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And while there are definitiely some foods you should avoid during pregnancy , there are also some foods you should eat plenty of during pregnancy to ensure you stay well and your feotus develops into a healthy baby.
Folate-fortified cereal or bread
Most women prepare for pregnancy these days by taking a folic acid supplement - which radically decreases the chances of neural tube defects in baby - in the months before pregnancy and then in the first months of pregnancy, but you can also top up your folate intake by ensuring you eat a diet rich in folic acid. While green vegetables are good sources, the most efficient way of ensuring you get all the folic acid you need is by eating a folate-fortified cereal at breakfast time. Or have a couple of slice of folate-fortified toast instead.
With the recommended iron intake for women increasing from 18mg to 27mg a day during pregnancy, it is extremely important to increase the amount of iron in your diet when you're pregnant. The best sources of iron come from lean red meat, fish and poultry. Other sources include legumes, dark green vegetables, dried fruits and tofu - although these non-animal sources of iron are harder for our bodies to absorb. To get the maximum benefit from these 'vegetarian' sources of iron, it's recommended they be eaten along with a good vitamin C source to help the absorption of iron.
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The recommended daily vitamin C intake for pregnant women is 70mg and this requirement is easily met with a healthy balanced diet rich in fresh fruit and vegetables. Vitamin C helps protect against premature birth and high blood pressure. Vitamin C also aids in the absorption of iron, which is needed in greater quantities during pregnancy to support the development of bones and your growing baby. Excellent sources of vitamin C are citrus fruit, strawberries and kiwi fruit. Pregnant women should receive 70-90mg a day of vitamin C (breastfeeding women need approximately 120mg a day) which is equal to about one cup of fresh orange juice.
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Australian medical experts are now recommending pregnant women take an iodine supplement during pregnancy due to the growing numbers of women who are iodine-deficient. Iodine deficiency during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage, premature birth and significant developmental delays in affected children. A simple way to up your iodine intake is by using iodised salt when seasoning your food, and to eat more seaweed, seafood and eggs.
A diet rich in calcium is more important than ever when you are pregnant - especially during the third trimester when your baby needs extra calcium for healthy bone development. Because your body extracts calcium from food more efficiently when you are pregnant, your calcium needs are always the same (1000mg a day) whether you are pregnant, breastfeeding or neither. Three to four serves of dairy food each day will give you all the calcium you need and this is equal to 250ml milk, a tub of yoghurt and two slices of cheese. Because low-fat dairy products actually contain more calcium than full-fat dairy products, choosing low-fat options will give you more calcium per serve.
Extra protein is needed when you are pregnant to support the cell development of your baby as well as the changes that are occurring in your own body such as the development of breast tissue, increased blood volume and placenta. The recommended daily intake of protein for pregnant women increases significantly during pregnancy with experts recommending a minimum of 60mg a day. With a healthy, well-balanced diet, most pregnant women will meet this minimum requirement without needing to change their regular diet. However, if your diet is low in protein, you can boost it by eating protein-rich foods such as lean red meat, poultry and fish as well as peanuts, milk, tofu and cottage cheese.
You need to drink more than ever when you're pregnant - just as your bodily fluids increase, so does your need for increased fluids. Experts recommend drinking 6-8 cups a day, and the best thing you can drink is water. Not only does being well hydrated during pregnancy reduce many of the annoying pregnancy symptoms such as swelling and constipation, it also reduces the risk of going into labour prematurely. And while you will receive extra fluids by drinking juices, it is recommended that you keep caffeine drinks to a minimum during pregnancy.


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I didn't realize that it has been over 2 months since our last edition of "I'm doing what?". Sorry guys! I was in the midst of pulling together a "things that make me happy" post when I realized that most of the items actually belonged in this post.
It is kind of an obvious question to ask me what I've been doing because not only has my last week or two been filled party prep, then clean up, but I share a lot of my days on Instagram.
But, these posts are little snapshots I like to capture of moments around the house. Lately I have been in a mail frenzy. Sending out my first Hey, Oyster orders (THANK YOU!!) as well as receiving a very cool mix of e-friend surprises, belated birthday presents and a really lovely dress I was excited to start rocking from fellow-Albertan run Splurge & Co. The wrapping alone almost felt too pretty to open~
Wanna know what I was doing last week? Getting called a Diva by my favorite Barrista (is that the right term for a guy barrista? Feels like it should be barristum or barrister or something). I can't tell you how many times Holly has been spelled Holy on my coffee cups so I am just going to start telling them Diva when they ask. Don't even ask what the Shanana part is about.
Sometimes I need a Diva boost though, specially before heading over to ParkView, because I tend to be a bit of a softie with those guys. And I had to lay down some laws so I brought my Beyonce-fied Diva attitude with me on my last few trips.
I don't rock a mean mug very well.
I also found a few moments to switch out the kitchen nook rug for an extra Ikea rug I had in the closet. Simple white seems really refreshing and bright for now. Maybe I'll try my hand and Ombre again with this guy in the spring~
Last, but certainly not least, I have joined the ranks of washi tape addicts! It makes a really cute way to display Wren's art for a few days as she produces new pieces that then take the place of her older creations on the wall. And it saves Momma from finding new spots to lean or place her art!
A few other things I've been up to but will share in separate posts coming up:
-easy valentines treats
-we FINALLY hung the new light at the front door
-first coat of paint it up on the walls at Parkview and I am in LOVE with the color

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Friday, May 7, 2010
Family and Friends Newsletter Friday: 7 May 2010
Only a little bit of direct research was done this week, but I have been making research plans for the summer months leading up to the FGS Conference.
I am getting close to the end of the research I had planned for this stage of Norman research, but I am going to take a break soon so that I can get going on my Lizzie Smith brick wall before I go to Knoxville in August.
Here is what I plan to do for Lizzie Smith by August:
Put together a map, online and/or on paper, of locations in Tennessee where my top Smith candidate families lived. A couple of purposes for this: to see which families lived in or near the Knoxville area (said to be Lizzie's birthplace; I do not know whether this is accurate) and see which lived closest to McMinn County, where the Bonner-Smith marriage of interest took place.
Recheck these families in the censuses – more Member Connect information may have appeared since I last checked, since that was just starting to show up when I made the big list of families. A couple of the earlier Member Connect entries helped me rule out a couple of families.
Start seriously locating online newspaper archives in the areas where Lizzie lived; this means focusing on the "known" part of her life (1891 forward).
May be putting together a Brinlee researcher mailing list.
Received my Collin County Genealogical Society Membership – Now I can access at least some Collin Co. Chronicles; will start checking through these for Brinlee (and Lizzie Smith Brinlee) information.
Still working on my registration form for the FGS Conference.
NGS is in Charleston, South Carolina next year. That would be so much fun.
