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Britain is stronger, safer and better off as a member of a reformed European Union. Leaving would be a leap in the dark with a very high risk of seeing jobs lost, prices rise, and businesses shut out. Michael Gove had the chance today to try to set out a detailed plan for how he believes Britain could thrive outside Europe. Instead, his speech serves only to prove that no such plan exists.
As the former attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has said, this would be an utterly puerile way for the United Kingdom to conduct itself on the international stage... David Cameron and his fellow Tories often like to pay homage to Winston Churchill and the war-time generation, yet in their deeds they seem determined to take an axe to the treaties, the courts and institutions that were their legacy. Any party that believes that trading in not just our fundamental rights but our place in the post-1945 international order just to hoover up a few votes off Ukip in the Clacton by-election is not fit for office.
A couple of weeks back, UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve announced he would be publishing guidance on social media use to help people stay on the right side of the law. Let's hope he doesn't look to Tunisia for inspiration when determining social media rights from wrongs...
You have apologized for your comments: 'If I gave the impression that there is a particular problem in the Pakistani community, I was wrong ... I believe the Pakistani community has enriched this country a great deal as I know full well from my extensive contact with the community over a number of years ... I'm sorry if I have caused any offence.
What to make of the Attorney General's comments in The Telegraph? Corruption is certainly a growing problem in the UK - but TI's research has found no evidence to link it to immigrant communities.
I am writing to ask that you revisit your proposals for legal aid, proposals which have generated considerable criticism from across the board... Labour fully supports making those can afford to pay their legal fees do so, and clawing back costs from wealthy criminals. Legal aid should be reserved for those most in need.
On Monday I wrote to the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, to ask him to consider whether or not the 15-month sentence handed down to Stuart Hall for multiple sexual assaults on young girls was unduly lenient. If he agrees with me that it is, he will refer it to the Court of Appeal who can then decide to increase the sentence. I believe it is his public duty to refer.
Chris Grayling might not have a problem with G4S justice. He, Cameron, Osborne and the rest of them may well think that anyone who has reached the age of criminal responsibility without earning enough to hire their own silk is to be presumed a member of the criminal classes. But Dominic Grieve should know better.


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Pastor Gary Johnson has invited missionary Dr. Jeffrey Lange to speak at Liberty Baptist Church in Ogilvie at 10:30 a.m. July 21.
Following the morning service, Lange will hold an open meeting from 1-2 p.m. to talk about his experiences serving in Southeast Asia. Both events are open to the public and will be held at Ogilvie Elementary School.
Dr. Lange is the son of Dr. David and Nancy (Troupe) Lange, both 1964 graduates of Ogilvie High School. Prior to arriving in Thailand in January 2004, Dr. Lange and his wife Theresa earned Master's Degrees in linguistics in preparation for intensive, accelerated Thai language training during their first year in the country. They have worked in Bangkok, a mega city of more than 12 million people, and in several tiny, remote jungle villages of less than 100 families.
In all his works Lange said that he has tried to pass on the message that changed his own life. He took a roundabout path to Thailand and a life of serving the Lord. Although he grew up going to church, religion did not make much impression on him. When he left home to study mechanical engineering at North Dakota State University, he fell into bad habits.
"Let me put it this way — I was living a carnal college lifestyle," Lange said. "I knew in the depths of my soul, the things I was doing were not right in God's sight. I tried to stop but I couldn't. Then the desire to know God became more important than the sin in my life. I knew that God was real, but he wasn't real to me."
All that changed in 1995 when Lange, began attending Fargo Baptist Church where he experienced a real conversion, became a genuine believer, and professed Jesus Christ as his personal savior.
Although within months he graduated from NDSU with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and found a job in his field, he soon after knew he was meant for something else. He went back to college and earned a degree in Theology from Masters Baptist College in Fargo, N.D., and a Masters and Ph.D. in Cross-Cultural Education from Great Plains Baptist Divinity School in Sioux Falls, S.D. That education and a 10-day mission trip to Thailand as a Bible college student in 1998 helped shape his future.
"After I graduated from Bible college in 2000, Theresa and I were married," Lange said. "It was then that we felt the Lord leading us to serve as missionaries in Thailand."
Since January 2004, the Lange family has been based in Bangkok working with both Thai nationals and different tribal people groups from Burma, Laos and rural areas of Thailand. In addition to learning the spoken and written Thai language, the Langes have had to overcome many cultural differences.
"For example, if I were to ask people from the United States if they know where they will spend eternity when they die, culturally most people will understand the question even if they don't like the question," Lange said. "But when you begin to ask a Thai person, 'If you were to die today …', their world view interprets this, 'I just put a curse on you' and basically have offended them. Also, it would be considered too assertive in their culture because it is too much as we say 'In your face.'"
Dr. Lange said the results they have seen during their years in Thailand have been worth the challenges they have faced.
"We have worked with people who have been fearing demons and trying to appease evil spirits their entire lifetime who not only found freedom in Jesus Christ, but more importantly, found salvation from the power and penalty of sin," Lange said. "It is rewarding to see God work in lives to restore marriages and families as well as to heal individuals from all kinds of addictions, fears, doubts, moral impurity, and emotional abuse."
The Lange family is back in the United States until the end of the year to report on the progress of their mission work. He hopes that his presentations will help Christians realize what kind of impact they can have in the world around them.
To learn more about the Lange family and their ministry visit www.vfmsea.com.

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Movielistings for July 18-24
?the amazing spider-man 2'
Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious company Oscorp sends up a slew of super villains against him, affecting his life. (PG-13)
A story that imagines that the United States lost the Revolutionary War and therefore never existed. Stars Russell W. Reed, John Koopman and Tina Fortune. (PG-13)
?Begin Again'
Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her longtime boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) move to New York to pursue their passion for music. She's heartbroken when he dumps her for the fame and fortune of a big solo contract. Her world takes a turn for the better when Dan (Mark Ruffalo), a disgraced record-label exec, stumbles upon her singing in a local bar and is immediately captivated by her raw talent. (R)
After a bad blind date, a man and woman find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attraction grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship. (PG-13)
?captain america'
Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier. (PG-13)
?Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species. Stars Andy Serkis, Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke and Keri Russell. (PG-13)
?deliver us from evil'
New York police Officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana) investigates a series of crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the possessions that are terrorizing their city. (R)
?earth to echo'
After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted messages, a group of kids embark on an adventure with an alien who needs their help. Stars Teo Halm, Astro and Reese Hartwig. (PG)
?the fault in our stars'
The story of Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort), who fall hopelessly in love after meeting in a cancer support group, and experience a whirlwind romance that teaches them both what it means to feel truly alive. (PG-13)
The world's most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. (PG-13)
?heaven is for real'
Todd Burpo and Sonja Burpo are the real-life couple whose son Colton claims to have visited heaven during a near-death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth, things he couldn't possibly know. (PG)
?how to train youR dragon 2'
When Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace. (PG)
?jersey boys'
The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. Stars John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda and Vincent Piazza. (R)
Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king's successor, and places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora (Elle Fanning). As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom. (PG)
?million dollar arm'
A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball. (PG)
?moms' night out'
A group of exhausted mothers venture into the city for a rare night out on the town, but their carefree evening without kids doesn't go quite as planned. (PG)
?rio 2'
Blu (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg) and his family take flight for the Amazon after Jewel (voiced by Anne Hathaway) decides their children should explore the world. Meanwhile, the overprotective father grows concerned that his family will leave him once they've experienced life in the wild. (G)
After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman (Melissa McCarthy, pictured) hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother (Susan Sarandon). (R)
?Transformers: Age of Extinction'
An automobile mechanic and his daughter make a discovery that brings down the Autobots and Decepticons and a paranoid government official on them. Stars Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor. (PG-13) (Also at Imax)
?22 jump street'
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. (R)
x-men: days of future past'
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. Stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman and Peter Dinklage. (PG-13)


