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The FIL 2014 World Lacrosse Championships are only a Spring season away, and we're all extremely excited. National teams around the world are preparing to make the trip to Colorado for two weeks (or more in some cases) in July, and that means a lot of training camps, scrimmages, and quite a bit of fundraising!
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Denver 2014 International Lacrosse Update 2
The FIL 2014 World Lacrosse Championships are rapidly approaching! We're all extremely excited. National teams around the world are preparing to make the trip to Colorado for two weeks (or more in some cases) in July, and that means a lot of training camps, scrimmages, and quite a bit of fundraising!
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We're not entirely sure what is going on in this photo from Mexico, but we do know that it is our Photo of the Week! Showing off great lacrosse photos, it's what the PotW does!
A Last Minute Chance For February Lacrosse
Dave "Big Cat" Palacios is back on LAS with a last minute chance to play lacrosse this February. It's a first time event in a first time locale: Mexico City! Growing The Game in a major way…
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LAS reader, Patrick Verdun, spent a week down in Mexico at a camp for children from orphanages all over Mexico. He brought a couple of lacrosse sticks with him just to see what would happen. This was the first time these kids have ever seen lacrosse. Very cool!
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Lax'n South Of The Border
While lacrosse might not be the first thing many of us think of when someone mentions Mexico, Iliad Rodriguez is trying to change that. The coach of the young Mexican national team has been working hard attempting to organize a legitimate ILF World Games contender.


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My Snowball Palace in Hell
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Drove 154 home. I simply had no patience nor energy for 9 and knew the grossly impaired motorists would break my heart harder than Monday already had: quitting time was five-thirty and I left at forty-five past seven. As easy as Thursday and Friday had held me was as toxic as Monday had tackled me.
Me: "I feel terribly."
SB: "Well, thank you for feeling so terribly – nobody else does."
To a better Tuesday.
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Good work is a gold mine.
The glow hadn't gone; it stuck around to keep company throughout the weekend. Declining my friends and neighbors, I wanted and kept Sunday to myself in relish of the residual fortune: I had held my own, I had kept my word, and I had physically proved I wasn't another pussy-footed office-chair pansy.
I hope that construction comes quickly.
And Monday? It still doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. But when it does, I'll have my arms open, slightly still missing the asbestos.
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Nice restbit.
Welcome to all wide-open.
I broke up with New York; towards the anniversary of my four (plus plus) years it had become a bad boyfriend. I left a few prints and paintings in the old apartment; I left some furniture, left some clothes. I got out; I made it out – alive. Emergency exits are possible for good reason. The space had served me well – quite well, really, it deserved that credit to its character – but the time had long since come, and I was gone.
Now now now.
Well settled in the state that bore and raised me, the state I love with something so sparklingly separate from novelty, from romanticism; outside the rim of rose-tinted lenses and free from the juvenile sensationalism, achingly obvious and blessedly necessary to one's late teens and early twenties, I straighten my gaze to the sun, bleeding its final rays across the sky on Summer's last and bow deeply down to any and all fates involved.
God is good, and you always knew. You always knew.


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Ocean Forcing
The main source of open boundary condition information for subtidal ocean fields is the Global NCOM model. I obtained extractions of the fields surrounding our domain from Lucy Smedstad at NRL, who is a co-author on Sutherland et al. (2011).
UPDATE 1/23/2013 Lucy also gave us the files for 2010-2012. For 2013 onwards gNCOM will be replaced by gHYCOM, and will presumably be processed differently. The processing of the 2010-2012 files is idential to that described below, except that (i) it did not require the use of ncom_extract.m. Instead I just gunzip and untar the file she sent, and then moved all the resulting files by hand into year folders (e.g. using mv *gncom_2010* ../2010). (ii) I edited preprocess.m so that it made the longitude in the processed files be -132 to -122, instead of positive E values. Looking at the files using ncom_look.m the only other difference is that the new files go to -132 longitude instead of -131, consistent with slightly larger file size. The preprocessing took 11 minutes per year on skua.
Processing steps, done in matlab on skua in the directory (*):
Fig. 1. Example fields plotted by ncom_look.m. The top row is the original surface fields, and the bottom row is after preprocessing.
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The "Catch of a Lifetime"
Happy New Year Ya'll!! Wow, what a great vacation I had and I hope you had a little time off too.
First of all , thanks to my friends Dale and Nancy Sturgis from Rock Hill, S.C. They took me and my fella out on their boat and we caught HUGE Catfish. Pictured here is the 32lber that Rick caught on Lake Wylie last week. He said it was his "catch of a lifetime".
