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Will George A. Romero ever conclude his Dead series? Yes, but, if Survival of the Dead performs well at the box office, not anytime soon. I chatted with Romero earlier this afternoon, and he continually expressed his thanks for having the opportunity to make one zombie film, let alone six. He's had such good fortune with the series, the ideas must always be brewing and he's got some new ones up his sleeve should Survival be a hit.
In hopes that film #5, Diary of the Dead, would hit it big, Romero started formulating a plan for the future and came up with not one, but three concepts. "I actually came up with three ideas based off Diary of the Dead," he revealed. "Each of the story ideas take a character from Diary and follows them on their own adventure and they meet each other and the plot points coalesce."
Survival takes care of the first character, Sarge (Alan Van Sprang), the guy who raids the RV of the main characters in Diary and becomes a central player in Survival, but who's next? "There's a group of looters, African Americans, that are sort of holed up in the city and that would be probably the next group," Romero explained. "Then I'd sort of wrap it all up with the blond character, Tracy, who gets away at the end from our main group."
Romero is well aware that Survival could be his last zombie film, and while I didn't love the movie, I am pulling for him to keep it all going. He proposes an interesting idea at the end of Survival that has the potential to be expanded in subsequent films.
But, if this is indeed the finale, Romero won't be left empty handed. He mentioned two other scripts that are "in the bullpen" that he's already secured financing for. Oddly enough, neither of them is in the zombie genre. He said, "One is just a little personal film that I'd really like to make and one is horror, but it's not zombie." More Dead films, his passion project or whatever, Romero's four-decade-long career isn't likely to slow down anytime soon.


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Yeah it lasted like 15 mins.
Quote from: kyuusei on November 23, 2012, 03:52:32 PMYeah it lasted like 15 mins. You made a typo: it's hours, not mins.EDIT: Ok, NOW it's gone for real.
http://gematsu.com/2012/11/rumor-3ds-price-to-drop-to-140Boy, if this proves true then I'm glad I got ignored held off on making a purchase on Friday.
Just grabbed the AC Playstation Vita Bundle on Amazon for $179 just a few minutes ago. It just started and is supposed to last all day, but it might go quick...

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Bevacizumab or Pemetrexed Disodium Alone or In Combination After Induction Therapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01107626
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : April 21, 2010
Last Update Posted : December 13, 2018
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as paclitaxel and carboplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Bevacizumab may also stop the growth of non-small cell lung cancer by blocking blood flow to the tumor. Pemetrexed disodium may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some enzymes needed for cell growth. It is not yet known whether giving bevacizumab or pemetrexed disodium alone or in combination is more effective in treating non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying bevacizumab and pemetrexed disodium alone or in combination after induction therapy to see how well they work in treating patients with advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
|Condition or disease
|Lung Cancer
|Biological: bevacizumab Drug: pemetrexed disodium
|Phase 3
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|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|1282 participants
|None (Open Label)
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|Official Title:
|Randomized Phase III Study of Maintenance Therapy With Bevacizumab, Pemetrexed, or a Combination of Bevacizumab and Pemetrexed Following Carboplatin, Paclitaxel and Bevacizumab for Advanced Non-Squamous NSCLC
|Study Start Date :
|August 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|July 31, 2019
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|May 8, 2020
Experimental: Arm I
Patients receive bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on day 1
Biological: bevacizumab
Given IV
Experimental: Arm II
Patients receive pemetrexed IV over 10 minutes on days 1.
Drug: pemetrexed disodium
Given IV
Experimental: Arm III
Patients receive bevacizumab as in arm I and pemetrexed as in arm II.
Biological: bevacizumab
Given IV
Drug: pemetrexed disodium
Given IV
- Overall survival
- Progression-free survival
- Objective response as measured by RECIST
- Toxicity
- Association between bevacizumab and pemetrexed disodium population pharmacokinetics
- Association between proteomic profiles and ICAM, VEGF, and FGF-beta with the clinical outcomes (Closed as of 04/01/2010)
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|18 Years to 120 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Cytologically or histologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
Predominant non-squamous histology
- NSCLC not otherwise specified allowed
- Mixed tumors are categorized by the predominant cell type
Must meet 1 of the following criteria:
- Stage IV disease including M1a or M1b stages or recurrent disease
- Stage IIIB (T4NX) disease with ipsilateral lung lobe allowed provided patients are not candidates for combined chemotherapy or radiotherapy
- Measurable or non-measurable disease as defined by RECIST criteria
- Patient must have an overall stable or better response after 4 courses of induction therapy
- No cavitary lesions in the lungs
- Patients with brain metastasis must have received local therapy to the brain and have no evidence of progression in the brain for at least 2 weeks from the time of completion of local therapy, prior to registration
- ECOG performance status 0-1
- Leukocytes ≥ 3,000/mm^3
- ANC ≥ 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3
- Total bilirubin ≤ institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST and ALT ≤ 3 times ULN
- Creatinine ≤ institutional ULN OR creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min
- Urine protein:urine dipstick ≤ 0-1+ (if > 1+, urine protein creatinine ratio must be < 1)
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must agree to abstain from sexual intercourse or to use adequate contraceptive methods during and for at least 6 months after completion of study therapy
- No prior malignancy within the past 3 years except superficial melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, or carcinoma in situ
- No major hemoptysis within the past 4 weeks
No uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, any of the following:
- Ongoing or active infection
- Symptomatic congestive heart failure
- Unstable angina pectoris
- Serious cardiac arrhythmia
- Psychiatric illness and/or social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
- Patients with hypertension must be adequately controlled (BP < 150/100 mm Hg) with appropriate anti-hypertensive therapy or diet
- No history of arterial thrombotic events or major bleeding within the past 12 months
- No significant vascular disease (e.g., aortic aneurysm requiring surgical repair or recent peripheral arterial thrombosis) within the past 6 months
- No significant traumatic injury in the past 3 months
- No clinically significant cardiovascular disease
- No abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation, or intra-abdominal abscess within the past 6 months
- No history of serious non-healing wounds, ulcers, or bone fractures
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- At least 12 months since prior adjuvant chemotherapy
- At least 2 weeks since prior radiotherapy
Patients must not have had any major surgery such as thoracotomy, laparotomy, craniotomy, or significant traumatic injury within 6 weeks prior to registration
- Biopsy procedures and chest tube insertion are not considered major surgery for the purpose of this protocol
- More than 7 days since a core biopsy
- Concurrent therapeutic anti-coagulation allowed
- No prior systemic chemotherapy for advanced stage lung cancer
No prior paclitaxel, pemetrexed disodium, or bevacizumab
- Prior carboplatin allowed provided it was given as part of adjuvant chemotherapy
- No concurrent anti-retroviral therapy in patients with HIV infection
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01107626
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|Principal Investigator:
|Suresh Ramalingam, MD
|Emory University
|Responsible Party:
|Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01107626 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|April 21, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 13, 2018
|Last Verified:
|December 2018
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Keywords provided by Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group:
recurrent non-small cell lung cancer
stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer
stage IV non-small cell lung cancer
adenocarcinoma of the lung
bronchoalveolar cell lung cancer
large cell lung cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
Bronchial Neoplasms
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
Antineoplastic Agents
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Growth Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Folic Acid Antagonists
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In a tight binding model, we usually start from the atomic orbits and linearly combine them to get the wave function of the crystal energy band.
My questions are:
Since this kind of tight binding is an approximate method due to using atomic orbits, is it exact to use the Wannier function formalism? If so, how do I get the Wannier function systematically?
What is the use of maximally localized Wannier functions?
Why can't we get the maximum localized Wannier function when the Berry phase is not zero?
Also, in tight binding, formalism, taking atomic orbits or Wannier functions as the basis function, respectively, what does position operator (diagonal or not), velocity operator and angular momentum operator look like?