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Greta, are you driving down from FC? How long do you think it will take? I'm thinking of going from MA, just trying to calculate time.ReplyDelete
Hi Barbara - Yes, we are. My husband has done the FC to Knoxville drive and says it takes 8-10 hours. We have also done the FC to Boston drive, and that used to take us a good 8 hours. We are going to stop overnight somewhere down in the southern part of Virginia, not sure where, yet. I'm so excited - this will be my first national convention!ReplyDelete
Greta, have you noticed on Ancestry.com when you look at an image the other members who have added that image to their tree is no longer there? I used to look at a specific census for a person just to see if someone else had posted it to their trees. I know I could attempt it from the Member Connect function, but sometimes it's more direct to go right to the image I know is my person.ReplyDelete


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The Christmas tree was (when I was growing up) and continues to be (now that I am grown and have children) an important part of my family's Christmas tradition. I am slightly obsessed with ornaments and have more than I can fit on my tree. When we had an addition put on our house, we made sure that there was at least one little section where the ceiling was high enough to have a really tall tree.
Starting with the Christmas trees of my childhood: below are pictures of our Christmas tree from 1960. Until I was about nine years old, we always had a real tree. Sometimes we bought it from a lot and sometimes we would cut our own. This was a real adventure with my Dad – he was extremely picky, and I believe I followed in his footsteps in that respect. The type of tree would vary – pine one year, spruce another, fir still another. That made decorating it a challenge, since different trees have different types of "gaps," different needle lengths, and branches of different strengths. Some ornaments look good on one type of tree but not another.
The biggest nightmare with the Christmas tree were the lights. Remember how the strings of light used to operate? If one bulb went out, the entire string went out. I believe that one of the great inventions of the 20th century was the string of lights that would stay on, no matter how many individual light would go out. My husband and I laugh at the Christmas tree decoration scenes in Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story every time we watch it (and we have watched it many times).
As you can see from the pictures, there was a lot of tinsel on our tree, and that was a major component of our tree decorations. It took hours to do properly (no throwing it on the tree!) and was, we believed, a real art. (My husband and I put tinsel on our tree for a couple of years, but with cats … that didn't last.)
Then my mother bought one of those silver aluminum Christmas trees, and my brother and I thought it was an abomination. I believe she would put blue Christmas balls on it.
Later, when we lived in Texas, my mother bought a nice-looking artificial tree, which is the best you can do in a part of Texas that has mostly scrubby trees. We started to collect ornaments and used to have some beautiful old glass ornaments, but I don't know what happened to most of them. The oldest ornaments I have are some that were made by a friend's mother. If I have time in the coming weeks, I will try to feature some of my favorite ornaments.
One of my favorite Christmas tree memories is described in Memory Monday: Visiting with Grandma Brinlee. My Uncle Leroy let me pick a tree to cut down and we decorated it with strings of popcorn and ornaments made with the silver liners from cigarette packs.
My husband and I buy real trees, the tallest ones we can fit in our house, and although I am still picky, I guess I have developed more of an eye and can pick out a good-looking tree fairly quickly (provided there are any good ones on the lot). Our daughters can and do provide plenty of input on the choice. We try to buy it the weekend after Thanksgiving and leave it up until my daughter's birthday (also Orthodox Christmas), January 7. The smell still transports me to some of those Christmases from my childhood.
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ODU Hosts Coaches Vs. Cancer Tipoff Breakfast
By ODU Athletics
Sept. 29, 2010
ODU Hosts Coaches vs. Cancer Tipoff Breakfast by Brendan O'Hallarn
A crowd of more than 250 gathered in the Big Blue Room of Old Dominion University's Ted Constant Convocation Center Sept. 29 for the inaugural Coaches vs. Cancer Tipoff Breakfast.
With only a few weeks before formal practice starts, the men's and women's basketball coaches from six area colleges and universities took time from their schedules to gather for a morning of engaging speeches and fundraising for cancer research. The breakfast was sponsored by the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
In a video greeting, all the area coaches spoke about how cancer has touched their lives. ODU men's coach Blaine Taylor said everyone he knows has been impacted in some way. "My father passed away from cancer. My mother is a breast cancer survivor. I have friends who are fighting cancer right now." ODU women's coach Wendy Larry said it's inspiring to hear the work that's being done to find a cure for cancer. "It just fires you up," she said. "It could be this year, this month, this hour that some researcher finds that magic cure to help people beat cancer."
Former coach and ESPN basketball announcer Bob Valvano headlined the event. Valvano's brother Jim died of cancer in 1993, a decade after leading the North Carolina State Wolfpack to the most unlikely of NCAA championships. In his memorable speech on ESPN shortly before he died, Jim Valvano urged cancer survivors and their families to "never give up."
Bob Valvano helps direct a charitable foundation established in his brother's name that has raised more than $100 million for cancer research. But he said more needs to be done. "It's not good enough yet. We can do more. We have to do more," he said. Former Granby High School and University of Maryland coach Lefty Driesell, and former ODU coach Paul Webb served as honorary chairs of the event.
Driesell said he coached for so long that a number of his former players have died of cancer. "Hopefully, one day we will find a cure for cancer," Driesell said. Webb related the story of his own diagnosis with prostate cancer in 2004. He said one of the things that helped him through such a difficult time was believing he was going to beat it. "There's no doubt in my mind I was going to be cured," said Webb, who has been declared cancer-free by his doctor. "But I'm one of the lucky ones. So many people who have or have had cancer are not as fortunate."
Through the national Coaches vs. Cancer program, college and high school coaches work throughout the year to raise funds and awareness about the disease in their schools, communities and across the country. Since 1993, the initiative has raised more than $60 million in support of the American Cancer Society.


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His likeness will stand affixed to the left-field concourse at U.S. Cellular Field for many more years to come.
During the White Sox ceremony to honor their retiring captain Saturday night, Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf ordered a cluster of black, white and gray balloons to be stripped away to reveal a statue of Konerko — his fist raised and face set with triumphant satisfaction after hitting the 2005 World Series grand slam.
The unveiling of the figure next to Frank Thomas' statue under the stadium scoreboard drew one of the many rounds of cheers from the 38,160 fans in...


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If you are working with multiple Nexpose vulnerability scanners it makes sense to want to generate a bunch of Nexpose Scan Templates on one Nexpose Seurity Console and distribute to a bunch of other Nexpose Security Console's. There is not much documentation I could find on doing this so luckily it is fairly easy. Follow the instructions below to first export a Nexpose Scan Template from a Nexpose Security Console and then import a Nexpose Scan Template to another Nexpose Security Console. The scan templates are stored as XML so exporting consists of copying the XML file from the server running Nexpose to either your local machine or to another server running Nexpose.


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Iwanow, Jacoby, Lemnitz; Niendorf, Lippert, S. Behrens; Symphony Orchestra Kurt Graunke, Grund. Production: Überall. Arthaus Musik 101 624, 87 mins., subtitled
Die Dollarprinzessin (The Dollar Princess) is one of my absolute favorite operettas, as it was composed by my favorite Viennese master, Leo Fall. It abounds in gorgeous waltzes, chatty duets in the style of Jerome Kern (who copied Fall) and fantastic ensembles. This 1971 Unitel production, however, is about as close to the original operetta as the film series Ma and Pa Kettle. The New World milieu, first in New York, is twisted in Act III to Colorado, where one of the characters has set up some oil wells.
The songs are almost entirely unrecognizable, given the vulgar, ping-pongy arrangements of Bert Dreyer, as played by the seedy Graunke orchestra from Munich, the aider and abetter of these vile arrangements. New lyrics have been written for most of the numbers — completely unnecessary, given the finesse of the original Willner and Grünbaum lyrics — and if you know the original, you will have a difficult time figuring out what was originally what.