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I have a sign on my bathroom wall. It's not a picture of a sailboat with my name next to it, nor is it one of those cutesy depictions of a cherubic boy and girl asking visitors to not pee in the pool. It's a street sign. One of those Neighborhood Watch signs with the giant blue eye admonishing passersby that their every move is being watched.
The exact wording of the sign is as follows: "Neighborhood Crime Watch! We immediately report all suspicions persons and activities to our Sheriff's department."
I have occasionally considered finding whoever originally hung that sign and suing them for false advertising. Because not once in the fifteen years or so since my friend Adam and I parked my Honda Civic behind a bush, grabbed a folding chair and a socket wrench from the trunk, sprinted towards the pole upon which this sign was hung and spent ten minutes removing it, have either of us received a visit from the Bexar County Sheriff. This would seem to indicate that either A) our activities on that night were not deemed "suspicious," or that B) nobody was really watching after all.
I keep this sign hung above my toilet for two reasons. The first of which is that I am amused when people emerge from the bathroom looking abashed and ashamed at having had to do their business under the accusing gaze of my big, blue eye. In addition, I find that it helps to dissuade people from digging through my medicine cabinet, which is always a good thing.
The second reason I keep this sign around is that it reminds me of that wonderful time in my life when I felt as invincible as a god. The time when I was young, adventurous and adept at, among other things, stealing street signs.
There was a gang of us, about six or eight strong. We were about as close to being trouble-makers as smart kids ever get. Yeah, by day we were top-of-the class brainiac doo-gooders, but by night we got drunk, destroyed municipal property and raced cars. Not anything fancy, mind you, just the four-bangers we had been given by our folks or had bought with the money from our summer jobs.
We raced on the newly-paved streets of a soon-to-be housing subdivision. I usually won, but only because I had less fear than my companions. I knew, for example, that if I charged at them, they would swerve out of self-preservation and slow down giving me a chance to pull ahead. I knew this because it always worked in the video games. Nothing more serious than the occasional tire or U-joint was ever damaged during these races, but I understand now that this was very fortunate, and improbable.
I also drove quickly when not racing. I thought that it was fun, and still do. One of the cars I owned at the time had been modified by someone of absolutely no conscience and a considerable amount of skill. It was a four-cylinder Honda that had been outfitted with a racing carb and a few other enhancements and had had all of the emissions controls removed. I had to be selective about where I tried to get it inspected, but damn, it was speedy.
I almost completely ignored the speedometer in that car, primarily because it pegged out at 85 MPH, but also because I just didn't care to know how fast I was going. This attitude began to change the day I was stopped outside of Fort Worth doing 125 in a 60. To say that the experience was a costly one, would be an understatement.
Several more run-ins with the law and a few minor accidents later I discovered that my success at eluding capture or injury in my youth had had more to do with luck than with skill, and like countless men before me my attitude towards life began to slowly adjust. I started to drive more responsibly, stopped stealing street signs, took fewer chances and on the whole began having far less fun.
It was no coincidence that at about this same time I began gaming with a vengeance. During the day I would do things I didn't want to do for people I didn't like in order to pay other people who didn't even know my name. Then, after driving home in an ant line of law-abiding traffic, I'd plug in a game and become a god once more.
I think that we often, as gamers, ask ourselves the question "Why do we game?" Or if we don't, we probably should. The simplest, most universal answer would be "Because it's fun." But a lot of things are fun, and many of them require far less significant investments of time and/or money than gaming. Others of us, if attempting to pinpoint an exact sociological impulse, would reference the above tale citing it as evidence that some gamers, if not most, game in order to share in experiences which are outside of the norm, beyond the possible or for which we are ill-suited in real life. I'll never be an elite commando, for example, yet I play one on my TV. Video games, viewed in this light, would appear to be an escape. From reality, from the drudgery of daily life and the lawfulness which, like the weight of the world, settles upon one in adulthood.
Our shared pastime sounds sad and slightly pathetic when viewed in this light, and perhaps it truly is. I still game, though and am not ashamed of it. I've been gaming for more than twenty-five years and if my recent gaming tendencies are any indication, I am not likely to stop any time soon. Partly because it is fun. Partly because when I lay my controller down, turn off the lights and go to sleep in my warm, soft bed, I am reminded that in spite of how little danger I face in my daily life, how few quests I am able to undertake and how noticeably free of vast piles of loot my apartment may be I've made a lot of good decisions in life, and am sincerely happy with who I am and with what I am doing.
As the years have gone by I've taken to looking upon the big, blue eye hanging on my bathroom wall, and telling the story of its origin, with far more fondness than regret. It, in return, still stares accusingly at me, admonishing me for removing it from its perch so many years ago. I think that maybe some day I'll take it back to that intersection and see if I can find someone to whom to return it. Yeah, I think I'll actually do that.
In the mean time however, I've got lots of normal, everyday things to do and, if there's time, a new game that I'd rather be playing more than doing anything else.
What would you do if the gaming as god-mode-like recreation was removed from the list of your allowable pastimes? What if it became unavailable to you? What would you do instead?
Yeah, man. You nailed it. That is why I game, too. I am not ashamed of it. If we are to be forced into demeaning and subservient positons in the real world, then we all need an escape. Gaming is the best one that I have found. Well, gaming and sex, that is.
I definitely identify with the smart kid during the day / rebel during the night concept. I outgrew that second part the same as you, although I didn't need a huge fine to start the process... when you need to maintain your security clearance & driver's license to keep your job, you tend to slow down a bit.
a lot of things are fun, and many of them require far less significant investments of time and/or money than gaming.
I don't know if it's because it's easier to hide or rationalize the cost of my gaming habit, but I don't find it to be all that expensive. A quick sampling of my co-workers' hobbies are:
-barfly; impulsive shopper
-sportbike enthusiast
-family man; outdoorsman
In comparison to all of these hobbies, I would definetly think that my gaming costs are quite a bit lower. One weekend on a boat can be $200-$300 in gas easy.
I realize that this was not the main point of your article, but it's something that jumped-out at me.
I have a road sign that I'm quite fond of too. It's one of those yellow "curvy road ahead" caution signs you see out on backroads in the country, with a black squiggly arrow. In one sense it is a reminder that it is always wise to proceed with caution, but the way I usually hang it, the arrow looks more like it is indicating the way to the bed. A good set of messages, I think.
You nailed it! That is the reason why I game. Yes, it is fun, but it also allows you to enter into a realm of fantasy and do things you could most likely never do in real life. I will also argue, though, that it is really not a very expensive hobby when compared to other forms of entertainment. I've found that I play most of my games for at least 30-40 hours. So even if I pay full retail price, I'm averaging about $1.50 per hour of entertainment. That's a hard price to beat nowadays.
Heh...memories...of the way we were...
My first warehouse abode was decorated in dozens, dozens of stolen street signs. And I got stopped so often for speeding that I learned which cities had jails with ATMs so you could bail yourself out. (Note: going 3x the speed limit *will* get you arrested 7 out of 10 times. Also, that thing about not being to outrun radio...as it happens, sound *does* travel faster than a souped up Camaro...but not much.)
But eventually, I too grew up, met the Duck, decided that perhaps I didn't want to end up a smear on a highway overpass, and restrained my chaotic nature into a chaotic gaming habit.
But truth be told, if someone gave me a Koenigsegg CC 8S, or a Bugatti 16/4 Veyron and told me that I'd have to give up gaming to get it...I'd be hard pressed to keep my foot off the pedal. I do love going fast. The signs, the bohemian lifestyle, the drugs, the all night parties, the wondering which country you're in when you wake up, the breakfasts at 2pm...that I can live without...but the speed...man, I miss going fast.
Great article. I used to park in front of a tree in my parents' driveway to which I had nailed a "Denny's customer parking only" sign. I, too, attribute some of my gaming interest to enjoying experiences that I couldn't have in real life. This may have something to do with why I like RPGs and multiplayer FPS games and have little interest in, say, sports games (not like I'm going to the Super Bowl anytime soon, but "Ye kin well what I mean."
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What would you do if the gaming as god-mode-like recreation was removed from the list of your allowable pastimes? What if it became unavailable to you? What would you do instead?
Kill you.
Something about reading that, while looking at Ned smiling psychoticly at me, is really disturbing me.
The signs, the bohemian lifestyle, the drugs, the all night parties, the wondering which country you're in when you wake up, the breakfasts at 2pm...that I can live without...but the speed...man, I miss going fast.
Ah, and the allure of La Duck deepens... So when can we buy your book, DD?
Holy freaking God Fletch.. I've always thought we were separated at birth, but now I'm sure of it.
Monolei and I stole the Neighborhood Watch sign on my block while we were in high school. We didn't use anything as clumsy or random as as socket wrench. We actually pulled the whole pole out of the ground, sign attached. The irony of that whole caper still echoes today.
Even as we both enter our early 30s, we're still both avid gamers and have practically taken a blood oath to remain so for the rest of our lives. If we haven't already, our generation will expunge the idea of gaming as a juvenile activity.
Game On!
I'll never be an elite commando, for example, yet I play one on my TV.
I love this turn of a phrase. Sorry, I'll shuffle my writing geek back into a corner.
Good work, boss.
*sigh* upstaged by the Soap Queen ... again. Things really are returning to normal around here aren't they? ;)
Upstage you? 'Tis not possible, good sirrah! For you are the one with the talent. I'm just the mouthy backseat poster.
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
(picks up a wrench and closes door behind him, grinning)
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
(picks up a wrench and closes door behind him, grinning)
(I can't be the only one that read that as "picks up a wench and closes door behind him, grinning", can I?)
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Brilliant. Just brilliant.
(picks up a wrench and closes door behind him, grinning)
(I can't be the only one that read that as "picks up a wench and closes door behind him, grinning", can I?)
When you've spent as much time as I have working at Renaissance faires, you'll never read the word "wrench" correctly again.
...if someone gave me a Koenigsegg CC 8S, or a Bugatti 16/4 Veyron...
The lady has admirable taste!
Fletch: well-crafted, sir! A delight. The only stolen road sign I have is a green Peabody St. sign, and I didn't even steal it.
Another thoughtful, entertaining read. Kind of bittersweet, really. Well done, Fletcher.