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GnomeAnne wrote:Randallspeed my friend, I have decided to resume my blitz at NP 500, rereading the last few hundred pages from my previous attempt.
This will allow us to encourage and support each other in our journey through the vast reaches of the thread.
Sounds good! Tonight I made the push to reach NP 500 (~18.9%), so now we are relatively level. This parallel-blitz will be interesting. However, I only have 1 more entirely free day in the foreseeable future, so my reading rate will almost certainly and drastically slow soon.
GnommeAnne wrote:The Lego Batman film is the best Batman film
I have no experience of other Batman films with which to compare it. I also only have experience of one other LEGO film to compare, and I'm not sure which I prefer.
To everyone else; Despite reading them I do not yet understand the meaning of many posts, so I can not reply to them. I decided the best way to gain understanding should be to read the entire thread. Hence I have started.
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Well, the results are in…and it's a shocking upset!
It was down to the wire – the battle was settled by only a few votes on a single tag – but the rookie pulled out a victory: Mike is the family tag feud winner! The final score was 7 tags to 5 tags in his favor. That's the last time I teach him to do anything…
So…here's a look at the tags again, along with the reveal this time of who made which one, and a few random notes about what we did on them.
Day 1:
Results: Nancy 60%, Mike 40%
Nancy : The bingo card is a digital element that I resized and printed out. I had already attached it when I decided to use the music stamp, so I laid a blank index card over the bingo card as a protective mask while I stamped the music stamp.
Mike: He drew a line of Stickles and then smeared them with his finger to the distressed glitter effect. He says this is an old oil painting technique that he knew. The background is actually a collage created from torn pieces of paper that were glued down in layers.
Day 2:
This was the tag that ended up deciding the battle. It came down to less than two dozen votes and this one wasn't decided until down to the wire!
Nancy – The music stamp made another appearance on my work already on Day 2. It became a "go to" item for me. You'll notice as the feud went on that we both had our favorite items that we turned to again and again to use.
Mike – Mike's "go to" item also appeared on this day's tag, the Christmas tree stamp that he bought while we were out shopping. His other favorite item, Stickles, also appears here. The man is fascinated with Stickles!
Day 3:
Nancy – This holiday travel-themed piece has more texture in person than in the photo. I tried layering a lot of stamping techniques here and didn't get quite the effect that I had hoped for.
Mike -Mike wanted to experiment with the Cricut and this tag grew out of that. He embellished the moon cut-out with crackle and some other products just to see what could be done with it. He says he would have liked more crackle on the moon but found over the course of the tagging that none of our crackle stuff "crackled" as much as he would have liked (but it's possible he says that he's not using it right).
Day 4:
Nancy – This tag centered around me wanting to try using the floral Sizzix die to make a poinsettia flower. And the theme is a bit of a hidden message sent with the "What Do I really want?" and "Wish." The tie on it was made by dyeing a strip of fabric with some Studio Calico Color Mist – a detail that I was particularly proud of.
Mike – The music stamp makes an appearance on Mike's work! This was Mike playing with the fragments. He drilled the hole, mounted paper on it, Stickled it, etc., just to see what he could do with it.
Day 5:
Mike – Mike was trying here to see if he could bring a more familiar world (digital) into the look and feel that he'd been learning about in paper. He liked the result but kind of felt like he was cheating because he could never have done this in paper (the effects he used just couldn't be replicated in paper).
Nancy – As soon as I saw the tag of Tim Holtz's from 2007 that did this with the fragments, I knew I wanted to try my own version of it! The 3 flowers reflect my obsession with the rule of 3's – that elements should be placed in odd numbers. I was really happy with how this one came out.
Day 6:
Nancy – I hated this one…I knew what I was trying to do and it totally didn't come out anything like I envisioned. It's a bit better in person than it photographed, but I'm still not happy with it. The top part just has NO dimension, and the rub-on isn't straight, which really bugs me.
Mike – This was Mike's first effort at trying to use lighter colors. The tree stamp appears yet again…he says he used it a lot to see what would happen if he used it in different ways.
Day 7:
Nancy – This seriously may be my favorite of all of my tags! It's got texture and depth…and I love the color scheme. I love that it is so heavily vintage! I can't believe that I made something collage and vintage when I'm normally so heavily graphic in my layout of things. I was also excited that I managed to incorporate the Cricut cartridge that I love, A Child's Year.
Mike – His motivation was that he wanted to play with a bunch of different embellishments here. He made the packages from scrap paper. You'll notice it is, as it's base, another Christmas tree with Stickle balls on it. He says he learned from this that pre-made embellishments are HARD to use because they are opposite of what you would think – giving them somewhere to shine is hard, you can't just slap them down!
Day 8:
Mike – This is one of Mike's favorites even though the voters didn't receive it well. It was the digital world and the crafting world colliding – he used a lot of percentage blends and transparencies that you can't duplicate in straight ink and paper so it's a bit of a cheat in his opinion again. But he liked the way it came out.
Nancy – This was really simple in appearance but actually took me a long time of fussing over to get just right. I was really pleased with this one – it has more texture in person because of the embossing, and it has a bit of a folk art thing going that I was pleased that I pulled off.
Day 9:
Nancy – This tag skirted disaster but then came out really well I thought. I ADORE this bird die by Tim Holtz and just had to try it out when it arrived. The background has a lot of stuff on it – layers of ink, the music stamp (again), the painted edges, and the rub-ons of holly. I was really scared I was going to screw it up doing all that! But I was really happy with the final result.
Mike – Mike wanted to use the flowers and so everything started to turn pink as he built the tag around it. He was in a Stickles phase here. He became fascinated with the way Stickles worked doing this because, as he says, "the last time I played with glitter I was in preschool and it involved Elmer's glue" – and so it ended up very glittery. Every single tag I think that he did had Stickles (except the digital ones) because he said "it was amazing being able to pinpoint the glitter and when else but the holidays can you get away with that much glitter?"
Day 10:
Nancy – This photo was printed on a matte self-adhesive paper that is semi-transparent to make it kind of faded out. I think it makes it look kind of antique or like a polaroid in this application (although it looks better in person than it photographed because the flash faded it out more).
Mike – Another exercise here for Mike in playing with embellishments. He used a few smaller embellishments here and then the bells. The tree stamp makes an appearance again too! He also used a stamp as an embellishment which he hadn't really done before.
Day 11:
Nancy – This tag is a combination of my obsession with graphic layout & elements (the graph background, the joy to the world typeface, the tape) and very vintage elements. I love these sorts of elements like these cards but struggle to know how to use them. (I like how this came out though.) This is another example of my rule of 3 compulsion with the metal embellishments.
Mike – The tag was supposed to feel "old". The quarter was supposed to be reminiscent of back when a quarter would have been a good Christmas gift. He finds working with grunge paper very frustrating because it always seemed to shrink like a shrinky dink under a heat gun for him. Here he made that work to his advantage, and did that intentionally to the starfish since it kind of worked for this.
Day 12:
Nancy – The bird and cage are a hidden subtext here. The design is simple but all of the elements were extremely carefully created and detailed. I loved the color scheme that was created on the numbers when I painted the white crackle paint over red inked chipboard that wasn't apparently dry. The red bled into the paint for a nice pink effect.
Mike – Another variation on the tree, this tag is probably one of his least 4 favorites. He wanted to do a dark contrasty one this time. Actually there are only 3 colors in the whole tag, really. Basically it's a monochrome exercise. The one thing he says he still doesn't get about scrapbooking, and that he'd like to get feedback on – the swirl in the upper left corner is there to just fill space…he's still not sure what it actually brings to the tag. He says he knows it works but is not sure why that works.
In conclusion…some notes from Mike:
A few readers have been asking me to comment on my experience making our 12 tags this holiday season. There were numerous funny moments, frustrating moments, and amazing moments along the way. I'll take away those priceless memories along with two main impressions from my great paper crafting experiment.