The sad thing is that this adaptation starts out fairly faithful to the original, with the chorus of typists that caused so much comment in 1907, but here cheapened by undistinguished dancing. There are further dance ensembles on the boat bringing various souls to New York, which are vaguely patterned after the "Hip, Hip, Hurrah" ensemble, and grotesque Indian and Western-saloon dances at the finale.
One hears only vague references to the complete score. "Wir tanzen Ringelreih'n" and "Das sind die Dollarprinzessin" are heard, but with dreadful new lyrics. The Act I finale, one of Fall's supreme compositions, is reduced to nothingness; the miraculous "Hofball in Berlin" sequence is simply danced. Tatjana Iwanow was hired to play Olga (from the Volga), but she does not get to sing this delicious cossack-inflected number. Gabriele Jacoby, the daughter of Third Reich superstar Marika Rökk, is quite charming as Alice, and Gerhart Lippert is an attractive and likable Freddy Wehrburg. But their songs are mostly cut down.
Die Zirkusprinzessin (The Circus Princess) is not one of my ideal Emmerich Kálmán operettas, like Die Csárdásfürstin or Gräfin Mariza. It was always an enormous success in Russia, where it has been filmed more than once as Mister X. I am not too fond of circuses, which is one reason I have a low tolerance for this work, although it has one of Kálmán's more appealing ballads, "Zwei Märchenaugen" (Two Fairy-Tale Eyes), and a few other racy numbers.
Here, the plot is followed fairly scrupulously, with the songs more or less in order. (Usually, the Kálmán estate closely regulated its properties, which may explain the fidelity.) Several numbers are cut, but the end result is almost as dull as many of the other Unitel operettas. Seeing Rudolf Schock, an excellent singer, in a silver lamé outfit as Mister X is off-putting, as he does none of his acrobatic stunts. Ingeborg Hallstein, also a very good operetta singer, is curiously weighed down by her enormous false eyelashes. But they sing well together, and their numbers are largely intact. In fact, there are several reprises, with some falsetto codas from Schock.
The story is a typical Brammer–Grünwald confection, wherein Hallstein's character is married to Mister X in a Russian-Orthodox ceremony, only to find he is not (at first) a prince. She thus becomes a "circus princess." I doubt there was much to be done with this plot. But the evil machinations of a jealous lover, Prince Sergius, are finely drawn by Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, who appeared in several Third Reich films (such as Titanic and Wiener Blut) and was the German dubber for such stars as James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Gregory Peck. One of the more popular numbers, "Die kleinen Mäderln in Trikot," is performed well enough by Peter Karner, but this score will never seem as fiery or as searing as Kálmán's two masterworks.
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The Falcons added 11 more names to the list of players looking for work, as teams get to the 75-man roster limit before Tuesday's deadline.
The team announced they cut the following players: Tight end Tim Biere, fullback DeVonte Campbell, linebacker Nick Clancy, tight end Colin Cloherty, quarterback Seth Doege, defensive end Cam Henderson, tackle Jeff Nady, running back Donald Russell, safety Troy Sanders, center Matt Smith and defensive end Brandon Thurmond.
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Twenty-five years after a landmark decision allowing women to serve on the front lines, the Canadian Forces are trying to slash the targets they are supposed to meet for the number of women, visible minorities and aboriginals in uniform.
The move comes after complaints from the military that current goals are unrealistic – and amid fears that the Canadian Human Rights Commission will swoop in and force the military to be more aggressive in recruiting if it can't show progress after years of failing to meet expectations.
Some wonder whether senior military leaders, who have long complained that the current targets are unrealistic and unattainable, are simply trying to take the easy way out rather than genuinely addressing recruitment problems.
At the heart of the issue is a legal requirement in the Employment Equity Act that the Canadian Forces, like all federal government departments and agencies, must work to increase the diversity of its workforce.
Currently, the military is expected to aim for these targets: females should make up 25.1 per cent of full-time military personnel and reservists; 11.7 per cent should be visible minorities; and 3.3 per cent should be aboriginals.
Those target numbers are lower than for other federal departments, in recognition of the unique nature of military service.
The Canadian Forces place well compared to many of Canada's allies, particularly on the percentage of women in uniform. The military has also seen recent progress in the number of visible minorities and aboriginals joining up.
Yet it has never actually met its targets. Women currently account for 15 per cent of personnel in uniform, a number that hasn't changed in several years, while visible minorities represent 4.2 per cent, and aboriginals 1.9 per cent.
Chief of military personnel Maj.-Gen. David Millar wrote to senior commanders in July 2013 encouraging them to take urgent steps to bolster diversity in the Canadian Forces, including more support for recruitment and retention from the three designated groups.
"If reasonable progress towards these goals is not deemed to have been made," he warned, "the (Canadian Human Rights Commission) auditors can potentially impose conditions upon the (Canadian Forces) to comply with recruitment of (women, visible minorities and aboriginals) over a timeline and in a manner which would unduly stress our organization."
In 2008, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, responsible for monitoring progress toward the goals, told the Canadian Forces they would have to demonstrate why the goals are unrealistic before any targets could be changed.
That set off five years of internal studies that culminated with Defence Department scientists coming up with a new calculation, which has produced proposed targets DND thinks would significantly narrow the gap.
The proposed targets, contained in a briefing note to Canadian Army commander Lt.-Gen. Marquis Hainse from February, are 17.6 per cent for women, 8.2 per cent for visible minorities, and 2.6 per cent for Aboriginal Peoples.
National Defence has asked Employment and Social Development Canada, which provides information about the country's labour market, as well as the Canadian Human Rights Commission, to review the proposed targets.
Defence Minister Rob Nicholson's office declined to comment on the proposed new targets, which are expected to be finalized early next year. "There have been no decisions taken regarding new recruiting targets and any suggestion of new levels is speculative," spokeswoman Johanna Quinney said in an email.
Nonetheless, the plan to reduce the targets has set off concerns.
Canadian military officials have previously highlighted the importance of increasing diversity within the Canadian Forces given the country's changing demographic makeup, which includes more visible minorities and a growing aboriginal population.
"The changing makeup of Canada's population makes it mission critical that the (Canadian Forces) take proactive measures to be inclusive for men and women of all cultures," rear-admiral Adam Smith wrote in 2011 when he was chief of military personnel.
Chantal Fraser, a retired lieutenant colonel who spent the last part of her 28-year career looking at employment equity in the military, is worried about the impact reducing the targets would have on the Canadian Forces and their connection to average citizens.
"If we reduce the goals, then they don't have to strive as hard to reach them," she said. "And we may end up in a situation where the Canadian military no longer reflects Canadian society. And that's bad news no matter what country you live in."
Fraser said the problem isn't unrealistic targets; it's that the Canadian Forces aren't doing enough to recruit women, visible minorities and aboriginal people.
That includes measures to improve the work-life balance for women; focus recruitment efforts on the country's three biggest cities for visible minorities and on the North for aboriginals; and showcase people from those communities who are already in the military.
That assessment appears to be shared by some inside the military, as defence chief Gen. Tom Lawson was told last July that a number of actions had been planned to help address the shortfalls, but still hadn't been implemented.
