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Initial press reports have suggested the battle has mostly come out a draw. But a 14-point "truce" between the government and the Mahdists (brokered last week by Iran) suggests otherwise. Among other details reported in the press, the agreement requires the Mahdi Army to abandon its heavy and medium weapons, end its shelling of Baghdad's Green Zone, shut down its kangaroo courts and recognize the authority of Iraqi law. In exchange, the government seems to have promised mainly that it would not arrest lower-level militia members.
The truce suggests, instead, that Iran has grudgingly come to respect Mr. Maliki as a serious opponent. Having invested itself so heavily in Mr. Sadr's success, Tehran had little reason to suddenly lend its diplomatic offices unless it felt the Mahdi Army was on the verge of defeat. Last week's truce may have postponed that moment, but there's little doubt Mr. Sadr's movement has suffered an embarrassing defeat.
However fitfully it began, the Basra campaign is a sign that Iraqis are in fact "standing up" for their own security. It is also a personal vindication for Mr. Maliki, who recognized to his credit that his government had to have a monopoly on violence in Shiite neighborhoods as much as in Sunni enclaves.In the last year we were told first that the surge was a military failure, and later that it was a military success but that Iraq's political class had not lived up to its end of the bargain. In fact, just as surge supporters said, the Iraqis have become more confident and effective the more they have become convinced that the U.S. was not going to cut and run.
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Veteran sprint car driver Jon Stanbrough has never been one to hide his distaste for chasing point championships. It simply doesn't bode well with his style of racing.
It's a rather ironic statement considering that he is currently locked into two of the closest point chases in the history of the U.S. Auto Club and Midwest Sprint Car Series circuits
The highly successful Indiana short track racer faces two major challenges this weekend as he makes a USAC stop at the Action Track Saturday night and at Haubstadt for a big MSCS show Sunday evening.
All in the quest of winning what could be three major sprint car titles in the same season. He's already captured the King of Indiana Sprint Car Series earlier this summer and currently leads the MSCS sprint standings and ranks second in the USAC sprint point totals.
Like it or not Stanbrough is determined to fulfill a preseason goal of getting championship trophies for his new Daryl Tate Racing operation.
While Stanbrough and Tate have pretty much been on track to win the titles, the team's title bid took on a bizarre turn over the weekend at the three-day USAC "Sprint Car Smackdown" at Kokomo Speedway.
With five laps remaining in the feature of the series final, there was contact between Stanbrough and Levi Jones. Stanbrough brushed the outside wall near the pit entrance, sending him into a violent flip and into the path of uncoming traffic.
The melee collected three cars including that of Robert Ballou, who was transferred to a Kokomo hospital but was later released.
Stanbrough was badly shaken up but was able to walk away from the incident for what was described as a heated discussion with his long-time rival Jones.
At the end of the three nights of racing, Stanbrough had little to show for his title hopes. Entering the week he had a 16 point lead over Jones but after finishes of 12th, 14th and 18th it appeared he found himself 26 markers down heading to Tri-City Speedway at Pontoon Beach, Il. on Friday then the following night at Terre Haute.
All that reportedly changed Monday when USAC issued a 25 point penalty along with a season long probation period to Jones. That ruling was rescinded less than 24 hours later due to a possible appeal hearing.
The Tony Stewart Racing team for whom Jones drivers filed the appeal Tuesday afternoon, and according to USAC, the process hearing will take place sometime late in September.
Three days following the incident, Stanbrough says he still has a sore neck but is ready to go about the business of winning races — and hopefully the USAC sprint title.
"I'm not sure what really happened in the accident. I remember he [Jones] was either beside me or maybe a little in front of me. He made contact with me and the next thing I know things went bad," recalled Stanbrough in a phone conversation Tuesday.
While the incident has generated its share of talk among the fans and racers Stanbrough is ready to put the ordeal behind him.
"They [USAC] sat us both down in the trailer afterwards and we worked things out. It wasn't until Monday when I got the call from USAC that I knew what actions they were going to take. I'm satisfied and ready to go back racing," Stanbrough said.
"I'm not a vindictive type of person or racer. Bad things can happen when you go to the race track with a bad attitude. I have too much respect for my sport, my fellow racers and car owners. I've been crashed before. You put it behind you and go racing," he said
While points chasing is not his favorite subject Stanbrough does not shy away from the commitments of the modern-day racer even it means running for or talking points.
