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Editor's note: This story was originally published in December 2012.
Margaret Lamkin doesn't visit her grandchildren much anymore. She never flies. She avoids wearing dresses. And she worries about infections and odors.
Three years ago, at age 87, Lamkin was forced to wear a colostomy bag for the rest of her life after a virulent meat-borne pathogen destroyed her large colon and nearly killed her.
What made her so sick? A medium-rare steak she ate nine days earlier at an Applebee's restaurant.
Lamkin, like most consumers today, didn't know she had ordered a steak that had been run through a mechanical tenderizer. In a lawsuit, Lamkin said her steak came from National Steak Processors Inc., which claimed it got the contaminated meat from a U.S. plant run by Brazilian-based JBS – the biggest beef packer in the world.
"You trust people, trust that nothing is going to happen," said Lamkin, who feels lucky to be alive at 90, "but they (beef companies) are mass-producing this and shoveling it into us."
The Kansas City Star investigated what the industry calls "bladed" or "needled" beef, and found the process exposes Americans to a higher risk of E. coli poisoning than cuts of meat that have not been tenderized.
The process has been around for decades, but while exact figures are difficult to come by, USDA surveys show that more than 90 percent of beef producers are now using it.
Mechanically tenderized meat is increasingly found in grocery stores, and a vast amount is sold to family-style restaurants, hotels and group homes.
The American Meat Institute, an industry lobbying group, has defended the product as safe, but institute officials recently said they can't comment further until they see the results of a pending risk assessment by the meat safety division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Although blading and injecting marinades into meat add value for the beef industry, that also can drive pathogens – including the E. coli O157:H7 that destroyed Lamkin's colon – deeper into the meat.
If it isn't cooked sufficiently, people can get sick. Or die.
There have been several USDA recalls of the product since at least 2000, and a Canadian recall in October included mechanically tenderized steaks imported into the United States, but it's not clear how many people were sickened.
In a 2010 letter to the USDA, the American Meat Institute noted eight recalls between 2000 to 2009 that identified mechanically tenderized and marinaded steaks as the culprit. Those recalls sickened at least 100 people.
But food safety advocates suspect the incidence of illness is much higher.
An estimate by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group, suggests that mechanically tenderized beef could have been the source of as many as 100 outbreaks of E. coli and other illnesses in the United States in recent years. Those cases affected more than 3,100 people who ate contaminated meat at wedding receptions, churches, banquet facilities, restaurants and schools, the center said.
But that's just one of the key findings from The Star's investigation, which examined Big Beef's processing methods, the use of drugs in cattle and the hazards they can pose for human health.
The Star examined the largest beef packers including the big four – Tyson Foods of Arkansas, Cargill Meat Solutions of Wichita, Kan., National Beef of Kansas City, Mo., and JBS USA Beef of Greeley, Colo. – as well as the network of feedlots, processing plants, animal drug companies and lobbyists who make up the behemoth known as Big Beef.
What The Star found is an increasingly concentrated industry that mass-produces beef at high speeds in mega-factories that dot the Midwest, where Kansas City serves as the "buckle" of the beef belt. It's a factory food process churning out cheaper, and some say tougher cuts of meat that can lead to illness and death. The Star's other key findings:
Large beef plants, based on volume alone, contribute disproportionately to the incidence of meat-borne pathogens.
Big Beef and other processors are co-mingling ground beef from many different cattle, some from outside the United States, adding to the difficulty for health officials to track contaminated products to their source. The industry also has resisted labeling some products, including mechanically tenderized meat, to warn consumers and restaurants to cook it thoroughly.
Big Beef is injecting billions of dollars of growth hormones and antibiotics into cattle, partly to fatten them quickly for market. But many experts believe that years of overuse and misuse of such drugs contributes to antibiotic-resistant pathogens in humans, meaning illnesses once treated with a regimen of antibiotics are much harder to control.
Big Beef is using its political pull, public relations campaigns and the supportive science it sponsors to influence federal dietary guidelines and recast steaks and burgers as health foods people can eat every day. It even persuaded the American Heart Association to certify beef as "heart healthy."
Big Beef, industry critics contend, has grown too big for Big Government to lasso.
Indeed, the U.S. beef industry is twice as concentrated as it was when President Teddy Roosevelt took on and beat the old Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Morris beef trust in the early 1900s.
"Roosevelt," remarked Montana rancher Dan Teigen, "would be spinning in his saddle."
Thanks in large part to the Midwest's grassy plains and ample row crops, the United States produces 26 billion pounds of beef a year from 34 million cattle — more than any other country.
Four of the seven largest beef slaughterhouses – each capable of killing 6,000 head a day – are in Kansas, which leads the nation in meat processing.
The big slaughterhouses are among the last vestiges of old-line American manufacturing, except that they take things apart instead of putting them together. Meat slaughter and processing employs 260,000 people, and Big Beef's highly efficient plants supply a large share of those jobs in the Midwest.
As a result, despite recent price hikes, beef costs less in the United States than anywhere in the world. It has become America's crude oil – in high demand worldwide, including faraway lands where a newly minted middle class is acquiring a taste for more expensive protein.
But some independent ranchers, members of Congress and food safety advocates question the wisdom of processing so much beef at such speeds, arguing that "factory food" is more likely to trigger pathogen outbreaks.
Their reasoning: When processing speed and volumes rise, so do the chances for contamination to be introduced and spread widely from its source to other meat inside the plant and at other plants that process it further. In fact, most of the lawsuits that Seattle attorney Bill Marler has filed against the meat industry – winning a total of $250 million in judgments on behalf of children who suffered kidney failure by eating bad hamburger – were against big packing plants, where he said "the problem begins."
E. coli O157:H7 is a potentially deadly bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration and, in severe cases, kidney failure. The very young, seniors and people with weak immune systems are most at risk. A recent lawsuit against National Steak and JBS noted that there are an estimated 73,480 illnesses linked to E. coli O157:H7 infections each year in the United States, leading to 2,168 hospitalizations and 61 deaths.
USDA data analyzed by The Star show that large plants have had higher rates of positive E. coli tests than smaller plants. Federal meat safety officials said the latest data show those differences are disappearing.
But they acknowledged that the volume of meat a plant produces is a key issue. A USDA study published in March showed that from 2007 through 2011, E. coli positives at very small plants resulted in only 465,000 pounds of contaminated beef. A slightly lower rate of positive tests at large plants, however, produced more than 51 million pounds of contaminated beef.
Regardless, USDA officials and other experts agree that most E. coli generally originates at larger slaughter plants, where pathogen-laden manure is a bigger problem because that's where cattle are coming in from the feedlots.
Federal inspection records obtained by The Star under the federal Freedom of Information Act include hundreds of references to fecal contamination problems at four of the largest beef slaughter plants in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. For example, at Tyson's Dakota City, Neb., beef plant, inspectors noted: "massive fecal contamination; multiple carcasses with varying degrees of fecal contamination; periods of very significant fecal, ingesta and abscess contamination."
Another federal inspector at Tyson found "a piece of trimmed fat approximately 14 inches long with feces the length of it," and another noted, "fecal contamination . . . was so great . . . couldn't keep up."
But Tyson officials said such reports only provide a "snapshot of beef production." The company said it has added two full-time safety technicians at the plant, as well as additional workers, to assess carcasses and make sure fecal contamination is eliminated.
USDA and beef industry officials point out that E. coli illnesses have dropped dramatically in recent years, although the Food Safety and Inspection Service cautioned that no "consistent trend" has emerged in recalls of contaminated beef.
"A miracle has occurred in the beef industry," said Janet Riley, senior vice president for public affairs at the American Meat Institute. "Beef is safer, more affordable and more plentiful than it ever has been."
James Marsden, a food safety professor at Kansas State University, told The Star that processors and the USDA could do better with mechanically tenderized steaks.
