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As I am drinking my first cup of coffee this morning and going through all of the media outlets, ESPN is revisiting, yet again, the Matt Schaub trade to Houston. Man, if I had known any better, I would have thought the Texans had won the Super Bowl with all the national media attention we have been getting all week long.
One thing that seems to resonate among the media elites is that Matt Schaub will not be any better here than David Carr, unless the Texans significantly upgrade at the offensive line. Really? So, Matt Schaub is going to be sacked 240+ times in the next four to five years? OK. For argument's sake, let's say he is. That would not be a very good outcome for Gary Kubiak and Rick Smith. This would almost guarantee their one-way ticket out of town.
Coach Kubiak is going to be screaming if Matt Schaub becomes familiar with the turf this year.(Steve Ueckert: Houston Chronicle)
Maybe I am crazy or just haven't had enough coffee yet, but I feel the jury is still out on this OL. We don't know whether or not they had a part to play in Carr's failures or they were the sole reason Carr was familiar with the turf. I know we can watch tape and film and study the games, but I have always said we haven't had a true litmus test on who's to blame.
How can national experts and analysts already know that the team's offensive line was so horrendous, that Schaub will fail if the Texans don't get him some proper protection? If they can see that simply by watching tape and film, they are geniuses and need to be consultants for every NFL team's draft selections.
After all, if they definitively know where every team's weakness lies, the NFL could just back a truck of money up to the ESPN offices in Bristol, CT. and they would have a net worth of Bill Gates or those guys at Google. If they were THAT good, we would all take what ESPN predicts as the Gospel.
Can David Carr point a finger at the Texans OL for his lack of success? (Steve Ueckert: Houston Chronicle)
As fans and people who study our team, I want to know what you have seen to say that it WAS the OL fault for our previous shortcomings. Can you safely say that Scahub will fail if we don't upgrade at the OL?
What I am trying to get to here is that it's interesting to listen how outside opinions view David Carr. Many of the national media conglomerates think David Carr will be the best pickup for any team. It's just amazing to not see anyone put some of the blame on Carr for his lack of success. Maybe it wasn't Carr. It may have not been his fault, but I don't know how anyone can safely predict that at this point.
From outside analysts, the Texans made a huge mistake getting rid of Carr. From a Houston fan, we may think otherwise. Until the season starts, I guess our Texans are going to be continuously dissected on their decisions this off-season by national media members. Hey, I guess as the saying goes: "Bad publicity is still good publicity". Maybe a year or two ago, nobody outside of Houston knew who the Texans were. Now, nobody will ever be able to forget.
Thoughts/Opinions/remarks about all of this media attention for our team? Are they correct in their analysis?
**** The Miami Dolphins appear to be split on signing either QB Trent Green or David Carr. However, sources within the industry have stated that David Carr has openly stated that the Dolphins are his first choice for his post-Texans career.
**** The Texans finally get the deal done for FB Vonta Leach on Monday.
*** David Carr Talk and scenarios, courtesy of the New York Daily News:
"Just one year ago, the Texans paid QB David Carr an $8 million option bonus to buy three more years on his contract rather than draft hometown hero Vince Young. After trading for Atlanta backup Matt Schaub last week, the Texans cut Carr. It's surprising they didn't hold onto him at least through this week and try to trade him at the league meetings. Where will Carr wind up? The Dolphins, who have been focused on trading for K.C.'s Trent Green, could pursue Carr instead. So could Kansas City. New Raiders coach Lane Kiffin was a graduate assistant at Fresno State in 1997-98 when Carr was there. If the Raiders sign Carr, they would dump plans to draft LSU QB JaMarcus Russell with the first pick and likely take Georgia Tech WR Calvin Johnson, who is the best player in the draft". …
**** The Miami Herald is reporting today that the Miami Dolphins are taking a long look at signing David Carr.


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Miss May I are one month out from the release of their highly anticipated fifth full length album, Deathless, out August 7 on Rise Records. Thus it was only fair they reveal the official music video for its leading single "I.H.E." Fuse has the exclusive premiere for you today; enjoy it above.
Deathless, which saw the return of Apologies Are For The Weak and Monuments producer Joey Sturgis (Asking Alexandria, The Devil Wears Prada, We Came As Romans), will hit just one day before the metallers wrap up their summer run on the Vans Warped Tour in Seattle, WA.
Fans expect the album to sonically reflect the band's earlier influences and stylings while also showcasing the maturity Miss May I has grown into over four album cycles and countless tours. "With this album, since the addition of all of our home studios and recording equipment, we are so unbelievably more prepared to do an album than we've been in our entire career," guitarist BJ Stead explained to Concert Blogger ahead of the studio sessions for Deathless.
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Self-published authors should consider offering their books on subscription services because, as far as publishing goes, the more venues the better. You should - after perhaps an initial foray into Amazon KDP Select - get your book onto as many sites, and in as many formats, as you can.
Of the three subscription services listed below, Scribd and Oyster are the least restrictive. (Amazon demands exclusivity.) I would recommend going through Smashwords to get your books onto these services because 1) you will get a royalty and 2) Smashwords also makes your book available to libraries.
Scribd is a subscription service with 80 million unique visitors a month. For a monthly fee of $8.99 subscribers can read unlimited books. The Scribd library boasts more than half a million ebooks and over 30,000 audiobooks, including New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners, as well as self-published works. 60+ million documents have been uploaded by users, Essentially, anyone can upload a file onto Scribd, which has led to several copyright infringements, Although Scribd has a huge readership, the best way to ensure that they notice your book, and that you get some monetary compensation, is to go through your publisher. As a self-publisher, you can use Smashwords or BookBaby, each of which offers a Scribd royalty payment.
Recently, Scribd secured $22 million in financing led by Khosla Ventures and including new funds from existing investors. The new funding brings Scribd's total financing to date to $48 million.
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Oyster was launched in 2013 and is headquartered in New York. With half a million titles and 1,600 publishing partners, Oyster claims to be the leading e-book subscription service and the fifth-largest e-book retailer in the U.S. Half of its titles are self-published. Subscription price: $9.95, free 30-day membership. Royalties: Authors receive about 60 percent royalty via Smashwords. BookBaby authors in their Premium package earn 70 percent from Oyster with BookBaby earning 0 percent. Authors in BookBaby's Free or Standard package earn 70 percent minus 15 percent to BookBaby for a total of 55 percent of the book. Like Scribd, self-published authors need to go through Smashwords or BookBaby.


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Today Morden hit a landmark with over 10,000 sales of the two books that cover his rise to being a Dark Lord being reached. In truth, I'm quite flabbergasted. When I published the first book in February 2012, I was ready to give up writing and turn my hand to something else. I had been
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The Dark Lord's Handbook: Conquest is in the final stages of production and should be on sale soon. I will publish the release date as soon as I have it. In the meantime, here's the full cover. The artist is once again Jaka Prawira.
Of the many challenges in being a self-published/Indie author producing a quality product that matches publishers' products is one of the toughest to meet. The book cover is a major part of that challenge. It's the shop window. While happy with the cover I produced for The Dark Lord's Handbook, I am not an artist,


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Google describes priming this way:
"to enable something to start working or functioning with something" - their example being:
"Larry primed the pump with a little water and it began to do its work."
I would add that it is using a little of the SAME substance as you are wanting to extract in great quantities
A little water added to get the pump to produce a lot of water.
The last few posts are, I realise, my attempt to "prime the pump."
I am eking out a few words in the hopes that they will start a steady flow.
Or, I could just be using this time on my computer to delay the huge task I face.
We are renting out our house for a while over Christmas: the amount of sorting, discarding, giving away, selling off and/or packing away makes my hair stand on end.
Then there is the mind splitting thing of trying to decide what to keep and what not.
I usually leave things like this to the last moment, telling myself I work best under pressure.
Not sure its true though because I've never tried it any other way
Maybe its time to try.
On that note, I will leave this 'pump primer/delaying tactic' and see what the rest of the day brings forth.
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I received this book for free via NetGalley in return for an honest review
I am happy that I chose the third book of the Karev Brothers Series – Her Relentless Russian – , as it is much better than the first installment of the series, even if I was not as content with it, as the last series I read by Leslie North. Leslie has a talent for tying up her series very nicely, which did not happen as well with this one, as it left me still wanting more – more stories, more conclusion, more resolution. Still, I thought this series as a whole, and this book on it own was entertaining.
Usually, I recommend that you can read any of the Author's books as a stand-alone novel, but I highly suggest that you should read the other two installments first, before diving into this novel. It makes much more sense as a series, than a stand-alone, and will make a lot more sense than if you read it randomly.
