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Friday, December 14, 2012
What's On My Mind...
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Well said. It is something to contemplate for sure. No wonder I love blogging, I get to live happy thoughts and design inspiration anytime I want to escape through the computer, and it is oftentimes not realistic. I don't want to covet things I don't have , I don't really need to change a thing in my own home, although I want to after seeing hundreds of beautiful things online all the time. It takes alot of time, and that time should be better spent in front of people with real time conversations. That's why I like to build relationships with bloggers I align with through phone conversations so it is not so fake.. Balance is the key, and it's hard sometimes! Happy baking and have a wonderful weekend Janell.ReplyDelete
xo Nancy
Oh I hear ya!ReplyDelete
From pinterest, Facebook, instagram, twitter, blogging, one must wonder how good of a person they are outside of all these things. I mean really, what's left of you after you do all of that stuff all day? Oh yeah, you get to talk to your friends about it all:-/
I'm starting my "vacation" next week too. I have a new nephew, the boys will be out of school, and it's the holidays! I want to enjoy this time and not spend too much time reading about it, pinning images of it, and so forth. Don't get me wrong, I love all of those things, but I'm realizing that finding balance is key!
enjoy your break girl!
I struggled with this for a while, and basically I decided to let my blog unofficially "die". I haven't posted in 10 months, and was very sporadic for a while before then. I work full time, and I realized I was coming home several nights a week or using a Sunday afternoon to line up posts - and not spending as much time with my husband as I wanted to. I just realized my priorities were out of whack. This realization also came around the time we finished decorating most of our home, so I also lost the motivation behinding posting - and didn't see any reason to force it. I know that isn't a realistic choice for you since your blog is such a big part of your business, but I understand the need to find more balance. I hope you're able to find a balance that works better for you - and if that means less posts, I don't think you'll lose many followers. ChristineReplyDelete
Oh goodness, I have so been thinking about this lately. In fact, I started a post that I haven't finished called "Social Media Exhaustion" because that's what it feels like. Blogging doesn't stress me out. I still love it (and consider it my job), but everything else that goes with it, and especially my personal Facebook page/friends completely wear me out sometimes. I heard someone say once that Facebook only lets you see the highlight reel of someone's life. That's hard to remember, sometimes.ReplyDelete
I am really looking forward to some time off over Christmas. Hope you get that time, too, to relax and enjoy "real" life. Merry Christmas, Janell!
Janell, I so appreciate your posts on topics like this because I couldn't agree more. There are have been a few major things going on lately and it keeps pointing me in the direction to embrace "real life" moments as much as a I can. I hope to do that this weekend as well! Enjoy your face to face time this weekend! ;)ReplyDelete
Spot on Janell! I wrestle with this on a daily basis and have come to terms with the fact that my blog will never be the biggest or most popular. It fulfills a purpose for me, allowing my work and design aesthetic to be showcased for friends (real life and virtual) and clients, and that is OK. Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, so many things to try to stay on top of that it is all consuming, exhausting and not necessarily rewarding. I even find that it can stunt my creativity with so much to see that it can limit original thought. Un plug occasionally, live in the now, that's my goal. Thanks for discussing.... Enjoy your cookie baking with Isabella and Happy Holidays!ReplyDelete
My husband and I were discussing something similar last night. He had read that the average American's bedtime is now midnight vs. 10pm, from a few years ago, due to social media. It's stealing our sleep too!ReplyDelete
I love that! I know my mother feels the same way. Me a bit less so, because my job and everything are online totally. But, I know it does take a toll when Im hacking away at the keyboard and my hubby is calling me to come spend time with him :/ good lesson for all of us to sit and think about.ReplyDelete
Interesting question...I am reading the Steve Jobs biography and Jobs felt that computers isolate us. Clearly they do, but through social media, they also connect us.ReplyDelete
In the larger scheme of life, it is certainly better to have face to face contact, but the blogging/social media world has opened up so many doors for so many people, that I can only view it as an overall positive.
In the six months I have been blogging, I have learned so much and met so many nice people - I am happy I have had that opportunity!
Well put Janell...and so timely during the season of "hussle and bussle". I have had the same thoughts and conversations with friends about this very topic. I really enjoy reading the comments here, from some of my favorite bloggers - so enlightening. It is definately a double edge sword. From working the social media and blogging I have been able to "meet" some incredible people, yet it does take time away from the "real" people in your daily life.ReplyDelete
I realized this early on and have decided that balance is the key to my success! The new year has some exciting opportunities for me and I am excited to be present and available for them!
Happy weekend and enjoy your baking time with Isabella...how fun!
