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Family Therapist
Serena Mueller, M.A., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
In 84103 - Nearby to Centerville.
I specialize in treating children and adults for articulation, fluency, language disorders, pragmatic/social language disorders, dyslexia, etc. I am currently offering in-person sessions for children (as our clinic is geared towards school-age clients) and tele-therapy for both children and adults. I offer specialized one-on-one speech and language therapy tailored to the individual's needs. If you are looking for a speech and language evaluation, we also offer those as well.
Family Therapist
James Ott, Red Willow Counseling & Recovery
Clinical Social Worker
In 84105 - Nearby to Centerville.
For families that are in a cycle of chaos, co-dependency, or enabling behavior, we help set healthy boundaries and break the routine. We provide education on mood issues and alcohol and drug addiction, and help teach families effective ways to communicate and resolve conflict with each other. We also provide substance abuse intervention services to help a family member or friend who is struggling with addiction accept treatment. We are well connected with the recovery services available in the community, such as outpatient groups, rehab, and sober living; and we can provide referrals to addiction professionals to support sobriety.
Family Therapist
Kevin Fleming, Ph.D.
Coach/Change Agent/Consultant
At Home or Private Discreet Intensives
Most family therapists inadvertently create more chaos through their well-intentioned efforts to assist a family move through a change process. Why? Brains are inherently deregulated (all of us, may I add) and most talking and dialoguing misses brain-centric problems that need more intensive help. Many times the emotional trauma created by years of solving problems ineffectively can wreak havoc on the brain's parasympathetic nervous system, not ever giving the family a break from flight or fight thinking. Contact us for an innovative neuroscience solution to family dysfunction. email@example.com or 877-606-6161.
Family Therapist
Robert Lindquist, MSW, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
In 84081 - Nearby to Centerville.
Many families enjoy the benefit from equine assisted psychotherapy (EAP). Both adults and youth enjoy the environment and being able to learn from their equine partners. Through EAP families learn different types of communication skills. These skills will be addressed in therapy weekly through an experiential modality that helps reinforce positive and negative types of communication.
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Thank you for visiting our Utah search of licensed family therapists in Centerville. Discord due from strife, marital problems, sibling rivalry, family of origin issues and blended families (just to name a few) can strain and hurt loving relationships. Counseling with honesty and depth will get to the heart of the issues and work towards healing. Find resolution for your family in Centerville right now, please contact a specialist above, you can email 24/7.
Centerville is located in Davis County, Utah. It has a land area of 5.97 square miles and a water area of 0.06 square miles.  The population of Centerville is 16,877 people with 5,337 households and a median annual income of $78,438. .
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Establishing weekly sessions with a professional therapist is considered affordable in Centerville for the average family. While sustaining a commitment to therapy is usually not an issue, if mental health treatment feels like a burden please ask your counselor about accepted insurance plans or sliding scale fees. Low cost counseling and affordable therapy are also sometimes offered by listed city and university level clinics, check with your local Centerville public health department.


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SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan (CNN) -- The boys shuffle into the room in a remote army base high in the mountains of Pakistan's Swat Valley. They are disheveled, disoriented.
These boys say they were kidnapped by the Taliban and trained to be suicide bombers.
There are no smiles, their eyes stare at the floor. These are the lost souls of Pakistan's battle with the Taliban.
Each has a story of terror to tell, but the trauma runs so deep they can't even begin to properly find the words to describe what they have been through.
That task is best left to the psychiatrist who, with her team, was brought in to try to pick through the pieces of this nightmare; to make sense of the brutality here and try to put broken lives back together. Watch Stan Grant's report on the boys »
Dr. Fareeha Peracha describes these boys variously as "psychotic," "depressed," and in some cases, "psychopathic."
"They have been brainwashed. Brainwashed against people like you and me," she said.
CNN was given limited access to about a dozen boys.
They had all been kidnapped by the Taliban and taken to camps where they would be trained to kill; trained to be suicide bombers. Watch Grant's exclusive interview with a wanted a Taliban leader »
CNN cannot reveal the boys' names; they have handkerchiefs tied across their faces to conceal their identities. The army fears they could face retribution should they be returned to their homes and families.
The boys sit in a circle as I try to get them to open up about their ordeal. What happened? Were they brutalized? What did the Taliban ask them to do?
So many questions. They answer hesitatingly, their voices barely a whisper.
"The first day they beat us and then made us exercise," one boy said. "They made us run and told us you will wage jihad."
They said the Taliban especially poisoned their minds against the Pakistan army.
"They just told us that they (army) are against Islam, are against the Quran. They said wage jihad against them; we are waging jihad for the Quran," said another boy.
They all say they were kidnapped by the Taliban, some snatched from fields and others from the towns they lived in.
"I was coming from the shop to my house, I had some stuff with me. They said, 'put your stuff in the car.' I helped them put stuff in the car. They asked if they should drop me in my village, but when we reached the village they blindfolded me and put a hand over my mouth," one boy said.
The Taliban's tactics seem to have worked.
I ask one boy, would he kill for God? He replied: "Yes."
I asked the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha, if she believes the boys are capable of killing.
"Oh yes," she said. "Two of them would not even give it a thought."
The army freed the boys during fierce fighting with the Taliban. Now they are hoping to rehabilitate the boys and one day return them home.
But Fareeha thinks that is a long way off -- if ever. She told army chiefs the boys are unpredictable.
One boy, she said, told her if he had a suicide bomber's jacket he would use it, that if he had a Kalashnikov, he would shoot.
Of course, it is impossible to verify all of the accounts of the boys, but the doctors have no doubt about their trauma.
Fareeha told Army chiefs that these boys were just a tip of the iceberg. After talking to the boys, she believes there are possibly hundreds of others just like them.
These boys are the victims of the Taliban's uprising here.
All they are left with are the terrible memories, the voices in their heads: the voices of the Taliban telling them to kill, they said.

