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Wonder Festival 2008 Summer
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Despite the big news about the escalator accident there were actually quite a few nice figures to be seen at WF2008. I personally was enchanted by the Ridge Racer kits (too bad 3 was not in there) as well as the huge Monster Hunter head that seemed to constantly draw the crowds. On the PVC side all I can say is that I can't wait for the new figmas, of course their stuff sold out in no time.
I was surprised to see quite a few kids running around there even though the ero content was naturally very big again this year. All in all a good figure show if one overlooks the scary escalator accident, I guess it just could not take all that otaku passion.
Hope you enjoy the photo selection
S. Weiss
Wonder Festival Official Site (Japanese)
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Need to get a short Phillies' post up here so the weekend discussion doesn't get buried by our recent Eagles' stuff.
Simple question for this post: Who is the NL MVP? (Assuming, of course, that people aren't going to start voting for Pitchers)
Let's take a look at the candidates, and there are A LOT (note: Ryan Howard is NOT a candidate at this moment, but I included him to appease the masses)
Now, like we did with the Cy Young post, let's see what they look like when we rank them, and tally up the ranks (arbitrary, I know).
- Braun and Kemp are the frontrunners at the moment. Kemp is the top player statistically, but is he THAT much better than the rest of the field to off-set the horrible baseball being played in LA right now?
- Braun was my pick before doing this, and it was validated here. His all-around play (defense and baserunning) separate him from teammate Prince Fielder.
- Justin Upton is an intriguing candidate, especially if the DBacks hold off the Giants.
- Victorino comes in at 6th with several other current "darkhorse" candidates.
- Hopefully this stops any Ry-Ho for MVP talk before it starts.


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Taking the Oath
SFC Tomon, the VAARNG recruiter, visited one last time to take me to the MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station). We went to the Richmond, Va. MEPS, where I had to go through several stations of medical and clerical tasks. I had never seen so many paper forms to fill out. By the end of processing, seven hours had passed and I was just about to sign the paperwork.
I read every last detail of the contract. It was tens of pages long, double sided. I had to dig through each part to make sure I was getting the benefits I was promised. About ¾ of the way through the contract I noticed that the Student Loan Repayment Program (SLRP) was not included where I had expected it would be mentioned. I immediately jumped on the defensive and became uncomfortable about the enlistment process.
I mentioned the mistake to the administrative person and she tried to tell me it was in there. I had to say, "Show me." She ripped the contract out of my hand and sighed like I was a pain in her ass. She ruffled the contract back and forth, looked up at me an in a soft voice said, "You are right. It is not in here. I am so sorry." She took the contract and went into a back office only to appear with a new contract about 45 minutes later.
This time I read everything again and saw all of the benefits outlined. I also read all of the concessions I was about to make. I signed the contract. Then I waited in a line of about 10 people for the official swearing in ceremony. The whole time I was asking myself, "What have I gotten myself into?"
"I, Bert Stover, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
Opportunity to quit has presented itself a couple of times in my career, especially since I've graduated from college and the bills are paid. Twice since my initial enlistment I have taken the oath, all because I have come to enjoy what I do in the VAARNG. If I were to do it all over again I would choose the same course of action.
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I was in the third to the last draft. I did not serve in Vietnam. I was also a DA Select Recuriter,(that means, you go on recruiting duty, not matter what.) I know about the business of recruiting.
I put a lot of good people in the Army. Now I'm seeing Cat 4s ("rocks") accepted for enlistment and everyone, it would seem, is going after the money, yourself encluded.
I'm happy you're having such a good time. I did 11B, jumped out of C140s, repelled from UH-1s, did S4 time in Heidelberger and froze in Graff. No hero here. Just an old soldier.
So my question is; are you in it for the press or the money?
Posted by: SFC Roberts | September 15, 2005 04:07 PM
I wonder how many young recruits unwittingly signed the "wrong" contract or retreated in the face of terse dismissals from a clerk?
The military is, potentially, an excellent choice for a very large percentage of young people. However, many newly minted high school graduates naively assume that the military is "honest" and, therefore, that the contract contains everything the recruiter has promised.
Unfortunately, dealing with today's military is just like dealing with any profit-oriented corporation. Buyers, especially 18 year old buyers, beware.
Posted by: D. Feger | September 16, 2005 10:14 AM
I am sure if something gets missed in the contract that when the records went to state or the next level that it would get caught. In the Army National Guard the SRIP "Selective Reserve Incentive Program" has everything you get for that job and so on, and some stuff is based on the ASVAB score as well. So i'm sure and have heard of things getting missed and fixed later on. I have served in the Army National Guard for 9 years as a 63T Track Mechanic. The military makes it right, sometimes it may take some time but for me any thing that gets messed up has always gotten fixed. I'm not on here arguing but to state that the military isn't trying to get by with giving someone $15,000 instead of $20,000 bonus's and crap, from my understanding it is what it is and you can't negotiate it.
P.S. I always tell my younger troops to read everything and to make sure it is all there when you sign for it as well. It's a great idea to do that.
Good luck in your VAARNG career!
Posted by: Casey | April 19, 2006 02:29 PM
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Boom Logistics shares surge 45pc
PUBLISHED: 03 Jun 2010 10:21:45 | UPDATED: 04 Jun 2010 04:50:37PRINT EDITION: 03 Jun 2010
Shares in crane operator Boom Logistics soared in early trading on the Australian Securities Exchange on Thursday, after Boom last night confirmed that it was the target of a $240 million takeover proposal.
Boom was 12¢, or 40 per cent, higher at 42¢ at 1010 AEST on Thursday.
