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Why are women more prone to autoimmune diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis? A new study in mice points to a possible contributor: different types of bacteria that populate our guts.
It goes like this: Different mixes of bacteria reside in the innards of male and female mice. Those bacteria, in turn, affect the chemistry of the animals' bodies -- and, it appears, their risk of autoimmunity.
The study, just published in Science, was done by Janet Markle of the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, and colleagues. It's a little complicated, with players that include sex hormones, fatty chemicals, immune cells and a whole host of microscopic life forms.
The subject of the study was a type of mouse known as a NOD mouse, which stands for "non-obese diabetic." These mice spontaneously develop Type 1 diabetes when the insulin-making cells of the pancreas are destroyed by the mouse's own immune system, and female NOD mice develop diabetes twice as often as male NOD mice do. The scientists chose these mice to study because they display just the kind of sex bias in an autoimmune disease that one sees so often in people (though it's a little different too: In people, Type 1 diabetes doesn't display a sex difference).


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Do you plan on upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2008? Well, this has certainly been a hot topic for our readers. We've had an overwhelming response to an editorial and commentary on this subject. In fact, we've devoted an entire page in the October issue to give you an idea of where our readers stand. But, like every opinion, there is always another opinion that has merit and is worth considering. In response to "Too Soon for SQL Server 2008", one of our regular forum posters and SQL Magazine reader, Kalman Toth, sent us his opinion on why he's taking a serious look at SQL Server 2008. Kalman has been a regular contributor on our forums since 2005. His article follows:
Is SQL Server 2008 Necessary? — Kalman Toth
When I was at the SQL Server 2005 introductory conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft executives promised faster version release as demanded by "us", the user community, no more waiting for 5 years (since SQL Server 2000). When I was at the Microsoft Business Intelligence conference in Seattle this May, Katmai was announced. A month later it was gone. It became SQL Server 2008. That is fast! Informally I asked several attendees if they converted to SQL Server 2005. Most of them were in the middle of upgrade.
Personally I believe that the 5 year software release cycle is an excellent one from the business viewpoint of database software customers. Software vendors have to prepare a new release of their software to take advantage of the new features of the latest SQL Server. That can take a year or two easy. IT staff has to be trained and become proficient using the new features. Careful migration plans prepared and carried out. Last but not least, companies want to get high ROI on SQL Server. A CTO does not want to disturb a well functioning system with an upgrade for no good reason.
So who are the people who are asking Microsoft for new features and say that 5 year is too long to wait? Among them I. No-blocking database re-indexing is very important in 24/7 operation. SQL Server 2000 did not have it. SQL Server 2005 has it. 5 years really appear to be an eternity if you are a DBA for a high-volume website with a SQL Server backend. Table partitioning probably was on the wish list of most SQL Server 2000 installations. SQL Server 2005 has table partitioning after 5 years of long wait. Unfortunately it is not exactly automatic; it requires elaborate setup and maintenance. For example, it does not support "rolling" partition. You cannot partition the last 90 days of data from data older than 90 days, a very natural requirement when partitioning data based on acquisition date. We can go through all the great new features of SQL Server 2005 and surely we will find a segment of the user community who wanted it and feel that 5 years was too long of a wait. Features like: XML processing, tree processing, try/catch error trapping, snapshot isolation, MARS, CTE, deadlock visualization, ROW_NUMBER function, non-key columns in indexes, column-level encryption, database mirroring and so on.
But then again there are features the user community is waiting for and still not in the 5 year cycle release of SQL Server. I am waiting over 15 years for example a DATE (only) datatype. In most business applications, the time part of datetime datatype is not required. Birth date, employment date, publication date and deposit date are all examples for it. I am also waiting for a long time for a database backup file compression and encryption utility. The fact is that many of the missed features are already on the plate of Microsoft development managers responsible for SQL Server. Yet they have to make decision what to include what to postpone in the next release of the software.
There are of course the surprises you wish did not come with the new version. I liked Enterprise Manager of SQL Server 2000 very much. I did not have any trouble with it. I also liked DTS. I liked the stored procedure debugger in Query Analyzer. Well, they are all gone, replaced with something better or worse, but certainly not equivalent. For most DBA-s, it is not an easy transition from the practical DTS to the sophisticated ETL tool SSIS. For most SQL Server shops, SSIS may be overkill. Even more astounding for the average DBA, that Microsoft does not even call SSIS a data transfer utility, rather a Business Intelligence tool for data warehouse population which is removed from the DBA's command control tool: Management Studio. Life is of course full with compromises. That is the price of progress. All the great features of SQL Server 2005 weigh more on the scale than the negative surprises.
So why to have SQL Server 2008 and not SQL Server 2010? What are the new features which we are waiting so desperately? New date/time types for one thing. Nobody can argue with these especially if they include the DATE (only) datatype. Date is the bread and butter of most database application. SQL Server 2008 has a new geometric (spatial) datatype which can be used for satellite tracking and map applications for example. I am not convinced about this one. Companies who need this feature have already acquired the appropriate application or Business Intelligence software. Some of the new features are just bettering the features of SQL Server 2005. As such they could be released with Service Packs. Here is one new feature I really get excited about and vote not to wait till 2010: Performance Studio for troubleshooting, tuning and monitoring servers across the enterprise. PS is every DBA's dream who ever struggled with optimizing slow-running queries, finding the right indexes and eliminating performance bottlenecks. There is also the Pervasive Insight feature which will not excite most DBAs and developers due to lack of understanding. Microsoft's definition: "Drive business intelligence throughout the organization with reports and analysis of any size or complexity".
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Off-pump coronary artery bypass - discharge; OPCAB - discharge; Beating heart surgery - discharge; Bypass surgery - heart - discharge; CABG - discharge; Coronary artery bypass graft - discharge; Coronary artery bypass surgery - discharge; Coronary bypass surgery - discharge
When You Were in the Hospital
Your doctor took a vein or artery from another part of your body to create a detour, or bypass, around an artery that was blocked and could not bring enough blood to your heart.
Your surgery was done through an incision (cut) in your chest. If the surgeon went through your breastbone, the surgeon repaired it with wire and a metal plate, and your skin was closed with stitches. You also had an incision made in your leg or arm, where the vein was taken from to be used for the bypass.
What to Expect at Home
After surgery, it takes 4 to 6 weeks to completely heal and start feeling better. It is normal to:
- Have pain in your chest area around your incision
- Have a poor appetite for 2 - 4 weeks
- Have mood swings and feel depressed
- Have swelling in the leg that the vein graft was taken from
- Feel itchy, numb, or tingly around your incisions on your chest and leg for 6 months or more
- Have trouble sleeping at night
- Be constipated from pain medicines
- Have trouble with short-term memory or feel confused ("fuzzy-headed")
- Be tired or not have much energy
- Have some shortness of breath. This may be worse if you also have lung problems. Some patients may use oxygen when they go home.
- Have weakness in your arms for the first month
You should have someone to stay with you in your home for at least the first 1 - 2 weeks.
Learn how to check your pulse, and check it every day.
Do the breathing exercises you learned in the hospital for 4 - 6 weeks.
Shower every day, washing the incision gently with soap and water. Do NOT swim, soak in a hot tub, or take baths until your incision is completely healed. Follow a heart-healthy diet.
If you feel depressed, talk with your family and friends. Ask your doctor about getting help from a counselor.
Continue to take all your medications for your heart, diabetes, high blood pressure, or any other conditions you have.
- Do not stop taking any medicine without talking with your doctor or nurse first.
- Your doctor may recommend antiplatelet (blood-thinning) drugs --such as
aspirin, clopidogrel(Plavix), prasugrel (efient), or ticagrelor (Brilinta) -- to help keep your artery graft open.
- If you are taking a blood thinner, such as warfarin (Coumadin), you may need to have extra blood tests to make sure your dose is correct.
Stay active during your recovery, but be sure to start slowly.
- Do not stand or sit in the same spot for too long. Move around a little bit.
