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EDMONDS, WASH., June 14, 2013 — Fulfilling a promise to the community to make significant investments in advanced medical services and technology, today Swedish/Edmonds announced plans for a $63.5 million expansion at the existing hospital campus. Construction of a two-story, 77,000-square-foot facility will feature a new emergency department (ED) with a dedicated behavioral health unit and urgent care center. It will also include a new outpatient diagnostic imaging center, observation unit, front entry, and parking garage. The building's second floor will be reserved for future expansion of hospital services. Construction is expected to begin in spring 2014, with completion of the ED and urgent care center in the fall of 2015.
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Swedish Issaquah ER Receives National Recognition for Patient Satisfaction
ISSAQUAH, WASH., Nov. 21, 2012 – When people think of an emergency room (ER) the words 'patient satisfaction' are probably not the first that come to mind. However, at the Swedish Issaquah ER patient satisfaction is a top priority – and now the facility has been nationally recognized for its work in this area.
Swedish's Employer Medical Assistance Program Featured in Puget Sound Business Journal Article
SEATTLE, April 30, 2012 - Swedish Employer Medical Assistance (EMA) was recently featured in a Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ) article published April 27 about the program and the services it provides to the cruise-ship, maritime and industrial companies throughout the region.
EMA Medical Director Ray Jarris, M.D., and Program Manager Laura Walden - along with a few EMA client representatives - were interviewed for the piece.
Swedish Mill Creek Emergency Department, Ambulatory Care Center Opens Feb. 17; Public Open House on Feb. 12, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
MILL CREEK, WASH., Feb. 10, 2011 – Health care keeps evolving and the south Snohomish County area is about to get a completely different type of medical facility. Swedish this month opens a new freestanding emergency department (E.D.) and ambulatory care center (ACC) at13020 Meridian Ave. S., just off Interstate 5. A community open house is planned on Sat., Feb. 12 from10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the first patients will be treated on Thursday morning, Feb. 17.
Swedish Redmond Emergency Department, Ambulatory Care Center Set to Open
REDMOND, WASH., Dec. 10, 2010 – Prompt access to medical care in East King County is about to get a lot easier. Swedish this month opens a new freestanding emergency department and ambulatory care center (ACC) at 18100 Union Hill Rd. in Redmond. A community open house is planned on Sat., Dec. 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the first patients will be treated on Tuesday, Dec. 21.
"We are very pleased that Swedish chose Redmond for its second in a series of advanced ACCs," said Redmond Mayor John Marchione. "It will be a strong complement to the health-care infrastructure already in place here."
Swedish to Host Public Open House Dec. 18 to Celebrate Opening of Its New Emergency Department and Ambulatory Care Center
SEATTLE, Nov. 29, 2010 – On Saturday, Dec. 18 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. a public open house will be held to celebrate the opening of Swedish Medical Center's new emergency department and ambulatory care center located at 18100 N.E. Union Hill Road in Redmond.
A slew of fun family activities is planned as part of the free, four-hour event including:
- Tours the new emergency department and imaging department
- A chance to meet and ask questions of the doctors from Swedish/Redmond's primary-care clinic
- Free photos with Santa
- Face-painting
- A balloon artist
- Cookie decorating
- The chance to win a $250 gift card to Redmond Town Center
- A tree maze – All the fun of a corn maze, made from a forest of trees
- Older kids will get to experience Kinect™ for Xbox 360™ and try out Nintendo® Wii™ inside a cool mobile gaming theater
- A teddy bear clinic – Kids are encouraged to bring their favorite doll or stuffed animal for a free check-up. They can also get a finger cast and have fun decorating it.
- Get a free soccer scarf – The fist 500 visitors can take home a collectible Swedish Redmond soccer scarf
About Swedish Redmond
Designed to be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the 86,000-square-foot, three-story building will feature a freestanding emergency department with 18 exam rooms, an advanced diagnostic imaging center (including X-ray, mammography, ultrasound, CT scan and MRI) and on-site laboratory services, as well as primary- and specialty-care offices. The facility officially opens for business on Tuesday, Dec. 21.
Swedish Ballard Hosting Public Open House Nov. 6 to Celebrate Opening of New Emergency Department and Medical Office Building
SEATTLE, Oct. 22, 2010 – Swedish Ballard's new Emergency Department and medical office building (located at 5350 Tallman Ave. N.W.) will be open for public tours and a slew of other fun and beneficial community health activities on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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CORAL SPRINGS, FL (CNN) — A south Florida teacher is accused of using dirty discipline to punish a student for clogging a urinal.
"It was very embarrassing to have that going around the school and people just bothering me about the simple thing that shouldn't have been done," the student told CNN.
Embarrassed is how this 10 year old feels walking around Broward Community Charter School West, ever since he says teacher Jennifer Forshey ordered him to unclog a urinal with his bare hands.
Coral Springs police say 58-year-old Forshey ordered the boy to use a dry paper towel to clear the drain, but according to the arrest report, the paper and urinal were wet enough to seep through the paper towel he was holding. The victim's hands were saturated in what smelled like urine from the urinal and the paper towel that was in the urinal.
"To let that go on with a child is irresponsible and I just feel it's not acceptable," said Jenay Roberts, the boy's mother.
The boy's mom is outraged because she says there's no soap in the bathroom and her son had to the dean who told him to clean his hands with just running water.
"I just think it's something no kid should go through and I wouldn't want him to ever go through anything like that again," Roberts said.
The family has hired attorney Joshua Hertz who said the boy never clogged the urinal, it was someone else.
