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Deana - posted on 06/07/2010 ( 28 moms have responded )
Anyone else has a child with Atypical Absence Seizures? I'd love to find out what meds they are on or which ones worked/didn't work......
Thanks in Advance!
Deana - posted on 06/07/2010 ( 28 moms have responded )
Anyone else has a child with Atypical Absence Seizures? I'd love to find out what meds they are on or which ones worked/didn't work......
Thanks in Advance!
Jammie - posted on 07/17/2012
Hi. I am new to this forum. I have had success treating my daughters absence seizures naturally. She has been seizure free for almost 2 years. She is now 5 1/2. Started her sezures not long after turning 3. In short she had six to seven seizures a day that usually presented as a slight physical jerking of the chin/head followed by a short trance like state and then depending on the duration would either pop right out of it or be fatigued to the point of having to sleep. I have not read the post here to deeply but if any of you are interested in what we tried I would be happy to share. I remember how desperate I felt hoping for something and felt a responsibility to connect back with others that my be experiencing something similar to what we went throught.
Jammie - posted on 07/17/2012
Hi. I am new to this forum. I have had success treating my daughters absence seizures naturally. She has been seizure free for almost 2 years. She is now 5 1/2. Started her sezures not long after turning 3. In short she had six to seven seizures a day that usually presented as a slight physical jerking of the chin/head followed by a short trance like state and then depending on the duration would either pop right out of it or be fatigued to the point of having to sleep. I have not read the post here to deeply but if any of you are interested in what we tried I would be happy to share. I remember how desperate I felt hoping for something and felt a responsibility to connect back with others that my be experiencing something similar to what we went throught.
Keila - posted on 03/15/2013
Hi Jammie,
I have a daughter who will be 8 in July and has just being diagnosed with childhood epilepsy or absence seizures. They prescribed Sodium Valproate in Syrup which is full of additives which i am completly against. We try to live a health life style, just natural medicines. She never took an antibiotic or other medicines and we are 90% vegan. I got very interested to know about the treatment you gave to your daughters as I am searching everywhere about an alternative to traditional medicines. Could you share with me?
Many thanks, keila
Sonyak - posted on 04/18/2012
Hi again!
Well Monday was day 13 and ended our streak of no seizures....Alexander had a seizure in the morning before we even got to the neuro. They are hopeful that the dose may still be the correct one and opted to change from 20mg in the evening to 15mg in the evening and 5mg in the am. And we took his depakote from 1000mg in the eve and 500 in the am to 1250last nite all together. We begin to wean him off the remaining lamictal next week. Needless to say, he had another mild 5 minute seizure this morning. These are the types where his eyes can't focus on us and he is 'forced' to look away either down or to the side. The doc is hopeful that these seizures are caused by the lamictal and we need to see in about 3 weeks when he is totally off that if these seizures go away. So though we saw 2 seizures now, I am still hopeful that this clobazam will control what's left once he is off the other meds... Fingers crossed. I wish you all luck with your children. This is such a terrible 'illness' to have with meds being a hit or miss situation and life totally in turmoil. Forums like this really do give support and info to all. Thanks to all of you again.
Melinda - posted on 09/15/2012
Hi! I am new to the post. I just found out that my child has abence seizures. I have my first appointment with a neurologist on Monday. Can anyone tell me what to expect and what I should ask? Recommendations on Medications? Thank you.
Katherine - posted on 10/07/2014
My daughter is 10 years old. She has Atypical Absence Seizures. She takes 125mg of Depakote 5 pills a day. (2 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon and 2 at night). Her last seizure was on December 28, 2013. She was staring off, not responding to simple questions, clenching her hands and rubbing her top and bottom feet repeatedly. She needed Diastat to come out of the seizure. It lasted more than 10 minutes. She threw up about 2 minutes into the seizure.
Her last seizure before this one was on January 3, 2013. Prior to that she had not had a seizure in almost 2 years.