#1: Paper crafting allows for far more creativity than I ever imagined
Having gone with Nancy on more than one journey to the local scrapbook stores and having a ton of exposure to the hobby over the years in many other ways, I still had the impression that paper crafting would feel limiting to me. My background is primarily digital having worked in the photography, digital design, and printing industry for the better part of the last two decades. I was sure that I would feel limited working in the analog world of pre-printed papers and the limited color palette of whatever inks and such might be in Nancy's current stash.
I was wrong. Using various techniques that Nancy was able to show me, along with watching some video tutorials from online sources such as the amazing Tim Holtz and others, I was able to create some amazingly satisfying complex and organic effects. In fact, it was the unpredictability of paper crafting that appealed to me the most.
#2: Paper crafting is hard
Not to sound insulting but my other opinion of paper crafting going into this exercise was that it was relatively easy. It seemed to me before this that so much of the hard work, the creative design, is often done for the artist through the use of pre-purchased embellishments, papers, fonts, etc. For me, paper crafting sounded sort of like putting a puzzle together. The challenge was putting the pieces together in the right order. The picture was just a result of being successful.
Again – wrong! Sure, a pre-printed sticker or piece of paper certainly gives the paper crafting artist a head start on their project. But I quickly learned that using pre-made pieces was no different than having a broad collection of paints and brushes. The skill is knowing how to use the resources you have and not trying to let the purchased materials do the work for you. I'm sure many of you see my limited talents shining through in most of my tags this year. Just pasting down a bunch of stickers and ribbon on a fancy piece of paper is not what paper crafting is about.
So, with a much deeper respect I bow to you the paper crafters of the world. I will happily hide back in my world of the pixel and the undo button for now and allow you all to continue to amaze me with your special skills and wonderful artistic creations. Thank you for letting me invade your craft for a few weeks, making me feel welcome, and even being kind enough to appreciate if not the result at least the intended result of my efforts.
Let's do this again sometime!
In conclusion…from Nancy:
First, I'd like to thank the talented Tim Holtz for inspiring this project with his 12 Tags of Christmas (and planting the seed for some other personal projects I am now planning thanks to my new obsession with tags). Tim not only does things that don't seem possible with inks and paper, but then he shows you that you can do them too – which is the most amazing part of what he does.
I'd also like to sincerely thank everyone who followed along with us on this journey. We never imagined that so many people would get so much enjoyment out of it. We really just started this as a way for Mike to share in my world of paper crafting and learn about it, and as a holiday activity to share together. It was a very special time for us as a family, sitting at the kitchen table together over our his-and-hers craft mats, and we are touched that so many people enjoyed sharing it with us. Thank you all.
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State GOP chair: McCain 'kind of like Jesus
Columbus — Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party's presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ. "John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross," Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. "He never denounced God, either." Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the United States while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. "I'm not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ, I'm looking at the pain that was there," she said.
Now we know that this woman worships the false god of America idolatry, culture, politics, economics (bull worship) in the place of Jesus Christ. People, America is not God the Father in any sense. America did not create the universe. A person can be totally disloyal towards the United States and still go to heaven because rejecting America is not a sin. If it is, then a lot of these religious right Christians are going to do do bellyflops into the lake of fire because so many of them hate Canada, France, Russia, and pretty much the entire third world. The very people that are so in love with the American flag that they physically threaten their own pastor over removing the flag from the pulpit are not likely to make effective evangelists in the 10/40 window. Why? Because you cannot effectively evangelize a place unless you have love for the people there, and if you make America your god, you won't have love for people that live anywhere else. Quite the contrary, a lot of religious right Christians like using our being "a Christian nation" as a mark of cultural and intellectual superiority and the reason for our wealth and power, and have no interest in having something in common with nations filled with very poor dark – skinned tribal people, because if someone holding a spear wearing a loincloth sitting in a mud hut in third world Asia, Africa, or Latin America is worshiping Jesus Christ, then that America – worshiping Christian will have to acknowledge that this naked barbarian is his equal, his brother in Christ Jesus! As a matter of fact, he might be convicted by the fact that this third world Christian might be living a superior Christian lifestyle to him because this third world Christian isn't watching Fox News, listening to talk radio, obsessed with hoarding and protecting wealth and material things, checking out the latest explicit pictures of teeny bopper "actresses" young enough to be their daughter on the Internet, etc. We have so many stories from the mission field where the gospel of Jesus Christ is transforming cultures right while in our own "Christian nation" the religious right accepts leadership from in the closet homosexuals, drug addicts, bigots, heretics, false heretic preachers, and people on their third wives. People, nonsense like this is why: it is obvious that so many of these so – called Christians are worshiping the flag instead of Jesus Christ. That is why I am glad Sean Oliver Allen removed that flag from his pulpit, and while I am no fan of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, it is revealing that more religious right sorts are furious at him for not wearing an American flag lapel pin than over his being a member of the apostate United Church of Christ denomination. Even now, they only focus on Jeremiah Wright's anti – Americanism than the apostasy of a denomination that would allow such a pastor to begin with. But hey, since their denominations allow the Rod Parsleys, Pat Robertsons, Kenneth Copelands, John Hagees, and RICK WARRENS/BRIAN MCLARENS/ERWIN MCMANUSES of the world, who are they to talk about that?
The amazing thing is that there will be NO OUTRAGE WHATSOEVER IN THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT because of this comment, and certainly nothing approaching the firestorm over Jeremiah Wright. And that should tell you something, as where Jeremiah Wright only attacked America, capitalism, and white people this woman attacked the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.


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Black WatchPhoto: Manuel Harlan
Black Watch follows the disassembling of Scotland's most esteemed regiment over the course of its final tour in Iraq, written from the personal testimonies of ten men on the ground. Black Watch reveals what it really means to be part of the War on Terror and what it means to make the journey home again.Hurtling from a pool room in Fife to an armoured wagon in Iraq, Black Watch is based on interviews conducted by Gregory Burke with former soldiers who served in Iraq. Gregory Burke recently won the Writers' Guild Award for Black Watch in the Best New Play category. BBC Scotland's documentary, Black Watch: A Soldier's Story won a BAFTA Scotland Best Documentary Award.
Director - John TiffanyAssociate Director (movement) - Steven HoggettAssociate Director (music) - Davey AndersonSet designed by Laura HopkinsCostumes designed by Jessica BrettleLighting designed by Colin GrenfellSound designed by Gareth FryVideo designed by Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty Nine Productions Ltd.
The National Theatre of Scotland
The full cast is: David Colvin, Paul J Corrigan, Ali Craig, Emun Elliott, Jack Fortune, Jonathan Holt, Michael Nardone, Henry Pettigrew, Paul Rattray and Nabil Stuart.


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Highlights and Lowlights From June's Jobs Report
The abbreviated version of Friday's June jobs report can be told in two words: not good.
The economy created 80,000 jobs last month, with the private sector adding 84,000 positions and governments shedding 4,000.
The report was a "step in the right direction," President Barack Obama said. That's about the best an optimist can gather from the numbers. No single month's employment report should be taken too seriously, but even averaging the past six employment reports together yields a figure of 150,000 new jobs per month. At best, that's enough to keep the unemployment rate flat:
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The reality for millions is probably worse than this chart does justice. The standard unemployment rate held steady at 8.2% in June. But the underemployment rate, which includes those who have given up looking for work and those working part time involuntarily, has risen in each of the past two months, and now sits at almost 15% (though it's down considerably in the last year).
