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A pregnant woman accused of scheming with her drug dealer to gun down her ex-partner had no reason to want her former flame dead, a court has heard.
April Barber has been charged over the murder last year of Raymond Pasnin, her ex-boyfriend and father of her first child.
Auburn man Daniel Haile was charged with murder less than a week after the attack.
Louise Spiteri-Ahern, 23, who was also allegedly romantically linked to Mr Pasnin, has been charged with soliciting Haile to carry out the murder.
But Barber, 27, was charged on Tuesday with being an accessory before the fact with police alleging she pinpointed Mr Pasnin's location before he was shot in front of his mother's Pendle Hill unit in Sydney's west on October 30.
Her lawyer Neil Chow told Fairfield Local Court on Wednesday that Barber bought drugs off Spiteri-Ahern to feed her ice addiction and their friendship was toxic.
The court heard police intercepted telephone calls between Haile, Spiteri-Ahern and Barber.
In one call, Barber told Spiteri-Ahern that Mr Pasnin, 27, was at his mother's home hours before he was shot.
But Mr Chow said Barber was simply answering Spiteri-Ahern's question and was not aware of an ulterior motive.
"(Mr Pasnin) was there in her life … she had no reason to remove him from her life," he said.
The court heard on the day Mr Pasnin was killed he was looking after his and Barber's child.
Barber had arranged to pick up the child from Mr Pasnin's mother's house, Mr Chow said.
"She was organising a pick up … nothing untoward," he said.
Mr Chow said the police had been hounding his client, who had heart problems and was four months pregnant, for answers that suited their views.
"Police want to make this some sort of fantasy in that exes … want to get together and remove Mr Pasnin," he told the court.
Mr Chow said there were fears Spiteri-Ahern would be "revengeful" and give a "statement of lies" further implicating Barber.
The prosecution argued there was an unacceptable risk of Barber being on bail because of the risk of flight and interfering with prosecution witnesses.
However, Magistrate Vivien Swain found the risks could be managed with strict conditions, including daily reporting to a police station and a curfew.
She was granted bail to appear in Parramatta Local Court on August 1.
Spiteri-Ahern did not apply for bail and will appear in Parramatta Local Court on June 26.


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3 tickets split $50M, Florida has its second Powerball winner in a week, but this one will split a much smaller jackpot with winners in Louisiana and Delaware.
Each will get a third of the jackpot, estimated at $50 million over 20 years, or a $31.1 million lump sum. A week ago, a ticket bought in Zephyrhills, Fla., won a $590 million annuity or an estimated $376.9 million cash.Lottery officials in Louisiana and Florida said Saturday's winning tickets were bought in New Orleans and Tampa. Delaware's lottery website did not say where that winner was bought.
Wednesday's jackpot drops to an estimated $40 million, or $24.9 million cash.
The number of winning tickets isn't a record. Louisiana Lottery spokeswoman Kimberly Chopin said a $295 million jackpot in 2001 was split four ways.
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Extreme sledding race added to Keystone's finale
This weekend is the last in the 2012-13 winter season for Keystone Resort, which sends winter off in style once again with a two-day bash full of live tunes and raucous events. Saturday features a rail jam followed by a live concert with Robert Randolph and the Family Band; on Sunday, the Slush Cup pond-skimming contest returns, followed by a first-time Schlittentag.Red Bull's Schlittentag – German for "sledding day" – kicks off at 2 p.m. Sunday to close out the festivities. The Schlittentag is a spectator event in which teams of three send one to three of their team members racing down the hill on a hand-built sled to launch a roller in the middle of the track. Judging is based on creativity, time and air distance off the kicker, with up to 10 points awarded for each. Crashes are to be expected. "I'm not scared; I think it's going to be a blast," said Andrew Creager, from Western State Colorado University, whose team, Canadian Hockey, built a Zamboni sled designed to carry all three team members down the course. "The other two are a little worried; they're kind of just packed into a wooden box." The Zamboni slides on two skis and has no steering wheel, so Creager plans to steer, if necessary, by dragging his feet. "We designed the sled to go in a straight line and as fast as possible," he said. "Honestly, I think it's going to be a blast."As of Wednesday, Pillow Talk, one of two teams from Signa Phi Epsilon fraternity at the University of Colorado Boulder, planned to assemble a sliding bed with skis fashioned onto the bed posts. "We have to build it and figure out how we're going to get it up to the mountain," said team member Mitch Revare, who said they have an engineer on board to make sure the sled works. The team will don pajamas for the occasion. Breckenridge residents Jacob Durci, Taylor Fredricks and Ben West make up Team Gnar, an Ullr threesome that will board a Viking-style ship crafted of welded steel pipes, wood, skis and snowboards for the adventure. "We're pretty confident," Durci said. The Schlittentag will take place on Discovery Hill at the Mountain House Base Area. First prize is a trip for three to the Red Bull Flugtag in Dallas, Texas (http://redbullflugtagusa.com), an event which takes hand-built contraptions completely airborne – pitting human-powered, self-constructed gliders against one another for regional domination. Second prize is three tickets to the Motocross Championships at Thunder Valley in Lakewood, in addition to prizes from Keystone Resort.
Keystone's weekend events start Saturday with The Last Grind, the third and final rail jam in its A51 River Run Rail Series. The jam takes place next to the Summit Express lift, where spectators can watch male and female skiers and snowboarders bust out their best tricks on the multi-rail feature."We hope to continue building the momentum from year to year after a great inaugural season," Keystone spokesperson Tucker Burton said of the A51 series. "Our first two rail jams sold out in the male categories incredibly fast and showed great turn-out day of the event." Registration for The Last Grind is $15 at http://www.keystoneresort.com.After the rail jam, Keystone presents a free live concert by Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Randolph, who was named one of the top 100 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, is famous for his use of the pedal steel guitar, an instrument he played growing up in the House of God church and revolutionized into the funky guitar rock he plays for secular audiences around the world today. The Family Band is composed of actual family members, backing Randolph on tour with the likes of Santana, Eric Clapton and Dave Matthews Band and headlining Bonnaroo, Crossroads Guitar Festival, Hard Rock Calling in London, Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and Austin City Limits, among others. Randolph recently signed with Blue Note Records as he prepares to release his new studio album, his first since "We Walk This Road" in 2010. Engineered by Eddie Kramer (Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin), mixed by Jim Scott and produced by Randolph, the as-yet-untitled album includes guest appearances by Trombone Shorty and Carlos Santana.Robert Randolph and the Family Band take the stage at 4:15 p.m. Saturday after Jaden Carlson Band opens at 3.
Sunday's grand finale is the Schlittentag, but the Slush Cup, which kicks off at 10:30 a.m., should make for some good laughs prior. Now in its third year, the Slush Cup features skiers and snowboarders skimming across an icy pond at the Mountain House Base Area in the hopes of taking home a prize in one of three categories – best crash, best costume and best overall. Registration is $30 online at http://www.keystoneresort.com. Prizes include a 2013-14 Summit Pass for each of the three categories, with the best overall winner also earning entry into the 2013 World Pond Skimming Championships at Vail on April 14. There also will be crowd prizes and giveaways.For more information about Keystone's closing weekend events, visit http://www.keystoneresort.com/events.
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Each winter, usually sometime in November, about two billion Muslims around the world will celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, the three-day festival commonly known as "Eid". Eid is commemorated by many different cultural rituals, colors, and festivities in countries across the globe. Each region has specific customs, foods, and traditions associated with this celebration.
