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Laura Myers was driving on Interstate 75 with her three sons when a speeding car darted across three lanes of traffic and cut her off. The driver barely looked 16. "I can see her face right now," said Myers. "She was texting the whole time she was doing it." I wish I could call that girl's mother, Myers thought aloud that day.
Well why can't you? her 8-year-old asked.
That was three months ago.
Since then, the Wesley Chapel mom has built a company from scratch. She created a website, ordered bumper stickers and purchased a toll-free number. Janis Labusch, her friend who lives in New Tampa, grew so passionate about the venture that she became a partner.
They launched ICUDrive.com in December.
The company operates similarly to several others around the country. Parents buy bumper stickers and place them on their teenagers' cars. The stickers feature a phone number and encourage other drivers to report any unsafe behavior they observe.
Such companies include GoTellMom.com, SteerStraight.com and HowsMyTeenDriving.net, with services that cost between $39.95 to $120 annually. ICUDrive costs $97.99 a year.
Teens sign contracts to avoid risky driving
Myers and Labusch have heard the statistics. They know that motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for teenagers nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Speeding and distractions, such as texting, are a big part of the problem.
Now, their mission is to prevent the type of unsafe driving that puts teenagers at higher risk for causing an accident, or for dying in one.
Bruce Murakami knows such tragedy firsthand.
His wife and 11-year-old daughter were killed in a 1998 accident caused by a 19-year-old drag racing down Hillsborough Avenue. Murakami is now helping Myers and Labusch promote ICUDrive through his nonprofit organization Safe Teen Driver.
"For me anything that helps to keep our kids safe on the roads, whether it's a simple bumper sticker or electronic technology, I'm a big supporter of it," Murakami said.
ICUDrive teens and parents sign driving contracts, agreeing to avoid risky behaviors behind the wheel. They pick a special word to be printed on their bumper stickers and used as an ID by complainers who file a report via the website or phone. The complaints go to a call center where reports are verified, then shared with the parent or guardian listed on the account.
The company rewards teens who go an entire year without receiving a negative report with a $10 iTunes gift card.
Different from similar companies, ICUDrive makes a donation of $1 per month per membership to a school or nonprofit of the client's choosing. Myers and Labusch hope this will encourage student groups or parent-teacher organizations to use ICUDrive as a fundraiser.
"We want to be writing huge checks," Myers said. "We want to be giving it back to the people."
So far, the partners say, interest has been high, although actual sign ups have not.
Carl Gennaro of Zephyrhills is their only client so far. He signed up sons C.J., 19, and 17-year-old Corey after learning about ICUDrive from Myers' husband, a chiropractor.
His sons are generally safe drivers, Gennaro said, but the service gives him additional peace of mind.
"It's nice to know if they ever do go out and start driving uncharacteristic from what I've seen that there are people out there that will help me know about it," he said.
One idea gets a lot of publicity, few clients
Corey Gennaro put the sticker on his car last week.
"I think it's a good idea," he said. "I'm more of a good kid, so it's not really a big deal."
Unfortunately for one Hillsborough County couple, good ideas don't always make for successful businesses.
Donna Graf was one of the earliest entries to the "how's my teen driving?" bumper stick phenomenon with her company Go Get Mom.
She was featured in Washington Post, Newsweek and an MSNBC segment after she launched the business in 2003. Insurance companies and elected officials alike all told her that the service was innovative and life-saving.
But the money never came, said Graf, who lives in Riverview.
"Everybody that heard about it, talked about it, (and) read about it says it's a great idea, a great concept," she said.
She launched the company because her son Michael was a 16-year-old with a shiny new license at the time. When he received the company's one and only negative report, Donna's husband, Jim, called him immediately.
"Michael, you just cut off a BMW coming out of Sonic," Jim said. Michael had just passed the E Brandon Boulevard restaurant less than a minute before.
In the end, the Grafs spent about $200,000 of their own money trying to make the company work. At its height, there were maybe 10 clients paying the $79.95 annual fee.
"It was an unbelievably ridiculous number considering the press we got," Donna Graf said. The couple dissolved Go Get Mom in 2006.
Labusch said she and Myers hope their company eventually makes money. But the higher purpose is making roads safer for their families and others.
They both have ICUDrive stickers on their own cars to help promote the business. They say it has changed their behavior, causing them to drive with more care and caution.
"You think twice before you pick up that cell phone," Labusch said. "You think twice before you tailgate or you think twice before you cut that driver off."
Tia Mitchell can be reached at [email protected] or (813) 226-3405.


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Set in rural South Carolina and urban North Carolina, in the novel Holding On: A Parable of Faith and Strength, we watch Sister Fullmore emerge through a very untypical childhood to become a very untypical woman. The book begins on her first day of school, where we see hints of the smart, sassy young woman she becomes. From a father who drinks his family into a life of poverty, to brothers who leave her to fend for herself, Sister's expectations for the male population are pretty low. Somehow, it seems the men in her life live "down " to those expectations. Her Grandma Hester tells her, "Pick your man, don't let a man pick you. That way you know what you're getting. " Her mother's advises, "Don't fall in love with a man just because of his looks unless he has enough money to buy you a house. " In all her sixteen years of living, Sister hasn't met one man who tempted her to forget that advice. Then she meets a fine piece of chocolate manhood named Joe Ervin Evans… A liquor house wasn't a place where a man figured on meeting the woman of his dreams, and finding a wife was the last thing on Joe's mind that night. Until he meets Sister, his smile has never failed to make a woman's heart melt. Undaunted by her seeming lack of interest in him, he sets out to convince this pretty little woman that she is going to be his.

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Who doesn't love a little sparkle in their life? No one. That's who. FatWallet has not one, but ten stunning blue topaz studs to give away from Angara! Christmas is almost here and Valentine's Day is right around the corner. It is said that blue topaz represents love and loyalty, so this giveaway is right up your alley if you are still on the hunt for that romantic gift.
What I love about these earrings is the actual blue topaz color. Its like looking into a pool full of clear water. The ancient Greeks felt that its cooling effect could have the power of calming the temper and balancing one's mental state. So not only does this bling make you happy, it keeps you in a peaceful state of mind. Pretty nice, huh?
Another fun fact about this stone is that it's December's birthstone. Ages ago, my mom gave me a pair of blue topaz stud earrings with two little diamonds underneath for my golden birthday in December. I felt like like a glamorous movie star putting them on. The stones were so shiny, and beautiful.
These earrings in general would light up anyone's face. The round blue topaz solitaire studs are held together in a four prong sterling silver backing. The approximate carat total weight is 1.6 cts. Plus, you know these are coming from the jewelery experts. Angara is a family owned business and has been in the gemstone business for 3 generations. They know their stuff!
Here's how to enter for a chance to win one of 10 Blue Topaz Studs from Angara:
- Step 1: Fill out the form on Facebook or enter on FatWallet.
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Ten lucky FatWallet members will be chosen randomly to receive the blue topaz studs from Angara. Please read the Official Rules of this giveaway. (Hey NY, FL and RI members: You're also included in this Giveaway! So have at it & have fun!)
