text: Builder 100: Painful YearBy Ethan Butterfield Click here to see the 2007 Builder 100 list.Photos: Jonatahan BarkatThis year's Builder 100 is not a celebration of who built the most homes. That would be folly in a year where builders practiced scorched earth sales tactics to move homes simply to generate enough cash to keep their doors open. Instead, we examine the builders who lived through 2007 and stand facing a grim 2008. What lessons can they impart? What are they changing about the way they do business?After the dust settles and the downturn that began in 2005 finally shifts into an upswing, the largest builders will have gained market share. But it's not evident yet, as many companies saw massive declines in closings, revenue, and assets over the last 12 months during the economic tumult.Once the shaking stops, many companies, large and small, will be in shambles. But the public builders will have the financial backing, thanks to partners on Wall Street, to start building as soon as there's a call for more homes. And that is what will turn the tide for them. Smaller builders, on average, will either close their doors or not have access to funds quickly enough to start building in advance of an upturning market, unless they were among the few who managed to squirrel away cash and available debt.Yes, 2007 was a disaster, with credit tightening like a noose, skyrocketing foreclosure levels, a dying market for mortgage-backed securities, plummeting home prices, and the devaluation of the dollar. It is no wonder that Centex CEO Tim Eller, when told he was being interviewed for the Builder 100, quipped, "Are there 100 builders left?"Punch DrunkThankfully, most builders are still standing, but virtually all of them are hurting. In reaction to market forces, many companies hacked and slashed their personnel in quick-fix overhead cost-cutting moves.For Bloomfield Hills, Mich.–based Pulte Homes, the problem of employee and company morale is being met head-on. Having cut over 55 percent of its full-time workforce from its peak size, Pulte has dispatched its CEO, Richard Dugas, to meet with every division. Dugas held the town hall–style meetings in each of his first four years as CEO, but this year marks the first time he is meeting with groups as small as 10 to 20 employees, he says."The workforce doesn't see you hiding behind your desk, and you can speak to their questions, and most of them are questions that I can answer very directly," he says. "It's been effective to get the therapeutic effect of people being able to express their minds and get their questions answered from the horse's mouth, so to speak."Downturns are old hat for Hovnanian Enterprises, which was founded in 1959, says Ara Hovnanian, CEO and son of founder Kevork. The company is following a strategy of selling inventory at often drastically reduced prices, generating cash, renegotiating land deals, and trying to reduce loan balances, Hovnanian says.Learn more about markets featured in this article: Dallas, TX, Palm Bay, FL. 1 2 3 4 Next Advertisement Keywords: SubjectBusiness Operations Economic Conditions Sales Single Family LocationDallas, TX PersonTim Eller Ara Hovnanian Alan Weiner OrganizationCentex Pulte Homes Richard Dugas View more keywords SubjectBusiness Operations Economic Conditions Sales Single Family Overhead Home Prices Lumberyards Housing Data Management Existing Home SalesLocationDallas, TX Palm Bay, FLStateTEXASPersonTim Eller Ara Hovnanian Alan Weiner Chuck Shinn John Burns Ivy Zelman Bob Toll Kim ShelpmanOrganizationCentex Pulte Homes Richard Dugas Hovnanian Enterprises Arthur Rutenberg Homes John Burns Real Estate Consulting Zelman and Associates Toll Brothers Holiday Builders D.R. Horton Labor DepartmentSection / SubsectionFEATUREBylineEthan Butterfield View fewer keywords More from BUILDERVideoJohn Caulfield Reports on Ben Bernanke PresentationBusinessPower Shift: Buyers Get an Upper Hand As Supply Expands, Motivation IntensifiesEconomic ConditionsDallas Lot Deliveries Surge to Highest Level Since 2008Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington,...Serene Homes' Composed EntryPalm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville,...Top 10 Markets Attracting Millennial BuyersAra HovnanianBy the Numbers: Hovnanian Enterprises, Fourth Quarter 2012Bob TollWith Dominion Purchase, Pulte Buys Share, Pace, and Geography Arthur Rutenberg HomesNelson Homes Unveils Two Models...CentexAs the Fog of Recession Lifts, Builders Take Stock in How They've ChangedTEXASFrankel Breaks Ground Near Houston's Exxon HotbedEthan ButterfieldThe Global Recession Will Delay A...FEATUREBoost Curb Appeal Without Breaking...Existing Home SalesPending Home Sales Rise 3.3% In July to 11-Month High PointHome PricesInterest Rates on New Homes Stay StableChuck ShinnAmerica's Best Builders Rise to the... Join the DiscussionPlease read our Content Guidelines before posting.


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The Casa Torre v2 is finished! Construction is complete on this new 3,000 square foot tower nestled in the west hills of Portland, gazing serenely across at the lush forest at the edge of Portland's Japanese Garden.
The house I designed is modern, formal, somewhat dramatic, tall, even a little imposing as it sits on the forested site, three stories tall, carved into the hillside, opening on its lowest level onto a large natural garden. The house looks southward toward Forest Park, just behind the Japanese Garden, enjoying full sun from morning until the last rays of the afternoon sun by virtue of a small canyon that runs through the Arboretum.
I designed the house to take the greatest advantage of the landscape and so all three levels are elegantly tied to the land, interconnected by trails that meander across the site. My primary goal was to site the house in such a way as to allow for a usable, terraced garden, avoiding the typical floating, stilted hillside house that appear on hillsides everywhere.
Here is the original Casa Torre, v1, clad in brick as I then imagined it.
Brick and plaster. Dark, charcoal plaster, like the Casa Nera?
Or white plaster like the Casa Bianca?
Casa torre is nettled into a beautiful site in the Portland hills which calls out to me for a monumental but simple tower around which the forest swirls. Through the forest, Portland's Japanese garden beckons and inspires me to find a place for a Japanese sensibility in the house and the landscape.
The layout of the house derives from the context of the hillside site: access to the street at the top, room for a large, flat terrace at the bottom, and the idyllic forest view toward the south where the sun is. I placed the main living rooms (kitchen, dining, living) at the ground level, with a direct connection to the garden and the outdoors.
The foundation is based on my special hybrid earth retention / foundation / landscape / decorative architectural shotcrete system which is more efficient (less excavation, less fill, less labor) than conventional hillside foundation systems.
The house features tilt /turn windows by Innotech (the best!), hand applied stucco exterior in a rough "scratch" pattern, dark oak true quarter sawn 5″ floors, and Venetian plaster interiors. The heating and cooling is as efficient as it gets, and the lighting, audio, security, and temperature are all controlled seamlessly by the iPhone. Once again, Peter Rigutto, of Classico Marmo, will furnish exquisite marble counters. And count on unusual, elegant plumbing fixtures!
I have worked on hillside houses enough lately to really try to come to terms with the demands of the forest, which are not insignificant, especially in the presence of tall trees. The form of a tower seems appropriate to me, both in its reflection of the dominant verticality of the trees and as a prudent consolidation of the footprint where every inch built means displacing more jungle. I knew that I wanted to use masonry, not wood, and initially was drawn to brick. Yet plaster managed to press it's way back into my mind, especially after having the opportunity to see it used to such dramatic effect on the Casa Nera. The plaster walls both counter and mimic the vocabulary of the forest: hard, linear, man made, and yet soft, natural, and very much of the earth. And not to mention, it's one of the few materials we have that readily stands up to the challenge of moisture that the forest provides.
Here are some brick towers that have inspired me.

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Bloody Elbow is here to offer live coverage of today's UFC on Versus 6 pre-fight press conference that is going down at The Newseum in Washington, DC. The fighters that will be participating include main eventers Dominick Cruz and Demetrious Johnson, who will be competing for the UFC bantamweight title, along with co-headliners Pat Barry and Stefan Struve. Anthony Johnson and Charlie Brenneman will also be there to share their thoughts.
You can catch live video of the press conference after the jump via Youtube, or over at MMA Nation, SBN's home of live video.
The press conference is set to begin at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT, so tune in and share your thoughts.
Main Card:
Dominick Cruz vs. Demetrious Johnson (BW title)
Pat Barry vs. Stefan Struve
Charlie Brenneman vs. Anthony Johnson
Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman
Preliminary Card:
Yves Edwards vs. Rafaello Oliveira
Michael Johnson vs. Paul Sass
Byron Bloodworth vs. Mike Easton
T.J. Grant vs. Shane Roller
Josh Neer vs. Keith Wisniewski
Joseph Sandoval vs. Walel Watson
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Viva La Morsi! Supporters of the ousted leader gave Nour El Sherif death threats in Paris
During a recent trip to Paris, Egyptian actor Nour El Sherif received death threats from Morsi supporters while hitting up the French Fall Salon event.
