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By Deanna C. White
By now, many of us are familiar with the statistics on the current status of women in leadership in accounting, says Mary L. Bennett, founder of MLBennett Consulting LLC and chair of the AICPA Women's Initiatives Executive Committee
"If you look at people coming up in the ranks over the last thirty years, 50 percent of the people in the profession are women", Bennett said citing a recent AICPA survey",but only 19 percent of leadership in the accounting and finance professions right now is female."
That disparity points to the fact, Bennett said, that even after years of commitment to diversity in leadership, and the emergence of more female leaders in the accounting pipeline, the profession still needs to make a more focused effort to actively develop, build, and sponsor women leaders.
"There is a perception problem with women in leadership…a 'been there, done that' kind of feeling. As soon as people believe women have been in the pipeline long enough they become complacent. They think the 'women in leadership issue' will simply take care of itself", Bennett said. "But that's not the case. We still need to invest in this issue. We still need to make a more substantial effort to ensure women are achieving top leadership roles."
That's exactly the type of substantial commitment the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) will make this October, when it hosts the Women's Global Leadership Summit.
The Summit, which will be held October 24 and October 25 at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington D.C., will attempt to close the gap in women's leadership by offering both aspiring and established women leaders access to the two resources that can solidify their path to success: authentic role models and solid skillbuilding.
"One of the most essential elements in leadership development is access to new ideas and learning opportunities combined with strong role models", Bennett said. "This conference gives participants both."
The Women's Global Leadership Summit, developed by the AICPA's Women's Initiatives Executive Committee, is designed to help participants "develop critical business skills, receive key updates on issues affecting women and the workplace, build important professional networks, and support diversity in the office and the boardroom", according to the AICPA.
Attendees will be able to gain insights and learn best practices from women in the finance, government, not-for-profit, and academic arenas. Organizers say sessions are international in scope, with speakers and organizations representing global perspectives.
Yasmine El-Ramly, project manager, PCPS, for the AICPA, said the Summit will also give women the opportunity to glean inspiration directly from women who have achieved success in their fields, as well as bring together all audiences, male and female, who want to learn more about developing female leaders or women's initiatives.
Keynoters will include BBC World News anchor Katty Kay, a co-author of Womenomics, and noted futurist Edie Weiner, president of Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., who at the 29, became the youngest outside woman elected to a major financial institution's board.
Breakout sessions will feature best practices on negotiating skills, effective communication, risk management, board leadership, and other topics. Specific sessions include Business Development and Strategic Partnership Strategies for Women, and Communicate like a Leader, Effective Strategies for Women.
In one of the Summit's most unique offerings, participants who have been poring over the hottest business reads on their tablets will have the chance to meet the authors, and work with them directly in interactive career navigation sessions through the Summit's "Discussion with the Author" series.
Mackey McNeill, CPA/PFS, CGMA, author of The Intersection of Joy and Money will share insights into money, wealth, and human behavior; Janet Graham, CPA, CA, MBA, will guide participants through an interactive coaching session with lessons gleaned from her book Babes on Bay Street, and Executive Coach Karen Wensley, MBA, author of The Power of Personal Branding for Career Success, will walk participants through an eight-step process to help them define and build their brand.
One of the major motivators behind the genesis of the Summit, Bennett said, was the desire to help women build an awareness of what might be missing in their own careers, and help them "fill in the blanks" to achieve success.
"The Women's Executive Committee developed the Summit because we want to bring a reasonable awareness to the fact that women are not receiving the same amount of skillbuilding [as their male counterparts] in their rise to the top, and they are missing out on role models and sponsors who reflect diversity in how they've gone about managing their career and home life", Bennett said. "The Summit will provide them the access to these skills and role models that they can't get anyplace else."
Bennett said it's critical to bring attention to these missing pieces of the puzzle because very often women are not even aware they are missing out on the key sponsorships, skill building, and assignments that lead to the corner office because they are not privy to the behind the scenes discussions that lead to leadership assignments.
"Many times women themselves are not consciously aware of what might be holding them back. We can educate them as to what their barriers to success may be", Bennett said.
Many people are also not aware, Bennett said, that career life integration is a skill set that can be built through study and practice.
"There are a lot of specific skills connected to career life integration", Bennett said. "The Summit will show participants how to develop those skills and the pitfalls to avoid."
One of the most important of those career life integration skills, Bennett said, is the ability to build a strong team.
"Women have really good, basic raw skills but those skills can backfire. Women are super team players, but they also try to be superwoman", Bennett said. "They have a tendency to be overly focused on maintaining personal control, when what they really need to do is build a strong support team that can handle things when they are not in the office for whatever reason – whether are with a client or at home."
El-Ramly indicated that many prospective attendees say they are signing up for the Summit specifically because they want access to female role models who can tell them how they ascended to success through their own stories of trial and error – mentors they simply don't have access to in their male-dominated fields.
"This conference gives specific career navigation information to women…presented by leaders of the profession; practitioners with unique success stories", El-Ramly said. "It is a great opportunity to meet female role models, learn from others, and share lessons learned."
Bennett added that critical sharing between aspiring leaders and role models that authentically reflect their experiences is the Summit's ultimate goal.
"I hope women leave the Summit with the skills and knowledge they need most", Bennett said. "But mainly I hope women leave with a good idea of who their role models and sponsors are – a belief that they exist, that they are out there, and how to find them. And I hope they reach out to them."
The AICPA's 2013 Women's Global Leadership Summit is co-sponsored by the American Woman's Society of Certified Public Accountants and CPA Canada. A live webcast option will be available for those who can't attend in person.
For more details on the Summit or to register visit www.cpa2biz.com/leadership.


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Former Secretary of State under the George W. Bush administration Condoleezza Rice traveled to Fort Worth on Wednesday to speak to influential council members and students regarding her time in office and the release of her new book, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington.
Present at the event were media students from Coppell High School, along with Junior World Affairs Council (JWAC) members from Arlington Martin High School and influential members of the region. Hosted by the World Affairs Council of Dallas and Fort Worth (DFWWAC), the event was an opportunity for residents to meet and have questions answered by Rice.
After an introduction by Fort Worth mayor Betsy Price, in which Rice was referred to as "the most accomplished woman in America," Rice discussed what led her to writing her memoir, her personal accomplishments and her current stance on issues of foreign policy.
After her speech, the 10-time doctorate recipient opened up the room for questions and addressed topics including Texas senator John Cornyn's stance on Taiwanese negotiations, relations with Latin America and the impact of the Bush Administration on the United States.
"I've been to a few of these events, and I think they open our eyes to who these people really are," Martin High School JWAC President Heather Salah said. "We know what the press says about these people, and we know what others assume; but getting to listen to them actually speak is great. It gives us experience in dealing with public figures and people in politics. It's cool, I mean these are the people running our country."
After the speech and catered breakfast, guests were given the opportunity to purchase No Higher Honor and have their copies signed by Rice.
"These events are great for students because they really make history through political interaction for a student," DFWWAC program coordinator Chelsea Marshall said. "I mean, how often to you get to meet a Secretary of State? It makes everything in history books seem more alive."
KCBY seniors Liz Meyer and Madeline Daily covered the event for an upcoming segment and agreed that the program was an excellent learning opportunity.
"I actually really enjoyed listening to her speak," Daily said. "I'm not big into politics but a lot of things she said I found interesting. I really liked the short talk she gave about how democracy and freedom weren't necessarily the same thing – it was eye opening."
By the end of the breakfast, participants knew much about both Rice as a politician in her various positions and her individual views on many of today's problems.
When an audience member stood up and questioned the changes in her foreign policy stances since her work in the Bush administration, she responded with the following:
"One thing that I've heard said over and over about countries such as Afghanistan is this: 'They aren't ready for democracy.' I now deeply resent people who say that. How patronizing to deny basic human rights. Those values are universal."

