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Strange title- hmmmm I can't help it as my brain is ordering me to write on all these varied topics and as time s running out I am blending them in one single post!!!
Well its about the movie Fashion. First things first- film pundits might be calling it Priyanka Chopra's best till date, but I sincerely felt anyone could have done justic to that role. People who striked the right chords were Kangana Ranaut and Kitu Gidwani. Kangana Ranuat has by far become so convenient to such powerful roles. She does have repetitive sketch but she has handled the role with great sincerity and maturity of a 21 yr old. The movie has extracted the expressions which showcse her journey from a mean super model to a lunatic drug addict. Kitu Gidwani is so dignified and subtle that I feel all actresses specially the ones from OTT TV daily soaps should take lessons from her.
Madhur Bhandarkar's movies have always ended with lumps in our throats. This one is an exception. It leaves you with agonizing pain cursing its length and sad melodramatic fashion sequences. Speaking of Fashion shows- the title does not lives up to its standards. Its a story of models sorry 'Supermodels' and fashion has nothing to do with it apart from occasional remarks on – avant garde, summer collection, Indira Market et al. What made me laugh real out was character of Raj Babbar. The same guy who doesn't approves of his daughter's modelling aspirations is torn when he sees her berserk. He is the same guy who knows fashion world has changed her daughter and still coaxes her to go to the big mean world!! Okay I admit he was supportive and was trying to make her brave-but like that???? Oh c'mon. And then the second laughter came when we saw Priyanka Chopra fully dressed for the fashion show where her parents are also present- I mean OKAY!!! Yeah right!
And why did they had to kill Shonali when she was perfectly on the road to recovery! Was it because Madhur had to give the complete focus to Priyanka? Can't Shonali be equally made the International supermodel?
Kangna Ranaut is looking killer in the movie. She has the attitude, the mood and the frame to look a supermodel. But I sincerely feel she needs to work real hard on her diction. The way she said -'congrats' god I cringed in my chair.
The only person who I felt could have sizzled the character of Meghna (Priyanka Chopra's) is Bipasha Basu. Man she looks awesome and acts great guns. She was the reason people didn't notice Deepika Padukone in Bachna Ae Haseeno. Priyanka Chopra is not looking modelling material anywhere. (I have never liked her ever since she was crowned as Miss World which was a big gaffe or fashion faux pas but I am not being biased. I am writing what I genuinely felt)
No this is not about Fashion's music. Its about music of all Hindi albums that have been releasing these days. I am giving the recipe for average Hindi album here:
One cup of Hinglish lyrics
Mixed spices (Pritam/Himes Baba/Vishal and Shekhar/Shankar Ehsaan and Loy) (I mean whatever happened to Jatin, Lalit, Nadeem Shravans -eh!!!)
One cup of Hinglish Lyrics (small town girl, desi girl, Tandooori Nights) – yes this ingredient is repeated and to be used for marination and sauce as well!!!
A pinch of Mohit Chauhan, Raahat Fateh Ali Khan, Labh Janjua, Hard Kaur, Mika, Shreya Ghoshal (I mean whatever happened to Udit narayans, shaan, Alka Yagnik, Kavita krishnamoorthy and all)
Leftovers of remixed songs of same versions titled – tiger style, lounge mix, RD Style, yeh style, woh style, sabka style
Drizzle of some rap by Labh Janjua and why not Snoop Dogg
Mix all the ingredients together in a blender till it comes out in the shape of a CD. Garnish it with a 100 fold something CD Cover and add hawwwwtt images of heroines and even heroes in bare nothing essentials in a hope this might promote the album.
The dish is ready to serve and to be enjoyed on streets in cars of some dudes who have serious hearing disabilities or some other dudes & dudettes who have some strange organ deformities in their ears and supported by a device called iPOD!!!!
- I mean seriously what is irking me most these days is – have I not mentioned boldly everywhere (Facebook, Orkut, blogs and every where I am networkingly active -that I am married!!!!!). Guys don't you have self respect!!!!!! May be I should have sent you my wedding invitation to make you believe yes I AM MARRIED!!
- My fingers thrust inside my palms when I hear some random person specially a dork friend (point one to be read in conjugation with this point) I had back in school or college ages ago saying – Hi kya ho raha hai Yaar!! Yaar- me? Oh yeah right-specially when I can't even remember your face and having you as my classmate yeah go ahead have liberties and call me yaar. Gosh I hate this word.
- The lovely long list of spam comments on wordpress. Akismet- you're not doing such a great job you know. 200+ spam comments ranging from russian brides to investments solutions to adwares to softwares to pervertwares!! We have all in our spam roll.
No there is no part 2 for Closer Closure. And yes machaa– Mohit has been there in my other story as well. He is a dork and trust me a bigger one that too in real life! Amit – sorry dear I am not talking about your cousin and even if I do I don't know what is he doing with Maya 😉
The story ends here only. I am not sure if it genuinely calls for part 2. For me the story is real and something that I feel will happen sometimes in real life few years down the lane. I want you to wish Dia peace of mind.
I want to say three cheers to Avant Garde Awards Blogging team for a spectacular work they are doing. Its a great effort and a personal thank to Poonam. You are a rockstar! All the best for the D-day…..
The sun is gorgeous today. Probably will relax and see some DVDs. Oh yeah by the way New Zealand went to poll yesterday and John Key is the new Prime Minister. Helen Clarke is out after 9 long years of being Prime Minister. I voted for John Key too (my first ever vote in life….). Lets see what he has in store for us in the current global financial crisis. One thing which I am happy and content about is he is pretty serious about Global Warming and is planning to reduce NZ's fair share to it by a whooping 50%..Kudoz and all the best….
Okay I am done here. I was planning to make Aam ka achaar (Mango pickle)today but I don't think I will be able to do that as there is no fennel (saunf) (hubby dear loves saunf and mukhwaas- he devours all of them in one go!!). Gosh I miss India, I would have to just get out of the house and get it from the local general store. But yeah..I am stuck….
Au Revoir….

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If you've been following social media on Monday, the estimates on Randall Cobb's timetable for return from a fractured fibula have fluctuated quite a bit, from as little as two weeks to as much as eight.
Adam Schefter of ESPN originally said Cobb would be out two weeks on Twitter on Monday afternoon, but later acknowledged a later timeframe after Tyler Dunne of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel released a report citing a scource that said Cobb would be out six to eight weeks.
It didn't stop there, with Chris Mortenson of ESPN saying that the best-case scenario for return is four weeks and the worst-case scenario is eight weeks.
It would seem that the consensus is anywhere between four to eight weeks, but once again, it seems that the Packers have avoided a season-ending injury.
While there's a chance James Jones could return from his knee injury as early as this week, there's no guarantees being made.
There seems to be no avoiding the Packers needing to make a roster move this week, at least for a short-term replacement.
Rumors surfaced that the Packers could sign Tavarres King off the Denver Broncos practice squad, but that possibility appeared to be nixed by Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com.
Dunne reported the Packers have made contact with Tyrone Walker, who was in training camp in Green Bay this summer but later released and spending a few weeks on the practice squad of the Seattle Seahawks. Nothing appears to be imminent, however.
Myles White, who's currently on the Packers' own practice squad, would seem to be in the running as well.
Wide receiver Reggie Dunn was re-signed the Green Bay practice squad earlier on Monday.
Whoever the Packers end up signing, they would need to make room by either cutting someone or placing a player on injured reserve.
The Packers still haven't used their short-term injured reserve designation, and that could be an option for either Cobb or linebacker Nick Perry, but neither player would be eligible to practice for six weeks and could play for eight, so the Packers would want to make sure the timetable for return definitely wouldn't be shorter than the necessary eight weeks.
If the Packers were to cut a player, running back Michael Hill seems like a logical candidate, especially if James Starks will soon return from a knee injury suffered in the game before the Packers bye.
With Starks, Eddie Lacy, Johnathan Franklin and John Kuhn, the Packers would appear to have enough depth at running back to get by at least temporarily.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Web Apps Are Becoming Shell Scripts, Adobe Sucks, and Robots Are Awesome
Back when OS X was brand new, and Windows Vista was just a prolonged joke called Longhorn, a tech writer or blogger who I've since forgotten made a prediction which turned out to be very accurate. At the time, the graphics processing power now standard on modern computers was new. It was a huge, staggering leap forward from what had been normal up to that point. The conventional wisdom was that Photoshop would never crash again, at least never again on a Mac. But if you made the mistake I did, you went and bought Photoshop Elements, and you found out how wrong this conventional wisdom was.
