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BOSTON (April 22, 2004) — Simmons College presents "Collaborating Independence: Dana Salvo and Dawn Southworth," April 26 to May 28 at the Simmons College Trustman Art Gallery, fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway. There will be a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on May 11. The event is free and open to the public. This, the final exhibition in the 2003/04 Trustman Art Gallery's couples series, features two of the regions most distinguished artists.
Dawn Southworth and Dana Salvo have been married for twenty-two years, and have two daughters, Simone and Jahna. As a family and as artists, their lives have been a total collaboration. Salvo has described how their extensive travel as a family has been the key to providing them with otherwise unattainable access to homes and relationships with other families. Each family member is a contributor, a collaborator, on these journeys. There are even objects or detritus in Southworth's work that were treasures scavenged by her children on these trips.
This exhibit celebrates their collaboration and spans almost their entire career as artists living together.
Salvo is a nationally recognized photographer whose work is represented in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art and MOMA. He is the recipient of many awards and grants, including two from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and two Fulbright Scholar awards.
Salvo's trips with his family to Mexico, Vietnam, and India, as well as his work in this country are part of his creative quest to document the unique cultural, spiritual and social properties of other cultures by primarily focusing on domestic interiors. His book Home Altars of Mexico and his film, The Day, The Night and The Dead are widely recognized achievements derived from his Mexican experience.
Southworth is equally recognized for her mixed media works and installations. She has been awarded artist fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in painting and drawing and a NEA/NEFA Fellowship in sculpture. She also is represented in museums, and public and private collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, the DeCordova Museum, and the Boston Public Library. Southworth, a passionate collector, has the extraordinary ability to combine a vast range of materials and processes. Her use of found objects, drawing, sewing, pyrography, and construction are unified in emotionally charged imagery laden with metaphor and symbol grounded in a strong conceptual base.
Southworth and Salvo's solo and group exhibits are too extensive to enumerate.
This Trustman exhibit provides the first opportunity to see how the creative work of these exceptional artists has evolved.
Exhibit hours are from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The gallery is wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Christine Kromer at 617-521-2268 or visit the Trustman Art Gallery Web site at: www.simmons.edu/trustman.
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(Salem, Ore.) — Governor John Kitzhaber announced today that he is accepting applications for three judicial positions on the Lane County Circuit Court to fill the vacancies created by the retirements of Judge Douglas Mitchell, effective May 1, 2011; Judge Jack A. Billings, effective July 1, 2011; and Judge Ted Carp, effective July 1, 2011.
Anyone interested in filling these positions must submit an Interest Form for Judicial Appointments to the Governor's office by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, May 23, 2011. Please note that the form has recently been updated. Interested applicants should mail or deliver the forms to: Liani J. Reeves, General Counsel, Office of the Governor, 900 Court Street NE, Salem, OR 97301-4047.
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Mike Lee creates great textural illustrations that feel like fuzzy childhood memories. The above image is from Nucleus Gallery's Where The Wild Things Are tribute show (Terrible Yellow Eyes). I know it isn't Mike's newest work, but I love his fresh interpretation of the characters. Mike is currently working as a color key artist for Blue Sky animation studios – which is interesting, considering most of his personal work seems to be black and white.
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Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets. You know that anyone who goes by one name is cool as cool can be. So that's why you should definitely go see Lola's second solo exhibition, "Ipsum Factum", at Corey Helford gallery. The opening is on Saturday March 27th, 8-10 pm. But if you absolutely cannot make it out for the reception, the work will be up until April 14th. After the jump, you can get one more sneak peek of Lola's new work before the show.
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Dr. Gary's Best Breed Grain Free Dog Food receives the Advisor's second-highest tier rating of 4 stars.
The Best Breed Grain Free product line lists two dry dog foods, each claimed to meet AAFCO nutrient profiles for all life stages.
The following is a list of recipes available at the time of this review.
- Best Breed Grain Free Salmon with Fruits and Vegetables
- Best Breed Grain Free Chicken with Fruits and Vegetables
Best Breed Grain Free Salmon with Fruits and Vegetables was selected to represent both products in the line for this review.
Best Breed Grain Free Salmon with Fruits and Vegetables
Dry Dog Food
Estimated Dry Matter Nutrient Content
Ingredients: Salmon meal, red lentils, chickpeas, green peas, white fish meal, canola oil, carrots, celery, beets, parsley, lettuce, watercress, spinach, canola oil, natural chicken flavor, ground flax seed, menhaden fish oil, lecithin, calcium carbonate, kelp meal, new zealand green mussel, cranberries, blueberries, salt, potassium chloride, dl methionine, choline chloride, Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product dehydrated, l-lysine, l-carnitine, vitamin E supplement, glucosamine, ascorbic acid, biotin, niacin supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, vitamin A acetate, riboflavin supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, citric acid, vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid, potassium chloride, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, zinc proteinate, iron proteinate, zinc oxide, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, calcium iodate
Fiber (estimated dry matter content) = 4.4%
Red items when present indicate controversial ingredients
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|Calorie Weighted Basis
The first ingredient in this dog food is salmon meal. Because it is considered a meat concentrate, fish meal contains almost 300% more protein than fresh fish itself.
Fish meal is typically obtained from the "clean, dried, ground tissue of undecomposed whole fish and fish cuttings" of commercial fish operations.1
We are pleased to note that, unlike many fish meals, this particular item appears2 to be ethoxyquin-free.
The second ingredient includes lentils. Lentils are a quality source of carbohydrates. Plus (like all legumes) they're rich in natural fiber.
However, lentils contain about 25% protein, a factor that must be considered when judging the actual meat content of this dog food.
The third item includes chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans. Like peas, bean and lentils, the chickpea is a nutritious member of the fiber-rich legume (or pulse) family of vegetables.
However, chickpeas contain about 22% protein, a factor that must be considered when judging the actual meat content of this dog food.
The fourth ingredient includes peas. Peas are a quality source of carbohydrates. And like all legumes, they're rich in natural fiber.
However, peas contain about 25% protein, a factor that must be considered when judging the meat content of this dog food.
The last three items were all legume ingredients: lentils, chickpeas and peas. Though they're a mixture of different items, there's a bigger issue to consider here…
The questionable practice of ingredient splitting.
You see, if you were to total all legume items, the combined total would almost certainly occupy a higher position on the list — likely nudging out the salmon meal as the first (and predominant) ingredient in this dog food.
The fifth ingredient includes whitefish meal, another protein-rich meat concentrate.
The sixth ingredient is canola oil. Many applaud canola for its favorable omega-3 content while some condemn it as an unhealthy fat.
Much of the objection regarding canola oil appears to be related to the use of genetically modified rapeseed as its source material.
Yet others find the negative stories about canola oil more the stuff of urban legend than actual science.3
In any case, plant-based oils like canola are less biologically available to a dog than fish oil as a source of quality omega-3 fats.
The next seven items include a series of nutrient-rich vegetables…
- Carrots
- Celery
- Beets
- Parsley
- Lettuce
- Watercress
- Spinach
From here, the list goes on to include a number of other items.
But to be realistic, ingredients located this far down the list (other than nutritional supplements) are not likely to affect the overall rating of this product.
