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35 Ways to Be Healthier This Year
The best strategies for erasing stress, shedding pounds, improving memory and more—no matter how little time you have.
Do These Right Now
Tackle these to-do items just once in 2013 to boost your wellness.
1. Clock Your Sunblock
It's good for up to three years, but look at expiration dates and restock if necessary, says dermatologist Sonia Badreshia-Bansal, M.D., a clinical instructor at the University of California, San Francisco. If you're using sunblock properly, you should need a new bottle every year.
2. Create a Reading List
Jot down the books you'd like to finish in the next 12 months—from guilty pleasures to classics—then borrow, buy or download them. Tearing into a page-turner is good for your brain. People who regularly read fiction are more empathetic than those who don't, and reading any form of literature increases vocabulary and comprehension. See our must-read picks for 2013 at familycircle.com/2013books.
3. Check the Detectors
Change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors annually and test them monthly, says Greg Martin, a firefighter, engineer and EMT with Idaho's Ketchum Fire Department.
4. Book a Bra Fitting
Tense shoulders? Blame it on your bra. According to researchers, 85% of women wear the wrong size, which can lead to pain (and an unflattering silhouette). Weight fluctuations and other changes make an annual measurement, available in most department and lingerie stores, invaluable.
5. Chuck Old Sneakers
Regular workouts are great for you but not for your gym shoes. If you exercise three times a week, replace your pair after six to nine months, says Michele Olson, Ph.D., professor of exercise physiology at Auburn University at Montgomery. If five times a week, swap out after five months.
6. Revamp Your Beauty Regimen
What you put on your body can make its way into your body, so spend a day this year looking at the ingredients list of your favorite soaps, nail polishes and hair sprays. Products containing hormone-disrupting chemicals called phthalates may increase your risk of diabetes. Check out our favorite phthalate-free beauty products at familycircle.com/healthybeauty.
Do These Once a Day
Feel better from Sunday to Saturday with these simple tips.
7. Get Your Fiber Fix
Adding 10 grams of soluble fiber to your daily diet can reduce your visceral fat—the most dangerous type of body fat because it wraps around organs. Meeting this total is as simple as adding an apple to breakfast and a cup of carrots to your lunch, snacking on a pear, and having a cup of black beans with dinner.
8. Satisfy Cravings with Gum
"You'll be putting a food-like substance in your mouth, giving your jaws something to do and stimulating the production of serotonin," says Pamela Peeke, M.D., author of The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction. Look for gum sweetened with xylitol—this natural sugar substitute protects teeth from cavities.
9. Preserve Your Pearlies
Floss once a day—before you brush. It'll help the fluoride in your toothpaste get between your teeth.
10. Try a 4-Minute Workout
Twice a week, switch your regular workout to the high-intensity interval training known as Tabata. Sweat with our rapid plan from Jessica Smith, co-author of The Thin in 10 Weight-Loss Plan, at familycircle.com/tabata.
11. Tidy Up
Cleaning your place nightly can result in more than just sparkling floors: Researchers say well-kept homes house healthier people. It's unclear if the elevated heart rate and calorie burn from housekeeping is responsible for fitter occupants or if caring for your home is linked to caring for your body, but whatever the reason, get mopping—it's a win-win. Neaten up in a hurry with our tips at familycircle.com/quickclean.
12. Pack a Brown Bag
Women who ate lunch in a restaurant at least once a week lost 5 fewer pounds on average than those who ate out less often. The likely reason: You're more inclined to splurge when going out. Find seven from-your-fridge ideas that'll make it easy to pass on take-out at familycircle.com/baglunch.
13. Get in the Green
Just five minutes of activity in nature is enough to boost your mood, say researchers. Fit in a quick loop around a park or spend a few minutes tending to your garden.
14. Pause at the Watercooler
Chitchat may feel like idle talk, but making time for short conversations can improve your memory and focus. Social interactions—particularly ones that ask you to consider another person's perspective—stimulate the brain region responsible for these functions.
15. Fix Everyone a Plate
The easiest way to reduce calorie intake by up to a third? Keep serving dishes out of sight and your family will automatically skip second helpings, say researchers at Cornell University.
16. Sleep, Uninterrupted
Getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom? Limit fluids two hours before bed, suggests Mark Liponis, M.D., author of UltraLongevity and corporate medical director of Canyon Ranch.
17. Shower Away Stress
"Let droplets flow over your head, close your eyes, and inhale slowly and deeply through your nose, holding it for a few seconds," suggests davidji, author of Secrets of Meditation. "Imagine a waterfall releasing tension as you exhale."
18. Shut Down Your Inbox
Reading and answering after-hours e-mails can throw a wrench in your work-life balance, spurring feelings of guilt. Establishing e-mail boundaries can help: Do a final check-in early enough that you have a couple of hours of continuous family time.
19. Skip Sick Days
Regular exercise may halve your risk of contracting a bug. Just fit in 30 minutes of moderate exercise daily, suggests the American College of Sports Medicine.
20. Wipe Out
It's not a wrong number: 92% of cell phones have bacteria on them and 16% have E. coli. Consult the manufacturer's guidelines for cleaning, and consider a microfiber cloth from goswype.com.
Do These Once a Week
Every seven days make a move toward vitality.
21. Be a Pedal Pusher
Between running errands and meeting friends, the average woman drives 30 miles a day. Make one trip a week by bicycle and you'll improve your health, says Mia Birk, author of Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet. Don't forget your helmet!
22. Cut Out a Few White Lies
Next time you're tempted to tell a fib, fess up. Eliminating three lies in a week—even little ones—leads to fewer headaches, sore throats and other mental and physical complaints.
23. Watch a Rerun
It's not often that the boob tube is linked to health benefits, but this is one of the exceptions. Rewatching favorite episodes allows your brain to recharge, restoring levels of self-control and increasing willpower, say researchers at the University at Buffalo. This type of brain break may give you that extra oomph needed to finish a lengthy report or hit the gym.
24. Plan a Game Night
Play an active video game (read: one where you exercise more than your thumbs) and you'll burn more calories than you would watching a movie. Bonding bonus: Research shows that girls who do so with their parents report feeling more connected to their families and are less aggressive.
25. Exercise Your Memory
Always park in a different place at work or the mall. Regularly remembering new information—like where to find your car—can help your brain stay sharp, says Christine M. Gall, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of California, Irvine.
26. Sniff Away Stress
Feeling frustrated? Reach for some jasmine essential oil. It stimulates the brain much like prescription anxiety medications, such as Valium.
27. Water Your Work Plants
Hazardous chemicals, like formaldehyde, are often the cause of that funny smell carpets, paint and cleaning agents give off. And particles can linger long after the scent disappears. To clean the air you breathe, add plants. Bamboo palms are particularly good filters.
28. Unplug
Researchers in Norway have developed a scale to measure Facebook addiction. If you have a feeling your score is off the charts, pick at least one day each week to avoid social media, suggests David Strayer, Ph.D., professor of cognition and neural science at the University of Utah. Limiting your access to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and even e-mail rests your brain and weakens the urge to virtually connect.