I have been feeling exactly like that and have purposely tried to connect more to my real life and I am better for it. Like you, I have a teenage daughter and a tween daughter and I am more aware of how the behavior I am modeling will create who they are - that is my biggest motivation.ReplyDelete
From one Portland girl to another - let's go meet a girlfriend at Bridgeport for shopping or maybe checkout the new Tory Burch store at Pioneer Place, take our kids to Zoolights or a drive on Peacock Lane to see Christmas light and even head to Clarklewis for a date night with the hubby!!! Social media can wait!
Merry Christmas to you!
*** Nellie, I couldn't agree with you MORE!!! (And I don't even "work", BLOG, TWITTER, do FACEBOOK or anything like that!). I can't even IMAGINE having the time to do THAT, when I seem to ALWAYS be simply READING my fave design blogs!!!ReplyDelete
My sweet husband has actually "missed me"... and has told me so... now T*H*A*T made me REEEALLY stop and reeeally think...
I love to read so many different blogs, but have had to CUT DOWN a B*U*N*C*H, and seldom take the time to comment anymore, realizing that there's only SO MUCH TIME available in a day...
Family and dear friends first (we weren't blessed with children, I'm sorry to say)... and, after the horriffic tragedies of yesterday, I intend to spend MORE time telling my famly n' friends how much I love and appreciate them... ANNND, spend more time with them!!! We really HAVE no "guarantees" on tomorrow, do we?
I think you made a good choice when you stop n' think about it, my friend.
Sending you my very best for a wonderful Christmas and the family time that comes with it, Sweets...
Such wise words! It is true that I have formed some fabulous friendships with other bloggers who live locally that I met through the social media world, but it is also true that having a social media presence means it takes away time from being in the now in "real" life! Since taking in a full time teaching position this fall I have hardly had time for my own family and friends let alone my online presence, but I am finally feeling fine about that. It is the people in my everyday life that stick with me. I find the online world a fickle place, everyone gravitating to the next "viral" DIY, etc. And then a few weeks later that is tossed by the wayside when another comes along. I see bloggers desperate for attention, I see a constant barrage of consumerism and want. It has been gratifying to step out of that and focus on what really matters in life.ReplyDelete
Janell, I have been feeling the very same way about social media. The past couple of weeks I haven't been blogging daily because I had too much to do and it felt good to feel that is was ok, not to write a blog every day. I'm getting off now to finish my decorations and enjoy my day with family. Merry Christmas! I am thankful that you dod blog, write HOF and are a blessing to so many!ReplyDelete
Yes, I'm super-concerned about the time I spend on social media (oops, here I am, doing it again). And yet, as a soon-to-be independent author, I'm heavily reliant on the online world to get word out. I imagine it's the same for you and your professional activities... I think we just have to hope to find a balance, not try to use every medium to its fullest... and set a timer ;)ReplyDelete


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Lamitschka: Music has many new fans throughout Europe who may be hearing about you for the first time. How would you describe yourself and the music you play to someone who has never seen or heard you?
Razorheads: It´s pretty much a mixture of different styles that happen naturally during the songwriting & rehearsing process. If a song touches ourselves & kicks butt, it´got a good chance to be on board. At our concerts, a whole bunch of different fellas show up, from alternative country fans, rockers, psychobillys, stoners to punks. I guess what they have in common is their love for loud guitars and an in your face show. It looks like people from all kinds of musical directons dig Razorheads.
Lamitschka: How was the last year for you? What were your highlights?
Razorheads: Last year was basically a lot of work. We were looking for a new, suitable drummer, which seemed to take forever. Parallel to that I produced & mixed our debut CD. And parralel to THAT I produced 2 shortmovie videoclips (a western & a zombieclip) as well as a third video we shot on a ship in the Hamburg harbour. We´re editing it as we speak, it´s the first clip with our new drummer & is one of the highlights of 2011. Shooting our zombie video was one of the highlights as well. On halloween, we organized a zombie flashmob on the infamous Reeperbahn, heart of the whorehouse district here in Hamburg. This part was shot "guerrilla-style", we pretty much didn´t know what would happen. According to the feedback I received in advance of filming, we were expecting about 30 undead fellas to show up there. When I arrived there, about 150 zombies were already waiting for the shoot to begin! The spontaneous interactions between them & the hammered guys on the Reeperbahn turned out just great! Shooting our western shortmovie was another highlight as well. Me and director Sascha Connell always wanted to do a western, having recorded a kickass version of "Sam Hall" finally gave us an excellent reason.
Lamitschka: What is your latest CD and how's it doing?
Razorheads: It´s our debut CD & will be published in Spring 2012. We´re all in big suspense regarding the reactions of the listeners!
Lamitschka: How did you choose the title for the CD? Is there a story behind the name?
Razorheads: It´s self titled "Razorheads". We did that, because it really includes a wide range of musical styles and we didn´t want to limit it by using a possibly "shrinking" album title. Maybe the next one´s called "2", in a Led Zeppelinesque way, haha…
Lamitschka: Do you write the songs yourself? If not, how do you go about finding the songs for your CD?
