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The classic graphic novel. The first of Tintin's black-and-white adventures. Sent on assignment to the Soviet Union, Tintin boards a train...but after an explosion, Tintin is blamed for the bombing, and he must make his way to the Soviet Union by stealth. Once there, he uncovers some shocking Bolshevik secrets.
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Herge, one of the most famous Belgians in the world, was a comics writer and artist. The internationally successful Adventures of Tintin are his most well-known and beloved works. They have been translated into 38 different languages and have inspired such legends as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He wrote and illustrated for The Adventures of Tintin until his death in 1983.


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- Publication Date: February 8, 2016
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- Language: English
Attacked by werewolves. Mated to the Alpha. Declared a queen. Kari is having an unusual day.
In the Cherchez wolf pack, loyalty is earned, not given. For Andreas, the pull he feels toward Kari cannot be ignored, a physical bond immediate and unbreakable—though Andreas wants to win Kari's heart as well as her body. But someone isn't happy about his new mate, and Kari's just beginning to trust him and the pack when attempted murder threatens their newfound happiness.
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I didn't start reading books by Lauren Dane until last year. When I saw she had a new title I job on the chance to read her latest title Wolf's Ascension which I notice was previously published under a different title, but the good thing was I never read the previous title so all was good. So was Wolf's Ascension. Kari didn't think her life could get any stranger. First being attacked by a wild dog, waking up in a hospital being told that she was attacked but she didn't have signs of being attacked by a wild dog. Next she is abducted by her doctor and waking up again at a house at an unknown location and being told that during the next full moon she was going to shift into a werewolf. What would a sane girl think when she was also told that she was some man's alpha bitch. Either she has gone crazy are these people are escapees from an insane asylum and that she must escape. Try us she must she made it as far as the road leading to civilization when she was picked up by a kind civilian, just to be returned to the place she has escaped from.
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The commander of the ongoing counterinsurgency operation in northeast Nigeria, Leo Irabor, has said that Nigerian troops have in the last eight days arrested 1400 civilians.
Mr. Irabor, a Major General, made this known during a weekly briefing on the activities of the Nigerian military in the six states of northeast Nigeria.
The figure brings the number of suspects arrested by the Nigeria troops, within two weeks, to about 2700.
On December 28, 2016, Mr. Irabor had at the same weekly briefing said that troops arrested 1,240 Boko Haram suspects following the fall of Sambisa forest.
The suspects were not paraded before the media, as top military officials said doing so may jeopardize ongoing investigations.
It was not clear what they were accused of.
Mr. Irabor said troops have cleared many villages in Borno and Yobe States, following the fall of Sambisa Forest.
The commander said "a total of 1,400 civilians were arrested by our troops during all our operations conducted between 28 December 2016 – 4 January, 2017".
He said a couple of top Boko Haram insurgents, including kidnappers, have been arrested within the period under review.
Mr. Irabor also said that troops had on December 29, 2016 carried out an ambush attack on Boko Haram fighters at a village called Rann, killing 15 of the insurgents.
He said four soldiers were wounded during the gun battle.
He said troops successfully reopened the Maiduguri-Gubio-Damasak Road on December 25, 2016, which allowed displaced residents of Damasak border town to return to their communities, either from Maiduguri or from border communities in Niger Republic.


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Krishnamurti to Himself | Ojai California Friday 6th May, 1983
Sitting on the shore watching the birds, the sky and hearing the distant sound of passing cars, it was a most beautiful morning. You went out with the ebb and came in with the tide. You went out far and came back again - this endless movement of in and out and out and in. You could see as far as the horizon where the sky met the waters. It was a big bay with blue and white water and tiny little houses all around it. And behind you were the mountains, range after range. Watching without a single thought, watching without any reaction, watching without identity, only endlessly watching, you really are not awake, you are absent minded, not all there; you are not you but watching. Watching the thoughts that arise and then fade away, thought after thought, thought itself is becoming aware of itself. There is no thinker watching the thought, the thinker is the thought.
Sitting on the beach watching the people pass by, two or three couples and a single woman, it seems that all nature, everything around you, from the deep blue sea to those high rocky mountains, was also watching. We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. In that watching there is learning, not the accumulation of knowledge through learning that is almost mechanical, but watching closely, never superficially but deeply, with a swiftness and a tenderness; then there is no watcher. When there is a watcher it is merely the past watching, and that is not watching, that is just remembering and it is rather dead stuff. Watching is tremendously alive, every moment a vacancy. Those little crabs and those seagulls and all those birds flying by are watching. They are watching for prey, for fish, watching for something to eat; they too are watching. Somebody passes close by you and wonders what you are watching. You are watching nothing, and in that nothingness everything is.
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The NICE-SUGAR investigators' finding that intensive control actually increased mortality among their more than 6,000 ICU patients will lead to a dramatic and rapid change in practice for hospitalists.
It may not actually take a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down, but critical care experts are looking a little more positively at blood sugar in the wake of recent research.
The appropriately named NICE-SUGAR trial, published in the March 26 New England Journal of Medicine, upended conventional wisdom, the evidence base and expert guidance about intensive glucose control in critically ill patients.
Since 2001, the model for intensive care unit (ICU) glucose control had been a study by Greet Van den Berghe, MD, and colleagues, which found that reducing patients' glucose to normal levels (80 to 100 mg/dL) reduced morbidity and mortality.
In the wake of that study, professional organizations issued guidelines calling for tight control and hospitals around the world changed their protocols to work toward normalization of glucose in ICU patients.
Now, that process is moving in reverse, thanks to the NICE-SUGAR investigators' finding that intensive control actually increased mortality in ICU patients.
For many hospitalists and others involved in ICU care, the results likely will lead to changes in glucose management practices.
Time for a change
"Intensive glucose control has been widely recommended based predominately on the results of Van den Berghe's study," said NICE-SUGAR author Simon Finfer, MD. "I think our results suggest there's no clear protective effect of glucose control for critically ill patients. Therefore, it would be appropriate for the guidelines to be revised as a matter of urgency. Clinicians working in intensive care should examine their practices."
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American Diabetes Association have already followed his advice, revising their recommendations on glucose management for critically ill patients. Their consensus statement, issued May 8th, calls for insulin therapy to be initiated if blood sugar goes over 180 mg/dL and then maintained to keep blood sugar at a level between 140 and 180. Previously, the groups had advocated keeping ICU patients' glucose below 110.
Not surprisingly, the new consensus statement correlates pretty closely with the findings from NICE-SUGAR. Patients in the conventional arm of the trial were given insulin if their glucose exceeded 180 mg/dL, and administration was discontinued when levels dropped below 144 mg/dL. Patients in the intensive control group were treated to a blood glucose target of between 81 and 108 mg/dL.
The patients in the 140 to 180 mg/dL range had lower rates of long-term mortality (24.9% vs. 27.5%) and severe hypoglycemia (0.5% vs. 6.8%) than those in intensive control group. Still, experts in the field aren't ready to write the new advice in stone just yet.
