouths. That's what SHE said. It's so funny looking!
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This I Believe…
I remember coming home one day to my mother telling me that my uncle had passed away. And just a week later I had lost my other uncle whom I had been very close to. I lost both of my uncles to a drug addiction that they couldn't seem to let go of. These addictions had kept both of them in and out of the hospital. Their addiction to these drugs consumed their daily lives, making their choices for them. When to eat, when to sleep, and how many times they were going to have another fix. Both of my uncles knew that these drugs had taken a toll on their body for the worse, and they didn't know when their time was coming, but they knew it was coming soon. The damage that was done to their bodies and minds was irreversible. My uncles were not the only people in my family that have these addictions, but they're the ones who didn't know when to stop. When someone only has one life to live, and a body that they can't swap for another, you think some one would treat it better.
I believe that having an alcohol or drug addiction goes further than just the addiction itself. It's like a virus that spreads through the body, but instead of getting sick, they get a sensation of euphoria. A sensation that makes them feel that this addiction that's actually a curse, is a blessing, a way for people to escape into their own little world and make their problems just melt away. People who are not strong enough to deal with their pain find comfort in drugs, it seems as though their pain makes them more susceptible to the drugs. I feel that these drugs take over a person's mind and make decisions that are not necessarily what they want or feel. The drugs alter their conscious telling them that what they otherwise thought was wrong, is right. These addictions are more than just drugs, they're an illness, an illness not like the flu that just passes with time, and it is like a bug that they can't shake. Not until they figure out the home remedy that serves as their cure. And that could be their family, friends, or something else that serves as their cure and helps them to become the person that they want to be. Something that tells them that they're hurting themselves, and their loved ones, the cure that makes them understand that what they are doing is wrong.
And I believe that a person only has one body, and one life to live, so use it wisely. A person can't ruin the first one and trade it in for another, that's not how it works. And even though the drugs that goes into that body makes them feel like its ok and feel good, they don't even know what happening to their body. Their body starts to shut down, and fall to pieces, just like the life they once had. These people throw away their family and friends because they would rather harm their body with these drugs, than spend time with their little sister. I believe that most of the addicts in this world don't exactly realize the damaging effects until it's too late.
I believe that my life has been full of family, but with most family came their drugs, and with their drugs came arguments, awkward moments, and then them storming out the door in defense of their precious drugs. And also, I believe that I have finally learned to forgive these family members who have used their drugs and mistreated me. I know now that the way they were reacting was because of the drugs. Drugs make people be somebody they don't want to be, they make their bodies and minds shut off all the good in their life, so they feel nothing but pain, anger, and emptiness. Because when people tend to feel like that, they turn to their addiction, it comforts them, it takes away that pain, and it also feeds on them.
Last but not least, I truly believe that because of the experiences with drugs in my family, I will never resort to them. Growing up knowing that some of my family members' have addictions has made me gain more knowledge and more understanding as to what they do to their body and their mind as well. And that knowledge I have gained has made me smart enough to never take that path, to never harm my body or life. While I may sit around and eat chips and drink pop, the damage is not irreversible, and I know that my body is precious, along with my life. I believe that my strong will had to come from my family member's mistakes. Without their mistakes, I wouldn't have witnessed first hand what drugs can do to a person, and their body, so I would have never gained the knowledge I did about addictions. I never thought that I could related an addiction to a virus that eats at them in every way, instead, I would never have gained the understanding, which in return means I would have never knew how to forgive these family members that chose drugs over me.
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KU cites progress in hiring 'Foundation Professors'
It's been about a year now since Kansas University launched an effort to recruit 12 high-profile researchers from other institutions, and no hires have yet been announced.
But that does not mean progress hasn't been made, KU leaders say.
"We made a lot of progress in the sense that these kinds of recruitments involve an awful lot, and they take awhile," KU Provost Jeff Vitter said. "And we want to make sure we do it right."