Kate - posted on 10/17/2013
My daughter was diagnosed four years ago. Shes 8 now and has been seizure free for 6 months!!! i'm coming in on these conversations to offer advice, hope and comfort to those still in the thick of it! I chose not to medicate - i know not everyone has that option and every case if different but if anyone would like any support or advice on how i did things please contact me at email@example.com
Marcie - posted on 03/15/2013
If you are looking for a more natural route you could always try the keto diet http://www.charliefoundation.org. It does have to be started in the hospital though as it can be very dangerous to do alone. My son tried it and it didn't work for him but I think it has a bunch to do with his perticular disorder. There are people that are only on it for a year or two and are able to come off it with remarkable results...plus some are even medicine free while on the diet and after it. I would also check out www.ketocook.com it is a Charlie foundation approved website for recipes and it helped me a lot! Ask your neurologist if your interested and see if they can set you up with a ketoginic dietician. My opinion, anything is worth a shot and the keto diet is probably the most effective natural route :). Hope this helps!
Keila - posted on 03/15/2013
Hi Jammie,
I have a daughter who will be 8 in July and has just being diagnosed with childhood epilepsy or absence seizures. They prescribed Sodium Valproate in Syrup which is full of additives which i am completly against. We try to live a health life style, just natural medicines. She never took an antibiotic or other medicines and we are 90% vegan. I got very interested to know about the treatment you gave to your daughters as I am searching everywhere about an alternative to traditional medicines. Could you share with me?
Many thanks, keila
Tammie - posted on 03/14/2013
Have you learned anything or have any medications helped? My son was just diagnosed with Atypical absence too. He has no other issues.
Alisa - posted on 01/27/2013
My brother has a very severe form for Atypical Absense Seizures and requires high doses of Tegretol to control them.
He has been on Tegretol from infancy up to age 31 now, and it works. About 4 years ago (after 25 years of relying in Tegretol to control the seizures he began having severe problems. The medication became less and less effective, and the seizures were far worse than they were before his seizures were brought under control, and became more dangerous. At the same time, his kidney's began shutting down due to the high doses of Tegretol he had taken for so many years. It took us nearly 1 year to find a neurologist who was able to treat him and resolve the issue. The neurologist added Lamictal to my brothers medication, which complemented the Tegretol and made it more effective in smaller doses. This has so far been 100% effective in controlling about 90% of my brothers seizure activity, and completely preventing the worst types of seizures from occurring at all in the past three years.
Rosalin - posted on 07/28/2012
hi am new to this post my name is rosalin my daughter has absence seizure for about a year now they have on zarontin i really dont like the side effects can you help thanks
Kandis - posted on 04/17/2012
My dd was diagnosed with Absence Seizures last june. We tried Zarontin which caused horrible I mean horrible nightmares! We tried Depakote and at almost toxic levels it was of no help and made her gain alot of weight. Then we tried Lamictal it sort of helped but it really affected her personality, she became very depressed then at christmas time they added Amantadine to the Lamictal it took a month but what a difference! For about 2 months the seizures had quit until spring break when she a had a grand mal seizure which we have contributed to not enough sleep and she hadnt taken her meds. We have to keep her on a very strict sleep pattern so they started her on Melatonin to help her get into a deeper phase of sleep at night and to actually sleep. Her grades have slipped and she seems to be getting forgetful. We go back in a few week to see her nuero to see what we can do.
Deana - posted on 04/11/2012
Thank you Sonyak...you and your family too, although I wouldn't wish it upon anyone, it's always good to have support that truly understands what it takes to deal with all of this!
Sonyak - posted on 04/11/2012
got it! well like i said...will be back after monday's appt and let you know. thanks again for posting...really is a great place to exchange info...wish you, your family and Sarah all the best!
Deana - posted on 04/11/2012
sorry, atypical absence seizures...hers also last a long time--longest time 21 min. shortest 7min... same here... "normal otherwise" in every other area, started out of the blue when she was 5years old... blessings!
Sonyak - posted on 04/11/2012
can i just ask, does she have absence or atypical absence seizures? i was a bit confused by your second post where you just mentioned absence....alexander never had absence seizures (tho i wish it would have been something that simple!) we were even at the point of considering brain surgery, though I am not sure if this would have happened as his PET scan showed glucose uptake in the occipital/parietal areas more so than the temporal areas and the surgeries for temporal regions are most successful. our next step if the clobazam doesn't last (and I pray it does!) is a modified atkins diet....fingers crossed! I will ask abou the zarontin tho on monday as we have another neuro appt then. BTW-Alexander's EEGs while sleeping showed 40-60% seizure activity tho it never affected his sleep or his daily activity. But we always wondered about
the heavy night time 'drooling' in his sleep and he suffered from bed wetting for many years which is now being attributed to these seizures.... He sleeps like a rock tho....never affected him there at all! thanks so much to you and all who contribute to these posts! you have no idea how many hours i have poured over these computer websites since alexander never had any 'typical' seizure controlled by any of the typical meds! and having a child with atypical absence that is not developmentally challenged or has any of the other typical symptoms is also not something i can really get much info on from the computer! thanks again!
