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Bernie Mac Dies
Comedian BERNIE MAC has died after losing his battle with pneumonia.
The 50-year-old Ocean's Eleven star passed away on Saturday (09Aug08)
morning at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, a week after
being admitted to the medical center.
News of the actor's illness emerged at the start of the month
(01Aug08), but his publicist Danica Smith released a number of statements
earlier this week (begs04Aug08) playing down reports of Mac's deteriorating
At one point, Smith had to dismiss claims Mac had died, and on Thursday
(07Aug08) she said the actor was "in a stable condition" and was "responding
well to treatment".
She even predicted he would be released from hospital within weeks.
But the star – who had also been suffering from sarcoidosis, a tissue
inflammation disease, since 1983 – died on Saturday after experiencing
complications from pneumonia, reports TMZ.com.
In a statement issued hours after his passing, his representative said,
"Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to
pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital. No other details are available at this
time. We ask that his family's privacy continues to be respected."
Born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough in Chicago in 1957, the actor began his
showbiz career as a stand-up comedian in the local Cotton Pickin' Club.
He quickly established himself as a promising wise-cracking star, and he was
crowned the winner of the Miller Lite Comedy Search at the age of 32.
But Mac's big career break came when he performed on the famous Def Comedy
Jam show on U.S. cable network HBO.
The stint led to Mac landing small acting roles in movies such as Ice Cube's
1995 street classic Friday and 1997's Booty Call, before scoring more
high-profile parts in the George Clooney remake of Ocean's Eleven, and its
sequels Oceans Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen. His other movie appearances include
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Bad Santa in 2003, Guess Who? in 2005 and
last year's (07) Transformers.
Despite his Hollywood career, he remained an important figure on the
stand-up circuit, and toured the U.S. as part of The Kings of Comedy show with
Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer and D.L. Hughley.
He was also a popular figure on the small screen, and in 2001, scored his
own sitcom, The Bernie Mac Show, which earned him Emmy Award nominations in
2002 and 2003 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show ran until
Mac is survived by his wife of more than 30 years, Rhonda McCullough and
their grown-up daughter Je'Niece.
Dean's Baby 67 wrote: That is so sad when I heard about I was so upset.
I wish his family the best because they are going through a very rough time right now.
xtremequeen wrote: So sad, I wish his family the best during this horrible time.
Kristen wrote: This is so crazy!! So many people are dying lately :/ Bernie Mac, so random. Only in his 50's…!
Taminar wrote: I'm always surprised to hear of someone dying from pneumonia. I've had walking pneumonia before, and I guess it would have gotten worse if I hadn't gone to the doctor early. I thought I just had bronchitis. Maybe hearing about Bernie Mac will make people behave more cautiously when they get sick.


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"We have to say it. Remember, this is just a football game. No matter who wins or loses. An unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City. John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps of all of the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we had to take."
Last Words – John Lennon (Cosell) – Bio
John Winston Lennon
Born October 9, 1940 – Died December 8, 1980
English Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Member of the Beatles
Last Words – John Lennon (Cosell) – Note
At approximately 10:50 pm on December 8, 1980, as John Lennon and Yoko Ono returned to their New York apartment in The Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building.
Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:07 pm.
That night, "Monday Night Football" announcer Howard Cosell had the difficult task of telling their viewers of Lennon's death while the New England Patriots were attempting a field goal against the Miami Dolphins.
Howard Cosell stunned millions by announcing the murder of John Lennon live while performing his regular commentating duties on Monday Night Football.
Word had been passed to Cosell and Frank Gifford by Roone Arledge, who was president of ABC's news and sports divisions at the time, near the end of the game and Cosell's announcement was prefaced by Gifford saying, "And I don't care what's on the line, Howard, you have got to say what we know in the booth."
Cosell then announced John Lennon's death.
ABC had obtained this scoop as a result of the coincidence of an ABC employee, Alan Weiss, being at the same emergency room that Lennon was brought to that night.
This unwittingly violated a request to the hospital by Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, to delay reporting of his death until she could tell their son, Sean, herself.
Sean, age 5, was not watching the football game, or any television, that evening as it was near midnight, and Ono was able to break the news to him.
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John Lennon shot 12-8-80 Howard Cosell tells the world twice John Lennon was dead.
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A genetic mutation may help determine the disease course of neuroblastoma in children, researchers found.
Children whose tumors had mutations in the ATRX gene were older at diagnosis, which tends to be associated with a more indolent and chronic disease course, according to Michael Dyer, PhD, of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, and colleagues.
The finding could help identify younger patients who may be more genetically susceptible to having a chronic but progressive form of the disease, they reported in the March 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Neuroblastoma, a tumor of the sympathetic nervous system, accounts for 15% of all cancer-related deaths in children, and half of patients present with metastatic disease.
It's diagnosed over a wide age range, from birth through young adulthood, and age at diagnosis has been one of the most powerful predictors of outcome in terms of treatment approaches, as older age at diagnosis is associated with worse survival.
Whether genetic mutations could also have an impact on the disease and its clinical course wasn't well understood.
So Dyer and colleagues conducted whole-genome sequencing on DNA obtained between 1987 and 2009 from tumors from 40 patients with metastatic neuroblastoma.
They also conducted validation testing with tumors from another 64 patients.
They divided the patients into three age groups: infants (0 to 18 months), children (18 months to 12 years), and adolescents (those over 12).
In the initial cohort, Dyer and colleagues found a significant association between age and ATRX mutation status (P<0.001).
Mutations were found in all five tumors from adolescents, in 17% of those in children, and none in infants.
The association was also significant in the validation cohort, they reported (P<0.001).
In that group, ATRX mutations were identified in 33% of tumors from adolescents, 16% of those from children, and none of those in infants.
Taking both cohorts together, mutations in the ATRX gene occurred in 44% of tumors from adolescents, 17% of tumors from children, and none in infants.
ATRX mutations were characterized as missense, nonsense, frameshift, or in-frame deletion, and were also associated with an absence of the ATRX protein in the nucleus and with long telomeres, they reported.
"These results suggest that inactivation of the ATRX pathway correlates with older age at diagnosis and may provide a molecular marker and potential therapeutic target for neuroblastoma among adolescents and young adults," Dyer and colleagues wrote.
The findings may also help better delineate the subset of children with neuroblastoma who will have a chronic but progressive disease course, they said. Even though the age of 12 at diagnosis has been used as a convenient cutoff to determine disease course, it's recognized that younger patients can also have a chronic or indolent course.
At this point, distinguishing this subgroup "is nearly always in retrospect," the researchers said, given the lack of a thorough understanding of the genetics and molecular biology of this disease.
"The identification of ATRX mutations now provides a new biomarker that may assist in identifying patients who develop a chronic but progressive clinical course, and thus may be candidates for altered risk-based therapies," they concluded.
The study was limited because it may have missed a small portion of somatic mutations, and because of various strategies used to analyze the mutations: in the discovery cohort, the researchers used whole-genome sequencing, while the validation cohort relied on PCR and Sanger sequencing, which may account for the lower rate of ATRX lesions in the validation cohort, they said.
Dyer and colleagues called for larger, international studies to assess the short- and long-term outcomes for patients with neuroblastoma across all age groups with ATRX mutations compared with those without.
The study was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institutes, the National Institutes of Health, the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities of St. Jude's, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Catie Hoch Foundation and the Robert Steel Foundation.
A co-author reported holding patents for monoclonal antibodies, beta-glucan, GD2 peptide mimetics, and methods for detecting residual disease and receiving royalties from United Therapeutics and Biotec Pharmacon.
Another co-author reported relationships with Ziopharm.
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Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Cheung NV, et al "Associations of age at diagnosis and genetic mutations in patients with neuroblastoma" JAMA 2012; 307(10): 1062-1071.


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Androgyny has never looked as good as featured in the Orientalismi editorial for the April 2011 issue of Amica magazine. Model Charlotte Tomaszewska rocks menswear-inspired looks accompanied with slicked-back, bleached hair.