With five notable exceptions…
First, we find canola oil. Many applaud canola for its favorable omega-3 content while some condemn it as an unhealthy fat.
Much of the objection regarding canola oil appears to be related to the use of genetically modified rapeseed as its source material.
Yet others find the negative stories about canola oil more the stuff of urban legend than actual science.3
In any case, plant-based oils like canola are less biologically available to a dog than fish oil as a source of quality omega-3 fats.
Next, flaxseed is one of the best plant sources of healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Provided they've first been ground into a meal, flax seeds are also rich in soluble fiber.
However, flaxseed contains about 19% protein, a factor that must be considered when judging the actual meat content of this dog food.
In addition, we note the inclusion of dried fermentation products in this recipe. Fermentation products are typically added to provide enzymes to aid the animal with digestion.
Next, we find menhaden oil. Menhaden are small ocean fish related to herring. Their oil is naturally rich in the prized EPA and DHA type of omega-3 fatty acids, two high quality fats boasting the highest bio-availability to both dogs and humans.
What's more, in their mid-depth habitat, menhaden are not as likely to be exposed to mercury contamination as is typical with deep water species.
And lastly, this food also contains chelated minerals, minerals that have been chemically attached to protein. This makes them easier to absorb. Chelated minerals are usually found in better dog foods.
Best Breed Grain Free Dog Food
The Bottom Line
Judging by its ingredients alone, Best Breed Grain Free looks like an above-average dry dog food.
But ingredient quality by itself cannot tell the whole story. We still need to estimate the product's meat content before determining a final rating.
The dashboard displays a dry matter protein reading of 33%, a fat level of 18% and estimated carbohydrates of about 41%.
As a group, the brand features an average protein content of 34% and a mean fat level of 18%. Together, these figures suggest a carbohydrate content of 39% for the overall product line.
And a fat-to-protein ratio of about 53%.
Above-average protein. Above-average fat. And below-average carbs when compared to a typical dry dog food.
When you consider the protein-boosting effects of all the lentils, chickpeas, peas and flaxseed, this looks like the profile of a kibble containing a moderate amount of meat.
Bottom line?
Dr. Gary's Best Breed Grain Free Dog Food is a legume-based kibble using a moderate amount of salmon or chicken meals as its main sources of animal protein, thus earning the brand 4 stars.
Highly recommended.
Please note certain recipes are sometimes given a higher or lower rating based upon our estimate of their total meat content.
A Final Word
The descriptions and analyses expressed in this and every article on this website represent the views and opinions of the author.
We rely almost entirely on the integrity of the information posted by each company on its website. As such, the accuracy of every report is directly dependent upon the quality of that data.
Although it's our goal to ensure all the information on this website is correct, we cannot guarantee its completeness or its accuracy; nor can we commit to ensuring all the material is kept up-to-date on a daily basis.
Each review is offered in good faith and has been designed to help you make a more informed decision when buying dog food.
However, due to the biological uniqueness of every animal, none of our ratings are intended to suggest feeding a particular product will result in a specific dietary response or health benefit for your pet.
For a better understanding of how we analyze each product, please read our article, "The Problem with Dog Food Reviews".
Remember, no dog food can possibly be appropriate for every life stage, lifestyle or health condition. So, choose wisely. And when in doubt, consult a qualified veterinary professional for help.
In closing, we do not accept money, gifts or samples from pet food companies in exchange for special consideration in the preparation of our reviews or ratings.
To learn how we support the cost of operating this website, please visit our public Disclosure and Disclaimer page.
Have an opinion about this dog food? Or maybe the review itself? Please know we welcome your comments.
Notes and Updates
07/05/2013 Original review
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Clio is located in southwest Barbour County in the southeast corner of Alabama. It has a mayor/council form of government. Clio is the birthplace of Alabama governor George Wallace, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton, and Elton B. Stephens, founder of EBSCO Industries.
Originally known as Adkinson's Head, Clio got its first post office in 1860. By 1869, the town had been given its current name, which is the Latin spelling of Kleio, the Greek word for "glory." By 1889, the Central of Georgia Railway Company had constructed and begun operating a line through Clio, which led to rapid growth of the town. Clio incorporated in 1890. Cotton and cattle production were mainstays of the local economy, as was a fertilizer facility, gins, and a naval stores distillery. The first telephone service was established in 1905, as was the first bank, and Clio got its first newspaper in 1906.
Barbour County High School (now located in Clayton) opened in town in 1911. Tragedy struck the town when a major train wreck occurred, killing a number of townspeople who were on the train. Like many other Alabama towns, the boll weevil infestation devastated the local economy. Diversification into crops such as peanuts helped bring the town economy back. A water and sewage system was established in at least part of the town in 1926. During World War II, Clio hosted a German prisoner-of-war camp.
Clio's population according to the 2010 Census was 1,399. Of that number, 36.5 percent of respondents identified themselves as African American, 36.0 percent as Hispanic, 32.0 percent as white, 0.5 percent as Asian, 0.4 percent as Native American, and 0.4 percent as two or more races. The town's median household income, according to 2010 estimates, was $21,806, and the per capita income was $8,722.
According to 2010 Census estimates, the work force in Clio was divided among the following industrial categories:
· Manufacturing (27.7 percent)
· Arts, entertainment, recreation, and accommodation and food services (14.6 percent)
· Retail trade (14.0 percent)
· Educational services, and health care and social assistance (9.3 percent)
· Transportation and warehousing and utilities (8.5 percent)
· Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and extractive (7.6 percent)
· Public administration (6.4 percent)
· Construction (3.2 percent)
· Professional, scientific, management, and administrative and waste management services (3.2 percent)
· Other services, except public administration (2.8 percent)
· Wholesale trade (1.9 percent)
· Finance, insurance, and real estate, rental, and leasing (0.8 percent)
No public schools are located in Clio; students attend Barbour County Schools.
State Highway 51 runs north-south through Clio, and State Highway 10 runs east-west.
Events and Places of Interest
The Clio Museum of Moonshine features a small display on the city's history. Blue Springs State Park is located just east of the town and offers camping and picnic facilities, swimming in spring-fed pools, and sporting fields.
Additional Resources
Barbour County Heritage Book Committee. Heritage of Barbour County, Alabama. Clanton, Ala.: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2001.
Hunt, Lee. A Town Called Clio. Montgomery, Ala.: Black Belt Press, 1998.
Jackson, Alta L. Clio, Alabama: A History. N.p.: n.p., 1979.
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The results of a recent census released by the Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry shows that the number of homeless people in Gainesville have decreased. It is expected that the actual number of homeless people might actually be higher than last year's results.
Post office to cut Saturday mail delivery
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Devoted to horse and human welfare, new organization invites all to Dec. 4-5 symposium in San Diego.
Have you ever had that nagging voice in your gut that your horse's feet weren't right, but you were afraid to say anything to your farrier? Have you been rubbed raw by your saddle and chastised by your trainer for your miserable position, but felt that your saddle was really the problem? Do you feel like your horse might be in pain, but everyone around you just tells you to ignore it or chalk it up to bad behavior? Are you a frustrated horse owner lost in the sea of information (and misinformation) who wants to improve the quality of life for your horse and do what is best for them but don't know where to start?