That said, I really liked this Karev brother, much better than his arrogant brothers. The female lead – Harper – is feisty, and not someone who would take being bullied into submission, no matter if it is from Dimitri, or anyone else. That was a nice change from the first book, which had a push-over female lead. I like romance novels where both main characters are equal in character.A steamy conlcusion of a fast paced romance series by Leslie North: Her Relentless Russian Click To Tweet
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Title: Her Relentless Russian
Author: Leslie North
Series: Karev Brothers Book 3
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Publication Date: January, 24th, 2017
Genre: Romance, General Fiction (Adult)
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Rare bookstore owner Dmitry Karev left the Russian Mafia behind when his wife died, but there's too much at stake to keep his back turned any longer. His father is dead and his brothers may be next. Someone's been leaving Dmitry clues about the killer, but he never expected his informant to be a bombshell like Harper Allen. Now the curvy computer expert is testing not only Dmitry's methodical nature, but his self-restraint as well. But with his family's lives in the balance, Harper may be the best chance Dmitry's got to catch a killer.
When hacker Harper Allen's parents used her college money to pay off the Mafia, it was Sergey Karev who financed her education. Now that he's been murdered, she's repaying him the only way she can…by helping his son solve the crime. To follow the trail any further, though, she'll have to convince Dmitry to work with her. The buttoned-up Russian seems hesitant at first, but it doesn't take long for Harper to discover what's beneath Dmitry's icy cool demeanor.
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As part of this program, we will set up some time for Rick Beers (Senior Director, Product Management at Oracle and an IT leader himself) to visit customer offices for a strategy briefing. We'd also use the opportunity to record a video documentary between the customer and Rick on the business, economic and organizational impact of Oracle AppAdvantage (the value achieved in using Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Applications). This documentary-style piece will highlight the company's investment in innovation and technology's impact on Enterprise Applications architectures, business process excellence, organizational structures and competitiveness. Rather than a self-serving video, the idea is to build a documentary style piece that can be used by both Oracle and the customer to showcase thought leadership, innovation and serve as an example of a business transformation/platform modernization success story.
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Reagan, Regulation, and the FDA: The US Food and Drug Administration's Response to HIV/AIDS, 1980-90
Richert, Lucas, Canadian Journal of History
While there has been much effort to refocus the FDA toward patients the past eight years, there has been relative silence from one man: Ronald Reagan.
Wall Street Journal, 13 October, 1988
Each of those folks [AIDS activists] thought there was a drug that was the next magic bullet that could save lives, if FDA would just put them on the market. And so you had this synergy between these ultraliberal AIDS activists and these almost rightwing conservatives who wanted regulation reduced.
Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning, William Hubbard, 27 July, 2005
I. Background
The first US cases of what became known as HIV/AIDS occurred in the late 1970s. Gay men in San Francisco began showing up at local clinics complaining of swollen glands, and they then began to die of unusual diseases (Kaposi's sarcoma) and a form of pneumonia (pneumocytosis carinii) not commonly seen in the young. In June 1981, the federal Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report began alerting doctors nationwide to these new developments. By the end of the year, the number of immune collapse cases in homosexual men rose to 180. In mid-1982, good evidence that the disease was sexually transmitted finally surfaced; at the conclusion of summer, 505 cases had been reported, with 202 dead. (1)
By April 1984, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler announced that scientists had identified the source of AIDS as a retrovirus, soon labeled human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). At the time, there were 4,117 reported cases of AIDS in the US By the beginning of 1985, AIDS had killed an estimated 5,600 Americans. By January 1989, when Reagan left office, there was still only one AIDS drug on the market even though the Centers for Disease Control had confirmed 82,764 cases and 46,344 deaths. (2)
II. President Reagan's Lack of Leadership
Amid this growing public health crisis, the FDA was not given a clear policy direction from Washington. The historical record indicates that President Ronald Reagan's leadership on the HIV/AIDS issue was in fact lacking. According to Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning William Hubbard, it was perceived "within the FDA that the Reagan administration didn't want to talk about AIDS for a long time." (3) And, Hubbard added, "AIDS activists concluded that the agency was sitting on lifesaving AIDS drugs and refusing to let patients have them, sort of a ban by the social conservatives." (4) By other accounts, the president was "uncomprehending," "dithering," and "slow to confront the issue." (5)
President Reagan's response to HIV/AIDS was indeed questionable. First, he mentioned HIV/AIDS only once publicly before the film actor Rock Hudson (a friend of Reagan's from his Hollywood days) died of AIDS in October 1985, at which point the president asked for more information from the White House physician. Reagan did not speak of AIDS again until February 1986 when he instructed his Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, to report on the problem. Second, Reagan deigned to ignore the counsel of his wife, who pushed him to endorse the use of condoms. Third, the president allowed his staff to delete mention of Ryan White from a widely awaited address in May 1987 to the American Foundation for AIDS Research. White, a hemophiliac teenager who had been ostracized in his hometown of Kokomo, Indiana, after he had contracted AIDS from a blood-clotting agent, was a pointed example of how anyone could contract the disease. Fourth, in June 1987, the Reagan administration established a presidential commission on HIV/AIDS. Its mission was to investigate the disease in its entirety and recommend solutions. After conducting hearings into all aspects of the situation, the presidential commission produced a report in June 1988 which offered a number of measures. According to the House Committee on Government Operations, the president's response to the recommendations was to shelve them until his White House staff had properly studied them. …


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"Almost Thirty Years" episode #1.22
(In Taipei, Will is dragged into a room by two guards. The doors to the room are very similiar to the ones in he torture room in the pilot, so it could be he same room Sydney was in. They throw Will down on a chair and handcuff his ankles to the legs and handcuff his wrists. His face is swollen and bruised. His left eye is swollen shut and blue. Sark follows them in and nods to the guards. They leave Sark and Will alone.)
SARK: My employer instructed me to keep you alive... but not comfortable. So, I'll ask you once. What is the circumference? And how do you know about it?
WILL: Listen to me, man. There's been a major misunderstanding here. I don't know what the circumference is. Do you understand me? I don't know.
(Sark nods and turns. He leaves. Just like in the pilot, we get closer on those doors. They suddenly burst open and the gentleman from that episode walks in. A guard comes in with him and grabs Will by his hair. He yanks his head back.)
WILL: Aahh!
(They pry open his mouth with a clamp. The man leans in close. Will's eyes get wide.)
SUIT AND GLASSES: Hello.
(Back home, Sydney is just waking up. She sits up in bed. Francie comes in with some sheets in a folder and sits down next to her bed.)
FRANCIE: I'm opening a restaurant.
SYDNEY: What?
FRANCIE: Screw it. I have to open a restaurant. I just decided.
SYDNEY: How--what are you talking about?
FRANCIE: I feel like I've been sitting around, waiting for my life to start. My ass is on that couch, like, twelve hours a day.
SYDNEY: Francie, you're about to graduate from business school...
FRANCIE: Yeah, but then what? I don't have a plan. Here's a plan.
SYDNEY: Where is it? Do you already have a place?
FRANCIE: Yeah. It's in Silver Lake. I'm not even sure what it's going to be yet, but--
(Syndey's cell phone rings. She gets up out of bed and answers it.)
SYDNEY: Hello?
SARK: Sydney Bristow.
SYDNEY: Yes.
SARK: I'm calling on this line because I know it's untraceable. Listen to me very carefully. We have your friend and we plan to kill him... unless you do the following. There's a document recently stolen from a nightclub in Paris. It belongs to my employer. Now, it appears to be a blank page and it has a great value to him. He wants it back, along with a certain container of liquid. I believe you are familiar with the items to which I am referring?
(Sydney is crying. She tries to answer firmly, as if she isn't.)
SYDNEY: Yes. I am.
WILL: SYD! Don't listen to him! Don't do anything for me!
SARK: You have forty-eight hours. There's an alleyway in Taipei at Ho Ping and Ryuian. Be there Tuesday at midnight.
(On the pier, Sydney and Jack meet. She's crying.)
SYDNEY: The CIA has the page Khasinau wants. SD-6 has the ampule. You and I could get them both and just turn them over.
JACK: We can't afford to blindly hand the enemy something he wants so desperately.
SYDNEY: I don't know much about you. Do you have any close friends? I mean, people that you love?
JACK: I don't need a lecture on friendships to understand what's at stake here. And while I might look at scenarios more strategically than emotionally, you could learn something from my experience. The Rambaldi document Khasinau wants -- he can't make the ink on that page visible without the vial of liquid, the ampule. Reading that page is so important to Khasinau that he risked sending a team into SD-6 to try and steal it.
SYDNEY: You want to get the page and the ampule and see for ourselves what that page is?
JACK: We can't strategize our next move without that information.
(A few minutes later, Jack has his laptop out and he's typing.)