Boom Logistics on Thursday lodged a notice with the ASX responding to media speculation that private equity group Archer Capital Pty Ltd and Queensland-based transport, mining services and crane hire company McAleese Group Pty Ltd intended to make an offer for Boom at 52 cents per share.
"Boom has not received any proposal from Archer or McAleese since Archer acquired a relevant interest in McAleese shares," Boom said in the statement to the ASX.
"Boom has received a highly conditional, confidential and incomplete proposal from Archer to acquire Boom through a scheme of arrangement, at an indicative price of 52 cents per share."
Boom said its board had not formed a view on the proposal.
"In line with the recent market announcements, management are in the process of quantifying the impacts of the improved operating environment and the contract wins on the expected financial performance of the business," Boom said.
"Once the outcomes of this work are finalised, the board will be in a position to assess any proposal.
"The Boom board advises its shareholders to take no action at this stage."
Boom announced to the market on Wednesday evening that it had secured three contracts expected to generate around $50 million in revenue over the next three years.
The announcement closely followed a substantial shareholder notice lodged with the ASX which indicated that Archer had taken a stake in Boom of about 10.5 per cent.
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013 12:17 AM
Charlie Regenold, 5, gets a ride to the school bus stop from his dog "Rodney" as the snow fell early Tuesday, March 5, 2013 in southwest Minneapolis. The National Weather Service predicted a two-day snow total of 8 to 12 inches for much of southeastern and east-central Minnesota, including the Twin Cities. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Elizabeth Flores)


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Travel and Leisure Magazine came out with the results of survey categorizing the rudest and friendliest U.S. cities. New York City was ranked number one for rudeness. Having lived close to Manhattan for most of my life, I have had a number of opportunities to travel into the city for a show, shopping, museums, or other special events. I am not a well-traveled person, but I know rudeness when I see it, and my experiences in New York have always been positive.
Walk down Fifth Ave. or Broadway and you have to stop at every block and wait for a crossing light to change. People are orderly and wait. Of course taxis have right on red so sometimes you have to speed across, but people do not push or run over anyone who takes their time. They might walk around you and seem to be in a hurry, but that is because they probably are. When you have to walk 10 blocks for an appointment you have to move fast. When the train or bus is late, you have to run to be on time for work. This is the city that never sleeps.
The restaurants in the theatre district are often crowded. I have never encountered a rude host, or waitperson. Many are young people in search of a dream. Most have come for other places, and are trying to make a wage that will allow them to live in a very expensive area of the country. They often ask where you are from, if you are catching a show, did you go to a concert, etc. I have had many a nice conversation with the workers in every style of restaurant.
I always get lost in Greenwich Village. It might as well be the Bermuda Triangle. East and West confuse me and for some reason, the main avenues seem to get twisted around. This is an area where the people hanging out a bit more relaxed. It is a mix of students, artists, musicians, people with dogs, and merchants. I have always been able to ask someone for directions, and they have more than willing to help. The same holds true for questions regarding the subway system. I have been told the best number to catch, and which station to go to.
I'm sure that there might be places I have not been where people might smile more and are not all hurrying around. Life is enjoyed at a more leisurely pace, and that the sun and scenery are enjoyable. But for those of us who have been to New York, there is no place like it on earth. Broadway is simply the best in plays and musicals. Lincoln Center is a phenomenon all its own. The history and art museums are outstanding. The music scene is eclectic. The fashion district is still strong, and the universities are some of the best in the world. The sports fans are among the most loyal.
New York saw its darkest day on 9/11. The horror of what occurred, and the lives that were lost will never be forgotten. On that day and the days that followed, the people of the city came together. Police, firefighters, EMS, and ordinary citizens banded together to help others. No matter what the perception is as reported in a survey, the people of New York are kind, gracious, strong, and always lend a hand in time of need. History will remind of us of that forever.


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Your Weekly Politickle: (DOING) THE OBAMA
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Two steps forward and bow like Barack.
Arms akimbo, a single step back.
Now a shuffle in place
With a smile on your face.
Two steps forward and bow like Barack . . .
From the archive:
"I'm a master at deceivin',
At wigglin', waffllin', weavin';
And when I create
A socialist state,
You'll have change you can believe in."
Last week's limerick:
Raise high the holy cross
And show them Who is boss:
Fight the merchants of death
With every breath
And never count the cost.
Speak Truth to Power!
This latest erosion of our first freedom should make all Americans pause. When the government tampers with a freedom so fundamental to the life of our nation, one shudders to think what lies ahead. – Timothy Dolan
We need to stand up and say confidently and resolutely to Kathleen Sebelius, her thugs at HHS, and her puppet-master in the White House: Your view is false and untrue; it radically violates human good and is destructive of communal integrity. Forcing persons wrongfully to cooperate in actions they judge to be evil is evil. And no president, king, or emperor rightly demands others to do what is evil. We won't do it. – Christian Brugger
What if we all said no?
Obama Declares War on the Church
[I]t is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life. Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion. – Benedict XVI
In August 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services issued an interim final rule that will require most health insurance plans to cover preventive services for women including recommended contraceptive services without charging a co-pay, co-insurance or a deductible. . . . Today the department is announcing that the final rule on preventive health services will ensure that women with health insurance coverage will have access to the full range of the Institute of Medicine's recommended preventive services, including all FDA-approved forms of contraception. – Kathleen Sebelius
This is going to be a long year.
