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This epic post stays at the top of the page for most of the rest of the day. Underneath them are some great posts: Avinash breaks down the Furd defense & ST after breaking down the offense, solarise recaps the recruiting news on his Friday Night Lights post, AndyHogan14 with a Big Freeze report, turkey with photos from campus, and a concerted effort is being made to save the soon-to-be cut Cal varsity sports like baseball, rugby, lacrosse & gymnastics. Check them out and more below.
Before I begin I would like to note that I am proud of our guys for never giving up and fighting through the adversity so far this year. It's a long season with many highs and lows. The regular football fan who has never played at this level will never fully understand what these young men go through on a daily basis. They are not normal students; they do not have normal social lives. Its academics, football, food and film. In that order and can get very physically and emotionally draining.
Last week against the Ducks was a great sight. Although the Bears did not win the game, they fought to the end and 2 or 3 plays dictated the outcome of the game. Cal had a great defensive gameplan and exposed Oregon to the Rest of the World. Chris Conte did a fantastic job spying Darron Thomas and the Bears man to man coverage for the most part was solid.
As for the whole faking injuries during the game. Obviously fans and members of the media have to come up with some controversy in order to take the outstanding play from Cal's defense away in some fashion. First of all, I see it every week in college football, usually after a PAT from a quick touchdown. An offensive lineman goes down after the kick in order to give the defense a little bit of breathing room before they have to go out again. I think the "faking the injury thing" was blown way out of proportion and the national audience should of been focused on the play of the #1 defense in the Pac 10, not some excuse about slowing down the game by faking injuries.
As for the Big Game. I still can't believe it has been 5 years since I started my 1st collegiate game down on the Farm. Throw the records out, who cares if the potential 1st pick on the 2011 NFL draft will be slinging the rock on the opposing sidelines. It's the Big Game. A rich tradition, so much emotion and do be honest, the only game that determines if you had a great season or not. I was fortunate in my time at Cal, to never give up the Axe for 5 straight seasons. It was an incredible time in my life.
Seeing Kyle Boller get hoisted up by blue and gold faithful along side Joe Igber, winning the AXE in 2002 for the first time in their lives. Geoff McArthur blowing up for over 200 yards receiving in 03. In 2004, watching a young Marshawn Lynch scamper up and down the field, embarrassing the Cardinal. In 2005, watching our defense dismantle Trent Edwards and knocking him out of the game. And in 2006; Senior day. Having my whole career flash before my eyes on the bus ride up to the stadium and not being able to control the tears that flooded down my face; then, running out of the tunnel for the last time at Memorial. Greeted by my family at the 50 yard line and receiving a standing ovation from over 60 thousand die hard fans - I will never forget that day.
And my final thought, Brock Mansion. I was his Host on his recruiting trip and knew instantly he was meant to bleed blue and gold. He's the All-American farm boy from Texas, that if you had a daughter, you would want him to date her. I have so much respect for Brock. He came into Berkeley with tremendously high expectations. All the talent in the world, intangibles that are off the charts and a certain swagger that is needed to play QB for the Bears. He got lost in the shuffle, behind vet QB KR and slowly dipped from potential starter to #3. I have been where he has been and felt what he has felt. It's not easy to have such roller coaster of emotions at a young age. Coach T will set him up for success Saturday, not putting too much on his plate but just enough to keep the drug every quarterback at every level craves, confidence. The Big Game is bigger than facing #1 Oregon. No other game on the schedule feels amazing for a year if you win... or makes you sick to your stomach for 12 months if you lose.
The Bears will have to rally behind Brock if they want to make it #2 in a row. I feel like they will, in all 3 phases, especially on defense. Brock is loved in the locker room and generates much respect throughout the Athletic Department which makes me proud to call him a fellow Golden Bear.
Although my situation was much different five years ago the 2010 Big game has all the glamour to go down in Cal/Stanford Lore. Yes In 05, if we won we went to the Vegas Bowl, if we lost we went home, but we were never the underdogs. Brock and the rest of the Bears have an opportunity to accomplish something special, something magical, something that doesn't come around to often. Stay positive, stay confident and always believe.
Good luck Brock and the Rest of the 2010 Golden Bears.
Always Bleeding Blue and Gold,
Steve Levy
Well said, Steve, and Go Bears!


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The Only Living Witness: The True Story Of Ted Bundy
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After many weeks of this I could absorb no more. It was Hugh's turn. In the coming months, Bundy would edge closer to an outright confession than he did with me, but not before the two of them fell to snarling at each other.
My role had been to go easy on Ted, befriend him, let Bundy dictate the pace, maintain control. Hugh played hardball, and Bundy was not at all happy with Aynesworth's intolerance for elliptical thinking.
"What gratification would there be in having intercourse with a dead girl?" While a perfectly reasonable question, when Hugh posed it to Ted, who performed all sorts of sexual acts with dead girls, Bundy was manifestly displeased. Hugh, for his part, was constantly rankled by Ted's weary sighs meant to convey his lofty impatience with this plain vanilla gumshoe. He dogged Ted with questions derived from my interviews with Bundy, and Ted bridled. "I'm not going into that," he would say. "This is already too thinly disguised. I've gone further now than I wanted to."