The HIPPOH Foundation, Horse Industry Professionals Protecting Our Horses, was formed to help you if you can handle the truth!
HIPPOH is an organization of world class equine professionals working together to educate and provide solutions based on science, research, and the culmination of their life-long experiences. These are united professionals passionate about giving the horse a voice and protection from the dark side of the horse industry. To shine a bright light on practices which are detrimental to the health, safety and well-being of our equine compatriots and to you, the rider.
The solution is in your hands and your desire to educate yourself on every aspect of your horse's care. To surround yourself with a "dream team" of professionals whose motto is "Horse's First, Ribbons Second" and pledge to protect your horse from harm and injustice. Unite yourself with professionals who realize the importance of integrating their practices to give optimum care to your horse.
The HIPPOH Foundation is hosting a Masterclass series of symposiums where education is key, and the combined efforts of an Integrative Veterinarian, Master Classical Trainer, Certified Journeyman Farrier, Certified Master Saddler, and human Neurosurgeon, provide the incredible united front dedicated to teaching for the welfare of the horse and rider. These individuals share the same history of watching their own horses suffer, and dealing with the frustration at the lack of resources and the incredible conflict and ignorance in the way of finding answers. Now their united mission is to provide the solutions so that the riders have a resource and the horses have a voice.
The only thing more powerful than a man with an objective is a group of people sharing the same mission. We are hoping you will join us on this mission to help improve your horse's life and to help stop practices in the horse industry that are destroying our horse's health and well being.
Attend the HIPPOH Foundation Symposium "Can You Handle the Truth?" – an extraordinary 2-day event in Rancho Santa Fe, Dec. 4-5, 2010. For more information or to register online, please visit www.art2ride.com or www.inspiritusequine.com, or phone 858-342-6691. Don't miss this incredible opportunity. Whether you ride English or Western, for show or for pleasure, it's time to get educated!


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The flood of pirate headlines forces me to start my introduction to Somalia with a relatively small Somali problem, but a big global problem.
Piracy is a highly visible but second tier symptom of Somalia's tragic condition. It affects relatively few Somalis but draws blood from the rich, powerful and — until now — indifferent world. Somalia has far bigger problems: a civil war, bombs and mortars killing noncombatant civilians, drought, hunger, disease, homelessness, etc.
With a little internet patience, you can probably find support for any opinion you may have about the pirates. "Somalia has always had pirates", is one shared by many 'analysts'. In an irrelevant way, this is probably true, the same way that Americans have always been mass murderers — it happens now and then.
Or "Anarchy onshore makes it impossible to control piracy offshore." There is truth in this, but most of the pirates are based in Puntland, a self-ruling region where internal security is relatively good. Payoffs with ransom loot, however, closes a lot of government and police eyes (according to a BBC report) the way campaign contributions seem to have blinded regulators on Wall St.
"The pirates are a branch of Islamic terrorism". This seems unlikely, since the pirates treat both Christian and Muslim hostages well and don't harm the ships or steal cargoes. Piracy is a business, nothing more, and seems to be conducted honorably. It harms fewer people than, for example, money management or banking.
Like any business, piracy needs capital, which may well be coming from 'private' sources in the Gulf. Pirates need to pay their lawyers (some deals are handled through London . . . I'll pass up the chance to comment on how to tell them apart). Investors want profits. They paid for the fast boats, the GPS systems, fuel, arms, ammunition, bribes, support for a few hundred captive crewmen during long negotiations before the ransoms were paid, and maybe also provided the sophisticated ship handlers to guide captured vessels to a safe anchorage.
Several factors probably lie behind Somali piracy. Historically, there has never been any form of strong central government in Somalia, so the violent impulses found in all societies have met fewer obstacles there, particularly when directed at non-Somalis.
A nasty secret is that the seafood-rich coastal waters have been plundered for years by rich nations . . . including some whose ships are now being plundered in return (France, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Yemen, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan . . . ). Fish stocks have been seriously depleted (the UN, toothless as always, has long known this). What's an unemployed Somali fisherman going to do to feed his family? Anything he can.
Even worse than stealing one of Somalia's main export assets, the UN knows that poisonous wastes have been dumped on the Somali coast. When the recent Indonesian tsunami reached the Somali coast, killing hundreds of Somalis and doing extensive damage, the UN Environmental Program reported finding rusting containers of toxic wastes on the coast of Puntland, which took the brunt of the tsunami in Africa. The news was briefly reported and then buried. Now the rich nations whose industries produced the wastes are shocked! shocked! to find the Somalis claiming to be angry.
Could the pirates be hypocrites? Also shocking! But the crimes against the Somali people are more damaging than the harm done to shipowners and crews. The victims appear to be the insurance companies, which have already retaliated by raising premiums. The real victims, in that case, are all of us, since we end up paying those premiums when we go shopping.
Somalia is in the grip of anarchy, its economy is in ruins, severe droughts and famine are frequent, religious tension (between strict fundamentalism and more relaxed traditional Sufi Islam) and clan rivalries divide the people. A little piracy is less than troublesome to Somalis. It is, if anything, a source of Somali pride, the only income for many coastal communities, an enthusiastic thumb in the eye of the world which has ignored illegal fishing and criminal waste dumping. Who can blame them?
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. (WVLT) -- A bill to prevent premature birth passed the Senate and was headed to the House of Representatives Friday.
The Alexander-Bennett bill, sponsored by U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) praised passage by the Senate of the bipartisan PREEMIE Act, their bill to expand research, education, and intervention activities related to preterm birth.
Alexander said, "This bill will give the more than 200 premature babies born on average each week in Tennessee a better shot at a healthy life, by giving scientists and doctors researching premature birth the resources to continue their work. I urge our colleagues in the House to pass this bill and continue the progress begun when this bill first passed in 2006."
"With the medical science and technology available to us, the United States should be leading the way in research to develop new treatments for preterm birth," Bennet said. "This bipartisan bill will help us better understand the causes of preterm birth and how we can reduce the number of occurrences in Colorado and around the country. I am pleased the Senate passed the bill with broad, bipartisan support, and I urge the House to pass it as soon as possible."
The PREEMIE Act will help reduce preterm birth, prevent newborn death and disability caused by it, and expand preterm birth research. It also will promote the development, availability, and uses of evidence-based standards of care for pregnant women.
This year in the U.S. alone, approximately 28,000 babies will die before their first birthday, 36 percent of those from preterm birth complications. In addition to being the leading cause of newborn death, premature birth can cause a lifetime of health challenges and intellectual disabilities for those children who do survive. According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the annual societal costs associated with preterm birth were $26.2 billion in 2005 or $51,600 per infant born prematurely. Nearly two-thirds of this $26.2 billion estimate was spent on medical care, a figure that does not include the cost of medical care beyond early childhood or caretaker costs such as lost wages.
The bill allows the National Institutes of Health to expand, intensify, and coordinate research related to preterm birth—subject to the availability of funding. It also reauthorizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) research and programs on preterm birth, including improving national data tracking on preterm birth, and conducting studies. The bill adds prenatal care for high-risk pregnancies to the Health Resources and Services Administration telehealth network grant program.
