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Soon it will be that time of year again when gardener types are looking through catalogs, dreaming about plants, maybe even sketching up a plan or talking to a garden designer. Web searches are made, books are read, and sometimes hands are wrung. For some people, the question comes up in their mind: "Should I be planting only native plants in my yard?" I would answer that question with a question to you: "What is your ultimate goal, and how much effort do you want to put in?"
There is a great post from Carole Brown over at Ecosystem Gardening that discusses the good, bad and ugly of native plants in the landscape. It makes me wonder when reading it why people are so biased against "natives". If you haven't had the pleasure of visiting the Ecosystem Gardening before, spend some time reading the various posts – you'll be amazed at the depth of information Carole provides to her readers.
What is a "native" versus "regionally appropriate"plant? And why should I choose one over the other? Which type is best? My firm belief is that they both have their place in our garden ecosystems. Why would I say that?
- Native plants provide for food, shelter, soil conditioning, breeding spaces and habitat for the insects, birds, and wildlife that are native to the gardener's area.
- Native plants also typically make better use of the native soils, and use less resources to thrive.
- On the other hand, regionally appropriate plants may or may not be native but are known to do well with the growing conditions for the region in question.
- Regionally appropriate plants are many times easier to find and grow than natives.
- Both types provide pollinators with food, are typically not invasive, and give the gardener alternatives when it comes to choosing between having a lawn or providing a wildlife habitat. Sounds confusing doesn't it? Let me give you some examples:
- Many flowering herbs such as lavender, rosemary and thyme are great examples of regionally appropriate plants for the SouthWest and West Coast. While they are not native to these areas, the regions of the world they come from have very similar growing conditions. These same plants are NOT regionally appropriate for the wetter areas of the country, as they would more prone to pests and diseases that thrive in humidity.
- Many native plants have very specific growing conditions which often times no longer exist in the gardener's yard. In order to successfully grow the natives, the ecosystem must first be allowed to stabilize. Not all gardeners are so patient! Failures then lead to frustration, and natives are given a bad rap once again.
- Native Shrubs and Trees can mix very nicely with regionally appropriate plants, and can become the backbone of the native garden while the rest of the plantings are gradually replaced.
So while you are dreaming and designing your garden for next year, take some time to think about how you would like your garden to turn out, both for you and your wildlife garden visitors. It's easy to create a place that works for all of you.
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The market town Oggau, located at Lake Neusiedl in the Austrian province Burgenland, is a wine growing village famous for its quality. Its tradition dates back to the early Romans, who first produced red wine in Austria.
The vineyard Oggau also looks back on a long historyand its now operated by Eduard Tscheppe and Stephanie Tscheppe-Eselböck, who have added a modern touch to the vineyard. Thanks to the biodynamic winemaking process and the focus on the essential, the Gut Oggau features a tight selection of authentic, typical regional wines. Each of these wines has its own personality and is closely related to the other wine characters. We regard our wines as being distinctive personalities who form a unique wine family.
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It's 2012 already, the holiday season has passed and now it's time to look forward to a fantastic new year of gaming. If all goes to plan we should be seeing the release of at least two new consoles this year: the Western launch of the PlayStation Vita is right around the corner on February 22 and the Wii U is scheduled for some time in the second half of the year.
While we should be seeing these consoles come to the market with a slew of new games, there are still a huge amount of games coming out for the current generation of consoles. Below you can check out some of our highly anticipated games for the first quarter of 2012.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 | January 31 | PS3, X360
For those of you who love the Final Fantasy series you're probably waiting for the next console iteration. Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a direct sequel to 2009's Final Fantasy XIII and continues the story 3 years after the events of the previous game and features a similar but supposedly improved combat system.
After the Japanese release late last month it has already scored good reviews from Japanese critics, so for Final Fantasy fans you should watch out for when it drops on January 31 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Soulcalibur V | January 31 | PS3, X360
I'm personally not much of a fan of the fighting genre, but I've heard that the Soul series is one of the better ones. Anyway, Soucalibur V is the next installment in the series and takes place 17 years after the events of Soulcalibur IV. It features a bunch of returning and new characters, including a guest appearance of Ezio Auditore from the Assassin's Creed series.
If you like fighting games then Soulcalibur V will be out on January 31 in North America and February 3 in Europe; it will be available for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning | February 7 | PS3, Win, X360
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is an original IP from 38 Studios and Big Huge Games which features Ken Rolston on the development team, best known for his work on The Elder Scrolls series. As you might have guessed Kingdoms of Amalur will be a single-player role-playing game. Apparently there will be four playable characters, three ability trees and five distinct regions in the game, along with a combat system that requires both the timing of buttons and strategy. The style is said to be similar to both God of War and Oblivion.
From what is known about the game it sounds like a pretty average RPG, but with a solid development team and intriguing promotion (how will it be like GoW and Oblivion?) it could be a game to look out for after the reviews come in. It comes out for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Windows PCs on February 7 (NA) / February 10 (EU).
Resident Evil: Revelations | February 7 | 3DS
Despite most of the Nintendo 3DS' game line-up catering for the younger audiences, Capcom is pushing ahead with a mature Resident Evil game for the handheld console. Resident Evil: Revelations is set between Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 and follows the story of BSAA co-founders Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield shortly after the BSAA was founded. The game will be the usual survival-horror style, with an emphasis on exploration and puzzle solving; you will also have the option to switch between first-person and third-person viewpoints while aiming a weapon.
Resident Evil: Revelations was first revealed at E3 2010 and since then it looked like it was going to be one of the better titles for Nintendo's new portable console. If you are a more mature gamer (it's rated M by the ESRB) who bought a 3DS, this looks like a good buy when it drops on February 7 in North America; if you're in Europe you can pick it up earlier on January 27.
Syndicate | February 21 | PS3, Win, X360
Syndicate is a reboot of the Syndicate tactical shooter series that fizzled away in the late 90s, however this time it's back as a first-person shooter. It's set in a futuristic world where the world is divided into regions by "syndicate" mega-corporations, with each syndicate battling for market dominance. You are EuroCorp's prototype agent embedded with a DART 6 bio-chip who must go on a bio-engineered and brutal adventure. Using said chip you can do a variety of cool things such as slowing down time and hacking into your foes.
The game's description reminds me of Deus Ex: Human Revolution which I recently completed, but unfortunately for me I won't be able to play it as it was refused classification (and effectively banned) here in Australia. If you live elsewhere Syndicate looks like an interesting game to try out in when it drops on February 21 (NA) / 24 (EU) for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Windows PCs.


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80″ in eight days. That is what fell fat the JHMR from January 19-January 25. All of a sudden everyone was smiling (except those trying to fly in or out) and the skiing exploded. Here is a video from the JHMR that does a good job of explaining what sort of conditions we experienced last week.
Speaking of Flights, this is great news, at long last a direct flight to and from San Francisco (and one from Houston).
This is a nice piece on the Jackson Hole Four Seasons from the Boston Globe. Plain and simple, it's a really great Hotel.
I'm not sure who at the JHMR gets credit for this ad campaign, but it's really good. Apparently this picture was taken in Colorado.
Canis Lupis, Moose Junction. Forrest McCarthy took this picture before the recent storms. As Alfred Hitchcock so astutely noted "there is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."
Unless of course you're caught in a very large avalanche, which this snowboarded was a week ago, in which case the terror is very immediate. It's a pretty good advertisement for BCA's Float 30 Avalanche Pack .
Real Estate:
There were 12 real estate closings in January 2012.
28 more went under contract during that same period.
Of that 28, 4 were listed for over $1,000,000 and 3 were listed for more than $2,000,000.
11 were listed for under $500,000.
The least expensive was a 2br/1ba 750 sq. ft. condo in the Town of Jackson losted for $109,000
The most expensive was a 4br/4ba 3000sq. ft. house in Teton Village listed for $2,495,000. Not quite ski in/ski out but pretty close. Great rental property.
