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By Kathy Jefcoats
JONESBORO — Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a Jonesboro woman Tuesday on human trafficking charges, said officials.
Jessica McKenzie Washington, 25, of Upper Riverdale Road is being held in the Clayton County Jail on prostitution charges including pimping, pandering and keeping a house of prostitution; enticing a child for indecent purposes and human trafficking.
GBI spokesman John Bankhead said the allegations involve two teenage girls. During the arrest, the Georgia State Patrol SWAT team was deployed out of concerns over weapons.
"We used SWAT due to information on weapons at the apartment but she was not there," he said. "Agents later found her and had her under surveillance in another area of the complex."
When Washington returned, agents arrested her.
Washington was arrested in January for interference with custody. Clayton County police said a 14-year-old girl ran away from home in Columbus on Christmas Day. The girl was found inside Washington's Upper Riverdale Road apartment.
Washington told police she was paid $200 to house the girl until a bus ticket arrived. Washington posted a $5,000 bond and was ordered to stay away from the girl and her family.
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Monongahela Man Pleads Guilty To Defrauding Health Insurers
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of health care fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
Randall F. Guzik, 47, of Monongahela, Pa., pleaded guilty to one count before Senior United States District Judge Maurice B. Cohill.
In connection with the guilty plea, the court was advised that from January 2007 to May 17, 2011, in the Pittsburgh area, Guzik defrauded two health care benefit programs, that is, Highmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a health insurer serving western Pennsylvania (Highmark), and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a health insurer serving Ohio and Kentucky (Anthem), out of approximately $550,077.22.
Guzik prepared billings to Anthem for Highmark insureds residing in Western Pennsylvania for health care services such as conventional joint x-rays that were false in that no conventional joint x-rays were provided, the dates of the services were fabricated, the services were not provided in the locations represented on the billings, and the health care providers listed on the billings did not perform the services.
Judge Cohill scheduled sentencing for Sept. 18, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. The law provides for a total sentence of not more than 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based upon the seriousness of the offense and the criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
Pending sentencing, the court continued Guzik's bond.
Assistant United States Attorney Nelson P. Cohen is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the investigation that led to the prosecution of Guzik.
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Use Sten's First Aid Kit on 4 Wounded Coldridge Mountaineers.
Provided item: [Sten's First Aid Kit]
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<name>, listen! Unlike Joren, I've no need for yer blade, but I do need someone with a steady hand and a bit o' courage.
Our mountaineers are trained to protect from the odd wolf attack... not an all-out trogg invasion! Many of our best have succumbed to wounds and exhaustion, and I need yer help bandaging them up.
Here, take my first aid kit and assist as many as ye can.
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Thanks for yer help, <name>.
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Many of those that y'saved have already made it back to camp. The wounds're well-dressed! Ye might have a future in first aid, if ye're into that sorta thing.
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Head out into the field. There are plenty of wounded mountaineers suffering attacks from Rockjaw Goons. Kill the goons and heal the mountaineers.
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- [1] Hold the Line!
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Online Sale Catalog
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2012 Production Sale Set for August 19
Willow Creek Quarter Horses 5th Production Sale for 2012 is set for August 19 at Harm & Tulleys Event Center, Knox Co. Fairgrounds, Bloomfield, NE. Look for the Willow Creek Quarter Horse Sale Catalog to be out by July 30.
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Two of Willow Creek Quarter Horses Reining Show Horses have been hanging out at Lance Shockley's Training Facility in Loveland, CO this year.
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The number of fatal accidents continues to rise in Tennessee, now surpassing the total from 2011.
According to the TDOT message signs hanging over Tennessee interstates, 952 people have died on state highways and roads so far this year. That recently passed last year's total of 937.
TDOT began the roadway fatality message campaign in April, as a way to remind drivers to pay attention and stay safe.
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A father passes on the family heirloom to his son who is departing for university, which turns out to be a stick of Stride chewing gum.
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See the introduction and links to all installments at the top of my John Calvin, Calvinism, and General Protestantism web page; also the online version of the Institutes. Calvin's words will be in blue throughout. All biblical citations (in my portions) will be from RSV unless otherwise noted.
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An increase of faith can be ascribed to creatures as long as we don't deny that God is the ultimate cause of this. Calvin's "either/or" mentality doesn't allow him to be able to ascribe anything to human beings: not even, apparently, a cooperative effort initiated (yes indeed), by God, but still given assent to by the creature. Scripture is clear in many ways about our participation in the entire process.
This is evident, for example, in the supreme emphasis on works and what we do, in biblical scenes having to do with Judgment Day.
It's apparent again in many passages asserting the existence of our own work even with regard to salvation:
Acts 2:40-41 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. [41] Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Philippians 2:12-13 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. [13] For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. (RSV: "Take heed to yourself and to your teaching: hold to that, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers")
Also, we can note many passages that assert meritoriousness of human acts and differential rewards (something that Calvin vehemently denies):
Matthew 5:11-12: "'Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.'" (cf. Mk. 9:41; Jas. 1:12; Rev. 2:10, 3:11-12)
Matthew 19:29: "'And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.'" (cf. 19:21)
Luke 6:38: "'give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.'" (cf. 6:35; Col. 3:23-24)
1 Corinthians 3:6-9: "I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building." (cf. 3:14; 2 Cor. 9:6; 2 Tim. 4:8)
2 Corinthians 6:1: "Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain."
Ephesians 6:8: "knowing that whatever good any one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free." (cf. Matt. 16:27)
Hebrews 10:35: "Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward." (cf. 6:10; Matt. 20:4; 2 John 8)
God's grace causes all hearts to respond, but it is not without human cooperation. We have the free will to resist God's grace. It is not irresistible, as Calvin and Calvinists teach.
But if the case of the seed and of the word is the same, and from the seed corn can grow and increase, and attain to maturity, why may not faith also take its beginning, increase, and completion from the word? Both things are admirably explained by Paul in different passages. For when he would remind the Corinthians how God had given effect to his labours, he boasts that he possessed the ministry of the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:4); just as if his preaching were inseparably connected with the power of the Holy Spirit, in inwardly enlightening the mind, and stimulating it.
