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Hi brother. I feel for you.I'll keep this short and simple, maybe we can discuss more later. I applaud you for trying to be strong. On the other hand, sometimes we're strongest when we admit to Him, "Lord, I want to please you. But I'm weak. I just can't do this without you. I surrender to you. I'm in your hands. Help me". A scripture that for me goes with this is, "present your bodies a living sacrifice..holy and acceptable to Him". For ME, one way to live that is to lay it all before Him, all of what I have in a situation before Him - on the altar (sacrifice). IMO, just in that there's obedience.Another verse that goes with that is, "in my weakness He is strong" [He shows HIS strength through/to us].A third one is, "it's doesn't depend on human will or effort, but on God who shows mercy". Rom. 9:16Then a fourth one that's related by extension (if we can see "poor" here to mean "without what our flesh wants") - Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor walking in his integrity, than the perverse in his lips, who is a fool.Blessings, and you'll be remembered in prayer. James.
from jabcat; I accidentally removed the following post from Tom, and am now replacing it here at the top of this post. Sorry Tom, was trying to remove something I posted and hit the button before I could catch it and stop it. One of the dangers of having the mod settings...sometimes too many buttons floating around. Post accidentally removed from Tom:Well, the first thing I've got tell you, brother, is that your woman needs to be a believer. The second thing is, if you're going to wait until money isn't tight to get married, you might be waiting a long time. The Greek "gune" means "woman" and "wife," and the Greek "epithumia" means "desire" and "lust." It is natural for males to desire females, but, if you want to act on that desire, you need to choose just one that isn't another man's wife. Don't get paranoid about the raging hormones. You just need to choose one female believer, and be faithful to her. Don't be getting yourself off either or you'll be depriving your woman of what is supposed to be hers. If you choose to remain unmarried, one of the fruits of the spirit is self-control. If you're dating a woman, you're going to want to consummate the relationship at some point. I don't do church anymore. So I'm not going to tell you get married there, but there are other options to make the marriage legal. The important thing is to do the right thing by your woman in the eyes of God. I'd say that means you should cherish her, provide for her, protect her, and remember that God is the source of love and has blessed you with the woman with whom to share love. Christ said we won't be marrying after we're resurrected. So, if you want to go for it, I'd say get it while you can."For in the resurrection neither are they marrying nor taking in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven." (Matthew 22:30)Speaking from experience, it's a blessing either way because, as I said, God is the source of love. In fact, God is love. It seems Anna and I have something in common in our past with "alcoholism and promiscuity," but I've been sober and celibate for years. And alcohol wasn't the only chemical I was addicted to. I learned to control my desire not through my own will power but through the power of the spirit of God. You can receive that power too through the word of God. Meditate on it daily, and you will find peace. "Now the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control" (Galatians 5:22,23)Here is some good advice from the word of God about marriage and celibacy. "1 Now, concerning what you write to me: It is ideal for a man not to be touching a woman.2 Yet, because of prostitutions, let each man have a wife for himself and each woman have her own husband.3 Let the husband render to the wife her due, yet likewise the wife also to the husband.4 The wife has not the jurisdiction of her own body, but the husband, yet likewise the husband also has not the jurisdiction of his own body, but the wife.5 Do not deprive one another, except sometime it should be by agreement for a period, that you should have leisure for prayer, and you may be the same again, lest Satan may be trying you because of your incontinence.6 Now this I am saying as a concession, not as an injunction.7 For I want all men to be as I myself also, but each has his own gracious gift from God, one indeed, thus, yet one thus.8 Now I am saying to the unmarried and the widows, that it is ideal for them if ever they should be remaining even as I.9 Yet if they are not controlling themselves, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be on fire.10 Now to the married I am charging, not I, but the Lord: A wife is not to be separated from her husband.11 Yet if she should be separated also, let her remain unmarried or be conciliated to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.12 Now to the rest am I speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she approves of making a home with him, let him not leave her.13 And a wife who has an unbelieving husband, and he approves of making a home with her, let her not leave her husband.14 For the unbelieving husband is hallowed by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is hallowed by the brother, else, consequently, your children are unclean. Yet now they are holy.15 Yet if the unbeliever is separating, let him separate. A brother or a sister is not enslaved in such a case. Now God has called us in peace.16 For of what are you aware, O wife -- will you be saving your husband -- or of what are you aware, O husband -- will you be saving your wife --17 except as the Lord parts it to each? Each as God has called him, thus let him be walking. And thus am I prescribing in all the ecclesias.18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not be de-circumcised. Is anyone called in uncircumcision? Let him not circumcise.19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the precepts of God.20 Each one in the calling in which he was called, in this let him be remaining.21 Were you called a slave? Let it not be causing you care. But if you are able to become free also, use it rather.22 For, in the Lord, he who is being called a slave, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, he who is being called, being free, is a slave of Christ.23 With a price are you bought. Do not become the slaves of men.24 Each one, in what he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.25 Now concerning the celibates or virgins, I have no injunction of the Lord. Yet an opinion am I giving, as one who has enjoyed mercy by the Lord to be faithful.26 I am inferring, then, this ideal to be inherent, because of the present necessity, for it is ideal for humanity to be thus.27 You are bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. You have been loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.28 Yet if you ever should be marrying, also, you did not sin. And if the virgin should be marrying, she did not sin. Yet affliction in the flesh will such be having. Yet I am sparing you.29 Now this I am averring, brethren, the era is limited; that, furthermore, those also having wives may be as not having them,30 and those lamenting as not lamenting, and those rejoicing as not rejoicing, and those buying as not retaining,31 and those using this world as not using it up. For the fashion of this world is passing by.32 Now I want you to be without worry. The unmarried one is solicitous about the things of the Lord, how he should be pleasing the Lord.33 Yet he who marries is solicitous about the things of the world, how he should be pleasing his wife,34 and is parted. The unmarried woman as well as the virgin: the unmarried one is solicitous about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body as well as in spirit, yet she who marries is solicitous about the things of the world, how she should be pleasing her husband.35 Now this I am saying for your own expedience, not that I should be casting a noose over you, but for that which is respectable and assiduous -- to be undistractedly for the Lord.36 Now if anyone is inferring it to be indecent for his virgin, if she should be over her meridian, and thus it ought to occur, what