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Not everyone has the amount of time or money here, but these home owners are ready.
When the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse approach, to where will you retreat? If this seems like a relevant question, it's likely you're the type who—for reasons too complex to get into here—enjoys imagining disaster scenarios. But it's only fun if you survive the apocalypse, and that requires a well-fortified home base.From CNBC
When it comes to major emergencies, conventional houses' traditional nods toward protection—such as fences, security-alarm systems, and gated communities—are for chumps. If you plan to survive a wide-scale disaster, you're going to need a shelter fit for holding off the beasts and roaming marauders, not to mention the coming of hell and/or high water.
It's impossible for any one structure to be impenetrable to every potential crisis, so emergency-minded homebuilders and buyers have to pick some favorites and hope they choose correctly.
The best disaster-ready homes are the ones that cover as many dangerous scenarios as possible and allow for ongoing survival, such as self-sufficient structures capable of generating their own power, and growing or catching food. On the other end of things, bomb shelters and panic rooms are limited survival plans, in that you must be able to leave the structure and return to a livable outside world. If that's not an option, once you exhaust the supplies, these spaces become literal dead ends. With that thought to warm your heart, click ahead to see houses with differing styles of disaster preparedness.
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On a beautiful Saturday morning in Franklin Springs, 150 Emmanuel College graduates turned their tassels as 1,700 family members and friends joined them to celebrate this significant accomplishment in their lives at the John W. Swails Center on graduation day, May 11, 2013.
- Valedictorians for the Class of 2013 are Melinda Sessoms (baccalaureate) and Nichole M. Grizzle (associates).
- Faculty awards went to Rachel Fenters and April Toney.
- The Presidential Award of Merit went to Coach Mike Bona, who surpassed 600 wins in 2012-13 in EC Women's Basketball.
- The Dorothy Ferguson-Caddell Support Staff Award went to Guy Chapman, EC's media services director.
- The Brady Faculty Award went to Dr. Brian Peek, EC's Natural Sciences Department Chair.
- The Firebaugh Memorial Faculty Award went to Dr. Scott Ellington, SCM professor.
- President Michael Stewart recognized a new endowed scholarship named for the Rev. Richard F. and Maxine Brown Elliot Memorial Scholarship in memory of Rev. and Mrs. Elliot, who graduated from Emmanuel in the 1940s.
When President Stewart addressed the graduates, he encouraged them to always keep a Christ-centered focus throughout life, to continue growing in their faith, and never stop learning.
"We know many of you personally, and we will miss each of you on our campus," he said. "Now a page is turning, and your destiny is calling. Embrace it and fulfill it. I commend to you the words from Micah 6:8, 'What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.' That is my prayer for you, and please know you will continue to be in our prayers in the days to come."
This year's commencement speaker was Dr. A.D. Beacham Jr., the 19th Presiding Bishop of the IPHC. On behalf of EC's Board of Trustees, President Stewart presented Bishop Beacham with an honorary Bachelor of Arts degree in Christian Ministries from Emmanuel College. When he graduated from Emmanuel in 1969, EC only awarded associate degrees.
As Bishop Beacham addressed the graduates, he quoted John 15:16 where Jesus says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you." He reminded them they were created for a purpose. "You will be called to do things you do not feel prepared for. If God calls you, do it."
He told them about a student who thought he could make a good grade in a class even though he rarely attended. He realized a big paper was due and crammed to get it done. "The professor wrote in the margin, 'Great paper, wrong assignment.' I don't care how successful you become; I don't care if you're the next Bill Gates. If you don't get God's assignment, you missed it!"

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China's Cisco Interaction Network (CIN): Winner of the 2011 Golden Award
Every year, the Internet Marketing Committee of China (IMCC) gives out a Golden Award to recognize individuals who have displayed outstanding contributions to the realm of Internet Marketing in Greater China. For 2011, China's Cisco Interaction Network (CIN) team won the Golden Award, so we wanted to take a moment to highlight their program.
An online initiative launched in China in June 2009, CIN is a communications resource focused upon delivering technology and business content and workshops. Over the past two years, its total registrants have doubled to nearly 42,000 individuals, and workshop attendees have escalated by over 400%, which portrays the fact that an increasing number of Chinese customers are interested in having two-way engagements while learning from technology experts. The program's efforts were enhanced by online and social media tactics such as quarterly newsletters and consistently communicating with their fans on their Sina Weibo site (China's most widely used microblogging website akin to a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook).
Why has this program been so well-received by the Chinese market?
What is so unique about CIN is that its events are virtual, localized to its audience, and they provide a variety of different opportunities for the viewers to interact with Cisco experts. The program offers content in innovative formats such as quarterly live webcasts, TV shows with live Q & A sessions, VODs (videos on demand), and follow-up WebEx workshops, through which customers can interact with one another after events. All of these have resulted in Cisco employees being able to share relevant and useful information optimally with customers in addition to deeper engagements between the two parties. Mandarin voice over was added to anything said in foreign languages to cater to the local audiences in China, and customers commented that they especially liked the virtual webinars that they could join when they wanted, wherever they wanted. Although the program was designed to reinforce general Cisco brand awareness, it has also been successful in acquiring new contacts, generating leads, and driving potential customers from awareness to consideration to preference of Cisco products and services.
Congratulations to everyone who has contributed to the successes of the CIN program!
To learn more about CIN: www.cisco.com/go/cn/cin
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Joined Stern 1966
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West Fourth Street, 9-65
New York, NY 10012
Joined Stern 1966
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West Fourth Street, 9-65
New York, NY 10012
William L. Silber is the Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics and Director, Glucksman Institute for Research in Securities Markets, at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is also a member of the New York Mercantile Exchange where he has traded options and futures contracts. In the past he managed an investment portfolio for Odyssey Partners, and has also been a Senior Vice President, Trading Strategy, at Lehman Brothers, a Senior Economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisors, a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and a member of the investment committee of the SSRC endowment fund. He holds an M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1966) from Princeton University and is a graduate of Yeshiva College (1963).
He has consulted for various government agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and the President's Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation. He has testified in Congress and has been an expert witness in a number of court cases. In 1980 he received the Excellence in Teaching Award at NYU's Stern School of Business and was voted Professor of the Year by MBA students in 1990 and 1997. In 1999 he was awarded NYU's Distinguished Teaching Medal.
His latest book, VOLCKER: The Triumph of Persistence, Bloomsbury (2012), is a biography of Paul A. Volcker, who served five American presidents during half a century of public service, and is most celebrated for subduing the Great Inflation in the United States as Chairman of America's central bank, the Federal Reserve Board, from 1979 through 1987. In the past he has published over fifty articles in professional journals, has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance and of the Review of Economics and Statistics and has published the following books and monographs: When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy, Princeton University Press (2007); Selected Essays in Finance (editor), Blackwell Publishers (2002); Principles of Money, Banking and Financial Markets (co-author), Addison Wesley (1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2009); Financial Options: From Theory to Practice (co-editor), Dow Jones-Irwin (1990); Money (co-author), Basic Books (1970, 1973, 1977, 1981, 1984); Municipal Revenue Bond Costs and Bank Underwriting, Monograph Series, New York University(1979); Commercial Bank Liability Management, Reserve City Bankers (1978); Financial Innovation (editor), D.C. Heath & Co. (1975); Portfolio Behavior of Financial Institutions, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1970).
