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Why Choose Embryo Storage at Fairfax Cryobank?
You have completed your IVF (in vitro fertilization) treatment and have embryos remaining. At this time you want to store your embryos for possible future use. With the rapid advances in reproductive medicine, cryopreserved or frozen embryos can potentially remain viable for an indefinite period of time. Pregnancies with good outcomes have been reported following thawing and transfer of embryos frozen for over a decade. Hundreds of healthy babies conceived from frozen embryos are born every year and the numbers continue to increase. You may want to consider moving your embryos to the well known and highly experienced long term storage facility at Fairfax Cryobank because:
- Your IVF center is closing
- Your IVF center may have limited storage space for frozen embryos
- Your IVF center may restrict how long they will store your embryos
Genetics & IVF Institute (GIVF) Cryobanks (Fairfax Cryobank and Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc) have been storing reproductive specimens long term since 1970. In addition, state-of-the-art embryo storage has been available to patients at our IVF center for more than 15 years. GIVF Cryobanks, with two of the world's largest donor semen banks, also have extensive expertise in cryopreserving, storing, and transporting frozen sperm. In fact, we have been transporting frozen specimens to and from physician practices in all 50 states and many foreign countries for over 30 years. We have storage locations in our Austin, TX; Fairfax, VA; Houston, TX; Pasadena, CA; Philadelphia, PA, and Roseville, MN laboratories.
Credentials-Fairfax Cryobank is:
- A member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine
- Inspected and licensed by the New York State Department of Health
- Licensed by the State of Maryland
- Licensed by the State of California
- Fully compliant with recently issued FDA regulations governing reproductive tissue banks (21 CFR Part 1271).
Our facilities are equipped with the latest technology. Embryos are stored in state-of-the-art vapor-phase liquid nitrogen tanks that are not dependent on electricity to keep embryos frozen. This cutting-edge technology provides for the storage of specimens in the vapor phase 100% of the time. These storage tanks are monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The safekeeping of your embryos for many years is completely assured.
- Economical storage fees with monthly and long term storage options
- Convenient credit card billing system for payment of storage fees
- Direct contact regarding transfer and disposition of your embryos
- Expandable storage systems to handle frozen samples in all types of packaging (vials, straws, ampules)
All fees must be paid in full in US dollars prior to shipment or transfer of frozen specimens. Credit cards (Visa, Master Card, American Express, Discover), Money Orders, and Cashiers Checks are accepted. No personal checks accepted. Fairfax Cryobank does not charge storage fees for semen when clients are storing embryos with us. Shipping fees may be reduced if a clinic arranges for group shipments from their clinic to Fairfax Cryobank.
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What is involved?
Patients desiring our services should call us at 1-866-442-0408 or 512-206-0408 (Austin, TX). Everyone who wants to store embryos with us must complete an embryo storage contract that defines storage terms and costs. Embryos are transferred to our Embryo Storage facility in liquid nitrogen shippers, which we supply, by highly reliable overnight air couriers to assure safe delivery and maintenance of storage temperature during transport. Fairfax Cryobank recommends that two tanks be used when shipping multiple straws/vials to or from the clinical facility and Fairfax Cryobank. Documentation verifying the transfer of specimens follows each shipment. Embryos are then stored at optimal conditions for as long as you desire. At your request, we will ship your embryos to the ART clinic you select for future infertility treatment cycles. With over 30 years of experience in transporting and storing frozen reproductive specimens, you can feel assured that your embryos will be cared for safely.
How long can you store frozen embryos?
With the rapid advances in reproductive medicine, cryopreserved or frozen embryos can remain viable, potentially, for an indefinite period of time. Pregnancies with good outcomes have been reported following thawing and transfer of embryos frozen for over a decade. Hundreds of healthy babies conceived from frozen embryos are born every year. And the numbers continue to increase.
How do I arrange the shipment of my embryos to Fairfax Cryobank?
Fairfax Cryobank will arrange the shipment of your embryos for you. Once your completed embryo storage contract and paperwork is received, Fairfax will contact the current storage facility and schedule the transfer of your embryos. Transfer fees may be reduced if the clinic arranges for group shipments from Fairfax Cryobank.
How are the embryos transported to Fairfax Cryobank?
The embryos are shipped in liquid nitrogen dry shipper tanks via Federal Express or a local courier. The dry shipper tanks will keep the embryos frozen for 7 days from the date shipped and all shipments within the United States are sent using priority overnight delivery. Please read the policies and procedures we have in place to verify the accuracy of our shipments.
Will I receive confirmation that my embryos have arrived at your facility?
Yes, once your embryos are received, we'll send a letter to you letting you know that your embryos have arrived and are stored at our state-of-the-art Cryopreservation facility.
What do I need to do when I'm ready to ship my frozen embryos from Fairfax Cryobank?
A signed and notarized consent to ship embryos authorization is required to ship embryos from Fairfax Cryobank. Once the authorization is received, the frozen embryos may be sent to the clinic of your choice. (Shipping fees apply)
Do I have to pay 2 storage fees if I want to store frozen sperm and embryos?
No. Fairfax Cryobank does not charge for semen storage when a client is storing embryos with us. The fees are not dependent on the number of embryos or sperm vials.
With more than 30 years of experience in transporting and storing frozen specimens, you can feel assured that your embryos will be cared for safely.
For more information on embryo storage, call 1 (866) 442-0408.
Or please contact:
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Embryo Storage Resources
Download our Embryo and Oocyte Storage brochure here.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe of Facebook's proposed acquisition of Instagram that could delay the closing of the deal, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
Most mergers valued at more than $66 million must be reported to the FTC, and preliminary reviews by the agency are common. But the investigation of Facebook for any competition issues could upset its plans to close the deal by the end of the second quarter, the FT reported.
Maxwell Blecher, an antitrust attorney with Blecher & Collins, said an antitrust probe would likely take at least a month.
"If they go into it further and they issue additional requests for information, that could probably take up to six months," he told IDG News Service.
The FTC has already collected information from at least two of Facebook's largest competitors, according to the FT report, which cited unnamed sources. Facebook will not be able to integrate Instagram's service with its social networking platform before the deal is finalized, the FT said.
That delay could hurt Facebook's efforts to strengthen its mobile strategy. Facebook's has said in regulatory filings that its revenue will suffer as users increasingly access its service from mobile devices rather than PCs.
The increase in mobile usage has resulted in its daily user base expanding more quickly than the number of advertisements it delivers, Facebook said in amended S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday.
"If users increasingly access Facebook mobile products as a substitute for access through personal computers, and if we are unable to successfully implement monetization strategies for our mobile users, or if we incur excessive expenses in this effort, our financial performance and ability to grow revenue would be negatively affected," the filing states.
Facebook announced last month that it planned to buy Instagram for about $1 billion in cash and stock. Competition experts believe the deal will ultimately be approved, the FT reported.

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Gland, Switzerland - The World Bank's decision, announced yesterday, to limit funding to coal power plants to "only rare circumstances" is a welcome step towards a sustainable energy future, and other finance institutions should immediately follow suit, says WWF.
International public finance institutions, such as the World Bank, the Asia Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development or the African Development Bank, have an opportunity to shape the world's shift to sustainable energy sources.
"Coal is the dirtiest of fossil fuel power sources – polluting local environments, and contributing heavily to global warming. The move by the World Bank to limit new coal financing is welcome, and this should immediately become the norm for all international finance institutions," said Samantha Smith, leader of the WWF's Global Climate & Energy Initiative.
