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Return to Calvin (Ice Cube) and the group at his barber shop, including Cedric the Entertainer and Regina Hall. The good times and feuds are still going strong, but the neighborhood isn't what it used to be, and Calvin wants to do something about it. Rated PG-13.1:52. Hampton Towne Centre 24, Paragon City Center 12, Kiln Creek 20,...


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I got a Hering Master Blues harmonica tonight. It's a pretty nice harp, and it's moderately priced (more on that at the end of this post).
The original Master Blues had a plastic comb. I don't like plastic combs much, but it was one of the few that worked for me (the only other one I like is the Hohner Big River).
This one has a wood comb, and it feels and plays a lot like a Marine Band to me. But it's like a Marine Band that's much tighter and put together much better. It has screws instead of nails on the cover plates and reed plates. Hohner really should stop using those little nails and go to screws on their Marine Bands.
It plays really nice out of the box (actually not a box, but a faux leather pouch). I'm not a player who takes new harps apart and tweaks them (I really should be, but I'm lazy). I think it might be one of those harps that could be easily regapped to play better, especially since it's easy to take apart.
I haven't gigged with it yet, but I will next week.
The last new Hering I was excited about was the Vintage 1923. Great harp, but it went flat quicker than any other one I've played. Hopefully this one will have more life in it.
Getting back to the price - My regular vendor doesn't stock Hering, so I had to order it from one of their competitors. It was around $17.00 when I ordered it last week (and I see now that the price has gone up to $20.99), plus a $7.00 shipping charge. It would be nice to get them cheaper, but I guess they're close to the price of a Marine Band.
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This is the placemat before it is quilted and bound - I guess it is a flimsy placemat.
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Wayland organizations to auction trees for campus lights
PLAINVIEW – Thinking about buying a Christmas tree for the holiday season? The Council of Student Organizations at Wayland Baptist University has an easy solution.
The group, comprised of the presidents of all recognized student organizations on campus, is sponsoring a Christmas tree auction featuring 12 fully decorated trees in different themes. The trees will feature such themes as Plainview Bulldogs, Wayland, western, penguin, John Deere tractors, Americana, music, sports, missions and others, with decorations added to 6 ½-foot balsam hinged trees, pre-lit with white lights.
Money raised from the silent auction will be used to purchase lights to illuminate the Wayland campus during the holiday season. Currently, only Gates Hall and the McClung University Center are lined with lights.
"It was mentioned in a (Student Government Association) meeting that it would be neat for the holidays to have the whole campus lit," said KrisAnn Jennings, CSO president and a senior from Perryton. "Other schools do this and we thought it would be a neat way to pull the community into the campus too."
The trees will be available for viewing and bidding on the second floor of McClung Center (room 205) from Nov. 27 through Dec. 1. The room will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, and bidding will begin at $150 per tree for the fully decorated creations.
Opportunities to bid on the trees will also be available at the Lions Pioneer Classic in Hutcherson Center, Dec. 1-2. Bids will close at 7 p.m. on Dec. 2.
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The Israeli public overwhelmingly backs its government's decision to launch operation Pillar of Defense in response to Hamas' rocket attacks against southern Israel. A poll taken for the Israeli Center for Political Training found that 85 percent of Israelis believe embarking on the operation was the correct decision.
Israelis divide, however, on the question of what should happen next. According to the same poll, 45 percent favor continuing the air strikes; 25 percent think Israel should commence a ground war in Gaza; and 22 percent want a cease-fire agreement.
A poll taken for Ha'aretz found essentially the same thing. 84 percent support the military operation; 39 percent want it to be continued by air; 30 percent back a ground invasion; and 19 percent call for an immediate cease fire.
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A group of members who gathered for the July "eating meeting" followed up fellowship, fun, and planning for the WCGS booth at the Old Settlers Reunion August 4-7 in Quitman and finished the evening touring the Wood County Historical Museum in Quitman. Hosts were members Lou Mallory and Barbara Coleman, members of the Wood County Historical Commission. Lou is president of the historical commission.
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Abigail Kawananakoa's Native Tea Rose finished powerfully while beating a field that included Champion of Champions participants Check N Fetch and Significant Heart and six other talented distaffers in the Grade 2 $100,000 Charger Bar Handicap on Sunday at Los Alamitos Race Course.
Ridden by Carlos Huerta, who picked up the amount just a few hours earlier, Native Tea Rose was fifth at the start, but found her top gear soon after that and eventually moved ahead of two-time Grade 1 winner Check N Fetch to win the Charger Bar by a neck. Trained by Paul Jones, the 4-year-old mare by First Down Dash covered the 400 yards in :19.682 from post number four to give her back –to-back stakes victories. Native Tea Rose defeated several of her opponents in this race in the Las Damas Handicap in her previous start on December 8. Kawananakoa saw the Las Damas victory as a sign of positive things to come for Native Tea Rose.
