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Hometown: Glendale
State/Province: AZ
Country: USA
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Biggest Wins: 2009 Best Dam BBQ - Boulder City, NV - 1st place ribs; 2009 Rio Rancho Pork n Brew - 3rd place chicken, 10th place pork, 1st place Brisket, 9th overall; 2008 Pulte Home BBQ Throwdown & Balloon Fest State Championship in Arizona - 1st Place Chicken; 2008 Rio Rancho Pork n Brew - 6th Place Ribs, 15th overall
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Orange is not the only fruit
There's a huge buzz about the Xperia X10 - the upcoming Android smartphone from Sony Ericsson - and if you're keen to get your hands on one, Vodafone will set you a handset on 2 April, it said today.
The operator said the X10 will be available for free on monthly contracts from £35 - with a two-year tie-in - providing 900 minutes' call time, unlimited texts and 500MB of mobile internet.
Sony Ericsson will be pushing the X10 hard next month, touting its 4in touchscreen and custom TimeScape social networking-centric UI. You can see our video demo here.
The X10 also sports an 8.1Mp, auto-focus camera; 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor; Assisted GPS; 1GB of internal memory plus an 8GB Micro SD card.
In addition to Vodafone, Virgin Media will also be offering the handset, as will Orange. In fact, the French-owned operator has the exclusive on the white X10 - everyone else's is black. ®


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Democratic Turning Point
Pakistan is placing great hopes in its newly elected government, following more than eight years of military rule. Astounding things have happened over the past few weeks: the murdered Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and Nawaz Sharif's Muslim League – bitter rivals throughout the 1990s – have agreed to form a grand coalition.
The two parties will sit around the same table in the cabinet, and they have succeeded in winning over practically all politicians who came into question. The result is control over all of Pakistan's provinces and a solid two-thirds majority in parliament.
Basic consensus among democrats
Nawaz Sharif and Bhutto's widower Asif Zardari emphasise their harmony and command of the situation at joint appearances. For the first time, Pakistan seems to be experiencing something akin to a basic consensus among democrats, which politicians are placing above their own interests. It was not least the murder of Benazir Bhutto that highlighted all the party leaders have in common, including their responsibility for democracy.
There was admittedly an unseemly tug of war over the office of prime minister within the People's Party, but all that now appears to be forgotten, and the successful candidate is widely respected. Particularly the de facto party chairman Asif Zardari, whose reputation was previously not overly positive, has astounded all his critics with his statesmanlike manner.
While some observers are now predicting a power struggle between the new government and the president, that particular tug of war may well have been won already: President Musharraf has been pushed further and further out to the margins of the political action over the past few weeks. On Monday, he was forced to stand by and watch as even state television broadcast the anti-Musharraf slogans in parliament.
He has also had to put up with the elected but not yet acting Prime Minister Gilani deciding to release Judge Iftikhar Chaudhry, whom Musharraf had toppled and placed under house arrest – and with the authorities rushing to do so in a case of "pre-emptive obedience". It is only a matter of time until the old judges return to the courtrooms.
Time up for the lame duck?
And then it will be time to take a close look at the legality of Musharraf's election as president. It's up to Musharraf how long he wants to remain in office as a "lame duck" under these circumstances. But the new political leadership is probably not losing any sleep over the matter, considering its overwhelming majorities.
The new government has inherited a difficult situation. The main problem over the coming months will be Pakistan's security, with suicide bombers posing a threat across the country. So it is very much in the Gilani government's own interest to take a tough stand against terrorism.
Better times ahead
Fears from abroad are unfounded. Particularly Nawaz Sharif, however, will no doubt refuse to be seen as a puppet for the USA – which could prompt conflicts between Washington and Islamabad. But in the long term, it is in the interest of the international community for the Pakistanis themselves to decide how to combat terrorism – for example not by having people simply "disappear" into secret service prisons.
Up to now, the West has allowed Musharraf a quasi-monopoly and his own choice of means in the fight against terror. This approach has plainly failed: Musharraf has misused this "mandate" for his own purposes, even fanning the flames of terrorism in many areas. Things can only get better.
Thomas Bärthlein
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Elections in Pakistan
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As election results continue to trickle after the 18 February elections in Pakistan, it is clear that what is happening is little short of a tsunami that has transformed the political landscape overnight. Irfan Husain reports
Pakistan's Political Crisis
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Even by the standards of Pakistan's turbulent politics, the high drama surrounding Nawaz Sharif's brief return to Pakistan would be hard to beat. Irfan Husain reports
Persecution of NGOs in Pakistan
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Surprise! Disgraced 'No Tip' Server Dayna Morales Hasn't Donated Funds To Wounded Military Vets As Promised
Show us the receipts, Dayna! (And not the ones on which you *allegedly* wrote anti-gay messages to yourself.)
Apparently disgraced lesbian server and former Marine Dayna Morales, who was at the center of a hoax in which she claimed a woman denied her a tip because she "disagreed" with Morales's lesbian "lifestyle," hasn't donated the funds she received from hundreds of supporters to the Wounded Warrior Project as promised.
The Wounded Warrior Project supports wounded military veterans and Morales, who has since been called a pathological liar, originally said she'd be donating all of the donations that she received to the organization.
Well according to the Wounded Warrior Project they haven't received any funds from Morales.
What's the hold up, Dayna?
But as of Wednesday, the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit that supports veterans returning from overseas duty, could not confirm Morales had made any donations.
A Wounded Warrior representative checking for donations by her name and the ZIP codes for Bridgewater, where the restaurant is located, and Bedminster, where Morales said she lives, was unable to find any matching donations.
The donations may have been made from a different ZIP code, or by a third-party, the representative said.
Morales could not be reached for comment.
Hmm...think the Wounded Warrior Project will ever see that cash, Instincters?
If not, wouldn't this count as fraud, since Morales *allegedly* misled people and then possibly pocketed the funds?
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Typical man wanna be lesbian. They wanna be a man soooooo BAD that they think by acting so reckless this makes them more butch. What is soooo HILARIOUS is that when they have the final surgery to become a man, they are never actually a man, as the penis is constructed out of excess skin, with a pump installed to blow it up before sex. The penis will never even have head to it.
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With the seventh overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft, the Lakers selected Kentucky forward Julius Randle
Randle is a 6-foot-9, 19-year-old left-hander who averaged 15.0 points and 10.4 rebounds, helping the Wildcats to the NCAA championship game, where they ultimatel lost to Connecticut.
"He's got big-time skills," said General Manager Mitch Kupchak after the selection. "He can put the ball on the floor. He can drive and get to the rim."
"He plays and competes at a very, very high level. He loves contact," continued Kupchak. "Although I don't expect Kobe [Bryant] to talk to him until January, I think he'll like him."
Bryant has a reputation for being hard on rookie teammates.
Reports surfaced that Randle might need surgery to remove a screw from his foot after a high school injury, but the forward recently denied surgery was under consideration.
"I met with the best foot doctor in the country, and he said he wouldn't do anything for my foot," said Randle, after his workout at the Lakers' facility in El Segundo last week. "There's no scheduled surgery or anything. I feel healthy, athletic. I'm moving great -- no problem recovering. I'm ready to go."
"He had surgery about 18 months ago. He's been cleared," said Kupchak. "We just felt that his talent was such, that even if he did have to miss a period of time ... it would not impact his career. At his age, even if he does reinjure, there's no reason why he can't play 12-14 more years at a very, very high level."
Randle also auditioned for the Lakers, in an impressive workout against player development coach (and former Lakers power forward) Mark Madsen.
The Lakers passed on the opportunity to draft a number of available players at No. 7, including Indiana's Noah Vonleh, Louisiana-Lafayette's Elfrid Payton, Creighton's Doug McDermott, UCLA's Zach LaVine, Michigan's Nik Stauskas, Syracuse's Tyler Ennis, NBA D-League's P.J. Hairston and Kentucky's James Young -- all players who worked out for the Lakers in El Segundo.
The first six players taken in the draft ahead of the Lakers were Kansas' Andrew Wiggins (Cleveland Cavaliers), Duke's Jabari Parker (Milwaukee Bucks), Kansas' Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers), Arizona's Aaron Gordon (Orlando Magic), Australia's Dante Exum (Utah Jazz) and Oklahoma State's Marcus smart (Boston Celtics).