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Spyder Releases Limited Edition US Ski Team Athlete-inspired GS Race Suits
Boulder, CO (October 14, 2010) — You may not be able to race like an Olympic athlete, but you can look just as fast. In honor of Gold medal-winning Olympic and World Cup performances from US Ski Team athletes Bode Miller, Ted Ligety, Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso, Spyder is offering a limited edition production of the performance GS suits for men, women and children. Available at select retailers in mid-October, the suits were designed exclusively to reflect and represent each athlete's individual accomplishments.
The anatomically contoured designs feature sublimated graphics of the iconic Spyder web and patriotic stars and stripes on performance fabrics that were tested in wind tunnels. Men can choose from the dark green Bode suit he wore in the last World Cup season or the Ted suit in lime green and orange, the same that Ligety wore at the Whistler Games. For women, the Julia suit is featured in light blue with pink accents, also a replica of her medal-winning Olympic attire. The new Lindsey suit is available in her signature pink, and includes an oversized white plaid graphic. Both Vonn and Miller each have custom suits to honor their 2008/2009 overall World titles plus to commemorate their Vancouver Gold medals. Adult suits retail for $525 USD while all four suits are available in kid's sizing for $350 USD.
Additional suit features include a front stretch zipper, thumb anchor straps, grip elastic at boot top, and removable padding at the forearm, upper arm, thigh, and knees. All suits pass the International Ski Federation standards test.
The limited edition suits are available at race retailers in North America and Europe.
About Spyder Active Sports
Renowned for integrating high-tech fabrics, fashion and functionality, Spyder is the world's leading skiwear and mountain-based apparel brand. Launched in 1978 with the development of revolutionary padded slalom race sweaters, the iconic brand continues to develop progressive apparel season after season. Rigorously tested by top athletes across the world including the US and Canadian Alpine Ski Teams plus big mountain, freeski, and park and pipe professional skiers. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Spyder products are distributed in over 50 countries worldwide. For more information and to view the current collection, please visit www.spyder.com.


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Experience the NRT Difference
Designed and built for casinos, lotteries, retailers and ATM operators around the globe. Our customer centric approach has elevated our product portfolio to one that makes a difference in our customers operation. With the most advanced solutions, integration and payment processing platform, NRT is positioned to equip your casino with reliable and effective solutions that maximize revenue opportunities while enhancing your customers experience on the casino floor.
Solutions you can count on, whether you are a local ATM operator or a national gaming corporation.
NRT to Showcase SecureSmart™ Point-to-Point Encryption Security Solutions and NEO™ at 2016 Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas
Experience the difference when Security Matters
Las Vegas, Nevada (September 22, 2016) NRT Technology Corp. ("NRT"), a provider of integrated ticket redemption and cash access kiosks and payment services to global casino operators, will feature its growing portfolio of Payment, Cash Handling and SecureSmart™ Point-to-Point Encryption Solutions at the upcoming Global Gaming Expo ("G2E"), September 27- 29, 2016 (booth # 4046) at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Visit us in the NRT Innovation Room at booth #4046 to experience NRT's SecureSmart™ solution which promotes best practices, education and awareness, driving the adoption of security products adding layers of protection to the payments process, such as point-to-point encryption, tokenization and EMV.
Also on display at the NRT stand will be the most advanced, reliable and secure casino cash handling & payment kiosk in the world, QuickJack NEO™ . This product is culmination of 15 plus years of ticket redemption and financial services innovation. Designed and engineered to be the most secure, feature-rich and user-friendly ticket redemption/ATM kiosk in the world, the QuickJack NEO™ is a must-see for casino operators who want to improve patron experience and increase cash to the floor, all while achieving unparalleled security. Visit us for your chance to see the QuickJack NEO™ in action.
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Lenovo Debuts Enhanced Experience for Windows 7
Certification Only Available on Lenovo Products to Deliver Faster, Richer and Easier Computing For Businesses and Consumers Worldwide
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – September 28, 2009: Lenovo today announced the Windows 7 Lenovo Enhanced Experience – a certification only available on Lenovo products that consists of powerful features, tools and optimizations designed to improve system performance and enhance the computing experience for customers running Windows 7 on Lenovo PCs. Lenovo Enhanced Experience is the result of joint engineering between Lenovo and Microsoft designed to provide PCs that will not only run Windows 7, but will also help consumers and small business customers enrich their experience with the new Windows 7 operating system when it becomes available.
Among the key benefits of the Lenovo Enhanced Experience certification is advanced performance tuning, which enables both Think and Idea PCs to start-up significantly faster than identical configuration, non-optimized PCs. For example, on select Think PCs, Windows 7 starts up to 56 percent faster compared to running Windows XP or Vista, and shuts down in as little as five seconds.1 Enhanced Experience PCs also include multimedia enhancements and easy system maintenance tools on Idea PCs, and performance-optimized ThinkVantage Technologies for advanced productivity and security on Think PCs.
"To achieve Windows 7 Lenovo Enhanced Experience certification, Lenovo's technical team and developers have worked with Microsoft during the making of Windows 7 to create an exceptionally-engineered hardware and software experience," said Fran O'Sullivan, senior vice president, Think Product Group, Lenovo. "Advances in PC technology are giving users even better tools to increase their personal productivity at work, and this Enhanced Experience certification lets customers know that our Think PCs are optimized for business."
"Lenovo Enhanced Experience certification means customers can be confident that our systems not only meet the specification to run Windows 7, but are optimized to enhance it," said Liu Jun, senior vice president, Idea Product Group, Lenovo. "The Enhanced Experience Idea product portfolio encompasses products that uniquely integrate standard industry features with Lenovo's own value-add technologies and advanced performance tuning to deliver a faster, richer and easier way for consumers to use their PCs."
Idea PCs Deliver a Faster, Richer and Easier Windows 7 Experience for Consumers
Lenovo's Enhanced Experience PCs for consumers and small office home office (SOHO) customers were engineered with technologies built around three key benefits: fast system boot and shutdown, rich multimedia capabilities and easy system maintenance.
Faster Windows 7 PC Boot and Shutdown
Enhanced Experience Idea PCs have optimized system files, processes and hardware settings and achieve quicker boot and shutdown compared with non-optimized Idea PCs.2 With Enhanced Experience, Lenovo customers will be able to start Windows 7 Idea PCs up to 33 percent faster and shutdown 50 percent faster than identical configuration, non-optimized PCs even while still initializing PC features such as anti-virus software.[3]
Rich Entertainment & Graphics Features
Lenovo's Idea products with Windows 7 Enhanced Experience feature breakthrough visual and audio technologies, including high definition graphics, DirectX 10 and enhanced digital audio.
Easier to Use and Maintain
OneKeyTM Rescue System 7.0 and Lenovo Rescue System 3.0 can backup and recover data two times faster than previous versions and feature improved anti-virus and system repair functions for added peace-of-mind. In addition, users can perform an anti-virus scan at the press of a button on their Enhanced Experience Idea PCs – even before Windows loads – to repair critical system files and quickly backup or restore personal data.
Lenovo Delivers Faster, More Secure Windows 7 Experience for Business Customers
Lenovo developed its Think-branded solution for business customers around three core areas: fast performance, business-optimized features and safeguarding data. Think-branded PCs, including ThinkPad notebooks, ThinkCentre desktops and ThinkStation workstations, will provide these enhanced benefits when running with Windows 7.
Faster PC Processing
Built for Business
Innovative, Layered Data Security
Customers will be able to identify Lenovo products that extend the benefits of Windows 7 through a special Lenovo Enhanced Experience certification sticker affixed to the products. To find out more about Windows 7 Lenovo Enhanced Experience for business and consumers, please visit www.lenovo.com/win7ee.
For the latest Lenovo news, subscribe to Lenovo RSS feeds or follow Lenovo on Twitter and Facebook.
About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) (ADR: LNVGY) is dedicated to building exceptionally engineered personal computers. Lenovo's business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets. Formed by Lenovo Group's acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information see www.lenovo.com.
[1] Without Enhanced Experience -Think systems integrated with Window-7 Professional beta, hardware device drivers, utilities, Lenovo and 3rd-party software as of January 2009 with no optimization performed by Lenovo With Enhanced Experience - Think systems integrated with Window-7 Professional RTM, hardware device driver, utilities, Lenovo and 3rd-party software as of September 2009 after optimization by Lenovo engineers to integrated software components
[2] Improvement claim is based on testing Windows® 7 machines of identical configuration, one machine without any optimization and the other optimized. Actual times and their relative improvements vary by model, with an average boot improvement of 22% and shutdown improvement of 30% across the consumer range of EE certified PCs. Improvements may vary according to the exact configuration of the system and may degrade over time depending on other software installed or changes made to system settings. Lenovo optimization does not impact any essential services or software features.
[3] Time taken from power on until boot complete. Boot time claim of 33% refers to IdeaPad Y650 running Windows® 7 Home Premium release RTM 7600 with Intel® Core™2 Duo P8700, 3GB DDR3 memory, 320GB 5400rpm HDD and discrete graphics card. Boot Complete is defined as the moment when CPU loading falls below 20% and remains there for 10seconds. Shutdown claim refers to IdeaCentre A600 running Windows® 7 Home Premium release RTM 7600 with Intel® Core™2 Duo T9600, 3GB DDR3 memory, 1TB HDD and discrete graphics card. Shutdown time is defined as time taken from selecting shutdown option in Windows to power off.
[4] Depends on display resolution. Not all models support 1080p resolution. Other models support up to 720p or 1080i
[5] Not all Enhanced Experience certified desktop products include integrated speakers.
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Both are hoping the visit to the Montney Shale region, along with meetings with stakeholders, will provide them with an opportunity to gain some first hand knowledge about the natural gas extraction process within the province.
MLA Bob Simpson talks about some of the information he expects to gain from this trip.
"Last spring, Vicki Huntington and I joined together to ask Premier Clarke to convene a Special Committee of the Legislature to conduct a comprehensive inquiry into fracking. As there has been no indication Premier Clark has considered our request, our itinerary aims to achieve an impartial understanding of the industry and its effects, and provide a platform to share our findings with British Columbians."
Local MLA Pat Pimm, representing the Peace River North, will host the two independent MLAs on a portion of their trip, and will also be joining the two in meetings with the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission, as well as on a tour of the CCS waste disposal facility.
The group with also be meeting with B.C. Hydro, for a discussion of the proposed Site C Dam.
According to MLA Huntington, Hydraulic fracking is another focal point the two independent MLAs plan on educating themselves about while visiting the Peace Region.
"Modern fracking technology comes with the potential for environmental harm, but also for economic development. We need a comprehensive and pre-emptive approach which assesses risk and cumulative impacts of fracking and ensures we have the right public policy and regulations in place to protect the environment and human health and safety.
To gain further knowledge on the procedure, Huntington and Simpson will also be visiting the Williston Reservoir, where two pipelines have been approved to remove fresh water for fracking activities around Hudson's Hope, an area that the MLAs will also be touring with local residents. The two will also be meeting with the Peace Environment & Safety Trustee Society.
MLA Simpson says he is hoping the trip will provide a deeper understanding regarding the processes involved, the economic benefits as well as the environmental and health implications associated with the extraction of the province's shale gas resources.
He says that with the new information, he and Huntington can hopefully make recommendations to the government on areas where public policy require strengthening.