"I found this act despicable, disgusting and unbelievable that a teacher would instruct a 10-year-old boy to use his bare hands to clean out a urinal," attorney Joshua Hertz told CNN.
According to the school's website, this is Forshey's second year at the school. She's facing battery charges and told police she doesn't even see anything wrong with exposing a child to urine.
"I just hope that she's sorry for what she's done," Roberts said.
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Vascular plants are plants that have special tubes for transporting sap (in plants, a watery solution with dissolved nutrients). The xylem tubes transport water and nutrients taken in through the roots throughout the plant. Transpiration is the release of water from a plant's surface. Most transpiration takes place in a plant's leaves. Transpiration rate is the measure of transpiration in a given time.
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Transpiration is the process in which water is taken in by plant roots, moves up through xylem tubes, passes through holes in the leaves called stomata, and then evaporates into the atmosphere as water vapor. Sap moves through the xylem tubes in the stems, as shown in the diagram on page 49. As the water evaporates from the surface of the leaves, the column of sap in the xylem rises, and more water molecules are pulled in at the roots; thus, a continuous flow of water enters the roots and moves throughout the plant.
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The future of the economy is on many people's minds and for good reason. While we cannot know if the future, one thing appears certain. We are living in a multi-speed world.
I first heard of the term different economic speeds when I was in Australia. They point to two speeds: a top speed and a bottom speed. The top speed defines parts of the economy that continue to grow. In Australia top speed firms are in natural resources. The bottom speed defines the rest of the economy which faces continued challenge. This idea seems to apply to the world in general as we face different economic realities depending on our job, company, industry or geography.
Recent economic news seems to point to at least three speeds in economic activity around the world. Based on Gartner Executive Programs Mid Year CIO economic update survey of more than 500 companies, there appears to be at least three economic futures facing executives:
- Top speed companies are those that have not seen sales drop in the recession. This represents about 8% of the companies responding to the survey.
- Second speed companies are recovering from the recession. They are looking for growth, but not a return to 2008 business levels. These people are sensitive to warnings about a 'double dip' recession threatening their future. This group comprises 38% of companies responding to the survey.
- The third speed is one that has not seen a recovery and for whom the term double dip has little meaning. This group represents the majority of companies at 54%. This means that most of us, but not all of us, face a world where we expect continued economic challenges.
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Understand how God works to heal and touch lives today. Many people have questions about how the Holy Spirit can work in their lives. Part of the Foundation on the Holy Spirit series, this book explains the gift of healing as understood as a foundational element of the belief system of the Spirit-filled community. It provides biblical background and support for the experience and explains why the work of the Holy Spirit is relevant and active in the body of Christ in this current age, as it has been since the Day of Pentecost. You will learn...What does it mean to have a gift of healing? What does the Bible say about it? How can I experience it for myself? The Holy Spirit that filled Jesus, empowered His ministry, raised Him from the dead, birthed the church on the Day of Pentecost, and performed miracles in the early church is the same Holy Spirit that equips believers today. The goal of this book is to build your faith so that you can appreciate God's gift of healing purchased by the blood of Christ, whatever form that healing might take.


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Nickelback's Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne! The Five Worst Pop Collaborations
Literally the two shittiest musical artists of all time, Nickelback's Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne, are in the studio, making an album together. These two Canadian hacks are combining their talents as the world's most-hated musicians to create the best-selling piece of shit ever recorded.
We don't even have to wait for a release to know this is going to suck. But it's not the first crappy collab. And it won't be the last.
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We LOL-ed forever when we heard YMCMB signed '90s nu-metal monsters Limp Bizkit. Hadn't we all decided Fred Durst was the biggest loser of all time? Sometimes we think Lil Wayne just wants to see if he was so famous he could literally get away with anything. Sure, this is a bad copy of a sneak peek. But something tells us the official release won't be much better. Maybe it's the line "Now let me get a hey/So we can get a ho."
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Speaking of bringing bad '90s nu-metal back from the dead ... WTF was Skrillex thinking working with Korn? Don't get us wrong, we were total freaks on leashes growing up. But then we grew up. That kind of aggro sadness deserves to stay in our middle-school memories where they can be nostalgic and fun. Trying to bring it back just makes us sad all over again.
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"Marking the fifth annual Global Handwashing Day on October 15, and approaching the second anniversary of the first case of reported cholera in Haiti in 2010, Partners in Health, Veolia Environment Foundation, Zanmi Lasante, and Catholic Relief Services became the newest members of the Regional Coalition on Water and Sanitation for the Elimination of Cholera in the Island of Hispaniola.
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Chronic pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease that causes progressive destruction of pancreatic acinar cells and, ultimately, loss of pancreatic function. We investigated the role of IκB kinase α (IKKα) in pancreatic homeostasis. Pancreas-specific ablation of IKKα (Ikkα(Δpan)) caused spontaneous and progressive acinar cell vacuolization and death, interstitial fibrosis, inflammation, and circulatory release of pancreatic enzymes, clinical signs resembling those of human chronic pancreatitis. Loss of pancreatic IKKα causes defective autophagic protein degradation, leading to accumulation of p62-mediated protein aggregates and enhanced oxidative and ER stress in acinar cells, but none of these effects is related to NF-κB. Pancreas-specific p62 ablation prevented ER and oxidative stresses and attenuated pancreatitis in Ikkα(Δpan) mice, suggesting that cellular stress induced by p62 aggregates promotes development of pancreatitis. Importantly, downregulation of IKKα and accumulation of p62 aggregates were also observed in chronic human pancreatitis. Our studies demonstrate that IKKα, which may control autophagic protein degradation through its interaction with ATG16L2, plays a critical role in maintaining pancreatic acinar cell homeostasis, whose dysregulation promotes pancreatitis through p62 aggregate accumulation.