Photoshop Elements is a Mac "Universal binary" which runs under the Rosetta interpreter. It's terrible. It's really very, very bad. I'm not sure whether to blame the Universal binary or not. It gets window placement very, very wrong, occasionally putting toolbars that are supposed to span the top of the screen about a hundred pixels lower than normal. It also occasionally merges portions of the chrome which were supposed to be distinct. These are code problems, but it's not just Adobe's coders and quality control who didn't do their jobs well. Elements' UI is so aggressively dumbed-down that if you resize a window, choose some other window, and then go back to the window you resized, the mere act of selecting the window auto-resizes it to some Adobe default, throwing out the size you chose. A feature like that isn't just useless, it's also annoying and aggressive.
Two years ago I got a DVD authoring package from Adobe. It suffered from the same problems - bad code, bad UI decisions, and unnecessary "features" which only annoyed you and never served any useful purpose. At the time, I took this to indicate that Adobe had reached a point in its lifespan as a corporation where it no longer had the clout to demand competent people, and further, had gotten so infested with incompetence that most features were added by people who simply wanted to prove that they had been awake during the workday. You can take Photoshop Elements as a sign that the problem has gotten worse, so much so that I would strenuously avoid accepting any job offers from Adobe, if you get them, or even bothering to consider Adobe Web development technologies for even a second. I would also be very careful about wasting any money on Adobe software.
Photoshop hasn't received any new features worth writing home about since version 5 or version 6. Indeed the only reason I bought Elements was because I switched from the PC to the Mac and couldn't keep installing the version 6 or 7 I've been using for at least five years. But even though it hasn't gotten any new *useful* features, it's gotten a ton of new features. Adobe comes from the old school, the shrinkwrap era. In that market, you have to keep adding features to stay afloat, even when those features are total unnecessary bullshit.
This brings back to the power of modern graphics processors, or at least brings us in sight of it. Adobe today mostly just adds total unnecessary bullshit to quality software. With Elements, they're approaching a point where the bullshit outweighs the quality. If or when that happens, the result is customers abandon the software. I'm certainly going to look into my options before replacing Elements with anything from Adobe. Elements is so bad it's insulting that they charged me money for it at all, and insulting your customers doesn't build brand loyalty.
Basically, everybody who works at Adobe today is coasting off work that Adobe did five, ten, or fifteen years ago. They're the Paris Hiltons of the software world, living off the inheritance they lucked into. Inevitably, they'll spend that inheritance down.
The normal response here, among geeks, is blaming marketing. Marketing added unnecessary bullshit to sell the new version. This is exactly what the tech writer above did, when explaining why Photoshop would still crash sometimes, even with the graphics power on modern machines. Marketing will add drop shadows on the active application window, he or she said, and transparent Terminal windows. This extra processing will eat up all the extra power, and application performance will therefore remain about the same.
Although that's exactly what happened, blaming marketing isn't entirely fair. In the case of Photoshop Elements, adding bullshit features to once-great software is inevitable in the context of the shrinkwrap business model. That's just how the business model works. In the case of graphics processing power being wasted on gratuitous eye candy, there's a certain inevitability there as well. Economists call it the tragedy of the commons.
The tragedy of the commons, essentially, is that resources which are freely available to anyone will be squandered by everyone. It's pretty easy to apply that to transparent Terminal windows and adding gratuitous drop shadows to active application windows. Processing power which is freely available to any application will be squandered by every application.
So, here's my argument so far:
1. Fuck you right back, Adobe
2. The tragedy of the commons
Let's move on.
What does all this have to do with Web apps, shell scripts, and robots? The commonality is economic analysis. Web apps are becoming inexpressibly cheap. When I first looked into Ruby on Rails, I had already heard of it, but not paid a lot of attention to it. I checked it out as a favor to a friend. She was nontechnical, hiring somebody to develop a Web site for her, and one candidate was selling her on Ruby on Rails. She needed to know if it was good.
She and I had worked before at a small Web design shop where the owner would charge three days' work to set up an admin interface to a database. It was literally the same thing as Rails' scaffolding. Three days' work replaced with one line of text on the Unix command line. I told her, yeah, it's good. It's really fucking good.
Reducing three days' work to one Unix command is the core use case for technological innovation. Suddenly things which were expensive become cheap. That means you can do new stuff.
You might think that the incredible ease and grace of developing with Rails would lead to a world where Web developers have incredibly easy, graceful lives, building incredibly beautiful Web apps that sparkle in the breeze like some Elven tower out of Lothlorien or the Lands of the East. You might think powerful graphics processors would mean an end to Photoshop crashing. Think again.
Web apps, today, are as cheap as shell scripts. This means people will start to throw them at problems as casually as they throw shell scripts at problems. If you want to see what the future holds for Web apps, ask yourself where incredibly cheap application generation technologies could be useful.
This is where the robots come in.
A couple years ago a robotics research project used a Web app as the user interface to a small fleet of tiny robot helicopters. Each helicopter had an onboard Linux box, and they chose one helicopter, made it the researchers' liason, and put a Web app on its Linux box. They didn't do it because it was nifty, or cutting-edge, or exciting. They did it because it was cheap. You get standard UI, standard request/response handling, accessible to any number of computers, all of which are guaranteed to have the client software, all over WiFi, practically free.
A lot of people are predicting a robotics boom, and if it happens, these things are going to eat up computing resources like fat kids gobbling down Cheetos. For instance, IPv6 is supposed to give us all the IP addresses we'll need for years, but the very nature of IPv6 - it makes IP addresses freely available to anyone - means that IP addresses will be subject to the tragedy of the commons. If there's a robotics boom, cheap robots will squander cheap IP addresses by the millions. At the same time, putting Web servers on a cheap robot will mean that anybody with a laptop or a mobile phone can access the UI. Their ubiquity and cheapness make Web apps inevitable as the UI platform of choice for robotics.
You can get a Linux box the size of a pack of chewing gum for $100 - they're called Gumstix. They're made for the robotics hobbyist community, and they ship with Ruby installed. The Lego Mindstorms robotics kit - marketed to ages 11 and up - already has enough processing power to host a miniature JVM which supports APIs for graphics, sound, navigation, mapmaking, and subsumption architecture. You can connect it to the Web using Bluetooth and an open-source remote control package called iCommand, or, for that matter, using low-level Bluetooth or USB libraries. And this is just in a Lego kit marketed to children ages 11 and up.
In conclusion:
1. Robots are cool.
2. Web apps are becoming incredibly cheap.
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- george andersonSeptember 12, 2007 at 12:36:00 PM PDT
[Photoshop Elements is a Mac "Universal binary" which runs under the Rosetta interpreter.]ReplyDelete
Universal Binaries actually run natively on either PPCs or MacIntels. No Rosetta.
Point taken, though.
OK, my bad. Photoshop Elements ISN'T a Mac Universal binary, it's a heaping, steaming pile of Rosetta.ReplyDelete
Somebody from Adobe posted some sneering and unimaginative insults, no doubt going into defensive mode because I was pretty critical of his company. Adobe employees, first of all, it's nothing personal. Second of all, if you post stuff like that, where you swear at me, and you insinuate that I can't follow basic logic, I'm just going to delete it. Hold yourself to higher standards. It's your company that ripped me off, not you. There's no point taking it personally.ReplyDelete


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Scotty McCreery Puts His Songs Through the 'Mama Crying Test'
Your long wait is almost over, Scotty McCreery fans. The 'American Idol' winner's first album, 'Clear as Day,' is just a couple of weeks away from release, and you'll finally be able to hear the rest of what the 'I Love You This Big' singer has in store for you.
And if you don't like it? Well, you can blame Scotty's mom.
During a recent interview, McCreery revealed that during the song selection process for 'Clear as Day,' he leaned heavily on his mother. "Mama cried on a couple of them so we told all the guys to label them," he recalled, explaining, "When they sent me songs and demos I would email them back and say, 'Well, it passed the Mama crying test so it must be a good one.'"