One Man, One Woman
The promotion and protection of marriage — the union of one man and one woman as husband and wife — is a matter of the common good and serves the well-being of the couple, of children, of civil society, and all people. The meaning and value of marriage precede and transcend any particular society, government, or religious community. It is a universal good and the foundational institution of all societies. It is bound up with the nature of the human person as male and female, and with the essential task of bearing and nurturing children. – U.S. Religious Leaders
From the beginning, the targets of the sexual revolution were the Family and the Church. Once these two institutions are perverted and destroyed, there will be nothing to shield the individual from the State.
The Argument for Real Marriage
In the article, we argue that as a moral reality, marriage is the union of a man and a woman who make a permanent and exclusive commitment to each other of the type that is naturally fulfilled by bearing and rearing children together, and renewed by acts that constitute the behavioral part of the process of reproduction. We further argue that there are decisive principled as well as prudential reasons for the state to enshrine this understanding of marriage in its positive law, and to resist the call to recognize as marriages the sexual unions of same-sex partners.Besides making this positive argument for our position and raising several objections to the view that same-sex unions should be recognized, we address what we consider the strongest philosophical objections to our view of the nature of marriage, as well as more pragmatic concerns about the point or consequences of implementing it as a policy. – Sherif Girgis, Robert George, and Ryan T. Anderson, "What is Marriage?"
It's amazing that any of this has to be said. The world's gone mad.
Why Are Christians Still Here?
The overt and aggressive private and public anti-Christian sentiment so evident in Iraq . . . is not limited to Iraq. It is to be found throughout the lesser and greater Middle East, throughout Asia. It is to be found also in Africa and increasingly it is being found within the once-Christian lands of Western Europe. – Cardinal Seán Brady, archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
The Tolerant Totalitarians
Over the next several decades, Christianity will become a faith that can speak in the public square less and less freely. A society where faith is prevented from vigorous public expression is a society that has fashioned the state into an idol. And when the state becomes an idol, men and women become the sacrificial offering. – Charles Chaput
Inverting the Bill of Rights
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was intended to protect our right to practice our religious faith freely; and yet, the Supreme Court has often invoked this amendment to justify decisions restricting our freedom of religion. The nation's highest Court has prohibited the teaching of religion in public schools, even when students have parents' consent and a choice of religious denominations. It has also outlawed the recitation of prayers and the reading of the Bible in public schools. On the other hand, the Court has done nothing to curtail the promotion of secular humanism in the public schools, notwithstanding the First Amendment's prohibition against "an establishment of religion" and the Court's own ruling that secular humanism itself is a religion. – F.R. Duplantier, "Stifling the Free Exercise of Religion"
The Real Hate Crime: Political Correctness
On college campuses, in newsrooms and now in the highest corridors of power, with Barack Obama in the Oval Office, the politically correct left is wielding its weaponry with the confidence that it can take down any group, anyone or anything. The thought police are now officially in charge. — Andrew Breitbart
Discrimination against Christians is the one acceptable bigotry; indeed, it appears it will soon be compulsory. The "tolerant" will not tolerate us.


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Zack's Kernel News
Speeding Up Boot-Time
Nathan Zimmer noticed that on large-memory systems, booting up could take more than an hour, just due to initializing memory. He posted a patch written by himself and Mike Travis, which would cause the CPUs to start up first – that way the memory initialization could be offloaded to multiple CPUs at the same time, thus speeding up the whole process.
Greg Kroah-Hartman replied, pointing out that Nathan and Mike had made this patch a configuration option. But, Greg said, there really wasn't any reason to make it optional, because it was a pure win. Surely no one would ever choose to have a slower system for no reason.
H. Peter Anvin joined Greg in that assessment, saying that probably any system with more than a certain amount of memory – Peter guessed 128GB – would want to enable this feature by default.
Peter also wanted to know how much code this patch added to the kernel. Nathan said it was only about 400 lines of source code, but Peter clarified – he meant he was curious how many bytes of machine code the patch would add to the actual binary. To which Nathan said it was about 32KB. Peter was surprised that the patch could really be that large. He said, "Is this init code? 32K of unconditional runtime addition isn't completely trivial." Nathan replied that perhaps 24KB of it was real run-time code.
There was some back-and-forth about alternative implementations for Nathan's and Mike's idea. Yinghai Lu had some ideas, and Ingo Molnár had a proposal for a whole different concept that relied on the "buddy allocator" – a mechanism of dividing up system memory into easily handled chunks.
One way or another, though, this feature will soon be accepted into the official tree. Whether Nathan's and Mike's patch gets in, or something by Ingo, the patch will be implemented somehow. The speedup is simply too great to ignore.
Named Anonymous Memory
Colin Cross felt that certain features were just languishing in linux-next, and he wanted to see them migrate into the official tree, if possible. Specifically, ashmem
(Android Shared Memory) had some very cool features. Among them, Colin said, were the features implementing various types of anonymous memory.
Colin especially liked "named" anonymous memory – a region of memory that would show up as a file in /proc/pid/maps
. He said, "The Dalvik VM likes to use this feature extensively, even for memory that will never be shared and could easily be allocated using an anonymous mmap, and even malloc has used it in the past. It provides an easy way to collate memory used for different purposes across multiple processes, which Android uses for its 'dumpsys meminfo' and 'librank' tools to determine how much memory is used for java heaps, JIT caches, native mallocs, etc."
In addition to migrating the code out of linux-next, Colin wanted to enhance it with new system calls and other behaviors to make it more generally useful.
Christoph Hellwig was not convinced that this feature was really valuable, though. He didn't see "what ashmem buys over a shared mmap of /dev/zero." Colin replied, "ashmem ties the memory to an fd, so it can be passed to another process and mmaped to get to the same memory, but /dev/zero does not. Passing a /dev/zero fd and mmaping it would result in a brand new region of zeroed memory. Opening a tmpfs file would allow sharing memory by passing the fd, but we don't want a world-writable tmpfs."