- Walking is a good exercise for the lungs and heart after surgery. Dont be concerned about how fast you are walking. Take it slow.
- Climbing stairs is okay, but be careful. Balance may be a problem. Rest halfway up the stairs if you need to.
- Light household chores, such as setting the table, folding clothes, walking, and climbing stairs, should be okay.
- Slowly increase the amount and intensity of your activities over the first 3 months.
- Do not exercise outside when it is too cold or too hot.
- Stop if you feel short of breath, dizzy, or any pain in your chest. Do NOT do any activity or exercise that causes pulling or pain across your chest, such as using a rowing machine or weight lifting.
- Keep your incision areas protected from the sun to avoid sunburn.
Do not drive for at least 4 - 6 weeks after your surgery. The twisting involved in turning the steering wheel may pull on your incision. Ask your doctor when you may return to work, and expect to be away from work for about 6 - 8 weeks.
Do not travel for at least 2 or 4 weeks. Ask your doctor when travel is okay. Ask your doctor before starting sexual activity again. Usually it is okay after 4 weeks.
You may be referred to a formal cardiac rehabilitation program, where you will receive information and counseling regarding activity, diet, and supervised exercise.
Wound Care
For the first 6 weeks after your surgery, you must be careful how you use your arms and upper body when you move.
- Do NOT reach backwards.
- Do NOT let anyone pull on your arms for any reason -- for instance, if they are helping you move around or get out of bed.
- Lift anything heavier than 5 - 7 pounds.
- Do NOT start even light housework for at least 2 - 3 weeks. Check with your doctor before using your arms and shoulder more.
Brushing your teeth is okay, but do not do other activities that keep your arms above your shoulders for any period of time. Keep your arms close to your sides when you are using them to get out of bed or a chair. You may bend forward to tie your shoes. Always stop if you feel pulling on your breastbone.
Your doctor or nurse will tell you how to take care of your chest wound. You will likely be asked to
If you had a cut or incision on your leg:
- Keep your legs raised when sitting.
- Wear elastic TED hose for 2 - 3 weeks until the swelling goes away and you are more active.
When to Call the Doctor
Call your doctor if:
- You have chest pain or shortness of breath that does not go away when you rest.
- Your pulse feels irregular -- it is very slow (fewer than 60 beats a minute) or very fast (over 100 to 120 beats a minute).
- You have dizziness, fainting, or you are very tired.
- You have a severe headache that does not go away.
- You have a cough that does not go away
- You are coughing up blood or yellow or green mucus.
- You have problems taking any of your heart medicines.
- Your weight goes up by more than 2 pounds in a day for 2 days in a row.
- Your wound changes. It is red or swelling, or it has opened, or there is more drainage coming from it.
- You have chills or a fever over 101 F.
Vandvik PO, Lincoff AM, Gore JM, Gutterman DD, Sonnenberg FA, Alonso-Coello P, et al. Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 2012 Feb;141(2 Suppl):e637S-68S.
Fraker TD Jr, Fihn SD, Gibbons RJ, Abrams J, Chatterjee K, Daley J, et al. 2007 chronic angina focused update of the ACC/AHA 2002 Guidelines for the management of paAtients with chronic stable angina: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Writing Group to develop the focused update of the 2002 Guidelines for the management of patients with chronic stable angina. Circulation. 2007 Dec 4;116(23):2762-72. Epub 2007 Nov 12.
Hillis LD, Smith PK, Anderson JL, Bittl JA, Bridges CR, Byrne JG, et al. 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Developed in collaboration with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Dec 6;58(24):e123-210. Epub 2011 Nov 7.
Gopaldas RR, Chu D, Bakaeen FG. Coronary insufficiency. In: Townsend CM Jr, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds.Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 60.
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HARTFORD, Conn. – Despite losing to UConn for the 12th straight time, Louisville coach Jeff Walz was pleased with his team's effort.
Shoni Schimmel scored 14 points and Antonita Slaughter added 13 in the 15th-ranked Cardinals' 72-58 loss to No. 3 UConn on Tuesday night.
"You look at the score and we played them even the entire second half," Walz said. "We only turned the ball over three times in the second half, only gave up two offensive rebounds. I was really proud of the way we played."
The Cardinals trailed by 14 at the half and cut it to 11 in the second half. Slaughter had an open 3 that didn't fall which would have cut the deficit to single digits for the first time since 5 minutes were left in the first half.
"We couldn't get a six- or eight-point run together," Walz said. "We hit some great shots. Slaughter had some great looks at 3. She's going to hit that a majority of the time. She was 1 for 7 from the 3-point line. A team like this, you got to make those looks."
UConn led 16-12 midway through the first half before Bria Hartley took over. She followed up a stepback 3-pointer with a three-point play that extended the advantage to double digits for the first time.
Hartley scored 16 points, showing no ill effects from a sprained left ankle that sidelined her for the second half of the Marquette game on Saturday.
"She looked fine to me," Walz said. "She shoots the ball well."
Louisville (14-4, 2-2) got within 28-20 before the Huskies closed the half on a 9-3 run. Faris hit a 3-pointer to start the spurt and Moriah Jefferson had a nifty burst up the floor accelerating past all the Louisville players for an acrobatic layup. UConn was up 37-23 at the break.
While Hartley was able to play, UConn was missing freshman Breanna Stewart for the second straight game. The budding star sprained her left ankle in practice Friday. She did partake in pregame warmups, but didn't get into the game.
"I think she's come along a lot faster than we initially thought when she first got hurt," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "She looks good. If it was an emergency, she could have played tonight. I'm expecting her to be fully ready on Saturday."
The Huskies (15-1, 3-1 Big East) didn't need her because of Hartley.
"When she's playing like she played tonight and has the attitude she played with tonight, she makes a huge difference," Auriemma said.
Auriemma admitted he wasn't exactly sure what he was going to get out of Hartley.
"I didn't have any expectations going in," he said. "One of those, let's see what happens. She played a lot of minutes. I figured why not. She played like the old Bria. With the stretch we got coming up I don't worry about her."
UConn will host Syracuse on Saturday then play No. 4 Duke on Monday.
Stefanie Dolson also had 16 points, while Kelly Faris had 13 points and seven assists. She also had seven turnovers.
The Cardinals will be leaving for the ACC at some point over the next two years. Despite the dominance UConn has had lately, Auriemma will be sad to see them leave.
"Louisville brings out the best in us," Auriemma said. "Since (Jeff)'s gotten the job they've had incredible success. Maybe we keep playing them down the road once we find out what our situation is."
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- The functional parts of the pivot-shanks and pivots, including their faces must be burnished.
- The other parts must be finished so as to eliminate all machining traces.
- The pinion faces must be finished so as to remove all machining traces, without rounding off their edges and/or flattening out burrs. Polishing, grinding or any other finishing operations are acceptable provided they do not contravene the foregoing requirements.
- The pinion leaves must be polished without modifying the functional part of their tips.
Wheels and gears that are not in the going train
- Must be finished so as to remove all machining traces.
- Teeth must be polished if the material used allows it.
- Wheels with crossings must be finished in the same way as the going-train wheels.
- The ratchet-wheel and the crown-wheel must be decorated so as to remove all machining traces and must have chamfered and polished teeth.
For movements with a total diameter exceeding 18 mm
- The thickness of the escape-wheel must not exceed 0.16 mm.
- The locking-faces of its teeth must be polished.
For movements with a total diameter exceeding 18 mm
- The thickness of the escape-wheel must not exceed 0.13 mm.
- The locking-faces of its teeth must be polished.
The angle described by the lever is to be limited by fixed banking-walls to the exclusion of pins or studs.
- The balance-spring may be pinned up with a grooved plate having a rounded collar and cap.
- A mobile stud holder is acceptable so long as it can be locked in position.
- Split or fitted indexes are allowed with a holding system except in extra-thin calibers where the holding system is not required.
- Balance-wheels adjusted by variable inertia are acceptable.
