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Playing With Fire returns to the Omaha riverfront's Lewis & Clark Landing Saturday, July 28. The show is made possible this year by a last-minute presenting sponsorship from FirstComp Insurance. The performers have been announced. Headlining is Rick Vito & The Lucky Devils. Vito's been a sideman for artists including Bonnie Raitt, Fleetwood Mac during their Tango in the Night period and The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band. That's Vito laying down the slide guitar on Bob Seger's iconic "Like a Rock." Vito has also performed or recorded with Albert Collins, John Prine, John Mayall, Rita Coolidge and Little Richard. Check rickvito.com.
The second act is Austrian vocalist Meena Cryle. Meena & The Chris Fillmore Band were runners-up in the first-ever European Blues Challenge in 2011. She toured as part of Ruf Record's Blues Caravan with artists including Coco Montoya. See meenacryle.com.
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The 21st Saloon Thursday shows are cookin' with festival-caliber talent each week at 5:30 p.m. Boogie-woogie and blues keyboardist Kelley Hunt plays Thursday, March 1. Grammy nominee, multiple Blues Music Award winner and four-time BMA nominee this year Tab Benoit rocks the Thursday, March 8, show.
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You can't go wrong with Lincoln's Zoo Bar House Band on Monday's 7-10 p.m. featuring a rotating cast of Lincoln's best roots players. Friday, March 2, catch The Mezcal Brothers 5-7 p.m. And though this correction did not make it into the print issue of this column, the Lil' Slim Blues Band has decided to retain their name after flirting with the idea of changing the band name to the Shawn Holt Blues Band. The Lil' Slim Blues Band plugs in at 9 p.m. on Friday, March 2. My hero-pal and Austin icon Jon Dee Graham called Lil' Slim "a mountain of soul" after Graham sat in with the Zoo House Band, which included Shawn Holt, in mid-February.
Saturday, March 3, catch the funk of KC's Good Foot with Making Movies. Tuesday, March 6, it's Sons of 76 with the Americana-pop of The Mynabirds and The Sleepover.
Hoodoo favorites Studebaker John & the Hawks bring old-school Chicago blues featuring some killer slide guitar to the stage Wednesday, March 7, 6-9 p.m.
Hot Notes
Folks are buzzing about The Lauter Tun, a new venue at 3309 Oak View Drive. The focus is on jazz and acoustic music. Check thelautertun.com for info.
The OK Sisters play P.S. Collective inside Benson's Pizza Shoppe Saturday, March 3, 9-11 p.m.
Meanwhile, Saturday, March 3, offers two up and coming local bands playing free shows. Catch Matt Gagne & The Blues Experience at Tin Lizzy's in Fremont. Over at McKenna's the Back Alley Blues Band plugs in.
Waiting Room hosts another Hootenanny Sunday, March 4, 5 p.m. Performers include Matt Cox, Gerald Lee Jr., Kate Williams and Southpaw Bluegrass Band. See waitingroomlounge.com.


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Make Plans for Wichita Falls' Annual Easter Egg Hunt!
The Wichita Falls Parks and Recreation Department will once again be holding their annual Easter Egg Hunt! The event is coming up April 5 in Lucy Park, with festivities kicking off at 3:00pm.
The free event is offered by the University Kiwanis Club and is open to children ages 3 through 2nd grade.
There will be two different sections for kids to hunt. The first is for children under the age of three, with the other for children ages five through 2nd grade. To make things even more exciting, 100 "prize eggs" will be hidden, which can be used for a variety of Easter prizes.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own basket or sack and it's best to arrive early. While you're there, stop by for a photo with the Easter Bunny, as well as McGruff, the crime fighting dog. Parking gets pretty full on this fun-filled day, so plan ahead.
Happy hunting! If you have any questions, please contact the Parks and Recreation Office at 940-761-7490.

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Lindsay Lohan hits the beach in a blue bikini for some fun in the sun on Monday (April 1) in Florianópolis, Brazil.
The 26-year-old actress showed off her curves as she splashed around in the water – Linds sported some big bruises on her leg. Hope all is okay!
Lindsay will soon enter a court ordered rehab program for 90 days, plus 30 days of community labor and pyschotherapy for 18 months.
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Law enforcement personnel load provisions into a bus during the third day of a hostage crisis involving a 5-year-old boy, in Midland City, Ala, Thursday, Jan 31, 2013. A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day Thursday as police surrounded an underground bunker where a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead. The bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, was hailed by locals as a hero who gave his life to protect the 21 students aboard the bus. (AP Photo/The Dothan Eagle, Jay Hare)


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Men's tennis is back in action tonight against ACU
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Lipscomb men's tennis team is back in action after taking two weeks off as they face Abilene Christian tonight at 7 p.m. at Richland Country Club.
ACU is ranked third nationally in Division II and is coming off of back-to-back wins Thursday over Southern Indiana, ranked No. 37, and Murray State.
The match is one of five this weekend for the Wildcats.
Lipscomb is 0-2 this season with losses at #59 Georgia Tech and #47 Middle Tennessee. The Bisons are one of three Atlantic Sun teams without a win (Mercer 0-4 and Northern Kentucky 0-3).


