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Promoting Smoking Cessation and Reducing Weight Gain
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00113711
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First Posted : June 10, 2005
Last Update Posted : May 13, 2016
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|Behavioral: smoking cessation Behavioral: reducing diet
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When the study began in 1995, more females were initiating cigarette smoking, and a growing proportion cited fear of gaining weight as a major reason for refusing to even attempt quitting smoking. It had not yet been possible, however, to prevent post- cessation weight gain through dieting or behavioral treatment without undermining abstinence from smoking. The investigators proposed that prior interventions had been unsuccessful because: (a) their weight management interventions were too complex; (b) the programs thwarted a need of the patient in nicotine withdrawal to eat hedonically appealing, high-carbohydrate snacks; and (c) the programs heightened patients' emphasis on weight control at the expense of their emphasis on smoking cessation by asking them to initiate weight control before or simultaneously with quitting smoking.
The investigators collected pilot data on a promising 16-week intervention that they called the LATE WEIGHT PLAN because it emphasized smoking cessation for the first half of treatment and integrated weight management for the last half. The weight management module included a pre-packaged meal plan; high-carbohydrate, low-fat snacks; and low-intensity aerobic exercise. All patients continued in the weight management phase of treatment, regardless of whether they had succeeded in quitting smoking or were preparing to make new quit attempts. Based on pilot findings, the investigators estimated the point prevalence of smoking cessation for the LATE WEIGHT PLAN group to be 74% at the end of treatment, with weight gain less than 5 lb. An EARLY WEIGHT PLAN group controlled for the timing of the intervention, using the same target quit smoking date and 16 week program but integrating the weight management module into the first 8 weeks of treatment. Like others, they found that EARLY weight management efforts, while they may have prevented weight gain, apparently did so at some cost to smoking cessation, which they estimated to be 42% at 4 months. Finally, a CESSATION ONLY group controlled for the presence of a weight management intervention, by dealing exclusively with smoking cessation for the entire 16 week program. The CESSATION ONLY group had attained the worst outcome in terms of weight control and an intermediate outcome in terms of abstinence at the end of treatment (50%). By randomizing 315 female smokers to the three treatments and comparing abstinence and weight gain after 4 months of treatment and 6 month follow-up (10 months), they tested whether a behavioral intervention could indeed achieve the dual goals of promoting smoking cessation and minimizing weight gain.
The study completion date listed in this record was obtained from the "End Date" entered in the Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS) record.
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RANGELY I Five games. Five wins. High fives.
The Rio Blanco County Legion baseball team had reason to celebrate Saturday, winning in dramatic fashion in the championship game of its three-day tournament played in Rangely.
"It was quite a nail-biter," said RBC coach Paul Fortunato of the finale.
That is, until the Rio Blanco County team scored three times in a row on three straight squeeze plays in the sixth inning.
"It kind of unraveled for them after that," Fortunato said of the 8-3 victory over a team from Price, Utah.
Kindal Cushman of Rangely, playing in his last game because of an age rule, was the winning pitcher in the championship game, with Kody Denny closing things out by striking out the side, with the bases loaded, in the last inning.
"When you go into districts, it's 17 and under," Fortunato said. "So that was Kindal's last game with us. That's why he pitched."
Rio Blanco County's Legion team will advance to the district tournament next weekend in Eagle.
Cushman, who will play baseball at Colorado Northwestern Community College next season, was named to last weekend's all-tournament team for Rio Blanco County, along with brothers Kody and Kacey Denny of Rangely and B.J. Hanberg of Vernal. Hanberg is one of several players on the team who is not from Rangely. The combined Rio Blanco County team is made up mostly of players from Rangely, but includes players from Coal Ridge, Grand Valley and Meeker high schools, in addition to Vernal.
The top two teams that advance out of the Big West District Tournament July 22-25 in Eagle will move on to a state tournament the following week in Craig, July 30 and 31, with the winner advancing to a matchup in Denver, which combines the top teams from the Western and Eastern slopes.
"We might be pretty tough going into districts," Fortunato said. "The way we're playing right now, I think we have a pretty good shot at winning it. I don't see us not qualifying for state in Craig."
The Rio Blanco County team, 14-4 on the season and 7-2 in league, is tied with Eagle for first place. The RBC team will play a doubleheader today in Rifle.
RBC Legion team winner at Rangely tournament
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General Electric and Tyco International are classified as conglomerates each approaching their business with a different strategy that generate different financial results. The results below for both GE and Tyco include common shareholders equity, market capitalization, net profits margins for the last 5 years, average net profit margin, market to book ratio along with net income and return on equity.
$'s in billion(s) GE& - TYCO
Common shareholders Equity $109 $32
Market Cap $377 $58
Net profit Margins (Dec)
2005 12.2% 8.1%
2004 12.1% 7.7%
2003 12.2% 2.6%
2002 11.5% -8.2%
2001 11.2% 11.5%
Average net profit margin 11.8% 4.3%
Market to book ratio 346% 181%
Net Income $16 $3
Return on equity 15% 9%
In looking at both GE's and Tyco's market-to-book ratios along with the return on equity shows that General Electric has done a much better job of providing greater shareholder wealth. The Market Capitalization for General Electric is about 377 billion dollars with common shareholders equity of 109 billion dollars.
When you divide Market Capitalization into common shareholders equity we arrive at 346% versus Tyco at 181%. The net income for General Electric is 16 billion versus Tyco at 3 billion. When the net income is divided by the common shareholders equity it shows that General Electric is able to provide a 15% return on equity compared to Tyco at 9% thus making GE more attractive. As an investor GE would be the company of choice when put up against Tyco since their percentage on return on equity is greater.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
The Importance Of Personal Growth: Mentoring
You are not perfect, no one is, this is one of many facts of life that you must accept. Another fact to remember is that you will never be perfect, no matter how hard you try you will never be without fault, these are things one must know prior to facing the world head on, and by accepting this you will have taken step one to your journey of personal growth. Though being true that perfection is unattainable, it is not true that you cannot become a better person and grow to impact the world in a positive light, we should always be striving to become better men and women, striving to grow and mature, specially in your relationship with others and yourself, only through constant growth can one truly live a life worth re-living.
Mentoring might sound strange, this is not a concept we are grown up with within our culture. We have grown up in a time where individualism is valued above all else, and your personal accomplishments done by your own strengths are recognized highly, though this is a truth and one we should value, there is another truth permeating this phenomenon and that is that the majority of people cannot succeed within an individualistic world, and even those that do, do not do so to the extent that they could for they were not sharpened by a mentor.
This might shock you but all great athletes have a coach, and all of the genius scientists of our time and past have all had teachers that at some point were smarter than them, shocking I know. The point here is that these people found value within those that sought to teach them and learned as much as they could from that person before proceeding to the next level in their career, this is called wisdom, learning from others so that you might yourself grow. A person can only have one set of experiences, by learning from others you are combining different experience sets and thus molding, shaping, evolving your own person by the good you find in others.
No matter what field you are aiming towards, be it competitive dance, be it sports, be it engineering, or teaching know that there is always someone better than you, this will forever be the case. So find those people, find the people that are better than you in all the ways you are weak and learn from them, allow yourself to be mentored by them, and by doing so you will evolve. You must place yourself bellow that person and create a teachable spirit within yourself, placing your pride aside in order to soak up as much knowledge and experience from that person as possible. This is a crucial step in personal growth.