"I've always said I don't care for points racing. I don't feel it makes me as good of a racer. Still when I retire from racing and sit back and look at what I've done over the years or what we have done as a team this season it would be nice to have those championships," reflected the soft spoken Stanbrough.
"I kinda made a sacrifice, if you want to call it that, to myself that I was going to give up going for the wins to win that [USAC] championship. I've got to stand by what I said. I've had the wins (8) but the ultimate goal is the championship," voiced Stanbrough.
"I set my goal at the start of each year to have double-digits wins. I've been lucky to have eight thus far so I shouldn't get too greedy," he added.
With the ever changing point totals and penalties now in the picture, Stanbrough knows the battle with Jones will take on new meaning both on and off the track.
"Obviously he has the experience, what with all his championships. He has one of the better financed supported teams but that doesn't bother me, and I wouldn't want to use that if we don't win."
"I feel we're just as competitive as they are. All we can do is dig in and fight and see how it plays out," said Stanbrough, who with a win here Saturday night would tie the late Rich Vogler as the winningest driver in Action Track history.
His car owner Daryl Tate is doing his best to downplay the hoopla surrounding the points race between himself and Tony Stewart. Not wanting it to be a distraction to the job at hand.
"We'll go the races and see what happens. You don't want to start worrying about the points because it will beat you every time. You try not to make any mistakes and take what your dealt and go from there. Its going to be tough. Jon is very determined and focused on what has to be done," voiced the veteran car owner.
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Updated at 1:35 p.m. Feb. 14 with comments from Head Coach Russell Ham
Shane Staton took the ball, drove the lane and made the winning shot with two seconds remaining in Wednesday's CIF Southern Section Division 3AAA playoff game against Palm Springs.
The win moves Murrieta Mesa into the second round of playoffs.
Palm Springs, ranked seventh in the division, came out fast and furious and took a 22-17 lead at the end of the first period. The Rams battled back in the second and held the Indians to just four points, leading 31-26 at the half.
Palm Springs would not fold. The Indians came on strong in the third period and outscored the Rams 23-10 to take an eight-point lead into the final period.
Murrieta Mesa held fast and rallied to pull away with the win. The Rams made up the eight-point difference with a tough defensive effort, holding the Indians to 11 points while scoring 21 in the final frame.
With the score deadlocked at 60, the Rams pulled off the victory in the final two seconds on Staton's drive.
"He looked at me during the time-out and said, 'I got this,'" said Murrieta Mesa Head Coach Russell Ham.
Staton was the Rams' player of the game. He led the team with 20 points and seven rebounds. Khalil Sharpe added 14 points, Austin Bryant nine, Trevon Session eight and Shondell Smith seven. Andrew Smith also scored four points against the Indians.
"It was a great high school with many lead changes and clutch plays at the end," Ham said. "I felt we executed our offensive and defensive game plan really well. We were patient on both ends. Khalil's free-throw and lay-up at the end put us up three but it was Shane Staton's clutch lay-up with 2 seconds that put us over the top."
The Rams travel to Brea Olinda Friday night to face the Wildcats in a round two playoff game.
"This was not only huge for the program but for the school as well. It's the first CIF win in any sport in school history."


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You wouldn't necessarily know it from his frequently gruff screen persona, but Hugh Jackman has a long background in stage musicals -- he was plucked from his role in "Oklahoma" at the National Theatre in London to play Wolverine a decade ago, and has generally leaned towards the action end of the spectrum on the big-screen, despite the development of the likes of a musical based around P.T. Barnum, an adaptation of "Carousel," and his attachment to the sadly dead Steven Soderbergh-directed 3D "Cleo," in which Jackman would have starred alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones and Ray Winstone, to a score by Guided By Voices -- a project we'd sit through another half-dozen lacklustre Wolverine pictures to see resurrected.
Jackman's kept his toe in the water, however, with a lengthy run on Broadway in the musical "The Boy From Oz," picking up a Tony for his troubles. He's also hosted the Tonys three times, and showcased his musical talents at the 2009 Oscars, his charming opening number proving one of the few highlights of recent years' ceremonies.
