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Fashion Week is in full swing and since we've got a lot of fashion lovers on this site we think now is the perfect time to give you guys a lesson in proper fashion pronunciations! We cannot even begin to tell you how many times we hear Lanvin pronounced laan-ven or Dolce & Gabbana whispered as dole-say and gabbana…for the record, it's dol-che. To avoid said slipups we're going to teach you ladies to how say these names and terms the right way. (Note: All of these pronounciations are based on American English, so please keep that in mind if you are an international reader.) Here goes…
1. Lanvin – lahn-vahn
2. Haute Couture – oat koo-toor
3.Hermes – air-mez
4.Louis Vuitton – lou-ee vee-tonn
5.Versace – ver-sah-chee
6.Givenchy – zhee-von-she
7.Louboutin – loo-boo-tan
8.Proenza Schouler – pro-en-za skool-er
9.Yves Saint Laurent – eve sanh la-rahn
10.Herve Leger – air-vay lay-jay
And there you have it! Now you don't have to slur your words when you're unsure of how to say Christian Louboutin or Herve Leger…
Which often-mispronounced designer is your favorite?
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Rockies Recap: Cubs 11, Rockies 4
Cubs 11, Rockies 4 on March 6
At HoHoKam Park
Hits: In his first game against his former team, Tyler Colvin enjoyed a big day. He knocked in a run with a groundout to second, singled and tripled. Colvin is a candidate for a reserve outfield spot. … Dexter Fowler's first home run hit the net in front of the left-field scoreboard. "I was looking for a cutter in,'' he said. … 1B Jordan Pacheco, competing for a bench spot, continues to hit, singling and scoring in the first inning. … Starter Alex White allowed one run in two innings with a single ball hit hard in his first outing since he was arrested last Saturday on suspicion of DUI. … Reliever Josh Roenicke, whose emergence last year paved the way to trade Matt Lindstrom, looked sharp again. Read more…

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A senior Labor figure has broken ranks to call on the federal government to give up on delivering a budget surplus next year.
Government whip Joel Fitzgibbon says Labor should give up on delivering a budget surplus and that the public will understand the U-turn because the global economic picture is still bleak.
On Thursday it was revealed that Treasury has reportedly advised the government to dump its commitment to a surplus, warning a slump in nominal economic growth poses a threat to revenue.
Mr Fitzgibbon admitted Labor was "spooked by opposition taunts" on the issue.
"I'd give it up," he told Sky News on Thursday night.
"We've got monetary and fiscal budget policy running in different directions."
He said there were opportunities to do some good things in the economy.
"The public will understand things are still bad in the international market place," Mr Fitzgibbon said.
"There's a good reason to run budget deficit in times of need."
Asked if his view was widely held among his colleagues, Mr Fitzgibbon said he was not sure.
"It's important we're not spooked by the taunts of the opposition," he said.
"There's a very good case to be made ... you've got the backing of some very senior economists now, I think it would be very easy to sell and it would be a good thing for the economy."
Liberal Senator Arthur Sinodinos said the government had "left their run a bit late and they're run into a slowing economy".
"What's happening now potentially is they're adding to deflation that's going on in the economy particularly the non-mining part," he told Sky News.
Senator Sinodinos said the government now faced a procyclical element because they didn't put away as much as they should have earlier on when things were good.
He said he didn't agree with breaking unconditional promises.
He said there was an economic argument for letting the "automatic stabiliser work".
"You'd more likely stay in deficit if the economy really deteriorates," he said.


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Why would you ruin the iPhone's immaculate design? Well, turns out those luscious chamfered edges are of this world after all: They scratch, just like any other phone. OK, fine maybe we were wrong and you need a case. But if you're going armor your iPhone, at least use case that actually guarantees it will protect your phone.
Here you have it, the return of the mighty Cellhelmet.
Sure, the iPhone 5 Cellhelmet costs 50 bucks, but that's a $50 insurance policy for much of the bad stuff that can happen to your phone. As with the Cellhelmets of yore, the company provides accidental damage coverage for everything excluding scratches to the aluminum and water damage. That means if you drop your precious new iPhone 5 and the screen shatters, Cellhelmet will replace it for 50 bucks.
Not a bad deal! We especially like that, as cases go, the Cellhelmet isn't a gaudy monstrosity. The subtle protection is available for pre-order now. [Cellhelmet]


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Funds are available for upgrading existing streetlights.
This program provides for the upgrading of existing streetlights that do not meet current lighting standards. It is possible that some streetlights that have been in service for an extended period of time are not performing in accordance to present day street lighting standards. To remedy this situation, Fairfax County provides a mechanism through a citizen petition process for the upgrading of deficient streetlights.
- Enhances Crime Deterrence
- Enhances Vehicular and Pedestrian Traffic Safety
Brief Summary
Requests to upgrade existing streetlights will be implemented, contingent upon the availability of funds. The requests will be processed in sequential order based on the date that a valid petition was received by the county. When program funds have been depleted, the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services (DPWES) will stop accepting new upgrade petitions until additional funds are appropriated. Streetlights to be upgraded shall be governed by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors' contractual terms and conditions with the utility company and the Virginia Department of Transportation permit requirements.
Eligibility Requirements
Requests to upgrade existing streetlights will be limited to:
- Replacing Mercury Vapor fixture to High Pressure Sodium
- Sizing new lamps as to meet current illumination standards
- Existing poles will not be relocated nor new poles will be set
- Upgrading fixtures that do not meet lighting standards
A petition form signed by the simple majority of residents whose property fronts the road where the streetlights are being upgraded must be submitted to the county. There will be no direct cost to the residents for the upgrade of existing streetlights except as provided in Implementation Provisions (paragraph below). Fairfax County will continue to pay the utility company for the operation and maintenance of the upgraded streetlights.
Some Exclusions and Limitations
Streetlights will not be upgraded along roadways where active land development projects are required to perform that work as a condition of plan approval specified in the Public Facilities Manual. Requests to upgrade existing streetlights within the boundaries of a defined subdivision shall be limited to a total cost to the county of $2,000 per year. Requests to upgrade existing streetlights outside the boundaries of defined residential subdivisions shall be limited to a reasonable grouping of lights where the total cost to the county does not exceed $2,000.
Streetlights Implementation
The new HPS streetlights will be sized as to meet adopted roadway lighting standards. The conversion of existing MV streetlights to HPS may result in the mixing of two different light source colors in a given area. In order to meet lighting standards, additional streetlights may be installed on existing poles within the area requested for upgrade. These additional installations will be subject to the availability of county funds. If no county funds are available at the time, the community will have the option to provide the necessary money to install the additional lights or place the request on hold until new funds are appropriated.


text: Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a subsidized Xbox 360 and Kinect bundle with a monthly subscription option, according to The Verge. The software giant may offer its 4GB gaming console alongside its motion sensing input device for $99 with a two-year commitment, and an early termination fee will be included for contract breakers. Subscribers will then pay a monthly $15 fee that includes access to Xbox Live Gold, a two-year warranty and possibly additional streaming content as well. Microsoft will apparently position the package to compete against the Apple TV, Roku streaming box and PlayStation 3. The Verge reports that we could see an announcement as early as next week.