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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal's signing into law of a bill making the state one of the most gun-friendly places on the planet has provoked considerable concern among those who desire an end to unnecessary deaths by U.S. gun violence.
The law allows the presence of guns in bars, churches and even outside the Transportation Security Administration security cordon at Hartsfield-Jackson International airport, an extremely busy transportation connecting point.
As the abuse of guns continues to exact a heavy toll on the population, a group of mothers, One Million Moms for Gun Control, is fighting the influence of the gun lobby and its supporters, and may even win the battle.
They want to counteract the pro-gun rhetoric of NRA chief Wayne LaPierre. At his organization last meeting in Indianapolis, LaPierre urged NRA's supporters to "stand and fight" for gun rights.
LaPierre also told backers that only their guns and their contributions to the NRA can protect them from murderers, liberals and the actions of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently donated $50 million to groups like Mayors Against Guns and Moms Demand Action.
LaPierre drew a picture of a crumbling America with declining values, killers and rapists to argue that guns are always needed: "There are terrorists and home invaders and drug cartels and carjackers and knockout gamers and haters, campus killers, airport killers, road-rage killers and killers who scheme to destroy our country with massive storms of violence against our power grids, or vicious waves of chemicals, or disease that could collapse the society that sustains us all."
LaPierre didn't mention that the widespread availability of guns in the U.S. is one of the reasons for all of the ills that he so carefully depicted. He insisted that "The NRA has become a metaphor for the core American freedoms that we all want preserved."
LaPierre's rosy assessment of his organization is not shared by Everytown for Gun Safety, a group made up of survivors of gun violence that tries to bring a common-sense approach to the issue of gun ownership.
In a report titled "Not Your Grandparents NRA," Everytown for Gun Safety (Bloomberg's gun control group) states that the present NRA leadership has led the organization through a fundamental transformation, relentlessly pressing legislators throughout the U.S. to enact more dangerous gun laws, while blocking Congress from taking actions to properly address the national epidemic of gun violence.
The cost of widespread availability of guns on American families, children and communities has been considerable. It is estimated that guns kill 86 Americans every day. According to the FBI, there were 8,583 homicides by firearms in 2011, out of a total of 12,644 homicides. In addition, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of 38,264 suicides in 2010 almost 50 percent involved a gun.
Easy availability of guns is behind all of these phenomena. It is estimated that there are 310 million guns in the country. There is now one gun per person, up from one gun every two persons in the 1960s. The U.S. has the highest rate of gun ownership of any country in the world by a wide margin.
Easy availability of guns translates into the U.S. having the highest rate of homicides (5.1 murders per 100,000 people according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) among all industrialized countries in the world.
The next most violent developed country in the world is Finland, with a homicide rate of 2.5 per 100,000, approximately half of the U.S. rate.
In the meantime, private groups such as Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, are becoming increasingly active in their efforts to bring common sense to the issue of gun ownership in the U.S.
As Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, has stated: "For too long, the conversation about gun violence in America has been controlled by those who stand to profit from easy access to guns. In the meantime, American families continue to be destroyed by gun violence."
Cesar Chelala, M.D. and Ph.D., is an international public health consultant and a cowinner of the Overseas Press Club of America award.


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Rome, Italy, 2011/11/17 - Tutto Compreso Green a huge success, 72.5% of energy sold by Enel Energia comes from renewable resources, more than double the national average - Enel.com. IT0003128367
Enel Energia has hit the 7 million customers mark, with that many customers choosing its electricity and gas offer. Specifically, around one in six Italian households gets its electricity or gas service from Enel Energia, as do about one out of five business customers. Moreover, almost one million Italian households have elected for the convenience of having a single supplier for their electricity and gas needs.
The Energia Tutto Compreso Green offer has been a particularly huge success. It promises to supply electricity generated solely from renewable resources, with power plants that leave no carbon footprint and billing done using a system designed to lower CO2 emissions. There are four different service categories based on energy consumption: Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large. Prices are fixed for one year (VAT and taxes excluded) and customers have the option of managing their accounts entirely via the Internet. The offer also includes rewards for careful use of electricity with a bonus equal to two months of the service category chosen for those who do not exceed their monthly quota over the course of a year.
Enel Energia is committed to helping the environment as seen in recent data released by the Electricity Services Operator: 72.5% of the electricity sold by Enel is green, generated by the sun, wind and water, a figure that is double the national average (35.2%).
Enel Energia also provides many other benefits to its customers, such as Enelpremia, a free programme that lets customers earn points (Punti Energia) simply by turning on their lights or using gas, and thereby receive discounts on their bills and prizes chosen from a catalogue of environmentally friendly products manufactured by socially responsible companies.
In addition, it offers the Enelmia discount card that offers special discounts and services for residential electricity and gas customers. Cardholders receive a 5% discount on purchases at Carrefour, 10% off purchases at Mondadori stores, and 2% off on fill-ups at TotalErg petrol stations, among other advantages.
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First there was the bag . . .
Sitting unobtrusively; tucked behind a pillar, beneath a schematic of the airport.
Then there was the consultation;
Next came the tape . . . threading through signs and around the backs of amassing security personnel . . .
And soon everyone passing through the terminal knew a game was afoot.
As exciting as all of that might seem, from there on in, it was all about the wait.
"For what," you might ask?
Why, the dogs. Of course.
After about 6 minutes of sidling inexorably, meter by meter in arrears (until we were hundreds of paces removed)—those of us tied to the terminal seeking out defensible positions behind couches and message boards (in anticipation of the certain conflagration, the twisted molten shrapnel, and the shards of flying glass screaming towards us in our cinematically-fueled fantasies)—we all began drifting back toward the tape and the abandoned bag.
And why?
Because through the sliding glass doors and into the terminal suddenly tromped a couple of canines; dogs firmly leashed to a pair of plump officers with "K-9" stenciled on their sleeves and backs.
Who can resist the appearance of puppies?
Thus was it that all escaping bodies gravitated back toward epi-center; drawn by the invisible pull of the dog's presumed magical powers. The four-legged critters—perhaps oblivious to the wonder they instilled—wending their way through the parting professional mass.
"Clack, clack, clickety-clack" went their nails against the faux-marble floors.
Armored and helmeted and visored and shielded men and women in blue all thinking one thought in unison: "our heroes".
By now it was clear that we were dealing with a potential bomb in our midst. A discarded bag, over by money exchange. Who bothers to leave a bag unattended for 15-20-35 minutes? An answer only a dog could answer.
After a fashion. In its own way.
It would now fall to the dogs, with their superior olfactories to determine, whether we, in the arrival lounge, were caught in the midst of a life-threatening situation or not. And all the inner voices this drama of pattering paws and sniffing noses unleashed . . .
"Damn that woman! Choosing this of all days to arrive!"
"Damn this rotation. Me having to be on duty at this precise time . . . "
The canine's reaction to the smell of that bag over by the schematic would cinch whether a siren would sound, whether human feet would be sent scurrying pocketa-pocketta-pocketa-pocketa out those sliding glass doors from which the dogs had made their entry.
After considerable amount of human milling about—fraught with only a tepid amount of trepidation—the dogs were made to make the circuit inside the tape, around the pillar with the bag, and back to the main hub of human agglomeration. All other humans save their handlers keeping a modestly safe distance. But, upon their completed trek, they offered up nothing more than a yawn and some doleful eyes in response for the trouble . . .
The wisdom of silence; the meaning of non-plussed response.
The anticipation of a biscuit that, sadly (and unfairly!), never came.
And, so, the tape came down and the dogs disappeared down the pathway from which they'd come, and the uniforms dispersed in twos and threes. And our excitement for that part of the day in this chunk of the world was done.
Leaving us unintentional witnesses to return to our chores: waiting for loved ones to arrive, holding up signs for fares to fetch, heading down the escalators to the trains to catch back into the city.
Another day at the airport; another pastiche from modern life, post 9-11. Another bitter reminder of how much our world has devolved as it ever moves forward. A humbling reflection of how dependent we are on supra-human, technical systems and sub-human organic elements to keep us safe, secure, of sound mind and body in the intricate, peripatetic web we have woven (through our own ignorance and prejudice and thirst for aggrandizement and conquest and power).
Hey . . . you wonder if you explained all the above to a dog, whether it would ever completely understand why that paranoid New World Order rigmarole makes perfect sense to its human handlers.
Yeah . . . maybe before any of this idiocy ever got underway, we should have simply gone and asked the dogs what they thought.
Could we have done any worse with the answers they would have provided?
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Mark Cuban took exception with Dwayne Wade's comments about Dirk Nowitzki's leadership skills. Nobody likes to hear their star player didn't step up during the last three games of the NBA Finals, but Mark Cuban chose to denounce Wade's acting skills:
Is this the DWade of some of the lamest , boring commercials known to man? Commercials that are singlehandedly responsible for selling more commercial skipping Tivos than anything else on TV?
Snap! But not everybody can afford a Tivo, Rockefeller. Some of us watch the commercials, and you know what, DWade is a really nice guy. Remember when he gave those South Side Rec Center kids a new basketball hoop and backboard with a bunch of new basketballs. But he wasn't done – he then gave the old, kindly coach the car he drove there! And poor DWade had to ride all the way back to Miami on his fifth grade bicycle. I'm pretty sure if you Tivo through that commercial, you go straight to Hell. -KD