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The prevalence of childhood sexual abuse in child molesters is considerably higher than that in the general population. This finding had led to the "victim–offender cycle" being popularized as an explanation for sexual offending. However, not all child molesters were victimized as children, so it is of interest to examine the factors that contribute to the victim–offender cycle or, conversely, resiliency. This study examined the "moderating factors" that may prevent a male victim of sexual abuse from entering the victim–offender cycle. Two groups were interviewed as part of the study: a "resilient group" (n = 47) and a victim–offender group (n = 41). After correction for age and education level, the resilient group were less likely to have fantasized and masturbated about the abuse, less likely to report deriving pleasure from the abuse, more likely to have had frequent social contact with adolescent peers and to have had more family and nonfamily support during childhood. The findings support the need for multifactorial models of resiliency, the victim–offender cycle, and sexual offending. Recommendations about the prevention of the victim–offender cycle are made, including the need for a thorough systemic assessment of all male victims of sexual abuse and the involvement of their family system in counseling.
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- Title
- Resiliency in the Victim–Offender Cycle in Male Sexual Abuse
- Journal
Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
Volume 14, Issue 1 , pp 31-48
- Cover Date
- 2002-01-01
- Print ISSN
- 1079-0632
- Online ISSN
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- victim–offender cycle
- male sexual abuse
- resiliency
- prevention
- Authors
- Ian Lambie (1) (2)
- Fred Seymour (1)
- Alan Lee (3)
- Peter Adams (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Psychology Department, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2. SAFE Programme, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- 3. Statistics Department, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- 4. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand


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New York men accused of $200,000 scheme targeting trucking Companies in 20-Count Indictment
A federal grand jury sitting returned a 20-count indictment charging Laquan Smith, age 24, of Bronx, New York, and Tyrone Wigfall, aka Tyrone Simmons, age 58, of Brooklyn, New York, with conspiracy and wire fraud for their roles in a scheme to defraud trucking companies out of about $200,000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
The indictment charges that from in or about March 2011, and continuing to in or about September 2011, Laquan Smith and Tyrone Wigfall fraudulently obtained account numbers and codes used by independent trucking companies to wire money to the companies' drivers. They accomplished the objectives of the conspiracy and wire fraud as set forth below.
Electronic fund processing companies (EFP) such as Fleet One, Comdata, and TCH are used by trucking companies to electronically transfer funds to truck drivers at truck stops and other locations throughout the country. Drivers typically obtain the money by providing information to a customer service representative at a participating truck stop. That information is then relayed via wire to an EFP processing center. Once the EFP has authorized the request for money, the truck stop will issue a check to the driver who then cashes it.
From in or about March 2011, and continuing to on or about September 2011, known and unknown individuals obtained account numbers and codes used by trucking companies to issue checks through EFPs. These account numbers and codes were obtained without the knowledge or consent of the trucking companies. The known and unknown individuals then provided the stolen account numbers and codes via telephone calls or text messages to Laquan Smith and Tyrone Wigfall, according to the indictment.
Smith and Wigfall traveled to truck stops in the Northern District of Ohio and elsewhere. Once at the truck stops, they posed as truck drivers, approached customer service counters, presented the stolen account numbers and codes, and requested checks from EFPs such as COMDATA, Fleet One and TCH, according to the indictment.
Customer service representatives at the truck stops then processed the requests by sending the account numbers and codes via wire to EFP processing centers located outside the Northern District of Ohio. The EFPs then authorized the requests and authorized the truck stop customer service representatives, via wire, to print checks for Laquan Smith and Tyrone Wigfall. They then endorsed the checks and cashed them at the truck stops, according to the indictment.
In total, Smith and Wigfall fraudulently obtained a gross amount of more than $200,000, according to the indictment.
If convicted, the defendants' sentences will be determined by the Court after review of factors unique to this case, including each of the defendant's prior criminal record, if any, the defendant's role in the offense and the characteristics of the violations. In all cases, the sentences will not exceed the statutory maximum and, in most cases, it will be less than the maximum.
The investigation preceding the indictment was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The matter is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David M. Toepfer.
An indictment is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government's burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.


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Quickflix investors to vote at board spill
PUBLISHED: 06 Jun 2014 18:25:00 | UPDATED: 09 Jun 2014 11:14:32PUBLISHED: 06 Jun 2014 PRINT EDITION: 07 Jun 2014Quickflix co-founder Stephen Langsford is facing a challenge to his position from a group of minority shareholders. Photo: Tony McDonough
James Hutchinson
A months-long battle for control of Quickflix, the video streaming and DVD rental company, will reach its crescendo next Thursday when shareholders vote to keep or spill the company's board of directors.
The proposal, put forward by a group of minority shareholders, would replace three directors, including co-founders Stephen Langsford and Simon Hodge, with a group of so-called US turnaround specialists which aim to significantly shift the company's strategy.
It comes as some shareholders have decried Quickflix's slow progress in gaining market share amid the risk of rising competition from Foxtel, which launched an online movie rental service,and similar moves by free-to-air broadcasters and the long-rumoured entrance of US giant Netflix.
"Time is passing and the time the company has to prosper as an independent company or find a buyer is running out," said Donald Campbell. Mr Campbell, a former director of Quickflix, is the single largest shareholder in the campaign to spill the board through his firm, Guaranty Finance Investors.
Though it has attempted to mimic the success of Netflix, which has 33 million subscribers globally and accounts for a third of US internet traffic, Quickflix has managed just 10 per cent net growth in paying subscribers over the past two years to 118,557 customers.