The bill requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality to develop a plan for conducting and supporting research, education and programs on preterm birth within the first year of enactment, and requires the HHS secretary to coordinate existing studies on hospital readmission of preterm infants and to report on recommendations within a year of enactment.
A bipartisan companion bill was introduced in the House by Representatives by Representatives Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Leonard Lance (R-NJ).
The bill is supported by the March of Dimes Foundation, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
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Better be good on this cruise, or you might be booted off.
That's right, another Survivor Cruise, with stars from the reality TV series, is in the works.
The Heroes, Villains & Reality TV Stars voyage, as it's being called, kicks off Nov. 14 in Fort Lauderdale on MSC's Poesia.
Organized by Toms River, NJ-based Cruise Travel Vacations, the seven-night sailing to the Eastern Caribbean include appearances by such Survivor contestants as Jonny Fairplay, Jerri Manthey, Michael Borassi, Susie Smith and Jodi Wincheski.
Also on board: Stephanie LaGrossa, Cirie Fields, Coach Wade, Sugar, Michael Borlone, JT, Yan-man and Matty Whitmore.
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Organizers say passengers will get to mix with the Survivor contestants at an autograph session, Q&A session, beach party, VIP scavenger hunt and other events.
"Fans of the show will have the opportunity to meet-and-mingle, eat, hang out, go shopping, lay out on the beach and go swimming with their favorite Survivor," says Cruise Travel Vacations' Danielle McKee.
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Oscar-Nominated AIDS Documentary HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE to Get Miniseries Adaptation on ABC
by Adam Chitwood Posted 1 year, 297 days ago
The Best Documentary Feature category at this year's Oscars was stacked with some incredible films, and now one of the nominees is getting an adaptation of its own. ABC Studios has bought the rights to director David France's powerful documentary How to Survive a Plague with an eye towards adapting it into a miniseries for the network. The film documents the early years of the AIDS epidemic, following a group of motivated and passionate young men with HIV whose lobbying and protest efforts through the groups ACT UP and TAG directly lead to the production of better and more affordable AIDS treatment drugs. It's an inspiring story and most of the documentary is told through intimate archive footage from the movements, making for a highly emotional viewing experience.
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XXXII Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LARC)
The FAO Regional Conference is held every two years and is the highest governing body and forum of the Organization in the region.
During the Conference, government representatives from every FAO member country gather to discuss the main challenges that Latin America and the Caribbean face with regard to agriculture and food security. The Regional Conference will also examine the actions undertaken by FAO during the biennium, and the establishment of regional priorities that the Organization will follow during the next two years.
Consequently, the Conference is principally a forum where FAO member countries, government representatives, civil society and the production sector gather to establish the guidelines that FAO must follow from 2012 to 2014.
Why is it important
The upcoming FAO Conference, that will be held in Buenos Aires Argentina, from 26 to 30 March 2012, is of greater importance than any of the previous ones, since as of 2012, Regional Conferences will no longer only be technical and advisory in nature, but will establish issues that will guide FAO actions worldwide.
What does this mean for the region? This means that the issues and priorities established by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean for the development of agriculture and the fight against hunger will be submitted to the Council and the FAO Conference as part of their official agenda.
Regional priorities will also have an important role in the FAO Programme and Budget, whose mission will be to include them in the Organization's programmes and to ensure they are reflected in the results of FAO actions.
Conference Agenda
During the Conference, the FAO Regional Office will present two main documents for discussion, one on food and nutritional security and another on climate change. In addition, FAO activities in the region carried out during 2010-2011 will be analyzed, based on the recommendations of the previous Conference, together with the work programme and budget for 2012 and 2013.
The main conclusions from the regional technical bodies, COFLAC (forestry), CODEGALAC (livestock) and COOPESCAALC and COPACO (fisheries), will also be presented to the member countries.
XXXII Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LARC)
26 to 30 March 2012
Palacio San Martín
Arenales 761, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Food and Nutritional Security: Impact, Implications and Opportunities for Latin America and the Caribbean
Climate change adaptation and mitigation to reduce the vulnerability of communities and the crop, livestock, fisheries and forestry sectors
Areas of Priority Actions for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Following Biennium (2014–2015), taking into account the summary of Recommendations of Regional Technical Commissions
Multi-year Programme of Work 2012-15 for the Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean
Summary of Recommendations of Regional Commissions for Latin America and the Caribbean
Global trends and future challenges for the work of the Organization
Committee on World Food Security: CFS in the 2012 FAO Regional Conferences - Guidelines
- Tito Díaz
32nd LARC Secretary
- Mitzi Fabregat
Documentation and Registry Officer
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- América Latina y el Caribe fortalece su lucha contra el hambre y defines las prioridades para la FAO 30/03/12
- Conferencia de prensa del Director General 29/03/12
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- Discurso del Director General, José Graziano da Silva 28/03/12
- Director General de la FAO llama a América Latina y el Caribe a reafirmar su compromiso con la erradicación del hambre 28/03/12
- Sociedad civil es uno de los protagonistas de la Conferencia Regional de la FAO 26/03/12
- Los desafíos de la seguridad alimentaria - Columna de opinión del Director General de la FAO - 26/03/12
- Conferencia de prensa del Director General y visita oficial de la Presidenta argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 22/03/12
- Gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe se reúnen en la XXXII Conferencia Regional de la FAO - 22/03/12


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In 2005, a Brilliant Red A3 disappeared from Audi's Park Avenue showroom, an event that drew considerable public response, brought two million visitors to AudiUSA.com, and contributed to the sale of 1,025 Audis in the 90 days that followed. Even more remarkable was the fact that an actual crime never occurred.
A campaign developed by New York City marketing firm Campfire, The Art of the Heist "embraced the target audience's need of control over their environment and invited them into an immersive 24-hour-a-day alternate reality." Elements such as films, televised content, a fictional video game company, and physical items that were linked to these fictional elements, made the unreal seem real.
Recent recipients of four IAB Mixx Awards for their work on HBO's True Blood, the company has continued to develop engaging ideas. This week I caught up with Campfire Co-Founder Steve Wax about clichéd social media practices, The Art of the Heist, and creatives who inspire him.
JASON BUNYAN: What are 3 social media marketing practices or buzzwords that should be retired at the end of 2009?
STEVE WAX: Number 1: "I'm making a viral video for _____ and I'm going to put it up on YouTube." This sort of certainty ranks up there with Michael from The Office on the occasion of his upcoming roast telling someone, "Let's get YouTube down here to film it!" – Or "I'm writing a New York Times Best Seller!" Number 2: The "30,000 Foot View" referred to at many conferences is weird – what can you see from 30,000 feet after all? Number 3: "Social Media Expert" – gimme a break, most of the people who are "Social Media Experts" haven't worked on a client social media campaign in years. We're in a period where the brains – or mouths – don't know what the hands are doing.
BUNYAN: The idea of narrative seems to hold particular importance to Campfire. Were there particular films, books, games, or works of art that inspired the Art of the Heist? How did the team develop the project? Was there a particular moment in development phase when the group started to feel like, okay, we've entered new territory?