Liberal defence critic Joyce Murray questioned how much of the proposed reductions have to do with budget cuts, noting defence officials warned last year that the decision to close 12 recruiting centres to save money would hurt aboriginal recruiting.
"The simple thing is to just cut the target when you're not meeting the target," she said. "A thoughtful approach would be different. It would be trying something different and having a roadmap to achieving this target. But apparently that is not the approach being taken."
Canadian Forces diversity recruitment targets
25.1 per cent: Current target
15 per cent: Current representation
17.6 per cent: Proposed new target
14,411: Total number of women in uniform on May 27, 2013
Visible Minorities
11.7 per cent: Current target
4.2 per cent: Current representation
8.2 per cent: Proposed new target
4,930: Total number of visible minorities in uniform on May 27, 2013
Aboriginal Peoples
3.3 per cent: Current target
1.9 per cent: Current representation
2.6 per cent: Proposed target
2,110: Total number of aboriginals in uniform on May 27, 2013
Total numbers in the Armed Forces
67,448: Regular forces
29,673: Reservists
97,121: Total


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Triple H Fitness Manual
Triple H Making the Game : Triple H's Approach to a Better Body
by Triple H
Love him or hate him, Triple H does what he wants, when he wants to do it. And now, for the first time anywhere, he tells you how he does it -- and how you can, too.
More than a personal account of life in and out of the ring, Making The Game: Triple H's Approach to a Better Body is Triple H's verbal and visual blueprint for building your body. The leader of Evolution discusses how "a jones for bodybuilding and a love for wrestling" morphed a skinny, 135-pound fourteen-year-old from Nashua, New Hampshire, into one of the biggest superstars ever to dominate World Wrestling Entertainment. But be warned -- the "Cerebral Assassin" has zero tolerance for anything less than a hundred percent effort. He's spent the past twenty years living by the philosophy that training results in improved strength and conditioning, self-discipline, and an ability to focus on setting goals. This book isn't for big mouths who'd rather exercise their egos than their deltoids.
Of course, even Triple H had help along the way. He didn't get to be "that damn good" without the support of a loving family. And over the years several bodybuilders (including world-renowned trainer Charles Glass) worked with him to develop the best training regimens. Their advice, plus hardcore commitment, helped Paul Levesque survive "The Hard Way In" through Walter "Killer" Kowalski's wrestling school in Malden, Massachusetts, and go on to become "Terra Ryzing" within Kowalski's International Wrestling Federation; enabled a "GUD" ("Geographically UnDesirable") to adjust to a difficult life on the road as "the French guy" in World Championship Wrestling; and gave "Hunter Hearst-Helmsley" the self-assurance to earn his stripes in WWE and eat something that literally made other up-and-comers squeal.
On the subject of food consumption, Making The Game imparts tips as essential as exercise is for burning off calories and adding on muscle. Triple H spends over two hundred days a year on the road, and his traveler's guide will help you find ideal meals even in fast-food restaurants. He also provides the template for a must-have training-and-meals diary. Triple H reveals the dietary plan that he claims stokes his furnace 24/7 -- the plan he believes is "the single biggest element" in transforming his physique.
Nevertheless, for a World Champion in WWE, it's as the saying goes: "No pain, no gain." That's why Making The Game breaks down and demonstrates the split-training workout program Triple H has embraced to achieve new levels of success in sculpting his body. Between drilling you with reps and sets, he relates in painstaking detail how training gave him the inner strength to shoulder the brunt of a controversial "Curtain Call" in the ring and, later, to elevate his position with Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock as one of the "Big Three" in WWE. Then, after breaking a sweat with Triple H reliving the fateful Raw events of May 2001 that left him with a torn quadricep muscle, you too can feel "The Triple H Burn," one of the exercises he endured through nine months of intense physical therapy to repair his leg that had been destroyed and resume a career most considered was "Game Over." Pain is temporary...but "The Game" is forever.
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College endowment funds, like other investments, took a huge hit this fall – resulting in billions of dollars less to spend on school budgets that cover everything from staff to building projects to student financial aid.
For colleges that rely on income from their endowments to fund a third or more of their operating expenses, cost-cutting measures, including layoffs and hiring freezes at some schools, are already under way.
Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., is making a controversial move in response to losses: It announced plans Monday to close its art museum and sell the collection.
If there's any good news for higher education, it could be that only a small number of colleges rely heavily on endowments to keep themselves running – and that college endowment funds in general performed better in the bear market than did the major indexes.
Still, between July 1 and Nov. 30, 2008, endowments lost nearly 23 percent of their value, according to a survey of 435 colleges and universities for a report released Tuesday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) in Washington.
"For a small number of colleges, endowments have a very significant impact," says Sandy Baum, a senior policy analyst at the College Board, a nonprofit association in New York. Among the majority of colleges, which have smaller endowments, "the silver lining to not having a large endowment is [they're] not very dependent on it."
Despite the losses, most institutions, particularly those with large endowments, are expected to make financial aid a top priority. "There's a lot of hiring freezes or slowdowns going on, but ... student financial aid is one of those things, in bad economic times, where you don't want to reduce support," says John Walda, NACUBO's president and CEO.
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Dartmouth, for instance, all draw more than a third of their operating budgets from their multibillion-dollar endowments, but they've announced their intent to maintain financial aid – including relatively new policies to give more help to low- and middle-income families.
Less of a tuition increase
Princeton has gone a step further on affordability: On Monday, it announced its lowest undergraduate tuition and fee increase since 1966 – 2.9 percent. Next year's charges will top $47,000, but the average grant to students on financial aid is nearly $34,000. Also, Princeton is increasing its undergraduate scholarship budget by 13 percent.
"Even though [Princeton is] much less wealthy than before, they're not going to try to compensate for that through tuition increases," Ms. Baum says. "We don't know yet how many other similarly fortunate institutions are going to do that, but it wouldn't be surprising if they take that approach."
Many colleges will have trustee meetings in the coming months before determining tuition. "How you proceed on the tuition side and the financial aid side is going to have a very big impact on families' willingness to enroll.... But because the economic markets are so unstable, it's very hard for institutions to make plans with any certainty," says Terry Hartle, a senior vice president at the American Council on Education, a research and advocacy group in Washington.
Like many of its peers, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., is facing an unprecedented budget situation in the wake of an 18 percent decline in its endowment from July to December. That brought the value down $700 million, to about $3 billion. The school relies on endowment spending for about 35 percent of its undergraduate college's operations.
Dartmouth officials recently announced that "some staff layoffs are inevitable" to help trim more than $60 million from the annual $700 million budget for its undergraduate college and professional schools. Tenured and tenure-track faculty and student financial aid are not subject to cuts. Just more than 70 out of 600 eligible nonfaculty employees have taken retirement incentives.
"It's a little bit somber," says executive vice president Adam Keller of the mood at Dartmouth. But people aren't surprised that layoffs are coming, and the community is working together to minimize the need for them, he adds. "We have more than 300 suggestions from employees about ... things we could do to save money, and we're looking at those very seriously."
The University of Rhode Island Foundation has seen an 18 percent decline, too, from its June 30 value of about $88 million. But the impact is small relative to schools with large endowments. It marked the median point of the NACUBO survey, with half the endowments higher and half lower. Typically, the endowment contributes about $4 million to the $308 million operating budget for the public university.