I'm sort of making the public announcement that after a very long courtship (again), Rick has indeed caught me too. A Lot of time has gone by and revelations have been made and I am now comfortable saying we are full on back together.
I'll give you a little background on us. We started dating when I was 16 and he was 19. We did marry, have two lovely children but due to a decision on my part, ended the marriage after 11 years. ( I remarried but that marriage was not meant to be for many reasons I shouldn't go into and it had to end)
After years and years of pursuit, lots of prayer, lots of laughing and just lots of years of being content and happy, I've deceided to give this relationship a brand new start.
My question to you is …can love survive and thrive the second time around???


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Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee
AEDC hosts annual Combined Federal Campaign charity fair
The mission of the CFC is to promote and support philanthropy through a program that is employee focused, cost-efficient and effective in providing all federal employees the opportunity to improve the quality of life for all.
The charities supported through the CFC focus on people who need help, including the hungry, the homeless, the sick, the disabled, children and families in need, and the environment.
One of the federal employees attending the charity fair, AEDC Contracting Officer Robert Greene, asked Troop Aid representative Mark Wood about the future of that organization.
Wood explained to Greene that the ambition of Troop Aid is to expand to educate and connect U.S. troops and their families to bring multiple agencies at the community, state and national level together under an "umbrella" as a one-stop support agency.
Greene said the CFC fair provides a more in-depth picture of what a support agency has to offer, its current mission, future goals and differences that make it stand out from other CFC agencies.
AEDC's collective goal is $57,000 and the campaign will conclude Nov. 9. AEDC CFC Chair Donna Paredez and CFC Deputy Chair Sara Rozell suggested searching for applicable charities and pledging online at https://www.cfcnexus.org/_tnregionalcfc/.
For additional information on this year's CFC drive, call Paredez at 931-454-6279 or Rozell at 931-454-3183.
In November, AEDC support contractor, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) officials will announce how ATA employees can make payroll deductions through the contractor's program for charitable organizations.
Caption for 121026-F-GV828-028: Representatives from 21 local, regional and national non-profits were on hand to meet and interact with the workforce of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex in the A&E Building lobby during the 2012 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Fair held Oct. 26. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)
Caption for 121026-F-GV828-023: From left, AEDC Contracting Officer Robert Greene listens to Mark Woods explain the mission of the organization he represents, Operation Troop Aid, during the recent CFC fair held on base. Wood said the organization's goal is to provide care packages to deployed troops. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)
Caption for 121026-F-GV828-011: Strength for Service representative Larry Coppock explains their mission to Debra Taylor, a custodian with Premiere, Inc., during the CFC fair held recently at AEDC. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)
Caption for 121026-F-GV828-022: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) representative Cathy Manis talks to Navy Cmdr. Brian Allen, Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) Test Division chief, at the recent annual Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) fair held in the lobby of the A&E Building at AEDC. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)
Caption for 121026-F-GV828-026: Strength for Service director Larry Coppock explains the organization's mission to Artious Walker, an AEDC Acquisitions project manager. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)
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The Crap We Missed - Monday 5.14.12
Simon Cowell at the afterparty for Britain's Got Talent in London. (May 13, 2012)
Simon Cowell at the afterparty for Britain's Got Talent in London. (May 13, 2012)
I wonder what would happen if I walked around like that. Like it was the fucking 70s with my shirt unbuttoned to my navel. I'll tell you what…lot's of pussy!
Haha, I was thinking the same thing. He's just missing a few chains around his neck. Smoking KOOLS? Definitely 70′s.
Now I'm imagining the pubes. Sweet. Thanks a lot, dicks! :o)
Reached behind his seat and snatched a Kool from the pack.
For anyone feeling a little oversexed right now….a little hot n bothered with no relief in sight, just take a peek down the shirt. You'll cool right down.
Rain Man's counting cigarettes…
what a fucking douche bag.
His hairy side (man)boob is nasty but I suspect more than a few that come to this site would still love to hit it anyway. ;)
pssstt…we really don't.
The inexplicable smugness of a man who turns dogs in to stars. Prepare to be dry humped, America!
After seeing Christina Hendricks showed up, Simon opened up his shirt to let the puppies play.
I hope this doesn't happen to Christina Hendricks' cleavage when she goes through menopause.
Why do his shirts even bother with buttons?
He's so full of himself, why does he even bother to dress at all?