"She was always one of our favorite horses and she did some good things as a 3-year-old last season," said Kawananakoa. "It all came together for her in the Las Damas. When I watched the way she finished the race in the Las Damas, I thought that she was starting to really figure out racing. She was saying 'this is what it's all about.' She showed it tonight that she is really starting to figure things out. We'll race her one more time and then I'll say what all good owners say, 'I'll leave it to the trainer to decide what's next.' "
Shortly after enjoying the winner's circle presentation for the Charger Bar, Kawananakoa, who is a direct descendant of the last queen of Hawaii, was on the phone, smiling while speaking to trainer Paul Jones. The trainer, who after another extremely busy training season in 2013, is currently vacationing in Hawaii.
"Paul just said that there's something backwards with this picture," shared Kawananakoa. "He said, 'I'm here in Hawaii watching the winner's circle, while you are in the California.' I told him that that was perfectly fine and to keep enjoying his well deserved vacation."
Sent off at odds of 7-1, Native Tea Rose improved her record to five wins from 10 starts. Fourth in the 2012 All American Futurity, she earned $51,000 for the win to take her career bankroll to $237,430.
"She broke a little slow, but she closed powerfully," Huerta said. "She ran an excellent race."
Huerta picked up the amount after Native Tea Rose's scheduled rider, Saul Ramirez Jr., was unable to travel to California from out of state.
"Saul's original flight was postponed because of bad weather," explained Jones' assistant trainer, Roque Gonzalez. "Paul and I looked at riders available and we decided on Huerta because he helps us a lot by galloping horses in the morning. He works very hard so we felt that he deserved the opportunity. It was nice to see him win."
"I was off for the night and was relaxing at home when Roque called," Huerta said. "He told me if I wanted to ride in the 8th race. I knew that the 8th race was the big race of the night so I jumped at the chance to ride a good mare in a big race."
All along, Jones felt that Native Tea Rose had a good chance to score in the Charger Bar.
"She's talented, she's lightly races and she was coming into the race fresh," said Jones via telephone. "I thought she had a lot of positives going for her in this race. Check N Fetch and Significant Heart were coming off a tough race in the Champion of Champions not that long ago. The Champion of Champions is also at 440 yards and against a really tough field. I thought that because of those reasons that Native Tea Rose had a good chance in this race."
In addition to Native Tea Rose, Jones also saddled Charger Bar runner-up Check N Fetch, fourth place finisher Im A Feature Girl, fifth place finisher Thisfeatureisspecial and sixth place finisher Significant Heart.
"It's tough when you have five horses in a race like the Charger Bar because you want all five to do well," Jones added. "You just hope that one of the five steps up to do well. Check N Fetch has done it, Thisfeatureisspecial has done it and Significant Heart has done it well. It was Native Tea Rose's time to shine."
Native Tea Rose is out of the multiple stakes winner St Pats Tea, a Louisiana-bred mare from the stock on Edward Poston. Racing for owners Bob and Jerry Ann Gaston, St Pats Tea won the Grade 2 $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Quarter Horse Derby and the Grade 3 $43,880 TQHA Sires' Cup Derby in 2001. For her career, she earned over $95,000 while winning five of 13 starts.
Lorena Velazquez Rodriguez's Check N Fetch posted another big effort while running second in the Charger Bar on Sunday. Fifth in the Champion of Champions on December 14, the 6-year-old Check Him Out mare earned $16,000 in the Charger Bar. She's been in the top three in nine of her last 11 starts at Los Alamitos, while winning five stakes races during that span. She's earned $289,312 in her 23-race career.
Dean Frey's Shez Jess Toxic has been a model of consistency as well. The daughter of Take Off Jess ran third in the Charger Bar to give her 16 finishes in the top three in 17 career starts. Her only out of the money finish ever in a fourth place in last year's Charger Bar. Shez Jess Toxic earned $10,000 to take her earnings to $217,607. Jorge Haddad's Im A Feature Girl earned $7,000 for running fourth. She was followed across the wire by Thisfeatureisspecial, Significant Heart, Curlie Cue, Flame N Flash and Shanachee.


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I've written before about conversational faux pas, not once, but twice before. Well, it's always fun to revisit my favorite subject; people being assholes all day everyday.
Well I've gathered some more violations that coincidentally render me full of overwhelming desire to whirl my arms in a windmill action and run straight forward into the person talking.
3. Being a condescending arrogant fuckface about uncommon knowledge.
Everyone has a hobby or interest and with that carries a superior knowledge pertaining to that particular subject. Perhaps they are a "specialist" in the area.
For example you have someone who's really into a specific music genre. They are absolute snobs about specific varieties because just enjoying music that you like is absurd. This can relate to the inability to acknowledge legitimate talent to a "sell-out" music group. No one is less discriminating in taste because they don't know about the all transsexual (and one bear) jazz fusion group from Iceland you post You Tube videos about on Facebook all fucking day. Furthermore, no one purposefully clicks those links and when they do they say "Uh! Damn you touch screen! Go back!" However this is the same type of person who is an absolute snob about you saying, "Oh hey, so I downloaded The Black Key's new album and it's so good." They in turn have to dramatically roll their eyes and make face just to say, "They became SO commercial, I can't believe you listen to that." They manage to alienate themselves as much as their music alienates itself because you, know, most people don't like it. Ha.
