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OXON HILL, Md. - Returning to the national stage, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Saturday that the Republican Party must broaden its message to grow.
"We must leave no American behind," she said in a populist speech that electrified supporters at a conservative summit in suburban Washington. "And we must share our powerful message of freedom and liberty to all citizens — even those who may disagree on some issues."
Palin has maintained a low profile during last year's election. She's expected to play a limited role in the future of the GOP but shared several recommendations Saturday.
Instead of focusing on rebuilding the Republican Party, she said that party leaders should focus on rebuilding the middle class.
She jabbed President Barack Obama and the Republican professional class alike, urging the crowd to reject the ideas of political consultants and pollsters, taking a not-so-subtle dig at Karl Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and a co-founder of outside group Crossroads USA.
"The architects can head on back .?.?. to the great Lone Star State, and put their name on some ballot, though, for their sake, I hope they give themselves a discount on their consulting services," she quipped.
But Palin saved her most pointed criticism for the president, likening him to Ponzi-scheme felon Bernie Madoff. Taking a shot at the president's call for universal background checks on gun owners, she said, "Dandy idea, Mr. President — should have started with yours."
Palin drew cheers when she paused in the middle of her remarks to sip soda from a "Big Gulp" — the type of supersized, sugary drink that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to ban. A New York judge this week struck down the Republican-turned-independent mayor's pioneering 16-ounce limit on sodas and other nondiet sweet drinks for sale.
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Oxygen's "Bad Girls Club," takes on an all-new city on Monday, January 23 10 PM ET/PT* editors please note new time. This hot new cast of seven young women will travel to sin city and in a series first two of the girls are sisters... twins! "Bad Girls Club" adds some sibling rivalry to a new cast of bold, outrageous and endlessly entertaining women as they jockey for position as the head girl in charge. Each claiming to be the ultimate "bad girl," can they put aside their differences and live together peacefully in a Las Vegas mansion - or will chaos rule?
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Bunim/Murray Productions is the leading producer of innovative entertainment content. The Emmy Award-winning company is widely credited with creating the reality television genre with its hit series The Real World (25 seasons for MTV). Bunim/Murray continued to innovate with the first reality game show, Road Rules (MTV), in 1995; the first reality sitcom, The Simple Life (E!), in 2003; and the first reality soap opera, Starting Over, in 2003. Bunim/Murray's current programming includes The Bad Girls Club, Love Games and upcoming Best Ink (Oxygen), Keeping up with the Kardashians, Kourtney & Kim Take New York and Khloe & Lamar (E!), The Real World/Road Rules Challenge (MTV) and Project Runway and Project Runway All Stars (Lifetime). Bunim/Murray Productions has launched additional entities including M Theory Entertainment, BMP Films and M Music. BMP Films produced Pedro (MTV) and the Emmy Award-winning Autism: The Musical (HBO). Based in Van Nuys, CA, Bunim/Murray Productions was founded in 1987 by Jonathan Murray and the late Mary-Ellis Bunim. The company joined Banijay Group in 2010.
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FAIRFIELD -- It was such a crazy play that offensive coordinators never would imagine victory coming from anything of the like, even in their wildest dreams. Conversely, defensive coordinators would never suffer a nightmare over such an unlikely play spelling doom.
But it happened nevertheless.
In reality, Fairfield Ludlowe benefitted from a triple-deflection for a long come-from-behind touchdown reception that erased a three-touchdown fourth-quarter rally by Harding Saturday afternoon at Taft Field in an FCIAC football game. Falcons wide receiver Michael Arman saw the ball bounce off his hands, bound off a falling defender before ricocheting off teammate Patrick O'Leary's facemask and into his hands. Startled, and with the ball in his possession, he raced another 30-plus yards for a 66-yard touchdown midway through the fourth quarter that lifted the Falcons to a 35-31 victory.
"I didn't realize what happened," said Arman, whose Falcons stand at 3-1 overall and 2-1 in the FCIAC following the win.
A mere 20 seconds earlier, it was his punt near the goal line with Ludlowe leading by 29-25 that was blocked and scooped up by Jahzaari Mullins for the Presidents' go-ahead touchdown and a 31-29 lead.
Harding's second straight loss sent the Presidents to records of 2-2 overall and 1-2 in the conference. They played without head coach Jack Cochran, who missed the game with "a minor health problem," said Bridgeport city-wide athletic director Neil Kavey. While attempts to reach Cochran were unsuccessful Saturday night, one social media report appeared to confirm that's what happened.
"It went straight to my hands," said Arman, a senior who will play baseball at Central Connecticut and decided earlier this year to play football for the first time since eighth grade.
Harding kept rallying, and momentum had been firmly wrestled from the Falcons before the wacky pass from Ludlowe senior Matt White turned into the decisive play.
"We've got to stay disciplined," said Presidents' defensive coordinator Eddie Santiago, filling in for Cochran. "There were all mental errors on the field. We cannot come down 14 points and expect to play in the fourth quarter. We came out flat for the second straight week. We cannot do that."
The Presidents, though, almost got away with it.
A 30-yard touchdown pass by White to Stephan Zadravec and a 71-yard run by Jimmy Gasper through middle of Harding's defense gave Ludlowe a 14-0 lead within the first nine minutes. Then Harding began to rally. Two plays after Gasper's run, Antoine Sistrunk scored on 1-yard run that was set up by his 64-yard catch-and-run play the play before. It was 14-7 Ludlowe entering the second quarter.
Midway through the second quarter, Presidents' quarterback Christian Hopkins raced around the right side for a 17-yard scoring run, and Harding trailed 14-13 when the running conversion failed. Gasper scored on a 1-yard run to give the Falcons a 22-13 lead at halftime. And their lead grew to 29-13 on a three-yard touchdown carry by Warren Davis midway through the third quarter.
Then Harding struck.
Reggie David busted free for an 89-yard touchdown run with three Presidents' receivers lined up to the right side almost three minutes into the fourth quarter. Jeffery Rogers than recovered a Ludlowe fumble and ran 33 yards for a touchdown that made it 29-25 Falcons 67 seconds later. Harding's defense held firm on the next possession for the Falcons, leading to Arman's blocked punt by Mullins that he returned 11 yards for the Presidens' go-ahead touchdown.
"It wasn't pretty," Ludlowe coach Vince Camera said. "This is not how we would have designed it.
"Our defense looked good at times, then gave up (yardage) on the edge. Up front, we played well in the first half, then we got a little stale in the second half. Our defense was not really consistent. We're not going to cry about it (giving up the lead); we weren't going to lie down. We talk about playing the next play, and that's what we did."
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Kathy and I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska for 30 years and camped in Denali Park frequently, usually at the Teklanika River. Years ago, while walking along the river, we spotted a stone that looked like a face and I made a picture of it. Only a few minutes later, there was another "stone face" and on it went, year after year. Once we got started, we couldn't not see stone faces while walking along the Teklanika River.