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text: The seventh annual Port Washington Community Street Festival will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 25. The festival, a celebration of the community and its downtown, will blend some of the favorite attractions of years past, including face painting, chalk drawing and photo booths, with new events. Roughly 80 vendors, everyone from downtown businesses to area restaurants to crafters, are expected to sell their wares during the event. Franklin Street will be closed beginning at 10 a.m. so organizers can set up the festival. Parking on Franklin Street and on Pier Street between Wisconsin to Franklin streets will be prohibited beginning at 9 a.m. As always, music will play a big part in the event. The south stage at the corner of Franklin Street and East Grand Avenue will feature the music of Phil Norby, a Milwaukee singer-songwriter whose music includes blues-infused original songs, classics from the likes of Neil Young, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and The Doors and contemporary artists like Radiohead, Incubus, Counting Crows and Stone Temple Pilots. The north stage near the corner of Jackson and Franklin streets will feature 3D-The DeBraal Bros. The acoustic rock band is made up of three brothers who play the hits from years past through today. In addition to music, the festival will feature a variety of activities ideal for families. The Disney princesses will be on hand near Baltica Tea Room from 1 to 4 p.m. so youngsters can have their pictures taken with royalty. Before having their pictures taken, girls can get their hair done at the Little Princess Boutique. A bounce house will be set up by Ozaukee Sports Center. Children's games will be led by the Port Washington Parks and Recreation playground program staff in front of Port Washington State Bank at noon and 2 p.m. A theater group will perform a Disney medley there at 1 and 3 p.m. At 4 p.m., the area will be the site of an open mic event. The Port Washington Historical Society will also several presentations on its new museum, which is expected to open this fall. The Port Washington Fire Department's new rescue truck will be available for inspection, and Camping World in Saukville will have a camper on the grounds. Free charter boat rides will be offered from 1 to 4 p.m. Those who wish to take the rides can register for a time at a booth at the southeast corner of Washington and Franklin streets. The boats participating are from Kitchen Pass Charters, C&D Charters and D.J.'s Fish Tales. The rides are sponsored by Schooner Pub.


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Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease that affects about 1 percent of the population, more than 200,000 of whom are veterans. Without treatment, its victims often suffer from delusions and hallucinations and cannot hold jobs or maintain social relationships.
Treatment usually includes one of the breakthrough medications called atypical antipsychotics. These medications can treat symptoms of schizophrenia without the terrible side effects of previous medications, which were more than 40 years old.
These medications may be the only thing standing between veterans and the ravages of mental illness. Many victims wind up homeless and on the street, become abusers of alcohol and drugs or wind up in prison. Worse still, 10 percent of people with schizophrenia take their own lives.
Why then is the Veterans Administration considering a healthcare policy that restricts access to these medications, posing adanger to thousands of veterans suffering from serious mentalillness?
The Southern California region of the VA already restricts access to these medications. And a U.S. House subcommittee is meeting today in Washington to consider extending these dangerous restrictions nationwide. The proposal would restrict doctors' ability to prescribe these medications and the patients' ability to get them.
If the VA extends this misguided policy nationally, it would take health care decisions away from the doctors who know best. It would handcuff doctors and create a laborious, labyrinthine process for doctors and patients to trudge through.
The most important factor in treatment of schizophrenia is prescribing the correct medication as soon as possible. But the VA policy would dictate a limited course of treatment for all patients, and force them to fail repeatedly before trying a treatment the doctor may prefer in the first place.
"Fail-first" policies hurt patients because they cause interruption and delay in treatment which could have lifelong, irreversible implications.
A National Consensus Guideline recommends atypical antipsychotics as the first line therapy for schizophrenia in most cases. Research shows that medications that are not effective for a particular patient can lead to failed therapy and expensive hospitalizations that may wipe out any short-term cost savings. Research conducted at the University of Southern California shows that delayed therapy increases costs by more than $12,000 per patient per year. Changes in therapy result in cost increases of more than $17,000 per patient per year.
Since Federal Drug Administration approval of the first atypical antipsychotic in 1993, four more have been developed. We need to continue providing new and improved medications for this devastating illness. If we restrict access now, the next generation of medications will be even harder to obtain.
Schizophrenia robs people of their freedom and ability to direct their lives. Veterans stood between us and those who tried to take our freedom. Now we should give our mentally ill veterans the best protection we can -- access to medications they need.
Don Harper is director of public policy for the Vietnam Veterans of California.


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You may remember from a few months ago a phone by the name of DROID Pro. This was an Android phone that essentially everyone familiar with the situation called the BlackBerry killer. In fact our pal Vince over on SlashGear did a major review of the device as it was back then compared directly to the BlackBerry Torch. Such distinct insides with such similar chassis. Now there's a new telephone on the way by the name of Motorola XPRT. You'll notice that it looks QUITE similar to the DROID Pro, which was also a Motorola device, but eyes will deceive: this is indeed a new device.
The two main differences between this device and the DROID Pro are in the hardware: if you hold both devices together you'll notice slight improvements in button placement and changes in the roundness of the overall casing. The second difference is in the battery: where the Pro held only a 1420 mAh battery for an OK amount of time without charging, the XPRT has a significantly larger 1860mAh battery for what's certainly going to be a massive improvement in awake time.
Beyond that it's just a really quite friendly and generously powerful device for messaging and professional productivity: 1GHz OMAP processor, world phone capability (I used the Pro whilst at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona – worked slick!), Android 2.2 Froyo, 5-megapixel camera on the back with dual-LED flash, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and Wifi 802.11 b/g. Again the device has worldwide connectedness with CDMA (EVDO Rev. A), GSM/UMTS (HSPA), it's got 3G hotspot capability, Quickoffice including Quickword, Quicksheet, Quickpoint, and QuickPDF files out of the box in addition to Device encryption, multi-headed VPN, and EAS security policy support out of the box.
This device of course has access to the Android Market, it's got Adobe Flash 10, GPS, a high-res 3.1″ HVGA TFT LCD display at 320×480 pixels resolution, and a full QUERTY keyboard, and it weighs in at 5.1 ounces (145 grams.) This device comes with 2GB ROM, 512MB RAM, and a microSD card slot with a 2GB card installed and the capability of working with a 32GB card. And it's running the newest version of MOTOBLUR over Android. Release dat for this phone is June 5, pricing: $129.99 w/ 2yr agreement.
Look like the phone for you? Are you in to the pro-factor here or are you more of a slide-out keyboard sort of Android lover?


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Don't miss out on a lower price on this hotel
Get an overview of this hotel3-star aparthotel with free breakfast and free airport shuttle
Popular property highlights
Situated near the airport, this aparthotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of K1 Speed and Boomers. Gallery of Amazing Things and The Casino at Dania Beach are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Property Features
An outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a snack bar/deli are available at this smoke-free aparthotel. Free buffet breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle. Other amenities include a spa tub, coffee/tea in a common area, and a business center.
