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Host a Student
Our volunteer host families provide international students with a window in which to view and understand American life and culture. Students are expected to act as a member of your family. They will participate in your family's daily activities and chores, bond with their host siblings, and join in family conversations. At the same time, the students will be sharing their culture and values with their American families. Students are encouraged to bring pictures of their home country, cook their favorite meals for their host family and share holiday celebrations and traditions from their home country. Our philosophy is to promote international goodwill and understanding through international student exchange experiences. It is our belief that participation in hosting will foster a significant understanding of the values and attitudes of foreign cultures, while at the same time exposing foreign students to the uniqueness and diversity of American life
Education at Home
So many of life's lessons are taught outside the classroom. Hosting takes the concepts of language class, world studies or geography out of the textbook and brings them to life. Moreover, through an international exchange student, hosting introduces your children at an early age to the culture and diversity of another country. Whether talking at the dinner table, shooting hoops or just hanging out with your exchange student, your children will absorb lasting memories that will influence the way they perceive the world. Travel Without Going Anywhere
For many families, it is very difficult to arrange and pay for large family international vacations. Hosting a foreign exchange student allows you to bring the foreign country right into your own home. Countries cease to be distant places on a map and become a nation and culture that is dear to your heart.
ETC works directly with carefully screened agents in each of the countries we accept students from. These agents carefully screen the students and provide them with an orientation before they depart for the US. While the students are here in the US, the partner organization as acts as a liaison between ETC and the student's natural parents.
Countries Served
ETC currently maintains partnerships with organizations in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain and Thailand.
Special Activities
Each student can expect to participate in a variety of activities with their host family, Local Coordinator, and other ETC students. ETC hosts a fall welcome party, monthly local activities, holiday parties, 5 (optional) trips per year, and a spring farewell picnic.
American Public High Schools
Students with J-1 visas are placed in an American high school in their homestay community. Students are required to maintain passing grades and take classes in English and American History or Civics. Students are not permitted to take ESL or English immersion classes. Students who fail to maintain a C average will be required to hire a tutor at their own expense.
Financial Responsibilities
Students come with comprehensive medical insurance. Families are volunteers and are not expected to pay for student expenses. Students are responsible for their own personal expenses including school activity charges, class fees, clothes, travel expenses, entertainment, bus passes, long distance phone charges, and lunches purchased at school.
Learn About the World without Leaving Home
You can broaden your family's horizons and make a big difference in the life of a young person who is courageous enough to leave family and friends for ten months to live with an unknown family in a strange land. Won't you please open your heart and your home to one of these young friendship ambassadors?
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What's New in this Version
- Screenshot Plus is now Snow Leopard-compatible
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In the wake of the hack of technology journalist Mat Honan, many users of cloud-based services are running scared.
Forget Twitter-hacking attackers named "Phobia" who managed to compromise a well-known technology journalist's Google credentials and Twitter account. What about competitive intelligence experts who might want to hack rivals' Gmail accounts to siphon away corporate secrets? Or hacktivists seeking a reprise of the Anonymous attack against HBGary, which copied and then deleted the firm's Gmail accounts?
To help stop "life hack," competitive intelligence, or hacktivist attacks that come gunning for corporate data, all Google Apps for Business users--and especially corporate administrators--should pursue the following nine security strategies:
1. Create a Google security plan: Anyone who uses Google for business should begin by detailing all related security processes and procedures, with an eye toward spotting potential weak points--especially single points of failure--and having a data breach response plan. As an example of what can happen without this type of plan, take the February, 2011 hack of HBGary's email by the hacktivist group Anonymous. Briefly, HBGary had threatened to reveal the identities of many group members. In retaliation, members of Anonymous used a stolen password to hack into HBGary's company-wide Gmail account, from which it copied and then deleted every email it found. According to HBGary CEO Greg Hoglund, he saw the attack unfolding, but wasn't able to convince the Google help desk of his own identity, in time to prevent all of the company's emails from being copied.
2. Use two-factor authentication: Anyone who possesses just a Google account username and password can access that account and everything it sees, including documents and spreadsheets, unless Google's two-factor authentication system is enabled. Accordingly, enabling it is a no-brainer for every business user.
In the case of the Honan hack, for example, "much of the story is about Amazon or Apple's security practices, but I would still advise everyone to turn on Google's two-factor authentication to make your Gmail account safer and less likely to get hacked," said Matt Cutts, the head of Google's Web spam team, in a personal blog post.
Likewise, Gartner analyst John Pescatore said HBGary was at least partially to blame for the unauthorized access to--and deletion of--its Gmail accounts, because the security technology company wasn't using Google's two-factor authentication system.
3. Configure two-factor for external email accounts: Google's Cutts also noted that while Google's two-factor authentication system is designed for browsers, POP and IMAP email clients can be given unique passwords for checking Gmail. Using such passwords makes it more difficult for an attacker who's compromised an employee's Gmail credentials to surreptitiously and remotely listen in to all email communications.
4. Extend Google authenticator, where applicable: Likewise, Google's two-factor authentication will work with additional sites, including LastPass, WordPress, Amazon Web Services, Drupal, and DreamHost, said Cutts. In the case of WordPress, for example, an administrator can set the blogging software to require two-factor authentication for specific user accounts.
5. Delete users after they depart: As part of your company's Google Apps for Business security plan, ensure that processes are in place to immediately change the passwords of departing users--or better yet, to remove their accounts entirely. That helps prevent former employees from taking sensitive information or customer lists with them.


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"As the leaders of participant organizations at the 2009 Commodity Classic, which represent almost 90% of our nation's crop area planted, we would like to take this opportunity to reiterate the importance of the farm safety net as written in the 2008 Farm Bill.
"The small investment in agricultural programs by the federal government provides an excellent return for the American people. The 2008 Farm Bill also includes many other reforms that will assist farmers in becoming more financially sound.
"Production agriculture is a volatile business, and a workable farm safety net is vital to the security of our industry. The continued production of an abundant, affordable and safe food and feed supply for Americans and all those we export to around the world will be affected if this safety net is changed. The purpose of a five-year farm bill is to provide stability to producers, agricultural operations and the food system. The 2008 bill should not be reopened before it expires in 2012.
"Our organizations look forward to continued work with the Obama Administration and Congress to ensure farm program monies are spent wisely."


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Wolff expects advantage to switch between Hamilton and Rosberg
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes the competitive advantage between his two drivers will swing from one to the other over the course of the season.
Nico Rosberg currently leads the drivers' championship by four points, but mainly thanks to Lewis Hamilton's early retirement from the opening race of the season. At the last three races, Hamilton has beaten Rosberg in straight fights, but Wolff believes there is the potential for things to change race to race.
"The very exciting bit for myself and for us is that we see how different they are in their approach but how close the racing pans out on Sunday," Wolff said. "It's always very dangerous to hype one and talk the other down, and this is going to be a constant battle through the season. One is going to have the edge at one time and that is going to be changing quite quickly, which could be because of the approach. This is what makes it so exciting for us and keeps pushing the level up."
Mercedes has dominated the opening races of the season, with winning margins in excess of 20 seconds over rival teams. At the Bahrain Grand Prix Hamilton and Rosberg were able to fight it out at the front without the fear of rivals closing in, but Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said he will only encourage such behaviour if his drivers have a comfortable gap over the rest.
"Bahrain was a very particular situation, because our package worked very well there and we had quite a competitive advantage there. It was easier to take a decision for the sake of racing because we knew we would have a margin to the next guy. The more narrow that margin gets, the more you have to look out for competitors.
"Our rule is that the team-mate is not enemy No.1, but the competition is enemy No.1. There might be situations in the race where you need to consider the fact you can't lose lots of time in a battle when you have your enemy right on your back."