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Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some great articles on saving as a stay-at-home mom, Black Friday ads worth checking out, and ways to save money without even trying.
7 Potential Ways to Save Money as a Stay-at-home Mom — As a stay-at-home mom, you can save money on gas and work attire! [Three Thrifty Guys]
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5 Fundamental Financial Skills You Can Practice — Make it a point to understand the terms and conditions in all agreements you sign. [Consumerism Commentary]
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BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn must face trial on a second set of charges in the company's diesel emissions scandal, this time accused of market manipulation.
Thursday's announcement by the Braunschweig state court followed a decision earlier this month that he must stand trial on fraud charges. No date has been set for either set of proceedings.
Winterkorn resigned from Volkswagen days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a notice of violation on Sept. 18, 2015.
The company had for years been using software that recognized when vehicles were on test stands and turned emission controls on, then turned the emission controls off during normal driving. As a result, the cars emitted far more than the legal U.S. limit of nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that harms people's health.
Prosecutors accuse Winterkorn of knowing about the installation of an illegal "defeat device" in about 500,000 cars on the U.S. market and deliberately failing to inform markets in good time of a "significant financial risk" that had started to materialize in early 2015. The court said it sent the charges to trial unchanged.
Volkswagen shares dropped sharply after the scandal became public, prompting investors to demand compensation in a separate civil case.
Winterkorn's lawyer has rejected charges that the former CEO had early knowledge of the use of the software in U.S. diesel cars, saying that significant information did not reach him.
On Thursday, lawyer Felix Doerr rejected the market manipulation charges again and said the proceedings will show that they are "unfounded," news agency dpa reported.
Volkswagen has paid more than 30 billion euros ($35 billion) in fines and settlements over the scandal.
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How to: Change Your Name and Gender Marker in Maine
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How To: Change or Enforce Your Maine Divorce or Parental Rights Order
If you are trying to modify (change) or enforce a final order from a Parental Rights and Responsibilities or Divorce case in Maine, you might find some helpful information here. This guide will walk you through the process for filing these motions.
Una Guía de Maine: Cómo Hacer Que Le Devuelvan su Depósito de Alquiler– Y Qué Hacer Cuando No
Para que le devuelvan el depósito usted deberá ser capaz de demostrar:
Rights of Maine Renters: How to get your security deposit back - and what to do if you don't
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Falling behind on student loan debt? Here's what you need to know
This guide lays out your options for many different student loan debt situations. Is this guide for you? You may use this guide if:
Adoption, Guardianship of a Minor, Child Name Change and Maine's Home Court Act: When, where and how to file the Jurisdictional Affidavit
What is the Maine Home Court Act? The Home Court Act is a Maine law passed in 2016. It is meant to prevent more than one case about the same child from happening in different courts. Courts use a "Jurisdictional Affidavit" to find out about all of the cases involving a child and determine where your case should be addressed.
Foreclosure Prevention Toolkit
If you're being threatened with a foreclosure of your home, you are not alone. Here are some tools to help: if you are having trouble keeping up with your mortgage payments, if you are already receiving threatening notices from your loan servicer, or even if you are already facing foreclosure.
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The only way you can live a spiritual life
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." - John 4:13-14
Science tells us that the body needs on average about three quarts of water a day to operate efficiently. Water helps break up and soften food, making to the most critical chemical in the digestive process. In fact, the blood in your body is about 90% water and carries nutrients throughout the body.
As a cooling agent, water regulates your temperature through perspiration. And without the lubricating properties of water, you joints and muscles would've worn out long ago like a piece of old rusty machinery.
Water is the most vital substance for you to have physical life. And in much the same way, the Holy Spirit of God is the single most important ingredient for you to have true spiritual life. Trying to be 'spiritual' without the Holy Spirit makes about as much sense as trying to live without water. You simply can't do it.
The Holy Spirit in your life confirms your place in heaven, as well as empowers you for godly living each and every day. And if you're in Christ, He's already inside of you! Live by the Spirit each day and let Him guide you in your walk with Christ.
Prayer Challenge
Thank God for the Holy Spirit and pray that He would help you submit to the Spirit's work in your life.
Questions for Thought
Why do you think so many people try to live the spiritual life in their own strength?
How might your life look different if you were to submit to the Spirit in everything you do?
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WASHINGTON – Republicans and Democrats are refusing to budge when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax increases to deal with the nation's debt.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., both said Sunday that when Congress is asked to raise the nation's borrowing cap after the election, they'll insist on spending cuts to offset the increase. Democratic leaders countered that the GOP stance was irresponsible, given that the partisan showdown over the debt ceiling last year caused a downgrading of the U.S. government's credit rating.
"If the president is going to ask us to raise the debt ceiling, and he will early next year, we do need to have another serious discussion about trying to do something significant about the deficit and the debt," McConnell said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Both sides showed they had little appetite for compromise last week, when Boehner insisted at a meeting with President Barack Obama on Wednesday that he would seek spending cuts to offset an increase in the nation's borrowing limit. Obama warned he wouldn't accept more cuts without also extracting tax increases on the wealthiest Americans.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, speaking on ABC's "This Week," said that Boehner "wants to go over the edge."
"My response to what the speaker said is, 'Here we go again.' This is not a responsible, mature, sensible place for us to go," Pelosi said. "There has to be more reductions but we have to have revenue and have to have growth."
The most obvious showdown will happen soon after the Nov. 6 election. Unless a lame-duck Congress can strike a deal, the economy will suffer a double whammy of large tax increases and spending cuts starting Jan. 1. The tax increases would hit virtually every working American and the spending cuts would affect both military and domestic programs.
On top of that, perhaps by late January or so, Congress and the president — be it Obama or Republican Mitt Romney — will again confront the need to raise the country's borrowing limit or else trigger a first-ever government failure to pay its debts.
Boehner, on ABC's "This Week," said Congress should begin tackling those issues now.
"Why do we wanna wait and rush this through at the end of the year, after the election?" Boehner said.


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2030 is only 8 years away, by making very modest assumptions about economic growth it is possible to project forward economic data to 2030.
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Find out how good a country could be if it upgraded it's GDP data.
Governments sometimes manipulate GDP data. For example GDP data can be manipulated through the calculation of price indexes. They can stop publishing important data prior to elections. They try to abolish independent statistics bureaus. They try to add questions that will bias responses to Census data. They leave in place price indexes known to be unreliable and impacting heavily and negatively on crucial pensions systems and so on.
The Transparency International Corruptions Perception rankings are used as a proxy for assessing the level of government corruption for each economy.
World Economics has converted the ranking data into an index on the scale from 0-100 where 0 is absolute corruption and 100 is no perception of government corruption.
Ghana's level of Corruption Perception is 47.8 against a global average of 48.4.
Ghana's data is highlighted in the table below, use the filter and sort order options to allow easy comparison with other countries.
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CentOS Server and Desktop Updates
I've been using my previous hosting provider (PowerVPS) for over 10 years now! They had incredibly reliable service so I never switched. But for the past few years so many smaller companies have been providing much more competitive options. However I was just too lazy to make the switch.
Just for fun: the last tweet by @PowerVPS was to me from the last time I purchased a server from them!
@mauriat I'm glad it was an enjoyable 5 years, we wish you the best. Let us know if we can ever help again.
– PowerVPS (@PowerVPS) April 14, 2011
The mistake I made was setting up a server with CentOS 5 instead of 6 at the time. So now, almost everything is way out of support.
I decided I did not need all the features a full VPS with CPanel provided (primarily a full web based administration tool and countless plugins). I know I have enough experience just to setup the critical things I cared about. After some research I decided that Linode (*) was the best balance of price and features. The best part was I could pick a clean minimal install of the latest version of CentOS!
So it took me about 2 weeks to get everything working and I still have some sites to migrate but for the most part I'm very happy with what I've got working. I fully intend to write up a lot of this stuff and share it.
- All server software is from up-to-date binary packages from reliable repositories. (No more manual compiles of Apache, etc. just to be current)
- I switched all my site development code to be deployed through a combination of
git(more on this later)
- I have fully switched over to secure sites! Have
httpson almost everything! Courtesy of Let's Encrypt
- Everything runs so much faster and smoother than I ever had in the past 5 years!
On the desktop side, I finally switched my main Linux desktop to CentOS 7 - a whole year after I intended to do it. But that really is a good thing since my CentOS 6 setup was so solid that everything worked. I was just getting tired of not being able to try out new software (more on this later). I did update to Windows 10 as well and have been playing with the Ubuntu Linux system embedded in Windows, and I must say I'm really impressed (more on this later as well).
So I'm ashamed that I stated over a year ago that I would resurrect this blog! But a recent kick in the pants finally got me working on cool stuff that I've always enjoyed. Greatly looking forward to writing up a lot of the stuff I've been working on!
(* Linode is a referral link)
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Randy on March 31, 2018 - 11:11 AM
Hi Mauriat,
I've really appreciated your fedora installation guides over the years… I likewise, dropped off fedora after 17, due to time constraints, and have just recently started CentOS 7
originally planned for my server apps, but after playing with it (a little while now), I think I might use it for desktop machines as well.
If you ever find the time, I'd love to see your version of a CentOS 7 installation guide !
Thanks again for all your insight !