"It may be reasonable to aim for a more moderate level, maybe 144 to 180, but I don't think we really have evidence showing that that's what the optimal target for glucose control should be," said Renda Soylemez Wiener, MD. A meta-analysis conducted by Dr. Wiener raised questions about intensive control last summer when it was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Her study found no difference in mortality whether glucose was kept below 110 or 150.
It's indicative of the uncertainty on the subject that even the NICE-SUGAR study authors are cautious in interpreting the impact of their results. Author Dean R. Chittock, MD, advocates the 140 to 180 range based on the trial data, but he doesn't rule out other solutions.
"It's difficult to go outside the bounds of the study to say that other [blood sugar targets] wouldn't be just fine," he said.
Is hypoglycemia to blame?
One reason for the experts' caution is that no one knows why the NICE-SUGAR trial found an increase in mortality with intensive control, an association that no prior research had encountered. "We only completed the trial at the end of November, so the detailed analysis of the very large database is ongoing. The mechanism is unclear at the moment," said Dr. Finfer.
Hypoglycemia, the only other difference between the groups to be discovered so far, is a prime suspect. "The majority of the deaths and the excess of deaths were from cardiovascular causes. There is evidence from diabetic literature and animal studies that hypoglycemia can cause autonomic dysfunction and autonomic failure," said Dr. Finfer. "We need to examine whether not only severe hypoglycemia but also lesser degrees of hypoglycemia have adverse effects on either autonomic function or the function of the cardiovascular system as a whole."
But some researchers are reluctant to place the blame on hypoglycemia. "Whether the hypoglycemia is something that's contributing or whether just really sick patients are more likely to have hypoglycemia and more likely to die, I don't think we know," said Dr. Wiener.
Adding to the mystery are data showing that mortality rates were not different while the patients were in the ICU. The two study arms had separated at a month out, but the difference in deaths only became significant at 90 days.
"I don't think that the effects of hypoglycemia are really powerful enough to have that effect," said Mark D. Siegel, ACP Member, who co-wrote an editorial published with NICE-SUGAR. "Maybe in some populations having a relatively higher glucose during a critical illness could be one of the body's protective mechanisms. There may be other biological explanations for it as well. At this point, I don't think anybody really knows mechanistically what the reason for the higher mortality is."
The experts do have a lot of explanations for how the NICE-SUGAR study could have come to such different results from the Van den Berghe trial, however. Although the new data may appear to contradict the old, much of the difference can explained by variations in study design, authors of both studies said.
Different trials, different results
"We basically did other things," explained Dr. Van den Berghe. Her trial, published in the Nov. 8, 2001 NEJM, was conducted in a single Belgian center and compared intensive (80 to 110 mg/dL) control with what was, at the time, conventional treatment—infusing insulin only when glucose hit 215 mg/dL and then maintaining it between 180 and 210.
The NICE-SUGAR trial, on the other hand, was conducted among more than 6,000 patients in 42 ICUs in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Patients in the intervention group were treated to about the same target as in the Van den Berghe study. But the conventional treatment group had a target of 180 mg/dL or less.
The studies have a number of other differences, but most of the variation stemmed from these two factors—the study setting and the level of intervention, the experts said. "With the control group we didn't really do anything, because it could be that the hyperglycemia is an adaptation to the illness, beneficial even," said Dr. Van den Berghe.
Obviously, she found that blood sugar over 180 wasn't beneficial. But while most observers took the lesson from the study that intensive control was the solution, even Dr. Van den Berghe's own follow-up analysis (which included both her surgical trial and a subsequent medical ICU study) indicated some evidence for a moderate course.
"It shows the largest benefit really comes from avoiding excessive hyperglycemia to an intermediate level. Then a little bit more can be obtained in our hands if you go below 110," she said.
The hands of the researchers in the two trials were also engaged in some pretty different activities, noted Dr. Finfer. "One of the striking things is the nutritional management of the patient. In both her surgical ICU trial and her medical ICU trial, well over 70% of the calories given to patients were given as intravenous glucose or parenteral nutrition. That's very different from the practice in most of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and, I think, most western intensive care units in the world," he said.
Much attention has also been given to the differences in the studies' patient populations. Dr. Van den Berghe's first study, which showed the greatest benefit from intensive control, was conducted among surgical ICU patients.
The NICE-SUGAR study found no difference in benefit for medical or surgical patients, but a meta-analysis that included data from NICE-SUGAR's and Van den Berghe's trials did find a mortality benefit from intensive control in the surgical ICU subgroup of patients.
"People continue to raise the issue of whether or not there could be advantages to tight glucose control in the surgical ICU. I think the subgroup analysis from the NICE-SUGAR suggests there probably isn't but some people might like to see a large randomized trial in the surgical ICU," said Dr. Wiener.
Subgroup analyses of NICE-SUGAR are currently under way, but the researchers don't expect any definite answers to come out of the work. "There was no evidence beyond a doubt that any particular subgroup benefited," said Dr. Chittock. "All of these sub-studies will be hypothesis-generating to lead to new investigations."
Dr. Van den Berghe has her own hypothesis as to why surgical patients may have a different response to intensive control. "Patients in the surgical ICU normally have not been ill for a long time. When they get to the ICU, we know the hyperglycemia must have been there only hours." It's possible that medical ICU patients have already either suffered the damage of high glucose or adapted to it, she speculated.
The new evidence has only expanded the range of theories about effects of glucose in the ICU. "It might be that there are different periods during the ICU stay where different degrees of glucose control might actually turn out to be useful," suggested Dr. Siegel.
Other experts wondered whether the increased mortality in NICE-SUGAR is necessarily caused by intensive control, or whether it could be that sicker patients were less able to stick to the intervention protocol.
Issues of equipment, nursing
One concept about which the experts were certain, and in agreement, is the need for better methods of measuring intensive care patients' blood sugar. Dr. Van den Berghe believes some of the success of her study lay in the equipment used to test glucose levels.
At her hospital, the same model of glucometer was used on every patient every time, and the one included in her study had an extra advantage, she said. "One of the possible explanations is that the blood glucometer we used also has potassium each time on the readout. If you give insulin in bolus injections, you shift potassium into the cell and if you don't measure potassium, that could cause arrhythmia which causes death."
In the Van den Berghe study, nurses checked potassium along with each blood sugar reading, and supplemented it when the result was low. Dr. Van den Berghe also attributed much of her success with intensive control to the skill of nursing staff.
"In our center, we recruited something between 68% and 95% of all patients who were admitted, which means that our nurses were very experienced in doing it because it was always on the agenda," she said. Nurses were also authorized to make intuitive decisions about insulin dosing, as opposed to following a set algorithm.
The burden on nurses has typically been an argument against intensive control and a reason to celebrate the NICE-SUGAR results. "That's the good news, because many hospitals were challenged with the previous glycemic targets. It's really difficult to get to those low numbers without increasing the risk of hypoglycemia, as was shown in multiple studies," said Etie S. Moghissi, MD, co-chair of the AACE/ADA task force that issued the consensus statement.
Dr. Finfer agreed. "Maintaining blood glucose in the very tight range of 80 to 110 in unstable critically ill patients is very difficult and it uses a lot of nursing time. It's estimated up to two hours of nursing time per patient per day. Even then, the majority of people have had difficulty keeping the blood sugar in that range for more than 50% of the time," he said.