The holiday marks the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting and is a culmination of the month-long struggle towards a higher spiritual state. Ramadan holds special significance for Muslims, since the Quran, the book of Muslim scripture, was revealed during this month. It is also the time when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset each day, refraining not only from food and water but also from both material as well as spiritual vices, such as lying, cheating, violence, or theft. The fasting is not only a symbol of sacrifice and purification, but also a measure of self-restraint and a tool for encouraging compassion for the hungry, the poor, and the less fortunate. Charity and service are especially emphasized during Ramadan, and Muslims are required to donate food and a percentage of their savings to the under-served and neglected in society.
During the month of fasting, there is an increased sense of community, sacrifice and devotion to God. In addition to the five daily prayers, there are nightly family gatherings for the iftari or breaking of the fast. And praying together for forgiveness and good-will is a daily event. Muslims generally break their fast with dates, the traditional fruit of the Arabian peninsula. Along with the dates, special snacks like fried vegetables and spicy lentils are also eaten for iftari. Drinks such as freshly squeezed lemonade mixed with rose-water are also commonly prepared during Ramadan.
As the Islamic calendar follows the lunar cycle, Eid begins with the sighting of the new moon at the end of Ramadan. Each year, the holiday moves back about ten days in accordance with the movement of the lunar cycle. In many countries, festivities begin on the night before Eid, known as the chand raat or the night of the moon. Girls decorate their palms with henna or mehndi, and dance to traditional music, while cooking for the grand feast the next day gets underway.
On Eid morning, families offer a special prayer of thanks to God and then begin the celebrations with food and merriment. In most parts of the world, people give each other gifts and new clothes, children receive money from their elders, special feasts are held for relatives, and desserts adorn the dinner table for days while families and friends reunite in celebration.
Traditional foods associated with Ramadan and Eid are:
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A central venous catheter is a tube that is placed into a patient's vein during a surgical procedure. It lets doctors give intravenous (IV) medicine and other fluids, as well as draw blood.
Having a catheter in place means a patient won't need repeated needle sticks. This can help take away some of the stress associated with treatment. It also can help prevent the damage to veins that can come from frequent sticks.
A central venous catheter can remain in the body for as long as it's needed.
There are a few different types of central venous catheters. But they all fall into one of these main categories: external or implantable (under the skin).
Implantable ports. These lines are usually placed in the chest, but are sometimes placed in the arm. One end of a thin tube is put into a large vein, while the other end leads to a small rubber dome, or portal (port), just under the skin. When medicines or other treatments are given, a special needle with attached tubing (called a Huber needle) is inserted through the skin and into the port. The medicine is then delivered into the vein. A central line with a portal is usually referred to as port-a-cath or a medi-port.Although this way of accessing the port still requires a small needle, it's generally easier and less painful than a typical needle stick. A numbing cream or spray may be used on the skin to lessen any discomfort.
Both types of catheters are placed into a vein in an operating room while the patient is asleep under general anesthesia. Afterward, both catheters require some at-home care.
A health care professional will make sure you know exactly how to care for the catheter before your child is sent home, so ask questions if there's anything you don't understand.
Caring for a Broviac and/or Hickman catheter
Broviacs and Hickman catheters need more attention than port-a-caths because the tubing stays outside of the body. To prevent infection, the bandage around the tube needs to be changed several times a week.
If your child has one of these catheters and develops a fever or redness or rash around the catheter (a sign of infection), call your health care provider immediately.
Caring for a port-a-cath
Finally, be sure your child's teachers, school nurse, and physical education teacher know about the central venous catheter. They can help make sure your child is safe at school, and also help your child deal with any self-esteem issues (for example, having a private place to change clothes for gym class can be a huge deal to a preteen or teen with a line).
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"What I did On My Summer Vacation;" that's the title for this article. Like the little group of misfits in the Wizard of Oz, parts of this trip were a wild ride.
Reaching our destination of sunny Florida, we rented a car to cruise in as we saw the sights of Florida. First stop was the hotel we had reserved for the first leg of our trip, which turned out to be similar to the Bates Motel in the movie "Psycho." With a shower that leaked lukewarm water, lights that buzzed and clicked as if they weren't sure if they wanted to explode or catch fire, and floors that ran a steep grade uphill (you could only wonder what was really underneath them), the trip started out with a bang.
On to sunny Orlando, where the traffic was so heavy and the roads so hard to follow that the movie "Groundhog Day" could have been the theme. We passed the same buildings over and over again in an attempt to reach our newly reserved motel room, only to pass the necessary exits time and again. It then became clear; Dorothy, we're not in Kansas anymore. The story of Oz is a good one, and author, Gregory Maguire captures the essence of Oz and all of its characters in an extraordinary way in his bestselling series, "The Wicked Years." This bewitching series concludes with the final installment, Out of Oz: the Final Volume in the Wicked Years, which takes us to the spectacular Land of Oz, where the fate of the Emerald City is plagued by social unrest as the Munchkins invade the peaceful hamlet, Glinda the good witch is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. Unlike our Florida excursion, this journey is magical, and just the first of a variety of new fiction that you'll find lining the new shelves of the Jasper County Public Library. Read on!
After just fifty seven hours of life, the third child born to John and Ricky Ryrie has died. There are no words that can express the grief the couple and their two older children are experiencing. As they struggle to find a semblance of normalcy in their lives once again, suppressing their grief leads both John and Ricky to uncertainties about their own relationship, threatening the future of this once happy family in "The Grief of Others" by Leah Hager Cohen.
Climbing the ladder of the PR firm that she works at in Southern California, Maggie Silver is struggling, along with everyone else, to find her place and reach the top when among other famous clients, she is assigned to take on Senator Henry Paxton, a distinguished statesman whose young female aide has been found murdered. As Maggie runs damage control to prevent the scandal from gaining momentum, Maggie finds herself more and more embroiled in the lives of the Paxtons in "Damage Control" by Denise Hamilton.
Mayhem and chaos follow pet store owner, Philip Horkman and Jeffrey Peckerman as the lives of the two men converge in unexpected ways, resulting in a series of events that escalate out of control, sending them both running for their lives in "Lunatics" by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel.
Ellie Calvin is facing a mid-life crisis of gigantic proportions; her longstanding marriage is in real trouble and her beloved daughter has left for college. When her mother passes away, Ellie is confronted with her long buried feelings for Hutch, an old boyfriend who shows up at the funeral seeking answers from her about her mother's life for a documentary that he is in charge of. Taking a chance that the pair of them can work together to uncover the clues needed to complete the project, Hutch and Ellie begin to piece together a decades old story that reveals age old secrets in "Coming Up for Air" by Patti Callahan Henry.
Just like Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion, we got a change of scenery with our trip to sunny Florida; and just like these four fast friends from Oz, we had our relaxing moments and our not so relaxing moments, and by the end of the journey, clicking together a pair of ruby red slippers and the words "There's no place like home" seemed like the way to go!


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The Berlin Film Festival may not get as much coverage as Cannes or Sundance, but the stars don't hold back when it comes to their beauty looks. Charlize Theron showed off her recently shorn hairstyle and Anne Hathaway revealed yet more ways to wear a pixie. See all the celebrities transition their looks from daytime press conferences to nighttime red-carpet events as they hit the German circuit.
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"I don't particularly understand the whole social media thing," Williams said. "I understand how it can work for you at times, but I certainly see more of the pitfalls. I don't get it. I don't get why people would want to tell all of their business and their whereabouts all the time, but maybe I'm just old-fashioned."
Williams said he agreed with the league's punishment and said he knew it was a matter of not letting social media usage get out of control around baseball.