Exactly. There is the human-divine cooperation, or "working together" (as St. Paul expresses in 2 Cor 6:1):
But in another passage, when he would remind them what the power of the word is in itself, when preached by man, he compares ministers to husbandmen, who, after they have expended labour and industry in cultivating the ground, have nothing more that they can do. For what would ploughing, and sowing, and watering avail, unless that which was sown should, by the kindness of Heaven, vegetate? Wherefore he concludes, that he that planteth, and he that watereth is nothing, but that the whole is to be ascribed to God, who alone gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, [5] that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Of course. No one (including Catholics) who understands biblical soteriology in a non-Pelagian way disagrees with this.
The apostles, therefore, exert the power of the Spirit in their preaching, inasmuch as God uses them as instruments which he has ordained for the unfolding of his spiritual grace. Still, however, we must not lose sight of the distinction, but remember what man is able of himself to do, and what is peculiar to God.
Indeed. Now, if Calvin could only figure out that Catholics agree with him insofar as Pelagianism (man saving himself apart from God's grace) is false . . . .
Sacraments are also causes of grace and salvation, which is what the Church had always taught, over against Calvin's heresy that sacraments are only signs and seals. I've dealt with baptismal regeneration in a previous section. Calvin denies that the Eucharist has anything to do with salvation and asserts that it is merely a sign and seal. But that is not what Jesus taught:
John 6:48-58 I am the bread of life. [49] Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. [50] This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. [51] I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." [52] The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" [53] So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; [54] he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. [55] For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. [56] He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. [57] As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. [58] This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever."
And as it is our duty in regard to the other creatures which the divine liberality and kindness has destined for our use, and by whose instrumentality he bestows the gifts of his goodness upon us, to put no confidence in them, nor to admire and extol them as the causes of our mercies;
to the contrary, we can admire and extol them because they agreed in free will to be instruments of God's grace. This is why there is a huge theme in Scripture of imitation of holy persons as models and guides to the spiritual life. St. Paul doesn't make the false dichotomy that Calvin makes. He states, rather: "Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ" (1 Cor 11:1); "And you became imitators of us and of the Lord . . ." (1 Thess 1:6).
so neither ought our confidence to be fixed on the sacraments,
We should have confidence in God's promises regarding the sacraments, that go far beyond what Calvin believes of them. Calvin guts the sacraments of their most important function: conveying grace and salvation itself.
nor ought the glory of God to be transferred to them,
It's not a matter of "transfer" of anything, but of recognizing their proper function as means that God uses to spread His grace. God uses human beings (such as St. Paul) in the same way.
but passing beyond them all, our faith and confession should rise to Him who is the Author of the sacraments and of all things.
No one thinks otherwise (least of all, Catholics). But Calvin often states these truisms and utterly apparent truths as if Catholics would not accept or understand them.
This is an extraordinary claim. One can hardly read the Church fathers and conclude that they taught this. The evidence is overwhelming: the fathers (including, very much so, St. Augustine) believed in the Real, Substantial, Physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist, as many Protestant patristic scholars amply confirm. They believed in eucharistic adoration, and the sacrifice of the Mass. St. Cyril of Jerusalem's view of the Eucharist is said to be similar to Calvin's, but this claim falls flat under scrutiny as well. St. Augustine (the father that Protestants love to "co-opt" as supposedly one of their own, heartily accepted all seven Catholic sacraments.
The fathers also believed en masse in baptismal regeneration. They are united in these matters as much as they are on virtually any doctrine of theology. Respected Protestant Church historian J. N. D. Kelly writes:
It was always held to convey the remission of sins . . . the theory that it mediated the Holy Spirit was fairly general . . . The early view, therefore, like the Pauline, would seem to be that baptism itself is the vehicle for conveying the Spirit to believers; in all this period we nowhere come across any clear pointers to the existence of a separate rite, such as unction or the laying on of hands, appropriated to this purpose.
(Early Christian Doctrines, San Francisco: Harper Collins, revised edition, 1978, 194-195)
The similitudes which are drawn from external objects (chap. 15 sec. 1), we indeed admit; but we approve not, that that which is a secondary thing in sacraments is by them made the first, and indeed the only thing. The first thing is, that they may contribute to our faith in God; the secondary, that they may attest our confession before men. These similitudes are applicable to the secondary reason. Let it therefore remain a fixed point, that mysteries would be frigid (as has been seen) were they not helps to our faith, and adjuncts annexed to doctrine for the same end and purpose.
They are helps to our faith precisely because they convey grace. Yet Calvin denies this. So he in effect cuts off the limb he is standing on. He contradicts Scripture, Tradition, and the fathers alike. Yet he seems to assume that his words are sufficient to establish novel and heretical doctrines, no matter what has come before his time.
The gifts of God "cannot possibly be found" in the sacraments? This is a ludicrous assertion: contradicted at every turn by the fathers and Scripture.
For the schools of the Sophists have taught with general consent that the sacraments of the new law, in other words, those now in use in the Christian Church, justify, and confer grace, provided only that we do not interpose the obstacle of mortal sin. It is impossible to describe how fatal and pestilential this sentiment is, and the more so, that for many ages it has, to the great loss of the Church, prevailed over a considerable part of the world.
Calvin recognizes that the traditional Catholic view is very widespread (precisely my point). Yet inexplicably he condemns it. On what grounds? On what basis can he do such a thing at all, rather than accept that God was guiding His Church to reach such an overwhelming consensus? Take, for example, what the fathers taught about baptismal grace. Here is a sampling of the avalanche of citations that could be brought to bear (with "grace" bolded):
St. Clement of Alexandria
When we are baptized, we are enlightened. Being enlightened, we are adopted as sons. Adopted as sons, we are made perfect. Made perfect, we become immortal . . . 'and sons of the Most High' [Ps. 82:6]. This work is variously called grace, illumination, perfection, and washing. It is a washing by which we are cleansed of sins, a gift of grace by which the punishments due our sins are remitted, an illumination by which we behold that holy light of salvation.
(The Instructor of Children 1:6:26:1 [A.D. 191])
St. Cyril of JerusalemIf any man does not receive baptism, he does not have salvation. The only exception is the martyrs, who, even without water, will receive baptism, for the Savior calls martyrdom a baptism [Mark 10:38]. . . . Bearing your sins, you go down into the water; but the calling down of grace seals your soul and does not permit that you afterwards be swallowed up by the fearsome dragon. You go down dead in your sins, and you come up made alive in righteousness.