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After University of New Mexico power forward Cameron Bairstow went off for 29 points, 14 rebounds and drew 14 fouls in Saturday's Lobo win over the Rams, Eustachy was asked if he had a second opinion on the matter.
"I'm going to back track and say it's a draw," Eustachy told the Journal. "He's every bit as good at his position as Thames is right now at his, and every bit as valuable. They're that good and they're both next level guys."
Thames on Monday was named the Mountain West Player of the Week after leading his Aztecs to two road wins – at CSU and at then-No. 16 Kansas. The Aztecs snapped the Jayhawks' 68-game non-conference win streak in historic Allen Fieldhouse. Thames is averaging 16.2 points per game, 2.5 assists and is shooting 47.5 percent from 3-point range. He is also helping lead what has clearly been the league's No. 1 defense this season.
Bairstow, meanwhile, has drawn rave reviews from opposing coaches all season while averaging 20.8 points and 7.7 rebounds per game.
Both were selected by various media outlets as the midseason MWC Player of the Year. The end of season honor only takes league games into consideration, so statistics to this point are rather meaningless in that regard.
POLL WATCH: SDSU jumped from No. 21 to No. 13 in this week's Associated Press Top 25 poll thanks to last week's two wins. It remained the only Mountain West team to receive a vote in the poll.
TIME CHANGE: The Jan. 25 UNM at Colorado State game, has been changed from a 9 p.m. start to 2 p.m. because ESPN decided to make the game an ESPN3.com (online only) broadcast instead of televising the game on ESPNU.
This is the second time the ESPN family of networks has opted to move a Lobos game to their online platform (the other is Wednesday night's game at Wyoming). The network also has the option to broadcast the Feb. 5 Wyoming game in the Pit either online or on ESPNU. Two other February games – March 2 at Nevada and March 5 at home vs. Air Force – are also ESPN3.com games.
ESPN3.com can not be viewed by people who have Century Link as their internet service provider.
IMPROBABLE START: After the first week of league play, two of the teams many thought would finish among the bottom three in the MWC standings – Air Force and Nevada – are sitting alone atop the standings at 2-0.
Air Force finished non-conference play with the worst RPI in the league and Nevada was ranked ninth in the 11-team league.
Nevada won on the road against San Jose State and at home against Wyoming.
Air Force, meanwhile, notched what may end up being two of the larger upsets of the season when it beat league newcomer Utah State at home last Wednesday. It then went on the road to beat UNLV.
AIR FORCE: Falcons coach Dave Pilipovich has quietly done one of the best coaching jobs in the Mountain West in the past season and a half.
After taking over the Falcons program midway through league play in the 2011-12 season, Pilipovich has compiled a 12-13 record in the Mountain West.
For those who understand the challenges facing the Air Force Academy, the fact that he has nearly a .500 record over his first 25 league games is impressive. It is even more so considering last year was the best season the MWC has ever had.
THE NEW MEXICO CONNECTION: Roswell High graduate Marek Olesinski averaged 16.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and hit four 3-pointers helping Air Force to their 2-0 MWC start.
On the season, he is third in scoring on the team at 13.0 points per game, shooting 46.9 percent from the field and is getting to the free throw line a team-high 4.1 times per game.
HE SAID IT: San Diego State guard Winston Shepard, a former target of UNM out of Findlay Prep in Las Vegas, Nev., said last week before the Aztecs played at Kansas that he's learned being a high-rated prep recruit doesn't mean much at the college level.
"At the end of the day, all the hoopla from the recruiting world, it all gets settled on the court," Shepard said.
SAN JOSE STATE: The Spartans, UNM's Saturday opponent, made 15 3-pointers in a 19-point loss at Utah State on Saturday night.
The team's 142 3-pointers (10.1 per game) easily leads the league (Boise State is second at 8.0 per game). San Jose State has made 172 2-point field goals.
When the Lobos play there this weekend for the first time since the Spartans joined the MWC this season, Neal isn't looking forward to one aspect of the trip.
"We're staying at the (same) hotel we stayed at when we got beat in the NCAA Tournament (in 2010), so it's not a very good deja vu for me," Neal said.
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According to International Diabetes Federation, India has the unfortunate distinction of being the world's diabetic capital. With an estimated diabetic population of nearly 45 million currently, the numbers are growing exponentially. What is more, it is no longer an urban and elitist affliction. By sheer weight of numbers, the number of diabetics among the rural and poor outstrips the number of diabetics among the urban and the rich respectively.
More than any other disease, diabetes needs to be carefully monitored and cared for lifelong by the afflicted themselves. In this context, the role played by glucometers becomes crucial.
While we all have a lot to be thankful for towards the pharmaceutical majors worldwide including those in India, these companies have a lot to answer for in the space of responsible capitalism in the specific context of India. I shall present here the case of how these pharmaceutical majors price and market glucometers and the diagnostic strips that go with them.
At the outset it must be said that the glucometers have come a long way in the last decade or so, thanks to the research and development carried out by these companies. Today, most available brands (mainly One Touch by Johnson and Johnson, Contour by Bayer and Accu Chek of Roche) in India are a delight to use. Not only do their super-fine needles are virtually painless in drawing blood, they give you your blood sugar level in less than eight seconds. One entirely appreciates that such R&D is expensive and that these costs need to be recovered for sustainability of such R&D.
Having said that, it must be said that while the cost of the instrument itself has come down over the years, from close to Rs. 5000 to about Rs. 3000, that is hardly true of the strips needed on a recurring basis. The strips for all these companies cost between Rs. 750 to Rs. 800 for each vial containing 30 strips, give or take. That's over Rs. 25 per strip.
That does not sound much except when you consider that diabetics need to measure their blood glucose levels two or even three times a day, and frequently before and after meals to check how the medication works with different kinds of food intake etc. Thus even assuming two to three strips a day conservatively, that amounts to two to three vials or a minimum of Rs. 1500 to Rs. 2250 per month for an average diabetic – a steep sum by any reckoning!
What is more, most companies have an expiry date for the strips that is three months once the vial is opened. While expiry date for chemicals on the strip that interact with blood to provide the blood glucose levels is understandable, there also appears to be little incentive for the pharmaceutical companies to work towards extended expiry dates on a product with lucrative repeat market!
In short, in a country whose national average annual per capita income is barely $ 1000, or Rs. 48,000, the cost of glucometer strips alone account for nearly 50% of that level of income. This is a crushing burden if you are a not-so-well-healed diabetic. Given that age-related diabetes is also rampant, the burden is equally likely to be felt by the aged just when their earning abilities are down. For all these diabetics, glucometer strips aren't luxury items; these are life-saving kit.
And who is seriously bothered on behalf of the diabetics pitched against an oligopoly of glucometer manufacturers, who, ever since glucometers came into the market, have managed to keep the price of dia-strips not only high, but within a close range? Is there a cartel-like agreement of prices here? And with all that periodic news that keep coming from some Indian pharma biggies on oral insulin etc, how come there is no Indian substitute that could bring the cost of dia-strips down significantly to make them more affordable to those 'at the bottom of the pyramid' to use that oft-repeated cliché?
If Government of India and the pharmaceutical companies in India cares for their diabetic masses, they clearly need to take action beyond lip-service to the diabetics, particularly those among the poorest of the poor sections. Clearly, the pricing strategy for the dia-strips should be such that they hurt one's pocket much less than the needles of the glucometer hurt one's skin.