JACK: Getting the ampule from he CIA storage facility should be straightforward. It's recovering the page that I'm concerned about. It was moved to the SD-6 off-site lab for analysis. The lab is on a former military site near Santa Barbara. It's surrounded by water. You'll have to get in through the drainage system and access requires Sloane's voice ID and fingerprints.
(Her pager goes off.)
SYDNEY: It's Vaughn.
JACK: Khasinau knew about the safehouse. He must have someone on the inside.
SYDNEY: I know.
JACK: As long as there's a mole at the CIA, you can't tell Vaughn a thing. Not that you've been contacted, or that you and I have spoken.
(In the self-storage, Sydney sits on a chair with her head in her hands. Vaughn paces.)
VAUGHN: Sydney, I'm so sorry about this but there's no reason to assume the worst. They used tranquilizers on the security team, which means they weren't out for blood. If this is a kidnapping, they'll contact us.
(He sits down in the chair across from her and she looks up.)
SYDNEY: I'm just so scared for him. You'll contact me if you hear anything?
(He looks in her eyes.)
SYDNEY: Vaughn.
VAUGHN: What's going on?
SYDNEY: What do you mean?
(At the CIA, in Weiss' office, Vaughn paces again while Weiss sits behind his desk.)
VAUGHN: I haven't known Sydney that long, but I feel like I have. Like I know her well enough to know that she doesn't just accept problems. She tries to fix them.
WEISS: So, you think she'll try and get her friend back by using back channels?
VAUGHN: Maybe.
WEISS: And why wouldn't she tell you?
VAUGHN: The safehouse was compromised. She doesn't exactly trust the CIA right now. Would you?
WEISS: Trust is a tricky thing.
VAUGHN: What does that mean?
WEISS: I think you need to fill Devlin in on what you've been thinking about Sydney.
VAUGHN: Not a chance.
WEISS: Michael--
VAUGHN: What, fill him in on conjecture?
WEISS: I know this is a difficult time for you--
VAUGHN: What are you saying?
WEISS: Do not let your concern for Sydney get ahead--
VAUGHN: Eric, that's not--
WEISS: --GET AHEAD of your responsibility to the Agency!
VAUGHN: That's not what I'm doing here!
(Haladki pops his head in.)
HALADKI: Hey, my investigation is on a schedule. You have an appointment with me. You're late.
WEISS: Yeah, I didn't think you'd mind.
HALADKI: Hey, guess what? I do!
(Weiss leaves. When he passes by Haladki, he gives him a little shoulder check.)
(At a beach house somwhere near the ocean, Sloane leads Emily outside where two chairs are placed.)
EMILY: Arvin, this is beautiful... what did you do, did you rent this place for me to recover in?
(He doesn't say anything and guides her over to the chairs.)
EMILY: Stop. You've been quiet since we left the hospital.
(They sit down across from one another.)
EMILY: Arvin, you're scaring me.
(He looks out at the water for a few moments.)
SLOANE: SD-6 is not part of the CIA.
(He leans forward and tells her everything. Her eyes tear up and she looks frightened of him. He gets closer, pleading. She begins to cry, staring at him as he talks. She doesn't say a thing but she begins shaking slightly and crying. He pleads. She shakes and yells something. Sloane gets up and moves away from her. Then he walks away and goes back inside. Emily is shaking and crying. She closes her eyes.)
(In a van, Jack and Sydney debrief.)
JACK: This shirt is made of a heat sensitive material. Get Sloane to touch it. It'll transmit a digital copy of his prints and I'll create a latex duplicate.
(He gives her a watch.)
JACK: This is a wireless relay. It'll log me into Sloane's computer once you're in range of the terminal. I'll acquire the passwords then you'll lead the conversation. He doesn't need to say the actual words. Every word in the English language is comprised of forty-four basic phonemes. He's likely to say most of them in casual conversation. I'll shape them into the words we need. Once you'll leave Sloane's office, you'll have less than an hour to get to the facility before the passwords change.
SYDNEY: Dad... thanks.
(Marshall's office. He's working on something -- not a pop-up book -- when Dixon enters.)
DIXON: Marshall, can you remember back to the Aconcagua operation? Sydney's code name?
MARSHALL: Miss Bristow? It was, uh, Bluebird.
DIXON: Bluebird. So it wasn't Freelancer?
MARSHALL: Freelancer? No, no, it was Bluebird. Definitely.
(Sloane's office. He sits behind his desk looking depressed. Sydney enters.)
SYDNEY: Excuse me. Do you have a minute?
SLOANE: Yeah. Yeah, of course.
SYDNEY: I feel so selfish coming to you like this...
(In the van, Jack sits behind a few monitors and watches Sydney's view on Sloane from the camera she's wearing. He's listening in on the conversation.)
SYDNEY: ...Especially knowing what you and Emily must be going through right now. I'm sorry.
SLOANE: Sydney...
(He gets up and leaves his computer, comes around to talk to her.)
JACK: Okay, Sydney, keep him away from his computer.
(Sydney clicks the watch and pretends to look upset.)
SLOANE: What is it, Sydney? You can tell me.
(He touches her shoulder.)
SLOANE: Come on. You can tell me.
(The transmit from Sloane's touch comes up on Jack's monitor. He tears out the latex duplicate.
JACK: Got his prints. Still accessing central security.
SYDNEY: I don't remember much about my mother. When I think of the things that I miss, the experiences I wish I had with someone... sitting in a garden, talking... look, I think I had those things with Emily and the thought of losing that connection...
(His phone rings on his desk, right by his computer.)
SLOANE: Excuse me.
(It still shows on his computer monitor that Jack is accessing the security. Jack types quickly. He's in. He puts the screen back up. Sloane answers the phone.)
SLOANE: Yeah? I'll be right there.
(He hangs up and comes closer to Sydney.)
SLOANE: When Emily was diagnosed with cancer, the doctors predicted she had six months. That was three years ago.
(Jack, in the van, starts configuring the sounds and manipulating them for the passwords.)
SLOANE: And you know, in a way, we're lucky. Thinking every day may be her last has reminded us how priveleged we are to have her in our lives.
JACK: We still need the consonant "ch," Sydney. As in "choose."
SLOANE: I have to get ready for this meeting--
SYDNEY: Did you and Emily ever think of having children?
SLOANE: What we do here Sydney, is more than just a career. I didn't think it would be fair to bring someone into the world who couldn't really know their father. Seeing the kind of woman you've become, knowing that I had something to do with it... that's as rewarding as if I had a child of my own.
JACK: b*st*rd.
(He configures the last sound for "choose." Sydney walks out of the office and sees Dixon sitting at his desk.)
JACK: You have exactly fifty-seven minutes before the passwords change.
(She smiles. Dixon smiles back and watches her walk out.)
(In the torture room, a drill whirs in Will's mouth. He gasps and screams. Suit and Glasses takes the drill away and wipes it off.)
SUIT AND GLASSES: You had a cavity. Talk to me about the circumference.
WILL: I don't know anything about the circumference... I swear to God... I swear to God... Please...
(He gets out the pliers.)
WILL: No, no... no, no, no, no...
(He comes closer.)
WILL: NOO! Arghhhhhhhhhhh! AHHHHHH!
(Suit and Glasses yanks out a tooth. Will squirms and screams.)
(Sloane's office. The Alliance leader Ramond sits across from Sloane at his desk.)
RAMOND: As you know, the Alliance granted your request to spare your wife. Your argument at the time was that she was suffering from a terminal illness. But that is no longer the case.
SLOANE: Well... I propose we bring Emily in. Emily spent eight years in the state department, she was a senior partner at--
RAMOND: Arvin.
SLOANE: Emily will be an asset here.
RAMOND: If I were in your position, I might try to do the ame but it won't work. I am truly sorry but these are the prescripts of the Alliance.
SLOANE: You don't know the kind of mistake that you are making here.
RAMOND: As I said before, threats will do no good.
SLOANE: This threat might. It's not what I'll do if you have Emily killed, it's what I won't do. The Alliance is falling apart, Ramond. This organization is crumbling under the weight of corruption, bureaucracy, infighting, fear. With enemies like Khasinau, we live in a new world. Do you tell me that you think the Alliance is going to survive under its current state? We need new leadership. With Briault and Poole gone, there are two empty chairs around the partners' table.
RAMOND: And you want one of them.
SLOANE: I demand one of them.
RAMOND: Arvin, I came here today not only to hear your appeal for your wife but because the Alliance has already voted and they agreement was unanimous. We agree that you should be admitted to full partner.
SLOANE: Good.
RAMOND: However... this offer is contingent on your fulfilling the other matter.