"But to have a serious chance of tackling climate change, the world needs to move away from fossil fuels completely. While helping developing countries expand energy access and transition to low-carbon economic growth, the World Bank should phase out its support for all power supply based on fossil fuels, consistent with the Bank's ambition of encouraging action on climate change," says Smith.
WWF's new global campaign, Seize Your Power, calls on financial institutions to significantly increase their funding of renewable energy and cut funding to fossil fuels because we recognise that the level of CO2 emissions in the world requires drastic action to limit global warming.
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ALEC TABER Funeral services for Alec Taber will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 28 at the Dove Creek High School gym. Interment will follow at Peel Cemetery. Alec was born November 13, 2001 and passed away Saturday, March 22, 2014 at his Dove Creek home. Alec was 12. Alec was given the task of picking a family in 2001. He had to pick a good one because he wouldn't have a lot of time. His dad would have to be strong and willing to do things different than some parents he picked Bobby Taber. His mom would also have to be strong his life would take them down some difficult paths he picked Kerri Gersch. When time is short you have to be focused Alec had no time for chit chat he said what he needed to say no more no less. Kambrie introduced Alec to a friend, "This is my cousin Alec he doesn't say much", to which Alec looked up from what he was doing, acknowledged their presence, and continued with his project. Start a conversation about the Steelers though, and the names and statistics started flying. He developed a habit of twirling his mom's hair around his finger one of those comfort things. Kerri was laying with him in his hospital bed, Alec twirling her hair, when his finger became entangled. Neither one of them could reach the call button in their predicament so they waited for a nurse to come in scissors were the only option and Kerri lost a little hair to free them. Rock crawling was one of the passions Alec shared with us. He loved the social scene and his analytical mind made him a natural. He could walk into any pit and strike up a conversation or grab a wrench and help fix things. He could pick lines and drive them, whether in his battery powered monster truck or in the side by side. Football, baseball and wrestling were the loves of Alec's life. Alec's body betrayed his natural ability but he didn't give up. He did his best in spite of the odds. Alec's mentors instilled compassion along with a competitive spirit that made him a fierce competitor. Always there to give an encouraging word and a pat on the back or a hug, yet when the flag dropped or the whistle blew it is game on! Rock racing in the back yard and announcing the play by play was one of his favorite games. He would pick which driver he was, then you'd pick which one you wanted to be. We'd pull wagons through the course, negotiating obstacles and swapping leads. Alec would announce as he was pulling his wagon letting the neighborhood know who was having trouble on an obstacle or which driver won that heat. Alec wasn't afraid of a microphone. From school programs to the person at an event wanting to interview someone, Alec wanted to share what was in his heart and on his mind. Alec chose a family with brothers and cousins and grandparents and uncles and aunts. Cole and Carson saw what a great family Alec picked, so they picked Bobby and Kerri too. Friends and neighbors and classmates and people from all around the country were touched by his life.
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With the addition of the various stock exchanges across the galaxy, its now possible to buy shares in companies and futures in commodities. Do my actions in any of the stock exchange areas affect any other areas in the galaxy? For example, if I were to buy all futures for entertainment chips in stock exchange zone, will it affect the prices of entertainment chips in neighboring zones?
Are the corporation stock prices affected by anything in the game? If their trading ships were to mysteriously disappear, will it drive down their stock?
Finally, can I collapse the universe economy? If I were to buy all available futures in energy cells, can I create a galactic wide energy depression until everyone's forced to purchase from me and I can charge them an outrageous price?


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The good news is: feminism happened, so men don't get to just run around slapping our asses with impunity anymore. The bad news is that now that overtly piggish behavior is heavily, heavily socially discouraged, there's a subset of men who resort to less overt means when they want to act like jerks. Meet the Nice Guy.
When using the phrase 'Nice Guys' with a capital NG, I don't mean a man who happens to be a genuinely kind person. Hooray for kind, caring, conscientious people! I mean the sort of Guy who has declared himself to be Nice, and thus deserving of positive (usually sexual) attention from the female of his choice, upon whom he has often projected an elaborate fantasy of perfection and willingness that rarely has anything to do with the subject's actual feelings or desires. When a Nice Guy is romantically rejected by a woman he wants, he lashes out at her, wondering why that dumb cunt won't go out with him. After all, he has been Nice!
Performing basic feats of human decency don't afford anyone the right to the romantic attention of the Adonis or Aphrodite of their choice, and viewing kindness as currency that can be directly exchanged for sexual gratification is a pretty fucked up way to think. To paraphrase Lindy, women aren't vending machines where if you put in enough Nice, sex comes out.
The Predatory Bestie
He offers to listen to you cry and cry about your ex. So you let him. He offers to help you move a heavy dresser to your 4th floor walk up. So you let him. He admits that he cried during The Notebook. So did you. He tries to touch your boobs one night. You don't let him. You bitch.
Likes: All the same things you like, even Grey's Anatomy.
Dislikes: All those assholes you keep dating who are definitely just doing _________ to get in your pants, unlike Predatory Bestie, who is most definitely not just hanging around waiting for you to be single and vulnerable so he can make a move and then guilt you into having sex with him.
Pop culture muses: Duckie from Pretty in Pink
The Chivalrous Stranger
He gets all up in your face as you're walking down the sidewalk. "SMILE!" he says, "I bet you'd be so pretty when you SMILE!" You don't smile. You bitch.
Likes: YOU! Smiling!
Dislikes: Frowny sourpuss ladies who aren't decorative enough.
Pop culture muses: Pete Campbell
The Aspirational Fuck Buddy
It's just a sex thing and you're not ready for a relationship. You've told him this. But he won't listen. He doesn't understand rule number one of taking your pants off is that you can't fuck your way into a relationship.
Likes: Making you soup when you're sick.
Dislikes: The fact that you are not his girlfriend and have told him that you should stop sleeping together.
Pop culture muses: The dude from 500 Days of Summer
The Fake Reformed Ex
When you were together, he was a butthole factory. A factory that makes only buttholes. But you broke up with him, and he didn't take it well. Now he's changed, he swears. He's so different. He's learned. He's changed so much in the last 3 weeks. Except when you tell him that it's really, for real over, he punches a wall and fractures his hand.
Likes: Things with flames on them. Calling you "turkey legs" because your thighs touch at the top, unlike his last girlfriend.
Dislikes: Being told "no," anything you like.
Pop culture muses: Chris Brown
The Liberated Pig
He's an old guy at a cocktail party who name drops feminist authors because he figures you're in the age group that would appreciate that sort of thing. He's with it. He's down with the feminisms. But then he asks for your phone number. You have a boyfriend. You dumb cunt.
Likes: Bourbon. Saying "Simone de Beauvoir" with a high school level French accent.
Dislikes: Being corrected. He's wrong a lot.
Pop culture muses: Henry Higgins (the super mansplainy guy from My Fair Lady)
The Incredible Hulk
One minute, he's just a guy making an ill-fated move. But the act of rejection turns him into an explosive tyrant. Also his team missing a field goal makes him into an explosive tyrant, but that's a whole other thing altogether.
Likes: You. WAIT WHAT? FUCK YOU!
Dislikes: THIS FUCKING BEER! ROAAAR!
Pop culture muses: Bif from Back to the Future
The Dejected Unknown Piner
You have no idea who he is, but he's made up this whole story in his head about how he's just a sad shy Nice Guy that you can't even see because you're SO BLIND to anyone who isn't a football player etc etc etc. By the way, you're adults, so there are no football players involved here.
Likes: Reddit. MEAN BUT TRUE.
Dislikes: Football players, talking to girls
Pop culture muses: Taylor Swift. Did I just blow your mind? Women can be Nice Guys, too.


