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The Bulls let a 13-point lead slip away Sunday night on home turf for a 102-93 loss in Game 1 of the first-round matchup against the Wizards.
"We're not happy with the result tonight, a disappointing loss at home in front of the home crowd," Bulls center Joakim Noah said. "But we'll bounce back."
The Bulls will get that chance Tuesday when the two teams meet again at the United Center. This series marks the third time the Bulls have faced Washington in the playoffs. The first was in 1997 when the Bulls swept them and went on to win their fifth championship title. The other time was in 2005 with the getting Bulls knocked out in the first round in six games.
In Sunday's game, the two teams were neck and neck for at least the first three quarters.
"The third quarter, we did some good things to get that lead," coach Tom Thibodeau said. "If you let your guard down...the lead was gone very quickly."
In the fourth quarter, the Wizards scored 30 points - nearly double the points than the Bulls' 18 points that quarter.
"We just missed shots," Bulls forward Jimmy Butler said. "We can't let them get as many offensive rebounds. All our mistakes that we made tonight are correctable."
While Washington out-rebounded Chicago, the Bulls were able to shut down guards John Wall and Bradley Beal to 7 of 25 combined shots.
"We just didn't keep the intensity up. They got some momentum and that really hurt," Taj Gibson said.
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Make Zante your next holiday. The southernmost of the Ionian island chain, it's cooler, greener and breezier than the Aegean side of Greece but still has the same white sunshine and blue waters.
With its great beaches and dramatic coastline, Zante is the perfect destination for families, couples or friends away for the summer. There are mountains of startlingly white limestone under green trees, rocks riddled with caves and coves, a fiercely blue sea and a beautifully warm sun. The north has picturesque mountain towns, hillside walks and the famous Navagio Beach, only accessible by boat. The southwest has the town of Zante, with beautiful churches and traditional tavernas. Live music, if you can catch it, spills out of the bars. There are plenty of beaches and the Vasilikos peninsula alone has five spectacular ones. Book flights to Zante and get in the sea as soon as you can.
Vasilikos peninsula boasts five great beaches. Choose Banana Beach, with white sand, shallow sea and bar service to your lounger. Or visit the nesting site at Gerakas, where year after year, rare loggerhead turtles choose to lay their eggs. Set back from the beautiful, protected beach, plenty of shops and bars add to the bustle of the bay.
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I recently conducted my first-ever client roundtable meeting. In my most recent blog, I wrote about the process of the meeting. In this post, I will discuss the results of the meeting as revealed from a survey questionnaire which was presented to each attendee. I'll also share a few comments which, I hope, may help you in your endeavors as an independent advisor.
In all of the following, the rankings ranged from 1 (not important) to 5 (very important).
Existing or Potential New Services
Part of the evening was spent asking clients to rank some existing and/or possible new services.
Here are the results:
Financial Planning 5.0
Financial Planning Updates 4.9
Identity Theft Protection 3.6
Holding Annual Family Meetings 3.3
Resolving IRS Issues 3.1
Recommending Debt Reduction
Strategies 3.1
Backing Up their Computers'
Hard Drives 3.0
Coordinating With
Other Professionals 2.8
Helping with their Social Security
Retirement dDecision 2.8
Shopping for the Best Loan Deals 2.6
Other potential services mentioned <2.5
Before I disclose the rest of the survey, some of you may be wondering why I am deviating so far from the traditional asset management services. I tell prospective clients that I am not your typical advisor. I'm really trying to position myself as the guy who takes a comprehensive approach to wealth management. Why identity theft protection, for example? Because having your identity
stolen is a threat to someone's wealth and I can offer clients a significant discount through a national service.
Qualities of an Advisor
Another part of the survey asked clients to rank the qualities they valued in an advisor using the same 1 (not valued) to 5 (most highly valued) ranking. Here are the results
Experience 5.0
Honesty 5.0
Explain Things Clearly 4.8
Stay Knowledgeable
And Current 4.8
Easy to Work With 4.4
Willing to Spend Ample Time 4.4
Meet on a Regular Basis 4.3
Willing and Able to
Educate Them 4.0
Me and My Business
Another part of the survey asked clients to rank certain aspects about me or my business model. Here are the results:
My Accessibility 5.0
My Business Model* 4.4
My Designations 3.9
My Monthly Newsletter 3.8
*I intentionally work with a smaller number of clients so I can provide a higher level of service
Areas of Financial Planning Analysis
Here are the results:
Annual Net Worth Statements 4.8
Net Worth Projections 4.8
Determining Their Critical
Capital Required 4.8
Determining Their Probability
of Running Out of Money 4.7
Determining Their Required
Rate of Return 4.3
Determining the Probability of
Negative Investment Returns 4.1
There was a little more data to share, but we'll leave it there until next time.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!


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Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!
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Music for People is one of the most extraordinary organizations I've ever encountered; what makes it so extraordinary is that there's a clear sense of mission. However stated, there's a shared sense of purpose among MfPers, supporting each other in self-expression and interpersonal connection through improvised music in a humanistic (i.e., supportive and nonjudgmental) environment.
I started improvising on my own, as a form of emotional release and catharsis (hmm, is that redundant?). I quickly discovered the recordings of the improvising cellist David Darling, co-founder and artistic director of Music for People, and then went to a week-long summer workshop (in 1993, I think) called "Improvising Chamber Music." I was scared to death that while I could improvise on my own, I wouldn't be able to improvise music that made any sense in an ensemble with others.
David is, in my opinion, a true genius at leading workshops that create a space for people to find themselves musically and to musically interract with others. While I'd found my own improvisational voice before I encountered David and MfP, the workshop was a revalation. It changed my life, for I saw how humanistic, self-expressive improvisation can be used for healing, growth, bringing people together, and making music in a deeply satisfying process. What I learned in that workshop, and many subsequent ones (including the MfP facilitator-training program), has had more impact on my teaching than anything else in my life. And I believe that in encouraging students to improvise and introducing them to the Music for People philosophy, summed up in a Bill of Musical Rights, is where I've made the greatest difference in the lives of the students I've worked with.
Music for People workshops, whether led by David and/or the current staff, or by independent certified facilitators (like me) who can be found throughout the U.S. (and other parts of the world) are a great place to start improvising, and expecially to get support, encouragement and inspiration.