Razorheads: Yeah, all the songs are written by me, except for three. I collaborated on 2 of them lyricwise with 2 of our guestsingers (the rapper Ferris MC & Schraube, singer of the band "Razzia"). The third exception is our cover version of the old tune "Sam Hall", on which I´m accompanied by the american countrysinger Wilson Gil.
Lamitschka: You did a duet with Wilson Gil How did that happen to come about?
Razorheads: Wilson´s an old friend of mine. My ex band, a bunch of San Francisco fellas, were living in Germany when I got to know them. While we were on the road in the states, they introduced me to him and we kept in contact. While we were rehearsing "Sam Hall" for the album I thought "How cool would it be if Wilson joined us on that one…" I contacted him and sent him a roughmix of the song. He digged it, recorded his vocals in the states and sent it back to Hamburg, where we did the final mixing. Since he´s living in Berlin from time to time, we were able to do a bunch of shows with him over here, which kicked butt big time! It takes balls for sure to play with just an acoustic guitar in front of our rowdy crowd. We all hope that it works out for us playing the states again, it would be great to have him on board over there! He just formed a new band called "The Dtease", you should definitely check them out!
Lamitschka: How much creative control do you have over your music?
Razorheads: We have full creative control. We publish our music via a digital distributor who also takes care of our CD mailorder, so no one´s in the position to tell us what´s right or wrong. The album artwork was developed in close cooperation with Till Mantel, a great comic artist and good friend of ours, he did a killer job.
Lamitschka: What's unique about you that will differentiate you from other artists?
Razorheads: I think it´s the mixture of it all, we like to tear down borders, but not in an intended way. We got a punkrock version of a 300year old song with an american countrysinger, a hardcore metal song with a rapper, a song with a full blown hornsection and a whole bunch of other unique audiococktails. Maybe it looks a bit weird when you´re reading it here, but it will make perfect sense if you crank it up on your stereo, promise!
Lamitschka: Many European fans travel to the United States to attend the several of the music festivals for the opportunity to see so many of their favorite artists, bands and celebrities. Will you be participating and how will the fans be able to find you?
Razorheads: Yeah, we all hope that it works out with us playing the states. We´re already working on it, additional booking requests would be welcome, of course! All of our live shows, tours etc will be published on our website & on our Facebook & Myspace sites, they´re mentioned at the end of this interview.
Lamitschka: Many music fans today get their information about artists online. Do you have your own website and what will fans find there?
Razorheads: Yeah sure, you´ll find us here:
You´ll find all infos, music downloads, videos, tourdates etc there.
All pages are updated regularly, on our homepage you can also sign in for a newsletter.
So I hope to see you all in our social networks and in "analog style" at our shows!
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It turned into the sort of place where when someone says, "long and lean," they're talking about a pig.
The 32nd annual BBQ Festival on the
Cliff Rouse came with Brandon Wells' team from
Sharon Dowd, attending for the first time from
There was plenty of pig to be had. The festival website lists 58 registered professional and backyard teams, though dozens more came out.
"There were about 50 pigs in our backyard division," said Tammy Kelly, chairwoman of the Hog Happenin' and director of the
A brisk wind blew ashes from the pit fires, like snow, through the crowd as it gathered to watch the winners named of this year's barbecue competition.
Jeff Yourdon with Lancer's
"I'm sorry, Jeff, you have been dethroned briefly," Kelly said. "What in the world?"
Charlie Meeks with Captain Charlie's Cooks — sponsored by Laura Brody — was the big winner on the day, capturing first prize in the professional division. He took home a man-sized trophy and a check for $500.
"No. 1, you need to get the right pig," Meeks said. "This one here just cooked up beautiful. I like the long, lean ones — they work better. You got to get the right pig, and you got to do the best job you know how to do, and use a little bit of luck with it, too.
"That's what the old judge told me a long time ago."
Meeks, from
"You've got to have a good sauce to go with it," Meeks said. "I make it a week to 10 days ahead of time — got about nine ingredients in it, and one of them's vinegar."
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @WolfeReports.
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2013 BBQ Festival on the
1. Captain Charlie's Cooks, Charlie Meeks
Sponsor: Laura Brody
2. My Sweet Hog Cookin' Team, Michael Hemenway
Sponsor: The Free Press
3. Bristle Cookin' Team, Jim Bristle
Sponsor: Kinston Neuse Corporation
4. Lazy Days Cooking Team, David Grandy
1. All But the Squeal, David Hoffman
Sponsor: Smithfield Packing Company
2. M&D BBQ, Mark Jones
Sponsor: Creech's Painting
3. Skin-It-Back Catering, Jordan Andrews
Sponsor: East Coast Power and Lighting
1. I Grill-U-Chill Catering, Mike Horne
Sponsor: Edward Jones Investments
2. Kevin Caulfield
Sponsor: Murphy Family Ventures
3. Lancer's


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The N.C. Senate is expected to vote today on its version of House Bill 998, a bill that could possess negative traits for residents of Kinston.