The proposal, if successful, would see three US and British media executives appointed to the board alongside Matthew Joynes, whose turnaround firm Tournament Field has been linked to similar media company takeover in the US. They are pushing for a significant revamp of Quickflix's strategy, closing its DVD mail-out business, restructuring content licences and launching its own set-top box. If successful, Tournament Field said it would increase revenues to $150 million within five years.
It has long maintained a goal of reaching a million subscribers across Australia and New Zealand but progress halted last year during a significant restructure of the organisation.
The company's stock has fallen below 1c a share in recent months, signalling uncertainty about the company's potential to compete with increasingly heavy rivals.
Observers have suggested the shareholders aim to sell off Quickflix to the highest bidder instead of growing it as an independent business. But Mr Langsford, who described the appointees as "US raiders trying to pick up the company for cheap", said the plan was nonsensical for Australia. "A lot of their ideas are flawed and reveal their lack of market understanding," he said. "They've claimed from the start they have 40 per cent of the vote and made all number of outlandish claims so we give them . . . zero credibility." Mr Campbell conceded he was unsure what support the proposal would receive at Thursday's vote. Quickflix has the support of its directors and activist investors Cashel Capital Partners, with around 13 per cent of the vote between them.
"We've always believed in the company and the way it's positioned - not necessarily in the way it's been managed and financed," he said. "But we certainly believe in the opportunity."
But the support of its largest shareholder, US cable giant HBO, remains uncertain. The company, which does not appear on the public share register, retains an 8 per cent preference share but it remains unknown whether it can vote on Thursday.
HBO's support is also under question - its representative on the board Henry McGee left months after its $10 million investment, and the cable giant has since signed exclusive deals with Foxtel that deprive Quickflix of the latest episodes of Game of Thrones and other lucrative shows.
An HBO spokeswoman confirmed the company still has a stake in Quickflix but refused to answer questions about the nature of that stake, or its support or otherwise for the company.
The lead-up to Thursday's extraordinary general meeting has been characterised by public fights between Mr Langsford and those agitating for change, with legal letters and ASX statements made by the company claiming lack of experience from the proposed board members.
The major players agitating for change have also denied links to a website, savequickflix.com, that has published several blog posts on the topic.
Patersons analyst Rob Brierley said in a note to clients this week that "it remains to be seen with the action of [Guaranty] has stung current [Quickflix] into action".
"It's a huge distraction for me," Mr Langsford said. "We're making great progress on the company, streaming is on the up and up. We have the numbers, we think we have overwhelming support but we'll have the definitive vote next Thursday."
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The behavior of OSA has been evaluated several times in the past 50 years through retrospective studies. It is known to metastasize soon after it is spawned in the marrow cavity and the most common site for metastasis is the lung. Only about 10% of dogs are discovered to have obvious metastasis at the time of initial diagnosis. However, regardless of how soon amputation is performed, the mortality rate is 90% in the first year for animals receiving amputation alone. Apparently, factors associated with the primary tumor prevent the micrometastases from growing. Knowledge of this behavior has resulted in the strategy of instituting chemotherapy soon after removal of the primary tumor. This strategy has resulted in the improved survival of nearly 50% of dogs for the first year and 20% for the second year following treatment. The metastatic rate in cats is much lower.
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Coach Dwight Richins of Shelley, Idaho, is also Lt. Col. Richins, an Army reservist home after a year's deployment as logistics officer in Afghanistan. He has struggled with the disorientation experienced by almost all such returning vets and the expectations to run a powerhouse football program.
Lt. Col. Richins heads to a forwarding operating base during his tour of duty in Afghanistan. When Dwight Richins arrived home at the airport Aug. 4, a local TV news crew was there, asking about the coming season. Three nights later, he met with his Shelley High School coaching staff. The following dawn, he ran his first practice.
Shelley, Idaho, is a farm town-turned-bedroom suburb where football at the high school of 625 students is so big that one-third of eligible students turn out for the team. "If the football team's doing well, we're all doing well," said schools Superintendent Bryan Jolley. "Dwight is carrying that for the whole community."
Richins poses with local shop owners and workers at Forward Operating Base Lagman. When the 2010 football season began, Richins was working in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. As a logistics officer, he was involved in supplies, construction, shipping, and servicing the area's string of bases.
When the 2010 season began, Richins was in Afghanistan, trying to follow Shelley's games on a balky Internet connection and e-mailing and phoning in questions and suggestions, sometimes during games.
Lt. Col. Richins gets ready to go out on foot patrol in Qalat, Afghanistan. While working as a logistics officer in Afghanistan, his football team found a way to win without him, going 8-3 and reaching the semifinals of the state playoffs. Richins, meanwhile, found that war zone life agreed with him. He worked out daily and lost 30 pounds. His blood pressure dropped. He didn't throw up before taking part in a convoy, as he always had before a game.
A military doctor told him he was "crazy" for not taking at least 30 days off — "an accident waiting to happen." John Cook, Shelley's wrestling coach and a fellow reservist who went to Iraq in 2008, gave school administrators and Richins similar advice. But Richins hadn't been wounded or even shot at, hadn't lost a buddy. "I'm glad I'm home sleeping in my own bed, next to my wife. … There is no room to feel sorry for myself," he said.


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So I discovered yesterday I couldn't download Dan's version of the file until it I got home and by then it was today. So here it is, our first movie podcast. It ain't pretty technically, but they will get prettier as we hammer out the problems.
Okay, I just listened to it. It's pretty bad, sound wise. That's why we made it episode 0. Anyway, we promise to work to improve it.