"There's a possibility that we won't be able to award any of that $4 million in the next fiscal year," says foundation president Glen Kerkian. It won't be clear until the end of the foundation's fiscal year in March how much it can award, and whether the university will be able to bridge the gap with other revenue. "Almost 55 percent [of endowment spending] is for scholarships.... This is what makes this like a double whammy.... Scholarships are as needed, and possibly as unavailable, as they've ever been," Mr. Kerkian says.
Spending part of an endowment
As endowments have enjoyed strong returns over the past several years, Sen. Charles Grassley (R) of Iowa has raised the idea of forcing colleges to spend a certain amount of their endowments – perhaps 5 percent – to help reduce costs for students. Now the pressure may be off.
"The whole idea of endowments is ... [to] have security for the long run and continue your operations in bad times," Baum says. So it's "totally appropriate" for schools with large endowments to spend at a lower rate in periods of rapid enrollment growth and to raise the rate in a downturn.
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Re: Jango vs. Boba
Yeah well, who cares about expanded universe, Draco? I keep hearing you talk about when Jango used 2 wrist rockets to kill 2 guards that were running away when he could've used 1 rocket or 2 bolts, but really, sometimes people feel like showing off, who cares? What the people did in the movies should be the only things that erally matter, with an exception of a few tie in things, like Star Wars Bounty Hunter, which ties in a lot with Episode 2.
I care about the Expanded Universe, and I am sure many others here do. In Jango's trade, showing off is not smart.
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As a tank, we often have to be willing to use every little thing to help us progress. With the exception of bosses that are on 'farm' status, tanks should be willing to use any consumable available to ensure the success of a raid.
Here are some typically used raid consumables:
Flask – [item]Flask of Fortification[/item]
Battle Elixir – [item]Elixir of Mastery[/item], [item]Elixir of the Mongoose[/item], [item]Elixir of Major Agility[/item]
Guardian Elixir – [item]Elixir of Major Fortitude[/item]
Food – [item]Fisherman's Feast[/item], [item]Spicy Crawdad[/item], [item]Talbuk Steak[/item], or [item]Clam Bar[/item]
Weapon Buff – [item]Adamantite Sharpening Stone[/item] or [item]Adamantite Weightstone[/item] and [item]Greater Rune of Shielding[/item] or [item]Lesser Rune of Shielding[/item]
Potions – [item]Super Healing Potion[/item], Major Resist Protection Potions, [item]Ironshield Potion[/item], [item]Heroic Potion[/item], or [item]Rage Potion[/item]
Unfortunately, consumables can end up costing quite a bit. Combined with repair bills tanks often have to continually farm gold in order to afford to raid. Having a helpful and understanding guild can be excellent help


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Movie News & Reviews
'Final Destination' a 'bland killing machine'
"Is it safe to sit here?"
The girl always asks that in Final Destination movies. The answer, on screen, is "Yes yes yes." But we in the audience know it's "No no no." As in "Get out of there. NOW."
In the movie titled The Final Destination, showing in many theaters in 3D, "there" is a stock car race track where the seats are rotting, the cement has cracks and the pit crews are the most accident-prone on the planet. A quartet of college kids go, one "sees" a crowd-killing accident before it happens and convinces his friends to leave. This is followed by a crowd-killing accident. Followed by more chain reaction disasters that take out the survivors who "should have been killed" one by one.
They called it "death's grand design" in an earlier Destination. In the latest unoriginal, exhausted sequel, they give it the pedestrian label "the death list."
The latter Final Destination movies can't fail to make me nostalgic for the James Wong original, a movie wrapped up in high school kids, who all think they're immortal anyway, wrestling with mortality, trying to decode "death's grand design" foreshadowed by the music of John Denver. I was thinking of that one this morning on the way to the office as three "I'm gonna live FOREVER" teens darted across six lanes of speeding traffic to beat their bus to the stop. Making that generation question its lack of fear of death was fascinating fodder for a horror film.
Nine years later, these movies have been reduced to bland killing machines, though The Final Destination, the latest, features aggressive use of 3D, with everything from race cars, tires and engines to nails from a nail gun, entrails and blood blasting off the screen into our laps. Blandly acted by players who seem resigned to the paycheck rather than terrified by the prospect of death or paralyzed by fear or even morbidly fascinated by their impending doom, this one is certainly worth a pass.
Of the blase cast, only Mykelti Williamson, as a security guard who accepts his fate with the help of his faith, and Nick Zano, playing a rude, crude and funny frat-boy jerk, stand out. A few feeble stabs at social commentary — race-fan racism (an attempted cross-burning) and the magic of 3D at the movies (in one scene, they torch a movie theater showing a film in 3D) don't make up for the cheats — violent accidents that may or may not be premonitions — or the exciting-as-a-poached egg leading man (Bobby Campo).
It's not frightening in the least, with only a few amusing moments, a pedal-and-forehead-to-the-metal race track crash opener, and then you just keep time by counting off who survives the initial slaughter, who awaits death when "their turn" comes. Eighty minutes and it's all over. Until the NEXT "Final Destination."
A tip? Don't go to stock car races. Don't leave your sun roof open in the car wash. And don't go in any cinema showing The Final Destination in Theater 13.


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Kids to "Shake, Rattle and Roll" Their Way to Earth-Shattering Futures
After experiencing my first earthquake on the west coast many years ago, there was nothing anyone could do to convince me that an earthquake could be a good thing. However, there is one group that is doing just that. The Tech Museum in San Jose has introduced a simulated quake that is a life-changing platform for children to learn about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Since January, The Tech Challenge has provided 1,400 students with ongoing STEM learning, culminating on Saturday, April 21. The annual team competition introduces the engineering design process to fifth through twelfth graders by solving a real-world problem through hands-on learning. The assignment for this 25th anniversary year – "Shake, Rattle, and Rescue" – asks students to create a solution to help earthquake survivors cross a damaged bridge.
I'm particularly proud that Cisco is the presenting sponsor for The Tech Challenge as 37 percent of its participants are low-income students, compared to less than 20 percent for similar competitions. Many of these children didn't personally know an engineer or had not been exposed to technical fields prior to their involvement. But through The Challenge, the students become excited about technology and learn about the vast array of future possibilities – for themselves and the world. The result: They can change their lives in seismic ways.
Supporting The Tech Challenge is one of Cisco's many community initiatives aimed at transforming education, to positively impact society and ensure a strong future workforce. And because community engagement is vital to everyone's success at Cisco, I will join 150 of our employees to volunteer at the event on Saturday. On-hand will be our Tactical Operations Support Center, a team that provides emergency communications during crises to showcase how the network can play a critical role in facilitating communications during the most urgent situations. In addition, Cisco has donated technologies to the museum for use at this event and beyond. Why? Through the power of the network, community organizations multiply their impact, improving lives and building stronger communities.
I love seeing the wonder on a student's face as they explore their future at The Tech Challenge. Why not join in the fun as a spectator at this free event? You might become inspired to get involved next year, perhaps even mentoring a team. We hope that community organizations in other locations can look to The Tech Challenge as a model for introducing STEM education to the young people who need it most. Meanwhile, companies like Cisco, and all of the corporate sponsors of this event, eagerly await the opportunity to one day harness the talent of these students to drive the next generation of business innovation.