Room Amenities
All 168 apartments feature kitchenettes with refrigerators and microwaves, plus free WiFi and LCD TVs with cable channels. Other amenities available to guests include sofa beds, sitting areas, and coffee makers.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Proximity to shopping and airport
- Breakfast
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Overall room comfort
- Guestrooms were a little noisy
SpringHill Suites Marriott Ft Lauderdale Airport/Cruise Port
Property Amenities
Property Amenities
In addition to an outdoor pool, SpringHill Suites Marriott Ft Lauderdale Airport/Cruise Port provides a spa tub and a fitness center. The aparthotel offers a snack bar/deli. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
This 3-star property offers access to a business center and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 300 square feet (28 square meters). This business-friendly aparthotel also offers gift shops/newsstands, coffee/tea in a common area, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. A roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a cruise ship terminal shuttle are complimentary for guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
SpringHill Suites Marriott Ft Lauderdale Airport/Cruise Port is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Free airport transportation
- ATM/banking
- Number of floors - 7
- Business center
- Free breakfast
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Express check-in
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Free cruise terminal shuttle
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Laundry facilities
- One meeting room
- Total number of rooms - 168
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (feet) - 300
- Snack bar/deli
- Conference space size (meters) - 28
- Smoke-free property
- Spa tub
- Outdoor pool
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchenette
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Long-term parking (surcharge), Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Separate sitting area
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Kitchenette
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Sofa bed
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Partially open bathroom
- Daily housekeeping
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary buffet breakfast.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Windsurfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Property Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 10 children 1 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Extended parking fee: USD 5.00 per day
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 10 children 1 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.


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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Obama's MSNBC Panel Investigates: Unlike Obama When He Was Senator, Is Marco Rubio An Empty Suit?
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Women's medium black messenger bag from MICHAEL MICHAEL KORS. Crafted from premium pebbled leather, the 'Raven' bag comprises a zip top fastening, which opens to reveal a spacious, lined interior boasting an internal zip pocket.
Transported using an adjustable, thick shoulder strap with gold tone grommet detailing. The bag is complete with Michael Kors branding adorned to the front.
Outer: Leather. Lining: Polyester.
Dimensions: H: 29cm x W: 38cm x D: 14cm.
Model is 178cm/5'10".


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Balance of wet and dry performance, this tire is better than tires at 2x it's cost. I will be buying them again. I do not miss the noise of the stock advins,
If your wheels are staggered pls. Purchase a more expensive tire.
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The Hedgehog: Too Prickly
Adapted from Muriel Barbery's international best-seller The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Mona Achache's first film, The Hedgehog, follows two parallel storylines: one featuring a thoroughly insufferable little girl, the other a pleasingly grumpy middle-aged widow. Scrawny, bespectacled, precocious 11-year-old Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic), disgusted by the futility of her bourgeois existence, plans to kill herself on her next birthday — a scheme announced, as too many of the half-pint's sour ruminations are, directly into the Hi-8 camcorder she's borrowed from her government-minister dad. When breaking, though not often enough, from the preteen's disdain and morbid obsessions, The Hedgehog focuses on Renée Michel (Josiane Balasko), the concierge of the luxury Left Bank apartment building where Paloma and her family live. Mme. Michel's bibliophilia and knowledge of Japanese cinema are interests she keeps to herself, for, as she says, "No one wants a pretentious janitor." Her observation typifies the film's lazy, polite remarks on class difference, particularly when new resident Mr. Ozu (Togo Igawa) charmingly woos the charwoman. But watching Balasko, a veteran actor-writer-director in thick-browed, frumped-up drag, sitting at her kitchen table reading Tolstoy and nibbling on dark chocolate with a cat in her lap, is one of The Hedgehog's purest delights.
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The first clue for Monday's Geo Quiz is just a lot of garbage.
We're looking for a British city where a cool recycling project is about to get underway. A team of architects and recycling experts is planning to build a house – entirely out of trash.
And they're doing it to make a point about all the perfectly reusable stuff we normally throw out. Construction waste, old video cassettes and even old toothbrushes are being collected to build this house of trash.
The building site is in a city on the south coast of England in the county of East Sussex.
The city's seafront bars and restaurants – not to mention nudist beaches – are all just an hour's train ride away from London.
Name that coastal city.
Next week, a construction crew at the University of Brighton in England will begin work on a house that will contain virtually nothing new at all.
It's being made almost entirely out of waste material – garbage from homes, and discarded items from other building sites. It's located in the city of Brighton which is also the answer to our Geo Quiz for Monday.
The project is meant to show that using trash as building material is good for the environment and can reduce the cost of construction.
Ari Daniel Shapiro of our partner program NOVA got a preview of what's planned. He produced this audio postcard from the future site of the Brighton Waste House.


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Proudly Supporting Toys for Tots in Northern Virginia
December 17, 2013
The challenging economic climate is not only impacting businesses in the area, but also some of the most beloved charities. For example, Toys for Tots, the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Program that distributes toys to less fortunate children during the holidays, has been hit hard by budget constraints this year. When the Toys for Tots program in Northern Virginia announced …Read more


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|Gigabyte H55N-USB3 Mini-ITX Motherboard
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Motherboards
|Written by Servando Silva
|Sunday, 11 July 2010
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PCMark Vantage Test Results
PCMark Vantage is an objective hardware performance benchmark tool for PCs running 32- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7. PCMark Vantage is well suited for benchmarking any type of Microsoft Windows Vista/7 PC: from multimedia home entertainment systems and laptops, to dedicated workstations and high-end gaming rigs. Benchmark Reviews has decided to use a few select tests from the suite to demonstrate/simulate real-world processor usage in this article. Our tests were conducted on 64-bit Windows 7, with results displayed in the chart below.
TV and Movies Suite
Gaming Suite*
Music Suite
* EDITOR'S NOTE: Hopefully our readers will carefully consider how relevant PCMark Vantage is as a "real-world" benchmark, since many of the tests rely on unrelated hardware components. For example, per the FutureMark PCMark Vantage White Paper document, Gaming test #2 weighs the storage device for 100% of the test score. In fact, according to PCMark Vantage the video card only impacts 23% of the total gaming score, but the CPU represents 37% of the final score. As our tests in this article (and many others) has already proven, gaming performance has a lot more to do with the GPU than the CPU, and especially more than the hard drive or SSD (which is worth 38% of the final gaming performance score).
The results show that the Core i3 HTPC definitively out performs the ION 330 platform. Considering this is a TV and Movies test, and considering the Atom handles this type of applications in a decent way, the test doesn't show 100% trustable results. The difference of bandwidth between the Core i3 330M and the desktop version show another 30% increase. The gaming suite shows very different results from what I'd expect when gaming. For example, the Intel GMA HD in all the test systems performs better than the ION 330. While this is not exactly true, the result is based on different results which depend on CPU and SSD also. In this case, the CPU is doing that big difference, but being realistic, games normally use GPU much more than CPU, and so, if we benchmarked a game, we would see a much smaller difference between the ION 330 and a Core i3 based system.
This would make a great car PC too :D
Which other ports would you like to see? More USB ports? A second ethernet? or maybe a firewire?
Desde ya muchas gracias, excelente!!!
Hi, I have an old cabinet with 160w power, s3320la hp model could be used for this motherboard, along with an i3-540 and 4 ddr3 1333.
From already thank you very much, excellent!
This is a link to my old cpu.


