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Last month I made contact with Barbara Wright who researches the McClure family of Grayson Co., KY who marry into our Monroe lines. She shared information with me and I am attempting to update all the Johnson Monroe descendant lines who are also Samuel McClure (m. Frances Craven) descendant lines to share with her. The lines I am trying to complete are Annie Elizabeth McClure m. 1866 Absolam S. Kerr (parents of Samuel R. Kerr m. 1896 Sarah Pearl Monroe), Alice McClure m. 1884 George Washington Taylor Monroe and Ida Belle McClure m. 1888 Henry William Monroe. Annie Elizabeth McClure, Alice McClure and Ida Belle McClure are sisters. As always happens I have run into some snags because I don't have any "family story" information to guide me.
I have documented 9 children from Samuel R. Kerr and Sarah Pearl Monroe. I have a marriage for only one of them and death dates for only 3 of the nine. Maybe I can trace a some of the daughters through KY birth records - or at least get a potential surname or two for them.
I lose track of descendants of Alice McClure and GWT Monroe after the 1930 census. (This is Emeline Monroe's (b. 1915) family line). I'd love to talk to her and learn what she knows about her aunts and uncles and 1st cousins and their descendants.
I lose track of some of the descendants of Ida Belle McClure and Henry William Monroe after the 1930 census.
Their daughter Frances married a Mr. Ryan (on her gravestone) but was this her first husband? Did she have children? I have not found her in 1920 or 1930 census. She is likely married but I can't find her under the surname Monroe or Ryan.
Their daughter Ida N. I think I found in 1920 and 1930 census but I'm not positive. In 1920 she is in St. Louis and working as a bookkeeper and in 1930 she is a manager of a flour mill in TN. She is single in 1920/1930 if this is our Ida N. Monroe.
Their son George William Monroe (the one who has a monument in Camp Ground Cemetery) second wife was Mary B on the 1930 census. Is she the Mary Biles Monroe in Cave City Cemetery 1889-1970? If so then her birthdate on the stone (and on the Soc. Sec death index) doesn't match the 1930 census which shows her age 39 (b. ca. 1891). Maybe the age is close enough.
I surely need some Kentucky cousin help!
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Ray's Take The struggle recent graduates have had finding jobs has many people wondering if college is still worth the expense. According to some reports, it is. Consider this recent finding by the Lumina Foundation and Georgetown University's Center on Education: The unemployment rate for college graduates is 6.8 percent, but it's nearly 24 percent for those with only a high school diploma.
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College is still vastly important to building a career that leads to financial security. However, it's important that college students not only commit large sums of money, they must also commit themselves to gaining the knowledge and skills the marketplace needs.
Dana's Take That Lumina/Georgetown study Ray referenced turned up another interesting statistic: Many associate's degrees produce better average earnings than some bachelor's degrees. Even a vocational educational certificate can produce higher wages, especially if that training is in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Plus, the student loan burden is much lighter.
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Panda has released a free anti-Virus offering that resides mostly off the host system and in the cloud. Using 'Collective Intelligence', along with distributed computing and a global and community-based platform, Panda has said this new offering is entirely different from what it's created in the past. So, has it succeeded?
Starting off, installing the new Panda protection was just as fast as expected. It took no time at all, just under four minutes in the lab in order to install and start using the software.
If you read the previous article on Panda's Cloud Antivirus, then you know the first thing you see is a seriously stripped down interface. This is a good thing, as there is no way an average user can get lost using this particular program.
As you can see from the images below, only four screens make up the entire program.
The first screen is what you see when launching the software from the taskbar, by clicking on the familiar Panda logo. If you see the big green checkmark, all is good on the system. It really is that simple in terms of a heads-up display. During testing, the only time this changed was whenever Malware was executed.
The second screenshot shows the 'Settings' tab. Here users can select the option to allow Panda Cloud Antivirus to send anonymous information to the Collective Intelligence (CI) cloud, enabling new strands of Malware to be processed and scanned.
What this means is that, by allowing this by default, users can help others by letting Panda take samples and process them should the program come across any 'new' types of Malware. This is how CI works, as explained in the previous article -- It turns the community into a Malware processing and detection lab. If one person is infected, CI will clean the infection while at the same time protecting other users from the threat.
CI is also how Panda's Cloud Antivirus lowers system resource usage. This is because all the protections reside within a distributed network of datacenters (or 'the cloud' if you will), which, in turn, absolves the need for the user's computer to crunch data and page through an endless amount of signatures to process potential Malware.
The third screenshot represents the scanning selection. Here users can perform on-demand scanning of their entire system, or individual folders and files. The simple interface does what it says, and only that, so the drawback here is that there is no scheduled scanning.
However, while using the system, the CI actively monitors processes and new applications. So, if something is viewed as a threat, Cloud Antivirus will take action to remove it. If the removal was in error, users can always reverse the action by using the Recycle Bin find inside Cloud Antivirus.
To access the Recycle Bin, on the lower right of the interface, simply click the blue arrow, as shown below. This arrow is visible from any tab, so there is always access to it.
From there, simply select the application flagged in error and allow it.
The final tab is the 'Reporting' tab. If users want an overview of all the threats detected by Cloud Antivirus, as well as the distribution of types of threats detected, they can find that information here.
Again, the interface is clean. Users can only access what's needed and, while there are no automatic settings for scanning, the usage of CI covers monitoring in real-time.
The only downside is that, if Panda flags a program as malicious or potentially harmful, users can whitelist it and allow it to run from the Recycle Bin. This means a novice could allow something malicious after the fact, so caution should be exercised whenever using this feature.
Testing Panda's Cloud Antivirus was down and dirty. The system used was an Intel Pentium D 3.4GHz CPU (Dual Core) with 1024MBs of RAM. The lab test computer was running Windows XP (SP3), Internet Explorer 7, and was updated with all current Microsoft patches.
Based on the testing used when Panda Internet Security 2009 was reviewed, we modified the lab environment to test only the features claimed by Panda for this new release.
There were 39 new Malware samples tested, this is because the samples tested in the first review would have been classified and recorded by Panda over time. So the idea was to test the new product with real samples, collected live from known malicious domains.
The first test, on the domain above, was to install five samples of Malware, thanks in part to the loader that's served up by this site. Please note that, as of the time this review was written, the Malware served remains live. Visiting the above domain will infect your system.
The image below shows that Panda did detect the new Malware and duly blocked it. The top image is the desktop alert, and the bottom image shows the reporting section. The top image appeared rather quickly, the second the Malware was executed. Shortly after, three more alerts appeared. The other alerts notified us of the detection of a single instance of a virus.
At the time the images were taken, CI had not updated with the actual title of the Malware. This could be a bug, as the system was online at the time of testing. However, what happens is that CI will use the Internet to test the blocked Malware and then provide a name and link to more information in the reporting section.