"E. coli is impossible to eradicate from beef cattle," he said. But a key to eliminating it in mechanically tenderized steaks is to use "interventions" such as spraying lactic acid on the meat to reduce or eliminate surface contamination. Some companies do that, he said, but the USDA does not require it.
None of that, however, prevented Lamkin's illness after eating beef that had been mechanically tenderized, according to a lawsuit she filed last year.
"I was amazed to learn how these steaks are processed," Lamkin said. "I never dreamed of anything happening like this."
More and more, the beef industry is using machines with automated, double-edged blades to cut through muscle fibers and connective tissue to penetrate tougher cuts of meat.
Hollow needles are sometimes used to inject flavorings, or what the industry calls "digestive agents." Marinades also may be added to meat, which can add to contamination risks.
Surveys of beef producers by the USDA found that most use mechanical tenderization to improve quality. A large percentage of mechanically tenderized meat – the industry produces at least 50 million pounds a month – winds up in family-style restaurants, hotels, hospitals and group homes.
For Big Beef, mechanically tenderized meat is all about bigger profits, according to food safety advocates. However, the beef industry doesn't widely publicize the process, and some food safety advocates say the reason is such labeling can lead to sales declines.
The American Meat Institute, citing a 2008 USDA study, has maintained that the risk of illness from E. coli O157:H7 in such products "is not significantly higher."
But a more recent study published last year in the Journal of Food Protection found that bladed and marinated steaks were two to four times riskier than those that had not been mechanically tenderized.
Some experts say Big Beef is relying on the process more and more because beef is getting tougher.
Changes in animal feeding practices are causing cattle to come to market sooner, said David Theno, a beef industry consultant and leading food safety expert. Those animals often "have less marbling and may be less tender than animals that spend more time in feedlots," he explained.
Theno, who helped the Jack in the Box restaurant chain reform its practices after an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in the 1990s, said problems with mechanically tenderized meat can arise because many consumers don't want their steaks overcooked. But failing to heat them sufficiently can allow pathogens to survive.
Such risks have been identified "for quite some time," said Carlota Medus, principal epidemiologist for Minnesota's health department.
"We have seen it (mechanically tenderized meat) as a vehicle for outbreaks since 2003," she said. "It's not as risky as ground beef, but it is definitely riskier than an intact steak."
USDA research also discovered an ominous phenomenon in mechanically tenderized and marinated meat. The 2011 Journal of Food Protection article warned that cooking highly contaminated bladed steaks on a gas grill – even at 160 degrees like hamburger – might not kill all E. coli bacteria.
Those remaining living pathogens, ironically called "fortuitous survivors" by scientists, survive because of cold spots in the meat.
The American Meat Institute has said that blade-tenderized steaks are just as safe as other steaks if "the meat is properly cooked." The institute also found that if researchers had allowed the steaks to "rest" and continue cooking for an additional three minutes before taking their samples, those remaining "fortuitous survivors" may have been killed.
Food-safety advocates, however, point out that most consumers, restaurants and grocery stores don't know they're buying bladed meat and therefore don't know it should be cooked more thoroughly. The Safe Food Coalition "strongly believes" such products pose "a serious and unnecessary threat to public health."
Not every beef company uses mechanical tenderizers, though all of the big four packers acknowledged using them at some point in their production process. But Big Beef's slaughterhouses are only the first stop in the meat distribution network, and mechanical tenderization can happen anywhere up to and including the point of sale, such as grocery stores.
"It doesn't matter where in the process it occurs," said Pat Buck, who co-founded the Center for Foodborne Illness, Research and Prevention after her 2-year-old grandson, Kevin, died from eating E. coli-contaminated ground beef.
"But once it occurs, whether it's at processing, retail or somewhere in between, we believe it is the obligation of the person who does it to label it."
Problems with contaminated mechanically tenderized beef are growing and becoming international in scale.
Just this fall, an estimated 2.5 million pounds of E. coli-contaminated meat, including mechanically tenderized cuts quietly crossed the Canadian border into the United States before being caught by inspectors.
The bad meat came from XL Foods Inc. and triggered the largest meat recall in Canadian history.
As of late October, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 17 people became sick in that country, including at least five who ate mechanically tenderized steaks. The Canadian recall came too late in the United States. Some of the meat already had been distributed in at least 30 states to retailers such as Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.
By now, the contaminated meat has likely been eaten, frozen or thrown away, and so far no illnesses connected with the outbreak have been documented in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still investigating.
But if you're reading about the contaminated Canadian meat for the first time, it's probably because the outbreak received scant attention in the United States.
Rather than recall the imported meat, the USDA issued what it called a "Public Health Alert" in late September. An alert is a lower enforcement action than a recall.
"While the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has actually issued recall announcements, (the U.S. government) is still releasing vague 'Public Health Alerts,'" said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch.
E. coli outbreaks, for mechanically tenderized steaks and ground beef, are difficult to trace to their source because the beef production system is complex and the food safety enforcement system is broken, according to food safety advocates and members of Congress.
The Star found that Robert Danell, a 62-year-old man with Down syndrome, died after he and one other at a group home in Sauk Rapids, Minn., fell ill as part of the same E. coli outbreak involving the steak that made Lamkin sick.
Health officials were never able to pin down whether Danell or the other victim at the group home ate mechanically tenderized steak, contaminated hamburger also found in the same outbreak, or instead were exposed to the feces of those who did.
Danell was hospitalized on Jan. 9, 2010, suffering from bloody diarrhea. He died of kidney failure 10 days later.
Today, Danell's brother, Bill, can only wonder why the E. coli contamination couldn't have been prevented.
"They figured out it was E. coli, and by that time, there was no way to treat it, and that pushed him into his early death," said Bill Danell, whose family didn't take legal action.
Even though his brother lived much longer with Down syndrome than anyone predicted, his death was unexpected. Now all his family is left with are memories.
"Sometimes he would take the bus downtown, transfer to another bus and go to the Army recruiting station and try to join up. He did that every day for a while," Bill Danell said.
In the end, victims such as Lamkin often must go to court to find out why they became ill.
Early last year, Lamkin sued Oklahoma-based National Steak Processors, the company that allegedly mechanically tenderized the beef that Lamkin ate at Applebee's. The company declined comment.
Lamkin's steak was claimed to be part of a USDA recall announced on Christmas Eve 2009. It involved 248,000 pounds of meat from National Steak. Those steaks, and additional contaminated ground beef, sickened 25 people in 17 states, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.
Health department records show that 14 of the 25 known victims reported eating steak, some of which were mechanically tenderized, at one of several family-style restaurants.
Health officials believe, and lawsuits alleged, that the original source of the contaminated steaks was a JBS plant.
Those records indicate JBS' Colorado plant may have provided contaminated meat that was mixed into ground beef in Kansas and distributed in Minnesota and elsewhere.
But the USDA told Minnesota health officials that "the trace back investigation was not considered sufficiently strong to conclusively implicate that company (JBS)."
USDA officials told The Star that JBS' Greeley plant was "a supplier of interest," but ultimately they "could not find information sufficient" to make that conclusion.
After Lamkin sued National Steak Processors, the company then sued JBS, alleging that JBS had provided them with the E. coli-contaminated steaks in the first place.
JBS denied the allegation in court, but when Lamkin's lawsuit was settled in August, JBS and National Steak both contributed to her settlement. The details of that settlement, which did not assign blame, are not part of the court record.
JBS told The Star that the settlement is not an acknowledgement that they sold the contaminated meat blamed for Lamkin's illness. Instead, spokesman Cameron Bruett insisted, it is an acknowledgement of the "potential costs and the uncertainty in any litigation claim like this. I think both us and National felt it was in the best interest of the consumer to . . . share the costs of this settlement."