The MfP Bill of Musical Rights:
- Human beings need to express themselves daily in a way that invites physical and emotional release.
- Musical self-expression is a joyful and healthy means of communication available to absolutely everyone.
- There are as many different ways to make music as there are people.
- The human voice is the most natural and powerful vehicle for musical self-expression. The differences in our voices add richness and depth to music.
- Sincerely expressed emotion is at the root of meaningful musical expression.
- Your music is more authentically expressed when your body is involved in your musical expression.
- The European tradition of music is only one sound. All other cultures and traditions deserve equal attention.
- Any combination of people and instruments can make music together.
- There are no "unmusical" people, only those with no musical experience.
- Music improvisation is a unique and positive way to build skills for life-expression.
- In improvisation as in life, we must be responsible for the vibrations we send one another.
A great resource for improvisers, whether experienced or just starting, is the MfP handbook, Return to Child. It started out as rather short booklet, principally authored by the other cofounder of MfP, Bonnie Insull. Over the years it has been expaned and updated by the insightful and articulate Jim Oshinsky, whose passion for the work of MfP is matched only by his observational powers and ability to analyze and articulate the multiple levels of communication, group dynamics, and leadership found in MfP.


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Residents in two rural farming communities in the Grampians are in for a sleepless night as winds threaten to push a blaze onto private property.
About 50 firefighters will work through the night attempting to protect homes in Glenisla and Cherrypool from the 25,000-hectare blaze which broke control lines on Thursday afternoon.
A CFA spokeswoman said the fire wasn't "raging" but the potential for winds to pick up meant the towns were under threat.
Both areas are sparsely populated farming communities.
The fire was about 10km from Cherrypool on Thursday night and the CFA warned winds up to 60km/h forecast for Friday morning could add to residents' woes.
Victoria's Fire Services Commissioner Craig Lapsley said the bushfire would be a major concern for firefighters this weekend.
"It's a very aggressive fire and the communities in that area have had fire that's come out of the bush and burnt private land," Mr Lapsley said.
"We saved houses and did extremely well with helicopters, bulldozers and firetrucks working together."
He implored people to remain fire-conscious as continued hot weather and a lack of rain meant the fire season would last into next month.
"We don't see any rain of any significance for the next two or three weeks and that means we have a fire risk that will stay all of February and into early March," Mr Lapsley said.
He said the busy fire season had been fatiguing for firefighters.
"It's a long haul," he said.
"We still want people to be focused on fire, understand what fire means, and not drop the ball at the end of the season when we've only got a few weeks to go."


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The glass for water of All-Time series, designed by Guido Venturini, is ideal for every table. The rounded shapes and the thin thickness of the crystalline glass make it perfect for tasting different drinks aside from water.
Born at Alfonsine in 1957. Architect, designer and explorer in the field of industrial design, interior design and architecture. In 1985 he and Stefano Giovannoni founded the Bolidist group and set up King-Kong Productions. He has taught at Domus Academy and at Florence Faculty of Architecture. Music is his greatest passion and source of inspiration.


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ST. LOUIS, MO. (KTVI) – A letter sent by a little girl to her grandmother didn't have any postage or even a name on the envelope. Yet it still got delivered to Utah thanks to the Postal Service.
Valerie Welsch, with the U.S. Postal Service, says, "I think that somebody probably figured out it was a child writing and went ahead and let it go through from the goodness of their heart."
From St. Louis to Salt Lake City, with no name and no postage.
Katrina Jensen, who wrote the letter, is happy the letter made it saying, " I was surprised and I feel like something. So I feel like a rock star."
Katrina has hearing trouble, and her parents move her to St. Louis so she could attend the Central Institute For The Deaf. But that took her away from Grandma.
Welsch says the post office always gets the job done, "Rain, sleet, snow and for Grandma's sometime. For Grandmas sometimes, right."
And Katrina says she'll continue writing letters, only next time she'll remember something important: the stamp.


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A Mars rover is an automated motor vehicle which propels itself across the surface of the planet Mars after landing.
Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers: they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months and they can advance the knowledge of how to perform very remote robotic vehicle control.
There have been three successful Mars rovers, all of which were robotically operated. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed the Mars Pathfinder mission with its Sojourner rover and currently manages the Mars Exploration Rover Mission with its two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. (There have also been two successful non-Martian robotic rovers: in the 1970s the USSR sent two Lunokhod rovers to the Moon.)


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'Project Runway' Gets Rebooted with Karlie Kloss & Christian Siriano
"Project Runway" will turn to airwaves sometime in 2019 and though it will return to its original network, Bravo, the competition show is getting a major new look.
Last month it was announced host Heidi Klum and mentor Tim Gunn were leaving "Project Runway" to launch their own project with Amazon Studios. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the show has found its new host and new mentor for Season 17.
Model Karlie Kloss will take over Klum's hosting duties while "Project Runway" winner and fashion designer Christian Soriano will fill Gunn's fabulous shoes.
Elle editor-in-chief Nina Garcia, who has been with the show since 2004 and appeared on the the seasons when "Project Runway" moved to Lifetime, will return as a judge. She'll be offering her sharp critiques alongside new judges designer Brandon Maxwell and journalist/former Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Elaine Welteroth.
"As someone who grew up watching Project Runway, I could not be more excited to host and produce a series that provides a platform to aspiring American designers as they pursue their creative and entrepreneurial dreams," Kloss said in a statement to EW. "I am equally as thrilled to work alongside an incredibly talented group of fashion innovators — Brandon Maxwell, Elaine Welteroth, Nina Garcia, and Christian Siriano — to inspire, support and help guide these designers as they realize their visions and build everlasting brands and businesses."
Siriano added: "Project Runway has offered such wonderful opportunities for so many and I'm excited to take on this role as a mentor. I hope to guide and inspire the new talent on the rise."


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2 Finnish aid workers killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire and killed two Finnish women aid workers in the western Afghan city of Herat on Thursday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks on foreign civilians that has rattled aid workers, contractors and journalists.
The two women were riding in a taxi when they were shot dead, said Sami Wafa, the chief of staff of the Herat governor. Herat police spokesman Raouf Ahmadi said the taxi driver had been detained as part of the investigation.