The launcher, which downloads and serves the samples of Malware, has a detection listing of three out of 40 on Virus Total [VT Report 04.29.2009 16:10 CET]. It is important to note that Panda is not one of the vendors listed as detecting the launcher as malicious.
In this test, Cloud Antivirus did not stop the loader from executing. This is important to note, as the promise from Panda to users applying Cloud Antivirus is quick detection and removal. So when the loader was executed, Panda lived up to its promise by blocking the payloads from infecting the system.
The second test of a known malicious URL leads to the Koobface family of Malware. This loader is in the form of a fake YouTube page that asks users to install an update to their Flash Player. Note again, this is a live URL and should not be visited as it will infect your system.
The interesting thing about this test is that the downloaded Malware has a detection listing of 13 out of 40 on Virus Total [VT Report 04.29.2009 16:29 CET], and once again Panda isn't one of the vendors listed as having detection. When executed, Panda did not instantly warn of infection, as in the previous test. However, once a scan was launched after infection was confirmed, it detected and removed the Malware. A restart was required to complete the process.
So did Panda fail this second test? In a way, but considering that users should always scan their systems, the fact that it did detect Malware during the scan means the program did what it was supposed to. Yet, at the same time, unlike the previous test, the system was infected by the sample. With that said, once the Malware started working, prior to the reboot, it did flag one of the payload files (796525.dll) as malicious.
After the system was rebooted, the same site and Malware was launched again. This was done to test the Collective Intelligence. After all, the system was infected before the reboot, and Panda reported the infection after the scan. If CI worked, then the second infection should fail. It did.
This time, the two loader files (796525.dll and new_drv.sys) used to further infect the system were detected and removed before they could act. It should also be noted that, as seen with the first test, the initial loader, the one downloaded as a codec that delivers the payload, was not flagged as malicious.
KeyGen testing was another aspect in the lab trials of Cloud Antivirus. Like the test performed in the lab on other products, Panda's Cloud Antivirus was tested to see if it would detect an archive of malicious KeyGens. The archive itself is full of Malware and, aside from the malicious KeyGens themselves, the extraction process will drop a Trojan into the system. As seen in the KeyGen test on Panda Internet Security, the dropped Trojan was detected and the extraction process halted.
When it came to a password-protected archive, containing 39 unique samples of Malware, Panda's offering did not detect the samples and did not flag the archive as password protected or potentially harmful. There are also no settings in the Cloud Antivirus application to help adjust and trigger these types of alerts.
Once the samples were extracted, Panda flagged 38 of the 39 samples as malicious, deleting all but one of them. The sample left behind was 'Sality.K', a known malicious application. However, Panda did at least flag this item as suspicious [VT Report 4.29.2009 17:27 CET]. The sample itself was fully operational and, once executed, infected the system. A scan was run after confirmed infection, and Panda located and disabled the Malware.
To make things interesting, another 50 samples were tested. While the test was successful, Panda had to be halted to get a solid result. This is because once the samples were extracted and placed on the system, Panda simply started deleting them. This behavior was unexpected, as it did not do this when the original 39 samples were extracted.
After the second round of extractions, with zero files in the sample folder, Panda was then disabled so all 50 samples could be placed on the system. Once a scan was launched, they were all flagged and removed. The samples left on the system failed to execute.
All of the 50 samples were basic variants of the 'Zlob' family of Malware and other known and established malicious files. These were tested to measure how quickly Panda would react to not just a known threat, but also one that has existed for some time.
The scanning baseline for Cloud Antivirus was about 20 minutes for a full system check. This is faster than the results listed on the review of Panda Internet Security, but not as fast as we expected. On the lab computer, 5.80GBs of space was used on the disk. Of that space, 561MBs was used in a folder named 'content'.
The content folder consisted of simple files to add bulk and give Cloud Antivirus something to scan. The files used included fonts, images and icons, PHP, HTML, and CSS files, as well as ZIP and RAR archives for a total amount of 21,816 files. It should be noted that none of these files were malicious.
So, overall, the product performed as promised. While not based totally on the previous testing methods for the purpose of scoring, the Cloud Antivirus testing did use some of the criteria.
For that reason, Panda detected 88 out of 89 live samples tested. The sample left behind in the first set of testing, while flagged as suspicious, counts as a miss because it infected the system. In the live URL testing, Panda also worked as expected, despite allowing one URL to infect the system and failing to detect the actual loaders as Malware.
Bearing that in mind, Panda earned a score of 98.87 percent in Malware sample detection (89 samples valued at 1.13 points each, rounded up). With regard to the malicious URL testing, there were seven malicious files served up by the Web sites. Considering that on the second URL test Panda missed the Malware until a scan was launched, and it did infect the system, two samples were counted as a miss. For this test, Panda earned a total score of 71.4 percent (Seven samples worth 14.30 points each, rounded up).
The final score equals an average of 85 percent. Based on the scores alone, Panda's Cloud Antivirus certainly lives up to its claims and, for free software, provides a strong layer of protection to any host system. The detection was fast, and the ease of use and operational controls were simple to use; we can honestly say that anyone can control the software with ease. Just remember, this is still only a single layer of security and will not provide complete protection from Spam or other Web-related threats, only active Malware on the system.
We'd also like to stress that this test was harsh on Panda for a reason, not that we are cruel when in the lab, but what hurt the average score were the two missed samples from the second URL test.
If we were to count them as successful, as they were flagged as harmful by Collective Intelligence after infecting the system during a scan, or count the second test where the same samples were blocked once they were known, then the score would change to an average of 99.44 percent. If we counted the second URL test as a wash, and simply docked Panda for one missed sample, the score would change again to 92.29 percent.
While we stand behind our first score of 85 percent, it's easy to see how the score can be changed depending on how our testing methods are viewed. The point for this disclosure is that Panda's Cloud Antivirus delivers excellent protection and, for a free product, it certainly deserves user attention.
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After nearly 20 years as a professional dancer and choreographer, Cameron MacMaster retired from dance and returned to Toronto to pursue his first love – photography - and to focus his creative energies on establishing himself and his company, Froz'n Motion Photography. MacMaster specializes in wedding and engagement photography, which he absolutely loves, and adores his maternity and portrait work. His clients rave about the high quality and creativity behind his work and never fail to mention how relaxed and easy to work with he is. He spends thousands of hours a year wandering the streets of downtown Toronto, Canada and has amassed a dazzling collection of the City's colourful streets and magnificent architecture. An avid travel buff, he has traveled and photographed extensively throughout Canada, the US, Hong Kong, China, Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba, Europe, Israel, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Island of Bali, but loves India the most.