If we keep adding an average of 150,000 jobs a month, the unemployment rate will effectively never come down. If we double that and add an average of 300,000 a month, it will still take four years to bring unemployment to a healthy rate of 5%. This long, grinding recovery is unprecedented in modern times:
Think about this. If we add 250,000 jobs a month -- far more than we are now -- unemployment would not fall to post-recession levels until around 2020, or 13 years after the recession began. By most measures, unemployment during the Great Depression was back to pre-recession levels by 1941 or 1942, or about 13 years after the depression began. And what drove the new employment boom back then was, of course, World War II -- a jobs fair of sorts no one wants repeated. The employment crash of 2008 and 2009 was so deep, and the recovery ever since so dawdling, that we may look back on this era as the longest employment crisis ever -- including the Great Depression.
This is serious stuff. Drawn out unemployment benders have a nasty tendency to stick around for generations. As Wharton professor Justin Wolfers worried last year:
Typically in the United Sates, if you're unemployed you're unemployed for three months. You get back to work. You didn't lose many skills. In Europe, folks are unemployed for a year, two years.
Today in the United States, people are starting to get unemployed six months and twelve months. They're losing contact with the world of work. And so the problem is that, even when the economy comes back, it's not clear that these folks are necessarily going to be in contact with the labor market, able to pick up jobs even when the economy generates them. ...
I'm terrified that if we leave millions of people out there decreasingly engaged with the world of work, structural unemployment may become an American problem in ways it has been a European problem.
There's at least one optimistic rebuttal. We tend to underestimate how fast things change, including for the better. Housing might be that veiled boost in waiting. Warren Buffett said last year, "We will come back big time on employment when residential construction comes back ... you will be surprised, in my view, how fast employment changes when that happens." The eminent finance blog Calculated Risk echoed a similar position last week. With housing starts, new home sales, and construction spending all looking up, construction employment "should add to both GDP and employment growth in 2012," the blog's analyst Bill McBride wrote. That isn't happening yet -- construction employment was basically unchanged in June -- but it's not hard to make the case that it must happen soon, and that its potential is underappreciated by most.
That, though, is a forecast. The reality that's here today is different: Millions are out of work, millions more aren't working enough, and millions more are earning meager wages. If we are moving in the right direction, it isn't nearly fast enough.
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Over 250,000 Americans have joined the NRA since the Sandy Hook tragedy in December. I am one of them.
Why did all these folks decide to sign up?
Well probably for the same reasons I did. At first glance, I'm not your typical NRA member. I'm Jewish, Ivy League educated (Columbia University, Class of '83, President Obama's classmate in fact), and have even been a member of the mainstream media (I started my career as an anchorman and host for CNBC, then called the Financial News Network).
I'm not the world's biggest gun guy. I'm not a collector. Being around guns is not second nature for me.
But I want them to be legal. I want the right to own them. I want the right to protect myself and my family.
I want to protect the Second Amendment.
And I don't want government telling me what to do. And if any of those rights are going to be threatened, then I realized it's time for me to stand up for the NRA.
Here are more common sense reasons why I decided to join the NRA:
First, I believe it's clear that our politicians have come to all the wrong conclusions. Why would we rush to ban guns, when almost all of our worst mass murders and most of our violent crimes occur in places with the strictest gun control? Why rush to create more "Gun Free Zones" when the Sandy Hook tragedy occurred in a "Gun Free Zone?" This response makes absolutely no sense.
The worst violent crime and murder rates in America occur in places with the strictest gun control already in place: Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C.
Strict gun control clearly does not work. It only disarms the honest, law-abiding citizens, who are left helpless and defenseless. Criminals never have a problem acquiring guns. Therefore gun laws are not only useless, they are dangerous.
But don't just look at big cities in America. Let's look across the Atlantic Ocean for the best example. Our friend and ally England has a complete ban on guns. No citizen of the UK can carry a gun. Period. Not a one.
Result? The violent crime rate in the UK is three and a third times higher than it is in America. The FBI reports 386 violent crimes per 100,000 in the USA. The UK Home Office reports 1,361 violent crimes per 100,000 in England.
Gun control may be a failure, but the UK experience proves that outright gun bans are an unmitigated disaster.
But this is nothing new. Leftist, big government, Nanny State politicians always come to the wrong conclusion about most issues.
Groucho Marx said it best:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying all the wrong remedies."
Former White House chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel put it differently, "Never let a crisis go to waste." Our leftist big government politicians are trying to turn a terrible tragedy into a gun crisis. Their solution is to try to demonize and ban guns. But the Newtown tragedy wasn't a gun problem, it was a mental illness problem.
Thank goodness the American public has more common sense than the politicians and media big shots. A recent Rasmussen poll shows that while 27% think stricter gun control laws are the solution, a dominant 48% believe the answer is more action to treat mental health issues.
It is obvious that many Americans agree that guns do much more than kill (in the wrong hands). More often than not, they save lives and prevent violence.
Here are a few proven facts that are too often missing from the gun debate (Thanks to Gun Owners of America and ZeroHedge.com for these statistics):
Based on a 2000 study, Americans use guns to defend themselves from crime and violence 989,883 times annually. Banning guns would leave about 1,000,000 Americans defenseless from criminals who have no problem acquiring guns illegally.
A nationwide survey reported over a five-year period 3.5% of households had a member who used a gun to protect themselves, their family, or their property. This also adds up to about the same 1,000,000 incidents annually.
Each year about 200,000 women use a gun to defend themselves from a sexual crime or abuse.
The Carter Justice Department found that of more than 32,000 attempted rapes, 32% were actually committed. But when a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3% of the attempted rapes were actually successful. More recent studies all point towards a figure of 2.5 million -- that's the new expert guesstimate of how many times Americans defend themselves from violent criminals each year.
Bottom line: guns save lives.
Now that we've polled the citizens, how about we see what the felons have to say:
- A survey of male felons in 11 state prisons across the USA found that 34% had been scared off, wounded or captured by an armed victim of their crime.
- 69% of felons knew other fellow criminals who had been scared off or captured by an armed victim.
- 57% of felons polled agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police."
These facts (and many more too voluminous to show here) prove that guns -- in the right hands -- defend citizens, families and children.
Again, guns save lives.
But for me, it's always been a personal and emotional argument, even more than a factual one. I'm a proud Jewish American. Over six million of my fellow Jews were enslaved, starved, tortured, and then slaughtered by Adolph Hitler. Before it could happen, in 1938, Hitler banned gun ownership for Jews.
The reality is that throughout history, the first thing all tyrants do is disarm the citizens. Then the mass killings begin.
In the end we all have to remember our Second Amendment was not put in place to protect us from criminals and random crime. It was put in place to protect the citizens from government.
Thomas Jefferson put it best: "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
I'll be glad to give up my guns when the elites in Washington and Hollywood agree to disarm their bodyguards. And when President Obama stops sending his daughters to the exclusive Sidwell Friends School, which has a 9-person armed security force.
For all of these reasons, that's why now more than ever, we need to protect the second amendment. That's why now more than ever, we need the NRA.


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Get ready for another summer season of great Greek food and cultural entertainment, coming soon to a Greek festival near you!
Here in North America the summer is almost upon us, and the numerous Greek food festivals that accompany the fine weather are also spinning up. Whether organized by Greek Orthodox parish groups or local business associations, these festivals are always worthwhile events for foodies as the grub is plentiful, varied and reasonably priced. And the people watching opportunities are pretty good too...
What can you expect to taste, see and hear at a typical Greek food festival? Well, the menus usually include items like Spanakopita, Souvlaki, Tzatziki, Baklava, plus a whole bunch of less well-known regional Greek specialties. In addition to the nosh, you can also drink some Ouzo or sample a growing array of excellent Greek wines that are usually on offer. Accompanying the food and drink are the numerous traditional dance shows and musical ensembles which can aid digestion by getting one in the mood to dance. Just don't expect to be breaking any plates as they are usually made of paper or styrofoam, but you and your friends can always throw a few napkins about as you cavort.
As there is no central directory/catalogue for North American Greek food festivals, I thought it might be helpful to bring attention to the various events by opening up this blog to periodic festival announcements. So, if you are a festival organizer, participant or visitor who would like to spread the word about a particular Greek food fest, feel free to send me an email at greekgourmand(at)gmail.com and I will add you to our festival updates.