Last fall, KU began its search for 12 "Foundation Professors": researchers among the world leaders in their fields who could help boost KU's profile and solidify its spot in the selective Association of American Universities. The effort is to be paid for in part by an annual $3 million increase in state funding, approved in 2012.
A year later, Vitter says people at KU shouldn't have to wait too much longer to hear some news on that front. The university should announce its first few Foundation Professor hires during the 2013-14 academic year, he said, and the goal is to make three to four hires per year from then on.
These are not typical job searches. Rather than inviting applicants, KU officials are searching out candidates.
"They aren't necessarily looking to move," said Danny Anderson, dean of KU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "And they aren't necessarily able to move immediately. There's a whole process of exploring the opportunity."
The types of research leaders that KU is recruiting may have complex operations surrounding them at their current institutions: labs or other facilities, ongoing grants and projects, assistants and other faculty.
To draw them, officials will likely need to arrange for similar things to be provided at KU. That can take time to negotiate, and it will be costly.
The annual $3 million in state funds will pay the salaries of the Foundation Professors and perhaps allow for some research assistants. But the hires will also require somewhere around $20 million in additional startup costs, Vitter said, most of which should come from private fundraising.
With that much at stake, these hires take time to get right.
"The important thing is to truly make transformational hires," Vitter said.
Anderson said this summer he was actively recruiting one Foundation Professor for the College, and he and other officials would be focused on other candidates soon, as well.
"We're at the stage of really digging in and moving forward with some of those recruitments," Anderson said. "We're going to be as focused and dedicated to getting those hires made this year as we can."
Another unusual quality of these hires is that they probably won't necessarily be tied to academic departments. Instead, Vitter said, they'll focus on "strategic initiatives," areas where KU is historically strong and where there's a need in the economies of Kansas and the nation.
Those areas could include biorefining, using materials such as food and natural gas in the production of plastics and other chemicals; water resources; alternative energies; "big data" and analytics, such as in education; and the development of vaccines for infectious diseases.
Some Foundation Professors will be at the center of "cluster hires," with KU hiring other faculty to assist in the same areas of research. Current faculty members are likely to be part of those clusters, as well.
"We have great faculty at KU," Vitter said. "That's why we're seeking to have even more great faculty at KU."
KU began a Bold Aspirations Visitor and Lecture Series in 2012-13 in part to make connections leading to possible Foundation Professor hires, Vitter said, as well as to help current faculty connect to research leaders who could open opportunities for them.
Visitors in the series in the past year included a computer scientist from Columbia University, a child-welfare researcher from the University of Washington and an economist from the University of California-Berkeley.
The hope for the new researchers, Vitter said, is that they will help produce knowledge that could help the world and contribute to Kansas' economy, while also preserving the AAU membership that he and other leaders say is all-important for KU.
"It is more than just a mark of quality," Vitter said. "It's a drawing power that brings to KU tremendous faculty and students. And it's a drawing power for corporations."


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Lots of pictures on this post.
The first up is the chocolate candy cane hearts that I made for favors for the party.
Melt chocolate
Having people to stir chocolate very helpful
They came out awesome!
I'm pretty sure they are delicious as well, I haven't eaten one yet but I was covered in chocolate.
All of them were a little different.
We made about 2 dz.
The grinch in the middle?
oh, well I couldn't find plates to go with my theme sooo I made them.
Not as hard as it sounds.
Clear plastic plates and printed out images from the web and some paint pens.
Paint the outline on the back of plate and then color in the lines.
I had help with this as well.
I tried to keep it simple and only did 3 images for the larger plates.
The smaller plates were a little different.
I did the outline in sharpie and then acrylic paint and tried to seal it with spray paint.
The spray paint ate the acrylic. I did not realize the nature enemy of acrylic was spray paint.
I will still use them, I will just point out they were caught in a snow storm.
One of the grinches looks quite insane, I will make sure he will not end up in a child's hands.
Nightmare fodder for sure.