But that was to come. On that steamy June day in 1980 we walked with our briefcases toward the main gate and under the gaze of a guard holding a rifle high above us in the watchtower. We passed through an external sally port, in which one gate must close before the second one opens. After the inner gate creaked open and rumbled shut, a concrete walkway led to the double doors of the prison entrance itself, and behind the doors to a small waiting area. There we were greeted by a man at a glass-enclosed control panel.
His name was John Boutwell, and he was a twelve-year veteran of prison employment. Mr. Boutwell was responsible for checking our briefcases and identification. Generally, this took about ten minutes time enough to adjust to the prison's incessant clangor and time enough to glance over the sports pages of the Gainesville Sun, which only rarely was not folded neatly on a shelf inside the booth.
John Boutwell was thorough. Routine had not dulled the sharp interest he took in our belongings, even to the point of politely asking to see the innards of our tape recorders. He always asked to see my private investigator's license, despite a first-name familiarity. Never did he fail to compare me with my license photo and physical description printed on the front of the card.
Next, we approached a third barred gate, and prepared to pass through Boutwell's metal detector. Change, pens, belts, keys, shoes, and even my glasses had to be removed. The aged machine could still be set fine enough to register the coin in a penny loafer.
Accompanied now by a guard, we walked through another clanging gate and proceeded down a long, yellowish-tan corridor with a linoleum floor waxed and buffed to a constant high gloss by the inmates. The walls were bare, and were it not for the constant sonic assault of banging metal gates echoing in every direction, this part of the prison could have been mistaken for some functional and well-maintained wing of a municipal building.
Up a few steps and through another gate controlled by yet another prison employee in another glass-enclosed booth and we arrived at the center of the prison a four-way intersection called Grand Central. To the right we could see through floor-to-ceiling bars at the cellblocks opening onto either side of a long spacious hallway. At the very end stood Old Sparky behind a locked door. Straight ahead was the prison laundry. And behind us were the five locked gates made of a specialty steel so hard and costly to manufacture that many states couldn't afford to use it in new prison construction.
A crowd of inmates, mostly blacks on their way to work in the prison laundry, walked past us in silence. None appeared older than twenty-one. A white prisoner who had killed a cop was led in manacles by a guard who seemed half asleep. We turned left toward The Colonel's office, a suite of rooms (also protected by steel gates) from which The Colonel oversaw prison security. Two of these rooms, each fitted with glass windows so that their occupants could easily be observed, were set-aside as conference areas for inmates and their attorneys and/or investigators. It was necessary to reserve these rooms days in advance.
Outside The Colonel's office stood a bright yellow wire cage. Seated within it were seven inmates. Six were young blacks wearing blue prison-issue dungarees, which signified they were from general population and would not necessarily be spending the rest of their lives in this place. The white inmate wore blue dungarees, too, but also an apricot T-shirt over a gray sweatshirt. He was accustomed to the Florida heat. On his sockless feet were green plastic thongs.
"Hey, home boy!" Ted called to me as usual. "Where've you been?" He was affecting a heavy southern black accent. Ted had been waiting in the cage for more than two hours.
Generally I could tell within a few minutes whether it was going to be a productive day with Bundy. Any of a number of things might be going on with him. He could be depressed, stoned, angry, distracted or simply dull. This morning Ted was listless and grouchy; it was not likely to be a good day.
"Have you seen Carole?" he asked.
This was a recurring sore point among us. Ted's wife lived on the edge of poverty in Gainesville, from where she and her teen-aged son Jamey drove to the prison each weekend to visit husband and stepfather. Bundy nagged at us constantly to stay in touch with Carole, and to keep her informed of our progress. While Boone could be good company she had a very quick wit Bundy was creating a difficult situation: Carole, who was sustained by her faith in Ted's innocence, didn't know the content of our discussion. She did know that Hugh and I believed Ted was guilty, which could make our meetings uncomfortable. Carole thought us to be contemptible fools, no better in her view than the police and prosecutors who had put her beloved Bunny on Death Row.
As it happened, that day I had a two-day-old note to Ted from Carole, which I handed over. He glanced at it, smiled briefly, and inquired as to my health. Consigned to his last address with three death penalties over his head, Bundy nevertheless concerned himself with what he regarded as my poor diet and drinking habits. We once wagered which of us would expire first. Ted owes me $50.
I allowed that I was fine, all things considered, and the three of us settled into a desultory chat that ranged from Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign to Ted's concerns over the moral climate in which his stepson Jamey was being raised. In this way we chewed up our two allotted hours, and then rose to leave. Ted was now Hugh's responsibility; I had a head full of impressions to sort out, and scores of tapes to transcribe before I could start sketching out this difficult saga.
I did take one last look at Ted's hands as we departed. They were thin, almost delicate, with slender tapering fingers and well-kept nails. Ted had recently broken himself of the habit of biting them. I wondered again at the frightening strength it had taken to bind ligatures so tightly that the rope and victim's skin fused together. Where in Ted was the power behind those enormously damaging whacks of his oak club?
He had introduced the entity to us, tried to explain it, and then would finally collapse (or better, be transformed) under the pressure of confronting himself. But he would never be able to take Hugh and me that final step to comprehension of murder so grotesque as to defy imagination. We could never know the hunchback, and both of us like to think the limitation was ours. I heard all about it again and again and again as I transcribed those prison tapes. In time, we could retell it. We could give it context. But we could not get our minds around it. It was like the taste of bouillabaisse.