- Adjustment means fitting, starting and adjusting the spring balance
- Balance-spring fitting (pinning up to the stud and collet and counting the spring) may be undertaken outside the Canton of Geneva.
- The balance-spring must not be glued in position; it may however be welded.
To extend the workmanship required and applied to the components of the movement, the Hallmark of Geneva lays down specific conditions of manufacture and finish for the parts that connect the movement to the exterior (braces, brace screws, casing rings, levers, setting levers, etc.).
This approach consolidates the idea of a product conceived and designed in its entirety. The finishes selected also have a functional purpose.
To meet the expectations of the customer, the Hallmark of Geneva stipulates a thorough examination of the cased-up watch. This functional test certifies the manufacturer's guarantee to the customer.
The brands have to submit their watches to a simulation of the standard operation of a watch during a week. At the end of the seven days the time shown by the watch must not have deviated by more than one minute.
A watch that is claimed to be water-resistant must withstand the minimum pressure defined by the regulations as well as the pressure claimed by the brand.
The watch must have a power-reserve at least equal to that claimed by the brand.
Functional tests
The test must show that all the functions of the watch work properly.


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WESTFORD -- Roars of laughter carry out to the street outside First Parish Church United on Tuesday nights.
Inside, instructor Cindy Brown tells her Laughter Yoga classes to "fake it" until they "make it" -- pretend to laugh until it becomes natural.
Brown, a psychotherapist and yoga instructor, brought Laughter Yoga to Westford about 2 1/2 years ago and has been holding free classes ever since.
"What I didn't know was that it would really change me," Brown says. "I remember driving away from my training classes and telling my husband, 'I never want to go another day without laughing ever again.'"
Dr. Madan Kataria, a family physician from Mumbai, India, created Laughter Yoga after studying the health benefits of laughter.
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Kataria created a small "Laughter Club" of four people, which has recently become a worldwide movement with more than 5,000 clubs around the world.
Brown first learned about Laughter Yoga while taking a course in advanced yoga training. A few years later, Brown began training with laughter yoga leader Sebastian Gendry, head of the laughter yoga movement in the United States.
Brown teaches regular yoga classes in Acton, Westford and at the Senior Center in Chelmsford, in addition to her 45-minute laughter yoga classes in Westford.
On a recent Tuesday night, the class begins with what seems a little awkward and forced, but quickly adjusts into a contagious wave of real laughter. Club members find themselves unable to even look at each other without giggling.
"In general, I feel a lot happier now that I started coming. I can't imagine not laughing now. It really gives you a different way of thinking," says Marybeth Bush of Tyngsboro.
Aside from what may seem a little odd to an outsider looking in, it is actually quite healing to the body and mind.
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In most basic yoga classes, the poses and breathing techniques overlap quite a bit, with students often practicing the "downward dog," "warrior" or "child" poses. In Laughter Yoga, exercises include "jack in the box," "monkey" and "elephant," each to elicit a laugh.
"Ho! Ho! Hah! Hah! Hah!" echoes through the large church ballroom between every laughter exercise. Brown's husband, Richard Davis, a music professor at Berklee College of Music, leads the group in a laughter version of the 1812 Overture.
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"This class just makes you really happy," says Kathleen Feeney, a Chelmsford resident who has attended Laughter Yoga for about two years. "We meet every Tuesday and I swear, I'm still laughing by Thursday."
"I thought it was a little strange at first, but if you don't mind making a fool out of yourself, it's fun, and definitely contagious," says first-timer Maddy Bernard, 18, of Westford.
"It was a little strange at first, but I came again so I guess it wasn't too strange for me," says Laurianne Posch, 19, of Westford.
The last 10 minutes are saved for relaxing. That doesn't last long.
"Settle down and close your eyes. Just relax," Brown tells the group, whose members are laying in a circle on their backs.
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"It would be pretty hard not to be in a good mood right now," Brown tells the class, prompting even more laughter.
During the last few minutes, members are welcomed to share whatever troubles they may be having. Some speak about family health problems, or even feeling upset without knowing why.
"There's a time where all you have to do is look in the mirror and smile. It doesn't mean you don't feel your grief, it just means to remind yourself to laugh," Brown explains.
"It's a really powerful practice, in that, it is a body-mind practice. What your body does, your brain follows, so if your body is doing happy, your brain will start registering happy," Brown says.
"We're always here, and we're always free. All I ask is that you spread the laughter," Brown says.
For more information about joining a Laughter Yoga class, email Cindy Brown at email@example.com or visit laughterisit.com.


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7:00 am
Curious George "Housebound!/Curious George Rides A Bike" George breaks his leg at the museum while exploring a dinosaur skeleton and goes to the hospital.G
7:30 am
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Dress Up Day/Bathtime" Dress Up Day - Nick and Sally are playing dress up, but oh no! Sally's princess dress has torn, and mom doesn't have any silk thread to fix it. Cat takes them to his good friend Mindy, the silk caterpillar. Mindy shows them how she makes silk. D
8:00 am
Super Why! "King Midas" Pig only has one toy car, but he wants lots more! Super Why and his friends fly into the story of a ruler with the golden touch and meet King Midas. The king may think that MORE is better, but all he ends up with is more problems! The reading heroes help King Midas, and Pig learns an important lesson about appreciation. Educational Objectives: To learn to be glad about what you have, discover the alphabet, identify the letters M, I, L, K., practice the magic of spelling, and use the power to read to change the story. D
8:30 am
Dinosaur Train "Hootin' Hadrosaurs!/Hatching Party" Hootin' Hadrosaurs! - Buddy, Tiny, Shiny and Don meet Perry Parasaurolophus, a dinosaur with a crest on his head who teaches them a new way to hoot some hip music. Hatching Party - Buddy, Tiny and Mrs. Pteranodon attend an egg hatching party and meet their friend Cory Corythosaurus's new brothers and sisters. D
9:00 am
The Electric Company "A Whole New Francine" Francine decides to be a nicer person, but is it just a ploy to get invited into The Electric Company?. D
9:30 am
Wild Kratts "Mimic" While exploring why some animals mimic the looks of others, Martin and Chris encounter a cheetah cub and its mom. But before they know it, evil fashion designer, Donita Donata, 'cat-naps' the startled mom right in front of their eyes. The Wild Kratts team springs into action on a rescue mission before Donita adds the momma cheetah to her new fall line. D
10:00 am
WordWorld "There's An Ant In Every Giant/Chef Sheep" There's an Ant in Every Giant - When Ant grows tired of being the smallest WordFriend in Word World, he adds a G-I to his tiny frame and changes from ANT to GIANT. However, he soon realizes that he can be Word World's biggest hero when he's just tiny Ant. Chef Sheep - When Pig gets a bowl stuck on his face, Sheep must take over his cooking show. D
10:30 am
WordGirl "Quiz Show/The People Vs. Ms. Question" Quiz Show - Mrs. Botsford is a contestant on Seymour Smooth's new show "Win a Shiny New Car." When Becky realizes the other contestants are cheating for Smooth, she has to save her Mom from being tricked again. Can Becky help her mom win the challenge and defeat Seymour Smooth? Vocabulary Words: Legitimate, Elated. D
11:00 am
Journey of Sacagawea Oral history and tradition among the Lemhi Shoshonis, Sacagawea's descendants, and the Hidatsas, her childhood abductors, profile the person behind the western historical icon. Reenactments and scenes of the wild areas she knew help writer-producer Lori Joyce and her team explore the Lewis and Clark expedition.G
12:00 pm
Katie Brown Workshop "How to Blend The Old with the New When Remodeling" The final episode in the three-part home makeover features a walk-through of the living spaces in Katie's home in Connecticut. Before-and-after photos document the progress. D
12:30 pm
Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "European Flower Box, Part 1" (16x20 Acrylic) This painting embraces the Tuscany trend in painting and will feature a flowered window box. Jerry starts with mottled sienna underpainting and sketches the subject window and flower box which will be the center of interest. Using a black mixture, Jerry first blocks in the windows and then blends in a stucco facade around the windows. D