A few notable Closings in January 2012
2br/3ba 1720 sq. ft condo at the Four Seasons Listed for $1,845,000 Closed for $1,615,000 ($938 per sq. ft)
5br/5ba 4000 sq. ft house in Wilson, 3 acres, Bank Owned, Listed for $3,500,000 Closed for $3,400,000. (It was originally listed for $4,995,000 in 2009).
3br/3ba condo in East jackson, 1900 sq. ft., Bank owned, listed for $380,000 Closed for $373,000.
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Sanctuary to improve services through move
Moves to provide East Cambridgeshire residents with a one stop shop to deal with all their council and housing needs are starting to take shape.
Work has begun on a new reception area at East Cambridgeshire District Council to allow staff from the local authority and major housing landlord Sanctuary Hereward deal with the needs of local people in one place.
The move will mean a new look to the front office at Nutholt Lane, Ely, providing residents and customers with better facilities − including new interview rooms, self service computer terminals and the benefits of a single point of contact for council and housing-related enquiries.
The reception area at the District Council will remain open during the work, with all efforts being made to minimise the disruption to residents ahead of the work being completed in May.
Emma Keegan, Sanctuary's regional director, added: "We are constantly looking for new and better ways to meet the needs of our residents and the local community, which is the reason behind this approach.
"As our priority, residents will continue to benefit from quality and flexible services and facilities − now under one roof, reducing the need to visit two different locations."
John Hill, chief executive at East Cambridgeshire District Council, said: "We are working with Sanctuary to create a unique, one stop shop to meet the needs of our residents. The benefits of coming together in one building to deliver an excellent customer service to the public are obvious and I believe will make a real difference in the future.
"We do ask the public to be patient over the next few weeks while the new reception area takes place and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. However, I believe the result will mean our communities have the best help and support possible to deal with any issue they face."


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Rielle Hunter's memoir details affair with John Edwards, aftermath
- ABC News correspondent Chris Cuomo talks with Rielle Hunter about her relationship with former U.S. Sen. John Edwards. The interview airs during 20/20 on Friday, June 22. (AP Photo/ABC, Phil Ellsworth)
(AP) - When John Edwards faced the prospect of an indictment that could put him behind bars, he calmly told his mistress he would probably wind up in a low-security prison in Virginia more like a country club than a jail.
She quickly told him she and their daughter would move there to be near him if that happened.
Rielle Hunter details their phone call just days before his indictment in her new memoir, purchased by The Associated Press ahead of its release.
"What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me," also includes Rielle Hunter's mixed views on Edwards' parenting of their daughter Quinn and descriptions of Elizabeth Edwards' outbursts.
At the end of the book, Hunter says she still has romantic feelings for Edwards but doesn't know how their relationship will turn out.
The book also provides a window into Edwards' psyche as federal prosecutors began their case against him. Days before his indictment Hunter asked: "So if you went to jail, what kind of jail would it be? One of those country clubs?"
"He said, 'Yeah.'"
"'Where?'" she asked.
"'Probably Virginia.'"
"So Quinn and I will move to Virginia. Virginia is a great state."
The only low-security federal prison in Virginia is in Petersburg, where former Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry once served time.
On the day of the indictment, the two shared a surreal phone call as a newspaper reporter banged on her door in Charlotte, while the man she refers to as "Johnny" throughout the book called her cell phone to say that he was also being pursued.
"'I've got helicopters circling my house,' Johnny said."
New York publishers had said they were not interested in Hunter's book, citing her negative image, so it is instead being released through a Dallas-based boutique publisher, BenBella Books, on June 26.
Federal prosecutors spent a year prosecuting Edwards, culminating in a six-week trial that ended last month. Jurors acquitted Edwards on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions and deadlocked on five other felony counts. The judge declared a mistrial. Federal prosecutors then said in a court order earlier this month that they wouldn't retry Edwards, and the charges against him were dropped.
Neither Edwards nor Hunter testified.
Prosecutors had accused Edwards, 59, of masterminding a scheme to use about $1 million in secret payments from two wealthy political donors to hide his pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008.
The trial publicized intimate details about Edwards' affair with Hunter as his wife, Elizabeth, was dying of cancer. Much of the book describes their unfolding relationship and the lengths to which Hunter went to sneak in and out of Edwards' hotel rooms, even after her contract as a videographer ended. She also describes paparazzi chases after news of their affair broke.
Hunter writes that Edwards is a doting father when he's around their daughter but that his obligations to his other children curtail their time together.
The book features several pictures of the father and daughter together, smiling. Immediately after his trial, Edwards said during a news conference - with his adult daughter, Cate, by his side - that he loved Quinn "more than any of you can ever imagine."
Quinn is now 4 and lives with Hunter in Charlotte.
"He is a great dad to her when he is with her," Hunter writes.
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6 cups chicken broth, divided
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1 pound portobello mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 pound white mushrooms, thinly sliced
2 shallots, diced
1/2 cups Arborio rice
1/2 cup dry white wine
sea salt to taste
freshly ground black pepper to taste
3 tablespoons finely chopped chives
4 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
In a saucepan, warm the broth over low heat.
Warm 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir in the mushrooms, and cook until soft, about 3 minutes. Remove mushrooms and their liquid, and set aside.
Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to skillet, and stir in the shallots. Cook 1 minute. Add rice, stirring to coat with oil, about 2 minutes. When the rice has taken on a pale, golden color, pour in wine, stirring constantly until the wine is fully absorbed. Add 1/2 cup broth to the rice, and stir until the broth is absorbed. Continue adding broth 1/2 cup at a time, stirring continuously, until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is al dente, about 15 to 20 minutes.
Remove from heat, and stir in mushrooms with their liquid, butter, chives, and parmesan. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Chelan hospital to take another run at building new facility
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CHELAN — The Lake Chelan Community Hospital will try once again this November to win voter approval of a $19 million bond to replace its aging facility with a new $31 million hospital.
Hospital commissioners last week voted unanimously to go back to voters with the same plan that failed two years ago. As with the last proposal, the new hospital would be nearly twice the size of the current facility, and would be built on 12 acres in the Apple Blossom Center, which the hospital district bought in 2009.
When the bond request failed in August 2012, 57 percent of voters favored it, but a 60-percent favorable vote was needed. The hospital board hopes for a higher voter turnout by putting it on November's general election ballot, said hospital CEO Kevin Abel.
Abel said coming back to voters because it's the only responsible thing to do.
The plan includes borrowing money with the hospital's debt capacity, relying on the hospital foundation and grants, and asking voters for less than two-thirds of the cost.
"We had a financial analysis done by an accounting firm to see if there was any other way to do it," he said. "This is the best way to get the project done."
Abel said that the community has grown over the last four decades, and the 42-year-old hospital is no longer meeting the needs of the community.
"The facility has a number of serious issues," he said. They can't fit wheelchairs in bathrooms on the lower floor. Heating and cooling systems need replacing. And the hospital needs private rooms instead of semi-private ones for better infection control.
"We also feel it's very important to physician-recruiting to had adequate facilities," he said.
Abel said in addition to the community's medical needs, a new hospital is important to its economic vitality.
As one of Chelan's top employers, the hospital must survive into the future to continue to benefit the community, he said.
Attempting to engage the community in the effort, the hospital has been hosting a series of presentations on the proposal. Additional community forums are being planned, and community groups are encouraged to call to arrange a presentation for their meetings or gatherings.
Abel said the hospital board is hoping that with more community conversations and awareness, the bond to build a new hospital will be successful.
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Mississippi Department of Education officials will hold a live-shooter exercise Saturday at Overstreet School as part of the organization's school safety training initiative.
The exercise is closed to the public and will occur throughout the day, MDE school safety spokesman Don Criswell said.
Exercises of this nature are held annually in multiple locations throughout the state and used to train school resource officers for worst-case scenarios, he said. Approximately 22 SROs are expected to attend the training session.