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|Julie Andrews performs new version of "My Favorite Things"
Lie Pie Title: Julie Andrews performs new version of "My Favorite Things"
Editor's Note: Tragically, this one is not true. Looks like there was a "Sound of Music" 40th anniversary reunion back in 2005, but no performance from Julie Andrews. She didn't perform for her 69th birthday in 2004 at any benefit for the AARP, either. Honey, Julie Andrews lost the ability to sing back in 1997 thanks to a failed surgery on her vocal cords. Ain't that the worst thing you ever heard? My heart broke when I read the story at Snopes.com. I tell you, I'm depressed about it. Me and your Gramps are big "Muppet Show" fans, and the episode starring Julie Andrews is one of our favorites. Go ahead, you just try to listen to a few seconds of "Edelweiss" without crying your eyes out. I can't talk about it any more. Just leave me be, honey. --Granny, 9/25/2010
49 years later....Julie Andrews and 7 Trapp Family children
Thought you would like this !!!!
Update on the kids from the Sound Of Music........ENJOY
They were having a reunion after 40 years and all were looking healthy and amazingly well...
Enjoy reading this.
Make sure you read the new lyrics to the original song below:
Remember the 7 children of the Von Trapp family? The Sound of Music' won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1965 and is one of the most popular musicals ever produced.
40 Yrs Later: The 7 Children in 'The Sound of Music'.
It wouldn't be funny if it weren't so true... Julie Andrews turned 69 and to commemorate her 69th birthday on October 1, actress/vocalist Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan 's Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers she performed was "My Favorite Things" from the legendary movie "The Sound Of Music."
Here are the actual lyrics she used:
Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Cadillac's and cataracts, and hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
When the pipes leak, When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad.
Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Back pains, confused brains, and no need for sinnin',
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin',
And we won't mention our short, shrunken frames,
When we remember our favorite things.
When the joints ache, When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I've had,
And then I don't feel so bad.
Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores. Please share Ms. Andrews' clever wit and humor with others who would appreciate it.


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.........a beautiful write....mercy brought her to America.....and taught her their is a God and savior.....truly one of the best poems I have read today.....enjoyed... (Report) Reply
Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought from Africa to America
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
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Comments about this poem (On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley )
* Sunprincess * (6/6/2014 5:29:00 PM)
Ramesh Rai (1/31/2014 9:27:00 PM)
A great tribute to the Lord to bestow His mercy and many many thanks to Wheatley family to engross firm faith to enlighten the great soul which shall ever be enlightening the world. (Report) Reply
Myrtle and Roses (7/1/2007 5:48:00 AM)
Of course this poem is sarcastic! Even without the italics, it is hard not to understand it. Those previous comments show that slavery still lacks understanding and interest from new generations, or that intolerance prevails so much so that it is still believed that African American felt thanksful from having been kidnapped from cultures as rich or even richer than what was 17th,18th or 19Th America. That torture and rapes have been forgotten and their oppressors thanked for having brought them the enlightment of Christianism and American values. Seems that the Myth of the Old South is still alive, and it saddens me to hear such comments, even well meant. Although any comment has a right to be ewpressed, obviously, and we are all here to make mistakes and learn, it still shocks me a bit... This poem reminds me of a text written by Montesquieu: De l'Esclavage des Negres... Bonne lecture! (Report) Reply
Caitie Lamon (2/22/2007 12:50:00 AM)
First of all, Phillis Wheatley is a SHE, not a he. Second, can you not hear the sarcasm in her voice? I suggest that you find another version of this poem... in the original, words were italicized, giving them extra emphasis on the satirical tones behind them. The words are Pagan, Saviour, Christians, Negros, and Cain. Re-read it looking for the italics and there is a dramatic difference. And look for the sarcasm... you'll see it if you look for it. (Report) Reply
Antonia Anthony (11/21/2006 10:12:00 AM)
The poet is not suffering from an inferiority complex but rather a great feeling of self worth, nor is he saying that the slave trade was the 'mercy' that transported him from the 'pagan land', but rather he is saying that, out of something so cruel and inhumane as slavery, he found salvation, he found Christ. It is this Salvation that has given him inner peace and a great feeling of self worth. He is not condemning those that are not Christians but rather, he feels sorry for them, he is thinking about his eternal soul, not the flesh that is his body. Pagan land refers to the fact that Africa has alot of pagan dieties that they worship and he has seen the light and is celebrating that. He feels that if he was never enslaved, he would have never found freedom so absolute which is the freedom of the soul, and thats why he uses the word 'Mercy', to explain the mysterious ways in which God works. (Report) Reply
Jasbir Chatterjee (4/26/2006 1:50:00 AM)
The poet was, it seems, suffering from a terrible inferiority complex during his lifetime. I think it was not mercy but cruelty that transplanted him from what he calls the 'Pagan Land.' Further, not being a Christian does not imply that the person is not worthy of being human because God lives in all our hearts irrespective of color, caste, creed, or religion. So it was wrong of him to say that he did not know redemption until he came to America. (Report) Reply
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There's no smoke, and there's no fire... but that doesn't mean nothing is happening at Bay County's waste-to-energy facility. The incinerator hasn't been operable since February but progress is being made on a major repair project, according to the facility's operator.