(Catechetical Lectures 3:10, 12 [A.D. 350])
St. Augustine
This is the meaning of the great sacrament of baptism, which is celebrated among us: all who attain to this grace die thereby to sin—as he himself [Jesus] is said to have died to sin because he died in the flesh (that is, 'in the likeness of sin')—and they are thereby alive by being reborn in the baptismal font, just as he rose again from the sepulcher. This is the case no matter what the age of the body. For whether it be a newborn infant or a decrepit old man—since no one should be barred from baptism—just so, there is no one who does not die to sin in baptism. Infants die to original sin only; adults, to all those sins which they have added, through their evil living, to the burden they brought with them at birth.
(Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love 13[41] [A.D. 421]).
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Since, then, that God-containing flesh partook for its substance and support of this particular nourishment also, and since the God who was manifested infused Himself into perishable humanity for this purpose, viz. that by this communion with Deity mankind might at the same time be deified, for this end it is that, by dispensation of His grace, He disseminates Himself in every believer through that flesh, whose substance comes from bread and wine, blending Himself with the bodies of believers, to secure that, by this union with the immortal, man, too, may be a sharer in incorruption. He gives these gifts by virtue of the benediction through which He transelements the natural quality of these visible things to that immortal thing.
(The Great Catechism, chapter XXXVII; NPNF 2, Vol. IV)
St. John Chrysostom
Christ is present. The One who prepared that [Holy Thursday] table is the very One who now prepares this [altar] table. For it is not a man who makes the sacrificial gifts become the Body and Blood of Christ, but He that was crucified for us, Christ Himself. The priest stands there carrying out the action, but the power and grace is of God. "This is My Body," he says. This statement transforms the gifts.
(Homilies on the Treachery of Judas, 1, 6)
Protestant historian Philip Schaff honestly concludes:
The Catholic church, both Greek and Latin, sees in the Eucharist not only a sacramentum, in which God communicates a grace to believers, but at the same time, and in fact mainly, a sacrificium, in which believers really offer to God that which is represented by the sensible elements. For this view also the church fathers laid the foundation, and it must be conceded they stand in general far more on the Greek and Roman Catholic than on the Protestant side of this question.
(History of the Christian Church, volume 3, § 96. "The Sacrifice of the Eucharist")
It is plainly of the devil: for, first, in promising a righteousness without faith, it drives souls headlong on destruction;
But that is not what is being promised in Catholicism. We teach that one must have faith to benefit in the fullest measure from the sacraments, and that to accept a sacrament in mortal sin is a grave matter (as even Calvin noted above).
secondly, in deriving a cause of righteousness from the sacraments, it entangles miserable minds, already of their own accord too much inclined to the earth, in a superstitious idea, which makes them acquiesce in the spectacle of a corporeal object rather than in God himself.
That doesn't follow. It's not idolatry to accept God's revealed method of distributing His grace through physical objects. The incarnation itself did that. God could have remained purely a spirit and nothing else, and could have avoided the messiness of the crucifixion. But it was the incarnation (a physical thing, not totally "spirit") that made salvation possible in the first place. Therefore, it is beyond absurd to deny that God could use physical matter to spread His grace, given the huge factor of the Incarnation itself. It's an "anti-incarnational" strain of thought.
I wish we had not such experience of both evils as to make it altogether unnecessary to give a lengthened proof of them. For what is a sacrament received without faith, but most certain destruction to the Church? For, seeing that nothing is to be expected beyond the promise, and the promise no less denounces wrath to the unbeliever than offers grace to the believer, it is an error to suppose that anything more is conferred by the sacraments than is offered by the word of God, and obtained by true faith.
This is the exact opposite of the truth: as far from it as east is from west.
From this another thing follows—viz. that assurance of salvation does not depend on participation in the sacraments, as if justification consisted in it. This, which is treasured up in Christ alone, we know to be communicated, not less by the preaching of the Gospel than by the seal of the sacrament, and may be completely enjoyed without this seal.
How odd, then, that Jesus said that whoever didn't eat His flesh and drink His blood could not be saved. How strange that Jesus said, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5, KJV). How weird that St. Paul would teach: "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" (Titus 3:5, KJV). If the choice in fact comes down to Jesus and Paul on one side of a question and John Calvin on the other, I hope most men will have the sense to choose our Lord and the Great Apostle.
So true is it, as Augustine declares, that there may be invisible sanctification without a visible sign, and, on the other hand, a visible sign without true sanctification (August. de Quæst. Vet. Test. Lib. 3). For, as he elsewhere says, "Men put on Christ, sometimes to the extent of partaking in the sacrament, and sometimes to the extent of holiness of life" (August. de Bapt. Cont. Donat. cap. 24). The former may be common to the good and the bad, the latter is peculiar to the good.
This doesn't overcome the dozens of statements he made about sacraments that prove the Catholic point. As usual, Calvin cites a few things that appear to support his heretical case, and ignores mountainous piles of evidence that refute him. That is hardly an honest or straightforward way of dealing with anything. Unless a person's entire thought is taken into consideration, one can always find isolated prooftexts to "prove" just about anything. This unsavory citation method, sadly, typifies the efforts of many anti-Catholic Protestants to this day.


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Nan Keohane broke new ground as the first woman president of both a women's college and a major research university. She served as president of Wellesley College from 1981 to 1993 and as president of Duke University from 1993 to 2004.
She is the author of several books, including Thinking about Leadership and Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University.
A political scientist and political theorist, she writes and teaches in the areas of political philosophy, leadership, and feminist theory. She is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
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Savannakhets, stands Laos' only Special Economic Zone (SEZ) or the Savan-Seno. At the borders where Savannakhet bridges with Mukdahan (Thailand) is a large active junction where ethnic minority people from the two countries trade.
Along the main roads in the city, there are many small shops offering a wide variety of products. Highlights are craft, art, antiques, fabrics, silverwares, hill-tribe products, and Laotian coffee. There are also several fresh markets in Savannakhet, another where one can observe a local lifestyle.
Dao Heuang Duty Free offers chocolates, liquor, cigarettes and Cuban cigars and some basic household electricity products. Shoppers will also find a wide variety of Dao Coffee products - the largest coffee producers in Laos. Some handicrafts, hill-tribe products, silverware and jewellery can also be found here at reasonable prices.
Location: Sisavangvong Road (adjacent to the Dao Heuang coffee shop).
Savannakhet Market, another big fresh market, is frequented by ethnic minority people from the countryside as well as those from the town. It sells similar products to the Singapore Market.
