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|Ms Sue's Music Wall!
Monday, July 16, 2012
Make a MUSIC WALL!
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- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 11:14 AM
amazing idea! it looks so cool too! I wonder what they retirement folks next to our preschool playground would think? lol I bet the sound is incredible :-) fun fun...thanks for sharing!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for commenting. The MUSIC WALL I experienced wasn't much noisier than normal playground noises - and you would have control of the loudness by what you attach to your wall. Heck, invite the retired folks over to make music, too!
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 10:44 PM
All I can say is "WOW"!!! Off to share this on my wall. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Please send a picture if you make a MUSIC WALL - I'd love to see it. And thanks for passing it on!Delete
What a great idea ... looks irresistible! I pinned your post to my Kids' Music Activities Pinterest Board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-music-activities/ReplyDelete
Thanks, Deb!ReplyDelete
That looks like a lot of fun. I remember some of my most fun days in school were playing classroom drums. Taking that fun outside sounds even better.ReplyDelete
One of the schools I work with is just starting to plan their music wall. The theme for the school this year is developing and implementing strategies for ecologically and environmentally conscious behaviors. They've chosen to make a Music Wall to be a visable and audible manifestation of the theme! How EXCITING!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 12, 2013 at 4:22 AM
What a great idea, our Kindy is doing one, the children will love it. Thanks for sharing something very special.ReplyDelete
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Dombrowski discusses task of building Tigers
Team president looks to win now while keeping eye on future
MLB.com: There's a popular opinion that this team, the way it's set up now, is better suited to be able to win in the postseason, in part because of the offense -- speed, manufacturing runs. How much difference is there in your mind between what it takes to win over 162 games in the regular season and what it takes to win over three series in the postseason?
Dombrowski: Well, that's a hard question. When you play in the postseason, you know you are going to play good clubs and you're also going to face good pitching. So you normally need hitters that can handle good pitching, and you need to execute doing little things, because normally you're playing close games against good teams. You don't have a five-versus-one matchup very often in the postseason as far as a fifth starter vs. a No. 1 starter. During the middle of the season, maybe there are certain times where, if you have a slugging club, you might really feast on bottom-of-the-rotation starters. It's hard for anyone to feast on the top-of-the-rotation starters. That's why good pitching shuts down good hitting. It's been said forever.
MLB.com: For so many years, we've been talking about a win-now urgency. How do you balance that win-now idea with trying to build a team that can contend long term? And how often do those philosophies kind of oppose themselves?
Dombrowski: Well, we've been trying to win now because we have that type of team to win now. I mean, that's what we're trying to do. We have an owner that's very supportive, that's tremendous, that would like to see us win. I don't think we would make a deal that would say, OK, all of a sudden we're not going to have any chance to win, that's going to make us a lot worse. But I think what ends up happening is that, ideally, you can be good for a lot of years with a chance to win. Ideally, you don't want to wake up where one year you're saying, "Gee, our team's 38 at every position we play." And that's an extreme example, but all of a sudden everybody's signed for long term and you don't have a chance to win.
So you're trying to mesh young players in at the same time that you're trying to also win. Now, I have always happened to think that the best clubs mesh young players in, too. Now, you have to pick the right young players, because you just don't say, "OK, we're going to put a young player here," and then they can't play. That doesn't do you any good. But I think you also have to realize that we have superstars on this team. We have some of the best players in the game. But when you also do that, you pay those players a lot of money. And they're deserving of it within the structure of the game. But you can't have -- as I've said before, the Big Red Machine doesn't work anymore in today's game.
I mean, we have a tremendous payroll, but I don't know how you could afford a $20 million a year player at every position. I don't think you could do it. And that's basically, if you start going through [the Big Red Machine] and you've got [Johnny] Bench, you've got [Tony] Perez, you've got [Joe] Morgan, you've got [Dave] Concepcion, you've got [Pete] Rose, you've got [George] Foster, you've got [Ken] Griffey, you've got [Cesar] Geronimo. They're all $15-$20 million a year players [by today's standards]. So you have to go about it in different ways at times, and you try to always work those things together. You try to win and you're also projecting so you don't get caught short. And I work with Mr. I [owner Mike Ilitch] on those things every year. We talk about those things, and we go ahead to try to win and also make the best decisions we possibly can. I don't know there's any magic formula on it. It's just one of those things that we're trying to win now, that's what we're trying to do.
MLB.com: You had very good teams in Montreal and Florida, a world champion in Florida, that had to be broken up for external circumstances. Is this is a different feeling for you, to try to extend a window long term for a team that has a chance to contend?
Dombrowski: Well, yeah, that's what you're trying to do as an organization. That's what's fun. That's what you're trying to accomplish.
We're in a good spot as an organization. We have a great owner, great fan base, tremendous support, lot of good players. And so, yeah, it's different. Now, I think we would have achieved that -- in fact, I know we would have achieved that -- when we were in Florida. We had that team that was set up to do that for a long time, but it was so happened that that was a decision that took place. And actually, we were set to do it in Montreal, too, at the time. When we left [for Florida in 1991], that club that was so good in '94 was basically mostly in the foundation at the time, but never got a chance to carry it forward just due to circumstances.
So yeah, it's enjoyable. You look forward to doing that year in and year out. And sometimes you have to make yourself aware, because -- for example, we have a good scouting staff, they do a great job for us. And someone might say, "You know, we might want a Rule 5 [pick] on that guy." And we'll say, "OK, we like him, but what chance does he have of making our club and help us win?" Well, yeah, when you think about it, it really doesn't make sense for us. If you were a building organization, it would be a whole different mode, and you might do some different things at times. But we're just in a different place.
MLB.com: How do you feel about the state of the bullpen at this point?
Dombrowski: Great. Nobody's scored a run against us so far, so it's been great. But, no, I'm happy with what we have. It's interesting because I read a lot of things. When you have a good club, you always have a part that can be improved. So if we improved X, I talked about this before, then the next question is, "What about Y?" That's just how it works. But I read recently that people had this misperception. The Tigers bullpen was 15th in Major League Baseball in earned run average last year and efficiency. At certain times it didn't respond. At postseason time we gave up some big hits and I understand. But I think in this situation we have a premium closer in Joe Nathan. Bruce Rondon's a very important part of our team. I like what I see from Bruce Rondon as far as his attitude, his conditioning, his health. It all looks good if you can put him in a spot where he can pitch the eighth inning. It's hard for me to analyze Joba Chamberlain because he's just come on board, but he's in good shape, his arm is healthy. We know he has a good arm. [Phil] Coke's in good shape, he's throwing well, and [Ian] Krol. But we're a couple days into Spring Training. But we also have a lot of good arms out there.
We were just talking about it, the number of guys -- when you start talking about having a Krol, having a [Justin] Miller, having a [Luke] Putkonen, having a [Jose] Ortega, and if you have Nathan and you have Rondon and you have Chamberlain and [Al] Alburquerque responds as we think he will, and Coke and Krol, you're not looking at a lot of guys to respond. Now, they have to do their jobs, but I look at it that we have a chance to have a good bullpen.
MLB.com: Is there an added importance with guys like Chamberlain and Coke, with the other guys being young?
Dombrowski: Well, it's nice to have a stabilizer out there, but it doesn't mean that it can't be done the other way, either, where it's just a bunch of young guys. I think the most important [thing is], if you can fill the ninth and you can fill the eighth, then I think you can mix and match a lot before that. So if Rondon -- and I'm not saying that he's anointed as the eighth-inning guy because that has to be earned and Brad [Ausmus, manager] has to make that decision -- but if we can find a guy to pitch the eighth and it is Rondon, and you have a guy to pitch the ninth, then you can kind of mix and match a lot of other different situations. I do like having a veteran bullpen guy out there. It would be nice. Hopefully they'll do the job for us and we think they will.