Looking forward to some great summer food fests, starting with this week:
34th annual Richmond Greek Food Festival
32nd annual Des Moines Greek Food Fair
New Jersey Greek Fest 2010
Pànta Kalà (Always Be Well),
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text: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 CMS Sets Cap at $1,880 in Final Physician Fee Schedule Rule The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final physician fee schedule rule for Calendar Year (CY) 2012, which sets the therapy cap on outpatient services (except outpatient hospital departments) at $1,880 beginning January 1, 2012. The therapy cap exceptions process will expire on December 31, 2011, unless Congress acts to extend it. The final rule calls for a 27.4% cut in Medicare payments—less than the 29.5% cut estimated earlier this year—for physicians, physical therapists, and other health care professionals based on the flawed sustainable growth rate formula (SGR). However, if Congress intervenes before the January 1, 2012, effective date, the aggregate impact of work Relative Value Units (RVU), practice expense RVU, and malpractice RVU changes for 2012 on physical therapy services is a positive 4% (noted on Table 84 on page 1176 of the rule). According to CMS, the Obama administration is "committed to fixing the SGR and ensuring these payment cuts do not take effect." CMS also will make changes in how it adjusts payment for geographic variation in the cost of practice. The agency is replacing some of the data sources—such as using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) in place of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental data and also using ACS data in place of the data currently used for non-physician employee compensation. CMS also will adjust its payments for the full range of occupations employed in physicians' office and will make other adjustments called for in prior year public comments. The CY 2012 final rule also updates or modifies several physician incentive programs, including the Physician Quality Reporting System. APTA will post a detailed summary of the final rule next week. This article was updated November 4 to reflect when APTA's summary will be available. Comments It IS critical that Congress pass legislation before December 31, 2011 to extend the therapy cap exceptions process and to avoid the scheduled 29.5% cut in provider payments under the Medicare physician fee schedule. Help us to help our patients!!!!! Posted by Victoria Seff on 11/2/2011 2:53 PM It is critical that Congress pass legislation before December 31, 2011 to avoid the scheduled 29.5% cut in provider payments under the Medicare physician fee schedule. We are here to help our patients Posted by Asha on 11/2/2011 6:15 PM These cuts are making Patient care very challenging and we need keep them FIRST in the process Posted by Susanna Scully on 11/2/2011 8:03 PM It is imperative that this legislation be passed for the sake of our patients Posted by Susan Leach on 11/3/2011 7:39 PM So, once again, NO cap on out-patient PT at a hospital. So where is private practice headed? Down the tubes???? Posted by Sue Jeffrey on 11/4/2011 3:29 PM I agree with Sue, why no cap on hospitals? I am really beginning to wonder whether private practice will exist in the next few years! Posted by Mike Kriz on 11/4/2011 5:03 PM It's horrible to see health care heading in this direction. There are no cuts for other professions such as lawyers and pharmaceutical, but we who care for our patients are put to test every time. Congress for once needs to cut spending in other areas to deal with budget deficit and leave health care alone. Posted by sapana Dixit on 11/4/2011 5:17 PM I've owned a private practice physical therapy clinic for 26 years, and during all of that time the cap has not applied to hospital outpatients. The only explaination my legislators have ever given me for the discrepancy is that the hospitals have bigger lobbying organizations. Posted by Cindy on 11/4/2011 7:31 PM I have been in private practice for 10 years and every year reimbursement becomes more and more challenging. Of coarse, congress MUST put a stop to the threat of such a massive cut to Medicare beneficiary providers. This would have a huge impact on availability of services. Luckily this will affect the physicians also, so with the help of the AMA maybe it will be overturned. In addition, I'm wondering if we in private practice have another surprise awaiting for us as we did last year with MPPR. Why did we not hear anything about that before hand and what has the APTA done to get that overturned. Lastly, we might be able to manage a small decrease in reimbursement if there was not a one on one requirement for all services provided to MC beneficiaries. What has the APTA done to get this requirement reversed. It's ridiculous that we are now DPTs and get reimbursed less than my plumber or mechanic. WE NEED HELP or WE WILL NOT SURVIVE!!! Posted by Jerry Yarborough on 11/4/2011 8:48 PM To accept payment for less than costs is not good business sense. Despite dedication to our patients, our doors would close if we cannot earn more than what it costs to pay bills. Please keep in mind that when deciding what Medicare reimbursement will be. Physical therapists cannot help their patients if their practicies are out of business. Posted by Joan Firra on 11/4/2011 9:00 PM The people who dedicate there lives to educating themselves to provide Therapy do so to give there patients beck physical attributes that they have lost. We work hard and provide quality service to all regardless of race, creed and or color. We deserve to be reimbursed for the services that we provide. Posted by Melissa Cruz on 11/5/2011 3:17 PM I don't know why or how the two different systems came about re: hospital and privatae practice reimbursement but I can tell you about the the defferent reporting systems. In a hospital setting there is an extra Medicare form in which you set out the specific functional goals, along with showing the medical necessity. If you do not meet goals, or the goals are too small in the eyes of the reviewer, then NO PAYMENT. This is on every paitent for every billing period, even the first few weeks. I was stunned to start working in a privatae practice and see long some of these patients came. I know that hospitals would not see them for tht long. I don't know anything about the dollar value of reimbursement, but I know of 2 hospital OP Departments that have closed their department or seriously cut back. Also don't forget that hospitals can't choose their patients based on reinbursement source, i.e. they have to see people with Medical or other lower paying insurance, which affects their income. Reimbursement in Hospital OP is a nightmare just as it everwhere else. Posted by Beatrice Sims on 11/5/2011 3:49 PM Regarding the previous statement: I have seen just the opposite in the hospital OP settings. The OP hospital facilities are able to keep patients much longer, even without showing sigificant functional gains. I have had numerous medicare patients switch to our private practice from a hospital OP practice due to poor satisfaction only to become very frustrated that they are unable to come as often or long in the private practice setting. In addition, outpatient private practices are most definitely reviewed regularly and frequently to determine if functional gains are being made...not just with medicare, but with all insurances (and almost all require their own forms to be filled out). In my humble opinion, hospital OP physical therapy just takes us one step closer to socialized medicine and the government is pushing hard in that direction with cap and cuts to private practice. Posted by Chris Z. on 11/6/2011 9:57 PM I have been in private practice for 28 years and it is quite obvious what is happening. Private practices across the country are being phased out by the government and insurance companies. ACOs, Physician Owned Practices, Foreign therapist influx for lower wages, Large Management Companies are just a few examples of how we are being attacked. The land of equal opportunity no longer prevails. We all know that the private sector of the American People can provide better services to our fellow man because we have a personal stake in what we do. Posted by Arnold B. on 11/8/2011 3:34 PM I agre with Arnold. I avhe had now 40 years as a PT and see the hand-writing on the wall clearly. I see socialized medicine being phased in through the back door and private practice being for private pay clients only just as it is in every other socialized medicine nation. That means the best adn brightest will not likely enter medicine in any form...becasue of the limited return to pay for their education and because of the higher level of paperwork and lower standards of practice...I tried to do the PQRS but found my payment for the two years I did it was a measly $60 dollars! I would rather spend my time making patients better than trying to fill out forms to make them believe that I'm doing a good job. Posted by Sami Jo Magoffin on 11/10/2011 9:25 AM


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Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution.
These essays explore open source's impact on the software industry and reveal how open source concepts are infiltrating other areas of commerce and society. The essays appeal to a broad audience: the software developer will find thoughtful reflections on practices and methodology from leading open source developers like Jeremy Allison and Ben Laurie, while the business executive will find analyses of business strategies from the likes of Sleepycat co-founder and CEO Michael Olson and Open Source Business Conference founder Matt Asay.
