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The Exeter Golf Club is a public golf course, open to the public seven days a week, from mid-April to mid-November each year, weather permitting. Private memberships are available. Guests can enjoy a full practice range. Golf carts and club rentals are available.
At about 200 yards the hole doglegs sharply to the right to reveal the green nestled at the bottom of a slight valley.
Beware! The temptation to take a short-cut over the dogleg can easily get one into trouble.
2nd Hole - Par 4
The 2nd hole is particularly intriguing, a 386 yard, par four, uphill dogleg right.
The creek crosses the fairway just 80 yards from the tee and a sand trap awaits errant shots at the corner of the dogleg, about 220 yards out.
High trees discourage cutting the corner.
3rd Hole - Par 3
This straight par three provides a brief respite yet is not entirely free of obstacles.
The green sits nestled between a large pond, a grass bunker on the left and 2 bunkers on the right.
4th Hole - Par 4
A well placed tee shot can make this an easy hole.
Play it safe by keeping short of the creek or trust your yardage and be aggressive to play it over the creek.
5th Hole - Par 4
Once again the creek intersects the fairway and creates a challenging hazard.
The tee shot should be straight, long and short of the creek.
The second shot is slightly uphill to the green.
6th Hole - Par 3
The 6th hole is an uphill par 3 framed by grass bunkers and 2 sand bunkers and out-of-bounds behind the green.
A word of caution, add some extra yardage for the elevation change, the approach is deceptively steep.
7th Hole - Par 4
The most challenging hole, as well as the most scenic, is the 7th.
Off the tee you need a 170 yard shot to clear the creek on this 378 yard par four.The entire tree-lined hole plays uphill with an out-of-bounds running the length of the right side.
8th Hole - Par 4Shots favouring the left side are rewarded with a clear shot to the green on this par four.
9th Hole - Par 5
The clubhouse beckons but first the second and final par five must be mastered.
Two long, straight shots down the centre of the fairway should put you within easy range of the green.
Course Aerial View- 2008
The clubhouse beckons but first the second and final par five must be mastered.
Two long, straight shots down the centre of the fairway should put you within easy rangeof the green.


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- Fuel Economy
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- Interior Color
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- Body/Seating
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- Transmission
- continuously variable automatic
- Drivetrain
- all-wheel drive
- Engine
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- Wireless phone connectivity
- Exterior parking camera right
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Speed sensitive wipers
- Split folding rear seat
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* Exceptional fuel economy compared to other crossovers; plenty of adult-sized room in both seating rows; more cargo capacity than most rivals; rear seatbacks fold flat at the tug of a lever; appealing roster of tech and safety features. Source: Edmunds
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Honda continues to impress with CRV
By MR Z on Tuesday, August 18, 2015This is our second CRV, previous one was a 2013 EXL on a 3 year lease which was flawless vehicle and not one issue in 2 1/2 yrs of driving. Just traded to the 2015 EX and Honda has made a good thing even better. Superb vehicle in every way, only wish steering wheel was leather like in Accord and auto climate should be standard on EX models, but not a deal breaker. This updated model for 2015 is better, smoother and quieter in every way , Honda will be in our garage for many many years to come.
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By pahonda on Monday, July 10, 2017weakest point is the climate control and the weak a/c. if outside temp is above 80 you have to have the a/c on full blast at coldest temp, and it then at best the temp inside is ok, not cool. I have had dealer check it out at each service and no improvement.
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By AL on Monday, May 27, 2019This has been the most dependable car I have ever owned. The only thing we have had to replace is the tires. We do not do a lot of city driving, thus we have not even had to replace the brakes. Get decent gas mileage around 28-30 HWY and avg. 24-25. lots of room in the back seat for a small SUV Would have gotten the leather with all the perks if had choice again. would highly recommend.
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Xiamen GRAND SLAM | 22 - 27 October 2013
Xiamen - also known as Amoy - is a major city on the southeast (Taiwan Strait) coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of the Fujian province with an area of 1,699.39 square kilometers (656.14 square miles) and a population of 3.67 million. Its built up area is now bigger than the old urban island area and covers all six districts of Xiamen (Huli, Siming, Jimei, Tong'an, Haicang and recently Xiang'an). It borders Quanzhou to the north and Zhangzhou making this a unique built up area of more than five million people. The Jinmen (Kinmen) Islands administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan) are less than 10 kilometers (6.2miles) away.
Xiamen was a treaty port in the 19th century and one of the four original Special Economic Zones opened to foreign investment and trade when China began economic reforms in the early 1980s.
In 2006, Xiamen was ranked as China's second "most suitable city for living", as well as China's "most romantic leisure city" in 2011.
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Siming District
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Closest airport: Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport
Distance from airport to venue: 6km
Transport from airport to venue: 10 minutes by bus. The organizers will arrange pick up service between Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport and Main Draw Hotel for all players for free. Players should make their reservation for the shuttle bus and provide their flight itinerary to the organizers at least 24hours before departure.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Fresh off one of the most successful seasons in school history which saw the Crimson accrue the second-best the program annals (23-3), the Harvard men's tennis team announced the captains for the 2012-13 season. Rising junior and senior, Casey MacMaster and Andy Nguyen will lead the Harvard next season.
MacMaster made up one half of a lethal doubles team that ended the year ranked No. 66 in the nation according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. The tandem went 24-11 overall and 18-8 in dual matches in 2012. Nguyen also competed primarily in doubles, teaming with freshman Denis Nguyen for a majority of the year. Team "Nguyen" went 23-10 and 15-8 in dual matches. Nguyen also played in singles competition, most notably tallying a win against Trpimir Kujundzic in the first round of the NCAA tournament, helping to lift Harvard to a 4-2 victory over No. 45 Virginia Tech, in Gainesville, Fla.
The Crimson also announced its postseason awards for the 2011-12 campaign as freshman Shaun Chaudhuri was named most improved player, seniors Davis Mangham and Alistair Felton were given the Ned Weld Award for their contributions to the team, while the entire 2011-12 Crimson squad was awarded the team's MVP honor for its outstanding performance.
Chaudhuri rose up the Crimson lineup in 2012 after staring in the No. 6 position he moved up to No. 4 by season's end. The freshman from Pleasanton, Calif., was one of four freshmen to tally over 20 total singles victories in 2011-12, going 23-3 in dual matches. Meanwhile Mangham and Felton showed tremendous leadership this season after helping to guide a young team with only three starters that were upperclassman. Felton served on Harvard's No. 1 doubles team while Mangham maintained a 5-5 singles record and a 1-1 doubles mark this past season.
Harvard also received good news on one of its players as Mac McAnulty received a Phi Beta Kappa award for his hard work in the classroom. Phi Beta Kappa celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America's leading colleges and universities.
The Crimson concluded its season in Gainesville, Fla., this past weekend as it fell to No. 12 Florida in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Harvard gained entry to the national competition after going 6-1 in Ivy League play and earning the program's 29th Ancient Eight championship. The Crimson placed two players on All-Ivy League teams as both senior Jon Pearlman and freshman Denis Nguyen received first team and second team accolades, respectively.


