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A continuation of the previous cheese story
Apropos!--Because I speak of Limburger cheese, a little mishap that happened to our brigade's music-band director some weeks ago occurs to me. He traveled in the company of a companion on a boat from here to Bridgeport and grew tired from standing. He sat on an object wihout looking at it closely beforehand; while his companion, with a travelling bag in his hand, remain standing next to him. The director sniffed several times, one right after the other, and asked his acquaintence: "Where do you have your Limburger cheese?" He looked up, surprised, because Limburger cheese had not been avilable in his region for a long time; and asked where the cheese is supposed to be. The director said his nose told him that he must have a brick of cheese in his travel bag. The acquaintance quickly got an idea. Mr.... you are sitting on a stand bearing a corpse! The director jumped up frightened. The address on the box told him that it had contained a dead Rebel for eight days. They you can see how everthing is pure deception. One cannot trust his own nose."
I'll share another anecdote, non-cheese or corpse related, later.
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Bikash Mohapatra in Mumbai | February 19, 2008 20:04 IST
It was a match featuring the best teams in the competition. It was supposed to be a battle of attrition. It was supposed to an evenly balanced contest that would go down to the wire.
The Duleep Trophy final between North Zone and West Zone, at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, was supposed to be a decider to watch out for. However, at the end of the opening day's play, all these suppositions remained what they were meant to be in the first place: suppositions.
And it was defending champions North Zone who defied all of them, ending the first day's play on 53 without loss after dismissing their opponents for 274 in the first essay.
It might be a tad premature to predict that the defending champions will comfortably retain their title. But it would be appropriate to mention that after the opening day's effort on the field, North are very much in the driver's seat and their opponents now have the onus to play flawless stuff henceforth to entertain any hopes of victory.
Having said that, it is also imperative to say that West had things under control early on. It is just that they couldn't tighten their stranglehold.
Put into bat by North skipper Mithun Manhas, West began well and reached 130/2 at lunch (@ more than four runs per over).
Wasim Jaffer [Images], back after a disastrous tour of Australia, looked in good touch during his short-but-sweet innings -- his 32-ball 23 including as many as five sweetly timed hits to the fence -- before he nicked a VRV Singh delivery into the gloves of Uday Kaul.
In came the in-form Ajinkya Rahane and his second wicket partnership with a very patient Sahil Kukreja (28 off 92 balls) was worth 86 runs. Amit Mishra cleaned up Kukreja just before lunch but West still had the upper hand in the first session.
However, any hopes of West building on their initial advantage suffered in the second over after lunch when VRV grabbed two wickets in successive balls to the wrest the initiative for North.
He first induced an outside edge from West skipper Parthiv Patel (1) and then yorked the immensely talented Cheteshwar Pujara off the very next ball.
Rakesh Solanki put on 31 for the fifth wicket with Rahane, and another 47 for the sixth with Yusuf Pathan, but the damage had already been done. West were reduced to 233 for six at tea.
And it took North exactly 50 balls in the post-tea session to wrap the West tail. Rahane was the highest scorer with an impressive 91, off just 112 balls; his knock comprised as many as 18 boundaries.
Significantly, it was the aggression in his batting that had North on the backfoot till he was in the crease. However, when Vikramjeet Malik trapped him in front, he missed out on yet another century and was palpably disappointed.
"Obviously, I'm disappointed. This is the third time this season that I've got out in the 90s," said Rahane, admitting that he might have been nervous.
"You can call it nervousness but we had a lost a couple of quick wickets after lunch and it was important to keep the runs going."
The rest of the West Zone batting perished, mainly due to some careless shots and accurate bowling.
Solanki (38, six fours), Pathan (27, four fours), Rakesh Dhruv (20 not out, four fours) and even Ashraf Makda (14, three fours), all hit a plethora of boundaries but failed where it mattered most -- preserving their wickets.
And that is where North succeeded. VRV finished with impressive figures of 5 for 91 and was ably supported by Mishra (3 for 57).
Aakash Chopra (35 not out) and Shikar Dhawan (35 not out) negotiated 16 overs and put on 53 before play was called off. However, by then North had learnt something which West had failed to: scoring runs at a good pace while also having wickets in hand.
West Zone (1st innings):
Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-122, 3-139, 4-139, 5-170, 6-217, 7-238, 8-247, 9-270.
Bowling: VRV Singh 20-4-91-5, VS Malik 13-3-32-1, AK Thakur 12-1-39-0, A Bhatia 6-1-34-0, A Mishra 17.2-5-57-3.
North Zone (1st innings):
Bowling: S K Trivedi 7-3-8-0, A M Makada 4-2-14-0, Y K Pathan 4-0-22-0, R V Dhurv 1-0-9-0.
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WAKE UP with BroadwayWorld - Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - OF MICE AND MEN Opens on Broadway!
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? For your most important theatre meal of the day, we've rounded up the big news you missed yesterday, what's on the agenda today, and a few extras to start your day off right.
The Bacon: See what's on the griddle today...
- OF MICE AND MEN, starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd in their Broadway debuts, opens tonight. Be sure to check back tonight for our live Review Roundup!
Cup of Joe: Perk up and revisit yesterday's big stories...
- SOUL TRAIN is headed to Broadway!
- Kristin Chenoweth revealed she will be returning to the Great White Way, just not in what show...
- Barrett Foa will take the lead in off-Broadway's BUYER & CELLAR this May!
- We got a first look at highlights from Broadway's OF MICE AND MEN (here) and ACT ONE (here)!
- We also got a first listen to the original Broadway cast recording of ROCKY, which will be released on May 27! Hear a preview of five of the tracks here.
- Also in recordings news, Billy Porter released his new solo album, and THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY cast recording is now available!
- On the casting front, Kathleen Chalfant, Teal Wicks and more will appear in THE LIGHTNING THIEF benefit concert next week, and CHASING THE SONG announced its full cast at La Jolla Playhouse!
- Across the pond, ttage and screen legend Angela Lansbury officially became a dame at Windsor Castle.
- Off-Broadway, GREED set its closing date for this Saturday at New World Stages, and THE LIBRARY opened at the Public Theater - read our Review Roundup here!
Broadway Weather Forecast: Happy Hump Day! Sunny with a high of 50 degrees.
Quote of the Day: On the elusive power of the theatre...
"I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about."
-- Tony Kushner (via BrainyQuote)
What we're reading: A new book outlining the career of composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz -- titled THE MUSICAL THEATER OF STEPHEN SCHWARTZ -- hits the shelves today. We're curious to see how thorough and engaging it is!
Video of the Day: In honor of OF MICE AND MEN's opening tonight, watch a fun clip from an episode of Looney Tunes' Bugs Bunny called "The Abominable Snow Rabbit", which first aired in 1961.
And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Ellen Barkin, who hits 60, and Jon Cryer, who turns 49 today!
Barkin made a Tony-winning turn on Broadway in 2011's THE NORMAL HEART, as well as Dustin Lance Black's '8' that same year. She has appeared off-Broadway in Eden Court, Fool for Love, Extremities, Killings on the Last Line and Shout Across the River. She was last seen on TV opposite Andrew Rannells in NBC's THE NEW NORMAL. Cryer has appeared on Broadway in ANN, BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and the TORCH SONG TRILOGY. He is well known for his portrayal of 'Alan Harper' in the TV series TWO AND A HALF MEN.