29. Wear Flats
High heels add length to your legs, but the fancy footwear also increases pressure on your knees and ups your risk for osteoarthritis.
Do These Once a Month
Just 12 times a year can make a big impact on your well-being.
30. Start a Healthy Dinner Swap
Wouldn't it be great if low-cal meals magically appeared in your fridge? They can—sort of. Recruit four other families in your neighborhood for a food swap: Each family cooks a big batch of a particular meal (enough to feed five families), packs it up in Tupperware and trades it with the others. Make it a Sunday activity. You'll each prepare dinner just once but eat five different homemade dishes that week. For good-for-you recipes, go to familycircle.com/dinnerswap.
31. Refresh Your Relationship
Next date night, get creative. Breaking your routine can keep the fire burning strong between you and your partner because new activities—such as bowling, star-gazing, a golf lesson or a ride in an exotic car—rekindle romantic feelings.
32. Book a Massage
Allow us to twist your arm: Massages boost immunity, decrease aggression and lower cortisol levels, all while treating ailments like headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome and diabetes. For best results, ask for moderate pressure, suggests Tiffany Field, Ph.D., director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
33. Schedule a Meet-Up
Book clubs, wine tastings and the PTA provide enough social connection and inclusion to make you happier and more resilient. The more groups, the better. Casual social sets, such as the crew at your friendly yoga studio, count too.
34. Plan a Double Date
What's even better than a night alone with your hubby? Dinner with him and another couple. When partners develop close friendships with other couples—even ones they've just met—they tend to feel more sparks in their own relationship, say researchers.
35. Volunteer
If you're pressed for time, stressed or feeling a bit blah about things, helping others can reverse those negatives while making life more meaningful. Whether you're ready for a single charitable act or a monthly gig, find deserving organizations at volunteermatch.org.
Originally published in the January 2013 issue of Family Circle magazine.
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Metro Denver animal shelters are having a cat overcrowding crisis and several are taking unusual steps to find homes for their burgeoning feline populations.
The Dumb Friends League, the area's largest animal welfare organization, is waiving adoption fees at its two shelters through August 31 for all cats and kittens.
The Denver Municipal Animal Shelter is doing the same. It is the first time in the shelter's more than 50 year history that fees have been waived.
The Humane Society of Boulder Valley waived cat adoption fees on Sunday and as a result had the biggest adoption day in its history, placing 117 animals – including 97 felines – in new homes.
Every spring and summer, when felines are out and more active, newborn cats flood communities and turn up in droves at shelters, a phenomenon known as "kitten season". This year, according to Dumb Friends League spokeswoman Sheri Tuffield, there have been more cats than kittens coming to her shelter some weeks.
The League has 800 cats in its care, the result of a 47 percent increase brought to the organization's Denver and Douglas County shelters compared to this time last year.
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Only have eyes for coffee (and chocolate) this Valentine's Day?
Good news! Starbucks has three delicious, new beverages to take the place of a significant other, while you're still waiting to bump into and marry Jon Hamm.
(Hey, it can happen.)
Starting today, through Feb. 14, the coffee chain will offer limited-time, chocolate-inspired beverages: the Starbucks Molten Chocolate Latte, the Starbucks Molten Chocolate Frappuccino, and the Starbucks Molten Hot Chocolate.
Because a heart-shaped box of chocolates is simply not enough.
RELATED: New M&M flavors, Starbucks cookies &more Valentine's Day treats
The Molten Chocolate Latte, which is available as a hot or iced beverage, features chocolate chips, melted into espresso and topped with steamed milk combined with mocha sauce.
The Molten Chocolate Frappuccino is a coffee frap with mocha sauce and chocolate chips, blended with milk and ice.
If you're not looking for coffee, the Molten Hot Chocolate is mocha sauce and chocolate chips, melted into steamed milk.
All of the new drinks are topped with a mocha and espresso-infused whipped cream and an espresso/mocha drizzle.
Your love affair with chocolate deserves to be celebrated this time of year.
Also launching this week, Starbucks will have a special Snapchat filter (check your phone when you're at a location) to give your selfie game an extra boost.
Plus, the coffee chain still has other Valentine's Day goodies, like cute, heart-shaped cookies, themed mugs, and a curated Valentine's Day playlist on Spotify.
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In this blog, I'll compare two ways of interpreting non-significant effects: Bayes factors and TOST equivalence tests. I'll explain why reporting more than only Bayes factors makes sense, and highlight some benefits of equivalence testing over Bayes factors. I'd like to say a big thank you to Bill (Lihan) Chen and Victoria Savalei for helping me out super-quickly with my questions as I was re-analyzing their data.
Does volunteering improve well being? A recent article by Ashley Whillans, Scott Seider, Lihan Chen, Ryan Dwyer, Sarah Novick, Kathryn Gramigna, Brittany Mitchell, Victoria Savalei, Sally Dickerson & Elizabeth W. Dunn suggests the answer is: Not so much. The study was published in Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, one of the highest quality journals in social psychology, which peer-reviews pre-registrations of studies before they are performed.
People were randomly assigned to a volunteering program for 6 months, or to a control condition. Before and after, a wide range of well-being measures were collected. Bayes factors support the null for all measures. The main results (and indeed, except for some manipulation checks, the only results – not even means or standard deviations are provided in the article) are communicated in the form of Bayes factors in Table 2.
The Bayes factors were calculated using the Bayes factor calculator by Zoltan Dienes, who has a great open access paper in Frontiers, cited more than 200 times since 2014, on how to use Bayes to get most out of non-significant results. I won't try to explain in detail how these Bayes factors are calculated – too many Bayesians on Twitter have told me I am too stupid to understand the math behind Bayes factors, and how I should have taken calculus in high school. They are right on both accounts, so just read Dienes (2014) for an explanation.
As Dienes (2014) discusses, you can also interpret non-significant results using Frequentist statistics. In a TOST equivalence test, which consists of two simple one-sided t-tests, you determine whether an effect falls between equivalence bounds set to the smallest effect size you care about (for an introduction, see Lakens, 2017). Dienes (2014) says it can be difficult to determine what this smallest effect size of interest is, but for me, if anything, it is easier to determine a smallest effect size of interest than to specify an alternative model in Bayesian statistics.
The authors examined whether well-being was improved by volunteering, and specified an alternative model (what would a true effect of improved well-being look like?) as follows (page 9): "Because our goal was to contrast the null hypothesis to an alternative hypothesis that the effect is moderate in size, we used a normal distribution prior with a mean of 0.50 and a standard deviation of 0.15 for the standardized effect size (e.g. the difference score between standardized T2 and T1 measures)."
It is interesting to see the authors wanted to specify their alternative in terms of a 'standardized effect size'. I fully agree that using standardized effect sizes is currently the easiest way to think about the alternative hypothesis, and it is the reason my spreadsheet and R package "TOSTER" allow you to specify equivalence bounds in standardized effect sizes when performing an equivalence test.
