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THE "good" bacteria that inhabit our guts are more beneficial than we imagined. As well as crowding out dangerous organisms, they also release molecules that may protect us against inflammatory diseases, such as colitis.
Dennis Kasper at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues found that mice inoculated with Bacteroides fragilis - a human gut bug that produces a molecule called PSA - were able to fend off colitis provoked by the pathogenic bacterium Helicobacter hepaticus. Mice inoculated with strains that could not produce PSA, however, succumbed (Nature, vol 453, p 620).
PSA given orally also protected mice from colitis. If it has a similar effect in humans, supplementary PSA could help treat inflammatory gut disorders.
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The following are strategies that you can use to help your son cope with depression:
- Let your son know that you are interested in how he is feeling and that you are available to talk. Just knowing that you care is helpful, even if he is not ready to talk to you at the moment.
- Encourage your teen to keep up with his daily activities, even for shorter periods of time. Help him to participate in activities that he enjoys and that help him relax. Staying busy and in touch with others whom he trusts is especially important.
- Sometimes depressed teens isolate themselves from their friends and family. Encourage your son to choose a few people; peers, family members, teachers, etc. to whom he can go for support and be in touch with at least one a day.
- Encourage your son to get some kind of exercise at least 3 to 4 times a week, as being active can help improve his mood. He should also be encouraged to keep to his usual sleep schedule and eat regular and healthy meals and snacks.
- Suggest that he keep a journal. Writing and drawing are some ways that teens like to express themselves. Sometimes he may be asked to do this by his therapist as well, and maybe share some of the entries. Often being able to identify and express feelings will improve how your teen feels.
- Brainstorm with your son about other strategies to cope with depression: What works for him?
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Depression in teenagers is more common than people realize, and most people who receive treatment for depression get better. Unfortunately, many people who are depressed don't get help for many reasons. Some people think that seeking treatment is a sign of weakness. Others are afraid to be seen as "crazy" for seeing a counselor or taking medication. Some parents don't recognize signs of depression in their teens, or sometimes they don't want to face it because they feel they are to blame, or that others will blame them. Some parents find it threatening to have another person (such as a therapist) so intimately involved in their family's life. However, every parent needs objective guidance sometimes, and if your teen is depressed, it's wise to seek outside help. Mental health providers who work with teens and their families have expertise in this area and can significantly change lives for the better. Although finding the right help takes time and courage, it greatly improves your teen's chances of moving beyond the depression.
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First posted on The Fickenscher Files on 1/6/2013
My thoughts on the events and directions of the healthcare community in 2013 …
Before I go down the road of making predictions for 2013, I thought it would be useful to review my predictions for 2012. Here is what I predicted and my assessment on whether or not we met the mark:
- The Supreme Court will uphold the individual mandate – CORRECT
- The drumbeat for a move from volume-based to value-based care will get louder – CORRECT
- The backlash among the states at the growing cost of the Medicaid program will result in a serious dialogue on how to restructure the program over the longer term – CORRECT
- The economy will continue to slowly recover – CORRECT
- The use of social media by clinicians for interacting with patients will explode in the last half of the year –HALF CORRECT – while social media use has increased, "explode" is a powerful word and I would not ascribe it to the use by physicians.
- The health information technology industry will shift attention from the acute care setting to a focus on the electronic health record in the ambulatory setting – CORRECT
- Health systems will stumble on the road to Meaningful Use – CORRECT
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will delay the deadline to upgrade to ICD-10 medical diagnostic and billing codes – CORRECT
- If Obama is reelected, healthcare reform will accelerate. If the Republicans win the Presidency, healthcare reform will accelerate, but in a slightly different fashion – CORRECT
- The four dirty words of medicine are embraced by American medicine (There are four dirty words in American medicine: 1) Oversight – by anyone; 2) Transparency – of anything; 3) Standards – especially someone else's; and, 4) Requirements – by any outsiders) – WRONG
So, my self-ranking would be an 85% correct prediction rate. If you have other thoughts, let me know. And, in the context of our current environment, what are my predictions for 2013? Here are my thoughts:
- Congress will begin the debate on the future of Medicare and Medicaid funding by having serious discussions about moving away from the standard fee-for-service methodology used for the last half-century. The unfortunate aspect of the Obamacare legislation is the fact that it did little to alter the reimbursement methodology aside from supporting innovative initiatives such as accountable care organizations, patient centered medical homes, bundled payments and other similar pre-payment methodologies. The huge increase in demand for services that will be generated as a result of the Accountable Care Act moving into full implementation requires a renewed focus on payment approaches. Increasingly, both sides of the aisles are putting forth ideas on how to alter the traditional fee-for-service methodology. While the debate will begin in earnest in 2013, final approaches will not be more fully adopted until the end of the new Congress in 2014.
- With the fiscal cliff averted, Democrats and Republicans may finally engage in a more civilized debate that presents a "balanced" approach toward solving the long-term fiscal crisis of the United States. The polls are clearly showing that both parties are "losers" in the impasse between Republicans and Democrats in solving any number of problems in America, including the long-term deficit. The political extremes will lose ground in controlling the debate and the middle ground will gain some degree of respectability as a "place to be" for "solving" America's major policy issues.