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Music in Words is based on the conventions and rules of language that apply to Great Britain and those other countries where they are used (most countries of the British Commonwealth, for example). American conventions differ significantly: some words have different spellings, there are grammatical variances and sometimes different words are used to convey the same meanings. Obvious examples are words used for note values: crotchets and quavers in British usage are known in American English as, respectively, quarter notes and eighth notes; 'bars' are referred to as 'measures' in US usage.
Some of the most obvious differences are addressed in the British edition, but there are so many such variances, some of them subtle but extremely important, that it has been necessary to issue a separate edition for readers in the USA and those places where American conventions are preferred.
The American edition is published by Oxford University Press.
This edition also has its own website containing samples of the book and other information.


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A physiologist who himself used to use steroids on why Major League Baseball players--now including Yankee Alex Rodriguez--juice
With this weekend's revelation that baseball superstar Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez had taken anabolic steroids, the furor over rampant doping in sports continues.
A three-time Most Valuable Player, Rodriguez now joins a pantheon of modern baseball greats tarnished by allegations of steroid use, including homerun "king" Barry Bonds and pitching ace Roger Clemens. But unlike those players -- the latter of whom denied steroid abuse under oath at a congressional hearing last year -- Rodriguez fessed up on ESPN Monday night. He apologized, saying that he was "stupid" for having taken performance-enhancing drugs. Rodriguez says he has stayed clean while wearing the signature pinstriped uniform of the New York Yankees as the team's All-Star third baseman, now entering his sixth season.
According to anonymous sources quoted by Sports Illustrated, Rodriguez allegedly tested positive for testosterone and the anabolic steroid primobolan. But the big league veteran told ESPN's Peter Gammons that he's not even sure what banned substances he used during the 2001 to 2003 seasons he spent with the Texas Rangers.
Rodriguez's name turned up on the list of 104 major league players tagged for using performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 during tests given to gauge the need for mandatory testing to curb use of banned substances. The names have not been publicly released and none of the players were penalized. But the League imposed random drug testing and sanctions in 2004 after 5 percent of the players tested positive for outlawed substances.
During Rodriguez's confessed era of doping, his homerun average jumped to a super-slugging 52 per season, compared with 36 during his first four seasons in the league and about 42 since. His runs-batted-in (RBI) statistics and total games played also peaked. Even so, his batting average has dipped over his career, from .315 to .305 during his steroid days to .303 over the past five seasons.
In 2003 – reportedly his last year taking anabolic steroids – the League honored him as its MVP. Rodriguez has continued to play Hall of Fame-caliber baseball, and he won two more Most Valuable Players awards in 2005 and 2007.
Anabolic steroids are not the same as prednisone prescribed by physicians for inflammatory and other disorders. Instead, anabolic steroids promote tissue growth, and, in particular, muscle generation – which is why they have become so popular in athletics.
To learn more about the boosting effects of anabolic steroids as well as their potential health risks, ScientificAmerican.com interviewed Jay Hoffman, a professor of health and exercise science at The College of New Jersey in Ewing. Hoffman, who has a PhD in exercise science, used steroids during his football days in the early 1980s, and he recently met Rodriguez.
Are you surprised by the news that Alex Rodriguez used steroids?
Not at all. I had heard rumors from coaches in the League that he had used them. What I don't like is Alex coming off [in the ESPN interview] like he didn't know what substances he took. I'm sure he knew exactly what he put in his body. I was very impressed when I met him in 2006 during a workout at Yankees Stadium, because he asked a lot of really good questions about training. I also admire his work ethic.
Rodriguez allegedly used a steroid called primobolan. What is that drug and how does it work?
It's an anabolic steroid, also called an androgen, and it is a synthetic form of the male sex hormone testosterone. It increases muscle mass and strength, and also enhances recovery time after a workout. Primobolan is typically injected in the buttocks with a needle. You want to dissipate the steroid through some fatty tissue, because the steroid is fat soluble, and that way you also slow down the metabolism of it for a more sustained dose.
How can you detect primobolan in the body?
Using a urine test, you can take a look at the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone in the body, which should be one-to-one in a normal male. If someone is taking exogenous (external) testosterone, the ratio will be skewed in favor of testosterone. Also, you can use chromatography, an elaborate lab technique (involving mixture separation) to detect the specific chemical fingerprint for primobolan.
Rodriguez also supposedly tested positive for testosterone. What does that mean?
The hormone is often used as another injectable steroid that together with primobolan dispenses androgenic metabolic properties. When most athletes take anabolic steroids, they use what's called a "stacking dose," where they take several steroids to exacerbate the substances' effects.
What are the short-term benefits of taking these steroids?
You can have a relatively quick enhancement of muscle strength and size, even if you take steroids and don't lift weights. But the biggest benefit from using anabolic steroids is that they allow an athlete to train harder and have a quicker recovery. An athlete trains on Monday, then he comes back Tuesday and can have just as good a workout through the end of the week. The workouts for most individuals get less intense as the week goes on because they haven't recovered completely from their earlier workouts.
Why didn't Rodriguez's batting average improve during the years he took steroids?
There's limited research indicating that he could actually enhance his batting average with steroids. A batting average is more indicative of performance ability such as hand-eye coordination. However, research with frogs has shown that anabolic steroids can enhance androgen receptors on nerve endings, so there's some potential for increased reactions. Hitting in baseball is all about reaction time, whether it's a curveball or a fastball.
The key benefit with anabolic steroids is that they can help you be consistent over an entire baseball season. That's the reason you're seeing those higher statistics for Rodriguez from 2001 to 2003. If you take a look at good power hitters in April and May (early in the baseball season that runs from April to September, excluding the playoffs), their numbers are going to be pretty good. But these guys aren't able to maintain that in August and September. Take the New York Mets: If that team was on anabolic steroids the way they were in 2000, they probably would have made the playoffs the past two years instead of running out of gas late in the season. It makes a big difference when having that little extra.
Now a guy like A-Rod – he trains really hard. With the steroids, he is maximizing his potential. Would he be a great player without them? Without a doubt. Would he be as consistent? The answer to that is probably no.
What are the side effects of taking steroids?
It's all dependent upon the concentration, how much you're taking, how long you're on them, and also on an individual's particular reaction. One common side effect is acne on the back – it's one of the tell-tale signs that someone is using. In addition, you may get elevations in blood pressure and in your lipid (fat) profile – your cholesterol goes up, for example. Over time, the testicles begin to shrink, because the body is no longer producing its own testosterone. There's a chance that the sperm count will get lower, too. But in some ways, taking steroids is like a second puberty – there is increased hair growth and aggressive behavior. In particular, women who take steroids can get hirsutism, an abnormal growth of body hair, and develop beards.