He returned to Broadway last year alongside Daniel Craig in the play "A Steady Rain," but for a couple of years now, he's been developing his next legitimate theater-starring role, playing the titular legendary magician in "Houdini" in a production that's been slated to be directed by musical veteran Jack O'Brien ("The Full Monty," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"). Word's been quiet on the project for a few years, but now news has arrived of some of the other creative team who are currently penning the project, and it's a hugely impressive line-up.
Aaron Sorkin, who's essentially a lock for a Screenplay Oscar this year for "The Social Network," will pen the book; it's his first musical, although he was writing a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" for Sam Mendes at one stage, and was reported to be writing a stage version of The Flaming Lips' concept album "Yoshimi Versus The Pink Robots" back in 2007, the same year his last Broadway effort, the play "The Farnsworth Invention," debuted.
Meanwhile, the music's being written by two veterans: Glenn Slater, the writer of the lyrics for the stage adaptations of "The Little Mermaid" and "Sister Act," and frequent Tim Burton collaborator Danny Elfman, who'll write the songs and score. The latter's making his Broadway debut, although he obviously has written songs for a number of Burton's films, including "The Corpse Bride," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and, most notably, "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
Elfman told EW that "I've written music on and off for two years already. It's such a different process. For me, it's taking forever. But other people say, 'Oh, no, you've only been on that a couple of years, that's nothing!" According to him, Sorkin's set to turn in a first draft of the script in January, with a reading following shortly afterwards, and it's hoped that the show will premiere in early 2012.
While we haven't been a fan of much of Elfman's recent output, he's clearly taking his time with this one, and teaming with Sorkin, Jackman and Slater is a fairly exciting prospect, even if many of you out there would rather see Jackman stick his claws into things. And who knows, if the show works out, maybe a film version will materialize down the road?
Ella | November 4, 2010 7:52 AM
Claws? No, thank you. Hugh is a great Wolverine but it´s time for him to show his acting chops as he did in The Prestige and The Fountain. I hope the second Wolverine will be the last one and that this one can be also a movie. Not everybody is lucky enough to see him on stage :-(
sp | November 3, 2010 5:06 AM
Critique, I agree wholeheartedly ! What Hugh Jackman can do on stage is peerless. Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr, nor Daniel Day-Lewis can perform or have the stamina that Jackman has on stage. I still don't understood why Hugh is such an underrated actor.
Critique | November 3, 2010 3:16 AM
You say that many fans would rather see Hugh Jackman with the Wolverine claws again? As much as I enjoy watching Hugh as Wolverine, nothing, nothing comes close to watching Hugh on stage. He is one of the greatest performers I've ever seen on Broadway! He is incomparable when it comes to stage presence, and being "in the moment". I hope that Sorkin and Co. will be able to put this together, and that it will be another triumph for Hugh Jackman!


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An ex-fire official recently fired by the City of Edmond has filed a formal grievance with the city and wants his job back, his attorney said Monday.
Earlier in the day, in response to an Open Records Act request submitted by The Edmond Sun, City Manager Larry Stevens cited personnel exemptions in explaining the city's denial of a request for paperwork related to a grievance filed by former Assistant Fire Chief Tim Wheeler.
Stevens did, however, release two documents related to Wheeler's dismissal. One was a short memo informing the fire official that he was being terminated for just cause effective Oct. 1, the day the memo was sent.
The second document informed Wheeler that he would be receiving his normal paycheck on Oct. 5, and on the next payday (Oct. 19) he would receive his last check. It stated that the last check would include eight hours pay for Oct. 1, 2012, plus pay for 185 hours of accumulated vacation and 44.5 hours of compensatory time.
Among those who received the documents were Wheeler's attorney James Moore. Moore confirmed that his client has filed a formal grievance concerning his termination with the local chapter of the International Association of Firefighters, and that the local grievance committee is reviewing the facts.
Stevens said the city is awaiting the committee's formal response.
Moore said his client wants to be reinstated in his former job and to recover financial loss for items such as pay and benefits. Regarding the outcome of the grievance, Moore said he fully expects the city to deny it. The next step would be to select a neutral arbitrator and schedule a hearing.