- The regime in Syria will fall in the first quarter of 2013. With no international support, with no additional weapons and with no support from the Syrian people, the regime will topple. However, in its stead a diverse array of political perspectives will step forward and it will take several years for stability to resume in one of the most important nations in the Middle East.
- The Surgeon General's push for getting society to recognize the huge impact of obesity on the cost of healthcare will finally be embraced by the healthcare industry along with efforts to solve the problem through implementation of innovative programs by accountable care type organizations.The "Dance with the Surgeon General" initiative will be expanded with a more aggressive campaign to conquer the long-term problems related to societal obesity. The negative social and healthcare economics of obesity will finally become more mainstream and serious debate will begin on creating incentives for Americans to reduce weight.
- Gun control legislation will be passed by the U.S. Congress to ban the sale of semi-automatic assault weapons, but the debate will continue because other steps for managing the purchase of guns will be stalled. In the aftermath of the Newtown incident, Congress will implement the assault weapon ban but the public will demand further action on how individuals can purchase weapons of all types. The problem is that there is no consensus on how to proceed so amidst the varied opinions, little progress on that front will be forthcoming although the debate will continue into 2014 when legislation is more likely.
- The debate on mental health programs and funding will increase in pitch, fever and rhetoric, but no new legislation will be forthcoming in 2013. While the inadequacy of our nation's mental health programs will be recognized, the solutions and programs which need to be implemented are less clear. No clear leader will emerge in Congress who will champion the cause and without such a leader, efforts to transform mental health services will languish.
- A clarion call will be made by the health information technology industry to establish interoperability standards for electronic health records and health information exchanges to facilitate the sharing of personal health data among providers of care. Members of the health information technology community will step forward with specific ideas on how interoperability standards should be implemented. The deployment of HIT systems as a result of the HITECH Act will exacerbate the problem because they will finally understand the huge investment in electronic health records and other similar systems – while good – has not fostered effective communication of personal health information. Lawmakers will begin demanding greater efficiency which will come from interoperability.
- Unemployment will finally fall and the economic recovery will finally gain steam in the latter half of 2013, which will drive improvement in the world economic order as well. With the fiscal cliff averted, a secondary recession will also be averted. As a result, the economy will continue its slow climb out of the fiscal ditch and finally move above ground in the latter part of 2013. As the world's economic engine, with the United States economy moving ahead at a more robust level, the rest of the world will also benefit.
- Five of the top ten fastest growing economies in the world will be from South America and Africa. With a fast growing educated workforce (South America) and an incredible depth and breadth of natural resources (Africa), the two continents will see sharp increases in economic growth patterns among selected nations. For Africa, those nations with some degree of political stability will see the greatest growth. South Africa, which has been a dominant economic force, will face increasing internal strife because of the growing huge economic disparity between the upper and lower classes in the nation. Expect riots and political turmoil in what has been perceived as a "stable" African nation. For South America, the death of Caesar Chavez will precipitate a dramatic change in economic outlook for Venezuela as the political landscape changes precipitously.
- Because of global warming, the number of super storms will continue to increase dramatically throughout the year in 2013. Since 1990, the United States has seen a 70 percent increase in the number of super storms (e.g. hurricanes, tornados, Nor'easters, etc.) that have affected the mainland and which have caused massive destruction. The global warming patterns will continue unabated with the end result being even more super storms than we've seen over the last couple of years. In fact, they will become more the seasonal norm!
Hopefully, I can do as well as this year with my projections although I hope I'm wrong on a couple of them …
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Forno or cammino?
There's an Italian lady who works in the cafeteria at my workplace and we have a pretty good rapport so I was telling her about my oven. Her English isn't great, but better than my Italian, but at one point she looked a bit puzzled by my description. "Forno" I said, and after a bit more back & forth in the conversation, she caught on, saying "Ahhhh, a cammino ...". I asked what the difference was between a 'forno' and a 'cammino' and got an explanation but the language barrier got in the way so I'm still in the dark.
Anybody know what a cammino is?
I tried a Google search and it seems to be a word for 'the way', as in roadway, but may have something to do with a chimney too?!
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Well "cammino" two M's from what I can find out is something like "I walk" I think...camino with only one M is "chimney"...I will defer to the more knowledgeable in Italian(James maybe?) to put together the significance
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Yo Dutch!
So you're telling me my '69 El Camino was in all actuality a Spanish chimney?
Maybe they were the first landing party of TransFormers
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Not a Spanish chimney...an Italian chimney! Thought Caminos were Mexican anyway...way better than the Ford Ranchero!
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The uphill struggle which lies ahead came into focus immediately Saturday afternoon on the opening weekend of the conference season when a University of Southern Maine team which has struggled in conference competition the last several years, slayed the defending champs in overtime, 69-63, at the Hill Gymnasium.