"They're absolutely right handling it in the fashion they did," Williams said. "If I'm sitting in Joe Torre's chair, I'd make the same decision that he just made — and that's with the mindset that it's in the best interest of baseball."
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"I think Major League Baseball is there to be the caretakers of the game," Williams said. "And they have to do things for the whole of the game and this kind of falls into that category where if you let this whole social media thing get out of control – none of know what the boundaries kind of are right now to all of this and how to navigate our way through it.


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The Living Wills return to Alma's Only Bar tonight
The Living Wills, based in Denver, returns to Alma's Only Bar for a free show tonight starting at 9:30. The group plays covers and originals including rock 'n' roll, alternative and jazz. Here, Connor Wills breaks down what the band is about:
It's the current events on the news to the daily happenstance of our personal lives that influence our original songs. We love old pop bands like The Beatles, folk music from the likes of Bob Dylan, and we especially enjoy the old jazz giants like John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter. But we know our niche, and that's laying down funky fresh rock 'n' roll grooves of our own creation.
Not so funny when it happened – but at a high school battle of the bands a long, long time ago, while we were playing, there was a bomb threat. All we saw, before they cut the power to our speakers and told us what was happening, was the whole crowd leaving with a message passing from person to person. We thought we sucked until we found out about the threat. Upon leaving the auditorium ourselves, many people told us we were awesome … our spirits returned to a heightened state and we were super pumped to play again.
Lots of excitement; we are super upbeat. … Our lead singer, Devin Wills, has a great voice that will surely soothe your ears, and his piano playing is incredibly intense and thrilling. I play a thunderous drum set that keeps the rhythms rocking. Roger and Ryan are gonna lay down all the low-end and electric guitar solos you could ask for. We play covers and originals.
We just recorded a 12-song, self-titled CD. It's available for download at http://www.thelivingwills.net. Also we'll have some CDs at the show to sell for $5 each.
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From Homicidal Threat to Reciprocal Caring
(Editor's Note: The following narrative is about a real patient. I have requested and received permission to tell his story. His name will not be used but he is aware that it may be possible for some who know him to identify who he is. The story will be told from my perspective. He would tell it slightly differently, I suspect, but the facts are accurate and the implications of his story and our relationship are significant for the future of health care. Over the past three years, he and I have become good friends. I have learned to respect and care for him and he for me. I have found him to be a bright, caring, but needy person. I think you will come to the same judgment as you read his story.)
It was Oct. 13, 2009. The morning was cold and raining – well, not really, but isn't that the way every story should start? When I arrived at the hospital early in the morning, I had a number of patients to see. On the South Tower, I was met by several nurses, who said, "You can't go into (that) room." I asked why and they added because the patient said that he will kill the next doctor who comes into the room. I asked, "Does he have a gun?" They did not think so. I said, "Then let's go see him."
In my 39 years of practicing medicine, I had never had an experience like this, but I have dealt with many people who are frustrated and angry. Rarely is their frustration and anger because of something a health-care provider did to them, but it is often directed toward the provider because she or he is available. As I approached this man's room, I realized that I could call security or the police and escalate this situation into a full-blown conflict. I also remembered Proverbs 15:1, which states, "A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger." I wish that I could say that I had always made the right choice in such matters, but that would not be true. As I have often said, "The other day I tried to walk on water and I got soaking wet."
Here were the choices: join the battle and confront the frustrated, angry patient, thereby escalating the situation to a battle that would help no one, or diffuse the situation with a soft answer and find out what was really bothering the patient. As I walked into the patient's room, I stood at the foot of his bed, introduced myself and asked, "May I listen to your lungs."
This disarmed him because I think no one had ever asked permission to "enter his personal space." A number of years ago a physician, in discussing a health-care provider who had "crossed the line" and had been inappropriately involved with a patient, said, "You know a license to practice medicine is a license to molest." That was a startling statement, but it is true. The things that healthcare providers do with and to patients every day, under any other setting, would be illegal and would be molestation. That is why permission must be sought before examining a patient and why appropriate courtesies and barriers must be maintained.
The patient gave his permission for me to examine him, and I listened to his lungs. I then asked him several questions and listened to him for 30 minutes as he told me his story. As he talked, I understood why he had made the statement the nurses had reported to me. He was not homicidal; he was frustrated. Everyone wants control over their own life, and he had lost all control; the only power he retained was the authority over who and how a health-care provider could examine his body. Like all humans, he was exercising that power.
As I listened to his story, I realized that his greatest need was an objective means of establishing his self worth. I realized that he needed control over something in his life, and I realized that the only way that I could invest a sense of personal value in his life, through giving him control over something, was to give him power over me. Heretofore, health-care providers had had control over him, giving him a sense of worthlessness and dependency. If I were able to give him power over me, in a real and effective way, then he would begin to develop a sense of personal autonomy from which would come trust in the health-care system, confidence in me personally, and responsibility in himself.
But how do you do that effectively? Traditionally, health-care providers only give patients controlled access to the their time through an appointment process and with a fee associated with that access. When dealing with people who have a sense of self worth from other sources, this is acceptable, but when dealing with someone, who due to no fault of their own, had no social infrastructure – friends, family, job, etc. – it is inadequate and only compounds their problem. But what if the traditional relationship were turned on its head? What if this man were given uncontrolled access to my time, and what if that access were not associated with a fee? This would genuinely empower him to control his time and mine. He would have access at his choice, without an appointment and without a fee being attached. The only reason he would now have access is due to the judgment that he had personal value and worth, both of which made him worthy of accessing care at his discretion.
If that is the theory, how do you do it effectively? In this case is seemed simple. Access to me is controlled by telephones: office, home, cell. Therefore, I gave him my unlisted number at my office, my listed home phone number (which is the only home number I have) and my cell phone number. I told him to call me any time, any hour, for any reason. As only my family, colleagues, and friends have my cell phone number and my unlisted number at my office, this immediately put him into a "special group."
Thus began a three-year long relationship that has become important to both of us. Every element of SETMA's patient-centered medical home journey has been illustrated by this relationship. A number of novel events expanded our concept of patient-centered caring. One routine care issue is related to chronic pain. This is often a difficult situation for health-care providers because we are all confronted with patients who appear to use medications for reasons other than medical care. However, it is also the case that the Texas Medical Board is as concerned with under-treatment of pain as they are with the overutilization of pain medications.
This patient, who can now be more accurately characterized as "my friend," required pain medicine treatment. We dealt with this issue by a series of steps:
1. Careful documentation of all pain medication usage.
2. Continuous efforts to decrease utilization of pain medications
3. Consistent and timely refilling of pain medications, which decreased the anxiety that delays in refilling medications would result in lapses of care.
4. Routine review of medication usage and the presence of the continuing need for pain medication treatment.
Two events challenged our treatment plan. First, my friend could not afford his medications, whether pain medicines or medications for other chronic medical conditions. As a result, not only did SETMA prescribe his medications, but we also paid for them. Through the SETMA Foundation, we were able to relieve the anxiety of his not being able to get his medication due to their cost. Once again, we found another way of investing a sense of value into our friend's life: We invested our treasure.
Second, shortly after my becoming involved with my new friend's life, he had another crisis. He was arrested and charged with a crime. The details are not relevant to this story except to note that after careful investigation, it was obvious to me that he had not done what he was accused of and a senior officer on the scene agreed. The case dragged on for two years and with incompetent legal representation and his inability to hire better counsel, and with threat of a jail sentence, which in my judgment he would not survive, he was convinced to plead guilty in order to get probation.
