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It has been called the incredible shrinking deficit, and this week its projected size plunged again-to the smallest gap since 2008.
In a report released Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office said the federal budget deficit for the year ending Sept. 30 will fall to $642 billion; that's roughly $200 million less than the CBO's February estimate. In each of the four previous years, the shortfall topped $1 trillion.
The CBO says the deficit this year, at 4 percent of gross domestic product, will be less than half the size of the 2009 shortfall, which was 10.1 percent of GDP. It projects the deficit shrinking to 2.1 percent of GDP by 2015.
How has this happened? Some credit-but not much-goes to the tax increases approved in December to avoid the fiscal cliff and to sequestration spending cuts. The bigger factors, the CBO reports, are higher-than-expected individual and corporate tax revenues due to an improving economy and an increase in dividend payments to the Treasury by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were bailed out by the government and now have returned to profitability.
After years of concern about rapidly growing federal budget gaps, the latest trend is welcome news. But concerns remain about the bigger picture. For example, some experts think the deficit might be shrinking too quickly-draining needed economic stimulus at a time when too many people remain unemployed.
And in the longer term, the federal deficit and debt outlook is much less bright. In the decade starting in 2014, the CBO cautions, "deficits in (our) baseline projections total $6.3 trillion. With such deficits, federal debt held by the public is projected to remain above 70 percent of GDP."
Indeed, under current laws, federal debt in 2023 will hit 74 percent of GDP and be on an upward trajectory. Among other risks, such debt levels leave the government vulnerable to much higher payments if interest rates rise.
Yet Washington observers already see a weakening resolve among lawmakers to work toward a long-term budget agreement. That's not surprising; too many elected officials respond only to an immediate crisis.
The improving deficit picture presents the opportunity to craft a well-thought-out plan for fiscal reform. It should not be wasted.
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This week, we are joined by film critic and host of the Linoleum Knife podcast Alonso Duralde! Alonso will be with us for the next couple of months while Margaret is on maternity leave, bringing his particular knowledge of film and the industry to the show. But this week: Girls Trip. The movie stars Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Queen Latifah, and breakout star Tiffany Haddish. They discuss Tiffany Haddish's hilarious performance in this movie, but does Hollywood know what to do with her next? They talk about the role of blackness and black female friendship in this movie, and why it's important more of these films get made. And finally, and probably most importantly, they talk about the role that black hair plays in the movie, and what each of the character's hair styles tells you about their personality.
Guy is all about The Beaverton, which is Canada's answer to The Onion News Network, and Wynter is all about the Jason Bateman led Netflix series Ozark. Plus, Karen catches up on Queen Sugar and Alonso is still watching Degrassi. Plus, we hear what each of the panelists is listening to this week.
With Guy Branum, Wynter Mitchell, Alonso Duralde, and Karen Tongson.
Guy - Cars That Go Boom - L'Trimm
Alonso - Better The Devil You Know - Kylie Mynogue
Wynter - Idolize Me - Yellow Alex
Karen - Way Back - TLCand
Each week we'll add everyone's jams to this handy August Spotify playlist.
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Actor John Forsythe died Thursday, according to a statement released by his publicist. He was 92.
"The family of John Forsythe sadly announces his passing on April 1, 2010," the statement said. "He was 92 years old and, thankfully, he died as he lived his life... with dignity and grace, after a year-long struggle with cancer."
Forsythe died in Santa Ynez, Calif. of complications from pneumonia, according to the statement. There will not be a public service.
Among his many acting credits, Forsythe played Blake Carrington on "Dynasty" in the 1980s. He also starred in the 1950s sitcom "Bachelor Father."
In "Charlie's Angels," he voiced mysterious millionaire Charlie Townsend. His voice is heard on a speakerphone, but he never appears on camera.
Forsythe's star is in the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard.
Forsythe was born Jan. 29, 1918 in Penn's Grove, N.J. After attending the University of North Carolina, Forsythe moved the New York to become a radio actor. He became the field announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbet's Field -- a boyhood dream for many young men.
Forsythe was just 18 years old.
In 1947, he was a member of the first class of what became the Actors Studio, and he performed in Broadway shows such as Mister Roberts'' and "The Teahouse of the August Moon."
He had a series of small television and movie roles before being cast in the CBS comedy "Bachelor Father" in 1957. The show ran for four years and jumped to various other networks before being canceled.
Forsythe's career soared when Aaron Spelling cast him as the mysterious millionaire Charles Townsend in "Charlie's Angels." When the show went off the air, Forsythe took on the role of scheming family patriarch Blake Carrington in the ABC drama "Dynasty," another Aaron Spelling production. He won two Golden Globes for his work on the show.
Joan Collins, who starred with Forsythe on "Dynasty," called him "one of the last true gentlemen of the acting profession.''
"I enjoyed our nine years of feuding, fussing and fighting as the Carringtons," Collins said in a statement. "And I was so glad to have had the chance to reunite with him a few years ago in the `Dynasty' reunion. He will be greatly missed."
A longtime thoroughbred horse owner, Forsythe was a member of the board of directors of Hollywood Park Racetrack.
He is survived by his third wife, Nicole Carter, three daughters and a son.
The family asked that in lieu of flowers, John's wife and family would like to request donations to the American Cancer Society. There will be no public service,'' the publicist said in a statement.


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Next TU Science Café to focus on projectile motion
The next installment in Thomas University's Science Café series will feature "Projectile Motion: What do Emmanuel Zacchini and the archer fish have in common?" In 1940 Zacchini, a circus performer, set a world record with his 175-foot cannonball jump at 54 miles an hour.
Presented by Dr. Juan Gomez, an Assistant Professor of Math and Physics at Bainbridge State College, the Science Café will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the Flowers Foods Executive Classroom located inside Smith-Bonvillian Hall on TU's Main Campus.
Participants are invited to enjoy food and conversation with the speaker in the lobby of Smith-Bonvillian Hall from 6 to 6:30 p.m. before the presentation.
There is no charge for admission, and the public is invited to attend. For more information about the Science Café, contact April D. Penton at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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ORINDA — Drivers were somewhat back-logged on their commute home Wednesday night after about 100 pounds of logs spilled onto Fish Ranch Road.
The California Highway Patrol responded about 3:31 p.m. to a call of a truck that had spilled a load of wood it was carrying in front of Fish Ranch Road Farms Nursery.
The 100 pounds of tree stumps were scattered across the windy road, blocking traffic, CHP officers said.
Fish Ranch Road between Grizzly Peak Road and Highway 24 was been closed to traffic during the clean-up process.
Drivers were instructed to take alternate routes.
Staff writer Rick Hurd contributed to this story. Contact Katie Nelson at 925-945-4780 or follow her at Twitter.com/katienelson210.