Picked for eighth (last) in the LEC pre-season coaches' poll, Southern Maine (4-2, 1-0 Little East) ended four years of futility (eight straight losses) at the hands of Eastern (3-2, 0-1 Little East) when junior Conor Sullivan and senior Sean Bergeron combined to score 11 of the Huskies 13 points in overtime as the Huskies won their first home game of the season after an opening loss. Eastern, picked for third in the LEC pre-season poll, was coming off consecutive victories over New England Small College Athletic Conference opponents and lost its first road contest after an opening triumph.
In overtime, USM outscored the Warriors 13-7. Sullivan gave the Huskies the lead sinking one of two free throws to start the scoring and the Huskies never trailed. The Warriors pulled to within two, 63-61, following a three-pointer from freshman guard Trachone Preston (Enfield), but Sullivan and Bergeron sealed the win. Following Preston's three, Sullivan converted a fast-break layup for a 65-61 lead with 52 seconds to play, before Bergeron cleared the defensive glass and sank two free throws followed by another Sullivan layup for a 69-61 lead with 16 seconds to play.
Ives had given Eastern a six-point lead with five minutes to play with two free throws before USM closed out regulation on a 9-3 run to force overtime, Sullivan, Bergeron and junor Brandon Tomah each scoring three-points for the Huskies in the run.
Junior guard Brian Salzillo's (North Haven) three-pointer pushed Eastern into a 56-55 lead with a minute left in regulation and after the Huskies tied the game by sinking the back end of a two-shot foul, the Warriors couldn't end the game in regulation when they missed a buzzer-beater.
Eastern canned 13 of 15 free throws in the game, but didn't attempt one in the five-minute extra session. The hosts scored seven of their 13 overtime points from the stripe.
Eastern junior forward Mike Garrow (Terryville) led the Warriors with 19 points and a career-high 13 rebounds. Salzillo - the Warriors' leading scorer - reached his season scoring average with 15 points on five three-pointers, the Warriors sinking ten of 30 from behind the arc in the game. Senior guard Joe Ives (Avon) chipped in with 11 points and seven rebounds, nailing eight of nine free throws.
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Strawberry Shortcake is the high priestess of Cuthulu, a multitentacled being that slumbers in an inaccessible chamber far below the surface of the earth. Cuthulu is said to be waiting to awaken to end the reign of mankind on earth, by devouring all humans, who were neither the first masters of the earth, nor will they be the last.
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edit Acquaintance with Huckleberry Pie
Huckleberry Pie, another cuthulu follower, recently caused significant controversy when he attempted to help the slave Jim obtain his freedom from Miss Watson, but failed when they ran out of the jelly babies they had been given by Dr. Who. They were then sued by Lawyer Who and killed by Murderer Who. Cindy Lou Who had no comment.
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Bartleby the Scrivener (first name, Chippy) became famous when, in 1853, he became the first person in history to discover that work sucks.
His wacky adventures are recounted by Herman Munster, the author of Moby's Dick, in an upbeat short story called How to Fill Up Forty Empty Pieces of Paper.
Chippy Bartleby unfortunately had his life cut short in a rare example of overdosing on Kitten Huffing after a particularly long day doing nothing at work. Every year his slacker followers do abosolutely nothing on the anniversary of his pointless death to dishonor his memory.
Anthropologists studying the man, and the story based upon his life, still have not managed to unravel the mystery of exactly what a 'Ginger Nut' is.
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edit Lee Harvey Oswald The Octopus
Lee Harvey Oswald the Octopus is a fun loving octopus that took a turn for the worse when he assassinated John F. Kennedy by making him watch his Nickelodeon show while on super acid, which is just like normal acid, except that it comes on blotting paper with a picture of Mickey Mouse saying "Hi kids, I pooped in your cornflakes" on it.
There is wide controversy whether a cute octopus from a kids show and his dog with a stupid name that makes people think of their penises could have done such a heinous act. The answer is, 42.
edit FCUK
FCUK is a ridiculous store that thinks that it can fool all of us into not realizing that a store named "french connection uk" isn't just using the f-word to sell stuff. Why not just change the name of the stupid store to "French Connection UK Yellow Uruguay Orange"? I mean, come on.
If I wanted to sell some god damn donuts and called them FUCK YOU donuts I would probably be arrested or something but these ahsoels can get away with it because they're, like, french or something, I don't know. Maybe they just don't know how to spell!!!
edit History of FCUK
FCUK was started as an evil project by SMERSH to find a way to put the F-word everywhere. It was discovered this could be done if the letters were mixed up to confuse stupid people, namely, everyone who would be in a position to stop people with money from putting the F-word on everything. There are now a lot of FCUKing stores with this word on it all over and I think that the stores are FCUKing each other so there are more and more of them every day.
edit Working for FCUK
FCUK kidnaps all their employees from disneyland and makes them go through a sixteen year traning program that involves:
- wearing hot pants at least 17 hours a week at a bar frequented by tourists who are unappreciated by their wives
- watching oxygen and being forced to try each of the horrible substance and behavior addictions exhibited by the people on the talk shows contained therein
- collecting stool samples in every color of the siht-bow
- obviously, being fCUked (it isn't illegel because we spell it worng)
FCUK pays its employees in spankings. This is why their employees always starve to death and they need to go to disneyland and kidnap more.