Although the wardrobe styling in the Orientalismi editorial could have easily made the model appear too masculine, there are elements to it that add femininity. Deep, plunging necklines and slits found in the skirts and pants make the clothing sexy and appealing. Paolo Turina has chosen these androgynous, yet feminine clothes from labels like Max Mara, and Haider Ackerman.
I'm also finding the powder-blue eyeshadow especially striking; it really gives the photos a cool, 1970s vibe. Mixing elements of androgyny with femininity makes the Orientalismi editorial stand out in a truly powerful way.
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One of the many considerations and practicalities you will need to tackle when planning the logistics of your to Italy is the relocation of your pets. If you're really going to pull the trigger on either a long term stay in Italy, or a permanent relocation, you'll have to do your due diligence in getting this figured out. Our cat's journey to Italy was an adventure that began with extreme paranoia on my part….
Francesca is a feline beauty. Rescued from an animal shelter when she was 2 1/2 years old, Francesca came home to my apartment with "issues" – meaning she was 90% sweet, adorable, and loving. The other 10% was pure, wildcard craziness and unpredictability. I enjoyed my many nights of her cuddling up next to me. Such periods of togetherness kept luring me into a false security of a devoted "daughter" who would never hurt me. And, then she would "turn" at a moment's notice, leaving me with deep bite marks or scratches…and usually a parting hiss, as if to underscore her sudden bad mood, and to remind me that I could never, ever, really let down my guard.
I share this so you can understand why I began losing sleep as the day approached that I would have to put her on a plane with me. Sure, there the were necessary examinations, approvals, and paperwork, but what I feared most was how I would get her through almost 24 hours of travel, from door-to-door, without needing plastic surgery to repair my shredded flesh. And, then there were the fears regarding my fellow passengers. My nerves are usually shot fairly quickly in the vicinity of a screaming baby on board. I could only imagine the impact on fellow travelers of a yowling cat.
Can you tell I was building a huge horror film in my head?
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
A Broken Skinny dream.
Imagine yours truly quite a bit younger and at the time fairly thin for me. This thinness was a result of a combination of working as much as I could, poverty, misery and a dogged determination to maintain that "healthy" weight. To be honest, I am fairly glad there are not that many surviving photos of me during that time because I was funny looking.
I felt funny looking and proportioned weirdly in a very unattractive way but I faked it. I thought that because I was thin I should like my body but I just didn't. So I pretended a lot. I wore clothes, I put a lot of effort into looking the part. I succeeded in some ways and in others failed miserably.
At the time I wasn't into dating so much as getting laid as much as I possibly could. It wasn't as often as I wanted because of work and whatnot but I tried really hard.
Now I met a trans woman whom we'll call Legs. She was instantly one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen up close, funny, smart, well read, all the things that make me go wet in the crotch and weak at the knees.
Pretty much from the instant we met I wanted her. I wanted her so bad I would have really done anything. If she'd told me to set my tits on fire I would have. Luckily for me she was not that flavor of sadist so there were no games.
I have never been good at asking people on dates. After we'd known each other for awhile I still hadn't figured out the whole asking for a date thing, I was saved though by a friend who suggest we do a double date with her and her boyfriend.
The date was fantastic. I was trying out being a dapper little soft butch type. I remember being so nervous and twitchy, just being close to her during our date turned me into a throbbing being of want.
Dinner proved to start to be my undoing. Unfortunately I got very self righteous about my staunch refusal of any foods I thought were bad. Nothing creamy, nothing with too much salt fat or sugar, no booze, no soda, no dressing. Nothing good. We went to a fantastic restaurant and there was so much deliciousness to be had but I stood my ground.
Later when Legs and I were alone at her place again I went on the defensive. I had been so fat before and of course I looked better and was better in the context of morality and the person I had been before.
I talked a good game.
Legs saw through my bullshit and called me on it. I have to admit, her seeing right through me turned me on. We did some serious making out.
Things were going fairly well. Legs was fucking glorious naked. My complete physical opposite. Long, tall, muscular, gorgeous. I will say that I was most excited about her oddly red gold pubes I thought they were so beautiful.
She got naked. I did not.
I got stuck in my head. I had not long before that upped my abdomnial exercises but I still had a soft belly. The fact is, I hated my body.
I hated it enough that my discomfort made her uncomfortable. I was hesitant about letting her touch me and that really made any lovemaking impossible.
She got frustrated, I was awfully embarrassed. She put her panties back on and we sat talking.
I don't recall exactly what she said but I do remember her saying this, (matter of fact I can still hear her voice in my head)
"You know, if you're that weird about your body it makes me really not want to fuck you. I feel bad for you."
At the time I got really pissed off. I probably called her a fucking bitch. I remember I left in a butthurt huff.
I didn't see Legs again for about three years. The next time we saw each other she had the most gorgeous man on her arm and we met again at a party.
I had regained weight and more importantly I had regained my real self confidence. I wasn't acting sexy I felt sexy.
I remember we found ouselves in a corner, she had her hands on my once again fat ass and she squeezed it and told me that I looked so beautiful.
It was a moment for me.
It was one of those moments when everything turned right side up and I got it.
I understood in that moment with her hands on my ass and our bodies pressed close together in a corner at a party like a couple of horny teenages that I didn't have to force my body into an unnatural for me mold to be desirable.
I understood that what had made the biggest difference was not the size of my ass but my attitude.
When I felt better about myself at a core level, it came out of my pours. It changed my walk, it changed how I fucked, it changed everything in the best way possible.
Legs and I parted on good terms. Her boyfriend was kind enough to allow us to have our little girly moment of making out in the bathroom. I haven't seen Legs in a really long time. If I did see Legs (or if by some insane cosmic coincidence) she sees this, Legs thanks for calling me on my shit.
Also Legs, you are one of the hottest human beings to ever escape my clutches.
This incident became a big part of the foundation of my understanding of my own self esteem and how I function.
Now excuse me my homies. I'm going to do some stuff and eat some delicious food and maybe daydream a little about Leg's big gorgeous hard muscled thighs and long hard tattooed back.
Homo Out.
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that's really fucked up
This is a gorgeous story. I don't usually comment even though I love your posts, but I had never thought of what was wrong with my attitude in terms of how Legs worded it to you.
Until right now, it never occurred to me that when I was younger, the reason I didn't have sex with the people I actually liked was that I was uncomfortable with my body (or, well, hated it). I could have sex with people I didn't care about, but not people I did. If only the ones I liked, who I never actually succeeded in having sex with, had been as forthcoming as Legs about how my obvious uncomfortableness and unwillingness to get undressed made them feel. Maybe it would've woken me up. I thought I was doing this because I hated MYSELF, but I didn't realize actually, it was my body, not my whole self that I hate(d).
Rock on, Shannon.


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Back in August, President Obama signed into existence PSD-10, a Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities. When it was first released, PSD-10 was well-received by liberal interventionists and those who believe that preventative diplomacy and coordinated action can head-off mass killings, Anne-Marie Slaughter and myself included. Paul States of the Council on Foreign Relations noted that PSD-10 had the potential to make it so "the inertia and neglect that has often characterized U.S. responses in the past can also hopefully be lessened, if not eliminated". Granted, not everyone was convinced about the necessity for further study into mass atrocities, but you can't please everyone.
The language used in PSD-10 strikes a tone of hope for the future, while acknowledging missteps of the past, and a desire for an early warning system against mass atrocities:
In the face of a potential mass atrocity, our options are never limited to either sending in the military or standing by and doing nothing. The actions that can be taken are many they range from economic to diplomatic interventions, and from non combat military actions to outright intervention. But ensuring that the full range of options is available requires a level of governmental organization that matches the methodical organization characteristic of mass killings.
Sixty six years since the Holocaust and 17 years after Rwanda, the United States still lacks a comprehensive policy framework and a corresponding interagency mechanism for preventing and responding to mass atrocities and genocide. This has left us ill prepared to engage early, proactively, and decisively to prevent threats from evolving into large-scale civilian atrocities.