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Security casts shadow over Obama's Mexico trip
President Barack Obama is seeking to refocus economic relations between the U.S. and Mexico, even as fresh questions about security cooperation threaten to cast a shadow over the president's visit to the southern neighbor.
Obama also will use his three-day trip, which begins Thursday and includes a stop in Costa Rica, to highlight the immigration overhaul moving through Capitol Hill, both for an audience in Latin America and for those back home in the U.S.
The president is scheduled to arrive Thursday afternoon in Mexico City for meetings with President Enrique Pena Nieto and members of Mexico's business community.
Since taking office in December, Pena Nieto has moved to end the widespread access it gave U.S. security agencies helping fight drug trafficking and organized crime. The changes mark a dramatic shift from the policies of Pena Nieto's predecessor, Felipe Calderon, who was lauded by the U.S. for boosting cooperation between the two countries as he led an aggressive attack on Mexico's drug cartels.
The White House has tried to downplay a potential rift, with officials emphasizing Mexico has kept the U.S. informed about the changes. Obama on Tuesday said he would wait to hear directly from his Mexican counterpart before assessing the changes.
Despite the intense focus on security issues, Obama advisers say the president will try to show that the ties between the two countries are broader than the drug wars that defined the relationship in recent years.
"Security has been so front-and-center in the public discussion of the U.S.-Mexico relationship that lost in that is the enormous commercial relationship between the two countries," said Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser.
Obama is expected to call for the U.S. and Mexico to deepen trade ties to promote job creation on both sides of the border. However, he is not expected to announce any major new economic initiatives.
Mexico was the second-largest export market for U.S. goods in 2011, according to the office of the U.S. trade representative. U.S. trade with Mexico totaled $500 billion in 2011.
White House aides say they also see strengthening Mexico's economy as a way to address one of the root causes of much of the illegal immigration to the U.S.
Rhodes said the U.S. expects Pena Nieto and other regional leaders to be largely supportive of the immigration overhaul being debated on Capitol Hill, which includes provisions to strengthen security at the 2,000-mile long border with Mexico.
However, Carl Meacham, a former senior Latin America adviser on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the U.S. immigration effort is viewed with "skepticism and confusion" in the region.
"They've been brought to the altar so many times by different American administrations that there's a bit of a lack of trust," said Meacham, who now works at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Getting Mexico's buy-in, particularly on border security, could help Obama sell the immigration overhaul in the U.S., particularly to wary Republicans. GOP lawmakers have long insisted the U.S. must focus its efforts on securing the border before addressing the legal status of the more than 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.
The immigration bill being debated in the Senate would strengthen border security, allow tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country, require all employers to check their workers' legal status and provide an eventual path to citizenship for most of the immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
More than half of the immigrants in the U.S. illegally are from Mexico, according to the Pew Research Center.
Following a speech Friday to Mexican entrepreneurs, Obama will travel to Costa Rica, his first visit as president to the Central American nation. In addition to meetings with Costa Rican President Laura Chincilla, Obama will attend a gathering of leaders from the Central American Integration system. The regional network also includes the leaders of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
On Saturday, Obama will attend a business conference aimed at fostering economic cooperation between the U.S. and Central American nations. The president is due back in Washington Saturday night.


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LEE — Looking into the vineyard of Flag Hill Winery Monday morning, an unusual machine crept up and down the rows of grapevines.
For the first time in the winery's 18-year history, the grapes from the 18 acres of vineyards were harvested by machine rather than by the traditional handpicking that takes place annually by the community.
The lightly used French tow-behind, a Gregoire over the row harvesting machine, was purchased by Flag Hill from a New York vineyard. The new piece of equipment also required a $50,000 to $60,000 specialized tractor and moves slowly —anywhere from one to four mph — up and down the rows of grapes, shaking the vines gently and piling thousands of grapes into the buckets on either side of the machine where up to three acres of fruit can be held.
Heather Houle, director of marketing for Flag Hill, said the machine provides a lot more flexibility with harvesting than the old method. While she said it was amazing to have such a turnout of about 600 people from the surrounding communities help with harvesting the grapes each year, this machine lets them decide day-to-day throughout the season when to pick the grapes based on the weather forecast.
She said harvesting plans had changed already just in the week and a half the machine has been at the vineyard. When she left work on Saturday, she said, the plan was to put the Gregoire to work on Tuesday for the first time, but since the forecast called for rain by lunchtime that day, operations were moved ahead of schedule to Monday.
"Grapes here have a very specific window of when they should be picked," she said.
In the past, harvesting plans were dependent on when people from the community could lend a hand at the vineyard.
"We just had to pick no matter what because that's when our help was coming," she said.
While the modern method makes more sense agriculturally as far as harvesting goes, the $100,000 machine is certainly not a cheaper method, Houle said.
"It was not an easy decision, but for us to make our best wine this was our best path," she said.
Nick Bennion, vineyard manager, has been helping harvest grapes by hand at the vineyard since he was about 10 years old. On Monday, Bennion, who had to track down a manual for the Gregoire that was in English since it only came with such a book in French, was driving the new machine on Monday and getting used to the process.
"It pretty nifty," he said. By noon, he had only nudged one of the wooden poles at the end of a row of grapes, misjudging the turning radius of the machine by just a little.
New Hampshire vineyards have a tight turning radius, he said, and it would take some getting used to before operating like a pro. From mid-September to mid-October, he'll be harvesting the grapes by their varieties.
"There's a big learning curve," he said.
While the tractor that pulls the machine is a typical farm tractor, the Gregoire has a joystick like an excavator and Bennion, who turned his childhood summer job into a career, is constantly adjusting the machine to keep it level in eight different ways.
"It's an amazing machine," he said.
And the hope is that it gives the vineyard a way to continue producing amazing wine, Houle said.
"We always want to make the best quality wine we can make. This gives us the best opportunity possible," she said.