Joe Tannehill, Jr., managing partner of Engen, LLC, updated county commissioners on the status of repairs at their Tuesday meeting. He said the involvement of 4-5 insurance companies has complicated the project and created delays.
When fire raced through the plant on the night of February 12, it put the incinerator out of business. Commissioner Mike Nelson is still burned up about what he perceives as lingering issues at the plant. "I'm just really displeased with the way this thing has turned out so far... we've worked so hard to get where we are [and] now this is the second fire," he said. "It just needs to be fixed and fixed correctly."
"I hear you [and] I agree we can't have another one," said Tannehill. "But I think that the changes that we're making will certainly help us in the right direction and operationally we need to make sure that we stop the fires."
Tannehill outlined three design changes intended to minimize the risk: improving the fire suppression system, separating the refuse building from the boiler building, and relocating administrative offices away from the main plant.
"There's some separation there so I think that gives us an added level of protection when it comes to issues of combustion," said Commissioner Guy Tunnell.
Tannehill said insurance companies have paid "business interruption" claims during the six month shutdown and are funding the $40 million repair project. "It's worth now probably well over a hundred million dollars and we owe somewhere in the twenties on it," said Commissioner George Gainer. "I think that what we've learned from the fires that have been out there and what we're doing to prevent them in the future… will have a very positive effect."
Tannehill said he expects the incinerator to be up and running in late October or early November. "I'll be really glad to see that smokestack cranked up again and operations full speed ahead over there," said Commissioner Tunnell.
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With New York cutting costs, the Clips getting Zach, and Chicago low post needs everone wins.
Chicago Bulls get; Marcus Camby, Steve Novak, David Lee, Quentin Richardson
L.A. Clips get; Larry Hughes
New York Knicks get: Tyrus Thomas, Drew Gooden
Chicago finally get the low post defense/scoring in Marcus Camby, David Lee is more effective than Tyrus Thomas as a back up, Steve Novak just to make the deal work to get rid of Larry Hughes and Quentin Richardson as a back-up for Luol Deng.
L.A. Clips move Camby because he's not gonna want to come off the bench and they replace Mobley's defense and scoring with Hughes and Novak is just about the dollars.
Knicks get back less salary and Tyrus Thomas' athleticism which D'Antoni will like and Drew Gooden to replace Zach since their probbably not goint to play Curry.


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GRAND ISLE, La. -- It is exactly what people in the town of Grand Isle didn't want to see. Wednesday, from all indications, the oil was 14-miles offshore. But on Thursday, it's on the beach – not sheen, not tar balls, but thick oil washing ashore on Elmer's Island.
Jefferson Parish leaders got a first hand look.
See photos of oil hitting Elmer's Island
"We're in the middle of a fight now. If not a matter of if it's going to come or which ways the tides and the currents or the winds or going to blow it," said Councilman Tom Capella. "The oil is here. We're in Jefferson Parish. It's on."
Gov. Bobby Jindal toured lower Jefferson Parish by air. He said as bad as it looks, it could be a lot worse.
The Louisiana National Guard recently filled in a 700-foot cut on the island with sand and rocks.
"If this land bridge wasn't here, this oil would go right through and nothing's stopping it from getting into those wetlands," Jindal said.
The governor wants to do the same thing on barrier islands further offshore. The Army Corps of Engineers has yet to approve the state's dredging and island building plan.
"We've been in many meetings with the Corps. We want them to get off their butts. Excuse my French. I'm telling you, you got to give us a permit because where we plugged up the dam on Elmer's Island, it works," said Grand Isle Mayor David Camardelle.
Some oil did make it past the beach into Caminata Pass. Sheen and orange pieces of oil floated past camps near the foot of the Grand Isle bridge.
"All my renters, they're not going to come. I got four places and I got to give them all back their money," said Diane Cheramie, a Grand Isle camp owner.
"It's just unacceptable. BP, a month later, is still inept in containing this oil and cleaning up this oil," said Jefferson Parish Councilman John Young.
74-year old Janet Guilliot wonders how many more fish she'll catch at her favorite spot.
"When you've been here for so long, and you get to see something like this, the waters being polluted with oil, what can you say?" Guilliot said. "It's just devastating.
Today we see the worst of the oil in Jefferson Parish, here on Elmers Island, but tomorrow, it's anybody's guess. As one parish leader put it today, coastal Louisiana is under attack and the enemy is on the beach.


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It's hard to resist the lure of big box stores this time of year. The turkeys are cheaper. The deals are abundant. You can usually cross all the items on your list off in one convenient shop.
But in advance of Small Business Saturday, Oakton Patch is highlighting small businesses in our area, including Oakton Wine Shop.
Read a question-and-answer session with the shop's owner, Bryan Gauthier.
Give us a little history behind the Oakton Wine Shop. When did you open? Why did you choose Oakton?
Oakton Wine Shop opened in June 2011. I have spent 20 plus years in the wine and food business both in retail stores and restaurants. I started OWS because I enjoy interacting with people and helping them find the perfect wine for their table, a gift for someone or for them to store in their cellars for future consumption. I chose Oakton because when I looked at the Northern Virginia this area was not being served by any wine shop which focused solely on wine, beer and cheeses. Plenty of grocery stores in the area but not with a staff which could tell you the difference between one bottle and the next.