As for JBS being the source of the additional contaminated ground beef identified in the same outbreak, Bruett said, "We've never seen any proof of that claim."
Applebee's, which was not named in Lamkin's lawsuit, said all the restaurant chain's menus include "an FDA-compliant consumer advisory reminding guests that consuming raw or undercooked meat may increase the risk of contracting a foodborne illness."
The statement added that "all of the quality meat products that Applebee's is proud to serve . . . are sourced from USDA-compliant suppliers."
Until now, E. coli has been primarily a concern with ground beef. Part of the problem is that some plants mix ground beef from different countries and different cattle, commingling the meat to get the right level of fat content.
Medus, the epidemiologist who directed the Minnesota investigation, said the case illustrates how difficult it is to unravel a "common source outbreak involving two different products (ground beef and mechanically tenderized meat.)"
Although the contaminated steak was recalled, "bottom line, we didn't go to the next step, which would have been a recall at JBS," she said.
Earlier this year, the USDA proposed improvements in its system for tracing contaminated meat.
But some large packers agree more needs to be done.
"We believe there is room for improvement . . . that will lead to more timely actions and potentially fewer illnesses," Cargill officials told The Star.
Lamkin's and Danell's illnesses, and those of two dozen others, shouldn't have come as a surprise to federal regulators and the beef industry.
For years, the USDA has urged the industry to voluntarily label such products, but found in 2008 that few beef plants were doing so. Costco is among stores which do label such products as being bladed. Those labels advise consumers that "for your safety USDA recommends cooking to a minimum temperature of 160 degrees."
Not labeling mechanically tenderized beef jeopardizes consumers and puts health officials at a disadvantage if there's an outbreak of E. coli, experts said.
"The meat associations do not want labeling on their products because they believe that it will cause confusion and reluctance to buy the product," said Buck of the Center for Foodborne Illness.
Pleas to the USDA to force the labeling of mechanically tenderized meat went unheeded for years.
Even one food industry group complained that restaurants can't tell the difference between a regular steak and a mechanically tenderized steak, especially when frozen. The Conference for Food Protection asked the USDA in 2010 to require labels for it.
"Without clear labeling . . . food retailers including restaurants and retail stores, and consumers do not have the necessary information to safely prepare these products," the conference said.
The recent Canadian E. coli outbreak prompted health officials there to consider labeling mechanically tenderized steaks and the Canadian government advised food preparers to cook them to 160 degrees.
In the United States there has been no such public advisory and there still are no special labeling requirements.
For now, the USDA recommends cooking all beef steaks – mechanically tenderized of not – to a minimum internal temperature of 145 degrees, then letting them sit for 3 minutes.
While slow to respond, however, the USDA has begun a complex and lengthy process that could eventually require more specific labels for mechanically tenderized beef steaks. As part of that process the beef industry, the public and consumer groups will have an opportunity to comment on the proposal, which could be changed, or even dropped.
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service declined to discuss specifics of the proposal, including its risk assessment, because it's under review.
The American Meat Institute's position on the issue may be changing.
In 2009, after the outbreak that sickened Lamkin and the others, a statement on the Institute's website called for an investigation, but noted that USDA research had found that mechanically tenderized steaks are "comparable in safety" to other steaks.
As a result, they added, "we don't believe that special labeling declaring the mechanical tenderization process will provide meaningful or actionable information to consumers."
Today, Institute officials maintain that statement does not mean they oppose labeling those products.
"Our position was the right position at that time," Institute spokeswoman Janet Riley told The Star recently. "We are on the cusp of a great deal of new information (from the USDA) that will prompt careful review and, possibly, a change."
However Riley added: "Labeling is not a magic bullet. We know consumers often don't read labels or follow the instructions that are there."
The USDA's Office of Inspector General reported in March that it visited six large beef slaughter plants and determined that "overall industry was taking appropriate steps to help ensure that U.S. beef is safe from E. coli contamination."
As the inspector general put it: "When positive test results were found, plants were conducting investigations to determine the cause and applied corrective actions."
But the key phrase, critics point out, is "when positive test results were found." Some meat processors, they suspect, don't look hard enough.
That's because the federal government's meat inspection program, called Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), is implemented by meat producers, not government.
The government requires meat plants to verify that their food safety systems work, but it does not require them to actually test meat, nor does it set standards for plants that do.
For example, some in the beef industry acknowledge that they do not test their mechanically tenderized steaks for E. coli, as they do ground beef, because they believe the risk of illness is lower. JBS acknowledged they don't test those steaks.
Plants that do test meat must make results available to federal inspectors if asked, but they are not required to alert the government of results that are positive for pathogens.
Indeed, some federal meat inspectors have sarcastically suggested that HACCP should stand for "Have a Cup of Coffee and Pray" or "Hardly Anyone Comprehends Current Policy."
"Our food safety system is broken," former U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat, declared during a 2008 congressional hearing after the USDA initiated 20 beef recalls in 20 months.
Although the scientific principles behind HACCP are sound, Stupak said, "many experts contend that it actually decreased federal oversight because of industry's self-reliance on self-inspection."
The internal USDA audit this year found that federal inspectors need to provide plants with better guidance. In some cases, plants were able to use their HACCP programs to "sidestep regulations."
Such loopholes, the audit noted, led to problems such as a 2011 incident in which "a plant shipped about 80,000 pounds of beef after it received multiple positive E. coli tests."
USDA officials said they are always looking for ways to improve their oversight. Those officials, who wouldn't speak for attribution, said: "There has been a whole shift in our focus, and we are much more a scientifically based public health regulatory agency than ever before."
When contaminated beef does hit the market, recalls are the primary tool the USDA uses to minimize risk to consumers. But their effectiveness is limited, federal data show.
For instance, an analysis by The Star shows that since 2005, nearly 18 million pounds of E. coli contaminated beef has been recalled. Of that, far less than half was recovered.
Yet another victim of the same E. coli outbreak that sickened Lamkin and Danell wishes today that the bad meat she ate wasn't on the market.
Ashley Ashbrook's parents took her to dinner at Applebee's in her hometown of Ashtabula, Ohio, in early November 2009, to celebrate straight A's she earned during her senior year in high school.
Ashbrook, who was 17 at the time, ate a medium-rare sirloin steak that she did not know had been mechanically tenderized. She later contracted an E. coli 0157:H7 infection that was complicated by hemolytic uremic syndrome, the most common cause of kidney failure in children. Ashbrook sued National Steak and JBS in a case settled Nov. 26 for an undisclosed amount, although both companies denied any liability.
Ashbrook's kidneys shrunk to half their normal size, her kidney function remains abnormal, and she suffers from high blood pressure and anemia, she said.
Eventually, she may need dialysis or a kidney transplant.
"I still have high blood pressure and I get very fatigued because of the anemia. I have to take a break going up the stairs of my apartment and I feel like an old lady sometimes," said, Ashbrook, now 20 and a student at Kent State University's Ashtabula campus.
"I had never heard of anything like this (mechanically tenderized steak) before. . . . I went to a small restaurant recently – not a chain – and I asked the lady if it was blade tenderized, and she didn't know. She said she had no clue, so I said, 'I'll have it well-done.' "
The Kansas City Star's Bob Cronkleton contributed to this report.


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I tried it myself, and the Skype calling works pretty good. The PlayBook's QNX microphone picked up the sound very well, and the speed was pretty fast, not much delay. Let us know if you give it a try, and how it works for you?


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What's the scariest book you read in school? For me, it wasn't "Dracula" by
William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" told a dystopic story of schoolboys marooned on a remote, lush island. Left to themselves, they create their own society -- and soon wind up turning on one another, descending into savagery. It's a terrifying take on human nature: that we are cruel, fearful, hungry for power and will destroy ourselves.
First published in 1954 in Britain, "Lord of the Flies" became a lasting international success. On the strength of its artistry and allegory, Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1983.