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placed unsuitably or awkwardly
in difficulty or at a disadvantage
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out of the box
unusually good - Australian & New Zealand informal
out of your box
intoxicated with alcohol or drugs - British informal
a Pandora's box
a process that once begun generates many complicated problems.
In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first mortal woman. One story recounts that she was created by Zeus and sent to earth with a box or jar of evils in revenge for the fact that Prometheus had disobediently given the gift of fire to the earth. She let all the evils out of the container to infect the earth.
Only hope remained to ease the lot of humankind. In another account, the box contained all the blessings of the gods which, with the exception of hope, escaped and were lost when the box was opened.
1997 Spectator Drummond's series has opened a Pandora's box of complaints about the tide of mediocrity engulfing the art.
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It's hard to say that the Republican presidential debates will be quite the same without Rick Perry taking the podium. With Perry suspending his campaign yesterday, the debating field has been whittled to four and become decidedly more predictable.
Last night we got to see Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum swing away at Mitt Romney and each other in one final attempt to sway South Carolina voters, and Ron Paul stand by his libertarian message.
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Are you Afraid?
Posted 12 April 2005 - 07:54 PM
I know I wouldn't because I was raised around ghosts. I am so used to them, it's not even funny. Yes, I get a startled whe I am with them, but I say "Hi" and get on with my business.
Posted 12 April 2005 - 08:12 PM
To answer your question...I am not afraid of them either. They can't do anything to hurt me too bad so I know that I will survive it no matter what they do. I would try and communicate with it and try to collect evidence of it if I had the equipment to do so with me. I am a paranormal investigator so I seek out ghosts. I sure am not going to be afraid of them once I find them. If that were the case then it would be time to give up looking for them.
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However, it also depends on who it is too. I'm used to my husband's "follower" (goes everywhere with him) and he/she doesn't bother me.
The one that loves to follow me around the house that we call Jack, he's another story. He'll sneak up on me, hover outside my bedroom door, sneak in the bathroom when I'm in the shower, etc. He's constantly bugging me cause he knows it gets to me, especially when he's sneaky about it.
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There is only one time I was actually afraid. I did have some enitity that was in my room and very angry. Nothing ever happened but I could sense that she was there and not happy with me. But there was never any smells, noises, or anything physical that happened.
Posted 13 April 2005 - 12:41 PM
With that said, it still scares me when I am alone in a room with something I can't see, even if it is a peaceful/non-malicious entity.
I have been in a situation where the entity was malicious and did try to harm me. At least I felt like he was trying to harm me, both mentally and physically (he just didn't have very good aim, I think it is safe to assume he was not a baseball player in life, HA HA).
I just don't like not being able to see what is around me, it kinda freaks me out!! I won't even swim in lakes or rivers because I can't see what is in the water with me!
For everyone out there who can continue on normally when they know they are not alone, well, you are all VERY BRAVE in my book!! If I ever run into another unwanted house guest I hope I can count on some of you for assistance!!
Posted 13 April 2005 - 02:31 PM
The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.Sonnet XCIVBut if that flower with base infection meet,The basest weed outbraves his dignity:For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds
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Of course, I've not to my memory had an encounter that I can say for 100% sure was paranormal in nature.
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Every day, hazardous materials are transported by train or truck in Oklahoma and across the country, and the number of these shipments is growing. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 147,760 highway and railway hazardous material (hazmat) incidents occurred nationwide during the past 10 years. Of those, 1,830 were in Oklahoma.
On Nov. 5 and 6, the Oklahoma Poison Center will offer the Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS™) Course to train Oklahoma emergency medical professionals how to provide expert medical care for victims of hazmat incidents and toxic terrorism. This two-day AHLS Provider course, which will be held at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa Schusterman Center, covers such topics as decontamination, rapid assessment of hazmat-exposed patients, antidotes and drug therapy, and the establishment of response systems in the community.
"Whether from chemical spills or acts of terrorism, the threat of hazmat exposures to people is at an all-time high," says Scott Schaeffer, toxicologist and managing director of the Oklahoma Poison Center. Medical personnel need specialized knowledge of toxic substances to be able to rapidly assess hazardous materials patients, recognize the symptoms of particular toxic substances and immediately give specific antidotes.
"AHLS not only enables health care professionals to better protect our community, but also to protect our first responders and emergency staff," Schaeffer added. "This course provides the training needed to be more prepared should a serious incident occur."
AHLS was developed at the Arizona Emergency Medical Research Center, a center of excellence at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, in collaboration with the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology. More than 13,000 emergency medical professionals are AHLS-verified providers, serving their local communities. At the completion of this course, 50 new verified providers will be serving Oklahoma.
To register for the course, visit www.ahls.org, and click on "Upcoming Courses" to find the 'Tulsa, OK' Provider course.
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Want government assistance? Just say no to drugs.With 80 million baby boomers hitting reaching retirement age over the next couple of decades, the 70 million Gen Xers following them are going to have a much heavier dependent-to-worker load than their parents did. With more than 40% of births in the US now being to non-Asian minorities (and the consequent rise in the number of children born out of wedlock and into poverty), the nation's per capita human capital is decreasing. The US continues to run a perpetual trade deficit that has probably only been temporarily reduced due to a sharp drop in oil prices, while the federal government plans on spending $4 trillion--nearly $2 trillion above and beyond what it takes in--in 2009 alone. The seeming capriciousness of governmental bailouts has prescient people previously ignored predicting a decade or more of malaise similar to what Japan experienced through the nineties and into the present.
Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug testing. ...
"Nobody's being forced into these assistance programs," said Craig Blair, a Republican in the West Virginia Legislature who has created a Web site — notwithmytaxdollars.com — that bears a bobble-headed likeness of himself advocating this position. "If so many jobs require random drug tests these days, why not these benefits?"
Blair is proposing the most comprehensive measure in the country, as it would apply to anyone applying for food stamps, unemployment compensation or the federal programs usually known as "welfare": Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Women, Infants and Children.
Lawmakers in other states are offering similar, but more modest proposals.
On Wednesday, the Kansas House of Representatives approved a measure mandating drug testing for the 14,000 or so people getting cash assistance from the state, which now goes before the state senate. In February, the Oklahoma Senate unanimously passed a measure that would require drug testing as a condition of receiving TANF benefits, and similar bills have been introduced in Missouri and Hawaii. A Florida senator has proposed a bill linking unemployment compensation to drug testing, and a member of Minnesota's House of Representatives has a bill requiring drug tests of people who get public assistance under a state program there.
These lawmakers are moving at the right time, under a collapsing sky. The time is ripe for the Republican party to reassert itself as the enforcer of green eye-shade conservatism.
How about this as an idea for a campaign ad that could be replicated by Congressional challengers across the country in the 2010 election cycle? A woman who looks like Roseanne comes into a convenience store yelling at her uncontrolled hellions, before going up to the counter to buy cigarettes, liquor, and lottery tickets with her food stamp card. A narrator along the lines of Robert Stack sternly says, "Ask [sitting Congressman] why he supports giving taxpayer money to the poor for the purchase of cigarettes and booze. Congressman, is this what you intended when you voted for last year's spending bill with its $3 billion increase in temporary welfare benefits, on top of the $20 billion we are already spending?"
It may come as a surprise that food stamp cards can be used for cash purposes. Since 2004, all 50 states and DC have participated in the EBT (electronic benefits transfer) program. Beneficiaries are given what is essentially a debit card that transfers funds from a federal account to retailers. Additionally, it may be used at ATMs. Recipients have two separate balances; one for food, restricted to items that are not supposed to be immediately consumable, and another that may be used on anything, including vices like those depicted in the hypothetical ad.
The amounts received for each balance are contingent upon state laws, and finding out total distributions at the state or federal levels is difficult (it has proven so for me, anyway). But I suspect few people realize welfare benefits can be used to buy Kools and Steel Reserve. Further, I imagine the vast majority of those who become aware of it happening will disapprove of it.


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The Madison City Council met Tuesday evening at Madison City Hall, with nine in attendance.
Madison Mayor Kathy Sasek welcomed visitors Junior Hulen, president of Madison Area Community Betterment, and Ron McCoy, board member. The first item for discussion were the sidewalks placed in front of the Madison Community Center and other businesses downtown through a grant from MoDOT and city monies.
The sidewalks are partly concrete, with an area of brick (placed with sand), which has not held well.
"We can't get anybody to bite on it (the sidewalk project)," said Sasek. But, she said the city will keep on the project.
The next item of discussion was a generator. A generator has been an ongoing discussion for the Madison City Council, Madison Area Community Betterment, and the Madison Fire Department. In case of a disaster, the Community Center is a designated shelter, but may not be a working facility without a generator. The cost is prohibitive to all involved, but Sasek feels with all working together, a community fundraiser might help to get things started.
"Paris has one (a generator) that can float, but they may need it at the same time," said Sasek.
Utility Supervisor Randy Hendren reported the patching of potholes is underway. "There are still a few more deep ones," he said. "Three loads (of asphalt), have been used, and they may have to go after one more load to finish that project."
The sludge pump has new pistons and is going again.
Both pumps at the lift station quit due to an electrical problem in the electrical panel. An electrician from Shelbina was hired to replace wiring.
Disbursements were discussed.
Several city ordinances were brought to the attention of the council - limiting the number of chickens to six (6), removing unlicensed vehicles parked on city streets, and licensing fireworks. All ordinances will be upheld as they stand.
It was questioned why two Sheriff's Deputies live in Madison, but neither has attended the council meeting in a while.
Discussion on changing the Sunday liquor hours for Casey's General Store in Madison was heard, but it was decided hours should stay the same, with liquor sales beginning at 11 a.m., on Sundays.
City Clerk Melissa O'Bannon will be checking into a City website and how other communities are doing updates.
The council is aware of a property sale on Sunday, April 21, which is located adjacent to property already owned by the city. It is located at the 4-way stop on Hwy. 24 and Broadway, Madison. It was voted not to bid on the property.
A budget meeting was scheduled for Monday, May 13 at 6 p.m.
Town-wide spring clean-up and bulk trash pick-up was discussed with a time to be scheduled at the regular May meeting on Tuesday, May 14 at 7 p.m.
Madison city council met Tuesday
The Madison City Council met Tuesday evening at Madison City Hall, with nine in attendance.