Ph.D., Economics, 1966
Princeton University
B.A., Economics, 1963
Yeshiva University


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Originally Posted by Quilter'sNook
I have a dear customer who loves making scrappy quilts & she gives me permission 'to whatever I want' on them! This is her latest quilt - a gift for a sweet sixteen.
You did such a wonderful job of quilting!!!!! She is lucky to have you to set off her work. Love the quilt pattern---any chance you can find out the name of it?


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To make a longer story shorter, start with the fact that Donica and I have both had complete hysterectomies. Translation: early/rapid menopause! We both immediately went on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), popping the Premarin pill (estrogen only) every day.
Then came the Freak-Out over HRT: the risk of breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes, etc. The early tests seemed to indicate a higher incidence/risk for just about everything. You name it.
So we both stopped. End of story, right?
Wrong! All these years later, I recently went through a slew of tests, including a total-hormones blood test, and found out all my hormones are not only low but abnormally low. The low end of Estrogen, for example, is 24 (24 what, I don't know), and mine was 10. The neurologist said she wanted it to be 80 (80 what, I don't know).
Also, my muscle mass was weak. Important point for one who travels around with heavy suitcases/backpacks all the time!
So anyway, after finding out that new tests are reassessing the Freak-Out over HRT (not nearly as much risk as they initially thought), and after back-n-forths trying to make sense out of it, the doctor suggested I take Estratest, which is for Estrogen AND the smallest dose of Testosterone. (Both she and Donica assured me the latter would not give me unwanted hair!)
When I asked what all those women used to do before HRT, she said, "They died younger and they didn't have careers!"
Now here's the clincher, in case I needed to be convinced (and I did): guess who makes Estratest! Yup! And because Donica works for them, guess how much it costs me! Yup! The pharmist said: "You must have pretty good insurance to have it come up at $0."
So now you know why I'll probably be a bit perkier in the days to come. HA! Now, if we can get Donica to get her mammogram done, maybe she can go on it as well (she drags way too many suitcases/backpacks/brief cases around!). The one concern for her is that breast cancer IS in her family. And that DOES make her more susceptible to the risks. The question is, however, if the benefits far outweigh the risks. Maybe?
WTMI, I know, but I did excuse you, remember?
On Friday I get on a train to go visit Astrid who lives in Arkel, Holland! Another blogger friend from my other blog, Shutterchance, who has also crossed over to here. :)
On Friday I get on a train to go visit Astrid who lives in Arkel, Holland! Another blogger friend from my other blog, Shutterchance, who has also crossed over to here. :)


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To my girls on the block, to my girls in the spot
With their legs out, I can make 'em say Hey!
To my niggas in the spot, to my niggas on the block
In the trap house, I can make 'em say Hey! (Hey!)
I can make 'em say Hey! (Hey!) I can make 'em say Hey! (Hey!)
I can make 'em say Hey! (Hey!) I can make 'em say...
[Verse 1]
I'm back with a vengeance, this's one hell of an entrance
With the persistence of a Jehovah's Witness
Picture this, my thoughts turned to visions
My smart mouth done turned into brilliance
Smell me? I see niggas with their nose up
Fly City nigga, now the world know us
Superstar shit
Flawless, like I don't know what a flaw is
Through all this I can see why niggas hate me
Look; I say I'm fly, you say I'm over-the-top; Same thing
Like my flow got a head start, you playing catch-up
Y'all don't even look the part, you playing dress-up
Get your fresh up
Now I don't mess up
I'm the next up, no pressure
Outgun y'all, Steve Nash, I'll son y'all
Yes, it's just begun! (Come on!)
[Verse 2]
I ain't one of these rap niggas, these wack niggas
You hear the difference? I spit scripture, my niggas'd die for their religion
The young god is so squall, can't take it out of him
I'm not God, but I will shock the hell out of them
Y'all been asking "What happen to passion?"
On the mic I'm something like Joe Jackson
Fresh to death, feel like I'm living my past life
Ahead of my time, feel like I'm living my dad's life
This ain't image, this is vintage
Real shit for anybody who missed it
Y'all niggas fly by night, I prolly missed it
Modern Saint Nicholas, damn it, I'm gifted
See, I'mma show you what it is when you give a fuck
The bullshit gotta die so I could live it up
Flow crazy, the hood say "This nigga nuts!"
Go admit it, I'm the nigga and I'm killing it! (What!)
Here with a purpose, Kurt hinted closest thing to perfect
Ain't move work but I put work in
You in the cold and your shirt thin
I will be that nigga for as long as the Earth spin
I see you lil' niggas got the game wrong
Sign the first thing they let you put your name on
Fucked up, don't know who to put the blame on
You average, my flow fantastic, "Flame On!"
[Verse 3]
Y'all losing
I do this in my sleep, right now, what you hearing is me snoozing
Silver stones in the watch, niggas clueless
I talk big money, fuck you and your two cents
Ho-looking-ass nigga, don't-spit-shit-just-looking-ass nigga
Untouchable, you can't bruise him
When the chorus hit, watch how I make 'em lose it!
(To my girls on the block, to my girls in the spot
With their legs out, I can make 'em say Hey!)


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Defense Shuts Out Mustangs in Second Half
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – The Yale football team made the most of its first trip to California in eight years Saturday afternoon, upsetting No. 18/19 Cal Poly at Spanos Stadium. The Bulldogs trailed 10-7 at halftime but shut Cal Poly out in the second half, rallying to go ahead on a eight-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Henry Furman to senior tight end Keith Coty in the third quarter and then tacking on a diving 28-yard touchdown catch by senior wide receiver Chris Smith in the fourth for the 24-10 final.
Sophomore defensive back Cole Champion finished with 14 tackles, a pair of interceptions and a fumble recovery to lead the Yale defense.
"It's a big win," Champion said. "A lot of people counted us out, but we knew we had the potential to do this. We had a lot of people step up and make big plays."
Yale (3-0, 1-0 Ivy League) allowed 292 yards in the first half, and Cal Poly -- a scholarship school that played a pair of Football Bowl Subdivision teams earlier in the year -- controlled the ball for 19:02, but the Bulldogs got key turnovers to keep the Mustangs from scoring more than twice. Cal Poly drove 48 yards to get into Yale territory on its first drive before an ill-advised pitch wound up bouncing off the intended recipient's hands. Champion pounced on the fumble at the Yale 46.
Cal Poly's next drive almost ended with another turnover, as a tipped pass on third down fell just past the reach of Yale freshman defensive back Robert Ries. On the ensuing punt, a block by freshman cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski set the Bulldog offense up at the Cal Poly 40-yard line.
On the next play from scrimmage, Furman found Smith wide open over the middle of the field for a 29-yard gain. On fourth-and-two from the Cal three, the Bulldogs lined up for a field goal but senior defensive back Derek Russell, Yale's holder, kept the ball and dove into the end zone for a touchdown at 3:52.
Cal Poly (2-3, 1-0 Big Sky) converted a fourth-and-one from its own 42 on the next drive. Four plays later, on third-and-two from the Yale 33, fullback Brandon Howe burst up the middle, broke multiple tackles and then dashed into the end zone for the touchdown. The extra point tied the game 7-7 with 44 seconds left in the first quarter.
Smith's 45-yard kickoff return, with a 15-yard personal foul against Cal Poly tacked on at the end, got the Yale offense another drive that started at the Cal Poly 40. But after coming up a yard short on a fourth-and-four completion, the Bulldogs turned the ball over on downs.
Champion delivered another turnover midway through the second quarter, waiting on a pass over the middle before picking it off at the Yale six and returning it 23 yards.