And it's true. The bureaucracy involved in identifying, let alone taking action, on potential acts of genocide is ridiculous in its scope and the length of time it takes to run its course. The Directive determined that an interagency study, led by the National Security Advisor, would be complete within 100 days, to determine the full mandate and make-up of the body, as well as its processes. The resulting Atrocities Prevention Board was to begin its work 120 days after the signature of PSD-10, on August 4, 2011. It has now been 147 days.
Since August 4th, precisely nothing has come out of the White House on the matter. There have been no stories written, in the mainstream media on the development of the Board since late August. None. Nothing on interagency squabbles that would prevent its creation, nothing on how close it is to launch, nothing on how David Pressman's War Crimes, Atrocities and Civilian Protection directorate at the NSC is proceeding. Nothing. Certainly outside groups [PDF] haven't forgotten about the promise of the Board. Even the Senate has been more interested in putting the Board in the spotlight; Sens. Coons and Collins are circulating a letter that welcomes PSD-10 and the coming Atrocities Prevention Board.
Silence is certainly not helping the Administration look like it is taking the lead on actually securing human rights abroad. The ad-hoc approach determining the level of aid to be given to the Syrian opposition, as being reported by Josh Rogin at The Cable, is how the government has always worked in the face of potential disaster, a process the Atrocities Prevention Board was meant to change. Ad-hoc processes have their time and place, but a formal mechanism to target and collaborate on responding to massive human rights violations is needed to codify those processes if anything is to get done the next time a crisis rolls around.
If the Board is, in fact, up and running, an announcement needs to be made to the world. If there are delays in its launch, they need to be overcome quickly. Actually granting potential mass killings the level of attention they deserve is more than just good posturing and a bolstering of arguments of moral standing in the eyes of the international community; it's good policy that actually enhances the security of the United States.


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Fox Broadcasting's prolific Chef Gordon Ramsay is raising his profile in the Golden Triangle for the second time in the past several weeks. Not only did Columbus cook Seonkyoung Longest make it into the top 40 of his Master Chef Season 4, which premiered May 22, before being eliminated, Ramsay himself is scheduled to be in Starkville June 12-16 to film "Hotel Hell" at the Hotel Chester.
Now shooting its second season, the reality series features the demanding chef visiting struggling hotels throughout the United States in an attempt to reverse their misfortunes.
A publicity release from Fox Broadcasting reads, "Last year's first season of 'Hotel Hell' was the biggest unscripted network hit of the summer. Now Gordon Ramsay is back for a second season, hitting the road to fix some of America's most horrendous hotels, troubled inns and struggling resorts ... One of his stops is the Hotel Chester in Starkville, Miss."
"We're eager for Mr. Gordon Ramsay to come to the Hotel Chester and give us his advice," said hotel general manager Sukie Mollendor Monday. Her husband, David, is the establishment's owner. As usual with advance television filming, participants, like the Mollendors, are restricted in what they can reveal before the show is expected to air this fall.
Located at 101 N. Jackson St. in downtown Starkville, the hotel encompasses The Library restaurant, serving a menu described by the manager as modern American and Japanese fusion, featuring steak, seafood and sushi. The Beer Garden is also open Thursdays through Saturdays for summer in the patio area.
The community has an opportunity to be in the mix. Anyone wishing to book a room or dinner during June 12-16, while the show is filming, must make reservations by emailing [email protected]
Jan Swoope is the Lifestyles Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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The Middleton Rural Fire District was formed by the voters of the District in November of 1957. By design the District is a separate, tax supported, entity from the City of Middleton because of the large area it covers. In 1960 the district built its first fire station at the corner of Dewey and Star Blvd. This was the primary place of business for the district until it replaced station 1 in 2002 as a result of a bond election that was passed by the voters in 2000. That election passed with a majority of voters which was 80%. This time period in history is when the area of the Middleton Rural Fire District was experiencing a significant growth in population. With population growth come increases in request for service for the public safety agencies such as police, ambulance and fire. At the time the district had employed personnel only for the purposes of maintaining the equipment and assisting the building industry with fire code compliance. All of the emergency response personnel were volunteers or paid on call.
On February 1st of 2007 a fire broke out at the Middleton High School in a part of the building that was not protected by fire sprinklers. The resulting fire took 127 firefighters from 21 neighboring departments and agencies over 30 hours to extinguish. The fire ultimately destroyed 49% of the school.
After the fire, a post incident analysis of the fire looked at ways the fire could have been made less destructive. Multiple factors were included in the analysis including; fire department response, community insurance rating by the Insurance and Rating
Bureau, fire department staffing patterns, fire department personnel training levels, and the communities expectation of protection from the fire department. The analysis also compared the Middleton Rural Fire District to 13 other communities of similar size, from both inside and outside of Idaho, to determine the level of protection for other communities. At the end of the analysis the following recommendations were given to the elected officials.
First, most communities the size of Middleton had an ISO or ISRB rating of between 3 and 5. The ISO or ISRB rating is how the insurance companies know how much to charge for fire and casualty insurance. Middleton had a rating of 7 in town and ratings as high as 9 out in the rural areas. The worst rating you can get is a 10 which indicates unprotected.
The biggest difference between those other communities and Middleton was the use of full-time firefighters in their stations as opposed to Middleton, which used only volunteers. It's not that the volunteers lacked enthusiasm or training, they just had to work someplace else for a job to support their family and pay bills. When ISRB examined the records for the previous 10 years it was determined that the minimum number of 12 firefighters never arrived on scene of a working structure fire. The first engine on scene of the structure fire didn't have more than 2 people on it. Those two items had a serious impact on the rating Examining other communities revealed they maintained staff at their fire stations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Those personnel are able to make huge impacts for the communities they serve in fire prevention and suppression duties, as well as the items that get inspected for the communities ISO or ISRB rating. Those impacts typically resulted in a decrease of the ISO rating of 3 to 4 points. If an average point made
up 5-7% of the insurance for the year that meant a drop of 15-28 % in rates for insurance. When Interviewed, most of the Mayors, City Managers and Commissioners stated unanimously that the money spent by the jurisdiction on the full-time firefighters resulted in more savings in the insurance premiums than the increase in taxes it took to transition to full-time staffing.
This was the information the public and the elected officials had when they decided to hold an election for a levy override in an effort to improve emergency response for the citizens of Middleton. The goal was to provide enough funding to completely change the staffing patterns to include both part-time and full-time firefighters, sustain the operation and reevaluate it at the end of two years to see what the impact had been. The election was held in 2008 and passed with a significant majority
At the end of the two year trial the results were big. The ISRB rating for Middleton went from a 7 down to a 4. Response times for fire and EMS calls went from 26 minutes to 6 minutes on average, and the total dollar loss for fires was reduced by over 90% during those two years. Most of the home owners and business owners interviewed had their insurance premiums drop more than twice as much as their property tax increase had been. Overall the experiment was judged to be a success. When the levy was set to expire in 2010 the public asked the commissioners not to let it expire.
The commissioners have run the temporary override as an extension every two years since. The very first override was for the amount of $998,575 but each subsequent override has seen a reduction as time has gone on and the taxable value of the district has increased. The amount of the 2016 Permanent Levy has dropped down to $776,483. This significant decrease comes mainly from running as lean as possible to keep taxes as low as possible and still maintain the level of coverage the citizens have come to expect.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does that money get used for?
That is the most asked question. The answer is it pays for the manpower needed to respond to the emergencies called into the 911 center every day. The line item for personnel in the budget is normally around $755,000. This includes all of the full-time personnel and part-time personnel. If the district does not secure levy , that money will not be there. By default the program has to end due to lack of funding. The base levy rate without the override was established when the department was an all-volunteer force and that is all it could support
Will the fire department still be there?