My senior year English teacher was arrogant prick about all things grammar. It was like he was flabbergasted he had to teach us anything. How dare we students need to be educated? He, by the way, must have had heinous Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. His nickname was "donkey balls", also his wife looked like a man. One time, a student realized that his wife happened to be another teacher there and exclaimed, "That's your wife? I swore I thought she was a les…um…oh…crap." My teacher's balls were pulsating with anger. Ha.
I'm not certain where the overconfidence comes from but I think it relates to how much someone identifies themself as a person with that activity or knowledge.
2. Insistent People Who Will Not Take NO for an Answer
It's awkward enough to be polite as possible when you say "No" to an engagement you don't want to commit to. It's torture to say no a thousand freaking times. However, the other party is not getting the hint and is providing a million alternatives to enable you to attend. Maybe even murder…
Small example, say you hate pumpkin flavored anything in life. I do, if all forms of contraception was pumpkin flavored I would choose abstinence. More realistically, I would have an abundance of unplanned pregnancies.
Incidentally, someone insists you would just love THEIR version of pumpkin pie and abandon your prejudice, giving redemption to all pumpkins the world over. Making the Great Pumpkin and Linus really happy. Well, lets say you relent just to stop the not shutting up that's going on. You realize suddenly, this is what Ke$ha's mouth tastes like when she wakes up in the morning. You want to gargle with sulfuric acid. Yep, you still hate pumpkins.
This may or may not have happened to me personally, so that was all hypothetical. For whatever reason, these kind of people don't interpret the words that are coming out of your mouth as a decline to their invite so they just keep asking over and over.
1. Healthy Advice Givers When Advice is Not Asked For.
I actually, care a whole bunch about health. I work out, I eat healthy, I work in the healthcare profession. It's my passion. I don't say anything about to anyone, as if it were Fight Club. I eat my vegetables and humus and STFU about it while I do it. Now, my coworkers know that I live this way but only because they ask and I in turn will tell them. They cheered aloud when I joined them in a cupcake celebration. I mean, I am human, and…cupcakes.
However, no matter the GMO filled, hydrogenated fat packed, chemically treated foods they eat, I'm going to be silent. Everybody knows vegetables good, candy bad. Everybody. They have internet access, a library card and a physician just like me.
Well meaning health fanatics can sometimestake it to level ridiculous. They think they are privy to occult knowledge. I don't mind being told about the dangers of a product's chemical, I really don't, but don't be a hypervigilant nag about it. People tend to shut down when they experience constant correction. Also, people are going to live the way they want to and will not seek help until they are ready…if ever they are ready. So while a persistently critical health fanatic might live a long, healthy life it will probably be a lonely one too. This whole organic moment is growing in popularity (which, don't get me wrong is really awesome), it's ushered in a whole new kind of asshole behavior.
Well…that's all for now. Comment, share…criticize (this may be shocking but not everyone it's a fan of my blog).


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Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation
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Contemporary Art from Studio to Situation collects together texts and interviews with key artists, curators and writers involved in the issue of context and site-specificity in the contemporary international art scene. Included are artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn and Kathrin Bohm, who have - in very different ways - investigated the relationship between architecture and social interaction; Nicolas Bourriaud, the author of the influential book Relational Aesthetics; and curators from innovative art museums including Catherine David (currently at Witte de With, Rotterdam), whose extensive list of projects includes Documenta X. This book continues and expands on the critical investigations of writers such as Douglas Crimp, Rosalyn Deutsche, Brian Wallis and Lucy Lippard into the shifting relations between artist, institution, and practice/production."
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Dallas star Charlene Tilton has swapped a pantomime performance in England for one in Pasadena, California.
The actress, who plays Lucy Ewing in the revamped Tv soap, was forced to pull out of a festive production of Sleeping Beauty at the Grand Opera House in York earlier this year (12), due to work commitments.
But she won't miss out on the fun completely after signing on to play the Wicked Queen in the Pasadena Playhouse's A Snow White Christmas, opposite Neil Patrick Harris and Victorious star Ariana Grande.
The production, directed by So You Think You Can Dance's Bonnie Lythgoe debuts on 13 December (12).


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Eight students of Sheila Litke and four guest pianists will perform in a piano concert at 4 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Tabor College Chapel.
The theme is "Afternoon at the Symphony."
Students performing include Sara Sagner, Jared Janzen, Zach Neumann, Cora Ruhl, Krista Neifert, Janelle Rust, Sally Epp, and Megan Wiebe. They will be joined by Bruce Hayen, Brad Vogel, Tiffiney Harms, and 2002 music graduate Jennifer Epp.