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I've been wanting a new way to keep my babies warm on outings. Infant snow suits are a pain, and pricey when you have twins and need two of them. Blankets get kicked off every 6.3 seconds. This blanket solves all those problems and looks cute to boot!
To make your own hooded car seat blankie, you will need:
- 1 meter of flannel for the front
- another meter of flannel for the back
- 1 meter of cotton batting
- thread, scissors, etc.
Step One: Place you two pieces of flannel with fronts facing together and fold it into quarters.
With a pen, draw on a shape that looks something like this:
There is no real need for a pattern or measurements. I didn't even use the exact same shape for each blankie I made. Just free hand it. Then cut it out, leaving your folds intact.
The idea is that after you unfold it you will have a shape that looks like this:
Lay your two layers of flannel (front sides still facing each other) out on a piece of batting and pin in place.
Cut around the blankie. Now you will have two layers of flannel, front sides facing in, and a layer of batting on the bottom, all pinned together.
Sew around the outside with the batting on the bottom.
Leave one of the nubby corner thingies (This is a very technical tutorial, as you can see) open so that you can turn the blankie right side out.
Once you've turned the blankie right side out so that the batting is on the inside, you can turn the open corner into a simple hood. Fold the corner in half with the fabric that you want to be on the underside of the blankie facing out, like shown below, and sew approximately where I've drawn a line.
Once sewn, you can cut just above your stitches and finish your edge with a tight zig-zag stitch.
You've now created a hood.
Now you'll just want to sew all around the edges of the blankie to give it a nice finished edge.
To make the opening for the car seat straps, lay the blankie in the car seat the way you want it to sit. Use a pencil to mark the tops and bottoms holes for the arm straps and each side of the slot for the bottom buckle thingy. (Again, very technical.)
Connect the dots, like so:
And sew around the lines.
Cut on the lines, being careful not to cut the stitches themselves. Use a rotary cutter if you have one.
To use your new car seat blankie, buckle the baby in snug.
And swaddle!
Oh, and do you want to know how I got two babies to be reasonably happy to be photographed at the same time? Easy. Maple syrup on their soothers!


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He was the first candidate I ever supported for anything, I was around 10 years old and remember making a huge leather badge that said McGovern '72 on it.
Here's a good piece from the New York Times By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
George McGovern, the United States senator who won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1972 as an opponent of the war in Vietnam and a champion of liberal causes, and who was then trounced by President Richard M. Nixon in the general election, died early Sunday in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 90.
His death was announced in a statement by his family. He had been moved to hospice care in recent days after being treated for several health problems in the last year. He had a home in Mitchell, S.D., where he had spent his formative years.
In a statement, President Obama called Mr. McGovern "a champion for peace" who was a "statesman of great conscience and conviction."
To the liberal Democratic faithful, Mr. McGovern remained a standard-bearer well into his old age, writing and lecturing even as his name was routinely invoked by conservatives as synonymous with what they considered the failures of liberal politics.
He never retreated from those ideals, however, insisting on a strong, "progressive" federal government to protect the vulnerable and expand economic opportunity, while asserting that history would prove him correct in his opposing not only what he called "the tragically mistaken American war in Vietnam" but also the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
A slender, soft-spoken minister's son newly elected to Congress — his father was a Republican — Mr. McGovern went to Washington as a 34-year-old former college history teacher and decorated bomber pilot in World War II. He thought of himself as a son of the prairie as well, with a fittingly flat, somewhat nasal voice and a brand of politics traceable to the Midwestern progressivism of the late 19th century.
Elected to the Senate in 1962, Mr. McGovern left no special mark in his three terms, but he voted consistently in favor of civil rights and antipoverty bills, was instrumental in developing and expanding food stamp and nutrition programs, and helped lead opposition to the Vietnam War in the Senate.
The war was the cause he took into the 1972 election, one of the most lopsided in American history. Mr. McGovern carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia and won just 17 electoral votes to Nixon's 520.
The campaign was the backdrop to the burglary at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington and to the Nixon organization's shady fund-raising practices and sabotage operations, later known as "dirty tricks," which were not disclosed until after the election.
The Republicans portrayed Mr. McGovern as a cowardly left-winger, a threat to the military and the free-market economy and someone outside the mainstream of American thought. Whether those charges were fair or not, Mr. McGovern never lived down the image of a liberal loser, and many Democrats long accused him of leading the party astray.
Mr. McGovern resented that characterization mightily. "I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie," he said in an interview for this obituary in 2005 in his home in Mitchell. "My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
"But we probably didn't work enough on cultivating that image," he added, referring to his presidential campaign organization. "We were more interested in ending the war in Vietnam and getting people out of poverty and being fair to women and minorities and saving the environment.
"It was an issue-oriented campaign, and we should have paid more attention to image."
The 1972 Nomination
Mr. McGovern was 49 years old and in his second Senate term when he won the 1972 Democratic nomination, outdistancing a dozen or so other aspirants, including Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, the early front-runner; former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the nominee in 1968; and Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, a populist with a segregationist past who was gravely wounded in an assassination attempt in Maryland during the primaries.
Mr. McGovern benefited from new party rules that he had been largely responsible for writing, and from a corps of devoted young volunteers, including Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham, who took time off from Yale Law School to work on the campaign in Texas.
The nominating convention in Miami was a disastrous start to the general election campaign. There were divisive platform battles over Vietnam, abortion, welfare and court-ordered busing to end racial discrimination. The eventual platform was probably the most liberal one ever adopted by a major party in the United States. It advocated an immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, amnesty for war resisters, the abolition of the draft, a guaranteed job for all Americans and a guaranteed family income well above the poverty line.
Several prominent Democrats declined Mr. McGovern's offer to be his running mate before he chose Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri.
Mr. McGovern's organization was so disorganized that by the time he went to the convention rostrum for his acceptance speech, it was nearly 3 a.m. He delivered perhaps the best speech of his life. "We reject the view of those who say, 'America, love it or leave it,' " he declared. "We reply, 'Let us change it so we can love it more.' "
The delegates loved it, but most television viewers had long since gone to bed.
The convention was barely over when word got out that Mr. Eagleton had been hospitalized three times in the 1960s for what was called nervous exhaustion, and that he had undergone electroshock therapy.
Mr. McGovern said he was behind his running mate "a thousand percent." But less than two weeks after the nomination, Mr. Eagleton was dropped from the ticket and replaced by R. Sargent Shriver, a Kennedy in-law and former director of the Peace Corps.
The campaign never recovered from the Eagleton debacle. Republicans taunted Mr. McGovern for backing everything a thousand percent. Commentators said his treatment of Mr. Eagleton had shown a lack of spine.
In the 2005 Times interview, Mr. McGovern said he had handled the matter badly. "I didn't know a damn thing about mental illness," he said, "and neither did anyone around me."
With a well-oiled campaign operation and a big financial advantage, Nixon began far ahead and kept increasing his lead. When Mr. McGovern proposed deep cuts in military programs and a $1,000 grant to every American, Nixon jeered, calling the ideas liberalism run amok. Nixon, meanwhile, cited accomplishments like the Paris peace talks on Vietnam, an arms limitation treaty with the Soviet Union, a prosperous economy and a diplomatic opening to China.
On election night, Mr. McGovern did not bother to call Nixon. He simply sent a telegram offering congratulations. Then, he said, he sat on his bed at the Holiday Inn in Sioux Falls and wrote his concession speech on hotel stationery.
In his book on the campaign, "The Making of the President 1972," Theodore H. White wrote that the changes Mr. McGovern had sought abroad and at home had "frightened too many Americans."
