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Valentine's Day 2013: Romantic Events in Three Rivers Parks
Planning your evening for Feb. 14? Want to celebrate Valentine's Day earlier? Three Rivers Park District hosts a variety of activities Feb. 9-14, 2013.
Information provided by Three Rivers Park District. Victorian Valentine's Dinner Saturday, Feb. 9, from 6-9 p.m. at The Landing-Minnesota River Heritage Park, Shakopee, for a "Victorian Valentine's Dinner." Listen to a pianist play romantic melodies as you have hors d'oeuvres and dinner in the intimate Town Hall. Then set out for an evening stroll in the candlelit Town Square where you visit several buildings, each offering a different dessert. Dinner will be served from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Bring your own bottle of wine if you wish — must be 21 or older. Cost is $35 per person and reservations are required by Feb. 6. Call 763-559-6700 to make a reservation and reference activity number #138417-01. This program is for ages 18+. Valentine's …
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Love all the ideas. I think it is better to spend time together than to give expensive things or accessories. Besides a nice bouquet of red roses (I found one for 50% off at bfflowers.com with coupon Vantpromo50) and some chocolates, I will be celebrating staying in, watching a movie together and then planning something for the weekend. Don't really feel like dealing with the big crowds on …   more ›


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Posted: 04/24/2013 - The Piedmont Council for the Arts held its annual fundraiser 'Spring for the Arts' at City Space. The event featured a gallery, musicians, and local high school artists.
Updated: 09/26/2012 - Hunter Wolfe and Are are getting ready to play at the after party for for one of their role models, Jack White, formerly of the White Stripes, a band he started with just his guitar and his sister, a drummer.
Updated: 09/24/2012 - The group Central Virginia Health Alliance for Musicians (CVHAM) is one of our areas most beloved musicians and their music is helping them with a very important project.
Updated: 09/21/2012 - The rock and roll soul of Central Virginia stopped by the Newsplex studios Friday. Josh Rogan brought his Americana, blues, and rock and roll sound with him.
Updated: 09/11/2012 - Although fall is around the corner, spring and summer are on the minds of designers at New York City's Fashion Week. Fashion week began September 6 and ends September 13.


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That pewpewdie is swedish. I have sent in a request for my government to elimate this national shame.
made by the ever charming and talented Lillian Thorne.
The Finely Endowed Lord Rilla Pythonicus, Archduke of the Black Coast and Lord of the Serpent Port."Your arms are too short to box with God"
Shiny Pewpewdie? I would lick that.
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GODDAMN IT. I HATE YOU. Not really thou.
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I know your pain. The government of Canada refuses to exile or eliminate the great satan Justin Beiber.
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Yeah, I'm an American, I win hands down at any national shame game. Just be glad you guys only have a few fucktards worth assassinating.
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I'm with Jorick on this one, I'm pretty sure America gets the biggest shame of anyone. We somehow made this woman famous:
"You can still love someone and be wrong for them..."
We made Snooki famous, hard to beat the US in that regard sadly.
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Lake Tragedy, Murder Conviction, Body in Swamp Top Regional News
Child porn allegedly found on man's computer also makes headlines.
Teens Missing in Icy Waters of Budd Lake, Prosecutor Says
Authorities and divers spent days searching for two Mount Olive teens who went missing at Budd Lake. By Wednesday, the bodies of both teenagers had been recovered.
Guilty Verdict Returned in Hopatcong Murder Trial
Giuseppe Tedesco could face life-plus-20 years in state prison. He was arrested and issued new charges Thursday after allegedly assaulting a corrections officer on the way to his holding cell.
Body Found Off Great Swamp Trail, Officials Say
The discovery of a man's body in the swamp was made Tuesday near Long Hill Road in Harding Township. The man was later identified as a Lake Hopatcong resident, his death ruled a suicide.
Child Porn Found on Bridgewater Man's Computer, Prosecutor Says
Photos and video of children allegedly discovered following undercover investigation.
Baby Left in Car While Mom Shopped, Cops Say
1-year-old was in car seat outside Marshalls for about 45 minutes, according to police report.
Burglarized Cars Reported in Kinnelon Neighborhood
Police said cash, bags, GPS units were stolen from unlocked cars all within the same neighborhood.
Councilman Sues Law Prof for Vegetarian Bias Article
'Of Meat and Manhood' is defamatory, lawsuit filed by Robert Catalanello alleges.


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Dear Friends:
Bill Faloon, Editor and founder of the Life Extension Foundation has accurate and astute perceptions on government bureaucracies and failure to protect the citizenry from unscrupulous manufacturers endangering lives and in many cases ending the lives of unsuspecting victims.
CBS News enables FDA to Deceive Public, by William Faloon
If you watched CBS News 60 Minutes this week, you witnessed the kind of misleading reporting that enables federal agencies to gain unbridled power.
60 Minutes accurately told the story of an unscrupulous manufacturer of contaminated drugs that caused 48 deaths and over 700 serious illnesses.
60 Minutes omitted the fact that the FDA knew about this disaster-waiting-to-happen as far back as 2002, but failed to stop it until Americans started dying in 2012.
FDA officials were given free rein on national TV to blame this tragedy on a lack of regulatory authority. As you'll read here, the fault instead lies with bureaucratic incompetence at the hands of the FDA and the state pharmacy board that permitted these lethal deviations in good manufacturing practices to occur.
Particularly appalling is the FDA's inability to recognize that manufacturing as many as 17,000 vials of a drug all at once under filthy conditions was a far cry from compounding one drug at a time in a sterile environment.
The contamination problem, however, is not isolated to one bad drug maker. It turns out that these kinds of safely violations were routine at drug factories that the FDA had certified as being safe.
Instead of blaming the FDA for ignoring this lethal problem, CBS News let FDA officials blame Congress for not giving the FDA more regulatory power over pharmacies.
The FDA pretends to protect the public against contaminated drugs. The sordid facts reveal an agency incapable of acting in a logical manner, and when the FDA does something "after the fact," they often create worse problems.
Such is the case of a pharmaceutical manufacturer that made contaminated injectable drugs that have killed 48 and sickened over 700 Americans. The FDA identified problems with this manufacturer as early as 2002, but dropped the ball into a state pharmacy board's lap that failed to act. The FDA again identified dangerous problems in 2006, but once more failed to take actions other than send a "warning letter." The FDA now claims it needs more power and money to do its job.
This same unscrupulous drug manufacturer was the focus of a 60 Minutes broadcast on March 10, 2013.
What the FDA does not want the public to know is that the reason this shady manufacturer was able to take over such a significant part of the market is that FDA actions caused other companies to stop making certain injectable drugs.
CBS News ignored House and Senate investigations that documented the FDA's egregious failings in this matter. CBS instead allowed the FDA to blame this catastrophe on lack of regulatory authority over compounding pharmacies.
U.S. drug factories in 'terrible shape'
Here's how the New York Times described conditions inside FDA-registered drug factories:
"Weevils floating in vials of heparin. Morphine cartridges that contain up to twice the labeled dose. Manufacturing plants with rusty tools, mold in production areas and — in one memorable case — a barrel of urine."
The New York Times emphasized that these were not reports about the injectable drug maker that caused dozens to die from fungal meningitis. These quality lapses were found at large drug companies whose names are familiar to many Americans.
When these problems were discovered, the FDA sent out "warnings" to these companies. Instead of fixing the problems, many of these drug makers decided it was cheaper to simply discontinue making the drug(s). The result was severe shortages of the drugs cited by the FDA. This opened up the market for disreputable companies to make these drugs, who did so under the same kind of abysmal conditions the FDA found at large drug factories.
The FDA would like to take credit for stopping these problems, but in certain cases, it was people working at the drug factories that came forward to complain about unsanitary manufacturing conditions, or people dying from contaminated drugs that prompted FDA action.
The sad fact is that some drug companies are so greedy they will not stop their highly profitable assembly lines to perform even the most rudimentary sterilizing procedures.
Contaminated injectable drugs
Fungal meningitis causes inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord that result in dreadful sickness and sometimes death.
A drug factory made large quantities of a steroid (methylprednisolone) that was injected into the joints and spines of aging humans in chronic pain. It provided immediate but temporary relief.
The problem was this drug was contaminated with a black fungus that easily infected those who were injected with it. Since injectable drugs bypass the natural barriers afforded by an intact digestive/immune system, they have to be manufactured and maintained in a sterile environment to avoid killing patients.