he will, let him do. He is not sinning. Let them marry.37 Yet he who stands settled in his heart, having no necessity, yet has authority as to his own will, and has decided this in his own heart (to be keeping his virgin) ideally will be doing.38 So that he also who is taking his virgin in marriage, ideally will be doing, yet he who is not taking out in marriage will be doing better.39 A wife is bound by law for whatever time her husband is living. Yet if the husband should be reposing, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.40 Yet happier is she if ever she should be remaining thus, according to my opinion. Now I presume that I also have God's spirit." (1 Corinthians 7:1-40)Some ladies don't like the fact that the word of God says the wife should be subject to the husband, but that's what it says about marriage even though there is no male and female in Christ. "For whoever are baptized into Christ, put on Christ, in Whom there is no Jew nor yet Greek, there is no slave nor yet free, there is no male and female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:27,28)"Now I want you to be aware that the Head of every man is Christ, yet the head of the woman is the man, yet the Head of Christ is God." (1 Corinthians 11:3)"22 Let the wives be subject to their own husbands, as to the Lord,23 for the husband is head of the wife even as Christ is Head of the ecclesia, and He is the Saviour of the body.24 Nevertheless, as the ecclesia is subject to Christ, thus are the wives also to their husbands in everything.25 Husbands, be loving your wives according as Christ also loves the ecclesia, and gives Himself up for its sake,26 that He should be hallowing it, cleansing it in the bath of the water (with His declaration),27 that He should be presenting to Himself a glorious ecclesia, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it may be holy and flawless.28 Thus, the husbands also ought to be loving their own wives as their own bodies. He who is loving his own wife is loving himself.29 For no one at any time hates his own flesh, but is nurturing and cherishing it, according as Christ also the ecclesia,30 for we are members of His body.31 For this "a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh."32 This secret is great: yet I am saying this as to Christ and as to the ecclesia.33 Moreover, you also individually, each be loving his own wife thus, as himself, yet that the wife may be fearing the husband." (Ephesians 5:22-33)The important thing to remember is don't try to control your desire by yourself. Let the overwhelming power of God's love give you peace while you're searching for your wife, and, when you find her, thank God and be good to her. God bless you, bro. woman.PNG (57.61 kB, 526x603 - viewed 1 times.) desire.PNG (50.76 kB, 535x546 - viewed 1 times.)---------------------------------------------This post;I think this is marriage."Therefore a man shall forsake his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they two become one flesh." (Genesis 2:24)I don't think you really need a church official to sanction it or a secular official to legalize it, but that would be beneficial for financial benefits for the spouse and for the sake of your kids. The important thing is to have a commitment to be faithful to each other and God. I have done it both ways. The Concordant Version doesn't use the word "fornication." It uses "prostitution" for the Greek "porneia" and "porneuo" for "prostitute" "prostitution (commit) have unlawful intercourse of the sexes." But against whose law, man or God's? That's why I say, whether you make it legal with the state or not, you need to make it right with God.


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Walton County commissioners took their first look at a Blue Mountain Beach Neighborhood Plan on July 14. Sometimes referred to as "the hybrid plan," this particular document is the result of efforts by the Walton County Planning Commission, county planners, and residents to combine two previously proposed separate neighborhood plans for the community.
One of those proposals, known as BMB1, was initiated by a group of 23 beachfront property owners to apply to their lots only. The other, BMB2, was produced by other property owners in the subdivision, including a few owners of beachfront property, and intended to be applied to all 161 lots in the subdivision.
Proposed for inclusion by ordinance in the Walton County Land Development Code, the "hybrid" plan would create an overlay district for the community within a set boundary. Its stated intent is to preserve the character of the neighborhood, along with its historic development patterns and land uses, and with its current single-family-dwelling, Residential Preservation Area designation. As proposed, the document would set minimum and maximum lot sizes and establish provisions for setbacks, build-to lines, lot coverage, building height, allowable densities, and existing nonconforming uses. It would also establish "use mix" provisions for commercial and workplace uses by size and location, along with provisions for street widths, block sizes, parking requirements, landscaping, and access areas.
Gerry Demers, county director of development services, explained that the hybrid plan had been mediated between the two neighborhood groups. He added that the BMB2 proposal had been found compliant with county code by county staff. The BMB1 document had many similarities with that plan but included a provision that the lots included would not be subject to the BMB2 plan. Also, unlike the other proposal, the BMB1 plan stated the intent to "preserve the Blue Mountain Beaches for use by the property owners" of lots included in the plan, "establishing that the use is a permissive one and vested property rights shall not be abused."
In January, the South Walton Tourist Development Council (TDC) had requested that the Walton County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) initiate a process to amend county code to recognize the public's right to customary use of beach sections on which such use could be documented. In response to that request, the BCC directed staff to assemble all evidence in existence for that customary use.
Adoption of a neighborhood plan stating the establishment, not of customary use of the beach, but instead use based on permission of beachfront property owners, would, to say the least, represent a contradiction to any evidence of customary public use of the beach alongside the lots included in the BMB1 neighborhood plan.
Blue Mountain beachfront property owner Rodney Durand disagreed with one of Demers' statements. He asserted that the proposal before the commissioners was "not the mediated plan." He called it instead an arbitrated document that had been modified as the result of input from the TDC, the county attorney, and Demers and his staff. "This plan has not been presented to the entire neighborhood." he argued.
Durand urged the BCC to postpone consideration of the hybrid document at least until a vote could be taken on it from property owners in the subdivision. "This issue should not be before you today," he said.
Prior to BCC consideration of a neighborhood plan, Walton County's neighborhood plan process requires a favorable vote on a plan by at least 66 percent of property owners who respond to ballots sent to them by certified mail. No final balloting has been taken on any of the proposed Blue Mountain Beach neighborhood plans with the exception of the BMB2 proposal, and the result of that effort was deemed to have met the 66-percent threshold.
Durand had concerns about neighborhood plan proposals that would, in his opinion, put restrictions on beachfront property owners without their consent.
Emmett Hildreth, a Blue Mountain Beach property owner for the past ten years, echoed Durand's objections, calling for, prior to BCC consideration, a balloting of property owners in the subdivision on the hybrid plan. The document, he noted, had not been subject to a vote either by the BMB1 group or the BMB2 group.
"The whole thing has been flawed from the start," complained Hildreth," we will continue to object."
He added, "We think it's a bad ordinance."
"If we get a revote and it passes," District 2 Commissioner Ken Pridgen questioned Hildreth, "will you support it?"