Stone Faces #1 through #4 were shot on location with the stones in their natural setting along the Teklanika River. I used a Canon F-1 camera with slide film. The individual stone faces were photographed with a Canon 5D digital camera in my studio as "portraits."
Remarkably, since the first Teklanika River stone face, we've walked along the Yukon, Tanana, Chena, Toklat, Chandelar, Hula Hula, Chilkat, Maclaren, Copper, Nenana, Chatanika and McNeil rivers in Alaska, to name a few, and ocean beaches at Homer, Seward, Haines, Kenai, Sitka, Kodiak and Fox Island, but no stone faces. We've found shorelines with all flat stones, round stones, big stones, little stones, even an unusually high percentage of heart-shaped stones on one beach, but no stone faces anywhere other than along the Teklanika.
Coincidentally, the book and movie of the same same title, "Into The Wild," about Chris McCandless's sojourn into the Alaska wilderness only to lose his life from exposure and starvation, identifies the Teklanika River as the river he had crossed earlier on his way into the wild and again later as the raging river he could not get back across, resulting in him being stranded in the wilderness.
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What other medical emergencies can look like excited delirium?
By Chris Lawrence
Excited delirium (ED) has become a high profile problem in policing. There is much for us to learn about ED; however, there are some other medical problems that officers may encounter that can result in behavior very similar to a person experiencing ED. Not everyone exhibiting "ED-like" behavior is a substance abuser (although I have included a substance abuse example in this column – the DTs) or a person living with a mental illness. While police officers cannot make a diagnosis, (society only allows physicians to do that) we need to know a little bit about these other problems, particularly because we may encounter them in our patrol activities. Each problem can result in a fatal outcome even if properly handled.
Bottom line here is for anything that resembles ED, subjects should be assessed by someone with medical training beyond that of a police officer. When handling these types of situations, get the subject to medical assistance. In some ED-like situations, drawn out negotiations or waiting for the subject to calm down may not be in the best interest of the subject.
In past columns I used medical texts and research journals for reference documents. In this article I'm using (for the most part) material accessible by the average person so that interested parties can quickly find reliable material without needing access to a university or medical library. Readers should not consider the information as training or medical advice. This effort is intended to inform and hopefully stimulate further local investigation of this information so that with appropriate medical guidance, officer training can be enhanced.
Normal body temperature hovers around 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and fluctuates slightly throughout the day. The mechanisms involved in how the body accomplishes this feat is beyond the scope of this article. In simple terms the human body has a number of feedback mechanisms which allow it to create heat when we are cold and dissipate heat when we are getting too warm (Hoppe & Sinert, 2005).
High body temperatures or hyperthermia can create problems that can appear similar to intoxication, and in some cases can even appear very similar to ED. People with high body temperature usually are sweating. In some cases, due to medication side effects, the subject may have both hyperthermia and hot dry flushed skin. What this means is that the subject may be sweating less than normal or not at all (Challoner, & Newton 2006). This may cause disorientation.
Medications commonly used to treat disorders such as gastrointestinal cramps, urinary bladder spasm, asthma, motion sickness, and muscular spasms can increase the susceptibility to hyperthermia and the same hot, dry skin (The Gale Group, 2005).
Problems for the subject can begin to occur at 39 degrees Celsius (102oF). Heat stroke occurs at 43.7o C (110o F). Brain cells are affected and may be destroyed. Around this temperature the subject's ability to regulate his or her own heat is likely to fail. Death will occur at 44.4o C (112o F). Early medical assistance is vital when dealing with hyperthermia.
There was a case I mentioned in my last column where the subject left work after a very hot morning because he wasn't feeling well. While traveling home on the bus he "acted like a crazy man" and had to be restrained by other transit riders. He was taken to hospital where he was sedated and secluded, the physician believing him to be a psychiatric patient. It was later discovered that he had overheated at work and his behavior was the result of hyperthermia (Armstrong, 2003). Even the physician treating the subject didn't appreciate the real problem at first.
Hyperthermia can be a medical emergency that is treatable by paramedics, nurses and physicians by taking measures to produce rapid cooling of the body. Asking medical personnel to take the subject's temperature could become the most important contribution you make to the safety of the subject who has been struggling against your efforts to gain control. New equipment allows a "core equivalent" temperature to be taken in seconds, according to research provides a reliable temperature, is non-invasive, and therefore less risky has been the case when older methods of obtaining a core temperature than in the past.
Delirium Tremens
Delirium Tremens is also known as the DTs or alcohol withdrawal. Delirium Tremens can result from an alcoholic person suddenly stopping the use of alcohol, particularly when they are not eating properly. The subject may experience sudden and severe mental changes which may also involve seizures. Symptoms commonly occur within the first 72 hours of the last drink. In some cases the subject may show his or her signs up to 7-10 days after their last drink.
- Other signs and symptoms may include:
• Anxiety;
• Rapid emotional changes;
• Sweating;
• Shaky;
• Hallucinations;
• Paranoia (may lead to lashing out) and;
• Seizures.
These symptoms may be severe and progress rapidly.
Delirium Tremens can be a fatal condition (30%) if not treated properly. The DT's constitute a medical emergency. People experiencing the DT's are to be taken directly to a hospital for treatment (Owens, 2005; Grossman, 2005).
Psychotic illness and its treatment are associated with an increased risk of diabetes and worsening blood sugar control (Lambert & Chapman, 2004, p.544). Regardless of whether or not the subject has a mental illness, low blood sugar may precipitate sudden mood swings that could appear as sudden anger or crying, sweating, nervousness, rapid heart beat, confusion, and seizures. Aggressive behavior may appear similar to ED-type behavior (Padder, Udyawar, Azhar, & Jaghab, 2005), particularly if the officer has never dealt with a subject experiencing ED before. If low blood sugar continues to drop the subject may go into a coma and die (Cronin, 2005).
Not every person who has low blood sugar levels will exhibit ED-type behavior. In fact, the landmark case of Graham v. Connor involved a person experiencing a similar problem. In that case the plaintiff Graham advised the involved officers that he needed sugar to counteract his medical problem. Pay attention to people who make this kind of statement. Fruit juice or candy may indeed improve their situation.
In hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels) there will be an increase in acetone levels in the blood, as a result the subject's breath may carry the odor of acetone, which you may be able to detect on the subject's breath. If blood sugar levels are too high the subject will likely not exhibit aggressive behavior, but rather become very ill and may go into a coma.
Whether the blood-sugar level is too high or too low the subject needs to go to the hospital.
Head Injury
Psychosis can result several years after traumatic brain injury (Fujii, 2002). In such cases a police officer may be unaware of the subject's history. Head injury, or more correctly stated, brain insult can result from multiple causes. These subjects may be suffering as a result of a swelling of the brain. Pressure on the brain can create aggressive behavior (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2006). Even concussions may result in increasing confusion, restlessness or agitation (Hammeke, 2004; Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, 2005). The most common symptoms will be irritability, anger outbursts, and violence.