Know this, if you do not seek out others in order to grow, then others will seek out those mentors and you will be left behind, no one can succeed alone, it doesn't matter what you were taught about individualism, no one can succeed alone. There is always room for growth, always room for improvement, thus if you seek to be the best, if you seek to live your dream, then find those mentors and learn as much as you can.
There is another key element in mentoring which you must remember and that is character, not your character, but the character of your mentor. When seeking a mentor one must always find someone who is better than you in order for you to grow, this also applies to character, to wisdom, kindness, integrity, and honesty, if your mentor is lacking good character you will end up picking up some of those negative character traits yourself, this cannot be avoided, thus seek after mentors that have good character, and in doing so you will grow to be better than you are now.
Personal growth for some reason is not something usually talked about, we talk about the shallow ways by which you may grow in beauty or power within the world, but we do not talk about character that much. In everything that you do character will be important, if you are a likeable person you will go further than an annoying person, if you are teachable then mentors will instruct you further than if you retain your pride, if you are kind to those around you, you will always have friends to count on, these are facts of life. Thus work not only on your personal craft but also on your own character.
We hope you had a great weekend and we pray that this week will be one filled with joy,
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Vertical growth is learning something new and the new knowledge then fashions a new reality. Our college years, with its academic challenges, is probably the time of the most accelerated personal growth. Similarly, starting a new business or raising a new family are all vertical growth experiences.ReplyDelete
We all need a mentor in our life, who is eligible to guide us and develop our personal views. In case of any hurdles in life, we are taking the help of mentors to get the right path. Therefore, we never deny the importance of mentors in our personal growth, mentors are really helpful in our success and personal growth.ReplyDelete
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The Markman Note: Activists at Qualcomm's Gate
Apr. 21, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — It was another busy week at the intersection of investing and intellectual property, with continued patent litigation activity of interest to investors — across a number of industry sectors. Welcome to the fourth issue of the Markman Note, where we take a look at how the market reacts to patent litigation events, and try to anticipate what the next catalysts will be. Hopefully you have had a chance to catch our video "Markman Minutes" (HERE, HERE, and HERE) on what we consider the biggest current patent stories of interest to investors. Finally, we want your feedback and suggestions, so feel free to send it along to email@example.com or to @markmanadvisors on Twitter. You can also visit our website at www.markmanadvisors.com. Questions from the readership are always welcome as well; we will try to get you answers in future issues of the Markman Note.
The Big Story: Qualcomm – Will FRAND continue to be its friend?
Qualcomm (QCOM)
Qualcomm got hit with the activist stick this week and we're all over it. Jana Partners, one of Qualcomm's largest investors, has called for the company to spin-off its chip-making business from its patent-licensing business. Qualcomm's patent-licensing business, which primarily licenses standard-essential patents, drives most of its profits. A pending decision from the Ninth Circuit in a case between Microsoft and Motorola is expected to clarify the scope of royalty rates a company can seek when licensing standard-essential. The Ninth Circuit decision is a case of first impression, and risks making licensing standard-essential patents less lucrative, which could impact Qualcomm's bottom line.
We'll be coming out with a Markman Minute on the company later this week. In the meantime, our article on Seeking Alpha highlights some of our impressions regarding the proposal by Jana Partners that the company consider a breakup.
Recent Patent Litigation-Influenced Moves
VirnetX (VHC)
Perennial IPR target VirnetX (VHC) was hit by a pair of petitions filed by a NYC-based hedge fund, Mangrove Partners, in an attack similar to the Bass-Spangenberg filed petitions we discussed last week. Interestingly, prior IPR's filed by Microsoft against these same patents were instituted, but later dropped when Microsoft and VHC were able to reach a settlement. The prior institutions bode well for this latest salvo by Mangrove on the merits, and once again VHC investors will need to keep one eye on the USPTO as they hope that the upcoming retrial of damages in their case against Apple goes forward without further delay. This entire situation reflects the challenges that the VHC's of the world need to overcome to earn patent revenue that justifies their market caps, and that lead to solid returns for their patient investor base.
Depomed (DEPO)
Specialty pharmaceutical Actavis settled its generic patent litigation challenge against Depomed (DEPO). Gralise is an important drug for Depomed, and investors were likely pleased to hear that the final patent litigation against generic challengers still pending was settled. Importantly, the appeal from the District Court case finding in DEPO's favor will now be dismissed, while this settlement will need review by the appropriate government agencies. This case highlights the important role settlement plays in maintaining exclusivity for branded pharma companies, and for investors, provides a timely reminder that settlements can: a) happen at any time and b) at any stage in the litigation process.
Unwired Planted (UPIP)
The company got a new CEO and this is a GREAT opportunity to point out the importance of management for companies whose main business is patent assertion. UPIP has struggled since its blockbuster licensing deal with Lenovo because of some litigation setbacks and the board obviously felt that a change at the top was necessary. The hiring of a IP-focused veteran to lead the company was welcomed by investors, but as with anything, in order for UPIP to make the long climb back up to where it was at the time of the Lenovo deal, execution by management will be key.
VMWare (VMW)
Inheriting a patent lawsuit is no fun for companies, so investors in VMW are probably happy that the company was able to settle the pending cases filed by Good against a company Airwatch, that VMW had acquired for $1.54bn. As with most settlements, financial terms are vague, but it does look from the press release that a cross-license was agreed to, as well as the ever-valuable discussion of "opportunities for joint interoperability". So maybe the latter is too tenuous to be of much worth, but for VMW investors, knowing that this unwanted byproduct of their Airwave acquisition is behind the company is a positive bit of news. For everyone else, this matter shows how important it is for investors to keep an open eye out for settlements at any time, as discussed above in the note about DEPO.
The Week(s) Ahead — Expected Events
Upcoming Federal Circuit argument in Parkervision v. Qualcomm — May 8, 2015.
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You've read about Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner and Steve Jobs - but what can you learn about business from van Gogh and Picasso?
The Fine Art of Success shows why you should look to pop-stars like Madonna or artists like Damian Hirst for guidance on innovation, competitive advantage, leadership, and a host of other business issues.
Managers, marketing professionals, and students will see how these creative artists can help their organizations. Chapters include Madonna - Strategy at the dance floor; Damian Hirst - The shark is dead/How to build yourself a new market; Beuys Understanding creativity, is every manager an artist; Picasso Art lessons for global managers; Koons Made in Heaven produced on eart; and Paik Global Groove, innovation through juxtaposition.
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Learning English at an Inner-City School
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December 2007 (perspective of a Ph.D. student)
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This excerpt is adapted from Chapter 4 of my childhood memoir On the Move, originally published in 2007.
In August 1990, my mother and I moved from Switzerland to the United States of America. My mother started her new job as a tenure-track assistant professor of sociology at Louisiana State University (LSU). My father stayed behind in Switzerland to take care of closing his failing restaurant business; he rejoined us six months later and went back to school to work towards his MBA degree at LSU. We rented a house in the suburb of Baton Rouge, the capital of the state of Louisiana.