edit Cross-promotion with McDonald's
In exchange for not kidnapping employees from McDonald's, FCUK and McDonalds have made a deal and McDonalds will change its name to CmDnalon'd to make it harder for people to notice that THIS CLOTHING STORE IS NAMED AFTER THE GOD DAMN F WORD!!!!!! FCUK!!!!!!!
edit Skeletor
Skeletor (Aka Skelly E. Torsmith)
Skeletor graduated from The Hogwarts Academy of Magic with a major in "Evil cackling". He later took up residence on the Planet Eternia in a place called Snake Mountain. "It's not great, but it's rent controlled." Quoted the self proclaimed master of evil.
In the mid 80's, Skeletor became a prominent fashion designer for the planet, influencing almost everyone to wear two crossing straps, fuzzy woolen briefs and fuzzy boots to match. This was of course, not completely his idea, but was a collaboration with Beast Man (AKA Liz Taylor).
In the early 90's Skeletor decided his work on Eternia was done, so he changed his voice, his costume and his animation team and headed for outer space.
edit WTF
People always want to know what happened to skeletor's face. What's up with that? What happened to your face? Oh, that is your face? Hahahhahaha . . . . sorry.
Anyway, everybody knows skulls=awesome, so there.
edit Relationship with Beast-Man
Much like Britney and Madonna, Skeletor and Beastman got a lot of attention when they released a controverisal rap single and video, where they appeared to be coming on to each other, but most commentators believe that this was merely a pathetic attempt to boost a flagging career. Indeed, Skeletor's record sales have simply not been what they used to be, and it is sort of sad to see a once mighty pillar of pop music reduced to asking his bassist to "open up his ass like a keg."
edit Dislike of He-Man
Skeletor dislikes He-Man because He-Man always gets in Skeletor's way of getting the ultimate power that is in castle greyskull, which is believed to actaually be a Playstation Portable with a modchip that lets it play the alternative Teriyaki Yoko level in Um Jammer Lammy, which takes place in Hell. Skeletor resents that while punitive measures are leveled against his idiotic quest, such as He-Man, Ram-Man, many other people with the word 'Man' as part of their name, etc, nobody is attempting to address the root causes of his evil. Where is a blue brotha with no face supposed to find a job? K-Mart? I don't think so. Telemarketing? "hello this is skeletor and I'd like to know if you're interested in changing your long distance service" yeah right.
Without the skeletor system in place pretty boy He-Man would have no reason to exist anyway. He-Man therefore owes skeletor big time, so there.
edit Skeletor's best day ever
One day, Skeletor woke up with a big grin on his face . . . . wait, that's every day. Anyway, he said "Let's take a day off and go shopping at the mall" to all his minions. They said ok, except Evil-Lynn, because malls are against her religion, which is shoxianism.
So they all went to the mall until they realized they didn't have any money so they had to get jobs washing dishes. But it was still Skeletor's best day ever, because he didn't even get defeated by He-Man, and he made seven bucks.
edit Episodes
He-Man and the Party at Orko's
First episode. He-man meets Skeletor, and they both go to Orko's party. Once there, they enjoy themselves until He-Man accidently breaks a small vase. Skeletor swears revenge and so the saga begins.
HeMan:Skeletor, whear are you?
Skeletor:I'm right here, lols
HeMan:Oh fuxxor I broke this vase. Sorry Orko.
Orko:'sok dude.
Skeletor:Oh noes . . . . . . . . vasey . . . . . . . . . **sob** teh giant manat33
edit That time skeletor haxxored man at arms' home page
edit before
Hi, I'm Man at Arms, but my friends call me Duncan. Welcome to my web page! There's not much here yet, but check back soon for more info! You can e-mail me at email@example.com
edit after
Look out for teh iguana mans I gots and am gonna send to gets you soon.
hahha I roxzorr.
edit Skeletor Finally Finds a Way to Beat He-Man
<Sophia>we don't have an article by the name He-Man. Would you like to create one?
(some time passes)
<Admin>What is this crap?
FFFFLLLUUUUSSSSHHH (sound of article being deleted)
(The next day:)
<Sophia>we don't have an article by the name He-Man. Would you like to create one?
(some time passes)
<Admin>Oh noes not again?
FFFFLLLUUUUSSSSHHH (sound of article being deleted)
(repeat 50 times)
<Admin>He-Man +CVP
<Skeletor>I am victorious!!!! TEH POEWR OF UNCYCLOPEDYA SHALL BE MINE!!!!@!
{{NRV|13:06, 22 March 2006 (UTC)}}
edit Threnody for the Victims of Treemonisha
This musical composition, written by Krzysztof Penderecki, was written, in the words of the composer, On the 12th of October, 1964, Penderecki wrote: "Let the Threnody express my firm belief that the sacrifice of having to sit through Treemonisha will never be forgotten and lost."