In equivalence testing, we can test whether the observed data is surprisingly smaller than anything we would expect. The authors seem to find a true effect of d = 0.5 a realistic alternative model. So, a good start is to try to reject an effect of d = 0.5. We can just fill in the means, standard deviations, and sample sizes from both groups, and test against the equivalence bound of d = 0.5 (see the code at the bottom of the post). Note that the authors perform a two-sided test (even though they have a one-sided hypothesis, as indicated in the title "Does volunteering improve well-being?", but following the authors, I will test whether the effect is statistically smaller than d = 0.5, and statistically larger than d = -0.5, instead of only testing whether the effect is smaller than d = 0.5). The most important results are summarized in the Figure below:
Testing the effect for WSB, one of the well-being measures, the standardized effect size of 0.5 equals a raw effect of 0.762 in scale points on the original measure. Because the 90% confidence interval around the mean difference does not contain -0.762 or 0.762, the observed data is surprising (a.k.a statistically significant), if there was a true effect of d = -0.5 or d = 0.5 (see Lakens, 2017, for a detailed explanation). We can reject the hypothesis that d = -0.5 or d = 0.5, and if we do this, given our alpha of 0.05, we would be wrong a maximum of 5% of the time, in the long run. Other people might find smaller effects still of interest. They can collect more data, and perform an equivalence test in a meta-analysis.
We could write: Using a TOST procedure to test the data against equivalence bounds of d = -0.5 and d = 0.5, the observed results were statistically equivalent to zero, t(78.24) = -2.86, p = 0.003. The mean difference was -0.094, 90% CI[-0.483; 0.295].
Benefits of equivalence tests compared to Bayes factors.
If we perform equivalence tests, we see that we can conclude statistical equivalence for all nine measures. You might wonder about whether we need to correct for the fact that we perform nine tests for all the different well-being measures. Would we conclude that volunteering has a positive effect on well-being, if any single one of these tests showed a significant effect? If so, we should indeed correct for multiple comparisons to control our overall Type 1 error rate, and you can do this in equivalence testing. There is no easy way to control error rates in Bayesian statistics. Some Bayesians simply don't care about error control, and I don't exactly know what Bayesian who care about error control do. I care about error control, and the attention p-hacking is getting suggests I am not alone. In equivalence testing, you can control the Type 1 error rate simply by adjusting the alpha level, which is one benefit of equivalence testing over Bayes factors.
To calculate a Bayes factor, you need to specify your prior by providing the mean and standard deviation of the alternative. Bayes factors are quite sensitive to how you specify these priors, and for this reason, not every Bayesian statistician would recommend the use of Bayes factors. Andrew Gelman, a widely known Bayesian statistician, recently co-authored a paper in which Bayes factors were used as one of three Bayesian approaches to re-analyze data. In footnote 3 it is written: "Andrew Gelman wishes to state that he hates Bayes factors" – mainly because of this sensitivity to priors. So not everyone likes Bayes factors (just like not everyone likes p-values!). You can discuss the sensitivity to priors in a sensitivity analysis, which would mean plotting Bayes factors for alternative models with a range of means and standard deviations and different distributions, but I rarely see this done in practice. Equivalence tests also depend on the choice of the equivalence bounds. But it is very easy to see the effect of different equivalence bounds on the test result – you can just check if the equivalence bound you would have chosen falls within the 90% confidence interval. So that is a second benefit of equivalence testing.
The authors used a power analysis to determine the sample size they needed (page 7): "To achieve 80% power to detect an effect size of r = 0.21 (d = 0.40), we required at least 180 participants to detect significant effects of volunteering on our SWB measures of interest." But what was the power of the study to support the null? Although you can simulate everything in R, there is no software to perform power analysis for Bayes factors (indeed, 'power' is a Frequentist concept). When performing an equivalence test, you can easily perform a power analysis to make sure you have a well-powered study if there is an effect, and when there is no effect (and the spreadsheet and R package allow you to do this). When pre-registering a study, you need to justify your sample size, both with an eye for when the alternative hypothesis is true, as when the null hypothesis is true. The ease with which you can perform power calculations is another benefit of equivalence tests.
A final benefit I'd like to discuss concerns the assumptions of statistical tests. You should not perform tests when their assumptions are violated. The authors in the paper examining the effect of volunteering on well-being correctly report Welch's t-tests, because they have unequal sample sizes in each group, and the equal variances assumption is violated. This is excellent practice. I don't know how Bayes factors deal with unequal variances (I think they don't, and simply assume equal variances, but I'm sure the answer will appear in the comments, if there is one). My TOST equivalence test spreadsheet and R code use Welch's t-test by default (just as R does), so unequal variances is no longer a problem. The equal variances assumption is not very plausible in many research questions in psychology (Delacre, Lakens, & Leys, under review), so not having to assume equal variances is another benefit of equivalence testing compared to Bayes factors.
Only reporting Bayes factors seems, to me, an incomplete description of the data. I think it makes sense to report an effect size, the mean difference, and the confidence interval around it. And if you do that, and have determined a smallest effect size of interest, then performing the TOST equivalence testing procedure is nothing more than checking and reporting whether the p-value for the TOST procedure is smaller than your alpha level to conclude the effect is statistically equivalent. And you can still add a Bayes factor, if you want.
All approaches to statistical inferences have strengths and weaknesses. In most situations, both Bayes factors and equivalence tests lead to conclusions that have the same practical consequences. Whenever they do not, it is never the case that one approach is correct, and one is wrong – the answers differ because the tests have different assumptions, and you will have to think about your data more, which is never a bad thing. In the end, as long as you share the data of your paper online, as the current authors did, anyone can calculate the statistics they like. But only reporting Bayes factors is not really enough to describe your data. You might want to at least report means and standard deviations, so that people who want to include the effect size in a meta-analysis don't need to re-analyze your data. And you might want to try out equivalence tests next time you interpret null results.


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When Joanna Brady's daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her high school principal, Debra Highsmith, in the desert, the Cochise County sheriff's personal and professional worlds collide. Though she's tried to protect her children from the dangers of the grown-up world, the search for justice leads straight to her own door and forces her to face the possibility that her beloved daughter may be less perfect than she seems.
Yet the deeper Joanna digs, the more complications she uncovers. It seems the quiet, upstanding principal had a hidden past, full of mysterious secrets she'd successfully kept buried for years. As the seasoned sheriff juggles professional constraints and personal demands, she finds herself walking a fine line between justice and family that has never been so blurred.
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- Mara
- 14-08-12
Love Having Joanna back.
I am just now listening to JUDGMENT CALL. Ms. Jance never writes another Joanna Brady book for me fast enough. I read DESERT HEAT a few years after I became a widow, and I have been following Joanna ever since.
This book is much better than FIRE and ICE, Yes, it was a Joanna Brady book with J P Beaumont. I didn't think it was up to par to the way I like to think a Joanna Brady book should be. Though life is full of changes, I wish that Frank Montoya was still with Joanna as her second in command. It's like catching up with the family.
As for the narrator, I personally wouldn't have picked Hillary Huber either. Her voice is a bit grating, but she is better than a few of the narrators I truly dislike and becuse of them, I will not listen to a book by a favorite author because of the narrator. There are many better narrators. Susan Ericksen would be my top pick, but she can't do all of the books we like to listen too.