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Daniel Craig: I Don't Do All My Stunts!
Daniel Craig signs autographs after making an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday (November 9) in Hollywood.
The 44-year-old actor appeared on the show to promote his new film Skyfall, out in theaters now!
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Daniel recently talked about doing stunts for the film.
"I don't do all my stunts�"I'd be lying if I said that. But I like the fact that occasionally that you'll see on screen that it's my face and it's me," Daniel shared. "And I think audiences hopefully appreciate that. At least, I really hope they do."
In case you missed it, have a look at Daniel's cover on the latest issue of Rolling Stone.


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Digital Britain: The Rise of the Intrapreneur
Today, the term Entrepreneur is used freely by a lot people, typically to describe someone who has started their own business or launched multiple new ventures. Since being a part of the Shoreditch tech scene, I'm now starting to understand the unique characteristics of people that can best be described as "entrepreneurial" — and then letting my mind wander back into my own life experiences.
The majority of start-up founders that I have met are not necessarily people who graduated top of their class at school or have huge amounts of experience running a business, but what they do have is a desire; a strong and compelling desire to succeed.
They obviously have the ambition and drive to achieve their goals, but they are also very creative thinkers and problem solvers – which, if you hang-out with these types of people, is truly infectious.
Enter the Intrapreneur
The majority of entrepreneurs are seen as business starters, rather than business changers. People who are business changers – from within the corporate environment — are sometimes called Intrapreneurs.
They're people in corporate environments who take responsibility for turning an idea or a concept into a profitable product offering. This business objective is normally achieved by the intrapreneur through creative thinking, innovation and assertive risk taking.
Looking around Cisco, I see these types of motivated individuals all the time.
How is that possible? It's because Cisco has one the highest concentrations of ex-CEOs at a large company. Most of these accomplished leaders have come to Cisco from one of the many acquisitions that have been orchestrated over the years. The majority of these acquisitions were small start-up companies, so the entrepreneurial spirit is a part of the Cisco culture.
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The intrapreneur phenomenon is definitely on the rise. We are seeing a number of significant shifts which are causing major disruptions in the legacy information age environment; with the proliferation of new technology and associated devices now moving from the consumer environment into the business world.
Empowered by the ability to communicate from anywhere to anyone at anytime on any device, the prior barriers and constraints of the typical office walls have been bulldozed. We are also seeing a new generation entering the workforce which has the intrapreneurial spirit and desire to change the way we work.
Social Media is no longer viewed as a fad. It is an everyday reality in most commercial settings, and it has become a powerful tool which is changing how people in business communicate with their employees, their partners or suppliers – and, of course, their customers.
Individuals who are actively disrupting obsolete business processes and bravely using their creativity to challenge corporate norms are often the same people who have embodied the intrapreneurial spirit. If you are sitting at your desk or in your cubicle now as you read this, perhaps a twinge of excitement is starting in your gut. That's right, you can have it too.
If you live in the UK and want to know how to use that creativity and ambition in your current corporate job, then head into Shoreditch, Edinburgh, Newcastle or Birmingham and be inspired by the people you meet — they're designing new products and services, or solving common problems from a different point of view.
Also, look back at my previous editorials and be encouraged that trying and failing is better than standing on the sidelines – waiting for something to happen. It's okay to lead by example and let others follow you, if that's what it takes to attain real progress.
As it is so with entrepreneurialism, assuming the role of an intrapreneur can be a lonely place at times, but it's exciting as well. I'll appeal to your spirit of adventure; let's create a new generation of intrapreneurs and change our corporate cultures — for the better.
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As a Business Executive myself I strongly believe Intrapreneurs are integral towards the growth of a company. I agree most of the time the company culture hampers innovation by confining employees to their duty and never allowing them to share their ideas which could easily drive notable success.
I agree that Intrapreneur can be instrumental to driving success for an organization. What we learn though is that the success really depends on how an organization is structured to offer the right motivation (not necessarily financial rewards) to the individual to drive changes and grow. Sometimes, the challenge of doing something really hard and making things better in it of itself can motivate these Intrapreneurs sufficiently.


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- Versatile design accommodates virtually all vehicles with a smooth, "naked" roof
- Designed for use with Yakima round cross bars (sold separately)
- Towers attach to vehicle door frames with custom, vehicle specific Q Clips (sold separately)
- Die-cast metal ball and socket mechanism adjusts to fit all roof contours
- Powder coated steel superstructure with glass reinforced nylon shell construction
- Fast and easy installation
- Lockable with SKS cores and keys (sold separately)
- Comes with instructions and cross bar end caps
- Limited lifetime warranty
Most modern vehicles have smooth, "naked" roof lines for aerodynamic styling that is attractive and creates less drag for improved fuel economy. However, these featureless roofs create a problem when trying to mount a roof rack system. Yakima roof rack systems allow you to transport cargo on top of your vehicle that would otherwise take up a lot of room in the cabin. And with your gear stowed on top, there's room for friends or more gear inside your vehicle. To allow a roof rack to be installed on such vehicles, Yakima designed the Q Tower crossbar supports. These towers rest on the roof on pads that won't harm your vehicle's finish, and they're firmly attached to the door frames with custom, vehicle specific Q Clips.
But the secret to the Q Tower's fit is the 4-way movement of the die-cast metal ball and socket mechanism that attaches to the Q Clip. The Q in Q Tower stands for quadruple, and it's this 4-way, quadruple movement that enables the Q Tower to fit virtually any vehicle roof contour. You can be assured that Q Towers will fit perfectly and securely on your vehicle, with a quick and simple installation process. Constructed with a powder coated steel superstructure and glass reinforced nylon shell, Q Towers are designed to support Yakima round crossbars (not included). Q Towers can be locked to prevent theft with the purchase of optional SKS lock cores and keys.
Yakima® Products, of Beaverton, Oregon is one of the world's largest manufacturers of cargo and recreational equipment carrying solutions. Founded 40 years ago in its namesake city, Yakima's guiding principle is that gear should be carried on the outside of the vehicle to make room for more friends inside. To achieve that goal the company makes roof rack systems for any style roof, and an array of roof rack, receiver hitch, trunk lid and hatch, and trailer mounted carriers. Yakima's designers and engineers are outdoor enthusiasts, campers, and travelers just like you, and they listen and learn what other enthusiasts need and want while participating in those activities. The combination of their own personal experience with that of other enthusiasts enables them to create the finest carriers and accessories for bicycles, watercraft, skis & snowboards, and cargo & camping. Yakima products are manufactured using the highest quality materials and the best engineering practices, and Yakima is so confident that you'll be completely satisfied with your purchase that they're backed by a "Love It Till You Leave It" lifetime warranty.