Moore said his client is extremely upset about this issue and wants to present it to someone neutral. He also wants his reputation restored. Moore said it's sad the city took a year before taking the action it did.
"His termination was totally unjust," Moore said.
On Oct. 7, 2011, Wheeler, who was then the city's fire prevention chief and public information officer for the Edmond Fire Department, was placed on paid administrative leave after a city worker alleged that he pointed a small-caliber pistol at another employee. While he was on leave, the gross pay he received from the city was $106,375.82.
In 2011, Edmond Human Resources Director Anita Breen had just begun an internal investigation into the matter.
The alleged incident occurred Oct. 6, 2011, according to information released previously by the Edmond Police Department. At about 1:30 p.m. on that date, the agency received a call from a Fire Department employee who said he was aware of a "dangerous situation at Fire Station No. 5," which he felt he had to report, police said. The caller went on to say he believed it had risen to a "criminal situation," police said.
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The report by The Chronicle of Philanthropy that the top ten philanthropic gifts in the year past totaled $3.4 billion, and that there were more gifts of $100 million or more in 2013 (15), than in 2012 (11), serves as a reminder of American generosity. Indeed, U.S. charitable gifts total twice as large a percentage of gross domestic product (2.2 percent) as the next-closest country (the United Kingdom, 1.1 percent.)
But a review of the big-ticket gifts—which are just a small portion of the more than $300 billion in overall household and corporate charitable giving—reminds us that American philanthropy is not just significant for its magnitude. It is also independent—meaning that it is directed in thoughtful, personal ways by individuals with their own interests and enthusiasms, not—at least not yet—directed by government. That may be changing in ways that should concern us (and are the focus of my recent book Philanthropy Under Fire).
Before considering that threat, however, it's important to appreciate the present. The largest philanthropic gifts of2013 are notable for their variety. Nike founder Phil Knight pledged $500 million for cancer research (to the Oregon Health and Science University Foundation). In contrast, Mark Zuckerberg—who'd previously donated $100 million to help public schools in disadvantaged Newark, N.J.—donated Facebook shares valued at $990 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation—meaning the funds will help an array of local causes and groups. Michael Bloomberg's $350 million pledge to Johns Hopkins University will focus, in part, on student financial aid. Big gifts based on new ideas can lead to breakthroughs—witness Paypal founder Peter Thiel's 2010 decision to support promising entrepreneurs who agree to drop out of college. Thiel sparked national reflection on the role and value of higher education. That sort of variety is what we see when donors are left to their own devices. One can think of the $300 billion in charitable giving—which, as a percentage of GDP, is more than double that of any other country—in part as a sort of national venture philanthropy fund.
This good news must be tempered, however, with threats on the horizon to philanthropic independence. Increasingly charitable donations' tax deduction status has led to the view that government should influence philanthropic funds. California Congressman Xavier Becerra, for instance, has asserted that "only one in 10 (charitable) dollars are serving poor or disadvantaged people. I have to wonder where the other nine dollars are going." And Aaron Dorfman of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy has branded the charitable deduction a "subsidy" –and implicitly raises the question of whether it should be reserved for "social justice philanthropy."
So it is that philanthropic independence could fall victim to narrow views about what helps the neediest. We already see government direction of another key part of America's charitable tradition: the time citizens give as volunteers. Through its AmeriCorps program, The Corporation for National and Community Service offers annual stipends to "volunteers" at designated nonprofits, effectively favoring some non-profit causes and purposes over others. For instance, in a request for proposals from organizations seeking AmeriCorps labor, the New York State Office of National and Community Service gives priority "to increasing the participation of individuals from historically under-represented populations. . .resource-poor communities. . . and communities with high poverty rates." The worldview represented by Mr. Dorfman and Rep. Becerra —that charitable giving (whether dollars or labor) should seek to address inequality and current disadvantage. Such giving can be laudable and effective—but should not be seen as more valuable than the sorts of imaginative and idiosyncratic giving in which much philanthropy is engaged. Indeed, if Thiel's efforts to support research to prevent an asteroid strike of Earth are successful, the poor, as well as the rich, will benefit.