Even though we lived in a tranquil suburban neighborhood, my mother enrolled me in first grade at Jackson Elementary School [a pseudonym], located right in the middle of the downtown Baton Rouge ghetto. Why? Because it had a low-cost extended daycare program that lasted from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM every day. My father was not around, and my mother was starting a challenging new job which required her to put in a high number of hours. The 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM schedule of a regular school (such as the one in our neighborhood) would not be sufficient since she could not possibly go to work that late or leave work that early to come home to look after me. She could not afford private after-school care, so sending me to Jackson was the most practical option.
The school officials were proud of their extended daycare program, telling my mother that it was the ideal choice for a working mother such as herself. She later learned that the locals used the term working mother as a euphemism to describe young, poor, often unwed single mothers living in the inner-city. These women had to work long hours every day (sometimes at multiple jobs) to support their children, thus creating the demand for after-school child care programs.
Every weekday morning, my mother drove me to school in her second-hand Subaru that she bought for $3,000, a huge sum of money for us at that time. We always listened to All Things Considered, a talk show on National Public Radio (NPR) filled with classical music and the deep-voiced commentator discussing social and political issues far beyond my comprehension. During my first few weeks in America, I could not understand a word that man was saying, and that made me even more nervous as we drove towards school. It was like a daunting prologue to my next ten hours. If I could not even understand what Mr. Walter Morris or Alexander Stuart (or whatever stoic model-citizen-white-guy-name the NPR commentator's parents gave him) was saying during my ride to school, then how could I possibly hope to comprehend what my furiously compassionate black first grade teacher was spouting out in the classroom in her strong Southern-accented English?
What is somewhat ironic but unsurprising is that I do not remember anything about ever being in the classroom during that entire year. I don't remember what the teacher taught us, who was in my class, or what kind of desks we sat in. All I remember is that I was by far the best student in the classroom. My teacher must have been shocked that, even though I did not know a word of English when I first started school, within a few months I could read and write better than anybody else in my class. I was a quick and voracious learner; my love of acquiring knowledge had developed naturally from a young age. I was able to read and write Chinese fairly fluently at a child's level by age three; I loved reading all of the street signs and shop names out loud whenever my grandmother took me walking around Guangzhou. At age three, I started learning math, both from preschool and from my step-grandfather, and became proficient at doing arithmetic that kids in America would not learn until third or fourth grade.
So why don't I recall any specific experiences within the classroom throughout that entire year? I think it's because that was the most normal part of my school day. Those six hours every day were well-controlled and productive, and I had so many new things to learn. I learned most of my English by listening to the teacher talk and tell us stories, and by watching her write on the board. It was the only time when everyone sat in their own seats with an authority figure present who could keep everything under control. Even the most bad-ass of playground bullies had to simply sit in their seats and struggle through reading children's literature passages out loud. When I focused on my work during class time, the terrible butterflies in my stomach finally went away. I was in my element inside the classroom because there I knew that I had an advantage over all the other kids. However, even though I gained self-confidence in terms of my academic abilities, I still remained quiet and humble. I never regarded my precociously-acquired knowledge as a mark of pride because scholastic intelligence didn't matter at all outside the classroom.
In stark contrast to my relatively calm classroom experience, the times I spent at Jackson Elementary during recess, lunch, and before and after school in the extended daycare program were beyond chaotic and overwhelming. The kids I had encountered in Switzerland a year earlier all came from middle-class families in a country known for social tranquility. I was not afraid of them because their docile environment gave them little impetus for aggressive behavior beyond good-natured roughhousing. However, most of the kids I encountered here had grown up on the turbulent, crime-ridden streets of the Baton Rouge ghetto. Many boys looked intimidating to me and flaunted macho tough-guy attitudes, ready to challenge authority or fight to defend their personal honor or ego.
When I started first grade, learning English became a top priority since nobody else knew French or Chinese. I employed the same tactics of learning through silent observation that had worked for me in Switzerland just a year earlier, naturally becoming more adept at it since it was my second attempt. During those first few weeks, I was very cautious when kids approached me to ask me questions since I could barely understand what they were saying. Some may have been malicious, some may have been making fun of me, some may have been curious, and some may have really wanted to be my friend, but I was always curt with my responses. I could say yes and no, just like how I could say oui and non while I was in Switzerland. Once again, I had absolutely no idea what the other kids were asking me at first, but judging from the tones of their voices, I knew that they were being inquisitive, so I alternated my answers between yes and no. As my sense of the English language became more refined, I could better understand people's questions, and my replies became more accurate and realistic. I soon started moving up to phrases and then sentences.
Within three months, I could understand pretty much everything that kids around me were saying, and I could speak a good deal of it myself without any sort of foreign-sounding accent (as a consequence, I completely lost my ability to understand or speak French due to lack of practice). I sounded like everybody else around me in school because I had learned to mimic their speech patterns, which meant that I talked exactly like a black kid from Louisiana. I spoke with a thick Southern accent mixed with black slang. One time when I tried to order food at McDonald's, I articulated my request quite eloquently in my Southern black accent, and the black guy who manned the cash register enthusiastically told me, "Kid, you speak GOOD English!" My parents love telling that story to their friends. My unique accent faded the following year when I enrolled in a suburban school, which consisted mostly of white kids. But throughout my first year in America, whenever I moved my lips, it sounded like there was a Southern black kid standing behind me speaking the words that came out of my mouth.
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How to Avoid the Slushpile, by H.E. Ellis
It's Funny Blog Friday again, and I'm here to not only brighten your day but to pass along some sage advice on how to avoid the dreaded slushpile.
What's the slushpile, you ask? The slushpile, my friends, is the virtual trash bin where your manuscript lands the moment a prospective agent determines it is not yet ready for publication. Believe me, after all your hard work this is no place you want to be.
So how do you avoid the slushpile? Read widely? Write often? Find yourself a solid writers' group?
Hell no! You do it by following my advice, of course! I've spent the past year creating a collection of books designed to help would-be authors navigate their way through the jungle that is the publishing world. Choose from the following: (more…)
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!
Long before I became a New Englander I was a native of the south, specifically southern Florida. And as anyone who's either lived in or even just visited the south can attest, no one throws a party better than a southerner (back me up here, Dayton). Because in the south a party isn't just a party- it's a balls-out drunken feeding frenzy of Bacchanalian proportion. I blame the heat.
It should come as no surprise that the southern party of the year, Mardi Gras, is celebrated in the party Mecca better known as New Orleans, Louisiana. French for "Fat Tuesday," Mardi Gras reflects the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season.
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24 Hours As Tom Ford @FBF
I, like most people, take a personal inventory at the beginning of each new year. I examine my past behaviors or actions to see which have or have not worked for me and challenge myself to do better. One of the things I decided to try this year is something life coaches are calling, "Emulation Therapy."
In other words, you find someone successful you admire and model your daily behavior after theirs. Luckily for me, fashion mogul Tom Ford did an interview with Harper's Bazaar Magazine where he chronicled his daily routine.
Below you will find an example of a typical Tom Ford day, as well as an example of one of my own I put together so that I could compare efforts. If my findings are correct, all I need to do to reach Tom Ford-level success is bathe more.
