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Kueh, Ronnie Boon Lin (2001) The effects of Phyllanthus amarus extract on the reproductive functions of male rats. Masters thesis, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia.
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Global population has grown at such an alarming rate that it is critically straining the planet's resources. Thus regulating human fertility with an effective and inexpensive remedy, for example from plant sources is an attractive proposition. In this study, Phyllanthus amarus aqueous extract was given orally at 50, 100, 250 and 500mglkg body weight daily for 90 days to male rats to investigate its effect on the male reproductive function. Clomiphene citrate (a known male anti·fertility agent) was given orally at 5mgllOOg b. w. for comparison. The extract treatment lowered the fertility index (100, 250 and 500 mglkg b.w.) but litter size was not affected. Testicular (500mglkg b.w. group) and prostate (all extract treated groups) weights were significantly reduced. Epididymal sperm count and viability were significantly lowered (500mglkg b.w. group) without affecting motility and morphology. Testicular cholesterol showed a trend increase but was not significantly different compared to control whereas the mean volumetric proportion of testicular spermatozoa (500mglkg b.w. group) was significantly lower. Seminiferous tubules of rats given the highest dose showed interference in spermatogenesis at the spermatid level with the presence of degenerated spennatids in the lumen. In clomiphene treated rats, fertility was suppressed and the testis, epididymis, seminal vesicles and prostate were severely affected. Epididymal sperm count dropped to less than 2% of control while motility and viability were also as severely affected. Meanwhile sperm morphology revealed abnormalities of the head, neck and tail. Testicular histology showed progressive regression of the seminiferous tubules with most tubules devoid of spermatozoa and spermatid while testicular cholesterol was much higher compared to control. These results suggest that Phyllanthus amarus had a mild inhibitory effect on the male reproductive function as compared to clomiphene. These effects were reversible upon cessation of treatment. The extract possibly exerted an estrogen-like effect on the male reproductive system.
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Washington, D.C., December 9, 2013 – William D. Gaillard, MD, who heads the Division of Neurophysiology, Epilepsy, and Critical Care Neurology at Children's National Health System, was elected treasurer of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) over the weekend during the Society's 67th annual meeting at the Washington Convention Center. Dr. Gaillard, who also holds professorships at George Washington University and Georgetown University, joined the AES board in 2009. He replaces Michael Privitera, M.D., who was elected AES second vice president.
The American Epilepsy Society is the preeminent professional society for physicians and scientists concerned with the prevention, treatment, and research of epilepsy in the United States.
Dr. Gaillard is a practicing pediatric neurologist and scientist whose research focuses on the effects of childhood epilepsy on brain structure and function. He has published more than 180 papers and book chapters with an emphasis on the use of imaging in the investigation of patients with epilepsy.
As an active participant in AES activities, Dr. Gaillard has served on the organization's Council on Education, the Scientific Program, and Annual Meeting Committee, and as chair of the Clinical Investigator Workshop, and Pediatric Content Committees. He also serves as an associate editor for the journals Epilepsia and Epilepsy Research and as a regular reviewer on AES and Epilepsy Foundation study sections.
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| Remove Windows Media Player from Winows 7 Hi, I have Windows 7 64bit. After I installed it, everything was fine except the part where I wanted to configure Mplayer(www.mplayerhq.hu) to be used for all movie extensions. I right-clicked a .avi movie, Open With, Choose Default Program, Browse, selected the Mplayer executable and checked the checkbox that says to use Mplayer always to open this kind of files. Normally(in WindowsXP and Windows Vista) next time I just double-click any .avi file and it opens with Mplayer. Instead in Windows 7 when double-clicked an .avi file, it automatically opened Windows Media Player. After this each time I right-click, Open With, Browse, select Mplayer, the checkbox that says "Use this program to always..." is simply grayed out. I tried to add the NoFileAssociation registry thing but it does not help. No matter what I do, Windows 7 forces me to use Windows Media Player by default. I got mad, rebooted and started WindowsXP from a liveCD, changed ownership of the two(program files 32bit and 64bit) wmplayer.exe executables and removed them. Then I copied mplayer in the Windows Media Player directory and renamed it to wmplayer.exe. After rebooting to Windows 7, when I double click a movie I can see that it tries to open using the renamed wmplayer.exe mplayer but it does not work because most likely it passes some parameters to the command line which mplayer does not understand. Situations like this one when the stupid Microsoft forces you to use the stupid Windows Media Player makes me throw the Windows CD out of the window. Please tell me how do I remove Windows Media Player completely out of my new Windows 7 and how do I make my .avi movies open using Mplayer when I double-click them. Please help. Many thanks in advance. |
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| Welcome izghitu To uninstall WMP, open the control panel; Control Panel > Programs > Tun Windows features on or off > expand the media features folder, and uncheck WMP, reboot. Hope this helps. |
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| Ok, Finally I removed WMP. Thanks for your reply. But I have another problem now. The checkbox that says to use mplayer always for this kind of files is grayed out and I can't make mplayer the default program for .avi files. Please help. |
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| all .avi files now have no icon when I double click them, I get prompted to choose a program. The always use... checkbox is grayed out so I need to browse for mplayer each time I double click an avi file. How do I ungray that checkbox? Looking at control panel - default programs - extensions and protocols I can see that mplayer is the default for .avi but that does not help. |
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| In the start search box, type regedit and hit enter; navigate to; HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.avi Expand the .avi key and click on OpenWithList, make sure there is only "a" with a .exe (if there's "b", delete it, MRUList is OK too), double click on "a" in the right hand pane and enter the executable name of mplayer. Then, delete the userchoice key. Exit regedit, reboot and report |
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| In the OpenWithList I had nothing. I added a string called a with the value mplayer.exe After removing the userchoice key the "always use..." checkbox got ungrayed and I can finaly use mplayer as the default player Thanks a lot for your help. |
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2 Commission Members Tout Plan's Promise
By John Cogan and Chris Edley Jr., The Sacramento Bee
As members of the Commission on the 21st Century Economy, we spent nine months diligently addressing problems created by California's outdated and deeply flawed tax system. This decades-old tax system has harmed our economy, led to cuts in essential services, threatened our state's credit, and crippled the budget process with fiscal unpredictability.