From China, Europe, India, and Brazil we get essays that describe the developing world's efforts to join the technology forefront and use open source to take control of its high tech destiny. For anyone with a strong interest in technology trends, these essays are a must-read.
The enduring significance of open source goes well beyond high technology, however. At the heart of the new paradigm is network-enabled distributed collaboration: the growing impact of this model on all forms of online collaboration is fundamentally challenging our modern notion of community.
What does the future hold? Veteran open source commentators Tim O'Reilly and Doc Searls offer their perspectives, as do leading open source scholars Steven Weber and Sonali Shah. Andrew Hessel traces the migration of open source ideas from computer technology to biotechnology, and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger and Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates provide frontline views of functioning, flourishing online collaborative communities.
The power of collaboration, enabled by the internet and open source software, is changing the world in ways we can only begin to imagine.Open Sources 2.0 further develops the evolutionary picture that emerged in the original Open Sources and expounds on the transformative open source philosophy.
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Chris DiBona is the cofounder of both Konstrux Technologies, which implements gforge for companies, and her sister company,Damage Studios. He also co-edited the O'Reilly bookOpen Sources: Voices from the Open Source Software Revolution and was an editor at Slashdot.org for some time, where he also ran the polls and can be found on TechTV where he does Linux segments for The ScreenSavers .
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Five E's of the Social Networking Generationby GDN Shared Post December 11, 2009
Today, we see an entire generation of new young leaders and entrepreneurs alike struggling to make an impact. This is the age of social networking with Facebook, Twitter, Google and mobile technologies enabling people to connect with millions in geographically dispersed locations worldwide.
Enterprises from home-based startups to Fortune 500 companies are restructuring workforce and productivity models using efficient collaborative network tools.
Government institutions are undergoing historic generational shifts in leadership with the election at age 48 of the first African-American President, Barrack Obama. It is truly a brave new world both economically and socially under construction with new hopes, leadership and definitions of what I call The Five E's of Success including Education, Empowerment, Excellence, Entrepreneurship and Ethics.
Often lost in the shuffle, as accelerating trends that overwhelm us daily in wireless cells, WiFi, text messages, and online collaboration tools for management cost controls, the seemingly forgotten art of face-to-face personal interaction has become rare. People often ask me, "Farrah, how will this ubiquitous dynamic shift affect the core process of business". If I am doing business with a person in China or India, is it reasonable to expect a shared definition of ethics or entrepreneurship. Would these foreign counterparts perform business in the same manner or do they have a completely different approach? Is it OK, during lean economic times to take risks doing business overseas with relatively unknown entities for most small businessmen in America?
Initially, many potentially innovative entrepreneurs fear the unknown – shy away from doing business with foreign contacts. This is prevalent as the worldwide economic crisis not only seeks to redistribute wealth but also introduce modern social network technologies that enhance the ability to instantly connect with millions of like people worldwide. However, having traveled worldwide extensively, it is generally safe to consider all human beings i.e. people around the world share many common traits found in the Five E's – Education, Empowerment, Excellence, Entrepreneurship and Ethics. These are not traits unique only to the majority of American's but shared by people worldwide.
Therefore, as the social and economic world becomes more cohesive through technology it enables ordinary Americans at low cost to reach out sharing ideas, innovations and passions. Today, we generally see a redefining of how human interaction occurs. In many cases the tangible lasting value of a handshake or face-to-face meetings looking into another individual's eyes is becoming a thing of the past.
The convergence of this deep shift has caused some disillusionment of large segments of the U.S. population, specifically older generations over 65 years old that often state; "I don't understand all that Internet stuff. It's all gibberish to me". Recently, I recall an elderly man stating to me; "Farrah, I spent 40 years with the same company but never had to use a computer, why start doing it now." Turning to him squarely I replied; "Sir, today's text message is yesterday's handshake. Today's Facebook or Twitter information contains yesterday's print newspaper media".
Further, the mission among home-based start-ups and Fortune 500 companies has undergone significant shifts in direction and goals.For example, the ventures now start with a business plan that not only incorporates the price, product, place and promotions but also its impact on social and environmental factors. These elements go to the heart of what I have termed the Five E's – Education, Empowerment, Excellence, Entrepreneurship and Ethics.
For example, most businesses would never dream today of launching a cigarette tobacco company knowing it would damage the health of millions worldwide. Even more significant a startup business that had no regard for social or environmental concerns would hardly receive the venture capital seed money necessary to succeed.
The average worker and consumers today have instant access to vast amounts of educational knowledge on the Internet previously never available. Further, individuals can gain valuable solutions and competitive market data free online using methods such as crowd sourcing and virtual support.
Countless, examples exist of entrepreneurs with a purpose that raise money online to provide anything from clean water (Doc Hendley, Wine to Water) , education (Efren Penaflorida, Dynamic Teen Company) to music mentoring for troubled youth (Derrick Tabb, The Roots of Music) – inspiring hope and opportunity for millions of underprivileged living in poverty.
Suddenly, even small-home based entrepreneurs can provide innovative solutions having a major impact not simply within a local community but worldwide. We are truly witnessing a generational paradigm shift underway redefining business leadership and social interactions expanding opportunities for people at all levels.Farrah Gray is the author of The Truth Shall Make You Rich: The New Road Map to Radical Prosperity, Get Real, Get Rich: Conquer the 7 Lies Blocking You from Success and the international best-seller Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out. He is chairman of the Farrah Gray Foundation. Dr. Gray can be reached via email at email@example.com or his website at http://www.drfarrahgray.com/.


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LA GRANGE, Texas - A football player is in jail facing a murder charge in the shooting of a teen at a Halloween party in La Grange.
According to La Grange police, officers responded to a disturbance call at around 3 a.m. Sunday at the VFW Hall on the Fayette County Fairgrounds in La Grange.
Upon arrival, police say they found two people who had been shot: one in the back and one in the arm. Both were transported to the hospital.
Dustin Donovan Smith, 19, died at St. Mark's Hospital. The other shooting victim, Quinton Harris, was treated for minor injuries to his arm and released from Columbus Hospital.
Police say a fight at the party spilled out into the parking lot and that the suspect, Jakyle Harris, pulled out a gun and fired two shots. Officials told Local 2 the gun was recovered in a field behind Harris' home. Harris was arrested Sunday afternoon.
Texas Rangers arrested two other people -- both relatives of Harris -- and charged them with tampering with evidence. Police say the two tampered with the murder weapon and tried to destroy the clothes Harris was wearing during the shooting.
According to the Texas Rangers, the two other suspects are Jamar Glenn and Vonya Warfield.
All three suspects are currently in the Colorado County Jail.
"I think they're in a lot of pain," said Shamika Henry, a friend of Smith's. "I think both families are in a lot of pain actually because two lives have been lost. Not just one."
Harris, who lives in Weimar, is a running back on the Weimar High School football team. La Grange and Weimar are approximately 15 miles apart.
Dericka Kirby said her cousin, Jakyle Williams-Harris did nothing wrong.
"He's going through all of the trouble and his family is going through the trouble also," Kirby said. "I just think justice needs to come and let everyone know that he is innocent."
The Weimar Independent School District released a statement which read, "WISD is deeply saddened by the incident that occurred in La Grange, Texas over the weekend. The District's thoughts and sympathies go out to the families and friends of the victims. The District has no information regarding the incident other than to state that it did not occur in connection with any school function or event. Weimar ISD has no further comment at this time."
La Grange Police Chief Jackie Skelton told Local 2 this was the first murder in La Grange in 20 years.
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With a global faculty from eight different countries, the School of Business holds a proud tradition of excellence at Fredonia, which is consistently ranked among the finest public universities in the Northeast -- and among the most affordable options higher education.
Our small class sizes lead to close interaction with our faculty, plus the chance to conduct research at the undergraduate level -- a hallmark of a Fredonia education. In addition, all students have many opportunities for internships, available locally, regionally and across the nation, due to the many strong relationships the university maintains.