"Hopefully it will have the same effect on you guys out there," McCreery added, going on to say he thinks the album's 12 tracks are a solid blend of "rockin' songs where they will be loud and upbeat and then some intimate songs … some of them will make you cry."


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The N.C. Azalea Festival has proven that it can be done.
Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd lit up downtown Wilmington in Thursday night's outdoor concert at Cape Fear Community College. The concert was a departure from the indoor shows of years past at Trask Coliseum, and the crowd generated an electric atmosphere at the outdoor venue.
The standing room only tickets allowed enthusiastic fans to work themselves into a frenzy within a few feet of the stage, and alcohol sales loosened up the crowd.
Frank Schwinn said he used to skateboard in the lot where the concert was held and that he probably wouldn't have attended the show if it were held indoors, but his wife Marsha said she probably would have. They have traveled to Raleigh to see Skynyrd play, they said.
Nancy Green of Leland has been a Skynyrd fan for decades. She has a "Freebird" tattoo on her left arm to prove it. She saw Skynyrd when Ronnie Van Zant was the lead singer in the 1970s, and she's seen the new lineup featuring Johnny Van Zant play several times as well. Once she and her husband Jack saw a Skynyrd concert at a biker rally where the rain poured down. Skynyrd kept playing, and Nancy kept dancing, she said.
Sherri Turner of Hampstead said she was a "little worried" about the weather for Thursday night's show in Wilmington. Her family waited to buy tickets until the day of the show. Even with a few drops of rain in the last 15 minutes of the show, the weather wasn't a factor.
Skynyrd played its stable of classic tunes — from "Gimme Three Steps" to "Gimme Back My Bullets", and with such a catalog of memorable hits, Johnny Van Zant hardly needed to sing at all. It seemed as though the entire crowd knew every word to every song.
Even more fans are expected to crowd into the CFCC lot on Friday for The Avett Brothers show. That show sold out initially, and when Azalea Festival organizers released more tickets, it sold out again.
Drake White and the Big Fire opened the concert in yet another departure for the festival. Neither Scotty McCreery nor Kenny Loggins had an opening act in 2012.
Collapsible lawn chairs were a big seller for the early arrivals, but after the music started, everyone in front of the sound booth was on their feet. If the dancing and swaying of the crowd was any indication, the fans (and there were plenty who were old enough to go to concerts when the original Lynyrd Skynyrd was playing) didn't seem to mind standing on the pavement for two and a half hours.
Azalea Festival President Donna Cameron opened the evening with brief introductions of the Azalea Festival board and then demanded "Wilmington! Make some noise!" And then she threw in a series of "Wooooo!"s that would make Ric Flair proud.
The VIP area was sectioned off in the back of the venue, and unlike in years past, the VIPs weren't given all the best spots to view the concert.
The Azalea Festival certainly made plenty of great decisions about hosting the concerts downtown. It's a project that has been in the planning stages since last summer. And as long as the sun
keeps shining, the partnership between the festival and CFCC should prove to be fruitful.
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Aw C'mon! Skynyrd??? Talk about dredging up the no talent past!! But that's typical of the South..years behind the North. What's next..Lawrence Welk?


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Industry Group Honors Petroleum Professor
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Professor of Petroleum Engineering and graduate of New Mexico Tech
The national organization of the Society of Petroleum Engineers created the Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty in June 2010. Engler, who is also the Dean of Engineering and the chair of the Petroleum Engineering Department, traveled to
Other nominees included professors from the University of Texas-Austin, Texas Tech and the University of Texas-Permian Basin.
"We're going up against those bigger schools," he said. "I think this shows that the work we do here is comparable in quality to any other school."
According to an SPE press release, the award recognizes superior teaching, excellence in research, significant contributions to the petroleum engineering profession, and/or special effectiveness in advising and guiding students.
Engler earned a bachelor's in geology at Tech in 1980 and a bachelor's in petroleum engineering at Tech in 1982. After working in industry for several years, he earned his master's at Tech in petroleum engineering in 1992. He then earned a doctorate from the
His research specialties include formation evaluation/petrophysics, naturally fractured reservoirs and unconventional gas recovery. He is currently the principal investigator on a project to study "mini-waterflooding," which aims to extend the life of a small, mature oilfield. He is partnering with Armstrong Energy Corp on the project, which is funded by the Research Partnership to Secure Energy For America.
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Materials Engineering Students Earn Industry Awards
SOCORRO, N.M. October 14, 2009 – Three materials engineering students earned scholarships from the Albuquerque chapter of ASM, the materials science and engineering society.
|Anna Breiner receives a $1,000 scholarship from the ASM Albuquerque chapter at their September 22, 2009 meeting. She is pictured shaking hands with Doug Taylor, the Scholarship Chairman, and Somuri Prasad, the ASM Albuquerque Chapter Chairman.
Anna Breiner, a senior, and junior Robin Montoya, each won a $1,000 scholarship at the chapter's September 22 meeting.
Master's student Drew Prichard won second place in a poster contest and earned $100 for his efforts. He presented his poster at the Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials on October 5.
|Drew Prichard, master's student in materials engineering.
"There was a whole lot of really tough competition from other grad students and technologists, so I was surprised that I had gotten second place," Prichard said. "I felt like I did really well, but some of the other posters were pretty intimidating."
Prichard's poster, co-authored by professor Dr. Dave Burleigh, was titled, "Color-Stable, Tarnish-Resistant Copper Alloys." Prichard used a tarnish chamber to measure the atmospheric resistance of various alloys. He then used electrochemical tests to determine corrosion rates of alloys immersed in sulfide electrolytes.
Prichard, a 2003 graduate of Belen High School, found that the alloys that performed best contained more than 17 percent zinc.
His future work with Burleigh will further refine the combination of metals that will produce an alloy that resists tarnish and maintains its color. His work was funded by the Copper Development Association.
|Robin Montoya accepts a $1,000 scholarship from the Doug Taylor, the Scholarship Chairman for the Albuquerque chapter of ASM.
Montoya and Breiner wrote essays to accompany their scholarship bids. Montoya said she was excited and surprised that she won the scholarship. In addition to her full-time studies, Montoya is an undergraduate intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the summer. Along with her essay, Montoya also submitted letters of recommendation from professors Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld and Dr. Nikolai Kalugin.
Dr. Burleigh said he recommended Breiner because she is an exemplary student. She also completed a year abroad studying materials engineering at Växjö Universitet in Växjö, Sweden.
Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld wrote letters of recommendation for both Breiner and Montoya. She said both women represent the best of Tech students: they work hard and are academically strong.
"They are both fantastic students and wonderful young ladies," Hirschfeld said.
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Not complying with this law may result in severe penalties. If you cancel your insurance and do not notify DMV, your driving and vehicle registration privileges could be suspended.
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Gentoo v2006.0: Gentoo is one of the more popular Linux distributions with die-hard enthusiasts, while also being dubbed one of the hardest distributions to grasp. The team of Gentoo developers have announced the availability of Gentoo v2006.0 as we approach the end of February. Some of the improvements in Gentoo 2006.0 include KDE v3.4.3, GNOME v2.12.2, GCC v3.4.4, and the Linux 2.6.15 kernel. In addition, this premiere 2006 release includes many optimizations for various processing architectures. Today at Phoronix Gentoo v2006.0 is the focus of our spotlight.
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Piggin' Cook Gift Pack
Gift Set
If the love of your life loves porky snacks then you've come to the right place to get them that extra swine gift.
We have a MEGA range of pre-wrapped gift packs perfect to make some piggin' magic happen, whatever the occasion may be.
Our 'Piggin' Cook Gift Pack' includes:
- 2 x 50g Snaffling Pig pork crackling packets(you decide the flavour)
- 1 x Snaffling Pig apple sauce
- 1 x Snaffling Pig Pig Of Doom hot sauce
- 1 x Snaffling Pig pork crumb
- 1 x Snaffling Pig 'Pigs, Bumps and Trotter Bumps' cookbook
- Lovingly wrapped and boxed
- Virtual high five
- Warm fuzzy feeling inside knowing you bought a KICK ARSE gift
In 2016, the judges awarded our Perfectly Salted a star in the Great Taste Awards.