The novel remains so popular that in September, it was the top-selling book on AbeBooks.com, which is an online storefront for used book dealers nationwide. A first edition of "Lord of the Flies" in its original dust jacket, signed by Golding and accompanied by a letter from him, sold for $19,877.
This copy of "Lord of the Flies" was previously owned by a girls' school teacher, Angharad Ryder, who collected signed first editions of many of her favorite 20th century novelists. Because she conducted much of her collecting by mail, she also had correspondence from several authors, including Golding.
In Golding's case, he enclosed a handwritten postcard that promised he would sign a copy of the Nobel speech he gave if she sent it. And he added, "Yes Lord of the Flies is the alleged translation of Beelzebub."
Reading "Lord of the Flies" -- a.k.a. Beelzebub -- in school was particularly disturbing for me and, I imagine, anyone else who was bookish, nerdy, and prone to annoyingly have the answers to every question. Because the character like that in the book is Piggy, a bespectacled outcast who quickly becomes a target. The book provides a frightening lesson for the bookish smartypants: Trouble is coming for you.
But I guess we like to be scared. Otherwise, "Lord of the Flies" wouldn't be a top seller, still.


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At long last, the official list of the most popular names for baby girls and boys born in England and Wales in 2009 has been released. And, to cut to the chase, here are the Top 10 for each gender–all of which were there last year, with several remaining in the same spot:
- Olivia
- Ruby
- Chloe (up 3 places)
- Emily (down 1)
- Sophie (up 2)
- Jessica (down 1)
- Grace (down 3)
- Lily
- Amelia
- Evie
- Oliver (up 1)
- Jack (down 1)
- Harry (up 1)
- Alfie (up 2)
- Joshua
- Thomas (down 3)
- Charlie
- William (up 2)
- James
- Daniel (down 2)
So Jack hit the road, after reigning as #1 for 14 years–though he was still on top in Wales and some areas of England. But it's interesting to note that if the 12 different spellings of Mohammed that were listed separately had counted as one name, it would have topped Oliver.
The biggest climbers in the Top 100 were Maisie for the girls and Austin for the boys. There were also regional differences (Isabella in London's Top Ten, Seren #3 in Wales) and seasonal (Holly was the favorite name for the month of December).
The Royalist spirit was reflected in the naming of 16 Kings, 68 Princes, eight Dukes, 11 Earls, four Barons and four Lords, as well as 12 Queenies, seven Queens, 109 Princesses and five Ladys.
There were only six new boys' names in the Top 100:
…replacing Blake, Jay, Billy, Corey, Zak and Sean. Showing the greatest rise within the Top 100: Lucas, Sebastian, Aidan, and Noah.
New entries in the girls' Top 100 were Heidi, Sara and Mya, replacing Maryam, Alicia, Courtney and Abbie. Maisie was the highest climber within the Top 100, followed by Lexi, Layla and Aimee.


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A wife has been awarded £50,000 in maintenance for her horses as part of a £1.5m divorce package in a landmark case that could spark bitter disputes over pets.
Lawyers believe the case could break new ground in divorce cases with couples claiming maintenance for their pets as well as themselves and their children.
Jeez, so we've gone from women - strong, independent beings that they supposedly are/were - getting a shedload of man's hard-earned cash in divorce settlements to support themselves and 'their' children to them getting more of a man's hard-earned cash to support their frigging pets!
The woman, who has not been named, was awarded the yearly sum after appeal judges agreed her three horses were a key part of her life.
She isn't Catherine The Great is she?
(Yes, I know it's an urban legend that Cathy croaked it getting a portion of equine-knob, but that doesn't stop it from being funny.)
Seriously though, just when you didn't think divorce courts couldn't get any more messed up and women couldn't get even more greedier. The judge actually agreed that this goldigging cunt shouldn't have to take up a '9-to-5 job' because that would take her away from her hobby. So her ex-husband has to stick to his job to ensure the bitch doesn't have to do a day's work ever again.


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by Sue Ann Rybak
Colleen Alexander, Virginia Trimble, Freda Crave and Isabelle Woodrow are just a few of the 323 residents of Cathedral Village in Andorra who can breathe a sigh of relief now that they have a state-approved form of identification to vote in the November presidential election. Cathedral Village issued all of its residents photo IDs that have an expiration date.
Alexander said she has voted in 100 elections including primaries. As a Democratic committee person for the 21st Ward and an outspoken citizen, she has never missed an opportunity to exercise her constitutional right to vote.
"I had a driver's license, but it expired last year," said Alexander, who uses a walker to get around. "Getting to PennDOT would be impossible."
Alexander said now she has her state-approved ID, she is going to vote "early and often."
Cathedral Village resident Paul Hensley said for this population it's not a matter of not wanting to travel to PennDOT offices, but for many it would mean sitting around for hours.
"We have several residents in a nursing home who are quite active mentally but have problems physically who would be deprived of their right to vote," said Hensley, a Democratic committee person for the 21st Ward. "I encouraged everyone, regardless of whether they have a driver's license or not, to get a Cathedral Village ID because you don't know when you will be able to get to the PennDOT center to renew your ID."
Hensley said the IDs were the result of a "team effort" by Louis Agre, Democratic Leader of the 21st Ward, Dennis Koza, CEO of Cathedral Village, City Commissioner Al Schmidt and several residents of Cathedral Village.
"As a community comprised of residents with diverse backgrounds, varying economic circumstances and lifestyles, one of the things that we all have in common is the need to remain a vibrant part of the greater community," Koza said. "The ability to participate in the general and national election processes certainly is one significant way of doing just that."
He said Cathedral Village wanted to make sure all of its residents had an opportunity to vote and that issuing IDs was "a simple way to do that."
Agre thanked Cathedral Village for making sure everyone got a state-approved ID card.
"It's not about who you vote for, – the most important thing is that you vote," Agre said. "We want to make sure everyone can exercise their constitutional right to vote."
Agre who is opposed to the voter ID law added "It's the only constitutional right that requires you have ID."
Muriel Anderson, a resident of Cathedral Village, asked Schmidt what the city was doing to ensure that people who are not physically able to get to PennDOT can still exercise their right to vote?
Schmidt said the City Commissioners Office's "sole responsibility is to run elections in the city and make sure they are honest and that everyone who is registered to vote is able to vote on election day."
"The Voter ID law presents a problem in making sure everyone who is eligible to vote can," Schmidt said.
He noted that organizations like the Voter ID Coalition, in conjunction with the city, have launched a "pretty aggressive outreach program."
Anderson reminded attendees not to forget those who have died working to "preserve our right to vote."
"Many of those who sit here today can recall how people died in the 60s trying to get people in the South the ability to vote," Anderson said. "I will never forget the deaths of those three young men: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (Mississippi civil rights workers who were killed by Klansmen for registering African-Americans).
"This is a very erroneous law," Anderson said.
She added that it threatened the constitutional right that so many of our young servicemen and servicewomen have died for, and that the state wasn't doing enough to make it easier for people to obtain voter IDs.
Al Spivey, chief of staff for Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr., told an audience of about 40 residents that everyone over the age of 65 can vote using an alternative ballot. The only identification required for the alternative ballot is the last four digits of the person's Social Security number.
"If you know somebody who doesn't have a valid ID, tell them to vote anyway," Spivey said. "If you don't have the proper ID, you have a right as a voter to vote provisionally."
Voters who forget to bring an ID to the polls in the November General Election can vote by provisional ballot. Their vote will be counted, as long as the voter returns a copy of an acceptable ID and an affirmation letter to their county within six calendar days. Affirmations and copies of ID may be returned to the county in person, by mail, fax or email.