Overstreet School is the home of three Starkville School District initiatives: an alternative school for Oktibbeha County School District and SSD students, the Accelerators Program for Armstrong Middle School students and the city school district's GED program.
Saturday's exercise was scheduled well before — and is not a response to — the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Criswell said. MDE has held about five similar training sessions in the past two months in different regions of the state.
"Our school resource officers are required to attend these annual refresher courses," he said. "The entire exercise will take place inside the building."
Officials from Starkville Police Department, Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Department, OCH Regional Medical Center and county E-911 services said their organizations will not actively participate in the exercise.
Earlier this month, MDE officials said the state school system began reviewing policies and training requirements related to school safety.
Shane McNeil, a school safety director with MDE, said the organization is exploring possible expansions to minimum safety requirements for all Mississippi public schools. MDE officials have not announced a timetable for completing the study.
"We're looking at all possibilities to … maximize all resources to ensure every child remains safe at school," McNeil said Jan. 4. "Every school is required to have a safety plan. That plan has to be approved by local school boards on an annual basis. The Department of Education provides a template for the development of those plans, but (school officials) should be meeting with local authorities and making unique plans."
Any proposed changes will be reviewed and could be approved through the State Board of Education, he said, thereby becoming part of minimum safety requirements.
"We're just trying to be as proactive as possible to ensure compliance with existing policies as well as reviewing additional policies to expand current school safety measures," he said Jan. 4.
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7 Days To Getting Ripped, And Laid!
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So… have you been enjoying your summer?
You look a little pudgy, bro. You been eating a few burgers?
Yeah, I could tell. How was your family reunion? Sure, I love noodle salad too. Did you leave some for anyone else? Haha, I'm just kidding.
Wait. Did you say 17 beers?? Who drinks that much? Seriously?
Haha, yeah, I can see you've laid off the cardio a little bit. It kinda sucks though. I mean, you worked all year for a beach body and now it's ruined one week before you're planning to go to… the beach.
But it may not be too late. Check this out…
Today I've got a guest post from Jesse Burdick. A powerlifter with elite totals in four different weight classes, he's become a master of manipulating his weight without losing strength. He's also a disciple of Kiefer, the brain behind the Carb-Backloading phenomenon I've written about so much lately.
Here's Jesse's 7-day plan to get you lean and cut again, and it is simple as can be. You just need the testicular fortitude to stick with it. Commit to it before your next shirtless occasion and you can undo a lot of damage in a short time. (Girls, this will work for you too—and don't be afraid to go shirtless yourselves.)
7 Days to Getting Ripped (And Getting Laid!)
By Jesse Burdick
So you finally got invited to Suzie Fits-Nice-N-Tight's summer bash and BBQ, huh? Congrats. Think we are gonna roll in soft?
Time bring out the big guns and walk in with your biceps set to stun. No half-assed effort here or you'll ruin everything. Do it or don't.
Day 1, 3, and 5: fasted cardio in the morning.
Intervals. 30–60 seconds all-out effort followed by 4–4:30 minutes at a recovery pace. Repeat 5 times, 6 if needed (or she is really hot).
Stick with your normal weight workouts and do them either hours after the cardio or on days in between.
Days 1–6.5 (the second half of the sixth day will be different)
Eat protein and fat foods at all meals.
7 a.m. Bacon and eggs with a side of bacon
10 p.m. Steak and eggs with a side of bacon
1 p.m. Bacon-wrapped chicken breast
4 p.m. Bacon-wrapped salmon fillets
7 p.m. until snoring. Cottage cheese and almonds
[[Can you tell Burdick is a man who likes his bacon?]]
Post workout you will eat only protein and veggies. There's no room for carbs here because you need to lean out fast, and any blood sugar spike is going to slow down your ability to burn fat.
A note about caffeine. Feel free to abuse the hell out of coffee, energy drinks, and anything else you need to keep your eyes open and on the prize. A lot of the time when doing something like this, all you can think of is that next Starbucks fix when all you need is a quick bite to eat. So, keep that in mind after you have chewed off your fingernails and your nose is bleeding by 2 in the afternoon on Day 4.
Day 6.5–7
From 5 p.m. until you pass out it's time to toss it back again. Get after it and shove all those beautiful carbs right into your muscles. Rice, pasta, and potatoes.
Tomorrow night, when you are fist pumping, everyone will be in awe of your awesomeness.
Check out more of Jesse's stuff at Powerwod.com


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(Ski) Floyd Chilton, PhD is a full professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest University. Dr. Chilton heads a major Research Center sponsored by the National Institutes of Health established to study the relationship between omega-3 & omega-6 fatty acids, genetics, and inflammatory disease. The Center for Botanical Lipids and Inflammatory Disease Prevention at Wake Forest Baptist Health (www.mydietaryfats.org) is a collaboration between Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Wake Forest and University of Colorado. Dr. Chilton is also Senior Associate Director for Research for the Program for Complementary and Integrative Medicine. Dr. Chilton holds 32 issued and 17 pending patents and has authored or co-authored 120 scientific articles and book chapters. Dr. Floyd Chilton has also written several eating healthy books promoting an science-based anti-inflammatory diet plan, including Inflammation Nation, Win the War Within (Chilton Diet), and The Gene Smart Diet. Recently, Dr. Ski Chilton co-authored the Christian nutrition program Made to Crave Action Plan with NY Times Best selling author, Lysa Terkeurst. Dr. Chilton resides with his family in North Carolina.
Dr. Ski Chilton's research for the Gene Smart Anti Inflammatory Diet enabled him to begin to understand, for the first time, why our nation is suffering from an epidemic of inflammatory disease. Clearly, the standard American diet and lifestyle is making us very sick. It also helped Dr. Chilton to understand that science has provided the beginning of a strategy to reverse that epidemic—one that utilizes the most elegant solution possible: the body's own adaptive response system.
These are early days for this science; we're right on the edge of an extremely personalized era in nutrition and medicine. Dr. Chilton will be first in line to know precisely which foods he should choose and avoid, given the specific information encoded in his personal genome. But we don't have to wait for the science to advance in order to have a dramatic, life-changing, life-extending impact on our health.
We now know some of the ways that we can control the master health regulators that control wide swaths of genes determining whether we stay well or get ill, whether we grow old before our time or defy the clock. The levers we use to control the master regulators of our genes are the bioactives in our foods and exercise. Both things that we can control.
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Oh my, where do I even begin. The last couple weeks have been a crazy blur of birthday parties, snow, sunshine, taxes, and other random things I can't even remember. The last couple days have been a crazy blur of packing, last minute shopping trips, and planning one of the most exciting trips I will ever go on! This Sunday, my wonderful husband and I will be leaving for a 2 week adventure! The first 5 days, we will be hitting the Las Vegas strip to partake in one of the BIGGEST photography conferences of the year. We'll be attending workshops, meeting other amazing photographers, and making tons of memories! Not to mention, we will be getting photos taken of us by my favorite photography duo of all time! I can hardly contain my excitement! You'll definitely be seeing those pictures all over Facebook :) So if you would like to follow some of my adventures from Vegas, head over to Facebook because I'll be posting pictures of the bright lights all along the way. Then from Vegas, we are flying to Clearwater, Florida for some much needed relaxing beach and family time. Super stoked to walk on the beach barefoot and read books! AH!
So you won't be hearing from me here for at least another two weeks, but you better believe there will be a huge post recapping the trip! Also be looking forward to some amazing new website updates and other fun things upon my return! Wedding season is only 2 months away! Can you believe it?! But thank you all for your wonderful support and I can't do a blog post without some lovely photographs. So I'll be gracing you with some snapshots from my nephew Will's 1st birthday party! Gosh that kid. I can't handle his cuteness sometimes.
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The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East
June 17, 2013 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
A panel of experts shared their views on the current status of religious minorities in Middle East, especially in light of developments after the "Arab Spring," and provided strategies and recommendations for how these minorities can be protected.