In 2017, the judges awarded our Salt 'N' Vinegar, Hot to Trot Habanero and Marvellous Maple stars in the Great Taste Awards.
In 2018, the judges awarded our Low & Slow BBQ a star in the Great Taste Awards.
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£3.49 standard delivery
Free on all orders over £50
The Snaffling Pig's less fun but very organised cousin, The Logistics Pig, dispatches all our items by courier for delivery usually within 1-2 working days. However, rather than keep lots of stock, we cook fresh every day to keep up with you snafflers so delivery can take up to 5 working days.
More than anything, we want to be piggin' happy with your purchase. If you need anything contact us.
For our general T&Cs click here.
PORKY SNACKS: If kept air tight, our crackling should be suitably awesome up until it's best before date, which should typically be around 16 weeks from purchase.
If you dive in regularly, we'd recommend eating it up within 4 weeks - but this shouldn't be too tricky, because well, you're already diving in regularly.
As with any food product, store in a cool, dry place away from bright light and vegetarians in order to keep the swines at their best.
BOOZE: Both our beer & cider is best served coooold.
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Diastasis recti is a separation between the left and right side of the rectus abdominis muscle. This muscle covers the front surface of the belly area.
Diastasis recti is a common in newborns. It is seen most frequently in premature and African American infants.
Pregnant women may develop the condition because of increased tension on the abdominal wall. The risk is higher if with multiple births or many pregnancies.
Women who are 12 or more weeks pregnant should not do exercises that stress the abdomen. This may worsen the condition.
A diastasis recti looks like a ridge, which runs down the middle of the belly area. It stretches from the bottom of the breastbone to the belly button. It increases with muscle straining.
In infants, the condition is most easily seen when the baby tries to sit up. When the infant is relaxed, you can often feel the edges of the rectus muscles.
Diastasis recti is commonly seen in women who have multiple pregnancies, because the muscles have been stretched many times. Extra skin and soft tissue in the front of the abdominal wall may be the only signs of this condition in early pregnancy. In the later part of pregnancy, the top of the pregnant uterus is often seen bulging out of the abdominal wall. An outline of parts of the unborn baby may be seen in some severe cases.
The doctor can diagnose this condition with a physical exam.
No treatment is needed for pregnant women with this condition.
In infants, the rectus abdominis muscles continue. The diastasis recti will disappear over time. Surgery may be needed if the baby develops a
hernia that becomes trapped in the space between the muscles.
In most cases, diastasis recti usually heals on its own.
Pregnancy-related diastasis recti often lasts long after the woman gives birth. Exercise may help improve the condition. Umbilical hernia may occur in some cases. If pain is present, surgery may be needed.
In general, complications only result when a hernia develops.
Call your health care provider right was if a child with diastasis recti:
Marx, J. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby; 2009.
Anderson, DM. Mosby's Medical Dictionary. 8th ed. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby; 2009.


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Drug Rehab:
Statistics have shown that their are approximately 17 marijuana users and 7 people abusing prescription drugs that live in Hildreth, Nebraska.
If you have realized that you will require help with a drug addiction problem you have made the first and hardest step on your path to recovery, however the next step of looking for that help might be a daunting task if you do not know where to look. This page provides you with a list of private, public, non-profit, and Christian drug rehab programs and addiction specialists near Hildreth, Nebraska.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) subsidiary agreed to pay a $100,000 fine for spilling wastewater from a natural gas drilling site in Pennsylvania that polluted a local river, U.S. regulators said on Thursday.
In a statement announcing the fine, the U.S. Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency also said XTO Energy Inc XTO.TG, which was acquired by Exxon in 2010, would also be expected to spend about $20 million to improve wastewater management near its gas wells that use fracking in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Alan Jeffers, a spokesman for XTO, said the company thought the fine was fair and already had begun spending on the improvements required.
"There is no lasting environmental impact," he said.
Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, involves injecting water and chemicals deep underground to fracture shale rock and unleash oil and gas. Energy companies are increasingly treating and reusing water in the drilling process.
State environmental inspectors in 2010 found dirty water leaking from an open valve on a tank at an XTO water recycling plant in Penn Township, Pennsylvania.
Authorities later found pollutants from the chemically treated water, including chlorides, barium, strontium and total dissolved solids, in a tributary of the Susquehanna River basin, the government agencies said.
The fine was issued for violations of the federal Clean Water Act.
Wastewater from natural gas exploration and production often contains high levels of dissolved solids and other chemicals that can contaminate the environment and drinking water, the government said.
"The operational improvements required by today's settlement will help to protect precious surface and drinking water resources in Pennsylvania and West Virginia," EPA official Cynthia Giles said in a statement.
The Justice Department and the EPA said XTO must install a remote monitoring system for its drilling operations and wastewater storage tanks, with alarms that immediately alert operators if a spill occurs.
The government also said the company cannot use open tanks to store wastewater to try to cut down on air emissions.
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Daftö Camping Resort is open the whole year. You can stay in one of our modern cottages, of which there are 130, or in your own caravan/camper or tent in one of 650 pitches. Choose a pitch with a sea view or one close to the popular play area. All caravan-/camper pitches have TV and electric hook up points, water and drainage.Our washing, shower and toilet blocks are equipped to the highest standards. The rooms are tiled and have underfloor heating.We arrange fun activities of various kinds. For the past ten years pirates has been a recurring theme. Among other things we have a large pirate play area (DaftöLand), activity leaders dressed like pirates and a large outdoor stage where plays are performed.Welcome to Daftö Camping Resort!
Stay in comfort! Staying in comfort is part of a good holiday. Daftö is full of opportunities. Stay in a fully equipped pirate house, tree hut or holiday cottage of high standard. At Daftö the cottage alternatives are as imaginative as a crew of hijackers. Welcome!
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text: TheMaulClaw 1,659 Report post Posted November 12, 2013 Dude runs like a troll. One of our MVPs. As good as Dwill has been....Trollbert might be our best rb this year. We were all like..."Marty Hurney WTF?" when we signed him, cause we all thought, "Oh No! Overcrowded backfield alert". But dude has his niche. Backfield isn't overcrowded it's perfect. David Gettles has come in and has done a great job with the 1 year deals. Blackburn, Ginn, and Mitchell were great signings. But some of the Marty Hurney decisions that we've questioned (especially myself) have shown to be wise with time. If we were fortunate enough to win the Superbowl.....we should send Marty a ring too. After thought: I know MH's negotiating skills were suspect and he overpaid. We needed a change. Point is....this team has Marty's and Gettles stamp on it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Kim & Scott's Fresh Reverie
Name: Scott & Kim Vargo (plus two cats and a dog – Maddie, Libby, & Jack)
Location: Logan Square, Chicago, Illinois
Size: 675 square feet
Years lived in: 5 years; owned
Walking into Kim and Scott's condo was like stepping into a dream. Perhaps it's because I had already seen Kim's sunlight-filled photographs or because the soft, oneiric color palette made me feel immediately at ease. Or perhaps it was the touches of whimsy that greeted me at every turn. Whatever the case, it's hard not to fall in love with a home that contains such refreshing color, chic wallpaper, and a picture of a doughnut in an ornate gold frame.
We featured a tour of Kim and Scott's condo back in 2010, and the comparison makes for a wonderful before-and-after experience. A lot has changed since then: Kim has transformed the back room into an office for her pet portraiture business, there are many more custom features, like the entertainment console and the office shelving system with built-in speakers, and the color palette has been toned down from punchy greens and oranges to a more soothing mix of soft mint, gray, and white. (That said, Kim and Scott haven't become shrinking violets: pops of melon, yellow, red, and pink still demonstrate their love for vibrant color, but these are meted out in accents instead of being used as wall colors.)
While their space was charming before, it seems their style has evolved to perfectly fit their creativity, humor, and fun, easy attitudes. Kim and Scott elegantly mix the quirky with the understated, letting their vibrant personalities shine through with small elements of surprise, like the hot pink dinosaur rampaging across the office shelves or the chalkboard backsplash offering up drinks from a vintage toolbox. Given that Kim is an artist, it makes sense that the art in their home would be striking, and their selections manage to blend a refined aesthetic with mirth. Ranging from a My Milk Toof print and a hip-hop armadillo to a ten-legged bear and two bison, their art brings in the love of animals, absurdity, and flights of fancy that gives their home such a cozy atmosphere, at once stylish and eminently livable.