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Yet more childishness over geographical namesMonday, April 30, 2007
While the Koreans have some justification in being peevish about the Japanese name (which is the most common usage in international circles), might not the good people of Japan be a little confused by having an East Sea that lies to the West?
A bod from the Korean foreign ministry failed to help his or her cause at the forthcoming International Hydrographic Organization bun fight by saying this anonymously: "We are planning to explain to the member countries why the name 'the East Sea' is more appropriate". More here
I do not fancy the former Hermit Kingdom's chances of swaying the current IHO's board of the US, Chile and Greece, especially if Japan comes out for using FYROM rather than Macedonia....
Anyway, I look forward to the French lobbying for the English Channel to be called The Sleeve, and maybe we can give Hibernia a hard time over the Irish Sea. Meanwhile, the North Sea (which isn't very North unless one is Dutch, Belgian or German) used to be called the German Ocean by us, and there's rather a good Wikipedia piece about it in Scots: "The German Ocean is whit is nou mair aften kent as the North Sea". Meanwhile, the Germans call the Baltic Die Ostsee, so there is scope for much confusion.
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Versatile veg soup
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 15 mins
A basic soup recipe that can be adapted to whatever needs using up from the fridge
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Healthy
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal218
- fat7g
- saturates6g
- carbs32g
- sugars7g
- fibre6g
- protein4g
- salt0.94g
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- 200g chopped raw vegetables, such as onions, celery and carrots
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 300g potato
The world's favourite root vegetable, the potato comes in innumerable varieties. A member of…
- 1 tbsp oil
- 700ml stock
- crème fraîche and fresh herbs, to serve
Fry 200g chopped raw vegetables with 300g potatoes, peeled and cubed, in 1 tbsp oil for a few mins until beginning to soften.
Cover with 700ml stock and simmer for 10-15 mins until the veg is tender. Blend until smooth, then season.
Serve with a dollop of crème fraîche and some fresh herbs. Will freeze for up to 1 month.
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7th Sep, 2019
I can't believe how easy, versatile and yummy this soup is! I put onions, carrots, courgettes, leeks, potatoes , garlic, 1 chicken and 1 veg stock. Even added cubes of cheese to melt into it. And most of all my kids loved it!!! I took a few scoops out before blending for extra texture. Will experiment with different veg but defo be making more especially as the weather has turned chilly!
6th Aug, 2015
This is a great recipe, although I'm not sure a strict "recipe" is all that necessary really. Just freestyle it. I used way more veg than 200g (probably closer to 600g), plus 500g of potatoes, and I upped the stock to 1l. It was delish and made enough for 5 people. I chucked potato, celery, carrot, courgette and spring onion in, and then after blending it added sweetcorn.
18th Sep, 2014
Love this recipe, I always like to adapt things to my taste, so something like this is great. I used two potatoes, broccoli, green beans, carrots, onions, sugar snap peas and added 1 frozen garlic cube and 1 frozen chilli cube, 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds, 1/4 teaspoon of turmeric and a tablespoon of crème fresh. I followed the recipe by cooking the veg and them simmering in the stock. I used one veg stock melt and one chicken and added them to water. Then blended the ingredients all together at the end. Put it in the fridge and am eating eat today for lunch as I type and it is delicious. It's so nice to have an easy soup that you can make quickly, you can add as much veg as you like and it's really healthy so I give this 5 stars.


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Using the Controls on the Bottom of Your iPhone
You'll find several important controls along the bottom of your iPhone. These iPhone controls include the speaker, the dock connector, and the microphone.
Speaker: The speaker is used by the iPhone's built-in speakerphone and plays audio — music or video soundtracks — if no headset is plugged in. It also plays the ringtone you hear when you receive a call.
Dock connector: The dock connector has two purposes:
You can use it to recharge your iPhone's battery. Simply connect one end of the included dock connector–to–USB cable to the dock connector and the other end to the USB power adapter.
You can use it to recharge your iPhone's battery as well as synchronize. Connect one end of the same cable to the dock connector and the other end to a USB port on your Mac or PC.
Microphone: The microphone lets callers hear your voice when you're not using a headset.


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I saw a thread on the CC site on Salman Butt. I thought the thread starter was hilarious but seeing the sensitivities around the place I can also understand why it was closed. Pity I thought. Then I saw a suggestion that this topic should be on the Cricket Humour page so here I am. Again surprised that the topic hasnt featured here
Besides calling him Fish A**e or whatever was suggested there, I think Salman could be the butt of a lot of jokes. Much more than 'Aloo. Inzemam.
No offence guys I love both Inzy and potatoes and no offence meant to either/
I mean there is much more variety to butts than there is to aloos , right ?
Butts are good, they are bad, . There are those to kill for and those to die for. Big ones and small ones. Healthy ones and shrivelled ones.
So here is a place for you guys to revel in Butt (Salman and other variety) jokes and please fellows, this is not meant to offend anyone how ever much they dote on Salman('s) Butt.
To get it started. I was wondering how Salamn could have got his complete name and came across this story.
It was this little girl's first day of school, and the teacher asked her what her name was.
She replied, "Happy Butt."
The teacher said, "Honey I don't think that's your name. You need to go to the principal's office and get this straightened out."
So she went to the principal's office and he asked, "What's your name?"
And the little girl said, "Happy Butt."
The principal called the girl's mother to get this straightened out once and for all.
After getting off the phone, he looked at the little girl and said, "Honey, your name is Gladys, not Happy Butt."
The girl then exclaimed, "Glad ***, Happy Butt, what's the difference?"
Now do you think something like this happened to Salman ?


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Citing demand for a car that is merely a car, nothing more, nothing less, Renault has reached an agreement with Moscow officials to increase production of the Logan, brogan. The French automaker and their comrades in the city that never surrenders to ramp up production of the motorized oxcart from 60,000 units to beyond 80,000 per year at the Avtoframos factory. Carlos and Vladimir are no doubt trading stories about crushing Germans and hopping about merrily.
Renault to Expand Production in Moscow as Demand for Budget Cars Soars in Russia [Mosnews]
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De Cordova's Herald and Immigrant's Guide. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1, Saturday, July 21, 1849
Description: Monthly newspaper from the Houston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 21, 1849
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Getting Started
Information for Developers -- For community contributors. Includes how to identify existing bugs, contribute code, and set up your development environment.
Development Roadmap and Strategy
General Software Milestones -- a rough guide to upcoming PKP software releases for all products
Development Cycle -- description of the pattern PKP follows in terms of releases and branches
PKP WAL Roadmap -- roadmap for the PKP Web Application Library, a shared codebase common to all PKP applications
Working with Git
HOW-TO check out PKP applications from git
Differences between CVS and git for PKP devs
Code Design
JavaScript coding conventions -- the JS coding conventions that PKP uses.
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text: Birthday song You say it's your birthday, It's my birthday too, yeah; They say it's your birthday, We're gonna have a good time; I'm glad it's your birthday, Happy birthday to you. Yes, we're goin' to a party, party. Yes, we're goin' to a party, party, Yes, we're goin' to a party, party. I would like you to dance, (Birthday) Take a chachachachance, (Birthday) I would like you to dance, (Birthday) Dance! You say it's your birthday, It's my birthday too, yeah; They say it's your birthday, we're gonna have a good time; I'm glad it's your birthday, Happy birthday to you. "Birthday" "Birthday" 45 Song by the Beatles from the album The Beatles Released 22 November 1968 Recorded 18 September 1968 Genre Hard rock, rock and roll Length 2:42 Label Apple Records Writer Lennon–McCartney Producer George Martin The Beatles track listing 30 tracks Side one "Back in the U.S.S.R." "Dear Prudence" "Glass Onion" "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" "Wild Honey Pie" "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Side two "Martha My Dear" "I'm So Tired" "Blackbird" "Piggies" "Rocky Raccoon" "Don't Pass Me By" "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" "I Will" "Julia" Side three "Birthday" "Yer Blues" "Mother Nature's Son" "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" "Sexy Sadie" "Helter Skelter" "Long, Long, Long" Side four "Revolution 1" "Honey Pie" "Savoy Truffle" "Cry Baby Cry" "Revolution 9" "Good Night" "Birthday" is a song written by Lennon–McCartney and performed by the Beatles on their double album The Beatles (commonly known as The White Album). It is the opening track on the third side of the LP (or the second disc in CD versions of the record). The song is an example of the Beatles' return to more traditional rock and roll form, although their music had increased in complexity and it had developed more of its own characteristic style by this point. McCartney and Ringo Starr performed it for Starr's 70th birthday on 7 July 2010. Please note the text from Wikipedia is imported without editing or authentication. Birthday (White) ©1968 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.