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Architecture as Muse and Crucible, Reshaping the World of Art
By ALAN RIDING
Published: October 23, 2004
The lionizing of architecture continues. With a sprawling architecture biennial under way in Venice, this historic port city pays tribute to the profession in an enormous exhibition called ''Arts and Architecture.'' Its expressed purpose is to demonstrate the fusion of architecture with painting, sculpture, photography and literature. In practice, here at least, architecture wags the dog.
Surprisingly perhaps, the man behind this show, which runs at the Palazzo Ducale through Feb. 13, is not an architect, but Germano Celant, senior curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Fusion is one of his interests. And after organizing shows linking art and furniture and art and fashion, it intrigued him to explore, and try to pin down, what is, after all, a centuries-old relationship.
He had another motivation. A native of Genoa, Mr. Celant, 64, was invited to create something splashy to coincide with this city's year as European Cultural Capital, a title it is sharing with Lille, France, and which rotates annually. And splashy this is. Outside the Palazzo Ducale, the show's theme is echoed in 50 billboards, while a dozen public spaces display installations by artists and architects, including Anselm Kiefer, Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano.
It is in the palace, though, that Mr. Celant's premise -- that architecture is present in all the arts, and vice versa -- is tested on a vast, almost back-breaking scale. The building's vaulted cellar covers from 1900 to 1960. Its second floor takes the story to this day. Together, they exhibit hundreds of paintings, drawings, sculptures, models, photographs and film clips. And for visitors still not convinced, there is a two-volume catalog comprising 800 pages of images and text.
A case could be made for prefacing the show with a section covering the Renaissance and Baroque eras as a reminder that the art-architecture dialogue did not begin in 1900. Nonetheless, it was in the early 20th century that artists and architects awoke simultaneously to the modernity exploding around them, notably American-style cities, the power of machines, the novelty of speed and the notion of function. The new shapes reshaped their worlds.
The show's opening work, Fernand L?r's ''Constructeurs,'' a colorful post-Cubist portrayal of workers building a skyscraper, in fact dates to 1950, but it echoes L?r's long interest in cities. Already in 1919 he painted ''The City.'' And when he finally visited an American city in 1931, he was overwhelmed by the gaudy colors and geometric forms he discovered. In essence, though, he was interpreting rather than dabbling in architecture.
Earlier artists were more daring. From 1909, Italian Futurism began looking to apply new technology to art and architecture. And in this spirit, its proponents designed high-rises, railroad stations and entire cities of the future. Fortunato Depero and Giacomo Balla even drew up a document called ''The Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe.'' The Futurists realized few buildings, but as artists addressing architecture they blurred the line separating the disciplines.
The Russian avant-garde, which also flourished in the 1910's and 1920's, believed the sole purpose of art and architecture was to transform society. And after 1917, this seemed possible -- briefly. Kasimir Malevich, the movement's central figure, founded Suprematism -- ''supreme'' in the sense of total nonobjective representation. From his two-dimensional square was born the cube; and the cube became the building block for his architectural experiments.
Suprematism was followed by Constructivism, also idealistic, but more intent on engaging with fast-changing Russian society. Abstract geometric forms -- El Lissitzky is particularly well represented in this show -- gave way to purportedly functional architectural designs. Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International, a 1,300-foot-high twin steel spiral, albeit never more than a model, came to symbolize the political dreams of the new architecture.
In 1932 Stalin silenced independent artists and decreed the new dogma of Socialist Realism, but by then, Constructivism's influence had spread beyond Russia. The Dutch De Stijl movement, with Mondrian as its most emblematic figure, explored the colored square in both art and architecture. The Bauhaus school of art and architecture in Germany went further, translating theory into practice by blending painting, sculpture, photography, handicraft and architecture.
The Bauhaus alone could probably sustain the premise of this show. While it closed under Nazi pressure in 1933, its legacy can be measured not only by the quality of its teachers, who included the artists Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky and the architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but also by its impact on Western design. The Bauhaus, though, was not alone: elsewhere, the theories of art were becoming the practice of architecture.
Le Corbusier, the Swiss-born architect, made the journey on his own. While starting and ending his career as a painter, he brought immense artistry to architecture. Alvar Aalto of Finland took early inspiration from L?r, Brancusi and Calder. And in the United States, Frank Lloyd Wright added beauty to the functionalism of modern American architecture. Like Gropius and van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Aalto and Wright did some of their best work after the war.


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by Bruce Lansky
I rarely listen to rap music, if I can help it. I can't understand
the words and the bad rhymes and fractured rhythms hurt my ears.
So, I was taken aback when a teacher who works at a reservation
school in northern Minnesota told me this story: She had one of
those disruptive students who is every teacher's worst nightmare.
She tried everything to motivate him to "get with the program,"
but nothing worked-until she handed him a copy of No
More Homework! No More Tests! It was the only book he
would read. His favorite poem was "School Daze Rap" by Carol Diggory
Shields. Apparently, he read it over and over. The teacher asked
me if I'd write some raps to motivate other hard-to-reach students.
I told her I'd think about it.
To help me think about it, I bought a rap CD containing several different "artists." While driving, I wrote down the rhythm to each rap. What surprised me was how many of them were variations on this pattern:
Da DUM da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM (or DUM da)
Da Dum da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM. (or DUM da)
Here's another way you can say the rhythm:
a ONE and a TWO and a THREE and a FOUR,
a ONE and a TWO and a THREE and a FOUR.
This latter method is how Lawrence Welk and other conductors count. Notice that you can tap your feet four times while you say it.
Rapping out a couplet of "da DUMs" reminded me of lyrics from an old song they used to play on the radio when I was a kid. (I can't recall the title):
"The boys in the jungle had me on the run.
When something heavy hit me like an atomic gun." (whatever that is)
That's when I realized, "Hey, I've already written a rap." I
just didn't realize it at the time. In fact, the poem is going
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and Other Deep Thoughts. Here's how my
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All You Can Eat
I went to a place that serves all-you-can-eat.
And now my new shoes do not fit on my feet.
My hat's much too small now to fit on my head.
My feet are too long now to fit on my bed.
So if you should go to the very same place,
Take my advice, please, and don't stuff your face.
© 2000 by Bruce Lansky, reprinted from If
Pigs Could Fly with permission of Meadowbrook Press.
As a first step toward getting your students to write a rap, I suggest that you have them recite "All You Can Eat" rap style.
Then have your students recite the "da DUM" rap rhythm above, so they can hear it loud and clear. Here are a few more couplets that more or less fit the rhythm:
I handed in a poem and my teacher said.
"You've got a lot of strange ideas in your head."
I went around the corner to the grocery store.
The crabby owner told me, "Don't you come here no more."
I went to see the doctor and the doctor told me,
when you stand on the scale I don't want you to hold me.
Notice that I'm a bit more flexible than usual with the rhythm. This is because rappers take a great deal of liberty with rhythm patterns. I suggest that instead of counting syllables, you tap your foot four times as you say each line. If a student can recite each line in the time you tap your feet four times, then the rhythm is probably OK.
Have fun!