Treemonisha, the first rap opera in history, had been written earlier that year by Janis Joplin, and in addition to being 17 hours long and completely incomprehensible, featured several vignettes of a particularly difficult to sit through nature, including the scene where everyone seems to be running away from a giant marijuana leaf for some reason.
The Threnody consists of a fifteen minute unscripted description of the pain and mental anguish caused by Tremonisha by different people who experienced the work, accompanied by a sampling of soothing nature sounds chosen to aid in the healing process, such as ocean waves or bird songs.
The first performance of the Threnody was at Carnegie Hall in January 1965. Several audicence members burst into tears and were otherwise visably moved.
Reviews of the Threnody are mixed, but all agree that at only fifteen minutes in length, it is vastly superior and less oppressive to audiences than nearly all other major works of classical music, and ASCAP is presently being lobbied by congress to adopt a rule that no musical work can be longer than the Threnody, in order to further help music victims, particularly victims of the opera era, to heal and move forward with their lives.
Not surprisingly for an island nation, Switzerland has a long and proud maritime tradition.
edit Ships
- The S. S. Crouton, which patrols the Sea of fondue
edit Knife
The swiss navy knife is just a handle with no knives since switzerland is a landlocked country.'
edit HowTo:Get Started on Editing Uncyclopedia
edit Welcome! Sorry, but you're probably not as funny or as good a writer as you thought you were! But don't despair! Keep reading and find wisdom!
This is just a little bit of useful advice for n00bs. It's not a joke. However, it may still be funny anyway.
So you're on uncyclopedia for the first time. You have a great idea. Maybe it's about a joke you heard the other day. Maybe it's about your favorite tv star. Maybe it's even an 80s reference, or a gag about sentient sand particles. You get the idea.
Anyway, you take your great idea, and you type it in, and you can't think of anything else, so you click save and figure you did a great job, right?
Think of Uncyclopedia as a jungle. There's lots of animals, and they do lots of different things. A lot of them kill little articles like the three sentence jobbie about Fonzie getting pregnant you just uploaded.
edit But what can I do? I'm just a n00b!
Here's a few steps about how not to get summarily deleted, specifically for n00bs:
- If you have an idea, but don't have the time or the ideas to expand it into a full article, try adding it to an article that already exists instead of creating a new article. From my personal experience, it is a lot easier to add to a new article and have your changes survive on the site than it is to create a totally new article.
- If you're committed to creating a new article, do yourself a big favor, register and compose your article on your userpage. Think of uncyclopedia like a theatre (I know, first it was a jungle, now it's a theatre . . . just go with me on this for a second). When you go to the theatre, you want to see a completed play, right? Think if you sat down in your seats and wanted to watch a play, but instead of the play, the playwright comes out and says "Well, I want to do a lot of gags about Belgium really just being Backup France here, but I havn't written them yet . . . . maybe I'll think of something while we're waiting . . . . anyone in the audience have any ideas?" . . . . you get my point.
Writing on your user page is like writing at home. Writing on the uncyclopedia main space is performing live before a pretty vicious audience. Know the facts and make the right choice: do your compositional process on your user page, and once your (hopefully to someone other than you) brilliant, hilarious article is ready and fully expanded into an uncyclopedia article (see other pages on how to do this), then put it into the main space and see what people think of your writing. This will work a lot better than just laying down your idea and watching it die in the jungle theatre that we have wrought here . . . .
Lots of luck, and remember, backup what you do on your userpage or elsewhere so if you get deleted, you don't lose it.
UnNews:5 lawmakers arrested for drawing attention to humiliating human rights disaster
news|1 May 2006 date|1 May 2006
WASHINGTON — Five congress members were arrested Friday after protesting outside the Sudanese Embassy concerning the extremely embarassing ongoing carnage in the Darfur region. United States thought police conevened quickly to stop the humiliating and treasonous display of the nation's government's amorality as quickly as possible.
"Look," said an unnamed administration source, "these Darfur people are poor Africans, with no oil, who are probably going to die of malaria or aids or some other shit disease that everyone in fucking Africa has or is going to get anyway. Who gives a flying fuck if they get slaughtered by Arab militias? Better to let them do the work for us and then we can sweep in after the fact and take over. Didn't you see Dr. No? Remember the part about the smart fish, that waits for the other two fish to kill each other? That's how we roll, nigga."
The five members of congress will be tried for thought crimes and treason at a public hearing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building, following which they will be summarily executed by firing squad.
"We must hold our politicians, most of all our citizens, accountable for not making the United States look bad." the unnamed source said. "While we have freedom of speech in this country, there are reasonable limits to our speech rights, for example, in this case, protesting a ongoing, preventable human rights disaster that exposes the inherent evil of the United States' government is not protected speech."
At the White House, President Bush thanked the Washington D.C. thought police force for their quick action.
"I just got up, and the first thing I hear about is this Darfur bullshit. That's old news." Bush said. "I don't give a shit about people in fucking New Orleans, what makes anyone think that I should give a shit about people in God Damn Mother Fucking Africa? Jesus Fucking Christ riding a Fucking A-Bomb, I don't give a fuck, and the rest of the country doesn't give a fuck either."