Steroids can also potentially increase body size, though we haven't really seen that with Alex. If you look at Barry Bonds, his very noticeable change in head size is actually due to human growth hormone, which is not a steroid and has different mechanisms in the body. Bonds' increase in hat size is called acromegalia, and it's not reversible.
How long do the side effects of steroids last?
All of those side effects are reversible within four weeks of cessation, though women tend to stay masculinized after using steroids. And every athlete who has considered juicing (taking steroids) knows that. Athletes generally go on a steroid-taking cycle for six to eight weeks, and then they come off for about two months before going back on. And when they're off, side effects revert back to normal.
The athletes who run into major health issues are body builders or wrestlers who get paid based on their external appearance. They can develop what's known as muscle dysmorphia, which is basically reverse anorexia. Like a person who considers himself or herself fat all the time, body builders and wrestlers look in the mirror and see themselves as being small. Those are the athletes who never come off the cycle.
Are there other health risks from taking steroids?
Steroids could be lethal to someone with an underlying mental or cardiovascular disease. Anabolic steroids are like any other medication. If you have hypertension and your doctor prescribes you a certain medication, such as an ACE inhibitor, there may be contraindications for using that particular medication if you have, say, kidney disease. If an athlete is suffering from a mental illness like depression or bipolar disorder – which many steroid-taking high school athletes who commit suicide allegedly suffer from – anabolic steroids are the wrong performance-enhancing drug to use. But when given in a clinical setting, steroids are relatively safe.
How are steroids used in a clinical setting?
By themselves, steroids are a very effective clinical tool for treating muscle-wasting diseases such as cancer, AIDS, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders. Sports scientists around the world study changes in athletes' testosterone and cortisol levels. Cortisol is a catabolic steroid produced by the adrenal glands above the kidneys and it breaks down lean tissue in the absence of carbohydrates needed for energy. It's also released in times of stress. Through high-intensity training over the course of a baseball season, testosterone levels go down and cortisol levels go up. The athlete becomes testosterone-depleted, or hypogonadal, and fatigue sets in. That phenomenon is known as "overtraining syndrome."
One way to treat this is to restore testosterone levels using an exogenous (external) source. We do that with men over 50 who have a normal decline in testosterone, though not with the super-pharmacological doses that many athletes use. There's a lot of talk amongst team physicians about whether it should be permissible to use exogenous testosterone to bring an athlete back up to normal levels. But the issue is not being approached right now, because of the witch hunt that's going on. There's such a kneejerk reaction in the sports media about steroids and these things get sensationalized. There's such a lack of understanding about what steroids do. I think we need to look at this more scientifically.
Rodriguez has won two MVPs since he stopped juicing. Can athletes keep the gains in muscle mass without continuing steroids?
The muscles begin to come down, though there's still a significantly greater difference in size and strength even eight weeks after you've taken the drugs. Again, it all depends on how much you've taken and how hard you train. But can you keep gains three years later? No.
So the big question people may be asking is if Alex is taking something else. His homerun numbers have declined, but they're still pretty damn good. The benefit of the doubt for him, however, has now gone out the window. For example, maybe his [lucrative] contract could allow him to buy a designer steroid that's undetectable. What the people who are involved in [professional sports drug] testing realize is that most athletes in that community are a few years ahead of the drug testing laboratories. Now is Alex on the cutting edge? It's possible.
What was your own experience with taking steroids?
I started using anabolic steroids my senior year of college in 1982 at St. Johns (in Queens, N.Y.) which is a small school for football – not like their acclaimed basketball program. I wanted the opportunity to play professional football, and I thought I needed to do something to compete with the athletes coming out of Division I (the top collegiate athletic tier). For me, it was important to be as big as possible. It was my dream. And I was very fortunate to be the first athlete from St. Johns to sign a professional contract with a National Football League (NFL) team, the New York Jets. I did not make it past training camp though, and then I was traded to the New Jersey Generals, then the Tampa Bay Bandits (both part of the now-defunct United States Football League). Then in 1984 I signed on with the Philadelphia Eagles.
I used steroids for those three years, from 1982 to 1984. At the time, steroids were not illegal. I had a prescription for them and bought them at a pharmacy, just like any other medication. Most of the guys in the training camps would use, and so we'd discuss whose room we would inject in that night. At that time in the NFL, it was one of those things you had to do to play in the League, I felt.
Team physicians were not involved, as far as I know, but they monitored our health. I had constant exams to make sure my liver enzymes were functioning properly and my heart was doing well, and that all the blood lipids were fine. I did it in what you could say was the right way. I wasn't abusing steroids or going to two different physicians to get two different prescriptions to double up on dosages. I was doing it professionally.
Did you experience any side effects?
I had the side effects that you would normally see – the acne, the hypertension – but nothing that was too terrible that I couldn't deal with. My last season, I took a powerful androgen and it was the first time that I really saw significant changes in my personality. And I felt at that point in my third training camp that those types of changes were not worth it to me, and I stopped using. But the experience did spark a lifelong interest in why steroids are effective and also to take a look at alternatives.
What do you think about alternative strength-promoting supplements?
When I played, they didn't have the type of supplements that exist today, like creatine (an organic acid that helps supply muscles with energy) and beta-alanine (an amino acid that helps regulate pH in muscles) and some kinds of protein. If they did, I'm sure I would have used those instead of anabolic steroids. But I don't regret at all what I did, because I did it with care. I knew exactly what I was putting into my body. I knew exactly why I was doing it and I knew the price I was willing to pay for that. I would do it again. There are no long-term effects – I have three healthy, beautiful children. I didn't grow a third leg or become impotent or any of that BS you see on TV. But there are those athletes who have problems, because they never stop using and they have underlying health issues like mental illness or heart problems. That's why education becomes so important.
What do you think about the debate over performance-enhancement drugs in sports?
We have to keep in mind that these professional athletes are individuals who are at their physiological edge, or limit. These people understand their bodies so well. They know they need something more. So that's the importance of trying to get them to understand what they can and cannot do. Unfortunately, for many years, Major League Baseball ignored that and didn't have the appropriate people in the locker room to help provide that sort of education. So the athlete is left alone, and as a result they go to the gym rat and get the wrong information.
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Florida Sinkhole Swallows Toyota Camry
This morning, Tampa resident Sandy Burnham lost her 1995 Toyota Camry to a sinkhole that opened up beneath her parking space in Bordeaux Village Condominium complex. Watch her tell the harrowing story below.
Sandy, who says she doesn't know whether to "cry or laugh," has since evacuated from her home, along with 13 other residents of the complex. Here's a local news report featuring a reporter who is a dead ringer for actor Richard Burgi.