Their blog is a treasure trove of small-space-living tips, DIY instructions, and lovely photography. To get your fix of power tools, pets, and painting, I highly recommend following Yellow Brick Home.
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Our Style: Second-hand finds meet industrial feminine. We're always looking for balance in our tiny space — I'm drawn to metal and natural wood tones, and Kim needs pink in her life, so we focus on layering our two styles and making sure one doesn't dominate the other. We have a rule that nothing enters our home that we don't both agree on.
Inspiration: We find inspiration everywhere. My work leads me in and out of industrial warehouses, foundries and manufacturing facilities, and I'm always fascinated by how things are built and put together. Kim is absolutely hooked on Pinterest, but I'm still trying to figure that one out!
Favorite Element: The floor plan is a huge part of why we ended up purchasing our particular unit. We love the open concept and that our kitchen and living room are one large space, separated by our half-peninsula counter. This combination makes entertaining friends easy and seamless. The best parties end up in the kitchen anyway, so why not integrate it into the living room? The fridge and cold ones are never more than a few feet away.
Biggest Challenge: Finding furniture that fits our unique wall layout has proven difficult at times. "Apartment-size" furniture is often a bit too small, whereas standard furniture is often too large. We've constructed semi-built-in custom storage units in both the living room and Kim's studio, to maximize every inch of space and those crazy, chopped up wall patterns.
What Friends Say: We often hear that the space feels larger than it actually is. We've chosen furniture carefully and try to keep everything up off the floor on legs or casters to keep things open and light. It's really just an elaborate system of trickery — ha!
Biggest Embarrassment: A few years ago, we were up to our elbows in a furniture-refinishing project that required the use of mineral spirits and oil-based primer. It was January in Chicago, so the house was sealed up tight, with a complete lack of ventilation. In a moment of fume-induced idiocy, we decided to take a break and heat some dinner up in the gas oven. The odor hit us immediately, and we knew we'd screwed up. People's Gas came out to confirm our mistake and make sure we were safe, and we ended the evening with open windows and Chinese food. We still laugh about that ridiculous rookie mistake!
Proudest DIY: We're super proud of our custom media wall storage unit. It integrates the television, the surround sound receiver and 3 speakers, turntable, and vinyl collection — along with open storage for books, art and photos. It was built in a friend's wood shop back in Cincinnati over one hectic weekend. We designed it back and forth over email and phone conversations using Google Sketch-up, then ultimately brought it back unfinished and in pieces in our Subaru with about an inch of room to spare.
Biggest Indulgence: We try to keep everything on a pretty tight budget around here, with almost all of our furniture pieces being sourced from Craigslist, yard sales and flea markets. We have, however, sent two vintage chairs to our favorite upholstery shop (Covers Unlimited, if you're in the Chicago area) for makeovers that we couldn't handle ourselves. It can be pretty gut wrenching when you realize you've got the equivalent of a monthly payment on a pretty nice car tied up in a chair you found on Craigs!
Best Advice: No matter what design dilemma you're facing, we're willing to bet someone else has already found a great solution. We're not afraid to admit that we're heavily influenced by designers, blogs and the like. That said, we do try to put our own unique spin on projects we tackle, whether that means a fresh coat of paint or simply the unexpected use of an ordinary item.
Dream Sources: The Rose Bowl Flea Market would likely bring heart palpitations to both of us. While we visit friends on the West coast as often as possible, we've forced ourselves to stay away for fear of finding something we couldn't pass up and refusing to sell a kidney to be able to afford shipping it back to Chicago.
Resources of Note:
• Paint: Behr, Porpoise and Rustoleum chalkboard paint (entry wall)
• Wallpaper: Anthropologie
• Console table: Bombay Co, painted teal
• Chalk ledge: Ikea
• Rug: West Elm
• Art: Jess LC (Just Keep Going Print), Sharon Montrose (pig), pet portraits by Kim, all other art DIY-ed or picked up at craft fairs and Etsy
• Paint: Behr, Winterfresh
• Couch: Room & Board Loring Sofa (found on Craigslist)
• Chairs: Craigslist & yard sale
• Curtains: West Elm & trimmed with fabric
• Coffee table: Craigslist
• Rug: FLOR in Roadside Attraction
• Photo ledge: DIY
• Art: See full list here
• Media wall: DIY
• Paint: Behr, Winterfresh and Rustoleum chalkboard paint (backsplash)
• Light: Overstock
• Paint: Martha Stewart, Opal
• Medicine Cabinet: Ikea
• Shower Curtain: Amazon
• Mirror: Ikea and painted yellow
• Photobooth frames: Jo-Ann's
• Paint: Behr, Relaxing Green
• Bedframe: Overstock
• Bedside lights: DIY
• Duvet Cover: Overstock
• Curtains: Ikea
• Rug: World Market
• Art above bed: Laura Basiden print (bison) and Row Boat Press (text)
• Paint: Olympic, Diana
• Desk: Target and painted
• Desk chair: Wayfair
• Peach chair: inherited and upholstered
• Rug: FLOR, Sophistikat
• Floating storage: hacked Ikea cabinets
• Shelving: DIY
• Art: See full list here
• Mirrors: flea markets
We have an entire source list right here, too!
Thanks, Kim & Scott!
(Images: Carolyn Purnell)
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'Degrassi' Scoop: Munro Chambers Reveals Eli's Plans For Clare & Imogen
Munro tells HollywoodLife.com how Eli's relationship with both girls will change — drastically — on the new episodes of 'Degrassi.'
TeenNick is billing the second half of Degrassi's 11th season — airing at 9 p.m. tonight — as "Degrassi: New Beginnings," and Munro Chambers tells HollywoodLife.com that Eli's definitely hoping to make a fresh start. "He's hurt a lot of people, a lot of his friends," Munro says. "He wants … a clean slate." So how will Eli's ladies, Clare (Aislinn Paul) and Imogen (Cristine Prosperi), factor into his plan?
"He'll always have feelings for her," Munro admits about Eli and Clare's epic (and tragic) relationship. But before he tries to reignite the old flame, he'll try to rebuild their once-great friendship. "He does want her to be in his life, but does she want the same thing? You'll find out."
And then there's Imogen — sweet, crazy, pig-tailed Imogen. "[Eli] hurt her a lot too," Munro admits. "They become closer, and they get to know who they are as people together." Sounds like a match made in crazy heaven, especially since Munro tells us Eli's insane-o-meter will remain at "a solid 8" during the rest of season 11.
Hey, I say bring it on!
Watch my full interview with Munro below, then click here to leave a comment with your predictions for the rest of season 11:


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The Dunwells Lead The Latest British Invasion
SOCORRO, N.M. October 1, 2012 – Gear up for "The Dunwells," an up-and-coming British group that channels the British Invasion of the early 1960s, but with an exuberant sound uniquely their own, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at New Mexico Tech's Macey Center.
"The Dunwells recently performed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and they were a huge hit," said PAS Director Ronna Kalish. "This is a young, talented and very fun group of musicians with tremendous audience appeal."
Their onstage rapport and enthusiasm have fans raving from coast to coast, as well as across the big pond. In fact, critics have called the group's synchronicity "utterly natural."
Tech Club-Club Macey will be open that evening starting at 5:30 p.m., serving "pub pies" and beverages. Non-members must pay a $5 cover charge for admission to the 21-and-over club.
Two years is but a nanosecond in the music business, but in that short time the group rose from the pubs of Leeds, England, to an American record deal and a debut album, a blend of acoustic and electric music laced with five-part vocal harmonies.
Kalish said the show coincides with an open house at the VLA and the twice-yearly opening of Trinity Site to the public, the next day on October 6, and advises patrons to purchase their tickets early, just in case.
The Dunwells seamlessly meld elements of Celtic and American folk, rock, blues, pop and soul into a trademark sound all their own, inviting all who hear it to join them 'In The Moment,' as a song title suggests.