Bush went on to say that if the protestors were "real americans" they'd protest against something that mattered, like that "Hugo Chavez bitch who's been riding my ass lately. Motherfucker. Better keep that oil coming, Hugo. You know what I'm talking about"
Calls for comment from the congress members were not returned, as in advance of their trial, their tongues had been surgically removed and cermonially nailed to the "Resolute Desk" in the oval office.


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Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes, affecting 85-90% of all people with diabetes. While it usually affects older adults, more and more younger people, even children, are getting type 2 diabetes.
In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas makes some insulin but it is not produced in the amount your body needs and it does not work effectively.
Type 2 diabetes results from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Although there is a strong genetic predisposition, the risk is greatly increased when associated with lifestyle factors such as high blood pressure, overweight or obesity, insufficient physical activity, poor diet and the classic 'apple shape' body where extra weight is carried around the waist.
Type 2 diabetes can often initially be managed with healthy eating and regular physical activity. However, over time most people with type 2 diabetes will also need tablets and many will also need insulin. It is important to note that this is just the natural progression of the disease, and taking tablets or insulin as soon as they are required can result in fewer complications in the long-term.
There is currently no cure for type 2 diabetes.
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While there is no single cause of type 2 diabetes, there are well-established risk factors. Some of these can be changed and some cannot.
You are at a higher risk of getting type 2 diabetes if you:
In type 2 diabetes, many people have no symptoms at all, while other signs are dismissed as a part of 'getting older'. By the time type 2 diabetes is diagnosed, the complications of diabetes may already be present. Symptoms include:
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Golf Saskatchewan
Eston's Jehremy Ryde maintained his solid performance at the SGI Canada Saskatchewan Junior Men's Championship but fell off the lead as Jerry Christiansen fired a blistering seven-under-par 64 on Thursday to take a four-shot lead after three rounds.
Christiansen, an Air Ronge native, who plays out of the Riverside Country Club, will enter Friday's final round with a three-day, seven-under-par total of 205 at the Chinook Golf Course in Swift Current.
Ryde, who currently works in the Pro Shop at Elmwood Golf Course in Swift Current, was two-under-par on Thursday to sit four-under through three rounds.
Defending champion, Jordan Arndt of Furdale, is in third at one-under-par for the tournament.
Shaunavon's Corey Bailey was nine-over on Thursday to sit tied for 33rd at 31-over-par.
Swift Current's Jessy-Lee Lacher was 11-over and sits 36th at 36-over-par.
Swift Current's Erykah Pool struggled on day three with a 132 to sit seventh on the girls' side. Saskatoon's Thea Hedemann leads the girls by 27 shots with a nine-over-par total of 222 heading into the final round.


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LeBron James' New Year Birthday Bash
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NBA star LeBron James will be ringing in the new year in style.
The Miami Heat's big three — James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade — will cheer the arrival of 2012 and James' birthday at a dinner at Vesper American Brasserie at the Shelborne Hotel in South Beach.
James, who turns 27 on Friday, will be feted by 50 friends, including girlfriend Savannah Brinson.
Wade's girlfriend, Gabrielle Union, and Bosh's wife, Adrienne Williams-Bosh, also will be on the scene.
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Explosion at Wyoming production site kills 3 workers, sparks fire
August 30, 2011 at 2:59 am in The Daily Republic
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – An explosion has killed three workers who had been laying a fuel line at a Wyoming oil storage site, an oil company spokesman said.
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Iwao Kimura was appointed Group Vice President and Coordinating Officer at Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (TMA) in January 2008. Headquartered in New York, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Miami, TMA is the holding company for Toyota's North American sales, engineering and manufacturing operating units.
Immediately prior to his current assignment, he was Vice President at TMA in Washington D.C. from September 2006, responsible for external affairs.
Kimura began his career with Toyota in 1981. For 25 years he worked mostly on overseas operations and International PR & government relations, including overseas marketing planning, product planning, and business strategy. Some of his projects included Toyota & Lexus passenger car product planning for overseas markets; Philippines sales & marketing operations support, and North American new project planning at Toyota Motor Corporate Services of North America, Inc. in New York (1993 - 1996).
Starting in 1997 Kimura worked for Toyota's International Government & Industry Affairs, responsible for the Americas. In 2005 he assumed the position of General Manager of the Global Strategic Planning Department, responsible for global issues such as environment/greenhouse gas, energy management and development of global PR & government relations strategy.
Kimura was involved with the Japan Automobile Manufacturer's Association (JAMA) working group leading the Japan-Mexico FTA Agreement (2004).
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From my Forbes.com blog The New Persuaders:
It's a quarter that probably doesn't matter much, but Yahoo eked out a small rise in profits on slightly higher sales in its third quarter.
It's the first full quarter since CEO Marissa Mayer joined the company, and while investors are more concerned about the future, so far they like what they see in the last quarter. Shares are rising about 3% in after-hours trading following a decline of less than 1% today, to $15.77 a share.