Finland's Foreign Ministry confirmed two Finnish citizens died in Afghanistan on Thursday. Spokesman Keijo Norvanto said the two worked for the International Assistance Mission, an aid group which has been operating in Afghanistan since 1966. The organization could not immediately be reached for comment.
Afghan medical workers move the dead body of a foreign female aid worker who was employed by the International Assistance Mission, in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Officials said two Finnish women were riding in a taxi when they were shot dead by two men on a motorcycle. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)
"We are faced with a great tragedy," Finland's Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said in a statement. "Finland requires that a thorough investigation be conducted to bring those guilty to justice. Finland must also reassess the security situation in Afghanistan."
The ministry said it has previously funded IAM's operations and that the aid organization has also received funding from Norway and Sweden.
Militants carry out near-daily attacks in Afghanistan, usually targeting security forces, which have struggled to secure the country as foreign troops have been gradually withdrawn. Most foreign combat forces are due to exit Afghanistan by the end of the year.
As international troops withdraw, civilian workers increasingly fear they are considered prime targets by militants. Some are rethinking their safety — and even if they will stay.
Meanwhile, NATO troops said two of its service members were killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan on Thursday. The U.S.-led alliance provided no other details. Coalition policy is for home countries to identify their military dead.
Earlier on Thursday, a bombing in a market in northern Afghanistan killed six people, including a young girl, while a separate attack in the east killed a local police commander and his bodyguard, officials said.
The attack in the market was aimed at a police car but the police escaped unharmed, said Sonatullah Timor, the spokesman for the Takhar provincial government. The bomb, which was placed on a motorcycle, wounded 26 people, including children, he said.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack, but Taliban insurgents frequently target the country's security forces.
In a separate incident, a suicide bomber detonated his payload at a checkpoint in the eastern Nangarhar province, killing a local police commander and his bodyguard, according to police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashraqiwal. He said the bomber shook hands with the commander before the explosion. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a media statement.
Associated Press writers Jari Tanner in Helsinki, Finland, and Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, contributed to this report.
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Jayr73 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 197 diseños de 68 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a new company looking to create an international brand based on a top Beverly Hills Doctor (orthopedic surgeon) and a celebrity trainer teaming up and creating/promoting products (videos, protein bars/cookies) geared towards helping kids, parents and adults maintaining and sustaining a healthy lifestyle.
Our product line will initially consist of:
- healthy cookie targeted towards to parents and kids
- nutritional bars targeted towads all age groups
- exercise videos targeted towards kids, parents, and adults
We want to have broad appeal as the target audience is geared towards towards parents and their kids as well as adults. The design has to be an attention grabber as it will be displayed prominantly on all packaging. Given the competition in the market and on the shelves it has to grab the attention of both the parents and the kids who are shopping.
We are looking for a logo represent our brand. The logo will be on the website and any packaging for the products we are producing. As the space on the bar and the cookie is limited the logo has to be not overly complicated/busy. The typeface should be clear, simple and bold. We want something that stands out. BHB is one acronym that we are looking to incorporate.
Please feel free to experiment with colors!
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
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Inspired by conversations on the FOOD52 Hotline, we're sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun. Today, we're mastering the art of layer cakes.
Have you ever considered buying a pre-made layer cake and pretending you made it? Or maybe you've just written off making them altogether, explaining that you're just "not a baker." We've seen this behavior before, and we're here to tell you that you can do better. And that layer cakes are easier than you think. We asked our friend Dana Loia, owner of Dana's Bakery, to give us a step-by-step tutorial. Now you can have your (perfect) layer cake and eat it, too.
If you've got any other tricks for mastering layer cakes, let us know in the comments!
Setting Yourself Up for Success: Line two round cake pans of equal size with parchment paper. Butter and dust them with flour, and gently tap out any excess flour. This process, which may seem tedious, will keep your cakes from sticking to the pan and crushing your dreams.
Making the Cake: Follow the instructions for whatever cake recipe you are making (we like this one), and divide the batter evenly between the two pans. Give them a little tap on the counter to remove any air bubbles and pop the pans in the oven (which you heated already, right?). When the cakes are done, remove them from the oven and let them cool to room temp.
Removing the Cakes from Their Pans: First, take a deep breath. No need to freak out -- it's just cake. Then, using a small offset spatula or a paring knife, glide it around the sides of the cake to loosen any sticky or stubborn batter from the pan. Wrap a cardboard cake round the size of your pans in plastic wrap and place it on the top of the cake. With one hand on either side, flip the cake pan over and gently tap one side so the cake loosens and slips right out of the pan -- don't worry, it won't break that easily! If you're having trouble getting the cake out, put the pan in the freezer for 10 minutes, then try again. Repeat with the second cake.
Chilling Out: Once the cakes have been freed from their pans, place them on a sheet tray or large plate and put them back in the fridge for at least an hour. Chilling the cakes will help prevent breakage and excess crumbling when you cut them into layers. You can also do this the night before and let the cakes chill overnight -- just make sure to wrap them in plastic so they don't go stale.
Cutting the Cake: With a serrated knife, gently cut the dome off the top of each layer. When cutting your cakes, make sure to keep the knife flat -- any angle will result in an uneven layer. Take your handy, plastic wrapped cake round and place it on top of the cake and FLIP! Remove the parchment paper if its still on the cake, and ta-da! The bottom of the cake is now the top, and it's smooth and flat and amazingly even.
Making the Layers: Hold the serrated knife in your dominant hand and place your knife on the side wall, halfway up the cake. With one hand flat on the top, and your dominant hand holding the serrated knife flat, flat, flat, slowly saw back and forth while turning the cake clockwise with your other hand. Make sure your cake-turning hand is on the top of the cake, avoiding the possibility of the serrated knife coming through the other side and cutting your hand. Trust me, that hurts.
Take a deep breath, you're doing great!
Assembly (Or, You're Almost There!): Put a dab of icing in the middle of a cake round and place layer one on top. This dab of icing acts like glue, keeping the layer on the cake board. This is now your bottom layer and it's a great place to hide an ugly layer if you had any trouble with your serrated knife. Place a dollop of buttercream or whatever frosting your recipe calls for in the center of that layer. Using an offset spatula at a slight angle, work the icing from center to ends using a half-circle motion. Do this until the icing is in an even layer and coming over the sides.