"Look at the size of that noggin. It's like an orange on a toothpick."
"Let him cry himself to sleep on his huge pilla"
Can you imagine the size of the balls on this douche? As he looks in the mirror- "Who's your daddy? I'M your fuckin' daddy."
This bloke has his Doctorate in Douche.
OMG! He's sniffing glue again!… Only way to explain anybody wearing their shirt like this!
Second explanation: Cocaine! Which would also explain the Kools. And the misplaced ego. And the diarrhea.
No nip slip? Dang!
He couldn't pull a Britney, so he went with this.
Nothing like seeing a shirtless 60yo never-has-been to get my nether-region to wishin' those last three buttons would lighten their grasp.
"If ya want my money, and you think I'm sexy, rub my nipples nice and slow!"
"Oh yeah, Hasslehoff? Check THESE out, bitch."
What a smug prick. How about we get him and "the Hoff" to do a gladiator fight to the death on Pay-per-View…and then shoot the one who wins!
SHOW US YOUR TITS, SIMON. COME ON, we've all seen your manboobs… c'mon
Jesus Christ. That is a huge head.
I bet he goes home and jerks it while standing over a mirror, staring in between his own wooly, thatched cheeks.


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To acquaint new B school entrants with more than marketing and the bottom line, Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, assigns Tom Ashbrook's book, The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush (Houghton Mif-flin), in which Tom details the emotional toll of going from award-winning Boston Globe editor and family man to midlife Internet entrepreneur and absentee husband and father. This worldly man of the word, whose only association with technology was via word processing and research, had a dream of securing a stake in the new economy and intentions of improving life for wife Danielle and their three children. But sightless ambition nearly cost him his family.
In 1996, Tom and college buddy Rolly Rouse started an online home design company, HomePortfolio.com Inc., in Newton, Massachusetts. When venture capital for the company was finally secured, Tom resigned from the Boston Globe, making Danielle, with her job as dean of international students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the family's sole breadwinner.
Danielle, who describes herself as "risk-averse-the reluctant person who needs to see a month out," was the antithesis of Tom, a self-proclaimed "risk-taker and dreamer." But she tried her best to understand the immediacy of starting HomePortfolio: If Tom and Rouse didn't, someone else would. Practicality kept her worries close. "[Tom] was counting on me being supportive and going on blind faith, but this idea was just so unbelievable to me-that you would not only risk yourself but take your whole family along on the ride," she says. "While I admire dreamers, it's hard to relate to them because I'm so stuck on the ground paying for guitar lessons and getting kids signed up for camp. I also pay the bills, so I have a real sense of where the money goes, and the idea of it not coming in for a while was horrifying to me at the time." Tom and Danielle had known each other since high school, and Danielle was deeply committed, constantly recounting the "for better or for worse" part of the vows. Still, a savings account that dwindled to zero after the first year and a half of their start-up and Tom's unwillingness to budge on his dream built a wall of resentment. "To me, this was a do-or-die mission, and that was nauseating to [Danielle]," says Tom, 45. "When she wasn't immediately ready to share my awe and wonderment with the vision and celebrate our small victories with the same fervor, I took offense."
Alan Carsrud, senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at The Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an expert on family and small business, isn't surprised. "You have to look at the entrepreneur's company as the other woman or other man," he says. "And don't assume this is only a male issue, although I think women are much more sensitive about balancing than men are."
It got to the point where sensitivity was a trait Danielle felt Tom no longer possessed. Four years ago, on Valentine's Day, Tom was relieved when Danielle went ahead with her yearly ritual of taping construction-paper Valentines to the bathroom mirror. Sentiments like "Roses are red, Violets are blue, I don't care about health plans, do you?" and "Even with no job, you'll still be a 'Steve Jobs' to me" pacified the tumult-for a few minutes. When Danielle questioned Tom's strategy for Home-Portfolio and life, he exploded into a defensive frenzy, explaining his need to be "ahead of the curve." By argument's end, after Danielle deemed Tom cruel and Tom admitted to having become "profane, heartless and brutal," sticky squares where the Valentines once resided summed up the state of the relationship.
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Letters to Parents - You may want to give each student a letter to take home to their parents, to explain the program and the civic organization or business sponsoring the Dictionary Project. Click here to see a sample letter to parents. The Malta-McConnelsville Rotary Club sent a distinguished letter to the parents when they did their project in Morgan County; click here to view that letter. Richard G Wallace from the Blairstown Rotary Club in NJ sent us this draft for his Rotary Club's letter to parents, click to view it.