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I should be working on my novel but as usual, I'm blocked and cannot snap out of it. I suppose I could look up one of the hundreds of tricks on the internet that tell you how to break free of writer's block, or I can do what I always do and write a separate manuscript where all my characters engage in a massive act of group sex.
Since I can't share that, I decided to blog about the space where all the not-writing happens instead.
First up, the wall of books:
Funny Blog Friday with Peter…er, Randy Pan?
Hello Everyone, it's me, Hellis, live and in person. Well, in spirit. I've been away from our little corner of the virtual Utopia we call Blogworld this week because I've been spending time with the new love of my life. Yes, people I am in love, and have decided to use the Funny Blog Friday post as an opportunity to introduce him to my world.
The latest object of my affection is a man like no other; he is fun-loving, free-spirited and young at heart. His childlike innocence attracted me immediately and before I knew it, I was hooked. Today I'd like to introduce you to the man who captured my heart and is sure to steal yours. Without further ado I give you…Randy Pan. (more…)
Hellis The Pissah Versus The Crazy Athiest
Some of you may not know that I am a die-hard New Englander, which means that I am required by law to give people a hard time (usually while drunk in a pub). We call that "being a Pissah," in our native New Englandese.
Even as a New Englander I know I should be above something like what follows, but I'm not. This was just too funny for me to pass up. Sometime ago a fellow blogger put out a very funny, very harmless post about MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL.
For some reason another blogger named Neil (he offered his name) raped the shit out of XXXX's comments. (I've chosen to respect the blogger's privacy by replacing his name with XXXX. As you read on you'll see why). When XXXX blocked his subsequent comments, Neil did what any self-respecting, sane individual would do. He blasted everyone who commented on XXXX's post, including me.
Since I can resist anything but temptation I took the liberty of answering his questions. You'll see them in italics after his answers. Feel free to agree or disagree as you see fit. So without further interruption I give you…NEIL! (more…)


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Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579-1633)
She was the favorite mistress of Henry IV of France. Since her mother was a mistress to Charles IX, it seems royal-ho was a desired position for Catherine since birth. She was was said to be ambitious and pretty- and by her teens was successful in her career choice.
When Henry married Marie de'Medici, Catherine was extremely bitter and vengeful. So much so, she developed a plot to assassinate the king in 1608. Somehow she escaped with only a small punishment after the plot was foiled. When the King died, Queen Marie de'Medici had Catherine exiled.
Don't mess with the wife, especially when she's a Queen.


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Market News
Five PG&E directors to remain in revamped board
(Reuters) - PG&E Corp expects only five of its current 10-strong board to stand for reelection at an annual shareholder meeting in May, as it restructures after filing for bankruptcy last month because of potential liabilities from California wildfires.
The utility said it also expected the board to include 11 independent directors by the time of the meeting, currently set for May 21.
It did not say how big the board would finally be, or which directors it expected to stay on, only that the independent members would be in a majority.
Hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management LLC last month demanded the complete removal of the embattled Californian power company's board, saying the bankruptcy filing was unnecessary and harmed the interests of the company's shareholders.
"We fully understand that PG&E must re-earn trust and credibility with its customers, regulators, the communities it serves and all of its stakeholders," PG&E said in a statement on Monday.
"We recognize the importance of adding fresh perspectives to the Board to help address the serious challenges the business faces."
A heated court hearing in San Francisco at the end of last month saw U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup hold off on changing the terms of the company's probation from its conviction for a 2010 natural gas pipeline blast.
Alsup also scolded the company for not being focused enough on safety.
The company has since outlined plans to increase the controversial practice of shutting off the power to communities at risk of wildfire when dangerous conditions such as high winds and dry heat are present.
The board said it was working to identify candidates who would improve its expertise in safety, operations and other critical areas.
BlueMountain did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reporting by John Benny in Bengaluru; Editing by Sai Sachin Ravikumar and Saumyadeb Chakrabarty


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Warning: This page is divided up into five sections, one for each season.
Each summary has spoilers for the major plots. If you don't want to know what
happens, don't read on.
Tsukino Usagi is an ordinary
8th grade schoolgirl who, one day on her way to school, saves a cat with a
crescent moon on its forehead. At home, depressed after having failed a test,
Usagi meets the cat again in her room. The cat, amazingly, can talk, and she
introduces herself as Luna.
Luna gives the dubious Usagi the ability to transform into Sailormoon, the
pretty sailor suited soldier of justice.
Sailormoon faces the Dark
Kingdom, an enemy group that wants to take over the Earth. The Dark Kingdom
consists of Queen Metallia, Queen Beryl, and the four generals: Jadeite, Nephrite,
Zoicite, and Kunzite. Sailormoon's mission is to protect the world while finding
the Moon Princess whom she is sworn to protect. She finds allies in Tuxedo
Kamen, a mysterious masked man who assists her in her fights but has his own
agenda (and whom Usagi/Sailormoon has a huge crush on), and the other Sailor
Senshi that she gradually discovers in four other girls:
Mizuno Ami/Mercury,
Hino Rei/Mars,
Kino Makoto/Jupiter,
and Aino Minako/Venus.
Usagi's main relationship crisis throughout the season consists of her problems
with Chiba Mamoru,
an attractive but annoying college student who constantly teases her. He is
really Tuxedo Kamen, but he (and the Sailor Senshi) don't discover this fact
until much later.
The Dark Kingdom's first job is to gain energy for Metallia by draining the life
forces of humans. Later on, however, they begin to look for the ginzuishou
("mystical silver crystal"). Eventually this leads them to go after the seven
rainbow crystals sealed inside seven people who were originally the Dark Kingdom's
seven original youma. When brought together, the rainbow crystals create the
ginzuishou. Thus the new priority of the Sailor Senshi is to find the seven
rainbow crystals before the Dark Kingdom does. The Dark Kingdom, the Sailor
Senshi, and Tuxedo Kamen all vie for the crystals. Eventually because of the
crystals, Usagi and Mamoru discover each other's identities when they are
trapped together by Zoicite. Usagi is the true Princess of the Moon, and Mamoru
is her lover, Prince Endymion of Earth. Usagi receives the ginzuishou, but
Mamoru is kidnapped and brainwashed by the Dark Kingdom.
After a whole bunch of filler episodes in which the Dark Kingdom and evil Prince
Endymion/Tuxedo Kamen try to get Sailormoon to hand over the ginzuishou, Usagi,
Ami, Rei, Minako, and Makoto must confront the Dark Kingdom, learning about
their pasts on the moon in the process. In episode 45, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter,
and Venus all die trying to protect Sailormoon. In episode 46, Mamoru, as evil
Prince Endymion, tries to kill Sailormoon, but before he can finally do so,
Sailormoon revives his memories. Mamoru then dies trying to save Sailormoon
from Queen Beryl. Sailormoon then defeats Beryl and Metallia as Princess
Serenity using the ginzuishou and the other Sailor Senshi's powers, then dies,
since that is the consequence of using the full power of the ginzuishou.
Usagi's last wish is to live a normal life as a normal girl, so her wish is
granted, and at the end of the episode, all the girls and Mamoru come back to
life without their memories.
R (Return/Romance)
The first arc of R is what is known as the filler arc. That is, the
plotline doesn't happen in the manga but it occurs in the anime so that the
manga can get ahead of the anime.