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May 11, 2013 BY John Kim
The 2007 release of the atmos x Nike Air Max 1 is currently one of the more sought-after Air Max 1s in history, leaping off the insanely popular "Safari" and "Viotech" versions that the Japanese retailer crafted years prior. What makes this sample a interesting find is that the label on the tongue notes these as a promo sample made for the Summer 2011 season – four years after the initial release. A quick examination of this sample version doesn't reveal any discrepancies from the released version, so the question remains: Why was this recreated in 2011? Was a wider retail release in the works, or did Nike make these for a VIP who happens to wear a size 13? This 2011 Promo Sample of the atmos x Air Max 1 is definitely a head-scratcher, so let us know what your opinions and see what the asking price was in this ended listing by sneaker_vault_23 on eBay.
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By Silvano Kibuuka
World Kickboxing Federation (Welterweight)
Umar Semata 'Pain' (Ug) 146 Abdallah Hessen 'Mando' (Egy) 139
Under card fights
James Bikwaya (Ug) beat Sherif Mohamed El Masry (Egy) K.O
Sharif Bukenya (Ug) beat Mohamed Mostafa (Egy) K.O
Richard Ddamulira beat Festo Kabuga 3-0
Oscar Sewankambo W/O John Tumukunde.
THAI-based Ugandan kickboxer, Umar Semata has continued to build a solid profile by winning his first world title in kickboxing.
He now adds this to the WBC International belt that he won last year in Kampala.
This was the Welterweight Muay Thai title that he stripped from defending champion, Abdallah Hessen of Egypt in a thrilling contest at Natete Shopping Center on Monday morning.
The win on points came against Hessen who beat Ronald Mugula at Freedom City to snatch the title.
Hessen complained about the punishing style involved in Muay Thai until Semata agreed to change to the K1 style but still lost 146 against 139.
The win in a contest that attracted hundreds of fans has now pushed Semata's record to 51 fights winning 33, 10 loses and 8 draws.
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■ Throughout the 20th century, the American educational system was gripped by what one might call an IQ mania. If you studied in a public school, you probably remember the tests, and possibly your scores (in my school, scores were hidden, but we broke into the teacher's desk during recess to find them). Before the age of neuroplasticity, mental capabilities were thought to be fixed, and IQ was destiny. The idea of an ultimate, universal ranking of intelligence was appealing to those attempting to create an efficient, organized educational system—but potentially damaging for children who were told, unequivocally, how smart they were (or weren't). This unitary view of intelligence encouraged a system where standardized, one-size-fits-all tests could be applied to measure the progress of students and schools.
__ Howard Gardner, a researcher at Harvard University, had a very different view of what amounts to intelligence. His studies of artistically gifted children and people suffering from brain injuries revealed a rich diversity of the ways in which the brain can excel. In his landmark 1983 book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Gardner proposed seven distinct types of intelligence: musical, kinesthetic (body), logical/mathematical, spatial, linguistic, interpersonal and intrapersonal. The idea caught fire and became so pervasive that today the proposition that intelligence is not a single, fixed quantity is almost considered common sense. Gardner denies that he wrote the book to discredit the idea of IQ, but he has been openly critical of the hegemony of IQ, as well as standardized testing, and the memorize-and-regurgitate style of education, throughout his career.
__ After more than 25 years, Gardner has continued to develop his theories, and some private schools have attempted to model their educational methods on his ideas. Yet in American public schools, standardized testing plays a larger role than ever, thanks to legislation like No Child Left Behind. We recently checked in with Gardner to get his perspective.
I was interviewing John Medina the other day, and he told me he believes you are widely misunderstood. Is that something you agree with?
I don't think I am widely misunderstood, but I am often interpreted superficially. I'm a psychologist, and multiple intelligence theory was developed as an alternative to a unitary intelligence view, which is pervasive in psychology. I don't think I've made much of a dent in psychology, but I'm extremely well known in education, where my ideas have circulated more broadly.
__ But many people in education have never read my work directly; they get information secondhand. When they get the idea that intelligence is pluralistic, that's fine. But when they go on to say that I have a specific education regimen, that's not legitimate. But I don't go around saying I've been widely misunderstood.
In 1993's Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice, you talk about developing education in way that is geared to particular intelligences.
I had the notion of individual-centered education: Irrespective of whether you have a curriculum that every student is required to master, we would try to find out how a person learns best.
__ If you are someone with incredible kinesthetic-bodily intelligence, and placed in a school that only values logical and verbal intelligence, you might have low self-esteem. If you have promise in an area, it's almost cruel not to have a chance to develop that capacity. And of course, bodily-kinesthetic can be anything from doing surgery to being a football player. But the other thing that I devoted a huge amount of space to in The Disciplined Mind is that you can use people's areas of strength as an entry point into traditional curriculum. There's no reason why you couldn't use your bodily intelligence to understand things about physics. It doesn't have to come from a textbook or lecture.
But in that book, you also argue that's learning-as-metaphor, and you have to bring the student back to physics or mathematics in order for the student to truly learn it.
That's a good point. The way I would think about that now is, if you want to understand physics the way a physicist does, yes, you have to ultimately learn their language. On the other hand, if you want to understand how a lever works, you don't have to know the formula. You have to understand weight and distance and fulcrum, and there are many ways to have that understanding.
In your writing, you specify different areas of the brain that correspond to different intelligences, either very specifically or roughly. If you're teaching someone physics in a body-metaphorical way, do they use the logic/mathematical networks of the brain, or the kinesthetic networks?
I wouldn't bother answering that question for pedagogical reasons, because I don't think it's necessary that the educators know neuroanatomy, although for research reasons I think it's quite interesting. But a book that had enormous influence on me is called Half a Brain is Enough by Antonio M. Battro, about a child who had a hemispherectomy, and was living with only one brain hemisphere, yet if you looked at his performance it was very difficult to tell about his brain damage. That's because the brain is very plastic and flexible. So if you look at that kid drawing and wonder if he's using a particular area—the kid may not even have that hemisphere!
Pilot schools have been created based on the ideas of multiple intelligences. To what extent have you seen your ideas being adopted in the past 25 years?
In summer of 2009, we published a book called Multiple Intelligences Around the World. There are 42 people writing from 15 different countries, describing multiple intelligences practices in China, Japan, Australia. To me, this is stunning. The last thing I thought 25 years ago is that some idea I developed would be influencing schools all across the world. As a meme, it's been quite astonishing. The idea has become pervasive. For example, speaking of someone's musical intelligence today wouldn't surprise anyone, while 25 years ago the notion would have been unknown. Even people who have never heard of my books have a sense that the standard view of intelligence is not the ultimate story. Many educators and writers on education use the language. But I've stated from the beginning that I'm not a school person, I'm a thinker and a scholar, and the most I ever do is try to give it a push in the right direction.
One of your motivations was to eliminate the idea of a universal intelligence and the IQ test, and rail against the idea of one-size-fits-all standard education. Although your ideas have become very well known, at the same time, No Child Left Behind and standardized testing is bigger than ever in the United States. Why do you think that is?