Agreement on reforms is monumentally difficult. Indeed, the two of us have decidedly different political views. Although we are both former appointees to the White House Office of Management and Budget, one of us was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and the other by President Bill Clinton. Although we are both academicians, one is a self-proclaimed bedrock fiscal and economic conservative, and the other an unreconstructed tax-and-spend paleo-liberal. Our views and values diverge on many issues. We knew this would not be easy.
However, our state's leaders asked us for pragmatic advice and principled compromise. After countless hours of analysis, research and debate, we are confident that the commission's tax package sets us out on the best achievable path forward for California. For each of us, it protects the core values we hold dear. The Legislature, with its extensive staff, has the obligation and capacity to fine-tune the political judgments and refine the analytics. The commission has given them a valuable starting point.
Our plan substantially reduces revenue swings that promote boom-bust budgeting, and also speaks to economic circumstances of this new century. We recommend a sweeping reduction in personal income taxes across all income groups, repeal of the 5 percent state general fund sales tax, and elimination of the corporate income tax. The resulting lost revenues are replaced by a new business net receipts tax (BNRT).
The BNRT would apply to all net receipts of almost all entities doing business in California, except small businesses. It is designed to tax, at a relatively low 4 percent rate, the "value" a business adds to the inputs from its suppliers in producing products and services sold in California. It is important that this new form of tax is seen as part of our entire package of proposed reforms.
The five-year phase-in, starting in 2012, is designed to avoid unnecessary burdens on any sector of the economy. Despite the claims made by some, we are persuaded by the available data that the overall progressivity of the tax system would change very little, if at all. In addition, compared with current law, the plan actually would reduce the state and federal tax burdens borne by Californians; firms will be able to deduct their BNRT liability from federal taxes. As an additional safeguard, we have recommended creating a technical review panel, together with a method for continuous evaluation of the transition.
We firmly intend that this new system would maintain revenue neutrality, and be fair and equitable for each sector of the economy and every segment of the population. Neither of us believes a pragmatic, revenue-neutral tax proposal can be a vehicle for significant changes in broader social or economic policy we might otherwise prefer, from the left or the right.
Over the last several months we have worked to analyze the data, questioned tax experts and economists, modeled countless scenarios and engaged in lively debate. A change of this magnitude, however, obviously requires careful analysis and debate by the Legislature, governor and public. We believe the commission's product is sufficiently promising that our lawmakers ought fully evaluate the package as a whole, make needed adjustments and then bring the matter to a vote.
While both of us have extensive public policy backgrounds, neither of us is a Sacramento insider. However, we are familiar with the Capitol's tendency toward the status quo. It is clear that when partisanship combines with uncertainty and high stakes, moving forward is nearly impossible. But now is the time for real change, which necessarily entails uncertainties. This plan has safety valves and safeguards to mitigate many of those uncertainties. For the good of the state, its economy and its people, it is our hope this time will be different and the lawmakers will put partisanship and ideologies aside to give this plan the full review it deserves, and the careful consideration the state's challenges demand.


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In-Country Analysis vs. Mud-Slinging Critics
I have just returned from 10 days traveling around Afghanistan — along with retired Army Colonel Pete Mansoor and former Army Ranger Andrew Exum — at the invitation of General David Petraeus. Upon our return, all of us have published articles laying out our findings. Pete and I, for example, wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times laying out the progress that our troops have made as well as the challenges still posed by bad governance and Pakistan sanctuaries. Rather than engage in a respectful discussion of our analysis, some overly excitable critics of the war effort have chosen to impugn our fact-gathering methods, suggesting that we have somehow been duped by the wily Petraeus into thinking that the war is going better than it actually is.
There is always a danger of drawing incorrect conclusions based on a 10-day visit — but that danger is even greater if, like many who opine on Afghanistan or Iraq, you never visit the country at all. (Or, like so many congressional delegations, spend only 24 or 48 hours in-country.)
The record will show that I have hardly been an unalloyed cheerleader for military efforts in either country — but nor did I ever conclude, as did so many others, that the situation was hopeless. In the case of Iraq, I may have been overly optimistic in my early assessments, as many were; but by 2006, I was writing that we were losing the war, much to the consternation of some conservatives — and I said so face to face with President Bush in the Oval Office in September 2006 (which didn't make him happy). In 2007, I saw a turnaround and wrote that we were starting to win at a time when the conventional wisdom was that there was no way we could win. I think my trips to Iraq and Afghanistan have been invaluable in helping me to assess the situation, even if (like everyone else) I don't always get it right.
I approach all such trips with great intellectual humility and do not claim to have greater expertise than I actually have. I just report what I see, and try to put it in the context of my close, ongoing study of the war effort and of previous wars. I would not by any stretch claim that 10 days in-country tells me everything I need to know; I always leave humbled by the limits of my understanding.
But on the other hand, I also get a better overview of conditions than many soldiers/civilians who spend longer periods of time in-country because they tend to stay in one small area, thus developing deep knowledge of that area but remaining aware of what is happening elsewhere. (Some soldiers — known as "Fobbits" — never leave their Forward Operating Bases at all.) Also, those who are actually deployed don't generally keep personal tabs on what is happening after they leave — unless/until they prepare for another deployment — whereas the advantage that think tankers have is that we can keep traveling fairly regularly to examine progress or lack thereof. Read More
Re: Iraq Casualties
Max, the Washington Post editorializes today, "The Iraqi Upturn: Don't look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war." Finally, others notice the enormous strategic and political gains in Iraq. The lede paragraph is surprisingly optimistic (and accurate):
There's been a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks — which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war. While Washington's attention has been fixed elsewhere, military analysts have watched with astonishment as the Iraqi government and army have gained control for the first time of the port city of Basra and the sprawling Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, routing the Shiite militias that have ruled them for years and sending key militants scurrying to Iran. At the same time, Iraqi and U.S. forces have pushed forward with a long-promised offensive in Mosul, the last urban refuge of al-Qaeda. So many of its leaders have now been captured or killed that U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, renowned for his cautious assessments, said that the terrorists have "never been closer to defeat than they are now."