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The idea of a "safe harbor" for user-generated content sites, already under attack in the Viacom v. YouTube lawsuit, has come under assault again, this time from the music world. EMI, the smallest of the major labels, has filed a federal suit (hat tip: attorney Ray Beckerman) against VideoEgg and its partner site Hi5, alleging that the sites are responsible for the EMI-controlled music videos that they display.
VideoEgg's specialty is selling advertising on an "engagement" basis, rather than by the click or by the view. For video content, that means small preview ads embedded in the lower corner of a video file. When a user hovers the mouse over the ad, it expands; after a three-second "engagement," the advertiser is billed.
The company just last month won a "Stevie Award" for Best New Company at the American Business Awards, but EMI isn't pleased with having its music videos monetized without permission. It claims that VideoEgg sucks up the content uploaded at partner site Hi5, slaps the ads on top, and serves it back to the site (which presumably shares in the revenue).
There's still legal uncertainty about how the DMCA safe harbor provisions apply to user-generated content. ISPs are generally not liable for the content passing through their networks, but it's not clear whether user-generated social networks and sites like YouTube are in the same legal position. Viacom says they're not, in part because it believes YouTube must have known about widespread copyrighted material available on its site. EMI takes a similar position, its argument bolstered by the fact that VideoEgg publicly claims to have "humans review every video."
"Although VideoEgg has reviewed all of the videos uploaded by users of its Partner Websites, including those that infringe Plaintiffs' copyrights," says EMI, "it has refused or failed to filter or delete infringing videos."
The suit makes no apparent reference to any DMCA takedown requests; EMI has apparently decided to go directly to court, hoping to prove that the onus for monitoring copyright infringement rests in large part of the sites and not just on EMI. This case, the Viacom case, and others like it should (eventually) clarify the contours of copyright law as it is applied to sites hosting user-generated content.


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KINGSPORT, Tenn. – Former Georgia College baseball player Jose Leger (2003-04) was recently named head coach of the Kingsport Mets, the Rookie A farm club in the New York Mets organization.
Leger, a former catcher and infielder who played in the Minnesota Twins' minor league system from 2004-08, most recently managed the DSL Mets (R) of the Dominican Summer League the past two seasons.
Leger made his coaching debut in 2009 with the DSL Twins as the club's hitting coach. Leger attended Middle Georgia College from 2001-02, transferring to Georgia College the next year, where he was named All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) in 2003 and 2004.
Leger has coached in the Dominican Winter League for Tigres del Licey since 2008, and resides in Santo Domingo, DR, with his wife, Estela and their two sons, Jose Joaquin and Eduardo Jose.
The Mets' season begins Tuesday, June 19 against the Princeton Rays.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information.