Combined federal, state and local government spending in the United States will exceed $6 trillion this year. Philanthropic giving, comparatively, totals less than five percent of that total. Let's hew to our traditional of philanthropic independence—and trust its donors to know what's best
This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on Wednesday, January 8
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The personal or corporate marketing plays do arouse suspicion. All those sponsored college bowl games we just watched are charities.
You sometimes wonder the true intentions of Z, B, G, and others… If you can't help your own Country first, how can you take care of others?
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Mr. Dorfman and Rep. Becerra: Before restricting allowable charitable giving benefits only to those that help "poor and disenfranchised" or "social justice philanthropy" why don't you consider the ratio of money spent on the War on Poverty in the last 50 years vs its benefit. Trillions spent and we still have poverty. Certainly the aggregate value of benefits that the poor have received – dare we call them subsidies – from taxes collected from all Americans are far higher than the total tax dollars lost to charitable tax deduction 'subsidies' utlized by some Americans.
I'm not sure who I trust less to decide how to make sure society has everything it needs: a few billionaires pursuing their pet philanthropic projects, or the billionaires and millionaires in Congress who could care less about any social contract.
Our society has a lot of issues to tackle, poverty, low wages, and an environmentally devastating energy infrastructure chief among them. Targeted social experiments can be a great laboratory for addressing these concerns, but they're no substitute for what can be achieved by a functional representative government that mirrors the diversity of the public at large.


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A Murrieta Mesa High School student was taken into custody Thursday after the student was found with a Taser, according to officials.
In an email to parents, Principal Mary Walters said a teacher "became aware of the Taser" during the first class of the day. The teacher notified the school resource officer, who then brought the student in for questionning.
"We take this incident very seriously and appropriate disciplinary action will be taken," Walters stated. "In order for our school to remain a safe haven for our students and staff, we must all work together to provide the safe environment that everyone deserves."
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Pros: Cheap Easy to get started Small Works perfect with my arduino uno via serial (4800baud).
Cons: Slow start up Says i'm 15 km away from my actual position and it says it has perfect GPS reading (Only me?). Boring packaging, only a bag. Don't listen to my nmea commands.
Other: Worth the money. But i am disappointed on the precision of the unit. And it would be nice to have a nicer packaging. Perfect for measuring speed.
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- It's very easy to find documentations over the internet.
- Fixing time is faster than from my cellphone as is it's signal quality.
Cons: - It's refresh rate time is only 1Hz. But this is a limitation of the price...
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The folks at IFC have shared a great preview clip from the hit comedy "Portlandia."
The series set in Portland stars Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and Carrie Brownstein (Wild Flag, Sleater-Kinney). The show premiered its second season a couple of weeks ago.
Guest stars this season include Jeff Goldblum, Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg, Amber Tamblyn, Tim Robbins, Eddie Vedder and more.
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Yet Another House Republican to Retire
by Jonathan Singer, Sat Feb 27, 2010 at 04:02:34 PM EST
Charlie Cook says that it's "very hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats don't lose the House." The Republicans in the House apparently don't agree with him, though, as evidenced by the continuing trend of party incumbents opting to leave the House instead of waiting around for the GOP's supposedly imminent return to power in the chamber. Here's the latest.
Veteran Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.), an early ally of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and an outspoken fiscal conservative, announced Saturday he was retiring.
Linder disclosed his decision at a Republican breakfast in his district and party officials in Washington confirmed the news.
The 18-year congressman represents a heavily Republican seat in the sprawling suburbs east of Atlanta that is likely to stay in GOP hands.
This district isn't competitive, you say, so why does it matter whether one Republican is going to be swapped out for another? It matters a great deal, in fact.
To flesh out what I stated above, and what I've said before, if House Republicans really believed that they were on the verge of retaking the chamber, they wouldn't be retiring. Take the retiring John Linder, for example. Linder is a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, and as a ranking member of one of its subcommittees would stand to earn a coveted chairmanship if the Republicans were to retake the House. Yet he's leaving rather than wait less than a year for something that's supposedly a sure thing -- the GOP winning control of the House?
Actions speak louder than words. When Republicans like Congressman Linder -- and a dozen and a half of his compatriots -- decide to leave the House, it says loud and clear that they don't think their party is going to win back the House in November, no matter what Charlie Cook or anyone else has to say.