Kupchak indicated that Randle was higher than seventh on the Lakers' draft board.
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Here's an intersection between technology and motor vehicle operation many might have overlooked: how the new trend towards "wearable" technology like Google's glass and other offerings might help – and yet also hinder – drivers of both cars and trucks.
Global consulting firm ABI Research posits that the next "logical" step following in the wake of in-vehicle smartphone integration is the interface of "wearable form-factors" – directly or via phones – with more than 90% of vehicles around the world by 2019.
"While head unit proximity touch screens, heads up displays and speech recognition are now well established, the quest for next-generation automotive HMI [human machine interface] is still on with gesture recognition, eye control and augmented reality edging closer to implementation," explained Dominique Bonte (at right), ABI's VP and automotive practice director.
"At the same time, wearable form-factors are being explored bearing testimony to the automotive industry's objective to keep up with consumer electronics innovation," he added. "But they also contribute to creating a seamless digital user experience inside and outside the vehicle."
Bonte noted that in-vehicle wearable integration is the latest trend in automotive design, referencing a few recent developments such as Hyundai's Blue Link Glassware application, Mercedes' Pebble smart watch Digital DriveStyle application, BMW's i3 EV Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch integration, INRIX's real-time traffic Google Glass demo app, and Nissan's Nismo concept smart watch displaying biometric and vehicle diagnostics and performance data (more on that one later).
However, he also said that use of wearables in cars is controversial (no duh!) with many governments dismissing them for safety reasons.
"Legislation banning eyewear is already being prepared in several U.S. states and in the U.K.," Bonte pointed out. "But jurisdiction seems to be lacking as illustrated by cases dismissed on grounds it could not be proven the device was either switched on or a distracting application used. Clearly, it is not the form-factor which should be banned but certain use cases such as watching videos."
He also noted there are positive safety benefits to "in-vehicle wearables" to consider as well.
"Eyewear functioning as dash cams or for displaying blind spot or collision safety alerts will contribute to safer driving, not deter it," Bonte stressed. "At the same time wearables will kick start a thriving aftermarket connected car application ecosystem."
Now, Nissan's new "smart watch" concept certainly can't display all the visual information the way Google's glass eyeshades can, but it does provide an example of the new ways technology is being envisioned as a connector between vehicles and driver performance.
Nissan's "Nismo Watch" is also supposedly geared towards athletes, so they can monitor their own personal performance as well as that of their car. It's a device designed to:
- Monitor the efficiency of their vehicle with average speed and fuel consumption readings
- Access vehicle telematics and performance data
- Capture biometric data via a heart rate monitor
- Connect to the car using a smartphone app via Bluetooth Low Energy
- Receive tailored car messages from Nissan
Gareth Dunsmore, marketing communications general manager for Nissan in Europe, noted that the OEM's vision for the Nismo Watch is to take such "digital age" technologies and make them available to athletes and to Nissan vehicle owners through future wearable technologies. It's also designed to use a lithium battery that can be charged by micro-USB, with a battery life of over seven days under normal usage conditions.
Dunsmore said three key technologies have already identified for future development for the Nismo Watch:
- ECG (Electrocardiogram) to measure rhythm of heartbeats and identify early fatigue
- EEG (Electroencephalogram) Brainwave to monitor the drivers' levels of concentration and emotions, and help athletes to get 'In the Zone'
- Skin Temperature for recording core body temperature and hydration levels
Now, think about some of those features in relation to the trucking world: it could really be ideal in terms of providing a simple way for truck drivers to keep tabs on their ability to monitor personal fatigue and how it affects their concentration. And, if worn in the form of a watch, that technology might not be very distractive at all in terms of interfering with truck operations.
It's still early days where the development and eventual use of wearable technology in the world of motor vehicles is concerned of course. But it's never too early to start studying what the impact of such technology might be upon a driver's ability to operate a vehicle efficiently and safely.


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I first saw walking poles on a morning TV show and thought about them for my mother. She's been having trouble with her balance, and what better way to help her exercise safely. Of course, Mom has her own ideas, and walking poles weren't on her list. She's too busy quilting, playing cards and volunteering at the old folks home and the library.
My dad, however, decided to try them. He lasted one week then he kindly gave them to me. Dad always did like me best.
If you haven't heard of them, walking poles are like adjustable ski poles, and the exercise is like cross country skiing without the skis. When I mentioned them on Twitter, a friend in Montana said she was designing a program for the elderly at the medical center where she works. She messaged me a week later to say the walking poles were kicking her . . . assets.
Now she's a much younger woman than I am, who owns a ranch, runs barrels, and ropes. She even skis, for goodness sake. She's in much better shape than I am, but did I listen to her? No, I thought she was making an elderly joke at my expense. Elderly, me? I had more of a vision of Superwoman for myself.
Did I listen when the brochure said these poles will give you a full body workout, and the user should take it slow in the beginning. No I did not. See the Superwoman picture above. Why would I have trouble with some stinking poles?
The first time I walked with the poles was a couple of days after Christmas. I had a wonderful time. The snow was about six inches deep, and the poles, by reducing the chance of slipping, made walking easier. I went the whole mile and a half around our place.
I walk a lot. It's my major form of exercise, so I figured I'd just use the poles when the ground was slick. You can see this coming, can't you? Again, reference the Superwoman fantasy.
When I woke the next morning, I felt like I'd been run over by a herd of wild horses then backed over by a Dodge Ram 3500. Every part of my body was sore. I had to wear slip-on shoes for two days, because I couldn't bend over to touch my feet. It was the fault of the evil poles. My friend should have cautioned me. There should have been warning labels on the poles.
Oh yea, she did and there were.
I've been using the poles a couple of times a week since then, and I'm getting in better shape, but I have yet to walk even a short distance without feeling it the next day. The amazing thing is that when I'm walking, I never get tired or winded, so I walk farther than I intended.
Superwoman is still my inner goddess, but she's changed just a bit. She's tackling life's little problems in smaller bites, but make no mistake, the poles are going down just as soon as she and I rest up.


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The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, Nov. 19 to Sunday, Nov. 25, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify.
1. Christina Aguilera, "Just A Fool" (RCA Records)
2. Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, "Stars" (Hollywood Records)
3. Keyshia Cole, "Trust and Believe" (Geffen Records)
4. Christina Perri, "A Thousand Years (feat. Steve Kazee, Part 2)" (Chop Shop/Atlantic)
5. In This Moment, "Blood" (Century Media Records)
6. Upon This Drawing, "Call Me Maybe" (Fearless Records)
7. Ra Ra Riot, "Beta Love" (Barsuk Records)
8. Ke$ha, "C'Mon" (Kemosabe/RCA Records)
9. Nicki Minaj, "I'm Legit" (Cash Money Records)
10. Avenged Sevenfold, "Carry On" (Warner Bros.)
1. Bon Iver, "Beth/Rest (Rare Book Room)," (4AD)
2. Masters in France, "Playin' With My Friends" (A&H Records)
3. Jakwob, "Blinding" (Boom Ting Recordings)
4. R. Kelly, "I Look To You" (Arista Records/RCA Records)
5. Christina Perri, "A Thousand Years (feat. Steve Kazee, Part 2)" (Chop Shop/Atlantic)
6. Ben Pearce, "What I Might Do (Club Mix)" (MTA Records/Mercury Records)
7. Matt Corby, "Brother" (Atlantic Records UK)
8. C2C, "Down The Road" (On And On Records)
9. Guns N' Roses, "November Rain" (Geffen Records)
10. Avenged Sevenfold, "Carry On" (Warner Bros.)


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Advantage Bulldogs
SUN PHOTO BY KATHERINE GODINA North Port's Carly Rogers takes a swing against DeSoto's Bethany Bonnville during Tuesday's game.
SUN PHOTO BY KATHERINE GODINA DeSoto's Tishonna Riley digs the ball while libero Lucero Perez watches during Tuesday's game at North Port
NORTH PORT — A pattern emerged at North Port High School on Tuesday night, and it was not one the Bobcats were thrilled about, either.
Visiting DeSoto County swept the Bobcats 25-20, 25-20, 25-20 during three sets that nearly mirrored each other, leaving the Bulldogs thankful and North Port searching for answers.