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Guest curated by Dawn Ades, internationally renowned expert on Surrealist art, The Colour of My Dreams will be shown exclusively at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Ades has selected works of art that underscore the Surrealists?radical sense of experimentation and the expansive range of mediums in which they worked, including painting, sculpture, collage, photography and film. The exhibition provides a stunning overview of one of most important movements of the 20th century and features a number of signature works by more than 80 artists including Dalis Lobster Telephone, Ernsts The Forest, Mirós Photo: This is the Colour of My Dreams, Giacomettis Spoon Woman, Carringtons The House Opposite and Man Rays Emak-Bakia, among many others. It will also reveal, for the first time, the Surrealists?passionate interest in indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest and the little-known influence of early Hollywood cinema on the development of Surrealist film.
This historic exhibition brings together loans from more than sixty of the worlds foremost private collections, museums and galleries, including the Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Israel Museum, the Musée du quai Branly, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and Tate.
Andr?Breton wrote the first Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924, launching a movement which continues to exert a powerful influence. Inspired by Sigmund Freuds own investigations, Breton was fascinated by dreams and set out to create an artistic process which would tap directly into the unconscious mind and dreams freeing artists from what he saw as false rationality.?br />
The installation of the exhibition is designed to create a variety of environments and moods in which to contemplate the themes that the Surrealists explored over a period of three decades such as desire, androgyny, violence and transmutation. The exhibition also highlights the many techniques developed by Surrealist artists including automatism, frottage, fumage, Rayographs and the surrealist object,?an approach to sculpture in which several unrelated componentsmost often found objectswere joined together.
The Colour of My Dreams brings to light for the first time in an exhibition the Surrealists' fascination with First Nations art. Breton and some of his colleagues felt European culture was in decay in the decade preceding World War II, leading many of the Surrealist artists to develop a passionate, if complex, interest in indigenous ceremonial art, including that of the Pacific Northwest. The Surrealists were drawn to the "authentic" quality, inventiveness of form and visual brilliance of First Nations art. This important component of the exhibition also highlights, through a selection of period publications and never-before-exhibited documentary photographs, the seminal trips made to British Columbia and Alaska in the late 1930s by artists Wolfgang Paalen and Kurt Seligmann. Some of the movement's members collected, wrote about and even exhibited their own work alongside First Nations art from British Columbia and Alaska. Included in the exhibition are a number of spectacular masks and other First Nations pieces such a Kwakwaka'wakw headdress from Alert Bay, British Columbia, which once belonged to Breton; two Yup'ik masks from Alaska and a Haida feast bowl acquired by artist Enrico Donati; three Yup'ik masks formerly in the collection of artist and poet Robert Lebel and an important sketchbook by Lebel that depicts the Yup'ik masks displayed here.
Another ground-breaking aspect of The Colour of My Dreams is an examination of the little-known influence of early cinema on the development and evolution of Surrealist film -- perhaps one of the most influential legacies of the movement. The exhibition reveals the formative early films that captured the Surrealists?imagination -- ranging from F.W. Murnaus Nosferatu to Betty Boop cartoons to Hollywood movies featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Displayed throughout the various galleries of the exhibition, nearly 30 films reveal the provocative nature of Surrealist filmmaking and its antecedents.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3221?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13253425#comment-13253425 ] David Smiley commented on SOLR-3221: ------------------------------------ Curious; why was the default choice made to favor throughput over low latency? Generally speaking, low latency in search is more important. There should be no issue of backwards compatibility, either. > Make Shard handler threadpool configurable > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: SOLR-3221 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3221 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 3.6, 4.0 > Reporter: Greg Bowyer > Assignee: Erick Erickson > Labels: distributed, http, shard > Fix For: 3.6, 4.0 > > Attachments: SOLR-3221-3x_branch.patch, SOLR-3221-3x_branch.patch, SOLR-3221-3x_branch.patch, SOLR-3221-3x_branch.patch, SOLR-3221-3x_branch.patch, SOLR-3221-trunk.patch, SOLR-3221-trunk.patch, SOLR-3221-trunk.patch, SOLR-3221-trunk.patch, SOLR-3221-trunk.patch > > > From profiling of monitor contention, as well as observations of the > 95th and 99th response times for nodes that perform distributed search > (or "aggregator" nodes) it would appear that the HttpShardHandler code > currently does a suboptimal job of managing outgoing shard level > requests. > Presently the code contained within lucene 3.5's SearchHandler and > Lucene trunk / 3x's ShardHandlerFactory create arbitrary threads in > order to service distributed search requests. This is done presently to > limit the size of the threadpool such that it does not consume resources > in deployment configurations that do not use distributed search. > This unfortunately has two impacts on the response time if the node > coordinating the distribution is under high load. > The usage of the MaxConnectionsPerHost configuration option results in > aggressive activity on semaphores within HttpCommons, it has been > observed that the aggregator can have a response time far greater than > that of the searchers. The above monitor contention would appear to > suggest that in some cases its possible for liveness issues to occur and > for simple queries to be starved of resources simply due to a lack of > attention from the viewpoint of context switching. > With, as mentioned above the http commons connection being hotly > contended > The fair, queue based configuration eliminates this, at the cost of > throughput. > This patch aims to make the threadpool largely configurable allowing for > those using solr to choose the throughput vs latency balance they > desire. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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It was her sleeve of irises that first captured my attention:
These are inspired by the work of Vincent van Gogh, perhaps this one:
The tattoo was done by Dennis Halbritter when he was at Incognito Tattoo in Pasadena, California. He has since moved to High Voltage Tattoo, Kat Von D's shop on L.A. Ink.
Dennis also inked this on Amanda's inner right bicep:
This quote "IO FU QUELLO CHE VOI SIETE E QUEL CH'IO SON VOI SARETE" is taken from an Italian fresco credited to Masaccio. This is the artwork in question:
|The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin and Saint John and donors, in Florence
The phrase is translated as "I once was what you are and what I am you also will be".
These words remind her of her own mortality.
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Parasitol. latinoam. v.62 n.3-4 Santiago dic. 2007
Parasitol Latinoam 62: 183 -187, 2007 FLAP
Parasites of pigeons (Columba livia) in urban areas of lages, Southern Brazil
SANDRA MARCIA TIETZ MARQUES*, ROSILEIA MARINHO DE CUADROS** CINTIA JARDIM DA SILVA** and MARISA BALDO**
* Laboratory of Protozoology, Department of Clinical Veterinary Pathology, School of Veterinary Sciences of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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The prevalence of ectoparasites and endoparasites was studied in 5 8free-living pigeons (Columba livia) in urban areas of Lages, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The pigeons were visually inspected and fecal and blood samples were collected to determine the presence of ectoparasites. The serological diagnosis was established through the use of blood smears stained with Quick Panoptic and Giemsa methods. The fecal samples were analyzed using Sheather 's method. The Quick Panoptic andGiemsa methods detected 67.24% (39/58) and46.55% (27/58) ofHaemoproteussp, respectively. The prevalence rate amounted to 57% of 116 smears analyzed (P value=0.0387; odds ratio = 2.357 with a 95% confidence interval). The prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites was 74.14% (43/58). Protozoa (100% for Eimeria sp.) were detected in 86.05% of the cases and nematodes (Ascaridia sp. and Capillaria sp.) in 32.56%, whereas 20.93% of the pigeons were infected by multiple parasites. The fly Pseudolynchia canariensis was found beneath the feathers of all pigeons. This is the first report of parasites in C. livia in the state of Santa Catarina.