Not at her hospital, according to Dr. Van den Berghe. There are two patients per nurse, and intensive control is "dead easy," she said. "Everybody's welcome to come and see how they do it."
But, given that other ICUs seem to have trouble replicating her results, even Dr. Van den Berghe sees a need for flexibility in recommendations.
"If I would have to rewrite the guidelines, I would say if the setting were comparable to the NICE-SUGAR study, be careful and take 140. If you have a very experienced team, let's leave it where it is," she said. "I would make that sort of balanced statement—depends on where you work, in what setting you work."
A rush to the bandwagon
That sort of balanced statement may have been what was missing in the initial flurry of guidelines and protocols favoring intensive control, the experts said. "I do believe our trial has a message for those who write guidelines, in that people should be more critical when looking at evidence, particularly if it comes from one trial in one hospital," said Dr. Finfer.
A number of factors encouraged physicians and organizations to jump on the intensive control bandwagon after the Van den Berghe trial came out, Dr. Chittock explained. "The critical care literature at that time was really full of negative trials. It was one of the first positive trials we'd had in a long time. It's a relatively cheap intervention to put in place. Perhaps because of that it was easy to adopt."
The lesson of intensive glucose control is one that can be applied in other areas. "We have a number of studies now—the hydrocortisone treatment of sepsis is a good example. These are studies that seem to change practice almost prematurely before they can be validated. The critical care community really needs to take notice that these enthusiastic responses to unicenter studies need to be attenuated until they can be validated," said Silvio E. Inzucchi, MD, who co-wrote the NICE-SUGAR editorial.
Experts also want the critical care community to temper their enthusiasm in response to the new evidence against intensive control. "Hospitals that have not jumped on the bandwagon may feel vindicated and won't do anything about hyperglycemia. Some hospitals may take their successful protocols and abandon them. That's one of our concerns," said Dr. Inzucchi.
Such an overcorrection is just what the AACE and ADA task force members worried about in their discussions, Dr. Moghissi said. "That should not be the conclusion from this study. We know that hyperglycemia is associated with poor outcomes, therefore we need to pay attention to hyperglycemia."
"It's the balance of finding a reasonable, achievable and safe target—those are the key words," she added. Three goals that no one, even on this hotly debated topic, could dispute.


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BOILING SPRINGS, N.C.—Gardner-Webb University's online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree has been named a top-20 program nationwide by an education information website, yet another distinguished honor for GWU's lauded nursing program.
RNtoBSN.org, an online source for college and career information, honored Gardner-Webb as No. 20 in its "50 Best Online MSN Programs of 2017" list, a resource produced to help current and future nurses make smart choices about advancing their education and careers. The ranking earned GWU a place among schools like Penn State (University Park, Penn.), Gonzaga University (Spokane, Wash.), and The George Washington University (Washington D.C.).
"This truly is an affirmation of the quality of our faculty and staff and a testament to their commitment to high standards," shared Dr. Sharon Starr, dean of the GWU Hunt School of Nursing. "The faculty and staff are committed to the success of each student."
Schools chosen for the list offered an online Master of Science in Nursing and represented the intersection of affordability, academic strength, online resources, and course flexibility.
Gardner-Webb's MSN program has received multiple honors in recent years. In 2015, College Choice, an independent online publication, ranked GWU in its top-50 online MSN programs, and U.S. News & World Report ranked the University in its top-50 list for online graduate nursing programs.
"We can't achieve this level of recognition and high quality without the support of the administration and other departments at the University," Starr said. "We could not do this without our excellent library, those in financial aid and the registrar. Those in the Graduate School provide consistent and high-level assistance as well. Our current students can testify to the expertise of the faculty and the quality of our resources. I hope potential students will see these rankings and will consider being a part of this success."
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Last year talk of tablets as niche products fell to a barely audible hush. This year analysts can't get enough of tablets. The huge success of the iPad and the many Android tablets on the market has turned all those pessimists into cheery optimists.
They doubted, they fretted, they insisted that tablets wouldn't make a huge mark and they certainly wouldn't become conventional. But the fact of the matter is that people love tablets. The numbers certainly support this fact and the analysts have finally embraced tablets. In fact, they are now predicting a tablet boom. Last year 130 million tablets made it into consumers' eager hands. Now this year, analysts predict between 170 and 180 million tablets will be sold in 2013.
The iPad still reigns supreme in the large size tablet world, but Android devices dominate the 7 inch market, despite the iPad Mini's growing success. The Google Nexus 7 and the Amazon Kindle Fire have maintained their lead over Apple's Mini tablet venture with a lower price point and the head start they've had in that market.
Last year large tablets 9 inches and up made up 60% of sales with the smaller 7 inchers lagging behind. This year, the trend looks to be heading in the reverse. Who wants a 9 or 11 inch tablet when they can have a cute little 7 inch tablet which fits anywhere and is lighter? The market answers: Not too many people.
According to DigiTimes, Samsung alone could sell 30 million tablets this year. There are many new tablets entering into the low price segment and that can only mean that more people will be buying tablets. 2013 has only just begun and the forecast for tablets is very sunny indeed.
Sources: PhoneArena & DigiTimes


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The Christie administration is considering extending strict new contract restrictions to a range of vendors doing business with the state, reflecting the "spirit" of a regulatory proposal that has kicked up a storm among social-service providers that work with the Departments of Human Services and Children and Family Services.
"It comes from a simple belief that we should be paying for services, not overhead expenses," said Michael Drewniak, press secretary to Gov. Chris Christie. "All of this grows out of the fact that there has not been management of third-party contracts."
The restrictions, as proposed for social service providers, would among other things limit executive compensation, travel, tuition reimbursement and purchase of vehicles.
Asked if the restrictions could be imposed on vendors such as highway contractors, bond counsel and nonprofits, such as the insurer Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Drewniak said, "I can't say at this point. But it will reflect the spirit of the attempt we see elsewhere."
He was referring to eight specific restrictions proposed by the Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) in late April for their contracts with social-service agencies effective July 1. Representatives of the agencies, who met Friday with members of the Governor's staff, have objected to the restrictions as contrary to Christie's pledge to reduce paperwork and bureaucracy.
"It really micromanages the agencies and will probably increase the workload of providers at a time when providers have little to no room for additional administrative costs," said Lowell Ayre, executive director of the Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities. "In addition to which it's now going to be the third year in a row there have been no contract increases."
Providers Decry Impact
The regulations could have a devastating impact on the ability to recruit and retain staff to provide services to children, the disabled and the mentally ill, say the providers, arguing that their services have grown in value to New Jersey as state government empties hospitals and otherwise reduces its role in providing direct treatment to the mentally ill and special-needs populations.
The overall fiscal impact on particular agencies would depend on how much of their work is contracted through DHS and DCF; those that can draw on other sources, including other departments within state government, such as education or labor, would be better equipped to mitigate the impact.