Yahoo's third-quarter revenues rose 2% to $1.09 billion, earning a 35-cent profit per share. Operating income came in at $150 million. Wall Street analysts were expecting net revenues of $1.08 billion, operating income of $180 million, and GAAP earnings per share of 26 cents. Including a onetime gain from the sale of shares of China's Alibaba, Yahoo's EPS was $2.64.
Those figures are minus the costs of acquiring traffic from website partners. Gross revenues fell 1% to $1.202 billion, a touch below analysts' $1.206 billion estimate.
In particular, display ad revenue, Yahoo's mainstay business, came in flat from a year ago at $452 million, but search ad revenues via its multi-year deal with Microsoft were better than expected, up 11% to $414 million.
And we're underway on the analyst call with Mayer:
Mayer says she's thrilled to be hear, naturally. She says she has been having a lot of fun. Why did I come to Yahoo? This job is tailor-made for me. Search, mobile, ads, home page, etc.–all things I built my career on.
She'll talk about priorities and vision–great! First she addresses the people problem–that is, all the ones who have been leaving in droves for years. She says she has instituted new goals, metrics, etc. for people. True cultural change can't be bought. The vast majority of what we've done hasn't cost much, she says. …
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THE Namib Swimming Academy yesterday announced they had added Ryan Skinner to to their staff roster in the position of head coach.
His appointment is seen as a long-term commitment to ensure continuity in elite coaching at NSA.
Skinner is well known in the swimming fraternity of Namibia and South Africa – coaching amongst others 10 out of the 11 Namibian swimmers that competed at Senior African Swimming Championships since 2008.
He also coached nine of the 11 Namibians who featured at the Fina World Championships since 2007 and seven out of the eight swimmers who competed at the Junior African Championships in Nigeria 2011.
This team achieved overall third place.
Skinner acted as Namibian national coach at numerous international events including 2007 All Africa games, Fina World Championships 2007 to 2012, Senior African Championships 2008 to 2012, Commonwealth Youth Games 2011 and Junior African Champs 2011.
From January to April 2012, Skinner worked with South African head coach Graham Hill to prepare swimmers like Chad le Clos in the lead up to winning a historical London Olympic gold medal.
Skinner's swimmers broke 11 National records and won 21 of the 31 trophies awarded at the recent Namibian National Swimming Championships held in Windhoek.
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In your look at alternatives to oil (19 May, p 34), the statement that "as electricity generation becomes cleaner, the emissions of electric vehicles will fall further still" is open to challenge.
It is normal policy to allow all non-fossil fuel power stations to produce all the power they can all the time. Fossil fuel stations then make up the difference between that and the demand.
It follows that any extra demand, such as using an electric car rather than a diesel car, is met in its entirety by burning extra fossil fuel. This is true whether non-fossil fuel stations account for 1 per cent or 99 per cent of electricity demand.
Thus, only when all existing demand is satisfied by non-fossil fuel stations and there is some spare capacity, does the electric car start to avoid the burning of fossil fuel.
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Research by an online recruitment service for senior executives has found that while most salaries are increasing, IT wages have declined four per cent since last October.Experteer found the average pay of employees in the public sector, consulting and financial services had jumped from £70,000 to £74,000 in the past six months despite the recession.However, IT salaries had fallen, probably as a result of a greater decline in the number of jobs in the sector, said Experteer."It's good news for all sectors bar IT," the firm said.According to the research, IT specialists have been hardest hit, with average salaries dropping six per cent from £66,000 to £62,000.IT managers have seen their average wage drop from £80,000 to £77,000, while salaries for senior IT executive have declined from £119,000 to £115,000.Experteer managing director Torsten Muth advised IT executives wanting more money to try pastures new."Ambitious IT executives facing a fall in reward for their next step on the career ladder should consider whether their experience might be relevant to other industries in which salaries continue to rise, such as consulting and financial services," Muth said.
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Maxxium UK have announced that sales of Courvoisier prove that it is now the dominant cognac brand in the UK, holding a market share of 68% of the VS market.
This puts the UK cognac market firmly back into growth mode, with a massive 1.8 million Brits now drinking Courvoisier cognac. The brand now holds a 57% share of the off-trade market and a 70% of the on-trade sales of cognac in the UK.
In an aim to further continue this growth, Maxxium UK are investing £15 million in 2011 – the aim being to urge consumers to upgrade their drinking experience with Courvoisier Punch. This 'Upgrade' Campaign is the latest strategy in the company's sales drive to bring both the brand and the spirit of cognac firmly to the attention of more of the British drinking population.
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Infrastructure is often a casualty of disaster. It's a problem that's becoming all too common, in the U.S. and abroad. Penn State students have a solution: Apparatus X.
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Visitors look over some of the many antiques, folk art and collectibles available at the Timber River Farm Antiques, near Port Elgin, which is set to host the annual market day from 9-4 on Saturday, July 19. It's expected that more than 1000 visitors will visit the market, which will feature some 25 vendors from across the Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario throughout the day. LEBLANC PHOTO
TIMBER RIVER, N.B. – A large number of antique buyers and collectible enthusiasts will be in the Port Elgin area on Saturday, July 19 for the third annual antiques market day. The event will be held from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. on the grounds of Timber River Farm Antiques, on Route 16 about two kilometres east of the village.