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Nursing homes and other long-term care facilities have been identified as reservoirs of MRSA. Over the past decade, MRSA has also emerged as a cause of skin and soft tissue infections in the community. Most MRSA infections are minor infections of the skin that take the form of pustules, furuncles or boils. Generally, these conditions are mild, self-limited, and do not require aggressive treatment. Not surprisingly, this organism is now being increasingly recognized as a cause of infections in residents of jails and prisons. In the correctional setting, staphylococcal skin lesions have often been mistakenly attributed to spider bites. In reality, spiders rarely bite people, and most of the bites are inconsequential.
Once community-associated methicillin-resistant SA (CA-MRSA) has a foothold in a correctional facility, it is likely to remain there indefinitely. For every identified colonized or infected inmate or staff member, there are many who are not identified. Control of outbreaks relies upon reducing the bacterial load in a facility by treating identified cases, decreasing the likelihood of bacteria being passed between individuals, and decreasing the size of the inoculum when bacteria are transmitted.
Methicillin resistant strains are resistant to all beta lactam antibiotics, including penicillins and cephalosporins. In addition, MRSA strains often carry plasmids that lead to resistance to aminoglycosides, fluoroquinolones, macrolides, and chloramphenicol. Many MRSA strains are susceptible to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, clindamycin, and rifampin. Virtually all SA are fully susceptible to vancomycin. However, the first clinical isolate of SA with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin was reported from Japan in 1996. The first documented case of infection caused by vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA) (vancomycin MIC >32 µg/mL) in a patient in the United States was reported in 2002.
Even though SA infection may be suspected, cultures and sensitivities are required to confirm the diagnosis of MRSA. Empirical treatment can be based upon the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of organisms circulating within the facility. Cultures should be obtained even during outbreaks. Cultures should also be obtained if a patient fails to respond to treatment. The infection control officer or the infection control committee should review patient records for appropriateness of diagnosis and treatment.
Vancomycin has been used for many years for the treatment of SA and MRSA. Concerns about vancomycin include hypersensitivity reactions, a histamine release syndrome (red man syndrome) related to rapid infusion, lack of availability of an oral formulation for the treatment of systemic infection, concerns about the development of vancomycin resistant enterococcus, and concerns about the emergence of vancomycin resistant staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) and strains with reduced sensitivity to vancomycin (VISA).
Hygiene can be improved by patient education, improving access to soap and bathing, maintaining an adequate supply of dressing materials, and following appropriate laundry procedures. Materials coming into the laundry may be contaminated with CA-MRSA. Laundry workers must be provided with protective equipment and instructed regarding its use. CA-MRSA has the potential to produce toxins and cause food-poisoning, so special care should be exercised in carrying on "routine" daily review of workers for infections at the time of an outbreak. Access to medical care can be improved by eliminating co-payment requirement for contagious conditions, maintaining sufficient clinical staff to ensure prompt access to care, and establishing 24/7 urgent care for serious medical conditions. All correctional employees should be educated about the importance of prompt evaluation and treatment of infectious conditions. Furthermore, clinicians should be reminded to culture all skin and soft tissue infections and to not attribute skin lesions to insect bites.
CA-MRSA survives well on particularly warm, moist surfaces. Proper cleaning techniques, which should be reviewed with team supervisors, reduce the bacterial load, especially when antimicrobial cleaning agents (most often those containing quaternary ammonium compounds) are used. Facilities with CA-MRSA outbreaks should establish cleaning schedules and log their cleaning activities as part of their overall facility quality improvement activities.
A physical review of all units can therefore be very helpful in reducing opportunities for bacterial transfer. Surfaces that become easily contaminated require special attention, such as toilet seats, sinks, bathtubs, weight room equipment, etc. that are often in direct contact with skin. Frequent use of antimicrobial products can leave a residual film that can reduce the surface load of bacteria over an extended period of time. Hand washing is the most effective way to reduce transmission of CA-MRSA. The practice of leaving a towel next to a sink should be avoided, as shared towels provide perhaps the best transfer medium of all for CA-MRSA. Paper towels should be used instead.
Terminal disinfection should be employed in housing areas and is especially important during CA-MRSA outbreaks. Materials that cannot be sanitized should be discarded. Except for patients with secretions that cannot be controlled and are likely to contaminate the environment (including prisoners who intentionally spread contamination), no special separate housing is necessary.
If inmates understand how CA-MRSA is transmitted, they are more likely to practice good hygiene and protect themselves from transmission. Inmates should be educated about personal hygiene and advised to avoid touching other individuals' wounds or wound drainage. Inmates should be provided regular access to soap, showers, and sinks. Clinical staff should follow standard precautions while providing wound care. Infection control measures can never be overemphasized; even in the hospital setting many healthcare professionals neglect hand washing. In an effort to improve hand hygiene, the use of alcohol-containing antiseptic scrubs is increasingly being encouraged. However, security concerns may lead to these particular disinfectants not being universally embraced in the correctional setting. During outbreaks prisoners need to be encouraged to present possible CA-MRSA lesions to health services personnel for examination. Barriers to health care should be reviewed and lowered or eliminated during outbreaks. For example, during a CA-MRSA outbreak a facility could waive co-payment for evaluation of skin problems.
The involvement of experts in infection control and infectious diseases can be useful in both managing individual patients and establishing protocols specific to the unique needs of each facility. Correctional facilities experiencing outbreaks of MRSA should seek assistance from their local and state health departments. MRSA outbreaks can be reported to CDC (TEL: 800-893-0485) through state departments of corrections and state health departments. Preventing MRSA disease in inmates might be an important measure for preventing MRSA in the community outside the correctional facility.
Dean Rieger, M.D., M.P.H., is Medical Director at Indiana Department of Corrections. He has nothing to disclose.
Joseph Bick, M.D., is Chief Medical Officer at California Medical Facility. He has nothing to disclose.
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Fate's Twist
Story is currently on hold, until I can rewrite some of the chapters. Sometimes fate deals us a deadly blow when we thought we knew what it wanted. Like a second soul mate or an incorrect premonition that leads us to the path we were meant to take. Edward has found one of his soul mates, but perhaps, he was wrong and just maybe Bella isn't the only one he could ever love as truly and deeply as he loves her. Bella's not the only one with two soul mates.
OFC/Felix - OFC/Edward Post-Eclipse. Takes place a few years later. And Spoilers. Warnings: Violence and Language.
1. 1. Taking a Life
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Chapter 1
It wasn't ever like me to care or even have feelings for another being, except my mother. I grew up well breed, as they would say, and in the upper class. Private school and tutoring every week day. Piano and horse riding lessons every Wednesday and Friday. Domestic practices learned from my mother and manners learned from my own insolence. My father was an unkind man, with cold eyes and drunken breath, reeking of brandy or scotch. He came home everyday from the state offices complaining of his workers and the idlers that worked beneath him. My mother was an idol of a woman. Strong and dependent, yet loving and caring. She spent much of her time reading books in my father's library and drinking sweet tea in the gardens under a lace umbrella held by her fan boy.
Only he wasn't much of a fan boy. I should just have called him her lover. Secretive as she was, she couldn't hide their affair for long.
It was another cold day in September when my father came home early, much too drunk to sit at a desk for a few more hours. Being a rich man in the government must have been taxing. (No pun intended, but sarcasm welcome.) She was lost in the embrace of the young man before she even knew that my father had his flintlock pistol pressed to her head.
I knew he had come home, and I followed him to his personal study; fetch his gun from the desk and streak down the stairs, faster than should have been possible for a man of his size. I stood behind the large armoire near the library door, peering around the corner. I knew that I shouldn't watch, but I did.
He stood there behind her with a callous look in his eyes. "You street prostitute," he spat. She saw me hiding there and mouthed the word, Leave. I shook my head and stared her down as the gun exploded and her face disappeared behind a cloud of blood. I turned my head away and pressed my warm face into the cool of the armoire. "Garrick!" My father bellowed; holding my mother's lover at an arms length, with his fingers thread around his throat.
Garrick tumbled into the room from a door opposite the one I had snuck in. "Sir," he gasped catching his breath.
"Clean this up," my father ordered.