Here are some Liner notes:
JERMS (John English's Random Movie Stuff)
A New Feature
My good friend Dan Willis, Dragonlance Author, has been bugging me to start a movie podcast with him for a while now. This won't have any effect on the audiobook podcasts (after all we're just going to the movies like we always do and then talking about them, as we always do . . . we're just recording the conversation), and I can't see any reason we shouldn't post them here as well.
Deconstructing Hollywood is a movie podcast. We'll spend the first five to ten minutes in the podcast reviewing the movie, as spoiler free as possible, and then the rest analyzing the film, the writing, the structure, etc. For those of you that just want the review, you can listen to the begining. For those who enjoy breaking a movie down, you'll have the rest.
Anyway expect the first episode to go up in a day or two. We're still working on equipment, this one was recorded on his laptop's built in mic in the basement of Dragons Keep in Provo, UT. But we've decided to let you see all our bumps along the way, for those of you who are interested in the podcasting element of the podcasting.
Anyway. Keep looking here. I expect it will go up tomorrow or in the middle of the night tonight.
Little Update
I believe I told you that they've cut back my chiropractor appointments to two a week. Anyway, I have two other interesting benchmarks.
1) Every time they do a progress report, they ask me if my problems with gluten have lessened (I've never been diagnosed, but I seem to have trouble with wheat). Everytime I scoff and say no. Thursday I ate entire Lasagna. Friday I ate three bagels in a poorly-planned binge. I realized Saturday that I'd had no effects from either. So I had two hot dogs. About that time I started having the most minor symptoms. Yesterday I had a wheat-based sauce and pop tarts just to push matters further. Today is a good day, but I can finally see the effects. I'm not the kind of guy to believe a chiropractor can cure a condition that's almost certainly caused by an auto-immune disease, but it has occurred to me that symptoms might have been worse than they needed to be because of choked nerves between the spine and the organs. Not conclusive, by any stretch, but I can certainly live happily with things as they've been this week.
2) I wrote that entire last bit trying to avoid unpleasant biological talk. This one is better. Saturday night I was at my Dragonlance game with my Saturday group. I leaned back a little hard in my 6-month-old office chair and the lock that holds it upright released. Next thing I know all my weight and force are falling backward at full speed into the reclined position. I'm a big guy. I don't let myself do that normally. And this is why. When I hit the extent of the recline, the force transfered into the aluminum socket for the base post (evidently FOAM aluminum). The socket shattered and I flew backward, kicking the table and knocking water two feet into the air. I landed flat on my back still in the chair. I'm told it looked spectacular.
My friends were at my side immediately, but I waved them away, mainly because I wanted to orient. I wasn't hurting, but I knew that it would come in a moment. I was actually REALLY comfortable. After a minute I managed to roll out and stand on my own in my own crippled way. We moved the chair and slid a lazy-boy-style reclined over to the table. I still didn't hurt. One of my friends suggested that I take a lortab. I took a soma (I haven't had to take one in a week) and said I'd be fine. She pointed out that iboprofen and lortab were more effective if you take them before the pain hits, and my knee was just stiffening up from kicking the table, so I took her advice about a half hour later. I never felt any real pain (above my normal level). The next morning I was no stiffer than on any other Sunday. I felt good.
Two months ago I wouldn't have been able to think straight after an event like that. I had days where my pain spiked for hours just because I came down hard on one leg when taking a step.
Anyway, I was so happy all that night that I didn't even feel bad about breaking the chair (usually something like that would make a person feel fat, to say the least.)


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Sheffield United manager Nigel Clough concedes it would be a "long shot" for his side to make the League One play-offs.
The Blades, who drew 0-0 with Brentford on Tuesday, fell nine points behind sixth-placed Peterborough after Posh beat Colchester and with nine games to go, Clough knows it is a big ask.
"It might be a bit beyond us, we won't give it up just yet," he said.
"It was a bit of a long shot after losing at the weekend, but we have two good games in Leyton Orient and Rotherham to look forward to."
The Blades played well against the second-placed Bees, perhaps doing enough to win the game, and that performance came on the back of a spirited one against champions-elect Wolves a couple of weeks ago.
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I have the honor of substitute-anchoring on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Sunday, as you may know. One of our guests is incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs; we conducted the interview a few days ago and included in it some advice given by his predecessors in the job, Bush White House press secretaries Dana Perino and Scott McClellan and Clinton White House press secretary Joe Lockhart.
Gibbs had lots of interesting things to say about current events as well as the "daunting" job he will soon assume.
I also asked what he thought was his worst political moment of 2008. Here is that exchange:
GIBBS: Maybe the toughest point that I had was right after we'd clinched the nomination and the president-elect is going to meet with Sen. Clinton. And I know that the then candidate Barack Obama is not going to be on our flight home to Chicago. But, the press doesn't know that. And I held in the car and I got on the plane and right when I got on the plane, we basically moved to taxi and about 15 seconds later, the press realized that the candidate wasn't on the plane. And I knew that was going to be a long ride home for an hour and a half flight — and that we were going to have a lot of explaining to do. And what separated the cabinet staff — most of the staff usually sits in — where the press is, is the Secret Service. I stopped there and told our detail leader that, "If I'm not back in 15 minutes, get the guns out and come get me out of there."
TAPPER: Do you regret that decision? Do you regret not telling the press that–
GIBBS: We may have handled it differently. I think we were in a very tough position either way. And you know, even — if you look back on it now, people were camped out in different places, expecting that the meeting was happening in different places. I think it was hard at that point, probably, to bring those two together and to have a serious, private one-on-one conversation. But I wish there was a way in which we could have done it a little bit better. I don't, off the top of my head, know how we might have done that. But I understand the role that each of the entities had to play.