FDA inspections in 2002 and 2006 revealed injectable drugs being made under substandard (non-sterile) conditions. It was not until hundreds fell ill and scores died that the FDA took meaningful action (in 2012).
How the FDA bungled investigation
The name of the company that made the fungus-laced injectable drug is New England Compounding Center (NECC). It pretended to be a compounding pharmacy, but instead functioned as a large drug factory.
The FDA claims that it lacks adequate regulatory authority over compounding pharmacies, but the FDA's inspection of NECC in year 2002 revealed problems with record keeping, sterility, and other issues. That same year the FDA informed the Massachusetts State Board of Pharmacy of an adverse reaction to methylprednisolone, which is the same drug that in 2012 caused the fungal-meningitis outbreak.
Had the FDA done their job back in 2002, they would have forced NECC to register as a drug manufacturer and subjected NECC to stricter regulatory oversight, which may not have prevented the problems since FDA-registered drug makers were later found to have similar unsanitary facilities.
The FDA and Massachusetts State Pharmacy Board's most blatant failure in this matter was to uncover horrific conditions inside NECC … and take no practical steps to enforce safety compliance before tragedy struck.
Good Manufacturing Practices overlooked
According to Massachusetts state regulators, the NECC drug factory failed to sterilize injectable drugs, something that is mandatory for a substance that is going to be injected into the body.
NECC did not keep manufacturing equipment clean, operated a leaky boiler near the "clean room" where injectable drugs were packaged, and shipped products before receiving test results showing the products were sterile, which violates good manufacturing guidelines.
In addition, NECC did not test the manufacturing equipment used to sterilize injectable drugs on a timely basis.
The result of a multitude of quality lapses was injectable vials that contained black matter inside, which turned out to be the fungus that caused 48 deaths.
FDA inspects after catastrophe
After hundreds had fallen ill from fungal meningitis, the FDA conducted a thorough inspection of NECC's drug factory.
The FDA's report cited greenish-yellowish discoloration on sterilization equipment and non-sterile raw ingredients. The FDA found that 25% of supposedly sterile vials were contaminated with greenish-black foreign matter and that 100% of these vials sent for analysis contained fungus.
The FDA noted that NECC was unable to provide documentation that its steam autoclave devices were capable of achieving product sterility, a critical factor when making injectable drugs. In fact, FDA inspectors found greenish-yellow discoloration inside the one cleaning autoclave and a tarnished discoloration inside another.
NECC turned off its air conditioning in "clean rooms" from 8 p.m. to 5:30 a.m., which is improper because failing to keep clean rooms at low temperature and low humidity provides a fertile environment for fungal growth.
Particularly troubling in the FDA report was documentation that NECC had found microbial contamination, but did not enact cleanliness procedures to neutralize this lethal threat.
Furthermore, "clean rooms" used to make injectable drugs had been identified by NECC's own staff as detecting bacteria and molds in January 2012, but the FDA could find no evidence that the company acted to fix these lethal problems.
The FDA's belated inspection of NECC did nothing to prevent the suffering and death of hundreds of victims who contracted fungal infections from contaminated vials of methylprednisolone injected into their spines and joints.
Congress cites FDA failure
The House and Senate held oversight hearings on the NECC tragedy that sickened over 700 and killed 48 people.
Congress wanted to know why the FDA didn't do more to prevent the production and sale of the tainted steroids.
As anticipated, the FDA claimed that it didn't have enough authority to regulate pharmacies that compound drugs. FDA Commissioner (Margaret Hamburg, M.D.) warned that if Congress doesn't strengthen legislation, another similar tragedy is inevitable. Dr. Hamburg stated before the House committee:
"If we fail to act, this type of incident will happen again. It is a matter of when, not if."
What Dr. Hamburg may not have expected was irrefutable documentation that the FDA and the Massachusetts State Board of Pharmacy both repeatedly visited NECC and found problems, but the strongest action the FDA took was the issuance of a warning letter in 2006.
In response to Dr. Hamburg claiming the FDA needed more "authority," one representative responded:
"We're just not buying it, doctor "… "You lack the authority to do anything, yet you send a letter like this? " (In reference to the FDA 2006 Warning Letter).
This warning letter documented numerous violations of existing rules the FDA found in 2006, yet the FDA failed to take action until citizens started dying.
House members repeatedly berated regulators who failed to prevent the fungal meningitis outbreak, stating the FDA and Massachusetts state regulators both knew as far back as 2002 that there were problems at NECC, which distributed tens of thousands of doses of contaminated steroids.
Dr. Hamburg was lambasted by House Committee members who stated:
"This is a complete and utter failure on the part of your agency."
"This is one of the worst public health disasters ever caused by a contaminated drug in this country."
"After a tragedy like this the first question we all ask is 'Could this have been prevented?' After an examination of documents produced by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the answer here appears to be, 'Yes'."
"You can take a regulator to a problem but you can't make him regulate."
"It's an absolute tragedy without any question that 32 people have died."
Other House members came to Dr. Hamburg's defense, arguing that a solution needed to be found instead of seeking to "prosecute the Food and Drug Administration."
Senate more harshly critical of FDA
The day after the House hearing where the FDA asked for more authority, a bipartisan staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued a report detailing how federal and state regulators knew nearly a decade ago of serious safety concerns with the NECC tied to hundreds of meningitis cases, but failed to act decisively. The report concluded that "bureaucratic inertia appears to be what allowed a bad actor to repeatedly risk public health."
While acknowledging the lack of clarity in what the FDA's role should be in regulating compounding pharmacies, the Senate cited plenty of evidence that the FDA should have taken action against NECC, which clearly was functioning as a drug factory.
The Senate investigators wrote, "Both federal and state regulators were well aware that NECC and its owners posed a risk to the public health" and "repeatedly failed to demonstrate that the company could safely compound sterile products."
One senator told of an elderly patient from her state whose mouth had become infiltrated with mold that "she had to be swabbed free of black fungal matter before she died."
The Senate report uncovered an internal FDA memo in 2003 that concluded there was "potential for serious public health consequences if NECC's compounding practices, in particular those relating to specific sterile products, are not improved."
The Senate confirmed that NECC-produced methylprednisolone "had previously been a suspected cause of at least two cases with bacterial meningitis-like symptoms" in 2002, leading to an FDA inspection … with no meaningful action taken.
Most senators expressed skepticism that the FDA could effectively use widened authority under any new law, one stating "the FDA has failed to use its existing authority," with another stating, "This has been going on since 2002 … It took all this time, and nobody did anything."
Regrettably, some senators still believe that giving the FDA more tax dollars will solve these issues of bureaucratic incompetence and mismanagement.
At the Senate hearing, FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg conceded:
"Perhaps we should have been more aggressive," referring to the FDA's failure to inspect NECC and follow up on the 2006 warning letter. "There was a lot of debate within the agency about whether to proceed."
Senators repeatedly questioned the FDA's sending NECC a warning letter in 2006 and a letter in 2008 saying that it planned to inspect, but not following through until after the fungal meningitis outbreak occurred in late 2012.
What Congress overlooked
What was not discussed in congressional hearings was the FDA's history of abusing and misusing whatever authority that Congress gave it.
For example, when the FDA first discovered problems at NECC (in 2002), it chose to direct its limited resources to prosecuting a man named Jay Kimball who sold a drug (liquid deprenyl) that harmed no one.
In 2006, while FDA did not think it needed to stop NECC's lethal manufacturing practices, it somehow found the time to censor claims by cherry growers that cited scientific studies on their website showing cherries conferred health benefits.
What few understand is how the FDA has abused its authority in a discriminatory manner. The new "authority" the FDA is seeking would enable the agency to pick out small, well-run compounding pharmacies and regulate them out of business using minor technical arguments that have no bearing on safety.
How much more FDA failure will Americans tolerate?
In 1906, a book called "The Jungle" was published that described appalling conditions inside America's meat packing industry. The revelations in this book resulted in the establishment of federal laws that mandated standards of strength, purity and quality of foods and drugs.
Conditions inside some of America's drug factories are eerily similar to those described in "The Jungle," yet the FDA has been around for more than 100 years! How much longer is the public expected to wait before the FDA effectively spends its $4 billion annual budget on real consumer protection, as opposed to threatening walnut and cherry growers for claiming health benefits for their foods?
No matter how many times the FDA fails to protect consumers against contaminated drugs, there are no calls for meaningful reform.