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Da'Quan Bowers was once considered the best pass rusher in the draft, but rumors about his left knee have grown so loud it is questionable whether he could even walk to a huddle in four years, let alone notch 151/2 quarterback sacks like he did last fall at Clemson.
Bowers played most of the 2010 season with a torn meniscus, but put off surgery until January.
The most drastic report has Bowers possibly needing microfracture surgery because of degenerative arthritis. Such drastic surgery would put him out of commission his entire rookie season. A team would be taking an enormous risk to pick a defensive end with such a condition high in the draft.
Browns general manager Tom Heckert said Bowers' knee is fine. The Browns should know. Bowers was in Berea on April 12 and 13 to be poked, prodded and interviewed.
"Our doctors have looked at him 100 times," Heckert said Thursday. "He went to the re-check, so we've done our due diligence. I don't want to get into all the medical stuff, but we think his knee is going to be all right."
Heckert, by all indications, can get Bowers with the sixth pick if he wants him.
The Browns need ends as they switch to a 4-3 defense, and Bowers' knack of getting after the quarterback is something the Browns sorely lack. As a team they sacked quarterbacks 29 times last year. Bowers registered more than half that many as a junior before deciding to cash in and skip his senior season.
"It was a tough decision," Bowers said at the NFL scouting combine. "I weighed out all the pros and cons. My family left the decision up to me, and after a couple of days of going back and forth, I came to the decision that it was best for me to try to compete with the pros. I just feel like in college I reached a lot of pinnacles, and I wanted to compete at a high level."
Some teams might have concerns that go beyond Bowers' knee. He started 11 games as a sophomore and made 58 tackles, 16 fewer than his final year. But he had only three sacks as a sophomore and 11 tackles for loss compared to 26 TFL and the 15.5 sacks as a junior.
Bowers has been smacked with that one-year wonder label, the same as Auburn quarterback Cam Newton and Auburn defensive tackle Nick Fairley. He had one sack and started six games as a freshman.
"My first year I didn't have a great year, but I wasn't playing a whole lot," Bowers said. "My sophomore year, I had a pretty decent year. I had pretty decent numbers and injury hampered a couple of my games.
"This year, I turned it up. I was starting full time. I knew the defense. I had been in the system two years. I felt comfortable. I had one good year and the rest were considered busts."
Bowers weighs 280 pounds. Early in his career, he was close to 300. Even 280 could be a little heavy for Heckert, who likes his defensive ends to be sleek and quick.
Production for Bowers in the NFL could fall off for another reason. He relied on a bull rush to overwhelm college right tackles. That won't be enough in the NFL when he faces bigger, stronger tackles week after week. According to scouting reports, he does not have a quick first step to be a dynamic edge rusher.
The biggest question about Bowers continues to be his health. Despite Heckert's assurance that Bowers' surgically repaired knee is not a concern, that opinion is not universally shared.
At one point in a series of mock drafts, Todd McShay of Scout Inc. had Carolina taking Bowers with the first pick. In his latest mock, he has Bowers lasting until Tampa Bay with the 20th pick.
"Bowers is not nearly as much of a risk here as he would be even 5-7 picks earlier," according to McShay. "He's a top-10 talent who could very well be available because of the legitimate concerns about his knee."
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Scarier Than Halloween: What Keeps Print Buyers Up at Night
Think Friday the 13th is scary? Print Buyers Online.com recently polled major print media buyers to ask what keeps them up at night. Not surprising, respondents unanimously said they would rather face off with Jason any day than confront these print nightmares. . .
• a print job where the quoted price is $18,836, but the final invoice is $52,038
• a color-blind pressman
• when the art director, Fabio the Fanatic, insists on attending the press check
• anytime a printer says "It's on the truck."
• a press check at 3 o'clock in the morning. . .in a remote small town in Iowa. . .during a blizzard
• a print run of a million brochures with the digits transposed in the company phone number
• when the printer swears it delivered 10,000 brochures, but the mailhouse swears it only received 9,000
• when a printer says, "We have no idea why that problem happened with your last print job, but you can be assured that it will never happen again!"
• a proofing process that requires 10 people to sign off on the proof, none of whom know anything about printing
So what makes you afraid to answer the phone or hide under your desk in terror?
When I find out something has to be designed, printed and delivered in a week.
May the paper arrive,

May the presses run,

May the client pay,

When the job is done.

And when I die,

Let my body rest,

Where I'll never see,

another press…..

"You mean the pressman is not responsible for typos? Can't he spell?"
When the account manager with no experience has the largest account and the client's corporate color is Pantone Black 4 Matte
When a printer uses the word "solution" in reference to anything besides ink and paper.
The famous words "no problem"……
When the pressroom knows it is not printing on register material, but sends the customer proofs showing that they are running on register material.
Do you do this column as a courtesy or do you get paid for it? If you get paid, you should give today's check back.

(Editor's note: Our nightmare is a reader not taking a post as the spoof it was intended to be or being too busy to appreciate a moment of whimsy.)