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Rockies agree to contract extension with manager Walt Weiss
Manager Walt Weiss has agreed to a three-year contract extension with the Colorado Rockies.
He went 74-88 in his first season as manager, a 10-game improvement over the previous season.
The 49-year-old Weiss came out of the high school coaching ranks last year on a one-year deal with the Rockies after Jim Tracy stepped down following a 64-98 season in 2012.
A former All-Star shortstop, Weiss spent 14 seasons in the major leagues, including four seasons with the Rockies in the 1990s. He also spent seven seasons, from 2002-08, as a special assistant to the general manager with the Rockies.


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Looking for Pupusas in Queens: Jamaica and Beyond
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Pupusas. There is a lot to love about these filled, griddled corn cakes from El Salvador. I suppose they can be compared to Mexican gorditas because of the corn masa, stuffing, and the griddle, but the comparison ends there. Handmade pupusas are filled with different things: beans, cheese, chicharrón (in this case, a paste of ground pork meat, not the same as crispy skin chicharrón in a gordita), and combinations of all three.
What is most exciting about pupusas is not just what they are filled with, but what is served with them. Curtido, a crunchy, vinegary, lightly fermented cabbage salad, and a mild tomato salsa are two traditional accompaniments to a fresh, hot-off-the-comal pupusa. Earthy corn masa filled with melting, soft, creamy cheese and salty chicharrón, topped with tangy, crunchy cabbage and a smooth salsa. It has it all—texture, flavor, and temperature contrasts, so much going on for such a small snack. Queens—particularly Jamaica, Queens—is home to a large Salvadorian population, so it made sense to start there in my search for the ultimate pupusa.
El OK Salvadoreño Restaurant
I decided to order the same two types of pupusa at each stop: revuelta (cheese and chicharrón) and queso con loroco. Loroco is the small bud of a plant that grows in El Salvador and throughout Central America, that has a fresh, herb-y, green flavor. At El OK, my first stop, the pupusas came out after a fifteen minute wait—a good thing, meaning that they are freshly prepared.
When I split open the loroco pupusa, white cheese, flecked with green, oozed out into a puddle on the plate. Not much loroco, lots of mild cheese. The revuelta had more flavor. The white cheese was strongly salted by the chicharrón, which tasted like pork concentrate. These pupusas had been griddled with oil, which gave them a crisp, greasy outer crust. The curtido had a nice hit of vinegar with a touch of heat from some red chili flakes, oregano, sharp white onions, and carrots for color, adding crunch and bite to the dish. The tomatoes were simply cooked and pureed into a thin red salsa, adding some acidity as well.
Price: $1.65 each pupusa
Highlights: Crisp exterior, melty cheese
145-16 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Queens (map) (718) 526-7917
Viña del Mar
Viña del Mar is tiny, the dining area has six small tables, a beverage refrigerator, and a chest freezer for the kitchen. The pupusas here also took around fifteen minutes, and they were worth the wait.
Two disks, larger than the previous pupusas, with no crust, and no grease. The cheese filling was yellow-tinged and saltier, tangier, and stringier as well. The revueltas were good; cheese with the added salt and essence of pork, but the loroco was my favorite: whole buds of the plant were mixed in with the cheese, and lots of them, adding freshness and flavor to the strong cheese. The curtido was great. Similar in all aspects to the one at OK, but again, a little saltier, a little spicier, a little tangier. The red salsa was nearly identical at every place I tried. Tomatoes, barely seasoned, pureed into a thin sauce.
Price: $1.50 for pupusa revuelta, $1.75 pupusa de queso con loroco
Highlights: Stong, flavorful cheese, large pieces of loroco, great curtido
89-52 146th Street, Jamaica, Queens (map) (718) 206-9535
Rincon Salvadoreño
Rincon Salvadoreño was my first introduction to Salvadoran food years ago, so I'm a bit partial to the place. They have amazing tamales de elote, which are sweet and soft tamales with chunks of corn, and quite different from Mexican tamales. Served with thick sour cream and a quenelle of salty cheese, they are really, really good.
But I'm here to talk about pupusas. Rincon Salvadoreño is the fanciest of the restaurants on this list, and when I say fancy, I mean plastic banana trees, waterfalls, giraffe statue large-enough-to-sit-on-if-you-were-allowed-to fancy. It is impressive. This place is packed on the weekends. And the pupusas are good—standard, flavorful, high quality. They were so soft that they almost fell apart. The loroco pupusa was nice, lots of chopped loroco in another melty, oozy, stringy, flavorful cheese. The revuelta was not particularly memorable, but it was definitely tasty. Here, the curtido was another stand-out. Much like at Viña del Mar, a little spicy, a lot tangy, nice oregano flavor, with color from carrots and bite from onions. A fun experience.
Cost: $1.75 each
Highlights: Decor, consistent, fresh food.
92-15 149th Street Jamaica, Queens (map) (718) 526-3220
El Comal
El Comal Pupuseria Restaurant has an impressive menu and steam table, which I ignored since I was so full of pupusas already and could not afford distractions. (Focus is key in round-up eating.) The pupusas were again freshly made to order, with a nice, strong cheese. The loroco was chopped up here, and there was not much of it. More than at OK, but less than the two previous pupusas. The revuelta was extra salty and pork-y. The curtido here was very crunchy, nicely salted, lots of carrots, but no oregano; overall, a great bite.
Cost: $1.75 each.
Highlights: Fresh tasting, high quality.
148-62 Hillside Avenue Jamaica, Queens (map) (718) 657-1929
Tierras Salvadoreñas
This is the only non-Jamaica place on the round-up, and I went here to see how they compared in an area without much competition, Corona. I had to get an order of three pupusas, since they don't sell them individually. I got the revuelta, queso con loroco, and beans for a change. There were noticable differences in the pupusas here, interestingly. The cheese was not of the melting kind, more like a fresh cheese. Salty, chunky, and it stayed put, no oozing here. Very little chopped loroco, but the flavor came through.
The revuelta was full of pork, and not much cheese. The beans—soft, mashed, and seasoned—were heavy and filling. I'm glad that I didn't eat five of them. Here, the curtido was a beautiful pink color, and very simple. Cabbage, seasoned, with a few flecks of oregano. Nothing else. The salsa was served warm and tasted like a homemade version of Campbell's tomato soup. I wanted to drink it.
Cost: $5.65 for an order of three pupusas.
Highlights: Salty, fresh cheese, pink curtido, warm tomato salsa. 94-16 37th Avenue Corona, Queens (map) (718) 672-0853
The Verdict
My number one in the queso con loroco category is at Viña del Mar. My favorite pupusa revuelta is a tie between Viña (for size and cheese flavor) and El OK Salvadoreño (for pork flavor and a touch of crispness). The curtidos were all pretty great, particularly at Rincon Salvadoreño and Viña del Mar; the best tomato salsa, at Tierras Salvadoreñas.
I really did not have a bad pupusa anywhere. It's the combination of all the ingredients together that makes them so good, and all of the elements everywhere were fresh, bright, and hand-made. Patience is necessary when waiting for really good pupusas. It isn't fast food if they're done well, and to order.
Where do you find your favorite pupusas?
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Britannia: Äiti vei Danielin lasten poliklinikalle koska tällä oli niskassa ihon alla punkki. Sairaalassa mietittiin mitä ongelmalle pitäisi tehdä. Äiti otti sillä välin yhteyttä eläinlääkäriasemalle ja punkki poistettiin siellä.
Toddler from Bolton with tick under his skin is treated by a VET
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8:49am Friday 6th November 2009
A TODDLER who was taken to hospital after a tick burrowed under his skin, ended up being treated by a vet.
Vanessa Marsden took her 19-month-old son, Daniel, to the children?s accident and emergency department at the Royal Bolton Hospital after discovering the blood-sucking parasite on his head.
Ticks normally live on animals but can attach themselves to humans and cause Lyme disease, which can have serious effects.
But while a nurse was working out how to deal with the rare problem, Mrs Marsden contacted a veterinary surgery, where bosses agreed to treat her son.
Hospital chiefs said the tick would have been dealt with by their staff had Mrs Marsden waited.
Mrs Marsden, aged 38, of Saltram Close, Bradley Fold, said: ?I feel upset because you expect to be in the best hands at the hospital but we more or less sorted it ourselves.
?They didn?t seem to know what to do but the nurse at the vets was fantastic.?
Mrs Marsden?s husband, Gary, aged 44, added: ?When Vanessa rang me and said she had taken Daniel to the vets I thought she was joking.
?Daniel got better service there than at the hospital.?
The couple, who also have a four-year-old son, Matthew, believe Daniel may have picked up the tick on a recent trip to Center Parcs in Cumbria. The parasites live in tall grass and trees.
Mrs Marsden spotted the tick in the back of Daniel?s head and took him to hospital where he was seen straight away but she claims the nurse did not know what to do. She decided to ring Darley House Veterinary Surgery, in Farnworth, who said they would see Daniel.
Mrs Marsden said: ?Darley House were absolutely fantastic. We were in and out in 10 minutes and there was no charge.
?I want to share our story to raise awareness about ticks and how to deal with them.?
Daniel is recovering well after his ordeal and his parents are keeping a close eye on him.
Heather Edwards, head of communications at the hospital, said: ?The nurse involved had not seen a tick bite before while working in our department but this is not surprising as it is not common in Bolton.
?We do see tick bites though and can manage them within the department.
?The nurse did the correct thing in asking for advice from one of the doctors, looking it up on a information website and waiting for the patient to be seen by one of the doctors.
?The relatives contacted a vet while waiting to be seen and decided to go to there. This was not on the advice of our staff as it would have been dealt with correctly when the patient was seen by the doctor.?
Darley House veterinary nurse Gemma Yates said: ?This is something we would expect the hospital to be able to deal with although they won?t see it very regularly. We were only too happy to help but it?s rare for us to treat humans instead of animals.?