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UK.gov forks out £250k to rescue EROTIC novelists and pals from PIRATES
And they're not even British smut-peddlers
A government tech quango has handed £250,000 of taxpayers' cash to a British firm which fights to keep erotic fiction, among other things, out of the hands of copyright pirates.
The Technology Strategy Board selected MUSO.com to receive a lucrative Smart Award in the hope it will use the cash to turn thieving internet scoundrels into paying consumers.
But the five firms which have issued the largest number of copyright takedown requests through MUSO.com are not even British.
Google lists the number of URL removal requests it receives from copyright holders in its Transparency Report. These takedown requests allow copyright holders to ask for the removal of links to pirated content, which could be hosted on sites like YouTube or as BitTorrent pages.
Google reveals that the top firm represented by MUSO.com is Eros International, an Indian film producer known for its Bollywood movies. It issued 128,566 takedown requests using the British firm's services.
In second place on MUSO.com's top five client list is Entertainment One, a Canadian entertainment group, followed by the Dutch publisher Meulenhoff Boekerij, a German heavy metal record label called Nuclear Blast and finally the Norwegian film distributor Nordisk Film. All in all, MUSO.com has asked for the removal of 1,103,474 links since May 2012.
Many erotic novelists have also asked the firm to save their purple prose from pirates.
The publishing house Romance Unbound, for example, is well represented on the takedown list. This is presumably due to the popularity of titles like Golden Boy, which is regarded as a classic in the gay bondage and sadomasochism (BDSM) genre, and its sequel, Golden Man.
Cherise Sinclair, who describes herself as a writer of "emotional, erotic romance with a touch of BDSM" has filed more than 1,000 takedown requests, alongside Nina Bangs, author of paranormal erotica novels like One Bite Stand, and writer of other "romance with a bite" books starring vampires, who has asked MUSO.com to scrub just over 400 URLs.
The Viking porn genre has also been protected from pirates, with Gina Conkle, writer of The Vikings Storm Down Under, using MUSO to ask Google to delete links to it.
Chris Elkins, head of film services and co-founder of MUSO.com, told The Register that the presence of relatively small-time writers on the takedown list was due to a recently devised DIY scheme. He claimed this is is the world's only system which allows smaller rights-holders to file their own takedown requests, which MUSO.com automatically sends to Google.
"Most of our clients are film companies from the UK and US," Elkins said. "In fact, 80 per cent of our clients are UK or European. The erotic novelists must have been using our prepay quick start scheme, which is designed for small rights-holders. It's not just erotic authors who use this, but sci-fi writers, horror authors or anyone penning any other genre you can name.
"MUSO.com is the the only company in the world to provide that solution, which is also used by small record labels and independent film producers," added Elkins.
"We are very forward-thinking and try to understand the behaviour of pirate content consumers and then feed this knowledge back into our tech. Our R&D work builds on that and tries to adopt anti-piracy tactics that aren't just about suing people or being heavy-handed, but using tech in a creative, constructive way." ®
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In December 2007, I published an article entitled;
'…US authorities turn screw on Iranian banks in the
Since the publication of that article, I have continued to engage in discussions with a wide variety of UK-based businessmen, and the list of persons on the receiving end of US bullying does not stop at financial institutions. Brokerage houses and oil trading companies have also received their visits from the 'men in the dark blue blazers', as they were described to me.
The message was the same. Do business of any kind in any currency with Iran, clear their trading requirements, handle their brokerage, engage with their oil handling, open LCs for them, and you will feel the wrath of the US Treasury!
Unable to get any response at all from any official body in the UK, even finding someone who would even return my calls made me begin to realise that there was a lot more to this issue than at first met the eye. It began to resemble nothing so much as the '…strange case of the dog in the night-time…', or the dog that did not bark.
The Sherlock Holmes mystery the "Silver Blaze" was about the theft of an expensive race horse from its stable. During the investigation, Inspector Gregory of Scotland Yard asked Holmes if there was any particular aspect of the crime calling for additional study. Holmes replied "Yes," and pointed to "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." Inspector Gregory replied, "The dog did nothing in the night-time." Holmes said, "That was the curious incident." In this case, the failure of the dog to bark when the horse was stolen showed the dog knew the thief. This was an important material fact; it considerably reduced the number of suspects, and eventually solved the case.
Growing increasingly suspicious that the British Government might have been turning a deliberate 'Nelsonian' blind eye to the wholly unlawful activities of agents of another government, I began to research who these shadowy figures might be and whose interests they might possibly represent.
I have done this with the specific intention of identifying methods and techniques which I would advise British businesses to adopt if they become the recipients of such unlawful conduct in future, as a means of protecting their own commercial interests, and how to respond to these unlawful threats in the future.
Let us be really clear of our terms of reference here. No agent of a foreign government can come to the
Receiving unattributable threats of dire commercial consequences from agents of a foreign state, if British banks do not fall into line with their unlawful demands, is not an acceptable state of affairs. Our institutions have every right to expect that the Government will protect them, and once confronted with the evidence of such conduct, should make every move to ensure that the foreign state was appraised, in no uncertain terms, of the displeasure felt by Her Majesty's Government at such conduct, coupled with stringent demands that such behaviour will cease forthwith.
And what did we get in response when such evidence was laid in front of the relevant Government official? Sadly, we got a predictable response from an aptly-named man, many of whose public outpourings in the money laundering debate leave much to be desired. (See Complinet - Regulus, August 1 2006). Ed Balls made it abundantly clear that he was going to do absolutely nothing about the allegations laid at his door, and, having washed his hands of any responsibility for protecting the British commercial interest, left them to the tender mercies of the American bullies!
So, who are these latter-day 'new centurions', these 'born-again avenging angels of the wrath-to-come?'
Step forward a motley collection of what Sasan Fayazmanes, Chair of the Department of Economics at California State University, Fresno, has described as '…individuals who make US foreign policy, particularly the "neoconservatives," and who represent a privileged group of people with a unique and peculiar view of the world. To these "neoconservatives" waging wars against Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, and possibly Iran and Syria, might appear to be in the "interest" of the US, even though in actuality such policies might be very harmful to the interest of ordinary citizens of the US, particularly in the long-run...'
In an article entitled '…The
'…When the Bush Administration came to power, more radical members of the Washington Institute, such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, took over the formulation and implementation of the White House Middle East policy. These "neoconservatives" were closely linked to the (Israeli) Likud party members, particularly Binyamin Netanyahu. As such, their idea of "containment" of
Yes, step forward Stuart Levey, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Mr Levey is the leading influence behind the brave boys who have been running around
'…As our government took stock of all of its tools to combat terrorism and the Executive Branch was reorganized after September 11, President Bush, members of his Cabinet, and the Congress recognized that the Treasury Department had unique authorities that could contribute to the fight. This was the genesis of the office I oversee, the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence...'
Mr Levey has learned some very important lessons while in the employ of the
When it comes to the way he interprets his role and that of his officers, he starts predictably, but watch how the message becomes more and more polarised as he gets into his stride;
'…To maximize the effect, we try to apply these measures in concert with others. Whenever possible, we act with a partner or a group of allied countries. In some cases, we can designate a target at the United Nations. We also have important new regulatory authorities in the
'…As I have travelled and met with bank officials abroad, I have learned that even those institutions that are not formally bound to follow U.S. law pay close attention to these targeted actions and often adjust their business activities accordingly. Why? There are two reasons: First, regardless of the underlying law in any particular country, most bankers truly want to avoid facilitating proliferation, terrorism, or crime. These are responsible corporate citizens. Second, avoiding government-identified risks is simply good business. Banks need to manage risk in order to preserve their corporate reputations. Keeping a few customers that we have identified as terrorists or proliferators is not worth the risk of facing public scrutiny or a regulatory action that may impact on their ability to do business with the United States or the responsible international financial community...'
The insouciance Mr Levey adopts is truly breathtaking. He is not telling us how to arrange our business affairs, we are merely 'adjusting' our own affairs willingly, even though, as he admits, we are not bound to follow
You see, it's all quite voluntary and absolutely normal because we are '…responsible corporate citizens...'
Well, if that's the case, why do selected Americans deem it necessary to lie so bare-facedly about the present situation in
'…As we continue to deal with the challenge presented by
'…We have cut off Bank Saderat, from the
George Bush was pushing this same old story this week in the
Levey again;
'…Our actions this week are a sign of the costs that we will impose on the Iranian people if the leadership chooses to remain on its current path of defiance. The regime will end up isolating
Yet again, Levey knows, because his own intelligence agencies have told him,
So, what can we do if Mr Levey's blue knights come to our offices and start bullying us with their threats.
The first thing to do is to remember that it is a very serious criminal offence for anyone to make what is called '…an unwarranted demand with menaces…'
Under s21(1) of the Theft Act 1968, in English law, a person commits the offence:
If, with a view to gain for himself or another or with intent to cause loss to another, he makes any unwarranted demand with menaces; and for this purpose a demand with menaces is unwarranted unless the person making it does so in the belief:
(a) that he has reasonable grounds for making the demand; and
(b) that the use of the menaces is a proper means of reinforcing the demand.
The Act uses the word "menaces" which is considered wider in scope than "threat" and involves a warning of any consequences known to be considered unpleasant by the intended victim. This covers the spectrum from actual or threatened violence to the victim or others, through damage to property, to the disclosure of information.
It is manifestly clear that the
The loss to be caused does not need to be sustained by the recipient of the threat, it could just as easily be the Iranian counterparty who suffers.
So, at the first sign of any such threat, don't rise to it or start to protest. It would be wise to just excuse yourself from the meeting, slip out of the room and make an immediate telephone call to your local police office and ask that police officers be sent immediately. State the fact that you are on the receiving end of a serious blackmail threat and that the suspects are still in your offices. You will find the police will get there quickly enough. Let our
Alternatively, if the threats you have already sustained are causing you concern about what you can do lawfully or what you might want to do in future, then your institution should be considering undertaking preliminary legal action in the
'…It may have escaped your notice, but the
I suspect that the mere suggestion that your bank will seek to test the validity of these threats in the


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A's have options as Balfour heads to free agency
Closer likely to get sizable offer elsewhere; Oakland optimistic about retaining Colon
OAKLAND -- The majority of players who joined together to capture Oakland's second straight American League West title are under club control for 2014, leaving the club's offseason to-do list rather minimal.
But there are still major decisions to be made.
The biggest revolves around free-agent closer Grant Balfour, who could easily depart for a team with a larger checkbook, unless the A's come out with their own sizable offer. Oakland has never dedicated much of its payroll to relievers, though, making Balfour's return unlikely.
They're more optimistic about retaining another free agent in Bartolo Colon, who won 18 games for them this year and provided the type of veteran leadership otherwise missing in such a youthful starting staff. Colon's return would be more than welcomed, and the A's are confident that they can lock up the 40-year-old before letting him slip to another club.
It might not be as easy as it sounds, though. For teams like the A's to receive compensation for losing top free agents this year, they must make a qualifying offer of $14.1 million. That's a pricey figure for the low-budget A's, and probably too pricey, though Colon may very well seek a deal in that range.
Outside of their own free agents, the A's may look to add bullpen depth and potentially a right-handed outfielder and middle infielder, possibly by trade, should they strike out in the free-agent market. General manager Billy Beane has been known to surprise in this area, though it's unclear who he may dangle in return for added goods.
Lefty Brett Anderson, who holds an $8 million option, could potentially be a trade chip for the A's, who could also choose to use smaller pieces like Jemile Weeks in a deal.
Contract issues
Free agents: Colon, Balfour
Eligible for arbitration: Jesse Chavez, Fernando Rodriguez, Pat Neshek, Jerry Blevins, Josh Reddick, Seth Smith, Brandon Moss, Jed Lowrie, Daric Barton, Scott Sizemore, John Jaso
Club options: Coco Crisp ($7.5 million, with a $1 million buyout), Chris Young ($11 million, $1.5 million buyout), Anderson ($8 million, $1.5 million buyout), Kurt Suzuki ($8.5 million, $650,000 buyout)
Non-tender possibilities: Barton, Rodriguez, Neshek, Sizemore
Areas of need
Right-handed bat: The A's are not expected to pick up Young's hefty $11 million option, so an experienced right-handed bat could land on their shopping list. As Young did, his replacement would be looked upon to complement Smith at designated hitter and play the outfield from time to time. If the A's don't find a match, they may decide it's time to take a chance on prospect Michael Choice to fill this void.
Relief help: Oakland's bullpen was one of the best in baseball this year, thanks in large part to Balfour. So should the right-hander depart via free agency, the A's will quickly enter the market for an impact arm to replace him. Don't count on them hiring a proven closer, though. Closing duties, in the event Balfour leaves, will likely go to Ryan Cook or Sean Doolittle, leaving the A's to pluck from outside options that will complement them.
Middle infielder: Finally, Lowrie enjoyed a healthy season, and it was the A's who benefited, getting consistent production from the infielder all year. Lowrie is set to return to shortstop, and the A's also have platoon duo Alberto Callaspo and Eric Sogard expected back at second base, seemingly crowding the middle infield heading into the offseason. But Lowrie can play either position, so if the A's have a chance to upgrade at any one of them, chances are, they go for it.
2014 payroll
The A's finished the 2013 season with a payroll just north of $60 million, marking nearly a $10 million increase from 2012. Again, Oakland is expected to raise payroll -- "We should be able to increase payroll where it's needed," Beane said recently -- though it will likely remain under $70 million.