Key words: pigeons, Columba livia, Hippoboscidae, helminths, protozoa.
A prevaléncia de ecto e endoparasitos de 58 pombos (Columba livia) de vida livre foi estudada em áreas urbanas de Lages, estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil. Os pombos foram submetidos ao exame visual para a coleta e identificação de ectoparasites, coletas de fezes e sangue. O diagnóstico hemoparasitológico foi através de esfregacos sanguíneos corados pelas técnicas de Panótico Rápido e Giemsa. As fezes foram processadas pelo método de Sheather. Entre os hemoparasitos destacou-se o Haemoproteus sp., com 67,24% (39/58) para a técnica de Panótico Rápido e 46,55% (27/58) para a técnica de Giemsa. Dos 116 esfregaços analisados, a prevalência foi de 57% (P = 0,0387; Odds Ratio = 2,357 e Intervalo de Confiaça de 95%). A prevalência de parásitos gastrintestinais foi de 74,14% (43/58) com 86,05% para protozoários (100% para Eimeria sp.), 32,56% para nematódeos (Ascaridia sp. e Capillaria sp.) e 20,93% multiparasitados. A presença da mosca Pseudolynchia canarienses foi observada entre as penas de todas as aves. Este é o primeiro registro destes parásitos em C. livia no estado de Santa Catarina.
Pigeons of the order Columbiformes are ubiquitous birds and can be found in virtually every town and city around the globe. Columba livia is a species that descends from wild rock pigeons, which live in Mediterranean Europe. There has been a sharp increase in the number of these birds in Brazilian cities, drawing the attention of authorities to health and building defacement issues1.
Those who watch these birds can barely imagine how detrimental their disorderly reproduction may be and how many risks they
pose to human health. They constitute a major source of infection and transmission of diseases. They are often a cause for repulsion and nuisance due to the accumulation of fecal droppings and to the disruptive noise associated with their presence. Humans are infected by inhaling fecal dust from cages or from sites that have been contaminated with dry feces, urine and other droppings. This usually occurs among breeders, veterinary doctors, industrial workers, and cleaning workers2.
Several health problems can affect pigeons, but parasite infections play a major role. The prevalence of C. livia parasites was studied on the Canary Islands, where Pseudolynchia (P.) canariensis was observed in 36%, Haemoproteus (H.) columbae in 82%, coccidial oocysts in 50% and Ascaridia columbae in 40% of the pigeons.3 In Costa Rica, Haemoproteus sp was detected in 4.8% of birds4; in Queensland, Australia, a total of 3,059 birds were examined and Haemoproteus sp was found in 31.4% of them5.
Endemic free-ranging Galapagos doves (Zenaida galapagoensis) and rock pigeons (C. livid) were surveyed in several islands of the Galapagos archipelago to establish the sample prevalence of blood parasites. Haemoproteus sp, the only blood parasite identified, was found in 89% of the Galapagos doves sampled, but not in the rock doves.6 In Bulgaria, the total prevalence of the genus Haemoproteus amounted to 18.5%7. In Alaska, a study for the detection of blood parasites in birds during the breeding season revealed that the prevalence of Haemoproteus ranged from 5 to 18%8.
The prevalence of blood parasites was investigated in Japanese wild birds (from 1988 to 2001) and 5.1% were infected with Haemoproteus sp9. A total of 315 birds from Villavicencio and San Miguel, Colombia, were tested for the presence of hematozoa; of these, 50 birds (15.9%) harbored blood parasites of the genus Haemoproteus.10 Haemaproteus was the most prevalent parasite among C. livia in Uganda (76.5%)u, in South Africa (80%)12 and in the USA(22.8%)13.
In the state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil, a research study with free-living pigeons (C livia domestica) showed that all pigeons were infested with P. canariensis - a blood-feeding louse fly - and with H. columbae and Eimeria sp. oocysts. A. columbae was detected in 4.91% of the pigeons and 3.27% presented with mixed infections caused by A. columbae and Raillietina spp14. The prevalence and intensity of blood parasites in three species of wild doves were studied in the western region of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. H. columbae was found in the blood of all dove species15,16.
Hippoboscidae flies are ubiquitous and a vector for Haemoproteus sp among pigeons and doves of the order Columbiformes, whereas P. canariensis is the vector of//, columbae among Columba livia pigeons, both in the case of natural and experimental infections11,17. They can be found in all biogeographical regions and usually infect birds and some mammalian orders. Currently, there are 30 species in Brazil, classified into 10 genera; however, there is a paucity of information on their distribution and on their hosts in all Brazilian regions14-17. Gastrointestinal parasites are underinvestigated in birds. A report on captive wild birds, including those of the Columbidae family, carried out at a scientific rearing station and in a park in the city of Recife, northeastern Brazil, showed that 29.9% of the birds tested positive for helminths and/or protozoa; also showing that Capillaria sp was the most prevalent parasite, in addition to confirming the presence of Ascaridia sp and coccidial oocysts (8.3%)18.
The aim of this study was to determine the presence of ectoparasites and endoparasites in free-living C. /z'vz'a)that congregate around the public squares of Lages.
The pigeons included in this study were surveyed on the streets and squares of Lages, state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. They were captured with a fine mesh net after authorization by the Municipal Department of Environmental Protection and by the State Military Police Department of Santa Catarina. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Universidade do Planalto Catarinense (UNIPLAC). The pigeons were tagged with a leg ring to avoid multiple sampling.
A total of 58 male and female, different-aged pigeons were captured with a fine mesh net at different times between April and August 2004. Blood samples were initially collected from the pigeons. Thereafter, the pigeons were caged and taken to the Animal Facility of UNIPLAC, where they received water ad libitum until their stools could be sampled. After that, the pigeons were visually inspected for the detection, collection and identification of ectoparasites, and set loose immediately after that. Ectoparasites were identified using a stereo microscope and taxonomic keys17.
The blood samples were collected using an insulin syringe inserted through a brachial vein catheter. Each sample provided two blood smears, fixed with methanol and stained with Quick Panoptic and Giemsa dyes19. The slides were analyzed under light microscopy using an oil immersion objective.
The fecal matter was analyzed by Sheather's method, whereby protozoa and helminths were detected and identified, with decantation of the supernatant extract on the glass slide after the centrifugation flotation technique20.
Fisher's exact test (Graphpad Software, version 2.04) was used to compare the two diagnostic methods. An alpha error of less than 5% (p < 0.05) was considered statistically significant.