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This was the week to state the problem. Obama told the AMA that healthcare costs are "unsustainable" and "a ticking time bomb"--on a trend to consume one in three dollars of GDP in three decades (see here). The CBO released a report saying that reforms currently on the table might raise costs, not lower them (see here). Three former majority leaders issued their own plan to pay for healthcare--higher taxes and lower reimbursements (see here). Then The New York Times weighed in with stories that Democrats may cut Medicare (see here).
It's not at all certain that any of these reforms will be enacted. The politics of fiscal pain have eluded Congress in recent decades. The opposition will include those with self-interest in the status quo as well as conservatives who fear nationalized healthcare. Perhaps the best argument Republicans have to scuttle reform is that the reforms won't do the job, since none promise to change the delivery system sufficiently to make universal care affordable.
But the new willingness to confront the flaws in the framework of healthcare delivery could lead towards what's really needed--a complete overhaul of the reimbursement, regulatory and liability structures of healthcare. These structures, like legal concrete poured over daily decisions, have neither the virtues of market discipline (there's no incentive by patients or providers to be frugal) nor the focus of central planning (the single payer countries at least understand that primary care is where first dollars should go). Add to the mix a complete and justified paranoia about lawsuits, and voila, you have the world's most inefficient health delivery--doctors doing whatever they can be reimbursed for, mindful of always protecting themselves legally, with patients demanding miracle cures after neglecting basic responsibility to take care of themselves. This is a "system" (actually more of a bureaucratic junkyard) without focus or discipline. That's the main reason it costs almost twice as much as healthcare systems in other countries that deliver better outcomes.
Some of the worst aspects of this undisciplined system were cited by President Obama in his speech to the AMA--the fee-for-service reimbursement model that tolerates unnecessary care by entrepreneurial doctors, brought to life in Atul Gawande's recent essay in The New Yorker (see here). Obama even ventured out to where few Democrats have gone before--acknowledging that "defensive medicine" could not be solved until doctors were given a system of reliable justice, that can be trusted to distinguish between good care and bad care. (A seismic shift given the Democrats long-standing deference to trial lawyers and their political money.)
But American healthcare is unlikely to become affordable by layering one or two reforms on top of the current system. The idea of holding providers accountable for their "comparative effectiveness"--i.e., not squandering money on unnecessary treatments--is an excellent component of a payment reform, but, if applied by rigid formulas, could potentially become a bureaucratic nightmare (similar to the focus on test scores in the No Child Left Behind law, which has transformed educators into idiot savants concerned about scores, not education). A "public option" or "mandates" to acquire coverage may be useful to cover the uninsured, but is unlikely to do much to wring inefficiency from the current system (except, perhaps, by introducing competition in areas where providers and insurers enjoy an effective monopoly). But the cost problem will not be solved merely by more competition (all providers and health plans are stuck in the bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine), nor by reliance on choice in the marketplace (see Professor Tim Jost's analysis in Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement (Duke U. Press, 2007)), nor by reducing payments to providers already squeezed to the point of pain. Containing costs requires a fundamental overhaul to re-align incentives towards healthy lifestyles, preventive care and effective results.
Doctors, nurses, hospital administrators...even executives who run health insurance companies, are real people. They get up in the morning, and set out to do a good job caring for people. They are in many respects the best in the world--the best trained doctors in state of the art hospitals. But all these people operate within structures that have been imposed upon them--reimbursement systems mandated by Medicare and Medicaid; the differing regulations of 50 states, with literally thousands of rules; as well as mind-numbing bureaucracy and paperwork from the health plans. Without too much overstatement, it would be fair to say that the people who deliver health care services are crushed and demoralized by accumulated bureaucracy, legal fears and cynicism.
America can't solve this looming crisis by reforming from the top. We must put ourselves in the shoes of all those dedicated, frustrated caregivers, and create conditions under which they can make the judgments needed to deliver effective care. We must harness their energy and intelligence towards our common problem, not extrude them through even more bureaucratic machinery.
What I'm proposing might be called the human approach to healthcare reform. The governing principles are these: Simplification, Accountability and Reliable Authority. Here is a sketch of how this approach might work.
1. Simplification.
--Reimbursement simplification. The fee-for-service model is hopelessly inefficient--inducing unnecessary care, with oceans of paperwork. Primary care and chronic care should be delivered on a "capitation" model (X dollars per patient annually), with end-of-year reviews to true up for unexpected developments and account for effectiveness. This reimbursement idea can work with any type of healthcare provider, private or public, healthcare system or single practitioner. Special medical events--surgery, specialists, hospital stays--require some version of fee-for-service, but need more discipline--perhaps bundled payments for a universe of patients, with true-ups at the end of the year.