At this point, Christoph said he was surprised that /dev/zero
didn't already do what Colin attributed to ashmem – but after looking at the /dev/zero
code, he had to affirm that ashmem represented something new.
Alex Elsayed joined the discussion, as did John Stultz, and proceeded to explore implementation details with Colin. A solid design didn't emerge in the discussion, but it seems as though at least in theory, ashmem may have some valuable qualities, worth migrating out of linux-next and into the main tree.
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Insook Bhushan, a soft-spoken accountant in the Colorado Department of Military and Veterans Affairs budget office in Centennial, Colo., is actually a two-time Olympian and a U.S. national table tennis champion.
Bhushan, the oldest of four, was born in 1952 in Seoul, South Korea, during the Korean War stalemate. Her father, George, was part of the resistance who fought underground against the Japanese Army's occupation of Korea during World War II. At the time of Bhushan's birth, her father worked as an economist for the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. Her mother, Chu Suk, was a housewife.
Bhushan began playing table tennis at 13, which by today's standards, would be far too old to ponder new Olympic aspirations; but Bhushan admits she really had no ambitions of playing competitively. She simply enjoyed the game.
"I had no goals when I first began playing. My mother pushed me toward it more for the social side of things. I really didn't think much about it at the time. I wanted to play a sport," Bhushan said. "As I played it more and more, it was hard to turn back. My coach had invested so much time in me and I began making friends, so I stuck with it."
Bhushan's career began to blossom – so much so that she made the Korean National Team by the time she graduated from high school.
She said table tennis wasn't extremely popular in Korea in the 1960s, but it had a strong enough following to warrant corporate sponsorships. After completing high school in 1970, she was recruited by the Korean Development Bank team. For the next three years, she was paid to play professionally all over the country.
"We didn't have to work. It was table tennis six days a week for eight hours a day. You practice, compete and travel playing table tennis," said Bhushan, who was making an entry-level banker's salary for playing a sport she enjoyed. "You don't have anything like that in this country."
Coming to America
According to the International Table Tennis Federation's Web site, the South Korean women's national table tennis team won the World Table Tennis Championships in 1973. Bhushan was part of that team.
It was the first world title claimed by the country in the sport.
Around that time, table tennis began to grow in popularity in South Korea, Bhushan explained, but just as the sport was taking off in South Korea, her father established an import and export business in the New York City and the entire family relocated to Queens.
Bhushan knew little English but enough about table tennis and realized she was a cut above the rest of her competition in her new country. She soon met six-time former men's singles national table tennis champion Dal Joon "DJ" Lee, who, like herself, had emigrated from South Korea.
Lee operated a table tennis club in Columbus, Ohio, and Bhushan flew there in 1974 to investigate. While there she met her future husband, Shekhar.
"DJ told my future husband that there was a new lady in town that could beat him at table tennis and Shekhar couldn't believe it because he was a college champ at OSU (Ohio State University) where he was getting his master's," Bhushan said. "Well, I beat him, and we started to go out, and in November of 1975 we were married."
Living with her husband in Columbus, she began playing table tennis full-time again in the mid-'70s, winning prize money at various tournaments around the country. By 1977, she made the women's national team and won the women's singles U.S. Open Table Tennis Championship – an annual tournament that invites the sport's best from around the globe – by defeating the top-ranked Japanese player in a close match.
"I treasure this title the most," Bhushan said. "The U.S. Open Championships are open to the best international players, so the competition is very tough."
In 1979, the Bhushans moved to Denver where Shekhar took a job at an architecture firm. They welcomed a baby boy, Austin, in 1980, and Kevin in 1985.
An Olympian
At 36, Bhushan was considered past her prime by Korean table tennis standards, but was the top medal prospect for the U.S. at the 1988 Summer Games.
"You start really young playing a sport in Korea and your peak age is in your early 20s, so from their perspective they (the Korean table tennis team) thought I was too old to compete," Bhushan said. "It was hard for them to understand that I was competing, but they remembered that I was on the national team when I was living in Korea, so a lot of attention was focused on me. I just wanted to forget about all that and compete, but being that it was my first Olympic games and going back to my country, I was nervous. I was tense."
Bhushan won two games and lost two in the preliminary round. She failed to make the medal round at the Olympics. China, Korea's archrival in table tennis, took the women's gold.
Bhushan was disappointed, but said the tournament was a great experience.
"The Olympic games are something special," she said. "You represent something so big, so huge – it was amazing."
After the Olympics, Bhushan's focus returned to her family. However, she still continued to play table tennis for the U.S. Women's National team.
In 1991, knowing she would need a career after table tennis, she graduated from the University of Colorado at Denver with a degree in accounting.
"I began to wind down. You have to realize your physical limitations at a certain age," Bhushan said. "You cannot play table tennis at a professional level forever; but for me, I extended my career a lot longer than most because I was playing in this country. I couldn't have done that if I had stayed in Korea because the competition is much tougher."
Barcelona and the Pan American Games
Bhushan tried, but initially failed, to make the women's U.S. Olympic team in 1992. However, because of a special wild card spot granted by the Olympic committee, she made the cut. Bhushan said the wild card position was selected by the president of the International Table Tennis Foundation.
There wasn't nearly as much pressure on Bhushan to perform in the '92 Olympic Games. At 40, she was a veteran among her competitors.
"I didn't have a whole lot of expectations for those games," Bhushan said. "I think I played my best, but it was just not good enough at the time. It was my last year and I knew that I wasn't going to win it all."