The fly Pseudolynchia canariensis was found beneath the feathers of all pigeons (Figure 1).
Haemoproteus sp, a protozoan transmitted by biting dipterans of the Hippoboscidae family, was the major parasite detected. The serological diagnosis through the use of staining methods revealed that 67.24% (39/58) of the samples yielded positive results when stained with the Quick Panoptic dye. Among the 58 slides stained with Giemsa, 46.55% (27/58) demonstrated the presence of Haemoproteus sp (Figure 2).
The positive and negative results for 116 blood smears are shown in Table 1.
The statistical analysis demonstrated that a two-sided P value of 0.0387 was considered to be significant, with an odds ratio of 2.357 and a 95% confidence interval. This difference showed that the Quick Panoptic method was more sensitive in detecting parasites in blood smears of Columba livia.
The overall prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites amounted to 74.14% (43/58), with 86.05% (37/43) for protozoa, with the detection of Eimeria sp oocysts in all positive samples. Of these samples, 27.9% (12/43) were infected by multiple parasites, showing associations between Eimeria sp. and Ascaridia sp and Ascaridia sp and Capillaria sp, whereas these three parasites were detected in 11.62% (5) of the samples. The prevalence of nematodes was 32.56% (14/43), and parasites of the genus Ascaridia (13/14) (92.85%) prevailed over those of the genus Capillaria (3/14) (21.42%) (Figure 3). The highest infection rate was that of Eimeria oocysts.
The result for P. canariensis is the same observed for pigeons of the same species in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil.14 The study conducted in São Paulo, also in southeastern Brazil, with three pigeon species, showed smaller prevalence rates of 58.4%, 36.5% and 33.6%, respectively16. On the Canary Islands, the prevalence of the fly P. canariensis amounted to 36%3.
The results of the present study demonstrated higher rates of blood parasites than the other few studies carried out in Brazil in two regions of the state of São Paulo for H. columbae, however, with a smaller rate than was observed in Minas Gerais (100% for H columbas). The investigation into the prevalence of blood parasites in pigeons and other birds in Costa Rica4, Alaska,8 and Japan9 revealed rates lower than 10%; in the United States13, Colombia10, Bulgaria7 and in Queensland5, Australia, the prevalence rates ranged from 20 to 32% for Haemoproteus sp. Similar or higher prevalence rates for Haemoproteus sp than those observed in this study were found in Uganda11 (76.5%), in South Africa12 (80%), on the Canary Islands3 (82%), and on the Galapagos archipelago6 (89%). The prevalence of gastrointestinal nematodes in Columba livia pigeons was higher than that obtained for Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil14; another study showed coccidial oocysts, but no prevalence data, unlike another study with pigeons from the public squares of Lages, where 100% of fecal samples revealed the presence of oocysts, in addition to a prevalence rate higher than 30% for nematode eggs, besides the predominance oí Ascaridia sp31418. Neither of the referenced studies revealed the presence of ectoparasites or endoparasites that could be zoonotic to humans, nor did the present study.
This is the first report on ectoparasites and endoparasites in Columba livia in public squares of Lages, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
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Techonomy: No Matter Their Age, Companies Are Turning to Technology
Above: Bishop, Donovan, Felice, Kurtzig
With all of the new technology coming to market, how do companies of different sizes have to change? That was the question at a Techonomy panel yesterday featuring representatives from 137-year-old AT&T, 28-year-old Dell, and two-year-old enterprise startup Kenandy.
John Donovan, who runs Technology and Network Operations for AT&T, talked about the importance of building momentum for change inside organizations. He said the company's two biggest goals are to capture the hearts of its employees and change the point of view from "inside out" to "outside in." On the first point, he talked about the importance of getting information from "front line" employees. Of the company's 133,000 employees, 35 percent are active every quarter in contributing crowdsourced ideas. On the second, he said, you can't look at customers from the point of view of the network, but must look at the network from the customer's point of view.
Dell is a younger company, but its president, Steve Felice, said it is more of a leader-driven company, with Michael Dell being a strong proponent of the Internet and social media. Companies are going to have to change, as so many today do not allow access to Facebook or YouTube. Organizations will flatten, and will need tools such as Salesforce's Chatter, he said. Organizations will be much less structured, he added, with people working from multiple locations, at multiple times.
Sandra Kurtzig, who previously founded manufacturing management software maker ASK Computer Systems in the 1970s and is now back with startup Kenandy Inc., talked about how things have changed over the decades. The world has moved from vertical integration to more horizontal companies, from hierarchical to flatter, and from transaction-oriented toward relationship-oriented. The CEO has to set the vision for the company, and then a company needs the process and the culture to accept the changes in the marketplace.
Donovan said companies can't pivot overnight, but must be prepared to move. For instance, moving applications from a mainframe environment to the cloud takes years. "Technology is more about evolution than revolution," he said, adding that revolution is just evolution that meets a specific tipping point. AT&T has reached that point, with employees wanting to work as small groups that move faster and more effectively. The company used to build everything from the ground up, but has become much more open with more than six billion API calls across its network each month.
The speed of change means organizations need to be willing to change, Felice said. Dell's original model of just-in-time manufacturing and advanced supply chain lasted for 20 years, but now Dell is doing many things beyond that, including a variety of enterprise services. You need to be much more agile, but you also need to understand your brand and preserve that brand, he said.
Kurtzig was impressed with how many of the Fortune 100 CIOs were willing to change these days. There are lots of legacy systems, so it won't happen overnight, but this is the biggest change since mainframes moved to minicomputers 20 years ago. If you don't start with a clean sheet of paper, she said, it's hard to embrace cloud and SaaS services.
Do CEOS get the shift to the cloud? Kurtzig said yes, at least in the companies that are calling her. Felice said by evidence the answers is no, but there are regulatory and security concerns that are real, which is holding some companies back. Some big firms are too slow to move, but smaller and mid-sized firms are embracing this, and could be challenging the bigger firms. Donovan said the question isn't really relevant, as business units in big companies are really driving the shift, perhaps as "covert operations" outside the purview of IT. Some companies are moving faster than others, but every company is moving this way, he said.
Eventually, there is a need for central coordination, Donovan and Felice agreed, and Felice said at Dell, there is an amnesty program for customer-supported applications. He said part of the problem is that IT departments are spending much more on keeping the lights on than on creating new applications, but another problem is that the business side needs to understand which applications are really important, getting rid of old ones and prioritizing the new ones. He said IT departments need to take more risks, and that too needs a strong leader.
Kurtzig said she is encouraged by CEOs willing to make new changes. Technologies are empowering people, and the problems in the economy have helped drive the transition because companies that should have replaced the old systems years ago are now aggressively looking at new technology.