Instead of recognizing FDA ineptitude, cries ring out to give the FDA more money and power … as Americans perish from contaminated drugs the FDA should have stopped.
No free market!
What the public doesn't yet understand is that contaminated drugs are the result of draconian regulations that limit free market competition. By restricting drug factories to only those overseen by incompetent bureaucrats, the inevitable result will be shortages, poor quality and high prices.
One of the challenges in dealing with the NECC catastrophe is that there may be new shortages of injectable drugs because there are not enough drug factories in the U.S. to meet patient demand. Shortages create opportunities for unsavory companies to dump even greater amounts of overpriced and contaminated drugs into the bodies of unsuspecting victims.
This kind of problem would not continue in a free market, but ever-increasing regulations are exacerbating the problems of drug shortages, deadly manufacturing practices, and obscenely high prices.
We will re-publish this response to the FDA's deceptive tactics aired last night on 60 Minutes in greater detail later this year in Life Extension Magazine®.
I thought it critical to alert members immediately about this misleading propaganda as it may influence policy makers into giving the FDA more authority. The facts clearly show that the FDA failed to use the power it already has to stop contaminated drugs from poisoning the American public.
Suzanne Somers
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My dear friend, doctor and teacher, Dr. Jonathan Wright is wrongly under attack again. This Harvard twin major, western trained doctor is a staunch advocate of natural medicine using "nature's tools" (his quote) resorting to pharmaceuticals only when absolutely necessary. We need his voice, his expertise in a world of toxicity and a maze of pharmaceutical pills.
Please write to the link provided if you agree with Bob Reagan of Nutrition and Health.
Dear Reader, There's an old saying, friends, that if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. Well, I'm not just outraged -- I'm spitting mad, and I need your help to stop a blatant and politically-motivated attack against one of the leading alternative health providers in the world. The state of Washington has once again set its sights on Dr. Jonathan Wright for refusing to kowtow to mainstream medicine and its prescription pill addiction. These are the same folks that have worked to make Dr. Wright's life miserable since he opened his innovative and life-changing Tahoma Clinic in Washington 40 years ago. The latest attack is so transparent it's absurd. The Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission (MQAC) is attacking Dr. Wright for a mistake MQAC made on its own website! Instead of taking responsibility for their own foul-up, MQAC is trying to pin the blame on their public enemy number one -- Dr. Wright. They might even come after his medical license! The Alliance for Natural Health has done a great job laying out the sordid details, and the disgusting hypocrisy of MQAC. Give it a read, but please sit down first -- especially if you suffer from high blood pressure. Make no mistake about it, friends. This is happening because Dr. Wright puts your needs and your well-being over Big Pharma's profits. His clinic has treated and healed thousands of patients who mainstream medicine had cast aside... people who were told there was nothing modern medicine could do for them. Dr. Wright heals patients using the latest research -- not the latest fad prescription pill. And, believe me, that's the problem. If he shut his mouth, toed the mainstream line, and started handing out pills to every patient he saw, the state of Washington would leave him alone in a hurry. But he would never do that, my friend. He's going to keep exposing secrets and lies that the mainstream and Big Pharma would prefer stay hidden forever. And he's going to keep bringing you safe, natural solutions that can keep you well without making the drug companies a dime. And he's doing it all at great personal and financial cost. Because these government thugs are going to keep coming for him, unless we all band together and demand they stop the nonsense. If you're a resident of Washington State please take a moment to contact your governor and your state senators and representatives. Tell them that this is a serious case of injustice and ask them to intervene in this hearing next week. And if you're not a resident of Washington State you can still let your voice of support for Dr. Wright be heard by emailing MQAC at email@example.com and demanding they stop the attacks on Dr. Wright and take responsibility for their own mistakes. And remind them that with billions of dangerous and under-tested prescription pills being handed out like candy all over Washington, they have much bigger fish to fry.
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Many of you were introduced to Life Extension's Dr. Mike Smith on The SUZANNE Show. Now I'll be joining him on Healthy Talk on WWNN-AM, 1470 in South Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 23 from 1-2 p.m. ET. The segment will also be live streamed on: www.lef.org/healthytalk. For more info, check out the press release for his new radio show below.
(Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) Jan. 21, 2013 – Fresh off her successful Lifetime Network talk show, Suzanne Somers, one of America's most popular and beloved personalities will join Michael Smith M.D. on Healthy Talk on WWNN-AM, 1470 in South Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 23 from 1-2 p.m. ET.
Somers, in her multi-faceted career has achieved extraordinary success as an actress, aNew York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, singer, comedienne and lecturer.
Somers has authored 24 books, including 12 New York Times Bestsellers. There are currently over 25 million copies of Suzanne's books in print.
As one of America's most informed and dedicated health care advocates, Somers has been acknowledged for her leading role in bringing information on today's groundbreaking anti-aging medical protocols, preventative care, long-term health and hormone-replacement therapies to women and men across the country.
Dr. Smith brings an engaging personality and ability to present complex health topics, be it diabetes, migraines or food sensitivity issues in a clear, conversational manner that has won him a sizable following of anti-aging and disease-prevention enthusiasts.
A recurring guest on The Suzanne Show last year, Dr. Smith is known to his devoted fans as "Dr. Mike, the country doctor with a city education." Since launching the show, sponsored by Life Extension (www.lef.org), last Nov., Dr. Smith has attracted a large national audience as the show streams live on www.lef.org/healthytalk. All programs are also be archived at the same website.
A trailblazer in the $28 million dietary supplement industry, Life Extension is offering visitors to the Healthy Talk website a free six-month membership and bottle of Two-Per-Day multivitamins which was rated the number one multivitamin by www.ConsumerLab.com in 2012.
Dr. Smith is committed to providing listeners with the most current health information available, and his weekly show has quickly become the place to interact with respected experts in the fields of health, wellness, fitness, and medicine.
"I was taught that learning is the beginning of health," said Dr. Smith. "And learning something new is what my show is all about. "My job is to focus on my listeners and engage them in the conversation, while helping them apply what they learn in their daily lives," says Dr. Mike.
The last show in Jan. features Jeffrey Smith, the executive director for the Institute for Responsible Technology and leading consumer advocate promoting healthier non-GMO choices. Smith, often seen on PBS-TV, is also the director of the new blockbuster documentary film, Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives, and author of the world's bestselling and #1 rated book on the health dangers genetically modified organisms.
For more information about the Healthy Talk email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 954.790.5512.
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Dear Friends,
As the heartbreaking images of these beautiful children and heroic teachers emerge, we keep asking ourselves, "How could anyone plan and execute such a heinous act against innocent and helpless people?" We'll never know for certain. We debate about access to guns, but the mental collapse precipitates the search for a lethal weapon. How is this mental instability left unrecognized and untreated? And at what point does that person "snap" - and more importantly... WHAT made him snap?
I write and speak often of the dangers of toxins; that human beings are under the greatest environmental assault in the history of mankind. In my book BREAKTHROUGH, written shortly following the Columbine tragedy, I interviewed renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Russell Blaylock, and asked him how this could have happened. What he said has sadly come true with no end in sight. He said to expect more of these tragedies because toxins, be they from the poisons sprayed on our food, toxic cleaning products, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the over-vaccination of our children are affecting the chemistry of our brains. Young people's brains are not fully formed and are extremely susceptible to damage.
This is the elephant in the room. This is what no one wants to consider because it bites the hand that feeds big business. I spoke to Dr. Blaylock this week in regards to his thoughts on the Newtown massacre. I think his response is chilling and important.
Dr. Russell Blaylock:
This terrible tragedy is a reminder, or should be, that our society is populated by a growing number of adolescent and young adults who have serious mental disorders and psychopathology. The cause for such destructive events are numerous and a number of these factors interact, such as the use of certain psychotropic drugs in youth; a multigenerational culture of illegal drug abuse; exposure to a diet known to enhance criminal and psychopathic behavior; exposure to a number of environmental, neurodevelopmental toxic substances (such as fluoride, lead, mercury and aluminum), and exposure to far too many vaccinations. This murderous young man was known to suffer from Asperger's syndrome and possibly other psychopathologies.