Overall, though, you are correct: aside from this editorial, and an AP wire-report touting decreased Iraq-related deaths, the biggest news story out of Iraq is largely being ignored.
Good News from Mosul
On top of the good news in recent days from Basra and Baghdad now comes good news from Mosul–the last stronghold of Al Qaeda in Iraq. According to Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, commander of Multi-National Division North, the "number of daily attacks in Mosul has dropped at least 85 percent since U.S.-Iraqi forces began an offensive against Sunni insurgents in the city earlier this month." That's good news for America and Iraq–and bad news for all those Democrats who long ago wrote off the war as lost.
Right In Reverse
Monitoring the progress in Iraq these days is a bit like watching a disaster film play backwards: All the setbacks that threatened the whole pre-surge effort now seem to be righting themselves in reverse order.
We've seen the Awakening of Sunnis, the clampdown on al Qaeda in Iraq, the quelling of a "civil war" that wasn't, the fight against Shiite militias, the reconciliation among sectarian blocs in the Iraqi government, and now the large-scale return to service of former Iraqi army members. Azzaman.com, the habitually negative Iraqi news source, is strikingly hopeful about this development what it indicates:
The government has allowed more than 5,000 members of the former army which the U.S. had disbanded to return to service.
The move comes as part of government efforts to deny rebels and the al-Qaeda group the means to use popular discontent as a means to raise recruits.
It is the largest single batch of former army members to be allowed to return to service and it signals the government is finally keen to appease Arab Sunnis.
The batch which includes many officers will certainly make the city notables among them tribal leaders happy.
A Defence Ministry spokesman said the members "volunteered to join the armed forces" and that the government was pleased with the move.
"The return of this large group of members and officers will boost the strength of the armed forces," Lt. Gen. Mohammed al-Askari said.
The move also indicates that the government campaign to pacify Mosul, one of the most restive cities in the country, has been going well.
This kind of enthusiasm from Azzaman.com is noteworthy. Add it to the New York Times' acknowledgement of Maliki's success and Nancy Pelosi's near admission of the same and what do you have? An emerging acceptance of good news from Iraq. If the backwards film reel effect holds, Hillary Clinton will soon start crowing about her unstinting support for the war in the first place.
Behind the Wire
If you're interested in reading more about Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi–the former Kuwaiti soldier who was captured in Afghanistan, then released from Guantanamo, and who apparently blew himself up as a suicide bomber in Mosul, Iraq–you can read his Wikipedia page here. His case obviously points out the need to continue incarcerating a lot of the current detainees, if not at Gitmo (which has become a public relations embarrassment, and will be closed before long, by either this President or his successor), then at some other facility.
It also points out another need: to conduct "counterinsurgency behind the wire" with these detainees, wherever they are held. That is something that Task Force 134, the coalition unit responsible for more than 20,000 detainees in Iraq, has been doing successfully for the past year under the leadership of Marine Major General Doug Stone. His methods include holding classes where moderate clerics explain to the detainees why they should not engage in violent jihadism. This is akin to cult deprogramming, and there is evidence that it is working.
Similar programs have been run in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Singapore, and other countries. It is imperative that terrorism detainees not simply be warehoused, because then prison can turn into a terrorism university. We need to use the time while they are under our control to try to rehabilitate them if possible. Of course a hard-core element can never be brought around and simply needs to be locked up indefinitely. But many of those who fall into terrorism actually have fairly shallow ideologies and, in the right environment, some of them can be converted away from the path of violence.
Close Gitmo, Open the National Security Court
In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch presents the maximalist position of civil liberties advocates when it comes to the War on Terror: He argues not only that we should close the detention facility at Guantanamo (which I agree with), but also that we should either try suspects in the criminal courts under standard criminal procedures or else release them. That's going a bit too far for me, or, I suspect, most other Americans. To see why, consider this AP report:
Al-Arabiya television reports that a former Guantanamo detainee carried out a recent suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
A cousin says Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti released from Guantanamo in 2005, was reported missing two weeks ago and his family learned of his death Thursday through a friend in Iraq.
The cousin, Salem al-Ajmi, told Al-Arabiya on Thursday that the former detainee was behind the latest attack in Mosul, although he did not provide more details.
Three suicide car bombers targeted Iraqi security forces in Mosul on April 26, killing at least seven people.
Because it was "only" Iraqis who were killed, this apparent attack by a former Gitmo detainee will not cause much uproar in the United States. But imagine if he had struck not in Mosul but in New York, Paris, or London. Then it would be a different story. To avoid such a dire scenario, we need to have a way of dealing with detainees that goes beyond the normal safeguards of the criminal justice system.
Jack Goldsmith and Neal Katyal–the former a conservative law professor who served in the Bush Justice Department, the latter a liberal law professor who represented one of the Gitmo detainees in a successful appeal to the Supreme Court in 2006–have proposed just such a system: setting up a federal National Security Court run by specially selected federal judges. Roth argues against this idea, but it makes a lot of sense to me.
McCain on Basra and Maliki
I just got off a blogger call with John McCain and asked him about his impressions of the Iraqi army's fight against Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in
Interestingly, McCain said that before the
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What a contrast.
On Sunday Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the success of the "surge" in Iraq. "Are you not worried, though, that all the gains that have been achieved over the past year might be lost?" Blitzer asked.
"There haven't been gains, Wolf," Pelosi replied. "The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. This is a failure. This is a failure."
Times of London published a story reporting this:
Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an "extraordinary crisis". Last year's mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to the US military "created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight". The terrorist group's security structure suffered "total collapse". These are the words not of al-Qaeda's enemies but of one of its own leaders in Anbar province — once the group's stronghold. They were set down last summer in a 39-page letter seized during a US raid on an al-Qaeda base near Samarra in November. The US military released extracts from that letter yesterday along with a second seized in another November raid that is almost as startling. That second document is a bitter 16-page testament written last October by a local al-Qaeda leader near Balad, north of Baghdad. "I am Abu-Tariq, emir of the al-Layin and al-Mashahdah sector," the author begins. He goes on to describe how his force of 600 shrank to fewer than 20. "We were mistreated, cheated and betrayed by some of our brothers," he says. "Those people were nothing but hypocrites, liars and traitors and were waiting for the right moment to switch sides with whoever pays them most." … The Anbar letter conceded that the "crusaders" — Americans — had gained the upper hand by persuading ordinary Sunnis that al-Qaeda was responsible for their suffering and by exploiting their poverty to entice them into the security forces. Al-Qaeda's "Islamic State of Iraq is faced with an extraordinary crisis, especially in al-Anbar", the unnamed emir admitted.