While the star known for his Ramadan dramas refuses to make a public statement, According to Laha Magazine, Nour did assure fans that he and the Egyptian delegation participating in the event are safe and sound. Nour stayed positive, expressing his deep honor at taking part in the artistic cultural event and being recognized for his achievements in Egyptian cinema.
This is not the first time the Egyptian scholars and artists taking part in the event received threats from Muslim Brotherhood members. During the opening ceremony of the event, Morsi supporters created chaos, holding pictures of the ousted president at the clearly pro-Morsi celebs.
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Putney Bridge repairs
Putney Bridge to undergo vital repairs
Vitally-needed repairs to Putney Bridge mean it will have to close to all vehicle traffic at 5am on Monday July 14. It is expected to reopen in October.
The decision to fully close the bridge to all traffic – rather than have a partial closure – was backed by a clear majority of both residents and businesses during the public consultation late last year. The public's preferred option was getting the job done in the shortest possible time and at the lowest cost to taxpayers.
The original six month timetable has been drastically reduced. The council's contractors will be working extended hours to get the £1.5m of repairs completed as quickly as possible.
Work is progressing well and the old road surface has now been removed along with the paving and some of the kerb stones on the western footway. The old waterproof membrane is being removed and the bridge's underlying concrete deck is being prepared in advance of the new waterproofing being laid.. Read more.
Removal of the kerbstones ahead of waterproofing
The vast majority of the works will be carried out during the school summer holidays when traffic levels are at their lightest. This timetable should also ensure that the bridge will reopen in plenty of time for businesses to take advantage of the busy festive shopping period.
The overall repair programme now includes a separate project to fix the damage caused when a bus crashed into the bridge's parapet wall a week before the closure. This will involve retrieving six large granite blocks from the riverbed after they were dislodged and fell into the Thames as a result of the collision.
These additional repairs will not impact on the wider project timetable which remains on target to be completed by October.
While the works are ongoing pedestrians will still be able to cross the bridge, as will cyclists, although they will need to dismount.
There is also a second river crossing that pedestrians can use linking Deodar Road with Putney Bridge Station. See a larger version. A cycle ramp has now been installed to the stairs at both ends of the bridge to make it easier for people to get their bikes up to walkway.
Bus arrangements
Buses will operate a shuttle service from both ends of the bridge. This means that passengers will need to cross it on foot to continue their journeys. Transport for London has confirmed it is putting arrangements in place to ensure that people only pay one fare for the two legs of their journey. Transport chiefs at TfL have published maps showing from where local buses will operate.
- More about bus arrangements (TfL)
- View map of bus routes during the closure of Putney Bridge
Works schedule
To achieve a faster turnaround it has been agreed that the permitted hours of working will be as follows:
6am to midnight Monday to Friday
8am to 4pm at weekends
However the contractor has been told to schedule the repairs so that no excessively noisy works are carried out at unreasonable times.
The works schedule has been arranged in close consultation with Transport for London, neighbouring highway authorities, local amenity groups, business representatives and other partners to ensure a high level of co-ordination with other major roadworks in south and west London. Transport for London has announced that Hammersmith Flyover weekend works have been completed ahead of schedule and further weekend closures are no longer needed. Read more.
The programme has also been drawn up to avoid impacting on the Wimbledon tennis championships, while the works have been scheduled so that August's Ride London cycle event, which attracts thousands of professional and amateur bike riders, can still be accommodated.
Wandsworth Council leader Ravi Govindia said: "These works are absolutely vital to protect the internal fabric of the bridge and ensure it lasts another 100 years. Our primary concern is to get this important job done efficiently and quickly so that there is the least amount of disruption to residents, businesses and the wider travelling public.
"Unfortunately a repair job on this scale to an important river crossing means that some degree of disruption is unavoidable, and we are of course very sorry for the inconvenience it will cause, but we have worked very hard to keep this to the absolute minimum.
"And we are giving people as much advance warning as we can so that they have plenty of time to plan alternative routes or look at using other forms of transport to get across the river."
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All you pro-vaccine people really get me.In other words, you were trolling for a reaction.
Every time someone or agency comes out with information that something should be done "for your own good, and the good of society" you used to rail against it.
It sounds like the type of argument that the Bush administration used to use to pass PATRIOT acts.
Do it. Do it all. Do it now. Don't question it. You'll be sorry later if you don't.
Well, you can take your herd mentality and shove it where the herd don't graze.
The risk is my own children, not the herd.
If my child doesn't get vac. and yours does, and they play together, yours won't get diseases because they've been vacced. Mine doesn't get it because yours have been vacced. Unless, you know, they aren't 100% effective, which they aren't. Even with the full regimen of vaccs, you can still contract the disease, sometimes, if it didn't take. So all you have is a false sense of security. At least I know to blame myself if something happens. Who will you, or can you blame if you get them and still contract the disease? Nobody. Nobody will listen to you, and you will get shouted down on internet forums.
I don't generally trust doctors for much. I've been mis-diagnosed, overcharged, and given the wrong prescripts because they were free samples that would "probably do the same thing" to what I needed. (antibiotics) Both my kids were homebirthed, and have never been to see a doctor in their lives. 3 years. They are both extremely healthy. They'll probably be homeschooled, too.
But what the hell do I know. I also don't declaw my cats, and haven't circumcised my little boy either. It's just another one of those hard decisions that you have to make when raising your own kids.
If you want mandatory intervention in your lives and the lives of those around you, there are plenty of OTHER countries that will be happy to oblige. This is land of freedom, and the freedom to do or not with my own body and my kids is one of the freedoms I cherish most.
Vaccines are recommended for very young children because their immune systems are not yet fully mature and also because their stomachs produce less acid, making it easier for ingested bacteria and viruses to multiply. These factors leave them the most vulnerable to the devastating effects of these serious diseases.
"I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water. I look at the obituaries every morning and ain't nobody listed but you eaters."You have to appreciate crazy on that level.
A "triggered" autism diagnosis wouldn't present the same sort of straightforward danger. But autism is difficult. A very large fraction of autistic-spectrum children will require heroic care from their parents for their entire lives.I thought autism-spectrum diagnoses were becoming more common but on average much less spectacular, what with all the "Bill Gates == Aspergers" type ideas which have been permeating the culture since Rain Man.
Sheep moo? News to me.The ones who don't follow the herd do.
Before hepatitis B vaccination programs became routine in the United States, an estimated 30%–40% of chronic infections are believed to have resulted from perinatal or early childhood transmission, even though even though [under] 10% of reported cases of hepatitis B occurred in children aged [under] 10 years. Chronically infected persons are at increased lifetime risk for cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and also serve as the main reservoir for continued HBV transmission...The reasons for the vaccine being administered in this way are fairly obvious: you don't know whether the mother has Hep B, because even with routine testing of expectant mothers for the disease, you won't catch all the cases - the mothers never show up in the health system before they go into labour, mothers miss the screening (and those whose lifestyle may put them at risk of Hep B may also be more likely to miss it), or the screening returns a false negative. You don't need to be living a wild lifestyle to be at risk of transmission: babies get grazes, broken skin, etc. You can routinely test the mothers, but you can't routinely test everybody who may at some point care for the child. I'm sure you can think of others reasons.
...During 1990–2004, incidence of acute hepatitis B in the United States declined 75%. The greatest decline (94%) occurred among children and adolescents, coincident with an
increase in hepatitis B vaccine coverage.
A Comprehensive Immunization Strategy to Eliminate Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in the United States
Little Grace died in the fall. She was a beautiful little girl. But she only lived a little over two years. She died of polio and she suffered. She had a slight fever for a couple of days, but it didn't seem like anything and we just kept her in bed. And we would certainly have called the doctor, but the fever dropped, she seemed to be all right. So we thought it had just been a cold. Then, one day, she was up, playing, Isabel was in the kitchen fixing lunch for the two boys when they'd come in from school, and she heard Grace fall down in the living room. When you have a lot of children you don't always start running when one of them falls, unless they start screaming or something. And, this time, Gracie was quiet. Yet, Isabel says that when she heard that thump and then that silence, something happened to her to make her afraid. And she ran to the living room and there was little Grace on the floor, all twisted up, and the reason she hadn't screamed was that she couldn't get her breath. And when she did scream, it was the worst sound, Isabel says, that she'd ever heard in all her life, and she still hears it sometimes in her dreams. Isabel will sometimes wake me up with a low, moaning, strangling sound and I have to be quick to awaken her and hold her to me and where Isabel is weeping against me seems a mortal wound. -- James Baldwin, Sonny's BluesAnd I read that and was happy Polio is not something many people need to be afraid of anymore.