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Update: Shopify Payments Now Available in Canada
We are pleased to announce the Shopify Payments is now available for our Canadian merchants.
Traditionally, selling stuff online required you have two major things, an ecommerce website to showcase your products and a payment gateway to accept online payments.
And while Shopify has always made integrating the two as easy as possible, merchants were still required to sign up with a 3rd party payment gateway service in addition to creating a Shopify store. Not only that, as a merchant, if you wanted to view your sales in real-time, you had to leave the Shopify Admin and login to your payment gateway website.
Well, with Shopify Payments that's all about to change.
Fresh on the heels of releasing Shopify 2, we're officially rolling out an industry first in online payments.
Shopify Payments is here, and with it, the easiest way to accept payments online without the hassle of 3rd party payment gateways and merchant accounts. Initially, Shopify Payments will be available first to stores in the U.S., with Canada and other countries to follow shortly.
Here are five reasons why Shopify Payments is a revolutionary new payment system...
1. The End of Shopify Plan Transaction Fees
One of the things we're most excited to bring to our merchants is the end of Shopify Plan transaction fees for anyone using Shopify Payments. That means more money in your pocket.
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Since store owners don't have to sign up for a separate gateway or merchant account to use Shopify Payments, there is no wait time while your account is being approved - a process that traditionally took days (or weeks).
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Assignment types: Random assignment
Random assignment is an attempt to handle larger classes of students. For this purpose, we generate a series of html (txt, pdf) files with the same structure but different numbers. In addition, we generate corresponding files with hints to solutions for teachers.
Random assignment is a plugin for assignments with following properties:
- It is derived from Asignment: Advanced uploading of files. It shares all its features.
- Teacher specifies one or more files for assignments and (optionally) solution files with the same names
- Each student gets one of these files randomly
- In the assignment feedback page, teacher sees the assignment file and optionally the solution file as well.
Installation procedure:
- Copy directory random/ to moodle/mod/assignment/type/
- If needed, add your language. Language files are located in moodle/mod/assignment/type/random/lang
Upgrade from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.0 (2.1)
File upgrade.php replaces file mod/assignment/db/upgrade.php. The upgrade code is located at the end of the original file
Creation of an assignment:
1. Create activity: Assignment: random assignment and specify files for assignments and solutions.
Student sees link to the assignment and, optionally its content if it is a html or txt file (utf-8 encoded). Teacher sees links to both files when grading a student on the feedback page. Teacher also sees links to all files on the assignment and feedback pages.
Versions for 2.3-2.6 exist but cannot be uploaded to Plugins database as it is a hack. It can be downloaded from http://kirp.chtf.stuba.sk/~fikar/random.zip (ZIP, 2.6), http://kirp.chtf.stuba.sk/~fikar/random24.zip (ZIP, 2.3-2.4). Version for 2.5 can be done in the same way as others. The documentation is at Moodle Docs (2.4).
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Summer 2003
Appellate Judges Veer Off on Procedure QuestionsAnticipation rose for months, as proceedings before the U.S., Court of Appeals progressed. May 8, 2003, the day before the hearing, reporters gathered at Compassion's offices to hear stories from two Compassion patients and a physician.
Early the next morning the crowded courtroom buzzed with excitement, but it fell silent as the judges filed in. Judge Tallman, a 49 year-old Clinton appointee, took the chair in the middle, as presiding judge. Judge Wallace, a 75 year-old Nixon appointee and former Chief Judge of the Circuit, sat on his left. Judge Lay, appointed in 1966 by President Johnson, showed his 77 years as he walked slowly to the chair on the right.
Shortly after Jeffrey Katsas, Ashcroft's deputy, began, Judge Wallace revealed his acerbic mood with a harsh word to the press photographer. But it was Tallman who badgered Katsas with questions. Isn't the federal Controlled Substances Act concerned with drug dealing, not medical practice? Aren't doctors legitimately concerned that if that law applies to end-of-life care they will be scrutinized for providing aggressive pain care? Didn't Glucksberg (Compassion's 1997 Supreme Court case) indicate that dying patients have a right to aggressive pain care? Isn't the Attorney General walking too fine a line between pain care and assisted dying?
All the judges questioned Mr. Katsas about judicial deference to an about-face from the previous Administration's reading of the law. Should a court be deferential to erratic legal interpretation by an administrative agency?
For our side, the questions were not so vigorous, but surprisingly, they focussed on jurisdictional issues. Was this case properly filed in the District Court? Should it have come directly to the Appellate Court? Is the case ripe? Without enforcement of the Ashcroft Directive has anyone really been harmed?
Nicolas van Aelstyn, representing Compassion patients, quickly put to rest the notion that Ashcroft's Directive harms no one until a physician is prosecuted. We began this litigation with nine patients. We now have two. The questions before the court are pressing to our clients. They would suffer immediate harm if the injunction were lifted and the Ashcroft Directive went into effect.
Judge Tallman seemed most sympathetic to the ruling of the District Court, favorable to our side. Judge Lay seemed most interested in dismissing the case, only to have it begin again in the very court now hearing it. And Judge Wallace seemed persuaded by right-to-life arguments advanced by an Amicus brief on Ashcroft's side.
At this writing, we have no word of a decision or when one might emerge. We remain ready to respond with quick action if this court rules against us. If we win, we'll join our clients in celebration and prepare to respond to Ashcroft's next move.
Medical Study Confirms Patients' IndependenceA new medical study confirms what Compassion has known for years. Patients who request aid-in-dying are fiercely independent. The study published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, concludes "being in control and not dependent on other people is the most important thing for patients in their dying days." Dr. Linda Ganzini, Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University, surveyed 35 doctors on their perceptions of patients requesting life-ending prescriptions.
The physicians describe patients as having "strong and vivid personalities characterized by determination." Other adjectives used were "engaging," "passionate" and "crusty." With regard to their communication style patients were described as "outspoken," "articulate" and "forthright." The physicians' biases were also apparent in this study. Doctors who found their patients challenging used pejoratives such as "queen bee," "patriarch" or "odd duck."
Since the first use of the Oregon aid-in-dying law in 1997, opponents have speculated that patients choose aid-in-dying for depression, undertreated pain and financial concerns. The Ganzini Study refutes those arguments again by concluding, "loss of autonomy, loss of control of bodily functions are the primary motivators."
Compassion's Seattle founders developed and published a Medical Model of aid-in-dying in 1993. Compassion's careful practice built a solid foundation for implementing the Oregon law. Anyone familiar with Compassion's 10-year experience could have predicted the findings of the Ganzini study. Our own data reveals clients with extraordinary strength of character and independence.
News Notes4/1 The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics "Achieving the Right Balance in Oversight" acknowledges Compassion for "trying to counter the chilling effect of sanctions for opioid prescribing by drawing attention to cases in which pain was undertreated. The article credits Compassion's impact litigation in the Bergman case as "a dramatic message to physicians."
4/1 Human Rights "End-of-Life Care: A Human Rights Issue" by Kathryn Tucker. The American Bar Association publishes Tucker's treatise which concludes, "If the dying process is intolerable then legal access to a lethal dose of self-administered medication is a matter of human rights."
5/1 The Reader Digest "To Live or To Die ... An Oregon lawsuit has implications for us all." by Mary Fischer. Compassion patient Jim Romney's final interview inspired four terminally ill Readers Digest readers to contact Compassion. All are receiving counseling on their end-of-life options.
5/7 The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Ashcroft v. Oregon oral arguments generated extensive press coverage from the California media. Bloomberg, Sacramento Bee, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle dispatched reporters to Portland to cover courtroom proceedings and press conference. Associated Press and Reuters ran internationally, resulting in coverage in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Africa.
5/7 MSJAMA Medial Student Journal of American Medical Association publishes four "think piece" articles on the legal, moral, political and ethical issues of physician-assisted dying. In an online poll readers vote 46% in favor of legalization, 37% opposed 11% uncertain and 7% maybe.
7/1 The Yoga Journal, "Compassionate Dying" by Judith Lassiter explores the yogic perspective on awareness at death. She compares the safeguards of the Oregon law with the teachings of yoga that "can guide us as we grapple with decisions to make when we or our loved ones are dying."
7/1 Cornell Alumni Magazine publishes "Death With Dignity -- Oregon advocate leads defense of right to die statute" chronicling the career of Barbara Coombs Lee.
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Northern California
The board will host a public program and fundraiser October 9 in San Francisco.
New York
Film: "The Event"
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Compassion on the Road
3/23 Helen Beum, Director of Clinical Services, presents "Psychological & Emotional Aspects of Dying" at the Hemlock Society -- Caring Friends Training, Orlando, FL.
4/1 Washington State Hospice & Palliative Care Spring Conference, Ocean Shores, WA. "Hospice & Choice: Working Together in Oregon" with Barbara Coombs Lee and Ann Jackson, Director of Oregon Hospice Association.
4/10 Federation of State Medical Boards, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL presents Kathryn Tucker in a Fred Friendly Seminar "Facing Fears: Pain, Medication and End of Life Care, in Socratic Dialogue." The moderator, Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller, uses Compassion's under-treated pain case as a hypothetical scenario for an informative panel discussion on pain management. The series will air on Public Broadcasting Stations this fall. www.fredfriendly.org
5/03 Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School "Assisted Dying: Analysis of a Social Movement" with Professor Sylvia Law and Rev. Paul Smith.
5/13 Western States Chiropractic College, Portland, OR. "End of Life Issues" with Instructor Elizabeth Olson, Clinical Services Coordinator.
5/22 American Academy of Physician Assistants Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. "End of Life Options Past, Present and Future" with Barbara Coombs Lee.
5/31 Dying with Dignity of Canada, in Toronto: Compassionate Counseling Program training with Helen Beum on "Pain & Symptom Management, Emotional & Psychological Aspects of Dying."
6/7 American Society of Law Medicine & Ethics Annual Conference, Wilmington DE, Plenary Session "Choice at the End of Life" with Kathryn Tucker and Sylvia Law.
6/18 The Vassar Club of Oregon hosted Barbara Coombs Lee in "A Conversation on Compassion: Oregon v. Ashcroft."
6/21 Compassion of Northern California "Case Manager Training" with Elizabeth Olson, Compassion Clinical Services Coordinator, at San Francisco General Hospital.
Bon Voyage KimEveryone who called Compassion came to know Kim Maine's kind, lilting voice. It was the first contact for everyone from frightened patients to irascible journalists and it defined Compassion's attitude of caring.
Kim joined Compassion in 1996 when it was a small Seattle nonprofit. She helped plan for formation of the Federation and came to Portland to set up its office. At first she did/was everything. Only gradually did she shed duties as we added staff. When a nurse joined the staff, Kim could now hand off patient calls. When we added a media specialist Kim no longer wrote press releases and organized press conferences. And so it went, with Kim forging the way, figuring it out, whatever it was, and making it easier for those who came later. Kim built and ran Compassion's administrative functions with the highest standards of efficiency and integrity. We'll always be grateful for the foundation she laid.
New horizons beckoned, and Kim recently left Compassion to join the Foreign Service. She hopes to return to Uzbekestan, where she enjoyed her years of Peace Corp duty. Kim will always be part of Compassion, even as we bid her a safe and happy journey away from us.
A Community of Giving
Compassion's mission to improve care and expand choice at the end of life requires a strong financial base. We provide free client services to the terminally ill nationwide. We pursue legal reform through the courts and legislatures and leverage each contribution with a million dollars in pro-bono legal fees each year. The costs are still substantial. As plans for high impact litigation, reform legislation, and community service increase, so does the need for resources to bring these plans to fruition.
Thus, Compassion is launching a Future's Committee to increase awareness of end-of-life issues in philanthropic circles. The committee will develop relationships with patrons who seek to bring hope and dignity into the lives of terminally ill people and their families.
The Compassion Futures Committee will include individuals throughout the nation who bring new friends and help us transform goodwill and good works into charitable gifts. The efforts of Futures Committee members will be crucial to achieve our goals of service and the transformation of dying in America. Those who are not able to serve on the committee are welcomed as advisors.
A distinguished group of people is already beginning this work. Three outstanding supporters from the Washington, D.C. area have stepped forward to launch this effort.
Mrs. Alexander Trowbridge (Ellie) is a distinguished volunteer with impressive achievements and alliances. Ellie has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards including current board membership at The National Archive. She is on the board of the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Her understanding of Compassion comes from her daughter's battle with breast cancer.
Jerri Shaw is a partner in a prestigious Washington consulting firm specializing in health care policy. Her firm, with 200 employees and twenty-six million dollar annual revenue, was recognized in Working Woman Magazine as one of the 500 largest women-owned firms. Jerri's sister Karen L. Pye is on the Compassion's board of directors. Jerri's father, the Reverend Rodney Shaw, will also add his vision and expertise to the Futures Committee. Rev. Shaw is a retired Methodist minister and fundraiser for charitable causes. The family became close to Compassion during the struggle of Rodney's wife, Mary, with a terminal neuromuscular illness.
This fall, Jerri, Rodney, and Ellie will join forces to host a social event in Compassion's honor in Washington. This will be just the beginning of a series of events designed to spread the message of Compassion, bringing hope to terminally ill people and their families.
If you would like to share your ideas or are interested in participating in the growth of Compassion's Futures Committee, please contact Gail Meredith email@example.com at 503-226-9551.
New StaffHeather Bissel joins Compassion as our new Office Manager after volunteering with the organization for six months. She earned a degree in philosophy from Oberlin College and obtained a J.D. and Health Law Certificate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Heather interned for Professor Alan Meisel JD, a prominent Bioethecist specializing in right-to-die issues. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar.
Gail Merdith, Development Associate comes to Compassion to enhance major donor outreach and cultivate a community of giving. She is a former president of the board of Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette. Gail has led development activities for many Oregon non-profits including the Portland Audubon Society and the Columbia River Keeper. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and is the mother of two Cairn terriers.
Compassion Remembers
by Claire Simons, Director of CommuncationsJim Romney
Jim, a 56 year-old high school principal with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) called Compassion in September 2001. Jim told us that shortly after his diagnosis he began researching his end-of-life options, because he did not want to be trapped in a deteriorating body. Compassion began its usual consultation process, not knowing the important role Jim would play.
One month later as we prepared our defense against Attorney General John Ashcroft and Jim called again. He volunteered to become the second patient-plaintiff in Oregon v. Ashcroft. In his declaration Jim stated, "I do not intend to live my final days without control over my daily life." In his first press interview, Jim told a New York Times reporter, "I was devastated, totally shocked by Ashcroft's announcement. It took away all my sense of liberty." So began Jim Romney's role as a Compassion spokesperson.
It is my responsibility to evaluate inquires from journalists. I told reporters Jim was a "philosopher-king" from a Mormon-Republican lineage, including former Michigan Governor George Romney and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Although Jim voted for Senator Gordon Smith, a moral conservative, he adamantly believed in choice. Jim told his family, "My God would not want me to suffer." Journalists are not easily impressed, but Jim's candor facing death and his passionate beliefs captivated them. Jim understood that every interview he gave could be his last. So did the journalists. Jim mesmerized reporters with his gracious demeanor, intelligence and wit.
Jim accompanied Compassion's legal team to court and heard attorneys from the Department of Justice attack our law and Jim's right to use it. After enduring hours of argument, Jim stood with us on the courthouse steps. His ALS was progressing so it was difficult for him to speak or stand. Surrounded by microphones and cameras Jim told the world, "I want to know I can die when I choose." This photo commemorates that day. It is my favorite photo of Jim because it shows his strength and determination.
On April 17, 2002 a federal judge ruled against Ashcroft and Jim joined our victory press conference. He told reporters "Today I feel liberated again!" A year later, Compassion was back in court responding to Ashcroft's appeal. The stakes were higher and Jim knew it.
On May 7th, Jim emailed Barbara Coombs Lee with his encouragement to "stand tall in the Ashcroft litigation." Once again the reporters clamored around us on the courthouse steps. Jim was too weak to be there but I knew he was with us in spirit, standing tall to protect the rights of our patients. On May 13, Jim died from a pulmonary embolism. His wife Kathy was at his side. At his memorial friends, colleagues and relatives told how Jim "stood up for what he believed." Jim stood up for the rights of Oregonians when we needed him. He stood for choice and dignity at death. May we all "stand tall" in memory of Jim Romney.
On My Mind
by Barbara Coombs Lee, Compassion in Dying PresidentMy husband and I like to walk and our vacations often include hiking cross-country footpaths. If we're in England, we're apt to spend time in London as well. We plan very little, so after a week on the Cornish Coast I was surprised to find myself in London by pure luck on June 6th, when the House of Lords took up HL Bill 37, an assisted dying bill. Some quick phone calls brought an invitation from Lord Joffe, the bill's sponsor, to watch the entire debate, meaning we could avoid tourist status and the long line outside Parliament.
What a show! To reach the gallery we followed aging, tuxedoed pages through grand salons and up winding, ornate staircases. Our view from high in the chamber included the lavish dais and gold throne, the Lord Chancellor with his long white wig and ceremonial woolsack, and designated benches for each party plus the Bishops. Lord Joffe sat in the Crossbench section. I settled in for 6 hours of uninterrupted speeches.
Support for the bill was strong, with 21 Lords speaking in favor and 27 speaking against, by my count. Speakers aired many of the same arguments we hear in the United States. Supporters spoke of the need to honor individual beliefs and values and the danger and injustice of current underground practices. Opponents theorized about an adverse impact on the physician/patient relationship and a prevalence of abuse.
I came away more convinced than ever of the enormous value of Oregon's experience and evidence. Our opponents argue only their own beliefs and presumptions. They fail utterly when they try to use Oregon data to support their fears. Lord McColl, a physician, summed up the position of the Conservative Party with a story he claimed came from Oregon. He told a complete falsehood about a woman being "euthanized" (which, of course, would be illegal in Oregon) who on autopsy was found to have been without cancer. After the session I was able to introduce myself to Lord McColl, suggest his story was untrue and challenge him to reveal the name of the patient and hospital he had cited. I confess I don't expect a response.
The true Oregon story is enormously important. This issue of Connections includes news on the latest study by Dr. Linda Ganzini. It brings credible data to the medical literature about the character and values of patients who request aid-in-dying. We all benefit from such carefully designed studies and accurate information from Oregon. They comprise the hard evidence to support our position in courtrooms and legislatures throughout the nation.
Compassion Publishes BookIn an effort to put a human face on the end-of-life debate, Compassion in Dying and NewSage Press are publishing a book, Compassion in Dying: Stories of Dignity and Choice.
"These rich stories reveal the complexities of end-of-life issues and the human need to affirm deeply held values. By sharing these stories we hope to help others confronting similar situations and help society understand how the issues of a debate play out in the lives of people who might be their neighbors, their friend, their role models," states Barbara Coombs Lee on the book's cover.
Obtain it in bookstores nation-wide in October 2003, or email firstname.lastname@example.com to reserve your copy.
120 pages, U.S. $12.00, ISBN 0-939165-49-X, published by NewSage Press. Bookstores should contact Publishers Group West: 800-788-3123.
This article was provided by Compassion in Dying.