On Thursday, the N.C. Senate approved HB 998 — also known as the Tax Simplification and Reduction Act — after a 30-17 vote. According to a statement by the General Assembly in the bill, North Carolina's current tax structure hadn't been completely revised since the Great Depression — although there have been amendments throughout the years — and no longer reflected the 21st century economy of the state.
The main purpose of the bill is to establish a flat tax, lower personal income taxes and phase out the corporate income tax in the state. The personal income tax rate would decrease from 6-7.75 percent, depending on income to 5.25 percent within the next two years, along with creating a zero tax bracket for the first $15,000 of income for married couples filing under joint status. Corporate income taxes will also be phased out by Jan. 1, 2017, according to the language of the bill.
Based on the Senate version of the budget however, the city of Kinston is projected to lose about $393,000 in the 2014-15 fiscal year. Kinston will also lose $725,000 the following year and a combined $1.84 million over the next three.
As a result, the tax rate is projected to increase by 3.99 percent, including a 6.1-percent rise in tax bills to property owners. Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy said there wouldn't be any discussion about raised rates until the city receives its budget, but he expressed his feelings about the deficiency of funds.
"This is a significant loss of revenue in addition to our rural center and hope harmless funds being eliminated," he said. "It's going to be crippling to municipalities."
On Monday, Murphy released a statement reiterating his dislike of the bill because of the possible conflict between cities and counties.
"The state of North Carolina cannot expect municipalities to lose considerable funding by being stripped of funding mechanisms that are now being given to counties without having a significant impact on property taxes within city limits," Murphy stated. "Just because counties can implement those funding mechanisms, it doesn't correlate to cities being reimbursed for significant losses of revenue which just begs for a contentious feud between cities and counties across our state. It's an unnecessary feud."
Murphy also said that no member of the N.C. Senate called the city of Kinston to discuss the impact of the budget. City Manager Tony Sears — who is also against the bill — said there was nothing the local government could do about the projected hikes in taxes.
"This legislation made it known that cities are creatures of the state and they can do whatever they want to us," Sears said. "They're forcing local government to raise taxes and by the time we can review the bill, it's going to be too late."
The budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year won't be altered because it has been passed already, but upcoming years will provide more of a financial strain for the city.
"We had to make cuts to stabilize the budget for this year and now we have to deal with this," Sears said. "When you add that to health care, fuel costs, inflation and external pressures, it's going to be very difficult for next year."
With Kinston about to lose almost $2.96 million in revenue over the next five years, the grim reality of additional taxes could happen as soon as next year.
"We can't rob Peter, give Paul the money and realistically expect for Paul to give the money back or for Peter not to raise taxes on everything that's left," Murphy said.
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What HB 998 will do:
n Lowers personal income tax rate from 6-7.75 percent (depending on income) to 5.25 percent within next two years
n Creates a zero tax bracket for first $15,000 of income for married couples filing under joint status
n Phases out corporate income taxes by 2017 and franchise taxes by 2018
n Initiates a new business privilege tax with flat tax amount of $400 in 2015, $600 in 2016 and $750 afterwards for all limited liability entities, except C corporations
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text: It is quite amazing that some of the smartest people in the world can believe some of the strangest things. The IQ of someone doesn't asses their ability to think scientifically. People with high IQ's are at least as prone as other people to beliefs in conspiracy theories. It goes to show you that just because someone believes in an outrageous theory doesn't mean that they are unintelligent. One of the main reasons that this is, is because people with higher intelligence are better at creating or proving that their theories are sounder then the ones they are arguing against. This means that once they believe in a certain theory then they are extremely likely to have confirmation bias and push the facts against their thought out of their minds. Also people with a high IQ are more likely to have a sense of omniscience or thinking that they know everything. Since they know a lot of things they feel that they know everything about everything, especially when they are comparing themselves to the amount that other know. A perfect example of this is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who is famous for creating Sherlock Holmes, fell for a trick by a couple of girls and actually wrote a book defending the girls when they said they were with fairies. Later on the girls confessed that they were lying. This is just a preview of this book but it shows exactly what I am saying. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=smart-people-believe-weir This is showing that smart people do things without weighing out all of the pros and cons but rather by going by what they already know and because they are good at defending their beliefs.


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Phil Firrantello sat in his Ford Focus at a red light Monday morning. He'd just finished the overnight shift at work and was on the way home when he lost consciousness.
The Gastonia man got knocked out when his car was rear ended by a car eluding police.