Absolutely, and it will be just like it was prior to 2007. Since the funding for all of the full time personnel and all of the part time personnel come from the override, those personnel will need to find someplace else to work. A new group of volunteers should be able to duplicate the services provided prior 2007 successfully after some time. The district won't be out of money by any standard, but the property tax funding provided without the override will only support an all-volunteer service.
When I have an emergency Star or Caldwell always comes, not Middleton, even though I live in the Middleton District. This override failing won't have an effect on me right?
The communities of Caldwell, Middleton and Star have been cooperating in an agreement called automatic aid. This agreement allows the 911 center to send the closest qualified unit to an emergency call regardless of what district it is in. This only works because of the full-time staffing, provided by the override, making a crew available 24/7. If the community of Middleton doesn't provide a crew for the automatic aid, the surrounding communities are not going to spend their tax payer dollars protecting Middleton patrons. The leadership of those communities have made that very clear.
Will this raise my property taxes?
The district is not asking for additional taxes. Our hope is to make the extension of the override currently in place permanent.
If made permanent what would I pay?
Please keep in mind with property values and other taxes in the area we can only speak for the amount the district is asking for.
Assuming you have a home value of $250,000. Take the $250,000 minus $100,000 homeowner exemption. The taxable value of your home is $150,000. At a levy rate of .0020 you would pay $300 annual in fire district taxes.
For more information about property values and home owners exemptions visit Canyon County Assessors Office. A link is provided at the top of this page.
Who can vote for the fire district levy?
Registered voters who live within the boundaries of the Middleton Rural Fire District are eligible to vote. If you are not registered to vote you can register at your designated polling place. You will need a government issued ID and proof of address.
Where do I go to Vote?
Voting is done at your designated polling place for the precinct that you live in. A link is provided on the Voter Information Page to assist you in finding the right location. Please note the fire department is not a designated polling place and no ballots are available.
Why does our community have to do this election every two years and other communities don't?
This was done as a temporary experiment to start with, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of full-time staffing. With feedback from the community the program has been declared a success. The commissioners of the district have listened to the request of our citizens and are going to attempt a Permanent Levy Override. If the Override passes this will eliminate having to come back to the voters every two years as a temporary solution.


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"The Walking Dead" fans know that no character is sacred in this post-apocalyptic landscape, but perhaps they didn't know that the danger would reach those behind the scenes as well.
Deadline is reporting that "Walking Dead" co-creator and executive producer Frank Darabont has dropped out as showrunner of the massively successful AMC zombie series, news that's bound to shock and surprise any and all of the show's most devoted followers.
It's speculated that Darabont, who hails from the feature filmmaking world, stepped down from his position because he couldn't acclimate to the daily grind of television. At the moment, it's not known if Darabont is completely off the show or not; Deadline reports that "talks are still ongoing about him possibly staying on in some capacity," though exactly what that capacity would be -- occasional director, sometime writer, ongoing producer, something else entirely -- is unclear right now.
Darabont's departure from the showrunner role is certainly disappointing; his work on the first six-episode season was absolutely fantastic, and though the show's success does not rest entirely on his shoulders, there's no question that he played an essential role in bringing fans a tonally faithful "Walking Dead" adaptation. As such, replacing the man isn't easy. Deadline speculates that executive producer and second-in-charge Glen Mazzara, late of "The Shield," could step in as showrunner, but nothing's confirmed just yet.
At the moment, production appears to be unaffected by Darabont's exit -- the show is still on target for an October 16 premiere -- and you can bet that we'll update you with the latest as we hear it.
Tell us what you think of the news in the comments section and on Twitter!


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Conservatives shouldn't have to apologize for responding with squeamishness to the apocalypticism that frequently accompanies the environmental movement. Conservatives, however, have compelling reasons to pay attention to environmental issues. The environment is too important of a policy area to cede to progressives, who have used their monopoly of the topic as a prerogative to enact regulations that constrain economic activity and freedom.
Conservative leaders have much in common with many millennials who prioritize environmental concerns: recognition that the state-centric, command-and-control approach cannot meet the environmental challenges of today. This is the case with climate change. Conservatives are right to be upset that some members of the scientific and policy communities have imposed orthodoxy and sought to be the sole voice on the issue. Conservatives should also be upset that the left's proposed solution to regulate energy use would do little to solve the climate problem they claim to want to address. As Steven Hayward writes: "the more serious climate change may turn out to be, the less plausible or effective is the policy prescription of environmentalists, which is near term carbon suppression through regulation or new taxes."
Instead, a solution to the most serious climate change threat could only come about through innovations in energy production, and stimulating innovation is right up conservatives' alley. Right now, policies designed to encourage alternative energy use actually discourage innovation, because subsidies for subpar technologies like wind and solar serve as a disincentive for private actors to invest in power sources capable of displacing fossil fuels. Conservatives should ensure the federal government avoids picking energy winners and losers and distributes research-funding grants in the same diffused way it does for medical research. Additionally, conservatives need to trumpet the market forces encouraging innovation, investment, and entrepreneurship in alternative energy technologies.


text: Hey all, My name is Kurt. By day I'm a mild mannered application architect for a nation wide car rental company who shall remain nameless because they don't pay me to advertise. In the evening I help my wife of sixteen years take care of our five kids and write software. Why do I write software in the evening after doing it all day. That's the way God wired me I guess. Current areas of interest ( in no particular order): Studying the bible Java -- Of course that's what we use all day Ruby -- this is how I relax in the evening scripting languages in general (groovy, perl, python etc.) Regular expressions -- did I mention I was some what of a ... I guess they still call us geeks Web application systems and web services (soap) Data warehousing Math Current projects outside of work I'm currently testing the experimental soap interface for the ESV on- line bible using ruby's soap module so that we can integrate it into our church web site Figuring out how to convert Crossway's XML schema to OSIS Some Ideas I had for participating in the Sword project Helping to get some of the modern Bible translations into the project especially the ESV Adding red letters to the the ASV. For some reason this feature isn't working in the ASV module I downloaded for use with my macSword. I don't know if it's a bug or if it's just some extra mark- up that needs to be done. I'd like to try my hand at a couple of modules anyway just to get an idea of how that side of things works. All of the import utilities seem to be written for windows. I'd like to try my hand at some more cross platform friendly versions. Where can I find documentation on the final *.swd format and the conversion algorithm. I know that the intermediate format is OSIS or one of the other markups. It's the stuff for the final import I'm interested in. I'd prefer not to have to reverse engineer it from some C/C++ code, but I guess I can if I have to. These probably aren't the only things I'd be interested in they're just a starting point. I'll let you guys clue me in as to who needs help with what Regards Kurt


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Euro Update: Master Proclaimed Swedish Stallion of the Year
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Breeding News!The Swedish Warmblood stallion Master 850 has been proclaimed Stallion of the Year by the Swedish Breeding Promotion Society ASVHE. Master is ranked seventh on the 2008 World Breeding Ranking for dressage and has sired FEI high ranked Grand Prix dressage horses Max (under Kyra Kyrklund), Tip Top (under Leslie Morse), Vivo (under Maria von Essen) and Master Mind (under Nathalie Zu Saeyn-Wittgenstein).
Master (by Ceylon x Iran x Sombrero) was born in 1988 and bred by Poul-Erik Lang. Under Kyra Kyrklund, the stallion built up an impressive performance record. He won the Swedish championships both as a 5 and 6 year old. He was unbeaten nationally and internationally at all levels up to and including Intermediare I. He won the World Cup qualifier in Aarhus, Denmark in 1997. His personal best performance was finishing sixth at the 1998 World Cup Finals. Master's show career ended when he got injured while covering.
Master's offspring is proving its worth by scoring at the highest level in dressage. At the 2008 CDI Wiesbaden, three of fifteen horses competing in the Kur to Music were sired by this stallion. Kyra Kyrklund's Max (by Master x Alpenfurst) was the highest placed Swedish warmblood at the 2008 Olympic Games. Read More
Anna Blomgren Hired as a Rider at Helgstrand Dressage.