As so often seems to be the case, the less you have the more is demanded of you. Probation is not free and it is not cheap. If you cannot pay, or if you do not pay your probation fees, your probation will be revoked and you will be incarcerated. Here is the most novel of situations for SETMA and for our foundation. As noted above, I believed that my friend would not survive imprisonment, and I knew that he could not pay his probation fees. Suddenly, patient-centered care took on a new meaning for us. In that the primary function of the SETMA Foundation is to help our patients obtain health care when they cannot afford it, and, in that it was our judgment that our friend's imprisonment would not only be unjust, but would be detrimental to his health, we asked ourselves whether the payment of his probation fees would be a legitimate expense for the foundation to pay. We judged that it would, and so for the past 14 months and for the coming 36 months, the SETMA Foundation has paid our friend's probation fees.
SETMA's Care Coordination Department has been active in our friend's care. None of the SETMA Foundation funds can profit SETMA, but can only be used to pay the fees of other health-care providers who will not treat our patients without being paid. Whether it is his dental care, co-pays for providers outside of SETMA, costs of medications, transportation and other needs, SETMA's Care Coordination Department has supported our friend's health-care needs over these past three years. In fact, it was a recent event with the Care Coordination Department, which resulted in the writing of this column.
Nov. 24, my friend contacted me and said that he was very sick. I told him to come in on Monday without an appointment and I would see him. On Monday morning, he told me that he had no transportation, whereupon I sent a note to SETMA's Care Coordination Department and they arranged for transportation. Our friend came to the clinic less than two hours later. The following day, I received the following note from him:
"… Thank you very much for seeing me Monday. After the injection and my second of three from the Z-pak, I'm feeling better. I don't know why but when I get sick now, it really gets me down. For as long as I can remember I hardly ever got sick, but when I did it was pretty rough. A lot worse now. I thank you very much for getting me better. You are a gift from God and may He bless you, your family and staff."
I responded to him: "You are a gift to me from God, as well. I have learned a great deal from you, and you have blessed this practice greatly by allowing us to minister to you." In a note to my SETMA colleagues that day, I said, "I am sincere in telling him that he is a gift to us and not a burden. Sir Winston Churchill said, 'You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.' This man has helped us make a life many times over. That is a great gift."
This event was concluded with a note from our patient where he said, "Thank you my friend. My wish is that you get better also. If I heard you right, you said that you have been sick for a while. My prayers are with you. I don't know what I would do without you, Ms. Rebecca, and Ms. Pat. All of you work so hard for my spiritual and physical well being. I hope that all of you realize just how much I appreciate all that's done for me."
This is the ultimate end of patient-centered medical home; now the one who is cared for becomes the caregiver, expressing concern for the ones who give him care. My thoughts drift back to Mother Theresa, who cared for those with the greatest needs and the least resources. Upon one occasion, a wealthy American spent two weeks with her. Departing, he said, "Mother, I would not do what you do for a million dollars." Her response? "Neither would I!"
This is the response of "our friend," once he read the above.
"This is a great read! By the time I got to the end I noticed a tear running down my cheek. We have been through a lot, my friend, and I hope and pray that you really know how much I appreciation you and the love I have for you and your staff.
"I think of you and the SETMA family daily. All of you are always included in my daily prayers. I thank God for you all daily. I honestly do not believe I would be alive without my SETMA family. Thank you for all you and your staff do. My love and respect is with you all."


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Game #118: Angels at Jays pregame
Los Angeles (69-47) at Toronto (59-58)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
Chone Figgins, 3B
Reggie Willits, DH
Vladimir Guerrero, RF
Garret Anderson, LF
Gary Matthews Jr., CF
Casey Kotchman, 1B
Maicer Izturis, 2B
Jeff Mathis, C
Erick Aybar, SS
PITCHING: LHP Joe Saunders (6-0, 3.46 ERA)
Reed Johnson, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Aaron Hill, 2B
Gregg Zaun, C
Hector Luna, 3B
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Roy Halladay (13-5, 4.17 ERA)
GLAUS OUT AGAIN: 3B Troy Glaus was out of the lineup for the second straight day, but it isn't just his left heel that's causing the latest problem. For the last few days, Glaus has been bothered by a wonky left ankle, and he was getting the foot examined by a doctor on Tuesday. It's not clear whether or not a DL stint is in Glaus' future, but maybe something can be done in the offseason. Glaus has been troubled on and off all season by a bone spur in his left heel as well.
Said GM J.P. Ricciardi: "The doctors are looking at his ankle and we'll have a better idea of what can be done and what can't be done. It might be a surgery in the off-season, just to clear it out."
OTHER TIDBITS: Since the All-Star break, Toronto has gone 7-11 on the road, averaging 2.7 runs per game. At home since the break, the Jays have gone 9-3 with an average of 6.7 runs per game. … The Angels come to the Rogers Centre ranked first in the American League with 107 stolen bases. Toronto ranked last in the league with a caught-stealing percentage of roughly 13. Advantage: Angels. … The Blue Jays rank last in the AL with a .226 batting average with runners on scoring position and two outs. To put that in perspective, the Tigers rank first with a .298 mark. … Since July 16, when he was batting .296, the injured Glaus has hit just .140 (12-for-86). Toronto manager John Gibbons wasn't ready to blame the foot injury. … Angels reliever Justin Speier enjoyed a warm welcome from his former teammates. During Gibbons' pregame meeting with the media, Speier ran into the dugout, mimicked holding out a microphone and asked Gibby: "So, what do you think of your new setup man Casey Janssen?"
entering Tuesday
1. Boston 71-47 (–)
2. New York 67-51 (4)
3. Toronto 59-58 (11.5)
4. Baltimore 54-63 (16.5)
5. Tampa Bay 45-73 (26)
entering Tuesday
1. Seattle 66-50 (–)
2. New York 67-51 (–)
3. Cleveland 65-53 (2)
4. Detroit 65-53 (2)
5. Toronto 59-58 (7.5)
6. Minnesota 58-60 (9)
SIDEBAR: After rewatching the Bourne Identity and the Bourne Surpemacy back-to-back on Sunday night, I ventured out and caught a matinee of the Bourne Ultimatum on Monday. I thought the new movie was pretty sweet, but I've got to say that Supremacy, to me, is the best in the trilogy. I still thought the camera moved a little too much during some of the action scenes in Ultimatum, and while the car chase scene in New York in the new movie was outstanding, it felt more like a demolition derby than a pure chase. Anyway, the movie was great, and the trilogy ranks up there as one of the best three-part series out there, if you ask me. Of course, if you ask me, you'd be asking a big-time action movie fan. –JB
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Well at least Glaus has an excuse for his struggles this season. Though the way he's been hitting lately, i was beginning to think he was more of a detriment to the team rather then helping.
As for the bourne trilogy I actually have you to thank Jordan. You indirectly brought my attention to it so I went out and saw the latest, (ultimatum) thoroughly enjoyed and watched the first 2 as a result. I too think it's one of the best trilogies i've seen, though I disagree with you in that I believe ultimatum is the best one, followed closely by supremecy and identity. My favourite fight scene was the one that Nikki was involved in, (pretty cool how he used that hard cover book to pound his neck/face) Not a dull moment in either movie.
surprise, surprise, Zaun gives up another stolen base.
Nice to see Zaun finally get someone at second — you know he was probably extremely frustrated with his bad numbers….
I love the makeup of this Angels team — lots of speed, some scrappy guys, some good young arm, and the big bat with Guerrero.
One of their major weaknesses, though, has already been shown tonight — their defense definitely needs some work.
Great game by Doc, but really, what's with this Jays' offense? They had a couple of opportunities to really break the game open early, but they just couldn't get it done.