Reform, Revolution or Status Quo? Regional Dynamics in a Changing Arab World (hosted at USIP)
June 12, 2013 // 10:00am — 11:30am
Some experts predicted that the "Arab Spring" rebellions would widen the strategic, political, and even ideological gap between Arab states undergoing dramatic change and those defending the status quo. In fact, no such clear breach has occurred. Instead, Dawisha argues that sectarian tensions and economic constraints have dampened the potentially "incendiary" effect of the Arab political revolts. Please join us at USIP for an engaging discussion on these dynamics in the Middle East with Dawisha, the State Department's Dafna Rand, and USIP's Daniel Brumberg.
Getting it Wrong: American Misperceptions of the Middle East
June 06, 2013 // 4:00pm — 5:00pm
The Middle East is a very confusing region. However well-intentioned, does the United States add to that confusion by injecting its own flawed assumptions and illusions into the mix? Join us for a discussion with seasoned Middle East experts.
The Arab Spring in Comparative Perspective
June 05, 2013 // 10:00am — 5:30pm
"The Arab Spring in Comparative Perspective: Dramatic Transitions in Recent Decades" conference took place on June 4th and 5th in Washington, D.C., co-organized by American University's School of International Service, the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars' Brazil Institute, Global Europe Program, Mexico Institute, and Middle East Studies Program. The aim of this initial workshop was to consider dramatic transitional experiences in Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, and Eastern Europe and included a series of panels examining specific facets of transitional experiences: constitutional developments (including democratic reforms); economic and social affairs; justice and human rights issues; the evolving experiences of women; external pressures and interventions. In each case, a commentator with expertise on the Middle East and North Africa was asked to reflect on the possible relevance of other "transitional" experiences to understanding the dynamics and prospects of the "Arab Spring." These reflections also served as the primary task of the workshop's concluding Round Table discussion.
The View from Israel: A Conversation with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
June 04, 2013 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
Rarely has there been a time where so many parts of the Middle East seem to be moving all at once. Civil war in Syria, the impact of the Arab Spring, the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and the Iranian nuclear issue all offer up challenges without quick or easy solutions. In this Director's Forum, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will share his views on these and other regional issues.
YaLa Young Leaders: A Palestinian and Israeli Discuss the Future
June 03, 2013 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Facebook has revolutionized the world and the Middle East, too. Join us for a presentation by two representatives of YaLa Young Leaders, a Middle East Facebook organization bringing Arabs, Israelis, and Turks together in virtual and direct contact designed to breakdown old stereotypes and promote a new dialogue based on mutual respect and dignity.
Egypt: Political Challenges for the Youth Movement
May 24, 2013 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Egypt's young generation played an important role in the country's revolution, and they continue to be a political force. Nabulsi, an activist and organizer in the revolution who was shot multiple times, will discuss the future of the youth movement in Egypt.
Iran: The Battle for the Presidency
May 23, 2013 // 12:30pm — 1:30pm
Iran's Council of Guardians will announce the list of candidates for the next president of Iran on May 22-23. Our panel of experts discusses the candidates, their platforms, and their likely impact on future domestic and foreign policy.
Syria's Humanitarian Crisis: A Briefing by Marianne Gasser
May 22, 2013 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
More than two years after the onset of the conflict in Syria, the humanitarian toll continues to grow. With estimates of 4 million Syrians displaced internally, and another 1.2 million seeking refuge in neighboring countries, the impact on civilians continues.
Getting to a Two State Solution: A Regional Perspective
May 15, 2013 // 10:00am — 11:30am
Twenty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, Secretary of State John Kerry—the latest in a series of U.S. envoys—is embarked on a serious effort to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. How will recent elections in Israel and the resignation of Prime Minister Fayyad influence his prospects? What about the impact of the Iranian nuclear issue and the civil war in Syria? Join us for a discussion with four regional experts with long experience in government, diplomacy, and national security affairs.


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Breakthrough Will Eliminate "Need" To Destroy Human Embryos, Ethicist Hopes
Washington D.C., (CNA).- Two teams of Chinese researchers reported a medical breakthrough this morning, creating living mice from connective tissue that had been reverted to its embryonic state, a development that may eliminate the "need" to destroy human embryos for research.
Researchers accomplished this by first inducing the cells from the connective tissue to revert back to their embryonic state. This feat was first achieved two years ago, however researchers had never been successful in creating new living animals from these "induced pluripotent stem" (iPS) cells, raising questions about their developmental potential.
Results published today by the online journals "Nature" and "Cell Stem Cell" answer those questions, as scientists have shown that the iPS cells truly do function identically to embryonic stem cells. This proves that like embryonic stem cells, iPS cells are pluripotent, or able to develop into any type of cell, rather than simply multipotent, as adult stem cells are, only able to develop into a limited number of cells.
Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, neuroscientist, staff ethicist, and director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, explained to CNA that the breakthrough offers hope that iPS cells may be effective in providing an ethically acceptable alternative to human embryonic stem cell research.
"This procedure does not require the destruction of human embryos," Fr. Pacholczyk
said. "Therefore, it is certainly preferable to embryonic stem cell research."
"Nature" reports how researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University successfully produced 27 live offspring, while the National Institute of Biological Sciences produced four. Some of the mice have successfully mated to produce hundreds of second and third generation mice, however some of the first-generation mice had abnormalities.
Due to these abnormalities and the large number of failures necessary to produce a few successes, scientists argued that the experiments were too dangerous to attempt on humans.
Pacholczyk stressed that such procedures would also be ethically unacceptable. "You would run into exactly the same set of concerns that human closing raises," he told CNA, explaining that such procedures were acceptable when applied to animals, but "absolutely unethical" for humans.
While the process used to create the mice is technically different from cloning, both yield an organism that is genetically identical to its cell donor. The Catholic Church opposes this artificial creation of life when applied to human beings.
However, while it cannot be ethically used to create new humans, iPS cells offer hopes for the ethical treatment of human diseases and other ailments.
In the realm of medicine, where the goal is not to create a new human being but to development treatment for an illness, iPS cells would provide an ethical alternative to processes that use embryonic stem cells, destroying human embryos in the process. ::MORE
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The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) announced that as at 5pm today (December 3), about 37,000 free admission tickets, i.e. about 55 per cent of the total, for the exhibition on China's First Spacewalk Mission to be held at the Hong Kong Science Museum have been distributed.
The spokesman for LCSD said that distribution of a total of 66,600 tickets started off at 8am today at nine LCSD's venues. He reminded the public that the box offices of these nine venues would close at 9pm today.
The nine ticket distribution venues are:
- Hong Kong City Hall
- Hong Kong Central Library
- Hong Kong Central Centre
- Hong Kong Science Museum
- Sha Tin Town Hall
- Tsuen Wan Town Hall
- Kwai Tsing Theatre
- Tuen Mun Town Hall, and
- Yuen Long Theatre
If there is any remaining ticket after the distribution today, members of the public may get them from the Hong Kong Science Museum starting from tomorrow.
The spokesman added that audience of the exhibition, upon the presentation of a ticket, will receive a special display pamphlet and a sticker. The pamphlet contains detailed explanation on highlight exhibits and is illustrated with rare photographs taken during the spacewalk mission.
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Steak and Blue Pizza!
Our new New Year's Day tradition…pizza from Uncle Maddio's! Ciao Maddio!!
Stuffed Bell Peppers!
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Lily The Snuggler
The Kevin Lewis Band!
Not too long ago, we had the pleasure to see The Kevin Lewis Band perform at a club close to our home. Kevin is a former business colleague of Stephanie's. If you get the chance to see Kevin and his band, take advantage of it. Twas a great show!
Our First Visit To The Farm Mobile!