In one corner, then, we have the Speaker of the House insisting, despite overwhelming evidence, that progress in Iraq is illusory, that there have been no gains, and that the war is irredeemably lost. In the other corner are first-hand accounts by jihadists about the extraordinary crisis al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) faces – a crisis that has been confirmed by a raft of objective metrics during the last year.
The last few weeks we have seen a series of high-profile, deadly bombings that are evidence that AQI is not defeated and that we need to maintain pressure if we hope to succeed. The offensive in the northern city of Mosul, AQI's last urban stronghold, promises to be difficult and bloody. But to insist that there "haven't been gains" is to venture into a land of utter delusion.
All of this calls to mind Baghdad Bob. Baghdad Bob, people will recall, was the nickname given to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the buffoonish former Information Minister of Iraq who (to take just one example) claimed on April 7, 2003 that there were no American troops in Baghdad and that the Americans were committing suicide by the hundreds at the city's gates – even though at precisely that moment American tanks were patrolling the streets only a few hundred yards from the location al-Sahaf's press conference was held.
Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, has become our Baghdad Bob. And what a spectacle it is. Jihadists in Iraq are testifying to their own failures. At the same time, the Speaker of the House seems to have a deep ideological investment in ours.
Libya's Son
Iraqi Police Colonel Jubair Rashid Naief claims Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi's son Seif al-Islam (whose name means Sword of Islam) is sponsoring a terrorist group in Northern Iraq called the Seifaddin Regiment. This group is allegedly responsible for recent attacks in Mosul that killed and wounded hundreds. The U.S. military so far has no comment on the accusation one way or another. I've never heard of this group and am not even convinced it exists. But U.S. military officials believe 19 percent of foreign terrorists in Iraq come from Libya.
Robert H. Reid wrote in an Associated Press article that Seif al-Islam "seems an unlikely figure as a sponsor of terrorism. Touted as a reformer, the younger Gadhafi has been reaching out to the West to soften Libya's image and return it to the international mainstream."
Yes, Seif al-Islam is touted as a reformer – by journalists. Perhaps naïve government officials also believe Seif al-Islam is a reformer. His father has certainly been given a pass in the last couple of years even though he barely deserves it – if he deserves it at all.
I visited Libya as soon as the U.S. government lifted the travel ban, after Qaddafi supposedly gave up his weapons of mass destruction program. (Click here to see my photo gallery.) It is by far the most oppressive country I have ever been to. Freedom House ranks it the most oppressive of all Arab countries, lower than even Saudi Arabia and Syria.
Qaddafi's government structure is modeled after Nicolae Ceauşescu's totalitarian regime in Romania. His state ideology, the unexportable "Third Universal Theory," is a merger of The Communist Manifesto and the Koran. His own infamous manifesto, The Green Book, is a daft and sinister pseudo-intellectual excuse for his own absolute power. Don't be fooled by Qaddafi's court jester antics and buffoonish charisma. He is only funny and entertaining to watch from abroad. Libya is an Orwellian God-state with only Turkmenistan and North Korea as peers.
Endgame Iraq
Let's hope Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki didn't make himself a hostage to fortune today by announcing an upcoming "final war" on al Qaeda in Iraq. The recent smattering of suicide bombings in Mosul do demand decisive military action, and there's plenty of reason to expect success once Iraqi forces take the fight north to this AQI stronghold. But those two unfortunate words could wind up in the same soundbite chamber as "mission accomplished" and "final throes."
Hubris aside, al-Maliki's further words were heartening: "Now we have a real army. The days when the militants could do anything in front of our armed forces are gone," he said. For this, we can thank the tireless training and recruitment efforts of both U.S. and Iraqi officials.
The most useless trope in recent discussions about Iraq is the one about how military success means nothing without political progress. Political progress is an impossibility without the security furnished by ongoing military success. (Below, Peter Wehner has highlighted Iraq's emerging political reconciliation and the operational progress that's made it possible.) The battle for Mosul will be Iraqi-led. This is critical in showing Iraqis that the state's military is now an effective instrument employed for the good of the country. Political reconciliation is predicated on this kind of reassurance.
"Final war" or not, the prospect of eradicating AQI, in what appears to be its final refuge, points both to past U.S. military success and to further political progress in Iraq.
USA Today recounts a skirmish in Mosul. This is what American soldiers are up against in this stage of the Iraq war. Notice the care taken by our forces to avoid civilian casualties.
When he rolled back a concrete block that was sitting on rails, gunfire erupted. Pete estimated the entrance at 2-by-2 feet, barely large enough for a Ranger with 45 pounds of gear to pass through.
Lashaun and Pete fired into the hole and backed out of the room.
Pete tossed in a grenade.After the grenade exploded, the Rangers moved back into the shower room, Lashaun said. Suddenly, he said, grenades started flying back at them.
Lashaun said he saw one grenade bounce, so he and another Ranger dove through a door before it exploded. Pete and the Ranger retreated to a different room.
Blake, the company commander, said the soldiers had split into two groups of nine each. Gunfire from the insurgents poured out of the bathroom, while Lashaun's Rangers fired back.
Pete figured bullets passed within 1 foot of him. "I was really stuck basically in a crossfire," he said.
Meanwhile, Lashaun hustled the women and children toward safety over a courtyard wall.
"He's risking his life, taking enemy fire, while he's literally extending himself and pushing women and children over the wall," Blake said.
Lashaun then linked up with two Rangers, re-entered the house and fired into the bathroom. One insurgent came around the corner, Lashaun said, and the Rangers killed him "right there on the spot."
