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Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
The Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency program at the University of Chicago Medicine is the first program in Illinois certified by the Alpha-1 Foundation. This distinction recognizes the University of Chicago's comprehensive approach and focused expertise in addressing the many dimensions of this rare disease, including the medical center's ability to treat advanced liver and lung damage, as well as our experience in liver and lung transplantation. The program here is led by a physician who is nationally known for his expertise and research in Alpha-1 deficiency.
The Alpha-1 program draws patients to our medical center from throughout the Midwest, and as far away as Alaska. Patients have access to leading-edge interventions available at only select medical centers nationwide, as well as standard therapies.
About Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (sometimes called Alpha-1) is an inherited condition that results when the body cannot produce enough of the Alpha-1 antitrypsin protein -- a protein produced in the liver. This protein plays an important role in keeping the lungs healthy by protecting the lungs from a specific enzyme (neutrophil elastase). Without enough Alpha-1 antitrypsin, the enzyme accumulates in excess and causes damage to lung tissue. It also can cause complications to the liver and skin.
Ideally, people inherit two genes (one from each parent) responsible for producing Alpha-1 antitrypsin protein. Some people with Alpha-1 deficiency inherit one normal gene and one flawed gene. With one healthy gene, these people may produce a low level of the Alpha-1 protein and, therefore, have milder symptoms. If both parents are carriers of the deficiency, it's possible to inherit two flawed genes. People with two flawed genes cannot produce any Alpha-1 protein and, therefore, are at risk for more severe illness.
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency can result in:
- Lung disease and lung damage
- Cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Emphysema
- Chronic bronchitis
- Skin problems
Because it is not a common condition, Alpha-1 deficiency often goes undiagnosed until the person experiences complications such as COPD, emphysema, asthma, chronic bronchitis, or chronic liver disease. The average patient with this genetic deficiency experiences symptoms for seven years before a proper diagnosis is made.
Early diagnosis offers the best long-term outlook. With early diagnosis, treatment can begin before the lungs and liver are seriously damaged. To encourage early diagnosis, the University of Chicago Medicine provides blood test screenings to family members of people diagnosed with this deficiency free of charge.
Our Approach to Managing Alpha-1 Deficiency
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency cannot be cured, but it can be controlled with drug therapy. Supplementing the missing protein through medications helps to prevent damage to the lungs, liver and other organs.
At the University of Chicago Medicine, treatment begins with an extended consultation with D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, our physician expert who is board certified in pulmonary and critical care medicine as well as internal medicine, and who has focused expertise in Alpha-1 disease. The physician devotes at least two hours to meet and talk with the patient (and family, if desired). This is a very helpful opportunity for the patient and family to understand the diagnosis, ask questions and address concerns. Subsequent consultation with the physician and team also is provided on an ongoing basis as needs change or questions arise.
The University of Chicago Medicine offers patients both standard and leading-edge investigational drug therapies. Standard treatment requires weekly infusion of medications that replace the missing Alpha-1 protein. Patients learn how to administer this infusion within the convenience of their homes.
Additionally, some patients may be appropriate for clinical trials of promising new drugs. Physicians at the University of Chicago Medicine are actively involved in research aimed at expanding treatment options for individuals with Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, so patients here are among the first in the United States with access to many new treatment options.
Because this is a chronic (life-long) condition, it's impractical for patients who live far from the University of Chicago to come here for ongoing care. After initial treatment planning at the University of Chicago, our Alpha-1 specialist physician will coordinate with each patient's local physician for ongoing medical management closer to home. Patients may decide to return to our medical center at any time to address more complex medical needs, such as an organ transplant to replace a severely damaged liver or lung.
Multidisciplinary Care to Address Complex Needs
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency can cause various medical complications of the lungs, liver and skin, including COPD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cirrhosis of the liver, panniculitis (inflammation of fatty tissue under the skin), and other side effects of the excess enzyme.
The University of Chicago Medicine's multidisciplinary approach addresses these varied complications by drawing in other University of Chicago physicians who have expertise in these other areas, including hepatologists, additional pulmonologists who focus on COPD and other lung diseases, dermatologists and transplant surgeons as needed, based on the individual patient's disease. Patients with cirrhosis, for example, would receive care from a hepatologist (liver specialist). With the primary Alpha-1 specialist overseeing each patient's care and ongoing communication between the various University of Chicago physicians, patients benefit from a well-coordinated approach to management of their disease and related complications.
A Leader in Organ Transplantation
Some individuals with advanced disease eventually require a lung or liver transplant to replace a severely damaged organ. The University of Chicago Medicine is one of the leading transplant centers in the United States, so patients can be reassured that all the resources they may need are right here if an organ transplant becomes necessary.
Support Services Round Out Disease Management
The University of Chicago Medicine applies a comprehensive approach to managing Alpha-1 deficiency. In addition to medical care directed by physicians, patients may benefit from addition services provided here, including:
- Smoking cessation classes and counseling
- Genetic counseling to address the inherited aspect of this disorder
- Comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation to increase lung function and overall energy level
- Nutrition services provided by registered dietitians, to address nutrient deficiencies and develop guidelines for healthy eating
- Patient education, which is an important component for life-long management of Alpha-1
Research Aims to Find New Solutions
Physicians at University of Chicago Medicine are national leaders in evaluating new treatments that may someday offer more effective ways to control Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. The program leader is actively involved in clinical research of new treatments, and has published multiple articles in medical journals. Additionally, the physician leader is an active proponent nationally to encourage routine screening for Alpha-1 deficiency. Routine blood testing would allow for early detection and treatment -- before complications occur.
Free Family Testing Aims to Prevent Complications
As a genetic disorder, Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency runs in families. By offering free and confidential testing, the University of Chicago Medicine is proactive in identifying extended family members with Alpha-1 deficiency as early as possible. The earliest diagnosis offers the best opportunity to prevent the irreversible damage caused by this protein deficiency.
For more information about free testing for Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, contact D. Kyle Hogarth, MD, at (773) 702-4773.


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FAYETTEVILLE — BJ Young let his play remind everyone that Arkansas coach Mike Anderson wasn't the only one with a point to prove against Missouri.
Young, a St. Louis native, scored seven points in the final 29.3 seconds — including a pair of three-point plays — to help the Razorbacks rally for a 73-71 win over the Tigers on Saturday.
The win is the first over Missouri for Anderson, who is in his second season at Arkansas after leaving the Tigers.