The restrictions proposed by DHS and DCF would:
–Limit the amount of state funding that can be used for individual salaries, ranging from $141,000 at agencies with gross revenues in excess of $20 million, to $105,750 at agencies with gross revenues under $5 million. To cover salaries in excess of those amounts, the agencies would have to utilize other sources
–Prevent the use of state dollars to cover severance agreements in excess of two weeks
–Limit reimbursement for in-state travel to $250; any out-of-state travel more than 50 miles outside of New Jersey would require prior state approval
–Disallow any tuition reimbursement unless the courses are required as part of the contract or for professional certification
–Require state approval to buy or replace a vehicle; replacements would be allowed only in certain cases, such as when a vehicle has more than 125,000 miles, is more than 10 years old, is declared "totaled" in an accident, or "upon written request supported by sufficient documentation, the Departmental contracting authority determines that the vehicle is no longer road worthy and unsafe to drive."
Representatives from a number of the impacted groups, including the NJ Center for Non-Profit Corporations, the NJ Association of Community Providers, the New Jersey Association of Mental Health Agencies and the New Jersey Alliance for Children, Youth and Families met Friday with representatives from the Governor's office to press their case. The agency representatives said they had agreed not to discuss what happened in the meeting.
The DHS plans minor changes before the amendments take effect July 1, partly in response to feedback from the third-party agencies, said Ellen Lovejoy, a spokeswoman for the department. "We are doing some minor fine-tuning to the language to clarify certain aspects of the contract amendment, but we are not making any major changes that would be contrary to the department's intent to be the careful and proper stewards of our limited public resources," she said.
Misplaced Focus on Compensation?
Richard Mingoia, president and chief executive officer of Newark-based Youth Consultation Service, echoed others among the affected agencies in saying the controversy has focused too heavily, as well as mischaracterized, issues surrounding executive compensation.
"The thing is, it doesn't just apply to CEOs, it applies to any employee," Mingoia said. "For example, you have a chief financial officer of a large organization who is in most cases a Certified Public Accountant with advanced degrees in finance. I mean it's very hard to find someone for that type of position for $141,000.
"You have organizations that have to hire people to provide a particular service," he added. "If you want to pay them a wage that is competitive so that you can hire them, it just means the organization has to come up with other sources of income in order to do that."
Asked how realistic that scenario was for nonprofits working on state contracts, Mingoia replied, "In today's world? In my opinion, not very."
In addition, he noted that while DHS and DCF are proposing a $141,000 salary cap, the Department of Education allows a $215,139 cap for its vendors. "So here we have another arm of state government doing in a sense the same thing, but using a scale that's, I guess you would say, more realistic based on an analysis they do on where salary scales are," Mingoia said.
Threats to Tuition and Transportation
Officials at various social service agencies agreed that the most threatening provision was the proposed restriction on tuition reimbursement. In the competition against public schools, hospitals and nursing homes for qualified staff, the offer of tuition reimbursement is the most effective recruiting tool available to social-service agencies.
The vehicle replacement and purchase restrictions pose a particular issue for the disabilities community, said Ayre.
"That is a real problem," he added, noting that many vans used in transporting people with disabilities are aging. "There are probably unsafe cars on the road."
What especially galls the social service providers was news of the $24.3 million paid last year to 10 top executives at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, including $7.8 million in bonuses for president and CEO William Marino. Noting that Horizon is a nonprofit that contracts with the state to provide coverage for New Jersey employees and for Medicaid managed care, they question why Horizon also would not be covered under the proposed regulations.
"That's a significant concern to us, yes," said Drewniak, when asked about the Horizon compensation controversy.
Lovejoy said the current Horizon and HMO contracts with the DHS differ because they are "fee-for-service arrangements for which we strike an all-inclusive rate for the service. Part of that rate would include an executive's salary and other administrative costs."
Lovejoy said the department has no plans now to adopt similar salary and administrative restrictions for the fee-for-service contracts. "As contracts are modified [to account for expanded services, higher costs, added client populations] with fee-for-service providers prospectively, DHS will monitor any requests for higher rates according to the policies set forth in the contract amendment," she said.
Drewniak said the state was taking the approach that "not one size fits all. There will be plenty of room for change and revision. But no one should lose sight of the fact that more scrutiny is required of these vendors and the costs to the state and taxpayers."


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Here is final draft of the case study
Here is the Change the Game toolkit.
Here is the website for the toolkit that we are still working on: www.changethegameproject.com
Here is final draft of the case study
Here is the Change the Game toolkit.
Here is the website for the toolkit that we are still working on: www.changethegameproject.com
Thanks for providing the opportunity to work with such an incredible organization here in Boston! It was a long and, at times, tiring process, but we really enjoyed designing the carnival games with CL/VU. We really thought through the ideas presented in the case study to ensure we were accurately translating the complex realities of the housing market into easy-to-understand and fun carnival games. We welcome and appreciate any feedback that would strengthen the games created. Look out for the carnival come spring!
Case Study: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0an8-1FLSutN0WJUJbyKq6A6AMil1NWqvdfGm9bzqk/edit
Abstract:This past semester, MIT city planning students and the founder and director of Intelligent Mischief collaborated with City Life/Vida Urbana (CL/VU), a tenant rights organization in Boston, as part of the co-design class within the Media Lab at MIT. The goal of the project was to tie together CL/VU's three campaigns: Anti-Gentrification, Anti-Foreclosure, and Anti-Investor. To tie the three campaigns together, we came up with the idea of creating a carnival that would help educate people around the complexities and profound flaws of the housing market. The carnival games highlight issues of affordability, displacement, inequitable urban development, gentrification, and foreclosure.
On Thursday, we talked for a while about how we need to not only create a specific narrative around the housing crisis, but also a broader narrative around capitalism so that other individuals/organizations can adapt the games to the justice issues they work on. The toolkit will address both narratives.
We also started to flesh out how the carnival will be set up — how will people move through the carnival (in groups or not) and if there will be a 'ringleader' of sorts navigating people through the current housing market system or just a barker at every game who can tell part of the narrative.
We realized that we were creating the games in isolation of the narrative we were trying to get across, and we need to link them together. So we also worked on fleshing out the overall narrative we are trying to convey, which will combine the three CL/VU campaigns, and are ensuring that the games will fit into that narrative.
For our meeting this Thursday:
Nene will create an outline that will serve as the foundation of the toolkit
Terry will create a solutions game
Mike will get us another meeting with the BTA leadership team so we can playtest games/get ideas for how to tie data points to specific games.
Dara will continue to flesh out a narrative around the housing crisis that will more coherently connect to the games.
In this past week's meeting at City Life, fragmented ideas snowballed into one cohesive game plan. We solidified three games — cornhole, disc drop and knockdown the 1% — and attached data points to them. We are still developing a few more to playtest to make sure the ones we end up choosing each tell part of the overall story we are trying to convey and are engaging to a broader audience. We also decided that we would no longer build a video game, but create an interactive prezi presentation that tells the overall story of the housing crisis and will be part of our toolkit. We further decided that we would actually have the carnival at the end of the semester at City Life. We believe that if our end product is a toolkit, it is imperative that we document the success of our own carnival to gain buy-in and legitimacy for what we hope others will create. We plan to hire a videographer to film the event and include the video in our toolkit to demonstrate what a successful carnival could look like.