Firrantello went to the hospital, although he doesn't remember the trip.
"The last thing I remember I was sitting at a traffic light on the phone with my father," he said. "Next thing I know I was at the hospital."
Paramedics and police have helped Firrantello connect the dots.
Firrantello, the son of a longtime Gastonia police sergeant, was told that the impact knocked him out, demolishing the rear of his car and snapping the driver's seat in half.
Witnesses have told Firrantello that he got out of his car and started wandering around after the wreck.
A man on the scene coaxed Firrantello to sit down and wait for paramedics. He went unconscious again and woke up nearly an hour later in the hospital.
Aside from some aches and pains, Firrantello was uninjured. His car is totaled.
Firrantello said he feels fortunate that he walked away with only minor injuries.
"I came out of it relatively unscathed considering," he said. "I'm a little sore but other than that I feel great."
Police estimate that Anthony Thomas Giglio was driving about 50 mph on Cox Road by the onramp to I-85 when he smacked into the back of Firrantello's car.
According to police, Giglio tried to flee the scene on foot when some Good Samaritans stepped in, forcing him to the ground and holding him until he could be taken into police custody.
Giglio had warrants out on him for an incident that happened over the weekend involving an alleged break-in at the home of his ex-wife.
Giglio faces charges of felony hit and run and reckless driving in Monday's incident.
He remained in jail Thursday on a $75,000 secured bond.
You can reach reporter Diane Turbyfill at 704-869-1817 and twitter.com/GazetteDiane.


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VA awards contract for mobile device management, apps store
Wednesday - 10/3/2012, 5:00am EDT
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a long-awaited contract to build a system that will manage a stable of mobile devices officials hope will eventually grow to 100,000 handhelds and tablets.
The award, issued as a task order under VA's Transformation Twenty one Total Technology (T4) multiple award contract, calls for the development of not just a mobile device management (MDM) system, but also a secure development environment for building and testing mobile apps, plus "internal" and "external" app stores, along with a new cloud computing system to house the whole mobility effort.
The initial $4.2 million task order to begin work on the project went to Longview International Technology Solutions of Rockville, Md. The service-disabled, veteran-owned small business will partner with Agilex Technologies to build the mobile device system, an industry source said. Over the three-year life of the deal, Longview could receive about $9.3 million.
A senior Longview official confirmed the award but declined to provide specific details on plans for the mobile project, saying VA had asked the company to delay public comment. A VA spokeswoman also said she was not able to provide further information on the contract.
But contracting documents obtained by Federal News Radio lay out VA's mobility plans in a fair amount of detail.
Support up to 100,000 devices
Longview will build a cloud environment certified as meeting the Federal Information Security Management Act's requirements for a "high" level of security.
Inside that cloud, the vendor will implement a mobile device manager (MDM) that will apply and oversee security policies on the first big wave of mobile devices to be deployed on VA's networks: the contract calls for an MDM that can handle at least 5,000 smartphones and tablets by the time the task order runs its course in September 2013.
Roger Baker, chief information officer, Veterans Affairs
That's the first step on a roadmap VA originally articulated in an October 2011 query to industry that imagined 100,000 centrally-managed devices throughout the department's nationwide healthcare and benefits system.
Roger Baker, VA's chief information officer, told reporters last week that the goalpost of 100,000 devices remains in place.
"And my expectation is that we will grow in excess of that," Baker said.
The new cloud platform also will serve as a clearinghouse for mobile apps to be used within VA so that internal organizations that want to use existing health IT apps and VA developers building new ones to suit local needs aren't duplicating one another's work.
"Without some specific controls to orchestrate internal application development, the volume of VA-directed applications could result in duplication and failure to thoroughly address VA standards," VA officials wrote in a performance of work statement for the project. "For mobile applications to provide the expected benefit supporting veteran services, the applications must be acceptable by the end users, enable improvement in workflow and provide value. They must also meet VA operations and security standards."
Two cloud environments
VA's new cloud for mobile also will include two new app stores: one for internal VA staff use and another that's open to the outside world.
The internal store will host apps intended solely for devices that VA controls through the new mobile device management program. But both stores, under the terms of the agreement with Longview, will support applications for Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Mobile and RIM's BlackBerry.
The agreement does not appear to contemplate VA employees using personally-owned devices on the forthcoming app cloud.
Baker told reporters in his Sept. 26 conference call that the department is taking a cautious path toward bring-your-own-device (BYOD) plans as the Office of Management and Budget mulls over governmentwide approaches to the vexing questions that surround accessing sensitive government data on personal devices.
"Once we have the MDM stood-up, I think we'll be able to deal with the BYOD topic," Baker said prior to the award. "But contrary to where we were a year ago at this time, there are a lot of organizations that have had to wrestle with this. We gained a lot by having thought about it early, but now we're taking advantage of a lot of the work that other folks are doing. We hope to nail that down in the relatively near future."