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Study of Physical and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Needs of Patients After Diagnosis and Treatment of Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer or Gynecological Cancer
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01216813
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 7, 2010
Last Update Posted : November 1, 2016
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RATIONALE: Gathering information from patients who have undergone treatment for upper gastrointestinal cancer or gynecological cancer may help doctors learn more about patients' physical and psychosocial rehabilitation needs and plan the best treatment.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying the physical and psychosocial rehabilitation needs of patients after diagnosis and treatment of upper gastrointestinal cancer or gynecological cancer.
|Condition or disease
|Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction Cervical Cancer Endometrial Cancer Esophageal Cancer Fallopian Tube Cancer Gastric Cancer Ovarian Cancer Sarcoma Vaginal Cancer Vulvar Cancer
|Other: informational intervention Procedure: assessment of therapy complications Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care
- To explore the patients' perspective of their physical and psychosocial rehabilitation needs following the diagnosis and treatment for an upper gastrointestinal or a gynecological cancer.
- To assess patients' experiences of the physical and social impact of cancer in the treatment and post-treatment phase.
- To explore patients' met and un-met needs.
- To explore the patients' opinion of how it might be possible to manage any of the issues that arise.
- To generate theories and a hypothesis from the data collected for use in a future interventional study.
OUTLINE: The study consist of a series of focus groups that take place in a private room within the Royal Marsden Hospital in the United Kingdom. Patients attend only one focus group session, which is audio-tape recorded. The focus groups discuss and explore the patient's needs and experiences using a semi-structured interview question schedule over 60-90 minutes. The groups are single-sex groups to allow the patients to express themselves freely with respect to any sensitive topics they may wish to discuss. If individual patient issues arise from the group discussions, the lead researcher may refer the patient to a member of the hospital team, the patient's physician, or for appropriate psychological support.
Data from the focus group dialogue and patients' baseline demographic information are analyzed. The results from this study are used to design an interventional study in the Rehabilitation Department.
|Study Type :
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|33 participants
|Official Title:
|The Rehabilitation Needs of People Who Have Had an Upper Gastrointestinal or a Gynecological Cancer
|Study Start Date :
|August 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2010
- Patients' perspective of their physical and psychosocial rehabilitation needs following their diagnosis and treatment
- Patients' experiences of the physical and social impact of cancer in the treatment and post-treatment phase
- Patients' met and un-met needs
- Patients' opinion of how to manage any of the issues that arise
- Theories and a hypothesis from data collected for use in a future interventional study
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 120 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal (GI) or gynecological cancer
Must have completed initial treatment for upper GI or gynecological cancer
- Received primary treatment within the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
- Will be on a treatment pathway with radical intent or be post-treatment
- Reported that they have experienced a physical or psychosocial need resulting from the disease or its treatment
- Able to attend the specialist center for a focus group session
- Willing and able to articulate their experiences in English
- Not eligible for or receiving palliative or end-of-life care
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01216813
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|Royal Marsden - London
|London, England, United Kingdom, SW3 6JJ
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|Clare Shaw, Phd
|Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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|October 7, 2010 Key Record Dates
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|November 1, 2016
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|October 2010
ovarian sarcoma
uterine sarcoma
vaginal cancer
esophageal cancer
gastric cancer
cervical cancer
fallopian tube cancer
ovarian epithelial cancer
ovarian germ cell tumor
ovarian stromal cancer
endometrial cancer
vulvar cancer
adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction
Vaginal Neoplasms
Vaginal Diseases
Stomach Neoplasms
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Esophageal Neoplasms
Endometrial Neoplasms
Fallopian Tube Neoplasms
Vulvar Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Site
Adnexal Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
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Gastrointestinal Diseases
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Uterine Cervical Diseases
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City Repair in Action
Should our towns and cities be built for cars or for people? City Repair sides with the latter. The Portland, Ore. nonprofit helps people organize, design, and implement new, people-friendly visions for their communities—and reclaim the notion of "neighborhood" in the process. Here's a collection of their best work over the years, from revived intersections to community-built picnic shelters to colorful murals. It's place-making in action. To view the photo essay, click here.
Fixing Broken Cities: Interview with Mark Lakeman of the City Repair Project


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Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs
RELEASE DATE: March 16, 2012
Photographer of 365 EPA Superfund Sites to Speak at the Historic Thomas Center
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The City of Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs announces a lecture by New York media artist Brooke Singer on Friday March 30 at 6 p.m. in the Thomas Center Long Gallery. Recognized for her work photographing 365 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund sites from outside New York City to Hawaii, Singer will speak on Alternative Histories: Mapping Toxic Legacy and Tracking Superfund.
This program accompanies the Thomas Center Main Gallery's powerful current exhibition Region4: Transformation Through Imagination, which features works by 17 artists who seek to transform the reality of the local Cabot/Koppers EPA Superfund site into images that convey both the history of the issue and the possibilities for restoration and positive change. The exhibition was organized by the Superfund Art Project in collaboration with Protect Gainesville Citizens and runs through Saturday, April 28. Along with related programming, it is funded by a grant from the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.
The Speaker:
Brooke Singer is currently Associate Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York. Her work blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts practices. She has exhibited at the Warhol Museum of Art, The Banff Centre, Neuberger Museum of Art, MoMA/PS1, Diverseworks, Exit Art, FILE Electronic Festival, Sonar Music and Multimedia Festival, The Whitney Artport, among others.


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On the night before Christmas, while Santa and the top reindeer sweated across the night sky delivering presents to the children of the world, all the elves and Mrs. Claus, the second-tier reindeer, and the Abominable Snowman went to the dock and took the yacht out on the arctic ocean for some well deserved relaxation.
Mrs. Claus kept trying to get everyone to dance, but only the elves did, doing jigs in a big circle, mainly because their union had recently succeeded in getting Santa to agree to eight-hour workdays. The second-tier reindeer were moping because they didn't get to pull the sleigh, and the Abominable Snowman kept doing sit-ups until Mrs. Claus told him it was Abominable, not Abdominal. So he started curling elves to build his biceps.
After a while, everyone just sat and looked at the streaks across the sky, which were not, as some people thought, shooting stars, but actually Santa and the sleigh flying from country to country. Mrs. Claus consoled the second-tier reindeer: "There's always next year," she said. "Eat lots of candy canes to build strength." She had to keep collecting their tears in a bucket, because reindeer tears, as everyone knows, are like acid and could eat through the ship's hull.
Just then there was a huge crack and a shudder, and the ship stopped. "We hit an iceberg!" Mrs. Claus shouted. The ship tilted and started to take on water. The elves shrieked high-pitched elf screams. Mrs. Claus fanned herself and even the Abominable Snowman seemed halfway dismayed.
But the second-tier reindeer seemed energized. "Everyone grab onto one of us," one of the reindeer said, and they flew everyone to safety, back onto the North Pole ice shelf. When Santa returned, he rewarded all the second-tier reindeer by promising them that next year, they would all be top reindeer and get their very own stocking full of bulk candy, and they all cheered and high-fived hooves.
But one of the elves, obviously depressed, said: "But what about the yacht" Everyone was sad for a half second before Santa smiled and reached one hand deep, deep, deep into his bag of gifts, so deep everyone thought he would lose his hand down in the depths, so deep that he could have been reaching all the way to the South Pole, and brought out . . . jet packs for everyone! "Much better than any old yacht," Santa said, and everyone cheered.