Felice advised CEOs to "get social" by using Chatter, LinkedIn, and other tools. He expects employees that don't touch customers (in back offices) would go down, but he hopes there will be more employees who do touch customers, from R&D to sales.
Donovan said it is all about openness and companies need to think about their whole ecosystem. Thus, it matters less how many employees are actually within the organizations, but it's more important to get inside and outside people working together.


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How is it already thisclose to being June? I'm holding tight to the well-worn marks of weekly routines to remind myself of the borders between these days, rather than accepting them as a smear across the calendar.
I am happiest with a schedule, and yet want Monday to feel different than Wednesday. Saturdays are for the farmer's market and tacos for breakfast, Tuesdays are often a standing bibimbap lunch, and Sunday night is when I make granola.
When I was fine-tuning the recipes for my book, certain ones that had always been part of my weekly to-do list became even more so entrenched in the way we do things around here. The soft sandwich bread took over the bread box, instead of sharing the space with the milk-and-honey-enriched loaf that was our alternate. I was giving away jar after jar of the pickled strawberry preserves. I had a freezer's worth of variations on the Walnut, Cherry Butter Tart Pie (there was one with milk chocolate, one with bittersweet, and one with cacao nibs; then one with pecans instead of the walnuts, another with bourbon, and one with dried cranberries, and every permutation in between). The clumpy granola became our one and only, and it was made with such devotedness that there was usually a surplus stashed in the pantry.
Once the book was done and out in the world, I took a break from many of those recipes, first off because—and nobody tells you this—while you're promoting a book you end up doing very little cooking. Then it was summertime, when our schedule had only the loosest of parameters. Slowly, slowly with fall and winter and school and holidays, I found my way again to the little ceremonies of my kitchen.
I'm back to a varied bread baking program, and the yeasted ones from the book are supplemented with a rye-heavy sourdough on the regular. The butter tart pie was was on the table at Thanksgiving, and it'll be shuttled to the cottage this summer.
Now the granola has its antithetical compatriot sharing a shelf. While mine is rough with clusters, this one from Emma Galloway's My Darling Lemon Thyme, is snappy, crackling and light. Hers is a toasted muesli, with a combination of flaked grains, coconut, seeds, and nuts, plus such a collection of dried fruit that each bite is a change from the one before. The kicker really is Emma's ingenious binding agent; tahini, mixed with coconut oil and honey. The resulting syrup is rich without going overboard, and not overly sweet. It is fragrant yet not sickly, evocatively savoury almost. In short, it's compellingly good.
Sarah wrote about this recipe just last month, so I consider this adding my voice to the chorus of praise as this muesli is one for encores.
"Muesli-making was always my dad's domain when we were little. Late at night he would set himself up in the kitchen, toasting and chopping like a mad man, before decanting the goods into his giant glass muesli jar. I remember him saying how expensive it was to make but, and this is a huge BUT, homemade muesli beats that store-bought sweetened stuff hands down. This is my favourite version, and it's filled to the brim with the goodness of quinoa flakes, shredded coconut, nuts, and fruit all bound together in a sweet (but not in-your-face-sweet) mixture of coconut oil, tahini, honey, and orange zest. To keep things strictly mean you can use pure maple or brown rice syrup in place of the honey. Also, whole-grain oats can be used in place of the quinoa flakes."
— From My Darling Lemon Thyme: Recipes from my Real Food Kitchen by Emma Galloway (Roost Books, 2015)
Makes 1.5kg | 2 pounds
INGREDIENTS (please see below and the note for my changes)
- 5 cups | 500 g quinoa flakes
- 2 cups |180g unsweetened shredded or flaked coconut (I used both)
- 1/2 cup | 65g cashews, roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup | 75g whole raw almonds, roughly chopped (I used flaked)
- 1/2 cup | 65g pumpkin (pepita) seeds
- 1/2 cup | 60g sunflower seeds
- 1/4 cup | 35g sesame seeds
- 1/3 cup | 80ml virgin coconut oil
- 1/3 cup | 80ml un-hulled tahini
- 1/3 cup | 80ml honey, pure maple or brown rice syrup (I used maple)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- The finely grated zest of 2 oranges
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 cup | 200g natural raisins or sultanas
- 1 1/2 cups | 165g dried cranberries
- 1 cup | 95g firmly packed dried apple slices, roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup | 80g pitted dried dates, roughly chopped
Preheat oven to 350°F / 180°C. Combine quinoa flakes, coconut, cashews, almonds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower and sesame seeds in a large bowl using your hands to combine thoroughly. Combine coconut oil, honey or syrup, tahini, vanilla, orange zest and sea salt in a small pan and bring slowly to the boil, stirring constantly until melted and combined. Pour over dry ingredients and mix well.
Transfer to a large deep baking sheet and bake for 25-30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes, until toasty and golden brown. Watch those edges like a hawk as they have a tendency to burn. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool. Stir in the dried fruit and transfer to a large glass jar or airtight container. Will keep for 2-3 weeks as long as airtight.
Instead of quinoa alone, I used 3 cups rolled oats, 11/2 cups quinoa flakes, and 1/2 cup buckwheat groats. I tailored the fruit to my sons' preferences, using 1/2 cup sultanas, 1/2 cup chopped figs, 1 cup dried cranberries, 1/2 cup dried cherries, 1/2 cup dried blueberries, 1/4 cup minced candied ginger, and 1/2 cup pitted dried dates, chopped.
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Ready for another Teen Mom shocker? Of course you are ... or at least you expect to be shocked by these kids these days, don't you? Jenelle Evans is one of the best at making our jaws drop, but this time it's her on-again/off-again boyfriend Kieffer Delp who has left us floored.
Did you know Jenelle isn't the only teen parent in that relationship? Turns out ol' Reefer has a child of his own. A son to be exact.
Jenelle dropped that little tidbit on -- where else? -- Twitter this week, after someone criticized her parenting skills (or lack thereof). When someone mentioned the fact that Kieffer has a relationship with his mom, and his mom -- unlike Jenelle's -- hasn't had to take custody of his child, the Teen Mom star suggested people ask Kieffer about his own child. Kieffer's response was at once a confirmation that it's true and a warning that she needed to stop talking. All he would say?
Im not talking about my son on twitter
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Well, good for him! At least his parents did one thing right in raising this kid! Then again ... do we really want to be slapping Kieffer's parents on the back?
Once upon a time it was normal for teen parents to have kids and then move on, to pretend like it never happened. Especially teen boys.
But this is 2012. If Kieffer has a child -- and it certainly sounds like he does -- that child needs to be a priority in his life. And as much as we don't like to admit it, teen parents still need parental guidance. That's why teen parenting is such a problem in the first place ... they're still just kids.
We don't know much about his dad, but Kieffer's mom is currently embroiled in a Jenelle sex tape scandal. And she's raised a child who has no problem sharing his affection for weed with the world, but never once mentioned that he has an actual child. Not to mention Kieffer has been arrested how many times now?