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1. Trading Jeremy Guthrie to the Colorado Rockies for Jason Hammel and Matt Lindstrom
On first blush, this looked like nothing more than a salary dump, a way to avoid paying Guthrie in his final year of arbitration. Hammel was an underperforming right-hander who never realized his potential, and Lindstrom was a hard-throwing failed closer. The rebuilding Orioles, somehow, received no prospects for Guthrie, who had been the club's Opening Day starter. But the Orioles' brain trust, including scout Jim Howard, felt that Hammel could match Guthrie's numbers for more than $3 million less -- and there was potential for him to do more. Hammel quickly emerged as the Orioles' best starter, posting an 8-6 record and 3.43 ERA in 20 starts, despite missing a chunk of the season due to persistent knee discomfort. Lindstrom was solid in relief (2.72 ERA in 34 games) and was used in August as trade bait to get starter Joe Saunders from the Arizona Diamondbacks. Guthrie had a disasterous tenure in Colorado (6.35 ERA in 19 games) and was dealt to Kansas City, where he salvaged his season (3.16 ERA in 14 starts). If healthy, Hammel is a likely candidate to be the Orioles' 2013 Opening Day starter.
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NEW YORK — After leading Real Salt Lake to a record-breaking defensive record in 2010, center back Jamison Olave has been named the Visa Defender of the Year.
The 29-year-old Colombian, who made 27 regular-season appearances in 2010, was the centerpiece of an RSL back line that conceded just 20 goals, setting a new MLS record for the fewest goals allowed in a single season. The previous record, 23, was held by the 2007 Houston Dynamo.
RSL did not concede more than two goals in any regular-season game, as they posted a 15-4-11 record.
[inline_node:322630]Always a threat on set pieces, the 6-foot-3 Olave also contributed on the offensive side. He scored three goals in MLS play and added another in CONCACAF Champions League action, helping RSL advance to the quarterfinals of the CCL.
In 2010, Olave, who has always had a reputation for toughness and hard tackling, seemed to reign in his more physical impulses. After receiving three red cards in 2009, plus being forced to sit out a game due to yellow-card accumulation, Olave went through the 2010 season without a single ejection. He was cautioned eight times.
Olave was a major component of RSL's 2009 run to the MLS Cup. And in 2010 he continued to progress. The central-defensive partnership of Olave and Nat Borchers, who was also a finalist for 2010 Visa Defender of the Year, has to go down as one of the most effective and intimidating in MLS history.


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Providing bass fishing enthusiasts of all skill levels with information on just about any technique, lure, or fishing condition they may encounter, the Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide is the industry leader in bass fishing web sites. We not only focus on the hardcore tournament angler, but also cater to the beginner and casual enthusiasts who appreciate the love of the great outdoors.
Our family oriented web-philosophy has made our site a "second home" to more than 30,000 members. Most of our members feel like family here, and have made new friendships through our site.
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BassResource.com is simply the largest, most popular, and most comprehensive bass fishing site on the Web, living up to its name.
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Most of our visitors are American males, aged 25-60, who fish for a hobby, recreation, or sport. Most have an above average income.
This is an update of our current logo meant to increase excitement, the sense of community, and the quality of the user experience, while maintaining its current family oriented web-philosophy and branding. I'm looking for an updated/professional look, not a completely new design. Users must still recognize the brand.
Logo must look good on both a white and a tan background (EBDDC2). Horizontal rectangular shape is preferred. Logo will appear on site and apparel. Logo must say "The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide" AND "BassResource.com"
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That said, I need a palette with more colors while maintaining the current brand identity. I really like sage with cream and tan complimentary colors. For example: http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes…php?id=487
Or http://www.behr.com/Behr/home#channel (look at "Danish twist", except the blue is too vivid)
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• Natural textures
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• An image of a bass would be nice (original art)
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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – The Yale baseball team was scheduled to play two against Bowling Green on Thursday afternoon in Winter Haven, Fla. Mother Nature had other ideas, however, as heavy rain washed out the Bulldogs and Falcons just five innings into the first game of the doubleheader. The rain-shortened contest will be recorded as a 7-7 tie. Junior third baseman Andy Megee homered for Yale for the second consecutive day and senior first baseman Trygg Larsson-Danforth hit a three-run double for the Elis.
Yale now sits at 4-1-1 on the season. The Falcons' record moves to 3-7-1 after the stalemate.
Junior lefthander Brook Hart started on the hill for Yale, but was forced to leave after just two innings of work due to a two-hour rain delay. When the rain subsided, senior right-handers Matthew Smith and Robert Gruber and junior southpaw Alex Young combined to toss the remaining three frames before downpours brought the game to an abrupt end.
Junior shortstop Trey Rallis hit a two-bagger for Yale to extend his hitting streak to five games, and sophomore outfielder Zach Tobolowsky picked up his third RBI of the season with a single. Another bright spot for the Bulldogs came behind the plate, as freshman Chris Piwinski made his first career start at catcher and threw out two would-be base-stealers at third base in the fourth inning.
After playing six games in five days to open the 2010 season,
Yale will take a well-timed day off on Friday in hopes of waiting
out the inclement weather in the Sunshine State. The Elis return to
the diamond at Chain of Lakes Park on Saturday for a 1:30 p.m.
contest against Central Michigan.
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xmobar is a lightweight bar written in haskell. It is one of the most popular bars to use together with Xmonad.
Even though it is written in haskell, you don't need to know haskell to configure it.
xmobar can be found in the [community] repository and the development version (xmobar-git) can be found in aur.
Xmobar can be configured both with command line options and a configuration file (~/.xmobarrc).
Any command line option will override the coresponding option set in the configuration file.
Using ~/.xmobarrc
Following is a short description of the options you can use in ~/.xmobarrc
- font
- The font to use. If you got XFT fonts enabled, prefix XFT fonts with xft:
- fgColor
- The default colour to use for the font, takes both colour names and hex colours.
- bgColor
- The colour of the bar, takes both colour names and hex colours.
- position
- The position of the bar. Keywords are: Top, TopW, Bottom, BottomW and Static.
- Top/Bottom - The top/bottom of the screen.
- TopW/BottomW - The top/bottom of the screen with a fixed with. They take 2 options:
- Alignment: Left, Center or Right aligned.
- Width: An iteger for the width of the bar in percent.
- Example: Centered at the bottom of the screen, with a width of 75% of the screen.
position = BottomW C 75
- Static - A fixed position on the screen, with a fixed with. Static takes 4 keyword arguments:
- xpos: Horisontal position in pixels, starting at the upper left corner.
- ypos: Vertical position in pixels, starting at the upper left corner.
- width: The width of the bar in pixels.
- height: The height of the bar in pixels.
- Example: Top left of the screen, with a width of 1024 pixels and height of 15 pixels
- Static - A fixed position on the screen, with a fixed with. Static takes 4 keyword arguments:
position = Static { xpos = 0 , ypos = 0, width = 1024, height = 15 }
- commands
- For setting the options of the programs to run (optional).
- commands is a comma seperated list of commands, and their options. Example:
- [Run Memory ["-t","Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10, Run Swap [] 10]
- runs the Memory plugin, with the specified template, and the Swap plugin, with default args. And both with an update every second. (the update rate is in 1/10 seconds)
- sepChar
- The character to be used for indicating commands in the output template (default '%').
- alignSep
- A string of characters for aligning text in the output template. (default '}{') The text before the first char will be left aligned, the text between them will be centered, and the text to the right of the last char will be right aligned.
- template
- The output template is a string containing text and commands.
- %command% - An command to run. The output can contain a flag to set the colour of the text. You can chage the '%' to some other char with sepChar
- <fc=colour></fc> - Sets the colour of a partion of text, takes both colour names and hex colours.
Example .xmobarrc file
Config { font = "-misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" , bgColor = "black" , fgColor = "grey" , position = Top , lowerOnStart = True , commands = [ Run Weather "EGPF" ["-t","<station>: <tempC>C","-L","18","-H","25","--normal","green","--high","red","--low","lightblue"] 36000 , Run Network "eth0" ["-L","0","-H","32","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Network "eth1" ["-L","0","-H","32","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Cpu ["-L","3","-H","50","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Memory ["-t","Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10 , Run Swap [] 10 , Run Com "uname" ["-s","-r"] "" 36000 , Run Date "%a %b %_d %Y %H:%M:%S" "date" 10 ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %eth0% - %eth1% }{ <fc=#ee9a00>%date%</fc>| %EGPF% | %uname%" }
Gmail integration
Consider installing xmobar package with GMail plugin, then add this to your xmobarrc:
Config { ... , commands = [ ... , Run GMail "gmail.username" "GmailPassword" ["-t", "Mail: <count>"] 3000 ... ] , template = "%cpu% ... %gmail.username% ... <fc=#ee9a00>%date%</fc>" }
MPD intergration
Since there also isn't an mpd plugin , you can use the same trick as the gmail plugin. You will need mpc for this , here is the simple script , save this script some where and run it like this :
Run Com "sh" ["~/bin/mpd.sh"] "mpd" 10
In the template add this:
Conky-Cli integration
One might want to integrate conky-cli into xmobar because the plugins shipped with xmobar doesn't support displaying some types of information, such as the amount of space on a partition. Here is a bash script which pipes information from conky-cli into a text file which then cats the file.
#!/bin/bash # Filename: ~/.xmonad/conkyscript conky -c ~/.conkyclirc -i1 -q > conkystat & sleep 4 killall -q conky cat conkystat rm conkystat
Add this line to the commands section inside ~/.xmobarrc which makes the script run every 30 seconds.
, Run Com ".xmonad/conkyscript" ["&"] "conky" 300
Then add this to your .xinitrc before "exec xmonad".
.xmonad/conkyscript & sleep 6 && xmobar &
Then add %conky% to your template section, and then it should work.