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Over the last six years, roaring bears and raging bulls both have had their turns to be right about financial markets.
But investing success in the next market phase could be far more about pinpointing individual opportunities than riding a wave.
This is when it should pay for a money manager to have maximum flexibility: the option to go almost anywhere with investors' dollars in search of decent returns. That could include stocks, bonds, real estate or commodities, for example. Flexibility also can mean the option to just sit and wait for better prospects.
Wealthy investors have long had access to hedge funds and other money managers who offer the nimble, go-anywhere approach. In the last 20 years, the mutual fund industry has done the same for small investors via funds often categorized as "tactical allocation" or "alternative" portfolios.
But Wall Street is notorious for creating fee-generating investment products just to sell them, with little or no regard for whether they're good for the investors who buy them.
Some go-anywhere mutual funds, however, have attracted billions of dollars from investors over the years by offering clear visions of how they can add value — or, just as important, how they can minimize losses if markets go awry.
There are a few reasons these funds are worth a look now. First, U.S. stock prices are at or near record highs after the stunning gains of the last five years. By classic yardsticks, such as price-to-earnings ratios, stocks are at least fairly valued if not overvalued, at a time when corporate earnings growth has slowed sharply.
Yet many stock-only mutual funds are designed to stay fully invested, no matter the market backdrop. If you're looking for some measure of protection from any steep market pullback, plain-vanilla stock funds may not provide that.
Second, the global economy's rescue by central banks over the last five years has entered a new chapter. The U.S. Federal Reserve has begun to cut back on the torrent of money it has been supplying to the financial system to keep interest rates down. In Europe and Japan, meanwhile, central banks say they're poised to provide even more help to their still-struggling economies.
The banks' diverging policies add to confusion over the next major move in interest rates, and thus in the value of investors' bond holdings. A steep jump in market rates would send prices of older bonds tumbling.
Third, while share prices in the developed world have surged in the last few years, emerging markets overall have slumped in the face of weaker economic growth, rising inflation and political upheaval. For value-hunting investors, that means potential opportunities.
Of course, just because a fund can invest in almost anything doesn't guarantee that the managers will make smart choices.
But even for investors who don't see a need for these funds, their guiding principles can be helpful at a time like this: Focus on value, and consider whether your portfolio has the balance you want between growth of capital and preservation of capital.
Here are profiles of four popular go-anywhere funds and how they're investing:
First Eagle Global: While many money managers have been loading up on stocks over the last year as share prices have soared, the $49-billion First Eagle Global fund has been edging away from the market.
"Prices of stocks have moved well ahead of earnings," said Kimball Brooker Jr., co-manager of the fund in New York. "We've had a lot of stock prices converging with what we think the companies are worth," he said. And when that happens, they start hitting the sell button.
The result: The fund's cash holdings grew from 14% of total assets two years ago to about 22% at the start of this year, nearing the highest level in the portfolio's 35-year history.
That leaves about 70% of the fund's assets in stocks worldwide — and nothing in bonds. Though the fund can buy fixed-income securities, its managers find bonds far less attractive than stocks now, with yields so low.
In the corporate "junk" bond market in particular, Brooker said, "the parallels to the old credit bubble are there." Investors are willing to accept bonds that are a great deal for the issuer but not for buyers. The average yield on an index of junk bonds tracked by KDP Investment Advisors is 5.21%, nearing the all-time low of 4.86% reached last May.
Of the 70% of the fund in stocks, about half is in U.S. issues; the rest are foreign, mostly in developed markets. The U.S. names include some of the big tech firms that show up on classic value investors' radar these days, such as Oracle Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Intel Corp.
Though those businesses may no longer thrill high-growth seekers, in recent years, they've met one of First Eagle's basic investment guidelines: "We like to have a decent margin of safety [between] what the business is worth and what we're paying for it," Brooker said.
The fund also has found relative bargains in Canadian oil and gas producers, including Canadian Natural Resources and Cenovus Energy Inc. And it is spending more time researching stocks in depressed emerging markets, Brooker said.
With 22% of the fund in cash, if stocks keep rising that dry powder will be a drag on returns in the short term. Still, being picky has helped First Eagle Global generate an average annual gain of 10% for the last 10 years, versus 7.4% for the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
Another help to returns was a stake in gold bullion and gold-mining stocks during gold's 10-year bull run that ended in 2011. As gold and the miners have slid since then, the fund has been buying again. Its stake in bullion and miners now accounts for about 8% of assets.
Gold isn't a doomsday bet but some insurance against potential devaluation of paper (or "fiat") currencies, Brooker said.
"We hold gold as a hedge," he said. "If you look at the history of fiat money, it's not a pretty one."
FPA Crescent: With much of his personal money in the fund, FPA Crescent co-manager Steven Romick has good reason to place heavy emphasis on avoiding crippling losses. And he sees the current risk of loss in global markets as high enough to justify keeping 40% of the $17-billion-asset fund in cash.
The near-term global economic outlook is too complex to call, said Romick, who has managed the Los Angeles-based fund for the last 20 years at First Pacific Advisors, earning a top five-star rating from investment research firm Morningstar Inc.
One possible economic scenario, he said, is that the Fed and other central banks have reached the end of the line in terms of helping to support growth. "It could be that the economy slows and the central banks have done what they can do," he said.
Instead of wasting time on economic forecasting, "At the end of the day we let price be our guide," Romick said. In the stock market, he said, that often means "looking for the best businesses in the world — and for someone to dislike them for one reason or another."
Microsoft Corp., which has been FPA Crescent's top holding, is a prime example. The stock went nowhere for the last decade, but lately has hit 14-year highs in part on excitement over its new chief executive, Satya Nadella. "They had to do a few things right and they're now doing it," Romick said.
Another big holding is insurer American International Group, rescued by the government in the 2008 financial meltdown. "The property and casualty insurance business was horrible in the U.S. and good outside the U.S. Now the U.S. business has gotten significantly better," Romick said. The stock has surged to about $50 from $32 in mid-2012.
Romick still finds enough to like about stocks to keep 53% of the fund's assets in equities. By contrast, he is avoiding bonds almost entirely because of paltry yields, he said. Instead, he has tried to boost the fund's returns by investing small amounts in assets that are relative rarities even for go-anywhere funds: construction loans for new commercial real estate, for example, and farmland.
But as FPA Crescent's 40% cash stake shows, Romick is mostly just content to wait for cheaper prices in all assets. Patience has worked for him in the past: The fund's goal — to deliver stock-market-like returns with less risk than the market — is "a hurdle it has far exceeded over the past decade," Morningstar says.
Pimco All Asset All Authority: There's not much chance of mistaking this fund's flexibility, given its name. And Newport Beach money manager Research Affiliates, which manages the fund for Pimco, has made full use of that flexibility.
Rob Arnott, the head of Research Affiliates, calls the shots for Pimco All Asset All Authority. Instead of investing in individual stocks, bonds, commodities or other assets, he invests in other Pimco funds that own those sectors, to create a portfolio with a specific aim: generate an annualized return that is at least 6.5 percentage points above the U.S. inflation gauge, the consumer price index, over time.
But over the last few years the $27-billion-asset fund has fallen far short of its target. The problem: Arnott has invested in assets that he believed would offset rising inflation. Yet the inflation rate has mostly remained under 2%. And many of Arnott's asset choices have backfired, including using Pimco funds that "short" U.S. stocks (betting on lower prices) and others that invest heavily in emerging-market bonds.
Pimco All Asset All Authority slid 6% in 2013, while investors in U.S. stock funds typically reaped returns of 20% or better. It didn't help that the Pimco fund uses leverage — borrowed money — to enhance its bets.
Arnott isn't budging, however. He continues to pitch the fund as a way for investors with mainstream stock-and-bond portfolios to diversify via what he calls "third pillar" assets: investments such as commodities and inflation-indexed bonds, which may offer a way to offset future turmoil in mainstream markets.
"The third pillar got cheaper last year," Arnott said. "That's the good news for contrarian investors."
And unlike money managers who see no value in bonds at current yields, Arnott believes that returns on junk bonds and emerging-market issues, in particular, are attractive in a slow-growth global economy. They're also helping him keep the annualized yield on the fund above 5%.
He noted that the Fed, by pumping trillions into the financial system, is trying to boost inflation to avoid the opposite fate — a Japan-style deflation.
He sees "strong odds" that annual U.S. inflation tops 5% sometime in this decade, a level stocks and high-quality bonds aren't anticipating, he said. "The Fed is inflationary. My bet is the Fed wins," Arnott said.
BlackRock Multi-Asset Income Fund: Managers of this 6-year-old fund use complex strategies to try to meet a simple goal: deliver decent returns to income-focused investors without putting their principal at undue risk.
Team leader Michael Fredericks, who took over the New York fund in 2011 for BlackRock, has remade it from a more traditional stock-and-bond portfolio to one that ranges further afield, including into high-dividend preferred stocks and master limited partnerships. The $7-billion-asset fund can own individual securities as well as shares of BlackRock sector funds.
Fredericks said the fund is designed for "retirees or those close to it, who are mostly concerned about the risk they're taking" but who also need income.
The fund's current yield of about 4.6% is bolstered in part by strategies such as the use of "put" and "call" options on stocks in the portfolio to generate additional income. By selling call options, for example, the fund collects a premium from the call buyer, who gets the right to buy the stock at a preset price by a specific time in the future.
Over the last five years, the fund has produced an average annual return of 13.6%. While that ranked about average for its category, it was achieved with below-average risk, Morningstar said.
The fund recently had 35% of assets in stocks, 52% in fixed-income investments, and the remaining 13% in cash. Worried about the potential for rising interest rates, Fredericks said he is focusing largely on high-quality corporate bonds as a relative haven in the fixed-income sector.
"Our view is that shorter-term rates are going to rise," he said. "We see longer-term rates moving higher too, but more gradually."
Even so, he said, given the risks facing stock and bond markets that both have rallied powerfully since 2009, "We've been looking at taking our cash up even more" as a way to keep money free for better opportunities.


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Former Miss America and Diff'rent Strokes Actress Mary Ann Mobley Dies
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Fresh from dishing out advice like "stay off the crack, drink chocolate milk" to members of UCLA's baseball squad, Charlie Sheen deemed Lindsay Lohan worthy of his latest words of wisdom.
"Work on your impulse control," Sheen said he'd tell the starlet, speaking out on Dan Patrick's radio show Wednesday. "Just try to think things through a little bit before you do them."
Sheen said he identified with Lohan, who last week pleaded not guilty to felony grand theft for allegedly swiping a $2,500 necklace. Lohan faces up to three years behind bars if convicted. Her next court date is Feb. 23.
"Now, check it, I was not there in the store," Sheen told Dan Patrick, according to E! News. "The necklace, the thing, the bracelet—who cares? I mean, they're so desperate to vilify without fact."
Sheen, who had also called into "The Dan Patrick Show" earlier this week, went on to address his latest stint in rehab.
"People need to understand how supremely grateful I am that somebody stepped in here," the "Two and a Half Men" star said, referring to execs who took the CBS hit on hiatus.
"Basically, Viacom showed up at my house and said, 'Dude, dude, it's getting really obvious and we're really worried about you … We care about your health,'" Sheen said, according to People. "They came in and man to man said, 'We have to shut it down.' This was the only person in my life with the power to do this."
Sheen began his latest stint in rehab Jan. 29, amid reports of wild partying in recent months. He told Dan Patrick he never abused substances on set, though he sometimes had to lean on furniture after having been up all night.
Sheen said he's been training and "eating well" in advance of his return to "Men" on March 1.
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The Chautauqua County Rural Ministry is an interfaith human service agency. It is headquartered in the Coburn Block which is located in the core area of the City of Dunkirk. The building was built in 1868 by Dunkirk Iron Works and is the headquarters for all of Rural Ministry programs.
The Rural Ministry has been in existence for over five decades and currently operates twelve programs. CCRM has a strong foundation in the community and provides services for which no other organization is known for.
Each year thousands of families are assisted through the operations with the basics of food, clothing, shelter and work opportunity.