For all of the pre-game talk about Anderson's ties to the school where he coached for five years, however, it was Young who saved his best for last against his home-state rival.
The Razorbacks (16-9, 7-5 SEC) trailed 70-66 with less than a minute remaining, but Young — who was recruited by Anderson while he was at Missouri — converted on back-to-back three-point plays to put them up 72-71. He then added a free throw to secure the win.
"It was big for me; coach Anderson, too," Young said. "That was big for both of us, and the rest of the team just kept encouraging us.
"It was a big game, but I was pretty revved up for this one, too."
Marshawn Powell led Arkansas with 24 points, while Young had 18 and Coty Clarke added 13 for the Razorbacks — who are now 15-1 at home this season. Their only loss came on Nov. 30 to No. 6 Syracuse.
Missouri, which notched its first road win of the season at Mississippi State on Wednesday, was once again left to ponder what might have been following the crushing last minute of play against its former coach.
Keion Bell led the Tigers (18-7, 7-5) with a season-high 25 points, while Earnest Ross added 16. They appeared to have the game under control after Bell's two free throws put them up 70-66 with 38.3 seconds remaining, but they had no answer for Young.
"I thought he stepped up and showcased the player he can be and that he's capable of being," Anderson said. "That's what he does. He makes plays for our basketball team."
Missouri trailed by as many as seven points in the second half, but it took a 67-65 lead on a Paul Pressey jumper with 1:02 remaining. The Tigers then extended their lead to 70-66 after the free throws by Bell.
Young responded on the other end with a layup and was fouled, and his free throw cut the lead to 70-69. After Jabari Brown made only one of two free throws on the other end for Missouri, Young did the exact same thing, sending the season-high crowd of 19,004 in Bud Walton Arena crowd into a frenzy against the SEC newcomer and budding rival.
Young's lay-up with 19.6 seconds left tied the game at 71-71 and his free throw put Arkansas up for good.
Missouri had one final shot at the win in the closing seconds, but Brown misfired on a 3-point attempt at the buzzer to complete the rally by the Razorbacks. The Tigers are now 8-6 in their last 14 games after opening the season 10-1.
"It's a game of runs and ups and downs, and we had been on a run previously so we had to be prepared for their run," Bell said. "It just didn't turn out how we wanted it to turn out."
After trailing throughout the first half, Arkansas finally took the lead early in the second half — going up 39-37 after a 3-pointer by Powell.
Powell's 3-pointer highlighted a run of 10-straight Arkansas point for the junior, who put Arkansas up 44-41 after a pair of free throws. The Razorbacks extended that lead to as many as seven in the second half, going up 49-42 after a jumper by Hunter Mickelson, before Ross hit a 3-pointer from the corner to tie the game at 63-63.
"It was a high-level game," Missouri coach Frank Haith said. "I'm proud of our guys, how hard they fought, under the circumstances. I'm really proud of them."
Missouri showed off in the early going for its former coach, sprinting to a 9-0 lead. The Tigers kept that lead throughout the first half, thanks largely to the play of Bell — who was 4 of 4 from the field in the half and had 10 points.
Arkansas rallied late in the half behind the play of Powell, who didn't score until more than 12 minutes into the game. Once the forward found his touch, however, he was all but unstoppable.
Powell scored all of his nine first-half points during a 12-point outburst for the Razorbacks, which cut the Missouri lead to 26-25 after a Powell free throw. He missed the second free throw attempt, however, that would have tied the game, and Young followed with a missed free throw on the front end of a 1-and-1 attempt — another missed opportunity to tie the game for Arkansas.
The Razorbacks were 3 of 7 from the free-throw line in the first half, and they trailed 33-29 at halftime. Clarke was one of the few bright spots in the half for Arkansas, connecting on all three of his 3-point attempts after entering the game 3 of 9 from behind the arch on the season.
The Tigers, meanwhile, dominated the boards in the first half. The SEC's top rebounding team, which entered the game out-rebounding its opponents by an average of 9.9 rebounds per game, held a 27-15 advantage at the half — led by Alex Oriakhi's seven first-half rebounds.
Oriakhi finished with a game-high 11 rebounds, but he struggled with foul trouble throughout. Missouri out-rebounded the Razorbacks 47-31, but the advantage wasn't enough to overcome its former coach — or Young's late scoring binge.
"My teammates, they just kept encouraging me and telling us that it wasn't over," Young said. "We just stayed together as a team and made plays down the stretch.
"Marshawn carried us when needed points and rebounds, and I just tried to close out the game."


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Argentinian artist, Alexandra Kehayoglou creates rugs that look like pastures and meadows. The grassland carpet seeks to mimic the appearance of naturally occurring, but fast disappearing Argentinian landscapes.
Kehayoglou grew up around textile artists, her family followed a textile tradition that was developed thousands of years ago in Asia Minor. After graduating with a degree in visual arts, Kehayoglou returned to her roots making carpets as her ancestors did, but with a twist. As varied as the grasslands and natural scenery of South America, the carpets are beautiful representations of natural and cultural heritage.
Carpet weaving is innate knowledge for me. It makes me feel connected to another time. It is a way of building meanings throughout my life and that of my ancestors.
Her creations carry a strong message of sustainability; these carpets are made from wool often found in mounds of leftover fabrics behind factories. (Via DD.AA.)
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May 08, 2007
Spring Chocolate Sundae
May 16 is LIVESTRONG Day. It is organised by Lance Armstrong's Foundation to raise awareness issues on a national level and in local communities across the country. Barabara of Winos and Foodies is hosting TASTE OF YELLOW - an event with yellow culinary creations. This brave blogger from New Zealand is fighting her own battles with cancer. We wish you strength and determination in this fight and a complete recovery, Barbara.
Having lost my grandfather to colon cancer, I have seen his fight, chemotherapy and the return of cancer at close quarters. This one is for you, dadu!
Keeping with my recent spring theme, here is my own dessert creation. For lack of a better title, this is Spring Chocolate Sundae. You can put this in it tastes better than it looks category. I wasn't ready for the burst of flavors on my first bite. You taste the dark chocolate first. And about the same time, you become aware of the sweetness of mango and the tartness of fresh berry sauce. This explosion of flavors is like spring - fresh, bright and colorful.
For chocolate mousse
1/2 cup dark chocolate
1/2 cup whipped cream
1/2 cup mango - thinly sliced
1/4 cup raspberries
1/4 cup blackberries
1 tbspoon honey
1 tbspoon orange juice
For chocolate sundae:
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler. Take it off the heat and fold in the whipped cream till it mixes well together. I didn't add any sugar, but you can add sugar according to your taste.