I don't want to know the gruesome details, but I really want to know how someone manages to get decapitated in this age.There can be only one!
But the family itself is not beyond regulation in the public interest, as against a claim of religious liberty. And neither rights of religion nor rights of parenthood are beyond limitation. Acting to guard the general interest in youth's wellbeing, the state, as parens patriae, may restrict the parent's control by requiring school attendance, regulating or prohibiting the child's labor and in many other ways. Its authority is not nullified merely because the parent grounds his claim to control the child's course of conduct on religion or conscience. Thus, he cannot claim freedom from compulsory vaccination for the child more than for himself on religious grounds. The right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death. The catalogue need not be lengthened. It is sufficient to show what indeed appellant hardly disputes, that the state has a wide range of power for limiting parental freedom and authority in things affecting the child's welfare, and that this includes, to some extent, matters of conscience and religious conviction....A democratic society rests, for its continuance, upon the healthy, well rounded growth of young people into full maturity as citizens, with all that implies. It may secure this against impeding restraints and dangers within a broad range of selection. Among evils most appropriate for such action are the crippling effects of child employment, more especially in public places, and the possible harms arising from other activities subject to all the diverse influences of the street. It is too late now to doubt that legislation appropriately designed to reach such evils is within the state's police power, whether against the parent's claim to control of the child or one that religious scruples dictate contrary action.Prince v. Massachusetts, 312 U.S. 158 (1944) (internal citations omitted).
I stand by everything I have written and the conclusions I have previously reached: that the clinical jury is still out on the risks of MMR; that the epidemiological research on which the claims are based that it has conclusively been proved to be safe is at best methodologically inadequate and at worst has been misleadingly spun; that although any link to MMR remains unproven, Wakefield's Lancet findings of a new clinical syndrome have been replicated; and that far from being, as it is claimed, conclusively disproved, his concern that while the vast majority of children have no side effects from MMR a small proportion may be vulnerable through the impact of the vaccine on some kind of pre-existing vulnerability looks ever more plausible.posted by BinGregory at 7:58 PM on February 19, 2009
W: Below is a list of the allegations made by Brain Deer against me, received on Friday 6th February 2009, 2 days prior to his publishing in the UK's Sunday Times newspaper.That quote, and the rest of the dialog, is in Phillips' article. She doesn't understand muslims either, but that doesn't stop me from garnering useful information wherever it may present itself.
Dear Dr Wakefield,
I'm directed by editors managing my investigation of the MMR matter for The Sunday Times to inform you that we intend to publish further on this topic, and particularly on your role in it. It is now some five years since I first sought to discuss with you your work, and I've made numerous attempts to do so. As you will appreciate, the safety of children by means of vaccination is an unparalleled issue of public interest and concern.
As you will know, not least as a result of our concurrent attendance at the General Medical Council fitness to practise hearing into your conduct, I'm now extremely familiar with the precise medical histories, diagnoses and so forth of the children enrolled for your study, published in the Lancet on 28 February 1998. Based on this knowledge, and other sources of information, including the cooperation of families enrolled in your research, I must put to you, for your response, a number of serious matters.
(1)That you repeatedly, and without justification, changed and misreported findings from those children for publication in the Lancet.
I cite, for instance, three children who you represented as having regressive autism, who in fact had Asperger's disorder, or in one of those cases PDAS, which are not regressive and involve no loss of language or other basic skills. You claim that the paper is a series of "previously normal" children, but medical records - which you had a duty to read and understand - show that some five of the 12 children were subject to concerns prior to vaccination, and were not "normal". Other children, who you claimed to have suffered their first "behavioural symptoms" within days of vaccination, in fact had none for months. In the cases of some 8 children - two thirds of the total - you changed normal histopathology results to abnormal results, in a so-called "research review", despite claiming that the series was merely a clinical report.
W: The diagnoses reported in the Lancet were accurate based upon the information provided to the clinicians and review of the available records. (I) Where there was considered to be a pre-existing developmental problem, this was accurately reported in the Lancet paper. (II) This is not the place to get into a detailed discussion on developmental regression which is still a subject of debate [among? - BG] experts in child development and is certainly not something about which Deer has any expertise.
It is a matter of fact that I did not play any part whatsoever in making the microscopic diagnoses of inflammation on any biopsy from any child investigated at the Royal Free Hospital. Intestinal tissues were examined, and the children's pathology documented, by two doctors (not me) employed in the Department of Histopathology who were experienced in bowel disease, using an agreed protocol to ensure rigor and consistency . These doctors were co-authors on the paper. The same tissues were reviewed by Professor Walker-Smith and his team. I merely entered the documented findings into the Lancet paper. I did not "change" any findings as alleged. The paper was then reviewed by the relevant authors prior to submission to the Lancet in order to confirm that the diagnoses were correct. The findings reported in the Lancet are, in the opinion of the relevant authors, correct. This is a matter of record at the GMC.
No credible evidence of an involvement of MMR with either autism or Crohn's disease was found. No field studies of the vaccine's effectiveness were found but the impact of mass immunisation on the elimination of the diseases has been demonstrated worldwide.Another nice PDF from them:
The Cochrane Collaboration publishes the most thorough survey of MMR vaccination which strongly supports its use. There was no credible evidence behind claims of harm from the MMR vaccination.If you respect the Cochrane group and what they do enough to cite them, then you should be supporting the MMR vaccine -- becuase their analysis is saying that despite the existence of some poorly constructed studies, the evidence strongly supports the use of MMR vaccines and points to no correlation with autism risk.
This is the conclusion drawn by the Cochrane Review Authors, an international team
of researchers, after carefully drawing together all of the evidence found in 31 high
quality studies from around the world. They also highlight that the policy of
encouraging mass use of MMR has eliminated the scourge of measles, mumps and
rubella from many countries.
"In particular we conclude that all the major unintended events, such as triggering
Crohn's disease or autism, were suspected on the basis of unreliable evidence," says
lead author Dr Vittorio Demicheli ...
"Public health decisions need to be based on sound evidence. If this principle had
been applied in the case of the MMR dispute, then we would have avoided all the
fuss," says Demicheli.
The success of the large-scale vaccination programmes in developed countries has
tended to induce a sense of complacency, but measles, mumps and rubella are serious
diseases that can cause permanent physical damage or even kill. Indeed, in developing
countries where vaccination is less prevalent, the mortality rate from these diseases is
The MMR vaccine was introduced in the USA in the 1970s and is now in use in over
90 countries around the world. A single research paper published in 1998 based on 12
children cast doubt on the safety of the vaccine by implying that it might cause
development problems like Crohn's disease and autism². The paper has since been
retracted by most of the original authors, but before that it triggered a worldwide
scare, which in turn resulted in reduced uptake of the vaccine³.
Aware of the controversy surrounding the use of MMR, members of The Cochrane
Collaboration set out to review the evidence for effectiveness of the vaccine and also
to review evidence of adverse events. In a process of 'systematic reviewing'
researchers searched international databases and found 139 articles about MMR use.
Because many of them referred to studies that had been conducted in a way that could
not rule out bias or error, the researchers discarded all but 31 of them. Using
rigorously established methods the researchers then synthesised the findings from
these pieces of higher-quality research to create the most authoritative assessment yet
The systematic review's key findings are that:
1. There is no credible link between the MMR vaccine and any long-term disability,
including Crohn's disease and autism.
2. MMR is an important vaccine that has prevented diseases that still carry a heavy
burden of death and complications where the vaccine is not used consistently.
3. The lack of confidence in MMR has caused great damage to public health.
4. People arguing for or against the use of any therapy need to make sure that t
heybase their conclusions on carefully collected evidence, not just on biased opinion,
speculation or suspicion.