Yale generated another turnover on special teams late in the first half. After junior punter Kyle Cazzetta boomed a punt 46 yards, the ball hit a Cal Poly player and freshman wide receiver Robert Clemons III recovered it at the Cal Poly 24. A Yale field goal attempt three plays later, however, was blocked by Cal Poly defensive lineman Sullivan Grosz.
Cal Poly placekicker Bobby Zalud then lined a 53-yard field goal as time expired to put the Mustangs up 10-7 at the half.
Yale took advantage of a personal foul call on Cal Poly that extended the Bulldogs' first drive of the second half. On a third-and-nine scramble amidst a pile of players Furman stayed on his feet long enough to get a Cal Poly player to throw him to the ground for a 15-yard penalty that got the Elis a first down at the Cal 42. The Bulldogs eventually tied the game on a 31-yard field goal by junior placekicker Parker Toms with 7:41 left in the third.
Another Yale drive was extended by a Cal Poly penalty later in the third quarter, as an unsportsmanlike conduct call gave the Bulldogs a first down at the Cal Poly 45. Furman followed that up by completing passes to sophomore wide receiver Sebastian Little and junior wide receiver Grant Wallace to get the ball to the 14. After two runs by junior tailback Tyler Varga got the ball closer, Furman hit Coty for the go-ahead touchdown with 2:49 to play in the third.
Cal Poly had an apparent 67-yard touchdown pass negated by an illegal formation penalty with 56 seconds left in the third -- the Mustangs' ninth penalty of the day. Two plays later, under heavy pressure from senior defensive lineman Dylan Drake and freshman defensive end Victor Egu, Cal Poly quarterback Chris Brown was forced into an intentional grounding call that brought the Mustangs' drive to an end. Yale went into the fourth quarter with the ball and a 17-10 lead.
Cazzetta chipped in another big punt before Cal Poly's first drive of the fourth quarter, pinning the Mustangs at their own seven with a 68-yarder. That drive ended after three plays.
The first interception of the year thrown by a Yale quarterback came at 11:06 of the fourth quarter, as defensive back Karlton Dennis grabbed the ball and set the Mustang offense up at the Cal Poly 44. Egu knocked Cal Poly off schedule immediately by sacking Brown and forcing a fumble that the Mustangs recovered. They punted two plays later.
Furman combined with junior wide receiver Deon Randall for a beautiful play midway through the fourth. On third-and-seven from the Yale five, the Eli signal caller scrambled to buy time, then flung it down the field. Randall's diving catch at the Yale 46 made it a 41-yard completion that kept the drive going.
"It was just a vertical," Randall said. "Hank threw it up there and let me make a play."
Seven plays later, Furman launched one into the end zone and Smith dove to grab it for a 28-yard scoring strike. With 3:24 to play, the Bulldogs had a 24-10 lead.
Champion brought Cal Poly's next drive to a fitting end by intercepting a pass at the Cal Poly 45.
"Cole's a playmaker," said Tony Reno, Yale's Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football. "When I recruited him I knew he was a playmaker. Every week he gets better and better. No matter where he is on the field, he makes plays."
It was the fourth takeaway for the Eli defense, which limited the Mustangs to 37 yards in the second half. A pair of third-down conversion runs by junior tailback Kahlil Keys enabled the Eli offense to kill the clock on the upset.
"I think it's a national statement -- that we can compete with anyone in the nation," said Randall.
Yale snapped a six-game home winning streak for Cal Poly in the first meeting ever between a Big Sky team and an Ivy League team. The Bulldogs travel to Dartmouth for a league game next Saturday.
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (email@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity
Chris Smith image (by raphotos.com)


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Horses Help Farmers Cut Fuel Costs
Jeff Johns furrows another row with agricultural relic,
a horse-drawn steel plow
Jeff Johns of Lonesome Valley Farms in Pennsylvania had the horses. He had land that needed to be plowed. And he had worries that rising fuel costs would eat into his already thin profit margin.
So he's doing what farmers did long before the tractor came along — he's using his two draft horses to power a plow.
And he's loving every minute of it.
Johns said, "It's something about getting behind that team of horses that slows life down to the way it ought to be."
Johns is joining the ranks of a growing number of farmers who are cutting fuel costs by going back in time.
In 1900, farmers relied completely on animal power. There were 21.6 million work animals used on American farms then, according to a 2005 report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service.
With mechanization came change. By 1960, the last year the government kept statistics, only 3 million horses and mules were being used for farm work. The rest had been replaced by 4.7 million tractors used at that time.
However, due to the rising cost of fuel, work animals are making a comeback.
Johns bought a ride-on plow from an Amish equipment dealer over the winter with the idea that he was going to use his two male draft horses — Arley and Star — to plow.
He's already used draft horses for years for hayrides and carriage rides.
"We figured we'd plow as much as we can with the horses this spring because that's less fuel we have to pay for," Johns said.
"Every furrow I can turn with those horses helps," he said.
The Amish have always had a special relationship between their horses and the cultivation of the earth.
Another Pennsylvania farmer, Burt Mulhollem, says using horses just makes sense.
"If I was to go out and work my tractor hard all day long, it would cost me $100, and I don't have it," Mulhollem said.
"I have the horses here so I may as well use them, and that don't cost me nothing because I've got them here anyhow. And they give me manure back for the ground."
Other farmers, particularly those who already have horses and mules, are expected to join him.
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The reluctance of tea party favorites like Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida and Sen. Ron Johnson (R) of Wisconsin to join a new Senate Tea Party Caucus points to the difficulty some incoming Republicans face in adjusting to the political realities of the Beltway while retaining the tea party bona fides they earned on the campaign trail.
Last year's House Tea Party Caucus had 50 members – this year's rolls haven't been released yet – but only four senators appeared before a throng of tea party supporters for the first meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus on Jan. 27.
Why are so few tea-party-backed senators willing to align themselves with the caucus, only months after the tea party was credited with fueling a Republican takeover of the House and boosting the party's Senate numbers?
The snub from Senators Rubio, Johnson, and others suggest that the newly elected politicians are carefully gauging the post-Tucson political winds, keenly aware that mainstream America may be tired of the kind of anti-Obama rhetoric that peppered the campaign trail and became emblematic of the small-government, anti-tax tea party movement.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Johnson hinted that his goal is broader conservative solidarity. "The reason I ran for the US Senate was to not only stop the Obama agenda but reverse it. I believe our best chance of doing that is to work towards a unified Republican Conference, so that's where I will put my energy," said Johnson, who told the Times he had "great respect for the tea party movement."
Such careful distancing may be necessary. "Tea party supported candidates run the risk of, if they stay on the message that put them in office, alienating themselves from the political process," says Joshua Dyck, a political scientist at the State University of New York, at Buffalo.
In the wake of the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., where six people were killed and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was gravely injured, some tea party Republicans have reconsidered their alliances and appearances. The president's poll numbers rose after his Tucson speech, where he squelched laments from the left about right-wing rhetoric playing a role in the shooter's motive, while appealing to the country to "pause ... and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."
After that speech, "tea party Republicans are now going to have a hard time finding a place in this debate, because their entire argumentative style is based on saying everything [Obama] believes is wrong and is fundamentally harming the fabric of the Republic," says Professor Dyck. "When they say those things, it doesn't sound like they're willing to engage in this sort of softer, post-partisan debate."
In addition, Tuesday's rough-around-the-edges tea party response to the State of the Union address by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota raised concern among some Republicans that the tea party wing of the party could undermine a concerted conservative challenge to President Obama. In fact, at least one tea party-backed House Republican has privately said they now have reservations about joining the Bachmann-led House Tea Party Caucus.