TAPPER: I think the problem that a lot of people in the media had was that there was almost a lie by omission. I don't want to use the word lie — but it was not telling the truth by omission because they assumed he would be on the plane because he always was.
GIBBS: Right.
TAPPER: But, he wasn't. There was nothing they could do about it. All of a sudden, the media was flying off to Chicago. It wasn't as forthright as you could have been. And it doesn't stay secret.
GIBBS: That's why most of the pictures in that event are with me holding my hands up like this, as if I'm the one that's being in a sense, held hostage. But, you know again, we were — it was a — I understood the pitfalls of what [we] were undertaking. The hardest part was, it was a decision that was made but I was the one that had to implement.
TAPPER: But you didn't make that decision.
GIBBS: I wasn't the final say on it, no. But I was comfortably sitting in the third or fourth row understanding that I had to walk in the back of that plane and talk about the decisions.
TAPPER: This is where press secretaries sometimes get in a little bit of trouble — which is, you didn't say anything that wasn't true, but there was kind of a narrative and an understanding that turned out not to be true. And whether or not it was made by the campaign, you were held personally responsible for it.
GIBBS: And look, I think that's what will happen in my next job. You know, the press secretary has to represent the administration to the press. And a lot of the advice that I've gotten from former press secretaries that — all of them have, but they didn't say here was, you've got to keep — you're there in meetings and in these rooms to report what happens to the press. You have to be careful about how you weigh in with your own opinions in those decisions. Because you have to be seen as — much like everybody has to be on board when you walk out of that room — you have to be seen as an honest broker that can discuss why this decision was made and how it was made. To explain it to a larger audience via the press. That's a role that a press secretary has to play. Not that each of these press secretaries — and I'm sure many that you interviewed and some that you didn't — all are advisors to the president and have advice personally and politically for him. You're in a different role and how you express that advice in a group setting or one-on-one to the president-elect can matter a lot. So, that you're seen in that room as somebody who's a real honest broker.
We'll have much more from Gibbs, as well as Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., plus a great roundtable with Kurt Andersen of PRI's Studio 360, CBN's David Brody, Slate's John Dickerson, and National Public Radio's Alison Stewart Sunday morning. Hope you tune in.
– Jake


text: Former soldier at center of murder of Iraqi family dies after suicide attemptBy Steve Almasy, CNNUpdated 0141 GMT (0941 HKT) February 19, 2014Former Army soldier Steven D. Green was convicted five years ago of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her and her family.Story highlightsSteven Green was found in his cell on Thursday and died two days laterA medical examiner ruled his death suicide by hangingIn 2006, Green and four others raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killed some of her familyHe was sentenced to multiple life terms in federal court because he had left the ArmyA former U.S. soldier convicted five years ago of murdering an Iraqi family died Saturday, two days after an apparent suicide attempt in his Arizona prison cell, authorities said.Steven Green was found unresponsive last Thursday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.The deputy chief medical examiner with Pima County, Dr. Eric Peters, said the cause of death was suicide by hanging. In 2009, Green was found guilty in U.S. District Court in Kentucky of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister in the town of Yusufiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. The crimes occurred three years before the conviction.Prosecutors sought the death penalty but a jury couldn't reach a unanimous decision.He issued a public apology for his crimes, one the relatives of the victims didn't accept. Green, who was sentenced to multiple life sentences without possibility of parole, told the family he was "truly sorry for what I did in Iraq." "I helped to destroy a family and end the lives of four of my fellow human beings, and I wish that I could take it back, but I cannot," Green said, reading a statement at a victim impact hearing. "And, as inadequate as this apology is, it is all I can give you." The relatives decried Green's sentence and testified about how the heinous crime had shattered their lives, and how it will haunt them always. Green said that he knew "you wish I was dead, and I do not hold that against you. If I was in your place, I am convinced beyond any doubt that I would feel the same way." Green was tried in a civilian court in Paducah, Kentucky, because he had already been discharged from the Army by the time his crimes surfaced. He was the last of five soldiers who served in the 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to be convicted for the crimes and their subsequent cover-up. From 2009: Steven Green: 'You probably think I'm a monster'More from usLights out for San Francisco's Bay BridgeDog survives brutal attackPowered by Livefyre


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These Amherst Lax Bros Are Just Murdering Their Player Profile Pictures
I have a shocking confession to make. As much as I make fun of lax bro's, they kind of crack me up. Like there is a part of me that thinks if I was 15 years younger I would have been one of them. But lacrosse didn't even exist when I was in high school. Only total squids who couldn't make the JV baseball team played lacrosse. But nowadays it seems like everybody I meet plays lacrosse. And they seem like dudes I would have been friends with. Just doing shit like this with their player profiles, wearing pastels and chasing pussy. Nothing wrong with that I suppose.
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Former Ferrari engineer Nigel Stepney and suspended McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan are to be called before the FIA in connection with the its investigation into McLarens ownership of confidential Ferrari documents.
It follows Thursdays decision by the FIAs World Motor Sport Council, which deemed McLaren to be in breach of the International Sporting Code over the material, which was found in Coughlans possession and allegedly supplied by Stepney.
The WMSC (World Motor Sport Council) will also invite Mr Stepney and Mr Coughlan to show reason why they should not be banned from international motor sport for a lengthy period and the WMSC has delegated authority to deal with this matter to the legal department of the FIA," read an FIA statement.