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Personalized Autographed Pioneer Woman Cookbook Giveaway
It's been a while since I've done a giveaway and I have a great opportunity for you all today. The Brookline Booksmith is a great local bookstore a couple blocks from where I live. I've been to a couple of their events in the past (including getting a chance to meet Alton Brown – my cooking boyfriend – a couple years ago).
I'm sure you've all heard of The Pioneer Woman. She was one of the first blogs I read on a regular basis. That was back in 2007 and now she's got her own empire including cookbooks, a book, and a cooking show on the Food Network. To promote her second cookbook,
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier, she's coming to Boston for a book signing! And, she'll be here just TWO DAYS after the book is released.
So first things first. If you're local to Boston and would like to meet the Pioneer Woman, be sure to get your tickets here. The event is Thursday, March 15th at 6pm. It is free, but due to fire codes, they will be limiting the number of attendees allowed.
For everyone else who isn't local to Boston (even if you are actually), here's your chance to win a personalized autographed cookbook! That's right, Ree's publicist sent me an advance copy of the cookbook just to give away on my blog. So I'll be heading to the event, and having the cookbook autographed for YOU! How cool is that? Be sure to read the rules about the giveaway so there is no confusion.
A few notes about this cookbook if you didn't get your hands on her first one. This cookbook is in full color with photos for every recipe. That's awesome. It has the step by step photos that everyone knows from The Pioneer Woman blog and also includes some photos of life on the ranch. I thought it was a good sign when the first time I opened the book, it opened to the Strawberry Shortcake Cake that Hubby made for my birthday in 2010!
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I was walking out of the (fantastic) Taqueria Guadalajara and saw two cyclists headed South on Healdsburg Avenue towards the US-101 onramp. This is a pretty sketchy chunk of road - the typical path for cyclists from the corner of Mill St and Healdsburg Ave to points south is to follow Healdsburg's own little version of San Francisco's Wiggle , following Mill Street East and then taking every right turn you can to get to the Healdsburg Memorial Bridge, where you re-enter Healdsburg Ave, cross the bridge to the South and get onto the reasonable bike lane on Old Redwood Highway headed out of town.
When I first started riding up here, I - like any novice - just looked at the map and followed Healdsburg Ave instead. As you get to the intersection with Exchange Ave, the road has three lanes, the left onto Exchange, a straight lane on Healdsburg Ave that ends up at a stop sign at the crossing of the freeway offramp from US-101N, and the right hand lane which is the entrance to US-101S. I usually stayed on Healdsburg Ave. Now, I take the wiggle route, unless I am headed to Guadalajara, after which I wiggle over on Exchange back to Healdsburg Ave on a section which while not great, doesn't have a freeway interchange interleaved in it.
I watched these cyclists to see where they were headed. They were pretty close to the onramp and still hugging the right hand shoulder, which is the one place you don't want to really be, because well, it's the onramp to the freeway. They then proceeded to pass a big rig on the right hand side. Not good.
Cyclists. Do not pass a big rig on the right leading to an onramp pic.twitter.com/eR84DQyZbe— murphstahoe (@murphstahoe) September 3, 2013
They sort of realized the pickle they were in and hung out there for a moment. There is a crosswalk from the gas station at that intersection to the opposite side, where they could make a box turn onto Exchange, but if they wanted to head SB on Healdsburg Ave that wouldn't work, and unless they *knew* that they could bypass it via Exchange, they wouldn't try. Eventually they made a really strange maneuver, which I caught on long distance video.
They sort of figured out that they needed to get across the onramp to get to the SB Healdsburg Ave continuation. They went through a light cycle or two, and then when the light turned green, they veered left in front of the lead vehicle in the offramp lane and into the SB HBG Ave connector lane. The big problem with this is that the SB traffic on HBG Ave also has a green and they just veered in front of it blind to that traffic's viewpoint, and the road narrows into a little slot lane to get to the crossing of the NB US-101 offramp.
This is the sort of odd behavior that drives a lot of the crazy internet comments. The ironic part is that these vitriolic comments are thrown at people in bike coalitions, clubs, and advocacy groups. Generally, the members of said groups have moved past such confused maneuvers. What was going on here? The cyclists I observed had rental bikes - Wine Country Tourists. Most of their route is straightforward, but the last little jog into Healdsburg is a bit confusing, and if they make a wrong turn they end up in a chunk of infrastructure that is not intutive to an inexperienced cyclist.
Me - if I am on that chunk of road, early on I check the traffic, move to the SB through lane or the left turn onto Exchange, position myself center lane, and do a tiny bit of "Vehicular Cycling". I don't really adhere to the consider riding for miles in the center of high speed roads "because we are a vehicle", but in this sort of intersection, the VC theories are correct - in places where you are pinched, assert yourself or get pinched worse. Even though those riders probably own cars, they don't assert their position because it isn't even something they comprehend.