"Invitations [to the caucus] would be viewed more favorably if it were led by someone else," one aide to a Republican lawmaker told the Times.
Tea party activists around the country are carefully watching the political calculations of Republicans calibrating their approach to issues such as cutting spending, repealing the health-care law, and finding a viable presidential candidate to challenge Obama in the next election.
"There is some concern," says Shelly Pettus, a tea party activist in Florence, Ala., "about what [senators] were thinking by not joining that caucus, but I don't know that I would say that means they're pulling back from what they were sent there to do."
Ultimately, she says, politicians' labels are less important than their actions. She says she is heartened, for example, by the House vote to repeal the Obama health-care reform law, an issue torn straight out of the tea party playbook.
"I don't care if somebody calls themselves a tea party person as long as they act like a tea party person," she says.
The four senators who have publicly joined the Senate Tea Party Caucus – Sens. Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky, Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina, Mike Lee (R) of Utah, and Jerry Moran (R) of Kansas – offered up a new $500 billion spending-cut plan and vowed to offer a counterweight to politics as usual. They said Thursday they plan to hold quarterly meetings to discuss issues among themselves and with constituents.


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Palatine, IL – On Wednesday, August 28th at 7pm, Northwest Suburbs Organizing for Action (NWSOFA) will present a public forum and town hall meeting about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") at the Palatine Public Library, 700 North Court, Palatine. The guest speaker will be Andy Kurz, a former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin. Mr. Kurz has researched, written, and spoken to many groups about the ACA, also known as "Obamacare." He will discuss what the ACA has already done and what it will do in coming years, and he will respond to some of the myths and misconceptions about the ACA. He will answer questions from the audience. A video titled "Health Reform Hits Main Street," made by Kaiser Health, will be shown. This is a great opportunity to learn how health care reform will affect you.
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Uniformed and plainclothes police officers stand outside a New York subway station after a man was killed after falling into the path of a train, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Transit officials say police are investigating whether he could have been pushed onto the tracks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The sickening, rubber-necking front page story on the New York Post.
Imagine how this man's family feels.
By Ryan Ngala
[Times Square, New York] Since the day after the incident on Monday evening, the suspect no one has been arrested. Police are investigating the tragedy and are asking the question, 'Who would do something like this?' But as the police officers are continuing to pursue this case determined to track down the subway murderer who pushed the victim on to the tracks.
Police last night were questioning one suspect thought to have pushed the 58-year-old Queens father to his death, officials said. The incident was broadcast over the news and throughout the media; it also appeared on the front page of the New York Post. A suspect was identified and taken into custody on Tuesday after investigators recovered security video that showed a man fitting the description of the suspect; he had been working with street vendors near Rockefeller Center, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.
When the accident occurred on Monday afternoon, witnesses told investigators they had seen the suspect talking to himself before he approached the victim, Ki-Suck Han at the Times Square station. The two got into an altercation, and the suspect pushed Han into the train's path.
Was anyone brave enough to save Han before he died on the tracks? Unfortunately there were no heroes who came forward to save him in the 22 seconds before the train struck. The NY Post published a photo of the victim on its front page. Han was depicted with his head turned toward the train, his arms were reaching up, but he was unable to climb off the tracks in time.
Freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi, who was waiting to catch a train, was interviewed on NBC's "Today" show on Wednesday. He told reporters that he wasn't trying to take a photo of the victim, but that he was trying to alert the motorman of the approaching train by flashing his camera. "It took me a second to figure out what was happening … I saw the lights in the distance. My mind was to alert the train," Abbasi said. "The people who were standing close to him … they could have moved and grabbed him and pulled him up. No one made an effort," he added.
Soon after the incident, several other news media networks chimed in on the controversy. Many readers questioned why the photograph had been taken and published as the front cover of the New York Post newspaper.
"I'm sorry. Somebody's on the tracks. That's not going to help," said Al Roker on NBC's "Today" show as the photo was displayed.
Larry King reached out to followers on Twitter to ask this question:
CNN's Soledad O'Brien tweeted: "I think it's terribly disturbing — imagine if that were your father or brother."
The NY Post declined to share the photo with the Associated Press for distribution. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that he believed that "in this case, it appeared to be a psychiatric problem", and he said of Han, "if I understand it, tried to break up a fight or something and paid for it with his life."
As the case developed and the police tracked down the Times Square subway murderer, it was revealed that he was a homeless drifter. He was arrested and charged this morning for allegedly tossing the victim onto the tracks where he was fatally crushed by the Q train. The perpetrator is Naeem Davis; he is in his thirties, and he confessed yesterday that he did push Ki-Suk Han. He told police that he "stayed and watched" as the train hit Han, but he had showed no remorse for what he did, another source said.
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17 Thursday May 2012
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A quote verbatim from my 78 year old Alzheimer's patient, after his follow-up check up. He was about to leave, shook my hand and quipped.
'I wonder what other Lady Gaga pair of shoes you're going to wear next time when I come back. '
My jaw dropped.
And I've never laughed alone so hard behind closed doors! Lady Gaga, Mamma mia!
15 Tuesday May 2012
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The inconvenient truth is
"You can teach old
dogs new tricks, it just
takes a little longer to
do it"
(Neil Charness PhD)
And because of this, go ahead and try these new things. It's never too late!
1. Adult Studies
2. Get away from it all
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3. Adventure
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4. Internet
12 Saturday May 2012
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11 Friday May 2012
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1. 'We do not feel the passing of years, but we sense the impressions of old age – Ibanag proverb
2. 'If you want to enjoy life, look, hear and listen' – Chavacano proverb
3.The body weakens but love never changes' – Ibanag proverb
4. 'Even if your hair turns gray and your face is wrinkled, your happy heart will make you young' – Iloko proverb
5. The glory of young men is their strength and the beauty of old men is their gray hair' – Hiligaynon proverb
6. 'Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past and neither fear nor wish the approach of the end' Maguindanao proverb
7. 'Strength and bravery make life progress – Kinaray-a proverb
(Photos by: Edward Gerolock, Senior Advocacy Officer Coalition of Services of the Elderly or
COSE, a regional affiliate of Help Age International. Visit their website http://www.cosephil.org.ph)
10 Thursday May 2012
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1. If you were growing younger instead of older, everybody would hate you.
2. When grace is joined by wrinkles, it is adorable. (Victor Hugo)
3.The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines
4. The only way to live well in old age is to live it in God (Mother Teresa)
04 Wednesday Apr 2012
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A seventy eight year old lady came to the office yesterday complaining of knee joint pain. I gathered she's an intelligent patient because already she had with her X-ray films of her knee joints.
She complained in particular about the massively deformed, swollen and tender right knee.
After a thorough examination I made a diagnosis of Osteoarthritis and explained that this condition is degenerative and that by degenerative I mean age related changes and that because…
She interrupted me as I was talking
'Did you say age has something to do with this?'
'Yes Ma'am!' I replied.
She rolled her eyes unconvinced and said 'How come my left knee is perfectly all right? It's the same age as my right!'
I was floored. But I had the answers.
What would your answer be?
28 Wednesday Mar 2012
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1. These days about half the stuff in your shopping cart says, "For fast relief."
2. When asked about the best thing about being old, your reply "No peer pressure."
3. You feel like your body has got totally out of shape, so you got your doctor's permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. You decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. You bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time you got your leotards on, the class was over.
4.You know all the answers, but nobody asks the questions.