Bhushan again missed the medal round in Barcelona. It was the last table tennis tournament in an illustrious career that included two Olympic appearances, nine Pan American gold medals and one silver in each of the '83, '87, and '91 Pan American Games.
The Pan American Games invite athletes from the Americas to participate in multiple events, similar to the Olympics. The games take place every four years and are held the summer of the year prior to the Olympics.
"Our stiffest competition came from Canada or Cuba in those games," Bhushan said. "The matches were not nearly as competitive, but still the Pan American Games are sort of like a sister to the Olympic Games, so they're huge."
Life after table tennis
These days, Bhushan rarely picks up a paddle. In fact, she doesn't even have a Ping-Pong table at home. She said "Ping-Pong" is a derogatory term for the sport.
According to Tim Boggan's "A History of U.S. Table Tennis Vol. 1,"the term "Ping-Pong" was trademarked by American toy company Parker Brothers in 1928.
"Ping-Pong is just hitting the ball back and forth," Bhushan said. "Table tennis has more technical aspects to it which includes spin and a lot more movement. Ping-Pong has no depth to it. Those who play table tennis do not like to be called Ping-Pong players because it implies that they are recreational players."
Bhushan admits she isn't even a recreational player anymore, but still attends table tennis matches from time to time as a spectator.
Now, instead of spending her days indoors hunching over a table tennis table, swatting away at a small, white, plastic ball, she can be found outside on a fairway swinging away at different kind of small, white ball.
"I was indoors my whole life playing table tennis," Bhushan said. "Now I want to do outdoor activities."
Bhushan has worked for the Department of Veterans and Military Affairs since 2000 and has no plans to retire any time soon. She's happy where she is and stays busy.
"I enjoy working here since I have a good boss and have good working relationships with most of the people."


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Or at least that was the case last year around this time, when Sweezy - the team's project pick chosen in the draft's seventh round - was thrown into the proverbial fire, making the switch from college defensive tackle to NFL offensive guard.
"The biggest and most obvious jump is Sweezy," said Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll when asked how the club has improved along the offensive line since a season ago. "He didn't know anything. At this time last year, this would have been his third time out to practice on the offense. He's much farther along."
Through the first three days of training camp, Sweezy has split time with third-year pro
"That first game against Arizona I got used," Sweezy said after getting some extra work in with assistant head coach/offensive line coach Tom Cable following Saturday's practice. "I got used and I didn't know it. It was a completely different ball game. I didn't know half the stuff their defense was doing - it was crazy."
Sweezy's performance in that game made him sit down and focus on what exactly went wrong. As a lifelong defensive player, Sweezy's mentality was to attack, attack, and attack some more - a tactic he found can hinder you when working along the O-line.
"Last year, I was just attacking the whole time because that was the only thing I knew," Sweezy said. "You still attack on the offensive line, but you've just got to know when those times are."
Sweezy described his comfort level at training camp as "night and day" compared to a year ago. He credits his improvement to an increased attention to detail, emitting a greater focus on the field, and a little bit of help from some teammates, too.
"All the guys on the O-line - they've done nothing but help," Sweezy said. "Paul [McQuistan] helps me out every day, Max [Unger], Breno [Giacomini], Russell [Okung], Moff [John Moffitt] - they all try to help. We're all helping each other trying to get better.
"I'm still learning and trying to perfect things, so that I do it right every single time. Sometimes I can be a little inconsistent, so that's what I'm working on."
The competition at right guard will be one of the key positional battles to keep an eye on as camp moves forward, but Carroll likes what he's seen out of Sweezy so far.
"He gives us a much more competitive mindset for us because we know that he understands what's going on," said Carroll. "He had a good off season. He proved to us that he had advanced this season tremendously. That's a big help."
Below is a little bit more from my Saturday conversation with Sweezy, including the origin of those It ain't easy, bein' Sweezy t-shirts you may have seen last year on fullback
Several players last year wore t-shirts that had the phrase "It ain't easy, bein' Sweezy" on the front. How did those come about?
"It started out as a joke. I didn't even know they were making them. Then I showed up at the Carolina game last year and 50 people had them on."
Your teammates had the t-shirts on, or fans?
"Family and friends. Then, unfortunately, Breno [Giacomini] got a glimpse of it and told on me and then the shirts took off here. The players started wanting them. It's pretty cool, pretty nifty."
Rookie offensive lineman
"Yeah, we talk every now and then. I try to tell him the transition isn't going to happen overnight, that it's going to be a process. I try to tell him that I'm still working at it and just to not get too hard on yourself. You'll get better at one thing every day."
Is it better being on the same side of the football as quarterback
"Yeah, definitely. It was weird at first. But now it's pretty cool to have him behind you."


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Masjid Terapung or the Floating Mosque was built in 2004 in a bid to replace an older mosque which was damaged in the year's major tsunami disaster. Situated along Tanjung Bungah's stretch of beach, the mosque is an architectural wonder with its Moorish design, seven-storey-high towering minarets and 360-degree panoramic view of the sea. It's the first mosque in the country to be built on the sea, with pillars and stilts supporting its majestic structure. Covering an area of 1,295sqm, it can accommodate up to 1500 people during prayer times.
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India election: Voting held on biggest polling day
Millions of Indians have voted in the biggest day of the general election pitting the ruling Congress party against the main opposition BJP.
Nearly 200 million voters were eligible to cast their ballots in 121 seats in 12 states, including Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
The nine-phase vote began on 7 April and will conclude on 12 May. Votes will be counted on 16 May.
More than 814 million Indians are eligible to vote in the polls.