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Aged Noblestown Man Dies Suddenly The sudden death of Isaac Perry ALLEN, 82, of Noblestown at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 10, 1946, came as a shock to his many friends. Wile it was known that he was in ill health he continued to take daily walks around town and on Monday was a dinner guest in the home of his son, Duane ALLAN in Oakdale. A son of G. W. and Rachel BOOZEL ALLAN, he was born August 2, 1853 in Mercer county. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Maude NEAL ALLAN, two sons, Duane ALLAN of Oakdale and William C. ALLAN of Butler. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, December 13, in the Thomas Funeral Home, Oakdale, in charge of the Rev. Charles F. TAME of McDonald, and the Rev. G. M. CONNOR. Burial will be in the Robinson's Run cemetery. ---- (Source: Dec. 13, 1946 Obits. McDonald PA Record) (Contributor: Victoria Hospodar Valentine, firstname.lastname@example.com)
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text: Ex-C.I.A. agent Liam Neeson becomes a one-man killing machine after his daughter is kidnapped by vicious slave-traders in this gripping thriller. With only four days to find the teen and her schoolfriend before its too late, the former Black Ops specialist jets to Paris to serve as judge, jury and executioner to the Albanian thugs responsible for the abduction. Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen co-star. Directed by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen


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GUADALAJARA, Mexico – There is still a real possibility that the Liga MX Clausura 2014 playoffs may not have any American presence, unless results go the right way over the last two rounds of matches.
Of the American regulars, only Tijuana's band – Herculez Gomez, Joe Corona (above), Greg Garza, Paul Arriola and Edgar Castillo – is currently hanging onto a playoff place in seventh in the Liga MX.
Xolos face a long trip to Jonathan Bornstein's already-relegated Atlante on Sunday (6 pm ET, Univision Deportes), knowing that a first road victory in the league since January 2013 would be a big boost, with only seven points separating third from 16th in the table.
It shouldn't be forgotten that in first place and already qualified for the postseason is Cruz Azul, for whom Michael Farfan debuted and scored last weekend. The San Diego native could be in line for more playing time against Morelia on Friday (8:30 pm ET, Azteca America), with La Máquina involved in the CONCACAF Champions League final second leg at Toluca next week.
Jose Torres is back from suspension for Tigres UANL as they travel Saturday to Copa Libertadores participants León, who are likely to play a reserve side that could feature midfielder Dennis Flores (9 pm ET, Telemundo).
The team from Monterrey needs points to keep its playoff hopes alive – it is currently three points off eighth-place Chivas.
Gabriel Farfan's Chiapas – who still have an outside shot at the playoffs despite being in 15th place – are at Santos Laguna on Saturday (8 pm ET Univision Deportes), while DaMarcus Beasley is set to feature for last-place Puebla on the road against Pachuca (8 pm ET, Univision Deportes 2).
Michael Orozco Fiscal remains out injured for La Franja.
It is a big weekend for Necaxa duo Sonny Guadarrama and Ventura Alvarado, with Los Rayos tied at 2-2 heading into Saturday's playoff quarterfinal second leg in Aguascalientes against Delfines del Carmen (9 pm ET).
Tom Marshall covers Americans playing in Latin America for MLSsoccer.com. E-mail him at email@example.com.