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My favorite Grammy moment of 2012? That'd be when presenter Dan Konopka of rock band OK Go said, "And the Grammy goes to....." That was a moment of significant hope, right before Konopka announced the winner, mumbling something that sounded to me like, "Definitely not Peter Cooper." That's right, you are reading the word stylings of the… Read more
July, 2011
Tornados hit East Nashville in the late 1990s and knocked down anything natural and wooden, and so there's precious little left here in the way of shade. We've had some trees planted, but they take a while to grow up into anything that'll subdue the misery index. That's all fine, as Eric Brace and I are playing Houston on July 22, so this'll serve as a training camp. "It's hotter than concrete/ July in Houston/ And… Read more
March 8
Lots of good stuff going on while I'm sitting here waiting for the other shoe to drop. Apparently, Eric Brace and I are playing shows this month with Todd Snider, Dan Navarro and... gulp... Country Music Hall of Famer Tom T. Hall. Check the "Dates" page for more information. We're with Snider in Greenville, SC, with Navarro in the DC area and with Tom T. at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Those of you… Read more
Chart Madness
Tom T. Hall once said that music awards involved finding out you were in a contest you didn't realize you had entered, then being disappointed when you found out that you had lost. Music charts can be like that as well, and there are plenty of charts these days. Right now, my new CD, The Lloyd Green Album, is No. 1 on the Roots Music Report chart and nowhere at all on the Americana chart. And my new duo CD with… Read more
Oct. 11
Just home from a fun run up to Staunton, Va. and Huff's Church, Penn. with duo partner/pal Eric Brace. Allow me to explain a little about the misery of the road. We had to get up early Friday morning to drive up to Virginia in the autumn sunshine. And it's a long drive, so we had to bring an eight-CD Louvin Brothers boxed set and a four-CD Emmylou Harris boxed set and some other favorite albums. And we had to stop at our… Read more
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Escape From Hormone Horrors — What You Can Do
Hormone horrors: The perimenopause years continued...
Northrup tells WebMD that, as in your 20s and 30s, your first line of defense should be dietary changes. "If you haven't already cut out salt, sugar, and white flour, do it right now," she says. "And also cut back on caffeine and wine. In some women caffeine and wine can exacerbate perimenopause symptoms."
Northrup also advocates increasing your intake of omega-3 fatty acids (found in flax seed, walnuts, and eggs) as well as increasing calcium. When it comes to diet, Northrup is a strong believer in the power of a low glycemic eating plan, which shuns simple carbohydrates like bread, pasta, and pastry in favor of complex carbs like fruits and veggies plus protein and fiber.
"You will see a major change in just one cycle," Northrup says. "In 30 days you will feel better with just these simple dietary changes."
Getting regular exercise will also help, according to Amaru, as will learning to handle stress in a more healthful way. "It's pretty much impossible to cut stress out of a woman's life," says Amaru. "But if you can change the way you handle it - go for a walk, meditate, listen to music, whatever it is that helps you to de-stress - you will see a favorable impact on your perimenopause symptoms."
If you do all those things but are still not finding relief, Goldstein says a low dose birth control pill might be the answer. The Pill works differently than hormone replacement therapy, which adds more hormones on top of the ones that are already fluctuating, sometimes making the imbalance worse. "The Pill," he says, "shuts down your hormone production completely and gives you a small, even, metered dose that is the same day in and day out. That way, he says, "you don't feel the bumps in the road as much."
According to Northrup, some women can also benefit from natural progesterone supplementation, which works to replace the hormone lost when ovulation stops. "For some women," she says, "this can have an amazing calming effect that ameliorates all the major symptoms."
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Because menopause is defined as 12 months or more without a menstrual cycle, it's easy to assume that once you enter the Big M, hormonal activity - including the ups and downs - is pretty much over. For many women this is the case. But because there is always some level of reproductive hormones left in the body, fluctuations and at least some symptoms can continue for years beyond your last period.
"It's not that unusual to find a woman who has entered menopause and is still fighting the hot flashes and some mood-related problems," says Goldstein. Moreover, while women in perimenopause may find wild fluctuations in their desire for sex, some women in menopause experience a kind of flat lining of desire - at least for a while.