Hildreth agreed that he would support the hybrid plan under those conditions.
"Common sense would dictate that there's just one neighborhood there," said Blue Mountain Beach homeowner Richard Fowlkes. Fowlkes praised the efforts of the citizens who had worked to produce a plan for the whole neighborhood, and had funded the substantial expenses involved in the county's neighborhood planning process.
Fowlkes stated his objection to having a neighborhood plan "within a plan" for the group of beachfront property owners.
District 3 Commissioner Larry Jones expressed concern that the document being considered was "a third plan," not either of the two proposals put forth by community property owners.
"Does that meet the intent of our ordinance?" Jones asked.
Mike Burke, county legal counsel, responded that it was indeed proper for the BCC to consider adoption of the hybrid ordinance, since it had been properly advertised that the BCC would be considering a Blue Mountain Beach neighborhood plan. Once a proposed ordinance reaches the BCC, commissioners have the authority to modify it, he commented. Burke added that there is no requirement to ballot property owners on this form of the ordinance, although there would be nothing to prohibit such a balloting.
"If you want to go to the hybrid (plan), fine," commented Fowlkes, predicting that, however, if another vote is taken, "that kills the plan." It was his opinion that the people who had worked to develop a proposal for the whole Blue Mountain Beach subdivision were at the end of their endurance and could not afford the expense of funding another mailing in connection with balloting.
Fowlkes reminded the commissioners that a vote of all subdivision property owners had already been taken on the BMB2 plan. "I think you should go back to the plan that was approved," he said.
Susan Lucas, a beachfront property owner who helped create the hybrid proposal, said it had been based on the BMB2 document. Lucas stated that the hybrid plan only differs from the BMB2 plan in that provisions are included to accommodate beachfront property owners. The hybrid document provides for reduced setbacks on beachfront properties in connection with beach erosion, she explained, and it also provides additional parking flexibility for these properties.
Lucas agreed that a requirement for revoting would cause the plan to fail because of the related expense, which she estimated at $5,000.
Blue Mountain beachfront property owner Sherry Chase lodged objections to the hybrid document with regard to wording changes and alleged property rights violations in connection with the proposal. She also complained that some affected persons had not seen the plan.
Chase maintained that community residents had at one time agreed that the threshold for plan approval should be 66-percent favorable among those voting, not just among property owners. She argued that less than 40 percent of the subdivision had voted for the BMB2 document when the balloting was conducted.
"Eighty-five percent of beachfront property owners agreed to having our own plan," Chase told the commissioners.
Chase further complained that the proponents of the BMB1 proposal had not been allowed to complete their plan, but had been stopped from proceeding with it. "We were not heard equally, and that's why we formed our own group," she said. She had concerns that, if the approximately 30 beachfront properties in the subdivision were included in a plan for the whole neighborhood, those properties might at some point be limited to one story, and taller buildings would be constructed on the other properties, overlooking the beachfront area.
An additional concern for Chase was that her home and some duplexes in the community had been built prior to Walton County's adoption of a comprehensive plan, yet the hybrid document, she stated, would require them to be rebuilt according to comp plan requirements in the event the buildings succumbed to destruction by a storm or other force.
"I ask you not to pass this plan," Chase concluded, also urging for the BMB1 group to be allowed to continue with their proposal.
Blue Mountain Beach resident Leonard Anderson said he had not been part of the neighborhood planning effort but that he supported the subdivision-wide proposal as "well-planned community development."
"These people have worked their tails off," he said.
District 1 Commissioner Scott Brannon said that his concern in connection with the neighborhood plan has been "how do you define a neighborhood?"
Demers responded that there is currently no language in the county's neighborhood planning ordinance defining neighborhoods.
South Walton County resident Anita Page raised procedural questions in connection with requiring a new vote in the subdivision. She was doubtful of the basis for doing so. She suggested that the commissioners just readvertise consideration of the plan if they wanted to postpone it. "Advertise it as an amended ordinance," she recommended.
Larry Jones commented that the BCC needed to be careful to protect the intent of the neighborhood planning ordinance. He had reservations about moving forward with the hybrid ordinance, which, he observed, had not been "vetted by those who are affected."
Demers suggested providing the BCC with the BMB2 document, the one approved by the subdivision and that had been the basis for the hybrid plan, for purposes of comparison.
In agreement, the commissioners then approved a motion by Larry Jones to continue the public hearing on the ordinance to the July 28 BCC meeting, which is to begin at 4 p.m. and take place at the Walton County Courthouse in DeFuniak Springs. Plans are for the BMB2 ordinance to be provided to the commissioners for their review at that time.
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By the way, I got the color change to work on my saved game, by uninstalling, then re-installing brytenwalda and then changing the color code to the desired color in the presentations.txt , then loading up my saved game and changing my kingdom's name which actually triggered the color change.
Alright, I believe I've tracked it down, just in case anyone else wants to know. The overriding reference that I guess actually dictates your Kingdom's color is in the 'presentations.txt' file, the numbers '16711680' under 'prsnt_name_kingdom 0 53 2'. If you change '16711680' to whatever color, it will show up in game I guess.Thanks again to Idibil and Adorno for their help.
IMPORTANT!!!You also need to replace the same colour code (16711680) in Scripts.txt, under the line activate_player_faction -1, or else you risk getting the vanilla red colour after all!The above fix only worked for me the first time. I then joined another faction again because I wasn't ready for my own Kingdom yet, and then when I was ready and rebelled again, I got the red colour. So I kept searching until I found this fix.
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Ian Rush and co hit some truly memorable goals as Liverpool completed an historic treble 30 years ago, and we have a great FREE video for you to enjoy on LFCTV GO.
Following the Milk Cup victory over Everton, the league title was won in style to complete the double before the third trophy arrived in Rome.
Rush was the hottest goalscorer on the planet that season and supporters fondly remember his famous hat-trick in the yellow kit away at Aston Villa on a cold night in the Midlands.
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They came over to the gate right as I was boarding and I saw him first. His hair is fuller and he's got a beard, but I recognized him right away. Then he walked over and a girl with him sat down and it was Rory fucking Gilmore. They are not sitting in first class but him right in front of her in middle seats. Guess they booked last minute. He was leaning over the back of his seat talking to her and leaned over and kissed her.