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For effective IT investment planning, healthcare administrators should:
Making a poor choice when it comes to investing in IT not only can be costly, it can prevent your organization from achieving optimal operations. In worst-case scenarios, poor investments may even impede your organization's performance-possibly, for years to come.
With so much on the line, what can you do to increase your likelihood for success? Hospital executives are best served by following the five steps for effective IT investment presented below.
1. Decide where you want to go as a business before you decide on your IT investments. IT strategic planning is but one step in the overall process of making investments that enable an organization to realize the goals of its vision, mission, and business strategy. Most organizations have vision statements that are fairly high level describing what the organization wants to be. Organizations also tend to have separate mission statements that describe the purpose of the organization. Combined, the vision and mission statements give a fairly lofty picture of why the organization exists and how it expects to justify its existence.
Unfortunately, such statements tell us little about where an organization fits into the organizational or competitive landscape and what specific initiatives it wants to undertake to distinguish itself. That's the task of business strategy-a necessary precursor to strategic planning focusing on IT investments. First an organization decides what it wants to do as a business; only then can it proceed to ask the IT strategy question: What IT investments should we make to enable us to be successful with our business strategy?
2. Plan for IT as you would for any significant investment. Healthcare organizations often approach strategic planning for IT as an isolated business exercise. Periodically, the CEO or the COO determines that for all the resources committed to IT-both capital and operating-the organization doesn't have a clear idea of where it is going. So an external consultant is called in create an IT strategic plan. The plan serves to guide specific system selections over the succeeding several years. Frequently, the plan sits on the CIO's shelf and is reviewed only when a major IT decision is to be made.
What's wrong with this picture? IT strategic planning cannot be done effectively when it occurs as an isolated exercise. We often talk about information systems as "enabling technologies," but if IT planning is a set of tasks without specific and formal connections to an enterprise's vision, mission, and strategic business planning processes, then it is not clear what the technologies are even supposed to enable. No wonder so many IT investments fall short of expectations!
Consider how complex and time-consuming the process is for initiating a major construction project. Needs and expectations have to be identified, and executives need to obtain buy-in from major constituencies (the board of trustees, physicians, other staff members, and, at times, the community at large). Costs and benefits also need to be identified, evaluated, discussed, and reviewed during the construction process.
The process of weighing IT investments should be of similar importance. All too often, organizations find the technology part of IT planning so intimidating that they relegate the process to second-class status. But as our organizations are increasingly affected by IT investment decisions, we need to develop the mechanisms for planning for IT just as we would for any significant investment.
3. IT strategic planning isn't just about technology. Senior executives often are intimidated by the techno-jargon that CIOs use to describe their work. One result is that the IT strategic planning process, as noted earlier, is carried out separately from other business planning processes or is assigned to a committee focused solely on IT. Strategic planning for IT investments is not just about which system to buy or which technology to use, although many strategic plans seem to have this focus. IT strategic planning is complicated by almost constantly changing healthcare business and technology environments. And while many executives consider themselves quite up to speed on the business environment issues, few devote the necessary time and energy to the technology side. Sadly, many CIOs find comfort in this deficiency. If a CIO can't explain why a technology investment is needed in terms that non-IT executives can understand, then you probably have the wrong CIO.
4. How you decide can be more important than what you decide! Earlier this year, Peter Weil, director of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and a senior research scientist at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and Jeanne W. Ross, principal research scientist at CISR, published IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results. The book draws on the experiences of more than 250 for-profit and not-for-profit companies in 23 countries. The authors concluded, "Effective IT governance is the single most important predictor of the value an organization generates from IT."
In health care, we tend to give responsibility for IT strategy to dedicated committees that do not have the authority to implement what they recommend, and that are often disconnected from other planning processes. One of the cardinal rules of effective decision-making in any arena is that responsibility and authority need to be hand in hand. An effective governance structure for IT decision-making provides this connection and is essential if we are to realize true value from our healthcare IT investments.
5. Your IT structure should reflect both your governance and your strategy. Once an IT strategy has been formulated, the next question is whether your IT structure, in concert with other operational parts of the organization, can actually deliver. It is astonishing how long many IT structures remain in place in an arena in which change is both expected and accepted.