Bruce Lansky
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Madonna and Family Hit the Red Carpet
Well, minus the new one. So are the rumors of trouble in Madonna's clan just idle gossip, or are the Ritchie's just putting on a good front? Regardless, Guy, Lourdes and Rocco joined Madonna for the UK premiere of "Arthur And The Invisibles."
But little David Banda, whose adoption from Malawi caused controversy after Madonna was accused of using her international stature to speed up the process, stayed at home "sleeping".
By bringing her film-maker husband on her arm to the UK premiere of Arthur And The Invisibles, the Material Girl scotched rumours of a marriage crisis.
She said: "It was great fun. I got to voice the character while sitting there in my tracksuit." Asked what attracted her most to the character, pop's most powerful woman answered: "I like how tough she is and that she knows how to use a sword."
She said of the film: "I like the fact that the good guys win in the end."
Asked how 15-month-old David was, she replied: "He's wonderful thank you. He's sleeping."
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Daniel Doane
b.abt 1636 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
d.20 Dec 1712 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
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m. abt 1620
m. 1666
Facts and Events
He moved to Eastham with his parents in 1645, was a legal voter in or before 1675, and served that year in King Philip's War (in 1733 his claim was recognized by a grant in Narragansett Township #7, now Gorham Maine). He was a prominent man in the affairs of state and church. He served on a coroner's jury (1667/8) and on other juries thereafter; was surveyor of highways (1667, 1672,/3, 1699, 1700, and 1704); Selectman (1687-91 & probably 1691-6); and Town clerk (1676-1692).
He was the first physician in Eastham and was also a large land owner. He was Deacon of the First Church of Eastham. His friend and neighbor George Crispe requested in his will that "Goodman Daniell Done be healpful to my wife" as overseer - so Daniel married her.
Daniel's will was dated 18 Sep 1711, proved 9 Oct 1712.
Will of Dea. Daniel Doane proved Oct 9, 1712, is found at p. 27 of Doane book. Inventory of Daniel Doane The Doane Family, Vo. II,Daniel Doane's marriages are not recorded in Eastham records. His 1st wife is believed by some genealogists to have been Constance Snow, dau. of Nicholas and Constance Hopkins Snow, but no documentary evidence has been found. The assumption has been based upon the names of two of his children: Constant, a son, and Constance, a daughter. The Society of Mayflower descendants has not accepted this assumption. Geneological Helper Vol 12, p. 169, Dec 1958 gives without the source the birthdate of Constance Snow as 1648.
TORREY p. 223 b., d. and m1 to _______; m2 Hepizbah (COLE) CRISP aft 16
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When natural aging occurs, among other things, the eye lens becomes less elastic, making it difficult for the lens to accommodate to different distances. Older people tend to hold reading material at arm length, for example, due to presbyopia.
The Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH), together with the Laserforum in Cologne and the Eye Clinic in Bonn (all in Germany) have carried out first studies to find a way to increase the flexibility of the eye lens.
Investigations from the last few years at the LZH have shown that a laser can be used to cut fine grooves in the eye lens. The grooves form gliding planes in the tissue of the lens and can restore elasticity. A special kind of laser, the femtosecond laser (fs- laser), is used for cutting. It is not only extremely precise, but also able to cut very fine grooves. Since size and position of the lenses differ from patient to patient, controlling and monitoring is important. This is done via optical coherence tomography (OCT).
More than 200 pig eyes and over 40 human autopsy lenses were successfully treated in vitro using laser technology. Cut configuration and the laser parameters were optimized to retain the biomechanics of the lens. Furthermore, some animal lenses were also treated in vivo.
Investigations have shown that light reflexes due to the cutting pattern appear immediately after treatment, but later disappear. Other investigations on long-term complications, especially concerning cataracts and clouding of the lens, have not been completed yet, but are positive in tendency.
The fibers of human eye lenses are in principal similar in size and structure to the animal lenses which were treated. However, whether it is possible to use fs-laser technology for treating presbyopia without causing clouding of the lens is still subject to further testing.
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Lincoln County joins 51st state effort; others counties considering it
September 3, 2013
Lincoln County commissioners on Friday joined nine other northeastern Colorado counties in placing the 51st state initiative on this November's election ballot.
Lincoln commissioners originally dropped the initiative earlier this year when those interested in the secession plan met in Akron , but Lincoln County Commission Chairman Ted Lyons said several dozen people representing all areas of the county turned out Friday to plead with commissioners to place the initiative on the ballot.
"We don't have a problem putting it on the ballot and giving the opportunity to vote for it one way or the other," Lyons said.
He said more than anything it's an opportunity to express discontent over what all of those involved in the 51st state initiative say is an urban attack on rural industries and lifestyles.
Lincoln Commissioner Greg King said he is not in favor of the 51st state, but he agrees rural needs and protests are falling on deaf ears at the state capitol. King said he prefers the Phillips County proposal, which aims to change representation in the state Legislature so that rural representatives can carry more weight with their votes.
Commissioner Doug Stone echoed some of Lyons' comments.
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"I'm not very convinced we are ready to jump on the bandwagon right now, but we are putting it on the ballot to see how other people feel in Lincoln County."
Elbert County commissioners on Wednesday joined the 51st state movement, meaning the effort is up to 11 counties total in Colorado that have placed the secession measure on their ballots, including Moffat County, which is in the northwestern corner of the state.
According to the Sky-Hi Daily News, Grand County commissioners will consider secession ballot language on Tuesday. Grand County sits on the western side of Boulder County.
Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway said on Friday he has also heard rumblings that Mesa, Las Animas and Huerfano counties are considering a vote for 51st state ballot language next week.
"We're going to end up with far more counties than we ever thought we would have," Conway said.
Mesa County sits on Colorado's western border and is not contiguous with Moffat County. Las Animas sits on Colorado's southern border near the east corner, and Huerfano County borders it to the northwest.
Commissioners have until Sept. 6 to send ballot measures to their county clerks.
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Findings are published in special issue of IOVS
Aging gracefully may not be an option for the 40 million people worldwide who are blind or have significant visual impairment. It's reported that 65% of those with visual impairment and 82% of those who are blind are over 50 years of age. In a special issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS), ophthalmic leaders from around the world address "the aging eye" to focus attention on unmet needs and accelerate the translation of research findings into effective clinical care.
"With an aging world population and startling increases in the prevalence of diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, we feel that this issue is both important and timely, with chapters highlighting problems in and possible solutions to age-related diseases that affect all the major tissues of the eye," said Gerald Chader, PhD, FARVO, chief scientific officer at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California and medical director of the Ocular Research Symposia Foundation (ORSF).
Based on an ORSF-sponsored workshop held June 14 – 16, 2013, the IOVS issue features new research on the genetics, biology, biochemistry, neurochemistry and the impact of nutrition and the environment on function in the older eye. Articles specifically address the economics of vision loss and the prevention and treatment of individual eye conditions.
These include cataract, estimated to affect almost 22 million above the age of 40, and age-related macular degeneration, deemed the leading cause of blindness in people age 60 and older in the U.S.
According to the report, by 2015, over 10 million Americans will be blind or have significant visual impairment — with a staggering impact on the cost of healthcare for both individuals and society. Direct medical costs of retinal disorders in 2013 were approximately 8.7 billion; for treatable disorders such as cataract and refractive errors, the annual costs in the U.S. are 10.7 and $16.1 billion, respectively.