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Generalised anxiety disorder in adultsOverview
Anxiety is a feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can be mild or severe.
Generalised anxiety disorder is where you feel anxious most of the time.
Symptoms of generalised anxiety disorder vary from person to person, but include constant worrying, a sense of dread and difficulty concentrating.
Things like exercising more and drinking less alcohol can help with generalised anxiety disorder. Treatments include talking therapies and medicines.
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Well, the wedding is over, the presents are open and the happy couple is jetting to Mexico for the honeymoon. And I'm friggin' exhausted. Everything went fantastic.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a short blog about trying to prepare the wedding speech and the difficulty in finding the right words. Well, for your pleasure, here is the speech compliments of my new Flip Video Camera.
WARNING! it's almost 8 minutes long.


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A 2-year-old girl died Monday after a television fell on top of her at a home in San Diego's Stockton neighborhood, according to officials.
The incident occurred around 11 a.m. in the 300-block of 32nd Street, according to officials with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
Forensic investigators at the scene took a light-weight wicker chest of drawers full of clothes from the home's living room. The chest reportedly held a 35-inch, 50 to 60 pound TV on top of it.
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According to the toddler's relatives, the Estrada family, the toddler had just gotten out of the bath and was sent alone to get some clothing out of the wicker chest.
At that moment, other people in the home heard a devastating crash.
Family members said they ran into the room and discovered the infant's head had been crushed by the TV set, which had fallen on top of her.
The girl -- identified Tuesday by the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office as Annette Estrada -- was rendered unconscious and was taken to UCSD Medical Center.
Annette succumbed to her injuries shortly thereafter, officials said.
The toddler's aunt, who wished to be identified only as Christina, was one of four adults in the home at the time of the deadly incident.
"I had to hold her in my arms, she's my niece," Christina told NBC 7 San Diego. "She loved everybody. If she just met you she would be smiling at you and say 'Hi.'"
Little Annette's family said the girl was about to turn three years old. The ME cites the toddler's birthdate at December 21, 2010.
Authorities have launched an investigation into potential child abuse and neglect in the home, but said the incident appears to be a complete accident.
"Unfortunately it was the perfect storm," said Lt. Mark Bennet of the San Diego Police Department. "This was a large, old-style C.R.T. television set, so they are very front heavy by themselves."
In California, the law requires that some household appliances have safety fasteners, but the television present in the Estrada home was not one of those listed.
Christina said her family's story should serve a stark warning to other parents and guardians.
"Make sure you have everything safe for your kids," Christina said. "You don't know when they could be taken away."


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The Bobcats started off on the right foot against the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) regular-season and tournament champions, taking two of three doubles bouts with wins at the first and second slots.
Senior Diane Danna (Paris, France) and junior Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) edged Sofia Lopez Mimendi and Ann Indeherberge 8-6 in first doubles action. Lion and Danna improved to 13-10 on the year.
Freshmen Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) and Kayla Barksdale (Martinez, Ga.) teamed for an 8-1 drubbing of Amanda Horenkamp and Mandy Mills in the second slot. The win brings the Bobcat duo's record even to 11-11. Sophomore Adriana Acuna (Peachtree City, Ga.) and freshman Linda Mosa (Stockholm, Sweden) also dropped an 8-3 match to Leah Donoff and Melanie Smith.
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"There's nothing new whatever," answered Tzu-hsing. "There is one thing however: in the family of one of your worthy kinsmen, of the same name as yourself, a trifling, but yet remarkable, occurrence has taken place."
"None of my kindred reside in the capital," rejoined Yü-ts'un with a smile. "To what can you be alluding?"
"How can it be that you people who have the same surname do not belong to one clan?" remarked Tzu-hsing, sarcastically.
"In whose family?" inquired Yü-ts'un.
"The Chia family," replied Tzu-hsing smiling, "whose quarters are in the Jung Kuo Mansion, does not after all reflect discredit upon the lintel of your door, my venerable friend."
"What!" exclaimed Yü-ts'un, "did this affair take place in that family? Were we to begin reckoning, we would find the members of my clan to be anything but limited in number. Since the time of our ancestor Chia Fu, who lived while the Eastern Han dynasty occupied the Throne, the branches of our family have been numerous and flourishing; they are now to be found in every single province, and who could, with any accuracy, ascertain their whereabouts? As regards the Jung-kuo branch in particular, their names are in fact inscribed on the same register as our own, but rich and exalted as they are, we have never presumed to claim them as our relatives, so that we have become more and more estranged."
"Don't make any such assertions,"
Tzu-hsing remarked with a sigh, "the present two mansions of Jung and
Ning have both alike also suffered reverses,
and they cannot come up to their state of days of yore."
"Up to this day, these two households of Ning and of Jung," Yü-ts'un suggested, "still maintain a very large retinue of people, and how can it be that they have met with reverses?"
"To explain this would be indeed a long story," said Leng Tzu-hsing. "Last year," continued Yü-ts'un, "I arrived at Chin Ling, as I entertained a wish to visit the
remains of interest of the six dynasties, and as I on that day entered the walled town of Shih T'ou, I passed by the entrance of that old residence. On the east
side of the street, stood the Ning Kuo mansion; on the west the Jung Kuo mansion; and these two, adjoining each other as they do, cover in fact well-nigh
half of the whole length of the street. Outside the front gate everything was, it is true, lonely and deserted; but at a glance into the interior over the enclosing wall, I
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The title of this article begins with a capital letter because computers are trying to take over the Earth, so pretend it says undictionary:Helicopeterbitch.undictionary:Helicopeterbitch
Helicopeterbitch (plural Helicopterbitches)
helicopterbitch [hel-ihop-tuhr-bich]
n. 1 person who won't SHUT THE FUCK UP about their stupid rules, doesn't forgive mistakes, voice sounds like a fucking record player that won't shut the fuck up, rules that treat you like a two-month-old baby, etc. etc. Often uses baby words, thinks it's O.K. to call you "rude" without giving a single fuck about you. When you try to fight back, they get defensive and make you feel like a pile of shit, often teachers, particularly third-graders, even though they're way too mature for that. Act as if you have no idea what the fuck is going on. "Friend(s), deceiving voices, extreme censors, movies such as The Land Before Time XI, and rarely "upset" come readily to mind.
2 never forgives you for anything, make one mistake, as a teacher, or concerned idiot person saying, "So what can we do?", etc. etc.
Me: Can I go to the bathroom? Helicopterbitch:Sign out. Me: (rolls eyes)
Helicopterbitch: So I found your stuff like Darth Vader VS Adolf Hitler, well, we can't let you write that kind of stuff at school, and I would appreciate you don't do it at home, butI can only control what happens here.
As seen above, still tries to control you.
Helicopterbitch: (repeatedly) After you pick that up, and bring it to the basket, you may sit back down at your desk.
As seen above, a selfish bitch who won't listen to reason or your point of view.
Helicopterbitch: If you continue to be rude, I will call Mrs. Hale up and she'll bring you out of the room. Period.
As seen above in the last word, uses sarcasm in a much more rude way than you would ever dream up, but still thinks it O.K to call you rude anyway. These bonus drastic drastic measures could appear if you say no more than two wrong words.
O.K., friends/squirts!
"Squirts" can make you feel like a pile of useless shit.
Etymology: Der, circa 2005, "Helicopter mom," overp, bitch, female dog, originally women, compound.