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Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Taper Time
If you ask my husband what I like to read in bed at night, he will say,
"Ultrarunning Magazine...over and over again." He is correct. I am a student of the sport and love to get my hands on new training ideas and philosophies. I am particularly intrigued by the taper process, perhaps in part because after months and months of big miles, I am happy to cut back and chill. But I also dread the taper because somehow I find myself doubting my training and months of preparation...perhaps it's just endorphin withdrawal that is causing these doubts? In any case, today's post is on the taper because I am tapering for the Bull Run Run 50 on Saturday (the photo above, taken by Anstr Davidson, shows the glorious bluebells along the BRR course).
Back in October I attended an excellent information session on the taper that was geared for marathoners. I took away some valuable information that has really helped me in the months since. Specifically, I try to stay in my routine (stretching, strengthening, etc) as much as possible but with a cut-back in mileage. This taper for Bull Run is particularly challenging because I raced the Terrapin Mountain 50K on March 28 and had three weeks to recover, train, and taper again. Since many ultrarunners are often faced with multiple tapers since we like to race a lot, I thought you might be interested in what I did since March 28:
1st week (March 30-April 5): Mon: Swim, 20 mins. Tues: OFF. Wed: easy 4 mile/weights. Thurs: easy 5 miles. Fri: Swim 20 mins. Sat: 9 miles with 3 miles hill repeats. Sun: 9 miles with 4 miles at tempo on trails. Total miles: 27 miles
With the exception of the weekend runs, everything was run at recovery pace---very easy. The goal of this week was to recover, eat well, and sleep well.
2nd week (April 6-April 12): Mon:Swim 20 mins. Tues: 3 miles with 3 x 1:00 hill repeats. Wed: Swim 20 minutes. Thurs: 9 miles with 4 hilly miles at tempo (7:10 pace). Fri: Easy 8 miles on trails. Sat: Easy 8 miles on trails, lift upper body and core only. Sun: 8 miles with 5 miles at tempo (3 x 7:20 and 2x 7:05). Total: 36 miles
This was the "work" week...I ran as I felt but could tell I was recovered from the 50K enough to push the pace on the weekend. I still kept the mileage low but the runs were either quality or recovery...no junk. The goal of this week was to keep the blood moving with quality work but in smaller doses, and to stay sharp by training on the same kind of trails (rolling singletrack) as the race.
This week: (April 13-April 17): Monday OFF. Tuesday, 4 miles easy with a few hill pick-ups. Wed: Swim 20 minutes. Thurs: 5 miles easy, stretch. Friday: OFF, Saturday, RACE DAY!
The goal of this week is to stay sharp with a few short runs, fuel and hydrate well all week, get quality sleep and keep the work and family stress at a minimum. I don't think we pay attention to weekday stressors enough...they can add up and impact our race day in a huge way.
I am helping a few friends get ready for the MMT 100 and am beginning to sketch out their taper period which will start around May 2. Depending on how my plan above works for BRR, I will incorporate a few of my "lessons learned" into their plans. For example, it is time for the MMT runners to start training as much as possible during the warmest part of the day on the rockiest, knarliest trail, to condition their bodies to the heat and their feet to the rocks (they should have been training all spring on rocks, btw).
I also have a few friends in taper mode for Boston, which is on Monday, April 20. Let's hear from some of you folks running Boston and compare how the Boston taper and the Bull Run taper differ!
As they say, we are all "experiments of one." I would love to hear what has worked for you in terms of the taper, and what hasn't. Share your ideas!
4 comments:
- B.Gill said...
Wait, I'm supposed to be training during the warmest part of the day? Are you saying Chocolate Bunny was all for nothing? Darn, at least I got some chocolate out of it!
Enjoy the taper! Apparently you are one of the few who doesn't go crazy during this time... I know I sure do. See you at BRR!
- April 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- Rick Gray said...
Sophie, As usual you have it all figured out. You are so poised for a great Bull Run. We appreciate your sharing of ideas with the rest of us. Good luck Saturday morning, as I am wishing you one spectacular day. Rick
- April 13, 2009 at 6:07 PM
- Griffin said...
My taper is a little different, the Monday before my race i run 8 easy miles, Tuesday run 4 easy miles, Wednesday run 2 easy miles. Thursday a nice 2 mile WALK. Friday rest and Saturday race. This has worked well for me and i feel really rested going in.
- April 15, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- Rick Gray said...
Well Sophie, the taper is over and you are primed to toe the starting line tomorrow morning. Best of luck for a grand race. Rick
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I need to hear the sound of music, and, no, not the capital letters sound of music.
That would have been the 1965 Julie Andrews musical that played for 10 years in Des Moines theaters. And I know this, not because I made annual "The Sound of Music" pilgrimages to Des Moines, but because Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul waged a one-man battle to ban the movie from theaters.
Make more screens available for more "American Graffiti," "The Godfather Part II" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." It's hard to imagine a movie ever playing for 10 years in theaters, and I sometimes doubt my own memory, but I was a big fan of Donald Kaul and he waged a lonely battle.
I was 14, and Donald Kaul was the master. I remember.
Now, movies play for, what, a year in theaters? Six months? Six weeks? Straight to DVD? We rented "Argo," winner of Best Picture in the Academy Awards, a few weeks after the Oscars. And "The Sound of Music" played for 10 years in theaters? Maybe it was just Des Moines, an entertainment desert.
But I do need to hear the sound of music.
And the way to listen to it apparently is with earbuds, a lovely word, and I admire the person who came up with it. I expect to see earbuds pop up in the lawn, beautiful, delicate first-of-spring flowers. I expect earbuds to be best of friends to my ears. I expect earbuds to fit finely, delivering music only to me. I expect earbuds to tune the world out, with me and the sound of music playing in my head.
I expect a lot.
I have an MP3 player somewhere, and the only way you can listen to music is with earbuds, but it has been a constant source of irritation. It's so small, and I can't figure out how to make it play the songs I want to hear, and I can't make it transfer songs from CDs, and I'm not about to pay 99 cents for new music for a product I can't use.
I do need to hear the sound of music. But it needs to fill the air, not my head.
I might be in a minority. No matter where you go, you see lots of people with slender cords dropping from their ears, plugged into an MP3 player, or an iPod, or a smartphone, or a tablet. It certainly isn't a CD player. Or a cassette player. But, if anything, the earbuds are a sign: Do not disturb.
I like to drive, and I like to drive long distances, and I would think that music streaming into my head through earbuds would be perfect, watching the miles pass with just me and my music. But that would be dangerous, and it would be disrespectful to the person sitting next me trying to hold a conversation or point out a roadside wonder. So I listen to the radio or the CD player so I might possibly hear the traffic around me, so I am mindful of my driving and not "Bohemian Rhapsody" blaring in my head.
I need to be aware of my surroundings, and I can't be aware of them if earbuds are plugged in.
These days, I spend a considerable amount of time on trains and buses, or waiting alone for trains and buses, and those would seem like prime time for earbuds, and music, and tuning out the world. But I can't, even if I knew how to listen to my MP3 player, wherever it is.
I need to be aware of my surroundings, even if it is on the seat of the bus zipping down Lake Shore Drive or Metra plodding its way along the Northwest Line. Plenty of people in the "quiet car" on Metra wear earbuds as they make their commutes, but that seems to defeat the purpose of surround-sound quiet.
What's nice about the quiet car is the quiet. It's kind of like a library on rails. You might hear some hushed talking, but that's about it. The quiet car is peaceful, and even the mellowest of ambient music through earbuds would be jarring.
And what do you do when danger is lurking, not that I have ever experienced danger in 30 years of using public transportation? But with earbuds plugged into my head, someone might have the drop on me, and I suppose rob me, as improbable as that might be.
I need to hear the sound of music, but it needs to fill the air – the hills are alive with the sound of music – not my head.