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Remember the controversy over Facebook's social experimentation, which showed how people's emotions could be toyed with by changing what they see online? Well, Facebook wasn't the only site playing with your heart. Dating site OkCupid has now acknowledged doing much the same thing. The mostly free dating service is being very open about how it manipulated members' online dating lives and offers a detailed explanation that amounts to a version of "Hey, everybody's doing it."
As OKCupid put it: "...Guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That's how websites work."
Uhm, no. That may be how OKCupid works, but that's not necessarily how other websites operate. (Well, ok, Facebook might be in the same league, but that was supposedly one-time thing.) Arguing that "everybody does it" and hoping for strength in numbers doesn't make what OKCupid did any smarter or more ethical. It also didn't mollify site users who were angry that their trust had been violated.
You expect things to be a bit sketchy on a dating site. But you don't expect the site operators themselves to be the ones whispering sweet nothings in your ear (or manipulating your profile).
In case you missed it, here's a taste of what OK Cupid did and and how it justified its actions.
Love is blind?
On Jan, 15, 2013, almost exactly a year after Facebook ran its experiment on users, OkCupid conducted a "Love is Blind Day." Site admins removed all user pictures from the site to see how people would communicate. As the pictures went offline, so did many OkCupid users. Site traffic dropped. Love may be blind, but OKCupid members aren't.
Still, those that hung around and continued to communicate with other members got 44% more responses to their initial messages than they did with their photos visible. OkCupid said that conversations overall had more substance, and people exchanged contact information at a greater pace. (I'm curious to know how private your messages are if OkCupid knows this kind of information). According to OKCupid, without pictures, the site was better at helping match up users.
However, for many users looking to find love on OkCupid, the return of everyone's photos at 4 p.m. spelled disaster. Conversations between many people just faded away.
So what is OkCupid to do other than to reference data from its now-defunct blind dating application, "Crazy Blind Date," which showed that people had a good time on blind dates once they went out -- to an extent. Data showed that the better looking a guy was on a date, the less happy the woman was. As Christian Rudder, the study's author, as well as the co-founder and president of OkCupid, writes: "Oddly, it appears that having a better-looking blind date made women slightly less happy -- my operating theory is that hotter guys were assholes more often."
Wait a second, that's not science.
Profile pictures tell all
So, what about the photos you use in your profile? OkCupid wants you to know: They're worth absolutely everything in your profile, and writing anything about yourself is a waste of time. When users were asked to rate potential dates on their personality and looks, more attractive people had higher personality scores. This really does us a favor by revealing how shallow we really are. Rudder makes his point by explaining that a person who displayed an image showing a lot of skin and looking pouty was rated as being in the 99th percentile for personality, meaning that she seemed to have a better personality than 99% of OkCupid users:
The catch here was that the profile contained absolutely no text to describe her personality. As Rudder explains, "[She's] obviously a really cool person to hang out and talk to and clutch driftwood with." This should probably give us all something to think about.
The experiment
Here is where the experimenting turns rather shady. Granted, OkCupid needs to be able to test how well its matching algorithm works. But what happened in this experiment is that the site changed users' match levels, telling people that they were a 90% match when in reality they were a 30% match, and vice-versa. OkCupid did exactly what Facebook did: It toyed with people's expectations -- and emotions. At this point, I'm not sure which experiment is worse.
What OkCupid officials did not reveal -- and I doubt that it cared -- was how users felt when nothing worked out and their time finding a mate was wasted. According to OKCupid's data, only about 20% of users exchanged more than four messages.
Online dating has become a big industry, worth more than $1.2 billion in 2013. Although OkCupid is largely a free service, it charges for "premium" features, like its A-List service, or the ability to filter results by body type. Despite all the pseudo-science data offered up in OK Cupid's explanation of what it did and why, I'm still wondering whether it's manipulated the results of its users outside of this experiment, and whether paying users were affected. If you're getting augmented results, does OkCupid deserve your money?
If it is impossible to know when the information you are being given has been altered, I would say no. Frankly, paying to get lied to is just a sketchy business practice. And it raises questions about whether this type of testing is happening on other sites owned by OkCupid's parent company, IAC, including Match.com, Chemistry.com, and Tinder. (I reached out to OkCupid for comment. I got no response.)
OKCupid users' reaction
There are a variety of ways a company can go about testing new ideas and strategies. However, it is becoming apparent that social networking and dating sites really only care about their bottom line and have checked your feelings at the door, leaving many users upset and hoping that the sites come crashing down. Some commenters on the OkCupid study were blunt:
"Another idiot internet dating site shoots itself in the foot, and I'm gonna enjoy watching you go down in flames."
"OkCupid doesn't really know what it's doing. Per your own blog post."
"So if this is the reality of online dating, where a company can read through your "private" messages and alter your results, I would call this one hell of a security breach. Rather than being a pawn of a money-making experiment and having your privacy violated, next time you see someone reading your favorite book on the train or find yourself talking to the person who makes your coffee in the morning, if you feel that spark, go ahead and keep the conversation going. Heck, you never know, you might end up marrying your baristaI did."
Although companies like Facebook and OkCupid have bulletproof terms of use, the ethics of their actions are questionable. None seem to consider the possibility that their actions will make their customers mad and undermine interest in their sites. IAC's other dating sites could see losses due to a breach of customers' trust. After all, when you send a message to someone, you should expect privacy, not an employee analyzing it to discern how long it took you to exchange phone numbers.
It seems that ethics have disappeared from social media companies. In this case, it's time to break up.
Alex Burinskiy is a technical analyst at IDG, Computerworld's parent company. He was previously an Apple Store genius for four years and has worked with a range of IT systems, from personal to enterprise, for nine years. You can find him on Twitter (@aburinskiy).
This story, "OkCupid -- It's Not Me, Its You" was originally published by Computerworld.
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Check showtimes to see when Amanpour is on CNN where you are. Or watch online.
By Mick Krever, CNN
For many children in Gaza, war is all they know.
"In the past six years, three wars happened in Gaza," Rifat Kassis, director of Defence for Children International told CNN's Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Tuesday. "So we are talking about a generation who only experienced war and violence."
And there are a lot of children in Gaza – about 43% of the population is under the age of twelve. The United Nations says that more than two hundred children have been killed in this conflict, now three weeks old.
"When there is no place in Gaza where you can feel secure, when you lose your parents or one of your parents – this loss of the protection, this loss, the separation feeling from your parents, this is actually worse than the war activity itself," Kassis said.
UNICEF says that about 200,000 children "are in need of immediate psychosocial support."
"Most of these children, they will live up with depression, anxiety, hopelessness, grief, resentments, anger and fear," Kassis said.
"My biggest fear [is that] these children will live up with hatred, with violence, with all these feelings, which should not continue, it should not last, it should be treated. And this is where we are calling upon all international organizations that such a trauma needs to be dealt with immediately."
If some of these children grow up with hatred in their hearts and a desire to do something about it, should anyone be surprised ?
Poor coverage of @lastine genocide "Children cought in cross fire" there is massive shielg and not cross fire as alwasy put by CNN supporting -the Isreal massacre of inocent people.
Very limited time coverage to american tv on gaza massacre
War trauma. That's interesting. And in there blood debt – which is sky-is-the -limit for Israel now as nobody, except the Americans, is throwing any towel in there.
And, blood debts will have to be paid, by whoever, sooner or later – the after shocks in war.
Will your chief international correspondent...Christiane Amanpour...be commenting on Gaza? Is the massacre in Gaza too mundane for the likes of Amanpour...Zakaria...maybe they don't want to risk antagonizing the jewish lobby...
I used to think there was a difference between CNN & Fox....Blitzer is an utter disgrace ...an apologist for the slaughterers....
Israel will ask the people of Gaza to evacuate areas in which its army will go in.
I would like to ask Mr. Rifat Kassis, director of Defence for Children International, why is it that since they know where and when there will be violence, why don't the Gazans and the Hamas leaders and the UN authorities don't evacuate the children from dangerous areas? Why is it that they leave them on purpose so they can witness and suffer the atrocities of a war? And so they can use them for publicity purposes? They can avoid at least, some of the suffering for the children in Gaza.
Why is it that the Gaza population and the Hamas leaders, with the money they get from other Arab countries as well as European and western countries as aid, invest so much in armament, rockets, a sophisticated net of tunnels and invest so little in taking the population of Gaza out of their misery and have a better infrastructure, better services, better quality life?
The children here have no childhood, the emotional trauma will follow the lives of the children. They are miserable and innocent! http://www.friv2on.com