What are some of your most popular wines people are buying this time of year?
This time of year reds are more popular, especially those from Spain, Burgundy and California. In particular wines from Laukote winery in Spain, Domaine Maillard from Burgundy and Belle Glos Meiomi Pinot Noir.
Do you have any tips for buying wine as a gift?
Several tips actually, first if you do not know what type of wine the person you are giving the wine to likes, then stick to the classics, Cabernet, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Chianti, Bordeaux, Burgundy or Champagne. If you know what they like branch out to area they might not have tried before as a way of getting them to try something new. Lastly asking one of the associates at Oakton Wine Shop for several selections which fit your budget and we can help you out.
Why is Small Business Saturday important to you? What will Oakton Wine Shop be doing to celebrate Small Business Saturday?
Small Business Saturday is important to me and other businesses like mine because it helps give us a way of being able to compete with malls and large businesses which are offering huge sales on black Friday a chance of being noticed in the craziness of the season. Like last year we will be offering 10% off all sales starting from the first bottle and 15% off on mix and match cases. In addition to show our support to the other businesses in the shopping center (which are mostly small business owners) we are offering an additional 5% off if you bring in a receipt from Tabby Cat, Kob Kun Restaurant, Austin's Big and Tall from a purchase on Saturday 11/24.
Your small wine shop is competing in a market filled with big box stores (grocery stores, Total Wine, etc.). What are some challenges you face in that business environment?
In these current economic conditions it is difficult for any business and especially small businesses to compete. The most important components to competing in this market is customer service and price. We put in a lot of effort to finding the wines, beers and cheeses we sell to insure quality products and solid prices. The challenges we have to overcome are the mindset of "Well Oakton Wine Shop is a small business they have to be more expensive, then the big box stores." While they do offer loss leaders on very well-known brands over all their pricing on most products is actually higher than ours. Even though we have a great location we still need to get noticed, every day I meet new people who live in the area and do not know we are here. By offering a wonderful selection of hand-picked wines, great customer service, and great pricing we will continue to be a part of the community for a long time.
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Why exactly didn't Nokia pick Android again?
When Nokia was preparing to jump off its burning platform, it had the choice of two lifeboats: Android or Windows Phone. It picked Windows Phone, and I've never really understood why.
Some people say it's just because Microsoft bribed them with a few billion dollars. I'm not sure how plausible that is: I can't imagine Nokia would take some cash up front in exchange for settling for what it knew was a weaker platform. Over the long term that just doesn't make any sense.
The other explanation I've heard is that Android would somehow not allow Nokia to differentiate itself from the competition. This is patently ridiculous, since Android allows OEMs to differentiate themselves to a much larger degree than Windows Phone does. A Samsung and an HTC Android phone are much more differentiated from each other than a Samsung and an HTC Windows Phone: different skins, different screen resolutions, different processors, etc etc. The only way this makes sense is if Nokia simply assumed it would be the only manufacturer actually producing Windows Phones (not that unreasonable an assumption, as it turns out), and that the very fact of using Windows Phone would serve as a differentiator from rival OEMs all running Android.
Well, it's serving as a differentiator alright: just not a positive one. I think everyone understands at this point that the Lumias 800 and 900 are already differentiated by their hardware design to such an extent that they would have been pretty big hits if they were running Android instead of Windows Phone. Nokia could have charged to the front of the Android line on the strength of its flair for brilliant industrial design, but now they're stuck at the back, lashed to a platform that, if not on fire, is at the very least wobbly. Couldn't they have seen this coming?


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A wolf skin was noticed missing some time after Sept. 25.
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It was believed to be in a storage bin at the nature
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Posted: 3:54 pm Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Pfizer to pay largest fraud settlement in Justice Dept. history, whistleblowers share $102 million
By Stacey Singer
Pfizer and subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company will pay $2.3 billion to the U.S. Justice Department for illegally promoting Bextra, an anti-inflammatory drug, and Geodon, Zyvox and Lyrica.
The whistleblowers who helped the government, five of them in all, will share $102 million from the settlement.
From the DOJ press release:
Bextra is an anti-inflammatory drug that Pfizer pulled from the market in 2005. Under the provisions of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, a company must specify the intended uses of a product in its new drug application to FDA. Once approved, the drug may not be marketed or promoted for so-called "off-label" uses – i.e., any use not specified in an application and approved by FDA. Pfizer promoted the sale of Bextra for several uses and dosages that the FDA specifically declined to approve due to safety concerns.
And most troubling, health care providers were paid kickbacks for writing prescriptions:
The civil settlement also resolves allegations that Pfizer paid kickbacks to health care providers to induce them to prescribe these, as well as other, drugs. The federal share of the civil settlement is $668,514,830 and the state Medicaid share of the civil settlement is $331,485,170. This is the largest civil fraud settlement in history against a pharmaceutical company.
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Stacey Singer has been writing about health, science, biotech, consumer issues and government for nearly two decades. She's the founder of a non-profit group called Journalists in Transition which supports mid-career media professionals. In the 1990s she was a founding staffer ofThe Moscow Times, an English language newspaper that chronicled Russian life after the breakup of the former Soviet Union. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, her education has focused on both science writing and American industrial history.


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End of Life Issues Up Front and PersonalNovember 3, 2011
by M. J. Doherty, PhD.