I am getting excited for the Christmas Eve Grinch found Christmas Party...
Want a quick look around?
Of course you do, that's why you're here.
First up is the fake mantle with sock garland.
The penguin has no purpose, he kinda snuck in and I didn't have the heart to make him leave.
The sock garland was super easy to make.
Insert "duh" here.
This is my fireplace wall.
Yesss, my wood stove is wearing a tutu.
A better question would be, why isn't yours?
Even my awesome cool/hip wall got dressed up.
But not too much, it is cool after all.
Found the stockings at a thrift store for 29 cents.
Poinsettias found last year for a quarter.
Candy garland, found at a thrift store for under 2 dollars.
Although it was not fully put together.
Also no one knew what it was.
Yay for Pinterest and the wisdom I gained to understand the previous owners intent.
Another look at my uber cool wall.
It's so cool, I may have to loose weight and dye my hair just to fit in.
Up shot of candy garland
Wall of windows rocking the bells and green ribbon
Other side into dining area.
Then back to the tree.
I think after Christmas I will have a grinch bulb give away.
If anyone is interested.....
So thank you for coming with me on my tour of my living room Whooville decor.
I hope you enjoy the holidays and have a Merry Christmas.


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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
"The Crystal Buddha" & "The Vindicator" [$14.95]. These two classic
pulp novels were written by Walter B. Gibson (writing as Maxwell
Grant) and provided inspiration for Batman stories from the Golden
Age of Comics.
In "The Crystal Buddha" (1938), The Shadow investigates how a dying
man's bequest turns deadly. In "The Vindicator" (1939), the hero
who knows where evil lurks invades a castle to unmask a villain.
Will Murray's historical essay examines how the adventures of The
Shadow influenced the Batman's formative years. Editor/publisher
Tollin writes on the comic-book artistry of noted pulp illustrator
Edd Cartier and reprints a 14-page Red Dragon from a 1947 issues of
Super Magician Comics.
As with the other Sanctum Books series - Doc Savage, The Whisperer
and others - these Shadow double novels are entertaining journeys
into the heroic fiction of the pulp era. They're wonderfully made
books and I regularly despair I might never get around to reading
them all. But what I can do is let you know about the new releases
as they appear. More Sanctum Books news is on the way.
© 2013 Tony Isabella
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All season, the coaches of the North Brunswick boys basketball team have been trying to get senior guard Adam Jacobs to shoot more. On Wednesday, Jacobs listened.
The Scorpions' point guard poured in 27 points and hit four consecutive jump shots in a critical stretch to lead North Brunswick past Cummings, 63-47, in the second round of the Class 2A state playoffs.
Using a frenetic defense and some ice-cold shooting from Cummings, North Brunswick (18-8) took a 10-point halftime lead. But the Cavaliers (20-6) cut the lead to four points early in the third quarter and seemed primed to swing the game.
"To (start) the third quarter with a 10-point lead and all of a sudden it gets whittled in half, you start to get antsy," North Brunswick coach Bryan Hayes said. "But big players make big plays."
In the final three minutes of the third quarter, Jacobs hit four fall-away jumpers to snuff out the Cummings rally. His final shot came at the horn, 6 feet behind the 3-point line, and completed an 11-2 run.
"This is the first time that I'd really shot the ball like that," Jacobs said. "I saw what the clock situation was, and saw I'd have to take it if it was a good look or not. I figured it might go in because I'd already hit a few."
After Jacobs' scoring spurt, Cummings never got to within 10 points again.
North Brunswick also effectively neutralized the Cavaliers' height advantage by pushing the tempo to the point Cummings wasn't used to. The Scorpions ran and pressed for almost the entire game, and Hayes said he felt the pace took its toll.
"They were sucking wind in the first half and in the second half I think they were tired," Hayes said. "It about killed my guys, but I think it killed their guys a little more."
North Brunswick advances to the third round of the playoffs for a second straight year, traveling to Northside on Friday.