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Commentary: Conservatives finally speaking out about their lunatic fringe
"At some point, you have to use the word 'crazy.' "
It will not surprise you to hear that the speaker is referring to extremists within the tea party movement. What might surprise you is that the speaker is Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of RedState, a prominent conservative blog.
Erickson was recently quoted on Politico in a report about how he and other conservatives are attempting to distance their ideology and the Republican Party from the paranoid theorizing and loud, incoherent screaming that have recently passed for discourse on the political right. And of course, the darkly comic thing about it is that, less than a year ago, some conservatives were exulting over the tea parties, believing they brought needed energy to a movement demoralized by its 2008 shellacking at the polls. "The Republican comeback has begun," declared GOP chief Michael Steele.
What a difference a year makes. Or not.
Some of us after all, have argued all along that the tea parties were about as "conservative" -- insofar as that term has traditionally been understood -- as ladies night in a Castro Street bar. Indeed, some of us made the same point about George W. Bush, the putatively conservative president who nevertheless presided over an expansion of the federal government and of a federal entitlement program (Medicare), a costly war of choice in Iraq founded on a shifting rationale, and financial mismanagement that turned surplus into deficit seemingly overnight.
For at least the last decade, then, conservatism has not seemed particularly conservative -- a disconnect many of the ideology's adherents managed to ignore so long as it was useful to do so, i.e., so long as it played well at the ballot box. "Just win, baby" was their mantra; intellectual honesty, their casualty; and as a result, their ideology slid into -- here's that word again -- incoherence, taking American political discourse with it.
But in the tea party movement, some conservatives finally meet a cognitive disconnect they simply cannot bridge.
A recent New York Times profile found the tea party movement to be amorphous and largely without an organizing principle other than its anger toward government and fear of a supposedly imminent dictatorship. Beyond that, tea partiers are an unwieldy amalgam of tax haters, global warming holdouts, illegal immigration protesters, secessionists, gun rights advocates, white supremacists, militia types and conspiracy theorists, all banging their gongs at the same time.
Like the liberal noisemakers who follow the World Trade Organization around, their lack of message discipline renders them -- that word, yet again -- incoherent. Like them, they have yet to figure out that to protest everything is to protest nothing.
Make no mistake: Every movement or marginalized people has its fringe extremists who threaten to define the whole. Thus, moderate American Muslims are periodically required to rebuke Islamic terrorists, environmentalists are obligated to rebuff eco-terrorists and moderate African Americans are expected to reprove Louis Farrakhan.
But conservatives, outside of a few integrity-driven souls over the years, have not rushed to repudiate the crazies among them, even as the crazies have grown crazier and threatened to engulf the whole.
So it is welcome, albeit belated, news to hear Ned Ryun of American Majority telling Politico the right needs to stop providing a platform to its extremists, and to read columnist Michael Gerson speaking of the need to shove them to the margins, and to learn that Erickson has banned birthers -- i.e., people who persist in the asinine belief that President Obama was not born in the U.S.A. -- from his website.
"At some point, you have to use the word 'crazy,'" he says. And he's right, of course.
But that point came a long time ago.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla. 33132. Readers may write to him via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. He chats with readers every Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. EDT at Ask Leonard.


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Gallery of Rice Cakes from Seoul's 7th International Tteok Fair
If you think of rice cakes as only being round or block-shaped, you're...right about most of them. But at the 7th International Tteok Fair in Seoul, South Korea, there were more! So many more! For the rice cake competition, contestants made elaborate dishes that, unfortunately, only the judges could eat, but they provided plenty of eye-candy for the rest of us. Since there were too many for me to include in my overview of the fair, I separated my favorites into this gallery.
Many of the tteok dishes were make to look like other things. This South Korean flag, for one.
And colorful lollipops.
A few Lilliputian crepes.
Little vegetable rolls that reminded me of nubby uncut kimbap.
And there were dishes made to look like living things, such as these pandas, bunnies, and penguins.
Little Red Riding Hood, or perhaps some other random young girl wearing a hooded red cap.
Winnie the Pooh!
Other yellow bears that are not Winnie the Pooh!
Little cakes were also popular.
As were big cakes. There were ones that looked like typical American-style layered cakes.
Along with plenty of multi-tired cakes.
And super multi-tired.
On the other end of the multi-tired tteok cake spectrum, dainty flowers made multiple appearances.
A lovely heart-shaped bed of rice-based flowers.
The dainty flower them was featured in one of the grand prize winning dishes (which I unfortunately didn't get a photo of) by Rie Tamaoka, a Japanese woman who studies at the Institute of Traditional Korean Food.
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How to install Vertical Lambo Doors.
In the early 2000's Vertical Doors, Inc. introduced its Vertical Doors Conversion Kit. Vertical Doors, Inc. Conversion kits are known by many names most people just call them Lambo Doors, the people that deal directly with us call them Vertical Doors, but depending who you talk to you will hear names like Scissor Doors, Wing Doors, VDC Kits, Butterfly Doors, Lamborghini Doors and many other names.
Can I install the Vertical Lambo Door conversion myself?
Yes, you can as long as you are mechanically inclined and have basic tools.
Yes, you can as long as it's a Vertical Doors, Inc. kit, made for your vehicle.
Here is the quick version of how to install the Vertical Lambo Doors on your vehicle.
Basic Lambo Door Installation Instructions
Most Kits come with vehicle specific instructions with pictures but here is the basic installation:
1) Disconnect the battery.
2) Remove fender
3) Make sure to remove door catch if equipped.
4) Usually you will need more wire slack: Usually you will need to remove the door panel or kick plate. Do not cut your factory wires unless you have no other choice.
Use 2" painters tape to mark the factory door location on the vertical and horizontal planes. Also measure the distance between the apron and front edge of the door by the top and bottom hinge.
5) Close the door and use 2″ painters tape to secure the door to the body of the car.
6) Install new Lambo Door kit, make sure you have a flat surface if not you may need to modify your apron.
7) Make fine tuning adjustments and make sure all pivot points are greased. Installed the shock.
Note: Do not install fender until the adjustment of the door is accurate. Also make sure everything is tight, adjustment is set and everything is Locktite.
8) Modify factory wire loom:
In order to be able to open and raise the door, cut the factory wire boot in half and add wire loom to protect exposed wires.
9) Cut the inner lip of your fender to make room for the new Lambo Door kit. Note: Cut only enough for the swing arm to move freely, after you have cut the fender use a sander or grinder and make sure the surface is completely smooth. Use touch up paint to protect the expose material and to give it a finish look.
Close the door and reinstall the Fender.
In you have any questions please do not hesitate to give us a call.
Need more detail installation instructions for our Lambo Doors? Here you go!
Let's get down to business!
Below we will use a 6th Gen Camaro to show how easy it is to install a Vertical Doors, Inc. Bolton Conversion kit.
<strong>What tools do I need to install a Lambo Door Kit?
First make sure that we carry a Bolton Lambo Door for your specific vehicle by clicking here Verticaldoors.com.
Now is time to gather your tools
In our shop to speed up and make the process easy we use:
2″ painters tape, Air Ratchet, air Grinder and air Cutter. In most cars you will need to use sockets or wrenches 9/16, 7MM, 8MM, 10MM, 11MM, 13MM. You will need a fork, Phillip and flat screw drivers, 3/16 Allen Wrench, 1/4 Torx Bit and Red Locktite. Every car is different so other tools may be needed for your specific car.
Make sure to ready all the instructions included with your Vertical Doors, Inc. kit before starting the installation,
Open the hood and disconnect the battery, but before you do that make sure to check your owner's manual to see if there is any procedure you need to do before doing so.
In most cases you will need to remove the front fender in order to install the Lambo Door kit.
Remove all Phillip's screws or fasteners from the wheel well.
Remove 4 bolts as shown on the picture on the right and pull the front bumper forward to gain access to the bolts hold the front section of the fender the chassis.
Use painters take to secure protect the edge of the fender from accidental scratches
Remove the bolts securing the front fender to the chassis and front bumper
Open the door and remove the bolt securing the top of the fender to the apron as shown
Turn the wheel all the way and pull back on the splash guard. You will need a long extension on the passenger side. You will have to go behind the windshield water reservoir to get to the bolt securing the fender to the apron.
You will have to remove the side skirt to gain access to the bolt at the bottom of the side skirt.
Our tech only removed the 1st couple of clips but we highly recommend you remove the entire side skirt to avoid damaging it.
Remove the cover at the top of the fender to gain access to the last bolt securing the fender to the chassis.
CAREFULLY remove the fender making sure not the scratch the Bumper or door on the process.
In most cases you will need to remove the door panel. for the Camaro 6th Gen Remove the (3) 7mm bolts securing the door panel to the door as shown on the Image 1.
Before you can remove the door panel, carefully remove the interior wire harness and the pull cable as shown on Image 2.
You will need to remove the speaker from the door. Once the door panel is off the door remove two clips as shown below this will give you the extra wire slack needed to allow the door to be raised up.
Also remove the tape that holds the wire harness to the inner boot on the door side this will allow the wire harness to move freely.
With the speaker off the door you will now be able to remove the "Door Catch" by removing the 3 bolts securing it. It will need to be removed using the speaker hole.
Note: Removing the Door Catch is optional.
You will need to remove one of the apron brackets. This will allow you to install the new VDI hinge kit flush on the car
Note: The most important part of the installation is marking the factory location of the door.
Before removing the factory hinges you MUST mark the factory location of the door on the vertical and horizontal planes. Also mark and measure the distance between the apron and the edge of the door by the top and bottom hinge.
Place tape around the door and body of the vehicle as shown to help you locate the factory location. Then use 2" painters tape to secure the door to the body.
After making sure you have all the marks you need in case the door moves during installation, you can remove the factory door hinges.
Very important
Do not use any type of plyers, paint or foreign materials on the shock's body or shaft. Make sure to use grease and locktite as shown below
After installing the new VDI kit you should be able to raise the doors and start the fine tuning you're your new VDI kit.
Note: wire loom will have to be cut in half, use provided wire loom to protect the exposed wires.
You will also need to flip the wire boot upside down as shown on the picture on the right.
The wire harness will be inside the firewall.
There are two options to handle firewall wire boot.
- Just flip it upside down the swing arm will push on the boot, but since there are no wires in the bottom half of the boot it should be ok.
- Push the wire boot inside the firewall this is also OK.
Once hinge is locked in place, break nut #1 then turn Allen set screw #2 on fig until it hits the block then open the door and continue to adjust until the door matches with the striker, open and close door making sure it closes like factory.
Hint*(leave #1 nut loose until shock is installed Allen set screw will have to be re-adjusted after shock is installed.
Install the shock.
Hint* (You will need a helper to raise the door). Raise the door up (Slip the spherical rod mount into the spherical ball bearing at the bottom of the hinge(1). Using a 1/4 Allen wrench, tighten the screw into the swing arm (2). After the shock is installed secure it by installing the pin in the bottom shock end (3).
After shock is installed re-install door panel and lift the door. Adjust door opening screw #3 clockwise until distance between nub and swing arm is enough so that the swing arm moves up and down freely.
Hint* (Fine tune the Allen Adjustment screw (#2) to realigned striker with door. After the door is align test door by opening and closing, lifting and lowering door several times.
Note: Do not install fender until the adjustment of the door is accurate, and the set screw is tightly secure. Also make sure everything is tight, adjustment is set and everything is Locktite.
Cut the inner lip of your fender to make room for the new Vertical Doors hinge. Note: After you have cut the fender use a sander or grinder and make sure the surface is completely flat. Cut the fender along the inside mark of the tape. After making the cut and making smooth use touch up paint to give it a finish look.
Note: Yo can cut or roll the inner fender. We choose to cut because it gives it a finish look.
You only need to cut just enough to allow the swing arm to move freely without it hitting the fender.
Close the door and replace the fender.
Hint*(Make sure the electrical wires don't get pinched enough to damage wires)
For the other side just follow steps.
Here is a Camaro with Vertical Doors, Inc. Vertical Lambo Doors, Installed at our location.
Image of the Chevrolet Camaro with Vertical Lambo Doors courtesy of our friends in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Another Installation at our shop of a Vertical Doors, Inc. Vertical Lambo Door kit on a Chevrolet Camaro with a Wide Body.
If after reading our general instructions you feel you want to have a professional installer contact us at 951.245.8669 or check our our distributors/installers page.
Installation on a Hyundai Genesis Coupe
This Vertical Lambo Door Installation should work the same on the 1st and 2nd generation of the Hyundai Genesis Coupe. The Genesis Coupe is a little tricky but is not too bad. This video will give you a full step by step detail demonstration.
1st part of the Genesis Coupe Lambo Door Installation
Still Want more…. Lets check out the C5 Vette
One of the hardest installations of our Vertical Doors, Inc. kits is probably on the Chevrolet Corvette C5. But it is still easier to install than our competitor kits. We decided to do a full installation instructional video of the Chevy C-5 Vette to show you all the steps.
Lambo Door Conversion Installation on the C5 Vette Part 1