Garrick swallowed hard as he saw the bloody mess around my father. "And what about-"
"Throw her whore body in the lake, and I will deal with him in my hunting shed." My father, who by now had the strength of ten men, pulled the man from the sofa and stalked out the same door Garrick had just entered. The horror in Edward's face, I will never forget. His eyes wide with terror and vomit spilling from his lips. His blonde hair and light face splattered with the red of my mother's blood.
I had never been formally introduced to him, but I often over heard my mother whisper "My dear Edward" over and over again, as they sat in the garden. Her voice was echoing in my head as I watched Garrick pull what was left of my mother from the sofa.
The night had come so fast, the darkness encroached on our large villa. I stared out over our backyard to the lake surrounded on three sides by the forest of trees and flowers. I imagined her body tied to a heavy stone floating lifeless and faceless in the green water. Anger boiled within me, as I heard my father call her a whore.
Clutching the knife tightly to my chest, I entered the house through the backdoor into the kitchen. The curve of the ivory handle smooth against my palm. I sulked silently down the hallway to his first floor study where he was passed out drunk behind his desk.
I opened the door, refusing to be quiet. I hoped he would wake up and see me. See the fury in my eyes and the chaos in my mind. But he didn't. He stayed asleep like a coward. As I moved closer to him, I saw the empty branded bottle and the still smoking cigar left in the ashtray.
As I raised the knife in my hand, my mother's face flashed before my eyes, pleading with me not to ruin my own life. But it was too late, my knife dug into his throat, and I pulled it across as his eyes flickered open. He stared into my eyes as he gasped for breath. The blood spurting from his neck onto my white nightgown.
It was my first time taking a life, spilling someone else's blood.
The dream was so vivid. I felt as though I had relived the ghosts from my past. But when I awoke completely, I found that I was comfortably lying in my bed. Although, no sleep had come, I still dreamed. Closing my eyes for even a moment brings back the memories of my long forgotten past. I stood quickly and made my way to my closet, pulling out a long black dress. I pulled off my jeans and t-shirt, throwing the dress over my head. My heeled boots were left sitting on the chaise lounge near my full-length mirror. I grabbed each one and slipped it on without much effort and laced them. I was use to my grace and speed by now, but my beauty was another thing. It was still offensive to me to look in a mirror and not completely see myself as I had been.
I was pretty before and more lifelike as well. I had pretty curls of yellow and soft features on a small frame. But now I stand before the mirror with long, slender legs, extending my body another six inches. My soft features were now sharp and abrupt. My nose pinpointed and my cheekbones erect. These features were still strange to me, but quite striking.
"Charlotte," Jane's voice rang out from the other side of my door, "Let's go." Impatience saturating in her voice.
I grabbed my jacket and ripped open the door. I towered over her tall body as she stood in my doorway. She turned on her heel, and we flew down the hallway. Within seconds we were in her car, speeding away towards the gate of the city. "Goodbye, Volterra," I whispered under my breath, knowing that I would not return for a long time.
"Don't get sappy on us," Demetri scoffed from the back seat. "We'll track this… Bella-thing down and be back before you know it."
"Aro will be meeting us there. The one with the sight will know that we are coming. So be prepared," she said flashing a cold look at me.
"I know," I whispered. "She's not as strong as me. She can only see when someone decides to do something. I, on the other hand-"
"Know what they are going to decide," Felix finished. I turned back to smile at him, but he was too quick, grinning ear to ear.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan took a tentative step toward improved relations with North Korea on Friday by agreeing to lift some of its sanctions, as North Korea announced the details of a new probe into the fate of at least a dozen Japanese believed to have been abducted by North Korean agents decades ago.
The Cabinet approved easing sanctions in three areas. It lifted a ban on North Koreans visiting Japan, allowing them on a case-by-case basis, and made it easier for Japanese and ethnic Koreans in Japan to travel to North Korea. It also raised the reporting limit for money taken or sent to North Korea. Thirdly, it approved port calls by North Korean-flagged ships for humanitarian purposes, limited to the delivery of food, medicine and clothes in small amounts.
Japanese officials say the eased sanctions will not give a significant economic boost to North Korea or weaken the impact of international efforts to punish and isolate the North for its nuclear weapons development.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday that he was satisfied that a North Korean investigation committee has the mandate to carry out a serious investigation into the abductions, though previous deals with the North have fallen through. Japan will continue to abide by U.N. sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs.
"We have determined that an unprecedented framework has been established, where an organization that can make decisions at a national level ... will be at the forefront of the investigations," Abe said. "However, this is only a start. We are determined to do everything we can, with a renewed effort, toward a comprehensive resolution."
North Korea, in a report by its Korean Central News Agency, announced a wide-ranging investigation that will look into not only the abductees but also the remains of thousands of Japanese who died in Korea at the end of World War II, as well as any survivors from that era. Japan colonized Korea from 1910 to 1945.
The special investigation committee will have about 30 members and be chaired by So Tae Ha, vice minister of State Security. It will research register books of citizens, interview witnesses and make site visits in what the North Korean news agency called "an all-inclusive and comprehensive investigation."
The announcements followed talks between North Korean and Japanese negotiators in Beijing earlier this week.
North Korea has demanded that Japan do more to atone for its past harsh colonization of the Korean Peninsula, when it attempted to suppress Korean culture and forced people to work in Japanese mines and factories.
"For the normalization of relations between our two countries, I think that Japan has to settle the problems of its past," Ro Hyon A, a North Korean citizen, said in Pyongyang.
In Seoul, Foreign Ministry spokesman Noh Kwang-il said South Korea looks forward to an early resolution of the abduction issue. But he said any steps taken by Japan shouldn't undermine international cooperation on the North Korean nuclear and missile standoffs.
"The government of the Republic of Korea once again stresses that the Japan-North Korea consultations, including on easing Japan's unilateral sanctions on North Korea, should, by all means, be held in a transparent manner and that all the relevant measures by Japan should be taken in a way that does not undermine the coordination among the ROK, the U.S. and Japan on North Korea's nuclear and missile issues," Noh told a regular briefing.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Beijing, North Korea's closest ally, hopes the improvement in Japan-North Korea relations resulting from the negotiations will be "conducive to regional peace and stability."
After years of denial, North Korea acknowledged in 2002 that its agents had abducted Japanese citizens to train its spies in the 1970s and 1980s and eventually returned five of them. It said others Japan said were abducted had died or never entered the North. Tokyo disputes that and wants an investigation into at least 12 abduction cases.
Even that may not be enough, however.
Private organizations say hundreds of Japanese citizens were abducted, and suspect many may still be living in the North. Abe has vowed not to relent until all the abductees are returned or accounted for.
Though Tokyo is as concerned about North Korea's nuclear program as its allies in Washington and Seoul, the abduction issue has for years been an added complication in its relations with the North, creating both anger among the Japanese public and strong calls for an agreement to bring any survivors home.
Although North Korea made a similar agreement in 2008 to investigate, that deal fell through and relations between the countries have been virtually frozen since.
North Korea also is under sanctions based on U.N. resolutions since 2006 that include an arms trade ban, a freeze of North Korean assets, a ban on people exchanges and restrictions on education and training.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tokyo wants the abduction investigation to be wrapped up "within one year." In Beijing, North Korea's negotiators said they will conduct the investigation promptly.
Associated Press writers Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul and researcher Zhao Liang in Beijing contributed to this report. Talmadge is the AP's Pyongyang bureau chief. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/EricTalmadge.


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In a brilliant legal shenanigan, a teacher who faced rape charges for having sex with one of her pupils has escaped a possible 15 year prison sentence by divorcing her husband and marrying her victim.
The female teacher, now 42, pursued a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy at her North Carolina school. When her antics came to light, authorities charged her with statutory rape as the boy was a minor, charges carrying a possible 15 year sentence.
She somehow devised the scheme of marrying the boy, preventing him from being compelled to testify against her in court and causing the case against her to collapse.
North Carolina law contains the provision that the spouse of a defendant cannot be compelled to testify against them, preventing authorities from forcing the boy to testify against her and invalidating any previous testimony he gave police.
In aid of this, she divorced her existing husband (with whom she was married when she started her underage tryst) and 6 days later married the boy.
The boy, still a minor at the time of his marriage, could only consent to marriage with the permission of a parent, which his mother obligingly gave.