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Use this page to discuss script 2531 slimv: Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim (SLIME for Vim)
- Add constructive comments, bug reports, or discuss improvements (see the guideline).
- Do not document the script here (the author should do that on vim.org).
- This page may be out of date: check the script's vim.org page above, and its release notes.
Problem if <Leader> is a SpaceEdit
Slimv out of the box breaks when <Leader> is a space. There's a workaround.
I'm new to slimv, but I'm impressed now that I got it working. The thing that slowed me down is that my .vimrc sets
g:mapleader to ' ' (that's a Space). Slimv hates that--nothing works right. I didn't do a deep analysis of the problem, since I really didn't want slimv clobbering my mappings anyway. Instead I came up with a quick workaround. Line 232 of slimv.vim (version 0.9.4) says:
if exists( 'mapleader' )
I changed this to:
if exists( 'mapleader' ) && ( g:mapleader != ' ')
That solved my problem by mapping slimv functions using ',' as <Leader>. Maybe it will work for somebody else too.
Update: As the plugin's author, Tamas Kovacs points out, a better solution is to do
set g:slimv_leader = ',' in your .vimrc, which prevents Slimv from setting the value at all. This way, if you upgrade, your Slimv behavior is what you expect without having to re-patch slimv.vim. --March 1, 2012
Error: SWANK server is not running. Press ENTER to continue.
It took me quite some time to realize that I had installed CentOS from a live disk and that my install did not include xterm, and that Slimv uses xterm to start the swank server. As soon as I installed xterm, swank started.
A nice touch for the clueless newbies would be Slimv checking for xterm and on failure to find xterm pumping out an error: "Slimv cannot find xterm. Terminating."


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I have new set in the queue for March 8.
Shot with one of my favorite photographs @lavezzaro.
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Hello, @MISSY started a new blog project where she asks the girls to write about a specific topic each week (homeworks).
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Readers' Roundup May 2013 - Great White Find
After four decades on the road, it's common for a classic Mustang to journey away from the area where it was first sold; often even leaving the state. However, it's a bit rarer that a Mustang not only makes its way clear across the country, but also ends up north of the border as well. That's exactly the case with the Springtime Yellow '66 Mustang GT coupe seen here. Built at the San Jose plant, the coupe had spent its whole life in California before ending up in the Great White North. The Mustang now resides in the Belleville, Ontario, Canada, garage of Fechin Vandenberg, which is about two hours east of Toronto.
"I had been looking for a couple of years for a solid car and this one was on Autotrader.com, but it looked rough and dirty. My wife and I had to drop our daughter off at the Toronto airport and this car was only 40 minutes past that. I thought, what the heck, we'll go and have a look," Fechin tells us. Fechin had a printout from KAR Auto Group's website stating what came with the GT option group. KAR, based out of Ohio, has such information readily available on its site to help prospective buyers, which really helped out Fechin in this case too. Armed with the info, Fechin and his wife, Valerie, went to go look at the Mustang.
"The car was really dirty, but I knew it was a diamond in the rough," Fechin remembers. Fechin made the owner an offer, and a week later, he went back with a car dolly to get his "brand-new 44-year-old car," as he calls it. "I couldn't stop grinning all the way home. I buffed the paint—which turned out really quite good—put in a new dashpad, installed a console, and got all the lights working," Fechin recalls.
Fechin continued his cleaning and upgrades under the hood with a new export brace, a new Monte Carlo bar, valve covers, an air breather, and more. He then buffed the engine compartment paint as well. The GT has all the right equipment still on it and the exterior was enhanced with new chrome and a set of the always stylish polished Torque Thrust II wheels from American Racing. Fechin's next improvement will be power brakes to make the coupe just a little bit safer and more enjoyable to drive on the streets of Belleville. "It's an ongoing project, and I love to work on it," Fechin explained to us. We think Fechin and his GT coupe have many more enjoyable years together.
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Professor Clark's primary goal in her research and teaching is to improve conservation of species and ecosystems at professional, scientific, organizational, and policy levels. She has conducted field ecological and behavioral research on thirty-five mammals and other species. She is interested in natural resource policy and management and has conducted research and applied projects, for example, in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to develop ecosystem management policy and in Australia to evaluate endangered species policy (most recently for koalas). She is currently researching conservation policy in Central America. Her work involves building case studies, evaluating policies and programs, helping organizations to incorporate reliable science into management, helping students develop proficiency in the policy sciences method of research and problem solving, and working with a wide range of groups to improve conservation problem solving through workshops and other analytic exercises. She has worked in North America, Australia, Asia, and Central America. Recent books include Averting Extinction: Reconstructing Endangered Species Recovery (1997), Carnivores in Ecosystems: The Yellowstone Experience (1999, co-edited), and Foundations of Natural Resources Policy and Management (2000, co-edited). She is a fellow of Pierson College and has an appointment at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.


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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
And Now, A Tale of Two Edna's
Edna May Becker (my grandmother) was born 8 Jun 1898 in Great Bend, Barton Co., Kansas. She was the daughter of Johann (John) Joseph "Joe" and Emma Cornelia (Strait) Becker. She was the youngest of nine children born to Joe and Emma Becker. On 23 Dec 1914, she married Ray Ross Smith in Great Bend, Barton Co., Kansas. They had 11 children: Leo Undine, Maurine Maxine, Ellis Wayne, Veva Delfreda, Ray Ross, Jr. (my dad), Wilmer LaVerne, Cecil Eugene, Nola Katherine, Shirley Ann, Carolyn Jean and John Franklyn.
Edna Mae Smith (my Aunt) was born 6 Nov 1892 in Hoisington, Barton Co., Kansas. She was the daughter of John Franklin and Emma Delphenia (Baldwin) Smith. She was the youngest of nine children born to John and Emma Smith. On 17 Sep 1913, she married Albert Leo Becker in Great Bend, Barton Co., Kansas. They had one child, Winnis Albert.
So, what's so confusing about all this?
Well, Edna May Becker married Edna Mae Smith's brother, Ray Ross and Edna Mae Smith married Edna May Becker's brother, Albert Leo. Got all that?
Did you notice the other weird thing about all this? Edna May Becker and Edna Mae Smith were both the youngest of nine children. Check out my story "A Tale of Two Emma's".
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Don't you just love these tangles! My step mother was Edna Mae Thomas, daughter of John and Mary Thomas. Her father, John Thomas was the son of John and Mary Thomas. When I work on this chart, I get a headache!!!ReplyDelete
Wow - I thought I was the only one! I have a very similar tale of 2 Edna's. It took me forever to figure out why I had two pictures both clearly labeled "Edna Graber" that looked nothing alike. In my family a great aunt Edna Graber married and became Edna Saurer while her brother married Edna Saurer who then because Edna Graber.ReplyDelete
Labeling of pictures depended on when the picture was taken sometimes and sometimes on who was doing the labeling and how they knew the person...goodness....I need a nap now.
Thanks for this story - so I know I'm not alone trying to keep things like this straight.
And my grandmother Nannie Becker had a daughter whom she named EDNA Pearl Flanders (probably after her sister above, Edna May Becker). You wrote a terrific story about these two Ednas and you explained it well, Kate! I must print this story and the previous one about the two Emmas and put them in my family binders! You're a good writer, Kate!ReplyDelete