I guess I can't really complain — in this one game they've already almost scored half the runs they scored in four games in Kansas City.
And, come on, the pies in the face are really getting old for a team that's barely at .500….
I agree with you on the pies issue. Nice outing from Halliday-but do the bats need to go to sleep after the first inning?
These guys seem to consistently play only as much as the have to. Maybe just my perception-your thoughts?
Did you hear, the Orioles went for the 2 point conversion and failed. Clemens gets suspended and costs his team big-time tonight.
Angels D is definetely not there strength and there about a bat or 2 short. When they get on base they look to create alot of havoc out there. They play a brand of baseball that not many teams play anymore. Of course this is the hitter's era ( steroid era or whatever you want to call it ) To me it is refreshing to watch a team play like that, fun to watch. There pen is very good as well.
If Glaus is going to miss any more time, I hope we see Stairs at third. They had him taking fielding practice at third in case of emergency, and when your alternative is putting Hector Luna in your lineup for three consecutive days, I'd call that an emergency. He may end up being a butcher defensively, but the bat should make up for it. If it doesn't work out after one game we can always go back.
2-point conversion????


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Serves 6
18 beautiful king prawns
150g snow peas
150g green beans
12 spears of green asparagus
6 baby carrots
150g podded broad beans
15g (1 tablespoon) butter
salt and pepper
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1 beautiful free-range chicken
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8 garlic cloves
2 tablespoons ground piment d'Espelette (or hot paprika)
2 tablespoons herbes de Provençe (usually marjoram, oregano, rosemary, thyme)
2 tablespoons paprika
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"The King's Speech" (2010, dir. Tom Hooper, photographed by Danny Cohen, BSC) opens with an image that is a visual metaphor for George's central obstacle: intimidation and anxiety at his lack of speaking ability, represented by the microphone in this opening shot.
The low angle combined with the heavy distortion of the shot (created by the use of a wide angle lens with a close subject), contorts the curves of the microphone, making it seem as if it's leaning forward into the camera, giving it a domineering and imposing presence.
The lens choice also accentuates the size of the microphone relative to the room. It visually fills the entire graphic space from ceiling to floor, making it an massive and pervasive presence that can't be ignored or escaped. Adding to this, the shot is composed such that the perspective lines of the room converge on the microphone, demanding the full graphic attention of the frame.
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The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Engineering and its Hawaiʻi Center for Advanced Communications (HCAC) are supporting a Molokaʻi High School student in her efforts to protect Hawaiian wildlife.
Sarah Jenkins, a junior at Molokaʻi High, has already received recognition for her strong commitment to protecting Hawaiian endangered birds. She placed second overall at the 54th annual Maui Science and Engineering Fair and later won first place for best Senior Research Project in the Animal Science Category from the Hawaii Academy of Science. Her successful work is focused on improving the reproduction environment of the Hawaiian Coot and involves creating artificial floating nesting structures in Pipio Pond in the Mapulehu area. Jenkins did not slow after these successes, and continued to work hard to improve the environment for endangered birds on her island and throughout Hawaiʻi.
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Dean Crouch and Professor Iskander were impressed with the high school student's passion, knowledge and professional approach to her project, and committed to purchasing a thermal imaging system, suitable for wildlife observations in the field, to support her project. HCAC also donated two sets of water quality measurement equipment to assist with the monitoring and data collection of the environmental conditions in and around the nesting areas. This equipment included wireless sensors for monitoring water pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen and salinity, along with an additional sensor for measuring water flow rates and an iPod Touch for wireless data collection. Jenkins is already using some of the equipment in support of her project and also to help mentor a Molokaʻi Middle School student with her science fair project.
About the Hawaiʻi Center for Advanced Communications: The HCAC at the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is a multidisciplinary, autonomous research center in broadband wireless telecommunications and advanced radar technologies with joint research and educational activities that promote national and international collaboration and partnership with industry in support of economic development in Hawaiʻi.
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Heya people. I've been looking to download ChibiPaint from the internet, since I want to be able to use it offline as well, and I'd like to have it conveniently on my computer. I've been to the official site of ChibiPaint (http://www.chibipaint.com/downloads.html) and downloaded from there, but the problem is that the downloaded program doesn't come with an option to save.
I don't want to risk losing work, so I would like to download a version of the ChibiPaint program that comes with the "Save drawing to computer" option. Might anyone know where I can find it?
I'd like to know the answer to this too.
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you could just screenshot it.
How would you save the drawing to you computer to work on it later, using the same tools?
Eb, no one is helping you
I care.
I just don't know.
You could always post your question in Yahoo! Answers to reach a wider range of people who will know.
I would like that too.You could do it offline since we go on alot or trips and places,I could grab my tablet and laptop and draw with something other than sketchbook pro.But again like Bumblepeach,You could do that or google it.
*30 minutes later*
I looked.No awnser no where.Does the site have an email so you could email them?
I wanted that kind of tihng too, because i really really love some features chibipaint provides and i want to apply them outside RMD on other resolutions.
At least they have source so maybe i can look how to modify it to save it. The coolest thing ever would be if it could save images in gimp or PS format to allow further editing.
I looked at the code and it looks like it's made only for web integration, probably i'll try to figure out something though, need a little more time though
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I looked at the code and it looks like it's made only for web integration, probably i'll try to figure out something though, need a little more time though
I don't have a java sdk on this computer, so I can't try anything =_= But..
If you look in CPControllerApplet.java there's 2 functions; sendChi() and sendChi2(). Currently only sendChi() is used, but sendChi2() calls writefile() which seems to open a file dialog to store the drawing to your computer.
It also seems that this should be enabled in the "if (e.getActionCommand().equals("CHISave")) { .... }" block.
Oh that's really strange in CPControllerApplet.java i only have sendPng() function which seems to be in charge of saving .chi as well.
By the way are u using sources 0.7.11.2 from chibipaint website or have you taken them somewhere else?
Anyway it looks like this functionality just needs to be moved to another controller (cause applet one somehow not working in application mode) and then it will be easy to write it in png or chi format to disk. I will try to do some stuff tomorrow.
That's a good question xD I've had the code on my computer for a while.
The chibipaint website doesn't really look familiar to me, so maybe I just grabbed the .jar from the java tool used on this site...
Ok i've done my first mm (don't how it actually should be called) hack or modification to chibipaint, basically i added 4 functions - save .png, save .chi, load .chi and create new image with any width and height you desire. Everything is done in very very bad fashion especially last two, but i just wanted them to work, at least somehow.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7694232/ChibiPa … ha0.01.zip
And for now this stuff works only with gfx/images directory with icons lying around but that's not bad because you can customize them however you want
I would be very glad if anyone would like to use it, i made it all mostly for myself anyway . Maybe i'll create project for all of this on github or something to make further modifications.
And to don't break gnu gpl license , patch to latest source of chibipaint i made:
Btw, this was my first experience with java
Wow, Predelnik. You seem to know something about computer codes and programming. Did you really manage to add the "save as chi." and "load chi. file" functions to the ChibiPaint program?? Like is it possible to use it to draw like I do on RMD? I'm sorry, I was really confused reading through your posts. xD
Wow, Predelnik. You seem to know something about computer codes and programming. Did you really manage to add the "save as chi." and "load chi. file" functions to the ChibiPaint program?? Like is it possible to use it to draw like I do on RMD? I'm sorry, I was really confused reading through your posts. xD
Well to put it short, yes I did
So now I can save files in it? Do I download your link (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7694232/ChibiPa … ha0.01.zip) to try it?