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The top selling video games in the world so far in 2012 aren't shooter games, as some of us would have guessed. Nope. They're fitness games.
In North America, the No. 1 game is actually a dance game. Just Dance 3 for the Wii has been the top selling video game in 2012 so far. To date, Just Dance 3 (Reviewed Nov. 10, 2011) has sold more than 7 million copies since its October 2011 release. It's estimated that worldwide, gamers spend 23 million minutes per day playing the game, dancing to 7.5 million songs daily!
The third, fourth and 10th spots on the list of top sellers for 2012 are also fitness games: Zumba Fitness for the Wii; Zumba Fitness 2, also called Join the Party, for the Wii; and Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 for the Xbox 360 Kinect.
If you're not shaking your groove thang with a video game; apparently you're all alone. The zumba craze that has swept the nation's workout studios has meringue-d into private homes via gaming.
Zumba is slang for "fast" and was created to emulate nightclub dancing to a Latin beat. Slow and fast rhythms get dancers pulsating and grinding to dance styles including cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, mambo, rumba, flamenco, and calypso and salsaton.
Both Wii games offer an authentic zumba experience – music, moves and all. The first game released in 2010 was so successful, developers released Zumba Fit: Join the Party in November 2011. In February of this year, a version for the Xbox 360 Kinect was released – Zumba Fitness Rush. The big differences between the two Wii games is additional dance styles Axe, Indian, Latin Pop, Bellydance and Pasodoble, as well as a calorie counter and celebrity instructors, available in the latest version.
There are nine different dance styles, routines, three levels, a dance party and best of all, tutorials. For those of us who have stood at the gym watching the zumba classes, intimidated by the seemingly intricate dance moves, these tutorials are confidence boosters. Male and female instructors demonstrate the dance moves like rumba, for example, repetitively and slowly. By the time the tempo speeds up, the move is mastered. Of course, you can always repeat the tutorial as often as you need. I did.
Both zumba fitness games require a zumba belt, which securely holds the Wiimote, detecting your movements. The belt comes with the games. Get the package, costing approximately $40 inclusive of the game and belt, or order the belt for $10. For fitness and fun, the cost is minimal.
I've never found the Wii movement detection to be faultless, and it's not with the zumba games. However, scoring on a zumba game is really not critical; as long as you're sweating, you know you're winning. And you will sweat when doing these high-energy, fast-paced games. Keep water and a sweat rag handy. Wear appropriate shoes, too.
The second fitness game that the world seems to be playing, or rather getting in shape with, is Your Shape Fitness Evolved for the Xbox 360 Kinect costing $45-$50.
Motion is more critical on this game and more sensitive than with the Wii because the game actually projects you and your movements on the screen right next to the instructor so you can compare yourself. The sensor works best if you wear tighter clothing. Still, if you want perfect calorie counting and scoring, it's not going to happen. Use sweat production as your metric and consider yourself a winner if you need water and a sweat rag.
"Shape" is a more hard-core, traditional "boot camp" type workout but also includes yoga, tai chi, hula hoop and cardio boxing, among others. Enter your weight, age and other vitals and then pick your level and routine. You can't customize your workout but you can choose the type of workout based on your goals – weight loss, muscle conditioning, de-stress, etc.
Let others shoot for zombies — you can shoot for shape with these workout video games.


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(LONDON) -- Rihanna has opened up about her relationship with Chris Brown in the April issue of Elle UK.
The singer reportedly tells the magazine that Brown, who assaulted her four years ago, has matured and is a changed man.
Rihanna explains, "Right now, that's just what we want, a great friendship, that's unbreakable." She adds, "Now that we're adults we can do this right. We got a fresh start and we're thankful for that."
The singer continues, "You don't have that feeling with everybody so when you have it, you don't want to let go of it. I would definitely say he is the one I have that kind of relationship with."
Rihanna doesn't consider herself to be a victim. She tells the magazine that the gun tattoo on the right side of her torso is a symbol of empowerment she got soon after that 2009 incident.
Rihanna says, "Everybody wanted to know what was happening in my life. Is she a drug addict? No. Is she an alcoholic? No. Is she a victim? No."
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A wheelchair basketball tournament held in Kabul in June 2012 brought together players from Mazar-i Sharif, Kabul, Herat and Maimana. The ICRC organized the event, in close collaboration with the Afghan Para-Olympic Committee.This tournament is part of the ICRC's long-running effort to promote the social reintegration of people with disabilities. The wheelchair basketball programme started in 2010, when US basketball player and trainer Jess Markt came to work with the players. As well as hearing from Jess and the players, we hear from Alberto Cairo, head of the ICRC's physical rehabilitation programme in Afghanistan, about how basketball is improving patients' physical and mental health.


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Five people were arrested after deputies responded to a disturbance with shots fired late Saturday, according to an incident report.
Five people were arrested after deputies responded to a disturbance with shots fired late Saturday, according to an incident report.
Deputies responded to Lake Front Circle about 10:40 p.m. after receiving a call about a loud disturbance with shots fired at a mobile home, the report states.
When a deputy arrived, he looked through a window and saw marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the home. On the porch were the spilled contents of a purse, a spilled flower pot, overturned propane tank and shell casings for a small caliber gun. The deputy also noticed a strong odor of burnt marijuana, according to the report.
Deputies found a 16-year-old hiding near the back door, who told them a man had been fighting with his girlfriend at the house. A couple pulled up to the home and said they were looking for their daughter, Lauren Elizabeth Waldrop, 19, of 251 Willow Breeze Drive, Lyman, who was believed to be inside the home.
Lauren Waldrop's mother, Elizabeth Farmer Waldrop, 46, of 251 Willow Breeze Drive, Lyman, reached her daughter by phone and confirmed she was inside the trailer. When the deputy went to the door, he saw Justin Wade Howard, 25, of 35 Lake Front Circle, grab the drugs and paraphernalia and run down the hallway. The deputy forced entry into the home and caught Howard at the bathroom door, the report states. Lauren Waldrop then punched the deputy in the back of the head and shoulders as he placed Howard under arrest, the report continues.
A second deputy found two other men inside the home — Dylan Gage Bishop, 18, 1141 Mount Lebanon Road, Campobello, and Austin Michael Ragin, 23, of 1165 Mount Lebanon Road, Campobello. The men told deputies the guns could be found in the living room, according to the report.
Lauren Waldrop continued to resist efforts to get her handcuffed, the report states. With a deputy holding each arm, she did a "back flip" to try to get away from them. On the second back flip, she and the two deputies fell to the ground. Two dogs inside the home began to attack the two deputies, the report states.
Elizabeth Waldrop pushed one of the deputies and grabbed him by the shoulder, and kicked at the officers and stomped on one of the deputy's feet as they tried to handcuff her, the report states. A deputy shoved her into a patrol car and then saw Howard, who was handcuffed, run toward the woods. Howard then circled back shouting, "He's trying to kill me," and deputies later learned that Lauren Waldrop's father had been chasing him.
Lauren Waldrop continued to resist and kicked a deputy in the face, the report states. Elizabeth Waldrop also continued to resist, and mother and daughter were both shackled with leg restraints after their arrests.
Howard told deputies that the original disturbance began when he had gotten into a fight with Lauren Waldrop, his girlfriend, and she attacked him, the report states.
Two .22-caliber rifles were seized from the home, according to the report.
Lauren Waldrop was taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center before being jailed on charges of resisting arrest and resisting arrest with assault, according to online jail records. Elizabeth Waldrop was charged with hindering officers and resisting arrest.
Ragin and Bishop were both charged with breach of peace. Howard was charged with breach of peace and simple possession of marijuana.
All five have been released from the Spartanburg County Detention Facility - Ragin's and Bishop's bonds had been set at $1,092; Howard's at $1,712; Elizabeth Waldrop's at $4,000; and Lauren Waldrop's at $8,500.