It's an impressive score for Vincent, considering the scuzzy make under he received for this season of Mad Men. To give the illusion of a receding hairline, the dedicated actor had a small portion of his head shaved! "It would be shaved back every couple of episodes another quarter of an inch," he told the Hollywood Reporter. "Later, when it grew back in, it looked completely ridiculous, like a five o'clock shadow." He also had to pack on the pounds to complete the whole "disgruntled middle aged dude without hope" look. "I gained about 25 pounds — none of it muscle. It was a very thin layer of hot fudge sundae, chicken wings and pizza."
But at the end of the day, we guess Alexis was able to look past appearances and see Vincent for what he really is: a man without a toilet. Or maybe she has a thing for coworkers. She's already dated fellow Gilmore Girls actor Milo Ventimiglia. We're guessing she's a method actress.
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By Douglas J. GillertAmerican Forces Press Service
FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 12, 1997 One of four victims of the Korean Air Lines Flight 801 crash in Guam who were transported to the Army burn center here died Aug. 10 following surgery.
The death of 11-year-old Grace Chung surprised some medical personnel who had cared for her since she was carried aboard an Air Force C-141 Aug. 8 for the 20-hour flight to San Antonio.
"I was absolutely shocked when I found out she passed away," said Army Capt. Liza Ludivico, a critical care nurse who hovered over the badly burned child throughout the long trip home. "She was the most responsive of any of our patients in Guam and responded well to the treatment on the way home and here. I really thought she was going to make it."
Chung, of Marietta, Ga., had been the only American survivor of the fiery Aug. 5 crash that also claimed the lives of her mother, sister and brother. Her father, who wasn't on the flight, flew to San Antonio with her from Guam. During the flight, Ludivico talked with and tried to comfort him.
"I told him her hands were badly burned and she probably would lose at least some of her fingertips," Ludivico said. "He said Grace liked to play the piano and asked me to do everything I could to save her hands."
The other victims brought here were Se Jin Ju, 28; Kyu Hee Han, 29; and Young Hak Jung, 39, all South Korean citizens. Along with Chung, they were the most severely burned survivors and needed the kind of treatment the Brooke Army Medical Center burn unit here provides.
"The governor of Guam requested our support through the State Department," said Army Dr. (Maj.) Lee Cancio, who led one of two burn center teams that arrived on Guam within 48 hours of the crash. Two Air Force critical care aeromedical transport teams from nearby Wilford Hall Medical Center also made the trip. One Air Force team subsequently transported some of the other 30 survivors to Seoul for further treatment; the other teams returned here with their patients.
Cancio said all four victims required mechanical ventilation to keep their airways open throughout the flight. "Their faces were swollen from severe burning," he said. "So we intubated them to make sure they'd be able to breathe all right and also sedated them heavily so they wouldn't be in pain. It was a very quiet and smooth ride for them."
The burns covered 45 percent to 80 percent of their bodies, Cancio said. Although Chung's burns were the least of the group, all suffered heavy smoke inhalation, a factor that raises the mortality rate in burn victims by 20 percent, Cancio said. "Age is another factor," he added. "Children and older people are more likely to die from severe burns than the average adult."
Chung's heart stopped after she underwent the first of many skin-graft operations she would have required. "Despite the efforts of our staff to resuscitate her, she didn't respond," Cancio said.
"Losing a patient does affect us," he said. "We returned from Guam with four patients who survived a long flight. There was a tendency to be self-congratulatory. But we knew the patients had a long way to go before they'd be out of the woods."
On the average, burn victims require one day of hospitalization for every 1 percent of their body surface burned, said Arcy Longoria, burn center spokeswoman.
Relatives of the three remaining survivors are being housed near the medical center. Korean churches and military spouses also volunteered their assistance, Longoria said.
The mission challenged the team members' endurance. After being notified of the crash, they immediately set up the mission and gathered the equipment they'd need. They had slept little by the time they arrived at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, but would sleep even less the next several days. Most were still trying to recover when Chung's heroic battle ended.
The burn center provides counselors not only for burn victims and their families, but for staff as well. In most cases, however, the staff knows the power of their enemy -- and that theirs is an uphill battle against time and the elements of infection and human frailty.
"Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you," Ludivico said philosophically. "You can tell people what it's like to work with burn victims, but that really doesn't convey the full picture. Mostly, we rely upon each other for support."
Each year, the burn center treats 250 to 400 patients with extensive, life-threatening burns. In the past decade, improved treatment has increased the survival rate threefold.
The center pioneered the concept of sending burn teams by air to distant disaster scenes and returning victims to Fort Sam Houston for treatment.


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September 17, 2010
INTERVIEW: DA Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, Jacquy Pfeifferby Steve Dollar
DAP: How do you rate taste?JP: Exactly. DAP: I'm really amazed that these guys can taste something and tell me what's in it like a good wine person could do. I can never do that. JP: How do you rate something like this? It's like a painting or piece of music? It's all judged by humans. But you know that before you enter this game. You just have to go for it and do your thing. DAP: These judges are pretty good chefs themselves. I would hate to have my films judged by prominent filmmakers though. I much more trust kids out of high school. Were the other chefs okay with this? JP: They were told. This is the kind of organization where we are told what to do. We are told that its 6pm and we have to leave the kitchen because time is up. Leave the kitchen. And anyone who still wants to fiddle around a little bit is escorted outside. CH: But we were told. We did not get absolute permission to do it right before the competition began, and even then every day we were going to go back and ask the chefs and if we drove them crazy thenthat would be it. So we were also judged each day. But it was very small. We had cameras only. We didn't use boom mics, radio mics. Early on, we realized shooting Jacquy in Chicago that our radio mics threw off his very sensitive scales. JP: I blame them. DAP: There wasn't anything to record anyway. It was dead silent, like college boards. CH: By the end of the third day, they just drew a little square this big for us to stand in and film from. We were very restricted because the idea that we would accidentally knock somebody's table... JP: Which happened before. A tripod fell on someone's sculpture and crushed this person's hopes. It's already a miracle that you are allowed to be there. These kinds of organizations, they don't care. Because they don't have to.It was heartbreaking when the guy... JP: Phillipe Rigollot. His sugar sculpture. CH: The smaller ones are called bijou....when it falls apart. JP: Three years of work and sacrifice are on the floor. And yet he rallies, which we don't expect. In the end, you didn't win, which of course we're all rooting for. JP: It is what it is. At the end, they will decide what is what. You accept that or you don't show up. CH: For me, what's wonderful about the film is it has the twists and turns of real life. And especially because this competition's theme was marriage, and that twists around at the end in its own way. Will you compete again? JP: As I say in the movie, I would do it again in a heartbeat. But it's just I did what I did, I achieved what I wanted to achieve. After that, you get the accolade or not, that's a different story. I have so many challenges at the French Pastry School. We started a foundation and expanded tremendously. What was the darkest moment? JP: The darkest moment is when you are away from your family and you just work really late at night and it's really dark and you want to go home to your regular bed. And also the closer you get to the competition the more time you wish you had to prepare. Of course, if you had another six months it would still not be enough. I'm really sorry to conduct this interview on an empty stomach. As I'm sure everyone will be wondering when they see the movie, exactly how were those cream puffs? CH: Everything was so delicious. This is our favorite here, this cake that Jacquy made. [Points to hemispherical dessert on the film's poster]. It was so exquisite. We really learned how to taste texture and flavors, and sweet and sharp and everything in that one cake. And Jacquy threw it in the garbage. If we hadn't just met you recently we probably would have gone into the garbage and taken it out. When in my life will I have a cake like that? It's not cost-effective. No one would ever serve it anywhere. JP: We were working on this cake and it was supposed to be a wedding cake. We tried to make it look different, like a dome. But there were so many different textures and layers that we had to work out many different options. Take a pizza, if you change where you put the cheese or where you put the tomato sauce, it completely changes the taste of the pizza. Same thing with the cake. We had like five, six, seven different layers and every time you've got to try this one on top, this one on bottom. If something on top is kind of sweet it might ruin it for everything else. So this was a prototype. Why would I keep it? It's not acceptable. CH: More perfect than perfect. JP: Not acceptable.
