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Published May 02, 2010 12:00
ROME, Italy - She lost to a qualifier in Stuttgart just a few days ago but history wouldn't repeat itself in Rome, as Victoria Azarenka came back from a tricky second set situation to beat Sesil Karatantcheva in the first round of the $2-million Internazionali BNL d'Italia on Sunday evening.
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Azarenka, the No.9 seed, blew through the first set but came back from 0-3 in the second set - two breaks - to beat the Kazakh qualifier in 67 minutes, 61 64.
Azarenka made a very strong showing at the Foro Italico last year, reaching the semifinals without losing a set - beating, among others, Caroline Wozniacki along the way - before running into Svetlana Kuznetsova, who would end up winning her second Grand Slam title at the French Open just weeks later.
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There were mixed results for the other two seeds in action, with No.14 seed Nadia Petrova beating Tathiana Garbin, 63 62, but No.15 seed Vera Zvonareva falling to Petra Kvitova, 64 60. Zvonareva was coming off a run to the finals at another Premier clay court event, in Charleston.
Other winners were María José Martínez Sánchez, Maria Kirilenko, Andrea Petkovic, Polona Hercog, Alberta Brianti and Italian wildcard Maria Elena Camerin, who beat Zheng Jie in the last match of the day, 64 46 64.
The first round will continue on Monday, with the first second round match of the week also on the schedule, pitting Kuznetsova against Kirilenko.


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The three strong markets helped usher Changi Airport's passenger movements up by 12.7 percent during the fourth month of the year compared to the same period last year, with the airport welcoming up to 4.21 million passenger movements during the month.
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Our Interview With Author Simon Wood
Michael Wolf asked each of the authors to share a little bit about themselves, talk a little about the story they contributed to West Coast Crime Wave, and tell us their thoughts about e-books. Today we talk to Anthony award winning author Simon Wood.
Tell us about yourself.
I'm an engineer by trade, but I've also been a racecar driver, a licensed pilot and an occasional private investigator. Over the last ten years, I've had over 150 stories and articles published. My short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and has garnered me an Anthony Award, two Anthony nominations and a CWA Dagger Award nomination, as well as several readers' choice awards. I'm a frequent contributor to Writer's Digest. I'm the author of WORKING STIFFS, ACCIDENTS WAITING TO HAPPEN, PAYING THE PIPER, WE ALL FALL DOWN, TERMINATED and ASKING FOR TROUBLE. I do have a darker side to me. I write horror fiction under the name Simon Janus. Under my alternate identity, I'm the author of THE SCRUBS and ROAD RASH. Curious people can learn more athttp://www.simonwood.net
Tell us what makes your city/location a unique and interesting setting for crime fiction.
My story is a little unusual because it's story about cops in San Francisco and they see the city a little differently from the general public. You see the Golden Gate bridge and see an iconic landmark. A cop sees the same and sees a place for people to commit suicide.
Tell us a little bit about the story's main character.
My "hero" is a young San Francisco cop. he chasing down a suspect and the suspect sucker punches and strips him of his weapon and shoots him. Luckily for the cop, he's wearing a vest, but despite surviving the incident, he feels he lost something and he can't claim it back until he tracks down the perp to get his service weapon back.
Backpacking through Thailand inspired the story. They have tourist cops. It's a prestigious job and well paid. Two things that will lose a tourist cop his job—losing his radio and/or service weapon. A tourist cop will kill first before losing his weapon. I thought there was a story.
This anthology is an e-book from a new publisher. In general, how do you as an author see the opportunities in publishing changing with the growth of e-books?
I embrace the changes. It would be churlish of me to think otherwise. The industry is changing. The public has voted with both feet. They like eBooks, so I'm on board. Personally, I like the flexibility eBooks give me. I'm not restricted by word count and page count, so I have a venue for short stories, novellas and novels. The reduced financial risk of producing an eBook means I can play with stories and characters that fall outside conventional norms.
Tell us what's in store for you over the next 6 to 12 months.
My current title is DID NOT FINISH. It's the first in a new mystery series set in the world of motor racing. The follow up, HOT SEAT, will be out next spring. On November 15th, the paperback edition of my best eBook, THE FALL GUY, was released. It's a crime caper about a down-on-his-luck guy who backs into a drug dealer's Porsche and becomes indebted to the mob. I also get to play editor for the first time. I'm putting together an eBook anthology called Gravediggers. It's about people who flirt with danger and it comes back to bite them.
If you want to read Simon's short story "Officer Down" you can find it and 17 other great crime fiction shorts in West Coast Crime Wave. You can find West Coast Crime Wave at Amazon and at Barnes & Noble today.
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How to hack Smurfs' Village on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. No Jailbreak is needed for this hack to work. You will receive unlimited coins and berries.
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- Make sure you have Smurfs' Village installed on your iPhone/Ipad/Ipod. Make sure it is not open during this process.