(Sydney drives up, alone, to the water's edge and gets out. She zips up her scuba outfit and puts her mask on. Looks at her watch. Gets her pack on. And dives in. Dixon sits in his car nearby and watches her. Sydney swims, flashlight in hand. She gets to the drainage cover and takes out a torch, removing the grid. She enters.)
(The CIA conference room with Vaughn, Weiss, Haladki and Devlin.)
VAUGHN: So, I'm confused. Why was I called in here?
DEVLIN: Mr. Weiss mentioned that you were suspicious of Sydney Bristow.
(Vaughn looks at Weiss, who is sitting next to him..)
(Sydney enters the building and takes off her mask.)
(At the CIA storage building, Jack drives up and shows his badge to the security officer. She nods and clears him in.)
(Conference room.)
VAUGHN: When I mentioned I was suspicious, I simply meant that Sydney seemed troubled.
HALADKI: But that isn't the word you used, is it?
(Sydney runs in her scuba gear to the security panel. She checks her watch. She has eight seconds left before the passwords change. She takes out the latex duplicate and covers her finger. She takes out a tape recorder and plays the manipulated passwords.)
SLOANE'S VOICE: Rule. Dear. Choose.
(She presses her finger with his fingerprint up to the panel and enters. She runs in the lab and sees the page. She rolls it up and puts it in a can. She runs out.)
(Jack walks in the storage room. He punches in a code and opens the doors.)
(Conference room.)
VAUGHN: What I said was I feel I have an understanding of Sydney Bristow and that she doesn't just accept problems, she tries to fix them.
HALADKI: And that perhaps Ms. Bristow and her father are trying to secure release of Mr. Tippin on their own?
VAUGHN: It was just a conversation. I have--
DEVLIN: Is it your opinion, Mr. Vaughn, that Ms. Bristow is hiding something from you? Hiding something from the Central Intelligence Agency?
(Vaughn looks at Weiss all, "How could you?")
VAUGHN: Yes, sir.
(Jack takes out the ampule and closes the box up.)
(Devlin's office. He's alone and speaking on the phone to the female guard who let Jack through.)
DEVLIN: Yeah, it's Devlin. Records say Jack Bristow checked into your location.
GUARD: Yeah, like, twenty minutes ago.
DEVLIN: Keep him there!
GUARD: Sir... he already left.
(On the shore, Sydney takes off the headgear and shakes out her wet hair. Dixon walks up.)
DIXON: In Aconcagua, when I was shot, you radioed for help. You used the call sign Freelancer. Sydney, your SD-6 call sign was Bluebird. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. I even made excuses for you in my head. Trouble is, I don't believe any of those excuses. Who are you working for? And do not play games with me!
SYDNEY: Dixon, you know that I would never do anything to hurt you. You know that I would never do anything to betray what we believe in!
DIXON: How am I supposed to know what you believe when you've been lying to me? I'm your partner!
SYDNEY: Just think about this for a minute. Just think about everything we've been through. Just think about who I am. Now, what I am going to ask you to do is just accept the fact that I cannot tell you what this is about. What I am doing is classified but Dixon... I swear to you that I am not betraying this country. I could never do that. You know that!
DIXON: I don't need rhetoric, Sydney. Right now, I need a reason not to report you to security section.
(Devlin's office. His telephone rings.)
DEVLIN: Yeah.
(Jack's driving in his car, talking on his cell.)
JACK: It's me.
DEVLIN: Jack? What the hell are you doing?
JACK: I'm saving someone's life.
DEVLIN: Really? Well, you may be destroying another one! You just stole classified property of the United States government!
JACK: You'll get the solution back plus a copy of the Rambaldi page.
DEVLIN: Jack, I have accepted your methodds for a lot of years now but there's a mole hunt going on here.
JACK: Any leads on the mole?
DEVLIN: Well, so far... I'm talking to the guy. I gave Haladki authority to start an inquiry. He's got some good questions. Why you were willing to risk Tippin's life, in the first place, how come you came to know about the circumference? Jack, this doesn't look good. Come back to the office.
JACK: We're friends, you and I.
DEVLIN: What?
JACK: You'd consider us friends?
DEVLIN: Well, I used to. What the hell are you talking about?
JACK: I'll see you when the job's done.
(He hangs up. Devlin covers his mouth with his hand.)
(In the Taipei torture room, Suit and Glasses picks up a jar of yellow liquid and a very large syringe.)
SUIT AND GLASSES: A gentleman I know makes this... truth serum. I would have used it earlier except that one in five men who receive it has an unfortunate reaction.
(He injects the syringe with the serum. Will's head is hanging low and blood drips down from his mouth onto his sweatshirt.)
SUIT AND GLASSES: Results in... paralysis, among other things.
(He finishes loading up the syringe and grabs Will by the neck.)
WILL: Aahh...
(Suit and Glasses injects the serum into Will's neck.)
WILL: Owww... oohhhh...
(Will breaks down. He starts shaking a little. Suit leans in close. Will starts sobbing.)
SUIT AND GLASSES: Tell me about the circumference.
WILL: (sobbing) I don't know... I don't know...
(Litvack's office at Will's newspaper. Abby stands before her desk while Litvack reads the article.)
ABBY: It's been six days. Will warned me something might happen. He didn't even turn up to his own awards dinner. Called his friends, they haven't heard from him either. Are you going to publish his story?
LITVACK: Yeah. In the "A" section. I have to tell Deitrick that this is coming in. Call Orsay in graphics, get a photo of Will!
(In a garage, Sydney wipes the solution on the page and the ink slowly appears.)
SYDNEY: Then Dixon just turned and walked away. I think he's going to report me.
JACK: If we have to dela with that crisis, we'll deal with that crisis.
(All of the ink appears and it shows the designs and instructions for the Mueller device from the pilot. The U-shaped base with a red floating ball. Sydney gets a flashback.)
SYDNEY: Oh, my God...
(She remembers how when she unlatched the sides, the ball exploded and liquid came out.)
SYDNEY: This device... I took it from Taipei last year.
JACK: Two weeks ago an unsubstantiated report came in through CIA claiming Khasinau's been looking for something called the circumference. Instructions describing a method of applying technology Khasinau had acquired. This must be the circumference.
SYDNEY: So if Khasinau built one of these devices this page would tell him how to use it.
JACK: (nods slowly) Keep this safe...
SYDNEY: Wait, Dad, what are you doing? We have to be in Taipei in sixteen hours.
JACK: Keep your phone with you. I'll call you when the plane's ready. Don't go home.
(That night Haladki walks to his car. His car alarm chirps. He climbs in and is about to start the engine when he's grabbed from behind. His attacker drags him to the back seat. Haladki kicks and tries to scream. Jack presses a gun to his throat.)
JACK: How the hell did you know about the circumference?
HALADKI: You are out of your mind, you know that?
(Jack calmly slams his gun into Haladki, knocking him out.)
(Garage. Jack walks and picks up a spray bottle filled with a liquid. He calmly walks over to Haladki who is spread out on a table on his back. His hands are in two wood vices. Jack sprays it on his face to make him wake up.)
HALADKI: Aughhh... dammit, my eyes! Ahhh! Oh, God!
(He sees that his hands are in the vice.)
JACK: How long have you worked for Khasinau?
HALADKI: You sick SON OF A BITCH!
JACK: Devlin said you mentioned the circumference.
HALADKI: I want to see you BURN IN HELL, you HEAR me?
JACK: You don't have the clearance to know what that is.
HALADKI: You b*st*rd!
JACK: You must have learned about it from the outside.
HALADKI: You SON OF A BITCH!
(Jack twirls the vice and tightens it. Haladki's fingers crack and break.)
HALADKI: Ahhh!
JACK: Do you work for Khasinau?
HALADKI: No!
(He tightens it some more. Crunch.)
HALADKI: Ahhhhhhh!
JACK: Do you work for Khasinau?
HALADKI: You son of a bitch!
(Jack tightens it even more. Haladki's hand crunches under the pressure, breaking.)
HALADKI: YES! I work for Khasinau, yes!
(Jack presses his gun to Haladki's throat.)
JACK: How long?
HALADKI: Two years!
JACK: Why does Khasinau want the circumference?
HALADKI: It's the key to something he's had built!
JACK: Something he's built. Tell me about it.
HALADKI: It's a battery! All I know is it's just a battery!
JACK: For what?
HALADKI: I swear I don't know! Jack, Khasinau's the future!
JACK: Where is this thing? This battery?
HALADKI: It's in Taipei! The Fu Sing district, at a warehouse! Pang Pharmaceuticals! In an underground lab, in room forty-seven!
JACK: You gave Khasinau the information about the safehouse.
HALADKI: Jack, this is a gift I'm giving you! Khasinau can save you! You should be with him!
JACK: You told him that my daughter is a double agent with SD-6.