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That was before…before I heard Father Frank A. Pavone talk about abortion and make it crystal clear not only that abortion is wrong, but why it is wrong and what we should do about it.
Father Pavone is the national director of Priests for Life, an organization of priests who are committed to teaching and up holding a consistent ethic for life, with particular emphasis on abortion. Based in New York, Father Pavone visited the area recently as the guest of the Pro Life office of the Diocese of Cleveland. He makes it his fulltime ministry to travel, speak, preach and write about the grave injustices of abortion.
Borrowing heavily from Father Pavone, I know now precisely how I would respond to a so-called pro-choice argument for abortion. The conversation might go something like this:
"It's my body. I should have the right to choose."
To choose death for an innocent, defenseless person? To decide your feelings, your time or your convenience are more important than another person's right to exist? Why should your rights be regarded as more important than another person's?
"You can't really call it a person until it can exist outside the womb."
All babies, born or unborn, require care and protection. An infant is no more capable than a fetus of defending its rights feeding itself or keeping itself warm and clean. Why should the infant after birth be regarded as any more alive or worthy of protection?
We are called by God to believe in things we cannot see, to find Christ present in the Eucharist even tough the physical appearance of the bread does not resemble Jesus himself. We can do no less for the unborn baby, who we do not see, but who we know is alive and present and completely at the mercy of its mother for care and protection.
"Well even if I wouldn't get an abortion, I still think it's a moral issue and should be left to each woman to decide for herself."
Do we apply this logic to any other moral principle?
"I wouldn't rape anyone because I think it is wrong, but I can't judge whether rape is wrong for you."
"I wouldn't rob a bank because I think stealing is wrong, but I can't judge whether stealing is wrong for you."
As a civilized society we decide as a whole what is right and what is wrong We establish rules based on our discernment of right from wrong Then we live to the best of our ability by those rules, and we enforce them on everyone equally. It is the most pronounced distinction between civilization (where the weak are protected from the strong because all are deemed equal) and the jungle (where survival of the fittest prevails).
Father Pavone points to two other periods in modern history in which the word "person" has been redefined. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that black people were not legal persons, and so could be enslaved. Then the German Supreme Court decided in 1936 that Jews in Germany were not legal persons, and could be killed.
As people of God, our reflection on these two travesties is universal…horrifying injustices remembered so as never to be repeated. What will the history books say of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion on demand for all nine months of pregnancy?
Regardless of the circumstances an unprepared new mother may face, abortion is not the answer. There are alternatives. Our contemporary society is all too willing to offer it as a quick fix, but the consequences are unacceptable and irreversible.
Whether for better or worse, our society does not harbor the grudge toward pregnant single women that was common in earlier generations. Carrying an unwanted baby to term and entrusting its care to willing and able parents is not only a loving response to an unexpected pregnancy -- it is just action.
This is not a problem solely for women, or solely for unwilling or unable expectant mothers. It is a problem for anyone who calls himself or herself a person of God, committed to the teachings of Christ.
That means it's our problem. Yours and mine. Prayerfully consider what you can do to answer God's call for compassion and justice for all his people -- born and unborn alike.


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Federal energy regulators accused JPMorgan on Monday of manipulating California electricity markets.
In an official notice, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission alleged that the bank had engaged in "eight manipulative bidding strategies" in California and Midwestern markets.
The strategies led to payments to JPMorgan "of tens of millions of dollars at rates far above market prices," according to the notice. JPMorgan is expected to pay a massive fine related to the allegations.
Related: Are big banks driving up commodity prices?
The strategies allegedly worked like this. In California, for example, the bank would bid to deliver electricity to a utility the next day at a low price of $30 per megawatt hour. When the next day came, JPMorgan would change its offer to a much higher price of $999 per megawatt hour, assuring the power did not get bought, according to the notice.
California ISO, the state's power-grid operator, would then have to compensate the bank for the cost of making the bid, under California's "make whole provision," which requires ratepayers to cover certain costs incurred by energy sellers.
JPMorgan employed a similar strategy in the Midwest, according to the notice.
JPMorgan and FERC both declined to comment.
FERC also recently fined British bank Barclays and Deutsche Bank for other improprieties involving the sale of power.


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I remember in 2001 when I first heard about RSS. Back then, we still called them weblogs, and there were so few blogs that it was news when a new one started. For example, I distinctly remember reading excitedly about a promising new VC blogger named Jeff Nolan from SAP Ventures.
At first, I just visited selected blogs regularly, checking for updates like I did on my sports websites. Then I learned about RSS and started following blogs using Bloglines.
For years, my RSS reader was my most important source of information. But gradually, I've found it's getting displaced. Not by Twitter, as many people have argued, but by group and personal filtering systems.
In some ways, it's back to the future–once again, I fond myself checking just a few sites and services. But this time, it's due to a surplus of content, rather than a paucity. Both my RSS reader, Twitter feed, and Facebook feed are overwhelming. Reading every item would literally be a full-time job. Instead, I find myself dipping into the stream on an occasional basis.
Here are my information consumption habits:
- RSS feed of close friends (to keep up with their thoughts and activities)
- @mentions on Twitter (to see who's reacting to my tweets)
- Techmeme (to see what everyone is talking about)
- Hacker News Daily (to see what young technical entrepreneurs are talking about)
- Summify/My6sense (personalized feed filters to tell me what my network is talking about)
- Twitter (dropping in to see what's shaking, much like cruising a neighborhood and checking for parties)
- Facebook (ambient awareness of what my casual friends and acquaintances are doing)
What's interesting to me is the balance between personalized and general. The personalized news sources help me maintain relationships and keep me informed about my little world; the general news sources help me discover new insights and information sources.
Perhaps the is the natural long-term balance; more personalized than the old pre-Internet mainstream media, but with a core of commonly read information to help set the agenda.