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Oh it's so exciting! I got nominated for an Emmy and I think I am actually high from it. That is the best, when you get high from your life's work, and I usually do, but this is an extra special high. I woke up to find my phone beeping with texts and email, which is very rare. They were all congratulations from my friends John Roberts – nominated for the fantastic Bob's Burgers, Ben Feldman – nominated for Mad Men (!) and Tina Fey – also nominated for the brilliant 30 Rock.
I am grateful to know such talented and kind people, and I am overwhelmed by the good cheer and lovely words from folks all over the world today. I never really went to too many award shows, and I guess this is when I need to take a shower and put lotion on my feet. I am not such a girly type. I am sort of like a Marcie butch – you know that girl that seemed to be peppermint Patty's girlfriend on Peanuts? Marcie was femme to patty, but not really femme to anyone else. That's me. Femme to select few.
I try to get out of wearing makeup and I don't even own a hairbrush, which is distressing to all the beauty professionals who have to work with me. I believe I have tremendous style, which I've been able to get by on. I think of tattoos as jewelry and permanent makeup combined and so my aesthetic is dictated by the amount of time I have to myself, which is usually none.
So now begins the search for a signature look – something winning! The Emmys require real Hollywood glamour.
Maybe I should get a perm! I am going to do a home perm right now so it's frizzy by September.
I am not sure I have been this happy in my life. Thank you Tina Fey! Thank you Emmys!! And thank you Kim Jong Il…