HALADKI: Jack, look at yourself--
JACK: You exposed Sydney!
HALADKI: Come with me! I can save you! I can save you!
(Jack looks in Haladki's pleading eyes. Jack stares. Shoots him.)
(Train station. Sydney sits curled up in a chair.)
ANNOUNCER: Attention, passengers. "Pacific Surfliner" to San Diego departing from platform five in fifteen minutes...
(Vaughn sits down on the other side of the seats. Their backs are to each other.)
VAUGHN: Hey.
(She looks and then looks away.)
SYDNEY: Hi. How did you find me?
VAUGHN: You told me a couple of months ago that when you feel the need to disappear, you go to the observatory. But the observatory was closed. And then I remembered you said the pier calms you down. But you weren't there. And you weren't at the bluffs and the palisades, either.
SYDNEY: You didn't really go to all those places.
VAUGHN: Yeah, I did. And then I remembered you liked the train station, too. Normal people going to their normal jobs.
SYDNEY: I can't believe you remember that.
VAUGHN: He's contacted you, hasn't he? Khasinau? And he wants the page. You're going to give it to him.
SYDNEY: (crying) You came here to stop me.
VAUGHN: My father used to keep a diary and when I was a kid I used to say, "Hey, Dad, only girls keep diaries," and he'd just laugh. He was a really good guy, my dad. Yeah. But he was too hard on himself. I mean, he was such a company guy that whenever he slipped up even in the slightest way he took it so personally. There were a few operations -- his last one among them -- that he questioned. Operations he refused to participate in. But only in his diary. He'd write out what he wanted to say to the CIA director. I mean, things he could never say in real life. He was a company man, and I loved him very much. But it killed him, never questioning orders. His blind devotion to the job. If you're doing what I think you're doing, I'm in if you need me.
SYDNEY: Thank you.
(On the plane, Jack, Sydney and Vaughn sit together and go over the mission. Jack has several surveillance photos of Taipei in front of him.)
SYDNEY: Who told you about this?
JACK: I found a source. Khasina's already built one of these devices and it's in this warehouse. In an underground lab, room forty-seven. The meeting with Sark is scheduled to take place in two hours from now. That means by the time I hand over the page in exchange for Tippin, you must have destroyed not ony the device they've built but the lab itself.
SYDNEY: Destroying the device should be easy. It's the size of a shoe. What about the lab?
(Jack gives her a bag.)
JACK: Here. It's a red mercury charge with a mechanical fuse.
(A red light flashes over their head and a buzzer goes off.)
SYDNEY: I'll see what they need.
(She leaves them alone.)
JACK: I understand the risks you've taken here and you have my respect for that.
(Vaughn nods.)
(Torture room. Suit and Glasses talks to Sark.)
SUIT AND GLASSES: If he knew anything about the circumference, we would have heard it.
SARK: I suspected as much. Prepare Mr. Tippin for the exchange.
(Will watches, looking completely dazed from the serum. His shoulders are hunched over and he stares at the ground, twitching slightly. The two guards and Suit and Glasses walk in. S&G snaps his fingers. The guards take off the handcuffs. As soon as they're off, Will leaps to his feet and knocks down the guards. He takes the needle from the tray beside him and lunges at Suit and Glasses. He stabs him in the neck with the needle.)
WILL: One in five, you little bitch! ONE IN FIVE!
(The guards scramble and get up. They come after him but Will elbows them in the face.)
WILL: One in FIVE!
(Will crazy laughs as the guards get up again and drag him out of the room. As Will passes Suit and Glasses, he kicks him hard, still laughing. Suit and Glasses gasps for air.)
WILL: (high pitched laughter) ONE IN FIVE!
(Sloane's mansion. In the dining room, an operatic aria plays. Dinner is on the table. Emily sits in front of her plate. Sloane puts his back to her and opens a small package of powder. He sprinkles the substance in her wine glass and puts it in front of her. He takes his seat across from her.)
EMILY: Arvin... I can't judge you for what you do. I was never there, I was never faced with the choices you had to make and I have never... What I'm trying to say is... I forgive you.
(He tries not to break down. He looks at her wine for a second. She picks it up and he tries to smile, but can't. He picks up his own glass. She takes a big drink. With tears in his eyes, he takes a drink from his own glass. He looks at her and smiles weakly.)
(Taipei club. Sydney is wearing a blue chin-length wig and a black bra with black netting over it. Dog collar. Vaughn's in a long leather jacket with his hair spikey. They walk in the club together and weave through the dancing people. A guy comes up and leers at Sydney. Vaughn stares for a second and shoves the guy away. She smiles. They take hands and walk off together. They walk through the club and go to the back. She breaks open the lock and they go inside. They drill out a panel and climb through to the underground level.)
(In an alley, Jack drives up and gets out of his car. A limo drives up. Jack stands by his vehicle, waiting. Sark gets out of his white limo.)
SARK: Jack Bristow doing his daughter's work. There was speculation that you might make an appearance tonight.
JACK: If you're not comfortable with me, we can waive our business for the night and say good-bye.
SARK: Are you comfortable? Do you feel comfortable trading priceless documents for a low-grade reporter?
JACK: You should read Tippin's stuff. It's not so bad.
SARK: Let's see the artifact.
JACK: Let's see Tippin.
(Sark turns and nods. The door opens and Will is being held up by another goon. He's covered in blood and his head wobbles a bit. Jack blinks at how bloody Will looks. Then he focuses again.)
SARK: Shall we?
(Jack opens the suitcase on the hood.)
SARK: You've exposed the page.
JACK: You would have done the same thing.
(In the underground level of the club.)
VAUGHN: When I activate the surge inducer, you'll have ten seconds to cross the hall before the system resets.
SYDNEY: I'll go radio silent until I'm in the lab!
VAUGHN: Good luck!
SYDNEY: You, too.
(They run off.)
(In the alley, Sark examins the page closely.)
SARK: The parchment fibers are consistent with the other Rambaldi documents. Yes. We have a deal.
(He nods again. The goon brings Will forward. Sark closes up the suitcase.)
SARK: Please pass along to your daughter how much I enjoyed her stage show in Paris. She has a marvelous singing voice.
(He walks away, smirking. The goon pushes Will forward. They get in their limo and drive away. Jack looks at Will. For a moment it looks like Will might fall to the ground like a sack of exhausted flour. Will stumbles closer to Jack... and hugs him.)
WILL: Thank you.
(Jack looks uncomfortable, not used to this.)
WILL: (sobbing) Thank you...
(Jack puts a hand on Will's back and pats him gently.)
(Vaughn makes the cameras in the control room go down. Sydney runs down the hallway and opens the door. She runs down another hallway. Two guards come her way. She kicks one in the stomach and he bangs in to the one behind him. She elbows the first one. He bends over in pain. Sydney rolls over on his back and kicks the other guard in the face. She kicks the one behind and roundhouse kicks the other one. The guards go down. Sydney grabs her bag and runs down the hallway to room forty-seven. She hits the red button and the door slides open. She walks inside and turns a corner, looking around. Then she looks up, up, up, up. She gets closer. The red ball is definitely not the size of a shoe. It looks ten stories high.)
SYDNEY: Vaughn... it's bigger than I thought.
VAUGHN: Syd, I can't hear you!
(The feed on Vaughn's end is crackling.)
SYDNEY: If I turn this thing off, I'm going to have to swim out of here.
VAUGHN: You're breaking up! Syd? Syd, I'm coming down!
(Vaughn starts running. In room forty-seven, Sydney looks at the prongs that she unlatched in the first episode. They're the size of large pillars now. Two guards run up to her and yell, their guns pointed. She runs from them and ducks behind some boxes. She runs around and finally attaches the explosive to the Mueller device and runs out. One of the guards run up, sees the explosive beeping and he yells. The explosive goes off and the guards fly in the air. Sydney runs from it all. The fire gets closer to the red ball and it bursts. The liquid starts rushing out. Sydney runs. Vaughn is also running, but towards the water and Sydney. They meet at the end of a hall. He watches as the liquid starts rushing toward them. Sydney is running fast and motions for him to go. She runs up to him and grabs him by the chest, getting him out of there. They turn another corner and run down the hallway to get out of there. Sydney's ahead of him. She scrambles for the door where she punched the red button to get inside. The door's sliding closed. She runs in, tries to hold on to the door to keep it open for Vaughn to escape, but the door closes. Vaughn looks at her through the window in the door. The water's creeping up behind him. The force of it all slams Vaughn against the door. Sydney grabs the fire extinguisher and starts banging it against the window to get him out but it doesn't work. She hits it again. And again. And again. Vaughn stares at her, engulfed in the liquid. He motions behind her and to get out of there, but she won't stop. She bangs the fire extinguisher against the window again. His eyes close. She keeps on, frantic now. Vaughn disappears. A guard from behind takes Sydney down. She elbows him in the face and gets up. Vaughn's gone. Someone hits Sydney across the face.)