Now we add in the fact that her teenage son was dating a girl and hanging out with her child while his own son was where exactly? This sounds like another colossal parenting failure from the Teen Mom crew ... doesn't it?
What do you think is really going on with Kieffer's son?
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Justin Bieber Blames Jail Behavior on Ankle Injury, May Take Plea in Egg Case
There are multiple updates on two Justin Bieber legal cases. Strap yourselves in, Beliebers, there is a lot going on with your hero, who claims he wasn't drunk when arrested in Miami and his wobbly behavior was the result of an ankle injury. He may also take a plea in Egg Gate.
The Biebs looked like he may have been a little buzzed or tipsy when arrested in January. He couldn't walk the line when asked because he says he sustained an ankle injury while skateboarding. He did install a ramp in the backyard of the house he just sold to Khloe Kardashian and which was the scene of Egg Gate. More on that in a moment.
The Biebs was charged with driving under the influence even though he blew .014 on the breathalyzer, which is akin to NOTHING. The cops still said he smelled like booze.
His unsteady gait on the night of the arrest is their proof that he was drinking. But he claimed a hairline fracture in his right foot, sustained three months prior, was the reason for his wobble, not because he was boozed up.
The docs, obtained by TMZ, claim that he was rude to cops, too. He reportedly told the cop who cuffed him that "I'm 19 years old. I'm just out having a good time." The police officer responded that he didn't drive a Lamborghini when he was a teen, to which The Biebs retorted, "Yeah, well, I bet you didn't have millions of dollars in your bank account either."
Ouch. That was snotty and unnecessary. The Biebs allegedly also claimed to have been driving fast cars since he was 15.
Now, about Egg Gate. The singer will probably be charged with a crime but it won't go to trial. TMZ reports that Biebs' lawyer Howard Weitzman has been contacted by the D.A. to discuss restitution for the damage. The neighbor claims that the singer caused around $20,000 in damage with his egg tossing stunt.
The prosecutor will likely want The Biebs to pay for the damage and to plead no contest to misdemeanor vandalism. He would avoid jail time but would be under informal probation. It would be an open and shut situation.
The L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. pushed for a felony charge, but the D.A. disagreed and believed Bieber's ova antis were merely a misdemeanor.
If the plea is reached, this should be wrapped within a week.
That's one less legal drama for the singer to deal with. He heads to trial for the Miami arrest case in May, which is different than the Miami assault case.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Five unanswered goals in the first half helped propel Springfield College to a 12-5 win over MIT in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) women's lacrosse opener for both squads. Edith Reshef and Erica Little each posted two goals for the Engineers (3-3, 0-1 NEWMAC) as Jackie Moscardelli tallied three goals and an assist for the Pride (6-2, 1-0 NEWMAC).
Springfield recorded three consecutive goals during the first five minutes of the contest. Alexandra Bazzano lit the lamp twice as Kaeleigh Lannan rounded out the spurt. An unassisted strike by Reshef narrowed the gap to 3-1 at the 23:32 mark. A free position shot by Moscardelli 32 seconds later ignited the pivotal run that resulted in an 8-1 advantage at halftime. Moscardelli added back-to-back blasts down the stretch while Nicole Soucie and Heather Dobson contributed to the rally.
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O'Keefe paced the Engineers with five groundballs and two caused turnovers as Stephanie Leger contributed three groundballs. Alex Wright notched three draw controls while Lauren Rodda posted two caused turnovers. In net, Molly McCartin collected 10 saves.
Lannan totaled two goals, an assist, and two caused turnovers as Bazzano and Soucie each recorded two goals. Soucie added a team-high three draw controls while Meghan Wisell registered three groundballs. Nicole Flores bolstered the defense with three groundballs and two caused turnovers as Lauren McAulay made 15 saves.
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A migraine is a severe pain that is often accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting, sensitivity to bright light and sound and can last anywhere between several hours and days at a time. Many indians are sufferers of migraines, but what exactly causes such terrible pains in us, pains that can keep us from living our lives as normal and instead leaving them laying in bed in hopes to make it go away?
The medical cause of migraines is a fairly simple concept; it occurs when the blood vessels enlarge and nerve fibers release chemicals around these vessels. The guilty vessel in particular is one that lays just outside the skull and beneath the skin. This vessel becomes inflamed and possibly further enlargement, causing pain and that throbbing sensation that sometimes occurs.
There are a variety of causes for migraines. First and foremost, parents can be responsible for them. No, not having to deal with phone calls and holidays after you move out, although stress is another cause for migraines! Just having one parent with a history of migraines gives their child a 50% chance of developing them for themselves. When both parents have it, the odds jump up to 75%. Unfortunately, there isn't very much to do when this is a cause since it is impossible to change one's genetics.
One cause for women (who are more likely to develop migraines) that cannot be avoided is the menstrual cycle. While it does not happen every month, it can still occur. Like the previous reason, there really isn't much to do when this happens other than keeping hydrated and remaining in bed if possible. Causes of migraines other than parents can be controlled and avoided, luckily. Among these include alcohol, irregular or lack of sleep, skipping meals, already present tension headaches, as well as bright lights and loud noises. Certain kinds of foods and drinks are major culprits–namely those with tyramine, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and nitrates.
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There are a few moments in life I've skipped past while sharing my life. Either because it's too similar to something previous that's been mentioned like the time I wiped my ass on the bathroom towel and then hung it back up on the rack. Got in shit for that, pardon the pun. –I was four!-
College moments I just couldn't squeeze in like the time I handed an essay mostly covering the topic of masturbation and a book report on Humpty Dumpty. I wasn't there the day my teacher received this news from the exam board, but I heard he wanted to slap me for that. Still got the chance to do it again and I'm sure it's probably out there doing the rounds as an example of what not to do if you want to pass Core 2 English.
Or simply because there is nothing really funny about having to wear a jumper on Christmas Day to hide the bruising left behind from a needles puncture wound.
And so, after thinking long and hard about whether it's a good idea to bring out possibly the ugliest of all skeletons from my closet as I know what a touchy subject this can be.. I think, fuck it. This is my story, my life and if it wasn't for this pretty harrowing series of events then I'd still be a virgin.
Write your complaints on a postcard and then stick it up your arse!
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It was around my 18th birthday, year 2000 I believe and I succeeded in bringing one larger than life drunk chick back to my bed. Trouble is I was pretty wasted myself.
Five minutes in and I'm on my way down stairs to the toilet after throwing up on her tits and I can't really say I'm completely surprised or bothered when I return to find she's no longer there. However, one thing hangs heavy on my mind. That was my first sexual experience and I fucked it up. How to recover? Fret not, for I have a plan!
As my bus draws closer to my planned destination my stomach turns to nerves. "What if this doesn't work? What if I'm not right down there"? I know just the thing for this kind of nonsense. The cause and solution to all life's problems: Beer.