"No other issue affects all of us like this one. When it goes well, we're grateful forever. And when it does not go well, we never forget."
So said B. Lachlan Furrow, MD, , chair of the Massachusetts Expert Panel on End of Life Care (2009-2011 to a capacity crowd of medical personnel, social workers, and nursing students gathered at Regis, October 26, to consider end-of-life care. The session was part of the President's Leadership Lecture Series on Health.
Weighing in on the topic - "End of Life Issues: Decision-Making, Cost and Ethical Dilemmas" - were Harvard Pilgrim CEO Eric Shultz; Boston College professor, Andrea Vicini, SJ, MD, PhD; and Dana Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center nurse practitioner Daniel Gorman, NP-C, MSN, OCN, CRNI. For presenters and audience, the exploration was deeply personal.
What we all know and don't want to talk about is the way we die – not just ourselves, but those we love. Fifty years ago most people died at home surrounded by loved ones; in a recent survey, seventy per cent (70 %) indicate that they want to die at home, but the same percentage actually die in institutions after aggressive, disease-modifying therapy traumatizes both the patient and the patient's family.
"It is not true," Furrow noted, that we disagree about excellence in end-of-life care. Everyone," he continued, referring to doctors, nurses, insurers, ethicists, Catholic social teachers, and families, "agrees that from the diagnosis of a progressive, ultimately fateful condition, patients should be informed, patients should express their preferences, and preferences should be available and respected at every point of care. The terrifying thing for people is not knowing."
Resistance to talking about dying surfaced politically in debates about health care reform when naysayers invented the idea of "death panels" to kill the section of the reform package that would have provided for patient-doctor conversations about quality of life and end of life care. In reality, there was nothing about "death panels" in the package, which simply stated that once every five years, if the patient wanted to, he could talk about his preferences for life-sustaining treatment with his physician, and costs connected to having this conversation should be covered. Instead, talk of death panels subverted the effort to fulfill a standard of good practice and a moral obligation of the physician, and that section of the health care reform package was dropped.
Over against this political malpractice, medical narrowness of focus, actuarial refusal of recognition, and social and family reluctance to see end-of-life realities as part of life and talk about them, how shall we all achieve clear-minded decision-making in the accompaniment of those who are ill and dying? How shall we remain ethically good, medically true and humanly loving as we do?
"Insurers can't lead this effort to promote quality improvement; patients need to lead it, and the hospitalists are the crucial link," said Dr. Furrow. Harvard-Pilgrim CEO Eric Schultz, who was grounded in understanding by his mother and two older sisters, all nurses, recognized that insurance companies can sometimes "mess up a patient-doctor relationship" and then explained how companies, which often get in the way, can actually help. "We all want dignity and compassion," he said, "but it's often too late before we know what our loved ones really want." Harvard Pilgrim partners with Regis College on the Health Lecture Series, providing a community service to the public needing to know about trends in health care.
The United States spends trillions on health care, Schultz observed, with insurers spending about $25,000 to $30,000. on the last six months of life, the period Medicare allows for hospice care. The percentage of the total costs for palliative care has been stable in the last few years, which suggests that we are doing something right even as the costs themselves have grown higher. Great advances in technology, which is expensive, are asking us how better to spend as they create different dynamics. Payment reform will help shift the way health care is delivered. As Medicare goes, so goes insurance.
If anyone in the audience expected only black-or-white thinking as Father Andrea Vicini spoke about Roman Catholic approaches to the end of life, they were enlightened otherwise. He spoke precisely about the "yeses and nos" of Catholic ethical teaching established since the 1950s in papal documents: "Yes" to pain control, palliative care, accompaniment of the patient and patient decision-making; "no" to over-zealous treatment and to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. He pointed out the nuances, too, as pastors, doctors, and families all struggle with areas in which the knowing is not clear. He noted the summary in the 1992 Catholic catechism about discontinuing medical procedures that are "burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome" and Pope John Paul II's "Gospel of Life" (1995) stating that treatments can be discontinued when they "impose an excessive burden on the patient and his family."
From a Catholic perspective, end-of-life care and decision-making today are working to keep pace with difficult and delicate changes effected by advancing knowledge and technology. Taking an approach that integrates rules, norms, and principles with one that promotes relationality and responsibility through practice of the virtues, Vicini emphasized, illuminates what patients and families as well as caregivers face on a person-to-person basis.
The old model of aggressive treatment with only brink-of-death palliation is changing, Daniel Gorman said, to a new model in which palliative care for quality of life co-exists with disease-modifying treatment and helps modify it in face of the evidence of disease progression.
"Most adults would want to know if they had less than one year to live," and an evolving, multi-dimensional focus on quality of life during that time includes psychological, social, and spiritual well-being along with the physical. People who are dying can be "conflicted between the care offered and care refused" because they think that they're being unethical and giving up when they refuse care. Or family members can keep "urging one to keep trying" to live when the evidence is there that is time to begin letting go. Focusing on the quality of the end of life frees everyone up to be humanly connected and not so alone in this passage. One little axiom – "To cure sometimes, to relieve often, and to comfort always" – expresses the whole continuum of disease-modifying therapy, palliative care, and life closure.