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November 30, 2012 BY John Kim
A signature Nike sneaker for an NFL athlete is ten years in the making, and it couldn't have arrived at a better time and for a better person. With Nike taking over the NFL outfitting rights, it's been quite a scene to witness all 32 teams race up and down the field in the Swoosh, but it's gonna get better with the debut of the Zoom Revis training shoe, designed for Jets star cornerback Darrelle Revis. Tomorrow, the 'Jets' colorway of Fir/White will hit stores for $130, with several other colorways to follow, so don't miss out on this historic release when it hits Nikestore and Nike Football retailers tomorrow. Also, hit up Champs Yardline in New Jersey for a special in-store event with Revis himself!
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I should be posting a Star Wars related photo today in honor of May the Fourth. But, it's not been a Star Wars sort of week around here. For once. Ever.
Ironman even showed up for breakfast this morning.
The boys are royally ticked that Chuck and I are going to see the Avengers movie this afternoon without them, but I explained (over and over and over again) that we have to pre-view it to make sure it's okay for them to watch. The PG-13 rating can mean anything, but as long as it's intense fight scenes, we're okay. Too much other "stuff" and it might not be okay for their little eyes and ears.
"Adults get to do anything they want," pouts Jeremy. "I can't wait until I'm an adult."
"Yes, well once you become an adult you'll miss your childhood so badly that you'll wonder why you ever wished it away," I say.
"No, I won't miss it," he says. "Cause I'll get to stay up as late as I want and see PG-13 movies whenever I want to."
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Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse took a break from budgets and crime Friday afternoon to officiate weddings.
Papenfuse performed the nuptials for two couples at a ceremony at City Hall.
The couples said they wanted to be the first to be married by Papenfuse, so to honor the wishes of both couples, Papenfuse held a special double ceremony to join them simultaneously.
"It's Friday afternoon, it's been a really long, hard week doing the business of Harrisburg. It seemed like it was an appropriate time to celebrate," the mayor said.


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On Monday, GMA will air a Charlie Gibson interview with President Bush and a Diane Sawyer interview with former President Clinton.
At the top of its broadcast, NBC's Matt Lauer reported that a new poll by the Associated Press shows "it's a dead heat."
ABC's George Stephanopoulos noted how scripted both of Kerry's Thursday appearances were, from "playing offense" with Dana Reeve for suburban married women, to "playing defense" with hunting gear with rural men; "John Kerry can't win this vote... But he's got to hold down President Bush's lead there. People like President Clinton believe Al Gore got beat because of the hatred of gun owners..."On surrogates, Stephanopoulos said Bill Clinton's job will be to "turn out the African-American vote in big numbers" and reported that the "biggest star in the Democratic party" will campaign with Kerry in South Florida on Tuesday. Stephanopoulos also reported that Arnold Schwarzenegger will campaign for President Bush next Friday in Columbus, where he has strong ties, to "bring out young voters there."
Los Angeles Times' Ron Brownstein said on CNN's "American Morning that "Almost all polls do show John Kerry running better in [battlegrounds] than he is nationally… and it does raise the possibility of a divergence between the popular vote and the electoral vote."
ABC's Dan Harris: "The Kerry campaign knows it needs to do better among women, so today here in this room at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Kerry will be making a speech aimed directly at women talking about equal pay and he will have with him a surprise guest: Caroline Kennedy." Harris reported that Kerry argued for more federal funding for stem cell research on Thursday alongside Dana Reeve, whose husband Christoper Reeve, died just a week and a half ago. Harris noted that Kerry went hunting yesterday in an attempt to woo male rural voters and that he was quickly ridiculed by his opponents. President Bush will highlight Kerry's "liberal record" when he campaigns in Ohio, a crucial state the President has not visited for nearly three weeks now. In Canton, Ohio, President Bush will be unveiling a new speech today. The Kerry campaign says Bush's absence from the crucial battleground state of Ohio is a sign of weakness. The Bush campaign says no, it's just a "scheduling glitch."
NBC's Norah O'Donnell said Bush will visit all three big battleground states today: Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. O'Donnell said the race is turning on "values and who is more macho." Photo of Bush with the Archbishop of Philadelphia used to show Bush courting Catholics. NBC played sound of Bush and Cheney ridiculing Kerry's hunting. O'Donnell said Bush will "toughen his stump speech" on national security, Social Security, values.
NBC's Carl Quintanilla included sound of Edwards asking "Who's minding the store" about what he says are political appearances by Bush Cabinet members.
CBS' Byron Pitts led the "Early Show" with a package featuring extensive sound from Dana Reeve.
In CBS' second package, Bill Plante included mention of Bush's private meeting with the Philadelphia archbishop and sound about immigration from the President's interview with Univision.
ABC at 7:09 gave nearly 90 seconds of time to sound from Dana Reeve.
Similarly, NBC's "Today" played a LONG excerpt from Dana Reeve endorsing Kerry.
"Today" played an excerpt from Bush's interview with Telemundo. Bush is told by the interviewer that he hears from people "in the community" that Bush is "a very good man" and that he is a "man of values" but he also hears from people that Bush is "very stubborn." Bush laughed and said: "I listen to very smart, capable people. But on big matters: I stand on principle. It's very important for people to recognize that. America must not show weakness or uncertainty. That will lead to tragedy. This is a job where the buck stops here.
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McCain called the rhetoric in this campaign "bad on both sides." McCain said mistakes are made in every war but that the key is moving Iraq to elections and a functioning, if not flawed, democracy much as the United States did in Afghanistan. McCain said of Clinton: "We will never see his likes again." But he doubted what impact Clinton would have on the race for President: "He did a good job at the Democratic convention but it didn't affect the numbers much."
GILLESPIE AND McAULIFFE ON FNC:
RNC Chair Ed Gillespie appeared on "Fox and Friends" and said Kerry is "very adept" at trying to convince people that he is something that he's not. But Gillespie doesn't believe that Kerry saying life begins at conception or going hunting will change the way people look at him because they know his record in those areas.
DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe who appeared on "Fox and Friends" later in the program said: "In 2000, if we had gone to Kinko's in the morning and Xeroxed that Butterfly Ballot and showed it to people in West Palm Beach, Al Gore would be President right now."
ABC's Jake Tapper had a light-hearted piece on Barbie running for President that included interviews with Bush advisor Mark McKinnon and Kerry advisor Tad Devine.
ABC's Bob Woodruff handled a new National Geographic documentary on the Secret Service.
CBS' Steve Kroft previewed his Jon Stewart piece which will air Sunday on "60 Minutes." Kroft interviewed Stewart before his appearance on CNN's "Crossfire."