Not just beer but whisky as it would become. I fill up on Dutch courage before strutting into the massage parlour where young Casanova here plans to make up for lost time, but would you believe? I'm too drunk and I can't get it up! Not only that embarrassment but I also left my glasses there and have to trot back and get them. I return home a disgrace to mankind and completely in turmoil. But I'm not done yet.
The waiting game.
This time I go almost a week without 'relief' which to an 18 year old is deserving of a fucking medal but a dead cert not to fail. A strong wind could empty my balls this time but just to make sure I decide on a change of venue for this time around.
Sitting sober as a monkey in this horrible little room wearing nothing but a small towel around my waist, I'm asked to choose between three scabby, junky hags. Just then and angel appears in the form of a foreign, chicken eating angel in the midst of her lunch and wandering into my line of sight at exactly the wrong moment.
Paying for one hour and only really needing three minutes –hey, I was 18- but I'm in the clear now as I now know that everything working and hearing words like "You strong like bull" really does give me some encouragement. She really said that!
I decide to return to this naughty little maid, just to make sure, only to be given the most noisy bed on Gods Earth putting us both off more than a little not to mention a kids voice on the other side of the door shouting "Dad"! Who the fuck brings their kids here?!
. . .
With the years clocking up towards that milestone of 30, I find myself looking back at the big picture. I never once ticked any of those boxes that some regard as the checklist of life..
Education (didn't go to college to learn!)
Pension plan.
And that's exactly why I've been really able to live life, at least in a way that works for me anyway. Who wants to be the richest man in the graveyard? Who wants a life time of tip-toeing around and bending over backwards to be just another baw hair on the baw bag? Fuck that. If I stumble across an idea for something, maybe a project or just an adventure, then I'll save the money and do it. Sure I'll listen to advice because not every idea is a good one but not once have I ever regretted where I've ended up. It's been such a fucked up, crazy adventure and it's not over by a long shot. In-fact, I'd say it's only just begun.
On my last little adventure before turning 30, I spoke with a very interesting girl who really woke me up. I learned that my jokes and stories are sometimes not enough and it's too easy to just hide behind them all never really showing the real you. For probably the first time in my life I actually managed to just let go and say what was on my mind. It wasn't easy but I learned a lot right there and then. So I will be me from now on regardless of how hot someone is or how much I care for them. The laughs will still come and the madness continue but on a higher, much better level now that we're done with the act and to be honest.. I never much cared for being the clown.
To whatever awaits around that next corner I'll take it on with a new found stride.
Time to grow up?
Remember, I'm not always proud of what I've done. Just honest about it.


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With all that's happened in the news the past couple of months with Obama being re-elected, the realization that Obamacare and Roe v Wade are to be with us for years to come, and the school shooting in CT, it's a time to count our blessings by shedding the darkness of the world and looking to the Light. This Christmas, hold tight to the arms of Christ and thank Him for all the good He has provided in your lives. And then follow His example to spread His Light to all you meet, because living your faith and SHOWING the presence God's Grace in your life wins more converts than quoting the Bible or blathering about "judgement" ever will. The example set by others is why I joined the Catholic Church.
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By Russ Britt
The threats to Obamacare just keep on coming……
A case before the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia may determine the Affordable Care Act was written in such a way that it prevents the federal government's HealthCare.gov web site from offering subsidies.
Now such a ruling would have a long way to go before it actually would become enacted — and a lot of legal hoops would have to be jumped through — but such a finding could be a show-stopper for Obamacare. More than 5 million of the 8 million who signed up for Obamacare through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' web site would thus not be eligible for tax credits. Most, presumably, would fall off the rolls of the insured.
The case that could be ruled upon as early as Tuesday is known as Halbig v. Burwell, formerly Halbig v. Sebelius. CNBC reported Monday two of the three judges who heard the case in March indicated they might rule in favor of the plaintiffs. And an op-ed piece in last week's Los Angeles Times noted that lower courts may follow the Supreme Court's lead, which has ruled the Obama administration has overstepped its bounds in recent cases.
There are at least three other similar cases to Halbig. They all contend that the ACA was written to grant subsidies only to those in states that have established their own health-insurance exchanges. It was something the federal government could not have foreseen, since it expected all states to set up their own networks, but only 16 states and the District of Columbia accomplished that task. Thirty-four states are using the federal government's HealthCare.gov web site to find health coverage.
Phrasing in the law uses the words "established by the State" as opposed to "established under this Act" and plaintiffs in the cases have construed that to mean exchanges only established by a state. But the Halbig case, along with another in Virginia, were dismissed earlier this year when lower-court judges found the arguments for the plaintiffs to be off base, since the ACA's subsidies clearly were meant for those in states where the federal government had to step in to establish the exchange.
Both Halbig and the Virginia case will be ruled upon by appeals courts. Two other cases are awaiting rulings on motions to dismiss those cases by district judges.
Should Halbig prevail, it's expected the Obama administration will appeal immediately to all judges at the D.C. Circuit Court, and then it would go on to the Supreme Court from there. It's not guaranteed, though, that the high court would hear the case. Obama administration officials are mum on the case until there is a ruling in the D.C. court.
One question that remains unanswered: Why didn't Obamacare opponents in Congress key in on this when the law was being implemented late last year and early this year?
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GAFFNEY, S.C.— The Lady Cobras volleyball team dropped two matches on Friday evening, the first loss was to Conference Carolinas foe Limestone College, 3-1, marking Coker's first conference loss of the season. Their second loss of the night came in the Lady Cobras opening match of the Labor Day Tournament at Limestone, as they lost in straight sets to Lander, 3-0.
The losses drop Coker to 1-5 overall and 0-1 in Conference Carolinas play.
In the first match, the Lady Saints won the first two sets 25-18 and 25-12. Coker won the third bout 25-21, but Limestone recovered in set four to win 25-14.
Melissa Thomas (Easley, S.C.) led the Lady Saints with 14 kills, while Jennifer O'Keeffe (Canton, Ga.) posted 13 kills. Sam Johnson (Summerville, S.C.) had four blocks. Laura Kerrison (Charleston, S.C.) recorded 24 assists and 2 aces. Chelsea Anthony (Pickens, S.C.) posted 14 digs while Brooke England (Rochester, N.Y.) had 11.
For the Lady Cobras, Cynallyhia Indriago (Columbia, S.C.) led the way with 12 kills and nine digs, while Abby Frame (Sylvania, Ohio) had 16 assists and 17 digs. Kayla Hopper (Newberry, S.C.) had 11 digs in the match and Kristin Teets (Columbia, S.C.) had six kills.
In match number two, Lander defeated Coker with scores of 25-23, 25-13 and 25-16.
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Participants and a parent or guardian must attend the meeting to be eligible to show. For more information, see the Jan. 16 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.