Before the diphtheria immunization became common, the United States had some 200,000 cases and 15,000 deaths per year from the disease, 80% of them children. Post-immunization: 41 total reported cases in the US from 1980 to 1995.Anyone who can look at statistics like that and still bleat "but vaccines haven't been shown to be SAFE!!!!" should be forced to wear a scarlet letter B for "brainless." It's so breathtakingly stupid -- really, there is no other word for it, no polite way to describe the total unmooring from fact-based reality and elementary reasoning -- as to beggar belief.


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Approximately three dozen parents in the York City School District attended a meeting Monday afternoon to address questions and concerns over a pair of incidents that ultimately resulted in a school being put on lock-down Thursday.
Eric Schelmety, 30, is charged with multiple felony counts, including terroristic threats, after police said he was went to Phineas Davis Elementary School and tried to force his way into the principal's office. According to court documents, Schelmety used a mop and vacuum cleaner to smash windows, which was mistaken for the sound of gunfire.
The school was put on lock-down due to the possibility of an active shooter. Police then arrested Schelmety and transported him to York County Prison.
Parents said they later learned Schelmety had first been arrested on Wednesday for making threats outside the school. A district judge set his bail at $1,500, which he was able to post for just $75 with the help of a bail bondsman, police chief Wes Kahley said.
Kahley told parents that bail was "inappropriate" and that his arresting officer had asked the judge to raise it due to the nature of the threats.
"There were a lot of people who were mentally injured by this traumatic event," Kahley said. "They all believed that they were in danger, that shots were fired -- and they believed they were going to die in those classrooms. So we need to take that very seriously and now look at how we can prevent that in the future."
Jackie Valdez has three young children in the school and said she didn't learn about Wednesday's incident until after Thursday's lock-down when her daughters came home with a letter.
"It's bizarre that we'll get a robo-call for a 2-hour delay, a cancellation -- you know, we get them right away, but for something that's so serious as a terroristic threat to children here, we don't get a robo-call," she said.
Superintendent Dr. Eric Holmes told abc27 his staff will be discussing how to improve the way they communicate with parents during an emergency, but said letters are usually the best method to convene detailed messages.
"It was more information than a robo-call because if you're getting a robo-call, you don't want to hear five to six minutes of a story. It's basically a short message," he said. "So we use a robo-call for short messages, and we use a letter so we can give details."
Holmes said because Wednesday's incident happened in the later part of the afternoon, it was too late to get a letter out with students before they left for the day. He also expressed frustration that police and the school were not notified when Schelmety posted bail.
"Normally when a suspect is released, the victim is notified," he said. "We were the victims in this case."
Holmes praised the handling of the emergency by school staff and police. He also emphasized that no one was physically hurt in either incident.
Schelmety remains in York County Prison on $500,000 bail. Police said he told them he was angry at the school principal for the way she was handling the alleged bullying of his daughter.
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23 seconds of the Mexican drug war
When four people in a Monterrey jewelry store were killed by gunmen who took nothing, few doubted that it was a message.
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An unarmed security guard sat by the door.
Then three men with assault rifles ran in, one after the other, the muzzles of their weapons ablaze.
By the time anyone reacted to the gunfire, it was too late. The four people collapsed in the barrage of bullets. One of the gunmen helped another, apparently wounded by a comrade, out of the store. Before the last killer fled, he fired final shots into a customer and the guard.
Twenty-three seconds after they came, the gunmen disappeared into the traffic of busy Francisco Madero Avenue, lined with hardware and lighting shops, taco vendors and newsstands. The page of a catalog on one case fluttered in the breeze.
The killers left the jewelry. Nor did they touch the cash register. They paid no heed to the three video cameras that recorded the entire scene.
Lying dead that afternoon of March 14, 2007, were an off-duty police commander and his wife, Benjamin Espinosa and Griselda Melendez, who apparently were shopping for a religious medallion in gratitude for a successful intestinal operation on their hospitalized infant daughter. Beyond them lay Ignacia Perez, a homemaker who lived on a former garbage dump and sold jewelry to neighbors, who paid her in weekly installments.
Sprawled near the entrance was Fernando Rodriguez, an unarmed security guard who took the $90-a-month job to save for his oldest daughter's 15th birthday celebration. He lived in terror that someone with a gun would come through that door.
A shattered peace
The victims' stories intersected in that jewelry store, but the slaughter recorded on the videotape that day looks to have been rooted in a nearby town that believed itself immune from Mexico's drug war. San Pedro Garza Garcia, southwest of Monterrey, backs up against the Sierra Madre Oriental, 15 miles and a world away from that jewelry store.
It is Latin America's wealthiest town and had long been considered one of its safest. For years, it has been the suburban escape for the industrial dynasties -- the Sada, Garza, Zambrano, Elizondo, Rivero and other families -- that manufactured steel, glass, beer and cement, and turned Monterrey into a global economic player.
Hundreds of sampetrinos, as residents are known, hold Dallas Cowboys season tickets. They shop at Maserati dealerships, and send their children to top-flight private schools. Many can navigate Houston and Aspen better than the barrios where Ignacia Perez, Fernando Rodriguez and police commander Benjamin Espinosa and his wife lived.
When Espinosa was hired as a San Pedro Garza Garcia patrol officer in 1995, it was one of the few good police jobs in Mexico. Officers there were paid about $1,000 a month.
Being a San Pedro police officer "was an honor," said Mauricio Fernandez Garza, San Pedro's mayor from 1989 to 1991. "There was a lot of recognition. They had better uniforms, of higher-quality fabric. There was a lot of training."
Fresh from two years of military service, Espinosa was aggressive and disciplined. Both his jaw and his crew cut were sharp. "He was a police officer 24 hours a day. He was very active," said Camilo Cantu, a former San Pedro chief of police.
Espinosa went to McAllen, Texas, every few months for training and target practice sponsored by U.S. law enforcement.
San Pedro police had a maximum response time of two minutes. That was possible because San Pedro never had much crime. Fernandez Garza remembers no homicides during his tenure, and in a town full of banks, only one bank robbery. No one could remember a San Pedro police officer being killed in the line of duty in those days.
The town elites kept a firm hand.
"When a daughter was marrying someone from outside," said Gilberto Marcos, a businessman and San Pedro community activist, "they'd check his bank accounts . . . to see if his money was made right. We used to look into who these people were, what family they came from. If they didn't check out, you wouldn't speak to them."
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From the Associated Press:
WHO says the phase 4 alert means sustained human to human transmission causing outbreaks in at least one country. It signals a significant increase in the risk of a global epidemic, but doesn't mean a pandemic is inevitable.
Many experts think it may be impossible to contain a flu virus already spreading in several countries.
WHO has confirmed human cases of swine flu in Mexico, the United States, Canada and Spain. Only Mexico has reported deaths from the new strain.


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A Devil's Dictionary of Business: Monkey Business; High Finance and Low; Money, the Making, Losing, and Printing Thereof; Commerce; Trade; Clever Tricks; Tours de Force; Globalism and
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Despite their not so appetizing alias, the aronia berry, or choke berry, is actually a superfruit that is both easily accessible and practical for human consumption. Aronia berries grow naturally in the United States but are becoming a profitable industry as well because of their health benefits. Insects, animals, and disease are inclined to leave the fruit along, making them easy to grow, care for, and profit from. The black chokeberry has the highest concentration of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, but red chokeberries are just as tasty. Despite their namesake and initial bitter, dry flavor, choke berries can be consumed in a variety of ways. In Eastern Europe, the berries are popular for wine and tea, often combining the aronia with apple to temper its bitterness. Drying the berries and combining with white tea leaves or other dried fruit produces a unique breakfast tea. The juice of the aronia berry is not just good for drinks, but also for syrup. Berries and chocolate are a classic dessert, and combining the two in a muffin is even better. These aronia white chocolate muffins sound delicious. Here's to flavorful snacks and good health!
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- 1 May 24, 2012 at 7:18 am
Where I grew up in SD we gathered pails and pails of these choke cherries every late summer for making chokecherry jelly. There is nothing to compare with the delicious flavor of that jelly. I am wondering if the eastern choke cherry is different from the western plant, since I have lived in NY now for 15 years and have not seen any that look like I am expecting them to look like, smallish trees with very heavy crops of berries that taste good but cause an almost choking sensation in mouth and throat if you eat them.