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My Lush Christmas 2017 page will have the same format as this one, except with the new products.
How it goes every year is that I write the Christmas page.
Then i get the products right away from Lush UK. I add the names and descriptions and prices of each product here on my blog early, before anyone reviews them.
I do a haul video and pics.
Then as i review them i make demo videos, write my reviews and take photos and add them here to each products' page as i go.
So that my Lush Holiday pages are always all done months before the products go to the U.S.
Lush Oxford Street superstore will also be creating and selling a few exclusives of their very own this Christmas. I have demos of those.
And of course, the Lush Kitchen mail order website at Lush.co.uk/kitchen will probably have some (pre-Christmas release) Holiday delights of their own too for us to buy! I've posted those here as well.
Bath bombs-This year there will be a few new bath bombs, such as "'Nevermind the Ballistics' , with lime, orange and frankincense. And a new one called "Mistletoe' made with the Lush popular 'Silky underwear' scent, as well as many popular, returning favorites such as 'Golden Wonder', 'Stardust', 'Luxury Pud', and 'Butterbear'. The new Christmas 'Satsuma' bomb, which will only be available in stores in a couple of gift sets, and it shares it's scent with the new Christmas soap called "Igloo'.
The returning 'Northern Lights', 'Shoot for the Stars', 'Stardust', and 'So White' bath bombs will have a new look!
Body Conditioners-Our beloved, minty "Christingle' body conditioner will be returning this year. Plus there is new body conditioner this year called "Snow Fairy'. As you've probably guessed, it was made with the same ingredients as, thus shares it's scent with the popular Christmas Lush shower gel "Snow Fairy'. It's a lovely light pink with sparkle in it!
Body Lotion-A new lotion called "Sleepy' which seems from the ingredients to be a "Twilight' scented lotion. Yay!
Speaking of Twilight scented things; this Christmas Lush has also created a new dusting powder called "Mr. Sandman", and they advertise it as having the "twilight" scent. Twilight is a creamy, herby lavender scent, with a slight vanilla note coming from the tonka bean. Aren't we lucky this year! Thank you lush.
Bubble bars– Lush will introduce two new re-usable wand type bubble bar this Holiday, Jester, whcih shares it's scent with Lush "Brightside' bubble bar and Santasurus which is made with the honey i washed the kids scent. They will join the returning "Magic of Christmas" and "Magic Wand' bubble bar wands.
There are a few of new Holiday 2016 bubble bars this year such as "Snowie' which has the gorgeous "Frozen' bath bomb scent, as well as the returning 'Christmas Penguin', 'Candy Mountain' and 'Peeping Santa' bubble bars.
The red, glittery Christmas "Ruby Red Slipper' (I.E. "Holiday Bubble") bubble bar from Holidays past has been redesigned this year to be in a different shape. Instead of the usual gorgeous, round red Holiday bubble bar, this years' will be designed to look like an actual ruby red slipper! They've outdone themselves!
Dusting Powders The popular "Fairy Dust' powder returns this year, and Lush has also created a new Christmas dusting powder called "Mr. Sandman", which Lush advertises as having the "Twilight" scent.
FUN bars–Lush will also introduce 3-4 new limited edition Christmas FUN bars; Santa, Elf, Reindeer, and Snow Fairy. Last years' Magic of Christmas, Aliens and Monsters', and Snakes and ladders will not be returning this year.
Jellies-There are two returning holiday shower jellies; Santa's Belly and 'Snowman', and one new Christmas facial jelly called "Papa Noel'
Lip color, lip tints, lip scrubs, lip balms-Two returning and two new lip products this year. A new lip tint called "Sugar Plum Fairy' and the other new one is a lip scrub also called "Sugar Plum Fairy'. Unlike the returning, red toned "Santa baby' and "Santa's Lip scrub, the new "Sugar Plum" lip tint and lip scrub will have a plum and purple color.
Shower gels-Two returning Holiday faves and one or two new Holiday 2016 shower gels; 'Snow Fairy' and 'Rose Jam'. One new Christmas shower gel this year called "Bubbly' which is made with the popular "Champagne Snow Showers'/ 'Celebrate' scent.
Soap-There are four new soaps this year in addition to returning favorites like "Baked Alaska" and "Reindeer Rock". Reindeer is a different color this year! Gorgeous, New Holiday limited edition soaps include 'Igloo', 'Santa's Post Box', and 'Shooting Stars', and 'Snowcastle'! Igloo soap shares it's scent with the new Christmas bath bomb called 'Satsuma'. I find Shooting Stars soap to smells like Lush 'Avobath' bath bomb, Avoshower jelly, shower gel.
Alphabetical list
The products in the first list will be below available on line and in stores in North America and the Uk, Australia, Germany, ETC. Starting with the Uk on September 26. (click on the links to see my video demos and reviews of the product)
The following are available in Lush North America, UK and all other countries. On line mail order and in all Lush stores.
event. The following is a list of Lush Uk holiday 2016 products exclusive to Oxford Street store in England, and other Lush products that were exclusive to the lush Creative Showcase event, which is where Lush debuted their 2016 Holiday products.
Hal soap
Metropolis (not sold to the public, only demonstrated)
Magic bubble bar
Over and Over bath bomb
Ponche shower gel self preserved in 4 sizes!
Plum Rain shower gel in 4 sizes!
Here's a video by Candyelion that beautifully shows the wonder of the Creative Showcase event which debut the Lush Halloween and Christmas 2016 products, as well as some Creative Showcase Lush products made only for this event! I have those are shown here


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The other day one of our clients asked us for something that was relatively easy to do – something that we could have handled with a quick email response without even knowing why the client needed the information. But I tend to be nosey, so I asked. The client contact needed the information to share with superiors to show the success of a recent campaign. So, we had a choice – we could have simply delivered what was asked of us, or we could think about this further and deliver something that they did not even know they wanted – or didn't realize they could even ask for – but that would provide greater value than expected.
We ended up delivering a document that, although it did not take much longer to produce than the original request, put the information in clear context for the client in a way that they could see not only the success of the recent campaign, but also its relation to other campaigns. We knew that this would be more beneficial and would make our client contact look good in the eyes of superiors, so we took the longer road.
I started really thinking about this and wondering how often I do this, or how often I push my teams to do this. Are we delivering what they ask for, or are we thinking about what they really need? Are we checking off tasks on our list, or are we thoughtfully delivering information in ways that will make our clients more successful?
Because, quite honestly, going the extra step on this one felt good – it wasn't a huge deal, but it was actually kind of fun. I liked the idea of delivering a surprise to the client – giving them what they asked for plus a little bit more. And it made me think twice about how we can present what we do in a more meaningful way.
When you do a job for a long time, certain tasks can become routine or mundane, and it's easy to just check things off. But when clients give us references or talk about us, I want them to say that we didn't treat anything as "routine" – that we were always thinking ahead, differently and creatively. I am very proud that we have a staff here that keeps me on my toes, challenges me to do better and who aren't afraid to push me, even when I'm the boss.
To keep us all fresh, I want to make sure I challenge myself and my teams constantly and always ask – are we just checking off boxes, or are we giving our clients everything we have? Let's strive every day to deliver what they don't yet know they want.