The subject may be experiencing a viral encephalitis which can include psychosis, depression, mania, fever, and/or disorientation. The subject's behavior may look similar to ED. The situation could become fatal to the subject depending on what caused the injury, or brain insult. These types of injuries must be treated by physician.
Thyroid storm
The thyroid gland is located in the front of the neck below the voice box. This gland produces hormones that regulate the rate of metabolism (American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2006). Thyroid storm is a rare complication of hyperthyroidism (over-active gland). Thyroid storm is often precipitated by a physiologically stressful event. Thyroid storm, if unrecognized and untreated, is often fatal.
The symptoms of thyroid storm include:
• Psychosis;
• Anxiety;
• Disorientation;
• Heat intolerance;
• Increased sweating;
• Restlessness;
• Wide emotional swings; and
• Coma.
Thyroid storm can affect either gender, however often involves women, aged 20 to 60 years of age.
Poorly controlled hyperthyroidism (which the subject may be unaware of) can progress to a thyroid storm by:
• Pulmonary (chest) infection;
• Diabetic acidosis;
• Emotional stress (Manifold, 2005).
While thyroid storm is a relatively rare event, its presentation can appear similar to that of ED and may result in a call for police assistance in controlling the subject. Determining whether or not a subject is experiencing a thyroid storm is obviously beyond the ability of a police officer, and provides another reason why persons acting in a manner similar to ED should be taken directly to medical attention.
Police officers are not trained nor allowed to make a medical assessment beyond determining that a subject's behavior or situation is unusual and requires medical attention. When addressing the inevitable response to a problem that isn't going to go away, that is changes in policy, and/or more/better training, decision makers should exercise caution and assess their response from a systems based approach. While improving police crisis response training is a prudent decision everyone must realize that some subjects may be experiencing medical conditions that could be worsened by delaying access to medical assistance beyond that of a police officer. Protracted negotiations, waiting for the subject to calm down, waiting for a crisis team to be called out, putting the subject into a quiet room/cell until he or she calms down, placing them in a restraint chair or on a restraint bed where their ability to harm themselves is believed to be reduced; each potential response has substantial merit given the right situation. Each strategy can also be harmful to the subject if their medical needs have been assessed incorrectly.
Is it reasonable to expect police officers to add an increased level of medical knowledge to their responsibilities? How much additional training is required? Who should provide the training? How often will that training be evaluated? These are just a few of the questions that come to mind. These questions should be considered with the knowledge that even when people experiencing ED-like behavior arrive at hospital some do not survive and die after several days of sophisticated medical assessment and treatment. In fact, people have an ED-like episode while in hospital and do not survive.
ED-like behavior is not always the result of drug abuse (cocaine, methamphetamine, PCP) or mental illness. These other medical problems may appear very similar to ED-type behavior and can be fatal if untreated. Slowing or changing police response to a person thought to be experiencing ED may not always the best course of action. As is the case with many things in life, nothing is guaranteed to work every time.
NOTE: I wish to thank Dr. Ivanhoe Becker MB.ChB., CCFP, for his generosity and assistance in reviewing this paper.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of the Ontario Police College or the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
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Challoner, K. & Newton, E. (2006). Toxicity, neuroleptic agents. Retrieved May 8, 2006 from http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic338.htm
Cronin, C. (2005). Symptoms of low blood sugar. Retrieved May 8, 2006 from http://health.msn.com/encyclopedia/healthtopics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100055896.
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Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) Retrieved September 20, 2006 from http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=490&invol=386.
Hemmeke, T. A. (2004). Sports concussions a growing concern. Retrieved May 9, 2006 from http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1007069756.html.
Hoppe, J. & Sinert, R. (2005). Heat exhaustion and heatstroke. Retrieved May 7, 2006 from http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic236.htm.
Manifold, C. A. (2005). Hyperthyroidism, Thyroid Storm, and Graves Disease. Retrieved May 4, 2006 from http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic269.htm.
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (2006). Encephalopathy Information Page. Retrieved May 8, 2006 from http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/encephalopathy/encephalopathy.htm.
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Padder, T., Udyawar, A., Azhar, N. & Jaghab, K. (2005). Acute Hypoglycemia Presenting as Acute Psychosis. Retrieved May 8, 2006 from http://www.priory.com/psych/hypg.htm.
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Lambert, T. J. R., & Chapman, L. H. (2004). Diabetes, psychotic disorders and antipsychotic therapy: a consensus statement. Medical Journal of Australia 181(10), 544-548. Retrieved May 4, 2006 from http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/181_10_151104/lam10435_fm.html.
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Imagine that you could make hydrogen atoms do something that quantum mechanics says they can't: slip into an energy state below the ground state, the collapse releasing 100 times as much energy as you'd get by just burning the hydrogen. If you could harness the heat to produce power, using hydrogen from water as fuel, you'd consume no oil, create no fumes, and solve the problems of energy and global warming forever.
Of course, first you'd have to overturn a century's worth of physical theory, prove your point experimentally, and demonstrate its feasibility in a prototype power-producing system. Yet this is precisely what a company called BlackLight Power says it has done. The company, based near Princeton, N.J., has raised US $60 million, equipped massive labs, hired two dozen employees, gotten some high-profile executives to serve on its board, and attracted a devoted following of fans to online discussion boards.
Last year BlackLight announced that it had a prototype reactor capable of putting out 50 kilowatts of thermal power using a tiny amount of hydrogen. The company said that the device releases energy in one short burst and that it's working to make the reaction continuous. It also said it planned to scale up for pilot operation sometime this year, estimating that its technology could produce electricity for under 2 cents per kilowatt-hour. That's on a par with nuclear and coal power plants and considerably better than gas and petroleum plants.
Is this real, or just fodder for a science-fiction TV show?
Ask experts in atomic physics and you'll hear that a new form of hydrogen is just fantasy.
"This is scientific nonsense—there is no state of hydrogen lower than the ground state," says Wolfgang Ketterle, an MIT scientist and a Nobel Prize laureate in physics. "Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and it's had time enough to find its ground state."
Anthony Leggett, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and also a Nobel laureate, says that quantum mechanics is "consistent with just about everything we know about atomic physics, so the onus is firmly on anyone who wants to discard it to prove his case." He adds, "I don't see that [BlackLight] has got anywhere near doing this."
But turn to Randell Mills, the founder, chairman, chief executive, and president of BlackLight Power, and he'll tell you that this lower-energy hydrogen, which he calls hydrino, is very real indeed.
"We produce hydrino on demand," he tells IEEE Spectrum, adding that his team has isolated and characterized hydrino's properties using spectroscopy and has even created hydrino-rich materials it can provide for analysis.