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Fernando R Moya
Affiliation: Texas Medical Center
Country: USA
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- A multicenter, randomized, masked, comparison trial of lucinactant, colfosceril palmitate, and beractant for the prevention of respiratory distress syndrome among very preterm infantsFernando R Moya
Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Pediatrics 115:1018-29. 2005....
- Regulation of human pulmonary surfactant protein gene expression by 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3Sarabjit S Phokela
Dept of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 289:L617-26. 2005....
- Evidence-based management of infants with congenital diaphragmatic herniaFernando R Moya
Department of Pediatrics, Coastal Area Health Education Center, Wilmington, NC 28402 9025, USA
Semin Perinatol 29:112-7. 2005....
- Surfactant does not improve survival rate in preterm infants with congenital diaphragmatic herniaKevin P Lally
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Houston, 6431 Fannin St, MSB 5 258, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Pediatr Surg 39:829-33. 2004..Use of exogenous surfactant in congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) patients is routine in many centers. The authors sought to determine the impact of surfactant use in the premature infant with CDH...
- Postnatal dexamethasone therapy and cerebral tissue volumes in extremely low birth weight infantsNehal A Parikh
Division of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Pediatrics 119:265-72. 2007..Our goal was to relate postnatal dexamethasone therapy in extremely low birth weight infants (birth weight of < or = 1000 g) to their total and regional brain volumes, as measured by volumetric MRI performed at term-equivalent age...
- Interaction of an artificial surfactant in human pulmonary epithelial cellsEdgar J Romero
Division of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 39:167-77. 2005..We conclude that while human type II cells and other lung cell types can incorporate the components of Surfaxin, the surfactant-related physiological functions of these cells are not altered...
- Randomized, controlled trial of slow versus rapid feeding volume advancement in preterm infantsJudith Caple
Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Houston Medical School, 6431 Fannin St, MSB 3 218, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Pediatrics 114:1597-600. 2004..We also examined whether these infants regain birth weight earlier, have fewer days of intravenous fluids, and a have shorter hospital stay...
- Longitudinal assessment of heart rate variability in very low birth weight infants during their NICU stayAsif Z Khattak
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Department of Pediatrics, 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77339, USA
Early Hum Dev 83:361-6. 2007..Maturation of the autonomic nervous system has not been studied in high-risk very low birth weight (VLBW) infants in the first few weeks of life...
- Risk factors predicting vasopressor use after patent ductus arteriosus ligationFurqan Moin
Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA
Am J Perinatol 20:313-20. 2003..Lower birth weight, lower gestational age, and higher respiratory support define a high-risk subgroup of patients in whom the prophylactic administration of vasopressor(s) could be studied...
- Surfactant trialsFernando R Moya
Pediatrics 117:245-7; author reply 247-8. 2006
- Surfactant replacement therapy on ECMO does not improve outcome in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic herniaChristopher E Colby
Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
J Pediatr Surg 39:1632-7. 2004..The aim of this study was to determine if surfactant replacement on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) results in improved outcomes in neonates > or =35 weeks' gestation with unrepaired CDH...


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The following information is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff's Department, Corning Police Department and California Highway Patrol.
- ?Friday afternoon a resident on Marin Street reported seeing a woman in her neighbor's yard taking items including a green garbage can. The woman left westbound on Marin dragging large trash bags with her. A second party contacted law enforcement saying he also saw the woman steal the garbage can and attempt to get into his vehicle. The property was eventually returned to the owner and a trespass admonishment given.
- ?A resident on Mission Drive reported that for the past six months his neighbor has been knocking on his door through the night and leaving animal waste on his doorstep in an attempt to harass him.
- Around noon Friday an employee at Valley Terrace Apartments reported three people were on the edge of the property waiting for a ride, while one of the tenants was yelling at them from her apartment. Extra patrol was requested. A second party called law enforcement to report that the people threw orange juice on her vehicle was now involved in a disturbance with two men and one woman. Corning police responded and while it was unclear who threw the liquid on the vehicle, the three people were asked to leave and given a trespass warning.
- ?A man reported he was at Woodson Park Saturday afternoon when he noticed two women using obscene language. He said he asked them to stop and they began yelling at him and calling him a dirty old man. One of the woman was contacted and she said she was using foul language and the man had yelled at her because of it. The man said he would be leaving the park.
- ?A silver 2001 Honda CRV with California license plate 4TRA070 was reported stolen sometime Friday night on Fig Lane. The vehicle's bumper has a small dent.
- An ambulance was requested Friday morning at Centennial High School for a report of possible alcohol poisoning. A juvenile was transported to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital and a parent advised of the situation.


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Raleigh, N.C. — The parts of the Racial Justice Act not gutted by legislators last year are in the crosshairs of Senate Bill 306, but the bill didn't get a vote in House Judiciary B committee Wednesday. It'll be back on the committee's agenda next week at the state legislature.
Wednesday saw the Senate give its budget proposal a first, party-line pass and the House tweak the deal to sell the Dorothea Dix property.
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Meantime, a key House chairman handed back his gavel with a scathing letter blasting fellow Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis.
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Huntsville Sushi Sampling
Our recent visit to Huntsville was the perfect excuse to once again sample some of the sushi bars in the North Alabama tech hub. And sample Alabama Sushi we did!
But we were determined to try sushi bars that we had not tried before. So we did not get around to some of our previus favorites like Edo.
First up was Sakao Japanese, located just off the main walkway in the fashionable Bridge Street pedestrian mall in Madison.
This is a nice little sushi bar with friendly staff and quick service. Be sure to order green tea here, because they use the real thing and let you refill.
Shown above is a spider roll. It was tasty and warm. They serve a lot of rolls here, like most sushi bars in Huntsville. One unusual thing was their nigiri sushi prices were $1.50 and $1.89 whether you order kani stick or tuna. Weird, right?
In case you're wondering, some of the local rolls include the Alabama Roll and the Tennessee Roll, shown below. Maybe folks in Tennessee just like salmon better than tuna?
They had a Huntsville Roll too, but we forget exactly what is in that roll. That's why we take these silly photos, because we have trouble remembering food we don't actually eat! And we did not feel like ordering this particular roll. Anyone who knows what the Huntsville roll has feel free to leave a comment.
We also sampled sushi at Phuket Restaurant in Providence, where they serve a wide assortment of Thai and Sushi dishes. Their Thai food is tasty, we had good luck with the few Thai entrees we've eaten there, but for this post we're more interested in their sushi.
Naturally we ordered the sushi platter, shown above. It was all good, and for a good price. The sushi here was our favorite of the three places we visited, and we'll return here on our next trip to Huntsville.
Finally, despite our better judgement, we tried the sushi in New China Asian restaurant on Jordan Lane. It was better than we expected, and they even had inarizushi, but this place is not really a competitor for any decent sushi bar. Predictable and boring are the two adjectives that come to mind.
So all in all we didn't do such a good job hitting the sushi spots of Huntsville on this trip. We missed Tokyo and Edo and several others, so we'll just have to vow to return at another time and carry on the quest.
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text: I think Holliday believes she created Effie because she's the one who fought for Effie to have a comeback (and more songs) rather than die after the first act. But despite her involvement in developing the character, she doesn't own the role. She should be happy that JHud won an Oscar for playing a character she helped create. I just don't understand why she has to be so bitter.Jennifer Holiday did not create Efie; Efie is loosely based on Florence Ballards life and her tragic outcome when she was with the Supremes.


text: How can I say "me too" in respond to phrases like: - I like you. - Me too. In every language you know... Actually, I wanna respond, if not to all, in most of those languages Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Bambara Bangla Belarusian Bisaya Bulgarian Cambodian Cantonese Chinese Catalan Cheyenne Chichewa Corsican Creol Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Ethiopian Faroese Farsi Filipino Finnish French Gaelic Georgian German Greek Gujarati Hiligaynon Hawaiian Hebrew Hiligaynon Hindi Hmong Hopi Hungarian Icelandic Ilonggo Indonesian Inuit Irish Italian Japanese Kannada Kapampangan Konkani Korean Latin Latvian Lebanese Lithuanian Malay Malayalam Mandarin Chinese Marath Mohawk Moroccan Nahuatl Navaho Norwegian Pandacan Pangasinan Papiamento Persian Pig Latin Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Scot Gaelic Serbian Setswana Sindhi Sioux Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Swiss-German Tagalog Taiwanese Tahitian Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Yoruba


text: We are just off the Magic and had amazing great time. We had excellent service from our dining room team and specially the server, I was really about to write a letter to Disney about him, but then on our 6th night we had the following happen: We had dinner at Palo for different resend there are things we are not eating, the chef came out and worked a menu with us, which was great and tasty, the only thing is that because our limits it wasn't that different from our regular dinner. So when we came out we run into our server from the MDR, he asked us about the dinner and we told him that it was great but wasn't really worth the extra money as we ended up eating the same food. Then we kept chatting about other thing and say our goodbyes, really not big issue on our side. The next morning I'm getting a call from guest service that due to our complaint about lack of variety in dinner and will not charge us for dinner. I have tries to explain that we never complaint, but it didn't help. Then I had 2 more calls about it one from the manger of the Palo and one front he chef apologizing again! All the explanation I did about how I really never compliant , were not helping! So then I become a bit upset with our server for putting us trough all this trouble. What would you do? Would you still write the recommendation letter to Disney? ( we tipped both extra and mentioned his name in the comment card) Glad to hear you opinions