"It ain't like we're surprised by this," Hayes said. "This is a goal of ours every year, to go one step farther. I want each team to accomplish something new."
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Jacobs leads N. Brunswick past Cummings
All season, the coaches of the North Brunswick boys basketball team have been trying to get senior guard Adam Jacobs to shoot more. On Wednesday, Jacobs listened.


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I'm loving the downward trend, even if it's not as much as I had hoped…
Week: -.4
Total: -41.2
Don't get me wrong, I am glad to see a loss. But with all the running and tracking I did, I had hoped for a bit more. Oh well- I will take what I can …READ MORE


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Some of the more exciting book recently received here at the SF Site office include new works from Clive Barker, Julian May, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Terry Brooks, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Lovegrove, Gwyneth Jones, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Moon, and John C. Wright.
As for my own reading, I had been delving into the early works of Joseph Conrad recently and when I came up for air, I realized I was in need of something light and frivolous. Here's what I discovered:
Rabid Transit: Petting Zoo edited by Barth Anderson, Christopher Barzak, Alan DeNiro, Kristin Livdahl
Velocity Press (chapbook, 68 pages)
Publication date: May 2004, USA
Third in the Rabid Transit series, this chapbook features fiction from M. Rickert, John Aegard, David Moles, Jesse McManus, David Lomax, Elad Haber, and Amber van Dyk. I recently read the first of this series, Rabid Transit: New Fiction by the Ratbastards, which was comprised of one story by each of the four editors of the current volume. Two hits and two misses, but the hits were overwhelmingly good, and the styles of all four were sufficiently varied that another reader might have chosen differently. Almost certainly there will be something of interest here.
God Drug by Stephen L. Antczak, illustrated by Andy Lee
Annihilation: R.A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen, Book 5 by Philip Athans
Days of Magic, Nights of War: Abarat, Book 2 by Clive Barker
Star Bores by Steve Barlow & Steve Skidmore
Exultant: Destiny's Children, Book 2 by Stephen Baxter
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Tanequil: High Druid of Shannara, Book 2 by Terry Brooks
The Lord of the Wrinkles by Leah Carson
Alice's Journey Beyond the Moon by R.J. Carter, illustrated by Lucy Wright
A Separate Power by Loren W. Cooper
Rabbit Head by Rebecca Dart
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 17th Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
Goddess of the Ice Realm: Lord of the Isles, Book 5 by David Drake
Murder by Magic: 20 Tales of Crime and the Supernatural edited by Rosemary Edghill
Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories by Theodora Goss
Incompetence by Rob Grant
Dune: The Battle of Corrin by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
The Dark Ascent by Walter H. Hunt
The White Elephant by Damon Hurd, art by Christopher Steininger
Life by Gwyneth Jones
Over the Edge: The Beginning by Marilyn W. Lathrop
Witch Ember by John Lawson
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le Guin
Worldstorm by James Lovegrove
Path of the Bold edited by James Lowder
Conqueror's Moon: The Boreal Moon Tale, Book 1 by Julian May
Ironcrown Moon: The Boreal Moon Tale, Book 2 by Julian May
Encounters: An Anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction edited by Maxine McArthur & Donna Maree Hanson
Absolute Values by Andrew R. Menard
Firethorn by Sarah Micklem
Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon
New Worlds edited by Michael Moorcock
The Soddit by A.R.R.R. Roberts
The Fetter Mission by M.L. Roland
Tales of the Black Earth by R.A. Roth
Salmon Doubts by Adam Sacks
Thumbprints by Pamela Sargent
Houdini's Last Illusion by Steve Savile
A King in Exile: The Last Book of the Kings, Vol. 1 by H.M. Snow
Rosetta2: A Comics Anthology edited by Ng Suat Tong
Karma On Tap: The Online Buddhist Revolution by R.B. Wilcox
The Sundering: Dread Empire's Fall, Book 2 by Walter Jon Williams
The Last Guardian of Everness: The War of the Dreaming, Book 1 by John C. Wright
Alchemy, No. 2, 2004, USA
Electric Velocipede, issue 7, Fall 2004, USA
Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2004, USA & Canada
NFG, issue 5, vol. 2, 2004, Canada & USA & UK
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Roofing Companies in Tufnell Park
List of Tufnell Park based roofing contractors and suppliers offering installation, repairs and maintenance services.