A memory of my father flashed across my mind. He had a year's warning, thoughtfully characterized his dying from lung cancer in late August, 1983, as a harvest sunset, and died with dignity at home as my mother and I and a visiting hospice nurse cared for him. Were there stresses as his physical condition changed from day to day and hour to hour? Most certainly. But there was also love, presence, strategic care, communion, and mental clarity to the very end, when he asked me to help straighten his body out in the bed so that he could go to God like a man. And he did.
Regis College is a Catholic co-educational community that prepares undergraduate, graduate and continuing education students for engagement and service in a changing world. In the School of Liberal Arts, Education and Social Sciences and the School of Nursing, Sciences and Health Professions, approximately 1,800 students are enrolled in 20 undergraduate majors; 30 minors; 10 interdisciplinary pathways toward professional success; and master's degree programs in education, communication, health administration, regulatory and clinical research management, nursing, medical imaging, and a doctoral program in nursing practice. U.S. News and World Report ranks Regis in the top tier of universities with master's programs in the North. The College is listed by the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) among benchmarking colleges for the quality of educational experience. With a strategic graduate focus on health care, Regis College was recently named for the second time as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education by the National League of Nursing. The College also provides accredited pre-school and kindergarten programs and a Life Long Learning Program (LLARC) for retired seniors.
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Dodgers just acquired Octavio Dotel for two minor leaguers -- Lamb and McDonald. I don't have details or analysis of the players involved. But I think (if these guys have any value) this is a good move. Dotel doesn't do anything important for this franchise and any return we get for him is soup. I had thought that this would be the eventaulity for both him and Donnelly when they were aquired this offseason. I'd say a good investment (again if the prospects are worth anything).
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When you hear UAV, you probably think military:
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I think I (surprisingly) dont' like the Windows 8 XBOX music app.
I'm a big proponent of Windows 8 on the desktop. I think the appification of everything with the Windows store is going to be really liked by consumers.
But I do think the Xbox Music app is especially bad on the desktop. Maybe it works better on touch. Anyways, I get really annoyed when I search for an artist, and instead of clicking it and getting an album to pick from the albums, and then the songs, I just get a full song list in a pop up. If you want to play a specific album, you almost have to specifically just search for that album. I think with some more thought that app could have been more intuitive. The app is sort of annoying to use. Anybody else find this app sort of a disappointment?
They took out podcasts, but I bought Pushpod, and I like that app quite a bit. If you're looking for a podcast app I suggest that. It has nice presentation, and you can pin podcasts to the start screen and get notifications for new episodes. When the app is snapped left or right it can play video even.


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MEC Cannes Titanium triumph – Ikea Malmö opening
Well Forsmann & Bodenfors…and MEC won it's first Integrated Titanium Lion. Fantastic. It was won for the Ikea opening in Malmö, where you tagged pictures of furniture with your name. The first to tag won the piece of furniture and of course the rumor spread on Facebook feeds and updates. Not a bad idea, but again a Cannes Lions Titanium winner? I don't think so. It looks like they liked Social Media for the winners this season.
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Conan O'Brien has had a lot of fun with Sarah Palin's fractured sense of history, from her defense of her dead-wrong telling of the Paul Revere story to the way a Sarah Palin History Channel would imagine the Founding Fathers. And he's not through trying to educate her. The Conan website has created "The Terrible Twenty: Sarah Palin History Lessons," in which the Conan writers offer Palin's most important lessons on U.S. history.
Number 1 sounds like something she might actually believe: "George Washington chopped down a cherry tree to whittle himself a new pair of dentures."
Number 7 is equally plausible: "The Underground Railroad is what they call subways in England."
But my personal favorite is Number 4: "The Roaring 20s marked a dark period in US history when lions roamed the streets."
The site lists 10 lessons and is asking readers to suggest more to complete the 20. You can read all 10 and see how to submit your own at the Team Coco site.
willegge | June 9, 2011 4:48 AM
Sorry James but it seems that you so called American History Experts are really the dummies, because Sarah Palin is absolutely right . That's what the History experts have been saying, or don't you read the latest news reports or at least I thought a lib like you would at least to listen to NPR. The amazing thing is that you will report a false hood just to get a shot at Governor Palin. That is a sad commentary on our media and dangerous to the nation.


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Is it that Brett Favre is having a career year?
He's playing out of his mind, but this is not the reason.
Is it that AD is due for a huge game?
Not only is he due, but he will have a great game. However, this is not the reason.
Is it that the front four will put more pressure on Brees than he can handle?
You would think so, but no.
This is the biggest reason the Vikings are going to the SB, and the biggest thing Saints fans should fear.
The most accurate analyst in the world, a stand up guy whose football prowess knows no bounds, a man we all love and respect. Mr. Trent Dilfer, picked the Saints to win next Sunday.
You know what this means, Vikings fans. You can safely book your tickets to Miami.


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Accident on A3259 between Taunton and Monkton Heathfield (From This is The West Country)
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Accident on A3259 between Taunton and Monkton Heathfield
Updated 8:03pm Monday 12th May 2014 in News
This live event has finished
- An accident involving two vehicles on the A3259 between Waterleaze / Venture Way (Taunton) and Greenway (Monkton Heathfield) took place earlier this evening.
- The accident has now cleared.
THe accident has now cleared.
THE A3259 is said to be blocked in both directions. The emergency services are continuing to carry out recovery work.