Location: Opposite the Police Station
Around 100 meters to the east of the bus station, Savanxay market is big and interesting place to visit. Besides selling fresh greens and meats, visitors will also find plenty of opportunities to enjoy inexpensive prepared food during the daytime. There are also some pleasant stalls selling handicraft products.
Location: near Bus Station
Better not to expect any Singaporean products, because most of the goods here are imported from Thailand, Vietnam and China. This four-storey market is owned by a Singaporean and is the biggest market in Savannakhet. Singapore Market also sells vegetables, fresh fish and meats, locally famous pork sauces and household products.
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I've never been to Comic Con and I'm pretty sure that I never will. That ship has sailed. No sour grapes, though. As much as I'd love to check it out, I'm pretty sure I'd be fucking miserable in some of those legendary Hall H lines that are synonymous with the Whale's Vagina Comic Con. Wireless internet is in short supply and you can only play Angry Birds for so long before reality dawns on you, forcing you to face facts that you've been camped out for hours numbering more than 5 to catch a trailer, some production stills and an hour of the cast tickling the audience. This reality is made worse when you realize that everyone else will have seen the same photos, the same trailer and highlights from the panel in video and written word only moments after you and all they had to do was bring up Facebook, Ain't It Cool or io9 or some shit and it's all right there for them and they didn't have to bother putting on pants. The internet is a cruel mistress, indeed.
In years past, Comic Con has been a major headline maker in my various RSS feeds. The entire weekend is dominated by headlines bearing the prefix SDCC: but this year seemed a bit quieter. I don't know if its the glamor of Comic Con fading after years of big hype or if it's a sign of the economy but the show, at least the news coming out of it seemed leaner. To the point, in fact, that I didn't feel like I could follow it all and put it in single articles relevant to each piece of news. I would have had a couple dozen tiny articles! I had a super secret agent on the ground over there, actually. Abby Chamberlain, who wrote that great obituary for the late Harvey Pekar. Hopefully, her wrap-up of the show will be filed shortly as it'll be cool to have a first-person perspective of the show. In the meantime, you'll have to settle for this wishful thinking recap from both myself and site contributor, Tony Nunes, as we embark on this cross-site promotion combining our efforts into a dual-site attack on what we feel is the coolest shit out of Comic Con. Consider us the Wonder Twins of Comic Con coverage. Cinema Suicide and Dreaming Genius. Two great tastes that taste great together. Wonder Twins power activate!
In Time
Science Fiction is my bag, man. Unfortunately, Hollywood doesn't really make the distinction between sci-fi and action/space opera. Sci-fi in the theaters tends to be an excuse to roll out your most expensive and elaborate special effects while floating a concept like robots that turn into trucks. The actual sci-fi method, which pits heady 'what if' concepts against a backdrop of technology and jargon is actually hard to come by in Hollywood and you have to prowl the minimalist landscape of independent film to find anything that approaches actual sci-fi. It looks like Inception may have changed that opinion and opened some studio eyes as this upcoming picture makes it seem. Though this trailer, which started making the rounds at Comic Con, shows off a bit of running and shooting, which any major theatrical sci-fi outing requires, it seems like the bulk of its volume is moody plotting and character interaction in a world where we all stop aging at 25 and then keep our heads above the waters of mortality by working for an economy of time which is represented by a digital readout which blazes across the skin of our forearms. Rather than spending money, you spend time on products and services. The film's star, Justin Timberlake, finds himself in possession of an unreal amount of time after it's handed off from a man claiming to have lived for over a hundred years and tired of life. This massive surplus of time puts him square in the middle of a mystery and in the crosshairs of a nasty and corrupt police department who seem to want him dead. What's more, this all comes from the director of Gattaca, Andrew Niccol, another favorite of mine. Of all the trailers out there at Comic Con, this was the one I found most interesting. If that's the case, I must be getting old.
Knights of Badassdom
Knights of Badassdom seems to fall into the painfully familiar plotting category but I'm willing to cut that some slack for so many reasons. Ryan Kwanten, best known as the alpha dumbass, Jason Stackhouse from HBO's True Blood has the well-meaning but dopey act down pat and given my interactions with LARPers in the past, it's a fountain of ha-ha that never runs dry for me. I've actually met the 'Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!' guy that this trailer lampoons in passing at a party once. He was a pretty nice guy that didn't let his fleeting internet celebrity status go to his head unlike some people. There's also the matter of one Peter Dinklage, who quickly became my favorite character on Game of Thrones, Steve Zahn, who needs to be in a lot more comedy and Danny Pudi from the show Community. The only lingering matter of doubt for me is Summer Glau whose character on my much-beloved series, Firefly, was the only one that I didn't care for and her status as a nerd society sex symbol grates on me severely. The film's director, Joe Lynch, isn't known for much outside of Wrong Turn 2 but he's associated with horror's latest darling filmmaker, Adam Green. Let us bask in his dubious association. Knights of Badassdom concerns the adventures of a bunch of LARPers who manage to actually summon a bloodthirsty demon in the middle of a foam and cardboard weekend of shameful behavior known as Live Action Roleplaying. Consider it like Advanced Dungeons and Dragons only taken to stratospheric levels of geek that make even 'proud to be nerdy' crowd cringe and back away. Grown-ass men and women in leather, steel and pelts speaking in curt tones to one another over matters of realm and kings in vaguely European accents.
Nicholas Winding Refn pretty much blew my mind with his incredibly bleak Danish crime series, Pusher, and then nailed the remains to the wall with Bronson, which introduced me proper to Tom Hardy. With credits like those, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood came calling and the results couldn't have been cooler. Car chase movies drifted out of vogue some time ago and I'm not sure why because car chases, to me at least, are on par with a good fight scene. A properly planned car chase with enough crashes, fireballs and mayhem is exhilarating. There are some legends, too! Bullit, The French Connection, To Live and Die In LA, Gone In 60 Seconds, Vanishing Point, Taxi (France), Death Proof; all of these pictures wrecked a lot of cars and made use of some of the best sound designers in the business to make the most intimidating engine noise on earth really jump out of the speakers to rumble your insides like a proper engine ought to do. Drive's star, Ryan Gosling, plays an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as the wheel man in midnight robberies and heists. He is drawn into complicated criminal proceedings when he falls for his neighbor, who carries a torch for her husband who is serving time and comes out to find himself in debt to some shady criminal types. Naturally, his hang up on this girl brings him to help her husband out of this pickle and that's when everything sucks for him. It looks like a typically European affair with a lot of quiet, melancholic shots serving as the chillout time between major car chase setpieces and hints at nasty, nasty violence. Adding Bryan Cranston the mix only helps things.