5. A fortune teller offers to read your face.
27 Tuesday Mar 2012
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There are mentors and there are mentors. There are tormentors too. If if one is lucky enough, he or she can have both in one package.
I was not meant to be a doctor. I wanted something more glamorous like interior designing, museum and art curating like my friend Maj, antique fabric restoration, going into archeology or astrophysics like my friend Luca or majoring in Medieval Literature like my friend Kate. Anything, anything that has something to do with ancient and outside of the confines of my thirty square meter of clinic space which makes me claustrophobic.
But then my parents were too poor to send me to a course I wanted we had no choice but to go to medical school. It is ironic I know. But that is the story.
After having graduated from high school, I took a scholarship exam and an entrance exam to the country's premier state university known for its quality education and some covert but palpable intellectual conceit. As far as my husband is concerned, there is only one premier university in the country – his. The same one that produced both heroes and villains, dictator and victims, politicians screaming like banshees and fools with their cache of arms and gold. And there were desaparecidos too. The searching and the grieving continue until now.
I passed both tests.
So my Mama and my spinster Aunt took a flight to Manila to accompany me in enrolling to the university. They thought it was the most prudent thing to do. I was just out of high school and came from a small time, small town background – the big city would not be kind to a naive, waif of a woman like me.
Like the fate of all poorer relations, we were housed by richer relations in an upscale village where some movie stars lived. He was a General in the intelligence agency of the ruling regime. When my Uncle the General learned about the purpose of my trip, he was averse to the idea. He opposed with vehemence that must have sent my Mama and Aunt quaking in their seats.
'That place is not meant for a young woman like her', he said, as he put down his pipe, his resolute gaze thrown towards my Mama and my Aunt.
As they were talking, I busied my eyes looking awed at the chandeliers over high ceilings, the faux damask covered Louis XIV armchair and equally faux Louis XIV armoire in the study and the art works hanging on the wall and the antique Persian rug on the floor. Whenever I heard a faint voice of protest, I bowed down my head and twiddled with my thumbs.
'There's so much unrest. All those protests. All those indignation rallies. All those street parliamentarians! All those radicals! All those LEFTISTS!' He uttered each word in careful staccato, reserving the last word for the harshest fortissimo. It was grating to the ears.
Suddenly my Uncle asked me to leave the room and I left the three of them and their murmurings to themselves.
I would conjecture what they might have talked about. I might get pregnant. I might be indoctrinated. I might join a sorority. I might go to the mountains, join a revolutionary movement and be named Comrade Barbie . If I did not die in the armed struggle, my dossier could become as thick as wads of cash stashed by the dictator in a Swiss bank and would certainly be even thicker if I survived the water torture.
Whatever it was, I knew it was not good news for me. My Mama trusted that my Uncle the General was an insider into the underpinnings of a decaying and dying dictatorship. We packed our bags the following day and went back home. It was an excruciatingly painful journey for me.
Instead, I went to a private university ran by Jesuits.
Just like the premier state university, this was also a premier private university, along with its brother university in Manila, only that I cannot enumerate what had become of their graduates because my husband teaches in the College of Law and one of the rules he has for me is to never bite the hand that feeds him.
Unlike my well to do and more comfortable classmates, I did not have extra to allow me to traipse occasionally to the cinema, so I became a regular in the library where I would surreptitiously sneak in carrot sticks for lunch, my mouth, my chewing and my esophagus swallowing concealed by hard covers of huge art books.
The library, in the prehistoric era of the internet, was the whole wide world to me. It was like my web and I was the tenacious spider. I was such a regular that student assistants trusted me enough with lending reserved books and beyond the ten books allotted at any given time. I always returned books on time because I wouldn't want to pay the fines.
There I would devour books on economics that explained what brought developmental debacle to our country, books from Amnesty International chronicling which regimes and long running dictatorships condoned all forms of unimaginable torture to extract information from prisoners and captives and was puzzled why the Philippines was not on the list. I read Kant, Simone de Beauvoir, Marcel Proust, St. Augustine, St. Anselm and St. Antoine De Exupery. My reading menu was varied. I could endure Plath and Plato, struggle over low intensity conflict, Liberation Theology and Lumen Gentium.
I also scanned, countless times all the art books from Boticelli to Titian, from baroque to modern. And some appreciation for not so mainstream Frida Kahlo and her mono-brow, Diego Garcia and Jackson Pollock.
That was how I survived my very spartan four years in college.
Going to medical school became the least of my problems. A German Jesuit priest, bless his soul, had heard of my story from the parishioners where he said Sunday mass in my village and told me to apply for a scholarship for medical school, with his endorsement.
I faced the stoic, stone faced, selection committee who pored over every document I submitted, doubted its authenticity and probed the authenticity of my intellect. That was the easy part. The more difficult one for them was how to spot rich bright people pretending to be poor. Unlike cheetahs, they wear no spots.
That's the story how a poor girl ended up in medical school.
That was how I met Alex.
He was a legend. Long before I stepped into medical school his life and story along with his eccentricities like utter disregard if he forgot to zip his fly were the staple of medical students who went to our college library to study. I was not eavesdropping but I couldn't help but overhear. My interest was piqued.
Alex was our professor in Anatomy and Histology. He had a commanding presence about him, tall, dark, Jack Nicholson wickedness meets Anthony Hopkins sensibility kind of look, old school, nearing seventy and smoked like the cliched chimney. He could have consumed a whole pack of Champion in one class. He was an icon we revered.
We were a class of seventy three. He started each class with a roll call and his basso profundo would send some inattentive classmate jolting and would be wilting from his look of derision or disdain. Either which one was not a good thing. The student had been 'marked'. He would be called during class recitation where he, along with us would be collectively castigated for our, his favorite words, 'abysmal ignorance'. 'Seventy three people. So quiet. I'd drop a coin into your heads and it wouldn't make a sound. You know why? Because there's nothing there!' And he would either grin or chuckle, the kind that would resonate in the room and then light a cigarette and ask at random those sitting on the front row to erase the black board.
And always his question would be 'What do you see?'
I was in medical school in the era of projectors and transparency acetates. Now it's different. I stumbled upon my Powerpoint Presentation in the internet uploaded by one enterprising student he and must be earning dimes and nickels from the paid ad sites.
Alex however never used technology. He only had his cigarettes and spectacles with him when he entered the auditorium. The class president made sure there were enough white and yellow chalks in boxes, and red, yellow, blue and green chalks that were tossed on an abaca tray.
Alex never brought along his notes. Everything he illustrated and lectured was from memory. He must have been eating textbooks for breakfast and made pillows out of books and all the texts diffused into his senses by morning.
He would illustrate the heart and its chambers using the colored chalks. Blue for the right ventricle, red for the left ventricle and yellow for coronary arteries that surround it. He did the same color coded illustrations for his class in histology. Yellow for the signet ring adipose tissue, gray and white for the liquefactive necrosis, flaming red for skeletal muscles. After each drawing, he would call on someone from class and ask 'What do you see?'
In spite of his stiff demeanor in the classroom, he was voluble outside of it. Whenever he would see me and my room mate walking the dirt road going up the little slope in the Medical School Drive, he would give us a ride. Never mind that his old maroon Toyota Corolla reeked of smoke that stung and stuck to our hair and uniforms. He was kind enough to open the windows to let off the stink and the mosquitoes.