Cassandra Campbell, Carrington McDuffie, Katherine Kellergen, Kate Reading, Susie Breck, and Barbara Rosenblatt are few of the narrators that come to my mind. I am sure there are a few others that I can't think of right now.
The problem is, it's not up to to the author or us who reads the books, it's up to the publishers. The fine ladies I just mentioned, may not be able to do it, or the publisher and recording companies do not want to put out the big bucks.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful
- karen
- 10-11-12
Even bad narrator can't ruin Joanna
Very odd -- for a series as popular as J A Jance's Joanna Brady books, for as many segments as there are in the series, it's odd that there have been so many different narrators. By contrast, Gene Eugene was a decades-long standard for narrating the J P Beaumont series. Why the vast variety in the Joanna Brady books?
Hillary Huber is my least favorite of them all. I'll never fail to buy the Brady books, but I really do wish they'd stop using Huber -- the books read by Stephanie Brush are by far the best. Brush sounds exactly like I'd expect Joanna to sound. C.J. Critt is my second favorite.
Hillary Huber is the worst. She has a very strange narration voice. Sometimes it's so smooth, flat and nasal it borders on robotic. Then she lapses into a sort of bored-sounding nasally valley girl accent for Jenny, which, while grating and not reflective of the character of Jenny, might possibly work for a teenager, but then Huber seems to forget what she's doing, and suddenly we have a sheriff talking like a bored teen. And all the men sound like bright, chipper, perky young men, whereas we know most of them are older than Joanna and not all of them are eager-beavers, contrary to the way Huber has them talking.
It can't be easy to narrate audiobooks. To come up with different but credible voices for each character must be a challenge. But surely the narrator could manage to stay awake. Time and time again she missed changing her voice for the character -- it was terribly annoying.
That said, Judgement Calls is a worthy installment in the Joanna Brady series. We finally find out what happened to Joanna's father, and best of all, we get plenty of action from Joanna's mother, who makes me laugh and cry at the same time, because she reminds me so much of my mother. There's one classic interchange, I had to play it three times to enjoy it completely: Joanna has news about her long-dead father's murder, and wants to tell her mother about it, so she calls and says merely that she'd like to stop by for a cup of coffee. Sensing something amiss -- that isn't Joanna's usual habit -- Eleanor asks what's wrong. Joanna demurs, saying they'll talk about it later. Eleanor spouts, "Oh, I know! Andy's left you, hasn't he?" Made me just howl! That is such a typical reaction from a whole legion of mothers, especially those of Eleanor's vintage. Great stuff -- as was Eleanor's occasional graciousness to Joanna when they're in public. The troubled and somewhat caustic mother-daughter relationship in these books is something that a lot of mothers -- and daughters -- will recognize.
These books are filled with that -- real life stories, real people, real everyday problems and situations. Every installment is a treat.
That said, I sure would appreciate it if the publishers would find -- and then stick to -- a better narrator, though. Please, more Stephanie Brush!
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
- Ida
- 08-07-13
Intriguing Story
I listened to this story twice. I enjoy the relationship between Joanna and her mother; and Joanna and her own daughter. I did not realize that Joanna was a teenager when her father was killed. the loss of her father and husband both is tragic. Butch is a good partner for Joanna. The author is walking a tight rope in their relationship and is cautious about not allowing him to become an accessory for Joanna. The male characters definitely play supporting and story transitional roles in this story...even Dennis. The extreme of human emotions and the impact on personal decisions and judgement are the focus of this story. Regarding the narration, I am not locked or tied to one person due to the time between the books in this series. However, the weak distinction between and lack of variety in character voices was a concern. There were a couple of times when Joanna and her daughter both had the same voice.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Jean
- 13-08-12
Joanna Brady is back
I like the Joanna Brady series best of the three series J.A. Jance writes. I was so happy that at long last there is a new installment. Joanna Brady is the sheriff of Cochise County AZ., a job that her father also held. Joanna's daughter Jenny finds a dead body when she was out riding her horse. The body turned out to be the school principle. The story goes into the problems of information being posted on the internet social sites and the problems it causes law enforcement and also in the case a photo posted caused the death of the person. Joanna and her Mother interacted more often in this story, than in past books with Joanna learning she has some things in common with her mother. As a side story, in the book, Joanna discovers her Father was murdered and she sets out to solve the crime. Susan Ericksen had narrated other books in this series and did a great job unfortunately Hillary Huber does not meet the high standard set byEricksen. Over all this is a great story well written. Can not wait the the next book in the series.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful
- C. Johnson-Williams
- 06-08-12
The worst narrator EVER!
What made the experience of listening to Judgment Call the most enjoyable?
The Story was wonderful. The narrator made the book very difficult to listen to.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Hillary Huber?
I don't know, but she would definitely NOT be my first choice. She reads as if she is bored to death and that makes the book difficult to listen to. Also, it's difficult to distinguish between her characters. They all sound the same.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The part when she realizes that her and her mother are similiar in certain ways and therefore understands her mother a little better.
Any additional comments?
I love all of J A Jance's books. She's a wonderful author. I just had a very difficult time liking this book due to the narrator.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful
- Lois Lain
- 21-03-14
Distracting narrator
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The narrator was unbelievably nasal. Really unppealing and distracting. Almost a caricature... My kids kept imitating her.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Julia
- 01-03-13
Fast Paced and clean
Great story! I hadn't read a JA Jance book in a while and I'd forgotten how much I like her characters. I solved one of the mysteries early but there were actually two incorporated into this book and the second outcome was a complete surprise.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- D. D. Reasons
- 08-02-13
Great read from an excellent author
I have been an avid JA Jance reader for years- and this tale is as good as her others, if not better. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and kept listening because I was engaged the entire time. This story had two plots that overlapped slightly and extended the suspense beyond the main mystery of the original plot.
I would love to see a J A Jance book made into a film, and while I didn't love the narrator of this version (her voice was too gravelly, which carried over too much into the characterizations), I can envision several actors bringing these characters to life.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Kindle Customer
- 09-12-12
Sheriff Brady to the Rescue, Again
Jance provides another winner. The action is fast paced and the suspense top rate. Jance is one of my favorite authors!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- J. Wilson
- 01-10-12
Love Joanna Brady!
Would you consider the audio edition of Judgment Call to be better than the print version?
No. The narrator was awful.
Who was your favorite character and why?
As always, Joanna was my favorite. She is a strong woman who does the right thing even when it is not the easy thing.
What didn't you like about Hillary Huber's performance?
This narrator's voice was so grating that I could hardly listen at times. Maybe she was going for sexy or maybe she just had no energy. I wish they could re-record this wonderful story.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It made me feel like I was finding old friends again. I was shocked at the new information that came at the end.
Any additional comments?
Tell publishers to think very carefully before they select a reader.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful


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Configuring Cisco PIX 501 Firewall Interfaces
Some of the information in this article is advanced material we make available as a courtesy. Please be advised that you are responsible for properly following the procedures below. Customer Support cannot assist with these topics.