• Dick Peterson, who lives in Woodstock, is a mental-health advocate, freelance writer and former Northwest Herald Opinion Page editor. He may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hi everyone!
I've been reading all the information on the website for a few days now. I've been doing my reality checks constantly all day (fingers through palm and pushing my hand through my desk) and I've been making sure that I believe my fingers / hand will pass through. I've been keeping my dream journal and recording every dream I can remember when I wake up. I've also been doing my 30mins of meditation every day while listening to Isochronic music, which by the way is very relaxing. The feeling of your body swaying like you're really dizzy is such a strange but relaxing feeling, but back onto the dreams;
I was pretty determined to have a lucid dream last night. I went to sleep fairly quickly (I'm someone who usually takes up to 2 hours to fall asleep, its frustrating but last night only took me about 45mins). The only dream I can recall is one where I was in a small bedroom - nothing like mine or anyone's bedroom I know. The room had 3 doors, a wardrobe and a small bookshelf. I said to myself "Ok, you must be dreaming now" and I tried my reality checks. Both of them failed, regardless of how much I willed them to pass through. I got a bit annoyed and looked around - there wasn't a mirror but there were books. I took a couple of them, read the title, looked away and read the title again. On the third book, the title of the book completely changed the second time. This allowed me to (finally) say "Ok good, you're dreaming. Let's see what we can do!". I decided to use one of the doors as a 'portal' to the next place I wanted to go - a beautiful mountain range or something, just to test what I could do. As I walked towards the door, the dream fell apart very quickly and before I knew it, I was looking around the inside of my eyelids and I was awake. I looked at my clock and it was still the middle of the night. I can't remember any dreams that followed.
So what do I need to do to keep myself in the dream? I recall being able to realise I'm in a dream about 5 or 6 times before (before I viewed this website) but every time I do, the dream ends shortly after. Why can't my sub-concious keep the dream running when I decide to take control over it? Is this something that just takes time to train my brain into keeping the dream working or am I "one of those people" who can't keep a lucid dream going?
Please help It's great to know I'm in a dream but it's so horrible to have it end straight away
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Have you seen Rebecca's advice? I hope this helps:
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Oneirophile wrote:Have you seen Rebecca's advice? I hope this helps:
Thank you - there is just so much useful information on this site that its easy to overlook some of it . I'll try those techniques tonight. I certainly stayed calm when I realised that I was dreaming, it just suddenly slipped away from me. I'll try the hand rubbing and spinning around if I start to slip next time. I'll report back tomorrow .
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Re: Realise I'm dreaming, dream falls apart - Help!
A problem I've had before is worrying that I'm going to wake up whilst I'm lucid - almost guaranteed to awaken me...but that can be overcome with a bit of will power
Btw, Oneirophile, I love your username!
Btw, Oneirophile, I love your username!
Dreaming is my drug
Re: Realise I'm dreaming, dream falls apart - Help!
I also had this problem... I rubbed my hands together then I woke up [ I WAS lucid in the dream...]
Hmmmm what to do...
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Sunburned? You could either call my husband who is a dermatologist or make this cocktail.
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Sunburned Berry Cocktail
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This summertime cocktail is from Kara Newman's spirited book, Spice & Ice, which includes 60 tongue-tingling cocktails. Kara says to take this drink to the "I dare you" level, rim the glass with a mixture of sugar and chili powder. With tart raspberries, fiery chili powder, and full-bodied bourbon, this is one feisty summertime cocktail.
1/4 cup fresh raspberries
1/2 teaspoon chili powder (I prefer 1/4 teaspoon)
1 1/2 ounces bourbon
1 ounce simple syrup
1 ounce lime juice
1. In the bottom of a cocktail shaker, muddle the berries and chili powder. Add teh bourbon, simple syrup, and lime juice. Shake together with ice and strain into a martini glass.
How to make simple syrup:
1. Place equal parts water and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring continuously until the sugar dissolves. Low the heat, and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes. Remove from heat; cool. Pour into a container and refrigerate.
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Creamy Limoncello recipe from Food Blogga
Banana Margarita recipe from Food Blogga
Menorcan Basil Pomada recipe from Glutton For Life
Watermelon-Cilantro Margaritas recipe from In Jennie's Kitchen
Rosemary Lemon-Ginger Vodka Spritzers recipe from Family Style Food
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Lamar State Caps Improbable Run to Conference Title
In five years, the Lamar State Seahawks in Port Arthur have gone from JUCO startup to conference champions.
Heading into the Region 14 Conference Tournament as the seven seed, the Seahawks completed the greatest run in school history with Monday's 72-67 win over previously ranked #2 San Jacinto for the school's first conference crown.
The Seahawks were led by sophomore Vonn Jones' 30 points, 18 of those coming in the second half, as he keyed a huge run to help the Seahawks go on a 23-8 run to tie the game at 54 after the team found itself down 47-31 with 17:21 left in the game. Lamar State trailed 39-28 at half.
Sophomores Keenen Coleman and Dion Waiters chipped in with 14 and 13 respectively to help lead the Seahawks' improbable run.


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Last fall AMD unleashed four new graphic cards based on their Evergreen GPU architecture. First introduced was the high-end Radeon HD 5870, quickly followed by the launch of the Radeon HD 5850, two cards that had many enthusiasts drooling over raw performance power. Though these cards were proven to be a great success, the premium price point was a little high.


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Who would have imagined six months ago, or even two, that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government would accept deficits of $60-billion over the next two years? But, then, who predicted what has happened to the world economy?
Desperate times require desperate measures, as they say. So from a low-tax, no-deficit government, Tuesday's budget was a shocker, the impact of which had been blunted by calculated leaks of the deficit numbers a few days ago.
Public polls and those taken by the Conservatives showed the population is ready for deficits, economic lethargy demands them, major countries throughout the world are running them. The questions, therefore, were how large the deficits should be and how to craft them.
Roughly half the deficits' size was automatic, caused by the recession lowering tax revenues and raising spending. The other half reflected the government injecting money into the economy by new spending, transfers to provinces and tax cuts.
The budget predicted that after two years the economy is supposed to be well into recovery, so that deficits will decline and then peter out five years hence. Don't count on it. All during the two decades of deficits that started in 1975, governments promised to reduce and then eliminate deficits, but never did until 1995.
Yes, a lot of stimulus spending is bunched into the next two years, but billions are now locked into the ongoing spending commitments of the federal government, as are the tax reductions. If interest rates go up, as they might down the road, the added debt will be more onerous to be financed.
If we have learned one thing in recent decades, it is that once a spending program is launched, or a tax expenditure sewn into the revenue system, they are extremely difficult to remove. To take just one example, if anyone thinks the $500-million injected into the farm economy will be rescinded after the recession, they haven't been watching agricultural politics.
So there is more stimulus here than the economic situation demands. Similarly, what Canadian governments do is less consequential than what happens to the U.S. and world economies. But in fairness to the government, the new money (stimulus) could have been spent in much worse ways than outlined Tuesday.
The tax cuts, thank heaven, did not include another reduction in the Goods and Services Tax, but centred instead on personal income taxes, especially for low-and moderate-income people, where they ought to have been centred from the government's first budget. Elongation of unemployment insurance payments, more money for training and additional graduate school scholarships make sense, as do other measures to develop human capital.
The physical capital infrastructure projects are sprinkled all across the country to keep each region happy. They can be justified in the sense that most projects need to be done sooner or later. (Some will go way over budget, given the hurry-up nature of planning and execution.) Particularly welcome was $2-billion for upgrading and repairing buildings on university and college campuses, and the additional money poured into the excellent Canadian Fund for Innovation. There are no votes in this kind of spending, so hats off to the government for doing it.
Hats off and hurray for setting in motion a process that will lead to a National Securities Commission, as recommended recently by yet another task force. This long-overdue initiative is opposed by Alberta and Quebec. (Manitoba will soon see the light) So what? The new commission will be voluntary. They are welcome to stay away from it – at their own economic loss.