Once the class had a Christmas party and he was invited as guest. It was held in the house of the brightest and prettiest girl in class who sang Anita Baker's 'Sweet Love or Rapture, I couldn't remember now.When Alex was called to say a few words, he started with a roll call. This time we were laughing. He narrated to us the story of the early part of his career, how as a surgeon he saved lives when he was stationed at a remote town east of our city. He talked about opera. He talked about his near misses in the operating room and on the operating table. He emphasized bedside manners. And that no amount of technology could ever replace a good history taking and physical examination. He talked about patients paying him in kind like eggs, chicken, piglets, and vegetables in a basket. He took them all. He never turned down a patient, paying or otherwise. He was a great man. He was a renaissance man.
I was a medical resident when I heard of Alex's confinement in the ICU because of a heart attack. The story that circulated was that when he was relieved of the chest pain, the recidivist and incorrigible smoker in him asked for a light for the stick of cigarette already between his lips.
And then there was the story of his self medicating for tuberculosis which turned out to be lung cancer. He died soon after.
I am not writing this as an anti-smoking campaign. I won't even stop anyone reading this from smoking if you feel alluded to. It's your life. I'm basically live and let live.
I write this because this is one of those days when I was stalled in traffic. In the back seat I look back when I was a girl out of high school, with my head down, twiddling with my thumb. I make an inventory of people who matter from that time since.
Today I happen to look back to my days in medical school and I remember the greatest mentor that school could possibly have had in its history, in my lifetime or the next. He will go down in memory as the greatest mentor who ever lived. He was my mentor.
His name was Alex.


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Like a marriage the in-laws don't approve of, a new plan to strengthen standards for fracking is creating unusual divisions among environmentalists and supporters of the oil and gas industry.
At first glance, it's hard to fathom all the angst over the Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale Development. Environmental groups, foundations, and major oil and gas companies came together to support stringent measures to protect air and water from pollution in the Appalachian region, and they invited other groups to join in and help limit pollution from fracking.
Not everyone was flattered by the invitation.
"WHOOO-HOOO, Frackers and Environmentalists collaborate!" noted the anti-drilling website No Fracking Way, in a post titled "Fracking Center and Fluffy Kittens."
The Sierra Club called the new plan "akin to slapping a Band-Aid on a gaping wound," and a coalition of grass-roots groups called No Frack Ohio claimed that the plan "simply puts green lipstick on a pig."
The fight is so toxic in part because fracking has become a symbol for the even bigger debate over climate change. Both sides see a historic crossroads, like an energy version of D-Day or Waterloo, in which the winner will determine energy and climate policy for decades to come.
One side envisions an immediate, all-out embrace of renewable energy and a virtual boycott of all fossil fuels. The other says that whether we like it or not, the transition to renewables will take decades, and in the meantime, we need to use technology and new partnerships to make fracking as safe and clean as possible.
The pro-drilling Marcellus Drilling News website wrote that if energy companies such as Shell and Chevron "want to craft an organization that compromises (too far) with eco-nuts, go right ahead and disadvantage yourselves. But don't require everyone else to follow your lead."
Some drilling companies politely said they aren't joining the new coalition, either.
"No," Range Resources spokesman Matt Pitzarella wrote in an email to The Associated Press, though he added they "commend the groups for coming together."
In Pennsylvania, which has more new shale gas wells than other states in the region, four of the top ten drillers have signed on with the center - meaning six haven't.
One expert suggested that the idea of peace between environmentalists and energy companies threatens extremists on both sides of the fracking debate.
"As moderates in the gas industry and in the environmental community work together more in coming years to improve drilling practices, I think you will see the extremes in both camps become increasingly marginal and isolated, and I think that's a good thing," environmentalist Michael Shellenberger wrote in an email. Shellenberger isn't a part of the shale partnership, but he supports the idea.
Other commentators see promise in opposing sides working together, too.
The Washington Post editorial board called the new plan "a heartening breakthrough in the war over fracking" whose new rules are "a large step toward striking the right balance, and everyone involved deserves credit."
During fracking, large volumes of water, along with sand and hazardous chemicals, are injected into the ground to break rock apart and free the oil and gas. In some places, the practice has been blamed for air pollution and gas leaks that have ruined well water, but the Obama administration and many state regulators say the practice is safe when done properly.
The Pittsburgh-based Heinz Endowments is providing some of the funding for the Center for Sustainable Shale Development, and it has also provided significant funding to groups and researchers that are critical of fracking.
Foundation President Robert Vagt wrote in an email that isolating extreme voices may be "a secondary consequence" of the new plan, but that's not the focus.
"Our sole motivation at The Heinz Endowments - one I believe is shared by all CSSD partners - is to engage directly the challenges of developing" shale oil and gas, "which are being argued primarily in sound bites for the media rather than in constructive dialogue."
"The consistent approach of CSSD has been to use the best science and available technology to develop standards that protect the environment," Vagt said.
In addition to Shell, Chevron and the Heinz Endowments, the participants in the new center include the Environmental Defense Fund, the Clean Air Task Force, CONSOL Energy, PennFuture and other groups.
The center aims to work much like Underwriters Laboratories, which puts its familiar UL seal of approval on electrical appliances that meet its standards.
Drilling companies will be encouraged to submit to an independent review of their operations. If they are found to be abiding by a list of 15 stringent measures, they will receive the center's blessing. The new group says that it will be transparent and release the names of those who apply for the certification, starting later this year, and that the program is meant to compliment state and federal regulations, not replace them.
The project will cover Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, where a frenzy of drilling is under way in the huge, gas-rich Marcellus and Utica shale formations. If fracking is approved in New York and Maryland, which have put a hold on new drilling, it could apply there, too.
For now, some environmental groups and drillers are waiting and seeing, or politely declining.
The Natural Resources Defense Council hasn't yet considered being a part of the center, spokeswoman Kate Slusark wrote in an email.
"Broadly speaking, voluntary programs like this one have the potential to help raise standards for companies that participate," Slusark noted, while adding that there is a "dire need" for federal and state fracking rules that apply to all energy companies.
William Chameides, dean of Duke University's school of the environment, said he is withholding judgment until more details are available.
"It never hurts to talk. It never hurts to negotiate," Chameides said. "In general, I see this as a positive development but as in most things the devil is in the details."


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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria asked the United Nations on Wednesday to order chemical experts in Damascus to investigate three rebel attacks in which he said Syrian troops "inhaled poisonous gas," while Britain pushed for the Security Council to act on the crisis.
The United States dismissed the appeal by Syria's U.N. envoy, saying it had refused chemical experts access to Syria to investigate allegations poisonous gas had been used repeatedly in the country's 2-1/2-year-old civil war.
The United Nations has received at least 14 reports of possible chemical weapons use in Syria. After months of diplomatic wrangling, a team of experts, led by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom, arrived in Syria on August 18.
The U.N. team was initially going to look into three incidents, but its priority became investigating an alleged gas attack in the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus last week, which activists say killed hundreds of civilians.
Assad's government denies responsibility for the attack, and, like Russia, has suggested the rebels may be responsible.
Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said he has written to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to ask that Sellstrom's team also "investigate three heinous incidents that took place in the countryside of Damascus on (August) 22nd, 24th and 25th where members of the Syrian army inhaled poisonous gas."
The U.N. investigators are due to leave Syria this weekend and U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters that the world body had not asked the Syrian government for an extension to the 14-day visit.
"The team has the ability to investigate other incidents as needed," Haq said, adding that the initial three incidents they were due to examine when they arrived in Syria would be investigated "in due course."
Western powers are planning possible military action in Syria in order to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, who they blame for last week's attack.