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Above is the photo that was auctioned off. Here's a little background on Luna. My husband and I were out to eat at our favorite Mexican restaurant near downtown Kansas City. It was the middle of winter. When we came outside, there was this little kitten sitting in the entrance alcove, trying to get out of the cold, and trying to find someone to take her home! Well, she went over and sat on my husband's feet, and would not let him leave without her. He picked her up and she nuzzled into him! Judging by how skinny and dirty she was, it was clear that she did not have a home. And it looked like she had been hit by a car at some point. So we wrapped her up in a sweatshirt, took her home and gave her a bath. She was so excited to be out of the cold that she didn't mind the bath at all! And, it turns out she was a white cat, not a grey one! She has since made herself quite comfortable in our home, sleeping on the couch, pestering the other cats, playing with the dogs. We are happy that she decided to adopt us that night!


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Arch Enemy @ Shepherd's Bush Empire with Chthonic and Warbringer
6th December 2011
Review by James Griffiths
Photography by Graham Hilling
It's a very cold Tuesday night in Sheppard's Bush but that hasn't deterred the army of metallers queuing up outside of the Sheppard's Bush Empire well over an hour before the doors open. Personally, I found it much easier to plant myself in the pub next door where its warm and cosy and can drink a few beers before the bands start!
7:30pm and the doors have opened and the queue diminishes very fast and the venue soon begins to fill out just in time for tonight's first band.
Chthonic – They are a Taiwanese metal band, formed in 1995 in Taipei. The group incorporates influences from traditional Taiwanese music including the classical Asian instrument erhu.
As Chthonic took to the stage they were greeted by huge cheers from the crowd. This has to be the first time I have seen an opening act get such a huge reaction from a crowd.
They had great stage presence and from the outset shredded their way through their setlist. Their symphonic black metal sound at times reminded me of Dimmu Borgir, which really impressed me.
They really played up to the crowd and gave them what they wanted, Pure unadulterated metal! Throughout a few of their tracks vocalist Freddy Lim would start playing the Erhu (see above) and even though this was black metal it seemed to fit in extremely well and sounded amazing.
The crowds response to this band was just great, pits were breaking out all over the place throughout their set.
All in all this was a great opening to what seems like will be a great night. 8/10
Second on tonight are Warbringer – These guys are a thrash band from Ventura, California. Formed in 2004 these guys were signed by Century Media in 2006. That is a pretty impressive timescale to say the least.
Warbringer had the crowd doing circle pits and even a huge wall of death which was fun and also painful to watch!
Vocalist John Kevil had me and quite a few others in fits of laughter throughout the set, with his insane headbanging and his belief that his microphone was actually a machine gun while shooting at the crowd!
Funny stuff aside Warbringer were pure thrash and everyone loved it.
Sounding like Kreator at times each song was just a hit with the crowd as they soaked up the power and energy from the band on stage.
To be honest 30 minutes wasn't enough time for these guys, myself and the crowd could have definitely settled for another 30 minutes added on they were that great and fun to watch. 9/10
The headline band of the night really need no introduction as they are the mighty Arch Enemy!
When they took to the stage I swear the roof nearly came off the venue the crowd were that loud.
The melodic death metal that we have become accustomed to with Arch Enemy throughout the years blew each and every member of the crowd away.
Playing songs from their whole back catalogue no one here could of asked for more.
Even more impressive was the fact that while playing they had each of their music videos playing on screens to the side of the stage and precise timing to them playing live, this really was a great sight to see.
One of the highlights of the night was when vocalist Angela Gossow stated that this was the start of the European tour and she felt that it couldn't get any better than tonight.
This truly was an amazing gig as they found time to have a 5 minute drum solo, plus guitar solos.
Arch Enemy were on fine form tonight and not a note or beat was missed, this has to go down as one of the best gigs of the year without a doubt!
They need to come back to London soon to give us more of that amazing show we all witnessed tonight! Truly outstanding. 10/10


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On July 3 starting pitcher Ramon Ortiz took the mound in Buffalo against the Rochester Red Wings only to find himself on the losing end of a pitcher's duel against Red Wings starter Glen Perkins. Facing the Red Wings again today at Frontier Field, Ortiz took part in another pitcher's duel. This time however he got the best of the Red Wings as the Herd won 1-0.
Red Wings starter Anthony Swarzak played the role of Ortiz's counterpart today and was on the losing end of the duel as Ortiz showed complete dominance over his seven inning start.
Ortiz tossed seven masterful innings by only giving up two hits and eight strikeouts while not issuing a walk. The Bisons starter also allowed only one base runner to reach scoring position when Rochester shortstop Brendan Harris got to second in the fifth inning.
The Bisons starter attacked the strike zone early and often. While picking up his first win as a member of the Herd, Ortiz threw 84 pitches in his start today with 62 of them went for strikes. Through the first three innings Ortiz could not seem to miss the strike zone as 26 of his first 29 pitches were strikes.
After issuing a single to Red Wings third baseman Trevor Plouffe who was leading off for Rochester, Ortiz then retired the next 12 batters he faced. Following Plouffe's single, Ortiz did not allow a man to reach base until right fielder Brian Dinkleman knocked a single in to lead off the fifth inning.
While Ortiz was throwing a gem on the mound, his teammates could not drive in any runs to support their starter. The game remained scoreless until the seventh inning. Second baseman Russ Adams led off the inning with his 20th double of the year to put the Bisons in position to drive home a much needed run. Catcher Jean Luc Blaquiere then laid down a sacrifice bunt to move Adams over to third to bring up 2009 team MVP Jesus Feliciano with a chance to drive home the go-ahead run.
Feliciano did his job as he lifted a 2-1 pitch just deep enough to left field to score Adams. Following the catch from Red Wings left fielder Matt Macri, he made a good throw home that Feliciano just beat out to give the Herd the 1-0 advantage.
Ryota Igarashi relieved Ortiz in the eighth inning and got through the inning relatively easy barring a single from first baseman Brock Peterson. Manny Acosta then took the hill in the ninth and en route to his fifth save of the year breezed through the Red Wings final three batters to secure the 1-0 victory.
The win for the Herd is their fifth straight, which ties their season high. The shutout is also the sixth time the Herd has blanked their opponent this year. The Bisons are now 51-45 while the Red Wings drop to 35-63.
BISONS NOTES: Mike Cervenak collected three hits in todays game, going 3-4 in the win. In his second game back with the Herd, designated hitter Mike Hessman went 0-4. He will make his return to Coca-Cola Field tomorrow when the Bisons take on the Red Wings in the back end of a home and home series with Rochester. Pat Misch looks for his tenth win of the season (9-3, 3.27 ERA) as he takes on Glen Perkins (3-8, 7.00 ERA) at 7:05 p.m.