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Hello everyone.
This is a remnant from the old Sleeping Dogs Forum, which I'm surprised hasn't made a return yet. In short, it was this big thread where players could post about their "patrols" around Hong Kong in Sleeping Dogs. It wasn't limited to JUST police role play, however; there was room for some other things (mostly what others had on their "noodle breaks").
Anyways, since I still play this game and have recently gotten back into it, I'm making this thread 1) to revive the old one from the original website and 2) to document some of the cool things I find during my "patrols" and gameplay in Sleeping Dogs.
If you would like to join in, here's a simple format:
1) Your Name (can use Officer, Sergeant, Lieutenant, etc. rank)
2) a unique ID # (can be totally random)
3) Division (what island you are playing on)
4) Unit (Patrol, PTU, Organized Crime, etc)
5) Description (describe what you've seen, noticed, or encountered in a brief number of paragraphs)
Name: Officer TheWeiShen
Division: North Point, Central Precinct
Unit: Patrol, FB (foot beat)
8:04AM: Started Tour.
8:19AM: Noticed suspicious activity in alleyway behind Club Bam Bam.
8:21PM: Arrested two suspects and charged them with possession of an illegal substance (1x), and intent to sell (1x).
9:30AM: Spotted local Triad gang outside basketball courts.
9:35AM: Arrested group of four by basketball courts and charged suspects with gang activity (1x).
11:00AM: Went on Noodle Break.
1:04PM: Observed a local car show for signs of street racing activity.
1:10PM: Left area as no street racing activity was initiated.
2:50PM: Witnessed a hit-and-run. Vehicle was a grey motorcycle. Ambulance and medics notified.
2:59PM: Victim of hit-and-run died from severe wounds. APB on grey motorcycle has gone out.
5:00PM: Ended Tour.
You don't have to be as detailed as what I put but something similar to that would be nice. The main point of this is to bring the idea back from the original forum AND to serve as a "fun" way to describe what we see while we play Sleeping Dogs to others. I myself have been able to find a lot of unique and cool "secrets" within the world of Sleeping Dogs that I never though existed. One example is an illegal gambling game of dice in an alleyway a couple of blocks from Wei's first available safehouse. What else is out there? Who knows. I'm pretty sure even I haven't found all the secrets that exist.


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When Papyrus, the creators of the NASCAR series of car simulations decided
to create a historical Grand Prix game, people were confused. "How could a game
modeled after a 1967 racing league be fun?" they asked. Well, to put it bluntly,
it's fun because it is harshly, brutally realistic. With few of the safety features
and engine restrictions required on today's race cars, the 1967 Grand Prix season
was the deadliest in history. Horsepower was maxxed out, extra fuel tanks were
put right in the cockpit with the drivers, and seatbelts… what are those?
By the end of the racing season, fully half of the original drivers were dead.
slide, drift, bounce, and skid in what can only be called the most realistic
simulation ever. They also crash, and oh do they crash – Grand Prix Legends
has some of the most explosive crashes in the racing genre. Unlike some great
racing games like Gran Turismo,
you are not artificially stuck on the ground. Cars can and will flip over, explode,
and send tires flying in all directions. Just watching the replays of you killing
your car is terrific fun.
Papyrus has taken a nontraditional game idea and has created something that
has more depth and is much more fun than the rank and file of racing games.
While most racing simulations skimp on the graphics in favor of realism, Grand
Prix Legends rejects this stereotype with some great three-D acceleration.
By using either a 3Dfx or Rendition card, you'll see some beautiful visuals.
All the cars were meticulously recreated from their original counterparts, featuring
the real racing teams such as Ferrari, Brabham, and Lotus-Ford. The models are
also incredibly detailed – you can see the suspension moving independently up
and down, springs compressing, as you take the bumps. The wheels are actually
round (this has plagued so many racing games it's not even funny) and you can
even sometimes see the words "Goodyear" on them.
The tracks have been created with equal attention to all the little things.
They are all modeled to scale from the original eleven Grand Prix tracks of
1967. All in all, Grand Prix Legends has the best graphics in racing
simulation history.
just because the graphics are good doesn't mean that Papyrus skimped on the
realism. Grand Prix Legends requires incredible patience to climb the
steep learning curve. If you are looking for an arcade racer, let me stress
that this is not your game! It may take you a couple of days to even be
able to keep up with the computer racers.
Not that this is a bad thing – once you learn the basic physics of the cars
you'll understand a lot more about driving. And then you'll start winning races.
If you want to get even more out of your car you can head to the garage, where
you can modify everything from tire pressure to camber and timber. Car enthusiasts
may have just as much fun messing around with their cars as actually racing.
It takes nearly all the skill of actually being a mechanic and also gives you
a test bed to see if your modifications made a difference.
Since all the cars handle differently, and because you can modify them so extensively,
Grand Prix Legends also has the most depth of any racing game on the
Sounds aren't half bad either – the engines sound different on all of the cars,
while tire screeches and burn-outs tend to sound the same. The lack of music
makes the game seem kind of sparse as you are driving around, but the excitement
makes up for it. Besides, you can always provide your own soundtrack.
Multi-player is really a kick-ass system. It supports up to twenty, count them,
twenty players over LAN, Internet, or Modem. And you can even combine
the three ways to connect – you and four others on a LAN could connect to eight
other people over the Internet, for example. Once a bunch of people you know
have learned how to drive their cars, it is even more fun to race against each
other. Crashing into the computer is one thing, crashing into your buddy is
another, more exciting thing.
Grand Prix Legends is truly Revolutionary. Papyrus opted for a completely
original game design, a whole new physics engine, a good idea, and the result
is a completely original game. The realism, exhilaration, and pure fun factor
makes Grand Prix Legends an instant classic. Sierra Sports takes the
checkered flag… People will be playing this one for a long time.


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RZA Rides The Soul Plane
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- 2004-05-29
While the fate of the Wu-Tang Clan hangs in the balance, most of its members have been busying themselves with their own solo projects. Method Man just dropped his latest album and has a TV show on the horizon. Ghostface Killer's newest effort is commanding massive kudos from hip-hop heads everywhere. The rest of the Clan is scattered about, either working on new albums, touring for their previous releases, or just percolating. But perhaps the busiest Killer Bee is the Wu's supreme beat maker himself, The RZA.
At the tail end of 2003 RZA dropped his third official solo album, Birth Of A Prince and in early 2004 he helped LA duo Northstar gain some fame by not only producing their debut album. But lately RZA's sonic inclined passion has been directed toward the Silver Screen, most appropriately in the form of soundtrack work. He first popped up on Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai and then later on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. He also copped a part in Jarmusch's art house comedy Coffee and Cigarettes opposite his Wu brother GZA and the irrepressible Bill Murray.