Fright Night
It's wicked fashionable in horror circles to hate on remakes and I'm certainly party to this trend of hatred-in-vogue but I gotta tell ya, everything I see about this Fright Night business really tweaks my horror gland. The original picture, a grossly underrated feature in the pantheon of vampire horror, in spite of its cult appeal, evokes that sense of suburban dread that I was always able to connect with. I grew up in the suburban sprawl that lay somewhere between Boston and the New Hampshire mountains, the sort of place where it seemed perfectly reasonable that your neighbors, entrenched in their personal fortresses, were up to something. I badly wanted to believe that at least someone living on my street was secretly a vampire or a werewolf because the movies that had those things tended to be utterly badass. Movies that exploited that adolescent paranoia are some of my favorites. Joe Dante practically forged an entire career out of it but Tom Holland tapped right into it with the original Fright Night. What's more, it looks like Craig Gillespie's remake finds that same vibe of suburban alienation with absentee parents and runs with it. No remake will ever live up to its original picture and that's to be expected. Most of the remake's detractors take issue with the casting of Collin Farrell as the vampire Jerry Dandridge but from what I've seen, I quite like him in the role. Dandridge in the original is masquerading as your average dude but Farrell's Dandridge seems to be a deliberate douche and I think that's great. Farrell's sardonic delivery of his lines conjures major cognitive dissonance. I mean, this is a savage, murderous vampire after all. The most internet hate seems to derive from the re-imagining of one of the original's greatest qualities. By this I mean Roddy McDowall as TV horror host, Peter Vincent. Here, in the remake, Peter Vincent is recast as a Vegas stage magician with serious Criss Angel overtones played by David Tennant who most people recognize as one of Doctor Who's recent Doctors. The clip that circulated at Comic Con finally put Tennant in the spotlight and I have to tell you, I like it. Tennant does great characters and it looks like this is kind of guy he can play balls to the wall and chew scenery with. Trust me on this one. When the remake finally hits wide release, this is someone you'll be talking about in positive tones for a while.
The Walking Dead Season 2
I'm being generous when I say that I'm looking forward to season 2 of The Walking Dead. I was one of last season's longest running hanger-ons, defending it in the face of very valid criticism. The writing wasn't all that it could be, the characters tended to make really stupid mistakes repeatedly and I couldn't figure out how Shane managed to maintain that perfect coif in the midst of the end of all life on Earth. He must have made it clear to Glenn that if he didn't come back with a pretty specific list of product, he shouldn't come back at all. I didn't take issue too much that the show strayed from the source material until the end of the season when we were way, way off track. Then I just couldn't help myself. However, with more episodes to look forward to and a rather long period of time to reflect on the mistakes of season 1, I'm hoping that Darabont and company will figure out what they need to do to rescue the show. Though I may be down on the show a bit, I am optimistic. This is a real chance for them to turn it around and make something out of this unique opportunity for television drama. If they don't, I won't miss it nor will I be missed. The sort of numbers that show pulled down in ratings was ridiculous!
Somehow, not a frame of the Prometheus panel footage leaked from Comic Con. Instead, we have been treated to description after description that are practically drowning in hyperbole. The mystery of the Xenomorph and LV 246 from the original Alien and its sequel, Aliens, is something that I love. I honestly don't give a fuck about the derelict spacecraft and the giant alien at the controls or where the nasty aliens came from so early reports that Ridley Scott was going back to this property didn't really move me but I'm hearing absolutely nuts reports about the flick and how the preview footage at the con was mighty exciting. The fatal flaw in my dismissal of this picture, however, is that nobody even knows if this is a prequel to Alien as some people have claimed. Scott and Damon Linedeloff are both evasive on the topic and, frankly, I'm not even sure why. Honestly. What difference does it make? Plot details are scant and what is going around the grapevine is a lot about ancient alien civilizations and some really visionary new ideas in horror. It's been some time since I've liked anything that Scott has put out but this return to the genre may be what it takes to reel me back in. I'm cautiously excited about this flick.
The Dark Knight Rises
The only comic movie to make the list is Christopher Nolan's final Batman flick. Nolan gets Batman and has made what are easily the best of all the various Batflicks. He somehow manages to navigate around Batman's campiest tendencies and turns in sophisticated super hero movies that work on so many levels. Unfortunately, he's running out of rope and unless he cuts the cord now, he'll be attaching nipples to the Batsuit and having Bats cavort with Poison Ivy. The future of Batman beyond The Dark Knight Rises, a title which drives me fucking crazy – I swear the word Rise has been in more movie titles in the last five years than any other – is grim and you can see total machine failure creeping in around the margins of the trailer. Bane is a bit of a stretch and the casting of Robin Williams as Hugo Strange may turn out to be either inspired brilliance or catastrophic failure with nothing in between even resembling a gray area. Also, did this movie really need Cillian Murphy? Honestly, how many times is Batman going to go toe to toe with Scarecrow? Nolan locked me in as a fan forever with The Dark Knight as the late Heath Ledger's Joke went down as one of my favorite screen villains ever so I can only hope that as his Batman swan song approaches, he drives it home and continues to float the brand.
Let it be known that Garth Ennis is the shit. If you read comics, you know the name. He made his name in the 90's on the tail end of the British Invasion of comics when, along with Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, Ennis brought a distinctly European grit to a flagging industry that was drowning in fresh American blood that didn't know what to do with the comic book properties that had been so willingly handed over to them by Marvel and DC. Ennis made a splash with his book, Preacher, a piece of psychedelic southern gothic that stands tall among some of horror comics' greatest titles. Ultraviolence was Ennis' calling card and he expanded with the bizarro funny book, Hitman – which featured one of my favorite weirdo vigilantes, The Dog Welder – and he singlehandedly rescued The Punisher from grotesque irrelevance once Marvel's worst writers had run the character aground. I guess it's only natural that Ennis took to the screen and his indie zombie flick, Stitched, hit the floor, making its world premier there. The premise, survivors of a downed Blackhawk helicopter in a remote part of Afghanistan find themselves under attack from, I don't know, something. My instincts tell me that this is a zombie movie of some variety and I guess that's fine. Zombie movies only suck when they're made by people who have a dream to make a movie but have no actual business making a movie. Ennis is not that sort of person and what monsters we see in this trailer look a lot more like the zombies from The Blind Dead series than the rotting shamblers of popular culture. The film hits DVD in November and coincides with the release of the Stitched comic book.