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I was a 32A before BA, and now am a 32C/D. I've had 360cc salines subglandular for 5 yrs now. I had a baby and breastfed Nov 2008 and now I'm 25. I'm pretty sure I have good skin elasticity. I'm torn between just removing them, or removing with a lift. Really scared about the necrosis risk involved with the lift at the same time. What are your experiences with removing implants and not performing a lift? I don't want the added scars/cost/surgery/risks if I don't really need it.
Will I Need a Lift After Explantation?
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Breast Implant Removal - Will I Need a Lift After Explantation?
The simplest approach is to just remove them - and see.
Your body will tell you ultimately what you'll be happy with. Of course, nobody wants those scars, so the question is how likely you are to be happy with what you'll look like. That can be assessed with a photo and, most of all, by your plastic surgeon. If it is absolutely clear that you'll be miserable, then you should probably go ahead and do the lift. Your surgeon should be able to guide you on that.
If there's any question, though, do only the removal at this point, wait six months, and reassess.
I hope that this helps, and good luck,
Dr. E
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Breast Appearance After Implant Removal?
Thanks for the question.
What your breasts will look like after explantation depends on several factors such as: the quality of skin elasticity (the better the elasticity the better the skin will bounce back), the size of the implants used (the larger the implant the more trouble you may have with redundant skin), and the amount of breast tissue present at this time (which may have changed since the time of your breast augmentation).
Life experience since your breast augmentation procedure, such as pregnancy or weight gain weight loss, will potentially influence the factors discussed above. If you take these factors into consideration and apply them to your specific circumstances you may get a good idea of what to expect after the implants are removed.
Consulting with a well experienced board-certified plastic surgeon in person may be helpful.
Best wishes.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_breastrevision.htm
Breast lift may be required after breast implant removal
This is hard to say without examining you, but you may need a lift after implant removal. The type of lift will be determined by how saggy your breasts are after implant removal. Many times, you'll have to go into the operating room with the possibity of needing a lift as we can only really see how your breasts will settle once the implants are out.
Learn more: http://www.BaltimorePlasticSurgery.com
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Will I need a lift after implant explantation
Just a history of pregnancy and breastfeeding often creates loose breast skin and tissue which has the tendency to look saggy and deflated, and removing an implant that has stretched the tissue may make this even worse. As the other surgeons noted, it's hard to say without a physical exam or at least a photo.
Although performing a lift at the time of explantation carries a small risk of skin or nipple necrosis/healing problems, I perform these surgery together and feel that it is safe depending on the technique used. A good option if you are concerned and want to possibly avoid scars would be to stage the procedure and remove the implants first (or deflate the saline implants in the office to get an idea). If you don't like the way your breasts look, the lift can be done at a later stage.
Breast lift concerns following implant removal.
In order to give you an accurate response, a thorough physical exam is necessary. In general, explantation may need a lift if the elasticity of the skin is inadequate. However, a breast lift at the same time as an explantation is far less risky procedure than an augmentation and a lift. One simple option is to stage the procedures or if the implants are saline, to have them deflated in the office to assess the need for a lift.
Learn more: http://www.drbogue.com
Breast lift after implant removal
Without an exam or at least photos it is hard to say. If you are not sure what you want then just remove the implants first and allow things to setlle down. You then can have the lift at a later time.
Learn more: http://www.stevenwallachmd.com
Will I need a lift?
It is difficult to say definitively. Studies and personal experience show that the majority of patients will return to their preoperative or acceptable shape with implant removal. In several of our patients, we have offered implant deflation by puncturing the implant with a surgical needle in the office. This allows the patient to determine what the result will look like and if this is acceptable to them without undergoing surgery.
Learn more: http://schneidercentre.com
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By Hailey Persinger
Killeen Daily Herald
Killeen city staff will start work on plans for two concepts proposed for the former First Baptist Church property during the City Council's Tuesday meeting.
In addition to the previous concept plan to allow the Richard Milburn Academy, Head Start and Bell County offices to move into the space, potential uses for the building include a youth homeless shelter and a currently unspecified cultural exhibit or museum.
While council members ultimately approved both concepts to go on to the planning phase, the brainstorming process angered some.
Councilwoman JoAnn Purser, who in August suggested the church house a butterfly or science exhibit, told council members she was ready to hear their suggestions in addition to her own.
"We have only been brought one project, one plan," she said. "Y'all keep mocking me about butterflies … I'm trying to be serious. I'm very serious about bringing revenue to this community."
Councilman Ernest Wilkerson told council members that instead of revenue, Killeen residents should be the top priority when it comes time to decide on a plan.
"In public government, there's something called the greater good," he said. "We need to look at the greater good. We're so focused on making a buck."
Purser has said at past meetings that she would rather use the building as a means of bringing tourists to the downtown area instead of using it as rental space.
Despite the move forward, the council is still under pressure to decide what will become of the property. The Head Start program, which has federal grant money with a September 2010 deadline for its use, will need a decision from the council by the end of the month about whether it will be able to move in.
After Nov. 30, the organization will start looking for a new building. Like Head Start, Milburn Academy has also requested a decision regarding its move-in by the end of the month.
The city itself also has energy efficiency and community development block grants, the earliest of which must be used by September 2010. The roughly $800,000 will go toward roofing, upgrades and renovations to the 80,000-square-foot building.
City Manager Connie Green said planning for both approved concepts will take longer than a week but that the city will work to put them together as quickly as possible.
Regardless of what plan the council ultimately chooses once those plans hit their desks, Councilman Juan Rivera said council members should focus on the long-term results of their decisions.
"Lately we're in the micromanagement system," he said. "That's not our function. Our function is to make policy."
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On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 21:28 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Attached is a patch that is still WIP but that I think is getting > pretty close to completion. It is not intended to be the be-all and > end-all for materialized views, but the minimum useful feature set -- > which is all that I've had time to do for this release. In > particular, the view is only updated on demand by a complete rebuild. > For the next release, I hope to build on this base to allow more > eager and incremental updates, and perhaps a concurrent batch update. The documentation says that a materialized view is basically a create-table-as-select except that it remembers the query. Would you say that there is a compelling use case for this alone, or is this a building block for more sophisticated materialized view support (e.g. eager updating) later? Regards, Jeff Davis
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C2E2 – Fun for the whole family
I have been contributing to my friend Kim Moldofsky's blog, The Maker Mom, for a while now but this might have been the funnest contribution for the whole family!
The life and times of the Dembo Family
I have been contributing to my friend Kim Moldofsky's blog, The Maker Mom, for a while now but this might have been the funnest contribution for the whole family!
Who wouldn't want a fairy in a jar?
I used this amazing video as a guide to make my own fairy in a jar. Well its for Ruby but…
Supplies I used:
Pink tissue paper
Elmers School Glue
Silver Glitter
Flicker LED Votive Candles
I wanted to use supplies I had at home so I used pink tissue paper, a wide mouth mason jar and Elmers glue. I purchased the silver glitter and Votive Candles from Dollar Tree. I also searched google for fairy cut out template images and printed it on regular white printer paper. I'll be honest, I wasn't sure if it would work with the really thin printer paper and the pink tissue but I think it turned out awesome. The tissue paper is a pain in the butt to work with and I ripped it many times. I only used glitter on the front of the jar because I was impatient and wanted to make sure it was going to work before I put in too much effort.
This is what the jar looks like with the lights on. Not too glamorous looking
Aiden and I may have taken the fairy idea a little too far when Ruby thought it was a real fairy and we told her we caught it in the back yard. She said she is going to just take a little look at her when she is sleeping. Hopefully we don't hear screams in the middle of the night when she sees a very flat paper fairy.
My friend Michelle and I have been passing deals back and forth this week and I decided it might be nice to put them all in once place so everyone can use them. They are mostly food related but I will post anything I can find that I think will be helpful.