Once the icing is evenly distributed, place new layer on top, and repeat.
If you have a "loose" filling like a jam, custard or curd, pipe a line of buttercream around the inside edge of the layer and fill it with the loose filling. This buttercream barrier prevents the filling from oozing out the sides.
Now that you've got the hang of it, assemble all of your layers and make sure to place the flattest layer on the top with the bottom of the cake turned upside down so that the bottom is now the top of the cake.
The Magical Crumb Coat: Apply a thin layer of icing on the top and sides of the cake with an offset spatula. It should be very thin, just enough to capture all the crumbs, not thick enough to hide the cake underneath. Once you've crumb-coated the cake, place it back in the fridge for another hour. (Good things come to those who wait!)
Time to Ice: With a silicone spatula (or a spoon), place a large dollop of icing on the top of the cake. Evenly smooth the icing over the top of the cake with your trusty offset spatula until you are just over the edge. Next, place a small amount of icing on the side wall of the cake and spread it evenly from bottom to top turning the cake towards you.
Once the sides are covered, clean your spatula of excess icing and do a once-over to smooth and fill in any uneven areas.
You can add goodies to the side of the cake to hide any imperfections, too -- try toasted coconut or nuts, sprinkles or cocoa nibs.
Finishing Touch: If you want that smooth, professional bakery look, take a container deep enough to cover the metal part of your offset spatula and fill it with hot water. Grab a paper towel (any towel will do, but I prefer paper towels because they don't leave any leftover "fuzzies"), and dip your magic wand offset spatula into the hot water and wipe off excess water with the towel.
While the metal of the spatula is still hot, gently smooth the blade over the top of your cake at a 45º angle. Like magic, you will see all the lines disappear and will be left with a shiny flat, almost-too-perfect surface. Make sure not to press too hard or you will remove too much icing and need to backtrack to fix it! Continue to do this along the sides until the cake is complete, cleaning and reheating your spatula between strokes.
And remember: practice makes perfect, so make these often!
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Joy Melnikow © UC Regents
As outlined in a paper published in Value in Health, the analysis focused on several policy questions, including the effect on EWC program costs and outcomes of starting screening at age 50 years instead of 40 and of screening every two years instead of every year. The study was conducted in response to recent government funding cutbacks.
"This was not a clinical recommendation, but rather was intended to help a public health program use its resources to the greatest effectiveness," said lead author Joy Melnikow, director of the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research.
EWC, administered through the California Department of Public Health Cancer Detection Section, is one of the largest of 68 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded programs across the country. It reimburses providers at Medi-Cal rates (Medi-Cal is the California version of Medicaid) for screening and diagnostic services for breast and cervical cancers. It provides services to women who are not eligible for Medi-Cal, who otherwise lack coverage for breast and cervical cancer screening, and whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty threshold.
The study, conducted by UC Davis and EWC researchers, was based on a sophisticated microsimulation model that projected outcomes based on existing program data. It found that starting mammography screening biennially at age 50 was strongly supported by the model results, given that program funding did not allow screening of the full population of eligible women beginning at age 40.
"Because breast cancer incidence goes up with age, using program funds to screen all eligible women over age 50 will have a greater impact on reducing breast cancer deaths," said Melnikow. "The goal was to advise a public health program in a timeframe that could be helpful, given that cost-effectiveness analysis typically takes a long time to conduct — often too long to be of use in a quickly changing policy environment."
The United States Preventive Services Task Force, a government medical task force, in 2009 recommended the same changes in breast cancer screening guidelines, suggesting that most women should not begin getting routine mammograms until age 50, and then only once every two years.
"The task force was asking a different question," explains Melnikow, who became a member of the task force after the breast cancer screening recommendations vote. "In that case, cost-effectiveness and policy weren't factors. Instead, the Task Force looked at recommendations for screening of women exclusively from a clinical point of view."
Melnikow, a UC Davis professor of Family and Community medicine, points out that the EWC analysis has implications for other budget-constrained public programs around the country.
"This study is important for administrators who are doing their best to run public health programs with limited resources. We found that, although it can be challenging, it is by no means impossible to create carefully constructed cost-effectiveness analysis models quickly enough to be useful to programs and policy makers as they render important resource allocation decisions."
Other study authors were Daniel J. Tancredi, Zhuo Yang, Dominique Ritley, Yun Jiang and Christina Slee, all of the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, UC Davis; and Svetlana Popova, Phillip Rylett, Kirsten Knutson and Sherie Smalley, of the Every Woman Counts program, Cancer Detection Section.
Funding for the study was provided by the California Program on Access to Care , UC Berkeley School of Public Health in cooperation with the UC Office of the President.
The Center for Health Policy Research conducts research on health-care access, delivery, costs, outcomes and related health policy to improve the organization, quality and effectiveness of the practice of medicine, especially primary care. The center is a resource for the university and health system on comparative effectiveness research. Center faculty conduct original research, offer consulting services to agencies in both public and private sectors, and provide research training to fellows, graduate students and junior faculty. Established as an interdisciplinary unit, the center includes more than 80 health-care researchers who represent disciplines ranging from business management and psychiatry to preventive medicine, epidemiology and statistics. For more information, visit http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/chpr.


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Hi Everyone!
Thank you for visiting our page, and your gracious support of this project! We are currently closing in on 5 days left to raise our total goal of $25,000 to produce this feature documentary film about the life of Jens Pulver!
I am deeply grateful for all the contributions that have brought us this far. In these final days I truly need your help, more than ever, either via contribution, or spreading the word about this campaign to all your friends, family, internet communities, fellow MMA, and film loving fans, alike! I know this goal is attainable, we've come this far, and Jens's story is absolutely worth telling.
In a recent radio interview, Jens divulged his thoughts on the film:
"To me, if this film can reach just one kid, who is living through abuse, and it can open his or her eyes to the fact that there is more to this life, prompting them to put on some wrestling shoes, or pick up a football, or basketball, or to write a song, or paint a picture, whatever it is that is their thing...if it can help them recognize that their dreams are worthwhile, should be held onto, and with perseverance, dedication, and hard work, can absolutely be achieved, well, that's what it's all about."
I share this sentiment, and this hope for the film. Thank you for joining with me in making it happen!