Ann Blomgren has been riding at Blue Hors stud for four years, one year at Rudolf Zeilinger's and five year with Swedish Louise Nathhorst. She has trained horses up to Grand Prix level, competed at the World Young Horse Championships and she won team bonze at the European Young Riders Championships. One of the horses Blomgren is currently riding at Helgstrand Dressage is the Hanoverian premium stallion Wilkens (by Waterford x Falkland x Lanthan), which sold to Denmark at the 2006 Hanoverian Stallion Licensing. Read More Euro Titbits here
Classic Sales Warendorf, a New Auction for Classically Schooled Horses
Susanne Miesner and Fabian Scholz are organizing an auction Classic Sales Warendorf for classically trained horses on April 11, 2009. Classical Sales is an auction made up of a select group of talented horses chosen from breeders and owners known for following guidelines based on good care and training methods and sound horsemanship. The horses are not trained with draw reins and have been turned out in the paddock daily. The auction will be preceded by a seminar with former Dance World champion Michael Hull. More info at www.csw-auktion.de
More Euro News on Eurodressage.com


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An Iowa newspaper has documented the story of an activist for Dr. Ben Carson who was so devastated by a report from the Ted Cruz campaign that she could not speak for him at her local caucus meeting.
The report, which had already been denied by the Carson campaign, turned out to be untrue. The Cruz campaign later apologized–once it had already won Iowa.
Pat Kinney of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports today:
"I'd never done anything like this before," she said. "I felt really passionate about Dr. Carson. We were inspired by Dr. Carson's story. I volunteered to talk for him. And you get all revved up to speak to 500 people."
Then, the unthinkable happened.
A lady who had just checked her smart phone said the campaign of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz "just informed us that there's a CNN story that he (Carson) is out of the race and he's endorsed (Sen. Ted) Cruz," Probert related. She had already risen to speak.
"There was a gasp in the audience," Probert related. "I was just devastated. I got emotional. I said, 'My husband and I live here in Independence with our two Haitian children. We were inspired by Dr. Carson's story…'"
That was as far as she got. Overcome by emotion, she sat down.
Read the full story here.


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Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come. We dream what is about to happen.
To dream of a spider, denotes that you will be careful and energetic in your labors, and fortune will be amassed to pleasing proportions. To see one building its web, foretells that you will be happy and secure in your own home. To kill one, signifies quarrels with your wife or sweetheart. If one bites you, you will be the victim of unfaithfulness and will suffer from enemies in your business. If you dream that you see many spiders hanging in their webs around you, foretells most favorable conditions, fortune, good health and friends. To dream of a large spider confronting you, signifies that your elevation to fortune will be swift, unless you are in dangerous contact. To dream that you see a very large spider and a small one coming towards you, denotes that you will be prosperous, and that you will feel for a time that you are immensely successful; but if the large one bites you, enemies will steal away your good fortune. If the little one bites you, you will be harassed with little spites and jealousies. To imagine that you are running from a large spider, denotes you will lose fortune in slighting opportunities. If you kill the spider you will eventually come into fair estate. If it afterwards returns to life and pursues you, you will be oppressed by sickness and wavering fortunes. For a young woman to dream she sees gold spiders crawling around her, foretells that her fortune and prospect for happiness will improve, and new friends will surround her.
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Hi My dream had to parts.Our cockateil birds in dream had babys.Which my sister gave us as a surprise.one baby bird was adorable fat and could some how communicate and let me know he wanted hard boil egg.Both were adorable just freely sitting around.Other part of dream.i was young we were in very old old house.With mother and sister.My window and bed were full of small spider's . which my sister helped kill.There was hundreds.Hadcto sleep in mothers bed.Can anyone help interpret this.Thank you
I dreamt that a small spider was attached to the palm of my hand and when I removed it its' eggs began to spread all around my hand.
I saw lots of spider coming to my village shop and huge number of spiders laying on shop door and lots of spiders around me and wn I wake up in dream more number of spiders surrounded by me and and more number of spiders present on by right sholder
I dreamt that a spider was following me, it was a strange looking spider like a combination of a spider and fly. It was striped. I was afraid of it, it felt like it was hunting me. I just kept trying to get away from it. What does that mean?
I used to dream alot about spiders i was lying and they spun a big web around me.they didnt hurt me though.but i was scared
Well,my dream was I first saw one spider in my house so I think I killed it,but normally in real life I like spiders,anyways, after that I started noticing spiders all over the place, especially wen I looked up,then they were everywhere, and they looked poisonous /deadly.I freak out. & woke up.
I dreamt that I was pulling a long stocking like thong out of my left eye and every 12 inches or so there were sacks of spiders eggs and I think that there were 3 altogether???
I dreamt a very detailed dream but the part with the spider was that I had pulled the sheets back in this bed that I was going to sit in and a spider came out. Both of us were startled but it moved very quickly to try to get off the bed but was coming towards me and I felt slight fear, so I lit it on fire with a lighter. After this, it actually grew and swelled about twice it's size and turned a burning red ember color. I did not see it die, but was no longer afraid of its presence and just walked away from it.
I had the weirdest dream about a medium sized brown spider following me and because I am slightly afraid of them (but never kill them) I was afraid of it and was trying to hide from it and then it looked me in my eyes and me meowed at me like a cat!! Then I believe it was my big brother (who is very arachniphobic, more than me) holding the spider and letting it crawl on his fingers and I soon accepted it. After that I stopped running and began watching it.
I've had the same dream about 50+ times. Always the same thing. I'm walking through a basement or something and hundreds of black furry spiders begin coming down webs from the ceiling all around me. That's all I remember, but it's ALWAYS the same.
I was woken up by something and I swear I was awake and not dreaming because I shook my head and repeatedly blinked my eyes. It happened the night of the wake of the funeral of my dad . The black wire like spider was weaving itself above my head in the bed I was sleeping in my mothers house the web was also black. It disappeared when I attempted to reach at it. I swear I was awake because I was awakened by something I just jumped up and saw it, I was not dreaming it quickly disappeared twice and then when I reached for it went away.
I had a terrible dream, kinda like a dream within a dream, that I woke up, and there was a large red and white spider between the sheets and after unsuccessfully trying to get it off the bed so I could get rid of it, but the spider bit the palm of my hand and from that bite I was turning blue, from the tips of my fingers down my arms and spread all over my body and I knew something was wrong with me but couldn't call for help, the most terrifying dream I've had in a while.
I had a dream that a spider fell on me in my bed and i quikly went under my blanket.then I woke up.
I dream't that a large beetle walked across the floor then when it reached the skirting board it turned into a large spider -please what does this mean I've never had this before
I had a dream that I was with the girl that I have met at school and been seeing for the past few weeks, a few nights ago she broke things off, saything that should couldn't do it right now. Last night I had a dream what I was laying with her and spiders were coming out of her nipples. I was really weird and I can't understand why I dreamt it. Any ideas?
In my dream, i walking through a house discussing with my friend giving away the contents in the house. All the stuff we don't use any more. Kids old plush toys, clothes, etc. My yoga teacher appears male with a friend male his partner in life. Out of nowhere this big black spider drops from above and lands on my right cheek, i try desperately to remove the spider flicking it off my face before its fangs bite me, but could not. So terrified i wake myself up.can you please tell me what this meansThe night of the dream i went to sleep with an aching jaw, tooth ache, right where the spider landed.
In my dream I am in a room and there are spiders everywhere im not scared but need to climb on a plinth that wobbles then lift a heavy hoover so I can reach to clean. My Dad (deceased) tries to help me lift it and can't then my partner lifts it and passes it to me. A woman appears and says she will help n then I woke ... I don't know the woman. I do struggle finding balance with the hoover on the wobbling plinth lol. Strange. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it. Thanks x
I dreamed that for some reason I was holding a tarantula size spider that had spikes near it's mouth and I was in the process of wrapping material around it,(I guess to contain it) and in the process the spikes poked me,(No blood just a small hole in skin) but it never actually bit me. When I finally fought wrapping up the spider in the material,, I just threw it in the room I was in and asked someone there about the pokes and making sure that there wasn't the chance of being poisoned,,which we decided I didn't have the chance because it never actually bit me. What does all of this mean?