Deana - posted on 04/11/2012
Sonya, your story is very similar to ours...if anything comes up it is a tried and true mix the Depakote AND Zarontin for ATYPICAL SEIZURES-we've seen several pediatric neurologists and they've all said the same thing...these 2 medicines are the most effective and they know the longterm effects of them....-they'll figure out the dose based on weight etc...Sarah's EEG's were similar and this week on Monday she had another good EEG--she's been on Depakote and Zarontin the first round (2 years) and this round and it always stops/controls the seizures. The Dr. has weaned her off of the Zarontin and we are trying just Depakote at this time, I guess the Zarontin can affect sleep at night --since we've decreased the Zarontin she went from waking 3-4 times a night to just once! We'll take it, she's doing great at school and the seizures are staying away at this point! I pray she's growing out of them..... thank you all for your support and input...if anyone ever wants to chat..I'd be happy to chat...we all need to support each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sonyak - posted on 04/11/2012
Hi there,
My name is sonya and i am new to this website. i am writing because my son out of the blue developed daily seizures about 1 1/2 years ago when he was 11. he would act like a space cadet at times and we could not figure it out till we asked our pediatrician who said he should be evaluated for seizures. he is a normal, above average in school boy who had no head trauma or issues during pregnancy. it has been a long 1 1/2 years...initially we were told complex partial seizures, though the first eeg showed possible atypical absence. we thought that could not be the case since he is a normal child not developmentally delayed in any way. his seizures were never 'normal'....they all lasted at least 5 minutes and normally were 10-20 minutes in length....oe time we had one that lasted just over an hour. We were in NY Columbia Presbyterian-Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital with intermittent trips to Children's Hospital Boston. In April and May we cried daily waiting for results of genetic testing which we thought would bring bad news that he was dying. Everything came back ok there. He was on Depakote at first, Keppra, Keppra ER, Keppra generic, Trileptal (generic), Topimirate, Lamictal,
and Depakote again. NOTHING WORKED! In the fall of 2011 he missed 6 weeks of school and was hospitalized for 2 of those weeks. They told me he had PSYCHOSOMATIC seizures since most of his '20 minute+" seizures showed no EEG correlation. So we went to a psychologist who threw zoloft into the mix. His acne got so bad from the trileptal he now has deep acne scars (at age 11!) And the trileptal was maxed out so that he had additional double vison, blurry vision, unsteady gait, etc. We began going up to Boston for second opinions because nothing worked and things got worse. In school he went from good student to fighting to get him an IEP (individual education plan).
LONG STORY SHORT - Alexander had an irregular EEG from the get go and no one could really 'see' the seizures activity because of the irregularity (though he is a normal kid!!!)
FINALLY someone thought his slight head bobs and confused states were possibly ATYPICAL ABSENcE SEIZURES. In November 2011 CLOBAZAM was approved for use in the US after a trial in October showed significant improvement in seizure activity for kids with Lennox Gastaut Syndrome (which includes atypical absence seizure activity). Alexander started Clobazam 3 weeks ago. HE HAS BEEN SEIZURE FREE SINCE APRIL 2!!! We are ecstatic!
He had up to 5 seizures a day lasting on average 10 minutes and spent hours in the school nurse's office sleeping after the episodes. I know clobazam has it's downside, but for us this is the first med that works!!! After a year and 1/2 of daily multiple seizures, it was worth the try. Thank God it is available now in the US! Good luck!
User - posted on 11/16/2011
We have a 10 year old with Atypical Absence Seizures and no other kinds of seizures. We have not gotten seizure control. Lamictal works the best for us. Tried Depakote, Felbatol, and one other all in conjuction with lamictal. He has about 1 an hour still-2 years after being diagnosed.