One of the local district attorneys was relatively gracious in accepting the loss of a juicy chance to inflict a massive prison sentence on a wicked sexual predator:
"None of the statements made in this case would be admissible without the victim. The defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against them."
Unsurprisingly, the teacher still end up losing both her post and license, although the only legal repercussion from her antics was a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest stemming from her original arrest, which resulted in a 30 day suspended sentence.
It was only through this trial that the full details of her devious escape were made public – along with the obligatory (and presumably unflattering) police mugshot:


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Three arrested outside Taylor Swift's home
Two men and a woman have been accused of breaching the peace by allegedly throwing beer bottles and shouting at a security guard outside Taylor Swift's Rhode Island home.
The trio was arrested outside the singer's beachfront property on Sunday. Editors of local newspaper The Westerly Sun name them as Connecticut residents Michael Horrigan, 29, Tristan Kading, 28, and Emily Kading, 26.
All three were taken to the Westerly police station, where they were charged with misdemeanour disorderly conduct. They were later released and ordered to appear in court at a later date. The trio was also instructed not to trespass on Swift's property.
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political agendas of entrepreneurshipSteyaert, Chris (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Houman Andersen, Poul; Norus, Jesper (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: There is a continuing focus on the conditions for and processes of establishing new businesses and the role played by the external resource context in doing so. Using sociological concepts such as network bricolage and structuration some studies point to the supporting role as well as the restraining role of networks in this process. However, most research focuses on the innovative role of entrepreneurs in linking together dispersed resources in forming a concerted business enterprise. Far less focus has been on the de facto quality of these resources in forming the entrepreneurial role. Rather, the image of the Knightian or Kriznian entreprenur is left unchallenged, even in the "new" literature on entrepreneurship. However, if the concept of network bricolage or structuration as contexts institutionalising specific practices and sorting away others is taken seriously, the preexistence of patterned work practices shared among business actors, and how the ability to utilise these patterned practices in generating new business ideas affects the business start up process becomes important. Entrepreneurial processes may not only be influenced but also internally constituted by the wider environment. One may therefore question whether the impetus for starting up a new business vests entirely with the entrepreneur or what role the context plays in patterning the work of the entrepreneur with respect to firm creation. As pointed out by Gartner (1988) asking "who is the entrepreneur?" is the wrong question. For that purpose, we believe that the context of the entrepreneur, networks and embedded routines, provides an opportunity to understand how the context contributes in shaping the entrepreneurial act. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6717
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Klein, Peter (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Forms and facades in formation of the biotechnology firmsNorus, Jesper (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In the recent years the successful collaborative arrangements and relationships between university, industry and public institutions have become a mantra in transforming new scientific knowledge into new innovations and business ventures. The fit between these very different actor groups has been treated as a contingent factor. However only little attention have been giving to a specific focus on the strategies that new business ventures have obtained to establish the fit between small firms, university research, and public policies such as regulatory policies and R&D policies. The emergence of the new biotechnologies and these techniques predominately coming from the university sector make the new biotechnology organizations an interesting object for studying these relationships both on a regional and a national level. From the perspective of the small biotechnology firms (SBFs) the paper explores four different strategies for dealing with network relations; the research oriented strategy, the incubator strategy, the industrial partnering strategy, and the policy-oriented strategy. The research-oriented strategy is narrowly focusing on how a biotechnology firm transforms their scientific results into promising technologies, services or products. The incubator strategy is concerned with localization and how to come about specific types of managerial problem in the initial stage of forming a business venture. The industrial partnering strategy concerns how to overcome the problem of bringing the technologies from an experimental stage at a research lab to be able handle industrial processes and full-scale production. Last but not least the policy oriented strategy focus on problem of having products approved by the public authorities. Theoretically the article draws upon network theories and a dynamic view of network relations. That is done in order to capture the nature of the relationships between different types of actors, but also in order to emphasize the informal nature of some of these relationships. The article has a dual purpose; 1) From a corporate point of view to emphasize multiple conditions for developing and forming interorganizational relationships, 2) From a research perspective to point to the diversity and heterogeneity of these relations and thereby emphasizes the evolutionary nature of these relations and their relatedness to the overall strategies obtained by the biotechnology entrepreneurs. The paper is structured so it will start out by stating its methodological foundations. Thereafter the theoretical positioning of the network approach will seek to argue that we have multiple network relationships are at play. Not only do these networks differ but also the institutional and organizational origins are to be touched upon to come to understand the nature of the biotechnology environment and the actors involved. The positioning of the SBFs as the focal point of the analysis leads to a discussion on entrepreneurial business strategies in biotechnology industry and how these business strategies in a very distinct mode is correlated with interorganizational relationships. The empirical evidence will be fleshed out in four cases representing each of the four suggested strategies. The conclusion discusses three implications of network partnering analysis. First, it discusses the theoretical contributions on the diversity, heterogeneity between the four partnering strategies. Second, it will point to future directions in the research. Third, the conclusion will point to the managerial challenges that can be foreseen. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6669
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a Popperian approach and its limitationsHarper, David A. (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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a crucial capability for value creation in the network economyFoss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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A potential for local business development?Tetzschner, Helge; Herlau, Henrik (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Over the past few years, the tourist industry has come to be recognised as a way of providing strategic support for sustainable local business development. In this article we attempt to define an appropriate innovation concept in relation to tourism on the basis of an attractor principle. We then discuss the concept of entrepreneurship in connection with tourism, looking at its significance in its relationship with local business development, thereby positing the premise of social entrepreneurship. This frame of reference is used in five cases in the analysis. The analysis shows that it is possible to innovate and draw up plans for new attractors but that it is considerably more difficult to convert these plans into reality through social entrepreneurship. The conclusion is that we need to focus upon organisation of semi-public tourist organisations, if we want tourism to promote local business development. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6384
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how institutional contexts matterHouman Andersen, Poul; Jesper, Norus (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The paper has a dual purpose. First, we suggest that entrepreneurs in their establishment of new businesses draw on a range of pre-existing socially embedded routines for creating acceptance by their environment. Also they draw upon external resources that are used in patterning specific practices. This ability is treated as entrepreneurial assets. Secondly, we argue that the existence and patterning of these socially embedded routines used in new business development are contingent on the institutional context. We see the institutional context as complex and fragmented, composed and shaped by different institutional domains: the normative, the cognitive and the regulatory domain. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6724
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Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper proposes and analyses a model of start-up investment. Innovative entrepreneurs are commercially inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeed in matching with a venture capitalist while the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture capital backed innovation. JEL Classification: D82, G24, G28, H24. Keywords: venture capital bank finance, matching, moral hazard, public policy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7658
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Resume: In recent years, venture capital has increasingly become a factor in the financing of new firms. We examine how the value of mature firms determines the incentives of entrepreneurs to start up new firms and of venture capitalists to finance and advise them. We examine how capital gains taxes as well as subsidies to start-up costs of new firms affect venture capital-backed entrepreneurship. We also argue that dividend and capital gains taxes on mature firms have important consequences for start-up firms as well. JEL Classification: D82, G24, H24 and H25 Keywords: double moral hazard, entrepreneurship, taxes and venture capital URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7592
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suppressing margins and entrepreneurshipFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Four years after the U.S. housing bubble burst, the ripple effects continue to touch almost every facet of life in McHenry County.
In the fall of 2011, the effects still can be seen everywhere.
Consider this:
The median price for a home sold in McHenry County fell from $225,000 in 2006 to $168,250 in 2010, a drop of more than 25 percent.
The housing market remains flooded with foreclosed homes, causing home values to continue to decline and making it much more difficult for owner-occupied homes to sell.
While the number of foreclosed-upon homes has decreased in recent months, many experts say another wave is coming. Banks, already holding the keys to so many empty homes, have been much slower to foreclose for fear of putting even more homes on an already saturated market. But those foreclosures still will come at some point.
In 2003, McHenry County was tops in the nation in the number of owner-occupied households, with 86 percent of individuals or families living in homes they owned as opposed to rented. In 2010, that number dropped to 83 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Unemployment remains above 9 percent. And while the overall weakness of the U.S. economy is contributing to this, the construction trades have been hit especially hard locally because so few new homes are being built.
Because far fewer new families are moving into the area, student enrollment is dropping at area school districts, causing school boards to have to make tough decisions. Cary School District 26, for example, has closed two schools in two years because of declining enrollment. And Crystal Lake School District 47 is considering that option as its enrollment continues to decline.