What's the action item? We'd want better infrastructure such that inexperienced cyclists don't end up in pinch spots like this, but redesigning an intersection like this would be very expensive with little ROI. Healdsburg should probably start with some BIKE ROUTE signs at Mill and Healdsburg to keep people who are simply lost from entering that trap when a simple, more pleasant, and SHORTER alternative exists (not to mention that that alternative is where the bike rental shops are!). They could even promote the route - call it something neat like say... "The Wiggle". Then work on education, for drivers and cyclists. Fortunately drivers in Healdsburg proper tend to be overtly aware of cyclists and very accommodating, probably because everyone either is a cyclist, knows a cyclist, or makes their living from selling stuff to cyclists.
It's a non-trivial problem, for sure.


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GORHAM, Maine (AP) � A Maine firefighter who said she was attacked by two men who tried to abduct her is now facing charges because police say she made the whole thing up.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Butterfly Stained Glass Craft Tutorial
My children love craft projects and recently my little boy was fascinated by all things related to butterflies...so we decided to make stained glass butterflies to put up in the kitchen windows. We made these just like the stained glass crosses we made back in March--which still are up in the windows and looking beautiful!
First I cut out an outline of a butterfly out of black construction paper and adhered it to clear contact paper--I taped that down (sticky side up!) to the kitchen table so that it wouldn't move while my son worked on his project.
He filled the butterfly with squares of tissue paper. When he was done, I put another black butterfly outline over the top (to hide the tissue paper edges) and then covered the top with another layer of contact paper. At this point the butterfly is sandwiched between the contact paper. Then I trimmed the excess contact paper off and the project was done!
His butterfly is a bright and colorful addition to our window--perfect for summer!
Craft shared at: No Time for Flashcards
7 comments:
- Debbie said...
Adorable, I love projects like this for the kids. TFS.
- June 24, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- Zaira said...
great idea! need to get some contact paper!
- June 26, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- Terri said...
Wonderful idea! My oldest would love it... she's all about butterflies, so she would love this craft. Thanks for the great idea!
- June 30, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- Jackie said...
What a wonderful simple project for the kids to do. I am going to add this to our list of things to do on a rainy day. Thanks for sharing such a great idea.
- July 17, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- Jamie said...
Wow what a great idea! Those are so pretty. I'm a new follower from Catholic Mothers Online. :o)
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Thanks for letting me know about both those errors. I have fixed them. Sorry. >.<
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Awesome creativity work. Great job. thanks for share it.Keep posting..
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With election day less than two weeks away, their campaigning crackled with urgency. Obama continued on a nonstop two-day tour of several battleground states, moving from Nevada overnight to Florida in the morning, and later to Virginia, Illinois — where he voted — and on to Ohio. Romney spent the day in that state, chief among those in the candidates' sights as Nov. 6 nears.
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Thank you very much for your interest and question regarding carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels.
CEA is a glycoprotein that is expressed by normal cells in the gastrointestinal tract, particularly the colon and rectum. It is often over expressed by adenocarcinomas of the colon with higher values reported in better differentiated cancers. Elevated levels are also seen in smokers and in patients with other malignancies including breast, pancreas, stomach, bladder, thyroid, and lung. Its value as a screening modality has not been validated in randomized trials, and has a colon cancer detection rate of less than 4% in the asymptomatic population. However, the level of CEA in patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer seems to be of important prognostic significance and higher values are generally associated with worse outcomes. The normal level for an individual is 3.0 ng/ml and 5.0 ng/ml in smokers.
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With regard to the rate of normalization of the CEA level after curative resection, there is little published on this subject. However, the CEA clearance half-life is slightly more than five days. Put another way, the value should decline from the preoperative level by approximately one half every five days. This takes into account a number of factors which can differ from patient to patient such as the ability of the body's organs to clear the CEA and the normal rate of production of CEA in a given persons body. So, about three weeks to a month after all the cancer has been irradicated, the level should be nearly as low as it can get. Even so, the time to normalize can vary considerably.
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- Macdonald JS. Carcinoembryonic Antigen Screening: Pros and Cons. Seminars in Oncology. 26(5): 556-560, 1999 Oct.
- Luis A, Alberto P. Should Carcinoembryonic Antigen be Used in the Management of Patients with Colorectal Cancer? Dis Colon Rectum. 42:921-929, 1999 July.


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Rain made for a messy cleanup Monday as residents and public works crews continued to try and dig out of the more than two feet of snow that fell in parts of Litchfield County Friday and Saturday during a deadly and historic blizzard. Dense fog that came along with a cold front made for low visibility during Monday night's commute.
While Litchfield County started to try to return to normalcy Monday, elsewhere in the state, where up to 40 inches of snow fell, cities and towns continued to deal with the devastating blizzard. Schools, courts and several businesses remained closed, non-essential state workers had the day off and officials struggled to find resources to remove the massive amounts of snow.