Today was the first time we remembered to visit Riverview Farms and their Farm Mobile, which parked just down the street near Sprig and Stephanie's gym. Here are a few quick shots! We picked up some great chops, as well as some farm fresh organic squash!
10 Ways The Nike+ FuelBand Are Changing Behaviors!
Stephanie and I have had the Nike+ FUELBAND for 36 hours now.
It is eye opening.
It makes you realize how few Americans are living an active lifestyle.
But, I will be honest, it is amazing how it is changing our behaviors after just one day.
Here's ten to wit:
1. I walk the dogs a little longer now. This is a win for Shiloh and Lily.
2. I check the mail box a lot more often now.
3. To be really careful unloading groceries, I only carry one bag at a time. This leads to more trips, but worth it to protect the eats…
4. I dance with Shiloh a lot more than I used to. Shiloh loves to dance… She loves Nirvana…
5. When on business phone calls, I walk around the house a lot more than I used to. Now, poor Stephanie has to mute her TV when I do laps around the living room…
6. I resent my long, lanky, thin leg shanks. My stride is a lot longer than Stephanie…. so I don't quite get as many "steps per day" as she does…
7. I now happily respond to when Stephanie says (re: the dogs): "Should we take them out?"
8. I was already doing this, but I park farther away from the front door to the store…or on the top floor of the parking garage at my studio, and take the stairs. This makes me walk a little further. Which is good exercise. And good for my car, in that idiots won't bang their door on mine…
9. Spending a lot of time on my laptop and iPad all day, the FUELBAND reminds me to get up and move around a bit more…
10. The FUELBAND makes you appreciate active chores around the house… doing dishes, doing laundry, taking garbage outside, poop scoop duty, yard maintenance…. it all counts!
The biggest eye opener about the Nike+ FUELBAND? The realization at how lazy too many Americans are….
I hit my first goal yesterday of 3,000 Nike+ Fuel (as seen in the graphic above). It took active movement all day long, but it wasn't too difficult…
So, get off your butt, and get moving!
It's A Simple (Running) Plan, Really…
A friend asked what special diet I was on to lose 8 pounds in two weeks.
"Special diet," I asked? "There's no special diet."
What Stephanie and I are doing is simple. We are exercising regularly, and watching our caloric intake.
Simple. No fancy science. No whacked diet plan.
For me, I do a distance run every other day. An early training regimen for my next half-marathon (which will lead to my first marathon). Stephanie does some combination of weight training and cardio at a local gym down the street six days a week.
Then, we watch what we eat. We use Livestrong's MyPlate to track calories.
We key in our height, age, and current weight…specify how much weight we want to lose a week, and boom: MyPlate gives us a daily calorie goal.
The hard part is managing food intake so that we don't exceed our calorie goals.
And obviously, on days we exercise, we can consume more calories. Nice little motivation to exercise I must say…inspires me to take one of the dogs out for an extra walk just to budget a few more calories…
So, that's it. Nothing fancy. Nothing technical. The hard part…the really hard part, is sticking…
Sticking with it long-term. And that's where most people fail. And Lord knows that's gotten me many times over the years.
But not this time…


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Super Slim Cigarettes – Silk Cut's Sneaky Marketing Tactics
Tobacco firms are employing sneaky marketing ploys to target the teenage girl market. Silk Cut have come under scrutiny for applying a "Super Slim" message to their cigarettes. This faux branding doesn't stop there. They will release their superslims in new packaging which resembles a perfume box. It's pretty sick to be honest. Although with tobacco advertising restrictions it's hardly surprising. It even makes sense to create an almost viral effect where the news is documented on The Independent. No such thing as bad publicity comes to mind.
It's not the first time tobacco companies have tried to link smoking to weight loss. There's always been a worry that giving up smoking leads to weight gain. These thought processes need to be broken. Although it's true you're more likely to a gain a few pounds from quitting… it's much more important to think of the benefits:
- You'll have a reduced risk of cancer and heart disease
- You won't smell of ciggies
- Your sense of smell and taste will be heightened
- You're more likely to attract love interest!
- More money in the pocket
For those that still think smoking is cool should have a look at the lovely ingredients in Silk Cut's cigarettes. Mmmm mmmm.
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- 1 Florian { 11.04.08 at 3:08 pm }
!!! STOP SMOKING with Champix/Chantix !!!
few days ago I decided to stop smoking with the help of Champix. It's been about 20 years I smoke a pack a day (20) or more… I wanted to and fully agree with how much it cost to me to smoke and that it is so harmful to people around me this for smokers or none smokers. I tried a few times in the past and finally gave up trying as my in serroundings were smokers and i was always tempted to get "just a last one", then I was starting over again… about three years ago I became a father and my son had RS and quite sensitive to cold and what ever was in the air… still smoker i decided to not smoke inside the house anymore and prefer to go freezing on the balcony rather than smoking in or stop simply, but even the door of the living room, same for his bedroom upstairs were closed and me outside, a simple air draft in with and tiny little amount of smoke going in and immediately my son was coughing again. So I scealled air tight the doors and still… the smoke was bothering him… (for the record, some particles are the thinnest and of the most harmful of all smokes and hardly can be filtered)
last week I asked my doctor if he had a magic pill to give me so I stop this crap with no effort at all… I asked him about this new brain pill "Champix" that is supposed to cut off the addiction on nicotine. At first I almost had the impression he didn't want me to, which I did find weird as himself were hospitalized for lungs problems due to the use of cigaret. In fact this was to tell me there is no miracle recipe to stop smoking, that this is all in your head… indeed it is so I answered, it is so call addiction, and I need something to help as I could find enough strength to do it by myself even though the will was there for so long… I think I need a little help to achieve the act, to take the step, to do it, to stop doing it… I finally went out with the holly paper to head straight to the pharmacy.
It took me a little while to start as I still had a few packs available in the house. But the doctor said I should stop straight away starting the pill, and that it would feel almost natural not to smoke one … was this the magic effect I was looking for? Well I just kept on smoking during the first week of the two week long treatment. First pills I felt a little strange and noticed driving was a bit dangerous… then I was smoking normally like if I was taking nothing, after the three first days still no change in the effect, the fourth the dosage increases but still not much effect but on the fifth day cigarets start to make me feel a bit sick, and the urge to get one was becoming less intense compares to what it was before without the treatment but still fairly smokable. A week into the treatment, the pills change color… I guess the dosage goes up… the cigaret feels weirder and the need to light one vanishes drastically, but the vision of the brand new cigaret packs is still tempting. I rejected it and took the bicycle to go around the block and rush to bed to fall asleep not to take the cigaret I was already seeing myself smoking at the window. Day nine in the treatment, I wake up and just take a breakfast and only 2 hours later i have a first thought about a cigaret but really light. What a difference compares to before when first thing in the morning was having one. Still five days to go in the treatment. But around midday something really bothered me and made me upset. Old reflexes taking over I took a cigaret and started to pump on it like before… damn I felt nauseous, so nauseous that I had to go lie down two hours on my coach to sleep the feeling away, then went out to walk leaving the tempting cigaret packs behind for the whole day. It has now been eleven days I started this, it is now Monday, still 4 days to go before the end of the pills and I decided to go to work without cigarets, the smell in my car is terrible, so I drive windows open with my coat on, end of September is fresh so early but I feel OK and very much awake. I am stuck in the traffic where I normally smoke a lot, but no need this morning, go sign for the rest of the day to come. Now it is 13h00 of my first day with no smoking at all. So far so go, I went to a cigaret break with a colleague and didn't feel tempted… well, it was easy to resist. I am frustrated, I wanted to share my enthusiasm with a none smoker, but not knowing how difficult stopping really is, the guy just went "so what?"…
Lousy none smokers' attitude… you should be encouraging smokers to stop… not rejecting them, but making them proud to go your direction. I hope this one will get hocked on drugs someday so I can show as less interest in his effort if he tries to stop (of course I course I don't wish he will ever do that… but just to say I felt he was having no empathy at all… WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE!!!). OK … I think I am still a bit touchy/jumpy to some level… let's see what tomorrow will feel like. I came home tonight after work and this left over cigaret pack was looking at me saying "take me take me…" so i ignored it for a while and after dinner when I saw it again, I took one and light it up… I felt nothing, it tasted like nothing, I thought to myself, why the hell this thing followed me for twenty years? After three puffs I felt it was useless and through it away.