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Using this, and only this, I succeeded in writing expressions for all integers from 0 to 100.
To narrow your work, since a great number of integers can be easily obtained, can you find expressions for 47, 50, 56, 58, 64, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 85, 88, 94, and 95?


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Shoes for running, and I'll race ya
Sun is coming, it'll chase ya
Through this dead beat town
Through this dead beat town
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Death will hunt you down
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[Verse 1: Big Boi]
What about the people that's barefoot
With no shoes for running when the sun come up?
Hey one percenters, the 99 say what you gonna do for us?
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I can't take it with me, I wish they could send me
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And save the lives of my great grandmama and my great grandaddy
Now that's the answer to the question
But they make money of the medicine
Leaving us all stuck in elections
With no progressions, just recessions
[Verse 2: B.o.B.]
Just as I expected, life gets deadly
It's funny how the beloved become the beheaded
The truth can be independent or the direction that you stretch it
So my niggas will draw when shit gets sketchy
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Even in your local talk, niggas say you know he boss
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That's why she give me geek 'till her shins weak
I'm blazing everyday, you can call that demp week
You're running from your life that you didn't see
That's like playing hide and seek with the Grim Reaper
[Verse 3: Big Boi]
You can run, but you can't hide
Spent your whole life trying to escape
When everybody stayed
Getting tired of living in a lie
Different nights, same town
Say goodbyes, but we tried
Cause we know there's no getting out
And when the pawns are playing themselves
I just lay and wait and straighten myself
Let them war out till they wear themselves out to the rhythm sells out
Bring them back to life, give them mouth to mouth
[Outro: B.o.B.]
You can fight and try to get away
But there's nowhere to run and hide to
You better know that there will come a day
Eventually it's gonna find you
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Fruit Juice for Infants
There has been a conversation on the Welcome Page for some days now on giving a 7 month old some juice. Apparently the child won't take to it very well. Anyway, some of the...
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I'm known in my social circle as "Mr. White Sox" (even to other Sox fans). Even I'm having trouble caring about this team. If they're losing people like me, they need to blow it up. I don't mean just the team on the field, I mean top to bottom. Hahn can stay, because he hasn't really gotten a fair shake yet, but pretty much everybody else needs to go. This franchise is at its lowest point since probably 1999.
It's possible I missed something but the last time I can recall Jerry coming out and saying something significant or meeting the press was in Washington a few years ago when he talked to the media immediately after the Williams / Guillen twitter blow-up.
He explained that he called both men in and told them to get along and keep their differences in-house.
That was what summer 2011?
These two quotes from him show how things have changed:
Eddie and I never discussed how to talk to reporters. Weve just been ourselves. I always though Jack Kennedy was the kind of person I looked up to in that regard. He always gave the media a fair shake and understood you guys have a job to do. Without responsible people willing to divulge some accurate information, its hard to do it right. It was a much better approach then Nixon, who figured the media was his enemy. Doing it Kennedys way just makes a lot more sense to me. After all, nobody can buy the kind of advertising Chicago teams get. What other line of work finds newspapers assigning people to follow you around and write about how the business is doing every day? At Balcor, we have to hire a public relations firm to get our names in the paper. When baseball teams get that for free it makes sense to cooperate." - Jerry Reinsdorf to Bob Logan from the book 'Miracle on 35th Street.' Pg. 154. Published 1983.
The idea that I must talk to the media in order to know what is going on with our fans or the public is ludicrous. I communicate with fans on an almost daily basis and often hear comments from people on the street and in the ballpark. We have committed a lot of resources to market research each year, whether it is telephone or internet polling, mall intercepts, focus groups or in-park surveys. We believe these surveys are the most impartial way to hear from our fans. I don't think a media interview gives me the same type of insight into what our fans think and feel. Believe me, our fans tell us. They care and they are passionate. I like that about sports. The fact is that I do speak publicly when there is an issue of importance to our fans and to the franchises. I owe that to our fans. But again, I don't really think people want to hear from me or go to the game to see me. I hope not. Jerry Reinsdorf quoted on the official White Sox web site, www.whitesox.com, August 16, 2004.
I don't think it's a matter of Reinsdorf not caring anymore. I figure he's about at that age where he's decided to turn over some of the decision making to others in the organization. And that means he becomes less visible on a day-to-day basis.
When he bought the team in 1981 with Einhorn, the Sox had a big uphill battle to fight. The franchise was down, the park was in terrible condition, and the fan base was bottoming out. Naturally, they pulled out all the stops and made the Sox relevant again on the Chicago sports scene by signing Fisk and win the Western Division by 20 games just 2 years later.
Do the Sox seem to be trending downward as far as popularity is concerned? Let's just say Sox fans have a "show me" attitude, unlike fans on the other side of town. When the Sox aren't winning, the fans stay away. It's been that way for many years. And this year's team has shown so far that's it's nothing more than a .500 club that is unlikely to threaten for the division title. There are just too many holes and weaknesses that become evident over the course of a 162-game season.
I love Coppock.IMO, Coppock on Sports was easily the greatest radio sports show in Chicago history, it launched Dan McNeil's career. OTOH, it probably cost us 25 years of listening to Terry Boers, a guy who never would have been on radio if it weren't for Chet, but I would bet him the $500 about Reinsdorf not seeing the fans. I was at a patio party last year and he was there shaking hands and taking pictures. That is not to say that Chet's thoughts are totally incorrect. I do think JR needs to make himself a little more accessible to the media. He and Eddie were probably overexposed media-wise when they first began, but I think now it's just the opposite. Jerry needs to find a happy medium. I really think fans like to hear from ownership.
If Jerry was putting quotes out regularly I'm pretty sure people here would be saying that he should just "shut up and sign cheques". I was thinking about how people wanted Peavy to just shut up and pitch when he was injured not so long ago.
This story doesn't actually say anything important.
Have the Chicago White Sox ever actually been a "big market team"? I'm not saying that they haven't but it has never felt like a big market team to me. I don't look at attendance figures historically but have they ever been consistently better than middle of the pack as far as attendance goes?
It's a shame the Chicago White Sox have a small market mentality, because we could have dominated the Central division for the last 10 years. Instead we abdicated to Detroit...yes, freaking Detroit!
What is interesting about this perspective? It's the same pants pissing, whiny crap about ownership.
I'm not so sure you didn't write it yourself Lip.
"I told you I'd give my left nut to help this team." Paul Konerko
I don't live in Chicago but I have posted here for several years that I think one major problem w White Sox attendance is they must not have a solid corporate season ticket base. That job falls on their internal marketing/sales staff. I know in Boston, most major companies buy season tickets. Before retirement, I was in Purchasing and we had Red Sox seats and so did most of our suppliers. Certainly Chicago has major companies. Does the Cell have a lot of corporate boxes??? Does the company that you work for have corporate seats or boxes??