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TAVARES, Fla. — All workers at a Florida gas plant rocked by a series of explosions have been accounted for after as many as 15 were initially feared killed, authorities say.
John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said early Tuesday that all the workers at the Blue Rhino propane plant had been accounted for and that no fatalities had been reported after explosions hit the plant late Monday night. Seven people were injured and transported to local hospitals.
Herrell earlier had said 15 workers were unaccounted for after the blasts, but all were later found safe.
Herrell said a crew of 24 to 26 people were working at the plant on an overnight shift when the explosions occurred late Monday. He said seven people were injured and transported to a local hospital and two employees escaped unharmed.
The Blue Rhino plant refilled propane tanks typically used for gas grills.
.Video footage on WESH-TV in Orlando showed fires burning through trucks used to transport propane tanks, which were parked at the plant. The fire was sending plumes of smoke into the air nearly two hours after the blast. Emergency crews could also be seen massing nearby.
Herrell said an evacuation zone was initially a one-mile radius but had been reduced to a half-mile radius. No injuries have been reported from residents in the neighborhood.
Herrell said officials believe the fire is contained and won't spread to another part of the plant but they cannot guarantee that.
Bryan Koon, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said he was still getting "preliminary information" from local authorities.
The blasts began about 11 p.m.
Herrell said the plant usually has 53,000 20-pound propane tanks.
According to the Leesburg Daily Commercial, the plant was built in 2004 and employs fewer than 50 people.


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Chuck Warner, author and coach, is an old friend. Thoughtful and passionate about the sport, he has studied the details behind what it takes to achieve swimming excellence.
What training is too extreme to prepare to swim fast? Some coaches advocate challenging the mind and the body with what Coach Bob Mattson used to refer to as "mind grinder" sets. They were arduous in their length of 5-10,000 yards/meters and earned their name by what some would describe as a monotonous series of numbers. Before open water swimming gained some popularity in America, the coach regularly used a quarry to train swimmers and, in the 1970s, helped many of them become world class. Like many other coaches, Mattson was recognized as someone that pushed swimmers hard.
What is it that drives coaches and swimmers to explore their limits?
University North Carolina, Mercersburg, Cincinnati Pepsi (at that time) Marlins and Wilton Y great John Davis goes to extremes to help troubled teenage boys that usually aren't swimmers. Although John has been a professional counselor for less than 20 years he is credited for helping more than 7,000 families with very difficult situations. One of John's passions is mountaineering and, if the boys earn the right, they might be able to work their way to partaking in a "2xtreme Dream."
Among the experiences that John and his boys have had are climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, the High Andes in South America and in Russia the 18,510 foot Mt Erbus. These are not simply "hikes" up a mountain over the course of a week. They are technical climbs during which a single stage at a base camp can last 2-3 weeks while the boys learn how to climb a 2000 foot wall of ice, that takes 2-6 hours. In their training they not only learn the skills involved but also become accustomed to environmental adaptations such as the pressure on their skull from the altitude changes.
Why would anyone do this?
Davis points out the sense of satisfaction that comes with achievement. He has taken what he's learned about positive thinking from his swimming career and professional training and applied it to counseling as well as mountaineering. In his fabulous book EXTREME PURSUIT: Winning the Race for the Heart of Your Son he tells the story of gathering his group at the base of a mountain. Then the inevitable happens. The clouds will drift away, revealing an immense mountain and it's summit. An intimated boy will look up and meekly ask, "We're going to climb that?"
Any coach─or in this case a counselor-has a choice in that moment. In a recent article we quoted one young coach as tersely telling his athletes, "At the end of the season you're going to stand on that starting block to race the best in the world. I want you to know that you've done things that no one else has. This is one of those things!"
That temperament and those types of words are a choice that John could utilize. Or perhaps he might say, "It's going to be dangerous, so pay attention." But that might add an overload of fearful emotions to the experience. John's approach is to simply smile and say, "Yea, isn't it going to be great!"
And to him it is. It's just a matter of perspective. Hopefully the boys feel the same way, especially when they enjoy the view and sense of accomplishment at the summit. They see a metaphor for their life of peaks and valleys, but ultimately standing atop one of the greatest vistas on earth.
Perhaps this sense of glorious achievement is why Jerry Frenstos swam 20 x 1000 individual medleys, or Larsen Jensen joined the Navy Seals after being America's best 1500 man, or 13-year old Sippy Woodhead was willing to attempt 30, 000 meters in one day or Tracy Caulkins moved from stroke to stroke to set American records in every one of them.
Perhaps, it also puts a different perspective on Casey Converse's much discussed, and criticized, punishment of swimming a straight 20,000. That swim might be put into context by a story that Casey tells in Four Champions, One Gold Medal of a Christmas training trip in Hawaii in 1975:
"Mark (Schubert) was driving a bunch of us in a van through the mountains and beginning to descend down into a valley where the pool we were training at, that day. You could see triple rainbows around the mountaintops. The main set at workout was a long straight swim. As we raced through it, my teammates and I were passing and challenging each other, moving from lane to lane looking for open water. It was as much fun as any teenager could have."
For some swimmers and coaches, what's too extreme, might be Tom Jager's test set of 8 x 50s on 8 minutes ─ at altitude, from a dive and without a breath on any one of them. With six weeks to rest for peak performance Tom would swim under the USA National time standard on each one -at that time about, 23.5 long course, 20.5 short course.
But, like the explorers of endurance, Jager's high school years of training for longer events, such as excelling in the 200 backstroke and 400 freestyle helped him build a wider base of work, and work ethic, to build from.
A critical question that all coaches need to regularly ask themselves about their program is, "Are we challenging our swimmers with the type of work in their high school years that will give them a chance to meet their potential by the end of their swimming career?"
At the same time it's well worth considering the importance of a blend or balance of stresses. One wouldn't build strength in the weight room with biceps only for 10 weeks and then triceps only for 10 weeks. Balance each week is necessary to properly build the capacity to train closer and closer to race speed and achieve the maximum development of a swimmer's potential.
John Davis started a foundation called "The 2xtreme Dream" to help teenagers release their hands from a life of miserable dependency and grasp the hand of excellence, growth and, through the exploration of a mountain, all of life's possibilities.
Each swim program has at it's foundation the same potential.
Chuck Warner has been a swimming coach for more than forty years. His teams have won seven national Y team championships, been runners-up for the NCAA Division II championship three times, been a USA National Team swim coach three times and Big East Conference coach of the year four times. Chuck has authored two books: "Four Champions, One Gold Medal" about the training and race for the 1500 meter gold medal in the 1976 Olympics. "…And Then They Won Gold: Stepping Stones To Swimming Excellence – Volume I" is out now. It is eight short stories of some of the greatest male swimmers in history. The second volume devoted to women's swimmers is due out next year. He is the founder, President and CEO of Arete Aquatic Services and owner of the ARETE Swim Camp.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ORDERING"…And Then They Won Gold" go towww.areteswim.com and access "Books/Media."