Usagi regains her memories after Luna revives them when a new enemy force
shows up to attack Naru. The enemies are
Ail and Ann,
two aliens who take energy from the humans on Earth to feed the Makaiju,
the tree that is their life source. Ail and Ann, lovers, pose as two students,
Ginga Seijuurou and Ginga Natsumi, brother and sister, at Juuban Junior High
School. The plot becomes strange as Ail falls in love with Usagi and Ann
falls for Mamoru.
The other Inner Senshi regain their memories in episode 48 after Luna restores
them while the enemy is fighting Sailormoon, but Mamoru still doesn't, much
to Usagi's horror. Instead of Tuxedo Kamen, Tsukikage no Knight, a new ally,
appears to save the girls. Sailormoon gets her powered-up transformation
when her first season powers prove too weak to fight the new threat on Earth,
receiving the ginzuishou back in the process. The other Inner Senshi
eventually gain powered-up versions of their old attacks.
The Makaiju finally lashes out after being fed so much energy and getting some
of Usagi's: it attacks Ail, Ann, Mamoru, and Usagi. This is where Usagi
reveals her identity to the aliens, and Mamoru remembers his past when she
tries to protect him. The Makaiju reveals its past and that of Ail and Ann,
who discover what love is after Ann dies protecting Ail from the tree, and
then Sailormoon heals the Makaiju. The Makaiju revives Ann, and then she and
Ail then go off into space to start a new life with a Makaiju sapling.
Tsukikage no Knight also reveals his true identity as being a part of
Mamoru's soul.
In the second arc,
arrives from the future to find the ginzuishou to save her mother, Neo-Queen
Serenity, in the 30th century. She stays with Usagi's family having hypnotized
them into believing that she is a family member. The new enemies are the
Black Moon
Family, consisting of the Ayakashi Sisters and the main family members: Rubeus,
Esmeraude, Safiru, Demando, and Wiseman. Usagi and Mamoru break up in this
arc, thanks to visions Mamoru receives from his future self, King Endymion,
warning him that he must stay away from Usagi or else she will die.
The Black Moon family is after Chibi-usa and the ginzuishou in order to take
over the future Earth. However, the Ayakashi sisters fail at this task, and
they are healed by Sailormoon after they are betrayed by Rubeus. Chibi-usa
eventually discovers the Sailor Senshi's identities, and Usagi and Mamoru get
back together. Chibi-usa then takes them to the future to save her mother.
There, they meet another new senshi,
the guardian of time.
To make everything shorter, the Sailor Senshi find out that Chibi-usa is the
daughter of Usagi and Mamoru in the future. The Black Moon are actually
exiles from Crystal Tokyo, the Utopia of the future, which Usagi and Mamoru's
future selves are the leader of as Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion.
The Black Moon desires to take over Earth so that their people may live there.
However, they are unknowingly being manipulated by Wiseman, or Death Phantom,
for his own purposes. After running away from the Palace upon Sailormoon
being unable to awaken her mother, Chibi-usa is kidnapped by Wiseman who warps
her mind and causes her to transform into Black Lady. In episode 88, Usagi
transforms into Neo-Queen Serenity and with Tuxedo Kamen's help, she manages
to get Black Lady to remember her true past. Chibi-usa then discovers that
she had the ginzuishou all along (it was sort of absorbed into her), and she
and Usagi combine the power of their two ginzuishou to defeat Wiseman.
Sailormoon S
In Sailormoon S, the new enemy and the new Sailor Senshi search for the
three Talismans, which, when brought together, call forth the Holy Grail which
gives the user, the Messiah, the power to save or destroy the world.
The new Sailor Senshi are
Tenoh Haruka
(Sailoruranus) and
Kaioh Michiru
(Sailorneptune). Haruka and Michiru are extremely dedicated to their
mission, willing to sacrifice anyone, including each other, in order to find
the Talismans and prevent the destruction of the world from occuring.
The villains are called the
Death Busters.
Led by Tomoe Souichi and Kaolinite, they are basically mad scientists (in a
sense) bent on finding the Talismans, which are sealed in certain pure heart
crystals that some people possess. They use daimon eggs to create daimons to
attack people and take the heart crystals.
The story begins with Rei receiving visions of the Silence, which is the event
that will happen if the Talismans fall into the hands of the Death Busters,
which Haruka and Michiru want to prevent. In the first two episodes of S
(90 and 91), the Sailor Senshi come into first contact with the Death Busters
and the heart crystals. Usagi's powers also become ineffective, and in 91,
with the power of love between her and Mamoru, she gains a new powered up
brooch and rod. The Inner Senshi also for the first time meet two new Sailor
Senshi, Uranus and Neptune, who remain shadowed until episode 92. As Outer
Senshi, Uranus and Neptune do not wish to have the Inner Senshi interfering
with what they consider their business. They also correctly believe that
the Inner Senshi do not have what it takes to save the world; when a person's
heart crystal is removed, the person dies, so the three Talisman carriers
will die when the Talismans are extracted.
Most of the episodes following involve the development of the relationships
between Haruka and Michiru and the other girls as well as Uranus and Neptune
with the Inner Senshi. Each heart crystal extracted fails to deliver any of
the Talismans; even Usagi's, which shines extremely brightly because of her
purity, does not have it. Usagi and the Inners receive a shock when Chibi-usa
reappears in S to save Moon and Mars as SailorChibimoon, the pretty sailor
suited soldier-in-training. Though her antics annoy Sailormoon, Chibi-usa
does play a much larger, important role later in the season.
In episode 109, the Outers and Inners discover each others' identities which
creates a major strain on their relationship. Eudial, one of the Death
Busters, also learns of their identities, and using this information, she finds
out that Haruka and Michiru are carriers of the Talismans, as shown in episode
110. They almost die, but in episode 111, Meioh Setsuna, Sailorpluto,
arrives announcing that she has the third Talisman and saves the other Outer
Senshi. The Holy Grail is formed, and upon touching it, Sailormoon temporarily
transforms into SuperSailormoon.
Tomoe Hotaru,
the daughter of Tomoe Souichi, becomes friends with Chibi-usa in episode 112.
She has been cultivated by Tomoe to have an entity, Mistress 9, live inside
of her. The other Outer Senshi soon discover that Hotaru is actually
Sailorsaturn, the senshi of destruction who is destined to destroy the world,
and they attempt to kill her. However, the Inner Senshi intervene, and Hotaru
is whisked away before anything can happen. Hotaru does not become Saturn as
the Outers fear though; after swallowing the kidnapped Chibi-usa's heart
crystal, she transforms into Mistress 9, a Death Buster. This leads to the
final confrontation between the Sailor Senshi and the Death Busters.
The three Outer Senshi attempt to infiltrate the school, Uranus and Neptune
being the only ones who manage to get inside due to Pluto's sacrifice.
Inside, they use their Talismans to destroy the daimon that had possessed
Tomoe. They then try to kill Mistress 9 as well but Sailormoon takes the
attacks, claiming that Hotaru is still alive. Mistress 9 tricks Sailormoon
into giving her the Holy Grail and uses its power to draw Master Pharoah 90
to Earth. This destroys the Holy Grail. Mistress 9 is triumphant until
Master Pharoah 90 blasts her. Because of this, Hotaru eventually overcomes
the weakened Mistress 9 with her own inner strength, becoming SailorSaturn.