Amber - posted on 06/26/2010
My 3 year old son has absence seizures and is on Trileptal. They have had to up his dose even tho his weight has not changed bc he was getting break threw seizures at school, and the level was to low in his blood. But other than that it has worked great he has been on it for about 6 months now
Teryl - posted on 06/10/2010
I myself have this type of seizure. I am 28 years old and have had seizures since I was 9. I also have an eleven month old son. I am not writing this to scare you, but just to let you know things will be ok even if meds do not cure your child completely. I am currently taking topamax and lamictal and for the most part I do ok, but have never been fully cured. I can't drive, but I do have a full time job that my mom takes me to 5 days a week, and takes care of my son while I am there. I have a wonderful husband that helps me out if I need to be anywhere. Like I mentioned before this was not to scare you, but if your son does not beat his seizure don't baby him his whole life. Treat him as normal as posible, and he will be a better and stronger person than you would ever imagine. Good luck and God Bless!
Renee - posted on 06/09/2010
I took Tegretol for mine that worked great for a long time but i had to have brain surgery for mine in 87.
Theresa - posted on 06/08/2010
My middle son is almost 5. He is on Lamictal for his absence seizures and has had some break through seizures so the dosing is being altered to help. My son is also autistic, has ADHD, and has a mild form of Cerebral Palsy.
Kathi - posted on 06/07/2010
My son, Jonah, has been on Trileptal right from the start. We've had to increase his dose as he grows, but I've been very happy with it. I also have an emergency kit of rectal Valium just in case. Different doctors give different directions with it. Jonah's is for a seizure that lasts more than 2 minutes. His first EEG after the initial grand mal seizure, he was awake and talking and showing seizure activity on the EEG. The tech told me she'd never seen spikes that high on someone who was alert, talking, and oriented.
Meg - posted on 06/07/2010
my daughter was put on a new RX... VIMPAT ... it is working very well ... she is making progress in all areas and is alot less forgetful. This drug is rather new @ 1 to 2 years on the general market.. I am told it works great for many...
hope this helps... : )
Deana - posted on 06/07/2010
Thank you. My daughter Sarah is 8 and her absence seizures have come back. The first time around (2.5yrs ago) Depakote and Zarontin worked but had some terrible side effects that affected her schoolwork and home life. This time around I was hoping to get away from them but tried just the Zarontin (dropped the Depakote) and Viola she had a 3-5 min. Absence and a 3-5 min Grand Mal (her first one of those ever!) Scary stuff...so now we are trying to "tweek" the dosages but truthfully I just want her off of them completely and try something new! Dr. is telling me the tried and true meds for atypical absence seizures are Depakote and Zarontin... would love everyone's input!
Kathi - posted on 06/07/2010
My son has absence seizures, but wasn't put on medicine until he had his first grand mal seizure. They kept blaming the absence seizures on other things. He has autism also. He is on Trileptal, and it has worked very well. It has controlled the partial complex and absence seizures very well.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Stand up and be counted...
For Those About to Rock gets a bad rap. People expected Back in Black 2 and that just wasn't going to happen. What they got, however, was an outstanding follow up to one of the greatest metal albums ever.
This album is much edgier than back in Black, harkening back to the Highway to Hell days. The songs are heavier than Back in Black on the whole and have a much...
Published on July 17 2004 by roamer
2.0 out of 5 stars Rushed follow up!
This album sounds like a rushed follow up and smells like one too. Why did it top the charts (only briefly until word got around that it was no BIB2)? Obvious answer. It rode on the back of two solid, quality albums. It has its moments, but they are few and far between. Title track, Put The Finger On You, Let's Get It Up, good start! .......Hmm, OK maybe COD and...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Stand up and be counted...,
roamer (Odenton, MD United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: For Those About to Rock We Salute You (Audio CD)
For Those About to Rock gets a bad rap. People expected Back in Black 2 and that just wasn't going to happen. What they got, however, was an outstanding follow up to one of the greatest metal albums ever.
This album is much edgier than back in Black, harkening back to the Highway to Hell days. The songs are heavier than Back in Black on the whole and have a much darker feel.
The title track is a staple of AC/DC live shows to this day, unfortunately, because the overwhelming consensus is that this is a 'weaker' album, they don't do as many of the other tracks as they should. The lesser known tracks that are standouts from For Those About to Rock are Evil Walks, C.O.D., and Let's Get it Up.
If you buy this with expectations, you may be disappointed. If you buy it and just take it at face value you will have discovered a gem that is often overlooked.
5.0 out of 5 stars If it wasnt for an album entitled "Back In Black"....,
S. Axe "maulrat" (Arlington Heights, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: For Those About to Rock We Salute You (Audio CD)
I'd give it 6 stars if I could.