Despite what the media and vaccine proponents are telling you, the excessive number and the manner in which these vaccines are being given causes an abnormal development of the brain and the human brain, especially the portions that control social behavior and are linked to violence, are not fully developed until age 21. This means that constant stimulation of the brain's immune system (the microglia) can lead to chronic brain inflammation and excitotoxicity, which has been strongly linked abnormal brain development and to a number of the serious psychiatric disorders. In addition, the vaccines contain aluminum and some still contain mercury, and these metals also cause chronic brain inflammation. Lead is not only known to trigger brain inflammation, but also is strongly linked to violent behavior and suicide. Fluoride in the drinking water has been shown to increase one's exposure to lead. Many foods contain a number of excitotoxin additives, such as MSG, hydrolyzed proteins, caseinate, etc, and these are linked to chronic brain inflammation and abnormal development of the brain, which continues decades after birth.
There is evidence that the combination of dietary excitotoxin excess combined with exposure to vaccines can significantly worsen brain inflammation and hence, psychological and social disorders. It is ironic that the very government that is promoting gun control as a solution to a growing psychological problem, is the most ardent promoter of vaccinations, a poor diet, fluoridation of drinking water, and refuses to stop the adulteration of our foods with excitotoxin additives. Other factors are also at play, such as fluorinated medications (known to produce homicidal behaviors and suicides). There are a number of culprits in this terrible crime, yet most will remain free to continue the destruction of our youths' minds.
Best Regards,
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As I watch the horrible aftermath of the victims of Hurricane Sandy, I know from my own personal experience that flooding leaves behind an enemy so dark and treacherous that few people understand the far reaching devastating effects.
My husband and I have personally have been affected by black mold, a condition I was unaware of when I moved into a leased house after my home burned to the ground several years ago. It was a beautiful home that we leased; glass, spectacular views, space. Luxurious… is how you would describe it, so beautiful it helped ease the pain of losing all our belongings to the fire.
A year after we moved in, both my husband and I began to have health problems. At one point a fungus attack put me in the hospital for six days, horribly misdiagnosed as cancer, until it was discovered to be mold fungus. I did not connect mold with my home. Around the same time my very healthy husband started experiencing hair loss, red irritated eyes, and a sinus and fungal nose infection that wouldn't go away. We both started having GI tract problems; bloating, yeast, candida, and cramping.
It wasn't until I was interviewing Dr. Rick Sponaugle of the Florida Detox & Wellness Institute that I started piecing together the puzzle that had been eluding both of us.
We had mold. A professional remediator came to our home to test and found standing water all over a lower floor that had never been finished. Black mold was crawling everywhere, including into the air-conditioning and heating vents so it wasblowing into all the rooms.
We had to move. And detox…
In walks Dr. Rick Sponaugle of the Florida Detox &Wellness Institute who has successfully treated over 2000 patients who, unknowingly, were suffering from Mold Toxicity.
This week on The SUZANNE Show, we discussed the dangers of mold and I wanted to get more detailed information to pass along to you in my blog from the preeminent expert in the field, Dr. Sponaugle.
SS: Thank you, Dr. Sponaugle. Can you explainmold and the affects that you can predict the victims of Hurricane Sandy might experience?
RS: Well, I worry for all of them. Mold toxins are toxic gases produced by indoor molds. From what I see of the houses devastated by Hurricane Sandy, it will be difficult to dry out those houses, especially now as the weather is wet, cold, damp, and snow is coming. It is my experience that hidden mold is always present in water-damaged buildings. Most of these people will be unaware that they are suffering from gases produced by mold infestations hidden behind water-damaged walls,shower tile, and above wet ceilings. These harmful toxins go unnoticed when mold is hidden because we cannot see or smell them.
SS: I see… like the silent enemy. You and I have talked before about the gene we both happen to carry, the HLA-DRBQ gene, making us more susceptible to mold and allergies of all kinds. Will Hurricane Sandy victims be spared if they don't happen to carry that same gene?
RS: This is the irony: three out of four Americans who naturally produce antibodies to mold toxins can live and work in water-damaged buildings without suffering significant demise in their health. But patients who carry the HLA gene have no antibodies to deactivate and remove mold toxins. They develop excessive accumulation of these harmful toxins. Mold toxins are lipophilic, meaning their molecular structure consists of fatty acid molecules. For this reason, mold toxins migrate to and deposit in the brain because the brain is the 'fattiest' organ, consisting of 60% fat.
SS: What you are saying is that some of the victims will not be able to handle the toxicexposure to the mold but they won't realize that this is the root of the problem?
RS: Right. Mold toxicity is the cause for many psychological and neurological disorders, including but not limited to: addiction, anxiety, bipolar II, chronic fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, insomnia, multiple sclerosis (MS), Neuropathy, OCD, panic disorder, paranoia and schizoid syndrome.
SS: How about your everyday conditions, like the ones my husband and I are experiencing: sinus, red watery eyes, fatigue, inflamed GI tract, unexplained weight gain?
RS: Yes, mold causes all those symptoms and also other odd effects including slurred speech, disorientation, feeling irritable or paranoid, insomnia, craving sweets, itching nose at night, static shocks, muscle aches, food allergies, antibiotic allergies, blurred vision, confusion, very high blood pressure, Mono-like symptoms, skin rash, cystic acne, joint pain, swollen gums, tongue swelling, odd periods, stuttering, and throat closing.
SS: It's shocking to know that mold is that damaging. So little is understood about mold by most doctors, but your clinic is one of the only in the country that gets it. And I know we all benefit because you, too, suffered severe mold toxicity yourself, so you are able to grasp the enormity when apatient is sitting in front of you. Certainly no one would ever connect severe depression to mold toxicity.
RS: There are three different mold toxins associated with depression, panic disorder and bipolar symptoms - aflatoxins, ochratoxin and trichothecene. The government set toxic level for trichothecenes, the family of mold toxins produced by Stachy Botrus (known as black mold) is 0.2 parts per billion. I routinely have patients with levels as high as 3.2, which is 16 times the government set toxic threshold.
SS: What does this do to the body?
RS: It can cause severe anxiety, insomnia, panic-disorder or bipolar. I've treated (successfully) hundreds of toxic patients who were simply diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder or misdiagnosed bi-polar by psychiatrists who remain naive regarding the effect of mold toxicity on the brain. Most doctors will give these patients drugs like Klonopin or Xanax to calm theiranxious brains.
SS: But when they have these anxious or over-electrified brains from mold toxins, it's clear to me that the mold needs to be detoxified from the body, rather than medicating it with a Band-Aid.
RS: Mold toxic brains produce excessive levels of two powerful electrifying brain chemicals; glutamate and PEA. It is the increased activation of glutamate and PEA nerve receptors throughout the body that produces an over-electrified nervous system producing symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, panic disorder, bi-polar and fibromyalgia. Mold toxic patients experience a gradual progression as they slowly accumulate more mold toxins. Their symptoms usually begin with insomnia, then as they spend more time living and working in mold toxic buildings or houses, their symptoms progress from insomnia to anxiety which can then progress to full blown panic disorder, and in the most severe cases, bipolar symptoms of rage and paranoia.
Probably most patients who come to my clinic have been to 20 different doctors before me and not found an answer. Many of these mold toxic patients have traveled to multiple states and various medical centers in their failed attempt to discover the underlying cause of their severe depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia syndromes. Many developed addiction issues because of their undiagnosed mold toxicity.
SS: It's sad. I presume the addiction is a result of the over-electrified brains and the patients need to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol to calm themselves down? It's very understandable.
RS: Yes, it is. Depression and chronic fatigue can be a result of mold toxicity suppressing the production of nor-epinephrine output from the A5 Nucleus. That's the part of the brain that produces 90% of our nor-epinephrine. This is one of the primary mechanisms by which mold toxicity causes severe depression and severe chronic fatigue. When you have a mold toxic brain, specifically the hypothalamus, it can't properly stimulate the brain's primary hormonal factory, the pituitary gland. Pituitary insufficiency results in hormonal deficiencies, such as the downstream hormone factories - the thyroid, adrenals, and the sex organs. Mold toxin induced deficiencies of these hormones cause inactivation of the three adrenaline chemicals causing symptoms of severe depression, lethargy, and chronic fatigue.
SS: Can mold toxicity cause fibromyalgia?
RS: Yes, mold toxicity is the primary cause of fibromyalgia in many middle-aged women. It causes total body pain because of the excessive production of the electrifying neurotransmitters, glutamate and PEA. The excessive inflammation is derived from the toxic load and deficiencies of the calming neurotransmitters; taurine and serotonin. This causes mold toxin induced destruction of the intestinallining, which leads to poor absorption of the essential amino acids, tryptophan and taurine. The resulting up-regulating of electrical voltage in the body's nervous system can be dramatic, and it directly correlates with the measured level of mold toxins. When these women go to their doctors, they are usually misdiagnosed and prescribed addicting pain medication and drugs like Lyrica, which treats the symptoms but not the true cause of fibromyalgia - which ismold.