Last night I had trouble sleeping, the Doctor warned me about possible freaky dreams, indeed… I dreamt about something really weird… what an horrible feeling! It was so real! My girlfriend said I was crying… I woke up breathing very fast and almost couldn't fall back to sleep. It is now day time, I felt no need to light one, nor before nor after breakfast and at work I didn't feel any need to take a break but I went anyway to grab an orange juice… now, that sounds healthier! ;~)
A few weeks have passed, my colleagues smokers are not inviting me for breaks anymore, even if i do not give a damn about cigarets anymore… is it because i do not smoke anymore that people think I am not social anymore…? now I really do think it stinks very bad and that it is a pure lake of respect to others to smoke, i understand the point of the none smokers, it stinks when you smoke it and after … 10 minutes after a smoker passed in a corridor and it still stinks so bad. Smoking should be banned, totally! I am a bit extreme here … but it is true.
6 weeks I stopped totally, I had a difficult time when my body started to reject the crap from my lungs, and still does… but i feel already so much better, that i really do not regret my decision.
Smokers you should all try this, you might love the result, your kids will for sure and everyone else around you. OK, like me you may become a bit annoying about it, well this is all the bad I wish you then.
My conclusion is that Champix or Chantix really "works" I would say help, and my 50 Euros investment is already covered… but forget about patches, do you quite an addiction by feeding it by other means?… just do it … it is not so hard, really
- 2 nellie { 02.28.10 at 1:06 am }
has anyone ever stopped to consider that these cigarettes are in fact 'slimmer' than the standard uk cigarette and not referring to weight loss?, in much the same way that 'king-size' and 'superkings' do not imply that by smoking such a cigarette will make you the size of a king!!! i look at it this way, if the government is that bothered by cigarettes… get rid of them!!! ah but then 'UK – PLC' would stand to lose some £30 million in lost tax… then we've all got to foot that bill!!!, no-one should not dictate to me what i should and shouldn't do, unless of course it's against the law!!! COME ON PEOPLE… GET A GRIP!!!! find something useful to do instead of harrassing us!!!
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Well, I don't know you, so I can't say for sure, but often feelings like this come from insecurity.
I mean, you say that you thought you'd like it, which suggests that you don't have a problem with girls having sex with other girls.
So my guesses are that it could be related to:
1. A lot of people have a problem with their girlfriend or boyfriend having previous partners because a) they didn't get to be the first; b) they worry that the other person may have pleasured their girlfriend/boyfriend better/they worry that their partner compares them to the other person
2. Related to my last point, believing the myth that girls know how to please each other better than guys do because "they know what women want". I call this a myth because all girls like different things, so just being a girl doesn't mean you'll know what another girl wants. In fact, it may have the opposite effect; a girl might assume she knows what another girl likes instead of finding out what she actually likes. I've had sex with both men and women, and their biological sex has not been an indicator of how good they are in bed.
3. Believing the myth that bisexual people are "slutty", sex-crazed, nonmonogamous or cheaters (since they won't be satisfied with being with only one sex) - I wrote an article about this topic here: link , if you're interested.
All of these things are just speculation, of course. If you want to know what's going on with you, you need to take some time to really think about WHY it bothers you. I would also urge you to think about how this would make her a different person---she's still the same person she always has been, with all the same good qualities that make you like her. She hasn't changed at all, there is just another piece of information that you now know about her. And does the fact that she's had sex with a girl before make her a bad person?
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I know how you feel.. I dated a guy once, and then I found out he was bi... and for some reason I just sort of felt really weird about that. I don't have anything against anyone who is bi, or gay, or whatever, but I guess I just didn't want to be with someone who was bi, it felt too strange to me. *shrug*
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The outlook for modern-day Latin American women has changed. They work, look after the kids and are more independent. In the past 20 years, they have fully integrated themselves into the workforce and contributed to the region's economic growth. Read More »
HEALTH REFORM PROGRAM (First Phase: Mother and Child Insuranceand Decentralization of Health Services)
The medium-term goals of the 10-year Health Reform Program Project are to: a) improve maternal and child health; and b) help reduce morbidity and deaths of the poor from communicable diseases and inad... Show More +
Date: December 16, 1999
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- Premium Points is an initiative where our Empowered Agents collect Premium from the policy holders and issue final receipts from their own offices.
- On similar lines, senior business Associates from among our Development officers are also collecting premium from the policy holders.
- As on date nearly 6000 agents and 400 senior business associates are empowered to collect premium.


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With a history of pioneering education and research, the University of Liverpool is one of the UK's top 20 research-led universities with 23,000 students. Founded in 1881 with the establishment of University College Liverpool, The University of Liverpool was one of the first civic universities in Britain.
Founded in 1898, international postgraduate centre of excellence, devoted to research, education, training and consultancy. The world's first School of Tropical Medicine, discovered that Malaria could be passed by mosquito bite.
With 24,000 students, the university was founded in 1825. Ranked in the top 20 universities nationwide and number one in the North West for its impactful research.
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Finally, I had all my ducks in a row and I flew down to Shadowmoon to visit the trainer. I hand over my 12g and get ready to craft. But what's this? My flying machine recipe doesn't say (1). Apparently they changed the mats on it at some point. Unfortunately for me I had already made the fel iron toolbox weeks ago - what am I going to do with it now??? So I had to send Krystella back to the Auction House to buy some adamantite bars. Very annoying!!
At any rate, I finally got my flyer put together and set out to explore. I donned by ultra-spectroscopic goggles and toodled around looking for gas clouds. I managed to find a few and collect a primal's worth of shadow motes, here is me looking for shadow motes in my new flyer:
Then I decided to move on to Nagrand. It was early in the evening (for me) so there wasn't much in the way of windy clouds. I did manage to find a couple though, here's a shot of me hunting for windy clouds:
After that I went to Zangarmarsh to farm water motes, but I won't bore you guys with another screen shot =)
I have to say that I really enjoyed this flyer vs. the other flying mounts in WoW. It sounds like a clunky old engine, sputtering and chugging when you fly around. Every time you land or change altitude it makes appropriate grinding or crashing noises, it's very cute. I think they did a great job with the animations and the audio effects. For those engineers out there who somehow didn't make a flying machine yet, I highly recommend it!


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The Bachelor
Chris Harrison to Ryan Seacrest: Michelle Money's Exit Was "Terrible"
What should you do with a crazy hot chick used to getting her own way? You kick her arse to the curb!
"The problem with hot women," Bachelor Rosemaster Chris Harrison told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show on Tuesday, "is they can get away with a little bit more, and I think [Michelle Money] knows that. And I think she's the type of girl that is used to getting her way, and having so many girls around, having to compete, and then having Brad finally kind of call her on it was kind of interesting."
Ryan described Michelle as someone for whom "the elevator ain't always going to the top floor." He and Chris both disliked how the otherwise, uh, vocal woman shut down during her goodbye.
"It was almost anticlimactic," Chris said. "Her exit last night, it was almost a rude exit; she just really wouldn't talk to him." Why the silent night? "I think she was surprised that Brad didn't fall for her charms and fall for her game, and I think her game usually works on guys and it fell apart."
Chris shared something we didn't see on air — but did see in one of the previews: "As soon as it was over, [Brad] looked at the camera and he's like, 'that was a terrible goodbye. You know it, she knows it, I know it.'"
"I thought it was very honest," Chris said. "That's what you're left thinking last night, is that this was a terrible exit. After all that time she should have had the wherewithal and the heart to talk it out or say something instead of hopping in the limo."