For berry sauce:
Heat a pan with orange juice and honey. Once it's hot, add the berries and let it cook on medium heat for a couple of minutes till the berries turn soft, but are intact. Let it cool before serving.
Assembling the Sundae:
Add chocolate mousse as the first layer. Then add the sliced mango pieces. Ideally, they should be in half-half ratio. Top it off liberally with the berry sauce.
Chill at least for an hour before serving.
Update - Also sending it to Deepa at Recipes'n More who is hosting AFAM this month and the fruit is Mango.
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Mandira, grandpas are special aren't they? Sorry to hear about him but they do live on in spirit.ReplyDelete
The Spring Sundae looks delicious.
Thank you everyone for your warm wishes. I appreciate it so much.ReplyDelete
Bellur - thank you, do keep visiting.
Barbara - thanks for hosting this wonderful event. You are in our thoughts.
Musical - I hope you'll enjoy the all natural sundae :)
Roopa, Meeta, Sandeepa, Deepa, Trupti, Sushma - thank you. It means a lot.
Thanks Sig, I hope you'll keep visiting.
Sher, ISG and Sunita - thanks. You're right. I was close to my grandpa and it was tough times. Like you said, his memories are always with me.
Coffee, Prema, Cynthia - thanks
Bee- RSS (a big sigh)! OK I'll figure it out ;)
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Nicole Reeve joined Pat Reeve on Driven TV in 2007, and hunted for huge bucks on camera for the first time that year. She learned quickly, and shot a massive buck on camera during the process.
"Looking back, 2007 was truly my breakout year as far as my deer hunting was concerned," Nicole remembers in the book Trophy Whitetails with Pat and Nicole Reeve. "It was my debut year of filming with Pat for the TV show and things had been going incredibly well. Pat kept telling me, 'This is not how it usually goes. It's not that easy to shoot a big buck in front of the camera.' But I was still very naive and it would take me awhile to fully understand what he was talking about. "And now we were on our way to Saskatchewan. This was my very first trip out of the country and I was both excited and a little overwhelmed." On this hunt, Pat and Nicole wound up with Buck Paradise Outfitters operated by Grant Kuypers.
Two Tips for Hunting in Canada
Things you can learn from Nicole's hunt, which could apply to you if you're ever in Canada, or hunting with an outfitter:
- Listen to your outfitter and veteran hunters in the area. For instance, in this area, deer could handle fire and noise. As veteran hunter and cameraman Doug Klunder told Nicole, "If you get really cold, it's all right to get out of the tree and build a fire. It won't spook the deer at all." Later in the book, the outfitter calmed similar fears about noise.
- Know the quality of the deer in the area. Said Nicole, "One particular buck kept coming in and leaving throughout the day. He was a beautiful 140-class 10-pointer, and I tried every way I could to talk Doug into letting me shoot him. Doug just kept saying, 'I promise there are much bigger bucks than this around here.' The buck would leave, then come back 30 minutes later, and we'd go through the same routine again. He kept assuring me that this was not the deer I had come all the way to Canada to shoot."
- Bonus Tip (applies anywhere): Lack of a pass-through doesn't always mean a bad hit. From Doug, following the shot on this 182-incher, "You're okay because you made a good shot right behind the shoulder. It was perfect all the way and you have to remember the size of these deer – they're huge!"
Nicole talks in the book about how much work it took to prepare the video of this monster buck for TV. "The next morning Pat carefully measured the rack. My buck gross-scored 181⅞ inches. We spent most of the next day taking photos, and the outfitter thought we were totally out of our minds. Months later after he viewed our TV show, I'm sure he realized why we had spent so much time filming various scenes and taking so many pictures."
See Pat and Nicole Reeve on Driven TV
"In many ways, having had such a great season in 2007 and shooting the biggest deer of my life in Saskatchewan really did take some time to sink in. I was naive about so many aspects of the hunting industry. The entire experience was surreal. I had just shot the biggest deer of my life and was definitely on cloud nine. But I had not grown up watching much hunting TV and really didn't have a grasp on how much that buck would impact our TV show, or increase my stature as a hunter in the eyes of others."
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Ken Kaiserman '60, a longtime trustee, dies at 73
Known for his generosity, support for young alums, activism for Ethiopian Jews
Longtime Trustee Ken Kaiserman '60, a generous Brandeis supporter whose deep commitment to his alma mater included extending a helping hand to young alumni, died Aug. 19 of cancer. He would have celebrated his 74th birthday next month.
Regarded as the university's unofficial goodwill ambassador in Philadelphia, he hosted many Brandeis alumni programs in his hometown, including an introductory event for President Fred Lawrence in the spring of 2011. [Read the Philadelphia Inquirer obituary.]
"Ken was a gentle, gracious man with a profound interest in ensuring that Brandeis continues to provide a life-changing educational experience for students," Lawrence said. "I was looking forward to working closely with him for many years to come. May his memory be a blessing."
Known for an ever-present bowtie that brought a sartorial flair to meetings, Kaiserman first joined the Board of Trustees as an alumni-term trustee in 1995. He was a long-standing member of the board's development committee.
Along with his brother Ron '63, they established the Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Chair in the Humanities in honor of their parents, who were among the visionaries who helped found Brandeis. Kaiserman and his wife, Susan, also funded an endowed scholarship to support students. He was a charter member of the Sachar Legacy Society and helped launch the Lois Zetter '60 Theater Arts Scholarship to memorialize a classmate who died in 2009.
Kaiserman volunteered to organize his class reunions, including the 50th in 2010, and was also active with the Alumni Association and Alumni Admissions Council. In addition, he served as chair of the Alumni Annual Fund in 1999-2000.
"Ken played an instrumental role in the fundraising success we have enjoyed through the years," said Nancy Winship, P '10, P '12, senior vice president of institutional advancement since 1994. "He was one of the first people to reach out to me when I came to Brandeis and was a mentor and trusted friend. I will miss his wise counsel, warmth, loyalty and generosity."
Kaiserman made a difference in many ways, according to Winship, including helping coordinate the recent renovations at Brandeis House, the university's meeting place for alumni and friends in New York. "He wanted to make Brandeis House feel like a home for all Brandeisians," she said.