SS: What about MS? I once saw two side-by-side slides. One slide was a healthy person; the other was a person with MS. The healthy cells were moving around and in constant motion, all clumped together. The MS slides showed cells that werelumbering, moving very slowly. They were not clumped together, but moving slowly, slowly, and the strange thing was the MS cells all had a white filmsurrounding them. I asked what the film was and the scientist told me it was toxins. So can MS also be caused by mold toxins?
RS: Mold toxins destroy the myelin sheath on brain neurons, causing the classic white spotsseen in MS. That's why I have created the Brain Wellness Program combined with intravenous mold toxin removal protocol to reverse damage caused by MS.
SS: Anyone reading this blog who has any of these symptoms now has something new to consider. Maybe their diagnosis has been wrong. Maybe they are not truly suffering from autoimmune diseases or addictions. Maybe the cause isthat musty smell in your house or the black fuzz in between your tiles. Up until I was affected, these signs were annoyances I thought could be handled by deep cleaning. But now I know mold lurks deep in the roots of the house and anyone who has water damage, in particular those affected by Hurricane Sandy or those devastated by Katrina, now know that there is likely a hidden enemy in the home. There is an answer to this problem. You, Dr. Sponaugle, seem to be one of the few in this country who understands mold, its effects, and how to treat and detoxify it from the body at The Florida Detox & Wellness Institute. I know you have already helped so many people and many more are going to be helped by this interview and the important work you are doing. I thank you for your great work.
RS: My pleasure, Suzanne.
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When it comes to sharing cutting-edge information, I am often criticized for citing "crazy, whacked doctors without clinical evidence to support their findings". While these erroneous attacks are unfounded, it brings me great pleasure in this case to bring you a MAJOR BOMBSHELL from Dr. Abraham Morgentaler. He's a Harvard University trained urologist and a member of the faculty at the prestigious university… yes, Harvard. He has completed a small, but important groundbreaking clinical trial; that for the first time in this country an orthodox doctor is confirming that men with active prostate cancer can take natural testosterone and their prostate cancer regresses!
This new information goes against all mainstream theories. It was a profound honor and pleasure to present this medical break-though from Dr. Morgentaler in my book, BOMBSHELL. Recently I had the chance to interview him on The SUZANNE Show to discuss these findings. WATCH SEGMENT HERE.
Sadly, those men who have been robbed of their testosterone due to expensive and debilitating Lupron shots are not good candidates for this therapy, as their testosterone has been depleted as a result of these injections. In other words, the mechanism just isn't working anymore. But for those men who declined conventional treatment, for those men who want to save their prostates, for those men who refuse to enter "menopause" which comes about as a result of the testosterone depletion from the present standard of care, there is now a new option, and to my thinking the only sensible protocol. Simple changes in diet, eating well, and using the prescribed amount of testosterone daily, individualized for each man according to his needs determined by lab work is, (in most cases) all that is necessary to live a normal life. Indeed exciting. The other benefits of testosterone replacement are obvious; renewed bone strength, protection for the heart, lowered risk of diabetes, weight management, and of course, renewed sexual vigor, are all exciting manifestations of putting back what the body once made, bioidentical testosterone, "biologically identical to the human hormone."
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Cancer | Health and Hormones | TV / Live Appearances
I am constantly amazed at the lack of understanding from our elected and unelected officials relative to obesity and poor health. Yesterday the Los Angeles City Council introduced "Meatless Mondays" as an initiative to combat obesity. There was no mention of switching to grass-fed beef, the connection between toxicity and obesity, the dangers of consuming genetically modified foods, or to the side effects of preservatives and chemicals in bagged and boxed food. I was most alarmed that there was no mention of the solution - eating real, clean food.
When are we going to wise up as people and realize it's not meat that's the problem? It's what they put INTO the meat! When will the facts be a matter of public discussion? Poison is being sprayed onto foods in the form of pesticides, which people are consuming. And it doesn't stop there - nature is being turned upside down with genetic engineering!
The lack of understanding or willingness of our government officials to fess up to the real problem is putting us all in danger. The human body cannot continue to withstand the bombardment of chemicals. So what can we do to avoid these issues? Eat real whole foods: real grass-fed beef, organic chicken, wild caught salmon, real fats, organic fruits and vegetables. When we take the toxins in, our body is triggered to store these unusable chemicals in our fat tissue and other organs. The more toxins, the fatter we get. Simply changing the way we eat could go a long way towards solving the obesity and health problems that are now epidemic.
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Read this report from the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and see for yourselves what even those in mainstream are now admitting as the frequent futility of chemical poisoning, confirming what I have been saying in my books for so long; that the war on cancer is a dismal failure.
My book KNOCKOUT, published in 2012, explained the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy as the present standard of care for cancer patients. Because of this information many thousands of people have had the courage to try another way utilizing the protocols of qualified western trained doctors such as those presented in my book.
I spend much of my time routing cancer patients to the right doctors for their particular cancers and personality types. When people decide to choose chemo as their protocol, I often have a heavy heart because in many cases it is useless. I realize we all do the best we can with the information we have at the time. Cancer is a scary diagnosis. I've been there, twice. The greatest decision I have ever made is to say no to chemo.
The doctors featured in my books KNOCKOUT and BOMBSHELL, published in 2012, are true leaders in the real war on cancer knowing that many forms of cancer can be managed and dealt with using non-toxic approaches such as nutrition and detoxification. Read for yourselves.
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Last week on The SUZANNE Show, Brenda Watson joined me to discuss one of my favorite topics – the gut! Brenda owns RenewLife and is one of my greatest teachers on gut health. This is an area that causes me constant problems, and Brenda always helps me get to the bottom of it. Brenda will be appearing four times this season on my show because her information is vital and it's important for people to know the cause of this new epidemic in our country. And I hate to tell you, but those antacids you are taking will not help!
You know the feeling—your belly feels bloated, pants are tight, and embarrassing gas has you staying in for the evening. Yet you can't figure out if food is to blame since you ate the same things you usually eat. While gas and bloating are definitely symptoms produced by certain foods, many women are unaware that something else may be underlying the discomfort—Candida overgrowth.
Candida albicans is a sugar-fermenting yeast that is naturally present in small amounts in many areas of the body such as theskin, the digestive tract, and the vagina. (Candida is to blame for those pesky yeast infections!) In small amounts, this yeast is an integral part of the intestinal ecology in most people and, when kept in balance with other intestinal microbes, does no harm.
The trouble begins when Candida is allowed to flourish. There are three main causes of Candida overgrowth:
Let's focus on the main cause—dysbiosis, or an imbalance in the ratio of good to bad bacteria in the intestines. Dysbiosis sets the stage for Candida overgrowth. Normally, beneficial bacteria, or probiotics, in the gut help to keep the potentially pathogenic microbes (such as Candida and other harmful bacteria) in check. When there aren't enough "good guys," or probiotics, to maintain balance, Candida has free reign to multiply. There are a number of factors that reduce the amount of beneficial bacteria in the gut, including antibiotic, poor diet, stress, age, toxin exposure, and impaired digestion.
When Candida overgrowth occurs in the gut, the yeast feed on sugars and carbohydrates that pass through as they are digested. And the more Candida feast, the more the yeast. Candida feeds on sugar and digested carbohydrates by way of fermentation, which produces the characteristic gas and bloating that we are all too familiar with. This is why sugar and starchy carbohydrate avoidance is recommended for people dealing with yeast. Are gas and bloating causing you discomfort more than you'd like to admit? Don't worry, you're not alone! If you think Candida overgrowth may be to blame, I recommend a Candida cleanse and Candida enzyme formula to help inhibit yeast overgrowth, and a high-potency probiotic to help rebalance your gut. After all, better health begins with a healthy digestive tract.
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This fall, I'm launching a TV show that tells it like it is.
I am Suzanne Somers and I am passionately involved in healthcare, music, entertainment, lifestyle, and family.
That's The SUZANNE Show !
The SUZANNE Show is 'me,' unplugged — my interests and my passions and honest talk, from new ways to achieve optimal health, to my friends, great foods, and important questions that others aren't asking. I'm mixing glamour and innovative science in a way that America's never seen before.