Whether memorialized in Moore's Law, which says that changes in computing power double every 18 months or so, or recognized in the seemingly constant upgrades and changes in healthcare payment or medical technology that appear to confront us as if they were on a high-speed conveyer belt, change is what IT in health care is all about. Yet we retain IT structures as if they were sacred. They are not. Healthcare organizations should expect to change some aspect of their IT structure at least every six months, just to keep up. As decisions are made through the governance process and as business strategies evolve, the IT structure should evolve as well. In fact, the IT structure should always reflect both the governance structure and the organization's IT strategy.
IT organizations that are out of synch can neither effectively nor efficiently enable the realization of a business strategy through IT. A horse and buggy can't compete with a car. In the same way, healthcare organizations can't compete in today's environment with an outdated IT structure.
Lynn Harold Vogel, PhD, FHIMSS, is vice president, Healthlink Incorporated, Houston, and CIO, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. His e-mail address is email@example.com.
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People are always curious as to the healthiest way to start of their day with their first meal. Of course, the first meal of the day is the most important therefore it needs to be tasty. Fuelling your body for the day ahead, many people seem to skip breakfast, especially if they're trying to lose weight, when in fact the much more sensible thing to do rather than skip breakfast would be to skip pudding or even snacking throughout the day or in the evening. Another reason to skipping breakfast is due to being too busy, this unfortunately, leads to people grabbing anything and everything when hunger kicks in throughout the morning. So you should seek to make the effort to eating a breakfast and healthy breakfast, so here are a few options for you to pick tomorrow Low Fat Breakfast –
Whole Wheat Pancakes
Why not try making some healthy, low fat, whole wheat pancakes that are light and fluffy and taste just as good as normal pancakes – only healthier and kinder on the waistline. For toppings you could use fruit or some yoghurt.
Crepes, which are a thinner version of your traditional pancake, they can be a healthy addition to many meals. Crepes can also be made with whole-wheat flour and filled with fruit for sweet crepe recipes and lean proteins and fiber-rich vegetables for savory crepe recipes just the same as the previous option of pancakes – crepes are less bulkier.
Pumpkin Oatmeal
For breakfast with a fall flavor that really sticks to your ribs and provides a slow release of energy throughout the day, try a delicious bowl of pumpkin oatmeal.
Herbed Omelet
Egg's are a great tasty option for your breakfast – adding some herbs is a great way to include taste without needing extra seasoning and flavouring.
Fruit are a great source of taste and energy, blending it is one way of getting it in you quicker and on the move.
Yogurt Granola Parfait
Granola is another brilliant source of energy, mixing in some strawberry yoghurt or other flavour, and topping it off with some fruit is one way to a tasty breakfast.
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We are doing the Best That We Could Do For 2013 this morning…playing back some of the better moments of the year as voted by the Rock-A-Holics…this morning we played a moment that all of us agreed was one of the coolest moments ever. What moment was that? Here…watch…
To be a few feet away from Kevin martin as he sang "Far Behind" was a moment I will never forget. It was one of those goose bump moments! Apparently we weren't alone as these texts came in this morning about it…
Guys That was amazing! All choked uo hearing that song this morning. Thank You! Kristen
This is the 1st time im hearing this acoustic version of Far Behind. Its giving me chills so bad right now! Great way to start the work day! Long live Andrew Wood!
That was amazing, I'm crying, RIP Lindsay
I would have left anyone kick me in nuts as hard as they can, just to have sat in on that performance.
It's funny…last night I was going through some old stuff, and came across something that brought be back to being a teen…. Back in the day, before the internet, Pearl Jam used to mail stuff to their fan club, The Ten Club. I came across a ton of old letters I got from them that were post marked in 1992! I scanned one of the letters…it's a trip to read this…as they talk about the Sonics in the finals, etc. I still pinch myself when I have moments where I am b.s'ing with Mike McCready or dealing with the Pearl jam camp in general…that band has had such an important impact on my life since I was a teen…and to be able to work with them from time to time is beyond cool.
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Hell on Wheels Season Finale Review: This Means Warby Sean McKenna at . Comments
I've always had something of a soft spot for Hell on Wheels. There's just something old school cool about gunslingers, western style drama and the lawlessness that combines with a struggling of morality for the people involved, especially when the particular genre is few and far between on television these days.
So I was looking forward to what the finale was going to bring, mostly because the season has felt disjointed in its goals. There had been a lot of ground work placed over the episodes preceding, but I really wasn't sure what was going to take place or what direction the show was headed.