If it wasnt for an album entitled "Back In Black" ... this would have been THE quintessential rock album of all time that bands needed to live up to. It kills me that this album gets little to no respect as its predecessor does because the volume of material here IS IN FACT on par and at times eclipses "Back In Black".
My humble and honest opinion (I refuse to use internet acronyms) is that "For Those About To Rock" came out way too quickly for its own good. The phrase *too many chefs* comes to mind here ... if they wouldve released the "ever too average" Flick Of The Switch BEFORE this release then I think it wouldve faired much better than it did, in sales and elsewhere.
Not too mention that not too long after "Back In Black" came out there was the invasion of the lame glam rock scene. And YES, I myself totally bought into that whole scene and lived it! But after all these years later .... what am I still listening to these days?? "For Those About To Rock" ..... yep .... gimme the great songs entitled, "C.O.D." (always my favorite!!), "Put The Finger On You", "Evil Walks", "Snowballed", "Breaking The Rules"!!!! Hell yea, this album kicks some serious ass!!
5.0 out of 5 stars Give it a fair listen!,
Stretch (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: For Those About to Rock (Audio CD)
If you can find this version of "For those about to rock" you're in good company, because the brownish gold cover is identical to the copy on vinyl that I own, which means it's among the initial pressings.
With Back in Black, AC/DC raised the bar so high that no one could top it, not even themselves. The only way you're not going to like For Those About to Rock is if you compare it to Back in Black, which is understandable, but for me personally I enjoy the album to the same extent as Back In Black.
The title track was inspired by a the saying "For those about to die, we salute you" and the band simply changed a word. The song features cannon noises which build up for a grand finale. It is a concert staple, and justifiably so, but there's plenty more noteworthy tunes, among them are the verse-riff tandem of "Inject the venom", the relentless rocking of "Snowballed", "Night of the long knives" had a Back in Black-style groove, "Breaking the rules" is an anthemic, semi-bounce track. I recommend "For those about to Rock" wholeheartedly.
4.0 out of 5 stars Three killer tunes in a row, then it drops off,
The Scenario (Roseville, MN USA) - See all my reviews
This album leads off with one of 'DC's greatest songs ever, the title track, a brooding rocker that builds to an awesome cannon-powered climax. The ball keeps rolling with the throbbing "Put The Finger OnYou" and the forgotten classic, "Let's Get It Up". From there, the songs become decidedly more generic. "Inject The Venom", "Snowballed", and "Evil Walks" are all good tunes, but nothing special. "C.O.D." is an obvious attempt to capture the same vibe as "You Shook Me All Night Long", and it isn't nearly as effective. "Breaking The Rules" and "Night Of The Long Knives" regain some ground with a catchy chorus and great riff, respecitvely. "Spellbound" is their typical slow bluesy album closer, but it isn't as memorable as "Night Prowler" or "Rock N Roll Ain't Noise Pollution". Mutt Lange continues the clean production he gave the band on its previous two albums.
In the lengthy back catalog of AC/DC albums, this one ranks firmly in the middle. Nowhere near as good as classics like "Back In Black", "High Voltage" or "Highway To Hell", but certainly better than "Fly On The Wall" or "Blow Up Your Video". If you own more than half a dozen 'DC discs or so, this should be one of them, but it's certainly not the best place to start.
5.0 out of 5 stars AC/DC Broadens Their Horizons,
Bud Sturguess (Amarillo, TX) - See all my reviews
Of course, following up 1980's record breaking "Back in Black" would be quite difficult, whether you make that assumption by sales or by quality. But leave it to AC/DC to carry on the true tradition of classic rock-n-rollers, with 1981's "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)." Here, the band explores all of their expected territory with epic rock anthems (the classic title track) and the predictably fashioned wine, women, and song scores ('Let's Get it Up,' 'Put the Finger on You'). But in a stunning yet well balanced manner, AC/DC brings listeners to a world on the streets, taking elements of frustration (the excellent 'Spellbound'), distrust (superbly crafted 'Night of the Long Knives') and rebellion ('Breaking the Rules'). 'COD' is classic AC/DC all the way, while the marvelous rockers 'Evil Walks' and 'Snowballed' seem to contradict the quintet's classic subject matter. Lead vocalist Brian Johnson's lyricism and bellows give the album its broad feel, while the guitar playing of Angus & Malcolm Young lead the rhythm section of Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd. Here in its remastered form, "For Those About to Rock" is one of AC/DC's peak accomplishments.