Both men are already the subject of legal proceedings by Ferrari over the matter. Stepney has maintained his innocence throughout the affair. Coughlan has supplied an affidavit detailing his actions, but has made no public comment on the matter.


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Two very special holiday events today! Westin La Cantera Legendary Holidays. Festivities include ornament making, pine cone decorating and a Living Holiday tree. There's storytelling and carolers. And real snow. Consider bringing a small toy for Toys for Tots and dropped it off the donation station at the hotel. Daily, December 13-24. Various times 1 […]
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29 plus 1 things to do before 30
My friend Miranda is a big to-do lister, in fact her blog is all about lists of things she wants and has accomplished. Recently she added a more short term list, a list of things to do within a year. I enjoy this since it has to be composed of more practical and easier to accomplish goals. I have too many big dreamy things I could add on a list but a year long restriction made me really think about what I could put on a list. So since one year from today I turn 30, I am starting a list of 30 things to do before I turn 30. I'll blog my accomplishments and failures as they come. It'll give me something to talk about and it'll hopefully give me a kick in the butt to accomplish some of the less fun things on the list.
1. Learn to be a good mom
2. Take a class, not sure what in I learned to knit
3. Make salted caramels, this was on a another 30 TTDB 30 blogger and they sound wonderful
4. Start up the Wine Blog again and post regularly—-Sorta
5. Read at least 15 books. 30 would probably be more fitting but probably not as realistic.—-made it to 9
6. Update this blog twice a week. I plan to continue Holga Loving Wednesdays.—-figured out once a week is what I can handle
7. Plant a garden and actually get a harvest. harvested lettuce, zucchini, and banana peppers so far
8. Learn to can…Make something worth canning!! made and canned raspberry jalapeno jam delish!
9. Loose the baby weight, this includes the 10lbs of margarita/wine weight I gained right before getting preggers. blah
10. Do Yoga everyday for 1 month. rolling over to next year
11. Seek out and support more local businesses.
12. Bake a pie from scratch…crust and all. ugly apple pie tasted pretty good
13. Volunteer/Donate to a good cause art supplies to an art therapy place where there was a fire. baby clothes of the NICU
14. Participate in a photo challenge 26 things
15. Clean/organize the bead closet…scary
16. Paint the master bedroom. its like a completely different room now
17. Learn to use/not be scared of my sewing machine rolling over to next year
18. Finish the Rock quilt. DONE and I LOVE it
19. Pay off the truck woot
20. Keep Ryker's photo album and journal up to date. mostly
21. Organize the garage.—-done
22. Go to a movie alone. went and saw the Kings Speech
23. Have a fun birthday party for R's first bday. 40 people and very hot weather but it was a good time
24. Get handy and fix our leaky sinks.—-done!
25. Kayak Chicago went to Toast of the Town instead
26. Take R to his first baseball game and to the zoo.
27. Follow and complete a pattern from start to finish with out altering it. done!
28. Go for an outing w/ girl friends once a month. doing again next year
29. Buy and learn to use a 35mm toy camera…thinking wide angle went with the blue ribbon slim and love it
30. Tweet a happy thought once a day actually completed and plan to do again next year


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On Saturday, June 11th, 2011 a vibrant art event happens as Hurley joins forces with four celebrated artists from the Pacific Northwest – Martin Ontiveros, Skinner Davis, Justin Scrapper Morrison, and Brandon Bwana Spoons – to bring an explosion of color to Hurley's )( Space Gallery via the "Awesome!" exhibit, opening June 11th, 2011 at 6:00pm.
This first-time exhibit immerses the viewer in a world of neon colored beasts, fishermen, surfers, bats, turtles, bears, waves, wings, totems, walled cities, and one massive volcano. The art collection will feature visually striking works as well as interactive elements such as a volcano-shaped skate ramp made created from recycled materials.
About The Artists:
Martin is a painter and a legend living in Portland, Oregon. Affectionately known as a Wizard in training, Rock n¹ Roll soldier, and an unrepentant metal-head; Martin has shown in galleries all over the world including Thrash Out in Japan, and Atticus in Barcelona.
Skinner is a self-taught artist from Sacramento, California who has meticulously crafted a balance of extraordinary mural work, mighty powerful wall to wall installations and a prolific commercial career. Influenced by 80's pop culture, human struggle, myths and violence dungeons and dragons and the heavy metal gods, Skinner's mind is one full of mayhem fueled by a calculated chaos. His work has been shown all over the Universe at places like the museum of graphic design in Breta, Netherlands, Japan, Illustrative festival in Berlin, Germany, France and the states from LA to New York and in between.
His most recent solo exhibit entitled "The Fear You May Know" reigned at the White Walls Gallery in San Francisco in the summer of 2010. Skinner¹s work has made known in various publications including Blisss, Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose and Beautiful/Decay.
Justin is a shredder of life. He paints. He writes. He directs and motivates everyone around him to be more radical. Scrappers is the art director at the Portland Mercury, he has shown art all over the verse, Art Toys in Paris, Thrash Out in Japan, and every nook and cranny up and down the West Coast. WHAT IS CREATIVE Skateboarding, surfing, making art, writing stories, cooking without a recipe, talking to strangers, playing music, and all kinds of instinctive problem solving
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Bwana Spoons was raised in the woods. He likes moss and cactus and wild beasts of all manner. He has a hard time escaping the sunset sunrise colors-pink, orange, and yellow.