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Mount Saint Helens Climber's Log
Levi - Aug 11, 2006 6:32 pm Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2006Monitor Ridge
We started the climb at 5:10am and the mountain was covered in clouds. As we ascended the trail got above the clouds and saw the sunrise on the mountains. Got to the top at 10:20am but we still had to get to the summit. Made the true at 10:55am. The weather was great and we could see all the mountains. Back to the car at 3pm. Great hike.
dyscti - Aug 10, 2006 4:24 pm Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2006Socked in
We had doubts about this day when we woke up to fog at Climber's Bivouac. Decided to head up around 9am hoping the summit would be above the clouds. No such luck. I decided not to risk going to the true summit due to not being able to see a thing. Listening to the rock falls inside the crater was cool though. I will be back!
TheBootfitter - Jul 31, 2006 5:51 pm Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2006Monitor Ridge
"amochka" (see below) was kind enough to offer a couple of the open spots on her permit to my wife and me. My wife didn't make it all the way up with us, but we still had a great time! We looked into the crater, but didn't attempt to reach the highest point on the crater rim.
JasonVL - Jul 31, 2006 4:12 pm Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2006Monitor Ridge
My wife, Denver, and I successfully summited on the 27th via the Monitor Ridge route. Total round trip time 11 hours which included lunch at the top and lots of glissading on the way down. We captured some pictures of one of the larger rocks slides off the dome. The rock slides kick up large dust clouds and dusk masks really help.
Bob Bolton - Jul 27, 2006 3:53 am Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2006Monitor Ridge
What a fantastic experience it now is to climb this peak. From the rim we were literally watching nature build a mountain. The new "dome" is really a cone that is apparently being created by the upthrusting pinnacle falling apart from the top, causing big, loud, and violent rockfalls down one side or another of the cone. The plumes that we see rather often are at least sometimes caused by those rockfalls. We didn't see any other cause for plumes, so my guess is that most of the plumes are indeed from the dust and ash being carried aloft by rockfall. Photos to follow.
We went to the true summit, which hardly anyone does. There was another couple over there while we were, but nobody else that we saw during our 2.5-hour stay on the rim was headed in that direction. The route over to the summit is somewhat sketchy in places when there's no snow, but was quite easy when I went over there on snow in 2001. I wouldn't recommend it for most people, but for peakbaggers it seems like a necessity in order to claim to have summitted the mountain.
Perfect weather and temperatures. The air was crystal clear, with sharp views from Rainier to the Three Sisters.
Highly recommended!
NickyP - Jul 26, 2006 12:22 pm Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2006Monitor Ridge
Wow, what a great way to spend a hot summer day. Great views all around and lots of people. Also saw a hudge rockfall on the new dome kicking up dust everywhere. Even got some glissading in.
amochka - Jul 24, 2006 1:52 am Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2006Hot day in the mountains
Climbed Monitor Ridge route with great group of friends, very mellow bunch. Left camp at 2 am. New moon, amazing stars, headlamps most of the way to the summit. Summit at 6:30am. Incredible volcanic activity inside the crater, much different that I remember it on past climbs, crater floor is SO much higher! Loud rock fall, yellow sulfur smoke spewing out of vents. Headed down to avoid hot weather, made it back to camp at 10:30am. Recommend bug spray for the bivy. Eaten alive by nasty biting black flies. In hot weather, leave super early. 2am was a perfect start for such a hot day on the mountain.
sierramtngoat - Jun 16, 2006 8:10 am Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2001Monitor Ridge
Climbed under cloudy condition with my buddy Brian after being denied Rainier. Desended over the top of swift glacier and were suprised by ice underneath the pummice.
Tracy - Apr 20, 2006 5:11 am Date Climbed: Apr 29, 1999Route climbed: Swift Creek from Marble Mountain Sno Park
Got a climbing permit in Cougar, parked at the Marble Mountain Sno Park Lot where there was still huge amounts of snow, and then put on my randonee skis I had rented in Seattle. I climbed/skied to 6,500 ft. and spent the night on an exposed pumice outcropping. I then went the rest of the way up to the top of the summit crater rim. Total time spent climbing/skiing up the mountain was 8 to 9 hours. I skied down to the Marble Mountain Sno Park lot in 1 hour. Weather was awesome. I did notice snowmobilers way up high on the mountain where they probably were not allowed to be.
uap304 - Apr 4, 2006 8:12 pm Date Climbed: May 11, 2003Mom's Day on Monitor
Mother's Day on Mt. St. Helens is always a festive affair, especially being the last weekend before the permit season starts. There were about a million people on the mountain this day, which started out gloriously sunny. Both would change by the time we reached the summit.
We were slowed down both by a friend's failed home-made snowshoe experiment and the snowboard on my back. I was licking my chops the entire ascent at the gullies directly to climbers' left of the ridge, and the memories were about all I had to guide me once the clouds rolled in at the summit. We parted ways, them glissading and me riding down the tempting untracked snow I had daydreamed over. I remember very clearly a point maybe 500' down where I knew if I rode to the left I would re-join the "climber's" trail. Instead, I opted for a particularly enticing chute off to the right, and entered a world of solitude.
For good reason. Ten minutes later I started lazily traversing back eastward to the general direction of the trail. It didn't take long to realize that, even on the blunt-summit of MSH, seemingly minor off-course errors have a way of exacerbating themselves on mountain descents. Four or five ridges in waist-high snow later, I found a group of people who were similarly lost. Roaming the mountain together, we happened to find wooden markers to follow to the Loowit intersection, where my friends had amazingly just arrived. With daylight dwindling and a sense of relief, we started down into the woods...only to realize we weren't out of the woods yet. We quickly got back off trail and found ourselves in deep brush. Retracing our steps to the outhouse, we cut our losses and called for help. Getting bearings and direction, we finally made it off the mountain around midnight. Not one of my proudest moments.
But the ride down was heavenly, for what it's worth.
Infected Mushroom - Mar 30, 2006 4:07 amRoute Climbed: Monitor Ridge Date climbed: July 2002
Nice hike to the summit on monitor ridge after a 4 day hike around the mountain on trail 216. Very nice, interesting volcanic terrain. Perfect weather all week.
Aeldrin - Mar 21, 2006 6:32 pm Date Climbed: May 7, 2004Route Climbed: Monitor Couloir
Ah ... Mother's Day 2004. A beatiful day with all of the cool people wearing dressed in tutus, mu-mus, frocks, and dresses. I as wearing a lovely flowery blue number that didn't breath as well as I hoped, but kept me warm on the ascent. If you've never climbed the mountain on Mother's Day, I highly recommend it.
Eric Sandbo - Mar 6, 2006 5:01 am Date Climbed: Jun 5, 1977Crater, what crater?
The Dog's Head route from Spirit lake. Beautiful, symetrical cone of a mountain. What's all this talk about a crater?
e-doc - Mar 5, 2006 11:05 pm Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2004Desert in the Cascades
Really cool mountain. Lucky to have snow on the Swift Creek Flow to climb up. Beautiful views. I'd hate to slog up in the pummice. Greg (who climbed Mt Adams with me 2 days prior) and I went to Portland, met Gregs wife and flew home to the right coast the next day; 3 peaks 5 days! Yoo-Hoo
madmallard - Feb 25, 2006 6:49 pm Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2004the start of my addiction
my first major solo climb. perhaps my last climb of this peak too. almost exactly one month before it became active again. the pictures from that day are priceless.
cowlitz - Feb 1, 2006 5:41 pmRoute Climbed: Blue Jay trail up south face Date Climbed: April 28th, 1980
This is a late posting. 26 years to be exact. Sorry I don't know the exact name of my route.I had never ever climbed a mountain. The only gear I had, that halfway resembled climbing gear, was a pair of Rockport hiking boots with some Sno-Seal smeared on them. I had to sneak in, because a Red Zone had been placed around the mountain five miles out by the U.S. Forest Service. A $600.00 fine and 6 months in jail awaited anyone who ventured into the Red Zone. I believe I may have been the last person to climb Mt. St. Helens before the historic eruption of May 18th, 1980. Check out the photos. cowlitz
Epdrun1 - Jan 17, 2006 10:07 pmRoute Climbed: Worms Flows/Swift Glacier Date Climbed: May 19th, 2004
My first mountain. Unfortunate I was already 20 years old. A great, long day hike from June Lake Trailhead. Overcast at lower elevations but broked out of the clouds at about 6,000ft. (Never get completely discouraged because of the NW weather.) Beyond that conditions were more than perfect. A really nice introduction to high mountains.
Koohnavard - Jan 16, 2006 12:27 pmDate Climbed: May 1988
May 1988 was my first climb on this mountain, it was with the Boy Scouts. Since then I've climbed it 7 times, just because it's there.
Tnarg - Dec 30, 2005 4:54 pmRoute Climbed: Monitor Ridge Date Climbed: August 1997
My buddy Jason and I climbed it on a heck of a hot day. I had a lousy backpack, and as soon as we hit timberline, the zipper broke open, and I watched all of my precious water soak into the ash 10 ft below. Not wanting to turn back (After the lottery at Jacks!) I bummed off my partner. An outstanding hike, but I was way dehydrated and sick for 2 days! Still worth it though. Hope to do it again someday!
setrent - Dec 26, 2005 9:54 pmRoute Climbed: Swift Creek Date Climbed: 10 April, 2004
An excellent ski ascent.