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Bees are a vital part of our ecosystem, but they're declining at alarming rates. It's called colony collapse and it affects humans more than you may think. Many agricultural crops worldwide are pollinated by bees and bees play a major role in the reproduction of wild plant communities.
Two preeminent bee researchers will join The Daily Circuit Wednesday to talk about why this is happening and what can be done to curb it.
Marla Spivak, director of the Bee Lab at the University of Minnesota, will join the discussion.
"Bees are in decline for three interconnected reasons," she said. "There are not enough flowers out there that secrete pollen and nectar, so the bees are not getting proper nutrition. Then, the flowers that they do encounter often are contaminated with pesticides. It's a combination of poor nutrition, pesticides and brood disease."
Spivak hopes to create a bee center at the U of M.
"Bees are like a portal: When you start studying them you're learning about many different topics such as agriculture, pesticides, landscape diversity and food safety," she said.
Gene Robinson, director of the Institute for Genomic Biology and the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility, will also join the discussion. He recently came out with research showing personality in honey bees.


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LEWISTON, Maine — The Middlebury College field hockey team outlasted host Bates on Saturday, 4-2, to push its record to 11-2, 7-2 in NESCAC play. The Panthers were ranked No. 4 in last week's NCAA Division III poll. Bates dropped to 4-8, 1-7 NESCAC.
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Fiat said Monday it exercised a third option to increase its stake in Chrysler Group, while the Italian car maker continues to spar with VEBA over the valuation of shares.
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Fiat already owns 58.5% of the Big Three automaker and has been exercising options since last year as part of its an effort to completely take over Chrysler.
But so far, the company has been unable to increase its stake as a result of a disagreement over how much it should pay for the shares owned by VEBA, the United Auto Workers union retiree healthcare trust that owns the remaining 41.5% stake in Chrysler.
Fiat offered $254.7 million for the latest batch of shares, which reflects a 3.3% stake.
Fiat secured the ability to buy batches of Chrysler shares when it agreed four years ago to take the struggling U.S. automaker out of bankruptcy. It can exercise those options to buy another 3.3% of Chrysler every six months until June 30, 2016. Exercising all of the options would bring Fiat's ownership of Chrysler to 75.1%.
So far, the three options already exercised by Fiat would give it 68.4% ownership.
Fiat can also explore the possibility of acquiring VEBA's entire stake in a single deal. But the two sides have not signaled that they are close to resolving their dispute over the valuation of VEBA's shares. Early last month, Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) estimated that VEBA's entire stake is worth approximately $3.5 billion.
Fiat offered $139.7 million for the first batch of shares, well below VEBA's asking price of $342.9 million. That disagreement was brought to a Delaware court, and a ruling expected this month will signal what Fiat will likely need to pay for its Chrysler takeover.
When it looked to exercise the second option, Fiat offered $198 million.
The price for each batch of shares is calculated using a formula that takes into account Chrysler's performance over the prior four quarters, as well as other variables.
Last week, Chrysler reported 8.2% U.S. sales growth in June amid continued demand for pickup trucks and Dodge vehicles.
The automaker reported in April a first-quarter profit that fell 65% on higher costs related to the pending launch of the 2014 Jeep Cherokee and other new models.