- Download IFunBox. http://www.i-funbox.com
- Download this modded file and put on your desktop for easy access. Limelinx Download or Google Docs (if your file is .rar you need to uncompress the file. So download any free .rar extraction program and open the file before you drag it into Ifunbox. It will not work if you don't)
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Tamrac Travel Pack 71 Photo Backpack (Model# 5371) Camera Bag is a pocket dynomo. This bag would replace the ugly bag provide by manufacturer. It easily carries camera with 3 lens and a flash gun. The padding is excellent and zip provided are of good quality. You can also manage to keep charger, cleaner in upper pocket.
The display provided by flipkart is misleading.The bag is amost 1feet long.
You cannot compare it with Lowepro. This is basically a budget bag.
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Flipkart, with excellent packing but delivery was delayed by a day.
The bag is really nice considering the cost and the quality and strength of straps,flaps and the zippers used. A 'must have' if you want to get rid of the ugly bag that Nikon is supplying with Nikon D3100! That bag is so ugly, you don't even feel like carrying your camera in public!
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'Community's' Leonard: Richard Erdman talks Joel McHale vs. Marlon Brando on set
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Richard Erdman, aka Leonard on "Community," has an acting career that spans seven decades. He says Marlon Brando "thought Hollywood was a crock" and Joel McHale is "a darling." Aww.


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Nestled along a stunning 2km white sand beach, in a sheltered bay on the East Coast of Mauritius, Constance Belle Mare Plage blends traditional Mauritian design with up-to-the-minute styling.
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Deputies say a 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday for using a stolen bank card multiple times at a convenience store in Kingman. A 19-year-old woman reported her wallet and bank card stolen from her vehicle and that it was illegally used three times at a convenience store in Kingman on Feb. 21. Mohave County Sheriff's deputies say Kristopher Allen Pazolt was seen on video surveillance tape using the woman's bank card to purchase energy drinks, a soda and cigarettes. After talking to store employees and examining the footage, deputies contacted Pazolt in the 4300 block of Stockton Hill Road.Pazolt allegedly told deputies his friend asked him to go to the store and buy items using the bank card. According to deputies, he told them he didn't know the card belonged to someone besides his friend until later that day. Pazolt was taken into custody and booked into jail on felony charges of theft of a credit card.
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I've been popping cherries in my mouth all the time this week! Thanks to my friend Meghana, we went cherry picking last weekend and brought back a huge bag of gorgeous red and black cherries.
The cherry season was at its peak in Brentwood and it was the perfect time to go there and have some fun in the sun. During the couple of hours we spent at the ranch, we plucked a few pounds of their juicy, sweet cherries to bring back home and ate almost equal amounts the same time right from the trees!
After sharing a few bags with friends and family and snacking on those sweet-tart cherries all week long, there were a few more sitting in the refrigerator. To make the most of the cherry season in my house, I thought of opening my cooking school binder and make a cherrylicious dessert that I learnt to make in my very first class - a Cherry Clafoutis.


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In the Future Your Bathroom Towels Will Always Be Dry
"In years to come, people may live lighter yet, suggests Gerd Leonhard, CEO of the Futures Agency. These personal devices, with all their cloud-based functionality, will have moved into our minds. If we require energy on the move, our clothes will harvest it through integrated photovoltaic or piezoelectric generators… We're witnessing the rise of the modern nomad, "defined not by what they carry but by what they leave behind." That's the definition The Economist proposed nearly five years ago, in a feature written in anticipation of a wireless world, called Nomads at Last."


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Ryan expanded his education into the field and became a storm chaser. He has chased in almost all of the major severe weather outbreaks in the past three years including: April 27th 2011, April 15th 2011 and April 14th 2012. During the countless hours of storm chasing, Ryan has seen over fifteen tornadoes.
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Yolo County officials revoked the mental health certification for EMQ FamiliesFirst last week in another blow for the group home operator that has been fighting to hold onto its Davis license.
EMQ FamiliesFirst has faced scrutiny ever since two of its teenage residents, 13 and 14, were arrested last month on suspicion of raping an 11-year-old girl who also lived at the Davis group home. EMQ FamiliesFirst is appealing a closure order issued by the Department of Social Services on June 13.
As of Friday, 14 residents remained at the facility, down from 63 before the allegations came to light.
Kim Suderman, director of the Yolo County Department of Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health, said Friday that the county's action was part of an annual review process. It disqualifies the Davis facility as a level 14 group home provider, the highest classification possible.
Without the certification, she said the operator would no longer get the full $9,419 monthly payment it received for each child in its care. But she noted that day-to-day operations including administering mental health programs would not be affected.
"They are still licensed as a group home," Suderman said. "This only affects their reimbursement."
California Department of Social Services spokesman Michael Weston said in an email that the county's actions will force EMQ FamiliesFirst to "apply for a new rate classification level."