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Happy Birthday, Pac-Man!
Pac-man—the iconic game and character that elevated video games from seedy arcades to national past time—is 32 years old. The Namco-developed creation, like many games of its era, features incredibly simple gameplay; you navigate Pac-Man through a maze with the goal of clearing the board of dots while simultaneously avoiding ghosts. It's the type of wackiness that the Japanese game industry excelled at during the '80s.
Simply stating the Pac-Man was popular during the '80s doesn't fully capture the game's cultural impact. You couldn't avoid the Pac-Man blitz even if you were somehow the lone cold-hearted fiend who didn't appreciate the game—there were guide books, bed sheets, clocks, tee-shirts, board games, and much, much more. Oh, there were also a few games tossed into the mix as well.
Namco, in the three decades since Pac-Man's debut, has resurrected the dot-eater in a series of sequels and spinoffs—none of which has quite matched the impact of the original game, outside of Ms. Pac-Man, which remains an arcade staple. Still, the franchise has endured for thirty years, even when the series strayed from its roots and ventured into action and even pinball territories.
PCMag.com is celebrating Pac-Man's 32 years by looking back at the little yellow guy's most memorable moments, which revolve around the games, television appearances, and a hit novelty song.
Are you ready for some Pac-Man goodness? Check out the slideshow below. And don't forget to leave a comment below that details your most memorable Pac-Man moment.
1 Pac-Man (1980)
2 The Knock-Offs and Spin-Offs Emerge (1981)
3 Pac-Man Fever (1982)
4 The Atari Fiasco (1982)
5 Pac-Man: The Animated Series (1982 to 1983)
6 Pac-Man cereal (1983)
7 The Perfect Score (1999)
8 Pac-Man Championship Edition DX (2010)


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MUS 180: Music Appreciation: Our Musical World
online available
This is an active participation course in which students will use music as a means for learning about the world around us. The course emphasizes the potential creative, critical-thinking and socio-cultural factors as they may best enhance the students' lives and careers. Many of the world's musical styles and geographic regions are considered.
Level I Prereq: Academic Reading and Writing Levels of 6
- Credits
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- Lecture Hours
- 45
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- Lab Hours
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- Total Hours
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Some classes are not offered every term. To see if this class is currently available, check the schedule.
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Angels put Cowgill on DL with broken nose, thumb
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels placed outfielder Collin Cowgill on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with fractures to his nose and right thumb, and recalled infielder Grant Green from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Cowgill was injured Saturday night when he missed a bunt. The pitch from Texas Rangers right-hander Matt West glanced off Cowgill's thumb and hit him in the nose.
Cowgill got stitches in his nose, and both injuries will require surgery.
This will be Green's third stint with the Angels this season. He had been optioned to Salt Lake on Tuesday with a .324 batting average, one home run and eight RBIs in 74 at-bats for Los Angeles.
In 41 games for Salt Lake, he has batted .321 with four homers and 38 RBIs.
Cowgill has a .277 average with five homers and 16 RBIs in 69 games for Los Angeles.