RZA's latest soundtrack project is Soul Plane. Unlike Coffee and Cigarettes, however, this film just contains the music of RZA, not any of his thespian chops (though the film does feature fellow Wu member Method Man). The film represents the further expansion of RZA into the world of film composition as unlike Ghost Dog, which featured elements of score along with rap tracks produced by RZA and Kill Bill, which featured score and song supervision, Soul Plane features pure instrumental score. "For Soul Plane my input was all score," emphasizes RZA about his involvement with the film. "I mean we put songs in, like popular hip-hop songs, of course, but for every little comedy scene and love scene and things like that, it was actually my first time that I had a chance to program my music, you know how I do the Bobby Digital stuff, you know 16-bar phrases, and then give it to an orchestrator who writes that stuff out and then a 49-piece orchestra played my music back. I don't know if you remember my early interviews, but I always said 'My goal is one day to have my music played by an orchestra.' Now we didn't include the turntables yet. That's my next thing, to include turntables and my beat machine at the same time as the orchestra. That's what I want to do. But this was definitely a step toward my vision in my mind that I always wanted to see happen. I feel very blessed to have been able to do it."
Part of that blessing was RZA being able to really dig into the score and flesh out long, involved sections of score. "There's one scene at the end of the movie that's six, seven-minutes long," he recalls. "And we had to write that out. So the orchestra is going—here RZA launches into his best interpretation of wailing horns and an atonal pitched string section careening all over the place--'do-do-do-uuurnt, der-der-der-ooooont!'" RZA pauses, then continues, "I came up with a lot of musical ideas," I had this one idea 'cause at the end of the movie there's a lot of different characters coming in and out of the cockpit, right? So what I said I wanted to do was when the Spanish lady comes in, I'm going to the Spanish guitar. When Mo'Nique [Imes-Jackson] comes in, I want something more Urban. When Meth comes in, I want this, know what I mean?" In short, RZA wanted each individual character to have his or her own unique theme music. "Yeah, yeah, just for that one scene, 'cause it made it more funnier," he laughs. "The director never thought about that and he was like 'Okay, try it.' And I tried it and it made the scene funnier and everybody loved it. To me it really felt like a musical accomplishment. I mean this piece of music could maybe one day go in a book. I mean the orchestrator needs some credit for arranging it a certain way for me, but it could go in a book and be played by somebody else one day, you know what I mean? It's like hey, 'Written by the RZA.' It's like a "real" piece of music. I mean hip-hop is hard to write out 'cause it's just samples and chops."
Next up on RZA's sonic plate is the score for Blade 3. "I just startedBlade 3 a couple of weeks ago. Me and Terrance Blanchard. You know, he's a veteran, so I'm learning," says RZA. "One good thing is that the opportunities I've been gettin', even like with Robert Rodriguez [whom RZA worked on the music of Kill Bill Vol. 2 with], who is a great musician and a great director, somebody who is elite, that can teach me something. That was a good experience. I worked on Barbershop 2, I did a few cues for that and I worked with a guy names Richard Gibbs, who has done over 40 or 50 movies in his career. That was very interesting. And then with Soul Plane, my orchestrator named Phil Geffen, he's done over 80 movies as an orchestrator. So I've been surrounded by people who really know the craft and I'm like the young enthusiast, picking up the energy. And it's working very well for me because my knowledge of music right now, man, is intense."
And what about the fate of the Wu? "It's like if Wu-Tang wanted to go do another album, man, I might make a super-duper classic one, man, 'cause I know some sh!t now," laughs RZA. "And I also know some people who can play [instruments] now. So I could bring in this orchestra here. I mean when we're doin' Blade 3, we're actually recording the orchestra in London at Air Studios, which is like a big church that they turned into a studio. The live room for the orchestra fits 89-pieces on one level and you can also fit a real choir of 100 people on the top level. So we've got us some crazy ideas we might pull off on Blade 3, I mean if the budget can uphold the dream, you know what I mean?"
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(11/3/11) Hollywood is famous for putting fantasies onscreen but sometimes they get outdone by the claims of television personalities. Check out the video from at left and see if that's not the case here. Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly, who hosts The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News network, features a recurring segment called Believers vs Non-Believers. On it last night, he reran parts of an earlier show where he locked horns with famed biologist and atheist, Prof. Richard Dawkins, claiming that Dawkins' new science book for children, The Magic of Reality, was an attempt to "get to the kids and say you're an idiot if you believe in God."
He used that to enlist his current guest, spirituality and alternative medicine promoter, Deepak Chopra, who (like Dawkins had been) was there to promote a book, into a criticism of the absent atheist... not that Chopra was reluctant to chime in.
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I think you're right with that observation. The inter tubes and the proliferation of "information" channels and stations allows us to seek out only those sources that affirm what we already believe.
Why look for stuff that challenges my bias, or confronts my prejudice?? I'm more comfortable here on A/N, or reading the New Yorker or Nation Magazine. And I'm sure that those who watch Faux News to wallow in the warm comforting glow of the Hannity/O'Really? images feel the same way about those sources of the "truth".
It is little wonder that the U.S. is so divided. I can't imagine how it will not get worse.
I have also seen the claim made that Mr. O'Reilly is a sensible person in real life, but plays an angry idiot on television to appeal to his target audience of angry idiots. I find it hard to believe that anyone who "reasons" in the manner that he does could be truly sensible, unless he does not even believe the points he makes on his program.
I have not seen Mr. Chopra speak publicly. I read his book Buddha and found it phenomenal. He seems like an intelligent man. It disappoints me to see him lumped in with the obnoxious and illogical O'Reilly.
Each time I've seen Mr. O'Reilly babble about Mr. Dawkins, I notice he rarely addresses points which Dawkins has made, or attempt to refute them. In fact, the grievances O'Reilly produced in his interview with Dawkins were points which Dawkins effectively refutes in The God Delusion, the very book they were discussing! It makes me doubt that O'Reilly has read The God Delusion and sees Dawkins as a persona which he may aim his self-orchastrated and non-sensical points against atheism toward, making a fool of himself the whole way.
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For a student not to graduate from high school, it typically means that they will have a tough road ahead of them. Statistics like these have built political momentum in an effort to curb the number of students who drop out of high school each year. National influential policy makers such as The Obama Administration and The National Governors Association [NGA] have both made dropout prevention one of the nation's top priorities.
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In 2009, The Alliance for Excellent Education updated their policy brief The High Cost of High School Dropouts: What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools. They have looked at the earning power of dropouts, the impact dropouts have on our economy, and even how dropouts fare in difficult economic times – like in our most recent recession.
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Chinese officials reportedly shut some businesses as pollution soars
China's capital region remained swathed Monday in a cloud of choking smog, prompting a rise in hospital visits and sales of indoor air purifiers and reports of rare industry shutdowns.
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection on Sunday dispatched inspection teams to fine and shut down polluting industries in the region, and there were reports that regulators had idled a major concrete kiln and other factories outside Beijing.
But the shutdowns did little to end a four-day bout of heavy particulate smog. Nor are they likely to ameliorate skepticism among residents and outside experts about China's commitment to environmental protection.
Alex Wang, who teaches law at the University of California, Los Angeles, said China had extensive environmental laws on the books and an increasingly sophisticated ability to monitor sources of smog.
"The problem is not a lack of knowledge about pollution sources," said Wang, who previously headed the Beijing office of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Rather, the problem is that environmental regulators lack sufficient authority to deter polluters from violating the law."
Beijing's 5 million vehicles are an increasing contributor to the city's air pollution, but the biggest sources are thought to be industries, smelters and utilities outside the city that use coal as a power source.