Chader stresses the special issue will help identify "low-hanging fruit" research opportunities and spur funding at basic research and clinical levels, ultimately resulting in sight-saving and sight-restoration measure. "ORSF hopes to illuminate the way to the best, practicable and most cost-efficient means of combating blinding eye diseases," he says.
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4 weeks ago I underwent breast augmentation surgery. I was an a cup & gained 360cc low profile tear drop implants. A week post op I began to experience pain in the right breast & 10 days postop clear fluid began leaking from the scar. Although my PS stitched the scar & I began hard antibiotics, the scar split completely open. I had to have both implants removed in an emergency surgery. I want to know if what I'm left with will "fluff" as my current breasts are 100x worse than before the surgery!
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Regaining Breast Shape after Removal of Breast Implants?
I'm sorry to hear about the complications you have experienced after breast augmentation surgery. Unfortunately, it will take several months ( and even up to one year) for your breasts to "regain" their starting shape. Based on your "starting point" ( preop picture), I think that it is very likely that you will end up with a pretty shape once the breast skin/tissues have "bounced back".
If you do decide to have your breasts re augmented, timing for this operation will be very important. This timing is a judgment call best made by you and your surgeon based on the "aggressiveness" of the infection that you experienced as well as how you are doing clinically.
Best wishes; hopefully you will be pleased with the long-term aesthetic appearance of your breasts ( whether you decide to proceed with further surgery or not).
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4 Weeks after Breast Augmentation and Removal - Will Breast Shape Return?
The breast shape should return to a similar state as that of the preoperative breast shape if the implants were only in for 4 weeks. This may take several months. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
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In this case scenario, your breasts most likely will shrink down to what they were like before surgery. It may take a few weeks.
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I am sorry to read about the problems you have had.
Although the photos are not comparable due to differences in clothing, arm position, and the presence of dressings, they don't appear that much different to me. They might be quite different, but it is hard to tell from these photos.
Allow three months after the removal before assessing breast shape. Given how they appear now, I would suspect that they will will much like they did before surgery. Do follow up with your surgeon. Thanks for sharing your story and photos. All the best.
Breast implant infection
After breast implant infection and removal of the implants, you need to wait 6-12 months to see the final results. Scars take one year to settle and mature.
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It's all too often that we oogle the bodies of celeb women as they frolic in the surf in their bikinis. (See recent images of Miranda Kerr for details.) Well, ladies, now it's your turn.
Feast your eyes on the wonderful Hugh Jackman.
At one point the actor looked like he was busy getting in to character, oozing The Wolverine's moody expression in shades and black board shorts
The star was snapped on holiday with his family in Barcelona, Spain as he takes some time to relax from his busy schedule. Hugh has just finished filming Les Misérables and will soon begin on the next X-Men instalment.
We're considering changing his name to Huge Jackman, just get a load of those pectoral muscles
The A-lister spent the day in the sun playing in the waves with his two children Oscar, 12, and Eva, six, who looked like they were thoroughly enjoying themselves.
It's not the only time we've caught a glimpse of the doting dad enjoying some quality time with his family of late. Only recently Hugh was seen playing American football with Oscar in New York.
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Sox near deal for D-Backs' Vazquez
The trade is contingent upon players passing physicals and the approval of the Commissioner since Arizona is including cash in the deal.
Arizona acquired Vazquez last January in a trade that sent Randy Johnson to the Yankees, and the veteran exercised his contractual right to demand a trade last month after going 11-15 with a 4.42 ERA in 33 starts in 2005.
Diamondbacks general manager Josh Byrnes, who has worked tirelessly for the past month exploring the market for Vazquez, declined to confirm or deny the trade when reached on Tuesday night.
"We are looking to get better, and we don't want to put ourselves in a position where our first priority is compromised and that's pitching," White Sox GM Kenny Williams told reporters on Tuesday, before word of the deal leaked. "We are not trying to break up anything. We are looking to add to the equation, fortify it, and not anything else.
"I see no reason to change the approach we have had from Day 1. It's the only way I know how to do business, by continuing to be as aggressive as possible. We are aggressive with a little more caution this year, not because we won last year, but we are cognizant of the makeup for the club."
The deal sets up the White Sox to have one of the best rotations in baseball with Mark Buehrle, Freddy Garcia, Vazquez, Jon Garland and Jose Contreras.
The Diamondbacks' initial reluctance to pick up any part of the money owed Vazquez was believed to be a deal breaker for some teams, but they have reportedly softened on that stance with the White Sox. The Diamondbacks received $9 million from the Yankees to help offset Vazquez's contract when they acquired him last year. Vazquez is set to earn $11.5 million in 2006 and $12.5 million in 2007.
Since he demanded a trade, he gave up the right to be a free agent after his contract expires, so Chicago would be able to offer him arbitration for the third year.
Last year with Double-A Birmingham, the 22-year-old Young hit .277 with 41 doubles, 26 homers and 32 stolen bases in 38 attempts. The year before for Class A Kannapolis, he had 24 homers and 31 steals.
Baseball America, which ranked Young as Chicago's sixth-best prospect before his outstanding 2005 season wrote, "Designated as the best athlete and quickest base runner in the organization, Young is blessed with tremendous speed and is blossoming into a power hitter as well."
Hernandez was 9-9 with a 5.12 ERA for the White Sox last season and probably made his biggest contribution to the World Series champions in Game 3 of the American League Division Series against the Red Sox.
Hernandez entered the game in the sixth inning with the bases loaded, no outs and the White Sox clinging to a one-run lead. The right-hander got Jason Varitek and Tony Graffanino to pop out before fanning Johnny Damon to end the frame and the White Sox went on to win the game and sweep the series.
Hernandez, whose age has been reported to be anywhere between 36 to 40, defected from Cuba in December of 1997 and pitched for the Yankees from 1998 through 2004 before signing a two-year contract with the White Sox last year.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Crown Castle International Inc.'s $4.85 billion purchase of rights to 9,700 communications towers from AT&T Inc. will remove one of the prime asset portfolios from the wireless infrastructure market.
It may also lead to an increased focus in overseas dealmaking for tower companies, and could provide an incremental boost for AT&T's pursuit of international assets.
Crown Castle CEO Benjamin Moreland said that the U.S. presents "the most compelling risk-adjusted returns" in the tower market, during a Monday, Oct. 21, investor call. Purchasing AT&T's towers will boost Crown Castle's holdings in the top 100 markets as telecoms increase spending on 4G wireless network deployments.
Houston-based Crown Castle is buying the rights to 9,700 towers for 28 years. When the term of the agreement expires, the company will have the option to buy them outright for $4.2 billion. The sale will diminish the pipeline of domestic tower assets.
Chicago carrier U.S. Cellular Corp., which has sold spectrum and other assets in recent years, owns 4,400 towers. However, Crown Castle, American Tower Corp. and SBA Corp. may have to look elsewhere to expand their holdings.
Wells Fargo Securities LLC analyst Jennifer Fritzsche described the AT&T towers as "likely the last U.S. carrier deal of significant size to be done in the U.S. for quite some time," in a Monday note. Crown Castle said Monday it will offer 36 million shares of common stock and 7.5 million shares of series A preferred stock to fund the acquisition.