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Pediatricians? Do you take there advice with a grain of salt or as the Holy Bible?
I have recently given birth to my second child and I am just not sure that I trust advice that I get from the ped's all the time... My son is almost 18lbs at 4 1/2 months...
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When Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah needed a cabling plant for its two new headquarters buildings and the nearly 1000 workstations inside them, the staff knew only a state-of-the-art solution would do. This required installing a communications infrastructure that would not only meet the company's current needs, but also offer the capacity to handle new technologies, such as video-to-the desktop and ATM.
Since Regence BlueCross BlueShield needed so many workstation drops, the cabling and network infrastructure specialist recommended and supplied the buildings with almost 700,000 ft of cable. They chose cabling that included three Level 7 copper cable pairs and one fiber-optic pair running to each workstation. The unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable selected met the stringent Level 7 specifications, making it perfect for bandwidth-hungry applications. What's more, the cable also supports multiple applications at different frequencies, as well as gigabit Ethernet at 100 m. The completely warranted solution includes Levels-certified cables, connectors, termination boxes and fiber-optic products from three manufacturers.
To ensure the company's communications investment would truly perform, the manufacturer worked closely with Cache Valley Electric, the Salt Lake City-based contractor who installed the system.
In the end, the system design and installation more than exceeded the expectations of Regence BlueCross BlueShield. In fact, the company may duplicate the new cabling system in additional buildings. Regence BlueCross personnel have confidence that no matter what they plug into the system, it will work for years to come.


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Update: DreamWorks Animations' 'Turbo Fast' Will Premiere on Netflix This Christmas Eve
Update 12/3/13: Netflix has just announced that Turbo Fast, the first show in its new deal with DreamWorks Animation, will hit the streaming service on December 24, 2013. However, unlike with its previous original series, not every episode of the show will be available at once. The first five episodes will hit on that date, with an undetermined number of other episodes to follow at some point in 2014.
Previously 6/17/13: Netflix' steady march toward becoming a competitive home for original content continues unabated. It has already backed House of Cards, Hemlock Grove, Arrested Development and Orange Is the New Black, and for the most part its gambit has been a big success (except for Hemlock Grove--oof, what a stinker), but all of those shows are geared towards adults. What about the younger members of the subscribing family?
The streaming giant has just signed a new deal with DreamWorks Animation to have the studio provide over 300 hours of original programming exclusively to subscribers, a pretty impressive first-run commitment. What exactly will make up those 300 hours is unclear at this point, but we do know that it'll include a TV show continuation of the studio's unreleased snail-racing movie Turbo. The Croods, Kung Fu Panda and Shrek could follow suit, or the studio could take the opportunity to test out some new properties on the small screen before moving them over to the big times. Either way, it's good news for parents looking for quality programming for their kids to watch.
This deal makes Netflix a pretty big player when it comes to providing kid-friendly entertainment. It already has an exclusive streaming deal with Disney, which covers all Marvel and Pixar content as well, so this is just another ace up its sleeve. It also helps explain why Netflix opted to not renew its deal with Viacom, which in turn gave Amazon all of Nickelodeon's content. Who needs 10-year-old episodes of Dora the Explorer when you can get new, original shows from DreamWorks Animation?
Don't have Netflix? Don't worry, this isn't a permanent deal, it's just a first-run deal. That means this new content will be exclusive to Netflix for a certain window, after which point the studio can distribute it to other channels as well.
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Prevention is Key
To prevent medical errors, think defensively. Mistakes can occur anywhere—at the doctor's office, the pharmacy, or the hospital. Errors may result in a wrong diagnosis, medication, or surgery, or an infection or serious complication.
Avoiding Medication Mistakes
Medication errors are one of the most common medical errors. You can help avoid them if you understand the medications you are supposed to be taking and how you should take them.
Keep these tips in mind when you are prescribed medication:
- If the color, shape, or size of a medication you have been taking changes, be sure to ask about this before taking the new medication and be sure you receive an explanation that you trust.
- Take all your medications (including supplements and herbal therapies) with you to all appointments and discuss any questions you have about any new prescriptions you may need.
- If you have medication allergies be sure that anyone giving you a new medication is aware of that allergy. Ask whether this medication might be something a person with your allergy should not take. For example, you may have an allergy to sulfa drugs (a kind of antibiotic). This may mean that you are also allergic to some diuretics, as well as some medications to treat diabetes.
- Have your doctor or pharmacist explain how to use the medication correctly and if there are other foods, medications, or activities you should avoid while using it.
- Ask your doctor or pharmacist about possible side effects to expect and which ones are serious.
- If your doctor writes a prescription for you, make sure you can read it. If not, your pharmacist might not be able to either. Make sure it is the same one the doctor told you they were going to use.
- If a medication is being renewed, may sure it is the same dose as your have now.
Avoiding Diagnostic Mistakes
Problems with diagnosis are another kind of error that you can help your doctors avoid. Even experienced doctors can forget to think of a diagnosis under some circumstances. If you think you know what might be wrong with you, insist that the doctor clearly explains what evidence they have that makes that diagnosis unlikely.
One of the most common kind of medical errors is called "premature closure." This occurs when doctors come to a firm conclusion before they have considered all of the alternatives—even when one of these alternatives is the correct diagnosis.
Even the best and most experienced doctors are at risk for premature closure, and experience with human nature tells us that it can be very difficult for someone who has made his mind up firmly to change it easily. If the doctor offers a diagnosis that seems unlikely to you, you can help prevent error by asking the doctor:
- What other alternative diagnoses were considered
- What tests or other evidence helped you choose among them
- Whether further testing should be done
- Write down what you discussed and answers to any questions you have
A uniquely avoidable error is when doctors or nurses misidentify you as a different person and try to give you the treatment intended for that person. Be sure you know what treatments or tests you are expected to receive. If you think something unexpected is being done to you, be sure to confirm that this is what your doctor intended for you. Many care facilities will verify your name and birthdate when they approach you.
Be Prepared
Decreasing your risk of a hospital error begins before you need care. Learn about your condition so you can make informed decisions. Share your medical information with all healthcare team members. Ask questions.
The Magnet Nursing Services Recognition Program for Excellence in Nursing Services was developed to recognize facilities that provide outstanding nursing care. Ask if the hospital you are considering has this status.
Despite nurses' importance, hospitals may be understaffed. Therefore, it is vital to understand nurse staffing levels and overtime policies. A tired nurse is more likely to make a mistake. Does the hospital rely on temporary nurses? Unfamiliarity with the unit or care needed increases error risk.
Find out how many procedures like yours the hospital does. For certain procedures, such as coronary artery bypass surgery, hospitals with more experience have better results. The Department of Health and Human Services offers a website where you can compare hospitals all over the country. Many national magazines review this information every year.
While in the Hospital
Enlist a friend or family member as an advocate, prepared to politely inquire if anything seems amiss. Raising questions puts the brakes on possible mistakes and gives the healthcare team time to think.
While you are in the hospital, make sure your healthcare team member washes their hands before they touch you. Handwashing is an important component in preventing the spread of infections in hospitals.
People preparing for surgery should also talk with the surgeon, anesthesiologist, and nurse so that everyone agrees on what is going to happen.
Before you leave the hospital, be sure to ask your doctor to explain the treatment plan you will follow at home. This includes new medications, follow-up apppointments, and when you can resume normal activities.
Take an Active Role in Your Healthcare Team
Medical miracles happen regularly in surgical suites and modern hospitals, but so do mistakes. Investing time and effort in your own care helps ensure positive outcomes. Welcome to the most important team you will ever join.
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Just thinking back to how the doctor "saw to it" that the witch that "cursed" my great-great grandmother would be "in hell by morning." Frankly, we will probably never know his method, and will wonder about the wide range of possibilities.
Still, Samuel Kercheval did mention a couple of methods by which one could "cure… diseases inflicted by witchcraft." In one such method,
…the picture of the supposed witch was drawn on a stump or piece of board, and shot at with a bullet containing a little bit of silver. This bullet transferred a painful and sometimes a mortal spell on that part of the witch corresponding with the part of the portrait struck by the bullet.
Yet another means of alleviating the impact of a spell was to use one's water. Though Kercheval was focusing on how to rid a child of a spell, certainly, it seems just as applicable to an adult.
Another method of cure was that of getting some of the child's water, which was closely corked up in a vial and hing up in a chimney. This complimented the witch with a stranguary, which lasted as long as the vial remained in the chimney. The witch had but one way of relieving herself from any spell inflicted on her in any way, which was that of borrowing something, no matter what, of the family to which the subject of the exercise of her witchcraft belonged.
There were even methods of countering a curse on livestock…
When cattle or dogs were supposed to be under the influence of witchcraft, they were burned in the forehead by a branding iron, or when dead, burned wholly to ashes. This inflicted a spell upon the witch which could only be removed by borrowing, as above stated.
Interesting. We're back to this borrowing thing. Hmmm. Was the witch, by taking my great-great grandmother's tobacco pouch, borrowing the pouch to counter a counter-spell?
Ahhh, well… like I said, we're likely to never know the truth.
Before signing-off, I thought that you might enjoy a little something more restful… still having to do with Mssr. Kercheval, but, not along the lines of scary witch tales.
Go figure… I replace tales of witches with images of a cemetery…
*Samuel Kercheval is buried in the Bowman Family Cemetery, near Strasburg, Virginia. There are only three marked graves in the cemetery, but Kercheval's is likely marked with little more than fieldstones for the headstone and footstone.
** Quotes from pp. 280-281 of Kercheval's book.