I present the doctors who impress me with their ability to understand the changing planet and how to live a long time with health … true health, mostly non-drug health. Hormones are topics #1, #2,and #3. Women can't get enough information about their changing hormones and I am giving it to them.
The SUZANNE Show is like putting my books on TV. Information that generally never reaches the American public.
My famous friends will also visit me. One day it might by my pal, comedy icon Kathy Griffin, one day Larry King, music legend David Foster, or my dear friend, the fabulous Fran Drescher, all speaking as they would in a private conversation in my living room.
Somedays I cook with famous chefs teaching how to prepare amazing food that improves health using the sustaining basics, plus the right oils, herbs, and spices. Food that keeps you healthy and able to maintain the figure you want, and tastes unbelievable.
I give all my guests, whether they are doctors, scientists, professionals,or entertainers, an opportunity to speak in a way they generally can't due to sponsor commitments. The doctors and scientists' messages will rattle the medical orthodox "stuck" protocols. These professionals can tell us why they are passionate about their particular areas of expertise, and why they decided to step outside the confines of conventional medicine to practice health care rather than disease care.
There will also be a "tech-y" segment for all the women—myself included—who are hanging on by a thread to understand the potential of their computers. My "tech" guy happens to be real cute and knowledgeable, and I'm not just saying that because he is my son, Bruce Somers.
Hopefully, my viewers will look at me, a 65-year-old (my husband of 44 years says "hot") woman, and want what I have in the way of health, energy, and sexuality. You don't have to age-out of a fulfilling sex life. I will have doctors on my show explaining how to get the most out of sex without drugs. A healthy person is a sexual person. No sick person wants or is capable of being sexual. Sexuality isa language from the body saying in essence: "All is well."
Superb health is the greatest of all gifts. This is discussed at length on The SUZANNE Show. Nothing else really matters if you don't have optimal health. Look around you. Who are the people you would never trade places with—people who are sick. My books, lectures, and TV appearances all say: Health is a choice and you are in control of your health and how you age. My show will teach my viewers how and why to live a glamorous, upbeat, energetic,informed, and sexy life. What's not to like? There has never been a morningshow like this … ever.
Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 26th on Lifetime at 7am eastern and pacific.
Tune in! If for no other reason than to see my fabulous shoes!
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Suzanne Somers is one of America's most popular and beloved personalities. In a multifaceted career, she has achieved extraordinary success as an actress, New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, singer, comedienne, and lecturer. Suzanne has authored 20 books, including eleven New York Times bestsellers, as well as five of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. There are currently more than 10 million copies of her books in print. As one of America's most informed and dedicated health care advocates, Suzanne has been acknowledged for her leading role in bringing information on today's groundbreaking anti-aging medical protocols, preventive care, long-term health, and hormone replacement therapies to women and men across the country.
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Will Activision or Infinity Ward read this? PROBABLY NOT!
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I have been addicted to the Call of Duty franchise for the last few titles (W@W, COD4, MW2, BO, MW3.. getting BO2) and while (at times) I feel it was worth every cent spent for it (with map packs and all), I have been rather upset with the LAG. Not only that but I have been receiving "Disc Read Error" or "Black Screen" quite a bit. This seriously inhibits my desire to play online.
Before I go any further, I have tried it all. Clearing cache, deleting game data (re-installing it), reset modem, disc in perfect condition, yet this problem has only recently surfaced. I have heard that this is now becoming common among other players. Has this been happening to anyone else?
Also the Elite service sucks. I am in a level 32 (at the time I post this) clan, yet I must submit a request when our clan unlocks a new emblem. That's sad. Or what of the fact that when our clan levels up, we get new titles as well right? Not me. Page 2, second column... Supposedly we were to receive titles from Elite. I haven't. Basically it's a useless service, as a founder I am ashamed. I probably will not renew my subscription.
So, Activision or Infinity Ward care to address these concerns? Don't worry though I won't hold my breath.
They wont. The only thing they prepared before launch was the account for all the money they made with this half finished game. Not really helping myself when im buying Black ops 2 but i pretty much have to when Black ops was so good. If they dont fix the lag/spawns on this game then i think a lot of players are going to quit
Yeah well said. Started playing black ops again plays great lets hope black ops 2 does the same because Why would you pay good money for something that doesnt work.
well said, I jumped in the multiplayer arena with Black ops just a week or so before MW3 was released, .....I have to say that compaired to Mw3 Black Ops is UGLY to look at, but gameplay is smoother, and i have not noticed Lag as bad, ........ Elite is where i was let down, i am a Premium member (should be founder but a glitch in the system wont give me the green skull on the elite page)........I have been reading that DLC will not be included with Elite for BO2 ... so it leaves me wondering why i would want to renew my Sub. ......I feel like elite was a program i paid them to test out and try.....
Although your platform is the PS3, I have a good feeling that when you want to bring things to the attention of the devs... this is not the right forum (go up a level)
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"Fan FREAKING Tastic!"
Ah, the buttkicking, the mayhem, it is all back! Enough twists and turns to keep you on your toes, and the book just leaves you wanting more. The worst part about Larry Correia's books is waiting impatiently for the next one. Seriously, the action is as usual, the best there is. Oliver Wyman is without a doubt one of the best narrators for this genre. Use your credit, you can't go wrong with this one. (Make sure to read the others first--so you don't spoil what's gone on before now for yourself.) Makes other audio books seem hum drum. Can't wait to see what's next in this series.
"The End"
I must admit, I was really looking forward to this last book in the series, and then I ran across reviews of the book on Amazon that appeared well before the book hit the shelf, um, or MP3 files, as it were. I was extremely disappointed to find out the end of the book due to reading the first review on the page. Hey, I was curious, darn it! That type of thing is just awful, and for one reader to do it to another without any notation, and then call Harris every name in the book because something didn't end the way that they wanted it to was completely juvenile. And then the remainder of the reviews were people bombing it with one star, not even having read it, and then writing a review saying they were never going to buy it. Those stars are important, and I know I will purchase something based upon those reviews, so I wanted to be sure that I posted a review in support of the book, which I HAVE read/listened to.
The book basically has three things going on, there is a murder mystery (of course); old friends reappear to help Sookie in her time of need--nice way to tie them in; and the loose ends get about as wrapped up as Harris wanted them to be.
That said, it really wasn't bad. I found Johanna Parker to be highly entertaining as usual. Nobody else could have made the Sookie books so entertaining, like listening to a movie, and she does not disappoint.
We have the usual writing from Harris, which chronicles Sookie's every movement, but that is how she has always written Sookie, so it should not be a huge surprise to anyone really. I thought the murder mystery part was well done, and helped move along the storyline to an end, as you would expect.
Basically, if you are a fan of the Sookie books, you would really do yourself a huge disservice not to finish out the series. If you are going to be emotionally stunted if the end doesn't turn out exactly YOUR way, don't clog up the reviews with the ranting and raving associated with being part of Team Whomever, because it is just childish. Complain to the Twihards, they will understand your angst.
To sum up: Good book, not great, but good. Typical Harris mystery. Didn't hate it.
"Overall Story is Great"
Narrator did not keep up with the character to this point. Her narration left quite a bit to be desired. 90% of the accents for characters were either gone, or awfully done. Big bummer, because this could have been an awesome installment, but was ruined by a bad performance. Again, this series would have been so much better if they could have found a narrator up to the job and stuck with that person. The story itself is great, and moves the series plot along, and the main characters are interesting.
"The best in the series to this point"
Can I just say that I want THIS vampire for Christmas? I was so excited that this go around was the character Ian, who I was hoping would get his H.E.A. The online dating site stuff is really amusing, and I just really enjoyed the story. The narrator did a passable job, so I was happy about that. For sure, my favorite so far.
"Formulaic, but good."
I'm beginning to see an emerging pattern in Sparks' love scenes, which makes listening to the series one right after the other pretty monotonous, because the romance is a big yawn at times. I liked the main character, she's pretty feisty, and the babysitter is a total hoot, and the hero is, again, handsome and rich...but that's what makes romance novels--paranormal or not--fun.
"Narrator should have kept the accent."
Seriously, that is the worst I can say about this book. In the previous book, Emma had an English accent, so it was difficult to imagine her being from Europe. I'm beginning to think that they really should have stuck with one narrator for the entire series, in order to keep the continuity. The books are very much what they should be, the dialog is amusing and the romance is there, but the continuity problems with the narration can be distracting.