Also, every time the Sox do make a "big market" move, (Peavy trade, Dunn signing) people complain, too. Kobayashi Maru for the front office.
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Other teams are in much worse situations than the White Sox are in. The Indians are in first place and are dead last in MLB average attendance. They are averaging a little over 15,000 per game. The Indians play in a one team market and play in a downtown stadium (something I wish the White Sox were in) and they're in first place and are not drawing at all. Yesterdays game featured Felix Hernandez against Masterson and they only had 19,000 at the game on a Sunday afternoon. I realize the Indians have not had winning teams in awhile and they have taken the League by surprise being in first place now, but I still think Cleveland is still in a much worse situation than what the White Sox are. The Indians also don't have the TV-Radio money the White Sox have. If attendance doesn't pick up in Cleveland I wouldn't be surprised to see the owners put the team up for sale, or even move the team.
Yes the days of signing a Cabrera type before he is past his prime seem to be over with the early lock ups now a days.
I don't live in Chicago
No matter what anyone does the White Sox will never be the Red Sox or the Cubs. It is a socio-economic non-starter. Not that many corporate people are going to go to U.S. Cellular in south Chicago. I don't care if they do myself. If winning was everything to me I'd be a Yankees fan. If full stadia was a driving factor I'd be a Red Sox fan. I'm a White Sox fan. I just think it is a lot harder to put a very good, consistently performing major league baseball team together than those of us who don't do it professionally think.
Fantasy baseball does make it appear easier perhaps.
I like the kind of people that play for the White Sox. I like the loyalty and family atmosphere that Reinsdorf appears to value in his company. I wouldn't know because I don't know the man but he seems to be liked by players like PK, and that tells me something. Sure, I'd like to win the division more often and always make the playoffs but we don't and I don't think it is necessarily anyone's fault.... it is just very hard to do given the circumstances.
The first few seasons of the new park 91 through the strike, the Sox averaged almost three million fans a season. It was the combination of a new park and a pretty good team.
Also to your point about winning divisions / making playoffs. Cleveland (smaller market) dominated the division in the 90's...Minnesota (smaller market) dominated the division in the 00's. It can be done (as it has been done elsewhere say in St. Louis and Philadelphia) with some regularity (and I'm not even talking about the Yankees or Boston who seem to make the playoffs every year or nine times out of 10).
In fact despite Chicago's (and by proxy the Sox') advantages over their divisional opponents they can't seem to figure out how to do so. By advantages I mean population, size of radio/TV deals, advertising opportunities, corporate sponsorship opportunities.
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You have a tendency to automatically say that teams can be moved. I disagree, there aren't locations where teams can move anymore out there save maybe Montreal. Cities and fans know this, that "threat" is going by the wayside in my opinion.
And the Indians are in the same situation as Sox fans, haven't been a consistent winner in a while, seems to get off to good starts then fade in the second half. Not the way to draw fans or influence people.
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The new look was posted with no comment from the singer, but is the first look fans get of her without a weave ever. She did don a similar blonde wig to play Etta James in Cadillac Records, but this time she appears to have gone full into the look.
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ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Corrections can move quickly when it wants to.
More than 250 violent inmates have been transferred out of Hays State Prison.
Warden Clay Tatum has been replaced by one of his supervisors, corrections field operations manager Rick Jacobs.
Now the prison is doing a floor-to-ceiling tear-down to remake one and a half cellhouses into close-security units for the most dangerous inmates, state Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens told the Board of Corrections on Thursday.
All that has happened since a spate of violence claimed the lives of three inmates inside Hays starting Dec. 19 and a fourth last week as he was being transferred to another facility.
Creating the maximum-security units involves stripping out mirrors and bolting beds to the walls, Owens said. Toilets and other fixtures are being replaced with stainless steel -- "hardening it up" in corrections terms -- to keep inmates from breaking off parts.
Meanwhile, the rest of the prison will become a medium-security facility, he said.
Citing security, Owens declined to give more details about how he and other corrections officials plan to fix Hays, but he assured the board that everything possible is being done.
"Sometimes the most challenging part of this business is protecting inmates from inmates," he told the board. "But it is our obligation and our duty to get that done. Ultimately that responsibility lies with me."
Owens declined to say why the deterioration went unchecked over time. That investigation is "ongoing," he said.
Human rights advocates who have spoken about the increasing violence at Hays and other close-security prisons in the state said some of the measures seem to be good.
"I think they're taking some good steps," said Sara Totonchi, director of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights. "But I wonder if these steps are more Band-Aids than true solutions."
Totonchi, who attended the Board of Corrections meeting, pointed out that sending the worst criminals to other prisons doesn't fix the problem; it just moves it somewhere else.
She also questioned why the commissioner wants to put so much money into fixing Hays before bringing in an expert to assess problems and suggest solutions.
"This violence has escalated to a level the department has shown they can't handle," she said.
Corrections officials also are also taking another security measure -- providing stab-proof vests for prison guards.
Officers on second shift at Hays and at Telfair State Prison, where an officer was killed in October, are testing the equipment for 30 days, said Becky East, director of the Correction's Department's administrative division.
Once the department decides which vests work better, they will be given to the staff, she told the Board of Corrections.
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Update on aid given in support of victims of the Nov. 21 "Maxima" store tragedy
On Thursday November 21 at the "Maxima" big-box store in the Zolitūde neighborhood of Riga, Latvia, the roof collapsed onto shoppers and workers in the store resulting in the deaths of at least 54 people.According to press accounts, the government of Latvia has promised compensation of 10,000 Lats to the families of those killed and 5,000 Lats to those injured. The company Maxima (www.Maxima.lv) has promised to cover medical and rehabilitation expenses for all victims and to support children who were orphaned by the tragedy at the level of an average salary until they reach majority.The Latvian Ev. Luth. Congregation of New York has established a fund to allow individuals and organizations in the USA to donate in support of the victims of this tragedy and their families. You may send checks, payable to: "Latvian Ev. Luth. Church of N.Y." (please write "Zolitude" or "Maxima tragedy" in the memo
field) to:4 Riga LaneMelville, NY 11747, or make donations electronically - see the right side column of this page "Ziedojumi Zolitūdes veikala traģēdijai Latvijā:" and click on "Donate".
Those who have financial accounts in Latvia may donate through the site ziedot.lv ("ziedot" means "donate"). Visit:
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The mission of the Latvian Ev. Luth Church of New York is (translation coming soon) - Veidot kristīgu un latvisku ģimeni, kuŗā augam un audzinām ticībā, cerībā un mīlestībā!
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Happy New Years to all of the readers of Fightin Phillies blog! We've enjoyed having you stop by the blog all year during 2010 and we hope you'll check in plenty of times in the New Year. A lot more Phillies news, interviews, and special events planned for this year.
New Years Around the World, way before we celebrate ours here in the Philly area for 2011