I dreamed there were fairly large black spiders, each on a branch or web. They continued to multiply out and I was cautious to stand back so I wouldn't come in contact with them. When I went back during the dream, there were more and more.
I dreamt that a massive black spider was chasing me and i tried to outrun it...my friend (who, even now, i can't remember who it was) suddenly showed up in my dream and the spider attached itself to her wrist and wrapped itself on her wrist...then she stared at me along with the spider and started coming after me...that's when i woke up.


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Herbert F Gretz, MD
- Position
- CLINICAL PROFESSOR | Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
- Specialty
- Gynecologic Oncology
- Language
- English
- Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Phone
- Mount Sinai Office 212-717-0777212-717-0777
- WestMed Office Purchase NY 914-761-0900914-761-0900
- WestMed Office White Plains NY 914-305-2730914-305-2730
Dr. Herbert Gretz is an Associate Clinical Professor and the former Director of the Gynecologic Minimally Invasive Surgery Division and prior Director of the Minimally Invasive Fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science. Dr Gretz completed his Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He was an Assistant Professor at the Weill Cornell Medical School and an Attending Physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital from 1993 thur 1999. He then joined the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr Gretz is known throughout the New York metropolitan region as a highly skilled surgeon with unique laparoscopic abilities. Dr Gretz oversees the training of residents and fellows in gynecologic oncology and gynecologic minimally invasive surgery. Dr Gretz is a leader in health care administration. He is former member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and the Chairman of the Quality Assurance Committee. He is completing a Masters degree in Health Care Delivery Leadership at Mount Sinai.
Gynecologic Oncology
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Clinical Focus
- Cervical Conization
- Endometriosis
- Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
- Hysterectomy
- Hysteroscopy
- Laparoscopy
- Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure
- Myomectomy
- Oophorectomy
- Ovarian Cancer
- Ovarian Cyst
- Ovarian Cyst Removal
- Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Procedures
- Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
- Uterine Cancer
- Uterine Fibroids
Research Topics
MD, New York Medical College
MBA, Columbia University
Masters of Science, Icahn School of Medicine
Residency, Obs/ Gyn
New York University Medical Center
Fellowship, Gynecology Oncology
University of Michigan Hospitals
El Hachem L, Momeni M, Friedman K, Moshier EL, Chuang LT, Gretz HF. Safety, feasibility and learning curve of robotic single-site surgery in gynecology. The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS 2015 Jun;.
El Hachem L, Small E, Chung P, Moshier EL, Friedman K, Fenske SS, Gretz HF. Randomized controlled double-blind trial of transversus abdominis plane block versus trocar site infiltration in gynecologic laparoscopy. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2015 Feb; 212(2).
Gad MS, El Khouly NI, Soto E, Brodman M, Chuang L, Nezhat FR, Gretz HF. Differences in perioperative outcomes after laparoscopic management of benign and malignant adnexal masses. Journal of gynecologic oncology 2011 Mar; 22(1).
Cardenas-Goicoechea J, Shepherd A, Momeni M, Mandeli J, Chuang L, Gretz H, Fishman D, Rahaman J, Randall T. Survival analysis of robotic versus traditional laparoscopic surgical staging for endometrial cancer. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2014 Feb; 210(2).
El Khouly NI, Barr RL, Kim BB, Jeng CJ, Nagarsheth NP, Fishman DA, Nezhat FR, Gretz HF, Chuang LT. Comparison of robotic-assisted and conventional laparoscopy in the management of adnexal masses. Journal of minimally invasive gynecology; 21(6).
Soto E, Lo Y, Friedman K, Soto C, Nezhat F, Chuang L, Gretz H. Total laparoscopic hysterectomy versus da Vinci robotic hysterectomy: is using the robot beneficial?. Journal of gynecologic oncology 2011 Dec; 22(4).
Nezhat FR, DeNoble SM, Liu CS, Cho JE, Brown DN, Chuang L, Gretz H, Saharia P. The safety and efficacy of laparoscopic surgical staging and debulking of apparent advanced stage ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancers. JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons / Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons; 14(2).
Nezhat F, Yadav J, Rahaman J, Gretz H, Gardner GJ, Cohen CJ. Laparoscopic lymphadenectomy for gynecologic malignancies using ultrasonically activated shears: analysis of first 100 cases. Gynecologic oncology 2005 Jun; 97(3).
Nezhat FR, Denoble SM, Cho JE, Brown DN, Soto E, Chuang L, Gretz H, Saharia P. Safety and efficacy of video laparoscopic surgical debulking of recurrent ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancers. JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons / Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons; 16(4).
Nezhat FR, Ezzati M, Chuang L, Shamshirsaz AA, Rahaman J, Gretz H. Laparoscopic management of early ovarian and fallopian tube cancers: surgical and survival outcome. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2009 Jan; 200(1).
Momeni M, Kolev V, Costin D, Mizrachi HH, Chuang L, Warner RR, Gretz HF. Primary pulmonary carcinoid tumor with metastasis to endometrial polyp. International journal of surgery case reports 2013; 4(1).
Gretz H, Bradley WH, Zakashansky K, Nezhat F, Rahaman J, Chuang L, Bohren DL, Kreiger K, Rubin E, Sokolow A. Patient clinical factors influencing use of hysterectomy in New York, 2001-2005. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2008 Oct; 199(4).
Gretz H, Bradley WH, Zakashansky K, Nezhat F, Bohren DL, Kreiger K, Rubin E, Sokolow A. Effect of physician gender and specialty on utilization of hysterectomy in New York, 2001-2005. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2008 Oct; 199(4).
Nezhat F, Yadav J, Rahaman J, Gretz H, Cohen C. Analysis of survival after laparoscopic management of endometrial cancer. Journal of minimally invasive gynecology; 15(2).
Nagarsheth NP, Rahaman J, Cohen CJ, Gretz H, Nezhat F. The incidence of port-site metastases in gynecologic cancers. JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons / Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons; 8(2).
Zakashansky K, Chuang L, Gretz H, Nagarsheth NP, Rahaman J, Nezhat FR. A case-controlled study of total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy versus radical abdominal hysterectomy in a fellowship training program. International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society; 17(5).
Slomovitz BM, Caputo TA, Gretz HF, Economos K, Tortoriello DV, Schlosshauer PW, Baergen RN, Isacson C, Soslow RA. A comparative analysis of 57 serous borderline tumors with and without a noninvasive micropapillary component. The American journal of surgical pathology 2002 May; 26(5).
Saini J, Kuczynski E, Gretz HF, Sills ES. Supracervical hysterectomy versus total abdominal hysterectomy: perceived effects on sexual function. BMC women's health 2002; 2(1).
Sills ES, Saini J, Steiner CA, McGee M, Gretz HF. Abdominal hysterectomy practice patterns in the United States. International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 1998 Dec; 63(3).
Argenta PA, Rahaman J, Gretz HF, Nezhat F, Cohen CJ. Vacuum-assisted closure in the treatment of complex gynecologic wound failures. Obstetrics and gynecology 2002 Mar; 99(3).
Dattoli MJ, Gretz HF, Beller U, Lerch IA, Demopoulos RI, Beckman EM, Fried PR. Analysis of multiple prognostic factors in patients with stage IB cervical cancer: age as a major determinant. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 1989 Jul; 17(1).
Sills ES, Saini J, Applegate MS, McGee M, Gretz HF. Supracervical and total abdominal hysterectomy trends in New York State: 1990-1996. Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1998 Dec; 75(4).
Chuang LT, Moqattash ST, Gretz HF, Nezhat F, Rahaman J, Chiao JW. Sulforaphane induces growth arrest and apoptosis in human ovarian cancer cells. Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica 2007 Jul;.