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Vestas is employing "hundreds" of employees in North America, including those manufacturing towers in Colorado for two third parties, the company has confirmed.
Asked for comment, Vestas said the Danish company is contractually prevented from disclosing customer names. GE also declined to confirm or deny it.
"We're running full out, in terms of hiring," said Chris Brown, president of Vestas Americas. The US is undergoing a mini-boom, with wind developers rushing to lock in the expired production tax credit.
Vestas now has about 2,500 workers in North America, with 1,500 in its $1 billion Colorado manufacturing hub. That includes those on three-month contracts. In 2012, Vestas axed about 700 staff in America — part of broad global cuts — as sales slowed and the company struggled to make a profit.
A furore erupted recently when a US newspaper, citing unnamed current and former Vestas employees, said the firm might move its North American head office from Portland, in Oregon, to Colorado.
Vestas opened its Portland HQ in 2012 with an interest-free $8 million loan from the city's development commission and $2.25 million from Oregon state, including a $1 million loan from the strategic reserve fund, requiring Vestas to add 100 more jobs locally, said the Oregonian.
"No decisions have been made regarding the Vestas presence in Portland," Vestas responded.
"Vestas is continuously looking for opportunities to optimise our geographic footprint across the globe, and it's no different in the United States." A spokesman added that Vestas has met its loan obligations.
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There is mention in the LM Plan of pedestrian overpasses, with discussion of possible future overpasses to the east (Page 39), specifically across Church Street (P. 40).
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Recap: Blues surge to 4-1 victory over Red Wings
DETROIT — The St. Louis Blues were workmanlike, methodical and — most of all — effective on Monday night.
Magnus Paarjarvi, Barret Jackman, Kevin Shattenkirk and Jay Bouwmeester scored to give the Blues a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.
Alex Steen added two assists and Jaroslav Halak made 22 saves for the Blues, who had lost their previous two games.
"The first two periods we played the way we had to play," St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock said. "I think the scoring chances were about even in the first two periods but the zone time was in our favor."
Jackman and Shattenkirk scored 1:20 apart early in the second period to break a 1-1 tie.
"We had a full team effort, at least for the first 2 1/2 periods," Jackman said. "… The first 50 minutes, I thought we played a total, controlled, very aggressive solid game."
Gustav Nyquist scored for Detroit. Jimmy Howard stopped 22 shots before being replaced by Petr Mrazek midway through the second period because of a left knee injury.
It's the same knee that caused Howard, one of the Team USA Olympic goalies, to miss much of December.
"He got hurt. The same knee, I guess," Red Wings' coach Mike Babcock said.
Howard is day to day.
Detroit came into the game missing several regulars because of injuries.
Mrazek made 13 saves.
"Well I think we obviously were not good enough from our side," Detroit captain Henrik Zetterberg said.
"Still we had it 1-1 after the first, had some good looks on the 5-on-3 (in the second period) there and couldn't really get it going, but in the third their fourth goal kind of ended the game tonight."
Jackman broke a 1-1 tie with a screened one-time shot from the high slot at 1:01 of the middle period with the teams playing 4-on-4. It was Jackman's third goal of the season.
Shattenkirk's goal was on the power play and came on a screened shot from the left point 2:21 into the period. It was Shattenkirk's seventh goal.
"There was no chance. … There was no way Howie was going to see any of those," Hitchcock said. "We had two big bodies at the net all the time."
Jackman added: "We had a lot of guys going into the hard areas of the ice. It's a lot easier to get the puck through."
Nyquist's power-play goal tied the game with 27 seconds remaining in the first. He controlled and put in a loose puck during a goalmouth scramble for Nyquist's sixth goal and his first in nine games.
"They got the power-play goal late in the first period, but we got the momentum back." Bouwmeester said.
He got his fourth goal, 2:14 into the third, when his shot from the left point went in off the Red Wings' Riley Sheahan.
The game was tied at 1 after the first 20 minutes despite St. Louis outshooting Detroit 18-7.
Paarjarvi opened the scoring with 8:47 left in the opening period when he banked one in off Howard's leg on a wraparound from behind the net. It was Paarjarvi's fourth goal.
NOTE: C Darren Helm returned for Detroit after missing 18 of the past 19 games with shoulder and groin injuries. … St. Louis defenseman Ian Cole is from Ann Arbor, Mich. … The Red Wings were without C Pavel Datsyuk (lower body), RW Johan Franzen (post-concussion syndrome), RW Daniel Alfredsson (back spasms), D Jonathan Ericsson (ribs), C Joakim Andersson (back), C Cory Emmerton (finger) and G Jonas Gustavsson (groin). … Blues RW Ryan Reaves celebrated his 27th birthday.