Saturn returns Chibi-usa's heart crystal to the girl before going off to
battle with Master Pharoah 90. Sailormoon, distraught, uses the power of the
other Sailor Senshi to transform into SuperSailormoon and goes after
Sailorsaturn. In the end, they destroy Master Pharoah 90 and return peace to
the world. Hotaru is reborn as a baby and returned to her father. Haruka
and Michiru, after battling Usagi and acknowledging her as their princess,
SuperS (Supers)
Pegasus comes to Chibi-usa, asking him to help her. He is wanted by the
new enemies, the
Dead Moon
Circus, for his horn. Pegasus has the Golden Crystal in the horn,
which the Dead Moon Circus, composed of Zirconia, the Amazon(ian) Trio,
Quartet, and Neherenia, want in order to take over the world. The
first villains to appear are Zirconia and the Trio.
The Pegasus gives Chibi-usa and Usagi new brooches to transform directly
into their super forms, as well as powers that they can apparently only
use when they call him. He also eventually gives the Inner Senshi the
abilities to transform into their super forms as well. The Inners don't
get their new attacks until after the Amazoness Quartet shows up, however.
Pegasus is hiding in the Dream Mirror of a host, and in order to find him
and take his crystal, the Trio is ordered to search the dream mirrors of the
people of Tokyo. They do so, failing each time, except that Fisheye finally
discovers that Chibi-usa is Pegasus's host. However, after talking to
Mamoru and Usagi, he realizes that he has no dream mirror, and it's eventually
revealed by Zirconia that the Trio isn't human. They are actually animal
spirits in human-like bodies. The Trio are ordered to attack Usagi (who
Zirconia thinks is the host), but while doing so, a lemure is sent to kill
them. The Trio helps Usagi after her Dream Mirror is broken, giving up their
lives to do so. (Fortunately for them, they have a happy ending. Pegasus
gives them dream mirrors, making them human, and places the dream mirrors
where they can remain in peace.)
The Amazoness Quartet appears after that with the same mission, only this time
targeting the Golden Mirror, which is a bit more specific and indicates that
Pegasus is hiding in it. After more searching and failing to find it, the
Inner Senshi and Quartet confront each other after the Quartet decides to do
mass Dream Mirror gathering. The Senshi then invade the Dead Moon Circus,
and Chibimoon is kidnapped and Pegasus finally captured, his Golden Crystal
taken. The Sailor Senshi manage to appeal to the Quartet, who realize that
they have been used all along by Neherenia. The senshi then have it out
with Neherenia. Moon and Chibimoon gain possession of the crystal thanks to
the Quartet, who switches it with a pineapple when Neherenia isn't looking.
Chibimoon calls upon the power of the children of the Earth and invokes the
crystal's power. However, Neherenia has not yet lost, kidnapping Chibimoon
again, Moon following. Neherenia throws Chibimoon off the cliff (they're
on a floating piece of the circus headquarters in the air), and as Moon jumps
off to rescue her, Neherenia seals herself into a mirror to remain beautiful
forever and leaves. Moon manages to wake Chibimoon up just as they're
falling past buildings of Tokyo, which causes Pegasus to arrive and save them.
The season ends with Pegasus, who the senshi discover is really Elios, guardian
of Elysion and Endymion, leaving, and the Quartet becoming normal girls.
In the first arc of SailorStars, Neherenia returns to seek revenge on Usagi
and the Sailor Senshi for thwarting her plans in SuperS. Breaking her
soul mirror, the pieces fall to Earth and enter people's eyes, brainwashing them.
This of course happens to Mamoru. The Outer Senshi return to fight as Haruka
and Michiru are attacked by Neherenia's minions, and Pluto brings baby Hotaru too
since she says they will need her help. Hotaru, using her powers, gives the
Outers all power-ups, and she grows rapidly until she remembers her previous
life and can transform into Sailorsaturn. When reunited, the powers of all
the senshi combine to give Sailormoon her final form, Eternal Sailormoon.
Because of the mirror part in his eye, Mamoru becomes brainwashed by Neherenia,
and she kidnaps him. This throws Chibi-usa into a time paradox because with
her father gone, she will not be able to be born and thus starts to fade.
The Sailor Senshi all go to confront Neherenia and rescue Mamoru; however
they all become separated along the way, and each becomes trapped by Neherenia
in mirrors. Usagi finally manages to reach Neherenia. It turns out that
Neherenia really wanted a friend and was lonely by herself, so she gained
beauty from a mirror to gain admiration from others, but once she discovered
that she couldn't remain beautiful forever, she turned evil. Usagi feels
deep sympathy for her, as do the other Sailor Senshi (all of them are crying),
and they break free of their mirrors. Mamoru is freed from Neherenia's
spell, Chibimoon returns, and then Sailormoon returns Neherenia to her home
to start over, where she wakes up as a small child having a bad dream.
The second arc introduces
and the
who are after the star seeds of the Sailor Senshi. The Animamates target
people who they think will have the light of the star seeds, but they always
fail. All of them discover the identities of the senshi, but all of them die
before they can actually reveal this information to Galaxia.
The Three Lights, an idol rock band, appear in Tokyo at the same time as the
Animamates. Their true identities are the
Sailor Senshi from a different galaxy. Their goal is to find their Princess.
Mamoru leaves to Harvard for a year or so in a plane, but it turns out that
while in flight, Galaxia came and took his star seed. In the meantime in
Tokyo, Chibi-usa has gone home to the future, and in her stead,
arrives, posing as Usagi's little sister after brainwashing Usagi's mom.
She has the chalice, which she uses to help
Princess Kakyuu
come to Earth. She also gives Eternal Sailormoon her new power-up and is
revealed to be a senshi.
Most of SailorStars focuses on the Three Lights interacting with the Sailor
Senshi and the search for the star seeds. Seiya has a crush on Usagi, but
Usagi does not feel the same. The Outer Senshi are extremely hostile to the
Starlights because they feel they do not belong on Earth. Eventually the
Starlights find their princess, Princess Kakyuu, who saves Usagi and ChibiChibi
from Tin Nyanko. However, she is soon killed by Galaxia after her star seed
is extracted from her.
The Inner Senshi and the Starlights confront Galaxia, but Galaxia merely kills
off the Inners, taking their star seeds as well. She then starts to do
massive star seed collecting all over Tokyo, taking any and every one from
all the people. The Outer Senshi go by themselves to fight Galaxia, but they
are also ineffective. Uranus and Neptune then agree to give up their star
seeds to work under Galaxia, killing Pluto and Saturn to prove their loyalty.
They also attack the Starlights and Sailormoon, but when given their final
order to destroy their former allies, Uranus and Neptune turn on Galaxia,
trying to take her star seed. Since Galaxia doesn't have a star seed, this
doesn't do much, and she kills them instead.
Sailormoon, Chibichibi, and the Starlights are left, and actually the
Starlights do pretty little in the battle except to protect Sailormoon.
Chibichibi finally reveals her nature- she is the hope of Galaxia's star seed
who was released when Chaos entered Galaxia's body, turning her evil.