I downloaded that, and I now have the file ChibiPaintMod-alpha0.01.jar on my computer. I'm not seeing a way to use it though?
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The Disaster Known As Netanyahu
Well-handled, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Rather than apologize to the Turkish government for the deaths of nine of its nationals on the Mavi Marmara, you dug in and now your ambassador to Ankara has been expelled. At this rate, the once critical Israeli-Turkish relationship will soon be finished, leaving Israel with no friends in the region except shaky Jordan.
The peace treaty with Egypt is holding, but just barely and Egypt can hardly be considered a friend anymore. Its people despise Israel and identify it with former President Mubarak, the one Egyptian relationship Israel bothered cultivating. Israel's de facto friendship with Syria will end when President Bashar al-Assad goes. He is no Zionist, but he has been a force for stability on Syria's border with Israel, and Lebanon's, too.
Once he's gone, the north will almost surely heat up, especially now that Hezbollah plays a dominant role in the Lebanese government. As for the Palestinians, Netanyahu says that if they dare to take their case to the United Nations later this month, he may declare the Oslo agreement null and void. In other words, the Palestinians will be deemed enemies of Israel. Again.
In short, Binyamin Netanyahu is very close to bringing Israel back to where it was before the Oslo agreement of 1993. There is even the strong possibility that he will take it back to where it was before the Camp David peace treaty with Egypt — with the added disaster that the relationship with Turkey (established in 1948) will also be gone.
In a normal country, a record of disastrous failures like those would lead to Netanyahu's departure from office. But not in Israel. Despite all the damage he has done to the country's security and to its economy (note the massive protests against Netanyahu's Tea Party economics), he remains in office because the right supports him and Israel is governed by an entirely right-wing coalition.
The worst part is that nearly all of Israel's problems with its neighbors could be resolved by ending the occupation. Even the economy would benefit if the Israeli government was not wasting so much money on the settlers and their exorbitant demands.
Israel's propaganda machine would have it otherwise. It insists that the Palestinians, and the Arabs and Muslims throughout the world who support them, don't really care about the occupation. Their goal, we are constantly told, is to destroy Israel itself. As proof, they insist that "the Palestinians have never recognized Israel's right to statehood."
This is the kind of thing that used to be called the "big lie." The Palestinians have repeatedly recognized Israel's right to statehood and security within the '67 borders.
For those who have forgotten, that is what President Clinton, Prime Minister Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat agreed to on the White House lawn that day in 1993. Israel recognized Palestinian rights and the Palestinians recognized Israel. In the years since, neither side has threatened to revoke that recognition until last month when Netanyahu began saying that Oslo could be revoked if the Palestinians go to the United Nations.
But why?
The Palestinian turn to the United Nations offers the solution to virtually all of Israel's problems. President Mahmoud Abbas says that once Palestine is recognized by the international body, he will resume negotiations with Israel over all the issues that divide the two sides. The only difference will be that negotiations will be between two states, not one powerful state and one supplicant hoping a few crumbs fall off the table.
Netanyahu is terrified of a U.N. vote. He and his emissaries are going around the world demanding that the statehood resolution be voted down. And the combined forces of Netanyahu and the lobby here have cajoled the Obama administration to join Netanyahu in demanding a "no" vote.
It is clear that Netanyahu wants to preserve the status quo, even if it means that Israel reverts to a position where every one of its neighbors is an actual or potential enemy, even if it means that its strategic relationship with Turkey is over, even if it means that it has no one in the region to help prevent war with Iran.
It sounds crazy, but only because it is. Netanyahu's highest priority is to maintain the occupation. The settlers and the religious fanatics are his people; the Israelis of Tel Aviv and Haifa are not. It's not that Israel's security does not matter to Netanyahu. It does. But for him, Ariel and the crazed settlers of Hebron matter every bit as much as the state itself. To him, there is no difference. (On that score, Netanyahu is much like Palestinian extremists who view all of Israel as occupied territory. Netanyahu makes no distinctions either.)
Netanyahu is bringing Israel to the brink and no one is doing anything about it. Both the president and Congress go along with Netanyahu because the lobby tells them that the only way to support Israel (and, in turn, be supported by its "friends") is to approve of everything done by the Israeli prime minister. That is why the Palestinians have to go to the U.N. They cannot expect anything from the United States or even the Europeans (who are being pressured heavily on Netanyahu's behalf by the U.S.).
The U.N. vote is expected to occur on September 20. It is too much to hope that America will do what it knows is the right thing and vote "yes" or be an honest broker and abstain. The best we can hope for is that the United States and Israel are part of a very small minority voting "no." That kind of vote will strengthen the Palestinians and perhaps frighten Netanyahu into negotiating in good faith.
But even if not, the U.N. will have stated that the Palestinians are people, too; people with rights, including the right to full sovereignty in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. At that point, the writing will be on the wall. The occupation is ending, hopefully before Netanyahu does too much more damage ... to Israel.


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Fuel price monitoring website gasbuddy.com reports the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Michigan was $3.68. Motor group AAA reports a state average Friday of $3.62, compared with a national average of $3.46. For Ohio commuters, AAA reports the average at $3.54.
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Full Clip: Chuck D Breaks Down His Entire Catalogue Ft. Public Enemy, Spike Lee, Janet, Kool Moe Dee & More
Yo! Bum Rush the Show—Public Enemy (1987)
"Before we released our first single 'Public Enemy No. 1,' [the hip-hop industry] was showcasing talent everywhere else in New York City. But in the early '80s, Long Island had artists that weren't being signed by recording companies. So releasing a song like 'Public Enemy No. 1' from Yo! Bum Rush the Show was two fold. Back then, being from Long Island you had to prove yourself. As opposed to just taking it to the streets, I took our music above the streets and took it to local radio. At this time I was working at WBAU (the influential Long Island radio station located at Adelphi University). I played a part in uniting all the Long Island MC's to step their game up to overtake New York. I was one of the cats that said, 'To get respect you have to just be better.'
I met Eric Sadler, Hank and Keith Shocklee years before Yo! Bum Rush the Show. Eric was a musician that was part of another operation, and I hooked up with Hank and Keith, who is his brother, in 1979. They were [in a hip-hop crew] called Spectrum, which was like theAfrika Bambaataa-Zulu Nation of Long Island. I was under the tutelage of Hank for damn near seven or eight years. We finally moved our headquarters from Hank's mom's house to a building in Hempstead, Long Island.
We rented out the top of the building, but the person that was renting out the bottom was Eric Sadler. Eric had the rehearsal studio downstairs and we had the DJ studio upstairs. And that's how we came together (Hank and Keith Shocklee, Sadler, Chuck D and at times Bill Stephney went on to form Public Enemy's revolutionary production crew the Bomb Squad). Hank was a mastermind on leading the ship and he also threw a lot of the music theory out of the window. And Eric kept some musical theories. That's what made the Bomb Squad's sound what it would later become.
Before Yo! Bum Rush the Show, I met Flava Flav when he was coming up to the studio with Sons of Berserk. He was one of the guys who played keyboards for them. He came up to the Long Island studios and I was like, 'Well, dude, you can't smoke up here.' I sent him back out to the street, but he hung around long enough that when we were doing our college radio show at WBAU, he started to get known more and more. From the beginning, Flav knew how to mimic a lot of characters around the way and add them to his own thing. He was always that energetic person. Flav just took on a life of his own.