Mills is unfazed by the criticism, having faced down the physics establishment since he first put forward his hydrino theory some 20 years ago. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he veered into physics after taking some courses at MIT in the late 1980s. His theory has been evolving since then. Not only does it explicitly reject quantum mechanics as it is currently understood, it also attempts to explain physics and chemistry "from the scale of quarks to cosmos," as Mills puts it. Unlike quantum theory's statistical approach, his theory is completely deterministic.


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Ah, to have been a fly on the meeting in which Apple marketing execs picked The Submarines' song "You, Me, and the Bourgeoisie" as the main theme for their iPhone ads! The catchy song was a stroke of marketing genius (and one imagines that it worked out pretty well for The Submarines, too), but a closer look at the song's lyrics makes it a surprising choice for the iPhone campaign. Why's that? It's an anti-consumerism anthem.
Plastic bottles
Imported water
Cars we drive wherever we want to
Clothes we buy, it's sweatshop labor
Drugs from corporate enablers
We're not living the "good life"
Unless we're fighting the good fight
So says the song, and it's clear that "fighting the good fight" involves turning our backs on most of the things listed above. What do we need instead? Well, as The Beatles knew, all you need is love.
Love can free us from all excess
From our deepest debts
Cause when our hearts are full we need much less
But Apple's entire iPhone campaign—indeed, the company's entire product line—is predicated on consumerism, the purchase of expensive technology, owning the trendiest gadgets, and creating a sense of need in people who never knew their lives were incomplete without a glossy black phone. As with most companies, Apple stands to lose big if people truly "need much less" and turn their backs on US consumption patterns.
It's a truly odd pairing of image and lyrics, which is no doubt part of the reason that the lyrics are not, in fact, in any of the commercials. (This is unlike older Apple ads featuring Feist and Chairlift.)
Steve Jobs is widely reputed to have Buddhist leanings; how the man pairs "nonattachment" with "running Apple" is a mystery we may never plumb. The song may resonate with a Jobsian "billionaire's detachment" from the material world that binds us to a cycle of suffering, but it stands in stark counterpoint to the product it's being used to sell.


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Surrey Police confirmed officers questioned the Jim'll Fix It star under caution in 2007 in relation to the claims, but said senior prosecutors decided there was insufficient evidence to charge him.
The force revealed details of its investigation after a number of alleged victims accused the late radio and television presenter of sexually abusing them.
In a TV documentary due to be screened on Wednesday, Sir Jimmy is said to have preyed on girls in his Rolls-Royce and at BBC Television Centre in a series of alleged incidents dating back over four decades.
Speaking on Exposure: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile, one woman tells how she met the star at a school in Surrey in 1974 when she was 14 before he assaulted her in his caravan which was parked in the school grounds.
A number of other sexual abuse allegations involving the former Top Of The Pops host and under-aged girls have also surfaced in newspaper reports, with many women claiming to be speaking out over their alleged ordeals for the first time.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Surrey Police said: "In 2007 Surrey Police received an historic allegation of indecent assault which is alleged to have occurred at a children's home in Staines during the 1970s. The allegation was investigated and an individual was interviewed under caution. The matter was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision who advised there was insufficient evidence to take any further action."
Friends and relations of the flamboyant bachelor have expressed their upset that the allegations are being made when Sir Jimmy, who died last year at the age of 84, is no longer around to defend himself.
Roger Foster, Sir Jimmy's nephew, said: "The guy hasn't been dead for a year yet and they're bringing these stories out. It could affect his legacy, his charity work, everything. I'm very sad and disgusted."
A spokesman for ITV defended its programme, saying it was the result of an "in-depth investigation into long-standing allegations of serious and widespread sexual misconduct" by Sir Jimmy.


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Optical/near-IR integral field (or 3D) spectroscopy is now a well developed field, with integral field units (IFUs) being operated on a large number of ground- and space-based telescopes. With IFUs integrated into JWST's main instruments, and a range of IFUs being planned for next-generation ELTs (GMT, TMT, E-ELT), we are now in the era of IFUs. The time is therefore ripe to review the current science being done with integral field spectrographs, and how IFU-based science from future observatories will transform our understanding of many features of our solar system, star formation, galaxy evolution, and cosmology.
This workshop will be held at STScI between 26-28th October 2010, with the aim of bringing together researchers from around the world to foster the sharing of knowledge and experience regarding the field of IFS. This is critical for stimulating scientifically productive and inventive uses of these complex and versatile instruments, and for bettering our understanding of how to analyse the often overwhelming complexity of data they produce. This will be the first international meeting concentrating on IFU-based science to be held in the USA, and follows a series of similar workshops that have been held in Europe over the last few years.
The major goals of this workshop are threefold: (1) to highlight the current science being done with integral field spectrographs on large ground-based (Keck, VLT, etc.) and space- based (Herschel) telescopes; (2) explore the capabilities of the JWST MIRI and NIRSpec IFUs, and their synergies with those planned for current and future ground- and space- based telescopes; and (3) review the powerful and innovative techniques used to analyse IFU data cubes to maximise the useful information available and visualise/present results.
Confirmed invited speakers:
- Roger Davies (Oxford)
- James Larkin (UCLA)
- Tracy Beck (STScI)
- Natascha Foerster Schreiber (MPE)
- Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann (UFGRS, Brazil)
- Torsten Boeker (ESA)
- Phil Appleton (IPAC/Caltech)
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Registration opens: 11th June 2010
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We have held a block of rooms at a reduced rate at The Inn at the Colonnade hotel for workshop participants. Click on the link to reserve a room.
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Our ten ton hydraulic breaker HB 10000 has over the years become an international bestseller. Now we are celebrating our first sales of the breaker in Germany. The company Mendiger Basalt has been using an HB 10000 for gravel extraction since January 2016 – and thanks to its high levels of efficiency and performance – now considers it to be a commercial alternative to blasting.
The HB 10000 is being used to extract basalts from the lower basalt lava flow in the wall of a quarry near Mendig. Mendiger Basalt is working closely with A.B.T. Abbruchtechnik GmbH who have 12 years' experience as an Atlas Copco sales partner. With its in-depth service expertise, A.B.T. is helping Mendiger Basalt achieve the highest extraction performance from the breaker with maximum availability and efficiency.
The HB 7000 had been used very successfully at the Mendig quarry for the last three years. When this machine reached its performance limit in mid-2015 it was an easy decision to change over to the HB 10000.
Mendiger Basalt has been researching alternative stone recovery methods for a long time as the use of explosives in sensitive areas is very complicated due to shocks. The company is using hydraulic breakers for direct extraction alongside alternative explosives and a range of mechanical demolition equipment. This is the method used to extract basalt lava, basalt and tuff in the company's five quarries. In the adjacent saw mill the 50 employees produce ballast and high-grade chippings as well as high-quality sawn products.