I like to quote Winston Churchill: "Americans always do the right thing, after they have tried every other alternative." I think the current educational prescription is completely wrong and short-sighted, but it's going to have to run its own course. I've never been a proselytizer for M.I. What I've often said is, all I want to do is leave a space for people who want to explore these ideas to be able to do so. The book M.I. Around the World describes the conditions and places where that's most likely to happen.
Which isn't necessarily in the United States?
Well, it's more likely in independent schools than public schools. It's more likely in affluent suburbs, or with people learning with kids with disabilities—populations where it's more difficult to ignore individual differences.
Even if you haven't pressed for it, do you have an ideal educational institution in your head?
One, I've never been deluded enough to think I could run a school. Two, multiple intelligences cannot be the key idea of a school. The key idea of a school has to be what you want an educated person to be. Only after you state your educational goal can we talk about how multiple intelligences might help you achieve it. If your goal is to have high standardized test scores, that's very different from wanting people who can work together effectively in a community. The goal has to come first. So when people say, I have an M.I. school, I smile and say, that's nice, but what I'm really interested in is your educational goal, and what are you trying to achieve with your population.
__ All that said, after 25 years I can boil down the two basic educational implications of M.I. theory which I would pursue: individuate and pluralize. Individuate means whenever possible try to teach individuals in ways they can learn, and comfortably show what they've learned. One group that's always had individual education was the wealthy, because they hired tutors. We can now individuate for any person who has access to a computer. The possibility of individuating has become greater in the past 20 years than in all of human history. Pluralize is the other side of the coin. It means anything that's worth teaching can be taught in a number of different ways. Math, physics, music, astronomy, psychology—there's nothing of any importance which can only be taught one way. If you teach pluralistically, two wonderful things happen: One, you reach more kids, because some learn better bodily, some artistically, some learn through groups, etc. Two, it shows you really understand something. Because when you really understand something, you can think about it in lots of ways. You can talk, joke, write, make a diagram, etcetera. So anyone who takes M.I. very seriously—I've never said this before—needs to figure out what his or her education goals are, and how to achieve those goals through individuation and pluralization.
__ What I don't say is that you need to learn the Articles of Confederation or all the English kings, because now anyone who has the slightest amount of disposable income can own a personal digital assistant which can call up that information. So it's a total waste of time to memorize that stuff. Learning how to learn and acquiring a desire to keep learning is what schools ought to be about.
But is teaching harder if education is pluralized? Aren't you requiring teachers to be very flexible and have skill in several different intelligences?
Well, I put it the other way around: Anybody who can only teach something one way has a flimsy control of the subject matter. I'd say we are trying to make education teacher-proof. The best educational systems in the world are ones in which teachers are highly professional, and that means being flexible in how you present material. If the kid can't learn in one way, you don't just repeat yourself or say, "You're stupid."
To promote reform, do you hope the schools that adopt M.I. programs demonstrate their efficacy with results that are strong enough to catch on?
__ That's my own bias. I'm for the magnetic boutique. That's a place that is so strong and good that when people see it, they're stunned but say, "We can do that, too, if you help us." The best example I have is a place I've been working with for 30 years, a place in Italy called Reggio Emilia—they have fantastic schools for young kids there. They have no interest in proselytizing, yet people from all over the world make pilgrimages. It's the best-known early-childhood education program in the world.
__ It's the opposite of scaling up. Scaling up is when somebody does something impressive, and regulation gets passed that everybody has to do the same thing. I don't think it ever works. The magnetic boutique is when you do something very special very well, and people hear about it, are inspired, and want to try to do it themselves.
You isolated seven intelligences: linguistic, logical, mathematical, spatial, music, body/kinesthetic, intrapersonal and interpersonal. Fifteen years later, you added a natural intelligence. Are there others under consideration?
I considered existential intelligence—the ability to ask the big questions. But I still cling to the idea that intelligence is most persuasive when you can find parts of the nervous system that are dedicated to that kind of thing.
What about moral intelligence?
I don't think that any intelligence is moral or amoral. Intelligences are computational capacities, and it's how you use those capacities that is what we call moral or ethical. Both Nelson Mandela and Slobodan Milošević have a lot of interpersonal intelligence: They know how to move people. Milošević used it to ferment hatred and commit ethnic cleansing; Mandela brought a split country together. The intelligences were similar, but the uses were very different. So intelligences are not moral or immoral, it's the uses to which they're put. This flies in the face of what a lot of people in my field now talk about—the moral instinct, and so on.
Which is the view that morality has developed through evolution.
That's right. Of course there's something to that; that's why I introduced the distinction between neighborly morality and the ethics of roles. There's no doubt that, as a species, we evolved to know the people in our neighborhood, and if we cheated them too much we were likely to be cheated, so a rough reciprocity is our primate legacy. But in any complex society, there are decisions we have to make in which our neighborly instincts are no help at all, which are what I call the ethics of work and the ethics of citizenship. These are completely cultural things: to know what a journalist or citizen should or shouldn't do. What we learned as primates is not going to be any help there.
So what are the implications of neighborly morality and the ethics of roles in terms of creating a more ethical society?
Well, in the past 15 years I've been working with colleagues on what I call the "GoodWork Project." Fifteen years ago it was a time in the United States where people were saying, "Government is bad, regulation is bad, markets are good, everything is best left to supply-and-demand." Now, I'm a beneficiary of markets and so are my colleagues, but we are absolutely convinced that you cannot run a society only on a market basis. You cannot run a society where the only people that can get medical care, education, and legal representation are those who can afford it. We recently saw that everything will go off a cliff if you leave it up to market forces. So the GoodWork Project is an empirical project—we interviewed over 1,200 people in nine different professions over a 10-year period, trying to understand what good work is, and how to achieve it. And recently my own group has been looking at good citizenship.
__ GoodWork is the combination of Three E's: Excellence, Engagement, and Ethics. Work qualifies as good if it is technically excellent, if it's personally engaging and meaningful, and if it's carried out in an ethical and responsible way. A person is a good citizen to the extent that, one, he's informed and knows the laws; two, cares about them; and three, doesn't just act in his own self-interest. Here, again, is where the market stuff is flawed. According to economic textbooks, people working in their own self-interest produces a viable society. But if you go back and read Adam Smith, you'll find that isn't what he thought at all. He presumed that people would be civic-minded, which doesn't have anything to do with self-interest in any narrow sense.
__ So for 10 years we studied good work and good citizenship, and for the past five years my colleagues and I have been traveling the world and trying to teach young people—and some who aren't so young—to become good workers and good citizens. We just launched, in the autumn of 2009, the GoodWork Toolkit website. Go to goodworktoolkit.org, and you can see where we're trying to work with the rest of the world on these big issues. bw


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JAKARTA, KOMPAS -- after years managed by foreign private firm, Jakarta Provincial Government will take over the shares of PT Palyja, one of the clean water operators. The repurchase is exercised to improve the quality of water services in the capital.
This plan was officially delivered by Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo (Jokowi) in front of the delegations of the French Ministry of Foreign Commerce during their visit to City Hall, Tuesday (4/6).
"This is not a preconceived plan. We take this seriously because this is a matter of principle. We prepare the funds for the share repurchase," said Jokowi.