(In another torture room, Sydney is handcuffed to the chair. Just like in the pilot, she has blood dripping down from the corner of her mouth. She wakes up and sees Khasinau standing before her with a tray of food. He sits down.)
SYDNEY: You're Alexander Khasinau.
KHASINAU: You should eat something.
(He takes a spoonful of food and offers it to her.)
SYDNEY: I'm not hungry.
(He nods and puts it back down. He gets up to walk out.)
SYDNEY: Wait. I have questions for you.
KHASINAU: You can ask my boss.
SYDNEY: Your boss? I thought The Man was the boss.
KHASINAU: Yes. Yes, but I am not The Man.
(Sydney watches as a woman walks in. Sydney's eyes get big as the woman stands in front of Sydney.)
THE MAN: I have waited almost thirty years for this.
SYDNEY: Mom?


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Redskins Fans Are So Angsty
Sports producer Lindsay Applebaum:
As I mentioned earlier today, it's been a really bad week (the worst ever) for people who are emotionally invested in the Washington Redskins. The good news is that fans are coping with their misery by doing irrational and hilarious things and recording them on video for our viewing pleasure.
They bury their jerseys in graveyards:
(Much more video angst after the jump. Make sure you at least watch the last one.)
They cry into their food:
They do shots of whiskey and strum the guitar and sing the blues:
They act like children:
They wear all black and cry about Jim Zorn and wave their arms around wildly and take off their hats and say, "Everybody go to this Web site, and you support this Web site, and you donate your money, and your time, and your energy and your efforts to this Web site, h-t-t-p little-dots slash-slash DUBYA-DUBYA-DUBYA dot FIRE JIM ZORN dot-com!!!!!!!!!!":
More, please!
Lindsay Applebaum
December 19, 2008; 2:27 PM ET
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Funny, funny, funny!!!
Get used to this for as long as your team is owned by little Danny Snyder and run by Vinny "Hey, I Always Look Surprised" Cerrato.
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MADE IN TANZANIA EXPO is organized by Made In Tanzania Com and is a 3-day International and Local Market attracting participants, business men and women, Industrialists , procurement officers, entrepreneurs and public visitors from East Africa, Central & the Southern African territories.
It is going to be held at Diamond Jubilee Centre and our Google map link shows you exactly where the centre is situated - in Upanga, Dar es salaam.
Made In Tanzania Expo is geared to grow into Africa's biggest Tanzanian Manufactured Products Marketing event of the year, and 2015 in particular is receiving intense encouragement from manufactures and local and international buyers and direction, making it one of the most competitive and most dedicated Manufacturer's Markets for the East & Central African region. . The Event serves a wider purpose, with intensified market opportunities, superior quality products, increased professionalism in great surroundings that provide more products and services to the exhibitors, delegates, VIPs and visitors.
The overriding goal of MADE IN TANZANIA EXPO is to bring the whole of East Africa to one place, at the same time, providing local and overseas buyers the perfect opportunity to meet and network with Owners and Executives of Tanzania Industries / Tanzania service providers. It is also the perfect opportunity to launch new products and services to overseas buyers and local consumers too.
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K-Pan is a 3D-printed panoramic film camera that shoots 6 x 14cm photos
The 3D-printed camera formerly known as the 'Cycloptic Mustard Monster' has launched on Kickstarter under the name K-Pan Panoramic Camera. This medium-format analog camera has the same design showcased earlier this year, and assuming the crowdfunding campaign is successful, it'll be made available to buyers as a DIY kit. Creator Paul Kohlhausen is also offering 10 limited edition pre-assembled camera units.
The K-Pan's components are printed from SLS nylon, and once assembled, the camera measures 22cm x 9cm / 8.6in x 3.5in and weighs 350g / 12oz (without a lens). Users supply their own 4 x 5 lens and 120 film, of which the camera shoots five 6 x 14cm frames per roll. When assembled according to its default design, the K-Pan's focus is set to infinity; however, users can change that by inserting spacer brackets as desired.
Kohlhaussen is offering K-Pan in various bundle options with pledges starting at £270 / $364 for a standard kit. Shipments to backers are available globally and are anticipated to start in March 2018.


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Written by Ken Gaebler
Published: 6/7/2011
Survey says small businesses will hire in coming year.
Newly-released Manta SMB Nation Survey results provide good news for workers and highlight some challenges facing small business owners.
More than half of the small business owners surveyed (57 percent) told Manta they will be hiring in the coming year. This comes as welcome news in an economy with a stubborn high unemployment rate.
Job seekers eager to take advantage of this hiring trend are advised to tap into their personal networks, reaching out especially to family and friends employed in the small business sector. The survey shows 59 percent of small businesses draw job candidates from employee referrals, and 51 percent of small business owners said they work with family.
From the employer side, 27 percent identified compensation as their greatest challenge in hiring, since it is difficult to compete with salaries offered by larger companies.
Fifteen percent of small business owners reported economic recovery makes hiring more difficult. If applicants perceive opportunities for higher-paying jobs with greater prospect for advancement at large companies, they tend to balk at joining smaller enterprises.
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I'm tired.
I have spent the last 2 days and nights in the hospital with J. We brought her in three weeks ago. She had been sick for the three weeks before that. We tried everything we could to avoid this visit, but one day we noticed her breathing was more laboured than usual, and decided to take her into emergency. Of course, she was admitted.
We are getting pretty good at knowing how sick she is and what signs to look for. We could have left her at home and done a few things to help stave off this visit but it would have meant a more serious illness later.
I did not think this visit would be this long, so I am a bit frustrated. She was less sick than in all other previous visits, but yet this visit is still as long as her average visit. Those that care for her are all very nice and very professional, but after two days of living here I am sick of seeing and talking to them. Every twelve hours a new nurse and new RT come on shift and I have to answer the same questions about her. It's important to be here to answer those questions and I think it improves her care, but it gets boring explaining the same things over and over.
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Software company and business social network 'share a mission', says Microsoft CEO
Microsoft Corp will reportedly buy LinkedIn Corp for $26.2 billion (AED96.2 billion) in its biggest-ever deal.
"LinkedIn and Microsoft really share a mission," said Microsoft CEO Nadella in a conference call with analysts. "There is no better way to realise that mission than to connect the world's professionals."
By connecting widely used software such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint with LinkedIn's network of 433 million professionals, the combination could enable Microsoft to add a suite of sales, marketing and recruiting services to its core business products and potentially challenge cloud software rivals such as Salesforce.com Inc, said Reuters.
The $196-per-share price tag represented a premium of almost 50 percent over LinkedIn's stock market value as of Friday, but was still well below the social media company's all-time high of $270. Analysts said the price was rich, and Microsoft's stock closed down 2.7 percent at $50.14.
Still, there was cautious optimism that this could be one of the relatively few tech mega-mergers that works out well. "It's a massive growth play for Microsoft," said Forrester analyst Ted Schadler.
The deal may also help spur further mergers and acquisitions in the tech sector, where a broad correction is bringing down the prices of public and private companies even as a handful of major players sit on large cash piles.
For LinkedIn, founded in 2002 and launched the following year by Reid Hoffman, one of Silicon Valley's most-visible investors and entrepreneurs, the sale marks the end of a classic startup run: funding from top-tier venture capitalists, a long period of building the company and developing a revenue base, then a big initial public offering, followed by a roller-coaster stock price and finally an acquisition.
The company makes most of its $3 billion in annual revenue from job hunters and recruiters who pay a monthly fee to post resumes and connect with people on what's often known as the social network for business.
The company's growth has slowed recently and investors have become far more cautious on the high valuations of many tech companies - both of which likely figured into LinkedIn's decision to sell, analysts said.
For Microsoft, the LinkedIn deal is a chance to reverse a terrible track record with acquisitions, including paying $9.4 billion for phone maker Nokia in 2014 and $6.3 billion for ad business aQuantive in 2007. In 2012, it wrote down its aQuantive acquisition by $6.2 billion, and its cumulative writedowns for Nokia total $8.55 billion.
It also paid $1.2 billion for business network Yammer in 2012 and $8.5 billion for video-calling tool Skype in 2011.


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Countries around the world have their own variation of the hamburger, but none are as good as a gourmet burger from Soda Jerks. With more than 50 toppings to choose from, everyone can find something they love. Stop in to Soda Jerks and satisfy your cravings with one of our delicious, gourmet burgers. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, feel free to contact us today!
Although it's impossible to top a burger from Soda Jerks, today we will take a look at some variations of the classic hamburger from around the world.