1:00 pm
Essential Pepin "Game Day" Venison Steaks In Sweet-Sour Sauce; Skillet Duck With Red Oak Salad; Sauteed Rabbit With Morels And Pearl Onions. D
1:30 pm
Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "The Swiss Mittelland" Burt shows us where, how and why Sherlock Homes died at the height of his fame, takes a look at the most representative government in the world, visits the home of the wool-covered pigs, and discovers why some Swiss farmers painted fake windows on their homes. Burt also stops into a restaurant that has been in the same family for over 600 years and has over 600 corkscrews to open your wine. D
2:00 pm
Dialogue "James McPherson" James McPherson is one of America's greatest Civil War historians. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize winning writing captures the drama of this era and his latest book, "Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief," gives new insight into Abraham Lincoln's remarkable skill as a military leader. Joan Cartan-Hansen talks with McPherson about Lincoln and why we are still fighting over some of the same issues we thrashed out in the Civil War 150 years ago.G
2:30 pm
MotorWeek "2012 Volvo S60 R-Design" Road Test: 2012 Volvo S60 R-Design. Road Test: 2012 Chevrolet Sonic. Goss' Garage: Goops & Gaskets. D
3:00 pm
Dr. Wayne Dyer - Wishes Fulfilled In his newest PBS special, Dr. Wayne Dyer offers viewers a detailed explanation of how to manifest that which is most important to them. He also introduces viewers to the philosophies of influential metaphysics teacher of the 20th Century, Neville Goddard. D
6:00 pm
Nature "River of No Return" Isaac and Bjornen Babcock head into the Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness for a yearlong honeymoon. They capture the beauty and wildlife with their cameras within the wilderness in the heart of Idaho. What begins as a romantic adventure becomes something much greater for the couple - and a tale of hope and celebration for every life trying to make it in the wilderness.G
7:30 pm
Outdoor Idaho "Idaho Geology, A Convergence of Wonders" The Gem State's story is written in stone, which reveals the forces that produced a landscape that unites, divides and binds together Idahoans. Geologists Bill Bonnichsen and Marty Godchaux lead a tour through the complexities of the topic. Outdoor enthusiasts play amid unique formations - they ski on sand dunes, kayak through canyons, raft over waterfalls, climb rocky outcroppings, and dive into fossil water. The special includes videos of geologic events and examples gathered over decades.G
9:00 pm
Song of the Mountains The Leadbetters; The Song Catchers. D
10:00 pm
Austin City Limits "Steve Earle/Kris Kristofferson" Earle pays tribute to his mentor, legendary Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt. Kristofferson follows with tunes from his latest album.G
11:00 pm
Sierra Center Stage "Sonia Dada" Some bands defy categorization on purpose; Chicago's Sonia Dada does it naturally. Songwriter/guitarist Dan Pritzker has taken a trio of African American gospel singers he discovered performing for free at a subway station and blended their sound with a talented jam band to create an intoxicating blend of R&B, pop, and world beat that is truly unique. Lyrics that make you think; a groove that makes you want to dance - this is truly a show you can't miss. D


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I don't know about you, but I have a lot of Street Addresses in my Database. I mark them all Private, but they don't (or should I say had not) fit into the Place field in the past.
The the update to FTM2012, this issue has been resolved. This example has 4 street / complete addresses. In the Past, I had to Ignore the Place Name warning. Also, note the "Lock" on the left of the Address Fact Name. That is an indication that the fact is private.
Selecting the first entry, will put that information into the Right Panel. At this point, there the warning ICON is NOT there, because I had ignored that warning. However, clicking into that field, the Pencil (edit) ICON will appear to the Right, clicking on the ICON will open a new window. Please note what that window says:
Place detail (historical name, address, church, cemetery, etc).
The item is selected. Just below that Place Detail text, on the left are two arrows. The top pointing down, and the bottom one pointing up. Will click on the bottom arrow. That will take that first part of that address entry and move it to the upper Place detail field.
So, the Address is in the Place Detail field and the City remains, with the Place Name authority below that. Clicking on Replace, that will replace the "new" place name with the Place Name authority Place name.
Now in this case, there were 4 such entries for that address. You CAN, although I don't to that, as I prefer to do one entry at a time, update those 4 entries.
The Result is the New Place Name, with the Pin AND the Full Place Name in the full Hierarchical format. State, County, City, Address, in this case.
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The Cardinal Way and Yawkey Way met on Wednesday night, and the Red Sox lead the 2013 World Series, 1-0. Boston did it by taking advantage of several Cardinals miscues. The Sox got another superb postseason start from Jon Lester and another clutch postseason hit by Mike Napoli to beat St. Louis, 8-1.
The Red Sox are 8-3 in the playoffs this season, have won each of their last nine World Series games overall, and have won six consecutive World Series games at Fenway Park.
Game 2 of this series is here at 8:07 tonight.
For Game 1, anyway, the Cardinals looked a lot like the Tigers with wings. They were charged with three errors and committed a couple more uncharged errors. When St. Louis needed a timely hit, it was nowhere to be found.
"In the postseason," Jonny Gomes said, "anything can happen. It's all about capitalizing on mistakes and they made a couple of 'em."
An error by shortstop Pete Kozma in the first inning – on an overturned umpiring call – opened the door for a three-run Red Sox rally. Boston scored twice more in the second and once again, Kozma was charged with an error in that inning, too.
"Everything went right for us, but we had to take advantage of those opportunities, and we did," Napoli said.
The second-inning rally was not exclusively Napoli's doing, but he had all three RBIs via a bases loaded double into the gap. He was the last guy the Cardinals wanted to see come up in that situation. Napoli was 11 for 24 (.458) with 4 doubles, 3 homers and 31 RBIs with the bases loaded in the regular season. In the playoffs, he's 1 for 1 with a walk and three-run double.
In 11 playoff games to date in 2013, Napoli is hitting a modest .243 with nine hits, but six of those hits have been for extra bases. In the last five postseason games, Napoli is 7 for 20 (.350) with three doubles and two home runs.
"From the ALCS on," John Farrell said, "his extra base power is clear…he's come up big for us. Particularly in Game 3 in Detroit, and every game since, he's been right in the middle of a lot of our multi-run innings.
"We ride the peaks and valleys with him. He's had some streakiness to his career path, and when he's on the good side of those streaks, he has the ability to carry us and he's doing that right now."
Boston got all five of its early runs off Adam Wainwright, who settled down well after that and kept it 5-0 through five. David Ortiz hit a two-run homer off reliever Kevin Siegrist in the seventh to make it 7-0. The Sox got a run in the eighth and St. Louis scored on Matt Holliday's home run in the ninth off Ryan Dempster.
All that early offense made a winner out of Jon Lester, who worked the first 7-2/3 innings and is 3-1 in postseason play this year.
Napoli has earned a reputation as one of those hitters with the ability to dial everything up a notch when it comes to the playoffs and said, "I love this stage. It's in the spotlight. I really enjoy this time of the year, I guess. But it's just going out there and getting the job done."
For only the second time in the playoffs, Napoli did not strike out, but he has whiffed 15 times in 37 at-bats so far. It's a price that has seemed well worth paying this postseason.
"I'm able to forget about an at bat to my next at bat," he said. "You can't dwell on it when you get out; just go up there, have a plan and try to execute as best as is possible. I go up there and I'm confident every time I go up there, even if I struck out the last time."
The Cardinals had only committed three errors in their 11 previous playoff games before Wednesday night.
"We had a wakeup call," manager Mike Matheny said. "That is not the kind of team that we've been all season, and they're frustrated – I'm sure embarrassed, to a point. We get an opportunity to show the kind of baseball we played all season long and it didn't look anything like what we saw (Wednesday) night."
It was a lot like what the Red Sox have seen from their opponents all season long, though. It translated in 97 victories in the regular season, and if it translates three more times this month, Boston will win another world championship.