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Home Trends: Las Vegas Furniture Market
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As I work into the New Year, I and the thousands of others in the furniture world get geared up for the up-and-coming Furniture Market in Las Vegas at the end of January.
It is always a time of anticipation for the unexpected trends that will be unveiled by existing furniture "big shots" along with the newest names working to make a breakthrough in this competitive world of home furnishings. If you thought Fashion Week in New York is big, think again!
There is indeed much anticipated for this upcoming Furniture Market. In fact, Pinterest is flooded with sneak peaks on this season's trends that will be unleashed. From the forever-classic styles that we have seen for decades to the bizarre innovations, there is a place for everything at market.
In home accents, it appears that every hue of blue concocted will have its place within each showroom. I say bring it on!
Blue harnesses the quality of providing coolness and intuition for the viewer. With the busy schedules we are a faced with day-to-day, having a space that provides a calming atmosphere may be the ticket to helping you center yourself after a hectic day.
Patterns. Patterns. Patterns. Geometric patterns. Bright patterns. Animal print patterns. Abstract patterns. Patterns are everywhere! And the biggest effort in furniture is to train folks not to fear them. You can see these funky prints in rugs, lamps and accessories – even on sofas and arm chairs.
While most people may be intimated by intense patterns, interior decorators are emphasizing patterns with even more patterns. It can take time to train the eye to harmonize several prints together, but once achieved, the look is timeless and groovy.
Chic industrial fashions are all the rage. The purposeful distressing of furniture pieces is the final theme I am catching on to amidst the several images shared on Pinterest.
In the past, this design concept may have been referred to as shabby-chic. All together, the effort of combining metal detailing on rustic wood pieces has blown up.
The high-end furniture creators initiated the look, and it is now trickling into the more affordable brands. Keep your eyes open for these pieces with statement-making distressed details and don't hesitate to work them into a more contemporary or rustic furniture theme that you may already have.
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Crypto panel takes on RFID, bashed hash functions
The lively exchange between some of security's biggest names in the business this year included a wake-up call to update older designs and devise a new hash function standard as well as watch out for RFID tags.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Irreverent and outspoken Adi Shamir makes it a point to announce news at the annual Cryptographer's Panel at the RSA Conference. Tuesday was no exception.
Shamir, professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the "S" in RSA, told a packed auditorium during the get-together of crypto hall-of-famers about how he and a student applied side-channel attacks against RFID tags.
Similar attacks against smart cards monitor how power consumption changes as conditions change around a technology. Only thing is, RFID tags have no direct power source to monitor.
Applying the theory, Shamir and his student figured out how to measure the amount of energy the tags consume from the environment by using a directional antenna to monitor the tags' behavior. By sending incorrect bits to a tag, they were eventually able to decipher the tags' kill password and disable them.
"Everyone expects RFID tags to be huge; they're everywhere," Shamir said. "They're going to protect our identities in our passwords. They're going to protect items in stores. The fact is, the first generation is very weak."
The crypto panel featured Shamir; Ron Rivest, Viterbi professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and the "R"
Each uses the panel as a forum to reflect on cryptographic advances and launch predictions for the future of their trade.
One year ago at RSA, Shamir revealed that successful hacks had been launched against the SHA-1 algorithm. SHA-1 has since been cracked twice with researchers theoretically proving that the algorithm is susceptible to collision attacks. Such attacks could make it possible to forge digital certificates, give attackers greater privileges and reduce the security of messages sent over the Internet.
Shamir, however, said not many hash functions implemented in practice had been affected.
"The major crypto result is that this taught us about how to design future hash results to be stronger," Shamir said. "I would say the practical impact [of collision attacks] is still not strong."
Leave it to a cranky cryptographer to take all the fun out of bashing crypto algorithms and the security of RFID tags.
"This was a wake-up call for the crypto community," said Rivest. "We realized the design paradigms we've been using are not the right ones." Rivest suggested the community begin tweaking old designs, and start on a new hash function standard to begin at an upcoming NIST workshop this year.
"I think we should set a goal by 2010 to come up with a standard, maybe have a hash function bakeoff, similar to the AES bakeoff," Rivest said, referring to the contest that resulted in the Advanced Encryption Standard that replaced DES as the industry guide.
SHA-1 took its share of hits in 2005. Prior to that, it was believed it would take 2^80 hash operations to successfully create a collision attack (collisions happen when two messages have the same hash value). Chinese researchers twice reduced that number to 2^63 operations.
Late last year, Microsoft banned SHA-1 for new code--along with its predecessors MD4 and MD5--if SHA-256 is available for the particular platform. "SHA-1 is currently showing some signs of weakness and may be completely insecure in the next few years," Michael Howard, senior security program manager at Microsoft, said in November 2005. "Since customers will use Microsoft products for more than two to three years, it's important we protect them by working now to improve the security of code for the future and banning the SHA-1 algorithm is a step in that direction."
Despite the assault, the crypto panel was adamant that cryptography was still the least vulnerable of security technologies.
"One of the things we've lost sight of is that crytpo has been least hooked into. If the field would catch up to crypto, it would be in much better shape."
Hellman called for a new "gene pool" of development in public key cryptography. He pointed to the work done on Elliptic Curve Cryptography, which uses smaller key sizes and is a more efficient algorithm than RSA, for example. ECC is suited for smaller mobile devices like smart cards and cell phones.


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A Delhi court has ordered framing of charges against former Commonwealth Games (CWG) organising committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi and others for forgery, cheating and conspiracy, in a Games-related graft case.
Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh passed the order on Friday, framing charges against Kalmadi, former OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and nine others for illegally awarding a contract to Swiss firm, Swiss Timing Omega, causing huge losses to the exchequer.
The court said "prima facie" charges of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy and for offences under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act are made out against eight accused persons and three companies.
"Charges under section 120B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (destruction of evidence), 420 (cheating), 467, 468, 471 (relating to forgery), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and section 13(1)(d) read with section 13(2) (criminal misconduct by public servants) of the PC Act is ordered to be framed against all the accused," the court said.
"Put up for formally framing of charges on January 10 at 10.30 AM," the judge said.
The accused have been chargesheeted by the CBI for "illegally" awarding a contract to install Timing, Scoring and Results system (TSR) for the 2010 CWG to Swiss Timing at inflated rates, causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the public exchequer.
Besides Kalmadi and Bhanot, the other accused in the case are the CWG OC's Director General V K Verma, Director General (Procurement) Surjit Lal, Joint Director General (Sports) A S V Prasad and Treasurer M Jayachandran. They are no more associated with the sporting body.
Promoters of two construction companies -- P D Arya and A K Madan of Faridabad-based Gem International and A K Reddy of Hyderabad-based AKR Constructions are also accused in the case. Swiss Timing Omega is also an accused in the case.
The CBI had alleged that Kalmadi and others had rejected Spanish firm MSL's much lower bid of Rs 62 crore and awarded the contract to Swiss Timing Omega, causing a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer.
During the arguments on charges, CBI counsel V K Sharma had argued that Kalmadi and others had decided to award the contract for installing the TSR system for the CWG to Swiss Timing even before the firm had bid for it.
Sharma had also said that for TSR installation, two bids had been received -- one from Swiss Timing and other from MSL Spain, and the same were opened on November 4, 2009 but Kalmadi and Verma had announced in a meeting on October 12, 2009 itself that the contract would be given to Swiss Timing.
He had also said Kalmadi had made up his mind in advance to award the contract to the Swiss firm.
Kalmadi's counsel, however, had argued that the facts given in the CBI's chargesheet were contrary to the documents which the agency had filed in the court.
Kalmadi had told the court that he was only doing the work assigned to him as the OC chairman and nothing wrong was done by him in the entire process.
The counsel appearing for other accused had also opposed the allegations levelled against them by the CBI.


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New research examines health behavior in long-term relationships
Women bear the brunt of being the health police in heterosexual marriages, but gay and lesbian couples are more likely to mutually influence each other's health habits for better or for worse. The findings are reported in the June issue of the journal, Social Science & Medicine.
Researchers Corinne Reczek, a University of Cincinnati assistant professor of sociology, and Debra Umberson, professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, followed 20 long-term heterosexual marriages as well as 15 long-term gay and 15 long-term lesbian partnerships in the United States. Their findings reflected previous research that in heterosexual marriages, women put more effort into encouraging good health habits for their spouses.
Sociologists have theorized that from early childhood, the socialization of women into caretaker roles has led to health benefits for husbands. Reczek says this newest study is among the first of its kind to explore how gay and lesbian couples affect each other's health habits.
The researchers examined what they called "health work" defined as any activity or dialogue concerned with enhancing another's health. The researchers conducted 100 in-depth interviews with couples involved in 50 long-term relationships couples who were involved for at least eight years or longer.
The study found that at least one partner in over three-quarters of the heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples did some form of health work as a result of two reasons: the other partner had bad health habits, or one partner was considered the "health expert."
Nearly half of the respondents heterosexual, gay or lesbian blamed a partner's unhealthy habits for the other partner's attempts at intervention. Among heterosexual couples, men were typically identified as needing the prodding toward healthier lifestyles.
For couples identifying a "health expert," the researchers say that straight women were almost exclusively identified, while gay and lesbian couples identified one partner as the health expert, regardless of gender.
For better or for worse, couples mutually reinforcing health behaviors were more prominent in gay (80 percent) and lesbian (86 percent) couples versus straight couples (10 percent).
"The social and institutional conditions within which gay and lesbian couples live including a heteronormative and homophobic culture at large, and a non-institutionalized nonheterosexual union structure a unique relational context for cooperative, more egalitarian health work processes to emerge," write the authors.
The authors state that the findings suggest that gendered relational context of an intimate partnership shapes the dynamics and explanations for health behavior work.
The research was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute on Aging as well as the Mentoring Program of The Center for Population Research in LGBT Health, under the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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In the survey sample, 80 percent of the straight respondents were white, 15 percent were African-American, one Asian-American and one Latina. Gay and lesbian respondents included 63 percent whites, 27 percent who identified as Hispanics, Latinos or Latinas, one African-American, one Native-American/Hispanic, and one South American.
The average age for the straight couples was 45 years 49 years for gay respondents and 43 years for lesbian respondents.
The average relationship duration for straight couples was 17 years, 21 years for gay couples and 14 years for lesbian couples. Household income averaged $60,000.
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Take a trip with Dr Parker and his family to look at fossil deposits, dinosaur skeletons, etc.
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Helping brand new Americans activate their citizenship by registering to vote is one of the most fulfilling activities we can participate in. From countries all over the world, they pour out of the Paramount Theater after taking the oath of allegiance to their new homeland, where we welcome them with an offer to register to vote the same day.
Join us at 10 am in front of the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. Look for a row of ironing boards on both sides of the entrance. No experience is necessary - we will train on site at 10 am.