EMQ FamiliesFirst issued a statement, saying that it was reviewing the county's action.
In a Wednesday letter to EMQ FamiliesFirst, Suderman said the group home failed 10 of 11 certification requirements. Among them: no on-call staff list, no 24-hour-a-day psychiatrist availability and no one-to-one staffing capability.
The county reviewed the group home on June 20 and 24 and asked questions about the deficiencies in a June 26 interview, according to the letter.
The group home's treatment plan instructed staff to contact Davis police for "all transportation" during emergency psychiatric hospital visits, the letter stated.
"It doesn't make sense," Suderman said of the plan. "You should only be calling law enforcement when you cannot transport children safely."
Davis police have responded to more than 500 calls for service from the group home this year, including 100 calls when residents ran away.
The group home is licensed by the state, but it must receive county approval for its mental health treatment program to become a level 14 facility, Suderman said. The state sets rates based on the level of care provided to clients, with federal, state and county funds largely footing the bill.
Over half of California's 1,101 group homes are rated at level 12 and are paid $8,309 a month per child, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office. Altogether, the state's group homes have capacity for 10,989 residents.
"It makes financial sense to qualify for a higher level," said Eric Harper, a child welfare analyst at LAO.
Taxpayers paid about $635 million in 2011-12 to group home operators statewide, according to data from LAO and county governments. Other foster care venues cost far less than group homes, LAO data shows. County-licensed foster homes are paid an average of $957 a month per child, while private agency homes are paid $2,056 a month. Group homes, on the other hand, cost taxpayers an average of $7,900.
Group home advocates contend the costs are necessary.
"Twenty-four-hour supervision is very expensive to do," said Carroll Schroeder, executive director of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services. The advocacy group has 120 member organizations including EMQ FamiliesFirst that serve vulnerable youths across the state.
Harper said the state has convened discussions to revamp the child welfare system, with recommendations to the Legislature expected in October 2014.
Call The Bee's Richard Chang, (916) 321-1018. Follow him on Twitter @RichardYChang.
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"Long ago in a galaxy far away ..."
Now, don't you have the iconic "Star Wars" theme in your head? The credits are rolling slowly into the 35mm horizon as you prepare for the saga of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, sprung on a mission to save Princess Leia from the clutches of the evil Darth Vader.
That's what great movie music can do. It can not only entertain and add depth to a scene, but also can define a moment, and the more memorable the music, the more it can help transport you back to that moment, the first time your senses experienced that movie.
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When: 3 p.m. Jan. 12
Where: Aquinas Hall, Mount Saint Mary College, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh
Price: $20, $25; $15 seniors; $10 children; free age 6 and younger; free if dressed in space costume
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The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra will get those senses tingling again with "Out of This World," an afternoon at the movies, and specifically, those in the science fiction genre. You'll get that iconic "Star Wars" theme, plus music from "2001: A Space Odyssey," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Superman." All of the music is iconic.
"We just thought something totally different would be a fun thing to try," said Ann Whipple, publicity chairperson of the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra.
It's certainly different than the usual interpretations of Mozart and Wagner most orchestras perform at concerts. Many of the songs are modern pieces of pop culture. And the visual imagining of those fantastic films makes this show a thrill for children. In fact, if children come to the concert in a science-fiction inspired costume, they'll get in free.
Four movements from "The Planets" by British composer Gustav Holst will accompany the famous movie songs. A multimedia presentation backs the entire concert. Erich Tusch, a bass-baritone who has performed previously with the orchestra, will provide commentary during the concert, and Gordon Shacklett will provide a pre-show talk about the music to be featured.