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Gloucestershire County Cricket Club announce record profit
Posted: April 08, 2013|
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club made a trading surplus of £108,000 during the financial year ending January 31, 2013 - despite enduring the wettest summer in living memory.
Figures released today show the club made a record profit of £2.9m, but £2.8m of this took the form of a payment from Linden Homes for the lease of part of the County Ground in Bristol.
Even so, Gloucestershire's trading surplus is their biggest since 2007 and suggests the club is at long last ready to return to long-term profitability after years of struggle.
A major project to redevelop Gloucestershire's Nevil Road headquarters is already under way and a new and enlarged pavilion is due to open in July this year.
This and a plan to install new seating next winter will enable the club to continue to stage international cricket, thus ensuring financial stability in the future.
But out-going chairman Rex Body insists there is more work to be done if Gloucestershire are to become competitive on the field and he has warned there can be no room for complacency.
He said: "This has been an exceptional year for the club, with the start of our long awaited development and the financial impact this has had.
"We are reporting a record surplus of £2.9m for the year. Stripping out the surplus on the lease to Linden we still made our best performance since 2007, despite the effect of the dreadful weather.
"There is still more to do, however. We are committed to substantial continued development spend as well as increased playing squad expenditure, so we will continue to exercise financial prudence. "Nevertheless, these results augur well for the future."
Like many rival counties, Gloucestershire were adversely affected by the poor weather in 2012. Not surprisingly, gate receipts and membership both suffered, dropping by £57,000 and £30,000 respectively compared to the previous year.
The absence of a one-day international match in Bristol further reduced income, losing the county an estimated £175,000.
This was off-set by a one-off sum of £200,000 awarded by the England & Wales Cricket Board, while Gloucestershire received a further £20,000 for reaching the quarter-finals of the t20 competition and revenue from the club's gym club grew by £44,000.
Director of cricket John Bracewell will no doubt be hoping these latest figures result in a loosening of the purse strings as he attempts to rebuild a squad that has been severely weakened by financial cutbacks in recent seasons.
Gloucestershire's young team finished bottom of the LV=County Championship Second Division last season and Bracewell is again being asked to operate on a shoestring budget this year.


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-- NC marketplace/exchange – enrollment begins October 1, 2013 and runs through March 31, 2014
-- Use website: www.healthcare.gov or call – 800-318-2596 available 24 hrs/7 days per week; paper applications will also be available
-- Local help: several agencies and institutions will have "navigators" or "certified application counselors" to help people review their coverage options. They include Lincoln Community Health Center, Project Access of Durham County, Legal Aide, El Centro Hispano, the Alcohol and Drug Council of North Carolina, and MDC/The Benefit Bank.
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Medicare coverage options are not on the marketplaces but continue as usual.
-- Medicare's annual election period is from October 15 – December 7 every year
-- Use website: www.medicare.gov or call 1-800-Medicare; 1-800-633-4223 or call the state Seniors' Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) at 1-800-443-9354
-- Local help: Senior PharmAssist – the SHIIP coordinating site for Durham at 919-688 -4772 or for Lincoln CHC patients, ask the pharmacy staff for assistance
If you have problems with your health coverage (not Medicare) now and in the future:
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Understanding medical coverage options now available in Durham:
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Updated at: 08/21/2013 8:45 AM
By: Elizabeth Reed, KOB.com
New Mexico residents woke up to a rare sight Wednesday morning: a seasonal blue moon.
A blue moon occurs when a second full moon appears in the sky in a month. But this "seasonal" blue moon marks the third of four full moons in a season, which only happens once every three years.
KOB Eyewitness News 4 viewers shared their best pictures of the rare moon Tuesday night and as it continued to be visible during the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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An optical multipath switch with electrically switchable photonic crystals.
The invention involves the construction of optical multipath switches based on electrically switchable photonic crystals.
A filled photonic crystal, switchable electrically and/or by light, is used as a tunable mirror. By creating selective optical deformations in the photonic crystal, its properties can be influenced in selected areas in terms of transmission capability. This is done preferably by application of a strong electrical field. Light is coupled in and out via fixed photonic mirrors located at an angle to the photonic crystal.
The optical switches of the invention find application in switching networks and serve the purpose of service selection. A very high packing density may be achieved.
1. An optical multipath switch having electrically switchable photonic crystals, the switch comprising an optical geometry structure including tunable photonic crystals having long miniaturized needles and acting as high-precision optical mirrors, deformations acting as photonic band gaps capable of being generated selectively in the structure;
cavities between the needles being filled with nonlinear optical materials or liquid crystals enabling an optical transmission characteristic of the optical geometry structure to be varied up to reflection by disposing first electrodes in the structure and applying a strong electrical field;
the optical geometry structure being provided with second, divided electrodes for providing separate field guidance in crystal areas for enabling the optical transmission characteristic of the structure to be varied separately in individual crystal areas up to reflection;
the optical geometry structure being disposed between mirrors of fixed photonic crystals having an orientation so that light hits the optical geometry at a predetermined angle and the light is capable of being coupled in and selectively out via the mirrors.