Originally in the early '80s, the goal was to record singles, but we wanted to do radio because we knew we could do that forever. We covered so many rappers and we saw so many changes in hip-hop that we thought, 'What's the big deal with having a record out when we got two rooms full of records?' That's when Rick Rubin tried to get in touch with us and get us involved with the Def Jam thing. Rick was trying to sign me for a long time on the strength of 'Public Enemy No. 1.' Meanwhile, Andre Brown, who went on to become Dr. Dre from Yo! MTV Raps, was part of our scene in Long Island and he was our good brother.
Dre (who was a also member of the early Def Jam hip-hop act Original Concept) was heavily involved in the beginnings of Public Enemy. Dre was the leading guy at WBAU, which was an alternative outlet to get music out there. And Dre was also the leading figure after he replaced Bill Stephney, who was the program director at WBAU. Stephney went on to become underneath Russell [Simmons] and Rick as a President at Def Jam.
So with Dre and Bill already at the label, it became a memorandum in which Rick was like, 'Sign Chuck.' But my whole thing was I'm not going to go to Def Jam and do some Chucky D music. I had to bring the posse. So the theory behind Yo! Bum Rush the Show was that the whole team would come into play. You open up the door and we are all going to come in: myself; Hank as a producer; Harry Allen as a writer; Flava as a new undefined character; the S1Ws, Professor Griff and DJ Terminator X.
Being DJ's helped us out a whole lot. When we came out with Yo! Bum Rush the Show our whole thought process was if we are going to do a record we have to come out with something that was totally different. We all grew up in the '60s and '70s, so we came with a more mature viewpoint [than other rappers]. Even in Public Enemy I tell people all the time that myself and Griff were born on the same day in 1960. But we are only somewhere fifth down the line in P.E. as far as our age goes. I turn 50 this year, so it's not like we were the oldest cats in the operation. When it came to PE we straddled a couple of eras. Hank came up during the heyday of disco into the beginning of the break beats. As much credit as they give Kool Herc and Bam as far as having that vast record knowledge, you have to give it up to Hank Shocklee as well.
We were very happy with Yo! Bum Rush the Show. We didn't give a damn what the critics said or what the world thought. We just wanted timing to be on our side. We made our record to be respected by our hip-hop peers. But you have to remember that Public Enemy was one of the first groups in a major label scene that came out without a proven record in the streets so the speak.
We knew that 'Public Enemy No. 1' was going to make some noise with that sound coming through from the JB's 'Blow Your Head.' For about 10 years, I always loved that record when it came on, but there was no such thing as looping back then, so it would come on and go off. But that sound in the beginning would be the thing that would get people ready and revved up when they were rolling skating. People would get bucked wild. That was the theme behind 'Public Enemy No. 1'…keeping that energetic feeling going. [Chuck makes the buzzing trademark sound of 'Public Enemy No. 1'] I was living on a busy corner in Roosevelt, so I knew when we made 'Public Enemy No. 1' you would hear that loud buzz go by when cars were driving. It was loud enough to make you go, 'Oh, that's that shit [laughs]!'"
Yo! Bum Rush the Show--Public Enemy (1987)
It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back--Public Enemy (1988)
"Fight The Power"--Public Enemy (Do the Right Thing soundtrack,1989)
Fear of a Black Planet--Public Enemy (1990)
"Bring the Noise"--Public Enemy feat. Anthrax (1991)
Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black--Public Enemy (1991)
"Rise 'N' Shine"--Kool Moe Dee feat. KRS-One and Chuck D
"New Agenda"--Janet Jackson feat. Chuck D (1993)
Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age--Public Enemy (1994)
Autobiography of Mistachuck--Chuck D (1996)
He Got Game--Public Enemy (He Got Game Movie Soundtrack,1998)
Don't Rhyme For The Sake Of Riddlin'--Mistachuck (2010)
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We can't possibly rely on an ISO from the internet, so that will be what I blame every time.
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- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Creole seasoning blend (available in the spice aisle)
- 1 pound pork cutlets, trimmed of fat
- Cooking spray
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 1 large green bell pepper, sliced into thin strips
- 2 teaspoons (or 2 cloves) minced garlic
- 1 small onion, thinly sliced into rings
- 3/4 cup finely chopped celery
- 3/4 cup water
- 3 1/3 cups hot cooked brown rice
In a large zip-top bag, combine flour and Creole seasoning blend. Shake to mix well. Add pork cutlets one at a time to the bag and shake to coat well.
Coat a large, nonstick skillet with cooking spray. Add 1 tablespoon oil and heat over medium-high heat. Add pork cutlets and brown 2–3 minutes on each side (may need to do in batches depending on the size of the skillet). Remove cutlets to a plate. Add remaining 1 teaspoon oil to the skillet and heat. Decrease heat to medium and add pepper, garlic, onion, and celery; cook until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in water and return cutlets to the skillet. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low, and cover. Simmer about 25–30 minutes, or until cutlets are tender. Stir occasionally. Serve each cutlet with 2/3 cup hot brown rice.
Yield: 5 servings.
Serving size: 1/5 recipe.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories: 324 calories, Carbohydrates: 39 g, Protein: 24 g, Fat: 8 g, Saturated Fat: 2 g, Cholesterol: 59 mg, Sodium: 128 mg, Fiber: 4 g
Exchanges per serving: 2 starch, 2 nonstarchy vegetable, 2 lean meat. Carbohydrate choices: 3.
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In the 25th year of their career together, a famous string quartet receives some devastating news. Peter, their cellist, has been diagnosed in the early stages of Parkinson's disease. This bombshell interrupts the steady pace of their work and exposes personal issues that have long remained latent.
"A Late Quartet" does one of the most interesting things any film can do. It shows how skilled professionals work. I knew about string quartets in general. Now I know more about them in practice, especially about how they require four talented individuals to form into one disciplined voice. I suspect any serious music lover will be convinced that Yaron Zilberman's film knows what it is talking about.
One of the pleasures here is to see familiar and gifted actors forming an ensemble of their own. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener join with a newer face, Mark Ivanir, to play the members of the Fugue String Quartet, a world-famous ensemble based in Manhattan. Walken is Peter Mitchell, the cellist, who is the wisest and most thoughtful member of the group. Hoffman and Keener are Robert and Juliette Gelbart, the second violin and viola, who are married. The first violin and youngest member of the group is Daniel Lerner (Ivanir).
Peter notices a weakness in the fingers of his left hand, consults a specialist (Madhur Jaffrey) and is startled to learn that even before a blood test and a brain scan she can tell him, on the basis of a few simple physical tests, that she suspects Parkinson's. He reveals this quietly to his fellow musicians. In this moment and throughout the film, Christopher Walken reminds us that although he often plays caricatures and joins in kidding his mannerisms (see the recent "Seven Psychopaths"), he can be a deep and subtle actor, particularly good at suggesting deep intelligence.
His character's announcement inspires a bright idea by the second violinist, Robert, that he and the lead violinist, Daniel, could begin to switch chairs. Since the loss of their cellist doesn't require a rearrangement of the violins, it's clear that this idea has been long smoldering in his mind. It is quickly shot down and precipitates other buried issues, including a situation of adultery, and another unsettling revelation that Daniel has been having an affair with young Alexandra (Imogene Poots) — who is the daughter of Robert and Juliette.
These melodramatic themes are intercut with knowledgeable scenes showing the Fugue Quartet in rehearsal and performance; they're preparing to present Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131, itself a late work by the master with a certain funereal air. Peter believes it could provide his farewell performance, and so it does in an unanticipated way, allowing Walken to display the great depth and dignity of his character.
How much does one need to know about classical music to appreciate this film? Not very much. Like all masterful films, it contains what is needed to appreciate it. All that is needed is an interest in human nature, which during the quartet's period of crisis is abundantly revealed. Actors such as Keener, Walken, Hoffman and Ivanir are frequently seen in roles that don't really test them. That's the nature of the commercial cinema. What a pleasure to see them sounding their depths.