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Learning we reap what we sow
There was once a farmer who decided he would save money, so instead of buying the full sack of seed corn, he bought only two-thirds of the amount he had purchased the year before. After sowing the seeds on his field, he eventually harvested the crop. To his great surprise, the crop had only yielded two-thirds of the bounty of the season before.
The farmer is much like some of our elected leaders who will express shock, surprise and dismay at the recent reports that test results show only 34 percent of our statewide ninth graders can show proficiency in writing. Even worse, only 41 percent of our ninth graders are proficient in English. Why should we be surprised? Our state legislature, under statewide leadership, has caused layoffs of more than 15,000 teachers in the state, and mandated larger classes and the end of many programs calculated to enhance learning.
Classroom size does, in fact, make a difference. Despite a bogus study or two touted by Mitt Romney, the multitude of other experts have demonstrated time and time again, by monitored results, that class size of 15:1 in the lower three grades can produce spectacular results.Eliminating more than 15,000 teaching spots will not help lure out the best and brightest to the teaching profession when they are so critically needed for America to compete in the worldwide arena.
The first retort of conservatives to information such as enumerated above is that, "You can't throw money at education and fix it." I certainly agree. The flip side of that coin, however, is you can't fix and create a wonderful system of education without spending an adequate amount of money.
The state of Texas could better spend its time through the Legislature and the State Board of Education by concentrating on evaluation of the efficiency of school districts — whether they are top heavy in administration with overblown and overpaid superintendents and assistant superintendents and their fellow travelers. An audit of charter schools funded by tax money should inquire intently on whether taxpayers are getting their money's worth in improved education in these facilities, or whether they are simply gold mines for those who create these private entities.
Far-right wingers who express such great concern for only having English spoken in the state of Texas would be far better off, as would the state, if they were more concerned about whether or not their own children and the children of Texas parents are proficient in our dominant language — English.
While I suspect the electronic age of texting and tweeting is somewhat responsible for our young Texans lagging in communication skills of writing and using English, it still needs to be addressed through our school system.
Carl Parker has practiced law in Port Arthur since 1958. He is a 1958 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. Elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and the Senate in 1976, Parker continued to practice law while writing and sponsoring hundreds of bills that became laws relating to every aspect of life in Texas, including many regarding consumer safety. His e-mail is cap1934 [at] aol [dot] com.


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We weighed at first light, had the sails up before sunrise, and took our departure from Ipala heading 180, south, with a SE wind of 12-13 knots. We drank some coffee and watched the sun come up. It was an easy sail, close hauled on the number 4 jib and the wind vane steering. Judy fixed some fruit and cereal for breakfast and I got some weather off the fax: A big high north of us and a cold front south. That explained the easterly component to the breeze.
Later in a patch of sunlight astern I saw the mainsail of REFUGE, hull down, who'd departed Ipala some time after we did. I wondered if we'd see them again this evening in Chamela, 40 miles away down the coast. We dragged a fishing line, but no luck.
At 10:00 the wind shifted toward the south and we sailed into the knock for a half an hour then tacked. We were now laying the mark. I watched REFUGE inshore of us and wondered if we'd make out on her by being farther out when the wind shifted, at least we were well to weather of her. I took a bearing: 307 degrees. They never gained any and we had a great sail, moving well all day and after hooking a bunch of darn Black Skipjacks, which we threw back, we caught a nice Sierra Mackerel. Then at 3:00, about 5 miles from Chamela we got into some rain and the wind went right around to the north and kicked up a bit. We couldn't go into Chamela because we couldn't see a damn thing, and the wind was 22-24 knots, so we hove to for a half hour until the whole thing blew over, leaving just a lumpy sea and a spitty little wind. While we waited REFUGE motored up and beat us to the anchorage. Finally got the hook down at 5:00 PM, hung out our wet clothes, and had some rum. Another fine day in Mexico.
16:30 PM, February 16
Tenacatita, Jalisco. It's been a year, nearly, since we've been in Tenacatita. Today we dropped the hook here again, probably for the last time. It's gorgeous here. The light today is crystal clear. On the beach at the hotel you can see the day glow orange of the women's swimsuits and the white t-shirts of the men even when they are so far off you can't even clearly delineate their bodies with binoculars. The long Pacific swells roll in to Tenacatita and when they hit the shore you can hear them for half a mile. The spray goes up into the air and blows inland like a grey cloud. Then, after a delay, the sound. Thrrr-ump! We set the hook, folded the sails, and opened a bottle of rum.
I put on some Beatles and sat on deck with the long eyes and looked around the harbor: Nineteen boats including us. They all looked sharp in the clear air and bright sunlight following the cold front which came through yesterday and they all rose and fell in the swells, like some kind of quiet ballet. Nineteen fellow cruisers, all enjoying Tenacatita, and it's unbelievable beauty... and I realized again that life is good.
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WASHINGTON — Lawyers for former Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame filed court papers Wednesday in their civil suit to include former State Department top official Richard Armitage as an additional defendant.
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The suit does not accuse Richard Armitage, who was deputy secretary of state in the Bush administration, of participating in an administration conspiracy to blow her cover.
Plame added Armitage's name to a civil suit in U.S. District Court against Vice President Dick Cheney, his former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and White House adviser Karl Rove.
It took three years for Armitage to publicly admit, last week, that he was the first to leak the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson to reporters.
Melanie Sloan, an attorney for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, who are representing the Wilson's, tells NBC that is was not okay for Armitage to leak Plame's name to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward and columnist Bob Novak.
But, Sloan says, Armitage's apparently inadvertent leak did in fact damage Plame's covert career at the CIA.
The Plame-Wilson suit
In July, the Wilson's filed a civil suit against Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide I Louis "Scooter" Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson accuse them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career at the CIA.
In their lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Plame and Wilson accuse Cheney, Rove and Libby of revealing Plame's CIA identity in seeking revenge against Wilson for criticizing the Bush administration's motives in Iraq. They are demanding a jury trial and compensatory damages.
Armitage says he told Novak because it was "just an offhand question." "I didn't put any big import on it and I just answered and it was the last question we had," he says.
Now he says he made a terrible mistake in revealing Plame's employer at the time. Artmitage says, "Oh I feel terrible. Every day, I think I let down the president. I let down the Secretary of State. I let down my department, my family and I also let down Mr. and Mrs. Wilson."
"I didn't know the woman's name was Plame. I didn't know she was an operative," he says.
Joel Seidman is an NBC Producer based in Washington, DC
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I absolutely love the artistic production of the DVDs from Acacia, and the latest yoga video with Sharon Gannon is no exception. I turned on the music only option and spent several joyful minutes just watching and listening to the beautiful filming of Sharon doing her practice with the musicians playing harmonium, violin and tamboura. As with other Acacia DVDs, the bonus features are great. The 11-minute Secret teachings of Yoga lecture is incredibly well done and reveals Sharon's passion for yoga and her sweet inner radiance.
Chakra Balancing Yoga is a one-hour practice exploring poses, mantras, and affirmations that activate and harmonize the chakras, the seven energy centers in the body. This is not your traditional yoga practice and this DVD is not geared towards beginners. Instructions on how to do the yoga poses is not given as the focus is on exploring the chakras from root to crown using specific yoga poses, bija (seed) mantras, and guided affirmations. But this DVD would be a great purchase for experienced practitioners who wish to add some depth to their practice and to explore the subtle energies of the body.
Purchase Chakra Balancing Yoga with Sharon Gannon