Win Free milk for a year! Even if you don't they are sending out coupons to the first 125,000 entries received for a free half gallon of chocolate milk with the purchase of a gallon of regular milk. Why Milk
Get an awesome Coupon Book With $30 worth of coupons in the new Home Made Simple Coupon Book
Thanks to site Freebies4mom for proving the information on these awesome deals!
Will post more later…
Wow how time flies when you are having fun. Aiden turned 2 on January 9th and seems to have turned into a new child at times. He is way more demanding, more verbal, and says "no" a lot more and in a much different way. He has grown up in so many ways and is still my baby in others. He still wants me to sing him farashaka before bed and he loves to snuggle. Plus I know he is still my baby because he will still give me a million kisses if I ask for them. He has grown up a lot though because he has no interest in listening at all most of the time which isn't that much different from before but now he smiles as he ignores what you requested. He still loves the Backyardigan's but his new loves are soccer and anything to do with pirates. He is obsessed with both. He loves taking about, watching and doing anything that has to do with either. In fact he just brought me a pirate eye patch that I have been requested to wear. Now I have two. One time I made the mistake of showing him how funny I looked with one over both eyes. Now I always get two
He still loves most food but I think he would eat pizza all the time. He would also drink milk 24 hours a day if we would let him. We just got back from his 2 year check up and found out that he is now in the 25th percentile instead of the 10th which he has been in since he was born. I am so excited. His height is now 33 inches and he weighs 26 pounds. Its so exciting to see him growing so much. We can try peanut butter now, we can give him skim milk instead of whole milk, we are supposed to limit his milk to 16oz which we have never done. Its another new milestone in his life and that makes me excited and also sad cause my big boy isn't my baby anymore.
Aiden is such an amazing little monster (as I like to call him most of the time) and I can't wait to see what new adventures he has in-store for me now that we get to spend some more mommy Aiden time together.
The top 10 reasons why I NEED a Snuggie
10. It comes in 3 colors
9. You can eat snacks in it
8. It has extra large sleeves
7. Its made of super soft fleece
6. My feet are never covered with a blanket and a Snuggie is super large so it will cover them.
5. I need to use the phone, can't with a blanket. Its too hard to get your arms out.
4. A blanket slips and slides all over and doesn't stay on.
3. I want to hold Aiden and/or Solo without a blanket getting in my way
2. You can wear it to sporting events
And the #1 reason why I NEED a Snuggie…..
1. It will protect my lap from the burning hot mac laptop.
Today was just another day at work. Lots of work to still be done so I am just doing what I can do get as much as I can done before I leave. I hate leaving people stranded and I feel like that is what I am doing.
Onto better things…tomorrow is Aiden's 2nd birthday and I spent part of this evening looking for a good pirate costume for myself but didn't find anything good enough to purchase. Now I have to go through my own clothes and figure out what is pirate costumish…that should be fun.
Tomorrow night we are going to decorate the in-laws house (our house is too small for all the people and activities) and then we are up early Saturday to greet everyone at the door for the BIG parrrrrrty
It is going to be so much fun – I can't wait.
I realized today that I only have 17 more days at my current job. Although to some I am sure that would be a wonderful thing, to me it makes me sad. I adore the people I work with and actually like my job. I guess that is the hardest part of this lay off. I wish that I could stay on but with the economy the way it is who knows when I will get another job. Since we don't know we are going to have to take Aiden out of the day care that we love as well. It makes Steve and I both very upset but it is so expensive we can't afford it while I'm not working plus it doesn't make any sense to leave him in while I am home.
No matter what happens at least we all have each other and we have wonderful families whom help us whenever possible and would do anything for us.
Aiden now has tubes in his ears. I have developed migraines again and my back is a mess. Its been a long few months but we are all doing great. We still love being parents and cherish ever moment we get to spend with Aiden. He is becoming a silly little boy that still loves the Backyardigans and his puppy. Solo gets a great deal of abuse from Aiden but I think they both love it. Aiden especially likes to sit on Solo's back and say "horseee" and jump up and down like he is riding him. It is a pretty funny site and hard not to laugh out loud. Aiden is constantly doing things that we should be scolding him for but instead find ourselves laughing at or taking pictures of to document for when he gets older. Like when he spilled water on the floor, saw Solo licking it up off the floor so he started licking it off the floor. I realize if this is read by the wrong person they may call DCFS but lets hope that doens't happen Instead of telling him to stop, I started laughing and ran and got the camera to video tape it. I know, you all want to see the video Once we find our cable to upload the photo's I will add a link to this post.
Aiden is almost 1. His b-day is on the 9th of January so it is coming up fast. I can't believe it. It really has been a year of 1st's for all of us.
Our 1st baby
My 1st time getting laid off
Steve's 1st time working somewhere that had layoff's
My 1st time wondering if I wanted to work or be a full time mom
Steve's 1st time wondering if I was completely insane (I think it was the 1st time)
My 1st time working for a big company
Steve's 1st time being jealous of my company because of the extras offered.
Aiden's 1st smile (happened within 2 hours of him getting ripped from my tummy. Sorry that was a little graphic but true. The nurses all commented on how almost immediately he was smiling)
Aiden's 1st time cutting a tooth (took a long time but now he has like 10)
Aiden's 1st time rolling over (did it early and then seemed to forget for a few months)
Aiden's 1st Halloween (he went to bed at 6:30)
Aiden's 1st Christmas (which was awesome)
Aiden's 1st Step (now he is walking all over the place. He falls a lot still but he is still a walking fool)
Aiden's 1st time meeting my best friend Anna (we are going to go see her in a few hours – I am so excited. I haven't seen her since last year around this time)
Aiden's 1st word (even though I spent 24 hours a day with him at the time, he said dada 1st)
There are so many other 1st for all of us this year. Learning how to live with a baby and lack of sleep was hard at 1st but we got through it and now we have an amazing little family that I love.
With Aiden almost turning 1 it has made me think about how amazing being a wife and a mother truly is. When you are a wife your relationship with your husband is different then after you have a baby. I think that Steve and my relationship has gotten so much stronger. I love hearing him over the monitor singing "American Pie" to Aiden when he just wont go to sleep. I love seeing the look on Steve's face when he sees Aiden do something that he hasn't done before or that is so cute we both look at each other and smile knowing that we have an amazing little one, an amazing marriage and an amazing family.
Wow, sorry I didn't realize this was going to turn out so sappy. I feel like I should tell a dirty joke now or something.
I would love to her about any 1st you have experienced this year. Feel free to share.
I was laying in bed last night trying to fall asleep, it usually takes me an hour or so, and all the sudden I realized that I was singing a song from the Backyardigan's show over and over again in my head. At that point I tried to remember the words to any "adult" song and all that came to mind was more Backyardigan's songs…that's just wrong.
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Do you find yourself constantly whining: "Enough already. When is the economy and housing market going to turn around?"
Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, gave his take on that very question at a summit held by the San Diego Association of Realtors on Friday.
"The worst appears to be over," he said.
Yun, who has been criticized for his overly rosy forecasts in the past, made sure to down play his prognosticating skills, telling the crowd: "I will be wrong." Still, this is how Yun sees the national economy playing out over the next couple of years:
Growth. He sees GDP, or gross domestic product, growing by about 2.5 percent in the next two years. Historically, that number is around 3 percent.
Jobs. Yun estimates 1.5 million jobs will be added annually over the next two years, with unemployment dropping to 8 percent in 2012. By 2015, he expects it will fall to 6 percent.
Mortgage rates. In 2011, he thinks rates will climb from their current eye-popping lows to around 5.7 percent. When 2012 rolls around, rates could reach 6.2 percent.
Home values. On a national level, Yun says home prices will be flat for the next two years.
New home building. In 2011, he expects housing starts to rise as much as 50 percent to around 900,000. That's still lower than in the past when there were around 1.5 million housing starts annually.
Home sales. He, along with almost every other economist, predicted a drop in sales after the federal homebuyer tax credit was set to expire at the end of May. Yun had forecast what he calls a "pause" for about three months — meaning sales would be slow in June, July and August. He said we'll know if the housing market has indeed begin to stabilize — without the benefit of tax breaks — if sales going forward compare well on a year-over-year basis. What exactly does that mean? Yun said he expects sales in the summer months might be off anywhere from 30 percent to 40 percent from a year ago. It will be a positive sign if sales in the fall are only down 10 percent to 20 percent when compared to the same time last year.