" The HB 7000 showed us the correct route to pursue and in many sectors the hitting force of this breaker would be enough to meet our needs (120 to/h extraction performance). However, we recognised that many areas are particularly firm and compacted and these are harder to loosen. With approximately 30% more hitting energy the HB 10000's performance is very impressive and has enabled us to develop more difficult extraction areas commercially. "
After many years of explosion-free demolition of hard stone, the responsible officer at Mendig has established that the cost of using a hydraulic breaker is not significantly higher than conventional blasting, as the total cost of the crushing process must include the cost of any additional reductions needed when carrying out explosive work.
Rainer Krings praises the benefit of making the material crush-ready in one work step. "In addition, we do not lose any time due to safety precautions and cordoned-off zones which are required when working with explosives."


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Lessons from Mother Nature - Tongariro
Mother Nature is one of the best therapists you'll ever encounter. She'll make you face up to fears you never knew you had, and tell you what others won't.
Anyone who thinks children are the only ones who can teach you patience and humility hasn't met Mother Nature.
Mother Nature is one of the best therapists you'll ever encounter. She'll make you face up to fears you never knew you had. She'll help you understand your place in the world. She's not afraid to tell you what others are reluctant to say – you're not invincible, your confidence needs work, you're capable of far more than you realised.
In New Zealand, there are no shortages of places to learn from her, but if you're traveling through the North Island, Tongariro National Park takes some beating.
Tongariro National Park is located in the Central North Island and includes three mountains – Mt Ruapehu, Mt Ngauruhoe and Mt Tongariro.
Tongariro National Park is famed for its spectacular walks, challenging mountain bike tracks and as one of the core backdrops for The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy (Mt Ngauruhoe starred as Mt Doom).
By far the best known walking track within the park is The Tongariro Crossing. The Crossing is one of New Zealand's Great Walks and is considered, for good reason, the best one day hike in the country. The track takes hikers up and across, not surprisingly, Mt Tongariro, with the option to also climb Mt Ngauruhoe on the way.
I was young the first time I got the chance to walk the Tongariro Crossing. While I was keen, I wasn't entirely convinced.
The prospect of walking almost 2000m straight up filled me with dread - would I be able to make it? How would my legs hold up? Would my super-fit walking companions be patient if I needed to take it slowly? With the support of my companions and after a little reading I decided I wouldn't let my nerves get the better of me.
We headed up Tongariro in late October, and as I climbed the last few metres of scoria to reach the summit, the sense of pride and achievement I experienced was awesome. I'd done it! I'd climbed my very first mountain.
Unfortunately, these feelings were short lived - as is often the case in the mountains, the day had started beautifully, but by early afternoon was looking decidedly grim. After we reached the perimeter of Tongariro's crater, the weather had taken a serious turn for the worst.
Remember - you're not invincible.
With the wind becoming increasingly strong and visibility weakening, everyone on the track that day was faced with the very difficult task of assessing the risks and making the call - continue on, or abandon the way forward and retrace all those steps back?
The Hut we intended staying in overnight was a little over an hours walk further down the track. It's never easy when you've come so far to make the call to turn back. The thought of climbing back down the hardest section (aptly named the Devils Staircase) wasn't an attractive prospect for any of us.
But, after careful consideration, all but two people on the track that day decided the risk was too high and turned back.
Later that evening, after a long, slow walk back to the track entrance and a rather hair-raising car ride with a local personality to the Whakapapa Visitors Centre on Mt Ruapehu, we were shocked, but not surprised, to learn that a man and his son had gone missing on Tongariro - the same two people who'd forged ahead while the rest of us decided to abandon our plans for another day.
The weather closed in on the mountain so severely that the pair spent two freezing nights in the open until rescue teams were able to reach them. I'm sure this is one experience they'll remember for very different reasons to me.
My second attempt at The Crossing was entirely different. Years later, and with a much higher degree of outdoor confidence and fitness, I was given the chance to climb her again.
Don't expect the same thing twice.
After my first experience on Tongariro, I wondered if we might encounter similar changing conditions, but the contrast couldn't have been more extreme.
My second ascent was completed in picture perfect conditions. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and we managed to walk the full track in just over 7 hours. The chance to experience the Craters of the Moon, the stunning Emerald Lakes and Ketetahi Hut in full sun was an experience I'll never forget.
With weather this good, my companions found stories of my previous encounter with the mountain hard to believe.
When you venture into the outdoors, you quickly learn that you're only there because Mother Nature has allowed you to be. Regardless what your plans are, she always has her own. You never know what she may choose to throw at you, but you can almost be guaranteed it'll be different every time, so always be prepared.
Facts about Tongariro National Park for the visitor:
The central area of the North Island is an active volcanic area. Lake Taupo formed several thousand years ago by a gigantic volcanic explosion (bigger than Mt St Helens and Krakatoa combined). There are reports detailing how seriously the eruption affected the Earth's atmosphere – the Romans described the Sun turning Blood Red and the Chinese documented the sky turning black as a result of the tons of ash that had been blasted in to space.
Tongariro National Park is located immediately south of Lake Taupo and covers an area of almost 80,000 hectares. The three mountains in the park – Tongariro, Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, are all active volcanoes. Ruapehu is the most active, with significant eruptions occurring as recently as 1995-1996.
The Park was gifted by the local Maori Chief to the Crown in the 1800's as a way of protecting the spiritual and cultural significance of the place. This was the first time an indigenous race had gifted land to a Colonial power and resulted in the preservation of the region as a place for all to enjoy. It was an act of extreme foresight.
Tongariro National Park has been a World Heritage Site since 1991 and subsequently awarded Cultural World Heritage Status in 1994.
First time visitors are advised to visit the Department of Conservation (DoC) Visitors Centre at Whakapapa for information before venturing in to the park.
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My first time posting on Think Atheist, so I thought some of you might find this to be interesting.
Ran across this today (http://worldviewwarriors.blogspot.com/2012/09/proof-of-worldwide-fl...)...a blog by the name of "Worldview Warriors" arguing for a biblical flood using this argument:
"The first obvious sign that a worldwide flood occurred is that there would be thousands upon thousands, millions upon millions of dead creatures buried underneath the surface of the earth. When we look at Geology, guess what? This is exactly what we find: thousands upon thousands and millions upon millions of creatures buried beneath the earth. Unfortunately, before secular humanists got their hands on the fossil record, creationists were poorly interpreting the fossils that were buried underground, which paved the way for secular scientists popularizing more scientific interpretations of the fossils. Today, creationists fight to set the record straight despite the fact that their interpretations are more reasonable and more logical than that of secularists."
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- the extremely good sorting observed. Why didn't at least one dinosaur make it to the high ground with the elephants?
- the relative positions of plants and other non-motile life. (Yun, 1989, describes beautifully preserved algae from Late Precambrian sediments. Why don't any modern-looking plants appear that low in the geological column?)
I read similar points in Dawkins recently (Greatest Show on Earth) and I have to admit I facepalmed. Why did that not occur to me?