"Undercover fun."
This was a really enjoyable listen. Imaginative premise, and funny situations abound. The harem was funny mostly, but at times their actions were tedious, but it lent to the story and helped to move the plot along. Sparks writes some really great heroes, they get more romantic as you go.
"The Supernatural Bodyguard"
Good book. Narrator does a good job. Terrific beginning to a great series with a well-fleshed-out world. So glad that there are future installments, and I read on the author's website that she has signed on for more books so there will be many chapters to this on-going saga.
"Great Story, Awful Narration."
The narrators for a minority of these books leave something to be desired. The premise of the story was fantastic, the son of Casanova--come on what a great idea. However, the narrator for this particular book was just terrible. I think the people narrating a series should really listen to the prior books to give a good shot at trying to keep up with the previous accents. Otherwise, don't bother, because it ruins the full picture that those following the series has in their head. I found myself cringing at some points because the narrator was just THAT bad.
"This series gets better with each book."
OK, so, the first book in the series, the heroine is whiny and bratty, and at times, very hard to like. But with each installment, she grows, and you really begin to root for her. This book adds new and interesting characters to the werecat series, and really makes you want to listen to the next. The council that is trying the case of Faythe makes you want to grind your teeth, they are so narrow-minded, but it really adds to the suspense of the installment. I really wish that the author would explore a series with Jace as the main character, because I find him really intriguing. The narrator, who I did not like at all at the beginning of the series, is also growing on me. Now I can't think of someone else voice being anyone but Faythe. As with any series, you will want to definitely start with the first book, or you may have no idea what is going on.


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3 weeks 3 days ago | MSU will be very good, but so will Michigan |
So why should Michigan fans "be concerned"? The last time Michigan was blown out at MSU and played a close game at Crisler was in 2009-10. The results of the following season were more than favorable. And that doesn't even account for the upgrade in talent since those seasons. Here's the history: 2009-10 season (LOST at MSU 64-48, LOST at home to MSU 56-57) In 2009-10, Lucas, Roe, Summers and Nix started against us in one of the two games. All four of them returned in 2010. That's 4 of 5 starters that returned to play us in 2010-11. 2010-11 season (WON at MSU 61-57, WON at home vs MSU 70-63) Also, our starting lineups (starting true freshmen in CAPS) were the following: 2007-08: Coleman, Sims, Udoh, Manny, Grady and later it varied with Udoh, Sims and Manny staying starters. 2008-09: Merrit, Manny, STU, Sims, Shepherd and later Lee, Perry, Manny, NOVAK, Gibson 2009-10: Novak, Stu, Manny, Sims, Perry and later Novak, Stu, Manny, Sims, MORRIS 2010-11: SMOT, Morgan (RS freshman), Novak, Morris, HARDAWAY, and later Stu, Morgan (RS freshman), Novak, Morris, HARDAWAY 2011-12: Smot, Morgan (RS sophomore), Novak, BURKE, Hardaway and later Stu, Morgan (RS sophomore), Novak, BURKE, Hardaway 2012-13: Morgan (RS junior), ROBINSON, STAUSKAS, Hardaway, Burke and later MCGARY, ROBINSON, STAUSKAS, Hardaway, Burke The returning sophomores that started as true freshmen are as follows: In 2009, Michigan returned Stu Douglas and Zack Novak In 2010, Michigan returned Darius Morris In 2011, Michigan returned THJ and Evan Smotrycz In 2012, Michigan returned Trey Burke. In 2013, Michigan will return Nik Stauskas, GRIII, and MM. I can't remember the last time 3 true freshmen starters returned. Maybe it was the Fab Five's second run? I think there are many reasons to not be concerned about MSU. Michigan will respect MSU's team as always. Michigan though will also be prepared to compete. Most here agree that MSU will be very good next year. I think MSU will even be the B1G favorite. Michigan is not going to concede the title though or even give up much ground, if any at all. If we are not concerned about MSU in 2013-14, why is that delusional? |
3 weeks 4 days ago | Uninformative |
Michigan's offense is not at all based on a player creating his own shot. Burke could do it when the team needed it, but it was usually with the shot clock winding down. THJ certainly didn't get to the hole based on his own moves dribbling the ball. He would get to the hoop on occassion after the ball moved around within the offense or off of a set pick or screen. Beilein tweeks the offense each season to his personnel. Before Burke, the offense was based on the skills of Morris (a completely different PG than Burke). The last year and half, Beilein adjusted it to Burke's strength. I think you're kidding yourself if you think Beilein can't adjust the offense to all the different talent he will have next season. Also, getting into the lane is not the same as "creating your own shot." Once a pick or screen is set, it's up to the player to read the defense and take what the defense gives him. You seem to be suggesting that Spike and Walton won't be able to get into the lane and draw the defense. If your fellow fans think this, you will be disappointed. |
3 weeks 4 days ago | "MSU *will be more diverse offensively" |
*should be I expect Izzo to kill any possibility of having a creative offense. It's just not his style or ability. Harris and maybe Payne will make his offense look good at moments, but it's not an offense to fear. Michigan has a great opportunity to up its defense with the returning sophomores and Morgan/Horford in the paint. Zak Irvin has great length too. The ability of Spike or Walton to defend at the PG position will be huge. |
3 weeks 4 days ago | Appling is not terrible |
He is an above-average, PG. He is a very good guard. There's nothing terrible about his game. |
3 weeks 4 days ago | Good depth for 2013-14 |
(PG) Valentine, Appling, Trice (SG) Harris, Byrd, Ellis (frosh) (SF) Dawson (PF) Payne, Kaminski ,Schilling (frosh)(C) Costello, Gauna Did I miss anyone? |
3 weeks 4 days ago | Nix |
on a good day could draw double teams. Problem for MSU was his good days were usually only against Michigan. Next year will be interesting. MSU will be great on D again, but its offensive style of play has never impressed me. I expect the same next year. |
3 weeks 4 days ago | My favorite MM play |
Beauty of a no-look pass against a difficult Syracuse defense. MSU will be slight favorite to win the B1G, but Indiana, Michigan and OSU aren't going anywhere with the recruits they got coming in. MSU otoh has a critical 2014 class to develop with 2013 being so underwhelming. |
4 weeks 8 hours ago | You don't go out looking for a job dressed like that? |
You don't go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday? Answer: Brian's title |
5 weeks 2 hours ago | different interpretation |
I thought Beilein was joking about Spike's recent hype from his performance in the championship game. It seemed to me he was asking if there was a scheduled date to announce Spike's declaration to go NBA or stay in school. Beilein said "dates" but then corrected himself by saying "there's no date?" |
5 weeks 3 hours ago | defensive length! |
That lineup could definitely get stops. Word is that Irvin plays good defense. Stauskas has good ball handling and if he takes that up a notch, I could see him playing the point if Walton is not ready to run things. Before Burke decided last year to stay, Stauskas was prepping himself for PG with ball handling drills (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_keYLb0WhU ) Stauskas Irvin GRIII Mitch Horford or Morgan BENCH: Horford or Morgan, Beifeldt, Levert, Spike, Walton, Donnal Maybe Donnal or Walton redshirt? |
5 weeks 1 day ago | thanks THJ |
you were a great leader this year |
5 weeks 1 day ago | Happy for him or happy for Michigan |
THJ's decision will make me happy. Before he came to Michigan, Beilein had only taken the program to the NCAA tournament once in 2009. THJ as a freshman was a pleasant surprise and propelled us to an 8 seed. I would love to see him be the first senior to have serious playing time under Beilein. |
5 weeks 1 day ago | great idea and great effort |
My suggestion is putting more emphasis on bball than football, simply because Beilein has achieved more than Hoke so far. I know Hoke won't let that stand for too long though. Maybe the hardwood block M instead of the 50 yard line? |
7 weeks 4 days ago | before football, it was a sci-fi war speech |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-cegxBEpM @1:08 Bill Pullman, acting as the US president, says " . . . for it is the day when the world declared in one voice: 'We will not go quietly into the night, we will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on; we're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our . . . ." |
8 weeks 5 days ago | Valenti trolling |
Was an obvious attempt to get ratings after VCU destroyed Akron. That game had no relevance on the game today against Michigan. |
10 weeks 10 hours ago | it's close but I agree |
Craft is equal to or better than THJ. Harris is not yet at their level. |
10 weeks 10 hours ago | context |