Election Commission officials say voter turnout in most states in the general election so far has been higher than in 2009.
Thursday was one of the most critical days of voting spread across 12 states, from Indian-administered Kashmir in the north, to the information-technology hub of Bangalore in the south, Rajasthan in the west and the tea-growing Himalayan town of Darjeeling in the east, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reported.
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The Maharaja's High School is more than 100 years old and one of Jaipur's oldest schools.
It's a stunning building with a massive arched entranceway, huge wooden doors leading you into the courtyard and the classrooms, now converted into polling stations.
And the voters have been coming in steadily, women in colourful saris, young men in western wear, older ones wearing bright turbans.
The city's Muslim minority is out in large numbers as well, many of the women in all-black veils.
Rajasthan sends 25 MPs to parliament and is a key swing state. In what is turning out to be a bitterly fought campaign, every vote counts and the mood here is unforgiving.
"I want a clean government. One that is corruption free and that can take decisions in the interest of our country," a young woman voter in Rajasthan's Jaipur city told our correspondent.
A young man said he was voting for BJP as its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi "represented change".
A Muslim voter, however, said people should vote for a "leader who will represent all communities, one who will take everyone along".
The southern state of Karnataka where voting was held in all the 28 seats on Thursday is a key battleground.
Bangalore South is one of the keenly contested seats in the state with Congress party's Nandan Nilekani, BJP's Ananth Kumar and the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Nina Nayak as candidates.
Mr Nilekani is the billionaire co-founder and former CEO of Infosys, one of India's largest IT services firms, while Mr Kumar is a former federal minister.
"I think my vote will make a change. I want my country to be a superpower. We have good candidates with a clean image who I am sure will give good governance," Anita, a first time voter, told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi.
Reports said voters streamed in through the day into polling stations even in the central state of Chhattisgarh where Maoist rebels had given a call to boycott the elections.
"I want a good life for my baby, security and peace,'' Associated Press quoted Neha Ransure, a 25-year-old woman voter in Rajnandgaon town as saying. "The rebels are bad. They kill our soldiers. I don't go outside of town. It is too dangerous," she added.
The anti-corruption Aam Aadmi (Common Man's) Party, which secured a spectacular result in local polls in Delhi last year, offers a challenge to the main parties.
Several smaller regional parties are also in the fray and if no single party wins a clear majority, they could play a crucial role in the formation of a government.
Thousands of police and paramilitary security personnel have been deployed across the country to ensure smooth polling.
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- 24 April - 12 states, 117 constituencies
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Cytosport, Inc. was cited for having false or misleading label and website claims in violation of several points of federal law for several products, including "Chocolate Muscle Milk Protein Nutrition Shake," "Vanilla Crème Muscle Milk Light Nutritional Shake," and "Chocolate Peanut Caramel Muscle Milk." The company is in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and is required to take specific actions to correct the violations. More information is provided in the FDA Warning Letter.
New York dietary supplement manufacturer Howard Sousa, of Artery Health Institute LLC and DeSousa LLC, has agreed to remove drug claims on his company's website. Sousa's Advanced EDTA Oral Chelation capsules were promoted on the website as drugs since the marketing language made disease treatment claims. More information is provided in the FDA News Release.
There are many herbal products available to consumers, yet it is difficult to determine if they are safe. The American Academy of Family Physicians provides answers to questions about herbal product use, potential dangers with specific health problems, and possible drug interactions. A helpful chart about interactions between herbal products and supplements is also available.
A recent Wall Street Journal article reported on multivitamin use, the issue of what one actually needs to take, and understanding what is on the labels. The article asks the basic question: Do you really need a multivitamin? And what exactly should a person be looking for in a multivitmin?
According to the article, there is no generic, one-size-fits-all multivitamin that is capable of meeting every nutritional need, and factors such as age, gender, diet and health determine what vitamins a person should take, if any. Adding to the confusion is inconsistent vitamin labeling for consumers as well as the manufacturers who tailor product brands for different population segments.
Jack3d (sometimes known as "Jacked") is, according to the bottle, a "powerful pre-workout supplement that increases your capacity to perform." HPRC did an extensive search for evidence-based information on Jack3d and found that all the apparently scientific literature on the product led to its promotional website, where they offer their own reviews. Anyone taking supplements should know that there have been reports about "tainted" dietary supplements containing active ingredients of FDA-approved drugs or other compounds that are not classified as dietary supplements. But there are still testimonials, blog entries, and bodybuilding forums touting the effects of Jack3d. It's important to know exactly what is in Jack3d and that there isn't any information on how much of each individual ingredient is in a serving.
The label of Jack3d says that it contains 4145 mg of a "Proprietary Blend" in one scoop, with 45 servings per container. In that blend are the ingredients:
- arginine alpha-ketoglutarate,
- creatine monohydrate,
- beta alanine,
- caffeine,
- 1,3-dimethylamylamine (geranium [stem]), and
- schizandrol A,
- as well as some flavoring and color additives.
So, what does this all mean to a consumer? There have been individual studies conducted on each of the ingredients in Jack3d. Some are more effective than others for potentially enhancing athletic performance and building muscle mass. For example, creatine may increase muscle mass and enhance exercise performance during short, high-intensity repeated exercise bouts. For more information about creatine, see HPRC's research brief. We know that 1,3-dimethylamylamine (DMAA), a chemical from the geranium plant and also synthetically made, is used in supplements promoted for weight loss, bodybuilding, and enhanced athletic performance. According to the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, it's thought to have stimulant effects. Its chemical structure is similar to that of amphetamine, and it is on the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned substance list. No scientific literature exists on the effectiveness of DMAA for weight loss, bodybuilding, or enhanced athletic performance. Caution is advised on the use of DMAA with caffeine, since both have stimulant effects and could increase the chance of increased heart rate and blood pressure.