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I think by VOA you mean Voice of America. I don't know if their broadcasts reach Hong Kong, but they do have a website, and you can find out there, I am sure.
I don't think you have to write down what you hear, but if there is something in particular you want to remember it would certainly be helpful to you if you write it down.
You can get more information about the VOA here: www.voa.gov If you have any questions for them you can email them at: [email protected] You can get information such as the frequencies at which they broadcast at the website. (VOA broadcasts in 55 languages, including Mandarin and Cantonese.)


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by Dr. Sandra Habicht
Bitter gourd is a functional vegetable with beneficial effects on health
Bitter gourd is a popular vegetable in some Asian countries, where the health benefits of the plant are well-known—particularly, its ability to lower blood glucose in diabetics. Bitter gourd has been used to treat diabetes in traditional medicine and is now commercially available as tea (from fruits or leaves), juice, extracts, and pills. Although these products promise health benefits, most of the manufacturers do not offer scientifically proven data on the effectiveness of bitter gourd or their products. However, in recent years researchers worldwide have started to focus on the antidiabetic effects of bitter gourd. The goal is to provide safe and clear preparation and dosage recommendations so that consumers will realize the greatest benefit from consuming fresh bitter gourd or bitter gourd products.
Bitter gourd lowers dietary carbohydrate digestion
The glucose metabolism starts in the gut. Carbohydrates and sugars are metabolized to glucose (one type of sugar) before glucose is transported from the gut to the blood. Bitter gourd reduces the amount of glucose that is released into the blood by inhibiting the enzymes that break down disaccharides to two monosaccharides (e.g. glucose) (Oishi et al. 2007, Kumar Shetty et al. 2005). Bitter gourd can influence the transport channels for glucose, which also reduces glucose transport into the blood (Singh et al. 2004). This effect is important for the treatment of both Type I and Type II diabetic patients and helps to prevent high blood sugar levels after meals.
It is scientifically proven: bitter gourd lowers blood glucose levels!
Bitter gourd treatments of cell cultures or feeding trials with laboratory animals such as mice or rats show bitter gourd does have blood glucose lowering properties. Bitter gourd is not like most medicinal drugs, which are effective only in one target organ or tissue; rather, it influences glucose metabolism all over the body.
Bitter gourd reverses insulin resistance
Bitter gourd can play a role in the prevention and treatment of Type II diabetes, which is also called insulin-independent diabetes or adult onset diabetes. This form of the disease usually occurs in people who are overweight and inactive. In Type II diabetes, the liver, skeletal muscle, and fat tissues do not respond adequately to insulin—they are "insulin resistant." Feeding trials with insulin resistant or Type II diabetic rats and mice have shown that bitter gourd helps to prevent or reverse insulin resistance (Nerurkar et al. 2008, Klomann et al. 2010). People with insulin resistance or those with a high risk of developing Type II diabetes have a good chance to prevent and treat the disease without drugs by increasing their physical activity and changing their diet.
Bitter gourd plant insulin discovered
The pancreas reacts to increasing blood sugar levels by secreting insulin into the blood. Insulin helps to transport the sugar from the blood to the skeletal muscle and the fat tissue where it is used to produce energy. Insulin will also stop the liver to produce sugar from glycogen storages and to release the sugar into the blood.
Thus, insulin is necessary to lower high blood sugar levels. In Type I diabetes, also called insulin-dependent diabetes, the pancreas does not produce or secrete enough insulin to keep blood sugar levels low. Bitter gourd has been shown to be effective in treating Type I diabetes in rats or mice by increasing pancreatic insulin secretion Yibchok-Anun et al. 2006, Fernandes et al. 2007). Additionally, scientists found an insulin-like molecule in bitter gourd (Khanna et al. 1981). Although bitter gourd may reduce the number of insulin injections required to manage Type 1 diabetes, it cannot replace insulin treatment completely or heal this form of the disease.
Bitter gourd can protect the body from other non-communicable diseases
Being overweight is one of the most important risk factors for diabetes and other diseases, and Type II diabetes is often accompanied by hypertension, high plasma cholesterol, or high plasma lipids. Together, these conditions increase the risk of stroke or heart attack. For overweight Type II diabetic patients, bitter gourd can help to improve health. In mice and rats, bitter gourd has been shown to reduce hypertension (Singh et al. 2004), plasma cholesterol (Nerurkar et al. 2008), and plasma lipids (Nerurkar et al. 2008). Apart from this, bitter gourd helps weight loss. There is also evidence that bitter gourd might be effective in cancer treatment.
Bitter gourd prevents diabetic complications
Chronically high sugar concentrations from Type I and Type II diabetes increase the risk of inflammation and oxidation in the whole body, leading to blindness, diabetic feet, kidney disease, stroke, or heart attack. Consuming bitter gourd can help prevent these complications, as it not only decreases blood sugar levels, but also has some antioxidative properties (Sathishsekar und Subramanian 2005, Klomann et al. 2010).
More bitter gourd does not help more. Please be careful!
Exclusive consumption of bitter gourd, bitter gourd juice, or other bitter gourd products can lead to dangerous hypoglycemia when consumed by diabetic patients under oral drug treatment, in too high dosages, by children, or on a hungry stomach. Pregnant or breastfeeding woman should not consume bitter gourd or bitter gourd products. Although bitter gourd can help prevent insulin resistance or severe diabetic complications, it is important to consider situations in which bitter gourd may be harmful to your health.
Source: http://www.bitter-gourd.org/health-benefits/


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The days of handwriting parking citations are over for the City of Portland. Passport, an industry leader in parking enforcement and citation management software, has launched its citation management platform for the city. The new tickets will begin appearing Friday, September 22, 2017. In the next couple of months, the City will be launching a mobile app via Passport, which will allow parkers to check time remaining on their meter, add time, and make payments right from their cell phones.
Previously, the City was hand writing more than 120,000 citations a year and manually inputting them into its database. With Passport's citation management platform, City parking enforcement officers have the ability to efficiently issue citations using wireless handheld devices and Bluetooth printers rather than manually writing tickets. Enforcement officers can also monitor parking, conduct digital chalking, and upload pictures of violations in real time. The real-time data transfer functionality allows parking administrators and violators access to citation information immediately upon ticket issuance. Tickets will be available to be paid online at www.portlandparkingtickets.com minutes after being issued.
"The City of Portland aims to make the most accurate data-driven decisions," said John Peverada, parking manager for the City of Portland "With the implementation of Passport's state-of-the-art citation management technology, we are able to ease the flow of information between our on-street enforcement officers and our parking administrators."
"We're excited to introduce our citation management platform to the City of Portland," said April Dickerson, project manager at Passport. "With our innovative technology, enforcement officers and administrators can efficiently integrate workflow, access real-time information, and make appropriate data-driven decisions."
With the platform the City has the ability to track enforcement officers in real-time, pull ticket density reports, and analyze parking patterns.