WAX: There was definitely a bit of a '70's action film vibe to the project, highlighted by the short videos directed by Ben Rock. And at that point [The Blair Witch Project] was only 4 years old, and since my partners produced and marketed TBWP, we followed the same principles in building a fan base for Audi and the A3. We developed the project by the main creatives, Mike Monello, Gregg Hale, Brian Cain and Brian Clark, brainstorming down in Orlando, where they all lived at the time. We consulted with McKinney at regularly as well. As to a particular moment where ok, we're in new territory, yes and no, if you know what I mean. Mike and Gregg had [The Blair Witch Project] under their belts, Beta-7 for Sega and ESPN had been a huge hit, so to some extent it was known territory. At the same time live events, like the the mission at the Coachella and finale at the Viceroy Hotel in LA that wrapped up the story were largely new.
BUNYAN: What are the pros and cons of the gradual rise in web fluency? If you pitched Art of the Heist in 2010, how would it differ from the approach you took in 2005?
WAX: We'd probably do a lot more influencer/blogger outreach. We might do more live events connected to the program as well — although the original theft, the wild ass events.
BUNYAN: Who are some creatives, in any field, whose work you enjoy right now? Are any of them doing things that you forsee informing or making their way into advertising in the years to come?
WAX: Besides Campfire's eclectic and world class group of Creative Directors, Brian Cain, Sean Ganann, Steve Coulson, CC Chapman and our ECD, Mike Monello, I'd say Jane McGonigle and Lance Weiler.


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Epitome of Roman History
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|Epitome of Roman History (1889)
by , translated by John Selby Watson
|Florus's Two Books of Epitomes from Titus Livius of all wars of 700 years purports to have been written during the reign of the emperor Trajan (98-117), or 200 years from the reign of Augustus (27 BC - AD 14). A summary of Rome's foreign and civil wars from the earliest times to the accession of Augustus, arranged thematically rather than chronologically, it is based largely, but not entirely, on Livy's From the Founding of the City. Translation by John Selby Watson (1889).


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Question: I need a suggestion for MATH that is good at explaining.
My Answer: We love, love, love Teaching Textbooks.
Our very favorite math is Teaching Textbooks, without a doubt. Math-U-See if you need hands-on--perhaps a visual learner. Apologia is great for science and they offer online classes for their curriculum. BJU is solid, but older. PACES, I think, are okay, but, I think, a little behind. Keep in mind that School of Tomorrow (PACES) is a mastery-based program and self-directed, so any of the other curriculums require a lot more parent involvement--with the exception of Teaching Textbooks. But, truly, any curriculum is what you make of it. Good Luck!
Right Start Math is great for elem. years. It teaches strategies not memorization.
We love Math-U-See. I've been told it's too simple, but for a child struggling to figure it out, MUS covers all the bases.
For jr high and high school classes BJU is awesome. I preferred ABEKA in elementary and middle school. My kids love BJU math more than any other.
I have used Switched on Schoolhouse for my 8th grader and high schoolers. I do NOT recommend it. Explanations are vague and more often than not when answers are correct they are marked wrong if they aren't EXACTLY like the software requires.
I have a friend who used SOS this past year and they hated it. She didn't feel like it really explained everything clearly. They are using Chalkdust next year, which is similar to Teaching Textbooks. I've heard good things about it but have not used it myself. We did use TT and it was great at explaining but my son is a quick learner and was bored of the length of the lessons by the end of the year. Good luck!
I have fallen in love with Teaching Textbooks and it has cd solutions that take you step by step through problems. You can take placement test at website to see where you should start child.
Oh my gosh.. the only math I ever suggest because it is wonderful is Math U See. ABSOLUTELY fabulous. We switched over to it a few years ago here, I use to teach public school and primarily use ps textbooks. ... except for Math U See.. which is a DVD based program. I have told MANY people about this program and NEVER had anyone not one person, say they did not agree that it was the best, easiest to follow, program out there.
By far Math u see is the only math for our family I have a 7th grader that we brought home 2 years ago she would cry every night over her math homework now it is the first thing she asks to do each day.
My kids did not like SOS at all -5th grade. We have used Math-U-See Alpha through Epsilon and love it. The DVD explains the concepts well. Friends use Teaching Textbooks Math. I do not like it as much, but is much more repetitive on covered concepts and limited problems on the new concepts. I do like that my kids are more independent using TT. It is a grade or more behind M-U-S.... we are using both but expect to go back to MUS
We use Math U See and my child loves it...try it...
We like Math U See and have heard great things about the teaching textbooks. Deb posted a resource called Khan Academy which is online (free), and my oldest loves it. So, you may want to look at it and it can be a resource, if nothing else.
Love Teaching Textbooks for our math program!!
We also used Switched on Schoolhouse and my kids found it quite unappealing and rather boring. We were expecting all this interactive stuff that would keep their interest and would be visual, but it was very much a disappointment. Abeka is OK when a child is younger, but as the grades progress, it gets repetitious and can seem to run the work into the ground. Good Luck!!
MATH U SEE...amazing! My daughter struggled for a very long time and after paying tutors and using most of the stuff out there we found math u see! LOVE IT!
After hours and hours of research, we chose Maria Miler's Math Mammoth (light blue series), which is available as download, cd or "worktext" workbooks. The explanations and examples are solid – it is reasonably priced and it works for us. You can get free workbook page samples and even a free placement test from the Math Mammoth website. She teaches many math lessons on you tube as well. Also perhaps worth noting is a series of workbooks I am really interested in called Make it Real Learning. Since I do not have these workbooks yet I am not endorsing them but think others may find they are worth a look. This series is supposedly aimed at answering the math question we hear a lot in our house "When am I ever going to use this?" The problems are those you would encounter in real life. For example, looking at different cell phone plans and determining which one is the best deal. (I think this series is for middle school through high school.) I am planning to supplement the Math Mammoth with the Make it Real Learning workbooks and hope we don't find them disappointing. As others have said, I agree the best learning is often hands on, in the kitchen or measuring and cutting angles in a woodworking project. It's amazing what knowledge kids will soak up building a catapult – and what fun!


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SPTS Ships Etch Solutions To Europe's Leading R&D Organizations
NEWPORT, Wales, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
SPTS Technologies, a supplier of advanced wafer processing solutions for the global semiconductor industry and related markets, today announced it has received multiple orders from several of the Europe's leading research and development (R&D) institutions, including the Delft Institute of Microsystems & Nanoelectronics (DIMES), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institut FEMTO-ST (Franche-Comté Electronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies) and IEF (Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale). Each customer selected SPTS equipment for its process flexibility, extendibility, and long-term application potential.
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Dimes is a research institute within the Delft University of Technology with cleanroom facilities where submicron electronics and MEMS technologies are combined to fabricate micro systems. Applications are medical (flexible chips in catheters), nano-instrumentation (integrated microfluidic jet systems, sensors), infrastructure (integrated radars) and energy (smart lighting). The Omega i2L Rapier system will be essential for wafer-deep etches of micromechanical structures and through silicon vias with vertical or tapered sidewalls. The selection of this system was driven by the need for a reliable DRIE system, able to fulfill the stringent process requirements.Swiss research institute EPFL chose SPTS's advanced physical source (APS) to focus on dielectric etching. Of particular interest is controlling sidewall quality for shallow optical waveguides in silicon nitride and also etching 40µm deep trenches into fused silica glass. The APS is characterized by a plasma density that is typically ten times higher than conventional inductively-coupled plasma (ICP) reactors, making the module well suited to etch strongly-bonded materials such as glass, and even tougher materials like silicon carbide (SiC) and sapphire. France-based institute IEF will use their etch system for two dissimilar silicon processes - the first application involves fabricating nano trenches 80nm wide at >5:1 aspect ratio and with super smooth sidewalls (with a roughness of <6nm), with the second, a 50µm feature at 400µm deep. IEF awarded the business to SPTS following a successful demonstration which saw its Pegasus Rapier process module perform to these rigorous requirements using a single hardware set-up. The French research organization Institut Femto-ST chose the Pegasus Rapier for their optics, sensor and actuator device development. During the evaluation process, SPTS satisfied stringent process specifications to win the business.