The first chapter in Jens Pulver's autobiography, "Little Evil, One Ultimate Fighter's Rise to the Top", is titled Day of the Gun. It begins like this:
"When I was seven years old, my father decided that he no longer wanted children. On a cloudy Seattle afternoon, he grabbed my two younger brothers and me by the collars of our shirts and hauled us into the living room. After lining us up in a little row by the fireplace, he stumbled into the kitchen to fetch his shotgun."
Named after the father that would torment his youth, Jens, from that horrible day forward, has fought to change exactly what it means to be a Pulver. That fight led him all the way to the UFC as a three time World Champion.
I recently had the good fortune to meet Jens, a casually unassuming guy, with a quick smile and big heart that has endured many battles to become the man he is today: a loving father, husband, and mentor. And, now (at age 34, and after four straight losses), he is facing a new battle as he sets off on a journey to return to the cage, free from the demons of his past, to take what may be his final shot at once again becoming a champion.
He is determined to come out on top, and I am determined to capture every moment of this journey.
Jens is set to fight on March 6, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio. To ensure that I can film the entire lead up to the fight, (his training, his day to day family life, any wrenches that get thrown into the mix), and join Jens in Ohio, I am seeking to raise $25,000 in just 20 days.
These funds will be used to secure additional the additional gear, and people I need for production. Specifically additional HD Camera, lighting, and sound recording packages, as well as to cover insurance costs, and all the costs of (transportation, lodging, etc.) associated with bringing the crew to the fight in Ohio, and our continuing production after the fight, that will take us to Seattle, Ohio, and California to conduct interviews with those close to Jens, and who have helped him along the way.
While this doesn't represent the entire scope or budget of the film, it is the most pressing financial need as I hope to capture this story as it unfolds.
In the end, I will shape a feature length documentary that follows this journey through to its end, while probing Jens's early life, his rise as a mixed martial artists, and the art of fighting itself.
Why this film, and why Jens?
I am new to MMA, but completely fascinated by it, and by the artistry, discipline, and intellect of these professional fighters. I also have a pretty voracious curiosity to understand how things work, and this curiosity drives my filmmaking. So, it was after just one meeting, that I knew I had to make this film with Jens. He is a completely engaging personality, the very definition of a 'fighter', and the perfect introduction to this world I am seeking to understand, and share on screen. After reading his book, it also became very clear to me that he represented our collective American psyche of right now.
Many people out there are feeling beaten, bruised, and battered. They are carrying a heavy burden, feeling alone, and in many cases...are losing hope. But, across the board, deep down, there is that spark, that drive, that need to overcome, to succeed, to conquer. We are all fighting for something. Whether we're fighting against our pasts, fighting for a better future, fighting for what is right, in our families, our communities, and our country, or fighting to simply stay alive, we share in this universal human struggle. Jens's life story has run this entire gamut, and reflects this need to overcome adversity at all costs.
His story has inspired so many, and I feel deeply privileged to be the one to tell it.
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With warm regards, I thank you...
Gregory Bayne
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Ya Can't Fix Stupid
As the enemy begins yet another chapter in its century-long battle against awful, I can't help but reflect on the one-and-done tenure of Mr. Mike Quade. I will not question the hearty baseball acumen of the man; he's been around this long, so he must know something. But a leader of men he is not.
For me, his ascendancy of idiocy became relevant when his unruly, wild and uncontainable club donned t-shirts at Wrigley during batting practice that said "F**k the Goat" in big red letters across the back. When later asked about the "goat", Quade said he had never even heard of the curse of the billy goat, that to him, it was just a restaurant.
I was never able to determine whether his supreme stupidity was a) that he really hadn't heard of it or b) that he had, and he was just stupid enough to think we would actually believe him.
Either way, STUPID.
I'm not saying leaders of men need to know everything there is to know about anything and everything, but they certainly do need to surround themselves with people who are informed on myriad subjects, and they must also have enough tact to know when they're stepping into a great big pile of nast.
So if the sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain and his playfully flippant response to them haven't deterred you from considering him as a presidential candidate, hopefully this video will:
This cannot happen, people. This man cannot be seriously considered for the presidency. The Republicans are in deep shizz. And they know it. It's just too bad that the answer to their problems is right there, continuously ignored, continuously shut out.
It makes me very, very sad.
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OROVILLE >> Testimony began Friday in the trial of an Oroville developer charged with 24 counts of child sex abuse.
Video consisted of a large part of Friday's presentation in Butte County Superior Court, including defendant Christopher Stephen Carter's initial interview with police and several surveillance video clips that reportedly depicted the defendant engaged in activity with a minor female, 17 years old at the time in June 2011.
Carter, 46, is charged with continuous sexual abuse of the girl from 1999 until she turned 14 in 2007. He also faces charges of sexual penetration with a foreign object, oral copulation, forcible rape and unlawful sexual intercourse.
Carter also faces a count of poisoning by mingling a harmful substance with an older female's food.
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She said witnesses will testify that Carter was always near the girl, now 20, and he would contact her when he wasn't.
The prosecutor said the defense is focused on the older female, but she told the jury the case is about the younger female.
"This case is about a girl who survived 11 years of sexual abuse at the hands of [Carter]," Dupre-Tokos said.
Defense attorney Jesse Santana took about 30 minutes to preview the defense's case. He said he would ask for a guilty misdemeanor verdict for Carter's alleged conduct when the girl was 17, but for the jury to find the defendant not guilty of all felonies.
He said the matter is very much about the older female.
Santana said older female told police she was concerned about Carter poisoning her food because of she suffered forgetfulness and other symptoms, but the attorney said they could have been caused by her own medication.
He also said the woman had access to the safe where Carter kept temazepam prescription sleeping pills. The woman also kept allegedly tainted food items in her possession for days before having them tested.
The woman also set up the surveillance camera system. Santana noted that there was no footage of the alleged poisoning.
Regarding the allegations involving the younger female, Santana said Carter and the girl became good friends. By the end of the girl's senior year in high school, the defendant believed he was in love and engaged in a sexual relationship with her.
Santana said the video will show that no activity was forced and the girl was comfortable with what was going on.