"Richard M. Nixon," Mr. White wrote, "convinced the Americans, by more than 3 to 2, that he could use power better than George McGovern."
Mr. McGovern offered his own assessment of the campaign. "I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me," he said in the 2005 interview. "I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy, and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country.
"The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being."
His staff, he said, urged him to talk more about his war experience, but like many World War II veterans at the time, he was reluctant to do so.
How long, he was asked, did it take to get over the disappointment of losing? "You never fully get over it," he replied. "But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time."
Humble Beginnings
George Stanley McGovern was born on July 19, 1922, in a parsonage in Avon, S.D., a town of about 600 people where his father, Joseph, was the pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. A disciplinarian, his father, who was born in 1868, tried to keep his four children from going to the movies and playing sports. His mother, the former Frances McLean, was a homemaker about 20 years her husband's junior.
The family moved to Mitchell, in southeastern South Dakota, when George was 6. He went to high school and college there, enrolling at Dakota Wesleyan University in 1940. After Pearl Harbor, Mr. McGovern joined the Army Air Corps. In 1943 he married Eleanor Stageberg, who had grown up with an identical twin on a South Dakota farm. They had met at Dakota Wesleyan.
Mr. McGovern was trained to fly the B-24 Liberator, a four-engine heavy bomber, and he flew dozens of missions over Austria, Germany and Italy.
On his 30th mission, his plane was struck by enemy fire and his navigator was killed. Lieutenant McGovern crash-landed the plane on an island in the Adriatic. He earned a Distinguished Flying Cross for the exploit.
After his discharge, Mr. McGovern returned to Mitchell — his father had recently died — and resumed his studies at Dakota Wesleyan. He graduated in 1946 and went to Northwestern University for graduate studies in history.
With a master's degree, he returned to Dakota Wesleyan, a small university, to teach history and political science. "I was the best historian in a one-historian department," he said in an interview in 2003. During summers and in his free time, he continued his graduate work and received a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern in 1953.
Mr. McGovern left teaching to become executive secretary of the South Dakota Democratic Party, and almost single-handedly revived a moribund operation in a heavily Republican state.
Month after month, he drove across South Dakota in a beat-up sedan, making friends and setting up county organizations. In 1956, gaining the support of farmers who had become New Deal Democrats during the Depression, he was elected to Congress himself, defeating an overconfident incumbent Republican. He became the first Democratic congressman from his state in more than 20 years.
Mr. McGovern left the House after two terms to run for the Senate and was soundly beaten by the sitting Republican, Karl E. Mundt. He then became a special assistant to the newly elected president, John F. Kennedy, and the director of Kennedy's Food for Peace program, an effort to provide food for the hungry in poor countries.
In 1962, Mr. McGovern ran for the Senate again, and this time he won, by 597 votes. He defeated Joseph H. Bottum, a Republican serving out the term of Senator Francis H. Case, who had died in office.
In the Senate, Mr. McGovern became a reliable vote for Democratic initiatives and a leader on food and hunger issues as a member of the Agriculture Committee. But he was more interested in national politics than in legislation.
After Robert F. Kennedy, fresh from his victory in the California presidential primary, was assassinated in Los Angeles in June 1968, the Kennedy camp encouraged Mr. McGovern to enter the race as an alternative to Humphrey and Senator Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota. Mr. McGovern did so but was unable to catch up to Humphrey.
Almost from the moment the 1968 campaign ended, Mr. McGovern began running for the 1972 nomination. He traveled the country, recording on index cards the names of potential supporters he met. He also became the chairman of a Democratic Party commission on delegate selection, created after the fractious 1968 national convention to give the rank and file more say in picking a presidential nominee.
What became known as the McGovern commission rewrote party rules to ensure that more women, young people and members of minorities were included in delegations. The influence of party leaders was curtailed. More states began choosing delegates on the basis of primary elections. And the party's center of gravity shifted decidedly leftward.
Though the rules were not written specifically to help Mr. McGovern win the nomination, they had that effect.
After he was crushed by Nixon in the 1972 election, Mr. McGovern returned to the Senate and began campaigning for re-election in 1974. At the Gridiron Club's annual dinner in 1973, he told the assembled Washington elite, "Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way — and I did."
Mr. McGovern was re-elected to the Senate in 1974, a landslide year for Democrats after Watergate. He defeated Leo K. Thorsness, a novice politician.
It proved to be Mr. McGovern's last success in elective politics. As the conservative movement gained force, Mr. McGovern's popularity dropped.
In 1980, he was defeated by James Abdnor, a plain-spoken Republican congressman who had clung to Ronald Reagan's coattails and was helped by anti-McGovern advertisements broadcast by the National Conservative Political Action Committee.
Mr. McGovern ran for the Democratic presidential nomination again in 1984, but withdrew after winning only 23 convention delegates, most of them in Massachusetts.
Unlike some of his peers, Mr. McGovern did not become wealthy in office, and he said he had no interest in lobbying afterward. Instead, he earned a living teaching, lecturing and writing. He briefly owned a motor inn in Stratford, Conn., and a bookstore in Montana, where he owned a summer home. But neither investment proved profitable.
What he called "the big tragedy of my life" occurred in 1994. His daughter Teresa J. McGovern, who had suffered from alcoholism and mental illness, froze to death, acutely intoxicated, in a parking lot snowbank in Madison, Wis., at the age of 45.
His eyes welled up as he talked about it 11 years later. "That just about killed me," he said. "I had always had a very demanding schedule. I didn't do everything I could as a father."
As therapy, Mr. McGovern researched and wrote a book, "Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle With Alcoholism," published in 1997. (An addiction-treatment center named after her was established in Madison.)
That year, President Bill Clinton appointed Mr. McGovern ambassador to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. He moved to Rome, and he worked on plans for delivering food to malnourished people around the world. In 2000, Mr. Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
Returning Home
After four years in Rome, Mr. McGovern and his wife moved back to Mitchell, where they lived in a ranch-style house owned by Dakota Wesleyan and helped raise money for a university library that was named after them. The university is also home to the McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service, a research and educational institution founded in 2006. The McGoverns also had a home in St. Augustine, Fla.
Eleanor McGovern died in 2007 at 85. A son, Steven, who had also struggled with alcoholism, died in July at 60.
Mr. McGovern's survivors include three daughters, Ann, Susan and Mary; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Mr. McGovern remained robust in old age. To celebrate his 88th birthday, he sky-dived in Florida. Last fall, he was hospitalized twice, once after falling and hitting his head outside the Dakota Wesleyan library before a scheduled C-Span interview, and another time for fatigue after completing a lecture tour. But he rebounded and resumed making public appearances this year.
Mr. McGovern remained a voice in public affairs, notably in 2008, when, in an op-ed article in The Washington Post, he called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for their prosecution of the war in Iraq.
He published books regularly, on history, the environment and other subjects. In "Out of Iraq" (2006), written with William R. Polk, he argued for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, to end in 2007. In his final book, "What It Means to Be a Democrat," released last November, he despairs of an "insidious" political atmosphere in Washington while trying to rally Democrats against "extremism" in the Republican ranks.
"We are the party that believes we can't let the strong kick aside the weak," Mr. McGovern wrote. "Our party believes that poor children should be as well educated as those from wealthy families. We believe that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes and that everyone should have access to health care."
With the country burdened economically, he added, there has "never been a more critical time in our nation's history" to rely on those principles.
"We are at a crossroads," he wrote, "over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values."
David E. Rosenbaum, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, died in 2006. William McDonald contributed reporting.


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An alien spaceship from Planet Zeeba hovered over San Diego.