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Welcome to the force group, of companies, the No.1 for building work in London. If you need scaffolding, maintenance, repair, roofing, tiles replaced, plumbing dealt with, brickwork repaired, carpentry, walls, windows, houses or commercial property, fix, replacement, flat, pitched roof, repairs, slate, tiles , guttering set up or replaced, asphalt.
GWS has over 25 years extensive knowledge and experience in the roofing and building profession. We cover all of London including central London and the Home Counties, from a slipped tile to a new roof or a quality loft conversion. We pride ourselves on the high quality service and advice we offer hence why most of our work comes through recommendation.
Hambro Roofing is a family run business established in 1978 by Steve Hammersley and has been trading for over 25 years. We are "flat roofing specialists" based in East London and cover all of the south-east. Our workforce consists of trained craftsmen in built-up-felt, mastic asphalt, single ply and liquid membranes such as Belzona, Kemper & Liquid Plastics.
as a roofing company we carry out all roofing works to both commercial and domestic properties. From slating, tiling, lead, zinc & copper works to felt and asphalt flat roofs.all types of loft conversions.
M.C. Heasman (Roofing) Ltd. was first registered as a Private Limited Company in 1975 and commenced trading from out of Ilford, London, with a working area covering London and the South East. All our work is carried out in strict accordance with the British Standard Code of Practice for Slating & Tiling and Health & Safety Regulations at all times. We are members of The National Federation of Roofing
Our work extends throughout the South East of England with a current turnover in excess of 7M. We are based in Leyton, London E10. As a main contractor, we are happy to take on external works packages which contain a significant element of roof works. We have carried out many contracts including window replacements or structural works.
Horncastle & Sons (Roofing) Ltd is a family-run business and the Horncastles have been trading for over 25-years, specialising in all types of domestic roofing. We have our own scaffolding division, which means that works can be executed more speedily, due to having control of the scaffolding, as we can organise the time and date as to when the scaffolding can be erected.
Based in North London, but with a UK-wide client base, we offer a complete roofing service from design through to completion, with a particular expertise in flat roofing, structural waterproofing and environmentally friendly green roof systems (gardens).
Stamford Contracts, is a company that prides itself on exemplary high standards of workmanship coupled with reliability and efficiency. Certified under the quality assurance scheme BS EN ISO 9002 Stamford Contracts have in place all the necessary control devices to ensure safety, efficiency and the highest standards of workmanship.
As one of London & the Midlands largest stockists of roofing materials, Wedge Roofing Centres supply the area through a network of depots and a fleet of crane off-load lorries. We stock a vast range of all types of roofing materials, including concrete and clay tiles, man-made and natural slate, felt, batten and lead and all types of flat roofing


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She held her head in her hands and let out a little sob. With her propensity for, well, a little drama, and a personality that could suit a 22-year-old, sometimes I forget, she is only eight years old. And this wasn't drama, her heart had been broken.
It is for this very moment! This is why we eat supper around the table together. Of course not all the time. And many nights supper (yes I live in the South I say supper) is a variety of left-overs, or cheap pizza sprinkled with some slightly forced conversation—hardly ever without silliness and the abrupt dismissal and how much longer until they are in bed?
But this was the night you wait for as parents:
the time when your child asks you if you know what holding up your middle finger means.
Middle fingers ablaze she said someone made fun of her for using her middle finger today in class. Each sing-song word ending in the form of a question, "Uuuuuuuummmmm, Evelyn, you used your middle finger!" after she had pointed to a math problem with the harmless tall-man.