He served as president of the Kaiserman Co., the real-estate acquisition, development and management firm his father founded in the 1920s. The company manages more than four million square feet of office, commercial and residential properties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Kaiserman forged a very close relationship with Diony Elias '04 after they met in 2007 at an Alumni Club of New York City's Real Estate Network event. The two had lunch together two weeks later, and Elias and business partner Justin Moore '04 ended up later moving their New City Investment Solutions to Philadelphia. For a time, Kaiserman and Elias met weekly for wide-ranging discussions.
"I called him a friend, a mentor and a teacher," Elias said. "Real estate was the trigger, but our relationship became much more about life. He talked to me a lot about art. He went out of his way to make sure that things went well on my end. His interest in me was heartfelt and genuine."
As a Brandeis student, Kaiserman studied theater arts and belonged to the Gilbert & Sullivan Society and the Spanish Club. After graduation, he worked in films before accepting a position at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He joined the family business in 1964.
Kaiserman was active in many organizations in Philadelphia, serving on the boards of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvanians Against Handgun Violence and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He was also active with the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry.
In addition to his wife and brother, he leaves two daughters, Amanda and Laura; his grandson, Quentin; and his sister, Constance. Two other family members also graduated from Brandeis, niece Shira Kaiserman '07 and cousin Michael Markowitz '71.
The family is planning a memorial at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 24, at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, 480 South Broad St., Philadelphia. The service is open to all.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that gifts in his honor be made to the Susan and Ken Kaiserman Endowed Scholarship. Donations can be made to Brandeis University, 415 South St., Mailstop 122, Waltham, MA 02453 or online (https://alumni.brandeis.edu/makingyourgift/tribute).


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The Texas Rangers released OF Ruben Sierra Jr. from the team's minor league camp Wednesday, March 28. The team also cut P Cody Evans, P Jorge Marban, P John Meloan, 1B Clark Murphy, OF Efrain Nunez, OF Kendall Radcliffe, INF Jonathan Roof, OF Orlando Sandoval and P Fabian Williamson.
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In the first episode of MTV's "The Vice Guide To Everything," the downtown magazine's new TV program that had its premiere last night at the Lower East Side's Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Vice founder Shane Smith takes acclaimed director, skate video god, and all around hero Spike Jonze to Yemen. They went to find Al-Qaeda, naturally.
"When Vice magazine first started, all we cared about was sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll," Smith said in a voice over that opened each episode. Images of strippers and alcohol flashed on screen, and the theme song, Sham 69's classic "If The Kids Are United," was turned to 11. Then the hookers and booze segued to more sobering images: the North Korean army, missiles launched in the middle east, impoverished U.S. towns. "But as we started traveling around the world," Shane Smith continued, "we got more into politics, culture, fashion, are, and the environment—basically everything."
That does a good job of summing up the show's anarchic, freewheeling, blissfully funny and often bitingly serious approach to investigative journalism. It's gonna be a nice little shit-kicking addition to the fare usually on MTV. ("This is not Jersey Shore," we overheard someone say early into the first episode.)
To mentally prepare the audience for the bombast, an open bar ran through bottles and bottles of Sailor Jerry rum, which could be mixed with either Coke or, in a twist, Reed's Ginger Beer. "Poor man's dark and stormy," a friend scoffed. Regardless, the crowd picked a preference and ran with it. Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner was milling about, but at times he was hard to pick out because so many others looked just like him.
Smith and Spike Jonze's adventures in Yemen took place in the pilot. In one memorable scene, the duo have an extended chat with a group of extremely dissident radical Yemenis, some of whom believe the U.S. is in cahoots with Al Qaeda. During this conversation, everyone in the room is chewing immense amounts of Gat, a drug with an opiate-esque effect that has driven most of Yemen to addiction.
Jonze seemed to not have the tolerance for gat that the Yemeni—and, apparently, Shane Smith—have built up, because he was visibly woozy. "I think I'm really high," Jonze whispered to the man sitting next to him. "No English!" the man responded.
Spike, sitting in the back left of the theater, laughed along with the rest of the audience. Making things potentially awkward, however, was the fact that sitting right next to Jonze was his mother.
"I think everything in VBS is telling a story, and they're only as good as their ability to tell a story," Spike told The Observer before the screening. He was talking about VBS.TV, Vice's online broadcasting arm, where he's the creative director. "They've been doing VBS now for four years, and they've gotten very good at telling stories."
Before stepping into the theater, Sailor Jerry-and-coke in hand, we informed Spike that we had both gone to the same high school (albeit several years apart).
"Cool!" Spike Jonze said. And then, bonded by a hometown, he insisted we meet his mom, who—like all moms—was very, very nice. Nice enough, it seems, to forgive his son for getting high on Yemeni gat.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - UK coach John Calipari says freshman Archie goodwin is his point guard. Goodwin has taken over the position in the absence of Ryan Harrow who has now returned. Cal says it's all a good thing.
Goodwin has scored 50 points and dished out 13 assists in his last two games. Harrow returned to the team Sunday following an unknown illness and a personal problem that he needed to address.
With his team getting ready to play Notre Dame Thursday night, Calipari said Goodwin has earned the position of point guard. Eventually he'll have options. "Now it doesn't mean he's our only point guard, now we have three point guards, which is even better, really, than having one point guard. And you can put two on the court at one time which is even better. Against, zone, against pressing, so it's good for us. But he's learning the position and doing well and getting better game to game, so hes earned a spot.
Calipari said he may put Harrow in the game against Notre Dame to see what he can do. Harrow is just happy his team did well while he was gone. "I'm just going to be out there when it's time for me to be out there. I'm glad that he (Goodwin) did well though, you know. I text him and told him 'you won't be the only one out there once I get back, so you'll have some help and stuff like that.' Gave him encouragement I guess."


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STOCKTON - Yes, that run-down-looking Chinese food place on Harding Way and Hunter Street is open.
STOCKTON - Yes, that run-down-looking Chinese food place on Harding Way and Hunter Street is open.
While the longtime central Stockton eatery may not look fancy on the outside, its impressive decor strikes you as you enter. Tranquility is instant with a trickling fountain and an indoor Zen garden scene. A short but grand staircase leads up to an evening dinning room on the left and a lunch buffet and tables on the right.
Referred to by a few people who lunch in the area, we came to Gong's for the buffet and all its much talked-about glory. It's definitely that run-down look that helps keep its cherished and successful all-you-can-eat, all-day buffet at a measly $5.75; add $1 for a drink.