Let's meet them: Brothers Joseph and David Dunwell (vocals, guitars and keyboards), cousins Rob Clayton and Jonny Lamb (bass and drums), and life-long friend Dave Hanson on lead guitar, perform under the Dunwell name.
Together, they created the 11 captivating numbers collected in the "Blind Sighted Faith" album, a blend between acoustic and electric roots music laced with vocal harmonies from all five members.
Blind Sighted Faith was produced by John Porter, a multiple Grammy award-winning producer whose clients include Roxy Music, The Smiths, B.B. King, Ryan Adams and Los Lonely Boys.
Also from Leeds, Porter proved to be the ideal collaborator to help bring the artistic richness within The Dunwells to fruition.
From the first time The Dunwells hit American shores at the 2011 International Folk Alliance conference in Memphis, their impact has been nothing short of astonishing.
Folk Alliance Executive Director Louis Jay Meyers told Voice of America radio, "Anyone that's seen them has just been 'Oh My God!' They're mind boggling!"
All five members of The Dunwells hail from the same part of Leeds, earning their musical chops in local pubs and clubs before uniting as a band.
The Dunwell brothers grew up in a home full of music, listening to such artists as the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, and other musical acts from the 1960s onward. Both boys began playing guitar at an early age, inspired by their father, a talented classical acoustic player.
Later, they started writing songs and individually made their initial marks at open mic nights, playing in and around Leeds. They took their cue from a booking agent who suggested they unite as an act, and they did, teaming up with the cousins and Hanson.
"We all made music for a living before we became a group," Hanson said. "It's not just a band that formed. It's organic and it comes from sharing the same roots, and from everybody growing up listening to and learning music together."
The Leeds Telegraph & Argus predicted the group's rise to fame. "With their easy-going nature, their sheer enjoyment of playing and supreme musicianship, this band looks set to burst onto a much wider scene – you can almost taste the expectancy," wrote one reviewer.
The buzz spread to London when the band booked a gig at The Bedford, a noted showcase venue where acts like Paolo Nutini and KT Tunstall began their rise.
They nearly missed the gig when their van broke down outside London. But the five musicians piled into a taxi with their gear and hit the stage just in time to be seen by Tony Moore, the influential music promoter, BBC radio air personality and singer-songwriter who immediately became a key supporter.
The band spent 2010 touring Britain and Europe, playing such top festivals as Hop Farm (with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison), Edinburgh's cutting-edge Fringe fest, Triumph Live (with Mumford and Sons) and the Fete De La Musique in Paris.
Following the release of their debut EP in October 2010, The Dunwells were named "Artist of the Month" by the Caffe Nero coffee chain, and played a 20-day/40-show tour across England and Scotland to win over a growing U.K. fan base.
Now with their first album under their belts, The Dunwells are primed to take their music as far and wide as they can. And one can hear that solidarity in the music they create together. "We're all in it for the same reason," concludes David Dunwell. "We just love making music."
Sponsors for The Dunwells are Associated Universities, Inc. (NRAO), the City of Socorro, Bodega Burger Co. and Lounge, IRIS-PASCAL, Blue Corn Music and Best Western Premier Hotel.
Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for senior citizens 65 and over, and $8 for youths 17 and under, and are available at the N.M. Tech Cashier's Office (second floor of Fidel Center), Brownbilt Shoes and Western Wear, Burrito Tyme Drive-up or at the door.
By Valerie Kimble/New Mexico Tech


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The finale of The Big Bang Theory aired on Friday raises important questions with regard to its women characters and their representation.
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Marital rape or intimate partner rape is deeply pervasive and everyday reality contrary to what Indian men or women typically like to admit.
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Gamesradar- For a genre that isn't as high profile as it once was, role-playing games had a particularly strong year in 2012. Here's an easy way to measure how good it was: Great adventures like Pokemon Black/White 2, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Final Fantasy XIII-2 didn't make the cut for this feature.
A game that isn't even an RPG wins RPG of the year.
It's a good game, though.
GW2,D3 n ME3 were my favs
btw is X-Com even an rpg?


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Were you searching for someone with the last name Istorico? When you look at our results you will find many people with the last name Istorico. You can narrow down your people search by choosing the link that contains the first name of the person you planning to locate.
Once you do click through you will be presented with a list of people with the last name Istorico that match the first name you are hunting for. In addition there is other data such as age, known locations, and possible relatives that can help you single out the right person.
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Apple provides a brushed aluminum replacement stylus to MessagePad purchasers who register, but it's no more attractive a writing instrument than the original; it's just a different color. For those accustomed to the look or heft of a classier writing instrument, a new company called WriteWare offers an alternative.
WriteWare's $8.95 "S.N.A.P." stylus (the acronym stands for "stylus, not a pen") is a low-resistance plastic stylus insert for most cartridge ink pens. The inserts are currently available for Cross, Montblanc, Parker, and Sheaffer pens, and more models are expected later. The stylus-equipped pen can now be used on an Apple MessagePad, a Sharp Expert Pad, a Casio or Tandy Zoomer, or any other pen-based unit that uses touch-sensitive screen technology. (The EO uses an active stylus, not a passive touch-screen, so S.N.A.P. won't work on EO.)
S.N.A.P.-equipped pens don't fit into the holder provided on Newton and Zoomer PDAs, but WriteWare points out that their stylus can be kept in a pocket without fear of ink leaks! According to David B. Alford, one of WriteWare's partners, he decided to create this product after both of the styluses included with his Sharp Expert Pad broke off near the tip. Apparently Japanese writing is generally done at a 90-degree angle to the writing surface, and the styluses were designed with that in mind. American writers, who tend to hold a pen at a 60 to 70 degree angle, put unplanned-for stress on the tip.
WriteWare is working on establishing relationships with dealers, but in the meantime you can purchase S.N.A.P. stylus inserts directly, for $8.95 plus $2.50 shipping and handling, and California state sales tax for customers within California. Send your order, along with a certified check, money order, or personal check to:
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Personal check orders will be held until the check clears. WriteWare also accepts U.S. currency, but we don't recommend mailing cash.


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Isaíah 61:1
61 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;[a]
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound
Isaías 61:1
Buenas nuevas de salvación para Sion
61 El Espíritu de Jehová el Señor está sobre mí, porque me ungió Jehová; me ha enviado a predicar buenas nuevas a los abatidos, a vendar a los quebrantados de corazón, a publicar libertad a los cautivos, y a los presos apertura de la cárcel;
Isaíah 54:17 Reina-Valera 1960 (RVR1960)
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What is a myelogram?
A myelogram is a diagnostic imaging test generally done by a radiologist. It uses a contrast dye and X-rays or computed tomography (CT) to look for problems in the spinal canal. Problems can develop in the spinal cord, nerve roots, and other tissues. This test is also called myelography.
The contrast dye is injected into the spinal column before the procedure. The contrast dye appears on an X-ray screen allowing the radiologist to see the spinal cord, subarachnoid space, and other nearby structures more clearly than with standard X-rays of the spine.
The radiologist will also use a CT scan when doing a myelogram. A CT or CAT scan is an imaging test that uses X-rays and a computer to make detailed images of the body. A CT scan shows details images of the spinal canal. CT scans show more details than standard X-rays.
Why might I need a myelogram?
A myelogram may be done to assess the spinal cord, subarachnoid space, or other structures for changes or abnormalities. It may be used when another type of exam, such as a standard X-ray, does not give clear answers about the cause of back or spine problems. Myelograms may be used to evaluate many diseases, including:
Herniated discs (discs that bulge and press on nerves and/or the spinal cord)
Spinal cord or brain tumors
Infection and/or inflammation of tissues around the spinal cord and brain
Spinal stenosis (degeneration and swelling of the bones and tissues around the spinal cord that make the canal narrow)
Ankylosing spondylitis (a disease that affects the spine, causing the bones to grow together)
Bone spurs
Arthritic discs
Cysts (benign capsules that may be filled with fluid or solid matter)
Tearing away or injury of spinal nerve roots
Arachnoiditis (inflammation of a delicate membrane that covers the brain.)
There may be other reasons for your healthcare provider to recommend a myelogram.
What are the risks of a myelogram?