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After searching for an escaped prisoner for more than 13 hours, police confirm they have found and arrested 25-year-old Abraham Pearson near Mt. Elliot and I-94. Police received a call from a citizen who spotted Pearson walking along the area. Police were dispatched, and after a short chase on foot, were able to catch Pearson and take him in to custody. How did it all begin? Pearson was in due in court Monday morning at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. He was to be sentenced after being convicted last month of carjacking, armed robbery and firearms charges, according to court records. He was facing 10-15 years in jail, but now will most likely face greater charges that could land him even more time behind bars. Pearson is believed to have escaped from jail after stabbing sheriff's deputy Harrison Tolliver three times in the neck with a make-shift weapon, taking the deputy's uniform, cell phone and radio, escaping out a back door and then proceeding to carjack a motorist. Police say all this happened around 8:30 a.m. Monday. Police caught the fugitive around 10:00 p.m. Monday, however Pearson is believed to have been spotted once throughout the day before he was captured. Pearson was being hunted by several law enforcement agencies, including Detroit Police, the FBI, Livonia Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF), border patrol, U.S. Marshals, and several other agencies. How was Pearson's escape made possible in the first place? Standard jail transfer procedure calls for inmates to be brought over from the jail through means of an underground tunnel. The inmates are then brought up by a private elevator to a holding cell, where they wait to enter the courtroom. One deputy is allowed to transfer several inmates from the jail to the holding cell, but in that holding cell is where at least two deputies must be present during when the inmates are released from handcuffs. On Monday, that did not happen. Early investigation leads authorities to believe 63-year-old Tolliver was the only sheriff's deputy in the holding cell at the time of Pearson's alleged escape, which is against standard procedure.During the transfer, a thorough search of every inmate is also required since no metal detectors are passed during the trip from the jail to the courtroom. (Since Pearson is believed to have used a make-shift shank made from a comb, a metal detector would not have sensed the plastic device anyway.) It is unclear at this time if Pearson was even searched in the first place, or if the device was not detected during the search that was conducted. Where do we go from here?VIDEO: Sheriff Benny Napoleon and other authorities brief the public Authorities will continue to investigate just what went wrong today, and how Pearson was able to successfully escape for that period of time. Sheriff Benny Napoleon says, "We know the what, now we need to know the how." He also says Pearson is likely to face 11 additional charges, which would increase his time behind bars significantly. Meanwhile, Tolliver is recovering from his injuries. He was released from the hospital earlier today and is at home with family.
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The Casio® Men's Twin Sensor Digital Watch is the perfect sportsman toolkit and watch in one. The Casio® Men's Twin Sensor Digital Watch uses temperature and direction sensors ideal for hiking, running or leisurely sight seeing, combined with a large LCD screen for superior easy-to-read and sleek style. Step out and enjoy the Casio® Men's Twin Sensor Digital Watch.
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Europe's Value: Two High-Yield Telecom Stocks
J.B. is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Two questions should always be asked before purchasing a stock. One, am I willing to hold this stock for as long as ten years? Two, will the business behind the stock be viable in fifteen years? If the answer is no to either question, a long-term investor should simply walk away and move on to greener pastures. An even more important question should be, does the investor have the advantage? In other words, has the stock been irrationally oversold? Has the business suffered a setback that it can overcome? If the answer to these questions is yes, then the stock is worth a look.
Given these questions, two high-yield telecom stocks are, perhaps, worth buying--NTELOS Holdings (NASDAQ: NTLS) and France Telecom (NYSE: ORAN). By the end of this post, the more favorable company will be written on the wall.
Psychologically, there is much to love about nTelos. It pays a quarterly dividend of forty-two cents per share. It is a regional provider with room to grow. And, my personal favorite, it has a great brand and a spotless public image. It has branded itself quite effectively in the Southeast. It recently put its name on the Charlottesville Pavilion (now the NTELOS Wireless Pavilion) in Virginia, which was the venue last year for a Barack Obama rally featuring Bruce Springsteen.
However, once these attractive features have been accounted for, once the stock is viewed rationally, there are lingering issues. First, Lumos Networks was recently spun off from NTELOS, and it has performed poorly over the past several months. Spinning off Lumos may or may not have been a bad decision, but any time a company releases assets from its control, several questions are immediately asked by any investor--how will this add value to the parent company, was this move part of a larger strategy, how will this affect the company five years down the road. Secondly, and more importantly, NTELOS is looking at losing up to forty percent of its revenue by 2015, after a lucrative contract with Sprint expires. Can growth in data consumption among average consumers over the next few years compensate for that loss of revenue? Until answers are provided to these questions, NTELOS is a short-term trade, not a long-term investment.
Psychologically, there is much to fear about France Telecom. The European Union almost became a disunion. There is stiff competition from bargain brand providers and behemoths like Vodafone. More than a quarter of the company is owned by the French government, which, some would say, means "as goes the government, so goes the company." The dividend has been cut to eighty cents per share for 2013. Are these fears legitimate? Are they rational?
For starters, the dividend was cut in order to preserve France Telecom's credit rating, which was a sound decision. Second, France's economy should not contract in 2013, but grow. The IMF anticipates France's GDP to grow at a sluggish .4 percent pace. Third, the company is well-positioned for global growth. It is truly a global player, having more than 220 million customers worldwide. Finally, the EU has handled its debt crisis better than most predicted it would. Most European stocks have been oversold. France Telecom has a very low P/E ratio compared to similar companies. In fifteen years, France Telecom will still be a global telecommunications player with, at least, a strong presence in Africa and Europe. The beauty of buying France Telecom lies in the opportunity to benefit from the dividend and the rising stock price. So, you tell me, which stock is more attractive?
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The following documents are being provided in response to citizen requests for reports issued in 2002 and 2003 regarding fire and emergency medical services in Scottsdale.
- March 27, 2003, memorandum to the Scottsdale City Council. Outlines
Scottsdale's estimates to transition to a municipal fire department.