The full story, one of the most dramatic accounts of combat to come out of Iraq, is a testament to the skill and bravery of our soldiers, and also to Tom Vanden Brook of USA Today, who tells their story.
Saddam, You Did a Heckuva Job
Don't build a dam on a gypsum foundation. Gypsum dissolves when it comes into contact with water. Nonetheless, that's exactly what the all-wise, all-powerful Saddam Hussein did in the early 1980′s. The WaPo reports that "the largest dam in Iraq is in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water." The lives of 500,000 people down-river in Mosul and parts of Baghdad are now at risk. The cost of repairs: between $1 billion and $10 billion.
Our Man in Mosul
Yochi Dreazen has an interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal reporting on the heroic efforts of Colonel Saleem Qader, an Iraqi army intelligence officer, to clean up Ninewah Province (whose capital is the large city of Mosul). Dreazen writes:
U.S. commanders give Col. Qader much of the credit for a striking improvement in the city's security situation. There hasn't been a car bomb or large-scale attack here since early May, and U.S. commanders say the number of attacks has dropped to seven or nine a day from fifteen to eighteen earlier this year. Fewer than a dozen Americans have died in Mosul this year, a sharp reduction from 2006.
What the article doesn't mention is that the U.S. troop presence in Mosul is down to a battalion—about a thousand men. In other words, Col. Qader and other members of the Iraqi security forces are managing to maintain order in this populous and volatile region pretty much on their own. That's a cause for long-term optimism: It is not inevitable that Iraq will dissolve into all-out civil war once the U.S. starts to draw down its troop presence.


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Does anyone else here have morning sickness that involves diarrhea moreso than vomiting? For the first several months of my pregnancy with my first child (7 years ago) I felt continuous nausea and always had diarrhea, and never actually threw up til I was 3 months pregnant and then I started to feel better from that point on. It got to the point where I was afraid I was not digesting anything at all and it was just going straight through me. This pregnancy seems to be similar though not quite as extreme, and although I have thrown up once (and dry-heaved a few times) my nausea is generally always accompanied by "the runs" instead. Of all the moms I have talked to in my lifetime, not one other person has had this. Just curious if anyone else has experienced this? I'm not really worried, just wondering if I'm a freak of nature or if there are others out there like me.
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C-TAC Public Engagement Workgroup
C-TAC's public outreach objective is to empower caregivers, patients, adult children and others (1) to plan now for later illness and (2) to get the care they want and need when advanced illness occurs.
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- Developing a website to help Americans make informed decisions and plans related to advanced illness. The website will feature meaningful, curated information from C-TAC members and others that informs and guides site users to appropriate resources when and where needed.
- Integrating our public engagement efforts with both our Clinical Models and our Professional Education initiatives to ensure that patient choice and shared decision-making drive care, improve quality, promote high levels of satisfaction and reduce costs.
In addition to assisting the public in advanced illness decision making, our website is also being designed to enlist public support for improving the social, policy and health system environment and norms for quality care.
Read more about C-TAC's public engagement initiative in a case study that appeared in the American Hospital Association's Advanced Illness Management report by clicking here. Access our Brief on public perceptions of advanced illness care and our Literature Review here.
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From 2001 to 2009, he was CEO of AARP, a membership organization of over 40 million people 50 and older. During his tenure, AARP achieved important policy successes at national and state levels in health, financial security, good government and other areas. It also doubled its budget, added five million new members and expanded internationally.
Prior to AARP, Mr. Novelli was President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, whose mandate is to change public policies and the social environment, limit tobacco companies' marketing and sales practices to children and serve as a counterforce to the tobacco industry and its special interests. He now serves as chairman of the board. Previously, he was Executive Vice President of CARE, the world's largest private relief and development organization. He was responsible for all operations in the U.S. and abroad. CARE helps impoverished people in Africa, Asia and Latin America through programs in health, agriculture, environmental protection and small business support. CARE also provides emergency relief to people in need.
Earlier, Mr. Novelli co-founded and was President of Porter Novelli, now one of the world's largest public relations agencies and part of the Omnicom Group, an international marketing communications corporation. He directed numerous corporate accounts as well as the management and development of the firm. Porter Novelli was founded to apply marketing to social and health issues, and grew into an international marketing/public relations agency with corporate, not-for-profit and government clients. He retired from the firm in 1990 to pursue a second career in public service. He was named one of the 100 most influential public relations professionals of the 20th century by the industry's leading publication.
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Publication Date: 21 Oct 2010
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Journal: Nutrition and Metabolic Insights
Citation: Nutrition and Metabolic Insights 2010:3 57-67
doi: 10.4137/NMI.S5048
Finding a widely available cure for sickle cell anemia (HbSS) still remains a challenge one hundred years after its discovery as a genetically inherited disease. However, growing interest in the nutritional problems of the disease has created a body of literature from researchers seeking nutritional alternatives as a means of decreasing morbidity and improving quality of life among HbSS patients.
This review demonstrates that over the past 30 years the role of protein/energy deficiency in HbSS has been more clearly defined via direct measurements, leading to the concept of a relative shortage of nutrients for growth and development, despite apparently adequate dietary intakes. Although there is still a paucity of data supporting the efficacy of macronutrient supplementation, it is becoming clearer that recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) for the general population are insufficient for the sickle cell patient. A similar shortage is likely to be true for micronutrient deficiencies, including recent findings of vitamin D deficiency that may be associated with incomplete ossification and bone disease, which are well known complications of HbSS disease. We conclude that there is need for more effort and resources to be dedicated to research (including supplementation studies of larger sample size) aimed at establishing specific RDAs for HbSS patients, much like the specific RDAs developed for pregnancy and growth within the general population.
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Yoga and Cholesterol
From a reader's comment:
"I'll be happy to understand more about the connection between yoga and cholesterol. L&L"
Does Yoga help to control cholesterol levels? Yes!
- Yoga and meditation reduce blood levels of stress hormones, and those hormones have been shown to elevate cholesterol levels. It makes sense then, that Yoga and meditation will reduce cholesterol.
- Increasing physical exercise is one way to elevate HDL cholesterol, the "garbage truck" that goes around removing disease-causing LDL cholesterol. Depending on the style of Yoga, a regular active practice will raise HDL.