We also offer students the Fredonia Technology Incubator, which supports start-up companies committed to Western New York. Students work with real-life entrepreneurs on market research, business plan development, and problem-solving initiatives. The incubator expands the entrepreneurial aspects of your curriculum, enhances intern and employment possibilities, and inspires students interested in starting businesses of their own.
We also offer accelerated MBA affiliations with Rochester Institute of Technology, St. Bonaventure University, Alfred University, Clarkson University, Canisius College, Niagara University, Long Island University, SUNY Oswego, and SUNY New Paltz.
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Lastly, we encourage you to study abroad and gain a global perspective, develop fluency in a second or third language, and take electives that will expand your knowledge of the world.
Our goal is to challenge you to achieve excellence and prepare you for a lifelong education. Your career, on average, will include three to five distinct knowledge areas, 12 to 15 jobs, and at least one international assignment. You'll need technical expertise in more than one discipline, experience in global affairs, the ability to speak multiple languages and be effective within diverse teams, and the strong framework needed to earn a graduate degree, if you choose.
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The 16th General Assembly and International Scientific Symposium of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) will take place in Québec City from 29 September to 4 October 2008.
The Symposium theme is "Finding the Spirit of Place". We have identified four tracks or sub-themes for thought and discussion.
- Re-thinking spirit and place
Key words: material culture theory, objectification, heritage making, social use, community, commemoration, memory, remembering, forgetting
- The threats to the spirit of place
Key words: conflicts, frontiers, degradation, destruction, abandonment, tourism, folklorization, innovation, cultural behavior, nostalgia, migrations, listing, inventories.
- Preservation of the spirit of place
Key words: conservation policies and practices, legal framework, plurality, reflexivity, restoration, integration, tradition bearers
- Transmitting the spirit of place
Key words: interpretation, transmission, safeguarding, meaning, mediation, transformation, appropriation, recontextualization, revitalization, technologies
The International Forum of Young Researchers and Professionals in Cultural Heritage will precede the event on 27 and 28 September and will be an opportunity for those who are less than 35 years old and are studying or have graduated less than 5 years ago in one of the fields related to cultural heritage preservation to share their experience and exchange ideas on worldwide conservation practices
Preliminary programme
- Sept 27/28 : Forum of Young Researchers and professionals
Sept. 29 : Meetings of the International Scientific Committees
- Sept. 30: Opening Ceremony, Opening of the General Assembly, Opening of Scientific Symposium - keynote lecturers, Official reception
- Oct. 1 : Scientific Symposium (parallel sessions), Thematic workshops in the evening
- Oct. 2 : Scientific Symposium (continued), Cruise on the St. Lawrence River
- Oct. 3 : Thematic Visits, Closing Banquet
- Oct. 4 : General Assembly and elections, Poster Presentations (poster session)
- Oct. 5 : Departure of post-conference tours
To obtain all the information on the 16th General Assembly, the symposium and forum, we invite you to regularly consult the event website at http://quebec2008.icomos.org. You can also access this information from the ICOMOS website at http://icomos.org.


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Unique Lighting of Texas is owned and operated by Michael, Larry and Johnny Moore. Our older brother Ricky was part of our business from the beginning and retired in 2006. Our father Joel Moore began his landscape lighting career in the 1950s. His knowledge, creativity and perfectionist attitude is still evident today.
We worked with our Dad beginning in 1968 and established our current business in 1985. Since that time we have served the landscape lighting needs of many of the most prominent families in Texas as well as several other states.
We create our moonlight effect by placing our shielded fixtures in the upper most limbs of your trees. These fixtures are strategically located, creating dramatic shadow patterns, with the light source hidden from general view.
Lighting is a deterrent to crime and creates a beautiful surrounding for your home. We utilize the most advanced equipment available combined with unique designs, so your investment will be enjoyed by you as well as anyone who views your home.
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When professionally designed and installed, landscape lighting adds a new dimension to your home or business. The darkness, which hid your landscaping, is replaced with the warmth and charm of moonlight.


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By David Pugliese
Ottawa Citizen
Canadian Army officers have told armoured industry representatives it doesn't matter whether the new Close Combat Vehicle is wheeled or tracked and that the lowest cost system which meets the requirements will be selected.
The wheels versus tracks debate is not an issue for CCV that will affect the procurement, industry representatives said in interviews with Defence Watch. They asked that their names not be published.
"I would have thought that the Army's future doctrine or tactics – and whether it makes sense to go wheeled or tracked from a maintenance or transportation point of view — would come into play but we have been told that is not a factor," said one industry official. "The best vehicle that meets the requirements at the lowest cost wins."
Defence Watch had requested a briefing on the Close Combat Vehicle but the Defence Department declined. DND referred all questions to Public Works and Government Services Canada. A Public Works media spokesperson, via email, noted that the requirements for the CCV have not been finalized.
In 2003 Army officers announced that the service would move to an all-wheeled armoured vehicle fleet in the coming years as part of the Army's plan to build a futuristic force and improve its ability to deploy on overseas operations. As part of that decision the Army decided to get rid of its Leopard tanks and purchase the U.S.-built Mobile Gun System, equipped with a 105mm gun.
"Tanks are a perfect example of extremely expensive systems that sit in Canada because they are inappropriate to the operations we conduct daily around the world," then Army commander Lt.-Gen. Rick Hillier wrote in the Ottawa Citizen. "The MGS, in conjunction with other combat systems, will give us a much greater capability on operations such as those being conducted in Kabul, and still give us options for high-intensity combat."
But combat in Afghanistan and concerns about the MGS's ability to meet future requirements changed that view.
In 2006, the Canadian Army's senior leaders recommended the cancellation of plans to purchase the Mobile Gun System. Leopard 2 tanks were purchased for the Afghan mission.
Army officers have also noted that in some cases wheeled LAVs had difficulty with the terrain in Afghanistan. In addition, more armour protection was needed because of IEDs, further prompting the tank purchase.
The Canadian Forces sees the CCV as bridging the gap between light armoured vehicles (five to 20 tonnes) and heavy armoured vehicles (more than 45 tonnes), coming in between 25 and 45 tonnes.
The CCV will allow infantry to operate in support of the Leopard 2 tanks, providing the Army with a more balanced and integrated fleet, according to the Army.
Industry officials say they are unsure of what the Army means by "balanced and integrated fleet." Does that mean more tracks, to keep up with tracked Leopards, or more wheels to augment the LAV-3s, they ask.
Nexter Systems, the French armored vehicle firm, is offering the Canadian Army its wheeled VBCI armoured vehicles for the CCV project.
The Hagglund's tracked CV90 from BAE Systems is also being offered for CCV.
Armoured vehicle manufacturer Rheinmetall has not indicated whether it will take part in the project.
The Canadian Forces will acquire 108 CCVs with an option for up to 30 more.
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Of all the recipes, I find the bread recipes the most difficult to write. Why? Because it is extremely hard to give exact measurements for how much flour you might need for your loaf of bread. Even if you are using the exact same flour as I am, you may need to use more or less depending on variety of things, including the weather. So, I thought I'd sum just a few of my tips and 'rules of thumb' for bread baking as I know it. The list is no way comprehensive, but might be helpful if you are just starting to bake with yeast. I am planning to make Finnish rye bread with a starter method very soon, so I will give more tips on how to bake bread with a starter later on.
But before I get onto the tips, here's the recipe for a tasty sultana and apple bread I baked the other day. I normally prefer having my savoury bread without dried fruit, but sultanas work really well in this and it is certainly not too sweet, not even with the addition of grated apple. This freezes well and is perfect toasted.
Now, some tips...
1) Remember to have all the ingredients in room temperature before starting to bake.