Video turned over
Under questioning by Dupre-Tokos, Butte County sheriff's detective Philip Wysocki testified about the older female bringing the surveillance videos to the attention of investigators. Wysocki asked the woman to review the video and let him know about portions she believed were relevant.
The woman flagged several videos that Wysocki believed contained relevant information, which ultimately prompted him to notify the Butte County District Attorney's Office. They also contacted Chico police, who took Carter into custody.
District Attorney's investigator Jeff Wiles testified he reviewed the clips and interviewed Carter with another officer.
Dupre-Tokos played the interview video for the jury, who read along with a transcript. The audio was very quiet, but Carter at one point said, "I wouldn't do that. That's just not me."
The jury also watched several of the silent surveillance videos shown on a projection screen faced away from the public
Judge Tamara Mosbarger had previously reviewed some of clips without the jury present to determine whether their probative value exceeded any undue prejudice the clips may have on the defendant or take up too much time. At least one clip was excluded in its entirety, while the judge asked for the playback of some clips to be shortened.
Regarding one clip, Dupre-Tokos argued she wanted the jury to see evidence of every criminal act depicted on video. Santana argued some portions should be excluded, but the jury should see some of the girl's conduct that he believed was favorable to the defense.
There was also testimony from two witnesses, including one who said he had tried to drink a soda Carter had given to the older female, but Carter told him not to.
The witness had also heard from another that Carter and the girl kissed. The other witness denied making the statement.
Testimony will continue Tuesday. Judge Mosbarger will review the admissibility of additional video clips.
The defendant remains out of custody.
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As a result of the publication of the aforementioned study others have tried to link these anomalies in the ionosphere and atmosphere to HAARP-like installations that, according to them, triggered the seaquake deliberately.
Others speculate that the tsunami was triggered by "tsunami bombs" or (nuclear) explosives that were dropped on the seafloor prior to the 3/11 events.
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Just the observation that, at least in Belgium, nuclear facilities are constantly being brought up in the news. Often the stories are connected to psyops like ISIS. The number of these incidents, whereby the facilities are sometimes shut down for long periods is very impressive. If you follow the links below you can see the amount of articles that feature just 2 of the facilities. The most important ingredient of these stories is fear.hoi.polloi wrote:How does the present membership of the forum feel about this five-year-old topic today? Would you add anything or expand on what has been written as well? (We encourage members to read the full thread before posting)
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AN "island" of debris from tsunami-hit Japan containing homes, ships, cars and BODIES is heading for the US.
The floating mass in the Pacific is 69 miles long and covers 2.2million square feet, experts said yesterday.
" Danger ... home floats on ocean "
Coastal residents in Japan were ordered to flee to higher ground on Tuesday after a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for waves of up to 3 metres in Fukushima and another prefecture, and a tsunami advisory for much of the rest of northeast Japan's Pacific coast. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury.
Tsunamis of 1.4 metres and 90 centimetres were reported in Sendai and Fukushima about an hour after the 6 am earthquake, and the tsunami warning area was widened later in the morning.
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James Maitland Stewart grew up in small-town Pennsylvania, the son of a hardware store owner. Throughout his career, his father often urged him to leave Hollywood and come back to Pennsylvania to settle down and lead a quiet, respectable life. When Stewart won his only Academy Award — in 1941, for "The Philadelphia Story" — he sent it home to his dad. To his credit, Stewart's father displayed the Oscar prominently at his store.
Stewart was good friends with Henry Fonda, despite their very different politics (Stewart was a staunch Republican, Fonda a devoted Democrat). For a time, they shared an apartment. In later years, their children remembered that one of their favorite pastimes was to build and paint model airplanes together.
Stewart and his wife Gloria owned a dog, Beau, whom the family loved very much. When Stewart was on location in Arizona, Beau became very ill, and the vet called to say he needed to be put to sleep. Stewart replied, "Keep him alive and I'll be there." He took an immediate leave of absence from the film, rushed home, and got to spend a few days with Beau before he said goodbye. Later, remembering petting his beloved dog's head at night, Stewart wrote a poem about Beau — one of many poems he wrote in his life. When he read "Beau" on "The Tonight Show," both Stewart and Johnny Carson were moved to tears.
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I don't comment on the power level of the actual light pack because that won't do us much good in recreating the lighting setup. Power levels are arbitrary and vary depending on too many things (pack power, distance of light from subject, light modifiers, etc.).
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Evangelische Botschafter, Der (Periodical)
Der Evangelische Botschafter was a 16-page monthly Mennonite periodical, 10 x 12 in., of which only one issue (2,500 copies), dated 1 July 1836, was published, edited by Heinrich Bertholet (1796-1853), printed by C. A. Pulte at Skippack, Pennsylvania. Bertholet, a preacher in the Mennonite Church (MC) congregation at Skippack, Franconia Conference, states the purpose of his paper under the following description of contents (translated):
"Der Evangelische Botschafter shall consist of two parts, the first of religious and the second of agricultural reading matter."
"In the first part special attention will be given to (a) consideration of divine subjects generally; (b) explanations and expositions of separate passages from the Bible, the Book of all wisdom; (c) information concerning the condition of the Mennonite congregations; (d) information concerning the condition of other religious bodies; (e) record of all marriages and deaths occurring in all Mennonite congregations so far as the information can be obtained."
"In the second part attention will be given to (a) articles of general interest in industrial pursuits; (b) articles on farm and garden work; (c) information relating to inventions and improvements along industrial lines in general and concerning farm and garden in particular; (d) information from the best authorities on the cultivation of the vine, silk, and tobacco; (e) miscellaneous subjects."
No reason is known for the discontinuance of the paper. This was the first attempt at a Mennonite periodical anywhere in the world. The first successful journal was John H. Oberholtzer's Religiöser Botschafter (General Conference Mennonite), established in 1852 at Milford Square, Pennsylvania, not far from Skippack, which has been continued under other names and publishers to the present. Since it used part of the name, it might in spirit be considered the successor to Bertholet's paper.
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Bender, Harold S. "Evangelische Botschafter, Der (Periodical)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 16 Oct 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Evangelische_Botschafter,_Der_(Periodical)&oldid=80609.
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Bender, Harold S. (1956). Evangelische Botschafter, Der (Periodical). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 October 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Evangelische_Botschafter,_Der_(Periodical)&oldid=80609.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 269. All rights reserved.