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Sonoma Habitat necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 46 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Habitat for Humanity of Sonoma County
Habitat for Humanity of Sonoma County is an affiliate of the world wide non profit whose mission is to build modest, affordable family homes in partnership with our communities and families in need. We are located in located in Wine Country, California, north of San Francisco. Go to http://www.sonomacountyhabitat.org for more information.
Our supporters are residents of Sonoma County who help by volunteering on our build projects, buying low cost building materials from our ReStore, and participating in fundraising events like the up coming Golf-A-Thon. This postcard will be mailed to 4,000 individuals living in our county who have previously contacted Habitat International. Thus they are familiar with the organization, but not with our affiliate. An additional 3,200 will go to all the members of the four Chambers of Commerce in our area.
The purpose of the postcard is to update the recipients of new things happening this spring. More details for all these activities are available on our website, so the card should drive people there for more information.
The most important requirement is to polish the layouts we drafted. Improvements are expected, but major deviations will not fly.
1. The size is approximate. Make it as large as possible (2 up on letter paper) using the required allowances for color bleed and trimming.
2. We will select a final design by noon. Complete the work by 3 pm PST, Thursday Feb 18.
3. Prepare the file in a format for the printers (see #9) and a jpg file.
4. Fonts must be from the list provided in the Logo Guidelines book, page 17+
5. Colors must be from the same, page 23+
6. Use the Website Design book for guidance on white space, no shadows on photos, and other details.
7. Add other elements to make it crisp and professional
8. Back of card will need required space for the printed bulk stamp (we will provide the permit number in the morning) and an address lable per USPS rules.
9. Go to http://www.uprinting.com for details of the file preparation. Select Help -> File Preparation Checklist -> Jobs with Mailings
10. Graphic example shown in file of tagline "Building Homes. Building Hope." is optional.
NOTE: We hope to end the contest by noon PST on Thursday so the final design can be prepared by 3:00. i will monitor the submittals until midnight PST (tonight) and resume at 6 am Thursday. I am an accountant, not a graphic designer, but I will give lots of comments to make best use of your time.


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Tavis Smiley: Obama needs to be King-like, not King-lite
Since the White House announced that President Obama will speak to the nation on Wednesday from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, I have been peppered with the same questions again and again:
Is it appropriate for the president to occupy that sacred space? Does Obama have the moral authority to speak where King spoke? Does anyone?
My honest answer to these questions: I don't know. But here is what I do know. The future of our democracy is inextricably linked to how seriously we take King's legacy. A legacy of unarmed truth and unconditional love. A legacy of brilliant prose and prophetic witness.
The president's decision to honor the march is proper and commendable. But when he stands where King stood and delivers a speech of his own, he inevitably invites comparisons between his words and King's. I hope Obama rises to the challenge to be truly King-like, not just King-lite. His speech cannot be full of great sound bites but devoid of sound public policy.
Obama's election in 2008 was a good down payment on King's dream of racial equality, but it did not fulfill the dream. Instead of lecturing black audiences about personal responsibility, as he so often has, now is the time for the president to bear witness to the unrelenting pain and suffering of his most loyal constituency — a constituency still denied true economic freedom by institutional and structural barriers that have yet to be addressed, much less alleviated.
Following the recent not-guilty verdict for George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, the president did finally give voice to the struggle for human dignity that black men in particular endure almost daily. "There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me," Obama said. And the decision this month by Attorney General Eric Holder to no longer seek mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenses — citing the "shameful" racial disparities in sentencing — is smart public policy.
But we have known for 40 years that mandatory minimums are a bad idea. Why so long? Could not an administration committed to social justice have done this in the first term?
The unsettling truth is that during the Obama era, black America has fallen even further behind. The African American unemployment rate, for instance, remains stubbornly and disproportionately high at 12.6 percent, compared with the national rate of 7.4 percent. And while private-sector jobs are experiencing a slight uptick, the lack of public-sector jobs is suffocating black livelihoods. Sadly, a few black chief executives notwithstanding, race still matters in the private sector. Education is not the great equalizer. I know too many black Ivy League graduates whose degrees cannot close this gap, and heaven help you if you're applying for a private-sector job with a "black-sounding" name. Researchers have found that these applicants receive up to 50 percent fewer callbacks than applicants with "white-sounding" names.
Black misery is the fierce urgency of now. Do we want history to record that black folk fared even worse under the first black president? I certainly do not.
We all understand that Obama is a politician and King was a prophet. But does that mean that the president, even with the structural and political constraints of his high office, cannot speak more truth?
I have often wondered what the bust of King in the Oval Office would whisper to the president when he's working alone late at night. The symbolism of King's presence in the White House is powerful; symbols do matter. But the substance of his "I Have a Dream" speech is being ignored half a century later.
For me, the brilliance of King's speech was his unique ability to unapologetically rebuke the nation for its sins yet still present America a vision for how she could be greater. He did this not by trying to transcend who he was — a black Baptist preacher — but by authentically embracing his full citizenship as a black American.
This is why it's so troubling whenever Obama says that he is not "the president of black America," but "the president of all America." Actually, he's both. He would never say that he is not the president of gay, Latino or Jewish America. So why the defensive posture when it comes to his fellow black citizens?
Sociologist William Julius Wilson recently highlighted the opportunity Obama has in Wednesday's speech. "If you don't have skills or a decent education in this global economy, your chances for mobility are limited," Wilson told The Washington Post. "The problem is especially acute for low-skilled black males, and many turn to crime and end up in prison, which further marginalizes them and decreases their employment opportunities. It would be great if the president raised such issues when he comments on the March on Washington, because I strongly believe he is fully aware of them."
After the march of 1963, King wrote his third book, "Why We Can't Wait." In it, he admonishes those who want his people to "quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait." He also warned America, in his speech at the march, against taking the "tranquilizing drug of gradualism."
It's no secret that 50 years later, despite all the progress we have made, class and race are still undeniable factors holding back too many fellow citizens of all colors and creeds, but disproportionately black Americans. As I have said many times, when you make black America better, you make all of America better.
This president is fond of making history. Well, sometimes the best way to make history is to let history come to you. In truth, the present is history. It's abundantly clear by the staging of Obama's address that the White House sees this historic moment as an opportunity to burnish the president's legacy.
But if Obama is to be transformational and not just transactional, a statesman and not just another politician, a thermostat and not just a thermometer, then it's time for him to use his power to help regulate the temperature of our society and not just settle for recording the temperature of public opinion. It's time to take some risks. To stop playing it safe in the second term. To tell the truth about the suffering in America that's being rendered invisible simply because we choose not to see it.
Poverty is threatening our democracy; it is now a matter of national security. As King said, war is still the enemy of the poor. Our education system, in many ways, is still separate and unequal. As King lived under constant surveillance, our government seems now to be spying on all of us.
In the end, it's about what kind of nation and what kind of people we choose to be. There can be no distinction between what we believe and what we do. It's time for more than just celebrating King with our words. It's time to start emulating him with our deeds.
Smiley is host of the "Tavis Smiley" show on PBS, Public Radio International's "The Tavis Smiley Show" and "Tavis Talks" on BlogTalkRadio.