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Self-help book translates surprisingly well
It used to be that men were from Mars and women were from Venus, but in 2009 comedian Steve Harvey wrote the bestseller "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man," causing both genders to rethink intimate relationships. Now it's been cleverly turned into a rom-com with a great cast.
Harvey's book suggests that if a woman wants her relationships to succeed, she has to smarten up and start thinking like a man does. For Lauren (Taraji P. Henson), this isn't a stretch. She's a high-powered female executive already in a man's world who would prefer that her man's paycheck match hers. But she might have to adjust her goal to someone more downwardly mobile. Mya (Meagan Good) makes the mistake of thinking a one-night stand is going to go the distance, so she's a good candidate for Harvey's 90-day rule. Candace (Regina Hall) is a single mother back in the dating game, so she's got to have the right guy for her little guy, and Kristen (Gabrielle Union) is stuck in a going-nowhere relationship with her Peter Pan college boyfriend.
The men these women fall for represent Harvey's somewhat stereotypical romantic types —The Dreamer (Michael Ealy), The Player (Romany Malco), Mama's Boy (Terrence J) and the Non-Committer (Jerry Ferrara).
Kevin Hart plays the fast talking comedy relief, and R&B singer Chris Brown has a bit part as a former hook up of Mya's. Brown's appearance is a bit awkward considering his recent headlines as one of the characters confesses to being abused by a spouse. Another poor choice in an otherwise mildly humorous movie is the go-to joke about gays — not once but twice in this film. It's crass, unnecessary and uncool for a pretty cool movie.
Tim Story directs with an eye for showing off his good looking cast, while the sets are sleek and modern with the movie filmed in and around L.A. Harvey appears as himself plugging the book on talk shows and speaking directly to the camera, quoting from the book as each of these women decides to take his advice and starts getting results. But the tables turn when the guys discover what's going on. With their own copies of the book, they can stay one step ahead of the ladies.
With four couples crowded into a two-hour movie, no one gets a fair share of screen time —this movie's biggest issue. If the situations seem glossed over and trivialized, blame it on having to split the action four ways and still have time for Hart to steal all his scenes.
I haven't read Harvey's book, but if it guarantees the happy endings that are found in this movie, then no wonder it's a best seller.


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Dolphin buddies remember each other after 20 years apart
Dolphins have long impressed people with their sharp minds and humanlike traits, such as calling each other by name, goofing off and even understanding numbers. Now a scientist has found that the mammals can recognize an old friend's whistle, even after they have been apart for 20 years -- the longest social memory ever recorded for a non-human.
In a study released Tuesday, dolphins largely ignored calls from other unfamiliar dolphins but responded when an old tank mate's signature whistle was played back to them. It didn't matter how much time had passed since the two had last seen each other or whether they had been tank mates for only a few months: The dolphins appeared to remember a familiar whistle.
"The main implications of such findings is that humans are not the only mammals that retain memories of others for long periods," said SUNY-Buffalo psychologist Eduardo Mercado III, who was not involved in the research.
Prior to the new study, published online in the journal "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B," much of what had been known about dolphin memory was anecdotal. This recorded feat of long-term memory puts dolphins in the same field as other highly intelligent creatures, including some monkeys and elephants, both of which have been known to recognize unrelated members of their species after time apart.
University of Chicago scientist Jason Bruck studied 56 bottlenose dolphins that were moved between six different institutions -- including Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, the Minnesota Zoo and an aquarium at Disney World in Orlando -- over a period of 20 years. They were typically transferred for breeding purposes, which somewhat mimicked the shifts among pods of dolphins in the wild.
That approach gave Bruck a record of the animals' social histories, which would be nearly impossible to collect for wild dolphins. The dolphins studied were separated for as long as 20 years.
Bruck stored all the dolphins' signature whistles on his iPod and broadcast them through an underwater speaker, taking note of the animals' reactions. A dolphin's identity is encoded in its signature whistle, Bruck said.
"If you took our names and our faces, merged them into one thing, that would be the best way to describe a signature whistle," he said. Dolphins choose this "name" for themselves between the ages of 4 months and 1 year.
The dolphins vocalize their whistle when they find themselves isolated from others, but they also can mimic a friend's whistle to call to another dolphin. The whistles, which can be heard up to a mile away, help dolphins discern friend from foe.
To make sure that the dolphins weren't reacting to random noises, Bruck first played a set of unfamiliar whistles. Once the dolphins were accustomed to the speaker, he played a familiar whistle, which resulted in a dolphin quickly approaching the speaker, even if it realized another dolphin wasn't there.
"Say you are walking along the street and someone projected a hologram of your grandmother in front of you," he said. "You'd turn and look."
One female dolphin named Allie, currently at the Brookfield Zoo, last lived with Bailey, a female now in Bermuda, more than 20 years ago. But upon hearing Allie's whistle, Bailey recognized the sound, according to the research.
Bruck had a light-bulb moment that led him to study dolphin recognition when he saw his brother's border collie, Abby, for the first time in four years.
"This dog absolutely hates men," Bruck said, but Abby immediately recognized him as a friend and not an enemy, even after a long absence. Bruck, an animal-behavior researcher, began to wonder whether other species could remember familiar faces long-term.
Heidi Harley, who researches dolphin cognitive processes at the New College of Florida, called the study "interesting," and the number of dolphins studied "impressive." But she wondered whether their responses were to a familiar sound rather than a connection to a dolphin they once knew.
"Is this really about the dolphins that produce these whistles, or is it just about the sounds themselves? It's a little hard to disentangle sometimes," Harley said.
Mercado III agreed: "It is in principle possible that a dolphin could find a whistle more 'interesting' without having any awareness of why."