Hamburguesas Mexicanas – Mexico
Mexico has its fair share of the typical burger chains, but so does every other country (we're looking at you, McDonald's). However, there is one burger that stands out above the rest and does its Mexican heritage proud. That burger is the hamburguesas mexicanas. This burger may look like your typical, American cheeseburger, but the traditional beef patty is topped with grilled ham and cheese. In addition to ham and cheese, each bite contains spicy jalapeños and creamy avocado.
Rice Burgers – East Asia
East Asia pays tribute to their country with the rice burger. Countries located in East Asia such as China, Vietnam, and Japan, have an abundance (no pun intended) of rice available, so it only makes sense that their take on the burger involves rice! This unique burger features rice patties instead of the traditional buns and grilled pork, strips of beef, and shrimp fritters as opposed to a beef patty.
Chicken or Vegetable Burgers – India
India has a large population of Hindus and Muslims, and because of religious prohibitions on certain foods, you won't find many beef or pork patties. It's important to cater to the masses, therefore it only makes sense that the most popular burgers in India are made of chicken or vegetables. There is even one variation of the burger that is made with a deep-fried potato patty and topped with mint chutney and green chilies. Talk about carb-tastic!
Bøfsandwich – Denmark
If you're a big fan of onions on your burger, then Denmark is the place for you! The bøfsandwich has the traditional toppings that you're accustomed to (ketchup and mustard), but instead of raw onions, Denmark gives you three different types of onions on your burger – raw, grilled, and crispy! You are more than welcome to enjoy your burger and all its oniony-goodness, but if you want even more toppings, different regions of Denmark will also offer pickles, remoulade and cabbage, or beets and gravy.
Heavily Topped Burgers – Australia and New Zealand
Some people love their burgers with as many toppings as they can hold. If you are one of those people, and you want to try something other than Soda Jerks, we suggest booking a trip to Australia or New Zealand.
The typical toppings for a burger are ketchup, mustard, lettuce, onions, pickles, and tomatoes. However, if you travel to Australia or New Zealand, the toppings don't end there. If you order a burger with everything, or "the lot" as it is referred to in the aforementioned countries, then you will receive not only the typical toppings, but also a fried egg, bacon, pineapple, and sliced beets.
Japan's burger doesn't have a specific name, but it will definitely stand out. In Japan, you can order a burger with anything from the classic American burger toppings, to a burger with gigantic tongues sticking out of the bun, chocolate and mustard chicken burgers, or even emmental-topped gourmet truffle burgers. If you're looking for a new burger experience that you're sure to never forget, it sounds like Japan is the place to go.
Soda Jerks – Canada
These different burgers from around the world may have some creative recipes, but nothing compares to a gourmet burger from Soda Jerks. You can stick to our gourmet burger menu, or you can go off-book and try some wild and crazy combinations. With more than 50 toppings to choose from, who knows what you'll come up with! Be sure to stop by our Soda Jerks locations in West Granville or Namao Centre and satisfy your craving with a gourmet burger from Soda Jerks today!


text: On July 7, 2016, what began as a peaceful rally in Dallas in response to a slew of recent police shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers erupted in gunfire when an African American Army Reserve veteran ambushed police officers, killing five and wounding nine. In the Fall of 2016, a group of teenagers interviewed police officers, protesters, and community members about that night and the ensuing aftermath. Their stories and the company's reflections on them offer a snapshot of race relations in Dallas and the community's hope for the future.


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BALTIMORE (Stockpickr) -- Put down the 10-K filings and the stock screeners. It's time to take a break from the traditional methods of generating investment ideas. Instead, let the crowd do it for you.
>>5 Blue Chips Ready to Hike Their Dividends Again
From hedge funds to individual investors, scores of market participants are turning to social media to figure out which stocks are worth watching. It's a concept that's known as "crowdsourcing," and it uses the masses to identify emerging trends in the market.
Crowdsourcing has long been a popular tool for the advertising industry, but it also makes a lot of sense as an investment tool. After all, the market is completely driven by the supply and demand, so it can be valuable to see what names are trending among the crowd.
While some fund managers are already trying to leverage social media resources like Twitter to find algorithmic trading opportunities, for most investors, crowdsourcing works best as a starting point for investors who want a starting point in their analysis. Today, we'll leverage the power of the crowd to take a look at some of the most active stocks on the market today.
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These "most active" names are the most heavily-traded names on the market -- and often, uber-active names have some sort of a technical or fundamental catalyst driving investors' attention on shares. And when there's a big catalyst, there's often a trading opportunity.
Without further ado, here's a look at today's stocks.
American Airlines
Nearest Resistance: $40
Nearest Support: $38
Catalyst: Technical Setup
Recently relisted airline stock American Airlines (AAL) - Get Report has been lagging the rest of the industry for the month of March, but things are finally looking up thanks to a technical setup that's triggering a buy signal in shares this afternoon. AAL spent its first few months of trading in a solid uptrend, but that buying pressure fizzled out in the second week of last month.
Today, though, AAL pushed up above that short downtrend, an indication that buyers are bidding up shares again. With relative strength in the airline industry looking stellar in 2014, AAL is an ideal way to take advantage of that momentum this week.
Intuitive Surgical
Nearest Resistance: N/A
Nearest Support: $460
Catalyst: FDA Device Approval
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) - Get Report is up big for a second day, following news that the FDA had cleared the firms new da Vinci Xi surgical robot for use. That's the first FDA-approved upgrade to ISRG's popular robotic surgery platform in five years, and it should drive revenue as medical facilities look to take advantage of the new capabilities that this latest iteration of the system provides. Shares gapped up to new highs on the news.
Making new highs is significant from an investor psychology standpoint because it means that everyone who has bought shares in the last year is sitting on gains. As a result, the "back to even" mentality is less of a concern than it would be for a name with a higher proportion of shareholders sitting on losses. If you decide to be a buyer here, it makes sense to keep a stop in place under $460 support.
Nearest Resistance: $4.20
Nearest Support: $3.60
Catalyst: Analyst Upgrade
Paris-based communications stock Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) is up 2% today on big volume, following an upgrade from French financial firm Natixis upgraded the firm to "buy." But investors should be wary of that call. Shares are fast approaching a price level that's swatted ALU lower on every previous test.
ALU is currently in a downtrend. The fact that it's bouncing up towards trend line resistance, makes it more likely to be another optimal time to sell this stock than a good time to be a buyer. If shares bounce lower in tomorrow's session, it's time to join the sellers.
Myriad Genetics
Nearest Resistance: N/A
Nearest Support: $38
Catalyst: Positive Medicare Surprise
Finally, shares of Myriad Genetics (MYGN) - Get Report are up more than 13% this afternoon, following news that Medicare price cuts for the firm's genetic sequencing were going to be less than expected. The news reversed the price slump that's pushed shares down as low as $32 in March. Today's breakout above former resistance at $38 is a solid buy signal for MYGN now that it's sitting at new highs.
As always, it makes sense to keep a tight stop in place if you decide to jump into Myriad Genetics here, but the momentum looks pretty indisputable right now.
To see these stocks in action, check out the at Most-Active Stocks portfolio on Stockpickr.
-- Written by Jonas Elmerraji in Baltimore.
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At the time of publication, author had no positions in stocks mentioned. Jonas Elmerraji, CMT, is a senior market analyst at Agora Financial in Baltimore and a contributor to TheStreet. Before that, he managed a portfolio of stocks for an investment advisory returned 15% in 2008. He has been featured in Forbes , Investor's Business Daily, and on CNBC.com. Jonas holds a degree in financial economics from UMBC and the Chartered Market Technician designation. Follow Jonas on Twitter @JonasElmerraji


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David Wells
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and Educator – Providence, Rhode Island
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An Olympus Visionary since 2011, David Wells is a well-respected international publication photographer and photo educator.
Using Olympus cameras, his specialty is in-depth photo essays for publications and exhibitions that draw on his strengths at intercultural communications and the use of light and shadow to enhance visual narratives.
Wells is currently affiliated with Aurora Photos of Portland, Maine. He was previously affiliated with Matrix International and J.B. Pictures of New York City. Before becoming a freelance publication photographer, he was a staff photographer for the Syracuse Newspapers (Syracuse, NY) and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) and was also a contract photographer for the Los Angeles Times. Between 1986 and 1996 he produced 16 photo essays for the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine. In 1999, Wells was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at Mysore University, India, where he spent five months working on his project on globalization's impact on South Asia. Two subsequent fellowships, one from the Alicia Patterson Foundation in 2001 and a Fulbright Regional Studies Fellowship in 2005, enabled him to complete that project.
What's in My Bag?