- Yoga practitioners following the ancient gurus' recommended dietary and lifestyle components while off the mat are vegetarians. Animals are the only source of dietary cholesterol and the main source of saturated fat. Excluding meat as part of a Yoga practice will help to keep cholesterol levels in check. While avoiding eggs and dairy is not part of the yogic tradition, if cholesterol levels are high, eating these foods in moderation will help, too. Most studies looking at the cholesterol lowering effects of Yoga lifestyle programs exclude them.
A review published in 2007 looked at studies using Yoga programs to help reduce cholesterol levels. The authors found that Yoga interventionsare generally effective in reducing high cholesterol – and also in helping to reduce body weight, blood pressure andglucose levels.
- In a study of 93 people in New Delhi, one hour of dailyyoga practice was associated with significant reductions inbody weight and cholesterol levels after 4 weeks, and thosesignificant effects lasted for 14 weeks. Total cholesterol fellfrom 207 to 194 during the first 4 weeks and continued falling to 176 at 14 weeks.
- A studyof people at risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes found significant improvements (P < 0.01) in total cholesterol,triglycerides, LDL, HDL and VLDL after short-term intensiveyoga practice (3–4 h per day for 8 days). Yoga practice was more effective at reducing triglycerides among those with higher levels of cholesterol.
- In study of type 2 diabetic patients, 77 participants in a Hatha yoga exercise group were matched with a similar number of type 2 diabetic patients in a conventional PT exercise group as well as a control group. A significant reduction in total cholesterol levels occurred in both treatment arms (P < 0.0001).
More interesting are the studies that look at the yogic lifestyle as a holistic practice rather than separating out a few asanas and looking at their effects on cholesterol. Modern medicine likes to do that, reduce a thing to its parts and look only at one part – and then look only at how that part affects a part of something else.
- The Lifestyle Heart Trial included asana, pranayama, visualization, meditation, and deep relaxation in addition to a low-fat vegetarian diet, smoking cessation, group support sessions, and aerobic exercise. One year after starting the program, LDL cholesterol levels dropped 40% from an average of 144 to 87 in people who were not taking medication to lower their levels. Remarkably, patients also showed a reversal of the cholesterol plaques of their heart disease. When they came for retesting after 1 year of the program, the blockages had gotten smaller on their angiograms. Those receiving standard medical care saw their blockages get bigger over time – the standard concept of what's "supposed" to happen as we age. And the blockages worsened even though many were taking cholesterol lowering drugs. According to Dr. Ornish, the author of the study, "99% of patients in the program were able to stop or reverse the progression of their heart disease." There were also 2 ½ times fewer heart attacks, heart bypass surgeries, angioplasties, and hospital admissions. And according to the yogini who designed the Yoga component of the program, Yoga "seemed to be the catalyst for making everything else happen." Ornish's program has been so successful and well studied that it has now been declared that US Medicare will cover it.
- A study conducted at the Yoga Institute in Santacruz, a suburb of Mumbai, looked at 113 patients with angiographically proven cholesterol buildup in their arteries. They were taught Yoga techniques and provided a low-fat diet rich in fiber, vitamins and antioxidants while control patients received standard medical care. One year later the yoga group had a 23% drop in cholesterol (247 to 185) compared to a 4% decrease in controls, and they had a 26% reduction in LDL cholesterol (146 to 108) compared to a decrease of 3% in controls. They also found that patients with even a small decrease in the cholesterol buildup on their angiograms had a major reduction in symptoms.
- Two other similar studies have shown similar results.
Yoga is a holistic practice. It is an effective natural treatment for cholesterol that is at its best when it includes not only asana practice for physical activity, but also relaxation, visualization, meditation, and a low-fat vegetarian diet. Lowering cholesterol is yet another way that a yogic lifestyle promotes optimum health!
In the next blog, I'll address a reader's question about the true value of lowering cholesterol levels. Could there be a cholesterol myth? And is it really necessary to take a cholesterol lowering medication?
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Seeing our president hanging out at podiums in Charlotte and now Denver, his famous competitiveness nowhere to be seen, has left me with a question I wish I didn't have: Does Barack Obama really want to be president?
His campaign team wants it, yes, and his party, and his wife. But if meeting donors and lawmakers is such a drag, and campaigning such a chore, maybe he'd rather be home in Chicago, spending time with his family and small circle of close friends. At work, only his students would press him for answers. And at parties, he could indulge his kindhearted inclination to seek out the oldest person in the room and settle in to hear his stories.
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Sometimes on the web you're just thinking "Why the heck didn't I have that idea?" and that's just what happened when I read this article on CNET. Everybody should already be familiar with the CAPTCHA concept and I recently had to enter a CAPTCHA code for three times because the first two were simply non-decipherable. Actually that problem occured on a Google page.
I have developed my own custom CAPTCHA about two years ago where you have to identify the male person on the image and enter the corresponding code under the face with some random parameters added:
However Google's method is superior yet so simple because they only rotate an image. Rotation can be detected by a human easily yet not automatically by your usual automated spam bot. Maybe I'll change my CAPTCHAs to this method as well – even far easier to implement.
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Seattle University to join WAC
Seattle University has accepted an invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference in 2012. The WAC announced the move Tuesday following a board of directors meeting in Park City, Utah.
Seattle University President Stephen Sundborg, S.J.:
We are pleased to be joining the WAC. We are honored by the invitation as it reflects the strides and achievements we have made in Division I intercollegiate athletics. Our membership in the WAC will move us closer to our goal of building championship programs, especially for basketball fans. The WAC has provided some of the nation's best intercollegiate competition for nearly a half-century. By taking this step, we are providing our fans outstanding rivalries, and we give our teams a direct path to conference championships and NCAA Division I postseason competition.
SU will begin competing in the WAC in 17 sports: baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's outdoor track and field, women's soccer, softball, women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, and volleyball.
The addition of Seattle on July 1, 2012, means the WAC will have nine full-time members for the 2012-13 season.