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Here's my monthly wrap-up of what I read the previous month. Links, as always, go to the reviews.
1. Abyss, by Troy Denning (January)
2. Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil, by Drew Karpyshyn
3. The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, by Gordon Van Gelder (editor)
4. The Great Bazaar and Other Stories, by Peter V. Brett
5. Busted Flush, by George R. R. Martin (editor)
6. The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King
7. The Dazzle of Day, by Molly Gloss
8. Best American Fantasy 2, by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (editors)
9. Scenting the Dark and Other Stories, by Mary Robinette Kowal
10. Finch, by Jeff VanderMeer
11. Dawnthief, by James Barclay
12. The Taborin Scale, by Lucius Shepard
13. The Book of Dreams, by Nick Gevers (editor)
14. The Fortunate Fall, by Raphael Carter
Graphic Novels
1. Bone: Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border, by Jeff Smith
2. Unknown Soldier: Haunted House, by Joshua Dysart
3. Scalped: The Gravel in Your Guts, by Jason Aaron
4. 100 Bullets: Six Feet Under the Gun, by Brian Azzarello
5. Air: Letters from Lost Countries, by G. Willow Wilson
6. The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye, by Robert Kirkman
7. I Kill Giants, by Joe Kelly
8. Identity Crisis, by Brad Meltzer
9. Air: Flying Machine, by G. Willow Wilson
10. 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, by Steve Niles
11. The Sandman: Brief Lives, by Neil Gaiman
12. The Walking Dead: Miles Behind Us, by Robert Kirkman
13. Bone: Old Man's Cave, by Jeff Smith
14. Bone: Ghost Circles, by Jeff Smith
15. The Walking Dead: Safety Behind Bars, by Robert Kirkman
16. American Widow, by Alissa Torres
17. Bone: Treasure Hunters, by Jeff Smith
18. Bone: Crown of Horns, by Jeff Smith
19. Ex Machina: Dirty Tricks, by Brian Vaughan
Sunday, February 21, 2010
January 2010 Reading
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Posted by Joe on Sunday, February 21, 2010
Labels: 2010
2 comments:
- Greyweather said...
Ah, I Kill Giants, good stuff.
What did you think of it?
- February 22, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Joe Sherry said...
Liked it. Took a bit to get into the story Kelly was telling, and even longer to realize what story Kelly was telling, but completely in retrospect, that's a beautiful story.
- February 22, 2010 at 9:26 PM
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On Friday I shall be attending, for the first time, Ladies' Day at the Epsom Derby. The Queen will be kicking off her Jubilee celebrations the next day at the Investee Derby race. And the travellers are in town with their fairground and caravans amassing. It seems horse racing bridges all sections of the social classes. The Epsom Derby reflects this with its Queen's Stand, the Grandstand enclosure, the Lonsdale enclosure and then the Upper Tattenham enclosure not forgetting the common land where everyone has the right to go for free. All priced differently or not at all.
My outfit for Friday is very much a reference to the sixties. I am avoiding the WAG (for want of a better label) look and avoiding a Middleton look too. Black Prada bowed kitten heels will be teamed with a blue vintage dress bought from Penny Dreadful Vintage and a red Christian Dior clutch. No fascinator nor a hat will grace my head as my hair will be in a beehive with a black ribbon around it. Jewellery will be minimal apart from a pair of tiny gold studs and this Elizabeth bracelet
I do have a plan B dress but it is fortunately a blue Moschino dress which still fits the 60s Mad Men vibe I wish to channel. My nail varnish is causing me my biggest headache as I can't choose between Chanel's 'Blue Boy' or 'May'.
But what if I were going to sit on the common ground by the travellers fair? What would I wear? In the midst of the current Celine style chic a gyspy look seems kind of rebellious and against the grain!
(image: IMDb)
My choice of nail colour as a gypsy would be Chanel 'Pirate' in recognition of Judy Garland who starred in The Pirate (1948)
This Tory Burch maxi skirt from Net-A-Porter (£370) is just the ticket for flouncing around and worn with a jacquard viscose top from Warehouse (£38) says free spirit. All that is need is a shawl, like this one from
M&S for £29.50 and these fringe hoop earrings £40 from Stella and Dot. Of course I would go bare foot...


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Networking Your Home Security System
There are many home networking security solutions available today through professional security companies such as ADT, Broadview Security (formerly Brinks), GE Security, and others. Alternatively, you may elect to go the do-it-yourself route with an inexpensive wireless or wired home networking kit that includes the following:
Motion sensors
Control panels
Key fobs
Wireless cameras
Many of these systems can be connected to your home network to provide remote monitoring capabilities for you when you're away from home.
An always-on DSL connection may potentially interfere with your alarm panel's internal modem, which uses analog phone lines. This interference may prevent the alarm panel from reliably communicating with the emergency response center.
Your alarm company can install a DSL line filter to prevent any interference. Although a DSL line filter is simple to install, you should let your alarm company provide and install the line filter to ensure it is installed correctly and that your alarm system continues to work properly.
At one time, alarm systems had to be connected to an analog phone line. These days, many have switched to broadband Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) phone services like Vonage or phone service from their cable company, and many more have switched to mobile-only voice services. In these cases, you're not going to have an analog phone line for alarm monitoring.
Luckily, many alarm monitoring services (for example, NextAlarm) are now offering monitoring services over broadband connections or even over cellular network connections. So don't feel like you need to keep an expensive extra landline that's only used for your alarm — you can switch to broadband.


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OCC Bulletin 2009-11| April 17, 2009
Other-than-Temporary Impairment Accounting: OCC Advisory on Financial Accounting Standards Board Changes
Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks, Department and Division Heads, All Examining Personnel, and Other Interested Parties
As of January 6, 2012, this guidance applies to federal savings associations in addition to national banks.
The purpose of this bulletin is to alert bankers and examiners to recent accounting guidance released by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on other-than-temporary impairment (OTTI). This bulletin provides a brief background of the accounting changes and discusses expectations for bank management when determining whether a security has an OTTI. This bulletin also highlights the effect of the accounting changes on regulatory capital requirements.
On April 9, 2009, the FASB released FASB Staff Position (FSP) FAS 115-2 and FAS 124-2, Recognition and Presentation of Other-Than-Temporary Impairments. This FSP amends the existing OTTI guidance in U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for debt securities to make the guidance more operational and to improve the presentation and disclosure of OTTI in the financial statements.
When a bank determines that an OTTI exists but does not intend to sell the debt security or it is more likely than not that the bank will not be required to sell the debt security prior to its anticipated recovery, the FSP changes the presentation and amount of the OTTI recognized in the statement of earnings. The OTTI will be separated into two parts:
- The amount of the total OTTI related to the credit loss on the debt security would be recognized in earnings (i.e., the credit component).
- The amount of the total OTTI related to all other factors would be recognized in other comprehensive income, net of applicable taxes (i.e., the non-credit component).
The FSP states that one way to estimate the credit component of the OTTI would be to consider the methodology described in paragraphs 12–16 of FASB Statement No. 114 (FAS 114), Accounting by Creditors for Impairment of a Loan. FAS 114 generally measures an impairment based on the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the effective interest rate. Other methodologies may be allowable if they represent reasonable measurements of credit impairment.
The FSP is effective for June 30, 2009, regulatory reports, with early adoption permitted for March 31, 2009, reports. The FASB also released FSP 157-4, Determining Fair Value When the Volume and Level of Activity for the Asset or Liability Have Significantly Decreased and Identifying Transactions That Are Not Orderly (FSP 157-4). FSP 157-4 provides additional guidance on determining fair value when the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability have significantly decreased. The FSPs on OTTI and fair value must be adopted concurrently.
The transition provisions for the FSP on OTTI require an entity to recognize the cumulative effect of initially applying the FSP as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings, with a corresponding adjustment to accumulated other comprehensive income. That is, for debt securities where OTTI has previously been recognized, the tax-effected amount of the total OTTI related to non-credit factors should be moved out of retained earnings and into accumulated other comprehensive income as of the adoption date. This amount is calculated by comparing the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected with the amortized cost basis. The amortized cost basis of a security for which an OTTI was previously recognized must also be adjusted by the amount of the cumulative effect adjustment before taxes.
The complete guidance on both FSPs is available on the FASB Website: http://www.fasb.org.
Regulatory Capital
The FSP on OTTI may also affect regulatory capital levels and ratios for banks reporting a non-credit component of OTTI. As a result of the FSP on OTTI, the non-credit component of OTTI on debt securities (classified as available-for-sale or held-to-maturity) will now flow through other comprehensive income (OCI), which will not reduce bank earnings. Under existing regulatory capital requirements, the portion of OTTI for debt securities that flows through OCI will not affect bank Tier 1 capital1 . See the March 31, 2009, supplemental call report instructions for additional reporting details.
Responsibilities of Management
Bank management is responsible for assuring that regulatory reports are accurate at each reporting date and consistent with GAAP. Bank management should update its policies and practices in accordance with the FSPs and maintain appropriate documentation to support their fair value measurements and OTTI assessments. This process should incorporate the relevant accounting guidance for each type of security. As such, bank management must understand the underlying characteristics of securities they hold and the market factors affecting the fair value of the investment. Bank management should have policies to identify and assess securities for OTTI on an instrument-level basis, and should perform the assessments on at least a quarterly basis.
For those securities with fair value less than cost, bank management should have documentation to support whether that impairment is temporary or other than temporary. The longer the security has been impaired and the greater the decline in value, the more robust the documentation should be to support a conclusion of only temporary impairment. Further, the bank's policies and internal controls should clearly address the methodology used on debt securities for the ongoing assessment of credit and non-credit components of OTTI, as well as the cumulative effect adjustment (e.g., processes used, key assumptions, sources validating key assumptions). In all instances, the determination of the credit component should include a careful assessment of all changes in underlying cash flows. For structured investments, a diligent evaluation of the underlying assets should be incorporated. The bank's methodology and process for assessing securities for OTTI and for determining the credit and non-credit components of OTTI should be periodically reviewed and validated by a party who is independent of the bank's investment management processes. This independent review could be performed by the bank's internal audit staff, a risk management unit of the institution, an external auditor (subject to applicable auditor independence standards), or another contracted third party from outside the institution.
Responsibilities of Examiners
Through the supervisory process, examiners should review the bank's policies and practices governing the fair value measurements and OTTI assessments and the presentation in the regulatory reports. The examiner should also review the bank's documentation for the cumulative effect adjustment required at adoption. The level and depth of examiner reviews should reflect the overall size, condition, and complexity of the investment portfolio, as well as the potential for unrecognized OTTI.
Further Information
You may direct questions regarding this bulletin to Jacob Cooper, Professional Accounting Fellow, Office of the Chief Accountant, at (202) 649-6280; John Vivian, Balance Sheet Risk Specialist, Credit and Market Risk, at (202) 649-6360; or Mark Ginsberg, Risk Expert, Capital Policy, at (202) 649-6370.
Timothy W. Long
Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy
and Chief National Bank Examiner
* References in this guidance to national banks or banks generally should be read to include federal savings associations (FSA). If statutes, regulations, or other OCC guidance is referenced herein, please consult those sources to determine applicability to FSAs. If you have questions about how to apply this guidance, please contact your OCC supervisory office.
1 See also 12 CFR Part 3, App. A, Sec. 2(a)