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Les jeux de la distance et de la proximité :
Career mobility is not something trivial and banal. It remains, in many situations, despite the values and practices of our contemporary society, an individual problem. However, management research do not give us many means to decipher and understand, at an individual level, what happens in these situations more and more recurrent in the career of the employee. That is the purpose of this contribution. Based on a qualitative longitudinal design and the stories of three individuals employed by a high-tech company, this contribution provides an analysis of representations and experiences of the mobility process of these players through the concepts of distance and proximity. The interpretative framework adopted in this work, allows us to explore the complexity of this process and to provide a spatial resolution of the mobility experience and individual strategies deployed within it. Finally, this contribution offers a research program around a transversal design of "sets of scales" of proximity and distance that the spatial approach of organizational problems invites to adopt.
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Hey guys. Back again after the holiday with another installment in the One Thing You'd Change series, this time targeting Wii. For those of you who are wondering, yes, I do eventually plan to leave the Nintendo space and start asking about the other manufacturers' devices, and perhaps we'll even branch out and cover things like smart phones, tablets, e-readers, the PC mouse... anything you can play a game on I suppose. In fact, for the next installment I was toying with the idea of tackling the PS Vita, so have your thoughts ready for that one, though I was also thinking about the 3DS as well. Maybe we'll do both. Who knows?
For now though, let's take a look back at Nintendo's last generation console with a critical eye and single out that one flaw that most nags us (though I know some of you have a list as long as my arm) that, in a better world, Nintendo would have changed prior to Wii's 2006 debut. As for the rules, we have but a few. 1. Keep it within the realm of possibility (ie. no flux capacitors) 2. keep it about hardware, or at least about hardware-associated software (ie. "a snappier OS" is fine. "Moar gamez!" not so much.)
Now, I'm guessing most of you will type "More power" and peace out, which is a perfectly valid response. Having more horsepower, or at least a more modern design would have allowed Wii to receive a huge selection cross-platform games that it missed out on this gen (assuming the developers were interested) and made Nintendo's first party games look and run that much better. I mean, have you seen some of those shots of Skyward Sword running on Dolphin? (a program that emulates Wii games on gaming PCs and allows for higher resolutions and anti-aliasing) Who wouldn't want that?
But remember, here we're talking about that one thing you most want to change. So, for me, while having a Wii that was even half the power of a 360 with an architecture that allowed for easy porting would have been fantastic, that's not the one thing I'd choose. Why? Because I'm weird like that.
I was sorely tempted to put "Motionplus built in" as my answer. Having that kind of motion-control input from day 1 could have changed everything for Wii this gen. Many of the folks who dismiss all motion gaming as "lol waggle!" based on bad experiences with Wii (and who can blame them) might even now be gaming with pointer aiming slumped comfortably in their armchairs had we but had a gyro and magnetometer in addition to the accelerometer that is in the vanilla Wii remote.
However, even Motionplus, as much of a difference as it makes for the Wii games (I mean, Red Steel 1 to Red Steel 2 is night and freaking day!) still wouldn't fix a fundamental flaw of the Wii remote for playing most core games, the button layout.
Now, there are some things about the Wii's button layout that I love and would absolutely want to keep. For instance, the fact that you can flip the remote on its side to effectively turn it into an old-school 2d game controller is, IMO, quite clever and a worthy design feature. However, it almost seems that the vertical functionality of the remote was sacrificed in order to implement this feature. Ever played Call of Duty on a Wii remote? The IR pointer can be heaven for headshots, but reaching some of the buttons is a headache. In a way it almost seems like this is a horizontal remore that you can hold vertically, rather than the other way around.
I also like the Big Central Button design, where A is the all-purpose button for simpler games, its importance stressed to new players by its size and placement. However, stressing that importance by moving all other face buttons (+, -, home, 1, and 2) away really hurts the controller's playability.
The simplicity of the remote's design is also nice and welcoming, but cutting out an analogue just to keep from scaring the casuals away really hurts the remote usefulness as a gaming device.
So, is it possible to fix the Wii Remote's issues while preserving these three positives (without, of course, turning it into some kind of mini transformer)? I think it is. Taking some design cues from the Gamecube, you can alter the button placement to get something like this adding only 1 button and an analogue slider:
Okay, so the proportions are a little off (the D-pad, for one, seems particularly imposing) and my attempts at drawing the "bean-shaped" 2 and 3 buttons were so disastrous that I had to give up (you can imagine them as they were on Gamecube, right?), but you get the general idea. All it needs is a small button on the undersude, just above the trigger (like the c button on the nunchuck) to bring it up to par with the PS3 and 360 in terms of the number of buttons available. The best part is though that all those buttons are easily reachable with a thumb, while also preserving your ability to flip the remote on its side for when you're rocking it old school.
We'd also be sacrificing the "perfect emulation" that the Wii remote's in-line 1 and 2 buttons bring, by using the Gamecube layout (where the smaller buttons orbit a large central button), but the potential gains to the controller's usability in its vertical orientation make that more than worth it IMO. Also, as is the new layout favors righties pretty heavily, at least for one-handed games. With how cheap Wii remotes are to manufacture relative to their sale price, it would have been no problem for Nintendo to pump out left handed remotes, even if only for direct sale.
Anyway, it's not perfect, especially not the illustration, but I like this layout better than what the Wii remote currently has. What say you, reader mine?
And I'm not just asking your opinion on this button layout either. Though I do crave feedback on that, what I really want to know is what one thing you most desperately wish Nintendo had done differently back in the design days of the Wii. I'm sure what you want is very different from what I want. In fact, what I saw in the Wii U edition of One Thing was that my response wasn't as atypical as I expected, because there really wasn't a typical response. Practically every person would have changed something different about the Wii U, and I expect a similar spread for Nintendo's most controversial console. So keep that in mind as you comment and respond to others' comments.
All right. As usual I've hit the "enough and then some" limit, so no more wordses from me. Discus!
EDIT: More wordses, I know, but you might want to check out this interesting (to me anyway) and relevant article by Siliconera that shows some of the other Wii Remote designs patented by Nintendo: http://www.siliconera.com/2009/04/23/prototypes-of-the-wii-remote-nunchuk-and-classic-controller/