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Sundance: Spike Lee in the House
At the premiere of "Red Hook Summer," a voice from the audience asked director Spike Lee a smart indie film question: "What would you have done differently had you gotten studio money"? The utterly recognizable, bold yet oddly wavering cadence belonged to another proud Brooklynite, Chris Rock. The surprise audience member then added, much to the amusement of the crowd, "Blown up some (expletive)?"
It was a good question about the importance of being indie. Although Lee was so foundational in independent film's ascent in the 90s, this is only his second feature to play at the renown fest. The first was "Passing Strange," a documentary about the final three performances of the Broadway play of the same name.
"Red Hook Summer" follows 14-year-old Flik, sent by his mother from his comfortable Atlanta home to a housing complex in Red Hook, a waterside Brooklyn neighborhood, to live with his grandfather for a summer. Bishop Enoch wants to impart some old-time religion to his grandson. For reasons we won't give away, Flik's a fairly sullen kid who often watches the world through his iPad 2 video recorder
The film doesn't yet have distribution, so Mad Moviegoer's rule is to tread lightly. I will say, "Red Hook Summer" references a number of Lee's other films, either directly or in the stylistic choices Lee made. Mookie from "Do the Right Thing" even makes an appearance, wearing a Sal's Pizzaria shirt. Admittedly, this made Mad Moviegoer smile. It's nice to think Sal and Mookie forgave each other that incendiary night and that the restaurant was rebuilt in, as Lee readily proclaimed "the borough that I love."


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Our man in Havana On an Eastern Airlines DC-8 from Atlanta approaching Miami, the "Fasten Seat Belts" light had already flashed on, when Dick Skelly, Miami MAS consultant, heard the man seated next to him tell two companions nearby: "It's time to go." 22 One stood up in the aisle and held a gun on the stewardess. Another waved a pistol to show the passengers he was armed. Dick asked his seat mate, as calmly as he could, "Are you going to take us on a trip?" The leader of the trio told him firmly, "Cool it, man." So Dick cooled it. In fact, he had the next 18 hours to cool his heels because his aircraft became one more in the long line of planes hijacked to Cuba. During their extended trip, Dick and his fellow passengers on Eastern's Flight 121 were by turns nervous and bored. One passenger, who said he was a Texan and knew how to shoot, tried to grab the hijackers' luggage to find another gun. Fortunately he was restrained before panic broke out. An elderly woman passenger behind Dick did not really know what was happening. She looked out the window as the plane was landing and exclaimed: "My, Miami looks pretty at night!" Dick merely said, "Ma'am, I've been flying into Miami for ten years and that down there is not Miami." As the meaning of Dick's reply dawned upon her, the woman's eyes opened wide in astonishment. To some people, hijacking is an adventure. To others it is an inconvenience. But to Dick it was an opportunity to compare Cuba today with the Cuba he had visited many times before Fidel Castro came to power. The plane landed in Havana about 10:30 at night. Dick said that marked the start of what seemed to him like calculated harassment of the passengers. For an hour and a half after landing, they were kept waiting at the airport and told nothing of what was to be done with them or when they could leave. At midnight, Cuban officials offered them ham and cheese sandwiches with orange juice. The meal, Dick said, was hardly appetizing. Then came a two-hour wait. At 2 a.m. the passengers were herded aboard buses for a weary ride to the former Varadero Beach Hotel, renamed now for heroes of the revolution. Dick called Varadero "once the most beautiful beach in the Caribbean." After a short rest, the passengers were aroused at 8 a.m., offered ham and cheese sandwiches again, then were left to wait in uncertainty. During their enforced inactivity, Dick said, they observed a large number of Russians and Chinese at the resort area, but the forced visitors were not permitted to enjoy its pleasures. At 12:30 in the afternoon they were offered a greasy fried chicken lunch and then were told to get ready to leave. Finally, at 2 p.m., the group boarded buses and were driven to the airport. Two propeller planes waited to transport the DC-8 passengers to Miami. The Castro government had contended that the runway at Havana's airport is too small to allow a fully loaded jet to take off. All planes, scheduled or not, pay landing and other airport fees, which help to bolster the hard-pressed island economy. Recently, however, fully loaded jets have been permitted to leave from Havana. By the time they were back at the airport, Dick and his fellow passengers were more than ready to leave. At the last minute, though, Cuban officials said a hotel key was missing and no plane could leave till all the keys had been accounted for. By 3 p.m., nearly 18 hours after the episode began, Dick was on his way home. Awaiting him at H&S in Miami was a schedule that included a trip to Orlando within a few days. He wondered if he should drive this time.
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Skelly, Richard D.
Denman, Richard W.
Crawford, John M.
Otto, Olney F.
Liang, George
Belletti, Ron
Belletti, Leanne
Haskins & Sells. Miami Office
Haskins & Sells. Salt Lake City Office
Haskins & Sells. Executive Office
Haskins & Sells. St. Louis Office
Haskins & Sells. San Juan Office
Haskins & Sells. Philadelphia Office
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Patches of plastic and trash cover large portions of our blue planet. The largest patch, the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is estimated to cover anywhere from 270,000 to 5,800,000 square miles of ocean. These congregations of pollution exist in all five gyres or large systems of rotating ocean currents. Without immediate action, this plastic pollution will continue to do irreparable damage.
5 gyres, a conservation organization striving to end plastic pollution, is spreading the word about the five main oceanic garbage patches by biking 1,400 miles down the Atlantic coast on their "Last Straw Plastic Pollution" tour.
Tomorrow, the 5 gyres team will be hitting the streets of Baltimore, Maryland and making a stop at National Aquarium from 5 – 6:30 PM. The team will share photographs from their journey and talk about their research on the impact of plastic pollution and what the community can do to eliminate this crippling harm to local waters and marine life. Click here to RSVP for the Baltimore event!
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Layout modifier that tracks focus in the tiled layer while the floating layer is in use. This is particularly helpful for tiled layouts where the focus determines what is visible.
The relevant bug is Issue 4 http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=4.
- trackFloating :: l a -> ModifiedLayout TrackFloating l a
- data TrackFloating a
Apply to your layout in a config like:
main = xmonad (defaultConfig{ layoutHook = trackFloating (noBorders Full ||| Tall 1 0.3 0.5), ... })
For other layout modifiers
It also corrects focus issues for full-like layouts inside other layout modifiers:
import XMonad.Layout.IM import XMonad.Layout.Tabbed import XMonad.Layout.TrackFloating import XMonad.Layout.Reflect
gimpLayout = withIM 0.11 (Role "gimp-toolbox") $ reflectHoriz $ withIM 0.15 (Role "gimp-dock") (trackFloating simpleTabbed)
Interactions with some layout modifiers (ex. decorations, minimizing) are unknown but likely unpleasant.
trackFloating :: l a -> ModifiedLayout TrackFloating l aSource
Runs another layout with a remembered focus, provided:
- the subset of windows doesn't include the focus in XState
- it was previously run with a subset that included the XState focus
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This take on the classic bacon-wrapped appetizer uses prosciutto instead to wrap meaty scallops. High-quality Italian prosciutto, found at well-stocked supermarkets or Italian specialty stores, has an incomparable melt-in-your-mouth texture. It's more expensive, but you only need a little for this recipe. Make it a meal: Serve with an unoaked chardonnay and our recipe for Wild Rice Salad or whole-wheat orzo tossed with Parmesan cheese.
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