"But remember, we're the government," Baker cautioned. 'Relatively near future' could mean almost anything."
VA's mobile strategy aims for flexibility, multiple devices
VA to slow-roll use of smartphones, tablets on network
Ahead of OMB guidance, agencies bring their own strategies to BYOD


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Sara Gilbert, who celebrates her 40th birthday on Thursday, grew up in front of TV audiences on "Roseanne." In honor of her birthday, click on to see what she and the rest of her co-stars are up to today.
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Office of Student ResearchInfectious DiseasesSchool of Public Health: Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases: Vector-borne; Global Health ConcentrationAksoy Lab - Principal Investigator
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African trypanosomes; Bacterial symbionts of tsetse flies more...
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- Toh H, et al. (2006) Massive genome erosion and functional adaptations provide insights into the symbiotic lifestyle of Sodalis glossinidius in the tsetse host. Genome research 16(2):149-156.
- Weiss BL, Wu Y, Schwank JJ, Tolwinski NS, & Aksoy S (2008) An insect symbiosis is influenced by bacterium-specific polymorphisms in outer-membrane protein A. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105(39):15088-15093.
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Finwë wrote:lakerfan2 wrote:Finwë wrote::man10:
lakersStan is clearly trolling though
to be honest, i don't think he is.
horrible grammar, multiple random new threads (almost silversurfer worthy), and other suspect posts.
check out his post history lmao
that's how he's trolling
not just here in LD, check out other parts of the forum, it's evident
nawww, i don't think it's a troll lol. i am reading other parts, it definitely seems more like age than a troll.


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The message is clear: Our nation's leaders agree that horses deserve protection from slaughter. Both the U.S. House and Senate included a provision in the just-signed omnibus spending bill that prohibits the use of tax dollars to inspect facilities that slaughter horses for human consumption. The same measure was recommended by President Obama in his draft budget early last year.
Since federal law requires meat-processing plants that conduct business across state lines to be inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this inspection ban effectively prohibits horse slaughter in the United States.
The ASPCA would like to thank our humane allies in the House and Senate for their hard work to include this language--particularly Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Reps. Jim Moran (D-VA) and the late Bill Young (R-FL). Their tireless efforts, along with the support of advocates all across the country, made this victory possible.
"I am relieved that horse slaughter is now banned in the United States, protecting the American public from the very serious health and safety risks posed by horse meat. Slaughtering horses is inhumane, disgusting and unnecessary, and there is no place for it in the United States. I appreciate Senator Graham's partnership to ban this cruel practice, keep our food supply safe and save taxpayer dollars," Senator Landrieu said upon the spending bill's Senate passage. "I appreciate ASPCA's continued efforts to inform the public about the dangers of horse slaughter."
Our work isn't done yet. Congress needs to maintain this growing momentum and swiftly pass the SAFE Act, permanently closing the loophole that still allows horses to be exported for slaughter. Horse slaughter is inhumane, whether here or abroad, and a lasting end to this reckless practice is the only just solution.
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Try to stop horse fighting to. The force them to fight in a ring, and the loser is killed and the meat is feed to the crowd.
Horses should be protected. For years they have always been dedicated to the human race. They deserve so much more!
I am glad that this has been banned for a year. Me as a horse lover and equestrian would not like to see horses end up in the slaughter house when they can be used for so much more.
Banning the transport of horses across our boarder will surely slow down the number of horses going to slaughter. It wont completely stop it. The true root of the whole problem remains to be over breeding and irresponsible ownership. Breeders should be held to a higher standard of licensing and inspection and owners should be held accountable for the care of their animals. Nurse mares should be outlawed. Selling a poorly maintained or untrained horse to a kill buyer is like rewarding bad behavior. They make money instead of buying feed or having a vet treat or humanely euthanize. For the public, education is the key to action! Learn the facts!


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Oscar Romero: Still Presente!
by Ted Fortier, Jeanette Rodriguez | March 2010
Three decades later, the slain archbishop's memory continues to inspire.
Five years ago, as more than 20,000 people gathered for the twilight memorial Mass for Oscar Arnulfo Romero in San Salvador, the papal nuncio—the pope's ambassador—announced, "We are gathered here to remember Archbishop Oscar Reynaldo Romero." The sudden silence of more than 20,000 people holding their breath was broken by the chant, "Arnulfo! Arnulfo!" followed by, "Queremos un obispo que anda con los pobres!" (We want a bishop who will walk with the people!) throughout the rest of the Mass. Following the Mass, as the people marched to the plaza, they chanted, "Se siente, se siente, Romero está presente!" (We feel it, we feel it, Romero is present!)