Inside and outside interfaces allow for the creation and modification of firewall access rules.
To Configure Cisco PIX 501 Interfaces
- In a Web browser, navigate to: https://[your firewall management IP address]/
- You may receive a number of security certificate warnings. If you accept the certs and save them as "Trusted," you will avoid warnings in the future.
- Enter your User name and Password, and then click OK.
Note: Your browser must have Java enabled and allow pop-ups from your firewall management IP.
- In the Device Manager application tool bar, click the Configuration icon.
- Click the System Properties tab.
- In the tree on the left, click Interfaces.
- In the Interfaces panel, click the interface you want to edit.
- Click Edit.
- Configure the interface and click OK.
- Click Apply.
Note: If you do not click Apply, you will be prompted to apply changes the next time you view access rules.


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Kim Goh scored her first goal of the year against Northeastern Wednesday night (photo Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard field hockey team dropped a non-conference weekday match to No. 8 Northeastern, 4-1, Wednesday night at Jordan Field. NU opened up a 4-0 lead in the first half, before Harvard's Kim Goh gave the Crimson its only score in the second half.
The Huskies' Crystal Poland, the second leading scorer in the nation, opened the scoring in the fourth minute of action. Poland fired from the top of the circle after Nicky Graham and Lindsay Bennett fed the senior off of a penalty corner.
Northeastern's Kelly Dunn added the second Huskies' score of the night in the 12th minute, before Poland padded NU's lead three minutes later. Poland once again nailed a shot into the corner of the goal off of a penalty corner.
Harvard had its best scoring chance when it put a pair of shots on target between the 23rd and 26th minutes. Senior Emma Keller put her second shot of the night on goal, before the Crimson obtained a penalty corner. On the corner, sophomore Caitlin Rea took a strong attempt, but NU's Lizzie Priest was there to deny the offering.
One minute later, the Huskies added to their lead with a tally from Kate Carlson. Harvard junior Caroline McNeil came up with a defensive save as a shot bounced past Crimson goalie Cynthia Tassopoulos but McNeil's deflection bounced straight to Carlson's stick. The sophomore's unassisted mark was the final goal of the first half, as Northeastern controlled the pace with nine shots compared to Harvard's four.
Harvard picked up the momentum in the second half, as the Crimson held NU scoreless through the 35-minute frame. The Crimson ripped eight shots in the first 11 mintues of the half, including a three-shot flurry at the 56th minute mark. Rea smacked a shot off Priest's pads, Goh had an attempt blocked and Priest denied another attempt, this time from Keller to keep Harvard scoreless.
The Crimson broke the Northeastern shutout after an NU penalty gave Harvard a penalty stroke. Goh, a captain for the Crimson, took the stroke and buried it into the right edge of the cage.
Harvard ended up outshooting Northeastern, 11-5, in the second half and was also awarded five penalty corners against NU's two. The Crimson put seven shots between the posts in the second stanza, but Priest made six saves for the Huskies to keep Harvard at bay.
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Could Hillary Clinton be the next Richard Nixon? Now that's a provocative question, but it isn't quite what you think.
The other day, I watched Hillary and Bill Clinton take in their close friend Terry McAuliffe's inauguration as governor of Virginia. Neither Clinton spoke, but their presence said it all: Virginia, the Mother of Presidents long before it was a modern swing state, will be seeing a lot of the Clintons—and now they have a ready-made home-away-from-home in the gubernatorial mansion that adorns Richmond's Capitol Square.
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Every time you observe the Clintons, you can't help but ponder the long and winding road of their 40-year electoral saga, beginning with Bill's unsuccessful 1974 run for Congress in Arkansas. Their lives are so suffused with politics that it seems incredible to consider that Hillary might not run in 2016.
After all, with just one exception, a Clinton has always tried for public office whenever a tantalizing opportunity presented itself. The rule-breaker was Bill's aborted run for president in the 1988 cycle. On the eve of his expected candidacy announcement in July 1987, with the national press gathering in Little Rock, his long-suffering chief of staff, Betsey Wright, she later told PBS, huddled with her boss and presented a list of women he was alleged to have been "seeing." After a number of responses along the lines of "she'll never talk," Clinton belatedly awakened to the reality that he could self-destruct in the post-Gary Hart world—Hart had been forced out of the Democrats' presidency sweepstakes just a couple of months earlier following allegations of adultery. The next day, Clinton declined to run, stunning the news media with the unconvincing excuse that he had decided to spend more time with his family.
Nearly three decades later, Hillary needs no cover story should she surprise us and spurn another White House tour. Now in her mid 60s, she knows as much as any human being alive what an arduous journey lies ahead even for a heavily favored contender. Inevitably, she will consider how much she wants, or is able, to keep going at a killer pace throughout her 70s and, more important, her chances of prevailing in November 2016.
Much of it is out of her hands. Low job approval numbers for President Obama, should they persist, will make it difficult for any Democrat to win, even with the party's seeming Electoral College edge and growing demographic advantages among minorities and the young. Just ask John McCain how President George W. Bush's unpopularity affected his 2008 White House bid. (Of course, you can't rule out the very real chance that the Republicans will rescue the eventual Democratic nominee by putting forward an out-of-the-mainstream nominee.)
The Clintons are nothing if not shrewd, and they've lived through the entire era of postwar American politics. So Hillary Clinton would be the last to believe what I have heard with increasing frequency: that, in the end, no one of real heft, even Vice President Joe Biden, will challenge her for the Democratic nomination she nearly won in 2008, and she will steamroll over the minor contenders who do. Most frequently mentioned in the "minor" category are former Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana and Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland. (O'Malley also made a little-noticed appearance at the McAuliffe inauguration.) Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts would be a major opponent should she run, but she insists she will not. When California Gov. Jerry Brown also bowed out, NBC News's First Read called it "a reminder that Hillary Clinton will probably face little to no serious competition if she runs."
Possible? Sure. But history's guide tells us otherwise. A consensus choice for a major-party presidential nomination is exceedingly rare—and this is where the Nixon comparison comes in.
Incumbent presidents often find their second-term nominations nearly unopposed, though even in this rarefied group, there are notable exceptions: Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. (Truman and Johnson withdrew in 1952 and 1968, respectively, partly because of intra-party opposition.)
But when no incumbent was running, the only precedent for a consensus choice in the entire post-World War II era is Richard Nixon in 1960. This impressive feat was nonetheless achieved with some difficulty and embarrassment. Nixon thought he had averted a serious GOP challenge when New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller withdrew as a potential candidate in December 1959. But Nixon's unappealing persona and substantial baggage from the political wars of the 1940s and 1950s worried many Republicans eager for a third consecutive White House victory. Rockefeller sensed it and reconsidered, toying with a surprise candidacy on the eve of the 1960 Republican National Convention. At the last instant, Rocky relented, mollified by the so-called "Treaty of Fifth Avenue," a series of concessions by Nixon negotiated in an all-night session and announced by the New York governor himself.