The government also based its projection of economic growth at the very low end offered by private sector economists, a sensible precaution, and a welcome one from a government that has whittled away the precautionary margins built into budgets of the previous Liberal governments.
The stimulus can't work miracles. Unemployment is forecast to rise to 7.7 per cent in 2010 from 6.6 per cent today. It will be cold comfort to the unemployed to know that the 7.7 level will be lower than in previous recessions.
The economy, stimulus notwithstanding, is going to contract slightly in 2009. The budget was designed, although it would never be sold this way, to ease the pain rather than eliminate it.


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A tenant at a Burbank apartment complex was hospitalized Tuesday after her landlord allegedly attacked her with bleach after a verbal spat, police said.
The landlord -- Donald Rohwer, 65 -- was working in the woman's apartment in the 1000 block of West Angeleno Avenue at around 3 p.m. when the pair got into an argument about the work being done, said Burbank Police Officer Joshua Kendrick.
Reportedly feeling "threatened," Rohwer allegedly sprayed the woman's face with a bleach and water solution, Kendrick said.
Officers arrested Rohwer on suspicion of battery with a caustic chemical.
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The projects on the oposite side I-10 from the Superdome. Notoriously rough and at odds with other New Orleans projects like the Melpe, St. Thomas (gone), Iberville, Lafite, and the Fisher. Numerous rappers, athletes, and Angola inmates got there start here.
Let's see L.L. walk through the Calio (Gregor D. lyrics).
by Chris " bitch booty licken" Parker April 03, 2006
B.W. Cooper housing developments (projects) formally and presently known as the Calliope (Calio). Home and roaming grounds to local rappers including but not limited to UNLV, BG, Juvenile, Lil Wayne, Soulja Slim (Magnolia Slim), and Baby.
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Marijuana born and raised in the state of California. The best dank you can get your hands on.
Tourist: Yo look at this!! I just got some BC and Amsterdam bud!!
California Local: Haha good one. Sorry bro but I have a date with some cali-o tonight.
California Local: Haha good one. Sorry bro but I have a date with some cali-o tonight.
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I Calios'd that bitch. What a cunt.
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Bank sales of mutual funds: hearing before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation, and Deposit Insurance of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, March 8, 1994, Volume 4
U.S. G.P.O., 1994 - Mutual funds - 525 pages
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Wabash junior Kyle Prifogle, described by his teacher as "one of the most exciting and talented pianists I have known," will present his junior recital this Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. in the Lewis Salter Concert Hall.
"In my 35 years at Wabash, he is one of the most talented and exciting pianists I have known," said Prifogle's piano teacher, Diane Norton. "He brings a great deal of energy and musical integrity to the stage, and it is an absolute joy to teach him."
Prifogle will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto In F Major, BWV 971 ("Italian"), György Ligeti's Études pour piano, Claude Debussy's Estampes, and Serge Prokofiev's Sonata No.3, Opus 28.
"His program is technically and musically gigantic, and includes a variety of styles and genre," says Norton. "Perhaps most challenging are the two Ligeti etudes he is playing. John Failey '72, who purchased our wonderful Steinway, and financed the re-building of the Bosendorfer met Kyle during the Bosendorfer dedication concert, and asked if he would be interested in playing these Etudes at some point. John then purchased the music for the Etudes for the Lilly Library to make them available to our students. It is from these scores that Kyle has worked to prepare for this program."
Prifogle, a mathematics major from Ridgeville, Indiana, participated in the Wabash Summer Algebra Institute in 2007. He is also a madinda player in the Wabash world music ensemble, Wamidan.


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Chance was a Great Khans member in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281. He appeared in the graphic novel All Roads and as a mentioned only character in Fallout: New Vegas.
Chance was a member of the Great Khans and a survivor of the Bitter Springs Massacre. He had very long blond hair, a muscular build and berserker style melee fighting techniques. He was also a drug using mute, psychologically scarred by the New California Republic massacre of his tribe.
On their way to intercept the Courier, Chance almost single-handedly took out a large force of drugged-up Fiends rampaging near Goodsprings at the tribal village. Fueled by a flashback of the Bitter Springs Massacre and withdrawals from his chems, he blindly charged into battle. Benny was less than pleased, however the Great Khans demonstrate significant loyalty in backing up Chance's drug fueled counter rampage. During one portion of the fight Chance exhibited great physical strength and damage threshold by bending a flamer nozzle (currently blasting him with fire) back onto its user.
Following the events of the battle, as Chance lays on the ground severely wounded, Benny asks him if he wants to end his life to be with the ones who died at Bitter Springs. Benny leaves him the vial of psycho he got from Swank, which was used before to kill a Singer who, like Chance, couldn't let go of his past. Chance decides to take it, in an effort to return to the times before Bitter Springs, and dies as a result. When they began to bury him, Benny suggested they should leave him to rot, an opinion quickly changed when the Great Khans intimidated him. Benny, defeated in the argument, says he is going on ahead and left them to bury their friend.
- The Courier can find Chance's grave as well as the tribal village (Fiend camp) north of Goodsprings.
- Inside the grave is the unique combat knife, Chance's knife as seen in the graphic novel (with blood stains on the blade) and Great Khan simple armor also worn by Chance in the graphic novel. A shovel is needed to dig up the grave.
- The Courier can find Chance's map (carved with his knife), north of Bonnie Springs along the left side of the road.


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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Rookie Jarrod Parker held Texas hitless until the eighth inning and Brandon Inge drove in four runs in Oakland's eight-run second inning as the Athletics beat the Rangers 12-1 on Monday night.
Parker (2-2) easily worked his way through baseball's highest-scoring offense in his ninth career start before Michael Young grounded a single through the middle for Texas' first hit leading off the eighth.
Parker got a warm ovation from the crowd of 10,120 and then recovered to get out of the inning on two more pitches - a popup by Nelson Cruz and an inning-ending double play from David Murphy. That ended the night for Parker, who allowed one hit, walked three and struck out six.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - British yacht-racing champion and two-time Olympic medalist Andrew "Bart" Simpson was killed on Thursday when his vessel capsized in San Francisco Bay during training for the America's Cup, his team said.
Simpson, 36, who won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, was sailing on the Artemis, Sweden's entry in the America's Cup, when the catamaran overturned, according to a statement posted on the Artemis racing website.
"The entire Artemis Racing team is devastated by what happened," CEO Paul Cayard said in the statement. "Our heartfelt condolences are with Andrew's wife and family."
The twin-hulled boat was performing a so-called "bear-away" maneuver, turning away from the wind, when one bow dropped under the water's surface, and the vessel flipped over, America's Cup spokesman Tim Jeffery told Reuters.
Simpson ended up trapped beneath the boat in the water and had to be pulled out by rescue divers, who tried and failed to revive him, Jeffery said.
The yacht was "very badly damaged," but the team has a backup boat that is expected to be ready to sail in June, he said.
The incident was believed to be the first fatality in connection with the America's Cup since the early 1990s, when a crew member from a Spanish team died in a training accident off the coast of Majorca in the Mediterranean, Jeffery said.
The Artemis website said Simpson was part of an 11-member sailing team and that all other crew members had been accounted for following the mishap.
San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge confirmed that one male crew member had died in the accident and said he was estimated to have remained under water for 10 to 15 minutes before he was recovered.
She said one other sailor from the Artemis was taken to a hospital with minor injuries and later released.
The precise number of people aboard the Artemis when it tipped over was not immediately clear.
Although America's Cup vessels sail with 11 crew members when they race, they are known to carry one or two more or one or two fewer members on practice runs.
A U.S. Coast Guard officer, Pam Boehland, said support boats had pulled 12 crew members from the water, and that one was taken to a San Francisco hospital.