Ted Fortier is a professor of anthropology and Jeanette Rodriguez a professor of theology and religious studies at Seattle University. They are co-authors of Cultural Memory: Resistance, Faith, and Identity.


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Mellie White carries her art supplies and favorite artwork with something close to reverance.
Pencils and erasers, her favorite sketches are all bundled safely in a vintage suitcase, as Mellie balances it on one hip gripping it tightly, carrying it "like it's a bomb," her mom Melanie White says.
"When I draw at least I can do something right," Mellie, 14, said. She looked at a drawing of Peter Pan and Wendy flying in front of the moon, comparing its beauty to her stomach: "It's broken."
Mellie's broken stomach is part of her diagnosis of gastroparesis, a condition where the stomach has trouble contracting, leaving food and liquids to either stay in the stomach for long periods of time or get ejected from the body.
Mellie said for her it all started with nausea a year ago. Every time after eating, she would feel nauseous. Then, in December, she started vomiting after every meal.
It has now gotten so severe that she can't keep down solids or liquids — including even water.
She was diagnosed with a 91-percent paralyzed stomach and has been hospitalized a handful of times since December.
Gastroparesis can be caused by various things, but Mellie's kind is rare, caused by damage to vagus nerve, which controls the muscles of the stomach, which breaks up the food and move it through the gastrointestinal tract.
"Gastroparesis, your food it sits in your stomach, like sometimes, but it will come up. For some people it will sit there for hours and hours before it comes up, but for me it will come up right after I'm done eating," Mellie said.
The vagus nerve also controls body temperature and blood pressure, so Mellie has a low body temperaure, in the 95-degree range, and is affected by frequent blacking out, making it necessary that she is constantly accompanied by a chaperone.
Because of her gastroparesis, Mellie has lost 50 to 60 pounds in the last year. Melanie said doctors recently told her she has zero percent body fat — she is literally skin and bones and muscle.
Though she is losing weight because she can't eat, Mellie said she doesn't have an appetite, something they consider lucky, because some patients with gastroparesis feel like they are starving to death.
"It's liveable, but the other things also make life not as normal," she said. "Sometimes I don't feel normal, but then someone once told me that I am, and I am normal. I mean, even though I'm sick, I'm normal."
Mellie said that reminder that she is normal was nice to hear and gave her a new perspective.
However, Melanie said Mellie's illness has put some things into stark contrast for them.
"You don't realize how much in life revolves around food," she said, recalling how badly the rest of the family felt talking about grabbing a bite to eat after Mellie's diagnosis.
Because Mellie cannot eat or drink, doctors had to find a way to give her body the essential nutrients she needed.
They first tried a feeding tube, but Mellie suffered for months, constantly vomiting everything they fed her.
They also tried a picc line in her arm, feeding nutrients through her blood, but she got an infection.
Now, she has a Total Parenteral Nutrition, or TPN, which is a line that feeds directly into her vena cava in the heart, and for 16 hours a day Mellie is hooked up to a bag of nutrients especially mixed by a pharmacist to give her the nutrients they decide she needs based on labwork taken that week.
The bag either hangs like an IV bag when she's at home or hides away in a backpack when she's going mobile, with a battery pumping the nutrients through a long, thin tube up into her chest.
Being unable to eat is not her biggest challenge, Mellie says, it's being prohibited from regular activities kids her age do.
"It's hard because I can't do really what other people can do anymore," she said. "It's summer. I can't swim because of this" — she pointed to the tube coming out of her chest — "and I can't go outside much."
Because the line goes directly into her heart, any risk of infection is too dangerous, so Mellie walks in the mall where sweat under the bandage is unlikely to build up and cause infection.
"She can't go outside and play normally," Melanie said. "To go out in the heat and then come in the A/C causes moisture under the bandage and can cause infection."
An infection that would be extremely dangerous considering how close it is to Mellie's heart.
"Sometimes it just feels like this is my life, I mean I forget what it was like before," she said, as the TPN made its mechanical clicking noise in the background. "Sometimes I feel like I was just in a dream before."
The TPN can tire Mellie — who is tiny from losing all her weight and already tired from the illness and the medications she takes to battle the nausea, stomach cramps and a thyroid condition she had before her diagnosis — because the backpack she has to tote around has a large battery inside along with the bag of nutrients.
Melanie said the hardest part for her has been watching Mellie suffer and not being able to do anything about it. Also, the adjustments to their life — sleeping patterns, figuring out how to pay for everything, not only medical bills but the expenses to drive to and from various doctors offices and hospitals — has been stressful.
Recently, Mellie's father Curtis took a job in Maryland so they could better pay the bills.
But she said Mellie's smile keeps her going, as does her determination.
Mellie's determination also inspires her church, according to Gospel Light Baptist Church's pastor's wife, Monica Hill.