On Beijing's worst days, the smell of coal soot hangs heavy in the air. At 6 p.m. Monday, the air monitor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing reported that levels of so-called PM 2.5 contaminants – fine particles produced by coal burning that pose the worst risk to human health – had topped 400 micrograms per cubic meter. That's about 16 times higher than the World Health Organization deems safe, and about five times higher than recent soot levels in Los Angeles.
Beijing's recent smog bout started more than a week ago and intensified Friday, when authorities issued a code orange alert, reserved for heavy smog that lasts for at least three consecutive days. It was the first time authorities had issued such an alert since they established the color-code system – with red reserved for the absolute worst conditions – last October.
While Beijing residents are accustomed to periods of filthy air every winter, the latest pall is testing the patience of many in the city.
"Beijing's air is so bad," one Beijing blogger, Ming Hui, wrote on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter. "What are the relevant government departments doing? . . . Should enterprises and businesses that emit pollutants buy air purifiers for the people?"
According to a report Sunday in the Beijing Morning Post, the number of people going to the respiratory wards of various hospitals in the city has increased 20 percent to 50 percent since Friday. On the street Monday, pedestrians outfitted in masks were far more visible than the week before, although a large number – mainly men – wore no protection and could be seen enjoying the outdoors by lighting up cigarettes.
Health-minded Beijingers have good reason to be skeptical about continuing official pledges to protect their lungs. While China has shown that it can clamp down on emissions – it did during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing – the government's ambitious industrial growth targets, powered by the world's largest consumption of coal, trump its environmental goals. And far too often, Wang and other experts say, the government doesn't want to risk blowback from industries or even citizens by enforcing environmental laws.
During the recent Chinese New Year celebrations, for instance, Beijing warned that it would ban fireworks if the resulting smoke might contribute to already unsafe smog levels. On Feb. 14, the final day of the celebrations, no such ban was ordered, even though conditions were smoggy. That night, Beijing was ablaze with fireworks and smoke. Within a few hours, levels of fine particulates spiked above 400 micrograms per cubic meter.
China's widely publicized pollution is blamed for a drop in tourism last year, and industries facing shutdowns on smoggy days complain that they can't remain competitive. Yet the smog appears to be good for one industry: businesses that sell air purifiers. State-run China National Radio, quoting a store employee, reported Monday that sales of the machines had tripled at one Beijing electronics store in the last few days.
More than one Weibo blogger on Monday extolled the benefits of using air purifiers, which can cost more than 15,000 yuan – $2,500 – in major Chinese cities.
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Cynthia Allan believes that some of life's most important and most poignant moments occur while we are engaged in mundane tasks. That's the premise that drives "The History of Laundry," an original work conceived and directed by Allan.
Allan, chairperson of the Department of Communication at Pittsburg State University, will direct PSU's Advanced Performance Ensemble in the presentation of "The History of Laundry," April 25-28 in the Studio Theatre on Joplin Street.
Allan said the idea for "The History of Laundry," came to her many years ago when a friend made an off-hand remark about her "history of laundry." Allan began thinking about the number of times laundry is referred to in our daily expressions.
"We talk about sorting things out, ironing out our problems, airing our grievances, and we admonish people not to air their dirty laundry. Really, I started thinking that laundry was a great metaphor for all our interactions," Allan said.
Allan constructed the play as a series of loosely woven scenes that follow the "cycle" of laundry: sorting, washing, spinning, drying, and folding. As the play progresses, parents and children, couples, neighbors, and others deal with the issues and contradictions of daily life in the world of the "metaphorical" laundry room.
"We call it a comic improv," said Allan, "but some of the scenes hit very close to home and often take a serious turn."
Allan said her approach to improvisation, while a "very exciting way to work," comes with its own set of demands.
"In my productions, even though the actors know the basic structure of every scene, everything they say happens in the moment," Allan said.
Typically, Allan said, she works for a year or more on the structure of the piece and then spends a semester teaching the acting ensemble to fill in the scenes.
"I create the skeleton and the actors put the meat on the bones," Allan said. "It does require a fast mind. Every night is different."
PSU's production of "The History of Laundry," will be the third time the production has been staged. Allan did a workshop production of the show in 1998 in South Carolina. She was asked to recreate it in 1999 at Allegheny College, where she was an artist in residence.
"I thought it was time to see if (it) still had the same magic as the first, early productions," Allan said.
Members of the acting ensemble include Taylor Patterson, Morgan Beach, Jesse Gregory, Caitlin Almond, Jacob Hacker, Lara Ismert, Robert Wilson, and Jeanine Kunshek. Joining them on stage are improvisational veterans and PSU alumni Megan Westhoff and Angella Curran.
The technical crew, includes Elle Walker, Amie Beggs, and C. J. Baccus. Costumes are provided by Lisa Quinteros with sets and lighting by Doug Bennett. Choreography is provided by Kaye L. Lewis, director of the Midwest Regional Ballet.
The History of Laundry runs Thursday through Saturday, April 25-April 27 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m. in the Studio Theatre. The production is suggested for mature audiences. Entrance is on Joplin Street across from the Axe Library. Tickets are $10 for the general public, $6 for those under 17 or over 65, and FREE to anyone with a valid PSU photo ID. Tickets are available through the PSU Ticket Office at 620-235-4796 or at the door 30 minutes prior to curtain. Reservations are encouraged because of limited seating in the Studio Theatre.


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The newborn screening is a blood test done to help identify certain health issues that would not otherwise be seen as early in newborns. Unfortunately, this screening requires that blood be drawn. A heelstick was the common method to withdraw blood, but venipuncture (from the back of the hand) has become a more common approach because it is associated with less discomfort for the newborn. However, venipuncture still causes some unhappiness. Making a newborn cry is bad enough but early negative experiences can also lead to higher anxiety and pain with future medical tests. Oral sucrose, a sugar solution, has been found to have a pain-relieving and calming effect with infants receiving vaccinations.
Researchers from Canada examined steps to reduce discomfort for infants including a topical medication lidocaine, a sucrose solution, or sucrose plus lidocaine. The study, published in Pediatrics, found that oral sucrose was effective at reducing pain in infants during venipuncture.
About the Study
The study was a randomized trial that included 330 healthy full-term newborns. Before their venipuncture, the infants were given one of three treatments to decrease pain:
- 2 milliliters of 24% sucrose solution, administered by mouth using a syringe over 1 to 2 minutes
- 1 gram of liposomal lidocaine 4% cream to the dorsum of the hand
- Both sucrose and lidocaine
The infants were also swaddled and held by a nurse during the venipuncture.
A facial grimace scale assessed pain with scores ranging from 0-100. The average grimace score during venipuncture was:
- 14 with sucrose solution
- 42 with liposomal lidocaine
- 19 with sucrose and lidocaine
Both groups with sucrose were significantly lower than lidocaine alone. There was no significant difference between sucrose or sucrose and lidocaine.
How Does This Affect You?
Randomized trials are considered a very reliable form of research trial. Although no trial can be perfect this trial was well-done and the results are likely to be true. The lidocaine, which is often used for pain reduction in medical procedures, appeared less effective at reducing pain during venipuncture compared to sucrose.
It is not clear if the sucrose directly affects pain levels or if it is simply a happy distraction, but it appears effective in decreasing the stress. The small sucrose delivered was not associated with adverse events, so it may be a safe way to make venipuncture a little less distressing for newborns.
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