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Incredible Hercules #132
- Story by
- Fred Van Lente and Greg Pak
- Art by
- Nelson DeCastro and Reilly Brown
- Colors by
- Guillem Mari
- Letters by
- Simon Bowland
- Cover by
- Rafael Albuquerque
- Publisher
- Marvel Comics
For over a year now, people have been telling me that I've got to check out "Incredible Hercules." Every time a list of books that no one is reading but everyone should be reading crops up, there's "Incredible Hercules," staring me in the face, reminding me that I haven't picked an issue up yet. Well, I have finally read an issue and it was okay.
If I were to describe "Incredible Hercules" in one word, it would be 'fun,' something that's either a positive or negative depending on your views of what a good comic should be. I love fun comics, personally, but this one falls a bit flat in the execution. Take the one-page gag that begins this issue where Hercules annotates Thor's origin, a fantastic idea that never goes anywhere. The comments aren't funny or biting, they come off as forced as if the idea of this page was so good that even weak material couldn't stop it from seeing print.
The rest of the issue is like that: fun, imaginative ideas that just don't work as well on the page as they do in concept. Hercules and his father, Zeus are on the run from Hera's forces after Zeus died, lost his memory, and was transformed into a child. Along the way, Balder the Brave, Asgard's current ruler, requests Hercules's assistance in replacing Thor after a run in with a giant troll. The comedy is very hit or miss here, but the jokes that land are quite funny.
The interplay between Hercules and his amnesia-stricken child father is entertaining at times as Hercules tries to assure his father that he knows what he's doing, while acting in a way that directly contradicts those assurances. The comparisons drawn between the Norse gods and their Olympian counterparts make up some of the best material in the issue as does a brief appearance by Athena. However, the hit/miss ratio is too far off overall.
Reilly Brown's artwork is a good match for the writing, clean, cartoony, and fun. If anything makes various visual gags work, it's Brown's art, which has a good sense of what looks funny and does great facial expressions for this purpose. The actual action is a little stiff in spots, not quite up to Brown's skills elsewhere in the issue. He shows a lot of promise and seems like a great fit for this book.
While not as great as hyped up to be, "Incredible Hercules" #132 is an entertaining and enjoyable issue. Not every joke works, but those that do are funny – and that there's a superhero book trying for this fun, light, funny tone is admirable, and worth a look.


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UNITED NATIONS (Oct. 11)
A prominent Palestinian doctor from the West Bank charged here Tuesday that Israel uses toxic gas to quell the demonstrations in the territories, and that as a result, more than 800 pregnant Palestinian women had lost their fetuses over the last 10 months.
Dr. Muhammad Jadalla, chairman of the Union of the Health Committees in the West Bank and Gaza, told a news conference here that Israel's security forces are using a toxic tear gas known as CNNCS.
Ambassador Johanan Bein of Israel called Jadalla's accusation a "blatant lie."
"Israel never used toxic gas against demonstrators in the territories," Bein said. "Israel only uses tear gas to disperse demonstrations, as used by all civilized countries."
Jadalla contended that as a result of the "intifada," there is an "emergency situation" in the territories as far as health-care services in the region are concerned.
He said that there are only two general hospitals in the West Bank available to treat the daily casualties in clashes between rioting Palestinians and Israeli troops.
Jadala also made the following claims:
There is an average of 30 Palestinian casualties every day.
There are only 12 ambulances serving more than 1.5 million Palestinians in the territories.
About 60 Palestinian children, who were hit by rubber bullets used by Israeli troops, have lost one eye. Three Palestinian children in the territories lost both eyes.
Jadalla claimed that in recent weeks, Israel has been using harsher, "more brutal" measures in an effort to stop the uprising.
He said that Israeli troops now use three types of bullet against the demonstrators: rubber, plastic and metal.
Jadalla, who is in the United States at the invitation of the Palestine Aid Society in America, said he met with many officials of non-governmental organizations in the United States and discussed with them "the very grave situation" of the medical services in the West Bank and Gaza.


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So what are your reviews of this digital thermometer?
So what are your reviews of this digital thermometer?
From what I've read, its great, but range is pretty limited if you need to monitor your smoker at larger distances (more than 45 feet).
Good evening and welcome to the forum, from a cool and wet day here in East Texas. Lots of great people with tons of information on just about everything.
Spend some time reading the reviews. From what I hear they work pretty good. If you will post your questions in the general area more people will see them.
Happy smoken.
Where can I find more info on the wifi version, i.e pricing?
It's not out yet. Sounds like it will be around $200.00
Ouch. They'll probably come down in price in a year or 2. Would be a great gizmo to have, and the range will be better.
RF > wifi, but a large margin. Remote access over the net though is really nice for seeing how often the wife opens the smoker door haha.


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Baby born with HIV apparently cured, scientists say
WASHINGTON (AP/ABC7) - A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2 1/2 and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
There's no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus' genetic material still lingering. If so, it would mark only the world's second reported cure.
Specialists say Sunday's announcement, at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta, offers promising clues for efforts to eliminate HIV infection in children, especially in AIDS-plagued African countries where too many babies are born with the virus.
"You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we've seen," Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, who is familiar with the findings, told The Associated Press.
A doctor gave this baby faster and stronger treatment than is usual, starting a three-drug infusion within 30 hours of birth. That was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from a mother whose HIV wasn't diagnosed until she was in labor.
"I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk, and deserved our best shot," Dr. Hannah Gay, a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi, said in an interview.
That fast action apparently knocked out HIV in the baby's blood before it could form hideouts in the body. Those so-called reservoirs of dormant cells usually rapidly reinfect anyone who stops medication, said Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins Children's Center. She led the investigation that deemed the child "functionally cured," meaning in long-term remission even if all traces of the virus haven't been completely eradicated.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins say early intervention was key.
"We don't really give treatment as early as this child received theirs. We wait to know if the child is infected or not and that can take sometimes up to four to six weeks," says Dr. Persaud.
Next, Persaud's team is planning a study to try to prove that, with more aggressive treatment of other high-risk babies. "Maybe we'll be able to block this reservoir seeding," Persaud said.
No one should stop anti-AIDS drugs as a result of this case, Fauci cautioned.
But "it opens up a lot of doors" to research if other children can be helped, he said. "It makes perfect sense what happened."
Better than treatment is to prevent babies from being born with HIV in the first place.
About 300,000 children were born with HIV in 2011, mostly in poor countries where only about 60 percent of infected pregnant women get treatment that can keep them from passing the virus to their babies. In the U.S., such births are very rare because HIV testing and treatment long have been part of prenatal care.
"We can't promise to cure babies who are infected. We can promise to prevent the vast majority of transmissions if the moms are tested during every pregnancy," Gay stressed.
The only other person considered cured of the AIDS virus underwent a very different and risky kind of treatment - a bone marrow transplant from a special donor, one of the rare people who is naturally resistant to HIV. Timothy Ray Brown of San Francisco has not needed HIV medications in the five years since that transplant.
The Mississippi case shows "there may be different cures for different populations of HIV-infected people," said Dr. Rowena Johnston of amFAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. That group funded Persaud's team to explore possible cases of pediatric cures.
It also suggests that scientists should look back at other children who've been treated since shortly after birth, including some reports of possible cures in the late 1990s that were dismissed at the time, said Dr. Steven Deeks of the University of California, San Francisco, who also has seen the findings.
"This will likely inspire the field, make people more optimistic that this is possible," he said.
In the Mississippi case, the mother had had no prenatal care when she came to a rural emergency room in advanced labor. A rapid test detected HIV. In such cases, doctors typically give the newborn low-dose medication in hopes of preventing HIV from taking root. But the small hospital didn't have the proper liquid kind, and sent the infant to Gay's medical center. She gave the baby higher treatment-level doses.
The child responded well through age 18 months, when the family temporarily quit returning and stopped treatment, researchers said. When they returned several months later, remarkably, Gay's standard tests detected no virus in the child's blood.
Ten months after treatment stopped, a battery of super-sensitive tests at half a dozen laboratories found no sign of the virus' return. There were only some remnants of genetic material that don't appear able to replicate, Persaud said.
In Mississippi, Gay gives the child a check-up every few months: "I just check for the virus and keep praying that it stays gone."
The mother's HIV is being controlled with medication and she is "quite excited for her child," Gay added.
Christopher Barnhill, 25, was born with HIV. He says this "functional cure" was its being called offers great hope.
"How do we go about replicating this information so it doesn't become one story but it becomes millions of stories for newly-infected babies and also teens and adults?" he asks.
Whitman Walker Health has been treating patients with HIV and AIDS in the District for years. Doctors there see this baby's case as a breakthrough.
"Anytime we have a new situation it gives us an opportunity to delve deeper into what we know about the virus," says Dr. Deborah Smith.