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The 19th Annual Author's Brunch will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Augusta Public Library, 1609 State. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the library. The price includes a delicious breakfast catered by Jayleen Catering.
Judith McCoy Miller will be the guest author. Although born and reared in a small suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa., Judy moved to Kansas at the age of 17 and has considered the Sunflower State 'home' ever since. She currently lives in Topeka. She enjoys reading, traveling, researching history, and Bible study.
Writing Christian fiction is Judy's second career. For many years she worked as a legal assistant in law firms and later worked in government law offices. She has retired from legal work in order to write fulltime —a vocation she considers both a ministry and a blessing.
Judy has authored or co-authored more than 25 books since she began writing in 1996. She is an award-winning author whose avid research and love for history are reflected in her novels, several of which have placed in the CBA and ECPA top ten lists. It is her deep desire to point readers to the love and grace of Jesus.
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The DEA GLOBAL 7.10.7 CMM with serial number 1,000 was delivered from Turin, Italy to Hirschvogel Umformtechnik GmbH in Denklingen, Germany. The company uses the CMM to measure un-machined and pre-finished parts for the automotive industry such as injection systems or parts for drives and gear units. The order was finalized by a visit of employees from Hirschvogel Umformtechnik GmbH to the Hexagon Metrology factory in Turin at the end of July where DEA measuring machines are being developed and produced.
Hirschvogel Umformtechnik GmbH has relied on DEA GLOBAL CMMs already for a long time: "For more than 20 years we have been working with Coordinate Measuring Machines of the DEA brand", says Dieter Wahl, Manager QM-Technology at Hirschvogel. "In total more than ten DEA GLOBALs are used in our factory in Denklingen. With the CMMs we measure parts parallel to production in air-conditioned measuring rooms. In addition we are also using many other machines from Hexagon Metrology."
Currently, Hirschvogel is also changing from older software versions to QUINDOS 7. The new version of this measuring software supports the measuring strategy of the company: "At our factory the employees from production measure the parts. This means that we have to create easy-to-understand measuring programs. As an example with the new software we are able to embed videos in the program. Thus, we are able to visualize the measuring process even better", explains Wahl.
Hexagon Metrology not only pushes forward its software development. In the meantime also the DEA GLOBAL range of CMMs has been advanced. Since July 2011 the new DEA GLOBAL Silver models are available which offer improved scanning performance and other advantages.
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The Hirschvogel Automotive Group (hirschvogel.com) is among the most successful manufacturers of forged steel and aluminum parts. More than 3,000 employees world-wide produce forged parts and components for the automotive industry and its system suppliers. The consolidated yearly turnover in 2010 was around EUR 600 million at a yield of 225,000 tons of forged parts. Hirschvogel Holding GmbH is the parent company of the eight automotive supply companies of the Hirschvogel Automotive Group. The home plant, Hirschvogel Umformtechnik GmbH in Denklingen, Bavaria, has around 1,700 employees and produces approximately 180,000 tons of hot and cold forged steel parts a year.
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Since 1963, DEA has been one of the worlds premier brands in Coordinate Measuring Machine technology. The main facilities are located in the Torino area (Italy), where highly skilled teams of mechanical, electronic and software engineers are committed to the continuous development of state-of-the-art solutions for dimensional quality inspection. DEA products are used by virtually every industry in every geographical market throughout the world.
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Hexagon Metrology (hexagonmetrology.com) is part of the Hexagon AB Group and includes leading metrology brands such as Brown & Sharpe, Cognitens, DEA, Leica Geosystems (Metrology Division), Leitz, m&h Inprocess Messtechnik, Optiv, PC-DMIS, QUINDOS, ROMER and TESA. Hexagon Metrology brands represent an unrivaled global installed base of millions of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs), portable measuring systems and handheld instruments, and tens of thousands of metrology software licenses. Hexagon Metrology empowers its customers to fully control manufacturing processes that rely on dimensional precision, ensuring that products manufactured precisely conform to the original product design. The company offering of machines, systems and software is complemented by a wide range of product support, aftermarket and value-added services.
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This recipe is a good one for those who find joy in chocolate: Deep Dark Brownies
A combination of espresso powder, cocoa powder & melted chocolate within the brownie, plus extra chocolate chips thrown in too just before baking make them extra decadent and worthy of consumption for the above-average chocolate fanatic.
I prefer to bake brownies in a pan lined with parchment paper so that I can literally lift the whole thing out after cooling and remove it to a cutting board. I'm a sucker for making sure I get clean cuts. And as much as people might like the edges, I cut all of those off first. I like the way the brownies look when they have nice, clean sides all the way around. The recipe for these brownies comes from the guys at Baked.
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Pa. Dems link Corbett comments to policies; governor dismisses claims
A week has passed since Gov. Tom Corbett's comment tying Pennsylvania's 7.9 percent unemployment rate to job applicants unable to pass drug tests.
Monday, lawmakers sought to bring the focus back to policies — while the governor insists it's much ado about words.
The Senate's top Democrat says clumsy statements by the governor are significant not because they make easy hay for political opponents, but because of what they reveal about Corbett himself.
Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa says he links the comments to policies the governor has enacted — including last year's 10 percent cut to county-run human services programs, reinstating a means test for food stamp recipients, and enacting business tax cuts.
"When you frame all of those things against what he's given to the corporate community, that's what's offensive, and that's what people see," Costa said. "That's what people are not happy about."
The drug use comment and others show a leader not just given to easily misconstrued statements, but a leader hostile to some of the programs on which Pennsylvanians rely, said Costa, D-Allegheny.
"There's a direct connection to what I call the mindset and the statements, from the statements, directly related to policy issues," he said.
Corbett says reporters are partly to blame if people take umbrage at his comments, which he says are being misconstrued by Democrats.
"I make statements that they take out of context and you guys don't question them on it, when it's out of context," he said to reporters Monday.
The governor's comments did generate several sensational headlines last week.
But Costa says his Democratic caucus is frustrated with the substance — such as the governor's unwillingness to accept a Medicaid expansion.
Just last week, Corbett said he thinks the Affordable Care Act authorizing the expansion may have been designed to fail as part of a conspiracy to pave the way for a single-payer health system supported by Democrats.
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TAURUS: Creating structures around your inspiration is strongly encouraged as Saturn (in your 7th house of partnerships) make nice with Neptune, which is floating around in your 11th house of personal goals, dreams, and alliances. What can you take a step towards that represents an ideal or dream? The Universe suggests the ideals can be made real in October. The New Moon on the 15th is in fellow Venusian-ruled Libra in your 6th house of work, fellow worker bees, health, pets, mind-body connection, and the daily schedule. Fresh energy and solutions are available in the very areas that have tested your mettle over the past few years. The 16th sweetens the pot as Mercury reaches out to Venus in an uplifting manner, enhancing consensus and creative aspiration.