- Flashlight
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Wells' work has been published as portfolios in American Photographer, Camera and Darkroom, Camera Arts, Communication Arts Photography Annual, Graphics: The Human Condition, Photo District News, Photo (France), Photographers International (Taiwan) and Zoom (Italy). David's work has won awards from Pictures of the Year, the Sunday Magazine Editors Association, American Photographer, Society of Newspaper Design and SocialDocumentary.net. He was also recently honored by Photo District News as one of the best workshop instructors.
An Olympus pro for years, Wells lists the Olympus OM-D E-M5 as his favorite Olympus camera for its multimedia capabilities at www.thewellspoint.com and its combination of power and smaller profile, ideal for street photography and world travel.
The Olympus Visionary Program is Olympus Imaging America Inc.'s official program for professional and emerging photographers. Its mission is to define the state of digital imaging for professional and advanced consumer audiences, and to promote both the individual photographer and Olympus' highly-regarded and widely-acclaimed digital camera systems.
Olympus Visionaries are established, award-winning professional photographers who travel the world with Olympus products to capture life's beauty and splendor. The elite members of the program include several Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers, as well as artists whose careers have included assignments around the globe.


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Recovering alcohol and drug users leading service planning
PHE shows the benefits of involving recovering alcohol and drug users designing and developing treatment for themselves and others.
Public Health England (PHE) has launched a new guide showing the benefits of involving recovering alcohol and drug users in the design and development of their own, and others treatment and recovery.
PHE's Service User Involvement guide describes 4 different levels of service user involvement, from co-developing one's own care plan through to initiating and running recovery-focused enterprises. The guide showcases a number of examples of unique services from across the country that have been set-up by, or run by, former alcohol and drug users.
Through tailored and flexible approaches that aim to provide skills and training, these services promote and maintain long-term recovery often acting as a crucial step into employment. Their involvement in services at all levels increases confidence in, and suitability of the services, while seeing the successful stories of others in recovery motivates those still working to achieve recovery.
Rosanna O'Connor, Director of alcohol, drugs and tobacco at PHE said;
Those who have recovered from addiction themselves have the experiences, and often the expertise, to help others and can make an important contribution to the development of successful services.
We know that the journey to recovery from addiction is challenging and different people need different things to get there, from family and friends to jobs and homes, as well as whatever specialist treatment and support might be needed. Flexible approaches that engage the service users are essential to meeting these needs.
User-led projects vary across the country but they are generally practical in focus, offering structured support, training and employment opportunities that are relevant to the local community. RECOVER, a furniture up-cycling project in Hertfordshire was set-up and is run by those in recovery.
Ian Block, Manager of RECOVER said;
RECOVER was created around and is driven forward by those using the service, these people feel ownership, pride and commitment to our vibrant enterprise. This in turn has supported recovery journeys beyond treatment all the way to reintegration with communities, employment and dramatic increases in self-esteem, self-confidence and feelings of self-worth and value.
The new guide, launched at PHE's national Experts by Experience: The assets brought by recovering drug and alcohol users to treatment and recovery event, coincides with September's International Recovery Month. The month provides an opportunity to raise awareness and understanding of addiction, celebrating those who have achieved successful recovery.
Background information
- PHE's Service user involvement: A guide for drug and alcohol commissioners, providers and service users captures some of the progress made over the last decade in service user involvement, and confirms that it remains a priority, making suggestions for local service development and recommendations about how best practice may be identified, replicated and built upon.
- RECOVER is a vibrant furniture up-cycling social enterprise, creating pathways into volunteering and work. At its heart is a commitment to sustainability: up-cycling old unwanted furniture or working with materials either donated or reclaimed from the local area. www.recoverteam.co.uk
- Two case studies of experiences from the recovery community, from Red Rose Recovery in Lancashire, are available from Audioboom.
- PHE's national event; Experts by Experience: The assets brought by recovering drug and alcohol users to treatment and recovery highlights the help and support provided by people in recovery to those with alcohol and drug problems, through their contribution to formal treatment services, their delivery of mutual aid, and the development of innovative asset-based community developments.
- International Recovery Month, now in its 25th year, raises awareness and understanding of substance use disorders and celebrates those who have achieved recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. www.facesandvoicesofrecoveryuk.org/recovery-month-2015
- Public Health England exists to protect and improve the nation's health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. It does this through world-class science, knowledge and intelligence, advocacy, partnerships and the delivery of specialist public health services. PHE is an operationally autonomous executive agency of the Department of Health. Website: www.gov.uk/phe. Twitter: @PHE_uk, Facebook: www.facebook.com/PublicHealthEngland


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The head of East London's H Division. Read Full Bio
Detective Inspector Bennet Drake
Reid's right-hand is a hard man with even harder demons. Read Full Bio
Captain Homer Jackson
The local American forensics expert. Read Full Bio
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The local brothel Madam, and Captain Jackson's wife. Read Full Bio
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Sergeant Drake's old flame, and Long Susan's previous employee. Read Full Bio


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An oldie, but a goodie. Kaye tagged me with three celebrities, and I have to choose which one I'd marry, who I'd shag, and who I'd throw off a cliff.
Marry: Audrey Hepburn
Come on, an easy one! She was beautiful, talented, selfless, and immensely charming. I'd never seen this oddly domestic picture of her before.
Shag: Amanda Palmer
Passionate, hot, kinky, and one of the best songwriters working today. If you don't know the Dresden Dolls, check 'em out–they fuse post-punk and glam rock with a Weimar Republic cabaret sensibility.
Throw off a cliff: Aimee Mann
Don't get me wrong, I like Aimee Mann. Throwing her off a cliff is mostly a process of elimination. I like her songs, and she's had to fight the good fight against record companies. But then I remembered that she sang that "Voices Carry" song with 'Til Tuesday and I felt MUCH better about throwing her off a cliff.
Incidentally, Kaye told me, "(I am horrified at how hard this is to come up with people for you! I clearly need to pay more attention to what interests you.)" Huh?! I just like . . . people! I find our species fascinating, especially in its modern civilized state. That combination of curiosity and sex drive means I'm just generally interested in women. If you want to play:
1) Comment to this and I will give you 3 people.
2) Post this meme with your answers.
3) Provide pictures and the names of 3 people.
4) Label which you would marry, shag, and throw off a cliff.


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Practically nothing says spring like tulips. Planting tulip bulbs can be a attractive and straightforward addition to a garden if a handful of suggestions are followed. If planted properly, they can make flowers for up to 5 seasons.
Ranked the third most well-known flower, the tulip is also the national flower of Turkey. They are grown to make bouquets, floral arrangements or to just line a gardner's flower bed. Holland exports the majority of the world's tulips, but that does not imply gardeners can not have achievement expanding their personal.
Tulips are spring bloomers. They are planted in the autumn, ideally just before the initially frost. Tulip bulbs can be bought by means of a quantity of vendors, from your neighborhood nursery to mail order seed suppliers. There are much more than three,000 distinctive varieties of tulips which differ in colour, height and shape. When buying, make confident they are firm and complete. Ones that are soft and brown may well be rotting and will not bloom.
Really handful of tools are necessary when planting tulips. A straightforward garden trowel will do, or much more specified devices like a bulb dibber or a bulb auger attached to a cordless drill are out there. Tool option will come down to the form of soil, quantity of bulbs planted, and private preference.
Strategically putting the bulbs when initially planting is crucial since that is specifically exactly where the flower will bloom. Putting the bulbs in the soil at an even depth is also crucial since that will make sure the tulips will bloom at the exact same height. They should really be spaced six inches apart. Sun exposure is essential. Without the need of sun the they may well not flower, or even develop. Plant in an region exactly where they can get as considerably sun as probable, even so they will develop in partial shade.
Tulips will develop in any form of soil, but manure or sandy compost is suggested. The tip to keep in mind is to make confident the soil is properly drained. When planting, it is advised to dig the hole four-six inches deep. It will rely on the selection of the tulip and if pests are in the region. If pests are present, such as mice, spider mites or aphids, they will require to be planted deeper. When the hole is dug, the tulip bulb should really be placed rounded bottom down and the tip pointing up to the sky. When placed, fill the dirt in loosely.
Water the newly planted bulb only if the soil is dry. As well considerably water will outcome in them rotting in the ground. This rule also applies all through the life of the bulb. Due to the fact they are planted in the autumn and develop all through the rainy season, watering them often is not necessary. Rainfall is enough.
Early blooming tulips flower in April and the later bloomers in June. Blooms will final for about 1 month. In order for them to flower the following year, it is most effective to reduce back blossoms soon after the flower has began to dull in colour. Fertilizing the soil in the spring and fall will also aid with the following season's blooms. Some gardeners dig up the bulbs soon after they bloom and shop them in a cool, dry spot such as a shed, and replant them in the autumn.