"Physically she might be sick, but spiritually she is the wellest person I have ever seen," Hill said of Mellie, adding that Mellie is full of joy and determination. "She loves church and it's an inspiriation to a lot of people because of her determination."
Hill said Mellie has had a great attitude the entire time she's been ill, even coming to church despite being unwell.
"I find comfort in God and church," Mellie said.
She also loves to draw, something she's not formally trained in, but has a talent and passion for. Mellie wants to be an illustrator when she grows up, and she displays her art on a Facebook page at Mellie's Art.
"She would speak through her art," Melanie said.
Besides her TPN, Mellie said she feels like a normal girl.
The people in her life — friends, family, her at-home nurse and even some people online who have heard about her struggles and send her encouragement via the internet — keep her grateful.
"Sometimes it's the only way I can get my mind off things," she said of talking to her friends on the phone.
Mellie is homeschooled, and always has been, but Melanie said if she had gone to public school before her diagnosis she would most likely would've been pulled out after.
Despite her illness, Mellie continues with her schoolwork, though it's slowgoing sometimes, according to Melanie, who said they have to take breaks for Mellie to rest.
As a way to help the Whites, the church has started a gofundme.com site where anyone can donate to help the Whites with any expenses relating to Mellie's illness, whether its traveling to the doctor, buying a new bedset which is sterile, or paying for actual medical bills.
"We really felt that we needed to do, we wanted to do something that was ongoing," Hill said. She said the money is routed to the church, which handles the funds for the Whites.
As of this week, they had raised more than $3,000 for the Whites, with a goal of $5,000. Hill said they would keep raising funds for an undetermined amount of time, especially considering that now Mellie is traveling to Ohio for tests at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
"That's going to be a big expense as far as gas and hotels along the way," Hill said.
The Whites said if anyone can do anything for them, it would be to pray.
They planned to leave today for Ohio and they are scheduled to meet doctors at the hospital July 27. During their time in Ohio, they will be staying at the Ronald McDonald House, according to Melanie. Doctors will run tests to see if she is a good candidate for a gastric pacemaker, which would send messages to the stomach to empty at a certain frequency with electrodes connected to the stomach wall.
If the tests determine she is a good candidate, the Whites will be traveling back and forth to Ohio multiple times in the future. They already make regular trips to Wilmington's Nunley Clinic and UNC Chapel Hill for GI appointments.
"I'm nervous and excited," Mellie said, but she and her mother both said they don't want to get their hopes up. It's possible even if the procedure works she would still be on TPN a few days a week. "It's weird to think I'll have a machine in my stomach."
But Mellie has plans if the pacemaker works.
"It might not work, but if it does, I could eat again," she said.
And if she can, she knows exactly what food she will have first: Her sister Grace's pasta salad.
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January 28, 2008
|Pfeiffer Wins 111-110
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Misenheimer, NC---Robert McGriff hit two free throws with 2.1 seconds left in the game to give Pfeiffer a 111-110 win over conference leading Mount Olive in men's basketball action Monday night. Six Falcons scored in double figures as Pfeiffer improves to 13-4 overall and 9-2 in the conference. Mount Olive falls to 14-4 and 10-2.
Logan Call hit a "3" to give Pfeiffer an early lead, 7-5, at the 17:22 mark.
Derrick Truesdale hit a three-pointer to increase the Falcon lead to 20-14 at the 13:45 mark.
Mount Olive cut the lead to two but Alvin Slaton hit a driving lay-up to put Pfeiffer up 38-34 with 8:15 left until halftime.
The Trojans took a 46-45 lead at he 5:22 mark but the Falcns responded with a 6-0 run to regain the lead 51-46.
Pfeiffer built their lead to 59-50 but the Trojans rallied and cut the Falcon lead to 63-60 at the break.
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Thomas Carr hit a three-pointer with 10:24 left to give Pfeiffer an 86-82 lead.
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Robert McGriff hit a driving lay-up to give Pfeiffer a 109-106 lead with only 1:35 to go.
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Six Falcons scored in double figures led by Petiway's 21. Chris Woods had 19 points and 11 rebounds. Kendrick Easley had 31 points to lead Mount Olive.
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Olynyk went 19-for-30 from the field for 63.3 percent while averaging 21.5 ppg and 8.0 rpg as Gonzaga won at Saint Mary's and at San Francisco to improve to 12-0 in the WCC.
The native of Kamloops, British Columbia, scored 17 points and grabbed 7 rebounds at Saint Mary's College, and scored 26 points and grabbed 9 rebounds as Gonzaga snapped a 3-game losing streak at USF. He was 13-17 from the field for 76.5 percent against the Dons.
Olynyk was also honored Jan. 7 as the Player of the Week and also earned December and January Player of the Month accolades from the WCC.
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