This shows the value of what I call "unapologetics"--rebuttals of arguments by Christians, both about evolution and about Christianity per se. (I use the term because I won't apologize for being an atheist and for disagreeing with them, hence an unapology; also it's truly the opposite of a Christian apologetic. I know, strictly speaking that an "apologetic" doesn't mean saying one is sorry, but the play on the different meanings is too good to resist.)
Without a lot of these unapologetics mind, all it takes for a Christian to possibly win you over is to have an argument that seems good on the face of it; if you can't see the flaw, you could be screwed, he could convince you he has a point.
I was raised atheist, but not raised with the tools to fight off a clever Xian apologist--the idiots, of course, had no effect on me. Neither was my brother; he ended up converting, and it took him thirty years to shake it off.
I was nearly taken in by arguments re: Josephus given to me by someone I trusted because of a friendship that went back 15 years; fortunately I found unapologetics, good solid arguments that the Josephus quote that is supposed to prove a historical, miracle working Jesus, is a forgery. Once you read those arguments and read the Josephus quote in context, it's obvious that the argument that it is a forgery is correct. I called my friend on his argument; I wonder if he ever tried to use it on someone else. I wouldn't be surprised, and I am disappointed in him if so.
It doesn't take just intelligence to see through the better arguments by the other side, but intelligence armed with arguments someone else came up with (validated, of course by your own though process), since no one of us is smart enough to see every hole or know every factual error, I mean lie, that they will exploit.
On the creationist site referenced above, one of the commenters is suggesting that the biblical, "fountains of the deep" (as he takes it to mean underground water, though anyone who has read the first two chapters of Genesis, knows that "the deep" refers to space, or an off-earth area), were the result of water being released from storage in hydrous wadsleyite.
This from Wikipedia:
Hydrous wadsleyite is a considered a potential site for water storage in the Earth's mantle due to the low electrostatic potential of the underbonded oxygen atoms. Wadsleyite is found to be stable in the transition zone of the Earth's upper mantle. These regions are between 400 and 525 km in depth.
There is one argument and one statement in the text.
The argument deals with the flood:
The error with this, from a formal logic standpoint, is that, while the premise is true, it does not provide logically conclusive support for the conclusion offered. Though it may be that a flood would create lots of buried dead creatures, a flood is not necessary to create this condition, and it may be caused by other course of events. From a practical argumentation standpoint, it is a conductive argument which lacks support, both in the amount of premises and especially the lack of counter-considerations.
The statement deals with the interpretation of the fossil record:
Clearly, it is intended to imitate an argument, but is in fact a statement of (perceived) fact. The conclusion is not based on the premises offered, but an explanation of the rationale behind the work of creationists.
One of the comments I posted on the "Worldview Warriors" website is one I've posted here in the past, about the airtightness of the ark, the fact that according to this god's own blueprints, there was only one window in the ark, 18" X 18", and it was kept closed until the very end, when the birds were released. I then explained how much methane a single cow produces in a day, calculated the volume of the ark's interior, and proved that only 250 cow-sized animals could entirely fill up the ark with methane in less than the time the ark was afloat. I went on to explain that with only one window, and it closed, there would have been no light in the ark, and that any lanterns or candles would have resulted in an explosion that would have rivaled a meth lab.
This is a comment I got back:
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@ archaeopteryx
Your methane comment made me laugh so hard I almost woke up my family. :) It was funny. I wasn't laughing at your "facts" in the comment.
Again though, you are making some serious assumptions and you do not even realize it. You assume that the used some sort of "fire" for lighting. Question: since that world was destroyed, is it possible that some other form of light could have been used? Possibly even something like a glow stick. Chemicals combining to make light? Is it possible, is all I am asking.
Regarding the animals, is it possible that they went into a hibernation like state during most of the journey? Again, is it possible? You see, you are making assumptions to the record. As am I. I'm willing to admit it because I wasn't there to do a very important thing, observe it. Are you willing to admit that, if the story is true, you we not there to observe it either?
Bronze Age glow sticks and suspended animation - Confirmation Bias -- tsk, tsk.
If I'm not mistaken, they were milking the cows and goats during the journey. Sort of precludes hibernation.
No mention of milking cows - I guess that was Sunday school narrative and not in the Holey Scripture, :D
The thing I always found quirky was how Yahweh was on speaking terms with Noah before and after the flood, yet Noah had to rely on birds to figure out whether or not it was safe to leave the ark.
Probably to reiterate the effectiveness of bird signs. You know, because that was kind of like the weather channel back then.
Theists try so hard to prove that their thesis MIGHT be true and then conclude that since it MIGHT BE TRUE, it MUST BE TRUE.
They obviously start with the thesis that there was a flood, and then look for confirming evidence. A real scientist would be looking for DISconfirming evidence.
Well, theists claim that the Grand Canyon was carved by thr rushing waters of the flood, but everyone knows it was made by Paul Bunyon dragging his axe!
This was my response:
Actually JD70, it was originally a little longer and a lot funnier, but these comments are limited to 4096 characters and I had to cut some to get it all in.
According to Bishop Ussher, the"flood" allegedly occurred in 2300+ BCE, but Genesis wasn't written until 950 BCE, some 1300 years later. As mentioned earlier, the entire Noahic story was plagiarized from the Akkadian flood in Mesopotamia, 600 years earlier. Using Occam's Razor, which is more likely, that someone within the Jewish community decided it would help unite the Jews if they had some heroic figures as role models, so they plagiarized the Ziusudra story, making the hero Jewish, rather than Akkadian - or, is it more likely that Bronze Age Hebrew nomads had glow sticks and suspended animation technology?
So you destroy his argument in a toilet-humory way and all he can see is the humor... not just that you (so to speak) blew his whole "theory" away. (I shouldn't dignify it with the word "theory" as that puts it on par with something epistemically respectable like evolution, so I had to use sarcasm-quotes.)