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Grains finished mixed today with wheat sharply lower. December corn finished 4 ¼ lower on the day at $6.40 ¾, December wheat 34 cents lower at $6.26 ¾, and November beans 4 cents higher at $12.39 ½.
Today's report was disappointing for the bulls as wheat and corn ending stocks both disappointed the average of estimates. The analysts that continue to call for lower corn yields found no reductions with an unchanged yield estimate by the USDA. Funds and large traders who may have been trading a lower corn yield may be rethinking their strategy at the moment which is a downside market risk if more liquidation comes from this.
World wheat ending stocks are estimated at 202.37 Million MTs which is up sharply from the last report in September (up about 4%). They were estimated to be up 76 Million Bushels here in the US alone which is a 10% increase. This was the most significant information on the report as the world has options. Why contract US corn out of the gulf when you have cheaper feed grade wheat you can buy from Russia or Australia?
Corn yield was left unchanged from the September report at 148.1 bpa as a national average. Most were guessing a little higher, but we did show another reduction in exports of 50 million bushels to help offset this. This combined with the Ending stocks rising to 1.128 billion bu from last year raised the carryout to 866 million when I believe the average guess was 800 million.
Beans were the only thing that were reported positive on today's report with yield reductions to 41.5 and another decrease in ending carryout to 160. Now with S. American beans currently getting planted we may see any foul weather related stories keep beans supported and it is a La Nina year. Overall between corn and soybeans I am more favorable of NEXT year's price as they both have to hold support and continue to compete for acres.
If I were to take anything away from this report today it would be that we are going to have a hard time sustaining significant rallies in corn and wheat. As producers we are at record corn prices for the month of October and selling additional bushels at these levels still makes sense.
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NIJC and its network of 1,500 pro bono attorneys provide legal counsel and representation to nearly 10,000 immigrants each year, including thousands of unaccompanied children detained in the Chicago area. Children seek refuge in the United States for many reasons: to escape war, gangs, or violence; to flee abuse; or to reunite with family. Others enter involuntarily as labor or sex trafficking victims. In recent years the number of unaccompanied immigrant children migrating to the United States has nearly tripled.
NIJC's Immigrant Children's Protection Project provides legal services to unaccompanied children held in Chicago-area shelters. The Children's Protection Project visits all of these facilities on a weekly basis to interview the children, conduct legal assessments, and deliver "Know Your Rights" presentations that provide an overview of the immigration court process. This on-the-ground experience provides NIJC a unique in-depth perspective on the realities children face when they enter the U.S. alone, and on the need for systemic reforms to ensure children's human and due process rights in the complex immigration legal system.
Navigating the Immigration System
Unaccompanied immigrant children face many challenges navigating the immigration system alone, including:
No right to court-appointed counsel. Unless they can afford attorneys or secure pro bono counsel, they appear in court without legal representation.
- A confusing and complex court system. Deportation proceedings against children often begin in the jurisdiction where the child is placed in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Once a child is released from an ORR shelter to a sponsor or to foster care, it is the child's responsibility – regardless of age or legal representation – to submit paperwork to inform the court that he or she has moved and to file a formal motion to change venue if the new address is under the jurisdiction of a different court. If a child does not properly update his or her address, he or she could be ordered deported in absentia for failing to appear in court.
- Lack of clear guidelines to grant relief. DHS has yet to provide clear guidelines on the exercise of prosecutorial discretion (PD) as it applies to UICs. Expanded exercise of PD would help provide relief for many UICs with strong ties to the United States who are not a priority for deportation.
- Absence of legally binding regulations to protect children in DHS custody. Upon apprehension, UICs are held in DHS custody. Although there are standards to guide the treatment of UICs, DHS lacks appropriate legally binding regulations to protect children in their custody. Currently, little oversight exists to ensure that UICs are treated humanely and cared for according to child-appropriate protocols while in DHS custody.
Read NIJC's policy brief to learn more about these challenges.
Regardless of their immigration status, unaccompanied immigrant children should be treated as children first. Children should not be expected to navigate a complex immigration system alone. Congress and the Obama Administration must take steps to provide critical safeguards to unaccompanied children, including:
- Providing counsel to unaccompanied children. Children face insurmountable challenges and experience a denial of due process when navigating the U.S. immigration system without attorneys. Access to legal representation is critical for children to be able to understand the legal protection and immigration benefits that may be available.
- Increasing funding for legal orientation programs (LOPs) at ORR shelters and legal orientation programs for custodians (LOPCs) when children are released. As unaccompanied children move more rapidly through the ORR system, the government must ensure that children receive basic information about their rights and responsibilities, and individualized legal assessments to understand whether they might be eligible for immigration relief. Once they are released, their family or sponsors must also have access to information about the immigration system so they can properly assist the children during the immigration process.
- Enact protocols to end abusive treatment at the border. NIJC's survey and mass complaint on behalf of 116 unaccompanied children abused in CBP custody demonstrate that unaccompanied children often are held in extreme temperatures, prevented from sleeping, provided with little food and placed in shackles by DHS officers at the border. DHS must develop legally binding regulations and oversight mechanisms, in collaboration with nongovernmental organizations who serve this population, to ensure officers treat children humanely.
- Passing comprehensive immigration reform legislation so families can legally and safely reunify. Undocumented family members in the United States need a mechanism to safely and legally reunite with their children. Immigration reform must include provisions that allow parents to obtain lawful immigration status and petition for their children and other family members.


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text: My 16 year and one day old son had his car (1995 e36 m3, 106k miles) for 24 hours. Shifted from 5th to 3rd with out use of clutch (dont ask). Trans was shifting fine no issues with syncros or clutch prior to above incident. Will not come out of third, any suggestions for a quick fix, before the shop starts to tear it apart. (Please refrain from the does bad driving run in the family posts, as it obviously does (humor)). Thanks in advance for any help. Scott Mc


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WHEELING - The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce and a dozen other groups have joined a national organization in criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to seek public input on regulations in states most likely to be affected adversely by them.
WHEELING - The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce and a dozen other groups have joined a national organization in criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to seek public input on regulations in states most likely to be affected adversely by them.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy sent a letter Friday to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, urging the agency to conduct more outreach efforts in areas that depend on coal for electricity. Thirteen state and local chambers of commerce, including West Virginia's, signed the letter.
The EPA is holding a series of 11 "listening sessions" across the country to gather public input on regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, particularly those fueled by coal. The tour is under way and continues through Friday.
The letter notes none of the sessions will be held in states that rank among the top 10 in percentage of electricity generated by coal, including West Virginia and Ohio. Four of the sessions, meanwhile, were scheduled in cities that generate less than 5 percent of their electricity from coal.
"I think it's a glaring omission by the EPA," West Virginia Chamber President Steve Roberts said. "It certainly implies that the EPA only wants to hear from those that are outside the coal-producing regions of our country."
The top 10 states in percentage of electricity generated from coal between January and July were West Virginia, at 95 percent; Kentucky, 92 percent; Wyoming, 88 percent; Indiana, 84 percent; Missouri, 83 percent; Utah, 81 percent; North Dakota, 78 percent; Nebraska, 71 percent; and New Mexico, 68 percent. Those are figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
The EPA sessions were scheduled for Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Lenexa, Kan. Of those cities, only two - Denver and Lenexa - generate more than half their electricity from coal, at 63 and 62 percent, respectively.
"By avoiding the states that are most reliant on coal for its public input sessions, EPA has set up a one-sided process that will fail to provide an accurate reflection of public input," Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the 21st Century Energy Institute. "Consumers who will face the consequences of new regulations such as higher electricity prices and fewer jobs should have the chance to tell EPA in person how they should be crafted."
Chambers of commerce signing the letter in addition to West Virginia's are Ohio, Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Greater North Dakota, Nebraska, Virginia, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Campbell County, Wyo., and the Wyoming Chamber of Commerce Partnership.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Senior Elizabeth Bromirski has been named the Southern Athletic Association Women's Basketball Player of the Week, the league office announced today.
Bromirski, a guard from Somerville, Ala., led the Panthers in both of their road wins this week, scoring a career-high 29 points against Berry on Friday and then 17 points against Oglethorpe on Sunday. She also pulled down 14 total rebounds (6 against Berry, 8 against Oglethorpe), and recorded six assists, two steals, and a block. For the week, Bromirski averaged 23.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 1.0 steal, and 0.5 blocks while shooting 43.9 percent from the field and 77.8 percent at the free throw line. Her outstanding play catapulted BSC into fourth place in the league standings.
The Panthers are on the road again this weekend, traveling to face Hendrix on Conway, Ark., on Friday, and then Rhodes in Memphis on Sunday.