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Age requirements are in place to protect some of society's youngest members from the ugly side of social networking and comply with federal privacy laws, but some parents don't find them necessary. A new survey shows that a surprising amount of totally awesome parents lie to make sure their precious underage snowflake can interact with all the wonderful wholesomeness that Facebook has to offer.
The LA Times reports that a new survey reveals that millions of sub-teens have signed up for Facebook. In many cases, they did so with their parents' help. Reports the LAT,
The survey found that more than half of all parents with 12-year-olds and 1 in 5 parents of 10-year-olds knew their kids were using Facebook. Nearly 7 in 10 parents admitted they helped their kids set up the accounts. Consumer Reports had previously reported that 7 million underage users were on Facebook.
Children abound on Facebook, and it's all with their parents' okay! This is great news for perverts and cyberbullies alike.


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NEW YORK � The Dow Jones industrial average fell 189.77 points, or 1.2 percent, to 15,738.79. The Standard & Poor�s 500 index fell 18.30 points, or 1 percent, to 1,774.20. The Nasdaq composite dropped 46.53 points, or 1.1 percent, to 4,051.43.
Benchmark U.S. crude for March delivery slipped 5 cents to close at $97.36 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to set prices for international varieties of crude, rose 44 cents at $107.85 on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
Wholesale gasoline gained 3 cents to $2.66 a gallon. Heating oil advanced 6 cents to $3.18 a gallon. Natural gas futures rose 52 cents, or 10 percent, to $5.56 per 1,000 cubic feet. Super Bowl ads show signs of maturity
NEW YORK � Forget slapstick humor, corny gimmicks and skimpy bikinis. This year�s Super Bowl ads promise something surprising: Maturity.
There won�t be any close-up tongue kisses in Godaddy�s ad. Nor will there be half-naked women running around in the Axe body spray spot. And Gangnam Style dancing will be missing from the Wonderful Pistachios commercial.
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Fed to reduce pace of bond buying by another $10 billion
WASHINGTON � The Federal Reserve is pushing ahead with a plan to shrink its bond-buying program because of a strengthening U.S. economy. It�s doing so even though the prospect of reduced Fed stimulus and higher U.S. interest rates has rattled global markets.
The Fed said it will cut its monthly bond purchases starting in February by $10 billion to $65 billion. It also reaffirmed its plan to keep short-term rates at record lows to try to reassure investors that it will keep supporting an economy that remains less than fully healthy.
The decision by the Fed was announced in a statement Wednesday after Ben Bernanke�s final policy meeting. Bernanke will step down Friday after eight years as chairman and will be succeeded by Vice Chair Janet Yellen.
Facebook 4Q results soar as mobile revenue grows
NEW YORK � Mobile advertising accounted for more than half of Facebook�s total ad revenue in the final quarter of last year, a sign that the social network born a decade ago in the desktop computer era is succeeding in its goal of being �mobile first.�
Facebook�s earnings and revenue handily surpassed Wall Street�s expectations for the third quarter in a row as it further expands the number of users and the amount of money it makes on mobile ads.
Facebook Inc. said Wednesday that it earned $523 million, or 20 cents per share, in the October-December quarter. That�s up from $64 million, or 3 cents per share, a year earlier. Adjusted earnings were $780 million, or 31 cents per share, in the latest quarter, 4 cents ahead of analysts� estimates.
Google selling Motorola phone business to Lenovo
SAN FRANCISCO � Google is selling Motorola�s smartphone business to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, a price that makes Google�s biggest acquisition look like its most expensive mistake.
The deal announced Wednesday will rid Google Inc. of a financial headache that has plagued the Internet company since buying Motorola Mobility for $12.4 billion in 2012. Motorola has lost nearly $2 billion since Google took over, while trimming its workforce from 20,000 to 3,800.
Google had previously recovered some of the money that it spent on the Motorola by selling the company�s set-top operations last year to Arris Group Inc. for $2.35 billion.
While Google is backpedaling, China�s Lenovo Group Ltd. is gearing up for a major expansion. Already the world�s largest maker of personal computers, Lenovo now appears determined to become a bigger player in smartphones as more people rely on them instead of laptop and desktop computers to go online.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to be company�s new name
DETROIT � Chrysler and Fiat will be known as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV as they move forward as a single company.
Fiat�s board of directors agreed on the new name Wednesday, with headquarters for tax purposes in the United Kingdom. But the board sidestepped the thorny political issue of whether the true headquarters would be in the United States or Italy.
Fiat and Chrysler also announced fourth-quarter results. Chrysler�s strong profits once again propped up its parent company, which otherwise would have lost money.
Business udpate: Dow Jones average takes a tumble
NEW YORK � The Dow Jones industrial average fell 189.77 points, or 1.2 percent, to 15,738.79. The Standard & Poor�s 500 index fell 18.30 points, or 1 percent, to 1,774.20. The Nasdaq composite dropped 46.53 points, or 1.1 percent, to 4,051.43.


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This training helps you create secure Web services and clients using SOAP, and WS-Security, which are inter-operable with Java and .NET systems. It also teaches you how to work with WSDL and binary attachments when using Web services in PHP.
The class lasts for three hours and requires that you have some level of experience with web services (enough to know XML and the concepts behind passing it as messages back and forth). The cost for the event is $199 USD and the next session for it is coming up on January 16th starting at 9am (PST). You can get additional details on it from the detail page on the wso2.com website.


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Becoming ocean citizens
Building a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication is at the centre of discussions at the Rio+20 conference. However, the development of this 'green economy' will rely in part on the sustainable management and use of the ocean and its resources.
The ocean, our common heritage, covers over 70% of the globe's surface. The ocean shapes the Earth's climate and influences the distribution of ecosystems, biodiversity, and thus food availability across the globe. This single, contiguous body of water is crucial to human life. Yet, despite the scientific research promoted via international cooperation over the past 50 years, the ocean remains relatively unexplored.
To mitigate the continued degradation of the ocean and its marine treasures, and to restore and sustain its critical market and ecosystem services, a transition must be made towards blueing the green economy. Blueing the green economy – that is developing sustainable economic activities which generate jobs and assists in poverty alleviation while at the same time embracing integrated environmental management and adapting to and mitigating climate change and other existing and emerging challenges – is one of the major challenges of our time, and the only viable path to achieving a sustainable future.
To transition to a blue-green economy, we must develop a new relationship with our ocean where we endeavor to live with and from the ocean in a sustainable way. To make this transition will require greater scientific research and cooperation, as well as observation and monitoring systems, including early warning systems, to gain a better understanding of this complex system. Reliable scientific information and data must inform decision-making processes so as to develop sound policies for the sustainable management of our ocean. Indigenous knowledge about the ocean and its resources must also contribute to this process. Appropriate tools and mechanism must be developed to protect ocean resources and biodiversity while sustaining livelihoods that are compatible with healthy ecosystems. The transition towards such a blue‐green approach will require a shift in human behaviour which can only be instrumented through ocean education and awareness‐ leading to the emergence of a true 'ocean citizenship'.