The Sun shifts into his annual position in your 7th house of important others and immediately connects with Neptune on the 23rd. Consider this a time for flowing alliances that will bring money, education, travel, and adventure after Mercury turns direct in mid-December. You are laying important groundwork now. Mercury is slowing down and in his shadow period before his retrograde station on November 6th. Be patient in the discussion and agreements with others as the fruit is still ripening on the proverbial vine. On the 25th, Venus sextiles the North Node from your 5th (creativity, love, children) to 7th (partnership, consultants and clients) houses. Pay attention to what is discussed and vetted on this day.
GEMINI: The Libra New Moon on the 15th falls in your 5th house of creative inspiration, love, children, personal labors of love, and self-expression. The restrictions and responsibilities of the past few years of Saturn's transit are now lifted as you feel a growing sense of possibility. Trust your instincts. Your ruler Mercury sextiles Venus on the 16th from your 6th house of work and health to your 2nd house of income and talents. Positive money-making deals may crop up. Mercury also squares Jupiter in your sign and asks you not to take on more than you can handle.
Vesta, the asteroid representing being true to yourself above all else, joins Jupiter and moves into retrograde on the 21st until January. Both Jupiter and Vesta will move direct early next year, suggesting you take the time to ponder important ethical ideals and personal goals. The Sun shifts into Scorpio on the 22nd, your 6th house of work and daily schedule. The Sun moves into conjunction with Saturn in this sign on the 25th and brings important information about the lessons and necessary structuring that needs to evolve during Saturn's 2.5 year transit. Pay attention. Mercury conjuncts the North Node on this day, suggesting that soul growth is upon you as Venus is also in aspect from your 4th house of self and security.
CANCER: The New Moon in your 4th house of home, personal security, and soul commences on the 15th in Libra. Solutions will become more readily available in these areas of your personal life. Saturn's transit enlarged all that felt limiting and restrictive but now fresh solutions and and accompanying positive attitude empower you. Your sun sign is in alignment with Saturn's trine to Neptune from your 5th to 9th houses of creativity, love, children's affairs, adventure, publishing, media, education, and the higher mind. Inspiration is available to you in ways that are sustainable and real.
The Sun slips into fellow water sign Scorpio on the 22nd and joins both Saturn and the North Node. On the 25th the Sun conjuncts Saturn as Mercury conjuncts the North Node. Partnership, money, and your talents are highlighted, along with the power of communication, instinct, and inspiration. Pay attention to your feelings, insights, and what transpires on this day – they are portals to developments that will begin in earnest come mid-December. Mercury is in his shadow phase before he turns retrograde on November 6th in your 5th house of heart, love, creativity, taking risks, and children's affairs. Don't expect quick solutions in these areas now as there is wisdom in allowing for time in your internal ponderings and processes.
LEO: The Sun continues his transit through compatible Libra and is highlighted on the New Moon on the 15th in your 3rd house of siblings, contracts, cars, writing, teaching, education, and communication. Where there has been restriction this New Moon highlights new pathways and openings. Saturn trines Neptune from your 4th house of home, family, and personal security to your 8th house of finance, trust, intimacy, savings, retirement, commissions, and investments. What was formerly unclear can take shape with practical planning and a step-by-step commitment to making the ideal real.
On the 22nd the Sun ingresses into your 4th house of home, housing, family, where you live, how you live, and your sense of feeling safe in this world. Lots of activity, limitations, responsibility, and maturation is evident as Saturn transits this area of life for the next 2.5 years. On the 25th the Sun conjuncts Saturn and suggests a work, health, and schedule matter is tied up with home planning and developments. Also on this day, Mercury conjuncts the North Node of soul growth, magnifying future possibilities with home, earnings, the past, fears, spiritual pursuits, organizations and non-profits. Pay attention on this day—you may receive pearls of wisdom. Mercury is in his shadow period (slowing down) in preparation for his retrograde on November 6th. What is shared this month may take some time to gel but will develop further in mid-December. This is not a good time for housing sales, real estate matters, and life-altering personal decisions. Exercise patience.
VIRGO: Saturn trines Neptune throughout the month from your 3rd to 7th house. This signals an especially fluid time for agreements and contracts within personal and professional partnerships. Speaking, writing, and educational activities seek to be made real through practical structures that encompass your highest aspirations and compassionate nature within working partnership. The New Moon in Libra on the 15th commences in your 2nd house of talents, earnings, stuff that you own, self-esteem and provides a real sense of development and possibility. Mercury sextiles Venus on the 16th and enhancing positive developments and discussions. It is time to share and communicate powerfully.
Career developments have occurred since June, broadening the spectrum of growth, knowledge, and possibility. Vesta, the minor planet representing what is sacred and worth tending to, turns retrograde on the 21st until January, joining Jupiter's retrograde movement and encouraging self-council regarding your life direction and career. The Sun ingresses into your 3rd house of communications, siblings, neighbors, writing, speaking, and local travel on the 22nd. He then moves into conjunction with Saturn on the 25th, heralding a day to pay attention to agreements and discussions as Mercury is also conjunct the North Node on that day. Pay attention to what you say, hear, and feel on that day —it is a potent time for symbols of future development and responsibility. Your ruling planet is also in his shadow phase in preparation for his retrograde motion on November 6th. This is a time for patience. Agreements, educational activities, and sibling situations will take until mid-December to begin to be fully implemented.
LIBRA: The New Moon in your sign is the harbinger of a personal sense of lightness now that Saturn has moved into neighboring Scorpio. The 15th brings fresh energy into your experience of self, how you feel, how others respond to you, and the potent possibilities that will unfold over the next few months. Saturn trines Neptune from your 2nd house of earnings, self-esteem, and talents to the areas of daily work, schedules, health, and mind-body connectedness. Neptune suggests the ideal is in the everyday as the planet connects to structure-oriented Saturn in your house of applying one's talents and expertise. Something ideal can be made real as the months unfold.
Going deeper, assimilation, and education development is suggested as Vesta turns retrograde (joining Jupiter) in your 9th house of the higher mind, travel, education, media, publishing, and legalities. Vesta represents ideals and that which is important to you on a personal level. Handle what is on your plate and complete projects, knowing that further developments will unfold in 2013. The Sun will ingress out of your sign and into your 2nd house of earnings and abilities on the 22nd. He joins Saturn in conjunction on the 25th, highlighting responsibilities (possibly real estate or family oriented). Venus sextiles the Mercury-North Node conjunction on the 25th, suggesting positive agreements, contracts, and discussions in the world of resources and earnings. Pay attention to this day as it portends future growth and developments. Mercury is in his shadow phase as he prepares to move retrograde on November 6th. It is prudent to be patient and financially conservative through mid-December.
SCORPIO: Saturn trines Neptune from your 1st house of identity, health, personal goals, and personal image to your 5th house of creativity, love, authentic self-expression, and children's affairs. What creative dreams and ideals are possible now? What structures can you build around your labors of love, your child's development, or love life that supports you in sustainable and practical ways? Take steps towards making the ideal real. The New Moon on the 15th in your 12th house of creativity, spiritual essence, subconscious mind, dream life, healing, and seclusion kicks off a period of working with instincts, organizations, non-profits, and those in need of your time and healing nature. Allow time for additional rest.