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- March 15, 2002 Analysis of Fire Services by Maximus: an independent
consultant. This report analyzed current services provided by Rural/Metro and included a
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- March 15, 2002 Analysis of Fire Services Contractual Issues by Maximus:
an independent consultant. This report analyzed the cost effectiveness of establishing and
operating a municipal fire department and the structure of the contract between the City
of Scottsdale and the Rural/Metro Corp.
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- October 23, 2002 Fire/Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee
Recommendations. This is a report from an 11-member citizens committee to the
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I have a question and I'm hoping someone here might know the best thing to do. We're hoping to buy a house next spring, but our credit isn't perfect. We had a bankruptcy discharged in December 07. Not only that, but it had been a chapter 13 which we converted to a 7 so it appears legally twice on our credit. Boo...I know. What makes it worse is the last credit report I ran had it listed 3 times because in the midst of the 13 the office where it was filed was moved from one jurisdiction to another...nothing we did and not our fault, they just moved districts around and ours went from Utica, NY to Syracuse, Ny office. Even though I wrote the credit reporting agencies, they said they're valid because both offices still list them. So I'm stuck with what appears to be 3 bankruptcies on my credit and I'm not sure if there's a thing I can do about that 3rd one.
Since then we haven't defaulted on anything or fallen behind, but I know that due to the economic crisis and the bankruptcies it's going to be difficult to find a lender. Here's my question...who do I talk to for advice? Should I talk to our credit union, or the HSBC bank we have used for a few years, a realtor or mortgage broker? I've heard credit unions are probably more likely to loan to people with a BK on their credit, however I hesitate to run right to them because I don't want them running my credit and putting an inquiry there and then deny us. I know the more inquiries there are, the worse it will look and I want to avoid adding anything negative to our credit.
Thoughts? (yeah, I know avoiding bk in the 1st place would have been the wise thing to do, but what's done is done).
Conner is still on that kick every once in a while...over Thanksgiving he told my mom that he didn't like her. When she responded, "You don't like me?" he must have felt kinda bad because he said, "Only a little." I told him that was a hurtful thing to say but let it go. I'm sure he'll outgrow it.
I don't know either, Chrissy. I am not a finance saavy person by any stretch of the imagination. I hope you can find someone to help you.
I'm having a moral dilemma. Except it's not. It's kind of a no brainer but I SUCK at this stuff. I took on a new little girl in my daycare about a month ago and mom has already been late on payment twice. And not just a day late but a week late. Also the child only comes sporadically and after mom's mile long message today about why she didn't drop of payment on friday she also said that the little girl is not coming next week at all and that her job has a lot of layoffs this time of year so not sure what the schedule will be. My part time families are on a pay when you come contract with sort of a good faith clause in the contract that if they consistently miss days I won't hold the spot for them.
I have to drop them. She only comes for a couple of hours in the morning when she comes but it means I have to turn full time families away because my numbers in the morning are too high. I dread this call.
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I'm not sure who to ask either, that's why I posted here thinking maybe someone would know. It's ok...I'm sure I'll figure it out. We have a few months before anyone needs to be looking at our credit.
Bridget, I know it sucks but it's not your fault.
Ugh, Stacy. I remember that feeling and I'm not looking forward to it again. It's hard work losing that weight. Have you had the time to swim?
Kai has officially dropped his nap. I'm quite sure he could still use one because the second he gets in the car at any time, he's out within minutes. But to get him to lay down and take a nap is a battle I'm not going to have any longer.
So he's ready for bed around 5:30-6pm and bedtime is unbelievably simple because he's so tired. BUT he's up at 5am at the latest every.single.morning.
I confess I'm quite sure it will be years before I get to sleep in again.
I'm actually considering getting the Wii fit for the family for Christmas...it would be a huge surprise because I've been anti-game systems forever. But the Wii fit seems to be an exception...oh, and that's dance one. That looks like fun!
Lydia, THANK YOU. I needed to hear that. Fun thing, weight watchers keeps your weight data even when you unsubscribe. So, when I reinstated my account this afternoon, I got to look at my weight after my first two kids... same thing and I had dropped all but the last ten pounds by four months with little effort. I can do this.
I worked my ass off to lose my baby weight both times. I'm already so self concious about my body, I can't bear to hold onto extra weight. I will obsess about it. And I'm already anticipating it being even harder this time because I'm old and tired.
It's a lot easier only having healthy things in the house and not going out for snacks, not going to shopping centers with Starbucks, etc. I have to admit, my first two weeks without chocolate I was thinking about it all the time, but I kept reminding myself it takes about two weeks to really re-set a habit. And after that, it was much easier. And then every time the thought crossed my mind, I thought about how I didn't want to go through that painful two week process again.


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In 1900, most American households had at least one musical instrument. Sales of recorded music were negligible, even though the invention of the phonograph already was 20 years old. People bought sheet music. Families gathered around the piano at night.