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11:0 – 4:0: The Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action Ceremony, The Lincoln Memorial
2:45 (moved from 3:05): President Obama delivers remarks
Live streaming starts at 11:0 on White House Live, C-Span and CBS
11:0 – 4:0: The Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action Ceremony, The Lincoln Memorial
2:45 (moved from 3:05): President Obama delivers remarks
Live streaming starts at 11:0 on White House Live, C-Span and CBS
You always dump my Herculean efforts by adding a new thread. I'm beginning to take it personal like.
Morning Chips. I am so excited about today. 50 years ago I was fearful. Today is a celebration even as everyone is aware of how much work is still to be done. thanks again for making this forum available to enjoy the speech.
My memory is working overtime right now……so please excuse me in advance.
Your memories are very much appreciated, Yardarm. Thank you for sharing your reflections about the movement.
"If you can ride at the front of the bus, but you cannot read, you are not free." – @arneduncan #mow50 #LIVEUNITED—
Metro United Way (@MetroUnitedWay) August 27, 2013
c-span has Major Garrett on the phone complaining that PBO has not done enough for Black People.
But according to my RWNJ brother-in-law, all he's done is pamper black people. Everything has been done for them. There were no food stamps or welfare before PBO, and it all does to black people.
Except his very-white daughter whose children are the fourth generation of her family who have lived exclusively on welfare. Certainly he doesn't support her, her children.
But he's white and ignorant, and that makes him superior to people of color.
Wow, that's some serious cognitive dissonance going on right there. My heart goes out to you, 57andfemale.
He's insane. And he's my husband's twin yet they look more dissimilar than anyone else in the family.
The last time he visited from AZ, he screamed through my United Nations neighborhood that he didn't understand why his son, a Chicago cop, didn't just shoot all Hispanics on sight. It was outrageous.
He moved to AZ about 25 years ago with no education, no skills. And yet he thinks he's superior to the brown people who have lived in the Southwest for generations. It breaks my husband's heart.
Glad you picked the right one. Isn't gop base full of uneducated and unskilled peeps?
I'm watching C-Span now. It's showing the march. How would MG know whether or not PBO has done enough for Black people?
He's a white male on TV so he is an expert on any and everything. Funny how he can say this with no consequences, but the black reporter who said Mitt Romney appears more comfortable around white people got fired. Double standards are a trip, aren't they?
Good morning all, what a wonderful day this will be! In the early 70′s I married an African man and bore a wonderful black son. I still remember the gasps and dirty looks I received from people who were outraged at the site on me and my beautiful son! I was asked sooo many times if I had adopted him and still see the look of horror when I told them no, God created him for me, through me! So today I will be watching the events with my son. BTW I remarried to a white man and had another son, white this time which made for interesting conversations as we plowed through life together in a united family! I wish you all a wonderful day and God bless my beautiful President!
In terms of DNA, we are all one species with a minuscule difference between races that isn't statistically real. And yet man has been killing over these perceived differences from the beginning.
Love and treasure your family, Layla. We are all the same and your family is manifestation of that.
Good Morning Layla and all who are rising to this beautiful new day. Layla, I too was married in the early 70′s. I married a wonderful Irishman. We did not have a child because I decided that I could not spend my life behind bars with my very spirited wonderful Irish hubby because we decided if anyone even looked at our beautiful child, there would be something to deal with, his/her mother and father.
I was young, and now I am older. To this day, I regret that we did not have our child, but looking back on my physical health, I can have a little peace. I was suffering from a very painful female condition and my doctor asked told me that if I wanted to have a child, I should do it immediately because I needed surgery and he would have to remove ovaries and the uterus. I wept and made the decision in the negative. I have beautiful memories of my husband supporting me and asking me to do whatever I wanted to do because he would be there for our child alongside of me.
Looking back on my attitude, and his temperament, one or both of us would have fought anyone for our child. Those days were very difficult to live in for me. I love your words, "God created him for me, through me.!" Those are the words that would have kept my tongue for my child as well. My decision was right for me because after the surgery, we had some very sad news about my body. But that lovely young lady, or brilliant son could be mine to show up and show off for his/her mother today.
So enjoy your beautiful children, Layla and if they have the spirit that I see in you here, they are beautiful and blessed loving children of this world. Thanks for being the beautiful vessel of God to bring them through you and your mate. Layla, you are such a beautiful soul.
Have a beautiful day today and if present, give them a hug from me. (((((((((((((((((( Beautiful spirit, Layla.)))))))))))))))))HZ
HZ I am crying as I read your beautiful words! I am so lucky to have found you on TOD!!!!! 'they are beautiful and blessed loving children of this world', yes they are, both of them! We have been through a lot together but in the spirit of God it has made us stronger! I love you sooo! Hugging them as we speak!
(((((((((((((((((( You are a beautiful mother and very dear TOD family member to me, Layla.))))))))))))))))))) I was crying as I was writing. So much will touch all of us today as we remember how far we have come and how far we must continue to travel for our young and loving aging ones in our nation and all over the world. We Can Help POB do some of it, but I pray others will continue to rise up and help us lift the 'Beautiful Bricks to a More Perfect Foundation' of this nation. He can't do it all alone. We will move FORWARD with him by the grace of Almighty.HZ
you are a beautiful spirit…we are blessed to have you here…May the Creator continue to bless us and you…
That's a lovely story, Layla. I am amazed we are in 21st century with wonderful scientific developments and many peeps are still stuck on skin color.
There will be a lot of great memories made today with lots of beautiful moments, but there are going to be hateful, annoying and frustrating comments as the media tries to shift our attention away from the importance of this anniversary. As soon as PBO finishes his speech, somebody, somewhere is going to say it wasn't fine enough, or equal to MLKs or even to Clintons. Please ignore it all. It comes from ignorance and intense jealousy and isn't worth our time. Sorry to say I'm going to spend this wonderful afternoon at a spine clinic as I seemed to have fractured a darned vertebrae. Life can be very frustrating sometime.
Loving thoughts from my heart and home to you, Jackie. You have prayers going forth from my heart and lips at this very moment and through out this day. (((((((((((( Stay as strong as you need to my dear beautiful soul.)))))))))))))HZ
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Jovie (@mike_jovie) August 28, 2013
How glad am I that Dennis Kucinich and Weiner are out of Congress — they'd be in the front lines of Democrats demanding impeachment if we take any military action. At all. For anything.