The Sun shifts into your sign on the 22nd, kicking off your new solar year. Happy Birthday! On the following day, the Sun trines Neptune. The 25th is an important day for personal discussions, writing, speaking, contracts, short trips, and educational pursuits as the Sun conjuncts Saturn in your sign. Mercury also conjuncts the North Node (also in your sign), highlighting growth opportunities within groups, personal aspirations, shared resources, and your personal development. Venus sextiles this conjunction from your 11th house of personal dreams, friendships, technology, and earning potential. Whispers of developments that will begin to unfold in mid-December may be apparent on this day. Mercury is in his shadow phase preparing for his retrograde on November 6th. Have patience as you review your desires and areas for development.
SAGITTARIUS: Mars, the planet of ego, will, and desire transits your sign, suggesting that being aware of your motives is helpful now. This is an energy that can mow over anyone or anything in its path, so prudence is advised! Mars squares up to Chiron on the 14th, suggesting frustration around home or family on this day. Yet the New Moon the 15th in your 11th house of goals, friendships, technology, and personal dreams opens up pathways of flowing energy that may not have been available during Saturn's transit. On the same day Mars contacts Uranus in your 5th house of love, desire, and creativity, providing self-confidence in the ability to actualize a dream or two.
Vesta, the asteroid representing what we hold sacred, turns retrograde in your 7th house of partnership on the 21st (joining Jupiter in its retrograde motion) until January. Going deeper, listening, and assimilating relationship developments promotes growth in your partnerships. The Sun shifts into your 12th house of solitude, spirituality, working with non-profits, and your dream life. This is your down time before the Sun enters your sign next month, so rest and take time for personal reflection. The Sun conjuncts Saturn on the 25th, highlighting issues from your family history and how those imprints have contributed to your current feelings of self-worth and abundance (or lack thereof). Mercury also conjuncts the North Node on this day, suggesting that aligning with another (advisor or counselor) can be helpful in the healing of past and creating prospects for the future.
CAPRICORN: On the 15th the New Moon in your 10th house of Libra portends fresh openings and experience in your public life of career, life direction, and reputation. Where there has been limitation and hard work (compliments of Saturn), there is now a feeling of stronger possibility and freedom of movement. Mars stirs up subconscious sensations as he transits your 12th house of the past, subconscious, and generational family. The 14th especially brings a sensitive point to bear in your thinking and exchanges with others. Sensitivities surface and the opportunity for increased awareness and, hence, healing is possible now. Saturn's trine to Neptune from your 11th to 3rd house encourages taking steps to make dreams a reality, tying together group involvement with eloquence of speech and inspirational internal dialogues.
The Sun shifts out of your 10th house of career and into your 11th house of aspirations, personal goals, friendships, and associations on the 22nd. On the 25th the Sun conjuncts Saturn in your 11th house, magnifying long-term goals and the work required to get there. On the same day Mercury conjuncts the North Node in the 11th house, highlighting future educational, travel, publishing, media, work, health, or legal situations. Pay attention to discussions on that day as your higher mind is processing and drinking in the details. Mercury is in his shadow phase and slowing down in preparation for his retrograde on November 6th, supporting you to take your time forming opinions and agreements with others.
AQUARIUS: Long-distance travel, foreigners, publishing, media, education, and your higher mind receive flowing energy from the New Moon on the 15th in your 9th house of Libra. Where there has been limitation, burdens, and responsibility there is now a feeling of freedom, growth, and development. On the same day, Mars makes a positive aspect to your ruler Uranus, energizing your friendships, personal goals, group participation, and technology with innovative discussions, agreements, contracts, local connections, educational, writing, and speaking pursuits. Saturn trines Neptune from your 10th house of public life and status to your 2nd house of earnings, talents, and self-esteem. It's time to spread some fairy dust over your pragmatic mind and take the required steps to convert professional dreams and personal desire a reality.
The Sun ingresses into your 10th house of career, reputation, and life direction on the 22nd, highlighting four weeks of developments. At the same time, Mercury has entered his shadow period, indicating a slowdown in preparation for his retrograde on November 6th. Take your time with binding agreements or developments—the timing will ripen come mid-December. On the 25th the Sun conjuncts Saturn in your 10th house, suggesting a feeling of limitation, responsibility, and perhaps even disappointments surfacing from past family conditioning. But Mercury contacts the North Node on the same day in the same area of life direction and points out possible developments around your sense of value and reputation.
PISCES: The Sun transits the area of life concerning personal and often hidden things—trust, intimacy, other peoples resources, psychological health, commissions, investments, and inheritances. The New Moon on the 15th in Libra brings fresh energy, developments, and focus concerning all of these possibilities. Where there has been limitation, depression, or negativity you will feel a lightening and a wider path of potential growth and development. Saturn trines Neptune in your sign from the 9th house of the higher mind, education, publishing, media, legalities and travel. This is a time to wish upon a star and to believe that you can make personal goals come true. It requires commitment to your personal beliefs and developing the needed practical structures to make them a reality.
On the 22nd the Sun ingresses into fellow water sign Scorpio, bringing clearer awareness to personal issues and highlighting the areas of publishing, media, legalities, foreigners, education, travel, and the higher mind of awareness and spirit. The following day the Sun reaches out to Neptune in your sign, suggesting a positive development in these areas and in your personal wellbeing. On the 25th, Saturn conjuncts the Sun, suggesting a friend, association, technological situation, or personal goal is the focus in relation to travel, publishing, education, and the media. Mercury also conjuncts the North Node in the 9th house, suggesting that agreements and discussions reveal areas for future development. Mercury is in his shadow phase (a slowing down) and preparing for his retrograde on November 6th. Be patient—further developments will unfold beginning mid-December.
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Not heard it yet but would assume Jezzz got played.
whats this?
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Not heard it yet but would assume Jezzz got played.
whats this?
Quality night ... the venue is gargantuan.
Great sound system ... fantastic 2hrs from Diggers - hoping he airs it on Transitions.
sounds great. Lets hope he plays there again in 2012. Will make the journey up. I enjoyed the WHP.
don't wish your life away, its only april...
Sounds excellent Mr Butcher
it was sir!
john played really amazing music and the night was fantastic. As you know, i love full the full on techno at Fabric 7am, but it simply didn't need to go into that. It was superb, well programmed - as you per usual - and really hypnotic grooves. Thoughtful imo rather than obvious. I find it hard to believe others felt it a little miss. Horse for courses i suppose. TBH, the fact it was rammed all night says it all imo...
Sam - actually it was the extended mix and he played Frisky
I have been spoilt with sasha last weekend and Easter Bedrock with jozif, danny and john putting on a great night. Both nights will have kicked me into playing some music again!
WOW, what a great night.
Jozif is an inspired choice upstairs and continues to play fantastic music. With his production skill he is going to be massive, if not already. He is playing Renaissance this weekend, so i guess its already the case.
Fantastic to hear Danny play. He was superb and really set the mood. What a great dj and a great "special guest". I wouldn't mind that combination again later in the year. Suspect, a few others would say the say
John was on fire. pure and simple. I loved it. Outstanding music and he just gets you into the hypnotic groove; the build seems effortless and you are really sucked in. John looked to be having fun too!
A fantastic Easter Bedrock. Personally, I think that was a special one! Thanks John et al.
Have a great extended weekend people.
Al Williamz wrote:
Max Cooper said he was playing 11-2am, so guessing that James Teej will then do an hour for his live thing, then Sasha will be on at 3.