Many area retail businesses continue to struggle. Empty storefronts are a testament to this, as are desperate pleas from retailers asking for more customer support.
Recruiting experienced talent also is more challenging. Who wants to relocate for a new job when you're not sure you call sell your home?
Over the next five days, the Northwest Herald presents a series of five special sections that explore the continuing effects of the housing crisis on local residents and communities.
"Housing Road Map – A Survival Guide" will examine the many facets of the housing crisis. But, as its name suggests, it also will serve as a guide to readers through these tough times.
For this series, Northwest Herald reporters interviewed dozens of local residents and experts, including folks who have gone through foreclosure or are going through it, Realtors, home builders, bank executives and others.
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We've also taken a look back at how the crisis unfolded – at how government, lenders and home buyers contributed to it.
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BOSTON — The city of Boston is taking extra precautions as it prepares for possible Stanley Cup celebrations.
The Boston Bruins are in Vancouver on Wednesday to take on the Canucks in the seventh and deciding game of the NHL's championship series.
Even though the team is on the road, police are deploying hundreds of extra officers to patrol the streets around TD Garden and Fenway Park, neighborhoods with dozens of sports bars where fans tend to congregate.
The city is also banning on-street parking in those same areas.
The Bruins also decided against holding a fans viewing party in the TD Garden because of potential problems.
NFL, NBA and World Series championship celebrations in the city in the past seven years have resulted in three deaths and widespread vandalism.
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Hi, K, she was probably talking about Barma Rabjung - the hair cutting ceremony. It isn't monastic ordination but is the prelude to it. I've also encountered people who describe themselves as monks or nuns having gone through this procedure but it's incorrect, they are still lay people but have permission to wear the shantab and zen - but not the monastic upper garment (Yellow/red 'chougou') . In Sakya we don't have temporary monastic ordination like the Theravadins. I'm a Sakya monk.kirtu wrote:Temporary ordination is obviously found in the Southern School. I had thought that it was entirely absent in the Mahayana. Pema Chodron's group in Halifax does offer temporary ordination. I was talking to a Sakya nun about this and mentioned the lack of support for temporary ordination in Tibetan Buddhism and she told me that actually temporary ordination is practiced as a possibility. She further mentioned that one or two people who had ordained at an ordination ceremony that we had both been to had ordained temporarily and this was an all Sakya event.heart wrote: Temporary ordination? Hardly a tradition that comes from the Buddha, or?
About 50-55 - Pema Chodron's group. About the same age limit is used for a Western Theravadin training monastery in Thailand (I can look them up - they are apparently the main Western training monastery in Thailand).I never heard of the upper age limit at 50, who use that?
...Actually, strictly speaking, all vinaya lineages do have provisions for monks and nuns handing back unbroken vows and retaking getsul and gelong ordination a number of times afterwards, but in Tibet this is not the custom as it is in the Southern tradition.


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Game Nacho: We're sure you've heard about the possibility that the PS4 is going to be announced on February 20th by Sony. With this knowledge of the possible PS4 announcement we decided to go a step further and take a look at what impact the PS4 could have on the console industry and what possible games could be released for the system.
If nothing else, Sony has captured the interest of gamers and the games industry in general and has generated a lot of excitement - which is exactly what a teaser should do.
This is great marketing by Sony (assuming this is for PS4). I can't believe I used "great" and "marketing" in the same sentence when referring to Sony :)
It feels like the buzz created by the PS1 back in the day.
I want a resistance: fall of man reboot for launch. That would make me so happy.
Only The Last Guardian, everything else is not in my interest (not meant in a bad way).
I would love to see that Agni's philosophy tech demo become a real launch game. That feels
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Paying for a Wedding: I Eloped the First Time; Do Mom and Dad Help Me Pay for My Second Marriage?
A bride-to-be gets a harsh lesson from the Wedding Guru regarding who pays for her second trip down the aisle
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Sometimes a bridal couple's expectations are misplaced. This is one of those times where I would like just to say to them, "Grow up!"
Dear Wedding Guru: "I am a fortunate woman who, at mid-life, has finally found a soul mate. When I first married many years ago, I eloped and had no reception, so there was nothing my parents could have contributed. For my second marriage, I'm planning an intimate dinner reception for a very small group of guests. I want to know if you feel that my parents should kick into this one, since they didn't last time around."
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A person who is extremeley annoying, where you wish you could shoot yourself in the head. More commonly referred to as no friends, a large douche, someone kill her, & GOD DAMN ugly. Level 5 clinger.
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CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Separate crashes involving massive pileups closed southbound I-75 in Middletown and I-275 at Colerain Avenue on Monday. Sudden snow bursts in both areas caused a 'white out', leaving drivers with reduced visibility and icy conditions on the roads within a short amount of time.
The crash on WB I-275 near Colerain Ave:
A 12-year-old girl was killed after the crash on westbound I-275, a pileup involving at least 86 vehicles.
Authorities say the 12-year-old was a passenger, who got out of a damaged car and was standing in the median. In the midst of the massive pileup, she was struck by a snapped cable median barrier. Upon arrival, emergency crews performed CPR, and she was taken to Mercy Fairfield Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 12:24 p.m. Her identity has not yet been released.
In addition, 20 people were taken to nearby hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Tory Smith said among the injured were girls as young as 4 and 5-years-old.
A motor coach bus was brought in to keep those involved in the crash warm.
Brock Weldy, a driver involved described the scene as "a really, really bad movie." He said it started snowing "out of nowhere" and his car suddenly spun around in the middle of the interstate.
"I just hopped out of the car as fast as I could and ran to the side of the road, and it wasn't even five seconds after I exited my vehicle, my car got completely smashed by the semi," said Weldy.
At one point, both directions of I-275 were shut down. Just after 6:30 p.m., both the eastbound and westbound lanes were reopened.
The crash on SB I-75 in Middletown:
A separate pileup on southbound I-75 in Middletown, north of SR 63, happened around 11:35 a.m. Approximately 52 vehicles were involved in the crash. The Lebanon Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said ten people were taken to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries.
The southbound lanes were shut down, and then reopened just after 3 p.m.
The cause of the massive pileups:
A snow burst occurred in both areas, causing a sudden 'white out' for drivers between 11:30 a.m. and noon. The burst of snow and cold temperatures resulted in very icy conditions on the roads within a short amount of time. An inch of snow in grassy areas was reported in Genntown, Ohio just after noon.
The snow showers have since moved out of the FOX19 viewing area, but there could still be some slick spots on area roadways. Motorists are advised to use caution.
Clean up and Investigation:
Several vehicles were towed from the scene on I-275, and the Hamilton County Sheriff's Traffic Safety Unit says owners will be contacted about the location of their vehicles.
The crash remains under investigation by the Sheriff's Traffic Safety Unit. Any witnesses to the crash are asked to call (513) 825-1500.
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The Grand Island Town Board has proclaimed Aug. 16 as National Airborne Day on the Island.
At its meeting on Monday at Town Hall, the board noted that Grand Island is the birthplace and final resting place of both Pfc. Charles N. DeGlopper, who died in France June 9, 1944, as part of the D-Day invasion, and Lt. Col. Terrance K. Crow, who died in Iraq June 7, 2005. DeGlopper was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions in LaFiere, France. Crow was an airborne trooper with the 98th Division and was killed by hostile fire in Tal Afar, Iraq.
The Parachute Test Platoon began training in July 1940 and performed its first official Army parachute jump on Aug. 16, 1940.
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NORFOLK — Old Dominion's 10-win season and strong finish resulted in a high seed and the possibility of at least two home games in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.
The Monarchs (10-1) received the No. 4 seed and a first-round bye when the 20-team field was announced Sunday. They will host the winner of next Saturday's Bethune Cookman-Coastal Carolina game on Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. at S.B. Ballard Stadium.
If ODU wins its playoff opener, it would be in line to host the winner of the No. 5 seed Georgia Southern-Central Arkansas game — a possible rematch of last year's playoff shootout won by the Eagles in Statesboro, Ga., on Dec. 8
"I think we're in a good position in the bracket," head coach Bobby Wilder said, amid a viewing party for players, coaches and fans at the Sheraton Waterside. "The first thing that jumps out at me is we have the bye."