One of the storied photos of my own childhood has our family gathered around the upright piano in the living room. Dad is at the keyboard; we kids are the songsters. That mid-1960s photo was taken at the tail end of an era when households regularly engaged in the practice of making music. By the late 1950s, professional musicians were generating most of the nation's music.
The emergence of technological devices that play back recorded music did more to shrink peoples' confidence in singing than almost anything else. In many churches, singing has become something hired or gifted professionals do. Others consider singing the work of "performing" choirs. These shifts help make singing seem like an external option for our lives rather than an internal component of being human. Shrinking numbers of Christians view singing as an intrinsic part of a breathing faith -- that expression of human emotion for which spoken words never seem to be enough. Singing is now "an extra."
So why should you sing in your congregation, especially if you are unsure of your voice? You could argue that singing in worship serves no practical purpose. No casserole for the homeless will be baked after the opening hymn this Sunday just because you opened your mouth in song. No sudden healing on the orthopedic wing of the nearby hospital will take place because you let loose on "Amazing Grace" during communion.
We sing, in part, because no sound is more sublime than the human voice. Some people sing because they are happy; others are happy because they sing. Either way it's a good deal. Singing breaks down boundaries and creates amazing solidarity. If diverse peoples can rise eagerly from their stadium seats during the 7th inning stretch to sing for the concept of baseball, one might think that standing in another venue to sing for the reality of God carries even more delight. Songs of faith often connect us with God more intimately than many sermons do.
If you come to worship wearing analytical eyes, you will convince yourself that you are not a strong singer. A ghost in your head will tell you that weak singing, whatever that is, has no place in God's house. Embarrassment is the one word that will keep resting on the tip of your tongue as you think about how much you struggle with pitch. On top of this self-consciousness, you find yourself thinking that worship is just plain peculiar. People stand up, face this large wall with a cross on it and belt out words like Precious Lord.
To defend your silence, you always could put up the argument that Jesus never played an instrument or sang in any choir. At least we have no record of him doing so. But that argument is not exactly productive, and it misses the point.
Maybe singing in worship isn't all about YOU, or about any one person for that matter. Maybe it is about what we do together -- a "living together in harmony," to borrow words from the Apostle Paul. German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer insisted on this communal quality of song: "It is the voice of the church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings." We should all work to get over the idea that the principal aim of singing in worship is to please ourselves, or to focus on that lovely soprano. The greater delight is in pleasing God through our unity of voice.
Theologian Eugene Peterson reflects on our different modes of human expression. "Song and dance," he says, "are the result of an excess of energy. When we are normal we talk, when we are dying we whisper, but when there is more in us than we can contain we sing." So, regardless of the tempo of your organist, the typos on the screen, or the timidity of your own inner voice, just sing! Free yourself from those hang-ups and that analysis. Burst with song because there is more life in you than you can contain.
The Rev. Peter W. Marty is senior pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, and is part of a rotating system of columnists for Faith & Values
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The term the modern short story is somewhat of a misnomer if we examine the origins of the American short story. Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe, for example, come to us from many different manifestations of story—fable, allegory, romance—story forms that go back to the earliest inceptions of story. These stories also include elements of realism that were beginning to emerge in literature in the early eighteen hundreds, so perhaps modern can be appropriate modifier.
Charles May, a contemporary short story theorist, has pointed out that the brevity of story forestalls the necessary inclusion of detail sufficient to create true realism. Consequently, he sees the modern short story as a combination of "realistic motivation" and "romantic projection."[1] This romantic projection involves the higher experiences—the ideal, the world of imagination, in other words, the inner experience. May relates this focus on the inward experience to the length of the short story. He sees the short story as short "precisely because of the kind of experience or reality embodied in it" [2] And that experience, he extrapolates from other theorists and philosophers, as being that which is sacred and profound.
May sees the theme and technique of the modern short story as "focused on the power of metaphor" and storyness." He feels it answers the question in each character's heart, "Who am I?" This inward-directed experience that he sees as the soul of story is an examination of the "immaterial reality" that he speaks of elsewhere.
Looking at this observation from a Consciousness-BaseedSM perspective, we may describe the short story as placing the self-referral consciousness of a character into a true-to-life situation so that the true nature of consciousness can be made manifest. It is the capturing of the infinite in a point—the collapse of wholeness into a point value. The reader then has the opportunity to experience the wholeness of story by experiencing the dynamism between the momentary collapse of wholeness—the still point—and the re-emergences of wholeness, together experienced as meaning.
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[1] Charles E. May. "Metaphorical Motivation in Short Fiction." Short Story Theory at a Crossroads. Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellyn Clarey, (eds.). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989, pp65–66.
[2] Charles E. May."The Nature of Knowledge in Short Fiction." The New Short Story Theories. Charles E. May (ed.). Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994.