2.0 out of 5 stars Rushed follow up!,
"wicketaker" (Perth W.Aus.) - See all my reviews
This album sounds like a rushed follow up and smells like one too. Why did it top the charts (only briefly until word got around that it was no BIB2)? Obvious answer. It rode on the back of two solid, quality albums. It has its moments, but they are few and far between. Title track, Put The Finger On You, Let's Get It Up, good start! .......Hmm, OK maybe COD and Spellbound, or Snowballed. Now I'm reaching. Those are the only listenable fillers worthy of mention. The rest sounds like it was wriiten a few days before it was recorded.
It's the first album where weak lyrics become tiresome and so does all this' words to the chorus matching the chorus riff ' stuff . You know : It 's the daa da da daa da, da of the long daaas. This was seldom done before this album, or when it was, it had some catchy lyrics and attitude to it ie. Dirty Deeds, Highway to Hell. The only good points are Brian's voice (completely wasted on these tunes), and the slick production. Back In Black sold this album, and this album killed Filck Of The Switch (most underrated Brian-era album).
3.0 out of 5 stars giant phallic cover,
Brad Ellsworth (portland, or United States) - See all my reviews
I used to bag on this album quite a bit. I always thought of it as one of their most overwrought and aimless records. And if there were only one side to it, meaning the second one, that would be a fair analysis. Remember, kids, that this record hails back to the days of vinyl when albums were big (and in this case embossed!) and had two sides. Man, that's one of the biggest disadvantages to CD's, and I've always thought so. Whatever happened to side A and side B? Far from being an inconvenience as one might think, flipping a record over was (and is) an integral part of the experience. First of all, it breaks up the presentation. A bit of an intermission, if you will. But more than that, each side presents a conceptual medium. Side A can be a set of rockers, whereas side B can be a more exploratory realm, full of more moody and adventurous material. Or, in some cases, it could be the other way around. Depending on what mood you're in, you play either of the two sides. I've always thought the uni-sided nature of the CD experience detracted greatly.
Okay, so here we have AC/DC in the year 1981, the beginning of their twilight years. They had spent the previous ten years in rabid pursuit of "the top", and had found it in a big way with Back In Black. Where to go, then? Presumably, the only place to go from the top is down. And yes, this record does show very distinct signs of a band in decline. It is heavy-handed and grandiose (a 21 gun salute?! Come on, guys!). However, they still manage to weave in a healthy dose of good old AC/DC-style fun, particularly in the obvious standout "Put The Finger On You", a song straight-up about coppin' a feel. Only these guys could pull it off with such finesse, and in a way that is so subtle that you could still play it in front of your mom. If she picked up on it, you could just claim to be oblivious! God knows I was when I was a kid. Hell, I didn't even know what "Let's Get It Up" was about. Gahilk!
4.0 out of 5 stars A WARNING FOR YOU ALL,
Botnik Roller (Thunder) - See all my reviews
I think I must warn you all that say this is not a good AC/DC album. THis is not true. THis, in fact, was the last great AC/DC album, even coming after "BACK IN BLACK". IT has John Mutt Lange production, it has some great rocking tunes, Phil Rudd is still delivering the goods, Johnson could still sing. The album is tight and straight-forwarded. We can see clearly here the decline in the lyrics department ( Brian is no Bon ), the lyrics began to sound so dumb and ridiculous I could not believe. One last thing: if some of you say this album is not good, what about the Simon Wright era albuns ??!! What about "BALLBREAKER" and the recent "STIFF", where Johnson can't even sing, the lyrics are worst than ever and Phil seems to be sleeping ?? The plain truth is: after "FOR THOSE", AC/DC was never the same. It's the same process that happened with Iron Maiden after SEVENTH SON, Metallica after MASTER OF PUPPETS, Black Sabbath after HEAVEN AND HELL, adn so on and on and on...