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Three more free construction safety training courses will be provided by DOLE-NCR in cooperation with the Occupational Safety and Health Center (OSHC) this year to small contractors in the National Capital Region who cannot afford to undergo the Construction Occupational Safety and Health Course for Site Safety Officers (COSH).
The schedule is as follows:
- August 19-23, 2013;
- September 9-13, 2013; and
- October 14-18, 2013
The training will be held at the Occupational Safety and Health Center (OSHC) along Agham Road, cor. North Avenue, Quezon City.
The first COSH course which was held from 20 to 24 May 2013 was a success. This was fully reported on on the following articles on our site:- Free DOLE COSH Course a success and PCAB Chair addresses free COSH course.
These courses are only for the proprietors of small scale contractors/subcontractors who cannot afford to pay for this safety training. Essentially these contractors are all unlicensed as all licensed contractors underwent this training as a licensing prerequisite. PCA Metro, as DOLE-NCR partner and also a duly accredited PCAB Public Assistance Help desk, appointed as such in terms of PCAB Board Resolution No. 218 series of 2011, will assist the contractors attending the free COSH course with their respective PCAB license applications. Without a PCAB license unlicensed contractors are by law precluded from engaging in construction contracting activities in the country. This service will be rendered for free and will consist of the giving of advice in completing the license application form, checking that it is complete in substance and that, on the face of it, the application is compliant with all PCAB requirements.
The free training was a directive by Labor Secretary Baldoz to all DOLE Regions in the wake of the tragic incident at the SPC Malaya Power Plant where 5 workers of unlicensed contractor East-West Works Industrial Services Inc. were killed and 12 more injured. See DOLE orders review of construction safety standards.
Those who wish to avail of this free course can contact DOLE-NCR via this page: http://pcametro.ph/safety/free-cosh/.© Copyright 2013 PCA Metro, All rights Reserved. Written For: PCA Metropolitan Chapter


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Taser Rescues Cop at Stop of Hit and Run Driver
A 47 year-old guy in la Crosse faces a whole laundry list of charges after an apparent hit and run last night. Police say Carlos Williams was drunk when he rear-ended a car at red light downtown. They say Williams drove off after the accident, leaving behind two startled women, one of whom is seven months pregnant. Cops eventually chased Williams down but they say he tried to drive off with a cop half way inside the car. He had to be tazed twice before they could shackle him. Besides being liquored up, they say Williams had also taken some sleeping meds before getting behind the wheel of his car.


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This expansive 4-disc DVD set takes viewers further into "The Two Towers".< read all 5 reviews
THE TWO TOWERS does this perhaps better than any film I've seen. It's not the best acted movie in history (Liv Tyler is a bit one note, Miranda Otto a bit bland), but from a technical standpoint, I'm not sure you'll find a better film. Just the achievement of Gollum alone is astounding. I saw (to my chagrin) THE HULK, and there's a great example of how a digital creature doesn't work. Or the three-headed dog in the first Harry Potter movie. Or even the Cave Troll in the first LOTR. You may suspend your disbelief, but in the back of your mind, you know the creature is computer generated. Gollum just can't be fake...can he? After about two minutes on screen, you totally forget he's a computer fabrication. And when he has his "close-up" scene, when he argues with himself, the performance is amazingly convincing. Gollum is breath-taking.
And the Battle of Helm's Deep. Wow!! Not sure there's anything else to say. It's on a par with the Chariot Race in BEN-HUR as a classic of excitement and craft.
But the story itself is told with such obvious loving care that we become emotionally wrapped up in the story. It has a grand sweep to it, sure, but it feels personal too. Peter Jackson is to be highly, highly commended. And surely, when RETURN OF THE KING is released, he will finally get the Oscar he deserves.
The DVD's are astounding too. The Deluxe DVD set for FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING with all the restored scenes and documentaries is the greatest DVD in my collection, and I have hundreds of films. It totally and completely lives up to the promise of the DVD format. Why don't more films restore their deleted scenes back into the movie instead of having you watch them out of context later. Perhaps it's because those scenes actually deserved to be deleted??? In LOTR, the restored scenes simply added depth, character development and MAJESTY to the epic film. These are must-have DVDs. I have seldom been so enthralled with a motion picture. I just can't imagine how anyone can give this film less than 5 stars.
NOTE: I'm not a Tolkien fan. I can't get through the books. I don't even know how the story turns out. But from what I gather from talking to fans of the books, reading online and such, the changes Jackson made to the story are all justified from a cinematic story-telling sense.
PS: The shot of Orlando Bloom flipping himself onto his running horse...that's probably worth the price of admission right there!!!
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Apple iPad discounted by online retailer
Viking Direct is currently selling the Apple iPad at a heavily discounted price, with a 16GB Apple iPad with Wi-Fi coming in at just £357.81 - a bit of a bargain when you consider the Apple Store is selling them for £429.
Spotted by the good folk at ITProPortal, the iPad offer extends right across Viking Direct's range of iPads which also means you can pick up the all singing, all dancing 64GB 3G iPad for £582.99 - a £116 saving on Apple's price of £699.
ITProPortal also suggests that the offer is slightly puzzling as Viking Direct's parent company in the US has not applied any discount to the Apple product, as is the case with other major online retailers. So it's possible it's a mistake.
However, at these prices it might well be worth a go. And if you do stump for the iPad deal, be sure to let us know how you got on in the comments box below.
UPDATE: prices are in fact exclusive of VAT, so discount is not as staggering as first thought. Title has been amended and apologies for the mistake.
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Padres see Bass as 3 pitchers in one
When he returned in September he was back in the bullpen and picked up the first save of his career on Sept. 20.
"The biggest difference between starting and relieving is the mental preparation," said Bass. "I like being on the five-day cycle. In the bullpen you have to be ready all the time. It helps to have some experience in the bullpen."
Another thing that works in Bass's favor as a reliever is the fact that it takes him only 10-15 pitches to warm up.