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Health Check: Paralyzed boxer raises money for adaptive equipment
Gary Balletto was once the International Boxing Union world lightweight champion and a contestant on the reality show "The Contender."
Now, his fight is outside the ring.
Balletto fell and broke his neck in June while working out in his backyard.
He recently told an audience at a Warwick YMCA breakfast that he's thankful that the Newman Y in Seekonk has adaptive equipment like a functional electrical stimulation, or FES, bike. It stimulates the leg muscles so they can move with help.
"The FES bike is the key to my recovery," Balletto said.
He's on one four days a week. But he lives in Cranston, and the adaptive equipment is in Seekonk.
"I think every YMCA in America should have these special pieces of equipment. Just in Rhode Island alone we have over 45,000 handicaps that possibly could use some of these pieces of equipment," Balletto said.
He's holding a fundraiser so one of the FES bikes can be purchased for the Cranston Y. It's a start, and he's very hopeful about his future.
"I'm very hopeful and I know I'm going to walk again," Balletto said.
Balletto's Fantastic FES Fundraiser Fete will be held at 39 West, 39 Phenix Avenue in Cranston at 6 p.m. on May 19. For more information, call 401-943-0444, ext. 105.


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Dogs are Democrats and Cats are Republicans?
It's obvious our pets don't have the capacity to be members of different political parties. Unless there's a "licking your own genitals" party. They ALL believe in that.
But an editorial on the website Politico decided to try to figure out what political philosophy your pets have. And they decided: Dogs are Democrats . . . cats are Republicans.
Here's why . . .
Dogs are communal . . . they sacrifice personal welfare for the benefit of the group . . . they like rules and regulations, and being told what to do . . . they don't have a lot of initiative . . . and they like doing the same tricks for the same basic rewards.
They can be community organizers, like president Obama was, when they herd sheep. And they get into selfless causes, like sniffing for bombs or leading the blind.
Cats are different. Quote, "When cats are born, they believe they're in a state of liberty, and from then on they are determined to keep it that way." They don't take orders. They don't do tricks. They want personal freedom.
They won't listen to your commands as a matter of principle. And when one kills a bird, it's not to share with other cats who were less fortunate and couldn't kill their own bird . . . they keep their own spoils.


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Who made this 410 Shotgun?
I got this shot gun from my dad about 20 years ago. As far as I can tell the barrel is not cut down but the rear stock has been cut down. The finish is all gone when I got it I just tried to keep the rust down.
On one side it says 410 three inch chamber M8Ideal (kinda hard to see)
Other side has half a letter and 2 numbers Maybe M68 Japan
The hammer top has been rebuilt before my dad got it. The barrel is just over 19" long and over all is 26.5" so its legal from what I can find
You are correct regarding legal. A shotgun must have at least an 18" Barrel and must be a minimum of 25" overall length. As far as who made it I can not help you there. Maybe one of our other members will be able to identify it by its features and design. It seems that the Forend and Stock have been made after the originals were removed.
Thanks if I was wrong about legal I was going to see if I could get the grip replaced.
It is very close to a Stevens model my friend has but it is labeled very well where this one is not. And I heard from someone it might be a winchester model that was made by a diff company.
I am going to clean it up and throw a coat of paint on it. It shoots good just looks kinda rough.
new butt from parts supply
I'd suggest getting a NUMRICH parts catalog and looking it up.
Numrich Gun Parts Corporation
I think it is the winchester model 37 made in japan. The wood looks diff but mine could have been sanded. The parts look a lot like what I have. Not that is makes a huge diff sure the value is $50-75 but worth more to me as my dad gave it to me.
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Ground beef that is. 3lbs. to be exact. It was on sale awhile back, and we bought about 12 lbs of it, and well my boyfriend and I are not the most organized people in the world, or I would have seperated it into patties or whatnot. So I open the fridge tonight to see he's defrosting one of the 3lb packages. Last time he did this, it went bad before we had a chance to cook it, as we ended up going out of town.
So this is the deal.
We have a tiny, hot as hell apt, are broke (food stamps broke), and are without a grill.
I want to make something with this meat tomorrow night that will not involve staying in said hot kitchen for hours, that obviously does not involve a grill, and uses either inexpensive ingredients (I have about 80 bucks for the rest of aug) or stuff we already have on hand.
If it were winter, I'd jump on the chili train. Hamburgers seem so obvious, I do have a nicely seasoned pan, but that's a lot of burgers for two. Meatloaf-perhaps. I'm imagining 2 or three meals out of this meat.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
One thing that is in the back of my mind, but I am at a loss of a recipe is a stuffed eggplant recipe my mother used to make.


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#HEADSUP: Halloween Safety Tips for Families (Infographic)
(Bighorn Basin, Wyo.) – It's almost time for all the little witches, zombies, vampires and princesses to emerge on Halloween, enjoy parties, go trick-or-treating and eat yummy treats.
Fremont Motor Company, Injury Prevention Resources, Safe Kids of Wyoming, as well as the American Legion are joining forces to share the following Halloween and Trick-or-Treating safety tips.


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Crime and Court Roundup: Two La Crosse men charged with homicide and attempted homicide
Two La Crosse men are being held under one-million-dollar bonds, after being charged with what police called a senseless drive-by shooting with no motive - and a random murder 15 minutes later. Prosecutors said 21-year-old Pao Vue shot four times at the home of an 83-year-old La Crosse woman during her birthday celebration on the afternoon of March 30th. And then, police said Vue's 19-year-old nephew Kong randomly entered Sara Hougom's unlocked apartment, went after her purse, and shot the 20-year-old Hougom twice when he saw her move on her couch. Both defendants are charged with homicide and attempted homicide, and they made their first court appearances yesterday. Kong Vue will return to court Friday after he gets an attorney. Pao Vue is due back in court next Wednesday, when a judge will decide if there's enough evidence to order a trial. In the drive-by shooting, the bullets entered the woman's home, but none of the three people inside were hurt. Prosecutors said Kong Vue was not intoxicated at the time of the ensuing murder - and his only motive was that he needed money from someone. Officers found matching shell casings at both crime scenes. And surveillance video from nearby businesses showed that Kong Vue's car was at both places around the times of the incidents.
State Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack withdrew yesterday from the ethics case against her fellow Justice David Prosser. Prosser has asked four of his six colleagues to recuse themselves when the court is asked to make a final decision on charges filed against Prosser in March by the state Judicial Commission. Roggensack became the first. And if two others follow suit, there would not be enough justices left to consider punishing Prosser for his alleged choke-hold on fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley last June, and a derogatory remark he admitted making to Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson in 2010. Roggensack said she had no choice but to withdraw, saying she was a material witness to the Bradley altercation. And Roggensack - who, like Prosser, is part of the court's four-member conservative majority - said it's against the law for judges to take part in cases in which they were witnesses. The special prosecutor in the case, Franklyn Gimbel, said he fears that Roggensack's withdrawal might trigger an end to the case. Gimbel told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Prosser would win by quote, "procedural impotency." Gimbel recently said the justices could still decide Prosser's fate under a "rule of necessity," in which recusals are waived if no one else can decide a case. But Roggensack says the rule cannot be invoked for judges who were material witnesses.
A judge in Madison has sentenced a 22-year-old man to four years in prison, for providing the heroin that killed a woman last year. Dane County Circuit Judge Sarah O'Brien said yesterday that prison might give Jimmy Gibson his best chance to survive his own heroin addiction. He pleaded no contest to reckless homicide, after he provided the drug that killed 25-year-old Nicole Daum from an overdose. Two other charges of manufacturing and delivering heroin were dropped in a plea bargain.
A Milwaukee attorney says a recent legal settlement has triggered a big increase in new mortgage foreclosure cases. There was a 23-percent increase in foreclosure filings last month in seven southeast Wisconsin counties, compared to the same time a year ago. David Liebowitz said lenders put many foreclosure cases on hold, until they reached a 25-million-dollar settlement with Wisconsin and other states over deceptive practices for home loans. Liebowitz said the settlement cleared the way for banks to resume foreclosing on those defaulting on their monthly mortgage payments. One-thousand-64 new cases were filed in April in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha, Walworth, Racine, and Kenosha counties. That's up from 863 cases the previous April. The increase comes at a time when home sales are rising.
An Ashland man will spend six-and-a-half years in prison for killing another man by pushing him off a cliff into Lake Superior. 23-year-old Cass Corbine must also spend five years under extended supervision when he's no longer behind bars. 18-year-old Marvin Charette-the-Third of Washburn fell about 60-feet to his death after an underage drinking party on the Red Cliff Indian Reservation north of Bayfield in July of 2010. He reportedly ran toward the cliff to get away from police officers who were closing in on the party - and he got into a confrontation with Corbine. Corbine eventually admitted that he pushed Charette to get him out of his face - and the victim fell backward from the cliff. Charette was missing for two days when a kayaker found his body in a sea cave along Lake Superior. Ten months of investigations found that he was pushed. Corbine pleaded no contest to felony murder. A reckless homicide charge was dropped in a plea bargain.


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This same fella proposed to his wife on TheForce.net message boards!
I do have to give him credit for at least showing off his Star Wars fandom in a creative way.
Heck, these ads were better than Arnold's ads for gov of Calif.
(thanks to tdhartist for the heads up!)