2. An optical multipath switch as recited in claim 1 wherein the optical geometry structure is a tunable mirror switchable between transmission and reflection states, the structure being disposed in an optical path between the mirrors of fixed photonic crystals, the mirrors of fixed photonic crystals being orientated so that the light is mirrored at a 22.5 degree angle and hits the structure at a 45 degree angle, the structure permitting the light to pass unrestrictedly when switched to a transmission state, and, when switched to a reflection state, the structure reflecting the light in the mirrors of fixed photonic crystals, the mirrors of fixed photonic crystals coupling the light into a connecting waveguide, forming a two-path switch with beam cross-connect capability.
3. An optical multipath switch as recited in claim 1 wherein the optical geometry structure is disposed between the second, divided electrodes, the second electrodes being divided into four quadrants each having an electrical field separately adjustable so that individual subcrystals are switchable to transmission and reflection states, enabling the photonic crystals to permit the light to pass unrestrictedly or to reflect in one of two directions, so that a function of an electrically switchable three-path switch is performed.
4. An optical multipath switch as recited in claim 1 wherein the tunable photonic crystals are divided into a plurality of crystal areas capable of being used either to direct light from a direction to connecting directions or to an adjacent one of the other plurality of crystal areas so that a branchoff to other directions is formed, the optical multipath switch being capable of forming a cascadable switching structure of decadic or other modular arrangement.
5. An optical multipath switch as recited in claim 1 wherein the tunable photonic crystals direct light at the mirrors of fixed photonic crystals for orienting the light at 45 degree angles according to a rectangular pattern so that the tunable photonic crystals are geometrically matched.
6. An optical multipath switch as recited in claim 1 wherein the tunable photonic crystals are divided by selectively arranged deformations into more than four areas, enabling a fine separation of the areas and a matching of an intensity of deflected light rays and of different directions.
7. An optical multipath switch as recited in claim 1 wherein the switch is set electrically by a controllable light source directed at the tunable photonic crystals, enabling additional light to be coupled into the crystals.
The present invention relates to an optical multipath switch composed of electrically switchable photonic crystals.
Photonic crystals with band gaps are two-dimensional and three-dimensional dielectric structures in which the propagation of electromagnetic waves, in dependence upon, or independent of, their direction of propagation, is forbidden.
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Calculations and microwave measurements have shown that cubic face-centred or also two-dimensional cubic arrangements of holes in a dielectric matrix, or of dielectric rods, exhibit such photonic band gaps.
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As few as six planes suffice to ensure a high element quality. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional structures of this sort are often termed "photonic crystals." These structures can be generated with high precision by means of nanolithography using electron beam induced deposition. If the cavities of such photonic crystals are filled with nonlinear optical materials or liquid crystals and the entire structure is exposed to a strong electrical field, the optically active lattice constant in a crystal can be set within certain limits by variation of the optical path and hence the filtering effect of the element varied electrically. A fabrication method which employs the extended silylation process with dry etching, indiffusion and subsequent element filling, allows the production of highly integrated components at low cost.
Tunable filters used in optical communications and telecommunications are implemented at present in the form of long optical fibres whose filtering effect is created by means of Bragg gratings inscribed in special fibres by ultraviolet light.
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17) Z-M. Chuang, L. A., Coldren, "Enhanced Wavelength Tuning in Grating Assisted Codirectional Coupler Filter", IEEE Photonics Technology Lett., 5, 10, 1219 (1993).
Fabricating such diffraction gratings with high precision over appreciable lengths of several mm to cm is a great technological challenge. Special procedures aim to correct stitching errors which are commonly experienced in electron beam lithography.
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Incorporation of fiber filters and fiber couplers into a macroscopic optical arrangement needs be accomplished using connectors or splices and a hybrid technology. A miniaturization of components is not achievable in this manner. The process called additive lithography uses computer-controlled electron beam induced deposition to build miniaturized photonic crystals, designed as two-dimensional and three-dimensional arrangements of long miniaturized needles, from dielectric materials with nanometer precision.
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These crystals can be inserted direct in the optical path. High-precision computer control of the electron beam in location, time and direction of motion enables the generation of nearly all required crystal geometries and their selective deformation needed to serve the intended optical purpose. Thereby the optical behaviour of their structure can be tailored to meet the desired needs. By filling the highly refractive needle structures with nonlinear optical material--see
22) M. Eich, H. Looser, D. Y. Ycon, R. Twieg, G. C. Bjorklund, "Second Harmonic Generation in Poled Organic Monomeric Glasses", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 6, 8 (1989).
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24) M. Eich, G. C. Bjorklund, D. Y. Yoon, "Poled Amorphous Polymers of Second Order Nonlinear Optics", Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 1, 89 (1990)--or by filling the highly refractive needle structures with liquid crystals--see
25) R. Birenheide, M. Eich, D. A. Jungbauer, 0. HermannSchonherr, K. Stoll, J. H. Wendorff, "Analysis of Reorientational Processes in Liquid Crystalline Side Chain Polymers Using Dielectric Relaxation, Electro-optical Relaxation and Switching Studies", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 177, 13 (1989)--and
by applying a strong electrical field to the filled structure, the optical path in the crystal and hence its properties can be set electrically. This allows the optical transmission characteristic to be shifted finely, and the optical mirror effect, the direction of reflection and possibly the intensity to be varied. Since such elements possess both a very high quality and a very small size (their dimensions are only a few μm in length, width and height), optical devices and circuits equipped with such filters and mirrors can be implemented with a high packing density.
In addition, solutions exist which use multibeam writing systems with corpuscular beams. These solutions permit optoelectronic devices and integrated optical circuitry to be fabricated most economically by means of additive lithography. See
26) H. Koops, 1974, German Patent Application P 2446 789.8-33, "Korpuskularstrahloptisches-Gerat zur Korpuskelbestrahlung eines Praparates", U.S. Pat. No. 4,021,674, granted on May 4, 1977.