The woman who greeted us was sweet. Her smile alone made us feel welcome, and the smell of the food added to the hospitality. There was a pretty ample crowd for a Monday lunch. The buffet was clean, warm and full of a variety of items. We were surprised by the relatively small selection of Chinese food varieties. Besides rice and noodles, there were mostly battered, deep-fried choices, such as green beans, crab, fish, egg rolls and wontons. Other items included bone-in pieces of fried garlic chicken, mini hamburger patties in a mushroom/onion-type sauce, foil chicken, two styles of prepared pork along with sweet and sour pork, egg foo young, chicken chop suey and a dumpling soup. That's it for the Chinese items. However, there also was a taco and salad bar with great additions, including cheese, olives and fresh vegetables. There also was a variety of fruits and more.
The food looked nice and fresh, but the taste just didn't measure up. Of all the items we tried, the steamed vegetables and Chinese-style barbecue pork were the best part of the meal. The pork was moist, tender and delicious with a hint of sweetness. The large chunks of broccoli were not overly cooked and had a light and balanced suey sauce.
The fried rice and noodles were OK, though a bit on the oily side. We liked the fresh green onion in both entrees. The egg rolls were warm on the outside and cold and mushy on the inside. The contents were so mushy, we couldn't figure out what was in it and, at this point, we don't want to know.
Highly disappointing and the worst part of the meal: the sweet and sour pork. Cry! It fooled us with its presentation of culinary quality - the sauce a reddish-pink color and large-size pieces of pork wrapped in a golden batter - but it was cold, and the sauce was watered down so much that it lacked flavor. How the color was maintained is yet another mystery best kept unsolved. This on top of greasy food and over-battered everything else (the mini green beans were buried in a thick batter, cold and flavorless) made for the feeling of a need to purge. We probably just should have. Instead, we drank lots and lots of hot tea once we got back to the office. One of our fortune cookies said, "God will help you overcome any hardship." We pray this wasn't a hint.
We really wanted to like Gong's. For one of us, it's in our neighborhood. Perhaps their dinners are better.
Basically, if you're hungry and all you have is $6, you could survive on Gong's fare. Otherwise, Taco Bell is only a few strides away.
Questions? Comments? Contact LENS Editor Christine Teldeschi at (209) 546-8274 or firstname.lastname@example.com. A copy of The Record's restaurant-review policy and recent reviews can be viewed on our website, recordnet.com/dining.


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Keene billionaire extracts high profits from low-margin grocery businessBy BRENDAN COFFEY and ZOHAIR SIRAJ
Bloomberg News
August 05. 2013 6:57PM
There's a reason why Richard B. Cohen escapes attention.
The chairman of C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. works out of a nondescript office park once slated to house a county jail in Keene, N.H.
The truckers who deliver goods from the company's 54 distribution centers drive unmarked tractor-trailers. Cohen's last interview was published a decade ago. Even the Keene Chamber of Commerce overlooked C&S as one of the town's largest employers.
"We're the biggest company no one has ever heard of," Bryan T. Granger, a company spokesman, said by phone.
The 61-year-old — who goes by "Rick" — has transformed C&S into the world's largest grocery wholesaler since taking the helm of the business in 1989, making him one of the 100 richest people in the world and the wealthiest man in New England after Connecticut hedge-fund manager Raymond T. Dalio, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The company had sales of $21.7 billion in 2012, distributing more than 95,000 products to 4,000 supermarkets from Maine to Hawaii. Cohen is the business' sole owner, Granger said. He has a net worth of $11.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg index, and has never appeared on an international wealth ranking — a status one associate said suits him just fine.
"I tried to put our name on the trucks and he didn't want any part of it," said Edward Albertian, 58, a former C&S president and now chief executive officer of Citysports, a 22-store Boston-based retailer owned by Highland Capital Partners LP. "He wanted to continue to be stealth and operate in this little, dinky Keene, New Hampshire, marketplace."
The billionaire has managed to make money in an industry bedeviled by small profit margins and mismanagement by focusing on efficiency and paying his workers extra to avoid mistakes, according to Thomas DeLong, a professor at Harvard Business School who consults with Cohen and wrote a case study on the company published in 2003.
"I'm not sure I've met anyone as smart, analytic and quantitatively driven as Rick," DeLong said. "Many CEOs have a need to prove they're the smartest guy in the room. Rick is not like that."
Cohen declined to comment for this story. His contributions to Keene State College include a large gift to help fund the new science center, and founding the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies.
In a 2004 commencement address at Keene State College, Cohen said he originally planned to become a doctor but eventually found himself drawn to business. What really matters, he said, is having the right attitude.
"I was talking with a doctor," Cohen said, "and told him of my original ambition. He told me, 'C & S provides medical insurance to 13,000 people. Because of that, 50,000 people can now have medical care.' That struck me. I wanted to become a doctor to save lives, and now I believe I have."
C&S is valued at $11 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, based on the average enterprise value-to-sales and enterprise value-to- earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization multiples of two publicly traded peers: Sysco Corp. and United Natural Foods Inc. Enterprise value is defined as market capitalization plus total debt minus cash.
C&S has about $240 million in outstanding bonds, according to data compiled by Bloomberg based on a 2010 bond offering prospectus, which showed the company had a gross profit margin of 2.2 percent and net income of $66 million on $19.3 billion in sales in 2009. As the company's owner, Cohen opted to let C&S corporate income pass through to be taxed as personal income — to avoid double taxation, the document shows.
The billionaire also owns real estate in Ogunquit, Maine, and Jackson, Wyo., according to local property tax records, and has collected more than $50 million in cash payments and promissory notes, according to the prospectus. He also owns Symbotic, a Wilmington, Mass.-based warehouse robotics company he bought in 2009.
Cohen's grandfather, Israel, co-founded C&S in Worcester, Mass., in 1918, according to the company's website. After a flood destroyed his inventory in 1929, he opened a new warehouse twice the size on higher ground, a few blocks further from the city's Blackstone River. His son, Lester, expanded the business into supplying military bases after a tour of duty as a bomber navigator in World War II.
Rick joined the company in 1974, after receiving an accounting degree at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school. A three-week union strike almost shuttered the business a year later, leading Cohen to persuade his father to move the company to Brattleboro, Vt., where it could build larger warehouses and hire nonunion workers, according to Harvard's DeLong.
Cohen took over as CEO and chairman when his father retired.