text: « Return to Search Researchers Describe Outcomes of Surgical Procedure to Treat Neck Muscle Problems August 01, 2011 Researchers Describe Outcomes of Surgical Procedure to Treat Neck Muscle Problems Contact: Mary Leach, Director , Public Affairs 617-573-4170 CHICAGO – Removing a portion of the platysma muscle may ease symptoms for patients experiencing chronic neck stiffness and involuntary movement, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In previous research, removal of parts of the platysma — the muscle stretching from the shoulders and chest through the neck — appeared successful in alleviating hypertonicity (muscular rigidity), according to background information in the article. The authors, who had begun to use muscle-transfer surgeries to treat facial paresis [paralysis], noticed that the platysma was often hypertrophic (thickened) in these cases. They hypothesized that surgically removing part of the muscle could reduce hypertrophy, as well as hypertonicity and synkinesia (involuntary movement). "We began to offer the procedure to patients with hypertonic facial paresis and clinically evident platysmal synkinesis if they demonstrated a favorable response to chemodenervation [chemically induced paralysis] of the platysma with botulinum toxin," the researchers write. Douglas K. Henstrom, M.D., and colleagues from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, reported on the outcomes and quality of life (QoL) of patients who underwent the procedure at their facility between October 2009 and August 2010. The procedure involved making an incision to expose the platysma and then removing, in segments, a one-centimeter band of the muscle. The operation was performed with local anesthesia on 19 patients, and with general anesthesia on five patients who simultaneously underwent a muscle graft to correct their inability to smile. Of the 24 patients, 21 successfully completed Facial Clinimetric Evaluation (FaCE) surveys both before and after the surgery. The researchers reported no complications during or immediately after the operations; the average time between the procedure and the last follow-up visit was 88 days. Overall, the 21 patients who completed FaCE surveys (after an average of roughly eight weeks for the postoperative survey) reported that their neck symptoms had significantly improved and that their general QoL was better. Five patients noted that their overall QoL had decreased, but that their neck symptoms had not changed or had improved. "Platysmectomy in patients with hypertonic facial movement after facial paralysis seems to improve overall quality of life and the amount of time the neck feels tense or tight," write the authors. Future research will investigate how the procedure might affect the ability to smile, and whether a similar procedure might ease rigidity of other facial muscles. (Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2011;13[4]:239-243.) ### Founded in 1824, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an independent specialty hospital providing patient care for disorders of the eye, ear, nose, throat, head and neck. Mass. Eye and Ear is an international leader in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology research and a teaching partner of Harvard Medical School. For more information, call 617-523-7900 or visit http://www.masseyeandear.org/. Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc. (Press Release via JAMA-archives)


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Unicon, Inc., a leading IT consulting services provider specializing in open source for the education market, announced today that it will offer a Rapid Start uMobile package for institutions needing to deploy an economic, next-generation mobile solution quickly and easily. With the Rapid Start uMobile package, institutions can deliver on-demand, authenticated mobile content via mobile browsers or native applications. Modules in the package include announcements, calendar, campus map, campus news/ RSS feeds, directory, search, videos, and custom static content (e.g. text or imagery). uMobile is open source software supported by Jasig. The Jasig community has developed optional modules that can be integrated with campus feeds/ information. These include athletics, computer lab alert, courses, dining menu, and laundry alert.
uMobile provides an enterprise framework for an institution to target its applications, content, and data in a mobile environment. Designed by and for higher education, uMobile's lightweight codebase contains authentication, groups and permissions, layout management, and preferences out of the box. uMobile is an extremely mature product with the support of a highly active open source community. uMobile's native app currently supports iPhone™ and Android™ devices. Browser-based mobile support is available for iPhone and Android, as well as smartphones based on recent versions of the Blackberry®, Windows Mobile®, webOS®, Samsung bada®, and MeeGo™ operating systems.
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Congressman Hoyer is strongly committed to public education and believes that we must continue to invest in Maryland schools so they remain among the best in the nation.
Congressman Hoyer is focused on ensuring Maryland students have the education and skills they need for the jobs of today and tomorrow. That's why he has made training and securing a twenty-first century workforce a core component of the Make It In America jobs plan, a legislative agenda he is leading in Congress to strengthen domestic manufacturing and create middle-class jobs here at home. The Make It In America plan aims to strengthen job-training initiatives so that more Americans have the skills and education needed to fill well-paying, manufacturing jobs.
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Congressman Hoyer also helped prevent 300,000 educator layoffs across our nation during the Great Recession. Additionally, he helped to enact the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which made critical investments in higher education by significantly increasing funding for Pell Grants, making loan repayment more affordable by expanding the Income Based Repayment program, and providing $2 billion to strengthen our community colleges.
Finally, he continues to support investments in education for disadvantaged students and students with disabilities, funding for teacher professional development, and Pell Grant awards for students pursuing higher education.
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Congressman Hoyer believes it is shameful that women earn 77 cents on the dollar compared to men in the workplace – a pay gap of 23 percent. While the gap in Maryland's Fifth District is closing, with women making around 90 cents on the dollar compared to men, Congressman Hoyer is focused on taking additional steps to ensure equal pay for equal work.
Congressman Hoyer helped pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to protect women against pay discrimination and help close the gender gap in wages. It was the first piece of legislation President Obama signed into law, and Congressman Hoyer is committed to building on this progress. He continues to urge his colleagues to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which he is proud to co-sponsor, a bill that would provide better legal remedies for people who have experienced pay discrimination.
With more women than ever as primary breadwinners, Congressman Hoyer is committed to the fight for equal pay, and he'll keep fighting for equal compensation because our families deserve it.
Our nation's federal workforce is among the best in the world, and Congressman Hoyer is proud to represent thousands of federal employees and retirees. In Congress, he has led the fight for fair pay and benefits, with a strong focus on ensuring pay parity between military and civilian personnel, as well as quality health care coverage, a solid retirement system, and fair working conditions. In 1990, he drafted and helped secure passage of the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act to help ensure fairness in pay and comparability to similar work outside the Federal government.
In recent years, federal employees have been asked to contribute $182 billion toward deficit reduction through freezes to cost-of-living-adjustments and changes to retirement benefits, and Congressman Hoyer has consistently opposed efforts to further target federal workers' wages, benefits, and hours of federal employees. Additionally, he opposes the arbitrary and untargeted spending cuts known as sequestration, which resulted in furloughs for many federal employees in 2013. Congressman Hoyer continues to urge his colleagues to work on a bipartisan basis to replace the sequester and prevent additional furloughs in the future.
For Congressman Hoyer, health care reform is about giving American families and small businesses -- not insurance companies -- control over their health care. For far too long, America's health insurance system has made health care more costly, less accessible, and less efficient for families and small businesses.
Today, the Affordable Care Act is making a significant difference for Maryland families. The law is slowing the growth of health care costs, has ended the practice of denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, and banned annual and lifetime limits on health coverage benefits. Parents are now able to keep their children on their health care plans until they are 26 and Marylanders with private insurance have gained coverage for free preventive health care services, such as mammograms, birth control, or immunizations. The law also makes prescription coverage for seniors more affordable and makes Medicare stronger by extending the program's solvency.
Congressman Hoyer has also fought to protect our children by working to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program, which currently provides health insurance for more than 7 million children. Further, he's supported increased oversight to help protect the health of American consumers, including voting to improve food safety efforts and supporting a new law that allows FDA regulation of tobacco.
As we continue to rebuild and grow our economy, Congressman Steny Hoyer understands that we have to stay focused on job creation, support for our small businesses, and investments in the future. That's why he's taking the lead on the "Make It In America" plan to strengthen American manufacturing and support the creation of well-paying, middle-class jobs. When more products are made in America, more families will be able to Make It In America.