definition: The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. You can't pin blame on THJ for team statistics like team rebounding or team defense. Lapses by his younger teammates in these areas doesn't make THJ a worse rebounder or defender. You can however pin blame on THJ if he himself is a poor rebounder or turns the ball over. For a 2 guard, he rebounds at a high rate. I don't think he turns the ball over very much; certainly he's improved from last year. Contrast these ideas with the obvious fact that THJ is a leader on the team. The team's record is 25-6. I guess you can call a record a statistic, but context gives these statistics different weight in this particular discussion. |
10 weeks 10 hours ago | Ekpe |
Udoh. |
10 weeks 10 hours ago | so you want |
the youngest team to be great at rebounding while already being great on offense and not turning the ball over. Yes, we all want a perfect team. Maybe we'll get it one day, but the program is still growing. It also helps when the top talent we get sticks around. Imagine if Darius Morris and Ekpe Udoh (even Smot too) stuck around. Much more experience, much more depth. We probably win the B1G this year. |
10 weeks 10 hours ago | totally agree |
Both teams are nearly equal (IU being better), but our best players literally had free opportunities at home to be the equal of IU. Michigan had its opportunity and didn't take it. IU doesn't get blown out all that often. Last year, yes; this year, not so much. Hopefully Michigan learns from that loss and continues getting better. |
10 weeks 10 hours ago | THJ is a guard |
at the 2 position. He's rebounding at a high rate for his position. He's still a guard though . . . playing with young bigs. |
10 weeks 10 hours ago | the excuse |
young legs; young minds. Yes, I agree we have now have athletes. But our young bigs (McGary, GRIII, Beifeldt and Horford) that play have such little experience that mental lapses result. At this level, to win, you have to be solid at everything--at a high speed. These guys don't have enough experience to be solid at everything every night on instinct. It's like taking an exam. You study all the material and may know it, but if you can't recall the information out on reflex, you probably don't know it well enough to get the right answers in the allotted time. You might still pass, but you're not necessarily going to get an A grade. If our young bigs have a great night rebounding, they still might miss a defensive rotations or miss making the right pass or fail to make the right read etc. When they do well in any of these other things, they might forget to find the right man to box out. Just give the program time to keep growing. We should be patient. We all want excellence now, but each team (except the disappointment of year 3) of Beilein's tenure has been getting better than the previous one. It's doing this despite our top shelf talent not sticking around to be upperclassmen. |
10 weeks 18 hours ago | your criteria does not compute |
You're judging THJ based on team accomplishments? By that standard, Burke doesn't deserve POY. You're now also suggesting that THJ can't rebound or defend sufficiently bc the team doesn't do either sufficiently? That's ridiculous. Again, the team plays many freshmen. THJ's individual abilities cannot make the freshmen grow up faster. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the difference between first and fifth place is 2 or less games. It's so close, there are 4 top ten teams in the B1G tourney, which is unprecedented. 1st team B1G is about the best individual players (not the best success of the team of an individual player). Otherwise, Burke shouldn't be POY. Burke however is the best player in the league ...on a fifth place team, ranked #6 in the country. I think Brian is more of a football guy than a bball guy. Maybe you too. |
10 weeks 18 hours ago | I agree with your statement about favoring upperclass over frosh |
all things being equal. I just disagree that THJ as a junior is equal to Harris as a freshman. THJ is much better. |
10 weeks 22 hours ago | B1G coaches don't agree with you |
You seem to be missing my point: MSU has a senior and 2 juniors leading 2-3 freshmen. Michigan has Burke and THJ (Morgan missed too much time to insert here) leading 5 freshmen. To have similar records, THJ has to be the 2nd piece of arguably the best backcourt in the conference. The coaches probably thought as much. Here's what they probably saw: THJ is the second best scorer on a team that lacks elite-team defense. Without consistent scoring to make up that deficiency, Michigan obviously loses more. He can rebound and take the ball up the court in transition (which is how/when Michigan thrives). He also averages 4.5 rpg. Upon further reflection, it's THJ or GRIII taking on the best player at positions 1-4 (note: only Indiana has its best player at the 5 arguably). As for leadership,without THJ, the team loses at then #9 Minnesota (21pts on 7/8, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks, 6 turnovers). In other big B1G games: @OSU, THJ had 12 pts, 5 rebs behind Burke's 15 and 4. @ Indiana, he had 18 points behind Burke's 25. THJ was huge in the game on 2/5 vs. OSU scoring 23 pts. when the freshmen couldn't get it going. He hit a career-high six three pointers that night. Stauskas hasn't done that despite his talent from deep. @Wisconsin, THJ had 18pts, 4 rebs, 3 assists to Burke's 19pts, 5rebs, 4 assists, 2 steals. In fairness, he did not show up at all @MSU. But only Burke did. Against MSU at home, THJ was the only player besides Burke to have an assist; THJ had 2 and Burke had 10. THJ also led the team in rebounds in that game with 7 alongside Morgan's 7 rebounds. His shooting % was not great in getting 6 points though. After Burke's leading stat line @Purdue, THJ had 16pts, 5 rebs, 1 assist, 1 steal to Stauskas's 17 pts, 1 reb, 1 assist 1 steal. @PSU, THJ and Burke led the team. THJ had 19 pts, 7 rebs, 3 assists, 1 block and 2 TOs to Burke's 18 pts, 2 rebs, 6 assists, 1 steal, and 6 TOs. Home vs. Indiana, THJ and GRIII had similar stat lines behind Burke's leading stat line. He was Two-time Big Ten Player of the Week (Nov. 12, Jan. 21) ... Starting all 25 games played. Only Burke surpassed this number of B1G player-of-the-week award, winning it 3 times. THJ is the second best player on a 25-6 team, one with the youngest rotation in the B1G--the best conference in the NCAA. It's arguably the best season of B1G teams in the history of the conference too. All due respect: your comment seems like a broad opinion without much to back it up. Some fans are never satisfied with a player's great season. |
10 weeks 1 day ago | THJ is an upperclassman on one of the youngest teams in NCAA |
Yeah--he has similar numbers as Gary Harris, but THJ has to guard the best option in the backcourt of the opposing team or guard the best 1-2 options overall on the opposing team. He also has to bring it consistently, because his teammates that are freshmen often play like that, like freshmen. He has to bring rebounding too, because if not, Michigan weakness at rebounding becomes glaring. With 5 freshmen in the main rotation, THJ has to go get that ball over the bigs on MSU, IU, OSU, MN, etc. This is moreso during the injury of Morgan. Basically, THJ has to lead Michigan along with Burke. Harris did not have the obligation to lead this season, b/c MSU has experience. The experienced bigs on MSU can also block out the opposing bigs more effectively than Michigan's bigs, so Harris doesn't have the same onus on him as THJ to rebound or defend. Harris plays with the following rotation of upperclassmen: Appling, Payne, Nix. So the numbers may be similar, but THJ has to play better for Michigan to have a similar record as MSU. That's how I see the comparison, fwiw. |
10 weeks 5 days ago | recent HBO film |
Mea Maxima Culpa It's a documentary, but it's very revealing and shocking--to the point of being almost unbelievable. |
11 weeks 2 days ago | **intellect |
**intellect |
13 weeks 2 days ago | Derrick Nix gives maryjane a bad name |
if you don't like my fire, then don't come around . . . |
14 weeks 5 days ago | Replay the game @ 16:03 left in the 2nd half on (espn3.com) |
@16:13, Michigan is down by 2 pts. and rebounds a missed jumpshot by Wisconsin. THJ has the ball in transition with Stauskas arriving at the bottom corner spotting up for a 3 ball. THJ makes the pass and Stauskas shoots the ball with a defender flying past him. Stauskas shoots it short, but follows his shot (note: good fundamentals on the play) for the rebound. Stauskas get the rebound and takes a dribble to go strong to the hoop. As he dribbles, Wisconsin's guard (jersey # 1) falls to the ground in front of Stauskas, not only tripping Stauskas but hitting the ball as it is near the ground on Stauskas's dribble. The ball's natural momentum is completely altered by the Wisconsin body and makes a direct line out of bounds. What is so insanely frustrating is the position of the referee. He's on the baseline looking at the play the whole time. He doesn't call the foul against Wisky for tripping (from not boxing Stauskas out). Not only that, but he calls it out of bounds on Stauskas!!!! It makes absolutely no sense. What was the ref seeing?!? How can I not assume incompetence or blatant bias on the ref (rhetorical question)? |


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