I'm in, getting ready to throw the kitchen sink at it.
Would James Teej not play after Sasha? Maybe last 1/2 hours? 3 seems a little late for a headliner..
not when it finishes at 7/8am
some nice tracks on there Warren
i don't buy things just because of the artist or the label, that merely a way to filter. For me, it has to be a quality track before i will buy it. Ultimately, if i do not like it i will not buy it.
i pay for all my music so its beatport only. i simply do not have time to trawl through pages of rubbish so have set up links to labels and artists i like. I also look at the beatport dj charts too to see if there is anything on that. I like a lot of artist on FB so that helps to flag things and, of course, soundcloud.
Klankarbeit - Art is hard. Unfortunate name but what a record.
genius id, heard it at bedrock and was humming it all the next day. just got into my brain. thanks a lot!
sounds like a eric prydz monster just for john
cjb001 wrote:
great night Ben. You did Stevo et al proud
he did indeed. thanks Ben as you did CJB
ah, thanks Steve
cjb001 wrote:Pumper&Dumper wrote:
How do you all know what each other looks like off here to meet up. Or do you wear name badges?
because a lot of us that post/used to post more frequently on this forum have been friends for many years. this forum used to be more convivial thats for sure.
Aye, what he said... whoever he is...;) CJ Bolland?
How do you all know what each other looks like off here to meet up. Or do you wear name badges?
because a lot of us that post/used to post more frequently on this forum have been friends for many years. this forum used to be more convivial thats for sure.
Slackers Flying at the end.
That Turmstrasse Dirt Glow remix sounded epic, reminds me of some of the Telrae music.
Great to see you out CJB .. if you change your mind re Sankeys give me a shout
lolol not for me this time. some quality down time this weekend, some beatport and start thinking about a new mix...its been a while. Have fun tonight, am sure it will be another great night!
Didn't meet Kiz bit other spots...
Yooj - mademoiselle
Dominik Eulberg - Kollectiv Turmstasse (Dirt Flow remix)
Marco Bailey and Tom Hades - Stars and Shines
Head Honcho - Walls Of Jericho
Stel - Reaching
Another Slacker tune but cant remember the name.
That tune off Hannu's Finland video. Anthem.
Got to say a lot of great tracks. Only spots i can think of are the new remix of Dope, new remix of 30 North East, Voices (Slacker remix), Singing (Dixon Dub) - love that track, both of Richie's amazing tracks But Her Fly and then Eterna and the ones above. Remix of Martin Landsky's tracks?...name escapes me. Perhaps i heard some Robert Babicz style acid track too in the last 30mins or so too
Fantastic music. You cannot ask for more than that!
great night Ben. You did Stevo et al proud
shining is fantastic!
huge amount that goes into this. appreciate it simon!
Congratulations Richie. Can't wait to get these. Well done!
honestly people...whatever happened to people just going out, forgetting about stressful stuff and having some fun...
fantastic videos john. looks like you had some amazing gigs. not long until bedrock
I use rekordbox and 2000's and on my hard drive i have folders by year. Then when i move music to my sd card i move it to a folder called current. i have virtually 1000 tracks in it (btw, playlists can only have a maximum of 1000 tracks when played via sd/usb on the players).
I do not categorise into anything, so i just need to know the tracks. The beauty of the 2000's is its near instant waveform so you know very quickly if it will go...
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Gov's office says (incorrectly) that they didn't kick anyone out of budget signing
A spokesman for Gov. Rick Scott today told Politic365 today that the governor's office did not order anyone removed from Thursday's budget signing at The Villages, and that the event was meant to be public. Only, that's not true.
First, here's what Scott spokesman Lane Wright said, according to the political website. "Governor Scott did not have these individuals removed. This was a public event. It was brought to our attention that the local authorities had removed some. We don't know first-hand who was removed or why.
"We are only seeing what you're seeing in the news reports," Wright added. "It's disappointing to know that anyone who made the effort to be at such an important event wasn't allowed in."
Here's what actually happened -- the Buzz saw all of it firsthand. Sumter County sheriff's deputies were summoned by Scott staffers wearing suits and black earpieces. They told the deputies that the budget signing was a private event and that a group of Democrats standing or sitting in the last two rows had to leave.
Deputies went to tell the group -- more than a dozen people -- to leave. The deputies said the town square had been leased and that the organizers wanted the group of Democrats to leave. The group of Democrats said it was unfair.
"You all are preaching to the choir," a deputy told them. "I'm doing what I'm told."
The deputies were getting their orders from Russ Abrams, a $60,000 a year special assistant to Scott. Seeing this, the Buzz approached Abrams. He told us the budget signing was "a private event." When asked more questions, Abrams said: "I don't need to talk to the press," and then, "I don't have anything to say."
Abrams and other men wearing black earpieces then attempted to identify other people with anti-Scott intentions. They alerted deputies, who told them they had to leave the town square.
We've asked Wright if he wanted to clarify his comments, and are waiting to hear back.
UPDATE: Wright just told us he wasn't at the event, so he couldn't address what the Buzz saw or heard. He said decisions should have been made by the property owner.


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Even though Judah's first two teeth have finally cut through after three very long weeks of teething, he still likes to chomp down on crackers and teething biscuits. Rather than buying box after box of biscuits, I can whip some up super quick with this ridiculously easy homemade teething biscuit recipe!
Click through to see how you can make your own homemade teething biscuits in under five minutes! (Your baby's gums will thank you.)
Easy Peezy in a Breezy!
Teething woes? Whip up a teething solution in a jiffy with this crazy simple homemade teething biscuit recipe!
Step 1: Trim the crusts
Trimming the crusts makes it easier to roll up; you can throw the crusts in the toaster oven to crisp up to make croutons for salads, or, if your baby likes toast, a quick teething snack, too!
Step 2: Flatten
Using your fingers, flatten the bread as much as you can. Feelin' fancy? Use a rolling pin. (I couldn't find mine… not sure where it wandered off to, so fingers worked just fine!)
Step 3: Add the applesauce
Spread a super thin layer of applesauce on top of the flattened bread slice. That little bit on my butter knife? That's all I used. Just enough to make the bread stick to itself.
Step 3a: Have a little snack and eat the rest of the applesauce cup!
Step 4: Add a pinch of cinnamon
This step is totally optional. Judah goes bananas for anything with cinnamon in it, so I lightly dusted the top of the bread slice.
Step 5: Roll it up
Starting at one edge, roll up the bread as tight as you can, pressing along the way. Having that applesauce layer will help it stick together.
All Rolled Up
Here's what your finished roll should look like. If you're feelin' fancy, trim the ends to make them even – but chances are, baby really isn't going to notice :)
Step 6: Zap it for 60-90 seconds
Depending on your microwave wattage, nuke it in the microwave for 60 to 90 seconds. We have a 700-watt microwave oven, so I needed the full 90 seconds.
The Finished Biscuit
Let your teething biscuit cool for a couple of minutes. It should be hard like a cracker or biscuit, and the cinnamon applesauce gives it a lovely taste for baby to munch on!
Judah was literally hand over fist trying to eat the whole thing when I gave it to him!
If you've got just 5 minutes to spare, try it right now with your little one!


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