Lastly, we decided that the narrative of the carnival would be, 'CHANGE THE GAME.' Participants will first enter a space that tells the story of our current rigged housing market — where there are few winners and many losers. This space will reflect what an actual carnival is like. After participants play all of the games in the dark carnival space, they will enter a space that provides a vision of what a fair housing system could look like. Participants will get the chance to learn about more radical initiatives taking place, as well as what more moderate initiatives could look like, and think through how those solutions (and new ones they come up with!) could be implemented to CHANGE THE GAME. We are still figuring out how best to convey this — is it through solutions games or focus groups or theatre, or a combination of all three?
On Saturday, we were able to get 50 minutes in CL/VU's leadership meeting to have members playtest the two games Dave (a carpenter and member) created to get feedback on what worked and didn't work. It was really helpful to do this because, as we learned, 'Knockdown the 1%' did not work as we had hoped — it was too complicated and the message wasn't very clear. So, back to the drawing board! However, cornhole was a success — players and observers really took to the game and gave us great feedback on how to make it even better. We are continuing to develop new games, so, hopefully, we will be able to playtest the new games that we create soon!
Yesterday, we had our second meeting at CL/VU. The original plan was to join in on the last half hour of their staff meeting to get feedback from the staff on our initial project ideas. However, since it was the National Day of Mourning, the staff meeting was canceled. But that didn't set us back! Thankfully, Steve Meacham, the Organizing Coordinator, and Dave Burt, the Special Projects Assistant, were able to join in on our meeting to engage in another exciting and productive brainstorming session.
Over the past week, we came up with 8 potential project ideas and presented them to Steve and Dave at the meeting. All of us at the meeting got hooked on one idea in particular that could tie together the three CL/VU campaigns, and promote a larger narrative around the housing crisis. Although the idea still needs to be vetted by the rest of the staff, we spent our meeting working to expand that idea and incorporate the other ideas we had come up with. We decided we would work to create and plan a large carnival. Wait…A carnival? How can a carnival challenge and shift the dominant narrative around the housing crisis? Stick with us for a moment…
Carnival games promise a fun time and a big prize. However, how many of us have ever won a carnival game? How much money have we wasted trying to get the big stuffed animal prize? A lot. How many have actually gotten the big stuffed animal prize? Very few. Why? Because carnival games are rigged so that people are unable to win. Similarly, the housing market promises a giant reward (namely, stability and equity), but the system is set up so that people don't win. Unlike a carnival game, however, people's life savings and hard work go into the process of "playing the game." However, a fair market is supposed to be fair; not a carnival game.
Playing on this idea, we hope to plan and create a large carnival in the spring. The purpose of the carnival would be to help educate people about the housing crisis and illustrate how we are all pawns in a larger game. My hope is that the carnival will provoke questioning about our institutions and system, build a movement that breaks habits of inaction and, ultimately, creates a new collective consciousness that not only challenges, but also shifts the dominant narratives around the housing crisis to stimulate action. I especially think it will be important to have the carnival strongly tie into City Life/Vida Urbana's organizing work, so that people don't just leave and say, 'that was nice.' There needs to be a direct connection established between the carnival and how people can get involved in CL/VU's work. We are, of course, still working through how it would look, but what we know for sure is that we want it to somehow tie into the policy recommendations CL/VU wants to give to the newly elected mayor. We hope that the mayor will be present on the day we hold the carnival, as well as other relevant stakeholders.
However, to promote the carnival and pilot our ideas, we plan to hold a series of small events throughout this semester in Boston/Cambridge. We want to see how people respond to our games. A few ideas emerged yesterday of smaller games we can pilot:
Exaggerate and give hula hoops to bankers and tiny hoops to regular people
Game of musical chairs – chairs disappearing showing how homes have disappeared
Hall of mirrors to see how distorting the effects of the market can be
A few other ideas that emerged from yesterday's meeting are to work with artists to create a new magician caricature who can serve as the carnival's mascot, as well as the mascot for a new, larger campaign around de-commodifying housing; develop a 'virtual carnival' to help promote the event that could also serve as a work product of this class; and have the carnival become a traveling carnival — working its way to different homes/spaces in the Boston area, or can even be a replicable model that other cities could readily adopt — to build a larger movement and awareness around the housing crisis. Nothing is set in stone, but we are making progress, and I am really enjoying our collaborative thinking process.
Hi everyone, I'm Dara (pronounced like Sara). Though, if you looked at my birth certificate you'd see that my real name is Dar, which in Hebrew means 'mother-of-pearl' and in Spanish means 'to give,' and represents the duality of my background. My father was from Israel and immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1980s and my mother was born into a Puerto Rican and Colombian family in Jackson Heights, Queens. My mom, however, wanted to Americanize my name and had people outside of my family call me 'Dara.'
I was born in New York City, where we lived in Washington Heights until I was six. After that, I was transplanted to Jersey, where I would sit in front of the window for hours, looking for people. Once, I spotted someone and started to scream with joy and exclaimed, "MOM! COME QUICK! THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE LIKE IN NEW YORK!" My grandfather always used to say, "people need people," and I couldn't live in a place where I couldn't easily interact with people. Needless to say, I always missed city living and after I graduated from the University of Michigan, I headed straight back.
In New York, I first worked for a legal services non-profit as a legal advocate, representing low- and no-income New Yorkers on issues tied to their ongoing receipt of public assistance, Medicaid, food stamps, and housing subsidies. Then, I worked for a non-profit supportive housing developer, coordinating the rent-up process for their newest building in Brownsville, Brooklyn. In the middle of it all, I went to Turkey on a Fulbright Fellowship, teaching English at a university in a rural town and getting plump for Thanksgiving — it was gravy! (chuckle? I think I may be cringing)
I am currently a second year student in the city planning program at MIT and my interests lie at the nexus of housing and economic development. I am excited to take this course and work with community organizations in the Boston area to help them develop narratives around issues that are important to them through different forms of media!


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JOLIET – Joliet plans to have new regulations in place for electronic messaging signs in December.
The city will add a requirement for automatic dimming technology for future signs.
The requirement is being added to deal with the problem of signs that are too bright at night, Michael Schwarz, director of planning for Joliet, said to the Joliet City Council Land Use and Legislative Committee last week.
Automatic dimming reduces brightness during the night or under cloudy conditions.
Schwarz told the committee that automatic dimming would not be required for existing signs that don't have it. But when new signs are installed at those locations, the requirement will apply.
The city has had a moratorium on permits for new electronic signs while current rules have been
under review.
The moratorium ends Nov. 2. The new sign regulation is expected to go to the full City Council for a vote Dec. 5. The committee plans to meet again in November to review a final version of the new rules, including procedures for sign approval.
The new rules would be the first addition of an electronic messaging sign ordinance into the city codes. Sign companies previously obtained zoning variance to put up the signs.
Variances have been approved for 66 such signs in the past seven years, Schwarz said.
Local sign companies participated in the development of the new regulation.
Eddie Hartsell, owner of Express Signs in Shorewood, had told the committee in June when the new rules were first considered that a requirement for automatic dimming should take care of the problem.
"I've put a lot of them in Joliet in the last 28 years," Hartsell told the committee last week. "Previously, I've never received a complaint."