- 2 May 26, 2012 at 7:21 pm
There are several cultivars that each would have its own characteristics and taste. You mention a CHOKECHERRY, the description you give it sounds like a chokeberry. Are those you are eating currently almost black? If so those would be a chokeberry.
We also find that some of the wild berries have a different task and chemical makeup than a cultivated berry. Wild blueberry vs a cultivated berry is a good example.
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We've got the results of a new online survey about the things men assume are unattractive about themselves, but women actually like.
Some women voted for short guys, baldness and farmer's tans, but those didn't make the top seven.
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One of the best opportunities all year for fans to get closer to their favorite drivers is NASCAR Champion's Week in Las Vegas.
Whether it's drivers interacting with fans at one of several events or happening to catch your favorite racer as he's walking through a casino, the drivers seem to be more accessible in Vegas than any other time during the season – even more than at the racetrack.
Here are the fan events for this week in Las Vegas (all times are local) if you'll be in the area:
4 p.m. – "NASCAR Live"
What: MRN's Eli Gold will host a special edition of the one-hour "NASCAR Live" show with champion Brad Keselowski as his guest. They will take calls and answer live questions from the audience.
Where: Wynn Sports Book
Admission: Free
2 p.m. – Fanfest
What: A red carpet walk through fans (a prime opportunity for autographs) followed by a game show with all 12 Chase drivers, hosted by Carrot Top.
Where: Fremont Street
Admission: Free
3:30 p.m. – NASCAR Victory Lap
What: The Chase drivers will parade in their cars down the Las Vegas Strip as thousands of people line the street to watch. They'll also do two burnouts and a live pit stop at different locations during the lap.
Where: The route starts at Planet Hollywood, goes north to the Wynn (one of the burnout spots), then drivers turn around and come back to Planet Hollywood.
Admission: Free
5 p.m. – NASCAR After the Lap
What: Perhaps the most fun 90 minutes of the NASCAR season, the Chase drivers tell stories and tease each other on stage in front of an enthusiastic audience. This is where Jeff Gordon did his break-dancing demonstration last year.
Where: PH Live, a venue in the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood.
Admission: $20 (the event sold out last year)
7 p.m. – The Stewies
What: Tony Stewart hosts his annual Sirius/XM Radio awards show with Matt Yocum and special guests.
Where: Cabo Wabo Cantina, Miracle Mile Shops at the Planet Hollywood Casino
Admission: Free
Other events
There are also several events that are not open to the public, but you might be able to grab an autograph if you catch a driver walking through the casino at the right time.
For example: The NASCAR NMPA Myers Brothers Awards lunch is in the Encore on Thursday; the main banquet itself is Friday at the Wynn (red carpet arrivals begin at 4 p.m.).
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A Brief Rundown of the numbers in the BIG EAST so far. The first number is national ranking in points for, the second is points against.
Rutgers: 45th 11th
WVU: 12th 37th
Pitt: 70th 51st
Cincy: 9th 15th
Louisville: 112th 13th
USF: 15th 42nd
'Cuse: 76th 68th
UConn: 88th 44th
Now, here are the teams we have played so far this season, and their rankings so far. In the brackets are the points we scored in the games we played against them.
FIU: 64th 34th (17)
UK: 118th 84th (24)
Marshall: 117th 61st (13)
North Carolina: 59th 19th (7)
How do we look at this? Well, note a couple of things: While there isn't a precise science to it (FIU is an outlier), we can see that our scoring against these teams is fairly consistent with the numbers: the worse the defense, the more we score, and vice versa.
So what about that outlier, then? We put up 17 points against the 34th best d out there (according to the numbers). For that we have to look at who FIU has played to understand their inflated points against number: North Texas, UCF, Louisiana-Lafayette, Duke, and Akron.
In contrast, we all know that the Devil competes in the SEC and has been enjoying a lovely year of losing to: us, Florida, LSU, and South Carolina, and those losses will soon be joined by losses to: Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Vandy, Georgia, and Tennessee. And if God really cares, Jacksonville State of the magnificent Ohio Valley Conference, a FCS team.
But I digress. Marshall has been up against WVU and VT before they played us, and NC has played Rutgers, Virginia, ECU, and GT.
So the outlier of FIU is fairly well explained by their quality of competition.
Now to the meat of the statement:
Our season is done.
It makes me feel sick to say it; after all, I am almost always completely optimistic. When we lost to FIU, I was planning on a 11-1 season. When we lost to Marshall, a 10-2. But now we're far enough in that stats are starting to even out properly, and all I can see is death.
We've played two of the worst ten offenses in the BCS, and we are a third. We lost to the 117th offense, and won against the 118th.
I'm not going to bother to rehash the numbers I've already put up above, but you can probably figure out that our best chances of 3 more wins are against UConn, Pitt, and, of course, the pillow-bowl against Syracuse (again). The Battle for the Bottom? The chances of beating any of those other than 'Cuse are less than 50%, I'd say, and the chances of beating WVU, Cincy, Pitt, USF or Rutgers are so remote even my unshakable love of HCCS can't give me confidence.
So what do we do? We support our team, we go to the games, we stay in the stands, we support our coaches and especially the players who are going through this year so that we can enjoy increasing success in the years to come.
Why? Because while we're complaining and whining in the stands, TB and Will Stein are getting sacked left and right and getting right up and keeping these games close (we've lost by less than 8 points in all three losses). Because HCCS is running, so far, the #13 defense in the country with a ton of inexperienced players. Because I can't even count how many times VA has been injured since his freshman year, but he's still there and still trying. Because these guys aren't getting paid $500,000 a year to play for us, because they chose to come here, because after this year we aren't going to have a single Petrino recruit left on the team. Because our 4th year players came into a 6-6 team, because our 3rd year players came into a 5-7 team, because our 2nd year players came into a 4-8 team.
Because we're on a collision course…
Because this train is rolling…


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Watt will force Colts to seek more help protecting Luck
Texans DLE J.J. Watt's manhandling of the Colts in Week 15 could prompt Indianapolis to spend more resources protecting Andrew Luck.
Colts add veteran OL McGlynn
The Colts have signed veteran OL Mike McGlynn.
Bengals claim Tate, McGlynn off waivers
The Bengals went to the waiver wire for personnel help on Sunday, signing WR-KR Brandon Tate, OL Mike McGlynn and TE Mickey Shuler.
Reports: Eagles C Jackson will miss rest of season with torn biceps muscle
Reports indicate that Eagles starting C Jamaal Jackson will miss the 2010 season with a torn biceps muscle.
The Indianapolis Colts have signed McGlynn.||||||| The 6-foot-4, 320-pound interior lineman played for the Cincinnati Bengals last season. He started four games and played in seven, helping Cedric Benson post his third consecutive 1,000-yard rushing season. Cincinnati's offensive line tied for fourth in the league in fewest sacks allowed (25), helping Andy Dalton became one of five rookies in NFL history to throw for 3,000-plus passing yards.
McGlynn has been placed on IR with an injured hamstring.|||||||
McGlynn was inactive for Sunday's game against Baltimore.||||||| McGlynn, a fourth-round by the Eagles in 2008, has not appeared in a game this season.


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Bumped. So much for fun than reading boilerplate game previews in preseason rags. GO BRUINS. -N
This is the second in a series of posts that will follow how I play through our upcoming season schedule in NCAA Football 10's Dynasty Mode, where one can recruit and play through numerous seasons and years in an effort to build a "dynasty", or at least a recognized program, at your selected school. I'll provide a recap of the game, what to expect from the video game version of our opponent (which may or may not serve as useful scouting tool), and a breakdown of a key play or two with pictures and video. The AI difficulty is set at a higher level than the game's default, which is more representative of real-life play.
Coming off a last-second win against SDSU via a Kai Forbath field goal, the Bruins now head into Neyland Stadium, one of the Top 25 Toughest Places to Play in this year's edition of the game. Mistakes late in the game and inconsistencies proved to be stumbling blocks in the season opener and these flaws could prove to be major problems on the road in SEC country.
The Bruins come into the game with straight B- ratings overall, and on offense and defense. Tennessee's overall rating is a B+, with it's offense at a B+ and its defense, led by Eric Berry, at an A-. Check out what happened after the jump.