These three interconnected dimensions – know our ocean, protect our marine treasures, empower ocean citizens- will structure the side event organized by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO-IOC) on 20 June 2012, where a prestigious panel will discuss and present a number of initiatives that support Rio+20 ocean targets leading to the sustainable use of the ocean.
Know our ocean: How can science and technology serve coastal nations for the sustainable management of ocean and coastal resources, the protection of their coastal populations, and to maintain ecosystem services?
Protect our Marine Treasures: How can we better preserve the natural and cultural heritage of the ocean and coasts and the essential services that ocean provides to society?
Empower Ocean Citizens: Effective Ocean stewardship requires the participation of all parts of society in defining a common ocean future and in promoting behavioural change towards the ocean. How do we empower ocean citizens and society?
A newly published information document, 'Healthy Ocean, Healthy People' (.pdf), goes into further detail and presents intitiatives, programmes and proposals.
The Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, will also present the Rio+20 Volontary Commitment made by UNESCO-IOC in response to the widely recognized need to strengthen marine science capacities of developing nations in order to advance sustainable ocean management at all levels. UNESCO-IOC is pledging to coordinate a global and regional assessment of capacity development needs in the field of marine scientific research and ocean observation in developing nations and SIDS, leading to the formulation and implementation of a global capacity development strategy to fill identified gaps.
This commitment is based on one the proposals of UN Blueprint on Ocean and Coastal Sustainability. It will be implemented in close cooperation with the Global Ocean Forum led Voluntary Commitment on building global capacity for integrated ocean governance, in partnership with countries, UN Agencies, global financial institutions, and the private sector.
The side event is organized in cooperation with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Fond Tara, the Government of Denmark , the Sandwatch Foundation and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
Related links:
- Event details: Know our Ocean, Protect our Marine Treasures, Empower Ocean Citizens
- Healthy Ocean, Healthy People (.pdf)
- Rio+20 Volontary Commitment: Building Global Capacity for Marine Sciences, Observation, and Transfer of Marine Technology
- A Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability interagency report
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Lf (Letras femeninas), the journal of the International Association of Women's Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture (AILCFH), was one of the earliest academic journals to be devoted strictly to gender related issues, women authors and feminist theory in the context of Hispanic literatures and cultures (with some articles on Luso-Brazilian and US-Latino authors and filmmakers). The biannual, peer-reviewed journal was first published in Spring 1975 at the University of Colorado, Denver by a progressive group of largely Latin and North American women scholars and writers working in US universities and colleges, and has been published without interruption since then. In additional to critical articles on gender or gender-related topics, Lf features unpublished work by Spanish, Latin American and Latina women authors, poets and playwrights, interviews with writers and critics, and a substantial book review section in every issue. The journal is currently published under the auspices and with the support of the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics and the College of Arts and Letters of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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by Janet Gilmore
It's been a year since my mother died. A tough year. I tried very hard to be better than ever this year. I didn't kill, steal, make graven idols or commit adultery. I coveted once or twice, but nothing serious. I was nice to almost everyone. So at the end of the year I thought, "I've been very good for an entire year; now can I have my mom back?"
Of course the answer is "no."
Sometimes people miss their parents for the lost opportunity to get one last word of praise or gratitude or love that they never had. I don't need that last chance. Except for a rough patch during my adolescence, I had praise, gratitude and love from my mother my whole life. I miss other things. The way her face lit up when I walked in. So amazing; all I had to do was show up to make someone happy. What a gift.
I miss putting my head down in her lap, since childhood, and feeling her fairy fingers stroking my head while she said, "Jankie (an ancient nickname), your hair is so pretty."
My mother died at Abington Hospital last June from a gastro-intestinal bleed due to hardening of the arteries. Rydal Park, where she lived her last few years, called me just as I was on my way to sleep and in no condition to drive, to tell me that mom was "throwing up coffee grounds," and they were sending her to the emergency room.
I had no idea what they were talking about. "Why would my mother eat coffee grounds?" I thought. "She doesn't even like coffee."
They said they were sending her to Abington Hospital and would keep me posted on her progress, which they did. They called me twice. The second call was the one during which they told me her heart had stopped; should they try to re-start it? Now that's a question to make every hair on your head stand up at attention.
Three weeks earlier, my mother had had a leg amputated. It had become gangrenous because of her artery problems, and the gangrene was advancing quickly. My sister and I had to decide about amputation. My vote was to go ahead with surgery and possibly buy mom some more time. My sister couldn't decide what to do. Thomas Paine said, "Lead, follow or get out of the way." Great advice for life, but my sister couldn't to do any of those three.
That's when she started waving legal papers at me. "Look, mom signed a 'Do Not Resuscitate' order!" she cried. "She doesn't want any drastic measures. We could give her morphine and keep her comfortable …"
"And just let her die of gangrene?" I asked. "I can't do that." Then I stopped for a second. "Do you know what the word 'resuscitate' means?" I asked. "Mom isn't dead yet, so put that paper away."
"Put it away." Now I knew that my mother didn't want any drastic measures taken, but if the hospital called you at midnight and asked you if you wanted them to try to re-start your mother's heart, what would you say? What could you say? "Of course," I said.
What would my mother do if I had signed a D.N.R. order and my heart stopped? Would she want the doctor to try and re-start it? She would. She loved me.
The emergency room called me at about 12:20 a.m. and told me they couldn't save mom. Adrenaline started pumping, and I was fully awake and aware. My husband, Hugh, and I got dressed and drove the drive of the newly panicked to the hospital. Fast and silent.
Mom was alone in the room into which we were shown. "Oh, mom!"I sobbed. I hugged my mother's body. She didn't look alive, but she still looked like my mom. She was cold. I tried to warm her, but I couldn't. I looked at her. I saw the marks of the defibrillators that had tried to save her. I saw the big mole on her back that fascinated me when I was a kid. I put my head down on the bed, put her hand on my head and tried to feel her touch. Then we sat with her for a long time, doing nothing in particular, just feeling the loss.
A man in a pastel-colored suit came in and introduced himself as the chaplain. "Is there anything I can do for you?" he asked.
"No," we said. Hugh and I kissed my mother, left the hospital at about 4 a.m., went home to sleep. Of course I couldn't just leave mom in the hospital forever, but I didn't think of that. I had never lost a mother before and didn't know what to do except go home. The chaplain must have called my sister, because a funeral was arranged, and I didn't arrange it.
After the funeral festivities were over, I emailed my sister a few times, but didn't hear from her. She called on Thanksgiving. "Why are you calling?" I asked.
"To wish you a Happy Thanksgiving."
"I thought you believed that I killed your mother."
"Well, there were some anger issues," she said.
I hung up. I don't need to be forgiven.
Seems like I lost a sister, too. Looks like another tough year coming up.


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Although I am a high level programmer using C++ and Fortran for scientific programming, I am very new in Java.
I have created a local host in my machine using APACHE2 in Windows 7. I intend to host a web site and I want to save data inserted by the user or data built from the dynamics of the users using the web site (I have a JApplet that does that).
What is the best way to save data from the client side in the web server?