You may want to ask your healthcare provider about the amount of radiation used during the procedure and the risks related to your situation. It is a good idea to keep a record of your radiation exposure, such as previous CT scans and other types of X-rays, so that you can inform your healthcare provider. Risks associated with radiation exposure may be related to the cumulative number of X-ray exams and/or treatments over a long period.
If you are pregnant or think you may be, tell your healthcare provider. Radiation exposure to the fetus may cause birth defects.
There is a risk of an allergic reaction to the contrast dye. Be sure to let your healthcare provider know if you have ever had a reaction to any contrast dye, or have any kidney problems.
Because the contrast is injected into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) which also surrounds the brain, there is a small risk of seizure after the injection. Some medications may place you at greater risk for seizure and you may be asked to stop taking these for 48 hours before and after the study. Make sure your healthcare provider has a list of all medicines (prescribed and over-the-counter) and all herbs, vitamins, and supplements that you are taking.
Because this procedure involves a lumbar puncture, these potential complications may happen:
A small amount of CSF can leak from the needle insertion site. This can cause headaches after the procedure. If there is a persistent leak the headache can be severe.
There is a slight risk of infection because the needle breaks the skin's surface, providing a possible entry point for bacteria.
Short-term numbness of the legs or lower back pain may be experienced.
There is a risk of bleeding in the spinal canal.
There may be other risks depending on your specific medical condition. Be sure to discuss any concerns with your healthcare provider before the procedure.
How do I get ready for a myelogram?
Your healthcare provider will explain the procedure to you and ask if you have any questions.
You will be asked to sign a consent form that gives your permission to do the procedure. Read the form carefully and ask questions if anything is not clear.
Generally, you will not need to fast (not eat) before this test. Your healthcare provider will tell you if there are any necessary fasting requirements. You may be asked to drink extra fluids the day before the test.
Be sure to tell your healthcare provider or the radiologist if you have ever had a reaction to any contrast dye or if you are allergic to iodine.
Tell the radiologist if you are pregnant or think you may be.
Make sure your healthcare provider has a list of all medicines (prescribed and over-the-counter) and all herbs, vitamins, and supplements that you are taking.
Sedation (drugs to make you sleepy) may be given before the procedure to help you relax.
Tell the healthcare provider if you have a history of seizures or if you are taking any medicines for seizures.
Tell your healthcare provider if you have a history of bleeding disorders or if you are taking any anticoagulant (blood-thinning) medicine, aspirin, or other medicines that affect blood clotting. You may need to stop these medicines before the procedure.
If the procedure is done on an outpatient basis, you may be asked to stay in the hospital for several hours afterwards. You should plan to have another person drive you home.
Based on your medical condition, your healthcare provider may give you other instructions on what to do before the procedure.
What happens during a myelogram?
A myelogram may be done on an outpatient basis or as part of your stay in a hospital. The procedure takes about an hour, but may vary depending on your condition and the clinic's practices.
Generally, a myelogram follows this process:
You will be asked to remove any clothing, jewelry or other objects that may get in the way of the procedure.
If you are asked to remove your clothing, you will be given a gown to wear.
You will be reminded to empty your bladder before the start of the procedure.
During the procedure, you will lie on your stomach on a padded table.
Your back will be cleaned with an antiseptic solution and draped with sterile towels.
The radiologist will numb the skin of your lower spine by injecting a local anesthetic (numbing) drug using a thin needle. This injection may sting for a few seconds, but it makes the procedure less painful.
A needle will be inserted through the numbed skin, between two vertebrae (the spinal bones), and into the subarachnoid space where the spinal fluid is located. You will feel some pressure while the needle goes in, but you must stay still.
The radiologist will remove some of the spinal fluid from the spinal canal. Next, a small amount of contrast dye will be injected into the spinal canal through the needle. You may feel a warming sensation when the contrast dye is injected.
The X-ray table will be tilted in various directions to allow gravity to help move the contrast dye to different areas of your spinal cord. You will be held in place by a special brace or harness. More contrast dye may be given during this process through the secured lumbar puncture needle.
The needle is then removed and the X-rays and/or CT scan pictures are taken.
You should tell the radiologist right away if you feel any numbness, tingling, headache, or lightheadedness during the procedure.
You may experience discomfort during the myelogram. The radiologist will use all possible comfort measures and complete the procedure as quickly as possible to minimize any discomfort or pain.
What happens after a myelogram?
You need to sit or lay down for several hours after the procedure to reduce your risk of developing a CSF (cerebral spinal fluid) leak.
You will be asked to drink extra fluids to rehydrate after the procedure. This helps to wash out the contrast dye and it helps your body replace the spinal fluid that was removed. It also reduces the chance of developing a headache.
A nurse will monitor your vital signs (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, and respirations) frequently after the test. You will be given pain medicine if you develop a headache.
When you have completed the recovery period, you will be taken to your hospital room or discharged to your home.
Once you are at home, tell your doctor of any changes including:
Numbness and tingling of the legs
Blood or other drainage from the injection site
Pain at or near the injection site
Nausea or vomiting
Inability to urinate
Stiff neck
Leg numbness
If the headaches persist for more than 24 hours after the procedure, or are worse when you change positions, you should contact your doctor.
You may be instructed to limit your activity for 24 hours after the procedure. Generally, if you don't have any problems, you may return to your normal diet and activities.
Your doctor may give you additional or alternative instructions after the procedure, depending on your particular situation.


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From a recent Grand Forks Herald article:
In these parts, blizzards come and go, but the biggest ones earn lasting respect.
"I think it's the same with hurricanes and with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes," said Leon Osborne, director for UND's Regional Weather Information Center. "It's just kind of this fascination for the incredible awe, the power. It's so much greater than anything we as humans produce. And there's nothing you can do about it. It overpowers you."
The most storied blizzard of recent years is the winter of 1996-97's eighth blizzard. Many recalled the storm this week on its 10th anniversary by its Herald-given name, Hannah.
If luck be a lady, Hannah was snake-eyes lousy. Its preceding rain, freezing rain and sleet, followed by blinding snow, helped push the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks Flood of '97 into certified disaster status. That icy entrance, combined with powerful winds, also downed several thousand power poles and humbled hundreds of thousands of people while crippling the region's electrical power grid.
"Hannah didn't do anybody any favors," said John Wheeler, chief meteorologist for Grand Forks' WDAZ TV and Fargo's WDAY TV and Radio.
Blizzard Hannah was the ice queen cometh show-stopping royalty with a grand entrance that demonstrated spectacularly poor timing.
But a storm that would be king?
Stormy Rivalries
Today is championship day for the NCAA's men's hockey Frozen Four. If significant Red River region blizzards of the past 100 years could be narrowed to a kind of "Frozen Four," would Hannah qualify? And which storms would it rival?
Consulting with local severe weather authorities, the Herald settled on this subjective list of "Blizzard Frozen Four" candidates (in chronological order):
-- March 1941 "Ides of March Blizzard"
-- March 1966 blizzard
-- January 1975 "Super Bowl Blizzard"
-- April 1997 "Blizzard Hannah"
"I'd rank (Hannah) up there among the great blizzards because of the incredible amount of hardship that it caused," Wheeler said. "I think that's as good a way to rank blizzards as any."
Osborne agrees: "In the last 30 years, (Hannah) is probably the most intense storm that we've had. But from the standpoint of blizzards (of the century), historically speaking, I'd barely put it in the top four."
If the magnitude of snow produced is the primary consideration, Osborne said, the 1966 blizzard "was clearly the winner. . . . We have not seen a repeat of that storm environment in 40 years."
Wheeler, too, said the '66 storm "was spectacular" in several respects. "The winds were between 40 and 50 mph most of the time the blizzard was going on. It was about 20 below." That more people didn't die, Wheeler said, is probably a testimony of better media weather coverage than existed in March 1941, when 71 people died during a "Alberta clipper" blizzard.
Wheeler said blizzards are difficult to rank because, unlike hurricanes and tornadoes, they feature multiple components that aren't nearly as easily measured.
Mark Ewens, a veteran meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, gives preference to wind speeds and extremely low pressure an intense storm staple when informally ranking blizzards. He ranks the '75 Super Bowl Blizzard first, followed by the '66 blizzard and '97's Hannah.