"The Americans want to go quickly," said a western diplomat.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf was asked by reporters in Washington if she thought the call for a new U.N. investigation was intended to stall for time to delay an attack. U.N. diplomats say any Western airstrikes on Syria are unlikely while the chemical experts are in the country.
"I don't want to venture to guess why they're doing what they're doing, but I think it's clear that we will not allow them to hide behind a U.N. investigation into the use of chemical weapons to prevent any response from the United States," Harf said.
The Syrian government and the opposition have accused each other of using chemical weapons, and both have denied doing so. The U.N. inquiry is trying to establish only whether chemical weapons were used, not who used them.
Ja'afari's request to Ban on Wednesday came as the five permanent veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council - Russia, China, the United States, Britain and France - met to discuss a British draft resolution that would condemn Assad's government for carrying out the attack last week.
The draft resolution would authorize "all necessary force" to protect civilians from chemical weapons - giving approval for military action in Syria by western powers.
The meeting of the five Security Council members lasted about an hour and all of the envoys declined to comment afterward. Moscow said earlier that Britain was "premature" in seeking a resolution to protect Syrian civilians.
Russia, Syria's main arms supplier, as well as China, have already vetoed three resolutions condemning Assad.
U.N. diplomats said the Security Council may not even vote on the resolution since Russia has made clear it opposes any military intervention in Syria. Harf said Washington saw no point in waiting for U.N. Security Council action given Moscow's position on Syria.
"We cannot be held up in responding by Russia's ... continued intransigence at the United Nations," Harf said. "Quite frankly, the situation is so serious that it demands a response."
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Concerned about Mother
Is it possible for a senior citizen to develop an eating disorder? My mom was always a normal weight, maybe 15 lbs or so overweight when she was in her 40s but nothing that would make anyone say, "Wow, this person really has to lose weight!"
Lately she has been obsessed with trying to lose weight. I donât see her all that often and thought maybe she had gained weight and was trying to lose. When I talk to her on the phone and she tells me what she eats, it sounds like very little. For example, juice for breakfast and broth with a chopped up carrot in it for dinner, and thatâs all for a whole day.
She is constantly berating herself for eating things that sound perfectly normal to me, for example, a slice of cheese, because she is "trying to lose weight." Well when I saw her the other day I was very alarmed. She is VERY thin, eating almost nothing, complaining about feeling weak and dizzy, and verbally beating herself up for anything that she does eat.
I am very concerned about her health. She does have a doctor she sees regularly and she says her doctor tells her to get more exercise and take vitamins and supplements. I do NOT think she should be trying to lose any more weight, in fact she looks like she needs to GAIN some weight, and I really donât like to hear her constantly berating herself and mentally beating herself up for eating practically anything at all.
Could she have developed an eating disorder at her age? I donât think she ever had one when I was growing up.
Yes it is possible to develop an eating disorder later in life.
If the body experiences too much strain from too much weight loss, it hypothetically could trigger genes to turn on from a set of life long traits that the person may have that could set them up to be vulnerable to an eating disorder illness.
Also, however, often in older age, weight loss and obsessions increase from other illnesses, such as increased depression, or obsessive compulsive tendencies.
Seeing her MD is central, and telling your mother that you would like to offer input and talk with her MD may also help. The MD may be helped by having additional information from family members and gain a better knowledge of her history. Your mother may down play her problems and the MD may think that they do not need to take her issues seriously, however your input may help increase the direction needed for your mother's health.
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"Wrestling taught me a lot about myself," Graham said. "It helped build my self-esteem, my confidence, my tenacity and determination — a lot of the things that have really helped me to achieve whatever success I have had in my life."
That success has allowed Graham to give back to Bucknell in a myriad of ways. In addition to his nine years of service on the Board of Trustees, it was Graham's gift of approximately $8 million that led to the installation of Graham Field for field hockey and women's lacrosse, the creation of an endowment to support women's varsity sports — primarily women's crew — and allowed the wrestling program to regain varsity status in 2006-07.
Even then, Graham knew he wanted to do more — and now he has. Graham recently pledged another gift in excess of $7 million for a new facility that will serve as both a wrestling center and a campus health and wellness center. The donation includes funding for an operation and maintenance endowment for the building, only the second endowment of its kind at Bucknell.
"Once again we are extremely thankful for Bill Graham's leadership and generosity in support of our men's and women's varsity athletics program," said John Hardt, Bucknell's director of Athletics & Recreation. "Thanks to Bill, the student-athletes in our wrestling program will soon have the opportunity to train in one of the finest facilities in the nation, a facility that we are confident will propel our program to new heights."
Preliminary plans for the Graham Building, which is expected to open in spring 2016, call for a 36,000-square-foot facility to the east of Sojka Pavilion. The Graham Wrestling Center will sit on the second floor and include new locker rooms, practice areas and additional student-centered spaces, including for academic support and athletic training.
The new campus Health and Wellness Center will be located on the Graham Building's first floor, housing services such as Bucknell Student Health, the Counseling & Student Development Center and a campus-wide wellness initiative. It was important for Graham that the facility be one from which the entire campus can benefit.
"This will serve as a resource for the whole Bucknell community," Graham said. "And not just while they're at Bucknell. This can help people develop healthy habits that will stay with them for a lifetime."
With this latest gift, Graham is now Bucknell's second most generous active donor, and plans to continue giving back to Bucknell.
"Bucknell is a great university. The faculty and staff here are phenomenal and we have the most spectacular campus in the world," Graham said. "All of those factors really make you want to give back."
"Bill Graham is among our most passionate and dedicated supporters, and Bucknell owes him a great debt of gratitude," Bucknell President John Bravman said. "These types of transformational gifts benefit not just Bucknellians today, or tomorrow, but for generations to come."


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johloh wrote:I like it, but it may find greter appeal if you were to do it on say, a mountain range or skyscrapers, or something with a similar look.
i agree. something a little less abstract.
AndyDufresne wrote:The idea of possible skyscrapers....perhaps in 'CC City' would be an interesting idea to play with.
Incandenza wrote:A couple of potential visual ideas (because I love the core concept, but like some others the current look leaves me a bit cold):
1. Turn the towers into children's stacking toys, blocks and rings and Lincoln logs, and make the stray (currently gray and abstract) continents toy trains and teddy bears and call it the CC Nursery
2. Go with the skyscraper battle concept. I don't know what the licensing issues are with public buildings, but potentially you could turn the 'hills' into stylized versions of actual distinctive skyscrapers (Empire State Building, Petronas Towers, Sears Tower, Bank of China building in Hong Kong, etc.) with the aforementioned stray continents as 'smaller buildings of note', like a Pyramid or the Taj Mahal. The trick will be finding buildings that can be differentiated chromatically as much as possible, so the map isn't a grayscale wasteland.
3. Perhaps a Vegas theme, where the hills are casinos and key territories are linked by a rollercoaster. Again, there's potentially a licensing issue.
4. You could even do a Seven Wonders of the World theme, where there's five 'towers' and two outliers.
After some thought, the licensing issue seems moot. I mean, if people can sell postcards of the Hollywood sign, CC should be able to theoretically 'profit' off the use of public buildings for pseudo-military purposes.
I suppose it speaks to the strength of the core concept that it can skinned with a variety of visual themes.
sully800 wrote:Just a note- I don't see how an image of a building could be copyrighted if you create that image yourself. If you chose to use someones artwork or pictures you might have issues, but creating your own image of a building or structure should not cause any copyright issues.