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Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ari., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the Republican members of Senate Judiciary Committee that helped draft the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill, again voted with committee Democrats today to defeat another conservative amendment that would have strengthened United States border security before illegal immigrants are given legal status.
Sen. Jeff Sessions', R-Ala., amendment would have required the implementation of a biometric entry and exit system at all ports of entry before any currently illegal immigrant could be granted legal permanent resident status. Nine years ago the 9/11 Commission Report recommended such a system and in 2004 Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which directed the DHS to "accelerate the full implementation of an automated biometric entry and exit data system."
That biometric visa entry/exit system still does not exist today.
The Schumer-Rubio bill actually weakens current law by asking the DHS to begin implementing a biographic system, not a biometric system, which the Gang of Eight thought was too expensive.
After Flake, Graham, and the Democrats voted down Sessions' amendment, Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., ended all further amendments on border security and moved to amendments on future flows of immigration.


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Selected students will work with practicing attorneys and organizations with a public interest focus in full-time summer fellowships, with remuneration of $3,500 provided through a New England Law summer stipend. (Full-time work is defined as 10 weeks at a minimum of 35 hours per week). Part-time stipends may also be available. In addition to the fellowship, the program includes orientation sessions conducted by CLSR faculty, students, and alumni, as well as biweekly seminars through the summer and fall semester, to be hosted by faculty, guest public interest attorneys, and summer fellows themselves.
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A Georgia state senator has proposed a tort reform measure that would eliminate the medical malpractice legal process and replace it with something called a Patients' Compensation System. Today, an advocate for that new system explains how it would benefit patients, doctors and hospitals, while the president of the state trial lawyers group says it usurps the judicial process.
Adopt a new system for medical justice
By Wayne Oliver
Beverly Hodges Bachman is among the hundreds of victims in this country who have been told that, although they lost a loved one to medical malpractice, nothing can be done about it.
Beverly lost her mother, Bobby Hodges, a healthy 75-year-old woman, to a blood clot. It was bad enough medical professionals didn't listen to her pleas to make sure her mother's swollen knee wasn't clotting after an auto accident.
The real blow, however, came when two trial lawyers told her that her mother's life had no value, and they wouldn't take a case concerning her death.
"It's like you don't count unless you were worth big bucks," Bachman said. "This woman was a mother, grandmother, a friend. It is a slap in the face to families."
A recent study by Emory University scholar Joanna Shepherd Bailey found that rarely do attorneys take medical malpractice cases worth less than $500,000. That will soon change if the Georgia Legislature adopts a proposal by state Sen. Brandon Beach, R-Alpharetta, to eliminate our state's medical justice system and replace it with a Patients' Compensation System (PCS).
Under PCS, a patient would be able to file a case for review by a panel of health care experts. If the panel found "avoidable harm" had occurred, the case would be forwarded to a compensation board. The patient would receive compensation no less than under the current, adversarial court system.
The benefits are enormous. Doctors and hospitals would no longer be hauled into court, and injured patients, including those with lower-value injuries, would be compensated. In the new system, a physician who has made an error would be free to participate in enhancing patient safety. The doctor's personal wealth would not be in jeopardy.
Today, fewer than 20 percent of patients who file suit earn any award. Those who do earn compensation often have to wait years to have their case heard in court. Under PCS, the process would take just months.
There are those who will say PCS is unconstitutional because they fear change and want to protect their profits. But they do not consider Beverly Bachman and what happened to her mom or how this would reduce malpractice premiums by 60 percent for Georgia physicians.
PCS stands the constitutional test because it draws from the 100-year-old workers compensation model. That model protects workers when they are hurt on the job and ensures they are compensated fairly.
Beverly Bachman was never compensated for the loss of her mother. For her, a potential lawsuit was not just about the money. It was about wanting a system that validated her mother's life and made sure other patients would be protected in the future.
Wayne Oliver is executive director of Patients for Fair Compensation, a non-profit seeking to replace Georgia's medical tort system with a no-blame, administrative model that increases patient access to justice, reduces defensive medicine and increases patient safety. For more information: www.patientsforfaircompensation.org.
Georgia patients' rights under assault
By James "Jay" Sadd
Founding Father Thomas Jefferson once said, "I consider (trial by jury) as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution." The message behind this statement, reflected in the 7th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and echoed in Article I of the Constitution of the state of Georgia, is simple: The citizen's right to trial by jury is essential to the American way of life.
And yet, that inviolate right is currently under assault at our state Capitol.
Senate Bill 141, known as the Patient Injury Act, seeks to strip thousands of Georgia's medical malpractice victims of the constitutional right to seek justice in the courtroom and instead replaces our time-tested civil justice system with a burdensome, taxpayer-funded government bureaucracy. SB 141 runs afoul of our most sacred founding document.