The spaceship – identified at first as a UFO – was first seen over Santee, California on May 7th.
The U.N. Panel on Extraterrestrials sent Dr. Susan Begley to Santee to investigate. "We gathered evidence from hundreds of eyewitnesses as well as studying numerous photographs and videos," said Dr. Begley. "This is clearly a spaceship from Planet Zeeba. But there is nothing for people in San Diego to worry about."
Dr. Begley told WWN that aliens from Planet Zeeba have been on Earth since October of 2011 and have come in peace. "They are here to try to help humans save their own planet, and to help defend Earth against an attack by the Gootans." Aliens from Planet Gootan are reportedly here to take over earth and enslave humans.
Some in government and in the media (as evidence by the video below), are trying to tell people that it was not an alien spaceship, but instead was a commercial aircraft.
"The governments of the world have been covering up the existence of aliens for decades. They do that so that citizens don't become panicked. It's unfortunate, because the Zeebans have come in peace," said Dr. Begley.
Here's an official report (assembled with the help of the U.S. government).


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Simon Lehna Singh (born 1 January 1964) is an Indian-British author of Punjabi background with a doctorate in physics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner.
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- We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.
- Nine Million Bicycles, alternative lyrics.[1][2]
- Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.
- Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe, Fourth Estate, ISBN 0-00-716220-0
- What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic... He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute then any previous knowledge.
- Fermat's Last Theorem (1997)


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Eater is a hyperlocal blog network covering dining and drinking in what it calls the US' "most important food cities" which according to Eater are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, DC, Charleston, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Louisville, Chicago, Minneapolis, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles. There are separate Eater sites for each of those cites plus one for the state of Maine and the canonical Eater National site which aggregates content from the city specific sites.
Eater is written in a lively, irreverent style with coverage that includes restaurant and watering hole reviews, chef interviews and color pieces like one on the drunkest cities in America (I would have expected New Orleans or Milwaukee to top that list but Boston is winner with an amazing 20.1% of its population classified as binge drinkers).
The Eater Network is part of the larger Curbed network which also includes Curbed, a network of local real estate blogs, and Racked covering shopping and fashion. The Eater network started in 2004 by Gawker Media alumnus Lockhart Steele and is one of the view remaining successful high-traffic blog networks that hasn't been acquired by AOL.
Eater uses separate desktop and mobile templates. Something resembling browser sniffing redirects mainstream mobile browsers to the mobile template at m.eater.com or for a city specific eater a sub-domain like m.ny.eater.com or m.sf.eater.com. However the mobile redirection isn't very smart or user friendly and sends Mobile IE, Mobile Firefox, Nokia N9 and feature phone users to the desktop site even if they explicitly enter the m. subdomain version of the URL.


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Chronic Feline Diarrhea!
My cat took clindamycin in September for about a week and a half after having a tooth extracted and didn't experience side effects at the time he was taking it. Around mid December he started experiencing diarrhea 2-3 times a day and after eating. Recently, plus the diarrhea he has not been eating very much if anything at all but is drinking normally. He has been on medication for weeks to help stop the diarrhea but nothing really seems to be helping. He is taking 13 billion Acidophilus two to three times a day and 5 billion Acidophilus once a day. He was taking Duralactin L-Lysine twice a day for a short while since it appeared to be doing nothing. He is also taking 63 mg of Metronydazole twice a day and 1 mL of Proviable three times a day. All these medicines put together has brought the diarrhea down to maybe once a day but he is still not eating and is very thin and bony due to this. He drinks normally as I said before but I'm sure he is dehyrdrated. I believe this chronic diarrhea is caused by the clindamycin he took in September. One of the reasons I believe this is because diarrhea is a side-effect to this medication and affects humans the same way. He was eating Science Diet w/d formula food for a while but wasnt eating that more than he would eat anything else. He usually ate by-product-free, natural, organic canned food and dry food. He has been an outside cat for most of his life but always comes in when the weather is cold or hot. He has been in since the time he began having the chronic diarrhea. I believe he has pseudomembranous colitis which is due to a growth of bacteria in his intestines. The pseudomembranous colitis is the reason he was taking the Metronidazole. I considered giving him Mirtazapine which is a food stimulant but didnt administer it due to the fact that if he eats, he usually has diarrhea afterwards and if he ate a lot, he would probably just have the diarrhea which would rid him of the nutrients he ate; making the food stimulant basically pointless in this situation. My family and I have tried just about everything and every medication to try to stop the diarrhea and make him want to eat. The diarrhea has lessened but he still doesnt eat. He takes a few bites then turns away and it seems like hes not getting any better. Is there anything else we could do? Are we doing all the right things? Is there something else that might be causing the diarrhea and loss of appetite?
Your time and advice is greatly appreciated.
Has he been seen by the same vet all this time? Maybe you need to get a second opinion, before your cat loses any more weight. Was a blood test done? Did they actually identify the bacteria?
Metro can also cause diarrhea. If it was going to work, you probably would have seen an improvement by now. Ditto the probiotics.
You didn't mention blood or mucous. Are those present too? I'm not saying it's not colitis, although usually if the animal was that sick, you would see more evidence. Is he running a fever? If he is truly dehydrated, it's even more important that you get him to a vet.
Have you tried some invalid food, such as boiled chicken and rice? I'd start with just the chicken-flavoured rice, cooked very soft. Let him eat small quantities as frequently as he wants.
You might also want to try slippery elm, a herbal powder that can be purchased at the health food store (if it's in capsules, make sure there are no additives). Mix a tablespoon with a little hot water and let it cool. It should thicken. Administer with a syringe. It coats the digestive system and also has curative powers. Might make him feel better.
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I second the opinion to take yout kitty to another vet. I am wondering if tests have to be done?
I have a cat that had chronic diarrhea for years. The vet could never get it under control with medication. He just said he had a sensitive stomach and he recommended I feed him Royal Canin for Sensitive stomanchs from his clinic. So, for years his diarrhea would come and go - poor kitty!!! I felt SO bad for him....
I finally got fed up and started my cats on a raw diet. Within a couple of weeks of the new diet the diarrhea completely cleared up and has not returned in the 5 months I have been feeding him raw. I am now convinced that cats DO NOT handle Grains (rice, corn, wheat, etc.), fillers, perservitives, meat by products, etc. very well. And many cats are allergic to all these wasted ingredients. Just the feedback alone from fellow raw feeders with the same experience has me convinced
This may not be the case for your kitty but it may be worth a shot??? Even if you try half canned and half raw to see if there is a bit of an improvement. Also, now if I do feed him canned it is GRAIN FREE. I use Wellness canned. If you want maybe start with GRAIN FREE canned (I didn't see grain free mentioned above)
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I second what badger says about the slippery elm bark. I had a cat with severe IBD and none of the 5 meds that he was on made a dent in his diarrhea. It wasn't until I gave him some SEB that he finally had a normal poop. Some info for you on that: http://www.littlebigcat.com/?action=...em=slipperyelm
It's really important that you get him to eat. What other foods have you tried? I would definitely stay away from any of the Hill's/Medi-cal products from the vet's office. Across the board, these have crappy ingredients not appropriate for cats. Here is some good info on nutrition, especially as it pertains to cats with messed up digestive systems: http://www.catnutrition.org/index.php
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
Clindamycin was prescribed for me for an abscessed tooth, and while it cleared up the abscess within a couple of weeks, developed mucousy, bloody diarrhea. A colonoscopy showed ulcerative colitis, a contraindication for this drug. My specialist prescribed Salofalk for 9 months. So far so good and that was 3 years ago. Don't know whether Salofalk is prescribed for cats, but you might ask your vet about it. Hope you can get her condition cleared up soon. Good luck.