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Hackers briefly took control of U.S. imaging satellites in 2008
According to a congressional commission report to be released next month, on four separate occasions between 2007 and 2008, hackers (who may or may not have been affiliated with the Chinese government) were able to take complete control of two U.S. satellite systems, Landsat-7 and Terra (EOS AM-1), for up to 12 minutes at a time.
Landsat-7 and Terra are imaging satellites run by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. They have high-resolution mutispectral cameras, spectrometers, and other instruments designed to monitor changes to the Earth's surface and the spread of pollution. As far as we know, neither of these satellites are carrying nukes or battle lasers or anything like that, but it's still probably not a good thing that hackers were able to take complete control of them.
"Complete control" means that the hackers were able to do more than just intercept transmitted data. Had they chosen to, they could have forged transmitted data from the satellite, turned off the satellite's transmitter completely, or even commanded the satellite to destroy itself. There have been no indications that the security breaches led to anything like this, but according to the congressional report, it's a certainty that "the responsible party achieved all steps required to command the satellite."
The report also suggests that the aforementioned responsible party may have been Chinese. There's no proof, but attacking ground-based satellite control infrastructure (the breaches originated at a control station in Norway) is consistent with Chinese military tactics, and "individuals participating in ongoing penetrations of U.S. networks have Chinese language skills and have well established ties with the Chinese underground hacker community." Obviously, this is something that the U.S. is taking very seriously, since more sensitive satellites (the ones that probably do have the battle lasers) are also controlled via ground stations that may be vulnerable to similar attacks.
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The '60s Classic 'A Raisin In The Sun' Still Has Plenty Wisdom to Impart
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Better late than never, Lorraine Hansberry's game-changing 1959 Broadway hit A Raisin in the Sun is making its Westport Country Playhouse debut. With some shows, you're not so surprised never played the place before. But Raisin was an immediate American theater classic upon its East Coast premiere in 1959. You'd think it would have been a natural for the WCP in its old summer-stock days, when urban and Southern melodramas were all the rage.
Connecticut did have a major stake in the initial success of A Raisin in the Sun. The pre-Broadway try-out was at the Shubert in New Haven, and Hansberry made major rewrites while staying at the Taft Hotel. That legendary Broadway production was directed by Lloyd Richards, who later became Artistic Director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and Dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he furthered the careers of numerous other major playwrights.
A Raisin in the Sun is the play that crystallized the African-American Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s, was openly mocked (as "The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play") in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum for its oversized influence on decades worth of African-American drama and inspired Bruce Norris' recent caustic contemporary culture clash Clybourne Park, which appropriates an offstage setting and a minor character from A Raisin in the Sun. (The Long Wharf Theatre is doing Clybourne Park in 2013.)
As inspirational as it has become, Hansberry's script itself defies updating or reinterpretation. Realistic sets, Greek Tragedy-grand performances and long cerebral pauses are de rigeur.
There are certainly some strident old-school dramatic outbursts to contend with here. This is not just a show about social injustice in the broad national, '60s Civil Rights sense, but about sensitive individuals being cheated, lied to, talked down to and stolen from. There's a lot of talk about Africa, and assimilation, and real estate values. But there are also bursts of deep inner anguish, high dudgeon that just spills out.
Phylicia Rashad, who won a Tony for playing Younger family matriarch Lena Younger in the major Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun in 2004 (opposite Sean Combs, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan) is the director now, and sets an even pace and tone even while letting the actors chew the scenery when needed. Rashad lets this production's Lena, Lynda Gravatt do it her own way — wise move, since Gravatt, a veteran of August Wilson dramas and an astute ensemble player, has played Lena to acclaim before, right in Connecticut at Hartford Stage just six years ago.
Gravatt, Edena Hines as her medical-student daughter and Susan Kelechi Watson as longsuffering daughter-in-law Ruth Younger (a far cry from Watson's alluring, outgoing Olivia at Westport Country Playhouse in Twelfth Night a year ago) all find their own characters, taking refreshing risks with some of the line readings and reactions, challenging the expectations of those who know this classic by heart.
As the most scattered, aggressive and unstable of all the characters, the exasperated chauffeur and hopeful entrepreneur Walter Lee Younger, recent Yale school of drama grad Bill Eugene Jones gets loud, soft, weepy and violent in the extreme, yet keeps a central core which makes him seem more impulsive than schizoid.
A Raisin in the Sun, about a close-knit black family in Chicago who are close to being torn apart by the struggles of day-to-day life in a racist and segregated society, still has plenty to say to Connecticut audiences. Pay heed, Westport, to the young, gifted and black legacy of Lorraine Hansberry.Copyright © 2014, The Morning Call


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110 film? i asked everywhere around here for 110 film.
I can't find it anymore and nobody's developing it anymore either.
Maybe in the uk they do?
@elvis hi, you can buy it off ebay, i know there is quite a lot around but its quite expensive! ye i have a lab in my town that still does it !! yay!!
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Season 3 begins with Tara returning to the family's Labor Day barbecue, after a transition to Buck leads her on an unexpected mission. Kate is trying desperately to plan the next phase of her life, one that does not include college or living with her very pregnant Aunt Charmaine, who, in her own way, avoids committing to Neil. Meanwhile, student filmmakers Marshall and Lionel Trane make their first commitment together when they purchase a new video camera for film class. All the college talk makes Tara realize how badly she wants to finish the last few credits of her own degree, and so, with the help of Ted Mayo (MICHAEL HITCHCOCK), Tara enrolls in a few classes, including a psychology course taught by the charismatic Dr. Jack Hattaras. But Max is fearful that the stress of college will cause Tara to transition...or worse.
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I've read many reviews on ACV and girls please be careful with your ratio. The 4/1 ratio for your hair is way too much. 1 table spoon per cup of water is plenty.
Now for my review, I've recently switch country and I'm now confronted to very hard water. Hard water can really build up on the hair and make it dry and brittle. I use the ration mentioned earlier in filtered water as a final rinse. If you put back hard water in your hair after in kinda defeat the purpose. I alternate between a gentle bio shampoo (lavera) with occasional clarifying shampoo. When I use it with the gentle shampoo I use the ratio mentioned earlier, with my harsher shampoo I add a couple of drops of glycerin in the mix to make the rinse more moisturizing.
If you have dry hair you can use either a very small amount of glycerin, aloe juice or honey. I will counteract the drying effect from the ACV.
As for the results, my hair is very shinny and full and doesn't get greasy as fast. And contrary to what people think for external use you don't need the mother in it.