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Clean Slate: Using White in Children's Rooms
Friends, I know I will get laughed off the island. Yet before we dive into color, I'd like to focus one quick, teensy post on perhaps my favorite color for rooms: white. Yes, it's the absence of color if you're talking about pigment, but nothing plays off color like a white or ivory room. So please indulge me just this once, as I take a trip down memory lane to some of my favorite white children's rooms from Apartment Therapy's archives.
Contrary to popular belief, a white room doesn't have to be boring. It is a clean slate, and we love the Scandinavian style peace that a white room with pops of color brings. From barnyard chic to the thoroughly modern, a white space works with almost any style. Click through for a few favorites:
1. Indigo's Hyggelig Nook - "Hyggelig" is a Danish word that means "welcoming." Every detail of this room is imbedded with history and a great sense of love, not to mention, color.
2. Jasper's Joyous Jungle - Jasper's family upholstered an old chair in a brilliant cobalt fabric, echoed in a charming vintage poster.
3. Ruby's Gem of a Room White encourages a stylistic tension between modern furniture and a doily style rug and crocheted poof. The combined effect is a warm, sweetly contemporary space.
4. Sophia's White, Bright, Magically Modern Nursery Sophia's room redefines the term "pop of color." From oversize artwork to a happy friendly rug, even the child's own painting plays off the white walls.
5. Violet's Bright and Airy Space Our own Lauren Hufnagl utilized a cool, feminine color palette in peaches, greys, and greenish yellows against her ivory walls. The end result is so soothing, adults wish they could sleep here too.
6. Oscar & Boots' 150 Square Foot Bedroom An Alexander Girard rug, a wall full of art, and a fuchsia Fatboy. Need we say more?
7. Olivia Ellen's Copenhagen Charmer Charmer, indeed. Olivia Ellen's room utilizes accessories and accent colors to their best advantage. A handmade pink tapestry contrasts an orange plastic Vitra chair, which plays off an aqua curio cabinet. The whole effect is just brilliant.
8. Meg's Room for Three One thing that's for sure about white is that it's malleable enough for multiple genders and ages. Check out how Meg pulled this room together for her three kids, and don't miss colorful details like the paint hidden on the drawer sides.
9. Rowan's Place in the World Rowan's space is an enticingly gender-neutral space that encourages travel and curiosity about the world. Be sure to check this one out if you're not finding out the sex of your baby before you decorate.
10. Leif's Modern Victorian These parents turned a closet into a red telephone booth, and pulled the whole room together with a simple graphic black and white rug to create a space the whole family wants to play in. Well done!
• The Most Colorful & Inspiring White Children's Rooms
• Embracing Plain Walls: Lessons from Inspiring White Rooms
• Modern Kids: Black & White Rooms
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March 31 ACA Enrollment Deadline: The enrollment period for individual and small group policies offered through the Affordable Care Act will expire at the end of this month. There are a number of resources available to help consumers understand the options available to them:
- Enroll America's website Get Covered provides information for consumers on their coverage options under the law. Learn how to get local enrollment help and more.
- The National Health Council has launched a website, Putting Patients First, to help patients estimate their insurance costs and pick the right exchange plan. PPF's Cost Estimator tool allows anyone to enter their general medical information (such as how many doc visits they anticipate in the next year, regular medications, income level, etc.) and guides them to the specific plan level best suited for them to ensure the most coverage possible with the lowest out-of-pocket costs.
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Mental Health America Capitol Hill Day—May 7: Mental Health America is partnering with the National Council for Behavioral Health for Capitol Hill Day '14 on May 7—the biggest behavioral health advocacy event of the year. This year, Hill Day will be held in conjunction with the National Council's 2014 Conference, which is taking place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center just outside of Washington, DC. Registration for Hill Day is free and includes and Public Policy Track sessions and workshops held on May 6, including leadership lessons from Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. For more information on hotel accommodations, a schedule and to register, go to http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/events-and-training/hill-day/register-book/.
Administration Expected to Allow Some People to Enroll for Health Coverage after March 31 Deadline: The Obama administration is expected to issue guidelines allowing people to enroll in health coverage after a March 31 deadline, but only under certain circumstances. According to sources, the new federal guidelines for consumers in the 36 states served by the federal health insurance marketplace and its website, HealthCare.gov, would allow people to enroll after March 31 if they had tried earlier and were prevented by system problems including technical glitches. On Friday, the administration published in the Federal Register new regulations that would allow state-run marketplaces new flexibility in setting insurance coverage effective dates for people who sign up during special enrollment periods. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could not confirm whether an announcement was expected soon but said the administration would not neglect people who have problems enrolling. (Reuters, 3/24/14)
Mindfulness Helps Prevent Drug, Alcohol Relapse—Study: A treatment program incorporating mindfulness meditation is better over the long term than traditional approaches at preventing relapses of drug and alcohol use, according to a new study. Researchers found that after one year far fewer participants who got relapse-prevention training, including mindfulness techniques, had used drugs or alcohol compared to those given relapse-prevention therapy alone or a standard 12-step program. Although they cautioned that mindfulness is not better for everyone, they said it is another option. Reported in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, the study recruited 286 people who had successfully completed substance use treatment and randomly assigned them to participate in one of three treatments for eight weeks. One group did a standard 12-step program, another group did a cognitive-behavioral-based relapse prevention program and the third group did a program combining relapse-prevention with mindfulness techniques. The researchers then followed the participants for 12 months to see how many used drugs or alcohol. After another three months, both of the relapse-prevention groups began performing better than the 12-step program participants. At the one-year mark, the mindfulness-based relapse-prevention therapy outperformed the other two approaches. About 9 percent of the participants in the mindfulness group reported drug use after a year, compared to about 14 percent in the 12-step program group and 17 percent in the traditional relapse-prevention group. Only about 8 percent of the participants in the mindfulness group also reported heavy drinking after a year, compared to about 20 percent in the other two therapy groups. (Reuters, 3/20/14)
New Research Links Depression, Obesity in Teen Girls: New research finds that adolescent females who experience either obesity or depression are at a greater risk for the other as they get older. By assessing a statewide sample of more than 1,500 males and females in Minnesota over a period of more than 10 years, researchers found that depression occurring by early adolescence in females predicts obesity by late adolescence. Meanwhile, obesity that occurs by late adolescence in females predicts the onset of depression by early adulthood. No significant associations between the two disorders across time were found in males during the study. The study improves on past research by focusing on the onset of each disorder, rather than just recurrence or persistence of the two conditions. Participants in the study, which was published in the International Journal of Obesity, were assessed at ages 11, 14, 17, 20, and 24 by using height and weight measurements and clinical, interview-based diagnosis of major depressive disorder. The researchers looked specifically for onsets of either disorder by age 14, between the ages of 14 and 20, and between ages 20 and 24. (Newsworks.org, 3/20/14)
Children in Military Families Who Relocate at Increased Risk of Mental Health Difficulties: Children in military families who relocate have an increased risk of having mental health difficulties, according to a new study. Reported in the Journal of Adolescent Health, the study used medical records from the Military Health System Medical Data Repository of more than half a million children of active duty U.S. service personnel in 2008. The study controlled for factors such as the mental health of the parents and the branch of service and rank of the military parent. About 25 percent of the 548,366 children of military parents involved in the study relocated. The actual number of children of all military personnel who moved during that year is higher, since the lower age cut-off was age 6. The military children who moved in 2008 were significantly more likely to have a mental health care visit in 2009 than military children who did not move. This was true for outpatient visits, emergency room visits and psychiatric hospitalization. Adolescents who moved had more severe mental health issues than younger children. (Medical Xpress, 3/21/14)
Integrating Mental Health Care in Pediatric Practice Effective—Study: Brief behavioral and mental health programs for children can be effectively provided within pediatric practices as an alternative to being referred to a community specialist, according to a randomized trial. Reporting in the journal Pediatrics, researchers found that treatment provided in the pediatrician's office resulted in improved access to care, greater participation by both the child and their caregiver in treatment programs, and higher rates of treatment completion, without burdening the pediatric practice. The study recruited 300 children and their caregivers at eight community pediatric practices who had been referred for treatment of behavioral problems, though many also had attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or anxiety. Half the children received "doctor office collaborative care," where a trained behavioral health clinician, known as a care manager, collaborated with the child's pediatrician to deliver mental health services in the pediatrician's office. The other half received "enhanced usual care," where the patients received educational materials and were referred to a local mental health specialist outside the pediatrician's office. In the program at the pediatrician's office, the child and their caregiver participated in six to 12 individual or family sessions within six months where the mental health clinician worked on individualized goals to address the behavioral health issue and reviewed educational materials to help achieve those goals. Of the participants assigned to the care manager at the pediatrician's office, 99.4 percent began treatment programs and 76.6 percent completed them. Of those assigned to a specialist outside the office, 54.2 percent began treatment and 11.6 percent completed it. The program in the pediatrician's office also was associated with higher rates of improvement in behavioral and hyperactivity problems, lowered parental stress, better treatment response and consumer satisfaction. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/24/14)
Behavioral Healthcare examines "The ACA and behavioral health: A look ahead."
The New York Times looks at "Teaching Children to Calm Themselves."
Forbes examines "Mental Health At Work: What Every Team Leader Should Know."
NBC News looks at "Can Social Media Help Direct Mental Health Aid?"
The Daily Beast examines how hospitals are failing kids with mental illness.
Psychiatric News looks at "Psychiatric Genetics Hold Great Promise."
Behavioral Healthcare interviews Jeffrey A. Lieberman, president of the American Psychiatric Association