Bwana has a hard time just focusing on one thing-making paintings or zines, art directing, curating shows, making things with piles of wood, designing toys, and recently Bwana was bitten by the textile bug. Designing for Converse, Dekline, MonsieurT, Bumbleride, Threadless Select, DC shoes, and now Hurley. Mr. Spoons has shown his art all over this planet- NYC, LA, SF, Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona, London. What is next is a cosmic mystery. You can visit him anytime at his Portland
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"Awesome!" Exhibition at Hurley's )( Space Gallery is Saturday, June 11, 2011
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I mentioned that we were, a few weeks ago, concentrating on getting clothing ready for our child volunteers. We've expanded the program this year (only to children of Plimoth staff, though) and are introducing nine new colonial children to the 1627 Village site this week. Colleen asked when one might find children on site. We're not holding them to particular schedules, being youngsters and volunteers and all, but this is what I know. You're likely to find children on site any day except Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the time being. You're much less likely to find any on those awful, suffocating hot & humid days we sometimes get. The children aren't scheduled through the front desk, so calling ahead, unfortunately, won't get you any more information. The children are pretty excited, though, and want to be on site. With nine to choose from you're pretty likely to find some most days.
Next Thursday, July 3 there will be a "squadron muster" in the English Village and I believe most of the children are planning to be on site for it. In the 17th century the colonists were very serious about defending their colony, and being prepared to defend it, both from potential European rivals (Spanish and French, most notably) and Native peoples. We have historical references to the colonists "exercising their arms"(arms & armor, not limbs) periodically, and the squadron muster will be a demonstration of what that might have looked like. We have no record of any attack on the Plymouth Colony by either Europeans or Natives up to and including the year portrayed on site – 1627.
A couple of days ago the children got into their period clothing, most of them for the first time except for try-ons. They practiced first person interpreting on our Colonial Education Site with plain-clothed interpreters for pretend visitors. Here are a couple of pictures Penny caught of their work that day.
A couple of days ago Mary asked if we have another Big Project in the pipeline for when the jacket is finished. She wrote "don't cringe" but what I actually responded with was a sort of manic giggle. Yes, we sort of do have another or few big ideas. One is the 2009 Symposium, which I wrote about yesterday. The exhibit that the jacket will be part of is actually a pretty big project, and pretty "wardrobe heavy" which means lots of hands-on work for us. There's enough talk about a book about creating this jacket that I think that is very likely, even probable. We've even started thinking about another big Volunteer Project, but I'm so not ready to let that cat out of the bag right now. It isn't likely to be something very similar to the jacket, but it ,will be similarly awesome, ambitious and unique.


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YHC Hosts Volunteer Food-Packing Event to "Stop Hunger Now"
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Young Harris College Hosts Volunteer Food-Packing Event to "Stop Hunger Now"
YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – On Nov. 14, Young Harris College hosted a food-packing event in which 90 faculty, staff and student volunteers packed more than 10,000 meals in three hours to benefit Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger-relief agency that coordinates the distribution of food and other lifesaving aid around the world. The event was sponsored by S.E.R.V.E. (Service, Empowerment, Responsibility, Voice and Engagement).
"My entire First-Year Foundations class participated in the event together," said Abbey Walker, a freshman English major from Acworth, Ga. "It was a wonderful bonding experience for the YHC community, and I appreciated the chance to help those who are hungry."
Stop Hunger Now has been fulfilling its commitment to end hunger for more than 15 years, and the meal-packaging program was created in 2005. The program perfected the assembly process that combines rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring mix including 21 essential vitamins and minerals into small meal packets. Each meal costs only 25 cents, stores easily, has a shelf life of five years and transports quickly.
Stop Hunger Now works with international partners that ship and distribute the meals, which have been used primarily to support school feeding programs in developing countries. The use of volunteers for product packing has resulted in an extremely cost-effective operation while increasing awareness about global hunger.
"By partnering with organizations like Stop Hunger Now, we can help solve the food distribution problem that is prevalent in many parts of the globe," said Dean of the Chapel and Minister to the College Rev. Dr. Tim Moore. "We're able to connect our material wealth and generous hearts with their system of care to feed 40 hungry children every day for a year, allowing them to go to school and focus on learning rather than finding food."
About Young Harris College
Young Harris College is a private, baccalaureate degree-granting college located in the beautiful mountains of north Georgia. Founded in 1886 and historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church, Young Harris College educates, inspires and empowers students through the highest quality liberal arts education. The College currently has more than 1,000 students across five divisions—Education, Fine Arts, Humanities, Mathematics and Science, and Social and Behavioral Sciences—and plans to increase enrollment to 1,200 over the next few years. The historic campus in Young Harris, Ga., is currently undergoing major campus improvements to accommodate the College's growth, including recent completion of a 200-bed, LEED Silver-certified residence hall, Georgia's first higher education facility north of Atlanta to achieve this certification, a 57,000-square-foot, LEED-certified recreation center, the second higher educational recreation facility in Georgia to achieve this certification, and a 248-bed, apartment-style residential village. In 2011, the College was granted candidacy for NCAA Division II athletics. YHC is among fewer than 300 colleges and universities nationwide named to the 2012-2013 list of Colleges of Distinction. For more information, visit yhc.edu.
Ninety Young Harris College faculty, staff and student volunteers packed more than 10,000 meals in three hour to assist Stop Hunger Now.
Young Harris College students Emily Espy, a senior musical theatre major from Cumming, Ga., Breann Lindsey, a sophomore outdoor leadership major from Lindale, Ga., and Carol Raterman, a senior communication studies major from Lawrenceville, Ga., packed meals to assist Stop Hunger Now.
Young Harris College student Alexander Fountain, a junior Spanish major from Alpharetta, Ga., weighed packaged meals during the event.