I knew this game would be tough, in part because it was an away game with a lot of crowd noise, which in turn affects how you're able to manage the offense before the snap (and I do a lot of audibles/hot routes when I see something I do or don't like). This problem happened to be magnified with a redshirt freshman QB at the helm; underclassmen players don't have the composure rating that their upperclassmen counterparts do. With that being said, I knew that the only way to win was to force UT to turn the ball over or go 4-and-out more than I did, keep the ball in the hands of our RB and milk the clock, and keep our turnovers to a minimum. Let's just say the game was a roller coaster of momentum going into halftime.
Tennessee elected to half the ball to start the half (which I prefer when the opposing team makes their choice) and their first drive started to chug along...up until the point where they crossed midfield. On an important short third down, the defense came up big, stopping Montario Hardesty at the line and forcing the Vols to punt. Austin returned the ball to near midfield and with a short field, I was able to work the running game and short routes. Unfortunately, Prince was injured during the drive and was out for the game (with a pinched nerve...okay? haha). The drive was capped off with a TD run by Jonathan Franklin (again, the RB I selected to start the previous week) on an option run out of the shotgun. Running the option out of the shotgun is one of my favorite plays to use, especially in the red zone, mainly because defenses run man defenses in the red zone and in part because Kevin Craft has some mobility that works with the play. We'll go through a breakdown of the option play here:
We're lined up in shotgun formation with Rosario in the slot, Moya lined up on the right side of the line, and Franklin to the right as well. The play calls for the option to be run to the strong side (to the right); both Rosario and Austin will have to seal off their men (which will be corner and the SS, as we'll see later), while the line will have to push and seal off the right side as well. Notice how the defense stacks the line of scrimmage; they're showing blitz and, for the most part, they intend to stop a run up the middle. Normally, if this was a draw play or a zone-read that involved going up the middle, I'd audible out to quick slants. However, this play is going away from where the Vols are stacking, so I elected to just go with the play.
This is shortly after the snap and just as they showed, the Vols blitz. They blitz their front seven, leaving the secondary to cover the position players in man coverage. For the most part, the line is able to hold and the pressure that does get through is on the left side, away from the play (you can see that their RE and ROLB get pretty much free releases). Embree and the corner on him on the far side of the play are not important on the play. Rosario, in the slot, will seal off the SS towards the middle of the field; Austin will do the same the corner that's on him.
That basically leaves Craft and Franklin to take on the FS. With option plays like this going up against man coverage, you get whoever is on the initial ball carrier to take the bait: in this case, the FS will attempt to make a play on Craft once he cuts up the field. Once he sells out, a simple pitch to Franklin will do and he has nothing but open field. On a side note, when the defense drops into zone coverage, it's wise to just keep the ball as the QB and slide. Just like that, our Bruins are up 7-0.
On the ensuing Vols drive, they again went three-and-out, and again I was able to drive down a short field for a TD pass from Craft to Rosario: 14-0, Bruins. It was at this point, a little into the second quarter, that everything unraveled. Tennessee was able to establish their running game with Hardesty; stacking the line with seven, sometimes eight men was not enough to stop him from chugging along. We were able to pressure Crompton, with four total sacks on the day, including this one by Korey Bosworth. However, they capped off the drive with a questionable TD (the game definitely glitched, but I was unable to challenge the play...sigh). Our ensuing drive was a quick three-and-out, and Tennessee was yet again able to get their running game to move the ball into the end zone: 14-14. With two minutes left in the game, I figured I'd run the two-minute drill to set up a TD or a FG, at the very least...but even seasoned gamers like me become a bit too overzealous and a broken play and an errant Craft throw later (HE IS NOT AN 84...ugh, come on, EA), the Vols were up 21-14 through the pick-six. 21 unanswered points definitely gets one to think about playing really conservatively, but I still had time left and was able to work some quick outs...until once again, Craft threw a pick. In an ironic twist of events, the Vols tried to get a quick score in and ATV was able to pick Crompton off in a matter of seconds. I was finally able to get us into field goal range, with Forbath nailing a 45+ yarder to get the game at 21-17 going into halftime.
By allowing the Vols to score three unanswered touchdowns, the crowd noise got louder compared to when we were up 14-0 and it definitely felt like they had the momentum...and that's why I like getting the ball to start the second half. We were able to establish the running game with the opening drive, ending with another Franklin TD run to finally recapture the lead, 24-17. The following Vols drive was the turning point of the game for both sides. Once again, the Vols were able to drive down into the red zone on the back of Hardesty. On second down, Hardesty broke a run to get the first and then a bit more, but Reggie Carter was able to get a helmet on the ball (it's a bit too fast; unforunately, I can't slow-mo it with their in-game video editor) as he tackled Hardesty, jarring the ball loose and allowing ATV to recover the fumble. That costly turnover was one of four total from the Vols and would have been a moot point with our three turnovers, but the fumble led to another TD drive that effectively broke their back and silenced the crowd. Franklin capped off a great night with his third TD run, finishing the game with 152 yards on 23 attempts (I prefer his speed over the strength of our other RBs, making him a threat in the open field on both running and passing downs). With the score 27-21, subsequent Vols drives needed to end in a score but they ended in three-and-outs and in a turnover, including this pick by Rahim Moore that essentially ended the game then and there.
We were able to walk out of Neyland Stadium with a 34-21 win despite our starting QB going down early, a meltdown that happened two quarters too early compared to last year, and three turnovers. In the end, the defense was able to step up (seen with Tennessee's four turnovers: three picks, one fumble), even in a hostile environment. I'm kinda glad things fell apart in the second quarter as opposed to the fourth, like with SDSU, but I'd much rather not having things fall apart at all. With the win, the Bruins are now 2-0; next time, I'll cover how we stack up back in Pasadena against the Kansas State Wildcats.
NOTE: The games I've played against UT on the "Play Now" mode (to get a quick game in) were all close wins or losses, and this game was pretty much headed down that same road until that Hardesty fumble. I know EA talks about how momentum as a gameplay mechanic ever since the 2007 version of the game, but you really don't get a grasp on it in-game unless you check the status of your players pre-snap (whether they're "hot" or "cold"). That fumble, though, pretty much showed me how much momentum does affect a team in the game. Had they scored a TD, the game would have been 28-24 Vols and would have been nip and tuck like previous games, in my opinion.


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Third person dies after Legionnaires' outbreak
The latest reports on the Edinburgh Legionnaires' outbreak show that a person suspected of having the disease has died.
The individual, a man in his 60s from south west Edinburgh, had been unwell for a period of time, and is considered to be part of the original outbreak.
The Scottish Government have stressed that the outbreak has peaked.
– Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon
My sincere condolences go to the family and friends of the patient who has passed away and my thoughts are with them at this very difficult time.
Despite this sad and tragic news, is important to stress that strong evidence still suggests that all cases are associated with the suspected period of exposure and that the outbreak has peaked.


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Inuyasha's Surprise by amy
Inuyasha's Surprise
Inuyasha's Surprise
I do not own Inuyasha
It was Kagome's 17th birthday, and she was spending it in the feudal era since Naraku had shown up, not wanting him to hurt her 21st century family, she stayed in the feudal era.
Now Inuyasha did his usual disappearing act, when he saw the soul collectors of kikyo, the dead priestess, as she silently cried…
Not long afterward, she heard,Inuyasha howl in victory as he mated Kikyo.
"Yes,Inuyashaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",said Kikyo.
Then he howled like a wild dog in response,
"KIkyo, to whom do you belong?" said Inuyasha.
"To you ,Inuyasha…"replied Kikyo.
It was about this time, that Kagome picked up her yellow bag and walked away from camp , looking for a place to heal her broken heart.
She walked for a mile or so, then she saw a very inviting cave, with a wide entrance, and dark as night perfect for a lonely miko…
So she entered the cave, started a fire and fell asleep….
As she dreamed,
'There was a young Inu demoness fighting Naraku, she was cutting off his tentacles, burning him with her poison/reiki whip that stretched for 40 feet, and she was using her poison claws on his back slowly poisoning him to death, but there was another person fighting by her side, supremely strong and able to use a sword…….'
It was then that she woke up, she had been having this dream for 3 days, not knowing it was a premonition…..
She stayed in the cave for 2 days, not realizing she was changing from a human miko to a full Inu demoness.
She had hair the color of newly fallen snow , green eyes, alabaster skin, fangs and claws, with a leaner , taller body, fuller breast and stronger legs, and she was in heat….
It was about this time Sesshoumaru was patrolling his lands, hoping to find a demoness in heat, for he was in the mood to mate, then he scented Kagome in the lower caves of the Inu clan….