In Hamden, where 40 inches of snow was reported, the National Guard was brought in for help. In New Haven, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said the city's first priority was to clear a passable lane on every city street - something it hoped to do by midday Tuesday. Then it would worry about finding a place for all the snow mounds.
And in Bridgeport, Mayor Bill Finch said the cleanup could take weeks, and told residents some roads might not even be passable until Friday, a week after the blizzard hit. Schools in the state's largest city could be closed all week.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy toured some of the clean-up operations in Branford. Noting that the storm was "historic," he said 230 Humvees had been pressed into service around the state to be used as ambulances and for emergency personnel. He also voiced concern that the rain would add weight to already strained roofs at schools and other buildings around the state.
Meeting with town officials Monday afternoon and later taking questions from the press, Malloy said the biggest challenge is helping out municipalities that don't have the equipment to handle these historic snowfalls -- adding that the current rainy weather is worrisome and may add more problems.
Most interstates and state routes are open, even if only partially, Malloy said, so state contractors have been released to help out the municipalities.
The rain coming down Monday had Malloy "worried," he said. Drains are still blocked from the snow and the ice freezing over will present more travel problems and heavier rooftops that can lead to collapse.
"Roofs are a big problem. [There's] more rain than we would have liked," he said, adding that when possible people need to try to clean the drains on the roof. "Once this ices up it will be a gigantic problem."
Because so many schools in the state have flat roofs, Malloy said officials are telling superintendents to have maintenance people clear the drains.
"We went through this two years ago with the massive snow accumulation and we're going to pound away at superintendents to make sure their maintenance people are up on those school roofs clearing the drains and then watching the structure itself," Malloy said.
The barriers of snow that line the streets and highways will ice over and become hard like "jersey barriers," Malloy said, urging everyone to drive slowly. Accidents on the roads are completely blocking off streets and highways because there aren't enough lanes of traffic plowed.
During a 6 p.m. briefing at the State Armory in Hartford, Malloy said he witnessed two accidents while driving around the state Monday, where cars had hit the snowbanks and rolled over. He said no one was injured in either crash.
The state is seeking assets from other state Transportation Departments to deal with the cleanup as well as to prepare for another storm that forecasters say could hit the state this week. Also, the Connecticut National Guard is seeking assistance from other guard units.
Bill Shea, deputy commissioner at the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, said 25 out-of-state National Guard soldiers with six excavators were expected to arrive in Connecticut on Monday evening. An additional 28 guardsmen from Pennsylvania were scheduled to arrive Tuesday to help the 250 Connecticut guard members on duty clear snow.
More help was expected Tuesday night from 50 Air National Guard members from Pennsylvania bringing extra equipment.
Malloy said municipalities don't have the equipment to handle so much snow, citing drifts that are 10 feet high.
"This is a historic storm," Malloy said. "We had historic levels of snow in every one of our counties."
Malloy could not say yet how much the storm would cost. "A lot," he said, urging residents to be patient with the pace of snow removal.
Most schools and colleges in Connecticut are closed and nonessential state workers are staying home as plow crews continue to clear highways and local streets two days after the epic storm, which dumped up to 3 feet of snow on New England and killed seven people in Connecticut.
Malloy said state offices and the court system were expected to open Wednesday.
National Guard Humvees have been set up as ambulances to transport sick and injured people, he said. The governor confirmed there were seven storm-related deaths around the state.
According to the News-Times of Danbury, one of those deaths was a New Milford man, Andrew Mastrogiannis, 58, who died Friday night after suffering a heart attack while shoveling at his Wade's Landing home. He was identified Sunday. The Danbury newspaper said Terrance Knoche, 72, of Danbury, also died during the storm, though a cause of death hasn't been determined.
A 49-year-old Shelton man identified Monday as Raymond McPadden was found dead after his snowplow became stuck on Darrin Drive. He apparently suffered a "medical event," officials said, but cause of death is still pending. Mary McCormack, 70, was hit by a car while operating a snow blower in Prospect Friday. Troopers are still looking for the driver of the car who hit her.
A 53-year-old man who died in Bridgeport Saturday in his driveway has not been named yet publicly. His body was discovered under snow. Meriden police say they suspect carbon monoxide poisoning killed two people found inside a snow-covered car parked in a driveway, according to The Associated Press. The bodies of a 20-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman who have not yet been publicly identified were found Sunday morning with snow still covering the car and the windows of the car rolled up, police said.
Asked about storm costs, Malloy didn't have a number yet. "It's officially a lot."
Though he said experience with these natural disasters is something he would "rather not necessarily have," the state is "getting good at this."
This is the fifth storm during Malloy's tenure as governor that has led to a natural disaster declaration.
"We have learned and we are responding better than we would've if this was the first one," he said.
Questioned during his 6 p.m. press conference on what he and municipal leaders could have done better in this storm, Malloy said there will be "plenty of time" for second-guessing and evaluation later.
Natural disasters added with the shooting in Newtown has made for a "tough run" Malloy said, but "we're hearty stock here in Connecticut."