Salofalk is a drug (pill, suppository or enema) used in humans to reduce inflammation in Ulcerative Colitis but does not cure the disease. It is usually the first drug used and is highly effective. There is a small percentage of people are allergic.
As with all meds, regular blood work should be done to check the kidney and liver functions.
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Jasper RIP (2001-2018)
Sweet Pea RIP (2004?-2014)
Puddles RIP (1996-2014)
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Rose semi feral, a cpietra rescue, female tabby (approx 13 yrs)
Jasper RIP (2001-2018)
Sweet Pea RIP (2004?-2014)
Puddles RIP (1996-2014)
Snowball RIP (1991-2005)
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.-English Proverb
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. Stephen R. Covey
chronic diarrhea
my kitty is having the exact same problem that you have described here. Please tell me what you discovered to help the problem. I am desparate!
I took him to the vet initially for something else, and they gave him clindomycin. After two doses, he has the worst diarrhea I have ever seen. He barely eats, and when he does, it passes directly through him.
It sounds as if he has developed IBD as result of the clindamycin. check this out, and see another vet for another opinion. A gradual change to different diet may help, e.g. A more natural food, such as Wellness that contains no corn, soy or wheat.
Last edited by catlover2; February 26th, 2009 at 12:27 PM.
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
question about Slippery elm for cats
WHAT is the correct dosage per body weight for slippery elm? And would it be safe for a six month old kitten? Got a rescue kitten and there was blood in his stool and very loose (almost diarrhea). Doc said it was stress diarrhea and put him on metronidazole. That worked beautifully and then after 10 days, cycled him off - 24 hours later, back to diarrhea and bloody stool. Back on metronidazole for another week. Fecal came back negative for worms, but vet wants to put him on Panacur, due to loose stools again and excessive gas. Can I do something homeopathic to help him? Probiotics or slippery elm? Help!
Slippery elm isn't really dosed by weight. I'd start with about 1/4 tsp twice a day mixed with wet food and increase up to 1/4 tsp 4x/day if you don't see any results.
Also, what is the kitten eating right now?
Probiotics certainly wouldn't hurt, especially if his diet has been changed recently.
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
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New iPad screen may be Samsung-made. Go figure
As numerous lawsuits and biting ads have proven, Apple and Samsung don't play well together--except, that is, when it comes to components.
For the new iPad's biggest feature, Apple may have been forced to rely on a bitter rival: Samsung.
In other words, the two giant companies appear to have been able to set aside all about those seemingly endless patent lawsuits and legal efforts to quash sales of each others' products around the world. Apple to Samsung: Come home, there's money to mint.
Bloomberg, citing component analysis firm iSuppli, reports that Samsung is the sole supplier of the 9.7-inch "Retina Display" that comes on Apple's new iPad. LG and Sharp couldn't make similar panels that met Apple's standards, the firm said.
"The display specifications on the new iPad are very demanding in terms of the very high resolution," iSuppli senior manager Vinita Jakhanwal told Bloomberg. "Achieving this high resolution without compromising on the power consumption and brightness and maintaining Apple's quality standards are supposedly proving to be a challenge for LG Display and Sharp."
Apple and Samsung declined comment to Bloomberg on the claim.
Apple has a long history of declining to identify the suppliers of specific components, although the details usually emerge when its gadgets get the teardown treatment. In fact, the company only recently named its suppliers at all as part of its 2012 supplier responsibility report (pdf). That said, Samsung has been a supplier of LCD screens for previous iterations of the iPad, so this shouldn't be too much of a surprise.
As for whether Samsung is up to making the high-density panels, its subsidiary Nouvoyance publicly demonstrated Retina Display-like screens early last year. One particular model, demoed at SID Display Week last year, sported 2560-by-1600 pixels, up from the 2048-by-1536 pixel display that ships in the new iPad.
Apple and Samsung are currently embroiled in litigation in courts around the world. Despite having been business partners for years, the two have quickly become fierce competitors in smartphones and tablets.
The dispute was kicked off last year when Apple filed a U.S. lawsuit against Samsung that accused Samsung of violating its intellectual property in the design of its mobile devices, specifically the Galaxy series of smartphones and tablets. Samsung quickly countersued, saying Apple was infringing on multiple patents. Since then, Apple's gone after Samsung heavily in Europe--particularly Italy and Germany, the latter of which is considered to be friendly to patent-holders and faster than courts in the U.S.
Samsung sent out an e-mail to the media last week pitting Apple's new iPad against its own Galaxy Note 10.1 smartphone. That involved talking up its own device for "content creation" by noting a number of things it could do that the iPad couldn't. Absent from that list was any mention of the screen--an omission that makes a bit more sense now.


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The very short version: President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a campaign speech on Monday, in the town of Durham, NH. This will cost the town an estimated sixteen to thirty thousand dollars in additional overtime for cops and fire officials and whatnot. The town is taking the position that while they'd be happy to eat the cost for a Presidential visit, a campaign stop by the President is a different story; the town also claims that they've asked previous campaigns to foot the bill for overtime/costs. Obama for America has declined to do this, claiming that the Secret Service wants the extra security in place (this is fast becoming OfA's favorite excuse for bad visuals); the town is now contemplating symbolically dis-inviting the President. If passed, then hi-jinks will then presumably ensue.
No, really, that was the really short version.
Let's break this down into several parts. First, the merits… well, how much merit Durham's claim has depends on how you look at it, and whether the town really has made a distinction between campaign and official stops. It's also in some ways the most irrelevant part of the problem facing Obama for America right now… and likely to be the one that they myopically fixate upon, bless their hearts. Because the second problem for the Democrats is how this looks. This isn't 2008. The country doesn't feel as rich as it did. Particularly since Obama hit Mitt Romney a couple of weeks ago with a campaign ad accusing Mitt Romney of… not wanting to pay for firemen and cops.
Anyway, the point here is that a thirty grand overtime bill is not exactly a hill that you'd expect Obama for America to die on; regardless of the relative merits, the optics are sufficiently poor that it'll probably cost them more than thirty grand's worth of headaches. It is, in fact, the sort of thing that campaign money is for; making problems go away that might otherwise stomp on the smooth delivery of a campaign's message. The Obama campaign really should have just smiled tightly, and paid up. Unless… they're, you know, feeling the pinch these days. To the point where thirty grand looks as much like real money to them as it does to most of the people reading this article.
Which would be… interesting, no?
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While Nintendo's making sure to have at least one big first-party title available for the launch of their new console in the form of New Super Mario Bros U, some of the company's other heavy hitters are quite as lucky. Metroid Blast—part of the themed mini-game collection Nintendo Land—isn't quite a full Samus Aran adventure but it brings in elements that hark back to the Metroid experience. And Nintendo's just revealed the other franchises getting similar treatment in their console's virtual amusement park.
The dinosaur that raised Mario and F-Zero's burly pilot will be part of the final three Nintendo Land attractions. Here are the official descriptions:
• Yoshi's Fruit Cart: Using the GamePad touch screen and stylus, the player draws a path for the Yoshi Cart to follow through each course. However, only the view of the course displayed on the TV screen shows fruit that must be collected and obstacles that must be avoided along the way to the goal. This fun attraction is a great example of the kind of integrated second-screen game play made possible by Wii U and the GamePad controller.
• Captain Falcon's Twister Race: In this single-player Attraction based on the F-Zero racing franchise, players get a top-down view of the track on the GamePad, which is held vertically and turned to steer the vehicle through a winding, twisting track, as they try to hit checkpoints before time runs out. Driving across dash plates can provide a quick burst of speed, while obstacles like speed spikes, whirlwinds, other vehicles and even bombs can make for a dangerous run.