Observational records influence his fourth choice, a blizzard that struck North Dakota in March 1920 as his fourth choice. Fewer people are alive who remember the deadly 1920 storm. But that might not clarify matters.
"On the whole, people have really bad weather memories," Ewens said. "When we start looking at particulars, our memory tends to inflate things, especially as we get older."
Added Larry Skroch, a Grand Forks man who co-authored books about the '41 and '66 blizzards: "If you ever get caught in a storm, that's going to be the one that you remember. . . . Whatever you're doing when it hits, you remember."
That's one of the reasons he respects the '75 "Super Bowl Blizzard," which swept through the Upper Midwest right before the Minnesota Vikings' loss in New Orleans to the Pittsburgh Steelers. "My mother got caught in that one," the Cogswell, N.D., native says, so "it's a little personal for me."
But Skroch ranked the '41 and '66 blizzards as the worst the former because of the extent of human tragedy, the latter because of its paralyzing duration and massive livestock deaths. And he's very partial to Hannah, too.
Ewens, Wheeler and Skroch noted that the freezing cold weather Blizzard Hannah ushered into the valley, lasting several days, helped to stretch the Red River crest past Fargo, probably sparing it from Grand Forks-type flood damage.
Blizzards tend to be the Rodney Dangerfield of major weather storms. "Blizzards are kind of the forgotten stepchild in the weather world. Unless they're occurring on the East Coast, it's almost as if the country isn't aware of them," Osborne said.


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Top Cars
10 Most Affordable Luxury SUVs
We know that searching for the right luxury SUV can be a difficult task. Not only are there many models to choose from, but several of today's top luxury SUVs are very expensive. So we've narrowed your search with our latest list, which includes our favorite luxury crossovers and SUVs that won't break the bank.
Acura RDX
With a starting price of just over $35,000 after shipping, the RDX is reasonably priced for a luxury SUV. It's also surprisingly well-equipped, with even base models including features such as leather upholstery, heated front seats, automatic headlights, a sunroof, a rearview camera and dual-zone automatic climate control. Rounding out the RDX's list of benefits is a standard 3.5-liter V6 that somehow manages to both produce a muscular 273 horsepower and return 20 miles per gallon in the city and 28 mpg on the highway in front-wheel-drive models.
Audi Q3
Audi's smallest crossover isn't out yet, but the automaker says we should expect it sometime this fall. That's good news for shoppers interested in an Audi crossover that's more budget-friendly than the Q5, which starts at around $38,000. Featuring impressive Audi styling and the brand's traditionally high-end interior, the Q3 wowed crowds when it debuted at this year's Detroit Auto Show. We're also impressed with its long list of standard equipment, which includes keyless starting, a panoramic sunroof, heated seats and leather upholstery. As for pricing, we'd expect it in the low- to mid-$30,000 range.
You might be surprised to learn that the least expensive BMW on sale today is a crossover SUV. Dubbed the X1, it rides on the 3 Series platform and offers a choice between two engines: a 240-hp turbocharged 4-cylinder, and a 300-hp 3.0-liter 6-cylinder. Drivers can also choose between rear- and all-wheel drive, although an 8-speed automatic is the only available transmission. Standard features include Bluetooth, dual-zone automatic climate control, a panoramic sunroof and leather, all of which is included in the X1's base price of just under $32,000 with shipping.
Buick Encore
Don't think you can get a luxury SUV for $25,000? The tiny Buick Encore says you should think again. While it may not offer the badge cachet of rivals from BMW, Audi or Mercedes, the Encore includes all the luxury-SUV basics. There's a lot of stuff, for instance, including a 7-inch touchscreen with Buick's IntelliLink infotainment system, Bluetooth, a rearview camera, a power driver's seat and satellite radio. There's an impressive exterior, which features chrome trim and 18-in alloy wheels, and there is a long list of high-end options, ranging from heated seats to leather upholstery and a navigation system. Our favorite part, however, is an excellent fuel economy rating of 25 mpg city/33 mpg hwy.
Infiniti QX50
Formerly known as the EX37, the V6-powered Infiniti QX50 is the most affordable crossover in the Infiniti lineup. It's also among our favorite crossovers for several reasons. One is its engine: We love the standard 325-hp 3.7-liter V6, even if Environmental Protection Agency fuel economy ratings are at a mediocre 17 mpg city/25 mpg hwy. We also love the long list of standard equipment, ranging from dual-zone automatic climate control and power front seats to leather upholstery, automatic headlights and a rearview camera. But more importantly, we love the QX50's base price of around $35,500, which makes it one of the best values in the luxury-crossover world.
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Land Rover LR2
Although Land Rover is primarily known for its ultra-upscale Range Rover and Range Rover Sport SUVs, the brand also has a model available for around $37,500 with shipping. It's called the LR2, and while we admit that the figure isn't cheap, we still think Land Rover's small SUV is worth mentioning. Part of the reason is that 4-wheel drive is standard equipment, while it's optional on many rivals. If you need 4WD, that lessens the price gap considerably compared to competitors such as the Acura RDX and Infiniti QX50. The LR2 is also worth consideration after an update for 2013 gave it a more modern interior, a revised look and some high-tech new features, including a panoramic sunroof, a 7-in touchscreen, keyless ignition and entry and dual power front seats.
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Lexus NX
The sharply styled Lexus NX isn't on sale yet, but if you can wait until this fall, we strongly suggest adding the SUV to your shopping list. There are two varieties: a sporty model with a turbocharged 4-cylinder, and a fuel-saving hybrid. Both come standard with an automatic transmission, and both are expected to start somewhere in the low- to mid-$30,000 range. And while we're not sure what's on the NX's list of standard equipment, we can safely say that the crossover will be highly successful if it's as reliable and well-equipped as the larger Lexus RX.
Lincoln MKC
The Lincoln MKC is a compact crossover based on the popular Ford Escape. On sale this summer, the MKC combines Lincoln's bold -- but "love-it-or-hate-it" -- styling with reasonable pricing that starts under $34,000 with shipping. We also appreciate standard equipment such as dual-zone automatic climate control, remote start, Lincoln's MyLincoln Touch infotainment system, heated front seats and a reversing camera. Best of all, the MKC offers two muscular engines: a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder that makes 240 hp, and a 2.3-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder with 275 horses. In addition to offering adequate power, both engines will likely return excellent fuel economy.
Mini Countryman
With a base price of $23,000, the Mini Countryman is an excellent deal among luxury SUVs. Of course, as you might expect, base-level models are hardly luxurious, and with just 121 hp, they don't really boast the sort of performance you might expect from a Mini model. Add a few options and upgrade to a Cooper S Countryman, however, and you can have a well-equipped compact crossover for around $30,000 with shipping. Best of all, you'll get impressive fuel economy that tops out at 32 mpg hwy, even with the S's turbocharged 181-hp 4-cylinder.
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Volvo XC60
The Volvo XC60 is an appealing package for its starting price of around $35,500 with shipping. There are automatic wipers and automatic headlights, and there's dual-zone automatic climate control. The XC60 also has a power driver's seat with memory, Bluetooth, HD Radio and 18-in alloy wheels. We also love the automatic city-braking system that stops the XC60 if it detects an impending low-speed crash. Our only gripe is a lackluster powertrain: The XC60's 3.2-liter 6-cylinder makes just 240 hp, which is bested by most rivals. The low hp doesn't translate into excellent fuel economy, as it returns just 18 mpg city/26 mpg hwy. Still, the XC60 would find its way on to our luxury-SUV shopping list.


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Topic: New Animated Series
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This has potential actually. IF they do it right. They're probably going to screw it up. But if they do it right it'll be great. Remember in the first SW Robot Chicken where the cleaning guy's like, "gotta get that transfer to cloud city", "gotta get that transfer to the death star", "what are those guys always doing up there". That was great. So, hopefully, this will be more of the same.
I'm tentatively leaning towards optimism on this one. The main reason being that it won't involve any characters we know and the new characters won't have a profound impact on the galaxy at large. The EverydayJoe doesn't, say, walk down a hallway and trip, falling on a wall which presses a button and opens a door that R2 was having trouble with and everyone in the movie thinks R2 did it and R2's like, "But I didn't... well, whatever, let's go." EverydayJoe goes to the office, then comes home to his kids and wife and has dinner.
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