4.0 out of 5 stars Brian Johnson Proves Himself Again,
Ren (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
People bought "Back in Black" with the mindset that it was not going to be anything good because Bon died... everyone thought AC/DC was dead and not coming back. Brian Johnson proved them wrong, giving them the best-selling album of their career. Now, Johnson proved that he could make a fan out of people who had a low opinion of the band. However, with this album, he had to face the pressure of not disappointing his fans. He pulled it off. He did it. This album is the last GREAT album that AC/DC ever did. It kicks off with one of my favorite tunes by them of all time, and continues with the catchy "I Put the Finger On You". In fact, every song up until "Evil Walks" is PURE GOLD! After "Evil Walks", it starts to lose its edge. But it is regained by "Spellbound". Johnson proves that he is an awesome singer. It is about as good a follow-up as can be expected to an album that sells 19 million copies. Props to Johnson on this one.
5.0 out of 5 stars AC/DC's Follow-Up LP,
exodusone (San Bernardino, CA USA) - See all my reviews
Ok, you did "Back In Black", now what do you do next? Answer, you have to do a follow-up album that is either better then the one you did before, hype up the production and promote it to death, or progress and do something different, or "just put out an album and see what happens".
AC/DC in November of 1981 released "For Those About To Rock...". It was successful but it wasn't anything "ground-breaking" for it's time. You also gotta remember the time, 1981 was the year that the "New Wave Of British Heavy Metal" movement was on the rise. AC/DC delivered an album that kids can just rock out too, not something complex and progressive. The production on this album is great and you really can't any better then this. Songs like "Let's Get It Up", "title track" and "Spellbound" are just a collection of songs to just rock out too. There's nothing special about this album, but it has the AC/DC magic on here (rocking out).
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The biggest political news of the day comes from the Alaska. There the Independent candidate for governor, Bill Walker, and the Democratic candidate, Byron Mallott, decided to merge their campaign to give them the best chance of beating Republican incumbent Gov. Sean Parnell. Walker will run for governor with Mallot as his running mate. From the Alaska Dispatch:
The Alaska Democratic Party broke with long tradition Monday when its central committee voted 89-2 to not field a gubernatorial ticket and instead put its weight behind the independent campaign of Bill Walker and Byron Mallott. […]
The resolution passed by the central committee calls on the party to not replace Mallott and French when they officially withdraw on Tuesday. It also directs the party to throw its full support behind the independent "Alaska First Unity ticket" of Walker for governor and Mallott for lieutenant governor, something the party could do under its rules only if Walker wasn't registered with another party.
This decision was purely the result of the bad "first-past-the-post" election rules used in most of this country, which allows candidates to win with only a plurality. This makes it extremely difficult to have more than just two parties in an election.
Polling showed Parnell had a 15 point lead in a three-way race but is tied with Walker in the head-to-head matchup.
When the opposition vote to the incumbent is split between two or more strong opponents, it allows even a very unpopular incumbent to win with as little as a third of the vote. This is the main reason why we rarely see other parties or independent candidates in American elections despite the great desire for more options and strong disappointed with both the Democratic and Republican parties.
This problem doesn't need to exist. It is possible to use run-off election or instant run-off election systems to eliminate this destructive dynamic. If Alaska used one of these voting systems both candidates could have stayed on the ballot without fear of acting as the spoiler for the other one. It would have given the people of Alaska more choices, a more diverse public debate, even have created an incentive against negative campaigning. Instead the only option to beat Parnell is with this fusion ticket.
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James Constable put the hosts ahead at the Kassam Stadium and after Clive Platt climbed off the bench to level, fellow substitute Jon-Paul Pittman hit the winner.
Clarke Carlisle saw red late on for the Cobblers as he picked up a second yellow.
Boothroyd said: "We're disappointed with the result but I've got to give credit to the opposition as they came at us strongly.
"I've also got to give my players for the way they came back."
"We've been on a good run ourselves, so this is a bit of a reality check for us."


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The 22-year-old midfielder has been out of action since August with a back problem.
Dortmund's sporting director, Michael Zorc, has revealed that the midfielder's condition is not improving.
"He is not making any progress at the moment," Zorc told Zeitung. "We do not know when he will be able to play again."


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Is "America's Drone War Out of Control"? That is the provocative headline—minus the question mark—of Gideon Rachman's Financial Times column. He is not alone in attacking the policy of using drone strikes against terrorist targets abroad—a policy initiated by the Bush administration and greatly expanded under President Obama. Such strikes are coming in for increasing criticism for supposedly being just as lawless as "renditions," detentions without trial, "enhanced interrogation techniques," warrantless wiretapping and all the other features of the war on terrorism to which civil libertarians object. One suspects that the criticism, now a mild buzz, would reach a crescendo if a Republican were in the White House: Obama's policies are harder to criticize for the left than those of a President McCain or Romney.