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ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — Here in New York City, plenty of celebrities pop up in the front rows at Knicks and Nets games, although it's not always clear just how many of them are actual NBA fans. New York-based chef and television personality Mario Batali fits both bills. Batali grew up in Seattle as a Sonics fan, but these days has allegiances to — gasp! — both the Knicks and Nets. As Batali explains, "I'm not such a fierce Geo-specific fan."
In between running his acclaimed restaurant empire and appearing daily on ABC's "The Chew," Batali says he finds time to not only follow the NBA but even plan family trips to out of town games. I caught up with Batali last week on the set of "The Chew" where he was posing with the crystalized "BIG IS ON" basketball that is currently making its way around New York City.
ME: I know that a lot of NBA players have eaten at your restaurants. For example, Emeka Okafor has told me he loves your food.
MARIO: I'll tell you one thing about Emeka: That guy can eat enough to make every kitchen happy in the world. Like, he'll have two appetizers, two pastas, and then he'll have a steak for two. He eats it and he loves it, he gives you goosebumps. He's just delightful.
ME: And you're a big NBA fan?
MARIO: Huge NBA fan.
ME: You're originally from Seattle, right?
MARIO: (laughs) Back when we had a team!
ME: So you grew up a Sonics fan?
MARIO: Definitely. For me, the greatest thing to collect right now is original, vintage Sonics hats and shirts. They're beautiful. That logo — come on. They hardly did one better.
ME: So that was, like, Lenny Wilkens-era Sonics?
MARIO: Spencer Haywood…
ME: Slick Watts?
MARIO: Absolutely! Downtown Freddie Brown! Come on, we had the guys.
ME: I know you lived in Italy for a while. Was basketball as popular in Europe then as it is today?
MARIO: I was there in the '80s, and it was already — after soccer — the biggest sport. Absolutely, no question about it. We got great players who either had problems or didn't quite make the team and they were over there playing basketball, going crazy, living in these tiny little towns. It wasn't like all Rome and Milan, you know. Here all the teams are in major, major cities. They were in Venice, they were in Verona, towns with like 200,000 or 300,000 people. It totally changed the way Italians looked at American sports. And for the positive. The world loves American sports. We do it better than anybody else, except soccer.
ME: I've seen you at Knicks games. Are the Knicks your team?
MARIO: Knicks and Nets.
ME: Both? Can you have two rival teams?
MARIO: Yes! Here's the story. Since I'm from Seattle and I've been disenfranchised, I can have two teams. I take a lot of heat from The Original Fan. The Original Fan says I can't like the Jets and the Giants, but I like Eli and I like Geno. And I like Mark Sanchez. And in basketball, I like Paul Pierce. How can I not go for Paul Pierce, right? He's a Boston guy, but he's on my team now.
ME: You have two teenage sons. Are they fans of both teams also?
MARIO: They're Carmelo fans. They were Mike D'Antoni fans. But they'll be happy to go see the Nets, too. They go to school in Brooklyn so they drive right by the Barclays Center, which is an impressive building. And the Garden is also impressive, but you can drive by and not even notice sometimes. I take my sons each year on an NBA trip. We traditionally go somewhere for a long weekend with Dad, and we've gone to see the Hornets — this year we're going to see the Pelicans. But we've been to Cleveland, during and after LeBron, we've been to Dallas, we've been to Los Angeles to watch the games. We'll travel for basketball.
ME: Which athletes eat the most when they're at your restaurants? Do football players eat more than basketball players?
MARIO: Linemen. Nick Mangold, baby (laughs). But no, actually I would say Nick doesn't eat more than, say, Emeka. In terms of water displacement Emeka might displace more water than even Nick. But there's a respect in the sports world, particularly the basketball world, where they totally dig our field, and they're totally into what we do as well.
ME: Last thing: If you had to cook and serve a basketball, how would you prepare it to make it even semi-edible?
MARIO: The best way to cook a basketball would be to slice it into paper-thin strips like spaghetti, and toss it with a little Bolognese.


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Rangers Fan Has a Habit of Catching Home Run Balls + Dancing [VIDEO]
Check out this video of 17-year-old Trent Williams at Monday night's (April 9) Texas Rangers game against the Seattle Mariners. He makes an impressive catch of a Josh Hamilton home run ball on the home run green at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. What he does after the catch is not as impressive, but it is funny as hell.
As it turns out, Trent is no stranger to catching home run balls — or the funny dances he does as a celebration!