"Why didn't you tell me about it!" with her flat-out accusing tone. As if she isn't sometimes the one sing-songing. And as if our duty is to inform her of any dirty, inappropriate, or rude expression as a safeguard from all harassment she could receive at public school. Actually, we thought we had done really well covering pig Latin, S-E-X, four letter words, and Weird Al Yankovic.
"There is nothing wrong with my middle finger!"
"That's right baby, absolutely nothing wrong."
"Why are there so many rules?!! I can't use my middle finger… I can't…" (now, I don't remember exactly what else she listed here, but I'm pretty sure it had to do with having to wear clothes.)
She was not amused when I proposed as her response next time, "Oh you think this is naughty?? How silly. The middle finger is my symbol for unicorns riding along rainbows," while making a large arch with her hand.
She wasn't amused.
Do you wonder if that is why 2016 pissed many of us off so much? Because it ripped the Band-Aid from the "ache" TV binges can never heal. War, death, fear, hatred, lies, age, brokenness…all the things we want to insulate ourselves from are staring at us in the mirror. Not only that, it seems like all the ideas we had locked down, are once again up for debate.
I do not think this is a loss of innocence. I think we are waking up. Could it be this moment in history is an invitation into something more? Something a little more daring and a little less certain?
Whether we like it or not, we are in this thing together. Every one of us on this planet bears the image of Love. And I keep reminding myself, Jesus didn't say, "America, YOU have it all figured out! Carry on my shining city on the hill for the rest of the world to admire and imitate!"
Nah. He told His people, "In my Kingdom, the outcasts are blessed, the needy and broken are the kings and queens. And guess what? YOU ARE ALL NEEDY AND BROKEN. Your tidiness cannot save you from yourselves. We are going to break some rules you and me. And when you live this upside down way, the way of righting the wrong, the world will HATE you. But don't let that stop you. Love their sorry asses anyway, just like I love you." I am no scholar, but I am pretty sure this sums up the Gospel of Matthew.
We choose to use the events of these days as an opportunity to teach our kids how good men treat women and how good women treat men. That it is not our job to tell someone how they feel is wrong and to get over it. We teach them that wealth, walls, and nationalism is not what casts out fear-only love can do that. We teach them to join the long march toward justice, and that unity does not mean "same." We teach them that we are not stronger when we make fun of comb-overs and ten-year olds at Presidential Inaugurations. (Did you see the sweetness that was happening over Trump's shoulder while the leaders of our country were negotiating which of the IDENTICAL AND I'M SURE OUTRAGEOUSLY EXPENSIVE PENS went to whom? The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as those kids.) Vulgarity begets vulgarity and dignity overcombs it. (I am a sinner.)
This is our invitation to stop feeling good about ourselves for the wrong reasons, to stop wishing things go could back to another time when we settled for illusion, and to stop hiding behind self-righteous-anger-infused Facebook posts so we can actually start looking each other in the eyes, and sit at the table together for some good ol' -albeit sometimes forced-conversation.
I'll bring pizza.
Some of us are just now waking up to some long, difficult battles for hope and justice. Join me in following Osheta Moore for Shalom Steps or Kathy Escobar for wisdom on how to be unified and still diversified.


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From March to May I've been busy with talk show schedule for my book, Step by Step Facebook. I've been traveling from one Gramedia book store to another (Gramedia at Ciputra Mall, Matraman, and Summarecon Mall Serpong) and the last one was on Education Expo @ Main Lobby, SuperMall Karawaci.
I didn't have many public speaking experiences, so it's a new challenge for me. Thankfully, everything came up pretty good. Thanks to Elex Media Komputindo (my editor, Whindy, Willys, Hugo), Gramedia book store, and of course Ru and Lenny.
For those of you who could not attend the talk shows, you can check out my presentation here. If you're curious how it all went, check out my documentation here.