27) H. Koops, 1974, German Patent Application 2 2460 716.7, "Korpuskularstrahloptisches Gerat zur Korpuskelbestrahlung eines Praparates", German patent granted on Dec. 30, 1976.
28) H. Koops, 1974, German Patent Application P 2460 715.6, "Korpuskularstrahloptisches Gerat zur Korpuskelbestrahlung eines Padparates in Form eines Flachenmusters mit mehreren untereinander gleichen Flachenelementen", German patent granted on Oct. 31, 1979.
29) H. Koops, 1975, German Patent Application P 2515 550.4, "Korpuskularstrahloptisches Gerat zur Abbildung einer Maske auf ein zu bestrahlendes Praparat", German patent granted on May 18, 1977.
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It is an object of the present invention to provide a low-loss switch arrangement based on electrically tunable photonic crystals and hence providing a high packing density.
According to the present invention, a two-dimensional or three-dimensional photonic crystal is made from highly refractive dielectric material using of electron beam induced deposition. Photonic crystals with band gaps and one or more narrowband transmission frequency ranges, depending on their design, act as narrowband filters. Calculations and microwave measurements have shown that cubic face-centered or also two-dimensional cubic arrangements of holes in a dielectric matrix, or of dielectric rods, exhibit such band gaps. As few as six planes suffice to ensure a high element quality.
The process called additive lithography is employed to build two- and three-dimensional arrangements of long miniaturized needles from dielectric materials with nanometer precision, direct in the optical path. Owing to high-precision computer control of the electron beam in location, time and direction of motion, process allows the generation of nearly all demanded geometries of crystals and their selective deformation needed to serve the intended optical purpose. This makes it possible to tailor the optical behaviour of the crystal structure to meet the desired needs. Similar structures can also be created by means of nanolithographic procedures and the extended silylation process using dry etching.
By filling the cavities between the needles with nonlinear optical materials and placing the crystal in the electrical field, the arrangement can be electrically tuned within a certain wavelength range and adjusted with high precision. Liquid crystal materials, which serve to fill the structure, permit tunability of the filter over a broad frequency range. By use of liquid crystals as fillers, the filter is operable as a medium-velocity switch. In this fashion, a switchable mirror can be constructed from a crystal filled with nonlinear material.
A switch of the present invention is composed of tunable photonic crystals. These crystals consist of long miniaturized needles which act as high-precision optical mirrors. Such needles serve to generate an optical geometry in which deformations acting as photonic band gaps are created selectively. The cavities between the needles are filled up with nonlinear optical materials or liquid crystals. By appropriate placement of electrodes in the optical geometry, i.e., application of a strong electrical field, the optical transmission characteristic of the entire geometry can be changed up to reflection. Arranging further divided electrodes for separate control of the electrical fields in individual crystal areas of the optical geometry ensures that the optical geometry is at the same time separately variable in individual crystal areas up to reflection. Fixed photonic mirrors are placed directly in the optical path at angles to the individual directions so that the light can be coupled in and out through these mirrors. In this way, an optical switch function is performed by variation of the transmission characteristic of the optical geometry in combination with the selective coupling out of light via the individual fixed photonic mirrors.
Embodiments of the present invention are elucidated below with reference to the drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a tunable photonic crystal which is used as a narrowband filter in a monomode waveguide;
FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a two-path optically adjustable low-loss switch;
FIG. 3 shows a schematic diagram of a three-path optically adjustable low-loss switch;
FIG. 4 shows a schematic diagram of an electrically controllable multipath switch composed of a plurality of three-path switches; and
FIG. 5 shows a schematic diagram of an electrically switchable multipath switch.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a tunable photonic crystal which is used as a narrowband filter in a monomode waveguide.
Based on this principle, an optically adjustable low-loss, two-path switch can be designed, for example, as illustrated in FIG. 2. To achieve this, a photonic crystal 2 having a critical geometry acting as a tunable mirror is placed in the optical path between fixed photonic mirrors 4. These mirrors are orientated such that the light is mirrored at an angle of 22.5 degrees and hence hits the geometry of the photonic crystal, which is filled with nonlinear material 3 and acts as a tunable mirror, at a 45 degree angle. If the geometry of the photonic crystal acting as a tunable mirror is switched to transmission direction, the light can pass unrestrictedly. When the geometry of the photonic crystal acting as a tunable mirror is switched to reflection the light is reflected exactly at the fixed mirror, which couples the light into the connecting waveguide 6.
Components of this kind find application in switching networks and serve service selection purposes. The packing density used in this technology is strongly increased because the arrangement composed of mirrors and filter switches is less than 12 μm long and wide.
If the field plates 5 in the crystal area are structured into four parts, a transmission and reflection can be set in either half by alternate switching of the four crystal quadrants 12, 14, 16, and 18 respectively. In this manner a three-path switch 20 according to FIG. 3 may be realized, the switch having an element with beam paths orientated at 90 degree angles to one other.
By selective switching of transmission and reflection in crystal areas between finer structured field plates, the beam intensity can also be split up under electronic control.
Another possibility for influencing the electrical setting of the switch is to couple additional light into the photonic crystal by means of a controllable light source directed at the crystal filled with nonlinear optical material. This allows fast switching in the upper gigahertz range. In the process, the light can also be directed at the waveguide light guidance plane from the space above or below it. This renders guidance of the switching and the switched light possible in separate planes.
FIG. 4 represents schematically an electrically controllable multipath switch 30 which has several three-path switches 20 formed of photonic crystal areas 22 that are separately tunable electrically and deflection mirrors built from photonic crystals. This arrangement therefore constitutes a cascaded coupler switch which consists of miniaturized switchable four-path directional couplers made from photonic crystals with an adjustable bandpass filter.
FIG. 5 shows the schematic diagram of an electrically switchable multipath switch. The latter encompasses several three-path switches 20 formed of photonic crystal areas 22 which are separately tunable electrically and thus constitute a cascaded coupler switch which consists of miniaturized switchable fourpath directional couplers with an adjustable bandpass filter.
These devices can be combined with similar or different integrated components--for example, mirrors, phase shifters and reflectors--to build integrated circuits for optical signal processing and optical computers with high packing density. It is also possible to fabricate fixed or variable measurement circuits serving to fulfill security functions and to conduct data communication tests on optical fibers.
The present invention represents a novel electrically controllable array of switches designed in integrated technology and with high packing density. The present invention serves to switch voltages and/or light between, or to cross-connect, at least two optical paths. Through the use of high-integration technology, little or no space is required for insertion of the element into the optical paths of, say, a computer circuit.