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In Florida, an estimated 4.8 million people will travel during the 2013 year-end holiday season.
According to AAA, 0.8 percent more Floridians will journey 50 miles or more from home this year between Dec. 21 and Jan. 1 as compared to 2012. About 4.4 million will travel by automobile.
Nationwide, 94.5 million Americans are expected to travel - a 0.6 percent increase over last year. The upward trend marks the fifth consecutive year for increases and highest travel volume for the season.
"Travel has been on the rebound for the past five years and has finally reached an all-time high for the year-end holiday season," Jessica Brady, a spokeswoman for AAA's The Auto Club Group, said in a recent prepared statement.
"This year, the holiday travel period includes two weekends and provides an extra day for travelers to visit family and friends," she said.
Nearly 30 percent of all Americans will take a trip this holiday, with more than one in four - 27 percent - taking a road trip. About 91 percent of travelers or 85.8 million will travel by automobile.
On local roads, area law enforcement will be on the lookout throughout the holiday season.
"Drunk driving or impaired driving this time of year is a major concern for us," Sgt. Dana Coston, spokesman for the Cape Coral Police Department, said Thursday.
"While we don't want there to be any DUI arrests, we know that there are going to be," he said.
Police enforcement activities for impaired driving will increase through the year's end.
"We are really encouraging people to plan ahead and have a designated driver or utilize a taxi or have a small gathering at home so they don't have to travel," Coston said.
For party hosts, officials suggest offering non-alcoholic drinks if alcohol is served, along with making sure there is room for intoxicated guests to stay the night or having a number for a taxi available.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office will conduct a DUI checkpoint this weekend. Sgt. David Velez, a spokesman for the LCSO, said no additional enforcements were planned as of Thursday.
"But, our deputies will be looking out for people who are conducting infractions," he said. "All deputies are on alert, especially for impaired drivers."
Velez urged party-goers to plan ahead by having a designated driver or number for a taxi.
"A key thing is, obviously, don't drink and drive," he said.
Motorists should also be aware of what medications they are taking as some can impair driving.
"The key is do not drive," Velez said.
Authorities offered other tips to keep travelers safe through the year-end holiday season.
"This time of year, we have a nice influx of residents here in the community," Velez said. "There's going to be extra traffic on the roads - a lot of people on the roads."
Drive defensively, be courteous and have patience.
"We're an advocate of everybody following the safety rules of the road," he said.
Coston noted that impatience and rudeness could lead to road rage incidents and accidents.
"We know that everybody is a little bit frazzled right now," he said. "Being an impatient driver and being discourteous to drivers around you is definitely not smart holiday traveling."
Motorists should plan to leave early for their destinations.
"The big things that we're pushing for people is to make sure they're allowing themselves a little extra time," Coston said. "A lot of our seasonal residents have returned."
Drivers should obey the speed limit, which can be aided by planning ahead and leaving early.
"Getting a citation or getting into a crash will definitely delay you from getting to your destination," he said. "It doesn't pay to try to make that light."
Travelers should also make sure to buckle up this holiday season.
"Seat belts save lives," Coston said.
For people traveling out of town, officials suggested that they make sure their vehicle is in proper working order. They should have a spare tire and jack, emergency kit and first aid kit available.
"Have your cell phone charged," he said.
The Fort Myers Police Department and Florida Highway Patrol have joined other agencies across the country to take part in the campaign Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over. The impaired driving crackdown will include high-visibility enforcement and saturation patrols. The national push runs through Jan. 1.
AAA and Bud Light are again offering the Tow to Go program through Jan. 1 to the public for the holiday. It is designed to help discourage an intoxicated driver from getting behind the wheel.
The service provides a confidential ride to the driver to a safe location within a 10-mile radius. The service is free, and the AAA tow truck will take the vehicle and driver to the safe location.
To use the Tow to Go program, call (855) 2-TOW-2-GO (286-9246).


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2006 News Releases > October 2006 > Solutions for our Future Forum addresses importance of Higher education
Solutions for our Future Forum addresses importance of Higher education
LUBBOCK – What issue could be so important that five university presidents would congregate for one united purpose? On Monday, Oct. 2, the issue was higher education in general, in particular the need for voters and community leaders to continue their support of higher education in order to ensure the country's viability in the area of research, innovation and productive citizenship.
Hosted by presidents of five West Texas institutions, the Solutions for our Future Forum was held at Spirit Ranch in Lubbock, with each president addressing the solutions their schools were providing for society at large. Those participating were Dr. Paul Armes of Wayland Baptist University; Dr. Kelvin Sharp of South Plains College; Dr. L. Ken Jones of Lubbock Christian University; Dr. Bernhard Mittemeyer of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; and Dr. Jon Whitmore of Texas Tech.
Before the presidents shared, the stage for the solutions was set by Eugene Anderson, associate director of national initiatives for the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C., and Ronnie Steck of GSD&M, the agency who conducted the research and created the campaign materials for Solutions.
"We must all continue to fight and advocate for higher education in this nation," Anderson said. "We must tell others how education is a benefit to us all and is essential to the health and wellbeing of a community."
Anderson said that the 3,800 colleges and universities in America are educating 17 million students, less than half of the high school graduates in the nation. Compared to other countries, the U.S. is 9th in terms of the percentages of high school students continuing to college.
"More support for higher education will lead to more innovation and more people who are educated to face the challenges in our societies," Anderson added.
Steck presented the research behind the Solutions for our Future initiative, based on focus groups in three major U.S. markets, one-on-one interviews with many national and local opinion leaders and a national online survey, all intended to gauge the public's opinion of the role and importance of higher education.
"The bottom line was that most people felt higher education was about personal benefit and personal responsibility instead of a broader importance," Steck said. "We knew this campaign had to put education in terms of tangible benefits for the general public in order to get their interest."
The goal, then, according to Steck, was to point out that higher education is important for what it provides for individuals not only for themselves but for how they will impact their communities and larger networks.
Each university president addressed briefly how their schools were providing solutions from higher education in specific areas. Armes addressed the areas of social mobility, personal income growth and increase in worker productivity, sharing two stories of students who found those very things through their experience at Wayland.
"Those of us speaking to you today believe that the more than 43,000 students enrolled at our collective institutions of higher learning are the people who will build our future as a community," Armes said. "They will solve our problems, and, ultimately, they will change our world."
Sharp spoke about workforce preparation and higher quality of personal health, mentioning the technical and vocational programs offered by SPC, specifically in the area of health care providers and first responders. Jones addressed the service to the community that schools provide, not only in terms of the institutions giving back as a whole but in their training of students to do service once they are out of school. Specifically, he mentioned LCU's recent Habitat for Humanity house being built on their campus and other entities served by students and employees.
"If you look at higher education circles, they are all talking about service," Jones said. "They're realizing that great leadership all comes by the pathway of great servanthood."
Mittemeyer addressed the issue of medical breakthroughs and personal health, mentioning the various health care research projects underway at the Health Sciences Center and the enormous need for trained family practice physicians, predicted to be in great demand by 2020. He added the research and technology in telemedicine has provided much medical assistance for rural and remote areas, especially across Texas.
Whitmore wrapped up the panel by addressing the areas of technological advances and economic growth, citing the workforce boost that universities provide to their communities and the research at Texas Tech that has impacted many lives. Specifically, he mentioned the research on cotton crop productivity, methods of protecting first responders from environmental hazards and nanotechnology research to develop machines to safely disarm bombs and protect military servicemen.
More information on the Solutions campaign can be found at the campaign web site at www.solutionsforourfuture.org.


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SEN Teaching Assistant - Solihull, Birmingham
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Supply
We are currently looking to recruit an outstanding Special Educational needs Teaching Assistant for an SEN school located in Solihull. This Primary school caters for students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties, 3 to 11 years of age. You will be expected to work with students who display sometimes challenging behaviour; you will need to be confident in your behavioural management, ensuring that you can remain calm.