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I bought the latest MDC from Smartmadness about a month ago. It was about $389 plus frt. It took about 1 hr and 45 min to install, EZ, no tinkering with wires like the 451 - it was a plug and play. It has a standard LCD in the control and an optional dash mount. It works in manual and autoshift. It has an adjustment that lets you readjust your throttle pedal sensitivity. It includes a complete new stalk and works flawlessly so far. It has been used in Europe about 10 years so it has tens of thousands of customers and isn't less than a year old.
Now in spite of the fact that I think MDC is better and there are others that say 451 is better I have to say that smart will not cover any failures that they think are the fault of an aftermarket CC. So far there is one reported expensive ECU failure using the 451 that Steven says wasn't the CC, but smart has told the customer "tough".
If you are interested in the MDC, contact Boris at Smart Madness and he will email you a copy of the installation and operators guides.
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Once you've gone through 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period, you've officially reached menopause, and the perimenopause period is over. Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Symptoms & causes Oct. 21, 2016 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter References Lentz GM, et al. Menopause and care of the mature women. In: Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Mosby Elsevier; 2012. http://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed Aug. 18, 2016. Casper RF. Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of menopause. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Aug. 18, 2016. McNamara M, et al. In the Clinic. Perimenopause. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2015;162:ITC1. AskMayoExpert. Menopausal hormone therapy. Rochester, Minn.: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research; 2016. North American Menopause Society. The Menopause Guidebook. 8th ed. Mayfield Heights, Ohio: North American Menopause Society; 2015. Menopause and menopause treatments. 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By Tina Snell, Staff Writer
The jury selection for the Jason Ray Dominguez trial was completed Thursday. Twelve jurors and two alternates have been chosen. The trial began Friday.
Out of the 68 jurors called for duty, 56 appeared and 24 were interviewed.
The jurors include a doctor, a veterinarian student, an elementary school teacher, two education paraprofessionals, a customer service representative, a railroad rail tester, several receptionists, road construction personnel, an employee in retail sales, a homemaker and a secretary.
The selection process began with Judge Douglas Anderson talking to potential jury members. He repeated the rules of law, which said the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty, the state must prove guilt, each element of the charges must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and the defendant does not have to prove his innocence.
The judge then asked jurors if:
- Any pressing business or family issues would prevent them from serving;
- They knew any person on the witness list, in the jury pool, the lawyers, the victim, Dustin Brown, or the defendant, Dominguez;
- They heard about the murder beforehand;
- They had any dealings with Morrison County attorneys or courts;
- They could set aside prejudices, biases or sympathies while serving;
- They could give equal weight to testimonies from both lay and police witnesses; and
- Graphic photos would be a problem to view.
With each potential juror, Dominguez waived his right to question him or her. He had also waived his right to an attorney and sat alone at the defense table with his stand-in attorney, Scott Wonderlich of Wonderlich Law in Little Falls, sitting behind him.
Morrison County Attorney Todd Kosovich and Assistant Attorney General William Klumpp were next to ask questions of the jurors, which included:
- Will you be able to take witness testimony from a prior drug user as fact?
- Do you think a person who has been in prison has the same rights to not be murdered as any other person?
- Can you overcome the presumption of innocence if the evidence is compelling?
- Do you believe it's OK to make a deal with one person to convict another more culpable?
- Is there anything more valuable than human life?
- When was the last time you lost someone you cared about? Was it from a violent cause?
- How do you decide if someone is telling the truth? and
- How high is your level of common sense and are you comfortable in making major decisions?
Dominguez faces a first degree murder charge for the Oct. 3, 2011, shooting death of Dustin J. Brown in Little Falls.
Anderson expects the trial to last no more than nine days.


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Discussion in 'London and the South East' started by London_Calling, Jan 19, 2012.
Boris not being best chums with Dave probably helps him a lot in this respect.
They are best chums.
I'm pretty sure the London electorate grasp the theatricality of their 'differences'.
Did they really have to release it as a Word document?
It could be worse. The Ramblers refuse to conduct much of their campaigning/management electronically because members of their committee don't have email.
I wish this thread had a more accurate, (as of now) title.
Report the OP with a suggested new title maybe?
I'd suggest 'Londoners not excited about candidate first elected to local government 40 years ago'
Just change the names around - hopefully for not too long...
Cringe-off competition:
The Lib Dem's contribution:
(that is actually a video from his official youtube channel!)
Is that Ken vid the one he reportedly cried at earlier (caught a Standard front page on the way home this evening)?
Yeah, tbf I almost cried as well.
cahm on ken
Caught the end last night of a report on BBC London of a hustings meeting for the mayoral election organised by the London Evening News. But there were only 4 candidates on the platform -- the usual suspects (Tory, Labour, LibDem and Greens).
One of the principles of democracy is that all candidates should have equal time to put over their point of view, but this is not happening in this particular election where there 7 candidates not just 4. Three candidates (UKIP, BNP and an Independent) were excluded, despite the fact that they have overcome the considerable obstacles in the way of standing (raising a deposit of £10,000 and get 30 signatories in each borough or 330 in all).
No doubt they are being excluded because having 7 candidates would not have the same entertainment value, but elections are not supposed to be entertainment. Clearly, this election is not being run on fully democratic lines. They do things differently in France. There are 10 candidates standing in the first round of the presidential election on 22 April. Each of them are getting TV and radio broadcasts of exactly the same length.
What's the London Evening News?
no it isn't
Sorry, a bit behind the times. It merged with the Evening Standard 20 or 30 years ago.
Heh, only one mention of the Tories in the entire thing.
I like how Boris is claiming the tube upgrade and Crossrail are part of his nine point plan. Presumably Ken would take a sledgehammer to all of the new trains and lie down in front of the tunnel boring machines.
Dead since 1979.
More than 30 years ago.
at least you can add a comment, unlike kens where comments and (dis)likes have been turned off.
Since when does extra clowns mean less entertainment?
Live stream of the hustings tonight: http://bambuser.com/v/2548370
Facepalm of the day goes to the green party candidate - sending out an election leaflet printed on glazed paper.
I just really want that fucking cunt Boris Johnson kicked the fuck out. Posh bigotted cunts like him shouldn't even have the luxury of oxygen let alone fucking elected office. The people that vote for Boris are even worse than he is - really despicable filth who are only of any use for whiping shit off the soles of your boot onto - everything that is wrong with country: thick fucking cunts. Ken is a twat of course, a purveyor of piss weak liberal multiculturalism mixed with 'neo-liberalism with a human face', but a not bad politician by this country's dismal standards. The whinging middle class zionist cunts that keep banging on about his supposed anti-semitism are self-pittying arseholes - the worst oppression they've ever faced is getting served a bad bottle of wine in a restaurant. I want him to win just to piss off those liberal/tory shitheads.
You know what these Reds are like for restricting freedom of speech.
Paddick's just been on Sky News pretty much acting as campaign attack dog for Boris Johnson over tax issues.
He madly thinks that he - as a lib-dem - is going to take anti-tory votes from labour. This is behind his the lib-dems in coalition are shit but i as a lib-dem candidate aren't shit. Madness.
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