Bass began his career as the closer for short-season Single-A Eugene after being a fifth-round pick out of Wayne State University in 2008. He began starting the following season and didn't work out of the bullpen again until he joined the Padres for the second time in 2011. He was 2-0 with a 1.68 ERA in 27 games (three starts) with the Padres in 2011.


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Fantasy Rivals
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- Publisher: Boostr
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- Genre: CCG
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Boostr, the developer of the popular Urban Rivals, brings us another free-to-play browser-based Collectible Card Game (CCG) called Fantasy Rivals. This time, the devs shift their inspiration from the mundane world into fantasy and lead us into a universe with heroes, monsters and magic. The audio and visual effect changes; the original tactical immersive card battle remains.
Fantasy Rivals follows the good tradition of stylish card designs and a decent tutorial that will not only acquaint you with the basic rules but also offer the initial collection of cards for normal battles after. Every Hero/card has the basic attack value and usually possesses an ability and/or a bonus. The essence is to have an attack value higher than its opponents during one round – use Mana to boosting the attack value, activate the bonuses if possible and wisely choose Heroes based on their abilities in response to the enemy's play – so that you can deal damage to the opponent. Both you and your opponent start with 15 life points; if you have more left than him/her at the end of the game, you win.
The tutorial rewards you 12 cards to start off with. You need to pick 8 Heroes from what you have to fight a normal battle. To play a match, you will be auto paired with a "fair" opponent via the matchmaking system. A fight always begins with a hero in play and two Heroes in your hand, which creates a space for strategic calculation. Attack equals power time Mana. In each round, both sides can use Mana (limited in amount and basically equal for both sides) to boost their own Hero's basic attack value; and the amount of Mana used by each remains a secret until the fight between the heroes actually begins. So bluffing is a big part of the game. To use limited Mana in the first rounds or save it for a final fatal blow or distribute it with balance? It's decided by personal play style, or a temporary whim or a specific card that shows up in hand.
The variety in Heroes' abilities and bonuses on the basis of power and Mana is another factor that makes the game tactical and immersive. In addition to the basic attack and defense, you will have many special tricks in hand that may recover a life for you in defeat, deal 2 extra damage on opponent in victory, reduce one Opp Mana, revenge with eye-for-eye, or even remove all opponent Heroes' bonuses. Take the best of what you have and you can come up with unexpected strategies. When the opponent plays to the field a powerful card you can but almost use up your Mana to beat, why not pick up that timely hero weak in attack but able to revive one life in defeat to easily lose and save the Mana to revenge in next round?
You can play three game modes, Training, League and Classic, all PvP-oriented. Training is the basic mode and the only one you can jump into in the beginning, while the other two is basically the same with slight difference respectively. Classic mode adds timers in the process of hero selection and mana-distribution; and the League has timers and rankings. Win, lose or draw – whatever is the result, you can get rewards of XP and Gems. Of course, the winner gets more. And Gems are for card evolution. You can level up your cards using Gems, boosting the base stats and changing the card image and abilities and bonuses.
Play and evolve. Fun never fades.
Note: Fantasy Rivals is now available on PC, with iOS and Android versions coming soon. And it is releasing the Darkness Extension on the 12th of April. Prepare to take on the hungry Psonn.
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So it's the same game with different graphics and less players … Why should we play it then ?
I think they should have tried a different gameplay, Urban Rivals is really old now and this new game isn't going to fresh things up.
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Can Lemon Oil help High Blood Pressure?
Hi Tracy,
Wow – I am off my blood pressure meds! Can you believe it? I feel like a million bucks. I think my BP meds were really trashing my energy level. That lemon oil stuff is amazing. I'm using it several times a day – just like you said. But you weren't kidding. Who knew putting a few drops of fruit oil in my water bottle would matter so much. I'd never even heard of it before! Where do I order more?
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Yes, I wasn't kidding! High-quality lemon oil can make a big difference in your blood pressure (and your anxiety too, by the way). Just be sure to monitor your pressure carefully once you start it. Some folks find their readings drop rapidly, and they need to reduce or stop their medication (consult with your doctor to do this!). I recommend ~3 drops in your water bottle or glass every time you fill it. Lemon oil is also a great choice if you are prone to respiratory problems. I use only DoTerra oils, the only ones I've found that are highly concentrated and effective, cold-pressed, without any contaminants or additives. And they aren't expensive. You may order more here. While you're at it, consider some lavender oil to help with mild insomnia or restless sleep. Essential oils have been used for centuries for natural healing. And many modern medications are modeled after the same active ingredients we find in plants.


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Why Did Chyler Leigh Leave Grey's Anatomy?
Grey's Anatomy fans are still reeling from Lexie's (Chyler Leigh) death during the Season 8 finale (Season 8, Episode 24, "Flight"). We're going to miss Little Grey. A lot.
But why did she die? In-story, it's because debris from the plane crash crushed her, of course. But everyone knows TV deaths normally involve some backstage negotiating. So what's the deal with Chyler's departure?
"Stuff that happens inside our family is stuff that happens inside our family," Shonda Rhimes told E! when asked why Chyler left. "I have so much respect for Chyler, and the decision was really, it was very hard for everybody involved and I want to respect her privacy on that."
Shonda had previously tweeted that Lexie dying "was a decision that Chyler and I came to together," and said that "as far as I'm concerned Chyler will always remain a part of the Shondaland family and I can't wait to work with her again in the future." So it sounds like there isn't any bad blood there.
Before the beginning of Season 8, Chyler asked for an extended summer vacation to spend more time with her family. It's possible she wants to devote even more time to her home life.
Here's another tidbit from Shonda that will either make Slexie fans feel a little better, or possibly much worse because it hints at what could have been: Shonda "always felt like Mark and Lexie were meant to be together." She added that "if things had not turned out the way they had this season, I had a completely different thing planned for them...There were so many moments and so many things that I had wanted to happen with those characters that we're never going to get to see."
We wonder if Mark (Eric Dane) will ever be able to find real love again now that Lexie is gone. At least he has baby Sofia and his makeshift family with Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) to comfort him — if he and Arizona survive, of course.
Miss Grey's? Us too. Luckily the show will return to Thursdays at 9 p.m. with all-new episodes in the fall on ABC.
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How to get rid of mice and rats
It's never nice to think we share our homes with uninvited guests. And while household and garden pests are unpleasant and a nuisance, most are fairly harmless.