Now he didn't have to work too hard to find her, unfortunately when he came close she gave chase, saying,
"Catch me if you can" then she fully transformed into a pure gold dog with pointy ears, wearing the shikon jewel around her neck. She was glorius, and she would be his….
Then he fully transformed, into his new larger more formidable form and gave chase…
He chased her for 5 or 6 miles , as she hid among the forest fauna then continued to run with the grace of a newly born Inu, it was then he grew tired of the chase and decided to end it with her surrender…
They had just run into a meadow of flowers in full bloom , when he jumped on top of her, leaning his immense weight on her back, making her submit….
"To whom do you belong Inu Miko?"
Kagome tried to shove him off her back and this hurt!
So she said,
"I belong to you,Sesshoumaru- sama"
Then he bit her maw , drinking her blood and finally he licked the self – same spot leaving his mating mark.
Then he proceeded to push his erection into her pussy, all the way up to her cervix, loving the friction of a newly mated females channel, all his!
He kept her there for 4 days, laying upon her back as they both slept, without any interruption….
On the fifth day, the Tachi group was looking for Kagome had been gone for 6 days without any word, until …….
Inuyasha could smell the two Inus mating in the flower bed and decided to investigate….
When he did ,he saw a beautiful golden dog rolling around with his brother in full transformation, she was marking him as hers in his maw,as he lay on his back, he could see the blood as she drank it, then licked it clean…
He had never seen two dais mate before, and he so turned on until they transformed back to their humanoid forms….
By this time the Tachi group had found him, and witnessed Kagome's transformation from fully transformed golden dog to Inu Miko demon.
They also noticed that they were both showing matching mating marks on their necks.
Inuyasha was infuriated, and ready to speak his mind when Miroku gave him a not so gentle reminder…
"Before Kagome left camp, we heard you announce your mating to Kikyo, with her submitting to you and you accepting it with your final thrust, you don't any grounds to complain that she chose a stronger youkai to mate with…."
As the newly mated couple left the flower field, they were greeted by the Tachi group,
"Lord Sesshoumaru , Kagome sama, let us congratulate you on your mating, may your family expand and may your reign last for decades"
Now Inuyasha had to put in his two cents,
"Kagome, YOU WHORE, how could you do this to me?"
"Simple, I changed in the lower caves of Inu territory,was in heat at the same time as Sesshoumaru, I gave chase, he tackled me and you know the rest….."
At the end of her speech, Sesshoumaru said and meant,
"Half-breed, if you ever address my mate in such a way I will kill you on the spot, tear out your heart, and stomp on it until it stops beating, understood!"
Inuyasha simply slunk away, having lost the girl who had been his friend forever.
Then Sesshoumaru said ,
"Follow us to the castle, we will celebrate our marriage with a feast including our announcement to the council, no one is to challenge us or they will die…."
So the Tachi went to the Wedding Banquet, and saw the council members slowly killed for their disobedience, then they retired to their chamber….
The only sounds heard that night was The Lady of the West taking her husband for all he was worth- howling , whimpering ,screaming, and wailing, and the sound of Sango marrying the monk in the most lust filled way-whining, whimpering, screaming, and cumming inside of each female.
When the night was over , Sango and Kagome were pupped thanks to their husbands and needed to stay at the castle not coming to the final battle.
Unfortunately, the final battle came to them,
Naraku attacked the castle, killed the guards, all the nobles within, then tried to kill Kagome and Sango as they walked in the garden..
Kagome simply made her arms into a laser and fired the strongest demonic/ reiki attack she had, then all his incarnations died one by one ,a most gratifying sight!
Sesshoumaru, Miroku, Inuyasha ,Shippo and Kirara, came into the castle only to see Naraku and all his incarnations fade to dust, while Kagome held the full jewel, as she told Kikyo,
"Step forward, I will ask Midoriko to restore you to a fleshy body, but you will no longer be a priestess, understood?"
"Hai" said Kikyo.
Then she purified the jewel, and made her wish ,
"Midoriko, please come forth.that I may make my wish"
So midoriko materialized, asking" what is your wish?"
"I wish that all the Tashi including Kikyo ,share the life span of Sesshoumaru and I ,and that Kikyo would be given a flesh and blood body without her priestess status to simply be a woman"
Midoriko saw the love in her eyes, and granted her wish.
Then they all assumed a role in their reign, Sango became her secretary, Inuyasha and Miroku were sesshoumaru's second and third in command, both training his new recruits.
Shippo was trained to be a fourth under inuyasha and Miroku, and Kikyo became supervisor to the staff, second only to Sango. Now that his castle was now fully organized he went to surprise his wife in their chamber…
He was the surprised, as he heard Kagome pleasuring his former concubine, making her come hard,
"Yesssssssssssssssssssss, harder, milady, I am about to Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah come!"
He entered quietly, undressed, and took his wife In her ass, as she took his former concubine, now hers.
He had no use for her or any other, his wife was a hell cat in bed with him and the concubines, the other lords would never see it coming….
They were always offering him concubines, but she would take them at her pleasure and leave them behind in their residence completely ready to pleasure the lady of the house and scare the lords out of their skin…..
A/N just a one shot for fun and smut (For all smut puppies everywhere) ,please read and review!


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Source: Journal of Regional Science, Volume 49, Number 2, May 2009, pp. 385-387(3)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Document Type: Book Review
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The rooftop shootout continues to be boring. Beardo runs out of bullets, so he reloads his gun. Sean also runs out, but he has no more ammunition. So he sneaks around behind Beardo and whops him over the head with his pistol. They fight! This time, the fight takes the form of rolling around on the roof. Downstairs, Vicky yells at people to hurry up and runs up to the roof. Alex finally sets the countdown timer on her doohickey to "3:00" and runs off. Vicky sees Sean and Beardo struggling. Beardo gets his gun pointed at Sean's chest, and there's a gunshot! Obviously, Sean wasn't shot. Vicky killed Beardo. Sean and Vicky establish that Alexis is gone, but her beeping countdown thing is at 2:46 already. Sean says, "Looks like a pressurized tank that's connected to the air recirculating system." Oh, sure. One of those.
Sterling and Simon drive up to a warehouse. Simon gets out and walks up to the big doors so he can drive the car inside. The warehouse is empty. In the Situation Room, that one general shows the warehouse to Jarvis via the magic of real-time satellite feeds. Peel is skeptical that Jarvis really has information about this, especially because Jarvis won't tell him who Sterling and Simon are meeting with. He tells the tactical team to stand down, which I guess means there was a tactical team down there. He's coordinating directly with the Air Force, which I'm surprised no one else in the room knew about. He's going to use a Predator Drone. Ripped from today's headlines! He announces that they're a country at war and that these men are traitors. I guess he forgot already that he said last episode that the country is no longer at war with the aliens. Oh, and that thing about people deserving a trial. The general refuses to condone blowing up the warehouse, and Jarvis tells him he can get the hell out. He does! The drone is in position. Peel says that this is an assassination. Jarvis tells the Air Force to fire when ready.
P-chow! The warehouse blows up. According to this wide shot, there are palm trees next to it. Last time I was in Washington, DC, there weren't a lot of palm trees.
A message is relayed to Jarvis: "Direct hit, sir. The targets have been eliminated." What? They don't know that! They only know the warehouse blew up. Jarvis, for once, is on top of things, telling them to get in there among the burning rubble and verify the kills.
Alex strolls out of the mall. There are still a lot of people leaving, which I think shows a distressing lack of urgency on their part. She gets onto a convenient bus and reaches into her bag.
The countdown is down to 1:33. Sean panics about how to stop it and Vicky snarks at him about how he's supposed to be a genius hacker. He points out that he does computers, not whatever this is. He mumbles about transducers and pulls a thing out of the device. It's down to 1:04, then :53. He wants to disrupt the power. But, he explains, if he pulls the wrong wire something bad could happen. Thanks for that. I'm sure no one in the audience has ever seen a scene where there's a ticking clock and the hero has to decide what wire to cut. He tells Vicky to go. 0:20. She tells him, "I'm not going anywhere. Just think. There's gotta be something else that will disrupt the power." He pulls out his gun and shoots the machine several times. "Sorry about that. I panicked." "It worked." Yeah, and that's pretty surprising, considering that his gun was empty before. Maybe he ended up with Beardo's gun somehow. Anyway, this was an excruciatingly clichéd scene, but at least the clock stopped at 0:03 instead of 0:01. They search Beardo, get a passport or something from his pockets, then leave. I guess they're assuming the security guard will call the police.