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Boehringer announced it will acquire Amgen's Fremont manufacturing site to further extend its global contract development and manufacturing capability for biologics. The Fremont site came to Amgen via its acquisition of Abgenix for $2.2 B in 2006. The Fremont site is 100,000 sq ft and houses 360 employees. It has previous experience producing panitumumab, Vectibix, commercially.
Boehringer buying Amgen site to expand biologics CMO biz.
The acquistion enhances Boehringer's global footprint. It adds capability to its main manufacturing site in Biberach, Germany, and manufacturing and development partnerships that it has with Avid Bioservices and Kemwell in India. Financial terms of the Boehringer acquisition were not released but the company is supposed to take over the site formally in March.
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Anyone that knows me knows that I'm extremely proud of being Dominican and I practically bleed TIPICO, its embedded in my everyday routine. But, just as fast as I can sing any Banda Real song, Brooklyn raised me, and if Biggie comes on, I'll recite every word to any song.
I follow hip hop and rap so that my knowledge in the Television and Radio field is diverse. So, it was no surprise that when I was at the Send2Print offices recently and Radamiz came in and put a request to print his business cards, I was beyond excited because I've been following this kids music for quite sometime. You'll be surprised just how important something as simple as a business card is.
In the marketing field, it resonates with your clients, and potential business ventures can bloom rapidly because they know you are serious about your business. It's a simple way to emphasize your professionalism, and Radamiz knew to come to the best printers in town in representing himself. His cards, shown below were beautifully crafted and are 16pt silk laminated with spot UV on his logo.
You know when you get that feeling when you meet someone and can't seem to quite understand why they aren't famous yet? Exactly my thoughts, but enough about me. LOL Just kidding, this kid Radamiz's lyricism is on a whole 'nother level. If you're a hip connoisseur, listen to his music and you'll know why. He's a young humble 20 year old from Brooklyn, studying at NYU by day, and provoking thoughts with his music by night. His flow is beyond that of a professional for lack of a better term, and you can feel just how much he loves his music through every word he spits. Its real raw Brooklyn hip hop resurrected that anyone can relate to.
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Last week I visited my cousin in Clovis, New Mexico air force base. After spending much needed time resting we decided to go explore and learn some history on Clovis – a town filled with a whole lot of nothing to do.
We visited Blackwater Draw Museum. While exploring the small museum my eye caught the coolest thing ever, The Business Card!
Hanging on a corner with a spotlight over it were some neat handcrafted item that belonged to, The Official Indian Tribe Dealer, along with his Business Card!!! The remains have been noted to be 13,000 years old.
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It's no question that the natural disaster Hurricane Sandy affected everyone, not only in the Tri-state area, but all of the north east area.
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Collector's Corner #7 - 1986-87 OPC
After the disaster that was 1985-86, I was hoping for a better set from OPC in 1986-87. They sort of delivered. Following a D- effort with about a C+ does count as an improvement, but this set still paled in comparison with the great things they were doing just two seasons earlier.
The production issues that really plagued '85-86 were basically cleared up. The miscuts that showed significant parts of other cards really weren't there. Everything was back within typical OPC tolerances. The blue print lines were nowhere to be seen. Physically, these were much better made.
Visually, they were better, too. The image quality still wasn't where it was a couple of years earlier, but it wasn't as dim as the year before. While the design still has a vague food-product quality to it, it wasn't a rip-off of Vachon cakes, so that helps. There were still only 264 cards, though, so clearly the previous year wasn't an aberration. 264 was the new standard. This stunk, because it meant you only got 10-15 players per team rather than 17-18. No team cards, and fewer bit players.
Airburshing was no better this year. Dave Barr and Steve Richmond were particularly bad examples. The airbrushed guys were typically the players included in the Topps set as well. OPC-only players normally just got the 'now with team x' treatment, which looked far better.
The one real oddity of this set was a mix-up of two players. This happens from time to time, where they'll make a card of player A but include a picture of player B. Don Awrey and Skip Krake had this happen for years. The RC of Mario Tremblay is a picture of someone else entirely, some long-forgotten prospect. This year, they switched the pictures of Joel Otto and Moe Lemay. Excusable in most cases, but Otto and Lemay weren't even teammates. Someone recognized that something was wrong on the Lemay card, as they've added "Now with Canucks" to the picture. No such luck with Otto.