Boehland said the Artemis capsized at about 1 p.m. local time (4 p.m. EDT) northwest of Treasure Island. The crippled vessel remained in the bay, and the Coast Guard established a 100-yard (91-metre) safety zone around the boat, she said.
Winds on Thursday were blowing on the water at 18 to 20 knots, or about 23 to 25 miles per hour, which race organizers described as typical for the bay.
"The boats are designed to sail and compete in winds of up to 30 knots ... so this wasn't excessive," one America's Cup official told Reuters. "It was windy but not super-extreme."
Race organizers said Simpson was assigned as the crew's tactician but also would have been involved in operating winches and performing other tasks necessary to sail the twin-hulled boat.
This year's America's Cup competition begins in July with qualifying races known as the Louis Vuitton Cup. The America's Cup contest itself is slated to start on September 7. All the races will be run on San Francisco Bay.
Two other challenging teams, one from Italy and one from New Zealand, recently arrived in the Bay Area to begin training there.
The crew of the defending America's Cup champion boat, Oracle Team USA, was on the bay for training at the time the Artemis capsized, America's Cup officials said.
Oracle Team USA's boat flipped over in a practice run in October, damaging the windsail. But no one was injured, and the vessel was relaunched in January.
The wreck of the Artemis was at least the fourth major accident in just over a year off the California coast or involving California vessels.
In March a crew member was killed when a 30-foot (9-metre) sailboat broke apart in rough seas during a race near San Clemente Island.
In April 2012 four crewmen in a race from Southern California to Mexico died after their yacht ran aground. Two weeks earlier, five sailors died in a racing accident near the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco.
The Farallon incident prompted the Coast Guard to temporarily suspend racing in the Pacific Ocean off northern California.
Cayard spoke briefly to reporters outside the team's offices in the town of Alameda across from San Francisco.
"We obviously had a tragic day today on the bay. It's a shocking experience to go through. We have a lot to deal with for the next few days in terms of ensuring everybody's well-being," he said.
Reporting by Ronnie Cohen; Additional reporting and writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Xavier Briand


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2012 Moab Easter Jeep SafariPosted in Events on August 1, 2012
The week before Easter a subliminal homing beacon starts pinging and Jeepers, wheelers, and other off-road enthusiasts nationwide fire up tow rigs and trail rigs and begin the pilgrimage to the red rock temple: Moab, Utah. We know you've seen it here before, and you'll see it here again. And that's because we love the darn place. It's a small town nestled amongst red rock cliffs with a rich history in uranium mining, maybe some gold, and a long line of wild characters looking for fortune or escaping the grid. We go for all that, and also for some of the most beautiful four-wheeling in the nation.
The Easter Jeep Safari (EJS) is hosted by the Red Rock 4-Wheelers. Although it seemed like you were required to have a four-door Jeep Wrangler just to get in the town, in fact the event is open to all 4x4s. Fullsize trucks were running trails as well as imports and tube cars. (Be warned, buggy owners: You need to tow to the trailheads, as the local authorities aren't so keen on rigs missing flaps and fenders.) The variety of trails—from hardcore insanity at the private Area BFE to the mind game of steep climbs on Hell's Revenge—offers something for everyone. The townsfolk seem extremely welcoming to Jeepers of all makes. Although we imagine it's different the rest of the year, it is hard to leave EJS without Moab melancholy.
If you've read our coverage of Moab before then we will surely sound like a broken record when we say you need to attend. Coming for EJS is a blast, but coming any time is worth the trip. There is plenty of camping, hotels, mountain biking, hiking, rafting, restaurants, and of course four-wheeling. So plan a vacation, tell your boss you've got the slickrock sickness, and head to the home of red rock. To attend next year's EJS, check out www.rr4w.com for official entry information.


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Remembering the Windsor Tornado Six Years Later [VIDEO]
Tomorrow, May 22nd, will mark six years since the day the small town of Windsor, Colorado and the people who live and work in the area, like myself, will never forget. It was the first time Weld County had seen an f3 tornado since 1950, and it's 130 to 150 mile per hour winds ripped a portion of the town apart.
The tornado, which was as wide as one mile at times along its path, went north-northwestward for 34 miles from northeast of Platteville in Weld County at 11:26 AM to 7 miles east northeast of Fort Collins in Larimer County at 12:16pm.
There was one fatality and 15 to 20 injuries. More than 850 homes were damaged, with nearly 300 homes significantly damaged or destroyed. Privately insured damages totaled 147 million dollars, and the Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association reported one million dollars worth of damage to electric transmission facilities.
As for me, I was just a part time guy at the radio station in Windsor and had been working on a project at the station in Windsor that morning. We heard reports of the truck that had been flipped on Highway 85 near Platteville with the tornado heading for the Evans and Greeley area. My thoughts instantly turned to my 70-year-old grandmother who lives by herself in a mobile home right in the middle of what they thought may be the path of the storm. I rushed from Windsor to Greeley to pick her up and take her to my dads house where there was a basement. Needless to say, looking back the tornado and I were heading in different directions, and by the grace of god we happened to be a few miles away from each other when our paths would have crossed. There was no harm done in Greeley and grandma was safe, but Windsor wasn't as lucky. I happened to be house sitting for a friend who lived in Windsor and when I went back to check on his house that night I couldn't believe what i saw. It literally looked like a war zone.
It was also neat to see how the community made the best of the situation, helped their neighbors, and probably set a record for how fast they picked the town back up. There is not a part of town that significantly shows what happened on this horrible day six years ago. All that is left is memories of one of the scariest days Northern Colorado has seen.
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Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has bemoaned an increasingly petty US-Russian spat in which politics apparently threaten the brotherly co-operation which has hitherto marked life aboard the International Space Station.
Padalka (pictured centre with NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, left, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata), is currently on the orbiting outpost as part of Expedition 19, which blasted off last Thursday from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Before leaving, he reportedly told the Novaya Gazeta that, since 2005 when space missions were put on a commercial footing and the Russians starting billing US astronauts for its services, the Americans have responded by an increasingly isolationist stance on their own facilities.
Specifically, Padalka claimed officials had "rejected his request to work out on the American exercise bike". He said: "They told me: 'Yes, you can'. Then they said 'no'. Then they hold consultations and they approve it again. And now, right before the flight, it turns out again that the answer is negative."
Worse still, Padalka said that American and Russian crew members had been told to use their own 'national toilets'. Various news reports have picked up on this aspect of the row, with some suggesting cosmonauts will not be able to relieve themselves in the Americans' deluxe "astro-loo", as one paper put it.*
This could actually prove rather more tricky for US crew aboard the ISS, since the orbiting outpost's Ассенизационно-Санитарная Установка, or "Waste Management System", is actually a Russian-built affair housed in the Zvezda module.
Presumably, the deluxe American dunny in question is the one NASA stumped $19m for back in 2007 - another Russian-built device similar to that already on board. This toilet is, however, destined to be housed on American territory - the Node 3 module slated to arrive aloft aboard Endeavour on STS-130 mission, provisionally booked for lift-off on 10 December this year.
It's unlikely, however, that Padalka and his comrades will force astronauts to either go outside for a leak or resort to nappies pending the arrival of a second facility. He said: "Cosmonauts are above the ongoing squabble, no matter what officials decide. We are grown-up, well-educated and good-mannered people and can use our own brains to create normal relationship."
He concluded: "It's politicians and bureaucrats who can't reach agreement, not us cosmonauts and astronauts." ®
* It's possible that this is referring to NASA's extremely expensive and bothersome urine recycling machine. Exact details of who's currently allowed to take a slash where have proved elusive, although a ban on cosmonauts providing the raw material for much-needed drinking water when the ISS crew is expanded to six is, frankly, highly unlikely.
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