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A Guide to the James Campbell Wilkins Papers, 1801-1852
Biographical Note
Natchez, Mississippi, cotton planter, merchant, cotton factor, financier, and banker. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before 1790, he came to Adams County around 1805. He participated in the Battle of New Orleans, the last general assembly of the Mississippi Territory, and the constitutional convention for the new state. Between 1828 and 1835 he attempted an unsuccessful political career. He was associated prominently with four banks at Natchez (1824-1840), but lost most of his fortune in 1841 and died at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1849.
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Correspondence, Financial records, and legal documents relate to the lives and careers of Wilkins, his family, and business associates and concern the cotton trade; business of commission merchants in Natchez, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana; plantation life and economy; slavery; and the planter elite of the Natchez and Adams County area.
Included is material concerning James Campbell Wilkins's uncle, Charles Wilkins, Lexington, Kentucky, merchant and provisioner of the U. S. Army's work on the Natchez Trace road (1801-1807); James Campbell Wilkins's work as a commission merchant in Natchez; his partnership (1816-1834) with John Linton in New Orleans; his business as a planter; activities of individuals and families, including George Adams, Adam Lewis Bingaman, Stephen Duncan, Levin R. Marshall, and the Minor family; and the 1836 sale and transportation to the South of a group of 50 slaves.
Forms Part of Natchez Trace Collection.
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Administrative Information
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James Campbell Wilkins Papers, 1801-1852, Natchez Trace Collection, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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The ghost-tastic flick "The Apparition" has had its release date pushed from 2011 to an unnamed date in 2012. No reason has been released for the push but seeing how it's directed by Todd Lincoln who's previous credits include visual effects on "From Dusk Till Dawn" and stars a bunch of teenage extras from other movies I'm guessing they want to put it up against "Avatar 2" just to F with the man.
People seem to be getting sick of 3D movies and paranormal flicks but how could you fail with a paranormal 3D joint? The answer is you can't. "Paranormal Xperience 3D" revolves around a group of teens (awesome!) trapped in a town being terrorized by an evil doctor. If the twist at the end of this is that the doctor is a ghost then putting the word "paranormal" in the title might of been a bad idea.
Little known fact, they have TV's in New Zealand. I know I was shocked too! Not only that they apparently have their own shows. Like "The Tribe" which is about group of people who have lived through a virus that's killed off most of Earth's population and how they deal with robots and giant locusts. Sounds pretty good already but it's being adapted for the big screen here in the US so we're going to make it even better. You're welcome Kiwi's!
My wife and I have agreed that no matter what sex our seventh child is we will name him or her Shia LaBeouf. That's just how big of fans we are. So we're both pumped to find out that he will star in a new big screen adaptation of Joe Hill's, son of Stephan King, novel "Horns". The basic plot is LaBeouf wakes up after a night of boozing to find he's sprouted horns. I don't get the title.
New "Final Destination 4" pics surfaced today. Does this signal the beginning of the hype-train for this one? Don't forget it's in glorious 3D, which means lots of heads and guts flying at your face. Ahhh, good times.
New "Whiteout" still, from the thriller starring Kate Beckinsale. Basically she's an FBI agent hunting a serial killer in Antarctica, right before the sun is about to set for 6 months. So yes, probably the least original story in the world at this point. And with the cold weather, I'm guessing we won't be seeing any leather body suits, either.
Todd Lincoln to adapt the comic "The Nye Incidents" for Dark Castle. Lincoln is currently working on Universal's adaptation of "Hack/Slash". So what's "The Nye Incidents" about? A children's television scientist who goes apeshit and kills all the world's children? I kid, I kid. It's actually about a "medical examiner on the hunt of a killer of alien abductees". Sounds pretty great, actually, although I still want to see my interpretation make it to the big screen.
Brad Dourif will be returning as the voice of "Chucky" in the upcoming remake of "Child's Play". Other than that news, all is quiet on the that front, so we'll give you more when we hear it.
"All The Boys Love Mandy Lane" will be hitting theaters July 17th? That's what Entertainment Weekly is telling us. I'm not seeing if it will be a wide release or not, but is that possible? Guess we'll find out.


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July 11, 2012 | By Jan Shaffer
Note: This is the fourth of a series about drivers who competed in the early years of the Crown Royal Presents the "Your Hero's Name Here" 400 at the Brickyard who no longer compete regularly in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
The inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994 was new to everybody, but it was "double new" to Ward Burton.
"It was just a huge honor to be at that facility," Burton said. "'94 was my rookie year and to be involved with NASCAR and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a real honor just to be a part of it.
"The biggest thing was that it was just a fabulous track to race on. When you went around the racetrack in a Pace Car and saw the number of fans …" His voice drifted off.
In all, Burton has started 12 of the 18 Brickyard 400s to date, with best finishes of a pair of sixths. He started on the front row in 2004, but 2002 Daytona 500 winner Burton has had his helmet off most of this season.
"I never officially retired," he said. "I'm working on my son Jeb's career. He's 19, and I'm working feverishly to get him some support. I ran the truck at Daytona and finished eighth. Then he ran the next five races. He's as good as anybody I've seen. He'd never been to a 1 ½-mile track before, went to Charlotte and finished eighth. For me, I could get my head back in the game real quick."
One of those opportunities came up around the Indianapolis 500.
"I had a gentleman call me about it, and I was excited about doing it," he said. "It turned out with my schedule to test it and all that it didn't work. You have a lot of practice going on between Charlotte and Indy, and to give them both your best would be hard."
From his home in Halifax, Va., Burton stays busy outside racing.
"I have a few businesses," he said, "and the Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation, which is 2,000 acres of the south side of Virginia. I shovel by hand, drive the tractor and use the chain saw when I need to. We have an endangered salamander, black bear and quail management. It's a good model for conservation.
"We have a contract with the Army at Fort Pickett's Army Training Facility to provide assistance to land owners to make easements around their 48,000 acres. On our acreage, we have shooting, fishing and archery competition."
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All ticket orders can be made at www.imstix.com and through the IMS Ticket Office at the IMS Administration Building at the corner of Georgetown Road and 16th Street between 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (ET) Monday-Friday. For more information, call the IMS ticket office at (317) 492-6700, or (800) 822-INDY outside the Indianapolis area.
Children 12 and under will receive free general admission when accompanied by an adult with a Kroger Super Weekend ticket or general admission ticket.
Tickets for groups of 20 or more also are on sale. Contact the IMS Group Sales Department at (866) 221-8775 for more information.


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Today was Salsa Saturday at the orchard and it was wonderful! We had lots of people coming in looking to try some yummy, refreshing salsa and others that were pleasantly surprised by our fairly spontaneous special day.
Between Diane and I, we made up 7 different salsa's made from ingredients mostly found at the orchard.
These salsa's included: Fresh & Spicy Salsa, Fresh Apple Salsa, Peach & Tomato Salsa, Ground Cherry Salsa, Salsa Verde, Zucchini Salsa, & Apple Raspberry Salsa. I know I enjoyed on munching on some of these 'different' salsa's throughout the day and I think our customer's enjoyed them as well. I would love to hear what your favorites of these were!
I'll be posting the recipes of these that aren't already posted in the next day or so.
Five of my customers brought their salsa in to put it to the test against the public. 65 people voted and the winner is….It was a TIE!
TWO salsa's both took 31% of the vote…
#2 made by Joan Van Grunsven!AND #4 made by Eric & Katie Meyer
Thanks to everyone who brought their salsa out to share. I heard from many that it was a really hard decision to choose just one that they liked.
Jared and I decided that a tie for the win is just fine – both will receive a flat of canning tomatoes for winning!
I made a little 'pocket' cookbook of fun salsa recipes. I have plans to make more of these 'pocket' additions so if you'd like you can make a collection out of them. There are still some of the 'Celebrate Salsa' editions left so it's not too late to start collecting.
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The melodic vocals on "Like Smoke," Amy Winehouse's posthumous new single, were originally recorded in 2008. She always wanted to collaborate with Nas, aka Mr. Jones, and he's added his voice to the track by rapping between her chorus. Sad that it happened after she died.
Her lyrics:
I never wanted you to be my man
I just need your company…
Don't want to get dependent on
Your time or who you spend it on
Then lose the way you love me
Like smoke
I hung around
In the unbalance
His lyrics:
Will I marry again, maybe, I guess….
I be out in London, Camden
Hunting for the answers
Why did God take away the homie
I can't say that I'm a firm believer
That we all meet up in eternity
Just hope the big man
Show me some courtesy….
Apropos of nothing, he also references Occupy Wall Street. Listen below.
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Last year, Democrats sailed to their current majority of over 70 seats in the House, thanks to the coattails of Barack Obama, especially among African-American voters who turned out in record numbers. In 2010, without Obama on the top of the ticket and with Democrats increasingly isolated on their agenda, that majority may disappear. Democratic strategists worry about record low turnouts among black voters and what that might mean for the midterms next year:
Alarms are being rung about just how many African-Americans will vote without President Barack Obama on the ballot, and the New Jersey and Virginia governors' races in three weeks will provide the first major test since the 2008 election.
A recent Washington Post survey estimated the black turnout in Virginia's governor's race at 12 percent, which would be about a 40 percent drop from last year's general election. Other polling has shown both its and New Jersey's black population unmoved about the off-year election.
The question at this point isn't so much whether black voters will turn out at 2008 levels, but how big the drop will be — and then, whether it carries into the 2010 midterms.
Tom Jensen, a spokesman for the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, has been among the most outspoken. He said the high number of Democrats with districts that are significantly black means such a turnout shift could be disastrous for Democrats.
"If what looks like is going to happen in Virginia plays out on a national level, I do think Democrats will lose the House," Jensen said.
Jensen says that voters who went with Democrats in 2008 haven't switched sides but become complacent. That doesn't match with the polling data from every major national pollster — and I mean every one — showing a flight of independents from the Democrats. Jensen also ignores the recent Gallup poll of 5,000 adults that shows party identification the closest in four years, which means that some former Democrats have left the fold. Clearly, Democrats have lost electoral ground overall, not just in enthusiasm in the African-American community.
In that group, the Republicans are not likely to have made great inroads yet. Despite the new "What Up" blog at GOP.com, the GOP has not put out much effort in talking sense to black voters and explaining conservative principles in the context of their lives. They should be focused on effective outreach, not slang-titled blogs that sound more patronizing than welcoming.
However, midterms tend to get lower turnout numbers as a matter of course. The Democrats won back the House and the Senate with a turnout of just 47% overall in 2006. The black vote turned out significantly lower at 41.2%, and Hispanics even lower at 32.3%. All of these were improvements over 2002, but only incremental increases.
If the Democrats lose the House, it will be much more attributable to their radical policy agenda in 2009-10 than a return to normal midterm turnout levels. This sounds like either an excuse or a little bit of scaremongering to get organizers enthused for the 2010 campaign.