This role will begin as soon as possible and end in March, we are ideally looking for someone who displays positivity and a calming nature. You will be expected to work with students on a 1:1 basis and with small groups of children.
The ideal candidate –
· Level 2 TA qualification
· Deliver quality assistance to teacher(s) and pupil(s)
· Build rapport with the children
· In date DBS & on the Update Service
Candidates will be required to attend a face to face interview to register; we will need to gain two references either academic or professional and hold an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau disclosure (or be prepared to allow us to process one for you).
If you register with ABC Teachers, we are so confident about getting you work; we will run you a brand new DBS disclosure and will FULLY REFUND YOU ONCE YOU WORK FOR ONE DAY THROUGH OURSELVES.
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. All staff will hold an enhanced DBS disclosure (or be prepared to allow us to process one for you), need to provide professional or academic references and attend a face to face interview. A prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Telephone calls to and/or from ABC Teachers may be recorded for training, safeguarding and compliance purposes.
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You may have heard a few of these statements about acne – let me tell you why they are all very untrue.
MYTH: Tanning your skin will treat acne.
FACT: Tanning will slightly dry out your skin and may make your acne appear slightly better, but the skin is actually being damaged either by the suns or tanning bed's rays and that can actually lead to more acne. Plus the extremely high risk of skin cancer makes it totally not worth it!
MYTH: Acne is a teenage problem.
FACT: So not true! Acne has been seen in people from ages 7 to 85! It generally starts in your teenage years and in some cases clears up by the late teens or early 20's, but many people continue to break out into their 30's and 40's or later. It has become more common in the last few decades to see people who had only mild acne as a teen to suddenly develop severe acne in their adult years. This is thought to be because of all the toxins we are exposed to now and the buildup in our systems.
MYTH: Scrubbing your face with a grainy exfoliator will make it cleaner and clearer.
FACT: Even if your skin is not sensitive scrubbing is not a good idea because it removes a lot of the protective oils and the scrubbing particles can rip skin, and aggravate the acne you already have, and lead to damage. It's best to exfoliate with a soft washcloth or the ZENMED AHA/BHA Complex liquid.
MYTH: Consuming chocolate or potato chips will make me break out.
FACT: No one food will actually cause a breakout unless you have a sensitivity to it and it causes an allergic reaction in the form of acne or a rash. As long as you eat a fairly healthy diet most of the time – you can indulge in some "junk foods" and your skin will be fine. If you do suspect you have a sensitivity to a certain food – see your doctor or naturopath for allergy tests to be sure.
MYTH: Blackheads on my skin mean my skin is dirty.
FACT: Even though they look dark – blackheads are not dirt, they are a clogged pore that has oxidized. Use a gentle exfoliation routine to keep your pores unclogged and reduce blackheads.
MYTH: Popping pimples is OK.
FACT: When you pop a pimple you could actually be spreading the acne bacteria in and around the skin, which can lead to further acne. Popping pimples can actually cause more acne scarring to the skin as well.
MYTH: You have to live with acne.
FACT: There is something out there for everyone – you just have to figure out what is causing your acne. If your acne is mild and you have blackheads – you can probably treat it with a gentle cleanser and exfoliant. If your skin is extremely oily this could be leading to some acne in which case you need to control your oil problem using a product such as the ZENMED Sebum Regulating Moisturizer. In most cases acne is caused by an imbalance inside the body from hormones, or a buildup of toxins that is pushing through the skin. In these cases natural herbs and vitamins to detoxify – or the ZENMED Derma Cleanse Capsules, will be a great help to you.


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Skip to comments.Guns Don't Kill People, the Mentally Ill Do
Posted on 01/17/2013 1:04:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Seung-Hui Cho, who committed the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, had been diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder as a child and placed under treatment.
But Virginia Tech was prohibited from being told about Cho's mental health problems because of federal privacy laws.
At college, Cho engaged in behavior even more bizarre than the average college student. He stalked three women and, at one point, went totally silent, refusing to speak even to his roommates. He was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for one night and then unaccountably unleashed on the public, whereupon he proceeded to engage in the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in U.S. history.
The 2011 Tucson, Ariz., shopping mall shooter, Jared Loughner, was so obviously disturbed that if he'd stayed in Pima Community College long enough to make the yearbook, he would have been named "Most Likely to Commit Mass Murder."
After Loughner got a tattoo, the artist, Carl Grace, remarked: "That's a weird dude. That's a Columbine candidate."
One of Loughner's teachers, Ben McGahee, filed numerous complaints against him, hoping to have him removed from class. "When I turned my back to write on the board," McGahee said, "I would always turn back quickly -- to see if he had a gun."
On her first day at school, student Lynda Sorensen emailed her friends about Loughner: "We do have one student in the class who was disruptive today, I'm not certain yet if he was on drugs (as one person surmised) or disturbed. He scares me a bit. The teacher tried to throw him out and he refused to go, so I talked to the teacher afterward. Hopefully he will be out of class very soon, and not come back with an automatic weapon."
The last of several emails Sorensen sent about Loughner said: "We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living cr** out of me. He is one of those whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon. Everyone interviewed would say, Yeah, he was in my math class and he was really weird."
That was the summer before Loughner killed six people at the Tucson shopping mall, including a federal judge and a 9 year-old girl, and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, among others.
Loughner also had run-ins with the law, including one charge for possessing drug paraphernalia -- a lethal combination with mental illness. He was eventually asked to leave college on mental health grounds, released on the public without warning.
Perhaps if Carl Grace, Ben McGahee or Lynda Sorensen worked in the mental health field, six people wouldn't have had to die that January morning in Tucson. But committing Loughner to a mental institution in Arizona would have required a court order stating that he was a danger to himself and others.
Innumerable studies have found a correlation between severe mental illness and violent behavior. Thirty-one to 61 percent of all homicides committed by disturbed individuals occur during their first psychotic episode -- which is why mass murderers often have no criminal record. There's no time to wait with the mentally ill.
James Holmes, the accused Aurora, Colo., shooter, was under psychiatric care at the University of Colorado long before he shot up a movie theater. According to news reports and court filings, Holmes told his psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, that he fantasized about killing "a lot of people," but she refused law enforcement's offer to place Holmes under confinement for 72 hours.
However, Fenton did drop Holmes as a patient after he made threats against another school psychiatrist. And after Holmes made threats against a professor, he was asked to leave campus. But he wasn't committed. People who knew he was deeply troubled just pushed him onto society to cause havoc elsewhere.
Little is known so far about Adam Lanza, the alleged Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooter, but anyone who could shoot a terrified child and say to himself, "That was fun -- I think I'll do it 20 more times!" is not all there.
It has been reported that Lanza's mother, his first victim, was trying to have him involuntarily committed to a mental institution, triggering his rage. If true -- and the media seem remarkably uninterested in finding out if it is true -- Mrs. Lanza would have had to undergo a long and grueling process, unlikely to succeed.
As The New York Times' Joe Nocera recently wrote: "Connecticut's laws are so restrictive in terms of the proof required to get someone committed that Adam Lanza's mother would probably not have been able to get him help even if she had tried."
Taking guns away from single women who live alone and other law-abiding citizens without mental illnesses will do nothing about the Chos, Loughners, Holmeses or Lanzas. Such people have to be separated from civil society, for the public's sake as well as their own. But this is nearly impossible because the ACLU has decided that being psychotic is a civil right.
Consequently, whenever a psychopath with a million gigantic warning signs commits a shocking murder, the knee-jerk reaction is to place yet more controls on guns. By now, guns are the most heavily regulated product in America.
It hasn't worked.
Even if it could work -- and it can't -- there are still subway tracks, machetes, fists and bombs. The most deadly massacre at a school in U.S. history was at an elementary school in Michigan in 1927. It was committed with a bomb. By a mentally disturbed man.
How about trying something new for once?
Liberalism is a mental disease or at a least a defect.
Let's disarm all liberals and democrats. They hate guns anyway, right?