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As the first openly gay primetime anchor, and that rare woman on television who exudes warmth and both dresses and coifs herself to direct exclusive focus on her brains and words, Rachel Maddow is an icon for feminists and activists. Both men and women respect her, want to be her, or date her (although she's taken), and most of all want to hear what she has to say. But don't try to label her. She's not into that.
About being a feminist, she identifies, but also qualifies, "I don't think I'm as reflective as you might think I am."
She's often said she won the job lottery as the host, force, and soul behind MSNBC's top-rated The Rachel Maddow Show, but while fans and detractors think they know her from spending weeknights listening to her play-by-plays of debt-ceiling talks or Etch a Sketch–gate, she's quick to break down those opinions, too.
"I think a lot of people think of me as an activist. That I'm trying to change things and to get people to do something. I'm not trying to do that. I'm trying to explain the world in a way that people find helpful," Maddow told The Daily Beast.
Not a lot of women write books about war. Knowing her disregard for labels, it seems that in writing Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, she's right where she belongs: untangling 40 years of American foreign policy, combat operations, and swaggering presidential power—and then sussing out how the American public detached itself from its own wars. Accustomed to small, styled journalistic pieces for TV, she said the only form that could contain such an investigation was a book.
Maddow eschews military expertise, too ("politics is my gig"), though she's traveled to war zones, and reported on conflict, and her father was an Air Force captain. Her military attachment goes back to her college days, in the early '90s, when she says the gay community was rallying around two issues: the fight over "don't ask don't tell" and marriage equality.
"Are these really the issues we want to be focusing on? I was unsure about the marriage thing, but I never really had any doubts about the military," Maddow said.
She had always considered "military service a variant of public service," and said she would have contemplated joining had the military allowed gay members at the time. Even now, she says the military is a "can do" organization, and believes they'll successfully implement the repeal of "don't ask don't tell."
The voice and tone of Drift will feel familiar if you watch her show. Much of it sounds like what she reads nightly from the teleprompter, which often is very much her conversation with producers recorded and made into a script. Political media personalities are so publicly their opinions, so although she leans left, she assures potential readers that this story is postpartisan with exterior jacket blurbs from such philosophical opposites as Roger Ailes, Ira Glass, and Naomi Klein.
The most poignant takeaway from Drift is one that has been written a lot about: the ever-widening civil-military divide. Maddow cites a study in which "two thirds of Americans believe the disproportionate burden shouldered by those who have served is 'just part of being in the military.' " Her chief exploration lives in that word, "unmoor." The military's distancing from the regular American womb was slow, deliberate, but not maliciously so, and perhaps irreversible.
"Civilians have broadly no sacrifice whatsoever. That divide feels wrong to people. And I think it should feel wrong," she said.
Deployment is more frequent, taxing, longer than ever before, and is unfair and unhealthy for families, and Maddow says it's only 1 percent of America's population that is involved. She also writes that we have little sense of the great amount outsourced—to private contractors and drones who execute operations for us. We no longer have a compulsory draft. What's clear is that future generations move progressively further from the horrors of war.
Maddow brings levity to all the heaviness with saucy descriptions and whizbang language (Barry Goldwater the "anti-communist badass," our desert weapons complex is "atomic-kitschy"). She is also deliberate in her publicity, leaving a media breadcrumb trail for the two people she wants to interview most, but who have yet to agree to sit down. The dedication reads, "To former Vice President Dick Cheney. Oh Please let me interview you." Her other dream grilling is Hillary Clinton.
"For her to have seen the world all the ways she has, there's nobody like that in our history," Maddow said.
She admits she has no solution for getting more women in political office and in positions of visible leadership, but her response to the deficit is tough talk.
"There are many ways to envision female success. Ultimately, you don't do anybody any favors by putting people in jobs they can't do well in. The best way to win is to be better than everybody else," Maddow said.


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Verizon still hasn't disclosed the cause of the network outage that plagued LTE users this week, but at least one effect is clear: embarrassment.
Starting on Tuesday night, users of Verizon's LTE (long-term evolution) network began reporting that they couldn't connect to it with any device. The carrier said on Thursday morning that it had quickly found the cause of the crash and solved it. In between, the carrier's most advanced mobile data network was unavailable.
The nationwide failure was a major embarrassment for Verizon, which markets itself as having a more reliable network than its main rival, AT&T. It was also a reminder that even the most sophisticated systems can fail.
Users of the HTC Thunderbolt, Verizon's only LTE handset, were able to make phone calls or use data services via the carrier's 3G EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) or earlier 1x-RTT networks. Data devices such as the LG VL600 USB modem were supposed to switch over to 3G, but in at least one case, even that network was unavailable.
"If it happens once more I will go back to cable Internet/Wi-Fi usage in my home office, depend on hotel Internet and Wi-Fi hotspots when I'm not either at the office or home office … and cancel service on the Verizon Wireless network for laptop data usage in favor of these more reliable options," said Verizon subscriber Bruce Ehrle, who normally works at home in Northern Virginia rather than drive to his office in Washington, D.C.
Ehrle previously used Verizon's 3G service but was won over by Verizon's promises of fast LTE performance. The new network was fast, but the LTE modem and software regularly have required restarts. Then, starting around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, Ehrle started to get a "Network not authorized" message when trying to start LTE, and when he tried to switch to 3G, he saw an "Unable to connect" error. He had to commute to his office and work late to have an Internet connection. Only after returning home late Wednesday night was he able to connect to the 3G network, Ehrle said in an e-mail interview.
Widespread Failure
Because the failure was so widespread, it probably was caused by a problem on the back end of Verizon's network rather than any flaw in LTE radio technology, analysts said. The radio network is too distributed and was supplied by two different vendors, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent, said Phil Marshall of Tolaga Research. More likely, a configuration change or software update that was propagated throughout the network led to the failure, which could explain the wait of several hours before the error was corrected everywhere, he said.
The company was lucky that the outage occurred while the LTE network is still relatively small, analysts said. Verizon only introduced LTE in December, in 38 metropolitan areas. It plans to have the system up in 140 other areas by the end of this year and across its entire 3G footprint by the end of 2013.
"I think this is a wake-up call to Verizon," said analyst Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates. The outage may indicate there is a single point of failure in Verizon's LTE infrastructure, which would be a poor design, he said.
Verizon has been rolling out the new technology quickly while simultaneously integrating it with its existing 3G network, Marshall said.
"They've been extremely aggressive in the rate at which they've launched this network. And you've got to give them credit for that," Marshall said. However, this does entail risk, he added. "I think we're seeing the impact of that," he said.
If the network suffers a similar failure soon, it might indicate there is something wrong with the underlying architecture. That would be a harder problem to fix, Marshall said.
Like failures of Research In Motion's BlackBerry service in the past, the outage proves that no matter how highly praised a system may be, it can still fail, Gold said.
"People have gotten used to the notion of these things being up all the time … and that's just not the case," he said.
Stephen Lawson covers mobile, storage and networking technologies for The IDG News Service. Follow Stephen on Twitter at @sdlawsonmedia. Stephen's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Amazon Web Services has announced a new feature called VM Import, which allows IT departments to move virtual machine images from their internal data centers to the cloud.
The new feature can be used in a number of migration and disaster recovery scenarios, according to a blog post. VM Import can handle VMware VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk Format) images of Windows Server 2008 SP2.
To import images, IT departments use Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) API tools to point to a virtual machine image in their existing environment. Next, they specify the amount of compute capacity they need and where they want to run the image in Amazon's cloud platform. VM Import will then automatically transfer the image file, migrate the image and create the instance in Amazon's cloud, Amazon said.
For the move to work, the virtual machine must be in a stopped state before generating the VMDK image, according to an Amazon FAQ. The virtual machine can't be in a paused or suspended state. Also, encrypted disks and encrypted image files are not supported.
The length of time to import a virtual machine depends on the size of the disk image and your network connection speed. For example, a 10GB image takes about two hours to import over a 10M-bps broadband connection.
The conversion process is free of charge. But users have to pay for bandwidth for the upload as well as for storage and computing capacity, which are all charged at Amazon's usual rates.
Amazon plans to make VM Import compatible with additional operating systems and virtualization platforms. Additional operating systems will include other versions of Windows and Linux. Other virtualization platforms include Microsoft's Hyper-V and Citrix's Xen Server.
Amazon also plans to make VM Import available via a plugin for VMware's vSphere management console in the coming months. People who want to participate in a private beta of the vSphere console plugin should send an e-mail [email protected].
Companies that want to import Amazon EC2 Windows instances to their virtualized VMware environment can use the vCenter Converter tool, VMware said.