Tom Cleary, Jim Shelton, Jennifer Swift and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


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New Bern�s Central Carolina Scholastic Summer League team is off and running after a 4-0 victory over Winterville (South Central) Tuesday.
New Bern�s Central Carolina Scholastic Summer League team is off and running after a 4-0 victory over Winterville (South Central) Tuesday.
Cole Green pitched five innings of shutout baseball before giving way to Victor Spellman for two more scoreless frames.
Christian Rust and Robert Knisely each had RBIs on the night for New Bern which improves to 4-0.
�It�s all about player development for us. These kids know that in this league they will get to play and have a chance to win every night,� New Bern coach Gary Smith said. �It benefits us too because schools we play like South Central and D.H. Conley are going to be in our conference next season.�
CCSSL rules allow coaches to substitute as freely as they like and bat as many kids in the order as they like.
On Tuesday, New Bern sent 12 different players to the plate, while South Central hit 10.
�It is any nine at any time, so you could have up to nine DHs if you want, but you can really bat as many guys as you want,� Smith said. �This league was right for us this year too because the kids play other kids on their same skill level and traveling is easier and games are over quicker.�
Smith said it is a great teaching tool for he and his assistants to deliver the same messages to the kids they will hear throughout high school and play the same style of baseball.
New Bern has defeated Riverside out of Williamston twice and Winterville twice and host Greenville Thursday.


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Everyone knows that smoking kills. But in the case of on confessed cartel hit man, it also helps catch killers.
Authorities in Central Florida said DNA from a cigarette butt found inside a soda can helped detectives solve a 2006 murder and possibly a slew of other murders after the suspect, Jose Martinez, admitted to the gruesome murder and as many as 30 more slayings.
Sheriff's investigators from Florida's Marion County charged the 51-year old Martinez with premeditated first-degree murder in the deaths of Javier Huerta and Gustavo Olivares-Rivas after traces of his DNA were found inside a Mountain Dew can. The can had been left inside of a Nissan Titan 4 pickup where the bodies were found on Nov. 8, 2006.
Martinez, who claims to be a hit man for a Mexican drug cartel, said that he killed the two men because they stole 10 kilograms of cocaine "from another guy."
"If I didn't do the job, someone would have," the remorseless Martinez said, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Capt. James Pogue with the Marion County Sheriff's Office told Fox News Latino authorities have confirmed 11 of his murders. All of them were done for an unidentified Mexican drug cartel.
The people Martinez killed supposedly were also working for the cartel but went rogue and instead decided to keep huge loads of cocaine for themselves, Pogue said.
So Martinez would track them down, lure them using a ruse such as offering them work and then force them at gun point to come up with the money they owed the cartel.
But even after collecting the dues, said Pogue, Martinez killed them – because he feared if he let them go, one of them could possibly later identify him.
"To find a criminal of this caliber, and the way it was done, it's something else," said Pogue. "The way we were able to track him down is through DNA from a fingerprint he left on a Mountain Dew can in one of the victim's trucks."
Martinez was recently arrested in Yuma, Arizona, and then extradited to Alabama, where he was wanted on first-degree murder charge. It was there that he admitted to killing the two men, and then confessed to the other murders.
"I've killed over 30 people,'' he said, adding that he began his murder spree when he was 16 years old.
Saying only that it was time to pay for all the things he had done, Martinez did not reveal who hired him to commit the double homicide.
For the two victims in Florida, Martinez told investigators that they did masonry work and he posed as a new home buyer who wanted an estimate on some housework. Martinez then pulled out two 9mm handguns with 15-clip magazines and made Olivares-Rivas call his wife to retrieve money from a backyard safe.
After torturing Olivares-Rivas, Martinez made the two men tie each other up and then shot them, he told police. He claims to have retrieved $170,000 from the home of Olivares-Rivas and another $40,000 from the pickup.
Martinez claims to have remembered smoking cigarettes but thought he had cleaned up all the butts before he left the car.
Pogue said in his confession, Martinez did not reveal many details on his cartel work.
"He just said he worked for them, but he didn't really say his actual occupation, or how close he was to them, or which cartel he actually worked for," said Pogue. "He didn't want to give us any names."
Pogue said Martinez is originally from Mexico but has legal status in the U.S.
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I've been of the view that it's a bit silly for the police to investigate NBC's David Gregory for violating D.C. gun laws by showing a high-capacity gun magazine during "Meet The Press" on Sunday. My inclination was to write the incident off as "show and tell" carried a little too far.
But now, we learn that the local police told NBC it was "not permissible" to show the magazine on air:
"NBC contacted [the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department] inquiring if they could utilize a high capacity magazine for their segment," Gwendolyn Crump, a police spokeswoman, said in an email. "NBC was informed that possession of a high capacity magazine is not permissible and their request was denied. This matter is currently being investigated."