Ultimately, "Blood Moon, Blood Moon Rising" served to finally show off the completed railroad bridge, the inevitable war with the angry Sioux and the deadly consequences involved with love triangles.
A good portion of the first half was truly just a lot of waiting, as Bohannon began to recount his tale of what happened to the now destroyed town.
Sure, there was a certain amount of tension and suspense enhanced by the soundtrack. The booming drums and the plucking of strings elevated the anticipation. Whether it was Elam Ferguson saying "Hello" to Lily as she was leaving her place or Sean McGinnes telling Ruth he was sorry, I was prepared for something bad to happen. They both had that look in their eyes.
Even Bohannon successfully driving the train over the bridge, which proved a victory, was laced with the dramatic pressure of a downfall.
It's interesting to think that aside from the Sioux preparing for battle, a good majority of the problems revolved around the women.
I don't understand why Sean was obsessed with Ruth. He did everything he could possibly think, even renouncing his religion and getting baptized by her, in order to be with her. And, still, she rejected him. C'mon, man. Is she really the only woman to go after? It's not like he's spent tons of time with her and it was all a surprise.
Eva's still been caught between Mr. Toole and Ferguson, but she's been pretty straight forward that she was going to stick with her husband. Clearly, Ferguson wouldn't take no, building his house and continually trying to win her back.
And it was her going to his place to tell him it wasn't going to happen that proved the first shocking death. Mr. Toole shooting himself took me by surprise. I expected him to take his anger out on Eva and shoot her, but himself? Wow.
Of course, it was Lily and her affair with Durant that was the most problematic for the railroad. Not only was Durant willing to kill her off, but she was prepared to screw him over with the ledger. And then there's Bohannon, whose blossoming love for her was only just beginning which complicated things further.
Everyone seemed to be desperately looking for a solid footing, but it seemed as if despite their success with the railroad work, everything was slipping out from under them.
So it's not surprise that the character drama became quickly aligned with the action drama.
After a very long absence, the Swede finally returned, burned and warning of the future attack. And I was thrilled he came back because his presence provides for gripping scenes. Dancing in the streets as homes burned, people were slaughtered and the town was falling down around him added to his fantastic craziness.
And his ruthless kills were shocking. Just standing behind the guard before slowly cutting his neck was powerful. You knew exactly what type of guy he was and still, no one besides Bohannon had really felt concerned with him.
Which made one of the saddest and most shocking moments for the show that much more dramatic and real.
The Swede killed Lily.
I kept waiting for someone to burst down the door at the last second, or Lily to get lucky and escape, but to no avail. And as much as I'm disappointed we'll never get to see that Bohannon and Lily romance any further, I'm pleased at the boldness in story decision. Killing Mr. Toole was a surprise but, nothing compared to finishing off one of the top tier characters... in the second season no less!
And after fighting off the Sioux, I can only imagine how Bohannon felt. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the evil of the Swede.
The Swede is the perfect nemesis for Bohannon and that final scene between the two men was perfect. Both Anson Mount and Christopher Heyerdahl have shined in their respective roles and, frankly, I wish we got more of them. They embody their characters in such a charismatic way that each moment is riveting.
It is interesting that the Swede managed to escape his hanging though. That guy always manages to wiggle out of Bohannon's grasp.
Truly, the finale wiped the slate clean. The town will have to start over, some of the characters have the potential for not coming back or at the very least switching gears and headed towards something new.
And Bohannon, I know he'll get his revenge and I hope we get the chance to see that.
But even in all it's positives, the episodes still got stuck with some problems.
Did anyone realize the time jump from last episode? Ferguson had only built the base of the house and now the whole thing was finished? Was it necessary to the plot?
Hannah Durant, who I enjoyed in her initial appearance, felt pushed to the back this time around. Sure, she had a few good lines, but ultimately she became unnecessary aside from being a reason Durant wanted to get rid of Lily.
And as much as I enjoyed the Sioux battle, it was pretty much just an entertaining action sequence. The more personal danger was left to the Swede meaning the Sioux were just characters to either slaughter or be slaughtered.
And would Bohannon really be asked to take the place of Durant? They wouldn't bring someone new in? I know he's a competent guy and clearly willing to push forward as shown in that last scene, but I'm surprised he was the first choice.
Overall, the finale stuck true to the general pace and tone that began at the outset of the series. There's always great scenic pieces, interesting plot lines and enjoyable action. But there could and should have been more with Bohannon and the Swede. These guys carry the show to its riveting heights, especially when the other characters seem to do whatever the episode wants them to do.