Forty French delegations visited the City Hall. The delegations were led by Foreign Trade Minister Nicole Bricq. The meeting was divided into two, the government delegations met Jokowi, business delegations met the Vice Governor of Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. PT Palyja share repurchase plan by the provincial government became the main subject.
Palyja is one of the water operators in Jakarta that has been operating since 1997, beside of PT Aetra. A total of 51 percent of Palyja's shares are owned by French private firm, Suez Environment, the rest is owned by a national private firm. Previously, Palyja planned to sell its shares to a Philippine company, Manila Water.
The repurchase plan, according to Jokowi, is a "decent" step. However, if Palyja refuses to sell its shares, the government will take the second plan.
"The second plan is not meant to be revealed here," said Jokowi.
According to Jokowi, this is a big decision. Its purpose is to make the water service is oriented for the benefit of the people, not profit oriented. "We have to be bold," he said.
The share repurchase of the water operators by Jakarta provincial government is possible. According to the cooperation agreement with PT Palyja and PT Aetra, a share repurchase can be exercised after ten years of cooperation.
"Entering ten years of the cooperation agreement, I had encouraged the government to purchase the operators' shares. The consideration, is that the management of water in Jakarta has yet to improve. However, the government at that time did not have enough courage to make decision. It is just now the plan is officially presented to the public," said expert in hydrology from University of Indonesia, Firdaus Ali.
Separately, Meyritha Maryanie of PT Palyja's Public Relations said Palyja management did not know the plan. They also were not present at City Hall.
"We do not have the control over the share sale or share acquisition. The management remains fully committed to serving the citizens," she said.
Some organizations affiliated in People's Coalition to Resist Jakarta Water Privatization (KMMSAJ) also organize citizen support. They are LBH Jakarta, Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), Kiara, KRuHA, and Jabotabek Women's Solidarity.
"According to the 2010 Central Bureau of Statistics' data, only 34.8 percent of Jakarta residents covered by clean water service. This proves the poor performance of the private operators, "said Tama S Langkun of ICW.
The coalition also provides assistance for Jakarta citizens to donate money. The raised fund will be given to the Governor to help taking over the clean water management from the private operators.
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June 05, 2014
The Passover ceremony begins the story of the exodus from Egypt to freedom.
This is only the beginning of the journey. The Torah specifies another agricultural holiday to begin on the 50th day after Passover begins. This is the holiday of Shavuot. During this time the days are counted until the arrival of this holiday. On the 50th day, the Hebrew people arrived at Mt. Sinai.
This is the end of one journey and the beginning of another. On that day, the Hebrews became the Jewish nation. We all became converts to the One G-d.
At Sinai, they received the Torah, the law, from G-d through Moses. Every man, woman and child experienced the word of G-d with all their senses. Thus a covenant was formed between the people and their Lord, a covenant that bound those who were not there as well as those who heard the law. Those who were not there, of course, were all of the subsequent generations who would be bound by the conditions of the covenant. It is a communal fulfillment of the Exodus, a testimony that G-d spoke to them at Mt. Sinai and they would continue to transmit his message throughout all time.
It is customary to eat dairy foods on Shavuot. The people had just received the laws about kosher foods, hence the use of dairy since there was no meat that had been slaughtered according to the Kashrut laws. Some eat milk and honey, because the Torah is compared to sweetness and pleasure.
As it says in the Song of Songs: "Honey drops from your lips, O bride, honey and milk are under your tongue." (Song of Songs 4:11) Both milk and honey are foods that do not require the taking of life, or even the interruption of growth. They, like the Torah, are in harmony with nature. It is also significant the "promised land," Israel, is the land of "milk and honey."
During the morning service on Shavout we read the book of Ruth.
Ruth is a Moabite woman who converts to Judaism and became the epitome of a righteous convert and she was the great-grandmother of King David.
Why the book of Ruth?
Perhaps the answer is that at Sinai we were all converts to the law. It is also in our tradition David was born and died on Shavuot. It is also thought the Messiah will ultimately trace his lineage to King David. Hence the genealogies in the gospels of the New Testament. This was, in the time of the temple, the holiday when the first fruits were brought to Jerusalem as offerings. Today, many decorate their homes with flowers and branches. The night before the holiday is traditionally used for study, special prayers are added to the service and on the last day prayers are said for the departed.
The holiday is June 4 and 5. It is fitting the freedom to worship G-d is the culmination the Passover season. This rings resonantly today when many forms of freedom are under attack, some from surprising sources. We remember the promises of the covenant which offers freedom to all people. After all, we are all children of G-d. He chides His angels for rejoicing when the legions of Pharaoh are drowning in the Red Sea by pointing out these too are his creations. The book of Jonah points to a similar message, all are children of the Lord are important to him.
As we see human slavery and injustice in our societies, isn't it also incumbent upon us to remember Sinai and freedom? In Christian tradition, this holiday is called Pentecost. Although the theological message is different, it also ennobles the sanctity of life and hence liberty.
I do hope our prayers for peace and justice will be answered at this season. It will take work on our part; it is not something that will be just handed to us. I also pray for understanding among all of his creatures and a more compassionate care of his world and all of his creations.
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I You are quite proud in announcing your opposition to our country's efforts in Iraq. I strongly disagree with your position.
We went into Iraq to rid the world and the people of that country of a monster, and we did it.
We are not at war with Iraq, never have been. We are there to free the Iraqi people from tyranny and I fully support our efforts.
William J. Quinn
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Point of Reflection
John Kelly's article, "DNC Response: Democrats are People of Faith" (May 25), prompts me to ask a question that I hope someone can sincerely answer because I ask it seriously and honestly: How can one be both pro-life and a member of the Democratic Party?
This question probably more strictly applies to "pro-life" Democratic candidates, party officials or activists, but ought to also be a point of reflection for all voters.
In practice, no matter what one's "personal" belief, in order for one to have any kind of future or influence in the Democratic Party, one has to eventually support the national platform.
So by default, any Democrat, whether party official or political player or enabling voter, ultimately supports the Democratic national platform, and that platform is undeniably pro-abortion (not to mention same-sex "marriages" and cloning issues).
As a case in point, "pro-life" Democrat Don Cazayoux of Louisiana was elected to the U.S. Congress.
His record as a state representative may have been pro-life.
However, after Nancy Pelosi and the DNC supported his recent campaign, does anyone doubt that he will be expected to support the national platform at the national level (especially on close votes on key issues like abortion or a Supreme Court justice)?
Furthermore, Cazayoux is now a "superdelegate" and must support either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. How "pro-life" is that? How "pro-life" can you be if you are willing to trade a political vote for political clout?
(If I remember right, Al Gore was "pro-life" before he had national aspirations.)
Time will tell in the Cazayoux case, but by then it may be too late for those souls, living and dead, who will be lost because of abortion.
I know the Republican Party also has serious problems, but at least the national platform is nominally anti-abortion.
I understand that no candidate or political party is completely evil or completely good, but it seems to me that groups like the "Democratic National Committee's Faith in Action Office" and terms like "Reagan Democrat" are ultimately a chimera that give an excuse to the politically expedient.
It's kind of like being a member of the Masonic Order because the local temple has a great social action group.