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ICU Patients Face Risk of Mental Health Problems after Discharge: Critically ill people who survive a stay in the intensive care unit face a heightened risk of mental health problems in the months after hospital discharge, a new study suggest. In looking at more than 24,000 Danish ICU patients, researchers found that after discharge, people had an increased risk of developing depression, anxiety disorders or other psychiatric conditions. Although the rates weren't high—about 0.5 percent of patients had a new diagnosis in the three months post-discharge—it was 22 times the rate seen in the general population over the same time period. Reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study highlights what researchers say is an emerging issue: As doctors get better at saving the lives of critically ill patients, more people will be at risk of longer-term problems beyond general health. For the study, the researchers used records from Denmark's system of medical databases. Of the 24,000 ICU patients who were ill enough to be placed on a ventilator for complications ranging from lung failure to life-threatening infections, almost 10,000 had no diagnosis of a mental health condition, or prescription for psychiatric drugs, in the prior five years. But in the three months after their discharge from the ICU, 0.5 percent received a new diagnosis, the researchers noted. Most often, that meant an anxiety disorder or "mood" disorder such as depression. Many more—13 percent—received a new prescription for a psychiatric medication, including antidepressants and drugs for anxiety and insomnia, according to the report. Those rates were much higher than the ones among more than 80,000 Danish adults matched to the ICU patients for age and sex. Over the same time period, there were 0.02 percent diagnosed with a mental health condition, and 0.7 percent were prescribed a psychiatric drug. The ICU patients' risks also exceeded those of other hospital patients who didn't need intensive care. In that group, the study found, 0.2 percent that were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder in the three months after discharge, and 5 percent were prescribed a drug. Although the ICU patients had a higher rate of past mental health conditions, that didn't explain the post-discharge risks seen in the nearly 10,000 ICU patients with no signs of past mental health problems. (HealthDay News, 3/18/14)
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|2012-11-10, 21:18
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They suffered psychological and physical trauma. Their reps got shot to hell. They had to leave the area. Their life got ruined. It is not too farfetched to want someone dead in this scenario. Hitmen are hired in real life for lesser reasons. And they get money for it. It's a real deal to get paid to have revenge done on your enemy.
|2012-11-11, 00:31
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Location: Mt. Ordeals
Wow, Sakamoto and Taira really steaming up the bromance. Might be because I hung around with fujoshis a lot, but I can't help but think that this episode would've been BL bait if Taira was drawn as a bishie instead.
|2012-11-11, 03:43
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|2012-11-11, 03:52
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The anime never said that their reputations were affected. So why would you assume that it was?
|2012-11-11, 04:17
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Join Date: Jan 2004
It goes back to society views and in this situation otaku views on sex. This was in the news and it involved a celebrity group. That means that it went viral on Facebook. Because they were raped, they can be considered as damaged second hand goods. Some people would think that they asked for it. Stuff like that
Teen stuff that you take for granted like socializing on Facebook is cut off for them. Dating is now an issue as they prob are going to be in psych therapy for recovery.
Here's something to read.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_...me1issue1/gray ('The influence of rape myths.." section is particularly enlightening.)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...GirlIsNotASlut (Reading the first link will explain the basis for this trope.)
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|2012-11-11, 15:11
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And no, I was not trying to sugarcoat anything.
|2012-11-11, 15:36
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I'm not quite sure WHAT they're researching.
|2012-11-11, 18:56
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Moderate Haruhiist
Dengar, you seem to have a serious problem understanding why these girls did this. If at this point, you STILL can't have an inkling at this point, then it's not going to happen. I suggest dropping it, for everyone here.
Also, as someone who has *CENSORED FOR PRIVACY* let me say if given the chance to send someone away forever, I'd take it.
As for WHAT they're "researching", that's a spoiler, which can easily answered via PM if you want.
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Ok, there's one last question, after that I promise I'll try to leave well enough alone:
Why didn't those girls use that thing, to, you know, banish the rapists rather than the girl who did nothing wrong? Is the girl who did nothing wrong worse than the rapists? Is this what happens when you take a male-dominated world to its logical conclusion?... I'm sorry, am I -really- that weird to be really touched by this severe misdirection of hatred? The ones who committed the crime get to go scot-free because they're dudes, but the girl who, from a certain twisted point of view, and even then, only because she didn't know it would happen, allowed the crime to happen gets the punishment? Am I really that weird to think this is unfair?
|2012-11-12, 19:18
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The guys were probably in jail or something by then since they were shown to be in police custody. I don't see it as an issue of gender either, because if Himeko had been a boy in the same chain of events, then they would have written her (his) name down as well.
|2012-11-12, 19:32
|Link #435
Moderate Haruhiist
The sempai and her cronies were alluded (in the manga anyway; there's a throwaway line during the scene where Himeko is confronted in the rain) to have been arrested and in custody. The reason SHE got voted to the island is because, as far as the victimized girls are concerned, is that SHE didn't get what she deserved for her part, unintentional as it is, in what happened.
|2012-11-12, 20:12
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I think you missunderstood what the article was about. It was about how the Japanese society impacted how rape was handled in the legal system. The short answer is very poorly. The victim actually has to prove that they are not only virtous and didn't want sex, but also that they resisted sufficiently to make that clear to the perp. This means that the victim is the one on trial. There are more bad implications then that, but that is one relevant here.
Now, that doesn't in any way make Himiko guilty or actually deserving her fate to be sent to hell island, it just explaines why the girls had to move towns and such.
|2012-11-12, 20:31
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Waiting for more taiyuki!
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I don't think that the hatred was misdirected.
|2012-11-13, 00:00
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|2012-11-13, 03:03
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Kamen Rider Muppeteer
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Location: Unknown
Age: 34
Anyway, I apologize for not seeing things the way you guys do. Maybe the idea just doesn't click. I just honestly believe that this retribution is wrong, and I react strongly in the face of unfairness. And I really apologize if I offend anyone by saying this, but.. I'm not religious, but I still hope hell has a special place reserved for these girls.
|2012-11-13, 07:20
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Eaten by goats
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Rokkenjima
That said, of course you're correct that it was unfair of those girls to put down Himiko's name. That's not in doubt. I think what you don't understand is that it's actually quite common for people to blame people for things which weren't their fault - or for which they weren't the ones most at fault. People can get pretty weird, you know?
For an example of how weird people can get, I'll give the example of two people I know in real life. I'll call them A and B. A, entirely through her own stupidity and carelessness, nearly got her entire family killed. The only reason they weren't killed is that person B saved them all. But in the process, person B was seriously and dramatically injured. Were A and her family grateful? Did they say thank you, or send flowers? No. While B was (more or less literally) bandaged head to foot and immobile for many weeks on end, A and her family started to do things like dump trash on B's lawn. A started to hate B and think that B deserved to be hurt rather than have to accept that she was to blame for B's horrific injuries. It's a known psychological thing that happens sometimes.
It's not the same situation as the Btooom! girls, but sometimes when bad things happen, blame isn't assigned rationally. In the case of Himiko's friend, maybe Himiko was the most convenient person to blame. She was the only one to escape, and was the one who arranged for them all to meet those guys, so it looks like her friends were overcome with jealousy and bitterness. Which doesn't make it right or fair for them to want her to disappear...
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Esperanza Spalding is stunning on the red carpet at the 2013 Grammy Awards on Sunday (February 10) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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A new Health and Human Services mandate issued under the Affordable Care Act for women's preventive care goes into effect in August 2012. That mandate requires that new employer-sponsored health insurance plans include, without deductibles or co-pays, all F.D.A. approved methods of contraception. Among these are procedures and drugs that are objectionable to Catholic moral teaching.
The H.H.S. has offered a narrow religious exemption that frees religious employers like dioceses and parishes from the mandate. But institutions that are not exempt from the new guidelines because their employees and the people they serve come from different faiths or no faith at all—primarily Catholic colleges and universities and health and social service providers—have until August 2013 to figure out how to adapt their employee benefits to the mandate. Obama administration officials have indicated that they consider dialogue regarding the exemption language over.
The divide between the administration and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in this renewed culture war is deep. They cannot even agree on terms. The so-called morning after drugs, Plan B and ella, are among the prescription options that will be required under the new guidelines. The bishops say they are abortifacients; the F.D.A. and the drug makers say they are not. Both sides are right according to their privileged definitions.
Ella and Plan B work in much the same manner, primarily by delaying ovulation. According to the F.D.A., Plan B may also prevent fertilization. If fertilization does occur, both drugs may prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb. According to the F.D.A., these "morning after" pills cannot be described as abortifacients because no pregnancy occurs. But according to Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, every procedure "whose sole immediate effect is the termination of pregnancy before viability is an abortion, which, in its moral context, includes the interval between conception and implantation of the embryo."
The dispute also revolves around conflicting interpretations of religious liberty. The president insists that the new guidelines respect the traditional primacy of religious liberty, since individual employees of Catholic institutions remain free to use or not use contraception based on their religious or moral beliefs.
He is supported in that interpretation by the A.C.L.U. "This rule respects religious liberty while preventing religiously affiliated organizations from using religion as an excuse to discriminate and deny services to others," writes Sarah Lipton-Lubet of the A.C.L.U. "Organizations that operate in the public sphere should play by public rules. That's not a 'war' on religion; that's the Constitution."
The bishops argue that requiring religious institutions to pay for health care that includes procedures or prescriptions that violate founders' beliefs is a fundamental violation of both institutional and—since all participants in a plan share costs—individual conscience. "The issue," writes Bishop David A. Zubik of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, "is the right of the church to be able to live its beliefs without contrary beliefs and practices being imposed by departments of the federal government."
A final major concern of the bishops is the precedent set by the administration's assumption of a defining authority over religiously affiliated entities simply because they are engaged in providing civic services, like education or health care. Some worry that after "secularization" in this manner by the state, it will not be long before other government mandates will be applied to religious institutions or that in retreat from such mandates, religious entities will be driven from the public sphere altogether.