Just think about those angry union thugs.
They're truly a danger with guns.
Sounds good to me. Also wasn't Loughner who shot Gabrielle Gifford a liberal? So are probably most who do these horrific crimes
I'm TV, youtube, PC challenged (recent crash and overhaul barely get's me here in FR).
It seems I heard one of the EO's was to be able to investigate people for mental health / disorder.
The gun ban issue is a red herring to allow the gummint, at least partly, in part. the opportunity to send innocent citizens to Siberia for whatever mental health issue they deem present.
Already there is a lot of insane chatter about people that cruely refuse to let two people marry must have something wrong with them.
Therer's a whole slew of things that the enemy accuses white Christians of being that would require at least an observational term of 72 hrs.
Washing too much popcorn down with a Big Slurp, in front of the computer with FOX news on TV in the background playing Spider Solitaire would send Mayor BloomingIdiot into a fit of panic and have the anti-obesity, patriot gendarmes banging on at least one or two doors and risking the lives of unknown numbers of family paets in search of you.
Arthur Bremer, who stalked Nixon and shot George C. Wallace, was a Wisconsin liberal -- a fact I didn't find out about for more than 20 years after the event: the MSM covered it up completely.
LHO was a self-professed Communist, a defector who took US Marine Corps secrets to Russia and helped the Soviets shoot down Francis Gary Powers. He also tried to assassinate a conservative U.S. general with the same Carcano rifle he used to kill President Kennedy.
Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme was a member of the Manson Gang and complicit in the Tate/"Helter Skelter" murders. She also tried to shoot President Ford.
The Unabomber was a PhD whack case at Berkeley and left-wing environut.
Loughner, Harris and Klebold (Columbine), and the Aurora shooter we know about.
The Virginia Tech shooter is a bit of a mystery (to me), but the Washington, DC, sniper was a leftist wacko who hated white people, as was Colin Ferguson, the Long Island commuter-train shooter who murdered U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's husband and kick-started her political career.
Patrick Purdy, the original 1989 schoolyard shooter (who used an AKS, prompting California's semiauto "assault weapon" ban), was a left-wing mental case and "raggedy man" with peace symbols on his clothing.
The Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Hasan, is a fuzzy-wuzzy jihadi who was recruited by al-Q'aeda.
Not all of the world's mass-murderers are left-wing, but that sampler seems to indicate that lefties are "overrepresented" in the ranks of the mass murderers of the world.
Here's a shocking link to a list of numerous examples of medication-connected school violence.
See I knew it.
This is great news. Because mental health care is free!
I sorta get that feeling every time I see a dude with a pierced nose and those giant hoopy ear rings the size of Andre the Giant's wedding ring implanted into their ear lobes. Them cats ain't right.
Like forbidding all people from possessing any item that could be used as a weapon? *That* would be novel. < /sarcasm >
Sounds good to me. Also wasnt Loughner who shot Gabrielle Gifford a liberal? So are probably most who do these horrific crimes.
Nutcases and radical liberalism seem to go hand-in-hand. I suspect that most radical liberals *are* mentally ill. They aren't necessarily violent, but their brains don't seem to function very well. They display far too much cognitive dissonance to be taken as sane. For example, they constantly blame things or "society" for criminal acts, while holding the criminals who actually commit the acts absolutely blameless.
See Here come the crazies (actual NY Post headline).
would Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn be considered "mentally ill" ??
They are respected in academia!
Heck - Bill has his mitts in "reforming" every child's education via Core Curriculum
It would be nice to see a PR push that connects radical left activism to violence - with a nice reminder about our Attorney General's college escapades
The ACLU and Leftist "compassion" made it extreme hard to deal with mental illness of this sort.
Read Larry Elder today. It's not the mentally ill. It's the fatherless.
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Do I Really Have To Join Twitter?
What to do if you're just not that into microblogging but don't want to be left behind.
Twitter is growing so fast it's sometimes easy to forget that to a lot of people, the concept is completely bizarre. According to comScore, the microblogging site received about 10 million visitors in February—a 700 percent increase over last year. To the initiated, the surge seems justified. Committed Twitterers argue that the 140-character-or-less tweet represents the next great mode of human communication. To vast swaths of the population, though, Twitter is inscrutable: Wait a minute—you want me to keep a perpetual log of my boring life for all the world to see? What if I just spend my free time watching Golden Girls?
In other words, it's hard for many to shake the feeling that Twitter is a waste of time. It's not only Luddites who feel this way; in the last few months, a surprising number of people in the tech industry—people who fancy themselves the earliest of early adopters—have mentioned to me that they have a hard time wrapping their heads around the service. Many float the idea that Twitter is little more than an overhyped, media-driven sensation.
Is Twitter a fad? It's certainly received more than 140 characters of love from the press recently; everywhere you look, someone in the news is tweeting. But the people on TV rarely seem to address something very basic: What's the point of tweeting? And should you do it? I get variations on this question often from readers. Let's say you're a moderately tech-savvy person who takes well to new forms of gabbing—you've got an easy facility with blogs, you log in to Facebook when you need it, you text, you IM, and perhaps you even talk to your friends through Skype. Is it time for you to jump into microblogging, too? Would you be missing out on some important cultural touchstone if you sat out this round of techno-innovation?
The short answer: Eh, go ahead and give it a try if you like, but there's nothing lame about waiting to see whether Twitter pans out.
Much of what we do online has obvious analogues in the past: E-mail and IM replace letters and face-to-face chatting. Blogging is personal pamphleteering. Skype is the new landline. Social networks let us map our real-life connections to the Web. It's not surprising, then, that these new tools deliver obvious social utility—Facebook is the best way to get in touch with old friends, and instant messaging is the quickest way to collaborate with your colleagues across the country. Twitter is different. It's not a faster or easier way of doing something you did in the past, unless you were one of those people who wrote short "quips" on bathroom stalls. It's a totally alien form of communication. Microblogging mixes up features of e-mail, IM, blogs, and social networks to create something not just novel but also confusing, and doing it well takes time and patience. That's not to say it isn't useful; to some people in some situations, Twitter is irreplaceable. But it is not—or, at least, not yet—a necessary way to stay socially relevant in the information age.
As a practical matter, Twitter is a cinch to get into: You sign up, pick a few people to follow, then start typing out your thoughts, making sure to keep each post below the 140-character limit. (There are also some conventions you've got to get used to— here's a short primer.) But Twitter, unlike Facebook, favors one-way connections—you can follow my posts, but I don't have to follow yours. As a result, novice Twitterers are met with instant discouragement—you start out with nobody reading your posts, and because the people you follow don't have to follow you, there's no guarantee that you'll ever convince great numbers of people to listen to what you have to say. Twitter is not a meritocracy; you may be the cleverest quipper in your circle, but celebrities and people in the media inevitably win the most followers. There is no justice in the fact that a banal Twitterer like Sen. Claire McCaskill has attracted an audience of more than 19,000. (A typically riveting McCaskill tweet: "Leaving for KC soon. Meeting about American car manufacturing. Then on to Springfield. Press avail there.") But that's how Twitter goes; if you join, be prepared to deal with a lot of people who are undeservedly more popular than yourself.
Slate V: Flutter: The New Twitter
Microblogging, like regular blogging, rewards persistence. Twitter is littered with half-hearted tweets—people who joined the site with dreams of sending out pithy little posts regularly and then drifted away after realizing that keeping up a microblog can be an unrewarding chore. The best Twitterers post a few times a day, but with care—like the best bloggers, they aim for comedy, insight, and drama and to share cool links. They also don't overload their followers. I've dropped people for tweeting too often; more than three times an hour seems excessive.