He moved the headquarters 18 miles east to Keene in 2003, after getting officials to relocate the county jail planned for the parcel he had his eye on, said Paul Miller, Executive Editor of the Keene Sentinel newspaper.
Grocery wholesaling is a small-margin business where economies of scale don't guarantee success, according to Burt Flickinger, managing director of Strategic Resource Group, a New York-based consulting company that specializes in the food business.
In 2003, many assets of the then-largest wholesaler, Fleming Companies Inc., were liquidated in bankruptcy. Cohen bought some of Fleming's assets, which expanded his business into California and Hawaii.
Earlier this year, Supervalu Inc., an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based company that owns both supermarkets and its own distribution business, ceded the title of world's largest wholesaler to C&S after it sold off some assets to reverse a sales decline that has driven its stock to $8 from almost $49 since July 2007.
"It's a difficult market, but when run efficiently and effectively it can be profitable," said Flickinger.
Cohen has done just that. Less than 2 percent of the orders that are processed in the company's warehouses have errors or omissions, efficiency that's unheard of elsewhere in the wholesale grocery business, according to former C&S president Albertian.
At C&S warehouses, DeLong said, self-managed teams of workers are responsible for meeting customer orders — picking the items from shelves, collecting and wrapping them on pallets and loading them onto trucks — on time. In addition to hourly wages, teams earn extra money for every order filled and suffer a wage deduction for every error.
Cohen got the idea after C&S won the right to service A&P supermarkets' New England division in 1988. After decades of mostly servicing independent grocers, A&P was a boon to C&S, increasing annual sales 35 percent to $540 million at the time. It also created chaos in the Brattleboro warehouse, with workers having little time to fill orders and restock warehouse shelves, according to DeLong.
Cohen implemented the self-managed teams after attending an executive retreat hosted by author and management consultant Tom Peters.
"He was able to eliminate many supervisors because the line workers know their business best," DeLong said.
The structure has enabled C&S to double sales over the past decade, according to the company. In May, C&S won the right to supply 480 Winn-Dixie supermarkets, a contract that should add about $2 billion in revenue, according to Strategic Insight's Flickinger.
Cohen's family doesn't display the trappings of wealth. The billionaire and his wife, Jan, live on a street where the average home value is $294,000. The couple owns the most valuable single-family home in Keene, assessed at $1.5 million, according to property tax records.
"You'll run into Rick and Jan at the grocery store in Keene and at a show in the Colonial Theater downtown," said Keene Sentinel's Miller, who also once coached soccer for one of Cohen's daughters.
Cohen's wife is executive producer of the Kaddish Project, a touring musical on genocide. One daughter, Perry, is C&S's vice president of corporate learning and talent management; another, Rachel, teaches high school at a charter school in Lynn, Mass.
"As far as quality of character, quality of intellect, and quality of taking care of his people, Rick is as good as anybody I ever worked with in my career," Albertian said. "I love the guy."


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== Random thoughts and would-bee-coolness ==
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I'm a Swedish minimalist and (mostly web-related) coder that's very fond of openness and freedom. My current phone is a ~7 years old Nokia 3310. I have yet to find a phone with better UI.
Random thoughts and would-bee-coolness
- Option to have icons instead of list in Today applauncher
- Combined sms & im-app with im-style layout
- I want Phun with "gravity follows accelerometers"-option
- Accelerometer-based aiming/rotating for games like
- Tetris
- Frozen-Bubble
- The irl-packman discussed on the ml's
Some phones that seem nice. Would be nicer with OpenMoko on.
- HP iPAQ 614
- Keypad
- ipod'ish scroll wheel
- Touch screen
- HTC Touch Dual
- Touch screen
- Slide-out 20-key QWERTY keyboard
- Would buy if OpenMoko would run on it.
- LG Viewty
- Touch screen
- 5 MP camera
- Nokia 6500 Slide
- Least crappy modern Nokia phone
- Neonode N2
- Very nice UI. UI-devs should take a look
Simple mode
Who → Whow → What
Instead of the face-grid-browser there could be a list with face + name. That would also be better for non touch screen phones. Feedback would be nice


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While strolling through the Soundstream booth, I spotted one of their new D Tower vertical standing amplifiers. In a category where mounting space is always at a premium, and installers jump through burning hoops to fit as much gear as possible into tight spaces, this was one of those ideas that screams, "why the hell didn't I think of that"!
There are 6 amplifiers in the series, 5 of them being single channel Class D subwoofer amps ranging in power from 900 watts to 3400 watts, and the sixth is a 4 channel full range Class AB model. I thought it would be cool to review one of these unique looking amps, and a simple request was all it took to put a DTR1.1400D in my hands.
The concept behind this design is to minimize the amount of floor area needed to mount the amplifier, and also to provide as clean and organized an installation as possible. To that end, the DTR1.1400D takes up a mounting area of only 3.3 inches wide x 11.7 inches long and 7.5 inches high. In fact all the models share the same mounting width and height, only the length dimension changes. These dimensions make the amplifier ideal for tight spaces like regular cab pickup trucks, and because of the way the amp dissipates heat, Soundstream claims that the amp can even be mounted upside down on a sedans rear deck!
The amplifier comes with custom nylon feet that are used to securely mount and electrically isolate the amplifier from the cars chassis to prevent ground loop noise. Just in case you really want to mount the amp in a more traditional fashion, there are a couple of longer mounting feet that will allow the amp to be mounted lying down, but it's not as cool looking.
To make things easy and clean looking, all of the wiring connections are found on one end of the amplifier, and all of the controls are on the opposite end.
The D Tower series amps are finished in a high gloss black powdercoat, and have excellent fit and finish. This treatment is applied to every surface, as the available mounting options could allow any of the sides to be seen, so they all have to be well finished. Wiring connections are made with sturdy hex head set screws, and thoughtfully, they are all the same size, so you don't have to run back and forth to the toolbox. Power connections will easily accept full spec 4 gauge wire, and the speaker terminals will handle up to 6 gauge cables. There is no on board fuse, but the manual suggests a 100A fuse be installed for this model. A remote mounted level control is optional.
On the control end of the amp, the pots are metal, and mounted flush with the end panel for easy access, but no accidental bumps will change the settings. The pots are also detented, with about 40 clicks covering the 270 degrees of rotation. Controls on the DTR1.1400D include Gain, Low Pass Filter, Subsonic Filter, Bass Frequency and Bass Boost, and a Phase control. Also found on this end of the amp are blue Power and red Protection LED's.