The unborn: You're either for 'em or you're against 'em, and you can't tell me the Democratic Party is for 'em.
Donald C. Marrero, Jr.
Clinton, Louisiana
Initiative Applauded
Relevant to "The Sacrament of Unity" (June 29):
I wish to commend Pope Benedict XVI for his most recent liturgical initiatives.
Some may recall that a few months ago the Pope celebrated Mass in the Sistine Chapel facing the East rather than the people.
More recently, on the feast of Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict, for his papal Mass outside the Basilica of St. John Lateran, had a kneeler placed at the foot of the altar and distributed holy Communion to four dozen communicants — all of whom knelt and received the Eucharist on the tongue.
This latest initiative is in keeping with those practices that the Church strongly recommends. Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, commented on the significance of the Pope's gesture saying: "I hope this practice spreads."
Pope Benedict has previously pointed out that "the man who learns to believe learns also to kneel, and a faith or a liturgy no longer familiar with kneeling would be sick at the core."
The Church, in her "official" capacity, insists that standing for holy Communion is insufficient. The document Inaestimabile Donum, states: "When the faithful communicate kneeling, no other sign of reverence towards the Blessed Sacrament is required, since kneeling itself is a sign of adoration. When they receive Communion standing, it is strongly recommended that, coming up in procession, they should make a sign of reverence before receiving the Blessed Sacrament."
Pope Paul VI also explains, in Memoriale Domini, why the Church considers the practice of receiving holy Communion on the tongue to be the norm.
He insists that this is due to a more complete and refined theology on the Eucharist.
He states that "after the true meaning of the Eucharistic mystery, its effect, and the presence of Christ in it had been profoundly investigated, from a pressing sense of reverence toward this holy sacrament and of the humility which its reception demands, the custom was introduced by which the minister himself would place the piece of consecrated bread on the tongues of the communicants."
Upon greater reflection of these simple truths, one might uncover the greater meaning and implications they might have with respect to the way in which the laity should be receiving the most Blessed Sacrament during holy Communion today.
Paul Kokoski
Hamilton, Ontario
Vote Pro-life!
Relevant to "2 Ways of Seeing Babies" (May 25):
As columnist Robert Novak recently pointed out, it is very likely that a President McCain would be faced with a veto-proof Democrat-led Senate.
Such a Senate make-up would "never" allow pro-life Supreme Court justices to be approved, and McCain has not demonstrated himself to be a fighter for the pro-life efforts. The likely result would be at best moderate judges and more likely left-leaning judges.
The likes of an Alan Keyes would have used the position of the presidency as a bully pulpit to call for the people to let their senators hear from them.
In most cases, you will have options other than Obama or McCain, and staying home is not a responsible option.
Vote for the most pro-life candidate regardless of first-, second- or third-party affiliation.
There is no such thing as an un-electable candidate, if enough people vote for that candidate.
Each of us will be able to make up our own minds and each of us will be responsible for our decision.
Frank W. Russell
Nalcrest, Florida
Pleasant Surprise
As someone who has often deplored the lack of video-game coverage in the Catholic media, I found Thomas McDonald's article in the most recent edition of the Register to be a pleasant surprise.
Video games are just as important to the new evangelization as movies, books and music.
I greatly anticipate continued coverage of video games and their relevance to Catholic living in future issues of the Register.
Andy Kirchoff
Berwyn, Illinois
Clear Choice
I'm writing because I'm very proud of my fellow Register readers.
In the June 8 issue, there are many good letters to the editor in response to John Kelly's May 25 article, "DNC Response: Democrats are People of Faith."
When I first read this article, I wanted to respond, but I didn't have the time. I was also hoping that other readers would respond.
And I was so glad to see the many responses in this week's issue of the Register.
What particularly struck me in that article was Kelly's reference to solar panels as a reason Catholics should vote Democrat.
This is ridiculous, especially when compared to Obama's position on infants who accidentally "survive" an abortion. His position was detailed in the May 25 article, "Obama vs. the Right to Life."
The nurse's testimony of how they simply left a child to die struck close to home for me.
My son was born at 27 weeks, and by God's grace he is now a perfectly healthy 2-year-old.
It makes no sense that he should have had legal protection and the best of health care, when another child his age was left to die, struggling for every breath until he inevitably lost the battle.
I was also troubled by Judie Brown's letter in the June 1 issue, stating that McCain is not a perfect pro-life candidate.
While this is true, I'm afraid that if pro-lifers split between two candidates, we will end up with Obama, who is immeasurably worse than McCain.
I want to thank the Register for its repeated, sound Catholic advice that we need to cast the vote that will best protect the culture of life. Between McCain and Obama, the choice is clear.
Buffalo, New York
Why Not Expelled?
I am disappointed that I haven't seen any articles in your paper covering the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
The documentary does a wonderful job arguing for the freedom to teach, debate and research the topic of intelligent design. It uncovers the similarities between the philosophies of Darwin, Margaret Sanger and Hitler.
It shows the beautiful complexity of the cell and promotes the existence of a divine creator.
Ben Stein challenges scientists who teach evolution as more than merely a theory and exposes the discrimination against academics who want to discuss intelligent design. The movie is thought-provoking and well-done.
The Register has done so much to promote other movies such as The Passion and Bella. Why not this one?
Loretta Cornish
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The woman who had twelve dogs removed from her Herkimer farm has now hired a lawyer to speak on her behalf.
Attorney Mark Wolber says his client, whose name has not been released, did not deserve to have the dogs taken from her. While all of the dogs currently have mange, Wolber this stems from a veterinarian misdiagnosing a yeast disease. Wolber says if the mange was properly diagnosed, it would not have spread to the other dogs.
Mark Wolber is her lawyer. "She's worried about the impression that people have of her that she is a person that just has animals and has been neglecting them. When that isn't true, she's a person who loves animals who's taken in strays and cared for animals," says Wolber. "S
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The dogs also have Lyme Disease, but Wolber says one in eight dogs in Herkimer County have that illness.
Employees with the Herkimer County Humane Society say they have no doubt in their minds that each of these dogs were subjected to animal neglect. They say some of the dogs were missing patches of fur and others were injured or emaciated.
Jodie Crews is with the Herkimer Humane Society. "Hopefully they stay, they get treated and we find them loving homes," says Crews. "She should be charged with neglect on behalf of all these dogs."
Wolber says no charges have currently been filed against his client. State Police are still investigating the case.
The dogs were taken from a home on Route 28 between Middleville and Herkimer on Saturday.


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SANDY It was a whale-sized task for The Living Planet Aquarium to transform an old Sandy grocery store into attractive exhibits for unique marine life like sharks, jellyfish, stingrays and eels.
But in just seven weeks, staff members have created an up-close look at tropical ocean-dwellers and those that live in the local Salt Lake waters. The aquarium officially opens to the public today at 725 E. 10600 South.
"We started building and designing in one fell swoop," said aquarium operations manager Madlyn Runburg.
Rather than hiring pricey design firms to put together the exhibits, the aquarium used in-house employees. Contractors were brought in to build walls and put in plumbing and electricity, but staff and volunteers created most of the underwater playground.