©1996-2019 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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We can mark their lives.
Shirin Alam Holi was a young Kurdish woman who was accused of planting a bomb. In her own words, she tells us of her arrest: "The interrogators were male, and I was tied to a bed with handcuffs. They used their fists, feet, electric batons, and cables to beat my head, face, body, and soles of my feet. At that time I could not even understand and speak Persian. When their questions remained unanswered, they beat me again till I passed out."
In a letter written just seven days ago, she wrote:
When I entered this prison my hair was black, now after three (3) years of imprisonment, my hair has started to turn white. I know you have done this not only to me but to all Kurds including Zeynab Jalaliyan and Ronak Safarzadeh… The eyes of Kurdish mothers are full of tears, waiting to see their children. They are in a state of constant worry, in fear that each phone call may bring the news of the execution of their children.
Today is May 2, 2010 and once again they took me to Section 209 of the Evin prison for interrogation. They asked me to cooperate with them in order for me to be pardoned and not executed. I don't understand what they mean by cooperation, when I don't have anything more to say than what I have already said.
Mehdi Eslamian was executed a little more than a year after the execution of his brother for allegedly participating in a bombing in Shiraz. He was tortured for 14 days and denied medical care.
Ali Heidarian was a Kurdish rights activist accused of participating in armed conflict as was Farhad Vakili.
Farzad Kamangar was a teacher whose cause has become international. Human rights organizations, Iran's teachers' union, and international education groups all joined together to protest his incarceration and sentence of execution. Kamangar wrote recently:
Is it possible to carry the heavy burden of being a teacher and be responsible for spreading the seeds of knowledge and still be silent? Is it possible to see the lumps in the throats of the students and witness their thin and malnourished faces and keep quiet?
Is it possible to be in the year of no justice and fairness and fail to teach the H for Hope and E for Equality, even if such teachings land you in Evin prison or result in your death?
Others are in danger of execution:
Abdolreza Ghanbari, a school teacher who participated in the December demonstrations on the Shia holiday of Ashura.
Ahmad Danseshpour is alleged to have sent videos and pictures to the MKO and whose mother and father Motahareh Bahrami and Mohsen Daneshpour Moghaddam have also been sentenced to death.
Ali Saremi , member of the MKO, was arrested last year when he attended a memorial for the 1988 mass killings of political prisoners. (It's worth noting here that many members of the Ahmadinejad administration were directly responsible for the killings.)
Ali Massouni is another protester. Ali Omid Mehrnia has relatives at Camp Ashraf (MKO camp in Iraq), as does Alireza Nabavi.
Amir Reza Arefi is accused of having ties with a monarchist group. His sentence is being appealed.
Aziz Mohammadzadeh is another Kurdish rights activist sentenced to death.
Read what others are saying:
They EXECUTED Her: Shirin Alam Hooli
United4Iran: Bios of the 5 Executed Prisoners of Conscience
Enduring America: Iran: Farzad Kamangar's Last Letter "Is It Possible to Teach and Be Silent?" http://bit.ly/bSoYO3
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HUTTER v. KORZEN(1972)
Rehearings Denied Dec. 4, 1972.
See 409 U.S. 1049 .
The motion for leave to supplement the jurisdictional statement in No. 71-1408 is granted. The appeals are dismissed for failure to docket the cases within the time prescribed by Rule 13(1) of the Rules of this Court.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS, dissenting.
These cases, here on appeal, are dismissed by the Court, as being out of time under our Rules. I dissent from that disposition. We held in United Public Workers v. Mitchell, 330 U.S. 75 , 84-86, that the Rules of this Court determine the effect of untimely docketing. Only the filing of the notice of appeal is jurisdictional. Docketing is prescribed by Rule 13(1), and this Court in case after case has in its discretion waived the strictures of that rule. Up to now it has, indeed, been more concerned with disposing of cases as justice may require rather than finding technical ways to avoid decision of knotty questions. In the Aero Mayflower Transit Co. case the three-judge court entered its judgment on December 29, 1972, and Aero Mayflower filed its notice of appeal on February 14, 1972, within the 60-day period prescribed by 28 U.S. C. 2101(a) but did not docket its case within the subsequent 60-day period. Instead, it filed its jurisdictional statement on April 28, 1972, 14 days out of time. In the Hutter case the notice of appeal was filed on February 17, 1972, following denial by the Illinois Supreme Court of Hutter's motion to reconsider on January 18, 1972. This was timely under 2101(c). Dock- [409 U.S. 905 , 906] eting on May 1, 1972, however, did not occur within the period provided by Rule 13(1), but was 14 days late.
The delay in each of these appeals was much shorter than that which occurred in Johnson v. Florida, 391 U.S. 596 , where we entertained an appeal that was not docketed until 56 days after the time provided in Rule 13(1) expired. 391 U.S., at 598 n., 88 S. Ct., at 1714.
In Durham v. United States, 401 U.S. 481 (1971), the Court considered a petition for certiorari in which the opinion of the Court of Appeals was filed on November 12, 1969, rehearing was denied on March 5, 1970, and the petition was filed on September 26, 1970. Under Rule 22(2) that applied in that case, the petition was more than five months out of time. Only Justice Blackmun dissented.
Our Rules are only guidelines for litigants and we do disservice to the administration of justice by exalting them as Baron Parke doubtless would have done. Our experience with our Rules shows that lateness in docketing may be due to slow delivery of the mail (which is even worse today than it was 10 years ago), to snowstorms1 that stop or slow up all traffic, to sickness of [409 U.S. 905 , 907] counsel, or to other accidents that make untimely docketing that normally would be on time. Before we penalize litigants for late docketing of appeals we should have a case that shows palpable neglect. 2
[ Footnote 1 ] Teague v. Regional Commissioner of Customs, 394 U.S. 977, 984 , was a case in which a petition for certiorari was filed two days after the 90-day statutory period had elapsed, the delay being caused by a snowstorm. Justice Black wrote in dissent:
[ Footnote 2 ] In many of our cases we have entertained petitions, though docketed after expiration of the time prescribed in our Rules: Smith v. Mississippi, 373 U.S. 238 ; Arnold v. North Carolina, 376 U.S. 773 ; Mazzie v. United States, 375 U.S. 32 ; Robison v. United States, 390 U.S. 198 ; Nelson v. United States, 392 U.S. 303 ; Fuller v. Alaska, 393 U.S. 80 ; Banks v. California, 382 U.S. 420 ; Long v. Parker, 384 U.S. 32 d 333; Serio v. United States, 392 U.S. 305 .