Long gone would be the current jury system, which relies on the common sense and impartial judgment of unbiased citizens. Instead, this newly crafted agency would empower a panel of doctors to sit alone in judgment over their colleagues and fellow physicians who have acted negligently and harmed patients, the ultimate fox guarding the hen house scenario.
Georgians would not stand for a legal system in which truck drivers alone sat in judgment of the errors of their fellow truck drivers. No one would support allowing lawyers to judge the fault of a fellow lawyer sued for legal malpractice. Why, then, would we consent to waive our constitutional rights and stack the deck against Georgia patients?
In reality, SB 141 is based on false premises. In addition to the inherent bias of the proposal, proponents also claim it will reduce the so-called practice of "defensive medicine," the mythical practice of doctors ordering unnecessary treatments. This assertion flies in the face of the reality that Georgia doctors have to fight daily with profit-driven insurance companies for permission to provide even the most necessary treatments for their patients. How is it, then, that doctors suddenly have become able to order excessive treatments?
This bill leaves unaddressed the true epidemic in our state. Each year, nearly 100,000 Americans are killed as a result of preventable medical errors by health care providers. Millions more are injured annually through negligence. Preventable medical errors would be the sixth leading cause of death in Georgia if they were included in the CDC's annual rankings.
It is high time to take a serious look at patient safety.
Creating a government-run bureaucracy will not be effective in holding substandard health care providers accountable for the harm they do to Georgia patients, nor will it have a deterrent effect on medical malpractice. This bill will only serve to shield dangerous health care providers from answering for their harmful practices.
We must take a stand for Georgia's patients, and shield our Constitution from this assault on our rights.
James "Jay" Sadd is president f the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.
February 22nd, 2013
11:10 am
I was a victim of a surgical mistake. But, you can't get the Medical Board or the government to side with the patients. Even when you can produce evidence a surgical mistake occurred. The Medical Board told me that if I had died, then they would have put a mark against the surgeon's license. That's pretty bad when the Medical Board will not put complaints against a doctors license like this to prevent furture patients from having the same experience I did. Trying to sue is next to impossible because doctors are going to testify against doctors. What type of doctors do we have in Georgia that are more than willing to lie to protect another doctor instead of protecting their integrity? What happen to their code of protecting the patient first?
February 21st, 2013
4:57 pm
Medical malpractise insurance is the reason manyDr.s leave private practise. We should be encouraging more health care providers to go into private practise. This lady who was the victim of medical mistakes, her family was told she had no value[I would assume no big money could be gained from a suit]. I'm 75 and I would probably get the same answer or atleast my relatives would.
Doctors are only people, they make mistakes, one would have to look at their full body of work before saying they were incompetent or negligent.
The patient themself won't benefit from a big jugement [they are dead], soooooo it is the family. She had no small children,being 75, the adult children should think in terms of how they can add value to their own lives with out going to court in the heretofore incident.
This country is "litigation nuts". Lawyers promote litigation at every opportunity. They had ought to get an honest job, themselves. I had a lawyer who fought a case for me till he had all my money, I am not looking to sue him, i can't afford it.
February 21st, 2013
1:10 pm
This sure gives new meaning to the "death panels" the Repulibans warned us about. Now they want a new government bureaucracy to tell Ms. Bachman how much her mother's life was worth??? And isn't it disingenuous for the very same legislators who have made it extremely difficult and expensive to hold doctors and other healthcare providers accountable for their negligence to now complain that patients cannot find lawyers to represent them?
Mr. Oliver wants to make it even harder by devising an unheard-of standard of proof of "avoidable harm," which would require almost 100% certainty, more than what is required in a criminal case where we take away people's liberty. And clearly Mr. Oliver does not undertstand nor is familiar with our workers' compensation system, a no-fault system, or he would never hold it as a sytem to emmulate. Perhaps Mr. Oliver could better spend his energy working to ensure that the 7th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is upheld and legislators stop locking the courthouse doors.
February 21st, 2013
12:23 pm
If this law passes, Georgia citizens may want to consider leaving the state for medical treatment, because all of the bad doctors around the country are going to move here because they don't have to worry about being taken to court when they screw up.
This potential law is horrible! Why would we want to attract the worst doctors to Georgia?
February 21st, 2013
11:48 am
Patient's rights? Medical justice? Social justice? These are all socialist code words trying to rob successful people and give their hard earned money and assets to others! The problem with this line of thinking is that it never succeeds in doing anything but destroying personal initiative and the economy! Think not? Look at what happened to the USSR! Look at Cuba!
People here. citizens, are guaranteed nothing more than to look equal in the eye of the law!
Other than that, NOT EVERYONE IS EQUAL! NOT IN INTELLIGENCE, NOT IN STRENGTH, NOT IN HEIGHT, NO IN WORK ETHICS, NOT IN ABILITY TO EARN, NOT IN ECONOMIC SUCCESS, NOT IN HEALTH CARE!


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