Elaborate pieces like carved rocks and natural wood line the Utah Waters hall. Other detailed exhibits that the aquarium staff built themselves include a child-size coral community for kids to explore, a replica sunken ship and a petting tank for sting rays.
"That was a challenge," Runburg said. But, he added, "It's been a really creative process and certainly created a dynamic environment."
Hours away from the sneak preview of the aquarium exhibit on Thursday, electrical cords and paint tarps littered the floor, staff members were completing paint touch-ups, and fish still needed to be put in their tanks. Staff and volunteers have spent numerous nights in the aquarium in order to finish by the deadline.
Meanwhile, the fish have been at Salt Lake Community College until earlier this week, when they were moved into their new digs.
Previously housed in The Gateway shopping center, the aquarium became so popular that it outgrew the spot a year and a half after opening in 2004.
The Sandy exhibit is a "preview" of what aquarium officials hope will be a world-class, 90,000-square-foot site that they would like to be built in Salt Lake City. But returning to the capital city hinges on the Salt Lake County Council's approval of the placement of a $33.9 million bond on the November ballot.
The Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency owns a piece of land on the corner of 500 South and 400 West, where the future bigger aquarium could sit. But the land is only available until June 30, 2008, because the agency doesn't want to hold the land for the aquarium beyond that time. Aquarium officials hope to start construction then.
Aquarium marketing director Janis Pierce says the preview exhibit gives a taste of things to come. The current 43,000-square-foot space includes a cafe, numerous multipurpose rooms and a small theater. Later this year, an endangered Utah species hall will open, as well as a biology station.
The Sandy location, Pierce said, "puts us right in the epicenter of Utah families.""There's certainly been some question of why have an aquarium in the desert," she said. "Why not? Water is such a precious resource, and we don't have the access to the ocean and the world seas. This is a perfect place."
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Patients can now access records, input health information
Lenoir Memorial patients can now access their discharge records online.
MyLMH, a patient health portal costing about $75,000, is part of the second phase of the federal government�s Meaningful Use standards, which requires a national network of electronic communication between physicians, pharmacists and hospitals about patients� health, treatments and medications.
The Health Information Technology Standards Committee, formed under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, set up Meaningful Use standards and measures in 2009 to improve health systems technology.
Stage I, which involved the electronic system infrastructure, has been completed. Under Meaningful Use, LMH was paid federal incentives for having completed the 19 care objectives.
This second phase gets the patients involved in accessing their digital records and also allows them to manage their own personal health data and pay their hospital bills.
Patient records, set up to be stored electronically during Stage I, are now available, as of June 1, for patients to view within 36 hours of their discharge from the hospital � an ARRA requirement, said Karl Vanderstouw, chief information officer and senior director of Information Technology at LMH.
�It�s really designed around the concept of patient engagement,� he said, �engaging the patient more in their care.�
The details of a patient�s discharge are listed according to what procedures were performed, reason for the visit, vital signs, lab work involved, medications administered, medications then currently taking, radiology reports and discharge instructions.
�It�s all cumulative,� Vanderstouw said, �so if you have multiple visits, that information is in there.�
Each catagory is separated and easily accessed.
There�s an area where patients can add their own personal health data, such as medications they currently take, what vaccinations they�ve had and allergies, said April Wurdock, director of Health Information Services.
�We�re still adding,� she said. �We decided to start out slow and then add once our access increased.�
While patients cannot change any information the hospital has placed in their portals, they can add and change their own health information. That information isn�t available to LMH physicians.
�The really nice thing about a portal is that this is information that belongs to the individual,� Vanderstouw said. �They are entitled to the information. This is their portal. This is not the hospital�s portal.�
Patients can print out their records or access the portal from their smart phone, if they want it for themselves or need to provide past history while at a doctor�s appointment.
�You have the option where you can opt to email that information to that physician, securly and encrypted,� Vanderstouw said.
Gail Howard, the administrator for the Picture Archiving and Communications System, said the print option prints everything.
�You can be visit specific,� she said, �but it prints everything, including what the patient has entered themselves.�
Patients can choose to put the information on a CD and carry it with them when traveling, in case they need medical care, or email it to a physician.
They can also authorize someone else to access their portal, such as a close family member that helps with the care of the patient.
Howard said the printed record of medications will be helpful for people who are taking care of their aging parents.
LMH must demonstrate they have met all the components of Stage II during the fiscal year starting in October in order to receive further incentive payments from the government, Vanderstouw said.
He said his team established certain criteria for the portal, including making it user-friendly and adaptable to system changes and expansions.
�We don�t want to implement a portal just to implement a portal,� Vanderstouw said. �We really, truly want to make it a tool for the patient.�
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BWW Blog: David Nando on the Vienna Production of LEGALLY BLONDE
For blog number 2, I spent a total of €5, or $7ish. How? Standing room (and VERY GOOD standing room!) at the Vienna production of LEGALLY BLONDE (or, NATÜRLICH BLOND).
It was interesting to see this physical and directorial transplant of the Broadway production on a Viennese stage. All the same physical gags and textual jokes are pretty much there, including a Santa/Hannukah one. In general, these very American jokes seemed to go over the audience members' heads, and I was laughing the loudest with my inherent native understanding.
The VBW couldn't have two more different shows in terms of dramaturgy and origin. ELISABETH on the other side of the city is so Austrian in staging and dramaturgy while BLONDE is very NYC. The fast pace, including the snippy overture and the 'big' moments of the self acceptance and dreams, were well done and performed. However something seemed a little off when I remembered I wasn't in NYC, but the much more quiet and slower Vienna.
I think it is so important for art to travel across cultural lines. But, depending on the context and hunger of the local audience, different changes or non changes must happen with that crossover. I often see American pieces seeing no major changes when they move into European and Asian markets, while the reverse is opposite, if the entrance into American markets happens at all. Often, the question of "is it Broadway ready" gets thrown around. But are we asking ourselves if something is "Austrian" ready?
This production of BLONDE is very well performed in spite of low attendance and a cut down on the performance schedule. The usual six shows a week are now at five (Next month, ELISABETH will pick up the slack from six to seven). Elle Woods understudy Marie-Anjes Lumpp turned in a great performance, and was quite affecting in the character's journey.
If we are going to continue having a struggle for crossover (which is not the rule, as MAMMA MIA, WICKED, the 80s mega musicals, etc, have done well all around the world), perhaps new contexts can be created to share across borders. The pressure for the Broadway label to validate a show's quality shouldn't be the be-all end-all, I suppose. Nor should something's seeming foreignness block us from earnestly developing international relationships to talk about shared themes.
At the end of the day, the relatively well attended performance of BLONDE that I saw (Tuesday night, by the way) seemed to strike the audience in some way. Although my reading of their reaction indicates they didn't understand certain American sight gags or jokes (Lord of the Rings geeks, aforementioned Christmas/Hannukah), they did respond with oomph and joy at the end. Perhaps they identified with the search for self acceptance and girl power. Thus, maybe, they needed a different context (theatre, production) to embrace it more fully.
I just think these are important conversations to have- the how, the why, the where. Nothing is a rule. But everything should be thoughtfully considered.
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