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I have both Bragg and Walmart's own brand "Great Value" ACV and I don't see much difference for rinsing my hair. I often spend time in the pool and can't spend $ for swim shampoo. I saw in some swim forums that rinse off with ACV after shampoo and conditioner or mix baking soda in the shampoo. So I chose ACV rinse method. I have healthy hair except that quite dry and rough after spending ~4-5x a week in the pool. Of course, I lost weight :) Anyway, I bought a gallon ACV bottle from Walmart with <$5 and 1:4 mix with water in an empty shampoo bottle. That gallon bottle lasts the whole summer... I still have some in the bottle. In my experience, Bragg smells very stronger than Great Value. My hair doesn't smell like ACV with GV but I feel the clean feeling. Since I am rinsing off after not longer than 3 min, I don't see the point of using organic or natural but maybe when I have more $... I save Bragg for facial mask with Indian/Bentonite Clay.
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I do an acv rinse every Sunday. It makes my hair feel so smooth and removes mineral buildup. I shampoo my roots then add a mixture of mostly water and a few splashes of this, no conditioner needed.
I've had so many problems with acne since i've been about 12, and i'm still dealing with it and i'm 20. I've used numerous topical creams, have been on accutane (which I have to say improved my acne by about 70% and its been about four years since being off of it). Some of my acne did come back after about a year so I went on doxycycline-which did nothing. A year and half ago I tried the acne.org system and it worked so well for me. But after a year and a half, i got some light acne again which is annoying after being clear on and off again-plus it spread to my chest and back a little. Good system, but very messy and makes your skin feel weird if you don't put it on right after you shower or wash your face...yet I would recommend it to people if ACV didn't work for them.
My mom suggested that I try ACV so I mixed ACV and water (1/4 cup:1/4 cup) with about 5 drops of tea tree oil. So far I love this!!! I find the tea tree oil is very strong in the container at first with the ACV/water mix, but it tones down after a day or so. It also seemed to help cut the time the smell lingered on my skin, and I didn't notice a smell when I sweat after I added the tea tree oil, which I could a little before I added the oil. I have very sensitive skin and it does burn on some pimples, but it did not last long at all. It didn't dry my skin out, but it did bring out a few small flat pimples. I only have light acne now, so the amount of pimples it can bring to the surface probably depends how many pimples are lingering below the surface. Be patient, it's so worth it. My skin was so dry from the acne.org so I used Ponds moisturizer-heavy duty stuff and my favorite go to moisturizer by far. ACV has balanced the pH level in my skin, I haven't even used the moisturizer in a while, but maybe in the winter i'll use it again? I'd also suggest using this Aztec clay mask I found at the better health food store-I paid $6 for a huge jar-and it has improved my skin so much [http://www.makeupalley.com/product/showreview.asp/itemid=74122]. Lastly, use ponds cold cream to remove makeup and a bar cleanser from soapworks(i use the carbolic one)-they are all natural [http://puresoapworks.com/carbolic.htm]. They smell weird before you actually use them, so don't disregard the product because the initial smell. I heard it can also be used on the body to help repel mosquitos [http://puresoapworks.com/mosquito_stories.htm]
My regime:
get rid of makeup with ponds cold cream makeup remover [night only]
wash face, chest, and back with carbolic soap
Use cotton pads to apply ACV/water/tea tree oil toner to face, chest, and back
*2-3 times a week I use the Aztec Clay mask. DO THIS BEFORE TAKING A SHOWER, comes off way easier in the shower.
I was nervous at first using makeup because of possibly spreading bacteria. I've started out lightly and haven't had any problems with breaking out!
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I purchased the Heinz brand at walmart because that is all they had. I really did not think this would work because I have tried many things to help with my hormonal cystic breakouts and nothing has worked. I have been using this a week now and my face has completely cleared up. It looks fresher. The smell is awful but I don't really care because it made such a difference in my skin in just one week. I will continue to use this everyday.
I hate the smell. I live in hot, humid Asia & you smell horrible after rinsing your hair with any diluted vinegar. Don't see any result on my hair too. Prefer using coconut oil as hair mask and gentle deep cleansing shampoo for my slightly damaged chemical treated hair.
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I've had a MASSIVE cherry angioma in the middle of my face for over a decade. Even my own mom thought it was ugly. My boyfriend was constantly saying "oh hey you have a big zit." It was raised and concealer wasn't helping. I went to a derm who offered to laser it off for the hefty sum of $300, plus weeks of downtime with bruising. I declined.
On the net some people had mentioned that if you scratch it with a CLEAN pin until it bleeds, then apply vinegar 3x a day until it scabs over, it can disappear. I was skeptical but had nothing to lose. You know if you are doing this process right because the vinegar does sting a bit. You can stop applying vinegar once the scab forms.
It scabbed over and looked really gross. I now had a giant black scab in the middle of my face. Terrific. But I managed not to pick at it even once, which is a miracle on its own, and left it alone. 2 weeks later, the scab fell off the the angioma was GONE. It's like magic. It's just GONE. For free instead of $300. I am THRILLED!
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Purchased a bottle from Walmart (Great Value Brand) because I heard it would remove warts. Well, let me tell you...IT WORKS. My son has a dime size wart on his finger and after using ACV once, it has gone down a lot! I simply soaked a cotton ball and secured it with a band aid before going to bed. I think another 2-3 nights of this should do the trick.
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Ok, so I only break this out on nights when I'm staying in and won't offend anyone with the ungodly stench. This stuff burns my eyes, it smells so bad, and I'll never get used to it.
HOWEVER, it has really helped with my skin! I've been using it for two weeks, and my skin is really clear and less oily, and my red acne marks are fading! It's also super nifty for a clarifying/shine rinse. Highly Recommend!
So, I have to preface this by mentioning the smell. It is appalling. It smells like bad white wine and gym socks, and the only thing that has made me physically gag just because of the smell. That said, it's a testament to how well it works, because the result makes it so worth it. I use it only on my hair (I wanted to try it on my face, but the thought of that smell sitting on my skin horrified me.) After shampooing, I pour this mixed with equal parts water through my hair, and leave it for 4-5 minutes, breathing through my mouth, and then I rinse it out. After, I apply conditioner, just to get the smell out, though my hair feels soft already. The smell remains a little, but disappears once the hair is dry, and my hair is gorgeous! I have long, thick, straight hair, down to my hips, so it doesn't give me a lot of body, but it makes it so clean, shiny, and soft that my hair feels almost slippery. Also, I use a deep waver on my hair every other day, and this, deep conditioner, and olive oil keep my hair healthy as hell. If you can handle the smell, I can't recommend this enough.
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|Fri, 09-10-2004 - 11:23am
I love Maddalena's exercise suggestion, which is getting buried in the Fun and Games folder, but I realize fantasy may not be everyone's cup of tea.
|Fri, 09-10-2004 - 8:57pm
I thought about turning on the television a moment, but decided just to lie back in solitude with my cup of freshly brewed coffee. A list of to-do errands briefly flickered through my mind, but the strident ring of the telephone interrupted my thoughts. I picked up the receiver and heard my husand's voice. "I'm on my way to New York, but the towers have been hit by a plane; turn on the television. I hope this doesn't make me late for my meeting. I'm a few cars before the Verrazano Bridge. Have to go. Love you."