What do you think? Did Michelle make a terrible exit or was that her one classy moment of the season?
Source: People


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The classic site Punished Heroines is back, and along with it is Rye's Best of Both Worlds featuring a brand new model, new costume, and lots of the type of physical punishment and sexual abuse that made Punished Heroines such a popular site in the first place. Check out the screen caps and description below!
Heroine – Superior Girl
Main Villain – Ro'gash
Sub Villains – Calista and Superia
Types of Peril in no particular order
– Low blows
– Belly punching
– Bondage
– Forced Orgasms
– Orgasm denial
– Mind Control
– Male and Female bear hugs
– Two vs one fights
– Simulated sex
– back breakers
Running time: 26:50
This movie features our newest actress Natasha, Ashley Rose, and Carly Quin! Below I will give you a very detailed account of what happens in this movie plus some screen caps.
After disposing of earth primes Superior Girl he is tracked by another Superior from his home dimension. What was only seconds for SG turns out to be years for Ro'gash allowing him to mind control both Superia and Calista to work for him.
This incarnation of Superior Girl is barely 18 years old and Ro'gash makes sure to point this out as it excites Calista since superheroines can be weakened by sexual humilation in this realm. Superior Girl is unaware of this weakness…
Superia, unimpresed by the smaller version of her sister, quickly learns she is a force to be reckoned with. Superior Girl proves to be physically more than Superia can handle so of course Calista is ordered to assist. With a nice spanking to her ass Superior Girl is distracted enough for Superia to pumel her while Calista locks up her arms.
Ro'gash uses his powers to probe her mind in an attempt to convice Superior Girl that she isn't strong enough to break free from Calista's grasp. This works long enough for the young heroine to take a serious beating from Superia but one dodged blow knocks Calista back and frees Superior Girl from Ro'gash's mind control.
Calista is tossed into Superia who is ordered to transform and attack with full strength but she is still bested by Superior Girl who dominates the fight. Ro'gash grows tired of watching Superia fail and sends a green meteor charged blast into Superior Girl knocking both heroines back into a wall. Superior recovers rather fast and Ro'gash signals Calista who radiates green meteor particles from her hand while Ro'gash blasts her again.
Superia jumps on this opportunity and devistates Superior girl with a barrage of shots to her face and stomach. Ro'gash again uses his powers to probe SG and intensifies SG's weakness to sexual humiliation. Calista rejoins the fight and beings to fondle the young heroine lifting her dress and exposing her silk panty covered crotch. Ro'gash can barely contain himself and his hands find their way all over her body.
Ro'gash senses that the leader of the Amazons has sent her daughter to interfere so he orders Superia to stop her leaving Superior Girl alone with Ro'gash and Calista. Ro'gash knows that if she transforms into a full powered Superior Girl she will be trapped in this realm which is exactly what he wants. Ro'gash goes on the offensive and levels SG with all sorts of attacks that force her to transform!
Superior Girl now in her uniform nails Ro'gash and tosses him which reminds her of their first encounter that drove him into hiding. Unfortunately he was playing possum and reveals that he is simply to powerful for her in this dimension and he punishes SG while copping several feels all over her body.
Ro'gash holds Superior Girl while he commands Calista to use her magic to force SG to orgasm. Though Superior Girl is pure and still a virgin she knows that if forced into uncontrollable sexual bliss she will lose her mind to Ro'gash forever. Calista sends energy into her breasts and crotch but Superior is able to resist the pleasure moving through her body. Ro'gash feels she is still to strong and teleports her into a green meteor laced wall of bondage that not only saps away her strength but breaks down her costume.
Calista gives it another try and trys to rub Superior Girl into orgasm. She comes close but Superior is still able to resist her masterful touch. Ro'gash and Calista double team her body with roaming hands but are still unsuccessful in making her cum. Frustrated he orders Calista to bring the heroine buster from Damions lab and Superior Girl's eyes go wide as such a device would never exist in her own dimension.
Superior is overwhelmed by the intense vibration on her virgin crotch and begins to lose control of herself. Her eyes roll back and her body begins to betray her mind with wave after wave of pleasure. Superior musters all of her will power and fights back the orgasm with all of her remaining strength. Damions pleasure device begins to smoke and overheat from as its never been tested by such a power herone before. It eventually shuts down leaving Ro'gash back at square one.
Enraged he teleports SG to the ground and Punishes her again to remove any remaing fight she has. Once satisfied he pins SG on the ground, removes her panties and slowly pumps his way in. SG knows she can't fight the feeling much longer and then Ro'gash takes her from behind which is more than SG can handle.
Superior Girl cums wildly over and over while Ro'gash is relentless thrusting her hips back and forth. She cums so hard that Ro'gash now has control over when she comes and he proves it by making her cum on demand!
A defeated Superior Girl is tossed to the ground and Calista is ordered to clean her up before the ritual…


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2012 is expected to see the recovery of consumption of olive oil and butter, due to reductions in unit prices. The health trend is also manifested in this category, with important volume growth of 18% expected in 2012 for reduced-fat butter, which is taking consumers away from margarine, as it is perceived as a healthier product.
Oils and Fats in Spain report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2008-2012, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they new product developments, distribution or pricing
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Once a source of ridicule, a curious structure known as a quasicrystal has earned its discoverer, Daniel Shechtman of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, this year's Nobel prize in chemistry.
Materials with this structure are relatively new to science, and still something of a mathematical curiosity. But they have already found uses in steel armour, non-stick frying pans and devices in cars for recycling waste heat into electricity.
Back in 1982, Shechtman's claim to have discovered such a substance provoked so much controversy and ridicule that his boss asked him to leave the lab where he chanced on the discovery, at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Shechtman's sin was to identify a crystal that broke a golden rule of chemical symmetry. His alloy of aluminium and manganese lacked an infinitely repeating base pattern, such as four atoms arranged as a cube. Instead, the atoms were arranged in a pattern that was orderly, but never repeated itself exactly.
Islamic inspiration
Eventually, it emerged that the atoms in the alloy were arranged like patterns called Penrose tiles, after mathematician Roger Penrose, who devised them in the mid-1970s.
Similar non-repeating patterns have since been identified in Islamic designs at the 14th-century Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain, and the 15th-century Darb-i Imam shrine in Isfahan, Iran. They also crop up in works by artists such as M. C. Escher.
Naturally quasi
Once Shechtman's discovery was accepted and his results published, other chemists began to discover crystals with other symmetries that had been assumed impossible. Finally, in 1992, the International Union of Crystallography rewrote its definition of crystals, a final vindication of Shechtman's observation, and a snub to his critics – including Linus Pauling, himself a double Nobel laureate.
The patterns were of mathematical interest too. The quasicrystal is related to the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding it, such as 1, 1, 2, 3 and so on. The terms in this sequence yield the "golden ratio" tau, and it turns out that tau governs the distances between atoms in quasicrystals.
In 2009, the first natural quasicrystal was discovered in samples from the Khatyrka river in eastern Russia. Named icosahedrite, it is a mineral consisting of aluminium, copper and iron.
Non-stick crystal
Quasicrystals have practical applications. They're hopeless at conducting heat, but because they convert it into electricity they are ideal as thermoelectric materials that can recycle heat. Automotive researchers are developing them for capturing waste heat in cars.
They are also a key components of a type of steel armour in which the rock-hard steel quasicrystals are embedded in a softer type of steel. In addition, they are being developed as non-stick materials for frying pans and as components in light-emitting diodes.
In a warning to establishment scientists, the academy highlighted the importance of Shechtman's originality. "Even our greatest scientists are not immune to getting stuck in convention," it says. "Keeping an open mind and daring to question established knowledge may in fact be a scientist's most important character traits."
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Some 40 local youth bands and dance groups will perform in the "Youth Band Marathon 2011" to be held at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza this Sunday (December 11) from 2pm to 7pm. Admission is free.