Oh wait – Weiner is all for bombing Palestinians. I say that with the full disgust of an American Jew who cannot support anything and everything that Israel does, without question.
''Michele Bachmann says she won't rest until Obamacare is repealed. Or until she kidnaps all 101 Dalmatians.'' ~Jimmy Kimmel—
The Fighting Liberal (@texyellowdogdem) August 28, 2013
Beautiful Wintley Phipps is singing now. I hope our beautiful Dudette hears Wintley. He is one of her favorites. Beautiful. HZ
I guess MSNBC is going to talk through the event.
off to c-span to watch
He sang it so well, didn't he? I used to attend his church when he pastored in Seabrook, MD.
Yes, he did, pkayden. You had to be so blessed to here him speak as well as sing. I have my devotions and meditation times with one of his beautiful CDs with nothing but some of the great hymns on it. So moving and wonderful during this time of meditations and quietness for me. HZ
Beautiful photo of the exact spot Dr. King delivered his "I Have a Dream speech" 50 years ago today. #MLKdream50 http://t.co/MHwWsY7Hwp—
US Dept of Interior (@Interior) August 28, 2013
Wish I was home to see how Al Jazeera America is covering the event.
I wish my husband's idea of providing for my old age wasn't getting me a full time job with no benefits.
Syria: Would foreign intervention be legal? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… Sums up the dilemma.—
(@amk4obama) August 28, 2013
Trayvon's parents singing with Peter, Paul… Blowing in the Wind. Martin Luther King, Jr. — I'm Black and Beautiful
Correction: Trayvon's parents singing with Peter, Paul… Blowing in the Wind. http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
We anticipate that President Obama's speech will be criticized, probably even before he utters his last syllable. But with the President's speech and all others that are presented today, those who listen with an open heart, the right spirit, and the right frame of mind will be gifted with the message they are meant to receive. Don't let the naysayers take away the gifts you receive today.
GM, TOD. Had to dash back to the hotel; Mom forgot something — lucky we are just blocks away from the Memorial. This is the one time that my being cheap has worked out for me. The court yard was $150 cheaper than the Marriott on PA Ave, so I'm only about four blocks from the Memorial rather than about 12…
Here is a pic of Mom and me:
Blessed to be in the house! #LetFreedomRing #MOW50 http://t.co/6I1hVnRJ58—
Alycee (@jazziz2) August 28, 2013
Look at you and your mum!! BRAVA, ladies!! You do us proud. Celebrate the day!
Great "seeing" you and your mom. Blessed day! Enjoy and drink in every minute.
Hi Alycee and mom! So glad you were able to go to the March. I went to the March on Saturday.
WOW! Today we don't have white sheets but we have judges in black robes……WOW!
Woot me loving this "junkanoo" rendering of Negro anthem "Lift Ev'ry Voice #mlk50 #mow50
Good morning/afternoon, TOD. I was about 20 mins. late in watching the coverage, but I'm catching up with a little help from my DVR. Just saw Trayvon Martin's parents – could someone tell me if the one gentleman with them was a Newtown father? He looked so familiar.
Oh, my, what a day this is going to be. So glad to have y'all to share it with!
I like Gov. O'Malley of Maryland. He is a beautiful spirit. I hope we will see more and more of him in the future. HZ
I like him too HZ, I think he'll run for President- I love that he added "abolish the death penalty" in his speech- I really agree with his politics.
I noticed that, too, and really appreciated it! Let's stop being barbarians!
No I'm wrong, heres the Gov right now.. but wow that man did look like him.
Hi JB,
I could not rest until I found the answer to this. The man is one of the Sandy Hook parents. I feel as though we are starting to forget and that scares me. I recognized him but couldn't remember his name. He is Mark Barden, father of Daniel Barden. I felt like it was my duty to get you an answer and to remember him and Daniel.
Here a link to an interview with Mark Barden, Peter Yarrow & Noel Paul Stookey from earlier today, after the performance. http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/08/peter-yarrow-noel-paul-stookey-speak-with-mike-conneen-93317.html
Thanks so very much. We shall remember him, together! Chips did show a photo on a later post with his name, earlier in the day, so I had my answer there, too. Appreciate your sharing the interview!
I'm glad about that JB. I am always late to the show which is why I mostly lurk. I do hope that the gun control issue will be raised again later and we will get some sensible action. Goodnight and sweet dreams.
Can someone help me please. I am unable to continue posting anything on Twitter. started yesterday with mi Direct Messages when after 2 posts to someone I got "internal server error" msg. Now I am getting it just trying to post an ordinary tweet. I can't get into my interactions either. Can't find any answers online. Any suggestions?
Download Ccleaner & run it.
You might want to store your passwords for the sites you visit in a word file as a precaution before you run ccleaner.
What kind of computer are you using?
twitter was attacked yesterday by the SEA, so it was acting strange throughout most of the afternoon and early evening. Clearing your cache may help your browser to start fresh.
Gonna be a long day. Hang in there, Yardarm! We're all with ya!
Every part of this commemoration is GREAT.
Oh, lovely young lady is bringing on the floodgates of tear. This was the song that was the theme of my precious mother's going home celebration. I apologize. So many have hasten to the throne in prayers during Dr. King's trials and even now with our beloved POTUS. I know that I have to hasten there many time. Lovely rendition by the lovely young lady. HZ
((((((((((((((((((( Yardarm, we are in the same space))))))))))))))))))))) I hear you. HZ
Good Morning TOD Family!
I'm so excited for today. I'm stuck at work, which is filled with it's usual drama, but I'm upbeat and joyful! I've Tivo'd the festivities on CSpan. Knew the blabbermouths on MSNBC would ruin it for us. Great to see Alycee and her Mom and am hoping we get to see our Dudette as well.


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Black Pottery
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Black pottery is the traditional handwork product of the Dai minority nationality. Local black pottery wares include earthen jug, jar, vase, smoking set, tea set and so on. They are carved delicately with patterns of primitive simplicity, which makes they perfect souvenirs.
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