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After five months of sheer absolute craziness I was going back to being plain old background D.J. In photographs of course I'm always in the background—it's a family joke, actually, that us Schwenk kids could go to school naked on picture day, we're all so crazy tall. But I mean I was returning to the background of life. Where no one would really notice me or talk about me or even talk to me much except to say things like "Nice shot," and I could just hang out without too many worries at all. But it turns out other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certain Red Bend High School junior who's keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. But who keeps showing up anyway...What's going to happen if she lets these people down? What's going to happen when she does? Because let's face it: there's no way, on the court or off, that awkward, tongue-tied D.J. Schwenk can manage all this attention. No way at all. Not without a brain transplant. Not without breaking her heart.
An unabridged production on 5 CDs (5 hours, 55 minutes)
Audio CD, 6 pages
Published February 9th 2010 by Listening Library
Five stars: Another fantastic, funny, realistic book with an unforgettable heroine.
DJ Schwenk is finally headed back to school after spending the last few weeks assisting her brother, Wynn, after he suffered a rehabilitating football injury. She is nervous to go back to school, but quickly realizes that perhaps she is better liked than she thought. The cheerleaders even decorated her locker! DJ is quickly thrown back into the swing of things as basketball season is starting. It's time for DJ to shine. Her enthusiasm starts to wane when DJ begins to feel pressure when colleges start recruiting her. She can't wrap her head around playing college basketball in front of a huge crowd, besides who would want little old DJ swank from hickville?
What I Liked:
- Ahh.... I have such great love for this series. I am kicking myself again for not reading these books sooner. They have only been out for seven years, and on my radar since I started blogging in 2011. Needless to say, I am glad I finally discovered this amazing series. These books have humor, heart, realistic characters and so much more. You need to read these.
- This series is all about the life and adventure of DJ Schwenk. What I love about DJ is she is just your average, unassuming, small town, farm girl who doesn't think anyone would think twice about her, but she is so wrong. DJ has a huge heart, tons of courage, and she is an all around good person. I love that she is always doubting herself, she is bursting with self deprecating humor. She is so easy to relate to and likable. What I love most is that she is realistic and that she is grappling with self doubt, like any teen. I have fierce love for DJ.
- I adore the humor in this series. It is especially funny and relatable for anyone who has lived in a small town, or visited one. DJ's sense of humor is unique, and it always makes me snicker.
- This third book is all about DJ trying to figure out her future. She is scared to death at the prospect of playing college basketball, and she is brimming with self doubt. Who hasn't felt scared about facing the uncertainty of life after high school? I loved watching her navigate the tough stuff and figure things out in her own way. You go girl!
- The romance finally settles out, and I was thrilled with the way it played out. It was just right for DJ.
- I love the entire cast of characters. They feel like old friends. What I love about this series and the characters is that you can easily relate.
- The audiobooks continue to be amazing. I adore the narration done by Natalie Moore. She totally captures DJ, and I love her midwestern accent. You must check out these books on audio.
And The Not So Much:
- I am so sad this series is over. It felt like it was just getting started. I want more of DJ, Brian, Wynn, Bill, Smut and the rest of the gang. It has been seven years, and Ms. Murdock hasn't followed up? What gives? I would love for her to consider writing another book so we can catch up with DJ down the road.
- I was disappointed that the story line introduced in the last book about the farm and its troubled finances was never completed. Was the Schwenk farm doomed or did they manage to save it?
- After all DJ's doubt and turmoil, I would have loved to see her realize her college dreams. It ends too soon.
The Dairy Queen Series has vaulted onto my favorites shelf. I just wish I had read these sooner. If you want a fun, realistic and entertaining series with an unassuming heroine, look no further. This is a series that I completely loved. I urge you to check it out, and if you can get your hands on the audiobooks, do it! I love that these books are quick, light and wonderful.
I borrowed a copy of this book from the library. All opinions are my own, and I was not compensated for this review.


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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Today, apparently, as DC's Source blog, from which I appropriated the image above, announced the team and showed off another page in a second Magog post of the day. The creative team is going to be Keith Giffen, Howard Porter and John Dell.
I still have a question though: Why?
I'm not trying to be an a-hole or anything, but a Magog ongoing? Does anyone like Magog?
He was created by Alex Ross as a Cable analogue in Kingdom Come to be a living symbol of the shitty character design and free-floating moral code of the superheroes of the Image Comics age. Chuck Austen brought him into the DCU a few years ago as a Superman villain, and then Ross and Geoff Johns more recently brought another version of him into the DCU in their 3,000-part "Thy Kingdom Come" storyline in Justice Society of America. Their new version is a descendant of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's, and was a U.S. soldier who was brought to life and given his funny looking costume by a god of the Third World.
I know every character has fans, so I'm sure someone, somewhere really, really likes Magog, but I've never encountered this fan. In fact, I've never heard anyone say anything remotely positive ever about any version of Magog anywhere.
Now, DC often makes perplexing publishing decisions, like publishing a Huntress: Year One miniseries by an un-tested creative team just a few years after a popular writer wrote Huntress' definitive origin, or starting their Final Crisis Aftermath series half a year after Final Crisis wrapped, or sitting on an announced Batwoman ongoing for years before finally just shuffling her into Detective Comics temporarily, or launching a Power Girl series for no reason, but this seems so completely random I can't even comprehend it.
I mean, Power Girl launched with a countdown-to-cancellation clock ticking, but its creators have their fans and the characters has some fans. But Magog? Maybe if Alex Ross were involved, and it was premised on a series about the road to Kingdom Come, of the sort that Ross and Mark Waid have talked about as an idea that was once tossed around, but even if that what Giffen and company end up doing, without Ross' involvement, would anyone care? (And that JSoA arc made clear that Kingdom Come was a place outside of the DCU, not a time in it's future).
Although, maybe this is set in the Kingdome Come-iverse, rather than the DCU? That seems like it would potentially be a better hook but, again, it doesn't involve Ross, so will anyone care?
If brand-name heroes, originals or legacy characters, like Catwoman, Firestorm, Aquaman, Hawkman/Hawkgirl, The Atom, Blue Beetle and Manhunter can't carry books, why on Earth would anyone greenlight a Magog ongoing?
My mind boggles. Or is boggled.
At any rate, are any of you out there Magog fans? If so, let me know below; I'd like to hear from you, as that would indicate giving the guy a monthly comic isn't as mind-bogglingly strange a decision as it seems to be to me.
13 comments:
- Justin said...
I think it's *because* Hawkman, Firestorm and everyone else you mentioned can't support a book that they're trying Magog. If I'm Dan Didio, I *know* a new Atom series is going to get cancelled before long, but Magog? Well, who knows *how* long they can keep that up until they try it? It's kind of a throw-whatever-you-can-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach, but Stan Lee basically built Marvel that way in the 60s.
I'm not actually a Magog fan, and I don't think this will last past ten issues, and turning what was essentially a parody creation into an ongoing lead is probably not a good idea, but at least it's a *new* idea. Apparently, DC is at a point where taking a chance is at least as economically viable as taking another stab at something "safe," and in the long run that could lead to good things creatively, right?
- Jacob T. Levy said...
- Linus said...