Nagarsheth NP, Gupta N, Gupta A, Moshier E, Gretz H, Shander A. Responses of advanced directives by Jehovah's Witnesses on a gynecologic oncology service. Journal of blood medicine 2015; 6.
Fields A, Hochster H, Runowicz C, Speyer J, Goldberg G, Cohen C, Dottino P, Wadler S, Berk G, Gretz H, Mandeli J, Holland J, Letvak L. PSC833: initial clinical results in refractory ovarian cancer patients. Current opinion in oncology 1998 Aug; 10 Suppl 1.
Gretz HF, Talavera F, Connor P, Pearl M, Lelle RJ, Roberts JA, Menon KM. Protein kinase C-dependent and -independent pathways mediate epidermal growth factor (EGF) effects in human endometrial adenocarcinoma cell line KLE. Gynecologic oncology 1994 May; 53(2).
Soto E, Soto C, Nezhat FR, Gretz HF, Chuang L. Chylous ascites following robotic lymph node dissection on a patient with metastatic cervical carcinoma. Journal of gynecologic oncology 2011 Mar; 22(1).
Nezhat F, Cohen C, Rahaman J, Gretz H, Cole P, Kalir T. Comparative immunohistochemical studies of bcl-2 and p53 proteins in benign and malignant ovarian endometriotic cysts. Cancer 2002 Jun; 94(11).
Pearl ML, Talavera F, Gretz HF, Roberts JA, Menon KM. Mitogenic activity of growth factors in the human endometrial adenocarcinoma cell lines HEC-1-A and KLE. Gynecologic oncology 1993 Jun; 49(3).
Lelle RJ, Talavera F, Gretz H, Roberts JA, Menon KM. Epidermal growth factor receptor expression in three different human endometrial cancer cell lines. Cancer 1993 Jul; 72(2).
Ohnuma T, Lehrer D, Ren C, Cho SY, Maniar M, Silverman L, Sung M, Gretz HF, Benisovich V, Navada S, Akahoho E, Wilck E, Taft DR, Roboz J, Wilhelm F, Holland JF. Phase 1 study of intravenous rigosertib (ON 01910.Na), a novel benzyl styryl sulfone structure producing G2/M arrest and apoptosis, in adult patients with advanced cancer. American journal of cancer research 2013; 3(3).
Nagarsheth NP, Gupta N, Gupta A, Moshier E, Gretz H, Shander A. Responses of advanced directives by Jehovah's Witnesses on a gynecologic oncology service. Journal of blood medicine 2015; 6.
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I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.
I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.
I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.
I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years.
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.
To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
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Melissa D'Arabian's Top Tips for a Stress-Free and Affordable Thanksgiving (Part 1)
Here are Melissa's first 5 tips for a perfect Thanksgiving:
1. Shop at the right times.
Stock your pantry with basic ingredients (flour, sugar, eggs, etc.) at least 2 weeks before the holidays. A lot of the typical foods you need for Thanksgiving are going to be on sale right before Thanksgiving, while basic ingredients are not going to go on sale. Grocery stores will take a loss on holiday-specific products in order to get you into the store and buying other ingredients at full price.
2. Utilize ingredients you already have.
Make sure you have a scheduled scan of your pantry and refrigerator and ask yourself, "Are there any ingredients that have been sitting around for a long time?" If you can see eggs, flour, and sugar, and think about turning them into some sort of custard or pudding, that's going to take you a long way to stretch your dollar. Try to perform a 5-minute scan each week before you do your grocery shopping. As Melissa always says, "The most expensive ingredient in your house is the one that you throw out."
3. Don't forget the drinks.
For a cheap way to serve special drinks at your holiday parties, Melissa recommends having one signature drink that you serve to everyone. She also recommends making some interesting simple syrups to flavor the drinks. You can make a simple syrup out of almost anything; all you need is half water and half sugar. Put it into a pan and bring it to a simmer for 3-4 minutes with something in it (i.e. orange zest, lemon zest, lime zest, an herb, a spice, cinnamon sticks, dried cranberries, etc.) Mix the syrup with sparkling water and white wine, to make a yummy spritzer. Mix it with sparkling water only and you have a fruity soda for the little ones.
4. Make the perfect turkey.
Melissa's very best turkeys are made this way:
--Start your turkey at a higher temperature, then lower the temperature. This will get you a nice crispy skin. Use the higher temperature for about the first half hour, then lower the heat.
--Cook your turkey unstuffed. Doing this will result in a more evenly-cooked turkey with moist breast meat.
5. Use your oven wisely.
Melissa cooks anything she can on the stove top and she bakes her pies the day before. Don't forget that you have a lot of oven time while that turkey is resting- up to 40 minutes! That's plenty of time to reheat something. You can also preheat a dish in the microwave for a little while and then do the final touches in the oven.
Read 4 more of Melissa's Thanksgiving tips here!
For even more great budget cooking tips, be sure to watch "Ten Dollar Dinners" on the Food Network every Sunday at 12:30pm Eastern Time. Watch Melissa put together a tasty and affordable holiday meal on Sunday, December 5th at 12:30pm ET/PT!


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I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas
if you stop opening presents and listen.
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Review: Dark Dungeons: The Movie
I feel like I need to start with some disclosures here. I first played Dungeons & Dragons in something like fourth grade and have been a gamer ever since. I've also been fascinated by Jack Chick for at least 20 years. I have a binder full of Chick comics I've collected over the years; I would like the whole collection, but I can't bring myself to just order them because giving Chick Publications money (much less my address) seems…icky. I've read all the biographical information I've been able to find about Mr. Chick (which mostly consists of Daniel Raeburn's excellent IMP issue about him). I've written articles about Jack Chick. I wrote an adventure that used the afterlife as imagined by Jack Chick as a starting point (Waxman's Warriors). And have you ever thought that "The Death Cookie" was a weird name for a gaming website? That's because we got it form a Chick tract. Long story, but if you ever catch Leighton and I together and have a Chick tract handy, we might treat you to/punish you with one of our dramatic readings. We've even got special voices for recurring characters like Giant Faceless Jesus and the snotty "His name's not in the book, Lord!" Angel and everything.
In other words, I am the precise target audience for a Dark Dungeons movie, and that's important. This is not a movie for a general audience. If you've played role-playing games or read Jack Chick's work, you probably won't hate it and might even get a few laughs out of it. To really appreciate this movie, though, you need at least some familiarity with both (the more the better). If you've never played D&D and have no idea who Jack Chick is, you'll probably find Dark Dungeons utterly baffling.
The movie makes a few changes, like making Marcie and Debbie college students rather than high school kids and giving one of the other players (Nitro) a minor role, but mostly sticks to the plot of the tract. It's important to understand that Dark Dungeons is not, technically, a parody. Jack Chick gave producer JR Ralls the rights to make the film and he upheld his end of the bargain by making a faithful adaptation. Except for a few Easter eggs, pretty much everything in the movie that seems like comedy--the stylized "50s educational film" dialog; the delusional conspiracy theories; the willful ignorance about "RPGers" and "RPGing"; even the barely-repressed lesbian subtext--are all there in the original tract. Of course, any attempt to faithfully adapt Chick's work is going to seem like parody, and I think the filmmakers were fully aware of that fact.
Other than expanding the events of the comic panels out into full scenes and adding some framing and padding, the main addition to the plot concerns the activities of the cult who only appear as shadowy figures in the tract. This provides a sort of secret history for the tract, where we find out that the cult is orchestrating everything (even Marcie's suicide) in order to summon a certain tentacley fellow whose inclusion was, if I'm not mistaken, one of the stretch goals of the Kickstarter campaign. The other major addition is a nod to Mazes & Monsters in which Debbie goes down into the steam tunnels to fight the monsters that she's inadvertently released by playing the game instead of accepting Christ.