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Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer, to Appear at 'Metal Masters Clinic2 ' Next Month
It should be good and loud, just like the first time.
On Sept. 12, a second 'Metal Masters Clinic' is set to commence, this time at the Best Buy Theater in Manhattan's Times Square. Members from Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer — three of the legendary "Big 4″ thrash-metal bands that will rock Yankee Stadium two days after the clinic — will be on hand to share anecdotes and rattle the rafters.
The first discussion/performance session was held in April at a Sam Ash music store in California and featured drummer Charlie Benante and bassist Frank Bello of Anthrax, bassist David Ellefson of Megadeth, plus former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy. This time around, Slayer guitarist Kerry King will join that same cast of metal musicians.
Wristbands for the event, which begins at 5 p.m. ET, will be distributed to 500 fans that day on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Those who are shut out or unable to attend can still watch via a live stream on Revolver magazine's website.
Oh, by the way: the fourth band among the thrash "Big 4″ is Metallica. For more than a decade, Metallica's "Enter Sandman" has been the entrance music for Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera. As Metallica singer James Hetfield explains, the Sept. 14 "Big 4″ show will give Yankees fans the opportunity to hear his band play the song live "in your house."


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A brief but excellent interview (in Danish) with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, the Danish actor who's been building an international reputation, about HBO's pilot for Game of Thrones which recently completed filming. Playing the role of the knight Jaime Lannister, a good part of the interview is devoted to questions about the filming. The most notable pieces to come out of it? Lena Headey is pregnant, not so far along that one can tell when she's dressed, but which required her to have a stand-in for a nude scene; as far as we can tell, this is the first time this particular news has been made public. Coster-Waldau is also taking part in a Danish TV series after New Year.
It does seem rather probable that pre-production on the series can likely start right after HBO gives its approval, but it seems increasingly unlikely that filming will be able to take place as quickly, given that other actors (such as Jennifer Ehle) are known to have work commitments through March or April.
Below you'll find our translation of the relevant parts of the article:
How was it like to work together with an international star like Lena Headey?
It was a really good experience. She's really cute and smart - and she's also a lot of fun. She was also pregnant during filming, but not so far along that you could see it clearly. But she had to have a stand-in in a nude scene with me.
A nude scene? But aren't you playing brother and sister?
Yes, that's true… but nevertheless she's completely naked. I can't really tell you why. Maybe you'll see in the series.
When you play the king's squire, it probably means that you must ride a horse?
Yes, I ride around a lot. I've tried it a few times before, so it went very well. Of course, it always depends on what kind of a nag you get to set up with (ha-ha).
I have read that American fans of 'Game of Thrones' think your nose is wrong?
It's true that some think that my nose is weird, because there's a break in it. They think that I generally fit nicely into the role of Jaime Lannister, but that my nose doesn't. I broke my nose as a child - the result of some wild pranks, I guess. So it looks a little rugged. But I wouldn't even think of doing anything about it.
What is your relationship to roleplaying and fantasy universes where 'Game of Thrones' fits in?
I've only tried role-playing once in my life. It was in high school when I was playing 'Dungeons and Dragons'. I had eaten a hash cake, which affected me greatly, and it ended badly. I ran around in the woods with a stick and tried to catch the others. I think they had placed too much marijuana in the cake, since I can remember that I finally sat and blabbered about my family and various problems. So it was a very traumatic and sad experience. Generally I have little experience with drugs and stuff.
Do you have any other foreign or Danish TV projects in the pipeline?
There's nothing overseas. But just after New Year I will be a part of a Danish TV series. I can't say anything about what it is exactly.


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Overall strategic default on the decline
Recent data shows the percentage of strategic defaults is on the decline, but still account for nearly one-fifth of serious mortgage delinquencies. Furthermore, the share of strategic defaulters in the jumbo mortgage space is actually growing. A study from credit reporting agency Experian and consulting firm Oliver Wyman showed 17% of all 60-plus day mortgage defaults in the second quarter of 2010 were due to strategic default. While this is down from a peak of 20% in the second quarter of 2008, it is more than double the number of strategic defaults in 2006. During boom times in the first half of the last decade, only 4% of defaults were strategic, according to the report. Strategic default applies to borrowers who can afford their monthly mortgage payment, yet opt not to pay it. Once the financial crisis hit in 2007, many home values depleted and left borrowers underwater, meaning their home was worth less than they originally paid for it. According to Experian strategic default is a "problem that won't really vanish until home prices climb and stay there," according to a statement from the company. Strategic defaults usually occur on homes that are more expensive with borrowers who make a higher annual income, as they are more financially savvy and can take a small hit to their credit score. According to Experian, 33% of delinquent mortgages in the second quarter of 2010 were on homes more than $1 million. In contrast, just 6% of homes originally priced at $50,000 were attributable to strategic default. In the second quarter of 2010, 30% of strategic default borrowers earned more than $150,000 a year. Just 9% earned less than $40,000, according to Experian. Another characteristic of strategic defaulters is the ability to stay current on all other debt obligations including credit cards, auto loans and any other revolving debt. This includes new mortgages. Experian found that 47% of strategic borrowers in the second quarter of 2010 opened a first mortgage on another property in the six months prior to their default. Experian said strategic default will continue to plague the market until home prices rise. "These percentages aren't likely to decline much unless residential housing prices increase and remain at higher levels," said the report. "Homeowners have to see for themselves that their neighbors' houses are selling for higher prices." Write to Christine Ricciardi.