Since Gregory's conduct seems to violate the letter of the law, and since he apparently was informed (via his employer) that the conduct was unlawful, I can understand why the police see fit to investigate, and why prosecution may be warranted.
JOHN adds: It seems to me that there is another substantive point to be made here, too. The magazine that Gregory displayed is illegal in the District, yet he evidently had little difficulty in getting his hands on one. Liberals talk about gun laws as though they operate by magic, but of course they don't. There are several practical issues with a high-capacity magazine ban: 1) There are already a huge number of such magazines, for many, many varieties of firearm, in circulation. The idea that they could somehow be collected by the federal government is absurd. 2) In case of a nationwide ban, high-capacity magazines could easily be smuggled into the U.S. from a country where they are legal (or plentiful, anyway), much as the magazine that Gregory displayed was smuggled from a state where they are legal. 3) A magazine is an extremely simple device. I wouldn't know how to make one in my garage, but many, many thousands of Americans do know how. The idea that the production of such devices, consisting essentially of a piece of sheet metal and a spring, could be banned, is sheer fantasy. If the government wants to enact an unconstitutional ban on guns, fine; that won't work, either, but at least you can't make a gun in your garage. But an attempted ban on magazines is a joke.
UPDATE (by Paul): TMZ reports that a staffer from "Meet the Press" called the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives before the show aired to inquire about the legality of Gregory holding the empty magazine during a segment on gun control. Supposedly, the ATF agent contacted the D.C. police to find out if the District of Columbia — the place where the show is broadcast — had a law prohibiting such a display. The D.C. police official responded that Gregory could legally show the magazine, provided it was empty.
TMZ concludes that "Meet the Press" may have gotten conflicting answers from D.C. law enforcement. However, based on the wording of the statute, it's difficult to see how it can be interpreted as allowing possession of a magazine, whether empty or not.


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Mary Ann Rollins, of Orem, said her 15-month-old son, Ryhan, always comes running and squealing "da da" when he thinks he is about to see his dad.
But the sound triggering the scampering isn't a door opening or a car pulling into the driveway. It is Skype connecting on the computer for an Internet video call.
"He's never seen his dad, except on Skype," Rollins said.
That's because red tape has long delayed the immigration of his father, an Afghan interpreter who met Rollins when she was deployed to Afghanistan with the Utah National Guard. She is now trying to use the same Internet that lets her son and husband see each other to pressure immigration officials to move faster.
Rollins has launched an online petition on Change.org, which has attracted 7,000 signatures so far. In it, she urged support for her husband's visa request "to bring our family together at last."
Rollins met her husband whose name she will not disclose because it could endanger him and his parents in Afghanistan while deployed there five years ago.
She returned two years ago to marry him. "I just spent two weeks in Afghanistan," Rollins said. "I have [an older] daughter here, so I didn't want to be gone too long."
Upon returning home, Rollins immediately filed papers seeking a visa for her husband to immigrate as the spouse of a citizen. She was told those visas usually take up to a year.
"But it's been two years now," she said. Ryhan was born in the interim.
"It's the same thing other interpreters are running into. They have special immigration visas just for interpreters," she said, but processing them by the U.S. embassy in Kabul has been painfully slow.
Roger Tsai, a Salt Lake City attorney who is a past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said Rollins' husband's case does seem to be going slow.
"Usually, you can get this wrapped up in about a year," he said. "I can only imagine that some of those difficulties are either based on the individual circumstances of the case or a lack of staff at the embassy in Afghanistan."
Rollins said her husband was frustrated in earlier efforts to get an interpreter visa. "The paperwork kept getting lost," she said.
So after they married, Rollins tried a different route by seeking a spouse visa. But that process has been slow too. When Rollins asked why and how long it will take, "all they can say is it is administrative processing … and they can't give me a time line."
Rollins is giving the Change.org petition a shot after seeing how it enabled Brent Finnell, a veteran from North Carolina, to gather 97,000 signatures to extend a visa program for Iraqi interpreters. That program was set to expire last week. But Congress passed a bill to keep it going and, on Oct. 4, President Barack Obama signed the extension into law.
Rollins' petition attracted signatures fairly quickly 7,000 as of Monday afternoon.
"It's clear to see that people across the country are moved by Mary Ann's appeal to reunite her family especially after her husband has given so much for this country," says Tim Newman, deputy campaigns director at Change.org. It sends emails with new signatures automatically to the State Department and the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
Several other Change.org petitions seek to help interpreters to immigrate. Some were started by soldiers aided by Afghan interpreters.
"Every interpreter who helps our military in Afghanistan is risking their life for our country," Rollins wrote on her petition. "They all deserve the opportunity to live in peace in this country they have sacrificed for."
In an interview, Rollins added that her husband also is paid only $500 a month money that also helps support his parents. So she is on her own here financially.
But even more, she lamented, her husband is missing a lot as their son grows. "He started walking early. He likes to climb on things. He never stops. I really hope we all can be together soon."