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|Did the Progress Cheat? Critics blame paper for Schilling victory
|Surprise indeed
|Kathy & Meghan Bambrey
|Jackie Shifflett & Brian Edwards
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|Confessions of a law-abiding dog owner
|Snack attack
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Kapidex is a rehash of Prevacid, a drug used to treat gastric reflux (that's a fancy name for heartburn, huh?)
But Kapidex also treats Non-Erosive Reflux Disease. AKA NERD!!!
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There you go! Nerdhood, one of the most socially debilitating diseases known to man, has been CURED!
To give credit where credit is due: this breakthrough wouldn't have been possible without the 1970's efforts of renowned researchers H. Winkler and A. Fonzarelli to bring the condition to widespread public attention.
The data is preliminary, and hopefully more information will be forthcoming. Will the drug cause one to grow a leather jacket? Or make hair follicles part themselves differently? Or alter one's taste in music to something other than "Men Without Hats Greatest Hit?"
And, most importantly, can the drug be dissolved in Diet Coke (uh, not that I'd personally have a reason to want to know that).
(Many thanks to my reader Jason, who sent me the PI for the drug)


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Patriots QB Tom Brady still sees plenty of room to improve
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. >> In packed stadiums, Tom Brady had one of his worst statistical seasons.
Behind the scenes, he's working hard to have a better one.
And, more importantly, carry the New England Patriots further — to the Super Bowl — than they went last season.
Brady has heard coach Bill Belichick stress throughout their 14 full seasons together "that whatever matters to you as an individual, it's far distant from what the team goals are," the quarterback said Monday.
Achieving those goals is a year-round pursuit with intense offseason preparation setting the stage for the regular season.
"What you're trying to establish this time of year is what kind of team you're going to be," Brady said during the Patriots third week of organized team activities.
"Who's willing to put it all on the line when there's really no glory in this. There's no glory in an OTA practice. There's no glory in the weight room or out there on the conditioning field, but it'll show up at some point.
"It's a long season, so, at some point, the mental toughness, the discipline of the team always shows up and those are the things that we're trying to work on."
Last season, Brady was 17th in the NFL in passer rating, 21st in completion percentage, 22nd in average gain per pass attempt and 11th in touchdown passes.
Of course, Wes Welker left before the season for the Denver Broncos, Aaron Hernandez was charged with first-degree murder last summer and Rob Gronkowski was limited by injury to seven games.
The Patriots' leading returning receiver was Julian Edelman, and he had just 21 catches in 2012. He followed that with 105 receptions in a breakout season, but the rest of the receiving group suffered from injuries and inexperience.
The only significant addition to the group is Brandon LaFell, who had a career-high 49 catches in his fourth NFL season last year with Carolina.
"There's always ways to find improvement," Brady said after posing for photos with winners of the 2014 Myra Kraft Community MVP awards in honor of team owner Robert Kraft's late wife.
"You're always working with lots of other guys. So it's not necessarily just my improvement, but how my improvement relates to the rest of the team. And we all change from year to year."
Receivers Danny Amendola, Aaron Dobson and Kenbrell Thompkins are entering their second season with the Patriots. Brady is starting his 15th and wants to play as long as possible.
"The thing that I've learned over the years is you've got to pay the price in advance," he said.
"You just can't run out on the field and expect things to be better without putting the time in and extra effort. I try to be really consistent and dependable for our guys, and I think that's what the quarterback position needs to be."
The Patriots won their fifth straight AFC East title last season and 10th in the past 11.
But Brady was outplayed by Peyton Manning in the AFC championship game.
Denver won 26-16 as the Patriots made it nine straight seasons without a Super Bowl title.
The offseason intensity increases next week with a three-day minicamp followed by training camp next month.
For Brady, there's no time to waste.
"I don't think there's any time that we come out of a meeting thinking, 'Man, we're great. We've got everything figured out.' It's really a time of year where you're going to make a lot of mistakes," he said. "You're going to give great effort and you're going to fail and then you've got to gain trust in each other and become more consistent."
Then, after speaking with reporters for nearly 10 minutes, Brady was eager to return to work.
"Back to practice," he said with a big smile.


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$3.4M settlement in deadly '11 Ariz. SWAT raid
Jose Guerena, a former Marine, was killed in May 2011 with an AR-15 in his hands
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PIMA COUNTY, Ariz. — The family of a man killed during a SWAT raid at his home has settled a $3.4 million lawsuit against the four police agencies involved in the operation.
Jose Guerena, a former Marine, was shot and killed in May 2011 by SWAT members who raided his home and found him standing at the end of a hallway holding an AR-15.
Guerena's wife, Vanessa, said she woke her husband because she thought intruders were in the yard, according to the Arizona Daily Star.
Guerena, his brother, and a third man were listed as suspects in a complex drug investigation being conducted by the Sheriff's Department, prompting the SWAT unit to go to the house to serve a search warrant.
A spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff's Department disagreed with the decision to settle, but implied a prolonged trial could wind up costing taxpayers even more.
"The Pima County Sheriff's Department strongly believes the events of May 5, 2011, were unfortunate and tragic, but the officers performed that day in accordance with their training and nationally recognized standards," Deputy Tracy Suitt wrote.
The lawsuit claimed the SWAT team acted negligently throughout the whole process, from the time the detective signed the search warrant to after the shooting, when officers waited more than an hour to give Guerena medical treatment, according to the report.
The settlement includes Pima County, Marana, Oro Valley and Sahuarita.


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I have just moved into a new house and had my first gas bill. I nearly fell over. I am using about 26 units of gas a day. I have turned the boiler off and the dials on the meter are stationary. Once I turn the bolier on, the numbers fly around.
We only have the heating on whilst we are in during the day (about 5 or six hours) and the hot water heats for an hour per day.
I have an Ariston 28 RFFI boiler. This boiler is not a combi boiler, but it does heat the water in our tank (through a coil?).
Can anyone think of what the problem might be? Does this sound terminal or can it be as simple as 'turning down' the gas?


text: Opinion Political Junkie The Democrats' Fight to the Finish April 30, 2008 It has become a campaign like no other. Continuing to throw conventional wisdom out the window, it defies description or logic. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama can't even agree on who has the most votes. And the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Clinton loom large.