The owner's manual is a straightforward and fairly basic affair, covering the entire series with 10 pages of clearly written information, and well drawn diagrams. Quite frankly, if you can't install and adjust this amplifier using the included manual, you probably should not be working on a car anyway.
Of course I had to take it apart, and what I found on the inside was just as nicely made as the exterior. The amp uses typical Class D technology, with 10 high current HEXFET MOSFETS in the power supply, and 8 high current MOSFETS in the output stage. Energy storage is handled by 5-2200µF capacitors for the power supply, and 2-4700µF caps for the output. The printed circuit board is high quality FR4 material, and uses very low tolerance surface mount parts where ever possible. The PCB is mounted to one "side" of the amplifier, and I wondered how well the heat would transfer to the other side. As it turned out, the heat generated was dissipated quite equally by both sides of the amp, with temperatures remaining within a few degrees of each other from one side to the other.


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Staff Report
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Jackson, the record-breaking, sensationally gifted "King of Pop" who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world's most influential singer and dancer, and the tabloid world's most disturbing celebrity, has died. He was 50.
A person with knowledge of the situation says Jackson died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
His death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white
music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.
Michael Jackson Dies at Age 50
Staff Report


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instead of the normal orgasm we always love to give eachother! we decided to go to the extreme today and try out an airgasm! can you imagine jumping out of a plane naked?!
well we can! you know we love to get our pussies wet and this really did it! after the jump we had to use up the rest of our adrenaline on eachother!! wild fun!!


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=== Set up a shared folder ===
This part is specific to each program, so please visit their wiki page.
If you don't already have
If you don't already have partition, see [[Beginners'_Guide#Prepare_the_storage_drive|Prepare the storage drive]] from the Beginners' Guide.
If you're on Windows, install [http://www.ext2fsd.com/ Ext2Fsd] to be able to
If you're on Windows, install [http://www.ext2fsd.com/ Ext2Fsd] to be able to .
=== Transfer the system ===
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This article describes how to transfer your current Arch Linux installation in or out of a virtual environment (i.e. QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware), and is heavily based on the Full System Backup with rsync article. A virtual machine ("VM", for short) uses different hardware, which needs to be addressed by re-generating the initramfs image. While any Linux filesystem should work, it's recommended that you go with ext4, at least at first, until you get the hang of it.
- 1 Moving out of a VM
- 2 Moving into a VM
- 3 Troubleshoot
Moving out of a VM
Moving out of a virtual environment is relatively easy.
This part is specific to each program, so please visit their wiki page.
If you don't already have an ext4 partition, see Prepare the storage drive from the Beginners' Guide.
If you're on Windows, install Ext2Fsd to be able to mount it.
Transfer the system
From the virtual machine, open a terminal and transfer the system:
# rsync -aAXv /* /path/to/shared/folder --exclude={/dev/*,/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/run/*,/mnt/*,/media/*,/lost+found,/home/*/.gvfs}
Chroot and reinstall the bootloader
Boot a "live" Linux distribution, mount the root partition and chroot into it:
# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt # arch-chroot /mnt
Reinstall Syslinux or GRUB, using the instructions from the Beginners' Guide.
Adjust the fstab
Since your entire root tree has been transferred to a single partition, edit the fstab file to reflect the right partition. Check with
Re-generate the initramfs image
Because the hardware has changed, while you're still in the chroot, re-generate the initramfs image:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Moving into a VM
Moving into a virtual environment takes a little more effort.
Create the container
This will create a 10 GB raw image:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/Backup/backup.img bs=1024 count=10482381
If you want to create one the exact size of your root partition, run
fdisk -l and use the value from the
Blocks column. Note that you will transfer you entire root tree, so that includes the
/boot and
/home folders. If you have any separate partitions for those, you need to take them into account when creating the container.
Now load the necessary module and mount it as a loopback device, on
/dev/loop5 (for example):
# modprobe loop # losetup /dev/loop5 /media/Backup/backup.img
Install gparted and slap a partition table on it (e.g. "msdos") and a filesystem (e.g. "ext4"):
# pacman -S gparted # gparted /dev/loop5
Transfer the system
Mount the loopback device and transfer the system:
/mnt or
/media, don't forget to add it to the exclude list.
# mkdir /mnt/Virtual # mount /dev/loop5p1 /mnt/Virtual # rsync -aAXv /* /mnt/Virtual --exclude={/dev/*,/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/run/*,/mnt/*,/media/*,/lost+found,/home/*/.gvfs}
Sit back, this could take a while.
Convert the container to a compatible format
Change directory to where the loopback file is located and choose the appropriate command for your virtual machine:
$ cd /media/Backup $ qemu-img convert -c -f raw -O qcow backup.img backup.qcow2 $ VBoxManage convertfromraw --format VDI backup.img backup.vdi $ VBoxManage convertfromraw --format VMDK backup.img backup.vmdk
Chroot and reinstall the bootloader
Hook up the converted file from above, and the latest Arch Linux ISO into the virtual CD-ROM. Then start the virtual machine and chroot into it:
# mount /dev/sda1 # arch-chroot /mnt
Reinstall Syslinux or GRUB, using the instructions from the Beginners' Guide.
Adjust the fstab
Since your entire root tree has been transferred to a single partition, edit the fstab file to look like this:
# nano /etc/fstab
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
Having an
nvidia entry (or
intel, etc) in the
Device section from one of the Xorg configuration files will inhibit the
startx command, since you will be using emulated hardware (including the video card). So it's recommended that you move/rename or delete them:
# mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak # mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.bak
Re-generate the initramfs image
Because the hardware has changed, while you're still in the chroot, re-generate the initramfs image:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
"mount: special device /dev/loop5p1 does not exist"
Check with
fdisk for the starting block and use it as an offset:
# fdisk -l /dev/loop5
Disk /dev/loop5: 10.7 GB, 10733958144 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1304 cylinders, total 20964762 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000b45e8 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/loop5p1 * 2048 20963327 10480640 83 Linux
# mount -o offset=$((2048 * 512)) /dev/loop5 /mnt/Virtual/
"Missing operating system. FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE"
You will need to install (reinstall) a bootloader. See the instructions from the Beginners' Guide.