Owner and operator of the Timber River Farm Antiques, Cathy Consentino has lived in the area for more than 20 years. Although she travels frequently to large antique shows in Canada and the US, she has successfully maintained her local antiques outlet for the past three years. In 2011 she launched the first outdoor market at her facility, offering booths to other antiques and collectibles operators. The success of that event just naturally led to the idea of holding a larger market that would benefit other businesses in the area.
"It's always the third Saturday in July, so our vendors and customers can plan on that particular weekend from year to year. There are about 25 vendors and we're really aiming to keep it to that number because we want everyone to have a good day…right now we have a pretty good balance," Consentino said at her shop in Timber River recently.
Vendors from five different provinces – the Maritimes, Ontario and Quebec – will bring a wide variety of items to the market.
'Vendors from each region bring different types of pieces; there will be a really good variety, obviously Maritime things such as boat models, folk art, furniture, vintage textiles, quilts, country-type items. From Ontario and Quebec there will be some gorgeous refinished antique furniture and other types of antiques and collectibles; there will be no modern items or flea market stuff," she noted.
For the first time, this year there will be live musical entertainment during the noon hour so visitors can take a break from browsing the vendor booths to enjoy their lunch.
"We're so fortunate to have sisters Meredith Hicks, who's 12, on the keyboard and 10 year-old Miriam on the fiddle. The girls will be playing some old-time fiddle music, and they're both good musicians, so it should be a really enjoyable noon hour," Consentino said.
She also expects more than 1000 visitors to pass through the market during the day, with at least a few visitors staying in the region for a day or two.
"We've got people already booked at accommodations in the area for a couple days. Those people will also be patronizing other local businesses, whether it be to buy gas or food or other necessary items, so the economic spin-off should be good for the local community," she noted.
She added that advertisements have been posted in many Maritime locations as well as in Montreal, Ontario and many locations across the US and in various NB and NS newspapers as well as on Kijiji across the Maritimes. Consentino said one of the reasons for holding the market each year is to attract people to the region.
"Our region is not just a drive-through area. We have lots of first-rate businesses offering many types of goods and services; and the people here are so friendly. Why wouldn't we want to bring visitors to our region? There's so much to offer here," she said.
Visitors to the market will have free, off-road parking so traffic can come and go smoothly. For that reason, there has never been a problem with visitors getting off or on the highway safely, she said.
The Port Elgin District Voluntary Action Council (PEDVAC) will be providing canteen services throughout the day so visitors can spend all the time they want browsing the market. Consentino said she is also appreciative of the support from local and regional businesses in supporting the canteen services.
"The canteen provides a good fund-raiser for PEDVAC and we are indebted to many businesses for donating all types of food items. Their support is what allows the canteen to be a financially successful day for PEDVAC as well. Proceeds from the canteen go to support the many programs offered at PEDVAC," she said.
The third annual Antiques Market will be held Saturday, July 19 at Timber River Farm Antiques. For more information contact Consentino at 506-538-7400.


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University of Maryland basketball player Jordan Williams has signed with an agent and will stay in next month's NBA draft, ending his two-year career at College Park.
Williams was a first-team, all-ACC selection last season as a sophomore. He led the Terps with 17 points per game to go with almost 12 rebounds.
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In Hollywood, there are very few relationships that can stand the test of time. Despite this fact, most relationships normally work out a little bit longer than the relationship between Denise Richards and Nikki Sixx. These two just started dating no too long ago, and it is already over.
This actress, who has two daughters with ex-husband Charlie Sheen, had begun dating the Motely Crue bassist late last year. Friends of the couple have said that the two have decided to call it quits on their very brief romance and insist that it was never serious between them.
One source even said that it was crazy how it was made to be some big relationship, and now it is being made into some big break up. These two were never exclusive or serious to start with. The pal said that he could count on one hand how many times they went out together. It was no big deal, and it is not some big dramatic split.
When these two first meet, friends of the couple said that they were going to take things slow. Before they started dating, Denise said that it is hard being single. She finds it hard to combine the needs of her children with her personal life.
Denise said that dating is very challenging. She said that she will not introduce her kids to anyone that she is dating unless it is very serious. To balance everything out, her daughters always come first. After all, she said that she can never get these years back with her daughters, and she wants to live them to the fullest.


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Apple officially asked for developers to begin submitting their apps for Mac OSX Lion today. Apple has been known to begin accepting apps for newly released marketplaces a week or two ahead of public release. Apps submitted are for use on Apple's upcoming Lion operating system, suggesting that its launch is still in line for a late July release.
Developers wishing to be part of the opening day sales should submit their apps ASAP. Reviews for apps are on a first come, first serve basis. Waiting too long may cause developers.
One of Lion's central features is a heavier reliance on the Mac App Store. Mac OSX Lion will be solely distributed as a download through the Mac App Store.