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How long is the rental for? Rentals are generally for an 8 hour period, so please choose delivery and pick-up times accordingly.
Do you deliver and set up? Yes we do. Prices for inflatables include delivery to local addresses. Please check our Delivery Chart for more information.
Are the products cleaned? Yes, we clean every product after each use.
Do I need to place a deposit? Yes, we require a deposit to secure your rental.
What is your cancellation policy? You must cancel 3 days (72 hours) prior to your rental date to avoid any cancellation fees.
Is a generator included with an inflatable rental? No. Generators are rented separately. A blower is included to pump the inflatable, but if you will not have electrical power at the setup location (e.g. at parks) you will need to rent a generator.
Are you insured? Yes, we have full liability insurance.
Is it normal to tip the driver? Read this article "Should I tip the bounce house guy"
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Updated: April 15, 2019 01:10 AM CDT
2013: Three people are killed and more than 200 injured after two bombs go off within seconds of each other near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were eventually identified as suspects, with Tamerlan dying following an April 19 shootout with police and Dzhokhar being captured after a manhunt in Watertown, Massachusetts, later the same day. Dzhokhar was found guilty on 30 counts on April 8, 2015, and was sentenced to death on May 15, 2015. [ + - ]
2001: Punk music singer-songwriter Joey Ramone, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band the Ramones, dies of lymphoma at the age of 49 in New York City. Later in the year, he would be elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Ramones. [ + - ]
2000: Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the 24th major-league player to reach 3,000 hits, hitting a single off Minnesota Twins relief pitcher Hector Carrasco in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [ + - ]
1998: Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, who had led the Khmer Rouge since 1963, dies at the age of 72 while under house arrest by a faction of the Khmer Rouge in Anlong Veng, Kingdom of Cambodia. The faction claimed he died from heart failure, but rumors have persisted that he was poisoned. During Pol Pot's time in power from 1975 to 1979, he imposed agrarian socialism, forcing urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects. It is estimated that 1 to 3 million people died due to his policies while dictator. After being forced from power in 1979, Pol Pot spent nearly 20 years hiding in the jungle near the border of Cambodia and Thailand. [ + - ]
1997: Actress Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark on HBO's "Game of Thrones," is born in Bristol, England. [ + - ]
1992: Billionaire Leona Helmsley is sent to jail for tax evasion. Helmsley, a hotel operator and real estate investor whose flamboyant personality and tyrannical behavior earned her the nickname "Queen of Mean," would serve 18 months in prison followed by two months under house arrest. [ + - ]
1990: Swedish actress Greta Garbo, best known for movies such as "Ninotchka," "Anna Christie," "Anna Karenina" (pictured) and "Grand Hotel," dies of pneumonia and renal failure at the age of 84 in New York City. Garbo, an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods, was nominated for three Academy Awards during her career. [ + - ]
1990: Actress Emma Watson, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" film franchise, is born in Paris, France. Watson, who moved to England at the age of 5, has also appeared in movies like "My Week with Marilyn," "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and the 2017 live-action Disney version of "Beauty and the Beast." [ + - ]
1989: A day after the death of Hu Yaobang, a liberal reformer and former Communist Party general secretary, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in Beijing, China. Student demonstrators would occupy the square in the heart of the country's capital for seven weeks until a military crackdown on June 3-4 resulted in bloodshed. Estimates of those killed in the crackdown range from several hundred to several thousand. [ + - ]
1989: A human crush results in the deaths of 96 Liverpool soccer fans during the FA Cup semifinal match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. The incident remains the worst stadium-related disaster in British history and one of the world's worst soccer disasters. Pictured is a memorial at Liverpool's stadium to those who died in the incident. [ + - ]
1986: In retaliation for an April 5 bombing of a West Berlin dance club that killed three people, including two U.S. servicemen, and injured 229 people, the U.S. conducts major bombing raids against Libya. Eightteen F-111 bombers struck a Tripoli airfield, a frogman training center at a naval academy, and the Bab al-Azizia barracks in Tripoli. There were 40 reported Libyan casualties, and one U.S. plane was shot down, resulting in the death of two airmen. [ + - ]
1983: Tokyo Disneyland opens. The theme park is consistently ranked the world's third most visited theme park, behind only its American sister parks, Magic Kingdom in Florida and Disneyland Park in California. [ + - ]
1982: Actor and comedian Seth Rogen, best known for movies such as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up" and "Pineapple Express," is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [ + - ]
1980: French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism, dies of edema of the lung at the age of 74 in Paris, France. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution." He was the first Nobel Laureate to voluntarily decline the prize. [ + - ]
1971: At the 43rd Academy Awards, George C. Scott, a Best Actor winner for "Patton," becomes the first actor to reject an Oscar, claiming that the Academy Awards were "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." Scott's Oscar was one of seven the film won that night, including Best Picture, Best Director for Franklin J. Schaffner, and Best Original Screenplay. The Beatles also won their only Oscar, taking Best Original Song Score for their movie "Let It Be." [ + - ]
1967: Dara Torres, a 12-time Olympic medalist and the first and only swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), is born in Beverly Hills, California. Torres is also the oldest swimmer to ever earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team, being 41 when she made the team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. [ + - ]
1965: The Supremes' "Back in My Arms Again" is released. The song would become the fifth consecutive and overall No. 1 song for the group on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart and also topped the soul chart for a week. [ + - ]
1959: Actress Emma Thompson, best known for movies such as "Howards End," "The Remains of the Day," "In the Name of the Father," "Sense and Sensibility," "Love Actually" and "Saving Mr. Banks," is born in London, England. She has won Oscars for Best Actress for "Howards End" and for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Sense and Sensibility," and has been nominated for Best Actress three other times. [ + - ]
1958: The first Major League Baseball game on the West Coast takes place, with the newly relocated San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers squaring off at Seals Stadium in San Francisco. The former New York Giants beat the former Brooklyn Dodgers 8-0. [ + - ]
1955: McDonald's dates its founding to the opening on this day of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, Illinois. The restaurant was actually the ninth McDonald's overall, with the first opening in 1940. Kroc subsequently purchased the chain from the McDonald brothers and oversaw its worldwide growth. [ + - ]
1953: Charlie Chaplin surrenders his U.S. re-entry permit rather than face proceedings by the U.S. Justice Department. Chaplin was accused of sympathizing with Communist groups. Chaplin, who had left the country to premiere his film "Limelight" in his hometown of London, would settle permanently in Switzerland and not make a return visit to America until 1972. Chaplin is seen here in a publicity still from "Limelight." [ + - ]
1952: The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress takes place. The long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber was built to carry nuclear weapons for Cold War-era deterrence missions, but has dropped only conventional munitions in combat. [ + - ]
1947: Jackie Robinson starts at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, breaking baseball's color line. Although he failed to get a base hit, he walked and scored a run in the Dodgers' 5-3 victory. [ + - ]
1945: The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany is liberated by the British 11th Armoured Division. The British soldiers discovered around 53,000 prisoners inside, most of them half-starved and seriously ill, and another 13,000 corpses lying around the camp unburied. Among the estimated 50,000 people who died in the camp during World War II, were Margot and Anne Frank, who died in March 1945 as part of a typhus epidemic that hit Bergen-Belsen. [ + - ]
1933: Country music singer and musician Roy Clark, best known as the host of the TV show "Hee Haw" from 1969 to 1992, is born in Meherrin, Virginia. [ + - ]
1933: Actress Elizabeth Montgomery, best known for playing the witch/housewife Samantha Stephens on the sitcom "Bewitched," is born in Los Angeles, California. She died of colorectal cancer at age 62 on May 18, 1995. [ + - ]
1923: Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. [ + - ]
1912: The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and 40 minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board the supposedly "unsinkable" ship survived its maiden voyage. [ + - ]
1900: The Exposition Universelle of 1900, a world's fair held in Paris, France, opens. Over the next six months, the fair would display, in view of more than 50 million people, many machines, inventions, and architecture that are now nearly universally known, including; escalators, the Eiffel Tower, Ferris wheels, Russian nesting dolls, Diesel engines, talking films and more. [ + - ]
1896: The Games of the I Olympiad, the first international Olympic games held in the modern era, come to a close in Athens, Greece. A total of 14 nations sent athletes to the games, with the winners receiving silver medals, an olive branch and a diploma. Second place finishers received a copper medal, a branch of laurel and a diploma. [ + - ]
1894: Soviet politician and leader Nikita Khrushchev is born in in Kalinovka, a village in what is now Russia's Kursk Oblast, near the present Ukrainian border. Khrushchev served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Soviet premier from 1953 and 1958, respectively, until he was deposed in 1964. [ + - ]
1892: The General Electric Company is formed by the merger of Edison General Electric Company and Thomson-Houston Electric Company. [ + - ]
1865: President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor and Confederate spy John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The president was shot in the head at about 10:13 p.m. and spent nine hours in a coma before dying at the Petersen House, a row house across the street from the theater. [ + - ]
1861: President Abraham Lincoln declares a state of insurrection and calls for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the rebellion three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. His call for a militia resulted in an additional four southern slave states also declaring their secession and joining the Confederacy. [ + - ]
1843: Author Henry James, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism and the author of novels such as "The Portrait of a Lady," "The Turn of the Screw," "The Wings of the Dove" and "The Ambassadors," is born in New York City. [ + - ]
1817: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut. [ + - ]
1452: Leonardo da Vinci, widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived, is born in Vinci, Republic of Florence. Leonardo, often described as the archetype of the "Renaissance Man," was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. His most famous paintings include the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper" and is also known for conceptualizing a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, and more technological ideas during his life. [ + - ]


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How To Support
Schwan's Cares uses online shopping to eliminate the hassle of money handling and product distribution. As a supporter you choose from over 300 high quality, delicious food options - you can shop online or purchase an eGift Card.
There are 3 ways to place a fundraising order:
- Place a food order from Schwan's by selecting the "Shop Now" button. Or, purchase an eGift Card (limit 1 per person, per campaign) by scrolling down the campaign page and selecting that option.
- By Phone. Place your order via toll free number 1-855-870-7208. Make sure to provide your Campaign ID and/or Fundraiser ID when ordering by phone.
- Via Schwans.com. During checkout simply type in your Campaign ID and/or Fundraiser ID to contribute to your fundraiser.
For existing Schwan's customers, you will need to follow one of the 3 ordering steps above to create your fundraising affiliation and have your order contribute to the campaign. Your order will be delivered on your existing scheduled route day.
For new customers, you will choose your delivery date and time during checkout.
Form of payment is required when placing fundraising orders, but you can change payment at the door to a preferred method of payment (Check, Cash, EBT, or Credit and Debit Card are accepted). If you are not home during the time of delivery, we will leave your items in a protected freezer bag at no cost to you.