ChibiChibi transforms into a sword for Sailormoon/Princess Serenity to
destroy Galaxia, but Sailormoon refuses to use it. Sailormoon finally wins
the battle by reaching towards the goodness left inside of Galaxia, and
Galaxia becomes good again once Chao leaves her body. She releases all the
star seeds, and then she leaves. The other Sailor Senshi, Kakyuu, and
Mamoru return to life, and then the Starlights leave with their princess as
life returns to normal at the end of the series.
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This was an actual event that took place several years ago.
We were reminded of this story in light of recent events.
Enjoy, but don't forget to say Grace.
This story was shot as part of
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An evening of stories told by a typical American couple, the Figueroas. He is a Swedish-Puerto Rican television aficionado. She is an African-American Jane Pauley sound-alike shopaholic. The audience will follow their adventures in and over America as they stray from the normalcy of their home, Hollywood, CA.
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Steel is my body, and Driver is my blood.
Hey everyone! Tonight at 10pm join the Nintendo News Report team for a week of bankruptcy. We'll be talking Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as well as trying to figure out why 1-2-Switch has video recording and more.
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Definition - What does Kukkutasana mean?
Kukkutasana is an advanced balancing yoga pose that requires good flexibility of the legs and benefits the arms and shoulders.
Starting in padmasana (lotus pose), the hands are squeezed between the thighs and calf muscles until they reach the floor. Palms are touching the floor, with the fingers spread wide and pointing forward. Putting pressure on the hands, the body is lifted above the floor, its entire weight supported by the palms alone. The pose is held for as long as is comfortable.
The name comes from the Sanskrit kukkuta, meaning "rooster," and asana, meaning "pose" or "posture." Therefore, kukkutasana is also referred to as rooster pose in English.
Yogapedia explains Kukkutasana
Kukkutasana is one of the postures mentioned in the ancient Hatha yoga text, "Hatha Yoga Pradipika," and the "Gheranda Samhita."
Kukkutasana stimulates the muladhara chakra and is used for awakening the kundalini shakti, or the primal energy coiled at the base of the spine. When stimulated, laziness vanishes.
It is recommended to learn this pose only after mastering padmasana.


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I decided to stay at Ben Avery's one more week, mostly because it's comfortable here and there's things to do, and partly because I still haven't made up my mind where I want to go from here.
One of the things I wanted to accomplish while I was here is to try and cook something. Now I know that doesn't sound like an earthshaking accomplishment to most people, but I don't normally cook anything because I don't know how. When I make something for lunch or for dinner that usually means that I heated up a can of soup, And even that doesn't always turn out well.
So today I went to the grocery store and bought a corned beef brisket, I happen to like corned beef but I've never made one myself. I have a crockpot that I'm going to use to cook the corned beef because I figured I would do less damage with a crockpot than using a stove. My crockpot is kind of small, I think it's a two-person crockpot and I don't think it's going to hold the whole brisket, so I suppose that means I will have to cut the brisket in half and freeze part of it.
Another reason I'm using the crockpot is I tested it while I was Boondocking and it only draws 4 or 5 Amps an hour, which means that I can use it while Boondocking without putting too much strain on the batteries.
I'm going to start cooking the brisket tomorrow morning and let it cook all day so I can have it for dinner. I really hope it turns out okay because I haven't had a brisket in a long time and it's one of my favorites. But just in case things don't turn out too well, I've notified the fire department, the emergency room, and have a table reserved at the local Mexican restaurant.


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One dog changes the lives of two war veterans
Justin Lansford, Gabe, Spenser Milo, and Good Morning America's Lara Spencer. (Photo credit: ABC News/Good Morning America)
DogTime: Thursday March 13th, 2014 - While veteran Justin Lansford of Silver Spring, Md., served as a paratrooper in Afghanistan, he was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) and lost his leg as a result.
"We struck an IED and it flipped my truck completely," Lansford tells ABC News. "I had bilaterally severed femurs which resulted in the amputation of my left leg."
As Lansford recuperated at the Walter Reade National Military Medical Center, he got a visit from the Warrior Canine Connection (WCC), an organization that pairs wounded veterans with trained service dogs.
It was through WCC that Lansford first met Gabe, the 2-year-old Golden Retriever who has aided Lansford as his service dog for the past five months.
"He helps me with one thing to the next. I can use him as a stable surface to lean on, as I get to and from the ground," Lansford says of Gabe. "If I fall, he'll come up running next to me and I can use him to push off of the get up off the ground."
Gabe has provided both guidance and friendship as Lansford becomes more mobile.
"The less I use my wheelchair, the more I need his help in smaller tasks and the more he is there," Lansford tells ABC News of Gabe. "It has been very comforting to know that."
It seems that Gabe was always destined to work with wounded warriors. Before he began his life with Justin Lansford, Gabe was helping U.S. Army veteran and Colorado Springs, Colo., resident Spencer Milo, who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
"I was on a dismount patrol on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. I see a kid, you know 15-years-old, a suicide bomber. You knew what it was," Milo recalls. "I just remember a big, loud noise, a big flash. And I remember landing."
Milo survived the blast, but wasn't left unscathed. He says he could hardly get through his normal daily activities sometimes.
"It was really hard to go back into public without being so on edge that it made others uncomfortable. I'd sweat profusely and I'd be incredibly grumpy," says Milo.
Milo's doctors suggested he work with the Warrior Canine Connection to help train and socialize one of their new puppies — Gabe. The experience with Gabe changed the trajectory of Milo's life.
"And once I started working with Gabe, I started feeling like myself again," Milo explains. "My family, my wife started seeing me again, and that's incredible. You can't put that into words."
After Gabe's training period with Milo, Milo had to say goodbye and hadn't seen Gabe since. But recently, Milo traveled all the way to Silver Spring for a happy reunion, and to meet the veteran who is benefitting from all of Milo's hard work — Justin Lansford.
"I owe everything to Gabe," says Milo. "I would jump in front of a bus for Gabe, and I know he would do the same for me. And I know he'd do the same for Justin."
Lansford says he was equally excited to meet the man who helped make Gabe such a great service dog and friend.
"I have really had a chance to say thank you to Spencer for working with Gabe and getting Gabe to a point where he could work and help me. Being able to see Spencer face to face has been awesome," says Lansford.
WCC is hoping to make experiences like the one with Lansford, Milo, and Gabe a regular part of caring for our nation's veterans. The organization is using the latest science and research to prove that working with dogs helps veterans with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries. For more information on WCC, their amazing work, or their dogs, check out the Warrior Canine Connection website.
Sources: ABC News, Warrior Canine Connection Facebook
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
On Having Removed Some Stuff From My Blog
People interested in Vancouver punk history and/or activism may be disappointed to discover that I have removed some fairly controversial material from my blog recently. This site was being used in the service of what appears to be a couple of people's personal vendettas (against people other than myself, I should note), and while on the one hand I admit to having found much of what transpired fascinating, I ultimately have no interest in facilitating that sort of behaviour. Feel free to complain or post abusive comments below, but note that I also have turned on comment moderation, and will be simply deleting anything I consider ad hominem or slanderous... Cheerio.