Sophia thanks Alex, who is sitting on the bus. And the bus is in the Alien Garage. Alex says that the plan to poison the mall was foiled, but Sophia doesn't blame her. Because they had a backup plan, in which Alex poisoned the people on the bus and recorded some video of them dying, so now Doctor Lu has something to work with. I guess we should assume the bus driver was an alien? Sure. Oh, and that none of the people who were dying had any cell phones or other things that could lead the police to this location.
Doctor Lu feels that the virus kills too quickly to spread efficiently, but she's got a way to slow down the virus. See, every time a virus jumps into something new, it mutates. So that somehow means that she wants to infect a "bridge species," whose DNA lies somewhere between humans and aliens. I have some objections to this plan, but I'll bring them up a little later. Why don't you try to guess what they are?
Christina asks her Secret Service minders for a minute alone in the hospital gift shop. She carries some flowers up to her husband's floor. She's a little snippy as she says, "I was told I'm able to see my husband now?" and the guard shows admirable restraint by just saying, "Yes, ma'am. That order's been lifted by order of the President." That basically translates as, "I'm just following orders, lady." She carries the flowers in. The doctor says that Martinez's last EEG showed no signs of high-functioning brain activity. She looks him in the eye and says, "I refuse to believe that." He tries to push it, and she firmly refuses. He leaves and she pulls the curtains so no one can see her in there.
In the wreckage of the warehouse, there's a burning car in a crater. Soldiers find a trap door, which leads to a shaft. Jarvis gets the news via phone and asks, "What do you mean, no bodies?" The conclusion on the ground is, they're long gone." YUP. That's what you get for deciding to wait until the car was completely obscured before firing a missile. There were any number of ways to attack them before they got to their trap door.
An anonymous tech guy enters the Oval Office to report that they've decrypted that phone conversation from before. Jarvis hears Sterling tell Christina to go across the street to a pay phone. Then he says, "Christina, you have to trust me. Jarvis is behind everything that's happened to your husband. But I have a way to save him." That agent probably feels a little awkward about standing there while playing Jarvis an allegation that he tried to kill President Martinez. I hope, unlike Sterling, he had the sense to make a copy before bringing the accusation of treason directly to the person who's being accused. Jarvis realizes the warehouse was a diversion. How could he be diverted? He controls the entire intelligence and security powers of the country; surely he could send some people to the warehouse but still guard Martinez just in case, right? I guess he could have, but he didn't.
Christina stands next to her husband. We flash back like two minutes to when she was in the gift shop. Simon was the gift shop employee who sold her the flowers! See, I'm pretty sure he could have just snuck directly into Martinez's room if he'd really wanted to. Christina takes a hypodermic needle out of the flowers and speaks a prayer in Spanish as she injects him. Then she kisses him and strokes his face. He doesn't react right away.
Leila is strapped down to a hospital bed. She freaks out about "What is that?" and Sophia lectures her about this being a particular strain of Spanish Flu that turned entire cities into graveyards overnight. "And now you, a hybrid, a bridge between our people. You're gonna help us spread it." Lu dabs it into Leila's nostril. Ew!
Okay, so they have a super-deadly disease that affect humans, but not aliens. And their plan is to put it into someone who's half-human and half-alien in the hope that it mutates the disease to make it slightly less deadly, but still extremely infectious? It seems like a more likely result is that Leila is now able to transmit the flu to aliens, right? Like, if you had a flu that could only be caught by birds, and then gave it to a half-bird, half-human monster, wouldn't that be the first step for some kind of "bird flu"? This is a terrible plan. They should have just chopped up the lungs and spread them across the world and waited for people to start dying. I'm surprised I have to be the one who thinks of everything for these idiots. The way they're going, I wouldn't be surprised if their show got cancelled before they even killed a million people.
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AS part of its efforts to reduce costs and improve forecast accuracy, among other things, Eveready Industries India Ltd (EIIL) is implementing the Oracle E-Business Suite enterprise application software on a Linux platform at an investment of Rs 5.5 crore.
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The Rabbi, the Muslim, and Me
by Brian G., New City, NY Jews rock! In my upper-middle-class town of New City, it's not uncommon to see a Jew or two. In fact, they're all around. No, I'm not talking about the Hasidim who roam the streets on Shabbat wearing their designer black overcoats, but rather your average reform Jewish person who is supposed to be liberal enough to accept all walks of life. Being one of these people, I am expected to love every person and idea equally, but that is not the case. It is not that I dislike anyone; I am immensely proud of being Jewish.
About a year ago, my Hebrew school visited a Catholic church to meet a man by the name of Father Gus. I pictured the event in my head: we would knock on a large wooden door and out would come a bald man weighing 270 pounds and wearing a robe with no shoes. Instead, at the church, I saw a slim man wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Jeans and a t-shirt? And where was the chanting in the background? Am I in the "Twilight Zone"? I then learned that Catholicism and Judaism have basically the same principles. Sure, we do disagree about the Messiah thing. Also, unlike Jews, Catholics have a "ranking" of priests where the Pope is considered closest to God.
My Hebrew school recently had other visitors: Muslims. I thought, Everybody run for cover. They're going to bomb us! Not quite. We shared pizza and conversed about our religion and social lives. Like us, Muslims are not allowed to eat pork (even though Jews like me who are not kosher seem to ignore that rule). While Jewish people follow Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as the first three prophets, the Muslims follow Abraham, Isaac and his brother Ishmael, Jacob and his brother Lot, and the rest of the family all the way to Muhammad. Muslims also have a book called the Quran, which is almost identical to the teachings of our Torah (only the Quran is larger). However, one thought still bothered me: "What about Farakkan and his Nation of Islam?" I found out that not only does Farakkan's Nation of Islam not agree with the "real" Islam (which preaches love and peace), but Muslims have the same anger as Jews toward Farakkan's "issues."
Jews rock! But actually, I guess Catholics and Muslims and everyone else rock too. The world may not be safer after these meetings, but at least one mind has been enlightened. Oy gevalt!
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These four guys have been a team depth failure.
Bell BLEH
He's out of shape. He doesn't play point guard, He's mentoring Curry...but Curry isn't improving is he? wouldn't we want a POINT GUARD to mentor Curry? He's on contract for next year but, he'd be coming off the books one way or another in the following year. we can trade his cap space..but for whom? Then he gets cut by the team he's traded too. I just don't see the logic in sucking now to save a few bucks. He's supposed to be a defensive stopper. Seen him stop anyone this year?
B.Wright BLEH.
Injured projects are useless. Say he gets healthy... Is he going to be more aggressive or skilled than Lee, Amundson or Udoh? Nope. Trade him for a second round pick or just drop him too.
Carney EHH
He just seems to be more of a track guy than a basketball one. He can't figure out how to get by his man and use that high jump of his to get to the rack. If we wanted that we could've gotten Gerald "cup cake" Green. I am intrigued by his defense but I have yet to be wowed by a block shot or serious stoppage of an All-Star by Carney. I could live without him.
Adrien HMM
I actually like Adrien a lot but Lee, Amundson and Udoh all play his game and are bigger. If we got rid of BWright then I'd consider keeping him alot more as we always seem to have the injury bug.
I see our team looking better with D-league players than at least Bell and B.Wright.
A 6'4 PG who can also play shooting guard. He's not the top-of-the-d-league-PG points or assists wise but he is up there, especially with his efficiency.He has a lot of point guard experience in the NBA which is far more useful than whatever Charlie Bell is offering. In the D-league Daniels is averaging about 8 assists, 16 points and 5.5 rebounds as an actual starting PG and can still play at the NBA level. He's more accomplished, experienced and a much better PG than Bell. Bell probably wouldn't start over him in the D-league.
6'6 G-F Averaging 22 points and 7 rebounds but with a much higher efficiency rating than D-League leading scorer Trey Johnson who only averages three points more.
Stephen Curry- Antonio Daniels-Jeremy Lin
Monta Ellis-Reggie Williams
Dorrel Wright-Alan Anderson-Rodney Carney
David Lee-Lou Amundson-Ekpe Udoh-Vlad RadmanovicJeff Adrien
Andris Biedrins-Dan Gadzuric
Doesn't this just feel better?