The amount of caffeine per scoop of Jack3d has not been released, although it has been estimated that there is less than 150 mg of caffeine/scoop. Caffeine is included on the FDA's list as a substance "generally recognized as safe." However, the FDA has established a maximum concentration for caffeine in cola beverages: 32.4 mg per 6 oz or 71 mg per 12 oz. Other than colas, the caffeine content of food and beverages is not regulated. The label of Jack3d states: "Do not use in combination with caffeine or any stimulants from other sources whatsoever, including but not limited to, coffee, tea, soda and other dietary supplements or medications." Caffeine seems to increase physical endurance, but it does not seem to affect activities that require high exertion over a short period of time, such as lifting.
The main issue with Jack3d is the same one that exists with many bodybuilding products on the market. There is no way to judge the interaction between the ingredients, especially when the consumer is unable to determine how much of each ingredient is in the product. This product contains multiple ingredients and, potentially, additional and potent ingredients not listed. It also could be contaminated, as has been seen with many other supplements. The FDA has put together information on tainted products promoted for bodybuilding.
It is important to mention that Jack3d comes with serious warnings on its label. As with any supplement, be educated, be advised, and consider all the unknowns before you decide whether the possible benefits are worth risking your health.
Probiotic products were seized by U.S. Marshals after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) complained that the products were marketed as drugs. The company who sells the probiotic products claims that the products will prevent or treat disease, which is in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. More information is provided in the FDA News Release.
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has produced a series of fact sheets on specific herbs and botanicals. Find information on common names, uses, potential side effects, and other information by choosing any of the 45 herbs or botanical fact sheets.
Food Safety News is reporting that Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has asked the FDA to clarify its regulatory position on dietary supplements and food additives on the back of widespread concerns about the marketing of melatonin-containing baked goods. A recent HPRC Performance News post notes that there have been questions raised on commercially available products such as Lazy Cakes and Lulla Pies that are marketed as "relaxation" brownies - which contain high doses of the sleep aid melatonin.
These products are being sold as dietary supplements to help people relax
and fall asleep, rather than foods containing additives. Senator Durbin contends that these foods are being sold as dietary supplements but are really foods containing a dietary ingredient additive, which would require FDA approval. He has asked U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret
Hamburg to see if she has the authority "to oversee the safety of foods
containing dietary supplement additives."
The vast array of dietary supplement products come in the form of tablets, capsules, powders, drinks, and energy bars. You can learn about dietary supplement labels, effectiveness, quality standards, safety and risks, and other important information about these products from the National Institute of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements publication "Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know."


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CAMDEN, N.J. – A doctor from Burlington County, N.J., was sentenced today to six months in prison and six months of house arrest with electronic monitoring for evading taxes on income diverted from his medical practice for his personal use, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Scott Salkind, 58, of Medford, N.J., previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle to an Information charging him with one count of income tax evasion. Judge Simandle also imposed the sentence today in Camden federal court.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
From 2005 through 2008, Salkind, a licensed doctor of osteopathy, failed to report more than $1 million of income on his federal income tax returns by diverting corporate business receipts into a shell company bank account under his control. He then withdrew the money by purchasing cashier's checks payable to himself and used the money to pay personal expenses.
Salkind owned and operated three offices in New Jersey, where he practiced medicine under the name General Medical of New Jersey Inc. He did not participate in any insurance company plan or belong to any insurance company network of doctors. Instead, Salkind had an agreement with his patients that he would submit an insurance claim to the patient's medical insurance company for the services provided and accept whatever amount the insurance company paid as payment in full. He would not charge his patients a co-payment, any deductible or for any services the insurance company did not pay. Payments from the insurance company were either made payable to General Medical and mailed directly to the practice or they were made payable, and mailed directly to, the patient. Salkind instructed his patients that when they received an insurance payment check they should give it to him.
Salkind maintained a business checking account at Wachovia Bank in the name of General Medical, where he deposited his business income. Deposits into this account consisted of insurance payment checks payable to General Medical. The deposits into this account were used to arrive at gross receipts reported on the General Medical corporate income tax returns for 2005 through 2008. Salkind also maintained a business bank account in the name of a fictitious company, into which he also deposited insurance payment checks. When the insurance checks cleared, he withdrew the money by writing checks to himself to purchase cashier checks made payable to himself.
In addition to the prison term and house arrest, Judge Simandle sentenced Salkind to three years supervised release and fined him $15,000. Salkind had already paid $430,000 in restitution and penalties prior to sentencing.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge John R. Tafur.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason M. Richardson of the U.S. Attorney's Office Criminal Division in Camden.
Defense counsel: Robert Agre Esq., Haddonfield, N.J.


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UPDATE December 5: Newt has teamed up with The Donald (as in Trump) to set up an apprentice program for some of these "really poor children" with "nobody around them who works." Guess The Newt and The Donald never met the working poor.
UPDATE December 1: On November 18, Newt Gingrich called child labor laws "stupid" and said he wants to fire union workers and hire kids to clean schools. Now he's gone further, saying his plan is the only way to teach poor children how to earn money in ways that are not "illegal."
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"Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods, have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday."
Man, that Gingrich is a real big thinker. Poor kids don't know anything about making money legally. And let's fire janitors and hire their kids instead. Let's have children as young as nine years old doing hard manual labor cleaning up after their more fortunate classmates. Why should they be playing or doing home work when they could be sanitizing toilets, handling hazardous cleaning chemicals, and scrubbing floors hunched over a mop for hours?