"Waiting 10 seconds for device; ERROR: Unable to find root device"
Waiting 10 seconds for device [...] ... ERROR: Unable to find root device '[...]'. You are being dropped to a recovery shell Type 'exit' to try and continue booting sh: can't access tty; job control turned off [rootfs /]# _
You need to regenerate your initramfs image, because the hardware has changed. To do that, you can start the VM using the Fallback entry. If you don't have a Fallback entry, press Template:Keypress (for Syslinux) or Template:Keypress (for GRUB) and rename it
initramfs-linux-fallback.img. After it boots, run:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
I'm asked for the root password, for maintenance
:: Checking Filesystems [BUSY] fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve '...'
This means that you forgot to add the drive's UUID, label or device name in
/etc/fstab. The UUID is different every time you format it (or in this case, create one from scratch), and they likely do not match. Check with


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Every Wednesday during the Advent/Christmas season, we will post a reflection in hopes that it may help you on your own journey. This week's reflection is offered by Larry Livingston, CFCA director of church relations.
"They were overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house they saw the child with Mary his mother." (Matthew 2:10)
One of the few things we are told about the mysterious group of visitors called the Magi is that they saw, in the ascension of a star, the sign of a new king.
According to the story of the Epiphany in Matthew's Gospel, that star led them to the Christ-child, but the details of their amazing journey remain a mystery.
Perhaps that lack of detail is one reason why the story of the Magi has so captured the imaginations of Christians throughout the centuries. Each of us must answer for ourselves why we think these travelers followed the star. And, in so doing, we are invited to reflect on the 'stars' that we ourselves follow.
Our stars come in a variety of forms and, like the literal stars in the heavens, they can both illuminate and consume.
Some people follow stars of greed and selfishness while others are guided by stars of compassion and generosity.
Whatever values form the trajectory of a person's life, there can be found that person's star.
Some of our trajectories lead to happiness and some to self-destruction, but an important thing to keep in mind is that trajectories can change.
The ability to correct the course of one's life is one of the blessings of being human.
We have been given by God the capacity to learn, to grow, and to accept liberation from things that hold us bound. We have the freedom, when we so choose, to follow new stars.
Sometimes the choice of a new star comes dramatically, but it doesn't have to be that way. Often it is simply a matter of figuring out that the star one has been following isn't worth the journey.
And sometimes a new star has been there the whole time, gently waiting to be discovered.
In the CFCA community, the relationship between a sponsor and a sponsored friend can be one of those gently waiting stars.
In our Hope for a Family sponsorship program, there are many blessings to be discovered for both sponsors and sponsored, always inviting but never forced.
As with the Magi, sponsorship is a journey that one begins without knowing the destination but confident in its goodness.
As we bring to a close this season of Christmas, let us continue to pray for one another that the stars we each follow may lead to joy and truth.
Let us pray that each of us has the wisdom to recognize when our own stars have led us astray, and the courage to change our trajectories when needed.
Most of all, let us pray that we may be loyal and worthy companions for one another, always alive ó as were the Magi ó to the presence of the sacred along the journey.
Related links:
Awakening our hearts to love [1st Advent reflection]
'For it is in giving that we receive' [2nd Advent reflection]
'God dwells within the human family' [3rd Advent reflection]
Christmas on the practical, everyday level [4th Advent reflection]
Christmas reflection: Feast of The Holy Family [5th Advent/Christmas reflection]


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The LHHP, launched by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), matches experienced hunters with persons who would like to learn how to hunt, but have no family member or friend with the necessary skills. Experienced hunters, registered through LHHP, serve as mentors to help new hunters, referred to as apprentices, with learning the skills necessary to become independent hunters.
Currently there are a few openings for apprentice hunters in north and west central Louisiana. The only requirement for apprentice hunters is that they be 10 years of age or older. Youth, young adults and even seniors who want to learn to hunt are eligible.
There is also a need for experienced hunters willing to serve as mentors in southeast Louisiana, particularly in the New Orleans metro area. The only requirements for mentors is that they be 18 years of age or older, pass a background check and are willing to pass along their hunting skills to a novice hunter.
LDWF will conduct background checks on all mentor applicants, pair apprentices with mentors and provide training and support to mentors. For more information on the LHHP, or for mentor/apprentice applications, visit the LDWF website at http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/louisiana-hunting-heritage-program or contact John Sturgis at 225-763-5448 or email@example.com, or Karen Crabtree at 318-766-8144 or email@example.com.


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I tend to be a mid-to-late adopter of the latest fad in technology. I went through four years of college without ever creating a Facebook page (but did eventually cave in to the evil). I didn't get a cell phone until I was married, since tacking another line on costs about 1/6 the price of getting your own line (though, it's still total bare bones…you know, one of the ones you get for free with your plan). And now, I've been seeing all this news about Twitter, and I've resisted in typical fashion, hiding my eyes while holding a cross made of two fingers.
Well, I finally gave in to that. And for good reason, too. Some of the best training & certification news out there is on Twitter. Want to find out about the latest Microsoft certifications? Just follow MSLearning. If you're interested in Cisco news, you can follow CiscoPress. And finally, there's lots of entrepreneur feeds out there if you're interested in starting your own business, such as Guy Kawasaki's feed. (Have to warn you though, you have to sift through the fluff for the valuable content on that one.)
Of course, the other option is to follow my feed (breinholz) and let me decide what's worth hearing from all these feeds. In the feed, I'll focus primarily on training & certification, mobility, and breaking news--the same kinds of stuff I usually write articles on.
As for those of you who are sick of hearing about Twitter--I'm right there with you. But eventually we'll all crack and fall in line. Tweet ya later.
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My G1G1 2008 laptop does not find any networks anymore. It worked about six months and then nothing. I have access to two other G1G1 laptops (my sister's kids) and they work OK.
The radio seems to be looking for the WLAN, but finds nothing, not the wireless nor the other laptops. The neighborhood view only shows my icon and the mesk rings.
I have installed and uninstalled a lot of applications, and I think all of this activity before the problem. Also I moved and the laptop was in a box for weeks and I think the battery was empty when I started using it again.
I started fixing the problem with the radio button and power management. No luck.
Discarded network history. No luck.
Battery off for a few hours, back on. No connection.
I think I tried a few other things I found in this forum (can't remember which), but no luck.
In the end I did the Clean-install, but still no luck.
Hardware check (holding left rocker key powering up) says that everything should be ok.
Software? Hardware?
Is there further diagnostics I could run?
Or any other way I could isolate the problem?
Any ideas? Suggestions?
Thanks in advance,