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#1 UNC Already Dodging BulletsPosted by rtmsf on October 8th, 2008
If you want to get a Carolina fan really riled up, we mean realllllly excited, just mention how many titles your favorite team would have won had it not been for some injury to some key player along the way. Every team has a story or two like that in their attic somewhere. Well, for Carolina fans, their key injuries that have 'cost' them national championships have taken almost mythic proportions. Just mention the words "Phil Ford" and "1977" in the same sentence (referring to Ford's injured elbow in the NCAA Tournament), or "Kenny Smith" and "1984" in another (referring to Smith's broken wrist suffered in January of that year), or even "Derrick Phelps" and "1994" for good measure (referring to Phelps' concussion in their NCAA loss against BC).
UNC Fans Are Hoping This Doesn't Last Too Long
Let's hope that today's news won't be another chapter in those annals, as UNC released news that their Mr. Everything on Defense, senior guard/forward Marcus Ginyard, will miss as much as the next eight weeks after surgery for a stress fracture on his left foot. From the UNC Athletics site:
Doctors inserted a screw in his fifth left metatarsal. The Alexandria, Va., native was Carolina's defensive player of the year in each of the last two seasons, was a member of the all-tournament team at the 2008 ACC Championships and has started 55 of the 107 games he has appeared in as a Tar Heel. […] Ginyard started all 39 games last year, averaging a career-best 6.9 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. He made both the coaches' and media ACC all-defensive teams and was UNC's defensive player of the game 11 times, including the NCAA East Regional title-game win over Louisville. He scored in double figures in all three ACC Tournament victories.
In other words, not an insignificant piece of their overall puzzle. The rangy 6'5 Ginyard can defend the 1-4 positions and played 70% of the available minutes last year (third behind Hansbrough and Ellington), using his length and quickness to harass opposing scorers all over the court.
Should UNC fans be concerned that another Phil Ford or Kenny Smith situation is afoot? Probably not to that level, but foot injuries do have a tendency to linger, seeing as how ankles like to twist and feet like to get mashed during the battles underneath. We know UNC can score bunches of points, but their downfall last year was their relatively average defense (#90 in eFG% and #179 in TO%) – an inability to ensure stops when they absolutely needed them – and losing a defensive stalwart like a 100% Ginyard is cause for mild concern.
The good news for Heel fans is that Ginyard should be healed completely by January according to doctors, but those fans smitten with the idea of an unbeaten regular season should dampen those hopes somewhat. A November home game vs. Kentucky, a trip to Maui where Alabama, Notre Dame and/or Texas await, and a quasi-away game at Michigan St. in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge will put the Heels to the test before ACC play begins, especially if their best defender is still on the bench.


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text: Today, AAA remains a youth-run, youth-led community service and leadership program. AAA youth organize, recruit, and lead peers in monthly neighborhood clean-ups and alleyway beautification projects. Beyond monitoring neighborhood cleanliness the program has expanded to include youth services to elderly tenants who live in low-income or residential hotel housing, and recreational activities for younger children of low-income families. For more information, please visit Adopt-an-Alleyway Youth Empowerment.


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SD Schools Worst In Nation
Education Week has released their 17th annual grades and South Dakota Public Schools are ranked 51st in the United States.
Schools and states are graded and ranked in categories such as achievement, standards, chance for success, and teaching profession.
The average U.S. grade is a C, but South Dakota received D's and even F's in some of the categories giving our state a D+ final grade.
Other states in the area (Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska) all fell just below the 76.9 nationwide average and received C grades.
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PureMessage Raises E-mail Admin Standard
ActiveState's Perl of a Product
Spam has a real and terrible cost burden that it places on systems administrators around the world. Viruses trying to pass through to unsuspecting Windows desktop users are the bane of IT's existance.
But as early as 1997, two men saw the coming storm and started their own company to create a line of products that would protect systems from the deluge.
The men were Dick Hardt and Tim O'Reilly (of the highly successful O'Reilly tech book series). The company was ActiveState.
ActiveState's flagship product to administer e-mail and filter out the junk is PureMessage, which recently won the Best Systems Administration Tool award at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco.
By rolling the results of several different anti-spam techniques into an industry unique composite scoring value, PureMessage was designed to filter messages and take specific actions to deal with spam. Using the anti-virus, policy, and central support modules, system managers can also bring some sanity back into e-mail administration.
In the mid 1990s, Dick Hardt and his development team were working on porting Perl to Windows. At an Open Source conference, Hardt met O'Reilly while O'Reilly was discussing one of his hugely popylar Perl books. After some productive conversations, he two saw an opportunity to provide tools and support around Perl and in 1997, ActiveState was born.
Hardt saw many opportunities for the future and over time expanded the company to provide support and productivity tools for other open source programming languages. The team also recognized early on the market for email/sendmail filtering.
The company's first efforts towards this kind of solution was called Perl MX. The October 2000 release of Perl MX 1.0 provided basic email filtering capabilities, worked with sendmail, and had a $500 per license price tag. The first anti-spam specific release occured in April 2002 with Perl MX 2.0. The original heuristic development for the product was a combination of OSS SpamAssassin and internal ActiveState expertise.
In November 2002, the Perl MX product was renamed and released as PureMessage 3.0. Key release features included supporting major audio/video vendors and introducing an administrator web interface. Release 3.0 also incorporated end user "digests" (personal list of quarantined email with the ability to release individual messages) and phased out the remaining SpamAssassin heuristics.
PureMessage 4.0 was released in May of 2003. Key features included a new policy-builder Web interface, a new suite of security protection features (like denial of service protection), and a centralized management console (for administration of multiple PureMessage installations, their policies and their reporting).
Today, PureMessage continues to cater to the large organizational customers.According to Chris Kraft, ActiveState's PureMessage Program Manager, "The primary clients for PureMessage are financial, educational, high tech, or government organizations with tens or hundreds of thousands of users." He added that 100% of PureMessage customers purchase the product for the anti-spam capabilities. Additionally, 50% buy PureMessage for virus protection, while 35% buy it for the policy package.
So how does PureMessage do its job?
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Green Pit Crew needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Our start-up services cars with a focus on improving fuel efficiency to improve the environment. The logo will be the primary way to identify the business so you can expect the logo to be highly visible.
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Logo for GreenPitCew.com
Although Green Pit Crew offers auto services, the GreenPitCrew.com website will be an important component for our clients to track money and fuel saved as well as a history of services.
The logo should be universally recognizable and represent the idea of the business -- an auto service tailored to improving the environment.
The two basic colors on the website are #66dd00 and #153cd5. The background color of the website is #66dd00
We believe that our service will change the world one car at a time.
- Design should include the text "Green Pit Crew"
- Simple
- Easily recognized
- Creativity
Logo design colors that do not blend well with the current background color
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Earlier we got to see bond legend Jeff Gundlach speak at the New York Yacht Club.
You can see his presentation here >
In his speech he presented his trade idea that he would pull if he were a 29-year old hedge fund manager wearing a garish pink shirt with thick gray stripes.
He writes: "If I were one of the nutty hedge fund guys, I would go short Apple, long natural gas, and leverage it 100x."
This is pretty much the most contrarian trade imaginable.
Apple is loved by everyone, and natural gas is ultra-cheap.
He compares natural gas to buying gold in the late 90s, and says it's a "no brainer" that in a world where oil is surging and we want to avoid Mideast dependence that eventually we will take advantage of cheap natural gas.
He knows we're near a bottom there, because he finally heard someone say that gas is going to $0, a sure sign that we're near a bottom.
As for Apple, he compares it to Google at its peak, and says that the company will have to start selling in other countries if it's going to take off.


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The Importance Of High School Education
It is definitely not easy to watch your child wasting their life not getting high school education. There are a lot of young people nowadays who don't clearly understand the importance of having high school education for their future and it may cause difficulty in the current everyday life. There are several possible reasons that young people may have as to why they are not interested in finishing high school such as having a hard time in getting along with other students or their teachers. Regardless of what your child's reason may be, you definitely wouldn't want to watch your child throw away his or her successful future by not finish high school. Fortunately, you don't have to enroll your child in a traditional high school setting today and you have to know that there is an innovative way in letting your child finish high school without forcing him or her to enroll to a traditional high school education system and this is through the online school education system. Why Enroll for Online School Education System With online high school education, your child will be provided with a legitimate online student access and your child can take as many classes as he or she wants to finish high school and receive a high school diploma. Aside from that, your child will be able to learn at his or her own pace which is a great thing especially if your child is working to earn extra income. Through this, your child will be able to work and study at the same time thus, online school definitely makes education easier and more convenient for any student today. Choosing the Right Online School If you have decided to enroll your child in an online school, you should make sure that the school has a good quality education program and that they are accredited. This is to assure you that they have been officially recognized and are qualified in providing education program for students. Aside from that, you should also explain the details as to how online education system works to your child so that they won't feel confused and frustrated and for them to become interested in attending online classes thus, successfully finishing high school through this type of education system. Whether you are enrolling your child to a traditional education system or an online school education, you should always give your best to encourage him or her to finish high school because this is one of your responsibilities as a parent for your child to have a bright path in the future.