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Vietnam to build coastal road link to Thailand
Construction will begin next month on a 220kmlong coastal road in the Mekong Delta as part of an international highway linking the country with Cambodia and Thailand, Thanh Nien News has reported. Running through the provinces of Kien Giang and Ca Mau, the US$440 million road will be built in cooperation with the governments of South Korea and Australia, as well as the Asian Development Bank. Once completed, the road will be part of the Thailand- Cambodia-Vietnam Southern Coastal Road Corridor, starting at Bangkok and ending at Ca Mau province.
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The running of the bulls in Pamplona
An image depicting San Fermin, the patron saint of Pamplona, is carried to the church in the middle of a procession during the 2012 San Fermin fiestas, in Pamplona, Spain.
Revelers run on the Estafeta corner ahead of the bulls during the first running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas, in Pamplona northern Spain. The San Fermin running of the bulls festival became world famous with the publication of Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." It is also known around the world for its wild all-night street parties which commemorate the city's patron saint.
A reveler is tossed, left, by a Dolores Aguirre Yabarra ranch fighting bull during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona Spain.
Revelers run on the Estafeta corner with Dolores Aguirre Yabarra ranch bulls during the first running of the bulls.
A reveler is tossed by a Dolores Aguirre Yabarra ranch fighting bull during the running of the bulls.
Doctors and paramedics give assistance to a reveler after a Dolores Aguirre Yabarra ranch fighting bull tossed him during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona Spain.
Revelers kiss in the early morning, during the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona Spain.
Revelers have lunch on the street in Pamplona, northern Spain, to celebrate the start of the most famous bull-running festival with the annual launch of the "chupinazo" rocket.
Tens of thousands of revelers showered each other with sparkling wine and waved red kerchiefs as the blast of a small rocket signaled the start of this year's running of the bulls.
Participants hold red scarves during the "chupinazo" to mark the start at noon sharp of the San Fermin Festival in front of the Town Hall of Pamplona, northern Spain. The first of eight runs in which daredevils dash through the streets with six powerful fighting bulls begins Saturday.
Spain's famous summer festival kicked off in the jam-packed and cobblestoned main square of the northern town of Pamplona. People from around the world, many wearing the traditional red kerchief and white shirt and pants, roared their approval as an official on a city hall balcony declared the San Fermin festival underway. He then lit the rocket, its boom echoing through the plaza.
The band plays after the "Chupinazo," the official opening of the 2012 San Fermin fiesta.
"It looked like a giant food fight," said Andrea Smith, 33, a member of the U.S. military stationed in Italy. A native of Coxsackie, N.Y., she had come to Pamplona on leave just to watch all the fun — not to test her luck with the 1,100-pound beasts that are the stars of the show.
A reveler celebrates after he jumped from a fountain to be caught by the crowd during the Chupinazo, marking the first day of the San Fermin running-of-the-bulls festival.
A young man bites a Spanish ham during the official opening of the 2012 San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona, Spain.
Revelers spray each other with wine, water and other liquids and pelted each other with flour, making for a pasty but merry mess. Huge plastic balls used to advertise products and services bounced atop the crowd.
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Michele N. Struffolino is an Associate Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center. She teaches Lawyering Skills and Values I and II and Property. She also teaches Legal Reasoning and Research and the Independent Research Seminar for the On-Line Master of Science in Law Program. Prior to joining the faculty at Nova, Professor Struffolino taught Legal Research and Writing II (an appellate advocacy, research and writing course) to second year law students at New England School of Law. Professor Struffolino also lectured in the areas of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Constitutional Law for a Bar Exam Preparation Program offered at New England School of Law, Suffolk University Law School and Northeastern University School of Law. Professor Struffolino assisted students prepare for the multistate and essay portions of the bar exam as well as the Multistate Performance Test. Professor Struffolino has twenty years litigation and practice experience and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the New Hampshire State and Federal Bars. Prior to joining the Nova faculty, she managed her own private practice and supervised associate attorneys. Her law firm offered assistance in civil and criminal litigation matters and real estate transactions. As a Certified Marital Mediator in Massachusetts, a Court Appointed Family Court Conciliator in Essex County, Massachusetts and a trained Collaborative Lawyer, Professor Struffolino was dedicated to providing litigation options to families in crisis.


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Relation of Self-Efficacy to Reported Pain and Pain Medication Usage During Labor
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We studied the relationship of self-efficacy to reported labor pain and pain medication usage among 43 women. Self-efficacy ratings were judgments of confidence regarding successful completion of tasks involved in labor and delivery (e.g., doing breathing exercises) and in overcoming barriers (e.g., nonsupportive partner). Multiple regression analyses revealed that self-efficacy significantly contributed to predicting labor pain beyond other relevant variables (e.g., age, amount of menstrual pain), with barrier self-efficacy the strongest predictor. Results are discussed in the context of increasing women's confidence in overcoming barriers by incorporating relevant interventions in childbirth education.
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- Title
- Relation of Self-Efficacy to Reported Pain and Pain Medication Usage During Labor
- Journal
Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
Volume 8, Issue 3 , pp 161-166
- Cover Date
- 2001-09-01
- Print ISSN
- 1068-9583
- Online ISSN
- 1573-3572
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- labor pain
- self-efficacy
- childbirth education
- Authors
- Amy Fuller Stockman (1) (2)
- Elizabeth M. Altmaier (3) (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA
- 2. Department of Anesthesia, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA
- 3. College of Education, University of Iowa, USA
- 4. College of Public Health, University of Iowa, USA