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The Intelligent Transport Network uses Embedded Software Intelligence over a Bandwidth Virtualization layer in order to drive down operational costs, simplify day to day network operations, and improve the responsiveness of the network.
In conventional, all-optical networks, there is no service-ready capacity waiting in the network for automated service provisioning or protection. In addition, the use of all-optical ROADM technology means that wavelength re-routing is a non-deterministic operation. In other words, even if control plane technology was used, there would be no capacity for it to use, and no guarantee that a wavelength rerouting operation will complete successfully.
For this reason all-optical networks make little or no use of intelligent control planes.
The Intelligent Transport Network is based on a digital architecture – Bandwidth Virtualization – which results in two critical differences versus the all-optical network:
The combination of these two properties means that control plane protocols, such as ASON/GMPLS can now operate to their full potential. In fact Infinera customers are operating the largest GMPLS networks in the world, and have been doing so for almost ten years. They have discovered how cost-effective the use of Embedded Software Intelligence really is, and have prospered well against their competitors who are still forced to set up Transport Network connections in a manually intensive way.
GMPLS is a distributed Control Plane technology that is now fully battle-hardened after many years of use. However, there is an increasing interest in solving certain types of multi-layer or multi-domain provisioning problems by adopting a more centralized control plane approach – analogous to a Software Defined Network.
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The Arkansas State Medical Board recently published an update of Regulation 7 governing the use of stimulant medication. This update was a much needed revision of a previous regulation which included outdated diagnostic terminology, inadequate inclusion of all stimulants on the market and ambiguity in the clarification of physician requirements for prescribing. The update was given much thought and included editing by the Arkansas Psychiatric Society in order to provide acceptable guidelines that reflect the current standard of practice.
A public hearing was conducted and testimony was heard regarding the proposed amendment. Though it was initially adopted, there have been a number of letters expressing confusion regarding the changes in Regulation 7. This article is designed to address those concerns and provide better clarification.
There were questions regarding which diagnoses are considered legitimate medical indications for stimulants. Several diagnostic terms in the original document were replaced (i.e. hyperkinetic disorder) as they are outdated or no longer utilized in the literature. Physicians are encouraged to review the DSM 4 for current psychiatric medical terminology. At this time, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with or without hyperactivity and narcolepsy are the only approved FDA indications for stimulants. However, physicians use stimulants in a variety of off-label conditions. The update of Regulation 7 is partly designed to make more diagnoses appropriate for stimulant usage.
It is asked, however, that when treating off-label conditions such as other sleep disorders, augmentation of antidepressants or post-stroke depression that appropriate medical rationale and documentation of evidence based research and experience be
There was more confusion about the wording that "no second or subsequent prescription for these controlled drugs may be written for the patient until the physician reassesses the patient and documents in the medical record." Concerns expressed by interested physicians reflected uncertainty of what was meant by "a reassessment" and whether or not the patient needed to be seen on a monthly basis. It is not the intent of the authors of Regulation 7 to have stable patients seen on a monthly or more frequent basis. The spirit of the reassessment requirement is to ensure that a physician adequately reassess the need for medication, as well as the appropriateness of dose and the consideration of side effects....Look at this entire issue
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Alcohol Vs Marijuana and Hash. The media and sense of being a part of a big community is so controlling and eye folding
Deaths and people getting screwed up because of alcohol are much much higher than the same through marijuana and hash.
and yet normal average people act towards those things as taboo just because they are ILLEGAL in most countries.
Being spoon fed and the inability and lack of will power to explore are so taking place these days considering the internet and openness about information.
let someone run a survey about car accidents requiring due to alcohol and one for accidents taking place due to a person being high. I guess it will be an eye opener.


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winter is almost overFebruary 27th 2010 2:15 pm
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Winter is pretty much over here, there are bulbs coming up all over the place, some are even blooming - daffodils, hyacinths, its starting to look a lot like Spring - yay!! Dad has even cut the grass twice!
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yikes, looks like we're going back to school starting tomorrow, another 8 weeks of who-knows-what : Dixie do this, Dixie do that !
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the other day mom dropped a piece of lettuce on the floor and watched in amazement as I woofed it down - then she starts going on about how she's never had a dog that would eat lettuce.
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OMD leaf piles are to die for! full of adventure - lots of smells, great to wallow in, send and receive messages - I could hang out in one all day !!
I graduated !!December 4th 2009 9:36 am
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oh boy our last night of school was so much fun ! the teacher says ok no work tonight, we'll play some games.
what is this thing called snowDecember 2nd 2009 9:45 pm
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We were just lying about thinking of going to bed when mom turned to the TV weather channel and then whimpered while going quite pale.
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Found a windfall in the yard today !! I had just about given up hope of finding food out there again, especially since its been cold with frost the last two nights so that even the mushrooms froze and disappeared.
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Well! Saturday morning and I thought we'd have a sleep in, but before I know it I've had my breakfast and mom is brushing me, and saying "car ride".
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Six weeks of school down with two to go. We are the only ones with perfect attendance so far. There are always one or two absent each week and I can't say I blame them - its been raining a lot and since the classes are in the evening, its pretty dark and miserable driving there, but our attitude is that we paid for it, we are going to get all we can from it - and unless it snows we will be there !
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After all the rain we've had lately mushrooms, glorious mushrooms, started growing in the lawn. Still smarting from losing my apple and pear inspector license, I was so excited to find this alternative snack, but mom went ballistic when she saw me eating them!
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The mission of the Department of Military Affairs is to reinforce the Armed Forces of the United States and to be available for the security and emergency needs of the State of Louisiana.
The goals of the Department of Military Affairs are:
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The Department of Military Affairs has two programs, Military Affairs and Emergency Preparedness.
This agency's recommended appropriation does not include any funds for short-term debt.
In addition to the above recommended appropriation $842,089 will be paid in Fiscal Year 1998-1999 for long-term debt incurred on behalf of this agency from the previous sale of bonds. Total long-term debt service payments for the state for Fiscal Year 1998-1999 are reflected in the Governor's Executive Budget Supporting Document in Non-Appropriated Requirements, Schedule 22-922.
This agency's recommended appropriation also includes the following amount by means of financing for payments on the unfunded accrued liability of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System in accordance with the provisions of Article X, Section 29 of the Constitution of Louisiana:
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