Congressman Hoyer continues to fight for economic growth and job creation throughout Maryland. He has worked to create or save nearly 23,000 jobs across the Fifth District, including jobs at Patuxent River Naval Air Station; St. Inigoes; the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head; and Goddard Space Flight Center.
Congressman Hoyer understands that small businesses are the job-creating engine of our economy. He worked to secure billions of dollars in tax cuts for small businesses, including those businesses that hire unemployed workers. And when Maryland business owners told him that they were struggling to get access to credit, Congressman Hoyer fought to create a Small Business Lending Fund, so businesses in Maryland and across our country can get the loans they need to innovate, grow, and hire. As a result, lending to small businesses in Maryland has increased by over $394 million.
Addressing the Fifth District's transportation needs is important to local communities, and it is a priority for Congressman Hoyer. The Fifth District is one of the fastest growing areas in the state of Maryland, and Congressman Hoyer has worked very closely with state and local officials to ensure that our transportation infrastructure is prepared to meet the needs of Fifth District residents, businesses, and federal facilities.
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Congressman Steny Hoyer is proud to represent thousands of service members, veterans, and military families, and he believes in honoring the service of these brave men and women and in keeping faith with them when they return home.
Congressman Hoyer is focused on improving health care for veterans and ensuring they receive the benefits the have earned in a timely manner and with fewer errors. He has strengthened veterans' care by expanding mental health services, increasing access to health care in rural areas, and improving care for over 2 million female veterans. He also fought to pass the 21st Century GI Bill, which funds four years of higher education for all of our veterans who have served actively since 9/11, which means college opportunities for over 2 million veterans.
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Maryland's veterans have stood up for our country and Congressman Hoyer will continue to stand up for them.


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Just released.... 2 hours of tutorials on iZoptope's Stutter Edit showing you how to make a bank of presets, including filter sweeps, delays, flangers, loopers, stutters, bit crushers, FX sweeps and more! All ideal for performing or producing. A must watch for anyone wanting to master the plug.
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iZotope's Stutter Edit has now established itself one of the most popular effects plugins on the market, finding a home in the collection of most producers and DJs due to its great sound, versatility and multitude of uses both in the studio and on stage. In this course, Producertech senior tutor Rob Jones works his way through the plugin, skilfully explaining how each area works whilst constructing a new bank of presets from scratch.
After showing how to set up the effect in Ableton Live, Logic and Maschine, Rob begins with some examples of how to create simple effects progressions, called gestures, starting off with high- and low- pass filter sweeps. He then moves on to the main Stutter sections, taking you through the principles behind each one before building a number of different presets, including classic, looping buildups, choppy, time-stretched beat destroyers and much more.
As well as using Stutter Edit's sections to create some more traditional effects like flangers and bit-crushers, Rob shows how they can also be used to make really useful vinyl scrubbing effects and subtler send effects layers. He then moves onto the plugin's generator engine, which allows the programming of a variety of noise-based impacts and riser FX presets.
The 2 hours of streamed tutorials come with the bank from the course, containing 15 highly usable presets. Before signing up, check out the sample modules, for an example of the teaching style and course content.
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text: Celebrations, Desserts, Gifts, My Work 5 Ways to Decorate Store-Bought Pies The holiday preparation continues this week on the blog. Today I want to showcase 5 easy ways to decorate store-bought pies for the holidays. Supermarket pies can still look beautiful and will taste even better with my ideas for some fun toppings and additions. Walmart challenged me to share a fun Thanksgiving project with you and I knew that this was a topic that I have been thinking about a lot. Although we have a fantastic pumpkin pie recipe on here and even a step-by-step picture tutorial for making the perfect pie crust, I know that many of us just don't have the desire to tackle pie baking. This post is especially for you and I hope you can create a swoon-worthy dessert table that will leave people guessing if you made those pies or not. Add a Delicious Homemade Topping Although your pie may not be homemade, your toppings can really stand out with just a few simple ingredients that will add a lot of flavor to your pie. One of my favorite toppings is a Spiced Whipped Cream that gets its hint of spices from ground cinnamon, ground ginger, and a little sugar. It is the perfect accompaniment to your store-bought pumpkin or pecan pies for the holidays. Another idea for layering on the flavors is to add texture through a fun crunchy pie topping. One of our favorites that I created for our pies last year was an easy Cranberry Crunch Pie Topping made from amaretto cookies and fresh cranberries. Add Unique Details One of the greatest tools that I got for my holiday baking this past year was a set of piecrust cutters that I found on Williams Sonoma. Not only are these great tools to keep handy for masking any flaws on your homemade crusts, but they can double as a great detail to adorn store-bought pies. Purchase pie crust from the refrigerated section of the store and then roll out on a lightly floured surface. Dip your cutters in a little flour and then push down and press these cutters to create your shape. Bake these adorable details in a 400 degree oven for 6-8 minutes on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Allow these to cool and then decorate the tops of your pies with these. These little details are also so pretty to sprinkle on your dessert table and add that extra festive touch. Make a Mini Pie Spread When I spotted these adorable mini pies in the bakery section, I knew this would be another fun spin on pies to try for the holidays. These mini pies are only $.68 each and come in a variety of flavors year-round. For smaller families, these store-bought pies offer the perfect serving size and give everyone exactly what they love the most. Adorn these with the smaller size pastry cutouts and add a bowl of spiced whipped cream in the center so that everyone can create their own pie experience. Give the Gift of Pie One of my favorite things to give as a hostess gift is a sweet treat for their hospitality. Nothing is sweeter than a little individual treat just for me after entertaining, at least that is my opinion, and one of my favorite gifts to give happens to be my little peppermint cheesecakes in a jar. If you are short on time though, consider purchasing these mini pies as hostess gifts for the holidays. Dress it simply in some festive ribbon and tie a bow around it to create a sweet little gift to give for the holidays. At just $.68 each, these are a sweet way to say thank you without spending a lot. Create a Beautiful Display I love that when I posted a picture of this pie display on Instagram & Facebook that people were asking if this was even real. I think it really goes to show that with a few easy details and staging, you can take store-bought pies to another level. With this display I used mismatched cake stands in varying heights to create a display. Don't be afraid to drape a cloth napkin over a stand to make it cohesive or even create a stand out of a teacup and plate and cover it with the cloth napkin, if you are short on serving pieces. If you have multiple dishes out, consider adding these cute chalkboard label frames to help people navigate the dessert table. Sprinkle pastry cutouts along the tablecloth to decorate the display and pull in leaves, bare branches, or create a unique centerpiece like I did this year to add some color to the table. I hope these ideas are inspiring and that you will find a new way to love store-bought pies this year with these creative details! Oh, and enjoy all that free time you have now that you aren't baking this year. Winning! Pin It Published November 11, 2013 by: Amy Allen Clark is the founder of MomAdvice.com. You can read all about her here. Freebie Friday November 8, 2013 Knitted Sweater Coffee Cozies