You have to be careful, however, as some of them transmit diseases and some can cause damage to your property. Here's what to look our for, and what to do when trying to get rid of mice and rats in your home.
How to get rid of mice
It's almost impossible to completely mouse-proof your property. Mice can squeeze through pencil-thin gaps and once they're in they'll start gnawing, climbing and reproducing at an alarming rate. The biggest problem however is their incontinence. Droppings and urine carry a risk of food poisoning by Salmonella and E.coli. Here's what you need to know about getting rid of mice.
What to look out for:
Mice tend to stick to the edges of rooms, and under kitchen units, etc. So keep an eye out for droppings, squeaks and rustling noises, urine pools or trails, nibble marks on food boxes or food, nests, and finally, a musky smell.
You can also put down a covering of talc around a room edge, and see if you find footprints the next morning. Watch out for gnawing marks around potential entry points, too.
Solutions and prevention:
- Block all possible gaps with wire wool, which is too tough for mice to chew through.
- Peppermint oil is great for getting rid of mice as it acts as a natural deterrent. Add one or two drops to cotton balls and position near likely entrance points.
- Visit your local garden centre for humane mouse traps or a sonic pest repeller, which emits high pitched beeps not audible to humans or pets.
- Clean up food spillages promptly and store food in sealed containers.
- Try getting rid of mice by buying a cat or if all else fails, call in a pest controller.
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Agile, opportunistic and with awesome breeding potential, the Common Rat now numbers 60 million in the UK, and if stats are to be believed, we're never more than nine metres away from one. These furry creatures carry a number of diseases, some fatal, so it's important to tackle to problem and get rid of rats. as soon as possible. If you have a problem getting rid of rats, call your council (who may provide a free service), call in the professionals or wear protective thick rubber gloves while dealing with the problem. Here's what you need to know about getting rid of rats.
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Very much the same signs are for mice, except their droppings and footprints are larger.
Solutions and prevention:
- Keep rubbish in secure containers.
- Keep food, etc, in rodent proof containers.
- Buy a humane rat trap such as the Family Rat Trap and bait with smelly food such as garlic or a fish head.
- Avoid using poisons which can kill cats and carrion feeders through secondary poisoning.
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"Located on the northwest outskirts of China's capital city, Aman at Summer Palace is a retreat from the city and a gateway to the past. The resort is housed in a series of historic (and historic-looking) pavilions originally used as a summer resort for Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing dynasty around the turn of the 20th century… One of the best perks offered with a stay at Aman is a private entrance to the Summer Palace complex and exclusive access to the popular tourist site when it's closed to the public (think torch-lit tours at dusk)… Aman did an excellent join of adhering to traditional Chinese style throughout the resort grounds, from the serene courtyards shaded by bamboo to the artwork of master craftsmen."
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Black Ships Ate the Sky is a 2006 album by Current 93. The album features numerous guest vocalists, such as Antony Hegarty, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Marc Almond, and Shirley Collins. It features nine versions of the 1763 Methodist hymn "Idumæa", with lyrics by Charles Wesley, each featuring vocals by a different artist. The album was issued in digipak packaging, with a 56 page booklet containing liner notes, lyrics, photographs, and credits.
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The Culture Clash: Las Vegas
Most of us are familiar with the saying: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas."
Well, that saying has never appealed to me. Why keep an incredible story to yourself? If you feel ashamed of a bad decision, then know this: it is the bad decisions that make good stories and good stories are meant to be told. We will never look back on our life remembering the nights we got plenty of sleep, so tell your story and exaggerate profusely.
A few weekends ago, I took a road trip to Las Vegas with a French woman, a Danish woman, an Australian man and the obligatory British man. The French woman, the Danish woman and I only know how to drive vehicles with steering wheels located on the right side, so we put the Aussie behind the wheel. All I can say is I am thankful for the ribbed part on the road that kept us in the lane all the way to Las Vegas and back.
This was actually my second time going to Vegas, but this time I was legal to gamble and increase my blood alcohol content. To me, Las Vegas seems like two completely different cities: one during the daytime and one during the night. When the sun is out, everything is gray and rather unattractive — my condition after a night out may have had something to do with my perception, however. There were Hollywood look-alikes everywhere and statue-performers that scared me half to death. When the skies darken, Las Vegas is covered in lights, filled with slot machines and everyone is dressed to impress — and some people seriously lack awareness of their body parts showing.
Revealing too much skin anywhere else in the world would have been looked down upon – but not in Vegas. Las Vegas is like a refuge, where everything morally wrong is all of a sudden free from sin. For that reason, my friends and I made the trip specifically on the weekend of our British friend's birthday — and celebrated Las Vegas style. Because the birthday boy was in fact male, we ended up at a strip club the first night.
Strip clubs are not necessarily my cup of tea, so, while there, I found myself having a conversation with the club promoter about their lack of necessity. Due to intoxication, I cannot recall the entire conversation, but it ended with him promising me he would stop promoting strip clubs on one condition: if I came up with a solution that would earn him enough money to continue driving his fancy car and wear his fancy clothes. At this, I said goodbye.
Once we returned to our hotel, I had only one thing on my mind: food. I made my way to the hotel bar where they served breakfast, but I was caught off-guard with the realization I had to actually pay for my meal. I had not spent a penny thus far, so I decided to stay on the cheap train and refused to pay. A middle-aged man offered to pay for it—the first of his many subtle tricks used to invite me to his room. I gave him a definite "No" and left with an empty stomach.
After a weekend surrounded by glamour and trying to walk normally in brand new high-heels, I tried to wrap what was left in my head around Las Vegas.
My conclusion: a surrealistic experience which consists of both heaven and hell at the same time. As a woman, it seemed like heaven because everything was free. You are treated like a queen and life is good. Having a pair of boobs can also mean getting paid to press them up against random men's faces. This is not so glamorous, but the men would probably agree to the contrary.
Having finally experienced Vegas for myself, I decided to modify the introducing wisdom quote to something like this: "What happens in Vegas only happens in Vegas."


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Lawmakers approved the final version of a Vikings stadium construction plan Thursday, sending it to the governor's desk for approval. The new stadium would make Minnesota "a better place to live," Rep. Morrie Lanning, R-Moorhead, said shortly after the House approved his stadium construction bill 71-60 early Thursday. Continue Reading