Interesting creative team, but agreed this is a perplexing launch (I thought the same thing about the origin point related to Cable/90s anti-heroes). My guess is it's building to something Crisis-y or KC related. Starman's still going to be on some special track that suggests something of the same.
- Caleb said...
Hm. That throw everything against the wall idea is kind of interesting, as it does seem as if every DC property has been thrown against a wall in the last four years--Bat Lash, Haunted Tank, Ambush Bug, Omega Men, El Diablo, The Wyrd, etc.
Not to spoil anything, but this week's issue of Superman implies some connection between Magog and the Red Circle and Milestone characters (Although it may just be that they're all new).
- snell said...
Maybe the Magog series was the price DiDio had to pay to Giffen in exchange for sitting on the last issue of Ambush Bug for about ten thousand months or so...
- Matt D said...
One presumes that DC has more to gain by pushing new or underused IPs than releasing another Hawkman book. It might sell less but if you can sell a toy out of it or something, it probably makes WB more money than the book selling well?
I don't know.
Maybe Giffen just wanted to do it, though this does sort of smell as a project Didio handed him.
Maybe it's just in the House of M: Well-written Gage Mini-Series collection that Marvel seems to be doing.
Maybe libraries want more Kingdom Come?
- Hdefined said...
My confusion isn't over the release of a Magog series, so much as why would they put creators who have a rather good reputation on a series no one will buy . . . when they have so many series already released that are tanking so poorly? Why not save the Titans/Teen Titans books? Do something about Wonder Woman? Booster Gold? Vigilante? Brave and the Bold? That Peter Tomasi book with the guy with the A on his shirt? Hell, Justice League?
Don't forget that the Red Circle characters are getting two ongoing series too, and readers don't even KNOW yet if they have any interest in those characters because the one-shots haven't been released.
The problem isn't the oddball books they're planning to release, but the books they already have out and are apparently unable to support.
- mordicai said...
My guess is this is part of the semi-canonization of Kingdom Come. Or it would be if I was doing it. I mean-- crap. You could have a comic with Magog teaming up with Damien/Ibn al X, & with...whatever, the people from Kingdom come. Wildcat II, etc. That might be okay?
DC has this...PROBLEM. Where they take every single parody character & then try to make them cool. The PROBLEM is where it sometimes WORKS. Or well, people like it...I won't say it "works" per se, but it will be popular. Et tu, Lobo?
- Hdefined said...
I think 52 helped turn Lobo back into a parody again. Unfortunately I'm not sure he's shown up since.
- Unknown said...
I´m definitively a Magog fan!
No... just kidding, matter of fact I hate it, I REALLY do. I would like him if he gets Barry Allen and Hal Jordan to the grave again, at least.
I hate the extra stupidity that STILL goes around in DC, it´s just like superman, the same sh*t of the 30´s, but revamped and reimagined for new audiences. You should write an article about it. Super hero comics keep being the same retarded medium as ever, just a bit more disguised
- cosmicomic said...
Any DC comic that is not Batman, Superman, Action Comics or Detective Comics is eventually going to be canceled. Those four are the evergreens.
Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow, Justice League, Justice Society, Teen Titans, and Legion of Superheroes will be canceled but quickly relaunched. They are the perennials.
Every other book should follow the course set out by Rogers on Blue Beetle (and Cornell on Captain Britain & MI13, I read) and install an option for a satisfying conclusion by the 25th issue.
There won't be another 100-issue series like Nightwing or Birds of Prey from DC anytime soon.
- Kid Kyoto said...
y'know not to defend or even explain this but but in the day Giffin did a pretty good job of turning a parody character (Lobo) into a hit machine.
- Dean H. said...
I mean, why not?
Like pretty much everyone else, I am not a Magog fan. However, I do know who he is from "Kingdom Come", so that is better than hauling a totally fresh character out.
There is really not much there in terms of continuity. Unlike Hawkman, there isn't a "how does that relate to Hawkworld #14?" potential with every issue.
Finally, he has never had a series canceled. If people like what Giffen is doing by issue #6, then unlike Aquaman they don't automatically have it on cancellation watch.
It is a desperate move, obviously, but there is an off-chance it might work.


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M made a big run over the first half to push the lead out to double digits over Providence.
M defense is of course legit. They're giving up little penetration and doing a great job of contesting shots at the same time. One thing I'd note…there are a couple of weak(er) links on that roster with Iggy and Poole. On one occasion, Providence matched up Diallo against Iggy and he torched him. I think as the year goes along and definitely once we get to conference play, you're going to see opponents work to get those guys isolated and see what they can get done.
The other thing M does very well defensively is balance the floor. Providence got zero in transition and really never had a chance. That's long been a Beilein staple, even when they were horrendous on the defensive end, so not surprising but they are really disciplined with it.
On offense, at least for now, it's about one thing and one thing only…put your head down and go to the rim. They took 29 shots in the first half and only 5 were 3s. That's almost impossible to believe from a Beilein team but that's the deal with this group and with good reason, because they just don't have a great group of jump shooters. Job One against them has to be finding a way to limit their penetration, which could be easier said than done, but that's what you've got to emphasize. I think you live with letting them shoot 20 footers. When they're unable to penetrate, the half court offense looks ugly…there's no post up game to default to and again, the 3s just aren't featured with this team. One M staple which helps is that they don't give it away…4 TOs in the half.
To me, it looks a lot like last year's M team right now, save for the lack of a weapon like Wagner. Iggy is a productive offensive player but he's totally different than Wagner…doesn't give you the inside/outside threat Wagner provided. As I noted above, I'm going to be interested to see if Big Ten scouting can find the weak links I think might be there with their defense and exploit them enough to force Beilein to make some PT decisions. If I'm wrong, that defense is going to keep them in the title hunt (Big Ten variety) all year.


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Friday, March 12, 2010
surprise trip to the vet
Then to add insult to injury, the vet tells me I'm pudgy! I have to loose like 3 lbs. I'm a pug people...aren't I suppose to be stocky? It's winter, don't I need insulation in this cold weather? So now mom says I get less food, and more exercise. Ugh.
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BellaTrix!! We are so worried about you over here! My mom says that I do this funny wheeze thing too. My mom took me to the vet when I was really young for the same thing and the vet said it was like a "back-ward" sneeze. I don't know why we do it but I've heard lots of Pugs do this wheeze thing at the pugmeets. I hope it's the normal wheeze you have because I don't want you to feel bad Bellatrix. I know it scared my mom when I first did it-she thought I was having some type of seizure...but I wasn't. I hope you get to feeling better real soon because pugsun in this weekend. Also- I think you look great. Those dr's are always telling me I am too hefty....granted, I am a tab hefty but you are still growing so I hope you don't get too sad about it. Well, get some good rest and know that this pug over the hill is thinking of ya (and your worried mom & dad!)ReplyDelete
Thanks Spencer, mom is so worried she might take me to the emergency vet. I've moved onto acting like I can't breathe through it. I'll keep you posted. I can't make this Pug Sun mom has to work (and I have to go with her). Bummer because I want to hang with ya. We'll have to set a play date soon.ReplyDelete
I thought it sounded like the backwards sneezey thing too.ReplyDelete
But that usually just makes me sound funny for a few minutes - doesn't make me feel sick or anything. My human makes it go away by doing the doggy Heimlich on me (which pretty much means she shakes me a little bit to un-stick whatever is stuck). Not very scientific, but it works.