The Monarchs concluded their season Saturday night with a come-from-behind 38-28 win at James Madison, their fifth consecutive win to close the season.
"We need the bye," Wilder said, "because we're a beat-up, bruised football team. That was the most physical game of the year (Saturday) night. We need the break."
Though ODU was rewarded by the playoff selection committee, the Colonial Athletic Association didn't fare well. Four teams tied for the title officially at 6-2 — Villanova, New Hampshire, Towson and Richmond — but the league landed only three teams in the field, the fewest since 2006.
Villanova (8-3) and UNH (8-3) also made the field, 'Nova with the automatic berth and UNH as a curious at-large choice. ODU finished with the Colonial Athletic Association's best record (7-1), but was not eligible for the league title and automatic playoff berth, as a departing member after this season.
'Nova earned the automatic berth by virtue of defeating the Monarchs in the tiebreaker scenarios. All four teams that tied for the title officially didn't face each other, but all four played ODU and the Wildcats handed ODU its only loss.
UNH's playoff berth extended the nation's longest active streak to nine consecutive years, though the Wildcats got whacked at home by Towson 64-35 in Saturday's season finale.
And while Villanova earned the CAA's automatic playoff berth and is the only one of the five "champions" (four official and ODU unofficially) to defeat a non-conference team with a winning record, the Wildcats must play Stony Brook in a first-round game. UNH received a bye and faces Wofford of the Southern Conference in the second round.
Richmond (8-3) became the first eight-win CAA team not to make the playoff field since Northeastern in 2003. Towson (7-4) finished with four consecutive wins and two of its losses were to FBS teams Kent State and LSU. The Tigers also defeated both Villanova and New Hampshire.
For what it's worth, in the Sagarin computer ratings updated after Saturday's games, Towson was one spot higher than 'Nova among FCS schools and 12 spots higher than New Hampshire. Sagarin's ratings list all Division I programs.
While ODU's players produced a record that merited a playoff berth, the school administration ponied up to assure the Monarchs would receive home games if the selection committee rewarded them with a seed.
The NCAA's bid requirements for hosting playoff games are: minimum $30,000 for first- and second-round games, minimum $40,000 for a third-round game and at least $50,000 for a semifinal. The championship game will be held at a neutral site, in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas.
Athletic director Wood Selig said that ODU bid $75,000 for a second-round game, $120,000 for a third-round game and $150,000 to host a semifinal game. He pointed out that if ODU sells 20,000 tickets at approximately $20 apiece, that's $400,000 with which the school can work. The Monarchs have sold out all 27 home games.
"We were able to bid aggressively throughout the entire playoffs," Selig said. "I feel that had we not been seeded and it was going to come down to pure dollars and sense about who was going to host, I think we were going to be in a very competitive position, no matter who we went up against."
The NCAA grants home games to the highest-seeded teams in each round, provided they put in bids to host.
"Now, we're aided by the fact that we have a No. 4 seed," Selig said. "As long as we continue playing teams that are seeded lower than us, we'll be able to host."
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Leaving their pudding to cool on the kitchen table, the unsuspecting bears head outdoors for a crisp evening walk. But when they return, they are shocked at what they find! Their pudding . . . eaten! Their chairs . . . broken! Their cozy beds . . . slept in! And it looks like the culprit is still there! Fast asleep in Baby Bear's bed is someone awfully familiar. A fluffy white beard, a red jacket covered in soot, and two black boots sticking out from under the covers. Could it really be . . . ?
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Feast on some Thanksgiving week random thoughts for a Tuesday:
Feast on some Thanksgiving week random thoughts for a Tuesday:
� Raiders fans looking for a silver (and black) lining to the season can give thanks to owner Mark Davis, who said he was embarrassed and feels bad after Sunday's 38-17 loss to the Saints. At least he acknowledged the situation. Oakland has been outscored 135-62 in its past three games, all losses, and plays the Bengals, winners of two in a row, on Sunday.
� Every high school football team wants to practice on Thanksgiving Day because it means a Sac-Joaquin Section title still is possible. Brookside Christian and Escalon are the only remaining Stockton-area teams who will put the turkey aside for a little while on Thursday for practice. The Cougars play Friday at Los Banos in the Division IV semifinals, and the Knights play Foresthill at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Grape Bowl for the Division VI title.
� The Kings (2-8) have lost five in a row, all by nine points or more. They are 29th out of 30 teams in the latest NBA power rankings by Pro Basketball Talk. Sacramento is 26th in scoring but does lead the NBA in player-only meetings, having had the first in the league this season after Friday's dismal 112-96 home loss to Atlanta.
� The Big Ten will add longtime Atlantic Coast Conference member Maryland starting in 2014, bringing the number of Big Ten institutions to 13. Why not call it the Baker's Dozen Conference and split it into the seven-team Glazed Donut and the six-team French Cruller divisions. The Big Ten likely will add another university, Rutgers or UConn probably, to make it an even 14, then it can be the BDC-Plus 1.
� Notre Dame is No. 1 in the BCS rankings for the first time and will play in college football's championship game if it beats USC on Saturday in Los Angeles. The Fighting Irish is the third team in as many weeks to occupy the top spot, with Alabama losing to Texas A&M two weeks ago and Oregon losing to Stanford on Saturday. The Cardinal moved up to No. 8 after beating the Ducks 17-14 in overtime.
� San Jose State improved to 9-2 with a 20-14 win over BYU on Saturday at Spartan Stadium. Coach Mike McIntyre has done an amazing job turning the Spartans around.
� McIntyre is rumored to be a possible replacement for Cal's Jeff Tedford, who met Sunday with athletic director Sandy Barbour. The Golden Bears finished 3-9 after Saturday's loss to Oregon State. Tedford resurrected Cal's program but is on the hot seat with losing records in two of the past three seasons and a 9-18 mark in the Pac-12 (Pac-10) the past three seasons.
� Brad Keselowski is the new Sprint Cup champion, and challenger Jimmie Johnson had the worst final two closing races of his career, finishing 36th at Homestead and 32nd at Phoenix. In his five championship seasons from 2006-2010, Johnson's average finish over the final two races was 4.8.
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No matter how hard you grip it, you can't hold on. A college football season is a fleeting thing, speeding past you like Usain Bolt on Red Bull. Every year, we all try to slow down and appreciate it, but it's always gone too soon.
No matter how hard you grip it, you can't hold on. A college football season is a fleeting thing, speeding past you like Usain Bolt on Red Bull. Every year, we all try to slow down and appreciate it, but it's always gone too soon.
And when the seasons start piling up one after another, stuff happens. Sometimes, it's subtle. Sometimes, it's a smack in the face.
And as we sit here waiting for it to become reality next week, we try to remind ourselves to stop and smell the drama.
Because before you know it, everything has changed.
For example, in the SEC, things weren't always this way, the way you know it now. And it makes me stop and reflect, to look back and ask the age old question, "Wha' happened?"
How did we get here? Sounds like a job for … Dr. Football.
You have questions, I have answers and some of them even make sense.
1. How did LSU get so tough at home?
Ah, one of my favorite myths of the 1980s and '90s was that Tiger Stadium was one of the toughest places to play. In truth, it wasn't that difficult to win there.
From 1980-89, LSU lost 19 home games. From 1990-99, the fans who streamed into Death Valley saw LSU lose 29 times. During those two decades, LSU lost at least three home games 10 times.
And here is where it gets rough for LSU fans — they can thank Nick Saban for making Baton Rouge a place opposing football teams didn't want to visit. Saban's teams lost only five home games in five years (overcoming a 2003 loss to Florida to go on and win a national title).
Les Miles has kept it going with only six losses at home in eight seasons.
And do you know why these two coaches have made it so difficult to go to Tiger Stadium and win a game? They got better players.
I asked Phil Fulmer once why The Swamp was such a difficult place to play and he said, "Because Florida's got very good players."
The bottom line — your stadium is only as effective as the talent you have.
2. How did Tennessee get so bad?
It was only 2007 when the Vols were good enough to win the SEC East and win 10 games. In the five years since, the Vols are 12-27 in the SEC and six games under .500 overall.
Wha' happened?