There were some interesting things, though. This year is famous for the Roy RC, but some other things were cool, too. In 1985-86, Gretzky won the scoring title based solely on his assists. He could have had an 80-game goalless drought and won the Ross anyway. That's captured on the back of the scoring leader card.
It's a good set for Leaf fans, too. They didn't print a ton of Leaf cards that year, and there were no goaltenders, but there were three rookies of significance - Russ Courtnall, Steve Thomas (wearing #28 from an early callup)...
...and then, of course, the best-looking card in the entire set - the Glower. If ever a card perfectly captured the spirit of a player, it's the first-year card of Wendel Clark.
So this set merits a C+. But wait - look at that Clark again. I take it back - this set gets an A.
(Pictures for Barr, Richmond, Otto and Lemay ripped off from eBay because I couldn't be bothered to go scan them.)


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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Remove a star from the rating if you take this Journey without wearing 3-D glasses. That's where the real fun comes in. Otherwise you have a family-friendly retelling of Jules Verne's 1864 novel (best remembered is the 1959 movie with an overqualified James Mason, a shirtless Pat Boone and a gorgeous Arlene Dahl) in a romp that is lazily content to connect the dots instead of breaking new ground. Brendan Fraser is Indiana Jones stalwart and goofily charming as Trevor Anderson, a science prof who retraces the steps of his brother, who died searching for the center of the earth. With his 13-year-old nephew (Josh Hutcherson) in tow, along with a Icelandic babe (Anita Briem) in the role of guide, Trevor finds his way by carrying a copy of the book Verne wrote 144 years ago (score one for literary merit). In 2-D, it's all achingly familiar. In 3-D, the story comes alive, despite the tacky sets and gimmicks. Put on those glasses and you get toothpaste spat in your face, a T-Rex breathing up your nostrils, and what may be the longest fall in movie history. I don't know if 3-D could improve all movies (nothing could make The Love Guru funny) but it sure works here.
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The Rogers High football team suffered its first losing season in 10 years after going 4-6 during the 2013 season.
The Rams don't expect a repeat this fall.
Rogers senior Griffen Stacy, who will be competing for the starting quarterback job, expects his team to rise to the occasion.
"Last year was a disappointment. This team is hungry," Stacy said. "It's just exciting to be out here. Coming into my senior year is kind of surreal because I have been waiting for this for a long time. We have a lot of young guys who didn't get a lot of playing time last year. They're really good and are showing it out here."
Rogers head coach Gene Bowen said the starting quarterback position will be one of the most contested starting spots heading into the fall season. Stacy, Troy Johnston, Tausili Gago and Jordan Bishop are all battling for the spot.
"There is some great competition there for that spot," Bowen said. "The great thing is that all those guys are great athletes, and if they're not playing quarterback, they can easily play some place else on the field. That's a nice problem to have."
The Rams' high-octane and upbeat tempo was evident during practice sessions as music blared through the speakers on the field. Many teams, including the Seattle Seahawks, the University of Oregon and the University of Washington football programs consistently have music playing during practice.
"We have been doing that the last couple of years," Bowen said of the music. "Years ago, I wouldn't had done that, but I don't think it has hurt us at all. I think having the music playing kind of takes a little bit of the edge off and actually forces the players to focus a little bit more. There is that noise going on in the background and you have to get through that just like in a football game you have to get through things with a lot of stuff going on. It's been a lot of fun. A lot of teams are doing it now."
Bowen said he's been impressed with the play of linebackers Shane Ward, Haden Cruz and Travis Tucker during the past two weeks of practice. The Rogers defense has to improve this season.
"We scored a lot of points but we gave up a lot of points," Bowen said of the 2013 season.
Wide receiver/defensive back Kyler Ooley said the Rams' best strength is their depth across the board at all positions. Close to 130 players reported for spring ball, and the competition mantra thrives during practice.
"I think it is going to push us a lot," Ooley said. "We have all these guys out here and we are pretty deep at all of those positions. I feel like when it comes to game time we are going to have the right guys out there. If someone goes down, I feel like we have plenty of talent to back them up. We just want to better ourselves and be the best we can be. It's going to be a tough league again. I feel like this team definitely has the talent to have a great season."


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