TWO cars were involved in the accident, which happened at around 5.45pm this evening, Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed.
No one is currently trapped in the vehicles. Two female casualties are being treated at the scene, and are currently awaiting an ambulance.
Two appliances and a rescue tender from Taunton have been sent to the scene, where they are currently making the vehicles safe.
THE accident is said to have taken place on the A3259 between Waterleaze and Greenway (Monkton Heathfield).
TWO vehicles are thought to have been involved in an accident between Monkton Heathfield and Taunton on the A3259, between Waterleaze / Venture Way (Taunton) and Greenway.
The road is thought to be blocked, and traffic slowed.
Police are at the scene, awaiting recovery.
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iPod Software 2.0.1 Update Released
Apple has released the iPod Software 2.0.1 Update.
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The On-the-Go playlist now works like it should! When you add a song while the playlist is playing it will go to that song an play it when it comes up in the play order, WITHOUT having to restart the entire playlist.
DJ's rejoice.
Posted by Agentkow on June 19, 2003 at 4:24 PM (CDT)
Rock on, Agentkow! iPod, meet playqueue. Playqueue, meet iPod. I'm sure that you'll very soon become the BEST of friends! :D
Posted by c.c.r. in Seattle, WA on June 19, 2003 at 4:26 PM (CDT)
Rock on, Agentkow! iPod, meet playqueue. Playqueue, meet iPod. I'm sure that you'll very soon become the BEST of friends! :D
Posted by c.c.r. in Seattle, WA on June 19, 2003 at 4:26 PM (CDT)
But does the download have to be so huge? 29MB? Geez. I am sure that's not all firmware. Does someone have just the actual firmware file?
Posted by Andrew McDonald on June 19, 2003 at 4:32 PM (CDT)
2.0.1 update for 3rd gen ipods only. 1.3 update for Mac OS users only with no o-t-f playlists anyway and Windows version available "soon".
Why do they bother? Steve Jobs really /is/ having a laugh at the 2nd gen Winipod users.
Posted by NiShFiSh on June 19, 2003 at 4:51 PM (CDT)
Gah, still no Ogg support. Shame.
Posted by Rob on June 19, 2003 at 4:51 PM (CDT)
NishFish, I wish you would've replied to my post! I totally agree with you! I even ranted on the "soon" aspect of it. Check it out at:
Posted by zync on June 19, 2003 at 4:56 PM (CDT)
You've taken some on the chin over there!
Me. I'm not so bothered I have something which works, and works well, so I''m mostly happy with what I've got. It's just the (continued) contempatble attitude from Apple which riles me. Superb product but IMO they have demonstrated they can be as arrogant as Redmond underneath the skin.
Perhaps they think we'll all be fawning over new ipods when iTunes for Windows materialises. I don't think so.
They will have to introduce track crossfading before I'll buy another ipod now.
Posted by NiShFiSh on June 19, 2003 at 5:21 PM (CDT)
yeah… another day ill be sad. UPDATE 2ND GEN WiPODS!!!
Posted by Stasyna on June 19, 2003 at 5:39 PM (CDT)
Has anyone tried using 2.0.1 on a 1st or 2nd gen ipod? I sold my older 1st gen 10gig or I would have tried it myself. Just curious. You can always go back to 1.2.6 or 1.3 whatever applies. I could be wrong though so don't flame me if you try it and it kills your ipod. I don't think it will… kill your ipod, that is.
Posted by cougardew on June 19, 2003 at 5:45 PM (CDT)
why do they do this to us 2G owners?, btw i know this is off topic but has anyone noticed the difference in fonts that ipod is written in based on what generation one u have
Posted by ari on June 19, 2003 at 5:49 PM (CDT)
FYI, the 32 meg windows download is uncompressed. You can Rar it to just 11.7 megs.
Posted by Albert on June 19, 2003 at 5:55 PM (CDT)
The click seems to be gone.
Posted by Robert Dodson on June 19, 2003 at 6:21 PM (CDT)
Unless my ears are deceiving me…the CLICK is gone!
Posted by Orb on June 19, 2003 at 6:40 PM (CDT)
Is there a way I can use ephPod to put it on my gen 3? I have win98 and the OS isn't supported by the update…
Posted by joerge on June 19, 2003 at 6:48 PM (CDT)
You are quite right, the click between songs is gone. That was the only thing that bothered me. Thank you Apple, thank you.
BTW, the 2.0.1 updater will not work on older Pods, only Pods that use the new dock. The new 10, 15 and 30GB.
Posted by Steven on June 19, 2003 at 6:50 PM (CDT)
for those with second gen ipods, no i will not work, all it will do is install and then tell u that the firmware update isnt compatible
Posted by ari on June 19, 2003 at 7:13 PM (CDT)
The clicks are gone now. I'm relieved. Apple rulez. Enjoy your music
Posted by Toffi on June 19, 2003 at 7:39 PM (CDT)
Does anyone knows the detail of the rest *improved features*?
Improved backlight—>How come?
Improved playback performance—>meaning?
Improved handling of mp3 VBR songs
Improved alarm clock
Shorter connection times
Better overall performance—>Including battery life?
Posted by Harrison on June 19, 2003 at 7:55 PM (CDT)
What do they mean by "Improved Backlight"?
Posted by Daniel Kaplan on June 19, 2003 at 7:55 PM (CDT)
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