I flicked on the television just in time to see the second plane crash into the tower and the building alight with flame. Newscasters anxiously reported workers jumping out windows to their deaths. Minutes later I called back my husband. The bridge had closed two cars before him. He wouldn't be going to his meeting after all.
|Fri, 09-10-2004 - 9:42pm
Thanks for the heads up on mr's post. I had not seen it as it, indeed, was buried down at the bottom of the page. I found myself instantly drawn to the possibilities and began right away to write. Before I knew it, the following story had unfolded on the screen. So, just in case you don't get to the bottom of the WEB screen, this is what happened ... flash fiction in under three minutes! Thanks.
I am currently writing this from the offices of a local church. My home has been overrun by dozens of civil and parochial investigators.
It all started last night when I decided to rearrange my bedroom to accomplish the two fold task of cleaning and creating more space. Imagine my surprise, when I moved the bed, to find that the boards beneath appeared to be unstable, insubstantial, even holographic. They appeared solid enough but, when I dropped a shoe on the floor there, it vanished right through the boards.
Now I know when I put the bed there those boards were solid. Believe me, I would remember stepping THROUGH them! Just around midnight, I finished up and I tried to go to sleep but, with the house enveloped in darkness, I began to hear noises the likes of which I have never heard before. People screaming and crying. Moaning so pathetic it gave me chills. I reached to turn on my bedside lamp to investigate the source of the noises and my hand froze millimeters from the switch. There, on the far side of the room, those damned boards seemed to be glowing. The area seemed larger and a slight mist seemed to hover over the area. A chill ran through me from head to toe. My body shuddered violently.
Leaving the lights out, I climbed out of bed and moved closer to the anomaly. Half way there my footsteps froze as I began to understand what was happening. When I finally found the strength to move, I ran. I ran out of the house in my barefeet, wearing nothing more than scanty underpants and a hockey jersey. I ran until I couldn't run anymore.
The police found me wailing and babbling incoherently about an hour later and drove me to the church where they took me in for the night. They tell me my hair has turned white. I don't know. I haven't looked in a mirror. I am still shaking from head to toe chilled to my very core by the experience.
Father MacFallon arrived from Rome a few hours ago. He told me that's the way it happens. Every century or so one gate closes and another opens.
I understand that I am to return to Rome with Fr. MacFallon tonight. They plan to keep me there. I guess that's all right, though. I don't suppose I'd really want to live at the mouth to the gates of hell.
|Fri, 09-10-2004 - 10:09pm
I had just about drifted off when noise once more blared through the thin walls of our ranch-style home. My fists pulled back the covers and I stomped back into the room where again no one watched the annoying machine. I promptly turned it down and stalked off toward my bedroom. At the doorway I heard my name and turned to find my dad's face red with frustration.
"What are you doing?"
"Dad, I'm trying to sleep!"
"Thousands of people have just died and I want to know what's going on!���
I stared at him. With my mind still in the fog of sleep I thought maybe he wanted to watch the end of an adventure movie about some dreaded disaster. He turned up the TV and while he continued to get ready for the day, I watched what he said turn into reality.
|Sat, 09-11-2004 - 5:36pm
When the first plane hit, the Today Show was pre-empted and video of the plane crashing into the World Trade Center was shown. One of the commentators seemed to think that the air traffic controllers had made a mistake. But, soon when the second plane hit, we all knew it wasn't an accident.
That day was one of the most emotionally trying days that I have ever experienced. I can only imagine, in my worst nightmares, the terror that those poor innocent victims experienced that fateful September morning.
|Sun, 09-12-2004 - 2:27pm
I went in. Beside the tv lay the invitation to the wedding: "... on the twelfth of September, 2001". We just stood there and stared at the screen. Everything had become deathly quiet. My husband came back a few moments later, and whispered that he had known for an hour or so already.
We were in Israel, in the kibbutz where my father-in-law lives. When we walked over to his house, the kibbutz was silent. No children, no yelling mothers, no yapping dogs - only the voices of the CNN through the open windows. While walking, my husband used his cell phone to phone my brother in London.
"No, I´m NOT joking...no,listen...no, the Pentagon is on fire."
We reached the house of my father-in-law.Less than five miles to the east lay the soft hills of the West Bank. On television we saw pictures of how they danced and celebrated in the streets there. No one knew yet who lay behind the attacks.
Late at night, we sat outside in the warm breeze, under the starry sky. Now, everyone was talking, some breathlessly, some restrainedly. Moths and beetles twirled crazily around the lamps, as usual, oblivious of the sweat, the pressure, the acid taste of every morsel of food.
The airport remained closed for days. But we had the wedding - hundreds of guests under the starry sky, a moment of hope and brief oblivion.
|Sun, 09-12-2004 - 4:50pm
An older woman from church packed a bag for me and hired caregivers for my two chocolate lab puppies. Little Ricky and Little Hope couldn't go with me. My daughter had been staying the night with a friend and had her bag and blankie with her there. They assured me she was safe and should stay put.
My church lady friend met me in the patrol car on a back road. I was transferred to her car as she assured the detectives I would be in a safe place for the next few days. She brought me to Cape May New Jersey. She registered me in a Christian B & B, paid for three nights and left giving me the contact number with the one detective I had to check in with.
I always wore my long hair in a ponytail to hide the bald patches back then. My husband liked to pull me by my hair. I always went to great lengths back then to hide the evidence of his torture. He was never loud. I was even quieter.
When my friend, who was like a mother to me, left me – and the state – after dinner that night. I was silent. I felt abandoned. I tried to sleep. I jumped and yelped like a lunatic at every sound. I was so tired of being afraid. I slid on my sandals and walked out to the beach. I sat in the sand just listening to the ocean's tide. It sounded so powerful, unstoppable. Somehow, it gave me hope. There was something more powerful than my husband.
I know I slept that night. My clip-on reading light had burnt out by morning. I showered and made my way down to the porch where they were serving breakfast. I sat way back at a table in the corner. I could still feel the salty breeze from the Atlantic. I eavesdropped on conversations happening around me. Would I be able to have a casual conversation ever again? Fellowship with friends seemed lost to me forever. All that was left, it seemed, were images of horror. I didn't know how to live anymore. I felt broken, damaged – no, I felt destroyed. I worried about my five-year-old daughter. I worried about my pups that were still in that house.
The owner of the B & B ran out to us and said, "A Plane just crashed into a building in New York!" I tried to run to my room with everyone else, but I was too weak from my injuries to do anything but walk slowly and with support. I collapsed to the floor in my room and turned on the first TV. that I had for weeks. I watched and prayed. All of my self-focusing vanished. The horrors on the screen overshadowed anything I had ever seen before. The rage of the terrorists was unsurpassed by my husband's quiet attempts at terror. The destruction leveled buildings. My husband's damage left me standing. I was still breathing. I saw the labored breath of the rescue workers. There were so many victims who lost their lives. I decided mine could begin again. The evening of September 11, 2001, I sat on the beach. I reached up and pulled the elastic from my hair and let the salty breeze blow it in my face as I shut my eyes and prayed for recovery. Recovery for the victims and their families, and recovery for my own family.


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