2) Whether you are using fresh or dry yeast, you need to remember to use different temperature liquid. For fresh yeast the liquid should not be warmer than 40C (ideally it should be about 37C). For dry yeast, however, you want the liquid to be slightly warmer, about 42C, but not warmer than 50C. There is no need to take a thermometer out for this, however, just judge the temperature by dipping your finger in to the liquid.
3) If you are using fresh yeast, you can break the yeast straight into the liquid and mix it in until it has fully dissolved. Dry yeast needs to be mixed with a small amount of flour before mixing it into the liquid.
4) The ratio between liquid and yeast is normally about 1 litre per 50 grams of fresh yeast or about 20 grams of dry yeast. Again, this may vary depending on what you are baking and what flour you are using.
5) Adding a tablespoon of sugar, honey or syrup won't make the bread sweet, but it will active the yeast and make the bread rise quicker.
6) Try not to use too much flour as this can make the bread hard. A looser dough may be more challenging to work with, but will result in a much softer bread. You'll learn to judge the amount of flour needed as you bake more.
7) Be patient with your dough. Let it rise until doubled in size. If it is a cold weather, you can place the bowl with the dough in a sink filled with warm water. Cover the bowl with cling wrap or a clean tea towel. Often a recipe requires you to let the dough rise first in the bowl, then after kneading the dough and shaping it in to loaves or rolls, letting it rise again before baking. A well risen dough feels soft to touch and if you press it with your finger it should leave a little dimple on to the dough.
8) All ovens are different, so keep your eye on the bread and test if it is done by tapping the bottom of the bread. It should feel hollow and the bread should feel fairly light.
9) Covering the freshly baked bread with a tea towel will make the bread softer. If you prefer a crunchy crust, leave the bread to cool uncovered.
10) Last, but not least, don't be afraid to use yeast, it is much easier to work with than you may think!


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Job gains at private employers accelerated in December, increasing to 149,000 from 118,000 in November, according to analysts polled by MarketWatch. Automatic Data Processing Inc. ADP, +1.16% will issue its monthly private-sector jobs report at 8:15 a.m. Eastern. Some analysts use ADP's data to provide guidance on the U.S. Department of Labor's employment report, which is due Friday and covers private-sector and government jobs. However, economists are wary of placing too much importance on ADP's December reading, given past misses due to year-end seasonal-adjustment issues. Currently, analysts expect the government to report that nonfarm employment rose 153,000 in December, compared with a gain of 146,000 in November. Elsewhere Thursday morning, U.S. jobless claims are forecast to climb to 360,000 in the week ended Dec. 29 from 350,000 in the prior week. The data will be issued by the U.S. Department of Labor at 8:30 a.m. Claims spiked after Hurricane Sandy, but have edged lower over the past month.
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Dir: Andrew Douglas. UK. 2013. 93mins
Intriguing true events from 2003 are carefully shaped into an absorbing psychological thriller in uwantme2killhim? which sustains credibility and interest even as the twisting revelations threaten to defy belief. Rising British star Jamie Blackley is a commanding central presence in a role that allows him to display more of his dramatic range and confirm his potential as a leading man.
The film develops into a modern day variation on the Leopold and Loeb case that touches on vulnerable adolescence, loneliness, paranoia, youthful bravado.
The cast and the scale of the film suggest something that would sit comfortably on British television but there are enough elements to generate theatrical potential for Entertainment One which has the UK rights.
uwantme2killhim? opens with the aftermath of a stabbing in which 16 year-old schoolboy Mark (Blackley) has attempted to kill his friend John (Tony Regbo). He claims to have committed the crime " for the greater good" and the remainder of the film juggles the present and the recent past as determined police officer DI Sarah Clayton (Joanne Froggatt) attempts to understand what has happened. We learn that Mark was an impressionable youngster, infatuated with a woman he meet in an internet chatroom. She had asked him to befriend her younger brother John.
The film develops into a modern day variation on the Leopold and Loeb case that touches on vulnerable adolescence, loneliness, paranoia, youthful bravado. and the climate of fear generated by global terrorism. Screenwriter Mike Walden tells the story from Mark's point of view, meaning some of the other characters, especially Clayton and Mark's parents, feel underdeveloped.
He still, however, manages to shape complex material into a clever, compact little tale and director Andrew Douglas maintains a steady grip on all the unexpected turns. He also secures strong performances throughout with Toby Regbo matching the intensity and conviction of Blackley in the less showy role of John.
Production companies: Alliance Films, Bad Hat Harry, Jumping Jack Films
International sales: Independent Film Company www.independentfilmcompany.com
Producers: Bryan Singer, Steve Golin, Peter Heslop, Simon Crocker, Jason Taylor
Executive producers: Andrew Douglas, Paul Green, Marc Berliner, Xavier Marchand, Robert Walak, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Lenny Beckerman, Tim Smith, Anne Sheehan
Screenplay: Mike Walden
Cinematography: Tim Wooster
Editor: Michael Elliot
Production designer: Paul Cripps
Music: Jon Hopkins
Main cast: Jamie Blackley, Toby Regbo, Joanne Froggatt, Liz White, Jaime Winstone


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Marriage equality advocate to speak at PSU
Monday, February 18, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
When Zach Wahls spoke to Iowa legislators in 2011, it was to tell a personal story that he hoped would influence their thinking on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa. His speech thrust him on the national stage and today he is one of the most recognizable faces in the movement for marriage equality.
Wahls will share his remarkable story, "My Two Moms," at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, in McCray Hall on the Pittsburg State University campus. His speech is free and open to the public.
When Wahls spoke to the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in 2011, he was just 19. An environmental engineering student, an Eagle Scout, handsome and athletic, he defied the stereotype of a gay marriage advocate. But Wahls has two moms. His message to the legislators was simple:
"The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character," he said.
Within hours, his speech to the lawmakers was posted on YouTube and quickly had more than 2 million views. Today, he is in high demand as a speaker on the issue of marriage equality.
For his Pittsburg visit, Wahls will talk about his life since his address to Iowa legislators, his family and also what it is like to feel different and to fear being made fun of or worse.


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I read today. the Indo Australia plate has a fracture running off Sumatra and trending N-South "good for gold apparently" and about 2000 km West of the WA coast. It's a nice straight rift and has been in existence as long as India has. 200 million years ago. or when Pangaea broke up. the indo bit of our plate or actually the bit next to it, is the fastest moving tectonic drift in the world. Mount Everest is gaining 10 cm a year at its summit that's how fast it is. Its off the show in its speed, for a cooling planet.
The fracture is perhaps several hundred thousand years away from making our own tectonic plate a bit smaller and eventually separating and eventually breaking off. But hey. No chance of a caldera.
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TOPEKA, Kan., June 30, 2012 — Westar Energy received a call for assistance from the Mutual Assistance Group to help restore power after strong thunderstorms left millions without electricity in the eastern United States.
Westar has released contract crews and will be sending 41 Westar linemen, supervisors, safety and support personnel to assist with restoration efforts. Crews will be assisting American Electric Power (AEP) in West Virginia with power restoration. As of early Saturday morning, AEP West Virginia estimated 349,000 customers were without power and restoration to all customers would be in the 5 – 7 day range. On top of that, temperatures are forecasted to be in the triple digits the next couple days.
Employees from Westar's Topeka, Marysville, Hutchinson, Atchison, Pittsburg, Independence, Newton, Arkansas City, and Wichita offices will assist with the restoration.
Crews will depart Saturday evening and are expected to arrive in Charleston, WV, by late Sunday evening and initially plan to stay through the fourth of July.
Westar Energy is a member of the Midwest Mutual Assistance Group. This group allows Westar to call upon neighboring utilities and their contractors for help to restore service in the event of a significant event, such as severe storm. In return, Westar will send line and tree crews Westar Energy sends crews to West Virginia to assist neighboring utilities when they are in need. In the event of catastrophic damage utilities reach out for assistance from across the nation.