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Having slogged my way through that stuff, I don't blame you in the slightest, Allan! It must be uncomfortable and embarrassing as hell, because, well, you're the HOST of it. I've had some long comment threads to PHOTOS I've posted on facebook, and it's quite uncomfortable, makes me want to delete it because I feel kinda responsible; plus its parto of my nature to avoid confrontation like the plague! - Scott B
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The Freeing of Raqqa and Disarming of ISIS
While many are rejoicing at the fall of Raqqa and the freeing of thousands of trapped civilians, ISIS has retrenched itself in the Oil Rich Deir Ezzor Countryside from Al Qurraya through Qa'im and while maintaining a presence in Western Iraq.
REad moreSyrian Force advances in Deir Ezzor, reported by Almanar are bolstered by the capture of ISIS weapons caches of seized NATO, U.S., and Israeli armaments.
The Financial State of ISIS Today
ISIS's territory has been reduced by over 50 percent from this time in 2016, however their nexus across the Syria and Iraq borders hides the manifestation of risk they pose.
ISIS has lost the capitals of Mosul and Raqqa — however retrenching in Deir Ezzor places them in a position to continue selling oil on the black market to generate revenue.
Deir Ezzor is an oil rich region which could easily facilitate the subsidizing of their war and terror efforts and is a significant concern, as regional players and recently French companies have been discovered purchasing oil from ISIS.
Zaman Al Wasl uncovered reported purchases of oil for toxic material by LaFargeHolcim which was followed by a resignation of their CEO. As ISIS is now in control of major oil again, following losses of wells near Raqqa — oil for arms or illegal sales risks loom large.
ISIS has been known to leverage Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin and Altcoins) for donations and human-trafficking. Dark web transactions of oil or human trafficking increases the risk of ISIS's continued access to capital for terror efforts.
The Online State of ISIS Today
ISIS's online presence continues unabated, with their social media operations continuing. ISIS's Twitter presence has been reduced by 45 percent over the past two years, however their shift to a diverse set of apps including Telegram, Surespot, Facebook, Instagram and their own "Alrawi" social app continues their high-risk level threat.
Online recruiting campaigns targeting "Jillenials" or secular Millenials (aged 20 to 35) looking for meaning is coupled with ISIS recruitment efforts that target a second profile of disaffected youth with violent or "cool" messaging. We call this latter group "Chilladis," a contraction of "Chill" and 'Jihadi."
One thing to consider is that Millennials live in and under a world of social media influencers, with millions of followers, who wield no actual influence on life beyond popularity. ISIS preys on this communication vacuum. This is an area where only interfaith engagement and education to teach youth and Millenials that ISIS is a cult not a cause.
Ongoing online disruption requires modern social media education of counterintelligence organizations, public-private partnerships and development of outbound digital strategies that counter their recruiter messaging. ISIS is estimated to have several hundred to a thousand people working on social media and recruitment. Disrupting this will require a concerted effort — especially in Europe — where the problem is engaging disaffected youth living in ghettoes, with options before ISIS targets them.
The War Ahead
Taking down ISIS in Raqqa is a step in the right direction — but as the Memo Mideast Monitor points out, the road ahead may be far more complicated.
On the ground the U.S.-led coalition has to contend with ISIS forces following ceasefires in regional battles, such as where Hezbollah declared a ceasefire with ISIS to get them out of conflicts on the border of Lebanon.
ISIS satellites, such as ISIS-K (Formerly Waliyat Khurasan) in Afghanistan and the remnants of the Maute forces partnered with ISIS in the Philippines underscore the global risk that still exists once they're defeated in Deir Ezzor. ISIS has also declared its support for the Emir of Boko Haram in Africa — with Boko entangled in conflicts across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. So that will have to stay on National Security counterterrorism radar.


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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided on Sunday to hold the primaries in his Likud party earlier than scheduled, on January 31, 2012.
Prior to announcing his decision, Netanyahu held telephone conversations with ministers from his party and informed them of the decision.
The Likud primaries were to take place several months before the elections (which are not supposed to take place before 2013), but analysts believe Netanyahu's decision to move them up is motivated by his desire to maintain his strong position in the Likud.
A recent Channel 2 poll showed the Likud party gaining 10 Knesset seats if elections were held today, and Kadima losing 11 seats. According to the poll, Likud would have 37 seats, and Kadima would have only 17, putting it in third place after Labor, which would receive 22 seats.
Asked whom they preferred as leader, 41% of respondents approved of Netanyahu. Labor leader Shelly Yechimovich received 15% and Kadima's Livni was tied with Lieberman at 9%.
Netanyahu's decision will likely make it difficult for other contenders for the Likud leadership, first and foremost Minister Silvan Shalom, who in the past has said he would run for leader of Likud.
In response to Sunday evening's announcement, Moshe Feiglin, the head of the Jewish Leadership faction in the Likud and one of Netanyahu's rivals in the party, announced that he would run again for the position of Likud leader no matter when the primaries are held.


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The Freight Rumbles Through Greenpoint
Saturday night at The Place in Brooklyn with The Freight rockin' the joint isn't a bad way to spend an evening.
The Freight is a tight four piece comprised of veterans of the Brooklyn music scene. The band sounded great … and not just because Kim was running the soundboard. Joey Reirdon sets the beat with his expert chops.I've been a fan, and a friend of Joe for a long time, watching him in awe back in the day when he played with Flying Blind and The South Side Boogie Band. To this day, Joe on the list of my top ten drummers. Holding down the bottom end is Bill Harvey, pushing his four strings along to create that fat layer that guitarist Michael Barron can work off of. Mike coaxes the perfect tones from his rig and it's the vocals of Kevin Lay that seals the deal. Kevin's deep bass voice coats each song, making them charge through the air …well like a freight train.
Keep your eyes peeled for their next stop…
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In his current role, Greg is responsible for all new corporate banking relationships to Barclays across all sectors. Originally a Limerick man, he is currently a resident of Aughton and a Liverpool University graduate. An avid squash and tennis player, he is married to Catherine and has two young girls.


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Sunday, September 23, 2012
The honoured dead
We just spent the summer watching all those "War of 1812" ads and now we find out that the Harper Cons have spent five years and three-quarters of a million dollars to try to claw back pensions from disabled veterans.
I guess the people who fight Canada's wars are only honoured by the Harper Cons if they're dead and gone.
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I would like to see some numbers.
I have been privy to the income numbers for two Canadian vets on disability.
One army ( 20 years) One navy (4 years)
Both get prescriptions, glasses ,dentistry, hearing aids, plus an option for a come in house keeper in addition to $3500.00 a month clear.
Both drive, walk, dance, play sports travel and are generally seen as fully able.
Neither makes a purchase without asking for a veterans discount.
Both agree they had PTSS before they signed up.
Both agree it takes a particular kind of stupidity to have the elected leader of the day being your ultimate boss.
So good on them they fought for Canada and Canadians.
The biggest failure of this whole story is that the Canada and Canadians they fought for (to the current tune of 5.4 million) live in poverty.
There are a lot more dangerous occupations where death or disability occur in the "service" of your country than military service.
They both laugh at the civies who never got the gravy train.
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Yes, there are many occupations that lead to disability, but I think the military are a special case. Also, just because it isn't perfect for everyone doesn't mean it shouldn't be better for some. We have to do what we can.
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