When I first opened my copy of the DVD, I was a little disappointed to see that the movie's runtime is only 40 minutes, but after watching it (twice), it's just so spot-on that I'm not sure trying to stretch it to feature length would have added anything. The script is perfect. The acting, directing and other aspects of production fall somewhere in between slickly-produced amateur movie and low-budget indie flick. With the possible exception of the creature effects (which have their own charm for an 80s horror fan like me), nothing about the movie's production is bad, it's just obviously done on a limited budget.
The DVD extras are less impressive. In addition to the commentaries (which I haven't watched yet), there are two features. One, "How to Make a Movie for $1000 (But Not Really)" is just Ralls sharing his extensive expertise (from making one movie) at length over high-speed clips of the filming. The other "A Lifelong Dream: The Making of Dark Dungeons" consists of interviews with nearly everyone involved in the film, right down to the craft services person, behind the scenes stuff, and a few random bits that don't seem to serve any real purpose. There's some interesting stuff there, but it's so badly organized and separated by completely pointless clips that I lost interest pretty quickly and just left it on in the background while I worked on other things. It's almost like they just burned all the files in the "maybe use for behind the scenes extra" folder onto the DVD in whatever order they were in on the hard drive.
As I said at the beginning, this movie was made for a very specific audience, and for that audience it's very close to perfect. If you've ever uttered the words "I don't want to be Elfstar any more. I want to be Debbie!," preferably at a table covered with rulebooks and funny dice, this movie is required viewing. The farther removed you are from that demographic, the less likely it is that you'll like, or even understand, Dark Dungeons.


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Her attorneys said she was blinded by love, but a federal court judge said Monday it looked to him as if Patsy Schmidt was blinded by money.
U.S. District Court Judge Jack Zouhary sentenced Schmidt, 53, of Toledo to 15 months in prison and ordered her to pay a total of $13,526 in restitution to victims of her Internet crime.
Her son, Bradley Schmidt, 23, was sentenced to a day in federal custody and ordered to share in repaying $6,956 of the restitution for his part in the scheme, which involved pretending to purchase items for sale on Internet sites such as eBay and sending emails to sellers indicating payment had been received by PayPal, but telling them the funds weren't available until the seller paid the cost of a pick-up agent.
Noah Hood, an assistant federal prosecutor, said the victims paid fees ranging from $200 to $1,200 as fees for items they were selling that were "as small as a Victrola to as large as a vehicle."
Once the Schmidts received the money, they stopped communication with the seller, he said. They also kept a portion of the money collected and wired the rest to a man in Nigeria identified as "Juan."
"'Juan' told Patsy that he loved her and that he was planning on moving to the United States to marry her, but that he needed her help to stay out of imminent danger, and she believed him," defense attorney Angela Wynn-Stewart wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed with the court. "She followed his every direction, and the one time she had doubts because of an interaction with a police officer, 'Juan' reassured her that it was all legal ... "
Attorney Merle Dech, who stood in for Ms. Wynn-Stewart at sentencing, told the court Schmidt had looked for love in the wrong place and fell for the scheme.
"Her heart took over her mind, and she acted as a conduit," he said.
"A conduit who shared in the profits," the judge interjected.
Mr. Dech conceded Schmidt did receive $20 to $50 per transaction, adding that Schmidt was so poor she had no teeth and only recently was able to afford dentures.
Schmidt herself said she was remorseful.
"I did wrong here and he pulled me into his scheme and I tried to figure it out and it took me a long time," she said.
Judge Zouhary didn't buy the excuses and said he was particularly disturbed that she involved her own family members in the scam, which went on from 2010 to 2013.
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Schmidt and her son both pleaded guilty Dec. 6 to conspiracy to launder money and international money laundering. While the charges carry possible 20-year prison sentences, federal sentencing guidelines called for much smaller prison terms in part because of the defendants' lack of criminal records.
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Less money? Wanna save the earth? Don't want many people? Want people? Don't wanna spend much money but wanna make the best of Christmas? Don't worry all of you are in the correct place. Celebrate a unique Christmas with these ideas..
1. Banana leaves :
Banana leaves can be used for baking anything "wrapped" – in the same way, you would use tin foil or parchment paper. However, note that banana leaves are porous (unlike tin foil) so some of the "sauce" or juices from your food item may seep through. It's, therefore, a good idea to place your banana leaf "packets" in a glass casserole dish, or a tray that has sides on it, so that the juices don't drip to the bottom of your oven.
You can also use banana leaf as a kind of "mat" for barbecuing fragile fillets of fish, smaller shrimp, or vegetables that have a danger of falling through the grill. Simply lay a piece of banana leaf on your grill, then cook your food items on top of it (as you would with tin foil). The banana leaf will turn bright green at first, then brown as you cook. It will give a nice hint of flavor to your food that is very pleasant.
Banana leaf prices depend upon the place you live. They are cheap in Asia but can be costly in snow-clad countries. So, for those snow people, point no.2 is a good option.
Lowest price ($) : 100
Learn more about – https://www.thespruce.com/cooking-with-banana-leaf-3217239
2. Paper plates :
Ditch those glass plates and use biodegradable plates. They are cheap and your creative genes can also be used to make them look funky. Paper plates are completely biodegradable! No guilt of "destroying earth"
Price : Lowest price ($): 4
3. Use stainless steel utensils :
Glassware and Wooden utensils are hard to handle. Stainless Steel utensils remain in a good condition for years and are easy to clean and maintain. Glassware can be harmful if mishandled and wooden utensils are obviously harmful if you are cooking.You also no longer have to worry about kids playing with them cause they can't really cause as much harm as those glassware utensils. They are also cheap.
Price : Depends on which utensil you buy. Lowest price for a container is $10
So, this Christmas, Stain less!
4. Recycle food waste :
Leftover food, spoilt food, leftover scraps of vegetables etc can be used for recycling. It will take 2 months to form the end product. So by next February, you will have the end product ready to be reused. This is a good way to turn Christmas waste material into something good.
There are two methods to recycle it :
- In-vessel composting (IVC)
- Anaerobic digestion (AD)
Price : FREE
The end products can be used as bio-fuels, bio-fertilizers, different soils for plants, etc.
Bored? Wanna waste less money? DIY it! There are various DIY's which you can use for making Christmas tree, tables, candles, etc. This will help you be creative and run your brain. Also helpful for kids to learn to make different things and thus develop their brain at an early age. DIY gifts for the family will be so much fun! All creative people will love this idea. This will save your money as well as make use of already available things and thus we don't have to stress much about buying things which we will use only once.
Price ($) : If you BUY those paper, glue and stuff, it can go up to 50. Otherwise, free if you just use stuff you have handy at home.
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Why waste money on clubs when you can make a party at home? Plug in your speakers and have fun! Call your friends and turn your kitchen into a bar. Don't have money to buy beer? Try MAKING beer at home. It's easy!
Also, if you are a lover of cooking, you have a great chance to cook for the party YOURSELF and show people how good your cooking skills are.
What? Are you an introvert? No problem! how about a pajama party? Call up ya close friends, watch a movie on Netflix, get some popcorn, play games, discuss life and enjoy!
Price ($) : Minimum 50-100
Total cost: Less than 300 dollars!!
Note : Price varies from place to place.
Pic courtesy: Google !!
More about food management – https://www.foodwastenetwork.org.uk/content.html?contentid=12
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"Golden Years," which airs at 9 tonight on WBAL-TV (Channel 11), is network television's latest attempt at quirky. After tonight's two-hour premiere, the six-part series will air Thursday nights at 10.
The story is about a 70-year-old custodian, Harlan Williams (Keith Szarabajka), who works at a Big-Brotherish agricultural testing center. After an explosion in a laboratory at the center, Williams is exposed to an unknown combination of chemicals. At first, he doesn't seem to be harmed -- outside of a little glowing of the eyes. Later he begins to feel a bit peppier, then really good. The chemicals, a formula intended to speed the body's healing process,are reversing Williams' aging process.


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