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In the launchpad website it is mentioned that the version in the repositories is hopelessly outdated (by two years, even in the oncoming october release). I was trying to install TeXLive 2011 (in Ubuntu) and succesfully followed all the instructions given in the linked blog.
However, when I make a tex file containing the header
\usetikzlibrary{calc,through, intersections,decorations.text}
I think it is not able to load the package. I get the error message
! I can't find file `tikzlibrary'.
I am wondering this was probably because of the final statement in the aforementioned blog
That should be that. Remember that ktikz needs to load up the PGF packages you want to use. Common ones for me are loaded as follows:
\usetikzlibrary{calc,through, intersections,decorations.text, decorations.pathreplacing}
I didn't really understand what this meant, so I presumed he meant to add this as the header to the latex file, as normal. Apparently, that is not the case.
Could someone tell me how to get my installation to work? How do I load up the packages I want to use?
Additional info: I added the following files to my .bashrc (and even .profile)
cat >> ./.bashrc << "EOF"
PATH= /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/:$PATH
export PATH MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/:$MANPATH
export MANPATH export INFOPATH
When I do a
which pdflatex I get
/usr/bin/pdflatex while it should tell me something like
Disclaimer: This code is not mine. I am just testing to see if TikZ works.
\usetikzlibrary{calc,through, intersections,decorations.text}
\begin{tikzpicture} [scale=3]
\clip (-1.5,-1.5) rectangle (1.5,1.5);
\coordinate (A) at (0,0);
\coordinate (B) at (1,0);
\node [blue, name path=blue_circle,draw,circle through=(B)] at (A) {};
\draw [black, fill] (A) circle (1pt) node [below] {\tiny centre};
\draw [red, dashed] (A) -- (B);
\path [name path=radius, rotate=\myangle] (A) -- ++(1.5,0);
\draw [red, ->] ($(A)+(0.5,0)$) arc (0:\myangle:0.5cm);
\path [decorate,decoration={raise=-5pt, text along path, text={|\tiny|angle ||}, text align=center, text color=red, reverse path}](0.5,0) arc (0:\myangle:0.5cm);
\draw [name intersections={of=blue_circle and radius, by=C}] [orange, ->] (A) -- (C) node [pos=0.7, sloped, above] {\tiny radius};


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January 31, 2010
My Sweats are Categorized
I am having one of those days where I'd like to call in sick for my mommy gig. My kids are even being good- so I can't figure it out. It's one of those days where I think if I hear: "Mom. Mom. Moooooommmmmmm!" one more time I may just blow a gasket. I have considered changing my name to djsaifdjdsi or some other thing that the kids can't pronounce and thus repeat a million times a day, but I don't think the idea would catch on. It's one of those days where I look at the pile of laundry that needs to be folded and put away and it just makes me want to puke. One of those days where I've already run the dishwasher twice and there are still dirty dishes in the sink. One of those days where I opened up the washing machine and realized that I washed a pull-up and 3 popsicle sticks. One of those days where hubby thinks that Sunday is perfect for sitting around and watching sports while I frantically play catch-up!
Don't get me wrong- I LOVE being a mom- but dude- some days I just get all the way burned out. Like somebody smoked me all the way down to the filter. Yep- I realize how blessed I am to be able to be a stay-at-home mom. This is not intended to be a working mom-vs- stay-at-home mom rant. Because, oh my gosh, I've tried both and they are both hard in very different ways. And they are both great! To each his own. I think at the heart of it, every mom just needs to do what feels right for her family. No matter which way you go, moms are heroes, blah, blah, blah.
But last night, I reached a new low in my mommy hood. We've been doing some painting projects. I have been trying to hurry up and get lots of home projects done before baby boy comes home. My dad said last night that it was kind of silly because Miles isn't going to realize if the house has a new coat of paint or not. I totally know this- but my thinking is that there were tons of things to be done and it's easier to do it now before I have another baby attached to my hip.
So anyway- I had just gone to Lowe's to get another gallon of paint. I went in my baseball cap and sweats and just said a prayer as I walked across the parking lot that I wouldn't run into anybody that I knew (PLEASE God- is that too much to ask?!) When I got home and got ready to paint, the following thought ran across my mind:
"I guess before I paint I need to take off my nice sweat pants and put on my gross sweat pants."
OH NO! I have become one of those women who has classifications of sweat pants! When did this happen to me? How can I fix it? Maybe the easiest fix would be to own more than one pair of jeans. Or go with the ever popular yoga pants(even though God knows it's been a loooong time since I've done actual yoga.) And then I took a good long look at myself in the mirror and realized that my eyebrows haven't been plucked in a coon's age and now look like woolly worms attached to my forehead. And I found 3 gray hairs last week. And those 20 pounds I've been meaning to lose are still hanging out on my thighs. And things that used to not droop are now resting somewhere around my belly button! And the bags under my eyes are so bad I look like I have on Halloween makeup. I'm sure it's nothing a little sleep, some wax and a shower can't cure, but OMG- it scared the bejeezus out of me!!
Either way- this new low in self image has me in a mommy funk today. Maybe there needs to be a little margarita therapy in my future? Or a nap? Or a hot bath? Or a chocolate cake? Or an hour of solitude? Or...
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