Does all this sound daunting? It should. Lost in the hype surrounding Twitter is any suggestion that tweeting is not for everyone. Sure, it's easy to join Twitter, but Twittering isn't easy. And it's not instantly rewarding, either. If you're a politician, a celebrity, a marketer, or a journalist, you've likely got very specific goals for Twitter—to sell yourself or a product. Twitter can pay off grandly for these folks; have you heard about the Korean taco truck in Los Angeles that's built a cult following by tweeting its roving location to customers? Last month, I pointed out that by connecting companies with their biggest fans, Twitter has also helped a few people find jobs in this tough economy. So if you're out of work and have nothing else better to do, Twitter might be for you.
But what if you're not selling tacos and you don't care to establish a brand for yourself online? What if you just work in accounting—what can Twitter do for you? This is a harder nut to crack. Some people are fans of the medium itself; they join Twitter not to tweet but to subscribe to streams from Shaquille O'Neal, John Mayer, John Dickerson, and other world-class Twitterers.
But if you're not into that, Twitter doesn't seem to offer much that you can't already get elsewhere—for instance, at Facebook. A few months ago, I urged readers to join the social network because you could no longer mistake it for a passing craze; Facebook, I argued, is now a permanent part of the culture, as critical to modern society as e-mail and the cell phone. Since then, to much annoyance, Facebook has redesigned its site to be more Twitter-like. These changes diminish Twitter's attractiveness: Are you just looking for a way to occasionally send a mass message to your friends? Facebook, where you've already established a circle of followers, can be a much faster way of doing so—especially now that it looks so much like Twitter.
Microblogging may not be a fad; there are probably enough people who want to broadcast their thoughts to strangers, and certainly enough people who want to read what these folks have to say, to keep it growing.
But that doesn't mean everyone will be doing it, either. Talking to strangers is strange. It takes a certain type of person to do it well—or even to want to do it.If you're struck with horror at the prospect of telling the world what you ate for dinner, where you're going on vacation, or what you read in the paper this morning—well, that's OK. You're just not that into Twitter, and you're not alone.


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There are some posts you almost don't write because you're not ready yet to write such things. But you're in the process of getting there, so you take your The Book of Pluto by Steven Forrest and Predictive Astrology Bernadette Brady and create a DIY post you hope will be helpful to those reading it.
This post is the promised sequel to my February post: Pluto in Libra Generation: Living Happily Ever After. In this post, I'm going to focus specifically on the Pluto square this generation is experiencing since Pluto's ingress into Capricorn in January, 2008. The mills of God and Pluto grind slow but grind exceedingly small. Pluto stays in Capricorn till March, 2023. And during this period of 15 years, it will have squared itself in the charts of everyone who was born with Pluto in Libra.
Steven Forrest says that a well-lived Pluto in your chart gives you the great gift of feeling your life to be meaningful. But if you do not work with your Pluto, do not honor its call, do not pay its price; the bleakness of life will get you. You will be enfolded by that worst feeling of all: the feeling of your life being without meaning. It's a great insight and I have found it to be true. He's a great teacher and you really must get that book I mentioned earlier if you are working with Pluto or trying to understand it in charts.
Steve talks about Pluto's square to itself by transit as a time when your beliefs are questioned. When things you have always taken for granted come up for examination vis-à-vis their meaningfulness in life. This examination may cause you to change your beliefs. And that is a deep thing because our beliefs are what determine our choices and actions and it is these choices and actions that form our life. So basically, when you're faced with this square, you're in the process of transforming your life.
The transformation is going to come whether you like it or not. And since it is a square, you probably aren't going to like it very much. I see the Pluto square activating when you find yourself face down in the carpet weeping, "Why me?" When you hold on to what is not been working for you, not wanting thing to change and appealing to God saying, "Please help me. Please fix this." (more…)


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17 Spring Projects for a Happier Kitchen
What is it about the start of spring that inspires home projects of all shapes and sizes? Whether you're starting your first garden, or simply throwing out some old clothes, that rather addicting rejuvenating feeling is hard to avoid. We've gathered a few of our favorite kitchen projects –– from pantry staples, to cleaning and design projects –– so you can extend that spring excitement into your own cooking and overall enjoyment of your kitchen.
I've organized these spring projects by type: pantry projects, cocktail preparation, stock your freezer, and kitchen projects. They all vary in amount of time needed (like cleaning a microwave with a lemon vs. making your own soap), but each project is unique and sure to make your kitchen just a little bit happier, and your stomachs a little more inspired. Here's to all things spring!
What projects do you plan on tackling this spring? I for one am excited to try my hand at kombucha.
- 1 How to Make Fresh Pasta from Scratch
- 2 How to Make Homemade Mozzarella
- 3 How To Make Kombucha Tea at Home
- 4 How To Make Your Own Sourdough Starter
- 5 How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract
- 6 How to Make Yogurt at Home
- 7 How to Make Peanut Butter Cups
- 10 How to Make Frozen Pizzas at Home
- 11 Freezer-Friendly Roasted Vegetable Burritos with Black Beans and Rice
- 12 How To Make Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Banana Bites


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Cinebistro in Hampton has gotten into the fall swing with fun cocktails served in a freshly carved pumpkin.
You can enjoy these pumpkin spirits in the bar or the lounge or while watching a movie. The menu includes:
Pumpkin apple cider - Firefly vodka, apple pucker, cinnamon-infused simple syrup, sour mix and a splash of club soda.
Orange pumpkin ginger fizz - Smirnoff marshmallow vodka, Pinnacle orange vodka, Skyy ginger vodka, cranberry juice, cinnamon-infused simple syrup, sour mix and ginger ale.
Pumpkin punch - Meyers and Bacardi rums, sour mix, pineapple juice and a splash of grenadine.
These special cocktails will be available from Oct. 18 through Nov. 4.
CinéBistro. Peninsula Town Center, 4401 West Claiborne Square, Hampton. 757-325-8896. www.cobbcinebistro.com.


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TAIPEI, Taiwan – A six-month old giant panda was unveiled to her adoring public in Taiwan on Monday, as long lines of children of all ages queued up at the Taipei zoo to see the cub cavorting around her cage with an understandably protective mother.
Yuan Zai's debut had long been anticipated on this island of 23 million people.
With delighted visitors passing in front of her cage at the rate of 40 per minute, Yuan Zai showed off her climbing skills before retreating to mother Yuan Yuan's embrace, and then heading off for a nap. She currently sleeps 20 hours a day.
Zoo officials say they will be able to accommodate 19,000 visitors a day to see Yuan Zai, whose mother and father came to Taiwan from China in late 2008. Their arrival was seen at the time as a high water mark in Beijing's use of "soft power" in Taiwan, which split from the mainland amid civil war in 1949, and remains the object of unwavering Chinese attempts to bring it back into the fold — by persuasion if possible, by force if necessary.
But politics seemed to be about the last thing on the minds of Yuan Zai's fan base Monday as again and again visitors' faces lit up with broad smiles amid giggles of glee and repeated cries of "how cute" or "how beautiful."
Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world, but they seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that Taiwanese airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.


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Hot & Spicy Comfort Food: 10 Curry Recipes for Cold Nights
On cold, sleeting autumn nights, the first thing that I want is a bowl of something hot — and not just temperature hot. Spicy hot! We gave you a recipe for savory curry granola earlier today, and it made me think about how much I love those flavors of toasted cumin, chile peppers, and cinnamon that come through in curries and curry-inspired dishes. So, here for you spice-lovers, are 10 hearty curries and Indian and Thai suppers for cold nights.
• 1 Egg Noodles in Rich Chicken Curry Sauce (Khao Soi)
• 2 Slow Cooker Coconut & Green Curry Pork
• 3 Thai Red Curry Mussels
• 4 Potato and Cauliflower Curry
• 5 How To Make Spicy Lamb Curry
• 6 Cabbage in Mild Yogurt and Mustard Seed Curry
• 7 Thai Green Curry
• 8 Easy, Tasty Chickpea Curry
• 9 Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew
• 10 Curried Udon Noodle Stir-Fry
What's your comfort food this time of year? Do you love hot and spicy curry? What's your favorite?
Related: Recipe for All: Curried Coconut Carrot Soup
(Images: See linked recipes for full image credits)