It's not the tightest story being told on television, but when it strikes, it strikes hard and viscerally is a pleasure to watch. I hope that season three finds a bigger goal than completing the railroad bridge, but after a decent finale, I'm glad that we've still got Westerns on TV.
Let's keep this show rolling.
What did you think of the finale? Were you shocked by the deaths? Sound off below!
Sean McKenna is a TV Fanatic Staff Writer. Follow him on Twitter.Tags: Reviews, Hell on Wheels
wow. glad i'm not the only one flipping out that they killed lily! i,too, only watched for the romance. my husband and i agree on so few shows! waited all that time for them to get together and then that's it?! i will tune in next season though, to see where it goes. hope she is not really dead, but... he's such a babe. but after losing 2 loves, can't see him rushing into anything soon. oh well...
We were in total shock that Lily was actually dead. We kept waiting for someone to come in to save her, but the damn Swede won again. We wont be watching anymore because Lily is one of the main reasons we watch the show. We couldn't wait for her and Bohanan to take revenge on Durant and his bossy wife. Now there really isnt a reason to come back. Oh well another good show down the tubes
Hey CAC and Cynthia,
I'm glad to know there are some reasonable people who thinks like me. Please read my earlier 2 posts to see if you agree .
David, thanks for a voice of reason. I think the actress playing Lily wanted out to pursue other offers. I guess we will find out eventually. I would have hated it if the writers just sent her back to New York or England for some lame reason. Much better to have a dramatic ending. I sure hope the actors that are left and the writers can stop paying for bodyguards soon.
You people claiming you won't watch it again because they killed off Lily need to just chill out! I can't tell you how many times I've herad people say things like "Today's tv shows are so predictable" or "There is nothing original on tv..." (myself included). We have no idea what is in store for HOW or if there will even be another season. IT IS A SHOW- a damn-entertaining one at that. Relax. If there is going to be a 3rd season, I would imagine sometime around December we will find out, though if this show is filmed in Canada as I suspect then any new episodes will have already been shot- it will be too cold and snowy for filming between November and April. Do you think they will wait until April of next year to film any new episodes? A long layoff.
As a fan of a show that got ripped out from under us way before its time (Firefly), I hope there will be more HOW and more surprises for us.
I'm hoping the killing of Lily was a dream - OR - she has a twin sister who comes looking for her - OR - the writers have lost their minds.
I cant believe they killed Lily! I was sitting there crying and then going on about it after the show ended. WTF? What were they thinking? I was fan of the show but now not even picking it up on bluray. That ending completely sucked! Good job, bone-headed writers!
Also, has anyone voiced the very real possibility that Dominique McElligott's contract was up and she didn't want to renew it? Don't be so quick to lynch the writers when you don't know any of the facts.
This show has never been about Lilly, or Durant or Elam. It's about the Railroad and how one man, Cullen, see that it's built. So for those saying the show won't continue after Lilly died. It will.
Cullen has now had to bury two women that he has loved, both victims of murder. The bigger question is what sort of man will we see now. Remember his dogged determination to find those Blue Coats? With the Swede dead, where will he channel his anger now?
Wanna love this bc I love westerns, but this season and especially the finale was an EPIC FAIL. What a weird season. So many holes; so much randomness. The heavy focus on the two least interesting characters--the Swede and the reverend--was exasperating. And a COMPLETELY different show than the first season. One episode the Swede is doing the books; the next he's dragged back on a horse with a hole in his belly? It really tried to go way deeper than it needed to and the writers don't have the chops to do it well. And kill Lilly? She was the only thing that made Cullen human, vulnerable and likable. Most viewers will tune out if there's no empathy required and we're not able to really get to know any of the characters and their motivation.


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Five women believed to be wives of Al Shabab members were killed by a soldier in retaliation for the beheading of his wife by the group.
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Countries in the region should offer asylum to refugees who are fleeing the repressive state and dying at alarming rates in the Mediterranean Sea.
The AU said lifting the travel ban would ease the economic impact of the restrictions, which add to continent's woes.
The African Union will have to deal with a crisis of another colour altogether, even as a continental response strategy to illness takes shape.
A new African rapid intervention force is expected to be launched by October - but concerns remain about funding.
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The effectiveness of Africa's major geopolitical organisations continues to be called into question, write Dawn Nagar and Dan Kuwali.
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French President François Hollande went to the Central African Republic where an operation to disarm rogue rebels has killed two French soliders.
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