Do you still feel good enough to eat??
Please feel better.
My mom rubs my back when I do that wheeze thing....it still freaks her out. I shake when I wheeze sometimes too. Pretty strange stuff. It's tough to be a Pug sometimes. Especially when a fellow pugletta is not feeling her best. Please keep us posted Bellatrix...sending lots of angel pug thoughts your way!ReplyDelete
oh no. keep us postedReplyDelete
Belly Button's mom here....so little Bellatrix is currently at the clinic. She has to get sedated and scoped to see what's down her throat. It's not the reverse sneeze..not that lucky. My little hoover has sucked up something not pretty. Please keep her in your thoughts. It's so weird not having a pug here! She should be home in a few hours...ReplyDelete
oh no. being scoped doesn't sound fun. maybe they can suck out some of her excess heftiness while she's under. y'know, like lipo? then she wouldn't have to eat less!ReplyDelete
paws crossed for a happy healthy Bella.
PS: we have an extra pug - you want to borrow Frank?
I hope Bellatrix is home soon and feeling better. My Mom always cries if she has to leave us at the vet. I know she will get extra love when she gets home. I always do.ReplyDelete


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There has been a battle, since the beginning of recorded history, between those who would live in peace, comfortably enjoying their natural talents, their friends and families, and their food and leisure, and those who would live in war, defending hierarchies, control over the actions and thoughts of others.
The pitch of this battle, as Marx rather eloquently predicted long ago, has reached an apex demanding resolution.
There are three tentacles to this battle, grabbing nearly every personal, political or intellectual act, and assigning it a place somewhere on the stage of this battle. The difficulty is that the three tentacles are friend, foe or subterfuge. It is the third tentacle that is the most confusing, as the side of war, as long as the objectives of hierarchy and control are achieved, is often quite comfortable using ambiguous or expedient symbols or political movements to further its ends in a duplicitous manner.
The friends of fascism are large corporations, imperialism, capitalism, racism, sexism and naked exploitation and oppression of any stripe. The ultimate aim of the war-mongers is to establish a comprehensive master-slave dialect. The corporate-military complex would have complete control over the slave race, robotized to thoughtlessness, devoid of resistance, whose blood is squeezed out in drops by the system like oranges for orange juice.
The enemies of fascism are socialism, human rights, gender equality, anti-hierarchy, and most characteristically, empathy – unifying the human race into one breathing body, and the earth into one symbiotic being of the earth-mother and all her creatures. People would decide on what's best for the all, democratically, non-autocratically, leaving each person free to worship, love, live in peace, free from fear, control, or war.
The third tentacle is the most complicated. The side of war really wants control – since that has not been achieved, and some ancient hierarchical institutions prevent further, newer control by being burned in by time and custom, it becomes expedient to use forces of good in a masqueraded way as forces of darkness, or vice versa.
One example is Freemasonry. While the Freemasons advocate all races and creeds standing shoulder to shoulder in a new ritual, seemingly a move toward peace, it actually is the ritualized worship of evil, the annihilation of man's humanity. Freemasonry began in the time of the Roman collegia. Originally, the collegia were centered around goddess worship and peaceful harmonious existence. Several times around year zero, several collegia led successful revolts against male-dominated hierarchy and the war machine of Rome. The result was the criminalization of the collegia, until about the time of Trojan, Nero, etc. Then the collegia were reformed as a microcog of the war-state. The most important collegiums of Rome, as Cicero points out, was that of architects and masons. This collegium is both the embodiment and the symbol of building the war-machine. The first step was banishing the goddess, by making the collegia fraternal only, obliterating women's rights, inheritance, or even care or supervision of their own children. However, as nationalism and human natural sympathies, such as a son for his mother, a husband for his wife, stand in the way of congealed control, it is necessary for freemasonry to appear tolerant or even encouraging of religious tolerance, sexual freedom, political revolt, etc., only to loosen the old, natural bonds enough to establish a greater, more grandiose control.
Another example is religion. Jesus was caring, empathetic, and encouraged the issuing of the millennium of peace, which will one day be established, as evil ultimately has no real power over good. The early church with its female priests led by Mary Magdalene spread socialism, equality and caring; Rome was in its catacombs, on its streets, and its temples and houses of politics being over-run by Christianity, bringing their Celtic web-like natural human existence and oneness of the body of Christ. The Roman Empire of course saw fit to become the Catholic Church and to co-opt the symbols of Christianity in a false church, an empire in disguise. Women were subjugated, their influence obliterated, and their freedoms curtailed into slavery. "Just war" replaced the Christian dedication to peace. Ironically, the Catholic Church is now dedicated to destroying masonry, only because the Roman masters moved on to Masonic and political domination, leaving the tattered and used false church behind, since it now serves only as an obstacle to the more complete domination in store, though they spring from the same hateful source.
The Mormons, who sprang from freemasonry, and successfully masquerade as Christians despite being a Judaic religion with Masonic symbolism, right down to the fabricated tablets of law, are now the new religious arm of the hate machine. But while the divisiveness and hate is supported by the powers of war, the persistence of theism stands opposed to the annihilation of man's dignity that complete fascism requires, leading to religions as diverse as Mormonism and Islam opposing socialism, masonry, women's rights, war or peace in a confusing hodge-podge of goals. The same may be said of gay rights, the environmental movement, even socialism itself (when autocratic fascism as in Russia or China is masqueraded as "socialism") when each of these movements may be utilized by the would-be saboteur to distract, divide and, most importantly, obscure the control and hierarchy that is simply, nakedly the aim of the war movement.
Zionism is at the root of the war movement – not Zionism as in Jewish, since there were no Jews. There were never slaves of Hebrews in Egypt, and with the records kept by the Egyptians, we know there was no Exodus of millions of Hebrews through the desert ever. There was no kingdom of Israel – no David, no Moses, and Solomon was a Babylonian king whose reign and artifacts are well-known. The Exodus that never happened left no ring, no coin, no bones, not one petrified turd in perfectly preserving sand. The Old Testament was made up at the time of the diaspora to convince the Jews to believe in a great kingdom and their natural rule over mankind to preserve them through hardship. Certainly the white Ashkenazi Jews placed in Palestine in the 40s were never even Semitic, displacing people there since 6000 BC with extreme violence to men, women and children indiscriminately. Zionism is a lie – the belief that some are destined by a terrestrial, war-like god (a devil really) to enslave the human race for their own comfort and benefit. Jesus was bringing the message of peace and truth, and this is why he had to be executed by the Zionist Jews, as his beliefs and practices hearkened back to the path of the goddess, to peace and harmony. Islam too, I believe, had tried to establish truth, but I believe it too was corrupted by Masonic forces of war and divisiveness, leaving only woman-hating and violence as debris.
The truth is love. The triumph is love. But the final battle, the last fingertips of the fading grasp of control remain, and the last convulsion, its death-gasp, will be fierce indeed.


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