The obvious answer is coaching. Fulmer's talent level was on the decline in his last couple of years and the hiring of Lane Kiffin was a colossal mistake on so many levels. His only recruiting class was ranked in the top 10, but it was a classic washout with many of the players transferring to other schools.
When Kiffin left the Vols in a lurch, they made another mistake in hiring Derek Dooley after being turned down by so many coaches. Dooley was one of the unluckiest coaches I've ever seen and that was demonstrated by his first season when Tennessee beat LSU and North Carolina, yet somehow lost to both teams when time was put back on the clocks.
Who knows how it might have been different if Tennessee had won those games, but it's more than just bad luck. With Nick Saban at Alabama and Steve Spurrier at South Carolina, Tennessee started losing recruits it used to get. The Vols can't count on their home state for a big chunk of recruiting the way other SEC schools can.
We'll see if coach Butch Jones can turn it around, but it's not going to happen right away with that talent.
3. How did Alabama become so dominant?
It's a pretty simple answer. The perfect storm of Alabama's brand and Saban's ability to coach has been hard to beat.
Don't forget that his first team went 7-6 and lost to Louisiana-Monroe in his first season. It took Saban a year to get the players to buy in and implement "the process" for building a team. Since that first year, Alabama is 61-7.
Now, it's a vicious cycle. Alabama wins, puts a bunch of players into the NFL and recruits want to be part of it. This is not a run that is going to end soon. Sure, the Tide may lose on occasion, but Saban is the opposite of Derek Dooley — when he does lose, things seem to work out for Alabama. Witness the last two seasons when Bama has lost late in the season and still played for (and won) a national title.
4. How did Auburn get so bad so fast?
We've seen in college football how important a quarterback can be to a season whether it be Tim Tebow or Johnny Manziel. Cam Newton was all that for Auburn and he had Nick Fairley on the other side of the ball having the same kind of effect on players who managed to play above their skill levels.
But Auburn only had one year of Newton, offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn left and the Tigers tried to run a conventional offense without the talent to overpower people. The result was last year's winless SEC season and the dismissal of coach Gene Chizik.
That was a team that had a lot of quit in them and if you don't have leadership on the field, it had better come from your coach. It didn't and Auburn has a lot of catching up to do.
5. How did Vanderbilt get good?
A lot of credit needs to go to coach Bobby Johnson, who had the program to the point where it was competitive. He left behind players who could play in the SEC and coach James Franklin has given them an edge.
The question still remains — can the Commodores maintain the success of last year when they won nine games?
We're about to find out.
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The alleged triggerman in the killings of three men lured by phony Craigslist job offers testified at his trial Wednesday, telling an Ohio jury he's innocent and had actually been targeted by one alleged victim who survived.
Richard Beasley could face the death penalty if he's convicted of the killings on a southeastern Ohio farm where he allegedly shot three men who responded to online job ads.
"I had no idea that somebody, anybody, had been killed down on that farm. I had no way to know," Richard Beasley, 53, testified at his murder trial.
Beasley denied involvement in the 2011 attacks and said that the lone survivor was sent to kill him in retaliation for being a police snitch in a motorcycle gang investigation in Akron.
Beasley, a self-styled street preacher and mentor to a co-defendant convicted and sentenced to life in prison, said that he met with the surviving victim, Scott Davis, but testified that Davis was the one who pulled a gun.
"It misfired three times about two feet from my face and I ran into the woods and he ran after me," said Beasley, facing the jury and dressed in dark suit. He also claimed that the two wrestled on the muddy ground and Davis ended up firing six shots.
"I said, 'That's your six,' so if he was going to kill me, he was going to have to do it with his hands," Beasley testified.
Davis, who was the star witness at co-defendant Brogan Rafferty's trial, also testified against Beasley. Davis testified that he fled into the woods in Noble County, about 60 miles east of Columbus, after hearing the click of a handgun, getting shot in the arm, and pushing the weapon aside.
Prosecutors said Beasley and Brogan used the job postings as bait in a robbery plot aimed at down-on-their-luck victims with few family ties that might highlight their disappearance. The slain men were Ralph Geiger, 56, of Akron; David Pauley, 51, of Norfolk, Va.; and Timothy Kern, 47, of Massillon.
The Akron Beacon Journal (http://bit.ly/XWF1uo ) reported Beasley stepped to the witness stand from a wheelchair, which he uses for back problems, and testified in a calm, even voice.
His testimony came after the prosecution rested its case without calling the 18-year-old Rafferty, who had been subpoenaed to testify for the prosecution.
There was no explanation why he didn't testify. Attorneys are under a gag order.
Prosecutors say the victims, all down on their luck and with few family ties that might highlight their disappearance, were lured to
The judge expects to handle exhibit issues on Thursday and have closing statements by Monday. She previously said Friday would be an off day for the trial.
Rafferty has said the crimes were horrible but he didn't see any chance to stop the killings. Rafferty said he feared Beasley would kill him and his relatives if he tipped off police.
Brogan was under 18 at the time of the crimes and was ineligible for the death penalty.


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New York, Dec. 20, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Within the next five years, the number of U.S. mobile banking users is expected to double, reaching 46 percent of U.S. bank account holders, according to Forrester's "2012 State of Mobile Banking" study. And, Synergistics Research Corporation reports that one-third of those conducting financial activities on their phones regard mobile as their primary method.
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In line with this trend, Ally Bank's suite of customer-centric products and features has recently expanded to include the second generation of Ally Mobile Banking--featuring customers' most-requested capabilities--including Ally eCheck DepositSM, Bill Pay, and fund transfers to and from external banking institutions.
The updated mobile banking app, available for Android™ and iPhone®, and mobile banking website (m.allybank.com) continues to offer customers all of its original features: the ability to check balances, search transaction history, transfer money between Ally Bank accounts, see current call wait time, and find nearby ATMs and cash-back locations.
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- Keep mobile device applications and operating systems updated to help protect against potential vulnerabilities, and avoid modifying or "jailbreaking" a phone, which may violate the device warranty
- Install mobile security software on a device to protect against malicious software called malware or viruses
- Password protect mobile devices and use "lock" mode when not in use; this helps to prevent access to any personal data stored on a phone
- Only download apps from a trusted source, such as the App Store or Google Play Store
- Install software to find or remotely wipe data from a mobile phone, to assist in case it is left behind or lost
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What happens when the elephant in the room decides to change its stripes? If you haven't noticed, Facebook has been playing with a lot of features on the site from the chat to grouping news feed posts by interest, and even making the "share with friends" function almost impossible to find.
Fortunately thanks to the backlash online by marketers, and a little competitive kick from Google+, Facebook has rolled out a few new changes designed to help the overall Facebook experience from both individual users' privacy and access for businesses.
Starting with the user, there are tightened security controls about what can or can't be posted on your wall without your consent. For those of you with millions photos of yourself tagged in Jordan Sneakers, High Heels, and Stripper photos, you now will be able to reject the tag before it goes up on your wall!
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Now you can choose to approve or reject photos and other posts people tag you in before they appear on your profile. To turn this on, go to the Manage How Tags Work section of your privacy settings and turn on Profile Review.
For businesses, you'll notice now that on many sites, when you want to share a page or an article etc, you have a whole new set of options to share to. You can share to your personal profile, a friend's wall, in a private message, or even to any of your pages. You also can choose whom you'd like the message to go to. If you've been using Facebook groups you'll have those, but also can even post to geographic region on a page.
Two major Facebook API Platform Policies were also removed from documentation:
FPP IV.4: You must provide users with an easily identifiable "skip" option whenever you present users with an option to use a Facebook social channel.
FPP IV.5: You must not provide users with the option to publish more than one Stream story at a time.
In plain English FPP IV.4 means that before any app was allowed to publish something to your wall it needed your permission. Now you are giving that permission upfront.
IV.5 is a huge #WIN for anyone who manages a page. Now you have the ability to share to a page directly from a 3rd Party site etc. I've found this most successful on Youtube lately, as when I just copy and paste links I don't get the nice preview so fans can play the video within the wall.
From Facebook:
Publishing multiple Stream stories via a single share option can be an effective tool in enabling communication among friends and creating a more natural sharing flow for the user. Examples of positive use cases are enabling users to share gift cards, events, and concert tickets that they have purchased for more than one friend, without requiring the user to click on multiple share options.