I am trying to use "ObjectOutputStream toServer=new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
The idea is to include a Java class in a HTML file.
Is this the best way to do that?
Since this is the first time I am doing that, I am trying to use a source code of the book "Introduction to Java Programming - Liang" to test the concept. Although the JApplet works in the page, it is not able to save the file with the client information in my local host. It is worth stating that the codes of this book usually work very well. So I don't know if I am using the wrong concept or there is a problem between my JApplet and my web host server.
I wonder if this is the best way to do that. Can anyone help me saying which is the problem I am facing?
Is there any other easier way to do that? This is going to be a very simple web site with scientific purposes. Only students are going to access the site, therefore the only thing I need is to save the data provided by the students.
Sorry if I am not clear or I am doing another kind of mistake, I am really very new in JAVA and also in this forum.


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11 Gymspirational Photos for Exercise Inspiration
September 20, 2010 by Shaun
Filed under The Fitness Bug
What is gymspiration?
It's just a word I made up a few months back, which basically means gym environments that can inspire you.
So what I have done is compile a series of gym related photos, and below I'll describe exactly why they have made this post.
1) Back to the 80's
Now… there are two types of indoor gym
1) Flashy fashion parade types
2) No B.S get down to business types
And it's not hard to guess which one the above photo represents! (Which I just happen to be a fan of)
Most gyms are like fashion parades or like night clubs. Where people dress up to show of, or are there to pick up dates. Nothing wrong with that I guess. But the way I see it, the gym is a place you go to get work done and get down to business to achieve results.
A place where goals are met and exceeded!
The picture above represents what most gyms used to look like, hence the 1980's tag. Yes, they do still exist, as I attend one of these types of gyms 'today'. But they are rare.
If you want some 'gymspiration' and if you are serious about changing your body for the better. Then find a gym like the one you see above. Once you do, the gym members in that kind of gym will really show you the meaning of training insane!
2) So Fresh, So Clean
Now, this is almost like the first type of gym I described above, but not entirely.
Why did this photo make it to gymspiration?
Because this is the type of gym you go to when you are treating your workout day as a day out. A treat as such.
- Expensive big breakfast in the cafeteria
- A good relaxation, digest and time to yourself session
- An intense but luxurious workout (Good people, good air con, top quality gym equipment
- Spa, Sauna, Jacuzzi
- What happens next is up to you
You obviously won't be growing any monster sized muscles in this type of gym. But the lifestyle isn't just about hardcore pumping is it. It's about the experience. So do yourself a favour and hit up one of these types of gyms every once in a while.
3) Let's Take it Outside
Venice Beach – Muscle Beach – California
It's not hard t see why this had made it to gymspiration. Pumping iron… in the sunshine!
It really doesn't get much better than that. No ceilings or walls. Just pure free air to do what you want without worrying whose walking by when you are maxing out your reps.
Oh yea… you might get to see a famous face or two… too 🙂
4) Let's Take It Outside.. And Show Off
If you already have the Unique Bodyweight Exercise ebook, then you will know all about this exercise. You obviously don't need to master this exercise. But if you have mastered all of the other bodyweight exercises, then why not?
Being able to perform this exercise will prove to be a real feat of strength. And this image is just pure gymspiration, until the day you can do as you see.
5) Graveyard Gym
I'm not sure where this gym ground is, but one thing I do know is…
That this is about as hardcore as hardcore can get!
If you ever find a gym ground like this, then there really is no other reason for you to be there other than to strictly lift. Until that day comes, keep this photo at the back of your minds!
6) Training Insane Without Weights
The theme throughout most of the photos so far has been 'gritty gyms'.
Because those are the gyms where the most work gets done. Even when non-weightlifting activity is concerned, like in the image above. It is just a great display of people getting down to work… making it happen. It captures the moment well, which is why this image made it to gymspirastion.
7) Machines and Freeweights Both Win
Most of you will probably be attending a gym such as this. A gym where there is a good mix of free weights and machine weights. Both have there pros and cons. This image captures exactly what that type of gym should look like.
8 ) The Rack
Now, a gymspiration post wouldn't be complete with a great photo of the almighty weighs rack. The rack has it's own place in the fitness vocabulary and it is the place where progress happens right in front of your eyes. Question is… are you anteing up your way down the eye of the rack in this picture? I hope so, because like the 2nd line of the logo states.
Take your muscles to the next level!
9) Women Should Not Be Afraid Of The Weight
In the recent video interviews here, I ask a few of my guests if it's a challenge to build muscle while maintaining femininity. So far the response has been positive, and it doesn't seem to be too much of an issue. Genetics play a big part in that from what we know so far. Either way, like Miryah Jade Scott says, and like the lady in this photo is doing…
Don't be afraid to lift the weight!
10) Dip Yourself To Muscularity
This photo of Ava Cowan highlights the core methods of how I initially built my muscles. Even before becoming a pro athelete. Taking your strengtg to the next level with weight assisted bodyweight exercises is just pure gold, which will also increase your perfornce in certain free weight exercises too.
The great thing about this photo is that it has been sexed up, because it's being performed by a lady. And it has pure gymspiration written all over it.
11) Father and Son
If you workout and if you have kids, then you need to be keeping this photo nearby. Fitness is a lifestyle and there is nothing better than getting your kids involved in the lifestyle from a young age. After all, muscles begin deteriorating at only 18 years of age! So keeping those muscles alive and active while in the youthful years can only be a good thing.
Either way, this photo captures the moment oh… so well. Gymspiration!
Hopefully this post has encouraged you to get back into your local or global gym (For the travelers out there). And if so, good! Because this is what the gym is all about. This is the lifestyle that we love. And strike down all who oppose it… and make them die a miserable and unfit death!
See you in the comments.
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LOS ANGELES — The Colorado athletic department submitted an appeal to the NCAA recently asking that offensive tackle Shane Callahan be allowed to play this season without having to sit out the mandated year following his transfer from Auburn, a source told the Daily Camera.
Callahan, a former four-star recruit from Chaparral High School in Parker, was recruited to CU by former coach Jon Embree in the 2012 cycle, but ultimately chose Auburn. Rivals.com rated Callahan the fourth-best recruit in the state in 2012 and the 22nd best offensive tackle in the nation in the 2012 cycle.
Callahan was a backup on last season's Auburn team. He played in two games for the Tigers. He and his teammates won the Southeastern Conference and played for the national title last season.
Callahan and fellow transfer Jaleel Awini from Air Force do not appear on the CU roster at this point because neither is enrolled in classes. Coach Mike MacIntyre is not allowed to speak about either player until they are officially enrolled and on the roster.
Callahan chose to transfer closer to home because of the health issues of a family member and CU asked the NCAA in its appeal not to punish Callahan for the decision by forcing him to sit out this season.
If Callahan is able to play this season it could be a boon for the CU offensive line. Callahan would likely compete at left tackle where Jeromy Irwin and Marc Mustoe are expected to battle in fall camp. None of those players has logged significant playing time at the college level. Irwin is coming off a redshirt season after breaking his foot several times in the preseason last year.