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Learn about the various student journals in the College of Humanities and how you can join them!
Oxford professor of philosophy Mark Wrathall explains that there is a difference between faith and belief, and a religious life doesn't necessarily require both.
Effective this summer, several new faculty have assumed leadership positions in the College of Humanities.
A philosophy conference honors Daniel Graham, professor emeritus and eminent scholar of pre-Socratic philosophy.
Alumnus Dave Elkington shares how humanities students are needed in the business world.
A new conference hosted by BYU Philosophy, Nursing, and the Sorensen Center tackles the toughest questions in medical ethics.
Everyone's got one, but what does it really mean to have an identity? Is identity something we choose or something we possess naturally? The answer is more complex than you might think.
Would you find Galileo guilty of heresy? Would you put him to death? These are questions that students grappled with in their two-week mock trial for Philosophy 210 class.
Philosophy and the field of medicine have complementary roles in helping us ask difficult questions and propose workable solutions to today's pressing concerns.
Eliza Wells teaches how Latter-day Saints will survive and thrive when they care about those around them.


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"Kids Eat Free" Wednesday's!
December 6 @ 10:30 am - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 10:30 am on Wednesday, repeating until December 31, 2023
Surprise! We are excited to offer Kids Eat Free Wednesday's as an on-going offer! We love seeing your smiling faces each week, so bring the kids in to enjoy a kids meal on us!
*Free kids meal with purchase of adult entree at all S&S locations. 4 kids meals per order. Each kid's meal must be accompanied by an adult entree. 12 and under. APP CODE: KIDFREE


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Noodle Tuesday: Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot
I love you Ichiriki, and I love you Sweet Home Café, but I'm a little crazy for the new hotness in town: Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot. I don't care that it's humid out, that I'm sweating because of all the steam and the soup is searing my mouth with chilies and Szechuan peppercorns. Neither, it seems, does anyone else—we waited 30 minutes for a table on a recent Wednesday night … at 8 o'clock, even.
The broth gives a spice high, the sauce bar provides even more fun, and there's nothing wanting from the meat and veggie options. But what really sends Little Sheep over the top are the carbs. Little Sheep has the best side of carbs of any hot pot in town: the steamed and fried buns, which taste like airy and crunchy funnel cake; the sesame bread, a gigantic hunk of deep-fried dough; and the fresh, thick noodles.
Though labeled "fresh," the noodles are actually quick-frozen and shipped from L.A. Even so, they don't seem to suffer in texture–evidence that proper freezing and handling can make some things just as good as the fresh. These, in particular, are fantastic—chewy and toothsome, with just the slightest bit of sweetness to counter the musky, full-bodied broth. Noodles, often an afterthought (literally) at a hot pot meal, hold their own here. Throw them in at the end to soak up all the goodness, for about four minutes—make sure not to overcook them. Think of it as the best build-your-own noodle soup ever.
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The Internet doesn't need another roast chicken recipe. Does it?
In just 0.24 of a second, Google found me thirteen million, six hundred thousand roast chicken recipes. Surely, that's enough for you to be getting on with? So, I should just leave things here. I shouldn't bother buying a top quality, free range, Irish chicken. With that many recipes out there, there is little purpose. It would be a waste of time. There is no point in selecting some fine olive oil to bind the stuffing ingredients. It's a fool's errand getting my hands on some delicious and nutritious walnuts. No matter what I do, somebody has done it before. Those Google lads have all those recipes in their rows and rows of filing cabinets. Why should I waste my time, lovingly slicing onions, zesting a lemon and delicately plucking sage leaves from their woody branches? It would be very silly of me to lay my hands on some very finely sliced streaky bacon to drape across the decollage of the plump naked bird. All that so I can give those chaps over in Google another recipe and some more photos to add to the prodigious filing pile. It's no wonder their office in Dublin is so big.


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According to recently declassified documents, during World War II British spies hatched a cunning plan to beat Hitler: Simply slip estrogen into his food until he becomes feminized and loses interest in the whole "take over the world" thing. It would have worked too, because everyone knows ladies can't be mass-murdering monsters!
The Telegraph reports that Professor Brian Ford of Cardiff University recently discovered that there were British spies working so close to Hitler that they had access to his food. However, Hitler used food tasters so they needed a substance they could sneak by them. That's where the female sex hormone comes in. Estrogen is tasteless and they believed it would have a subtle effect on Hitler that would go undetected. Ford explains:
They would smuggle oestrogen into Hitler's food and change his sex so he would become more feminine and less aggressive. Their research had showed the importance of sex hormones — they were beginning to be used in sex therapy in London ... it would have been entirely possible."
It seems the spies were convinced this could work because Paula Hitler, the only one of Adolf's siblings to survive to adulthood, was a mild-mannered secretary. Therefore it stands to reason that if Adolf was a woman, he and his sister would have the exact same personality.
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Other possibilities included dropping glue on Nazi troops in an attempt to stick them to the ground and disguising bombs in tins of fruit being imported to Germany. They also considered dropping boxes of poisonous snakes on enemy troops. However, [Professor Ford] said a plan for a giant water-borne Catherine wheel full of explosives — dubbed the Great Panjandrum — for an assault on the Normandy coast was the oddest of the lot.
World War II was so zany! (You know, except for the totally horrifying bits that left millions of people dead.)
None of these plots were actually attempted, but now if you ever have access to a time machine, you'll know how to succeed where Tom Cruise and his oddly American accent failed: Don't just grab a gun and shoot the Führer while he's eating breakfast. Season his eggs with sex hormones and see if it brings out the softer side of Hitler.


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