• Octopus Dance: In this single-player Attraction, players use the GamePad to mirror dance moves performed by a deep-sea dance instructor. The goal is to always be watching one's own movements from the back to more easily mirror dance moves, but the dynamic interaction between the GamePad and the TV adds a unique twist. Players must be ready to switch between the views offered on the TV screen and the GamePad screen, as sometimes one view is more useful than the other.
So, the Yoshi and Falcon fans amongst you should again note that Nintendo Land comes out on November 18th, either bundled with the $349.99 Wii U Deluxe Set or comes sold separately for a $59.99 price tag.


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"Premium Charges" for Paratransit Services
Is a transit operator permitted to establish "premium charges" for complementary paratransit services that exceed the minimum requirements established by the Department of Transportation's ADA regulations?
In general, any paratransit services that a transit operator provides above and beyond its regulatory obligations, including service to individuals who do not fall under one of the three categories of eligibility established under the ADA, are not subject to the service criteria for ADA complementary paratransit (i.e., service area, response time, fares, trip purpose, hours and days, and capacity constraints). Transit operators may therefore elect to establish "premium charges" for such services.
Under the ADA, paratransit functions as a "safety net" for people with disabilities who are unable to make use of the fixed-route – e.g. "mainstream" – transit system (bus or rail). It is not intended to be a comprehensive system of transportation that meets all of the travel needs of persons with disabilities. As such, the level of service is required to be comparable to the fixed-route system, and service is required only for individuals whose disability – permanent or temporary – prevents them from using the fixed-route system. The eligibility requirements are incorporated into §37.123 of the Department's regulations, and the service criteria are established by §37.131.
Section 37.131 establishes the minimum requirements for complementary paratransit provided under the ADA; transit operators are free to provide any level of additional service that they or their communities find necessary. This could include providing paratransit service to individuals who do not meet the eligibility criteria, operating paratransit service beyond the fixed-route service area, providing service when the fixed-route system is not running, or by exceeding the basic next-day service requirement. In such cases, the operator would not be bound by the service criteria for ADA complementary paratransit, including the requirement that limits the fare to no more than twice the fare for a comparable trip on the fixed-route system.
While "premium charges" would therefore be permitted for such services, transit operators who wish to do so are strongly advised to thoroughly review Subpart F of the Department's ADA implementing regulations before making any changes to the operations, eligibility, or fare structure of their existing ADA complementary paratransit systems. Not only must transit operators ensure that any proposed changes are consistent with the basic ADA requirements, but they must also meet the applicable public participation requirements.
With regard to public participation, §37.137(c) requires a paratransit operator to create an "ongoing mechanism" for the participation of individuals with disabilities in the continued development and assessment of services to persons with disabilities. While this provision does not require a transit operator to conduct a public hearing for minor adjustments to its ADA paratransit service, the use of some form of public participation process in the establishment of "premium services" is strongly advised.
A public hearing is required, however, for changes to the paratransit reservations system. Under §37.131(b)(4), any changes to the reservation system must comply with the public participation requirements in §§37.137(b) and (c) of the Department's ADA implementing regulations.* These require that public participation include: outreach, consultation with individuals with disabilities, opportunity for public comment, a public hearing and the creation of a mechanism for continued participation of persons with disabilities in the development and assessment of services to persons with disabilities.
Transit operators are also advised that they must still meet the basic ADA paratransit service criteria, and should avoid any practice by which eligible riders are "steered" into a service category to which "premium charges" are applied. Furthermore, transit operators should not look to "premium services" as a means of relieving demand for ADA complementary paratransit services by eligible riders.
*Note: §37.131(b)(4) of the Department's ADA regulations, as amended, contains a typographical error; reference to §37.131(b) and (c) should read "37.137 (b) and (c)."


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Starting from the northern end of Geehi Flats Camping area, this walk first visits the Geehi Hut before crossing Swampy Plains Creek and walking along a 4WD trail, part of the Bicentennial National Trail to Keebles Hut. Here the walk loops back via another 4WD trail following the creek most of the way back to the start. The alternate entry described in these notes follows another 4WD trail in and uses a bridge to cross the creek, helpful if you want to keep your feet dry or when the creek's flow is too great to cross safely.
Total climbing: 27m
2.6 km Circuit
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Hard track
This walk takes you on a tour of some of the historic huts north of Geehi Flats. Starting from the northern end of Geehi Flats Camping area near Geehi Hut, you will cross Swampy Plains River and walk across the plain to an intersection just before Keebles Hut. Here the walk heads up on the higher section of Behrs Flat and then down and across Swampy Plains River again. You will then follow another trail to the old Geehi Hut, once used as a youth hostel.
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Here is my progress on my "Birds Of A Funky Feather".
#6 is almost finished.
I didn't finish my housework :( but that's ok because mom doesn't care. She said it will be just fine so I am off to take the family to doctors appts., go get food for Easter and then pick up mom. But I couldn't leave without sharing #6 with you. So here he is and have a good day. I am OFF..................


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Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition is Out Now on Nintendo Switch
THQ Nordic have announced that Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition is available now for the Nintendo Switch!
Become the terrifying force which everything fears but nothing can escape. Awakened by the End of Days, Death, the most feared of the legendary Four Horsemen embarks on a quest to redeem his brother's name. Along the way, the Horseman discovers that an ancient grudge may threaten all of Creation. Death lives!
Play Death: Become the most feared of the legendary Four Horsemen, able to destroy entire worlds and battle forces beyond Heaven and Hell.
Epic Universe: Unlike anything the player has seen before, delivered in the unique style of Joe Mad.
Player Choice & Customization: Customize your experience with varied armor sets, weapons, and Skill Trees allowing players to create their own Death.
Replay-ability: Explore a vast open world, complete dozens of side quests and customize your Death with a full leveling system, Skill Trees and endless equipment combinations.
Traversal: Death is a nimble and agile character capable of incredible acrobatic feats allowing the player to explore the world like never before.
Deathinitive Edition:
- Darksiders 2 with all DLC included and integrated into the game which offers a total playtime of more than 30 hours.
- Reworked and tuned game balancing and loot distribution.
- Improved Graphic Render Engine for higher visual quality especially in terms of lighting and shadows.
- Improved and reworked level, character and environment graphics.
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Could you avoid an epic hack against your personal data and online accounts similar to the recent attack against former Gizmodo writer Mat Honan? Hackers bent on breaking into Honan's Twitter account wreaked havoc on the technology writer's personal computing devices and online accounts. The bad guys remotely wiped his iPad, iPhone, and Mac, and deleted his Google Account. The attack cost Honan most of his personal data (he didn't backup the information) including family photos that may be unrecoverable.
The attack was partially because of poor security policies at Amazon and Apple, according to Honan's account in Wired. Hackers were able to fool customer service representatives at Amazon and Apple to reset Honan's passwords and take over those accounts.
It's a devastating story and one that could happen to anybody with sensitive data stored online. Honan was not targeted because of a story he wrote or because of his views about technology. Instead, one hacker told Honan after the fact, he was targeted simply because the bad guys liked his Twitter username and wanted to use it.
Here's what you can do to help minimize the risk of something similar happening to you.
Backup, Backup, Backup
The most basic thing you can do to avoid losing precious data such as photos, videos, word processing documents and other files is to backup your data. But it's not enough to just stash everything in an external hard drive that sits on your desk at home. You should have one local backup at your location, as well as an off-site backup on a different storage medium for added security. For most people, this means using a cloud-based service such as Carbonite or SpiderOak. If those services are too expensive for you, free options such as Dropbox and SkyDrive may also work depending on how much storage space you need and the level of security you require for your data. The bottom line is you need two backups: one at home and one somewhere else.