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Is there a good notion of an $Sd/Ex$ adjunction for $sSet/S$ equipped with the contravariant model structure (cofibrations are monomorphisms and fibrant objects are right fibrations over $S$) for an arbitrary simplicial set $S$? (Note: This is in the unmarked case.)
It seems to me that any sort of naive way of doing this (for instance, by pulling back the results in $sSet$ (that is, given an object $p:X\to S$ of $sSet/S$, let
$$Ex_S(p):=S\times_{Ex(S)} Ex(X) \to S$$
with morphisms determined by the universal property)) is doomed to fail, since it does not incorporate the asymmetry of the model structure (that is, if that worked, it would also work for the covariant model structure, which seems like it shouldn't be true).
One problem with trying to mimic the classical argument is that the classical/Quillen/Kan homotopy structure (this comprises the data of the model structure on sSet and all of its relativizations sSet/S for every simplicial set S (see Cisinski's book Les Prefaisceaux comme modeles des types d'homotopie (Ch 1.3) for a precise definition) has the property of completeness, which is essentially the property that the weak equivalences of $sSet/S$ (with the Kan/Quillen model structure) are exactly the morphisms that map to weak equivalences under the canonical projection functor sSet/S -> sSet (see Ch 2.1-2.2 of Cisinski's book or Ch.3.4 of Goerss-Jardine for a systematic development of the classical case). Since the contravariant homotopy structure does not have this property, it seems imprudent to expect to be able to pull back results from "deeper" bases naively.
The definition of the contravariant homotopy structure makes it seem like we might be able to do something by putting cones in the right place, but this is just vague intuition.


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Friday, 4 January 2013
A month of health: Camping
7 comments:
- joeh said...
Sounds like a great way to celebrate the new year....the beach is a little chilly here though.
- 5 January 2013 at 02:48
- Kelly Exeter said...
What a beautiful post Chris!
"They look like they have been hugged by summer"
It sounds like you guys have had the kind of holiday we all just loved when we were kids :)
Happy New Year!
- 5 January 2013 at 11:18
Sounds perfect. We tried this last summer but Ruben refused to sleep in the tent. I ended up driving home each night (only 20 mins away) and joining the rest of the fam in the morning. We're going to try again soon, now that he's a little older.
Happy NY. xx
- 5 January 2013 at 15:28
- Maxabella said...
Happy new year sis! x
- 5 January 2013 at 17:36
- River said...
I'm with you on the sun, sand and surf, but forget about camping. I like my soft, non-sandy bed.
"They look like they have been hugged by Summer" is the best line in the whole post. The perfect description.
- 5 January 2013 at 19:02
- emma @ frog, goose and bear said...
Sounds glorious! I love love camping! We camped last new year, but this year we needed a rest at home. We'll be back out there in march and over Easter though. It's just so good for the soul and your words make it seem all the more magical! Happy new year!
- 6 January 2013 at 07:52
Sounds magic. Here's to good health. I'm away just now with a mum who is vegan and an amazing, keen cook. It's heaven. And so healthy.
Luckily for me I loathe lollies... at least in my mind I do, I think I've told myself they are crappola so much I believe myself. Chocolate on the other hand is a huge love, but the good stuff. Not to be kept in the house.
I buy to share, with all the kids, we mums never get much.
- 16 January 2013 at 18:56


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the Schumann did fly away
That's something our four-year-old says about anything he's doesn't want, doesn't want to deal with or doesn't want to do etc., and with no real regard for grammatical sense. So as in 'the dentist appointment did…FLY AWAY!".
Or "I don't have to use the potty, the poop did FLY AWAY!". You get the idea.
Anyway, the Schumann PLL, that great white whale among guitar pedal enthusiasts is sold. And to Jack Black, no less.
Ok, it turns out that it's not the Jack Black but still, a seemingly fine fellow with the same name at least and frankly, that's good enough for us.
Let the purchase of even more finish-the-record gear begin! Or continue or whatever…
Thanks to everyone who wrote in about it. More news of the record tomorrow...


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Tucker Gordon, of Winchester, left for a morning ski on an Oregon slope, with a friend around 11:30 a.m. on June 7. After a near-death ordeal, they were rescued at 4:30 a.m. the next day.
Tucker Gordon, of Winchester, left for a morning ski on an Oregon slope, with a friend around 11:30 a.m. on June 7.
After a near-death ordeal, they were rescued at 4:30 a.m. the next day.
Gordon, a 15-year-old Belmont Hill student, attended a ski racing camp two weeks ago at Mount Hood, Ore., when he and friend Corrie van Haasteren lost their way on their last morning run, according to Gordon.They were missing for nearly 17 hours. Gordon said the fog on Zig Zag Canyon overwhelmed them.
According to a statement from the Portland Mountain Rescue (PMR), the first responders who helped find the boys, white-out conditions plagued the mountain that day.
Rather than panic, the two skiers tried to think of ways to get out of the canyon. Gordon said he and van Haasteren followed a river they "were sure led to a road."
"We were pretty confident we'd be OK, but we had our moments [of doubt]," said Gordon.
The PMR press release said rescuers organized search groups about 6 p.m. It also stated Zig Zag Canyon has been the site of "common trouble" for skiers.
As for food, Gordon said they didn't get hungry because "it wasn't their main concern."
About 8 p.m., Gordon said they became tired and tried to start a fire. It was wet outside, so the boys slept under a tree stump that had dislodged from the ground.
Gordon remembers waking up about 3:30 a.m. when van Haasteren said he saw lights nearby. Members of Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue had found the skiers, according to the PMR report. Gordon said they were out of the canyon by 4:30 a.m.
Gordon's mother, Cici Gordon, of Winchester, flew to Mount Hood the next day to be with her son. Gordon said his mother was very excited, but obviously "very stressed."The boys were not harmed, according to both the PMR and Gordon.
"We were pretty good," said Gordon. "We had a couple blisters, but we were fine."


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