Two stages, "Move Stage" and "Hot Stage", will be set up in the Piazza, with Bell Ngan and Alex Lee as the emcees respectively. Local bands will play popular music, rock and pop, including their own pieces. There will also be dance groups performing breakdance, street dance, jazz funk dance and hip hop dance.
The organisers have also invited local music group SIU2 and the Hong Kong Parkour Association (HKPA) to be the guest performers. Presenting a novel experience of Hong Kong music with their original and unique style, SIU2's works create a new genre that fuses the modern and the traditional, as well as Chinese and Western elements. Parkour, also known as free-running, is a method of movement focused on moving around obstacles in one's environment with speed and efficiency.
"Youth Band Marathon 2011" is presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, with the Boys' & Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong, Caritas Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups and the Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association as programme partners. For more details, please visit the website:
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American Idol
Is Nicki Minaj American Idol's Most Feared Judge?
Ever since the news broke that Nicki Minaj would be joining the American Idol judges, we knew that she would be the most unpredictable. But with influential judges like Keith Urban and Mariah Carey also joining the judges panel, no one could have foreseen her being the judge most feared by contestants.
With the show moving out of the audition phase and into the top 10 though, all the contestants seems to have their own side eyes nervously focused on the judge who has become infamous for shooting side eyes at her fellow judges.
For superfans of the show, this is a welcome development. The critical void left by Simon Cowell was never truly filled by the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler or Kara Dioguardi. But, if the audition rounds have been any kind of indicator, Minaj may be more than capable of picking up the critical slack.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Country singer Janelle Arthur said despite being the judge's beloved "Marshmallow," she doesn't consider herself as a shoo-in to advance. "Even though I know Nicki loves me, I always know that she's looking for that certain thing that makes her love me. So when she doesn't see it, I know she's going to bring it up and she's going to say, 'What happened? I didn't see what I wanted to see,'" said Arthur. "She's also so unpredictable. I never know what she's going to do. So, yeah, I'm probably most apprehensive about her."
"She's always so honest — but it's so necessary," Burnell Taylor also commented. "I can always count on her when it comes to honesty."
Hopefully, Minaj can uphold this reputation because American Idol works when judges are feared rather than loved.


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Outward rotation of front legs?Posted by: Neil
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Posted on: November 01, 2002 at 13:44:18
Is the JRT breed prone to outward rotation (pronation, i think) of the front legs / feet? The front legs and feet of my 8mo old girl sure do rotate outward like duck-footed when she sits certain ways. When she stands, however she's more aligned and square. I've seen photos of jacks with the same appearance.
Also, she wheezes like an allergy wheeze. No harm done, unless it compromises her airway or happens more frequent?


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|January 25, 1999
What's New
Awards, Honors and Recognition
Awards, Honors and Recognition
What's New?
Heed the call
Beginning February 1 and continuing through March, 20 students will occupy Room 411 of Haggerty Administration Building from 3-7 p.m. on Sundays and 6-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. These courageous and dedicated agents of the 1999 Annual Fund Phonathon will be calling New Paltz alumni to ask for their support, with the goal of increasing the alumni participation rate to 18 percent by 2004. A multitude of projects are supported in this manner, including the student publications of departments and programs such as English, Journalism, Math, Art and the Writing Board; as well as lecture speakers; the Music Department's Hudson Valley Symposium; the English Department's Graduate Symposium; resources for the Sojourner Truth Library including books, encyclopedias and research software; classroom furniture and equipment such as the state-of-the-art writing, editing, and computing labs in Coykendall Science Building, Louis and Mildred Resnick Engineering Hall and the Honors Program Study Center; and various campus events such as "Celebrating the Sciences" and "New York Conference in Asian Studies" in 1998.
A message to New Paltz alumni in residence:
Interim Alumni Director Azita Miller (Class of '97) reminds us, "Student tuition and most state appropriations provide the 'barebones' funds necessary for faculty and staff salaries, heating and lighting of buildings, and vehicle and infrastructural maintenance, but do not provide the 'margin of excellence' which makes New Paltz an extraordinary institution. Less than 38 percent of the University's annual operating budget comes from state appropriations alone. Through alumni contributions, we can help our institution become even better. Please join me in reaffirming our commitment to our alma mater by donating to the 1999 Annual Fund Phonathon. Thank you for your consideration and best wishes for a happy and healthy new year."
Go the distance
Part-time and full-time faculty and professional staff members are eligible to apply for an International Study Award. This new program, introduced for a one-year trial period, provides opportunities to enhance teaching, research and service while strengthening existing international institutional relationships or creating new ones. Fellowships, valued at a maximum of $3,000, will be awarded competitively. Applications are due in the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs by March 1. If you have not received the International Study Awards application and guidelines, check with your department/division secretary.
Sojourner Truth Fellowships
The Graduate School is pleased to announce that a number of students in English; Fine Arts; and Special, Elementary, Secondary and ESL Education programs will receive Sojourner Truth Fellowships for the spring '99 semester. This resource for graduate students has been improving at a notable rate. Funding for these fellowships by the SUNY Graduate Research Initiative began in 1988 with six students and $25,000; today, the number of eligible students has increased at New Paltz and funding has more than tripled. Awards range from $1,000 to $5,000 and are available to outstanding full-time underrepresented minority graduate students. Qualified students are encouraged to contact the Graduate School at x3285 for additional information regarding Sojourner Truth Fellowships.
Awards, Honors, and Recognition
Harry Stoneback's (English) book of narrative poetry written in celebration of natural springs around the world, Singing the Springs, was featured in the "Books" section of the December 24 edition of Woodstock Times. The article's author, Susan Piperato, wrote, "This is a book of poetry not only to savor but to carry along while traveling, whether on international flights or trips on the highway to the foothills of the Shawangunks or even further, across state lines, in order to move beyond the standard and even obscure tourist destinations to discover the essence of the local people and their history submerged in their springs."
Kurt Matzdorf (Professor Emeritus, Gold and Silversmithing) was commissioned by The New York Public Library to create a President's Cup bearing the name of its current president, Paul LeClerc, which was presented at The Library's annual board meeting on November 18. The design of the sterling silver and 14-karat gold cup he created includes four low relief emblems representing the Library's research centers: Humanities; Schomburg; Science, Industry and Business; and Performing Arts. Eighty-five stars signifying the Library's branches have been engraved on the cup and a 14-karat gold inscription reads, "New York Public Library President's Cup." Funding for this work was given by Frederick Rose in honor of his wife Sandra Priest Rose, a Library trustee.
Matzdorf founded the Metals Program at SUNY New Paltz, where he taught from 1957 to 1985. His silverworks include 16 college and university maces, 20 presidential chains of office (New Paltz has both by Matzdorf), and 10 presidential medallions, as well as religious ceremonial works on display in 52 synagogues and temples in the U.S. His work has appeared in the permanent collections of several museums throughout the country and has been displayed in more than 125 exhibitions — both national and international invitationals - and has won numerous awards.
Publications: Papers, Studies and Statements
Alice Chandler (President Emerita), commissioned by the Washington-based American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), has developed a study, "Public Higher Education and the Public Good: Public Policy at the Crossroads," which addresses the historical role of higher education in society, and a statement, "Supporting the Public Benefits of Public Higher Education," with support from a task force of public higher education leaders and AASCU staff. According to Gay Clyburn, communications director and spokesperson for AASCU, the historical perspective of public higher education which Chandler's study provides enabled the development of the policy statement which offers recommendations to states, colleges and universities, the general public and the federal government, and appeals to Congress to provide reasonable financial aid to students from low- and middle-income families and stop recent funding trends toward student loans which often leave them with overwhelming debt.
William Rhoads (Art History) gave a talk titled "Exploring the Architectural Styles of Kingston Houses" for the Friends of Historic Kingston at the Fred J. Johnson Museum in December.
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