Privatize your Web Registration
One hole in Honan's security was that his website domain registration was unprotected. That means anyone who went to a WHOIS site could enter his domain address and find out exactly where he lived. Honan's billing address was one of the key pieces of data used to access his Amazon and AppleID accounts. If you own a website and the registration is connected to your home address, make sure you pay the extra fee to hide your personal details.
Account Recovery E-mail
A primary mode of attack for hackers is to use an online service's account recovery option to try to break in. That's what got the ball rolling for Honan's nightmare, and it has happened numerous other times including the 2008 hack of Sarah Palin's Yahoo account and the 2009 corporate Twitter hack. The best way to protect yourself against this is to use a dedicated free e-mail account such as Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook or Yahoo for account recovery. Make sure the account isn't using an obvious e-mail address such as email@example.com, email@example.com, or is similar to any of your other e-mail addresses.
If you're a Hotmail/Outlook.com user, you can create an alias address inside your old Hotmail account. But don't use this trick if your Hotmail address is already the point of contact for a sensitive account such as Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, or another service.
Firewall Between Sensitive Accounts
Another step you could take is to make sure a security breach can't snowball where access to one account gives hackers access to another. Use different recovery e-mail addresses for highly sensitive accounts, especially any account where you store credit card or bank details such as Amazon, Apple, Google Checkout, PayPal, or Xbox.com.
Two-Step Verification
If Gmail is your primary e-mail address, use two-factor authentication for logging in to the account. This requires you to enter a short verification code before getting access to your account. The code is sent to your phone via a smartphone app, SMS, or voice message. Without the verification code, hackers won't be able to access your account. Check out the Gmail help page for more information about two-step verification. Yahoo also offers two-step verification, while Hotmail offers one-time passwords for secure logins on public PCs.
You may not be able to stop hackers from fooling customer service reps from handing over your data, but if you keep everything as separate as possible and backup your data, you can minimize the risk of losing everything when disaster strikes.
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Since 1976 A&R Tarpaulins, Inc. and its Divisions, AR Industries and AR Tech, has been manufacturing custom made fabric products. Applications of A&R's work have provided products and services for aerospace manufacturers, awnings and truck tarps. A&R continues to grow, providing truck tarp systems, fabric awnings, architectural fabric structures and technical fabric products, and excellent services to end users as well as suppliers to industry and also the general public. A&R has built a reputationof quality products with uncompromised performance, while complying with the mandate of our quality policy, that…our first priority is serving the requirements of our customers. This commitment is exemplified by our ISO9001:2015 & AS9100D registered certifications in meeting international quality standards.
A&R's commitments are also shown in some of the following examples of meeting customer needs through both innovative responses to requirements that are "out of the box":
- By integrating truck tarp system concepts to manufacturing commercial canopy systems for restaurant enclosures.
- By our ability to serve the aerospace industry through development of unique EMI shielding products & conductive and antistatic assemblies for companies like Boeing, United Launch Alliance and Lockheed Martin.
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A&R's owners has served on the IFAI Board of Directors for 8 ½ years, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Associations private non-profit foundation, the Industrial Fabrics Foundation (IFF).
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DETROIT -- The Detroit Lions were dominant after a shaky start and snapped a few losing streaks.
Matthew Stafford made up for some mistakes with three touchdown passes, including one to Calvin Johnson, to help Detroit score 37 straight points to beat the Green Bay Packers 40-10 on Thursday.
The Lions (7-5) had lost their last two games, five consecutive against Green Bay and a franchise-record nine straight in their annual showcase on Thanksgiving.
The Packers (5-6-1) have a five-game winless streak for the first time since 2008, showing how valuable Aaron Rodgers is for the franchise. Rodgers has missed four-plus games since fracturing his left collarbone.
Matt Flynn became the fourth starting quarterback for Green Bay this year and was sacked seven times, once by Ndamukong Suh for a safety.
Flynn didn't fare as well as he did in his last start for Green Bay against the same opponent.
He was 10 of 20 for 139 yards with an interception and two fumbles. In the last game of the 2011 regular season, while Rodgers rested for the playoffs, Flynn threw for 480 yards and six touchdowns in a 45-41 win over Detroit.
Stafford was 22 of 35 for 330 yards with two interceptions and a fumble that was returned by Morgan Burnett to put the Packers up 10-3 early in the second quarter.
After that, Detroit did whatever it wanted on both sides of the ball.
Reggie Bush bounced back from a fumble deep in Green Bay territory with a go-ahead, 1-yard TD run to give Detroit a 17-10 lead late in the first half. He finished with 117 yards rushing and 65 yards receiving.
Detroit's Joique Bell ran for 94 yards and a score. Johnson had six receptions for 101 yards and a 20-yard TD to put the Lions up 24-10 early in the third quarter.
The Packers have been leaning on rookie running back Eddie Lacy lately, but he was limited to 16 yards on 10 carries against one of the NFL's best defenses against the run.
If Detroit didn't start the game so poorly, the score could've been even more lopsided.
Bush ended what was a productive opening possession by fumbling at the Green Bay 6 after former USC teammate Clay Matthews knocked the ball out of his hands.
Detroit also had a first-and-goal from the Packers 7 and lost 2 yards on three plays, in part because of Brandon Pettigrew's false start, and settled for David Akers' field goal.
On Detroit's next snap, Nick Perry stripped the ball away from Stafford, and Burnett's 1-yard return gave Green Bay its last lead. Stafford ended the next drive with an interception that was thrown directly at Tramon Williams as if the quarterback didn't see the cornerback.
The Lions gained 561 yards and gave up just 126.
Green Bay didn't have more than 100 yards of offense until there was a little more than a minute left, then Flynn fumbled in a fitting end for a game that he and his banged-up team would like to forget.


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Wayne Dyer Quote
We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience.
Wayne Dyer
Human Experience
A few more Wayne Dyer Quotes that inspire me
- All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy
- Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
- Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer
Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. His first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 35 million copies sold to date.
My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like.
Religion is orthodoxy, rules and historical scriptures maintained by people over long periods of time. Generally people are raised to obey the customs and practices of that religion without question. These are customs and expectations from outside the person and do not fit my definition of spiritual.
Love Peace & Understanding


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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art (write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can) and somewhere in the next year, I hope you surprise yourself.
Neil Gaiman
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Broccoli Affogati
Region: Italy, Apulia
Category: Vegetables
Season: Summer
Difficulty: Easy
Affogati means "drowned" and in this preparation for broccoli the vegetable is drowned in blend of wine, water, and juicy tomatoes. This is the kind of preparation I like to make in the summer and serve with grilled foods. The broccoli is simmered with the tomatoes and then served at room temperature.
[photo: Clifford A. Wright]
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Preparation Time: 40 minutes
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 small onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 pound ripe tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped
1/2 cup dry white wine
1/2 cup water
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 pound broccoli, trimmed, and broken into small florets
1. In a skillet or casserole, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat, then cook the onion and garlic until translucent, stirring frequently so the garlic doesn't burn, about 4 minutes.
2. Add the tomatoes, wine, water, season with salt and pepper, and continue cooking for 2 minutes, stirring. Add the broccoli, reduce the heat to medium-low, stir, and cook until the broccoli is tender, about 8 minutes (check as it could take longer). Moisten with water if the sauce dries out. Turn the heat off and let come to room temperature to serve.
Posted: 01/02/2007