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Got my hands on the new Shotgun Smoker from BBQ Guru. Here's a review of the cooker and my experience with it. Special thanks to Bob Trudnak for the loaner. I'm not a journalist, or wordsmith, so please bare with me.
This unit is quite a bit more heavy duty than it's older brother the Onyx Oven, with heavier gauged steel body, heavier hinges, upgraded door clamps, extra cooking space, and a beefed up charcoal basket. A dolly handle and wheels have also been added to make it easier to move around. The website claims the unit weighs in at 200 pounds. Me and my two 11 year old sons were able to load and unload it easily in my pickup.
Standing on the wheels and legs, the unit measures 42" high. The actual outer dimensions of the unit are 35"h x 26 3/4"w x 17 3/4"d. The inside measurements of the cooking chamber are 20 3/4"h x 22 1/2"w x 14"d. The cooking grates can accommodate a full pan at 22"w x 12 3/4"d. The charcoal basket measures 5"h x 20 3/8"w x 13 1/2"d. The ash pan measures 22"w 15 5/8"d by 1/2"h.
The Shotgun smoker comes with 3 grates that can hold a full pan each. You can purchase an additional fourth grate to expand your cooking capacity. I would say each rack can hold one brisket, or 2 racks of St. Louis style ribs, or 2 to 3 pork butts (depending on size), or 20 to 24 chicken thighs/legs.
I lit the pit up with about 8 pounds of B&B Lump around 1 pm on Saturday afternoon and set the Guru for 250. I put the brisket on at 2:30, and added a few hickory chunks to the basket, then left to go DJ a wedding. I got back around 10 pm and the brisket was ready wrap. Around 1:30 am she was ready to pull. I added around 2 pounds of lump to make sure it kept warm until I was ready to add the ribs the next morning. Around 9 am Sunday morning I turned the Guru up to 275 and added a few chunks of apple to the basket. Put the ribs in a short while later and had them done by 12:30. Bumped the Guru up to 300 and loaded up some sausage. When the sausage was done I decided to just let the cooker ride at 300 and see how long it would it go. At 7 pm it was still sitting dead on 300, so I turned the Guru off and plugged the air inlet.
Overall this is a great unit. You can cook comps, backyard, or even cater with it. It's heavy duty steel is designed to make it last for years, and the charcoal basket is definitely built to last. The well insulated walls help keep the heat where it needs to be and greatly reduces charcoal usage. About the only complaint I would have is I wish it was taller so you don't have to bend over so far to mess with the lower racks and charcoal basket. But, I'm lazy too.
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Remember "Read my lips: No new taxes" – George H. W. Bush's infamous pledge in 1988, which he was forced to break as president and which Bill Clinton used to hammer Mr. Bush four years later?
Republicans certainly do, and they're using it target President Obama – both on the specifics of the Affordable Care Act, which they vow to repeal, and to paint Obama as a tax-and-spend liberal.
Here's how we got to this moment:
In launching what he's now happy to call "Obamacare" back in 2009, the President likened the proposed penalty for not having health care coverage to car insurance. "Nobody considers that a tax increase," he told ABC News. "People say to themselves, 'that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I'm not covering all the costs.' "
It was a point repeatedly made by the White House and congressional Democrats as the ACA fought its way to passage. No new taxes.
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Fast-forward to last week and the US Supreme Court's startling decision to uphold the ACA as constitutional.
Speaking for the court majority regarding the individual mandate, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: "The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax."
Boom. Obamacare passes constitutional muster because its chief element is a tax.
"The Supreme Court has spoken," declared Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. "This law is a tax."
Americans for Prosperity, the conservative political action committee funded by the Koch brothers, has just launched a $9 million ad campaign targeting the ACA and running in 12 swing states.
"Obama's health care law is actually one of the largest tax increases in history," the ad's narrator says. "Shouldn't Obama's priorities have been creating jobs and ending reckless spending?"
Meanwhile, key Democrats were all over the Sunday morning TV blabfests denying the charge.
"This is a penalty. It's something that only 1 percent of people who can afford insurance and choose not to get it will pay," White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew said on CNN's "State of the Union." "Everyone who has insurance, everyone who chooses to buy insurance will not pay it. What they're going to get is security – they're going to get lower premiums and better health care. That's a good thing for the American people."
Speaking on NBC's "Meet The Press," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi accurately parsed the Supreme Court's ruling this way: "It's a penalty that comes under the tax code." But she stumbled a bit in doing so, points out Josh Gerstein at Politico.com. "It's a ta – it's a penalty for free riders," Pelosi said, nearly uttering the dreaded T-word before cutting herself off.
(Interesting historical note unearthed by Jonathan Alter writing on Newsweek's Daily Beast web site: Back in 1935, while the conservative Supreme Court was taking on much of FDR's "New Deal," it let stand Social Security because of the federal government's taxing power.)
There's just one teensy problem in all of this for Republicans and their presumptive presidential nominee, the man whose chief legislative achievement as governor of Massachusetts was a state health care insurance program that remains popular with most people there and was used as a model for Obama's Affordable Care Act.
"[W]e established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance," Mitt Romney wrote in a 2009 USA Today column. "Using tax penalties, as we did … encourages 'free riders' to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others."
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[Hook: Tony Williams]
It don't really matter what you do
There'll never be another you
They ain't never been up in your shoes
There'll never be another you
It don't really matter what you do
There'll never be another you
Baby you ain't got nothing to prove
There'll never be another you
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
Aye...B, C, D, E, F
We picking up right where we left...
Off, and I took a recess
When I get back you gon' take that...
Off, in the mirror like hey me, stay me
I make money, money don't make me
Hey honey, what do you take me...
For, don't look at me like I'm crazy
Don't ever think that'd phase me
You ain't finna do nothing, you ain't crazy
You ain't built like, that
Hey baby what it feel like, ahhh
Just forget I said it, screw it
It don't really matter what you do when you do it
Tony Williams in this bitch, who you is
[Verse 2: Tony Williams]
You can go, you can come
You can walk, you can run
Do whatever you want: just have fun
Dictatorship's not for human people
What good is love if we can't be equal
What good if light if it does not shine?
Go on and get yours cause I'm gonna get mine
How do you get old if you never been new?
I'm telling you the truth baby!
[Bridge: Tony Williams]
Here's another day in the life
Of a champion knight
Do I still have some fight
I'm ashamed but I might
Whether wrong, whether right
I see danger in sight
Are we going in?
[Verse 3: Kanye West]
I'm feeling like Stevie right now, you know…
I had the strangest feeling lately
The nigga's so fake I'm off it
And every time they flake like frosted
I just make my profit
And get a girl who barely bra fit
Aw shit! He back on his feet like carpet
He was just playing possum
Playing like I wasn't awesome?
Yeah I got some jokes, don't I?
Ha ha ha, laugh it up
And they'll be wack
And we'll be the last ones cracking up
Matter fact, because you nigga wanna doubt me?
Let's see how it feel without me
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Justin Williams had two goals and an assist, Marcus Johansson had a goal and two assists and the Washington Capitals closed with six straight goals to beat the struggling New York Rangers 7-3 on Sunday night.
Washington trailed 3-1 after one period but rallied for its fifth straight win. The Capitals are 24-6-2 and tied with Dallas for the NHL lead with 50 points.
Evgeny Kuznetsov, T.J. Oshie, Alex Ovechkin and Jason Chimera also scored for the Capitals. Nicklas Backstrom added three assists and Braden Holtby made 33 saves.
The Rangers have lost three in a row and six of eight to fall to 19-12-4.