It is perhaps just as well to have a more open debate about what has so far been a relatively covert policy, which has extended from the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan to other lands, from Pakistan to Yemen, where U.S. ground troops are not committed. Critics of drone strikes do, in fairness, make some legitimate points about what criteria are used to designate targets and how, in the absence of judicial review, we can achieve accountability for mistakes. There is also legitimate fear that by creating collateral damage such strikes may create more enemies than they eliminate and, less persuasively, that such strikes could create a precedent for authoritarian regimes to follow suit. (Do countries like Russia and Iran really need American inspiration to target their perceived enemies abroad?)
But what critics do not have is a compelling alternative to offer. Should we simply stop all drone strikes and declare that our response to terrorism will be limited to trying to arrest and extradite suspects?
Not even Rachman goes that far. At the end of raising lots of objections to the drones he offers a meek proposal that drones should "be reclaimed from the realm of covert warfare" and should instead be employed "by the military and openly scrutinized by politicians and press." This rather ignores the reality that the segment of the U.S. military most likely to take control of drone strikes is the Joint Special Operations Command, whose operations are super-secret and hardly "scrutinized by politicians and press"—unless they have either a monumental success or screw-up.
No doubt there are more extreme drone opponents who would be willing to simply stop all such strikes. How, then, do they suggest that we deal with the threat of terrorism emanating from countries such as Pakistan and Yemen and Somalia, where it is simply not practical to send FBI agents to arrest terrorist suspects? Indeed, we are facing this very quandary today in Libya, where the administration is relying on the FBI to identify suspects in the Benghazi consulate attack—so far with no luck. Remember: the whole reason why the drone strikes started in the first place is because fighting terrorism through domestic law enforcement was tried before 9/11 and found badly wanting.
I have my own problem with drone strikes—I don't think they are the complete answer to terrorism. They are, in fact, only part of what should be a broader counterinsurgency and state-building strategy in at-risk countries. Unfortunately, we have failed to develop such a comprehensive approach and instead rely too heavily on targeted drone strikes. The answer, however, is not to end the drone strikes. They remain our best instrument for disrupting terrorist plots that, if successful, might well force the U.S. to put large numbers of ground troops in harm's way. The answer is to maintain the drone strikes while building up our softer instruments of suasion so as to help defeat Islamist extremists.


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Anyone else seriously addicted to this little gem? I don't know why it is, but I'm constantly checking my fishing line to see what I've got. I haven't even been fishing for a week yet, and it's already consuming my spare thoughts throughout the day.
It's maddening and exciting all-in-one.


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Community Voices: An Interview with Students for Justice in PalestineWritten by Stacy Jurich | | email@example.com
Founded in 2011 as "a voice for human rights", Students for Justice in Palestine's mission is to raise awareness and galvanize an education campaign about Palestine, the Israeli occupation and the United States' involvement in the occupation.
Jurich: What are some of the myths portrayed in our media that SJP feels are false or misrepresentative of the actual reality of life in Palestine?
SJP: The most blatant and nefarious myth is that this is a showdown between two equal, opposing sides. This is completely and utterly false. Israel receives nearly $4 billion dollars of military "aid" every year from the United States and is equipped with the most pernicious and destructive military equipment of any country on Earth. The Palestinians, who are largely defenseless and civilian, at best, have homemade rockets, which are so ineffective that all the Jerusalem Post could run about their impact was how Israeli pets were scared by the sounds of the rockets.
Since 2008, over 1,500 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military machine, whereas even by inflated Israeli Defense Force numbers, less than 30 Israelis (most observers put this number at closer to 15) have been killed by the rocket attacks, and about one quarter of these were deaths during Israeli operations inside Gaza. More Israelis die every year from accidental falling than from Hamas rockets. So what we have here are not two, equal sides in a conflict, we have a situation where one population has been brutally harassed, dehumanized, had their land stolen, and forced into apartheid like conditions, and another side has the backing of the most powerful states in the world and the most advanced military technology.
The second myth is that this is a conflict since time immemorial. The origins of this conflict began in 1917, when Britain declared the Balfour Declaration that stated there would be a Jewish homeland carved into Palestine regardless of the Arab population living there. In 1948, 700,000 Arabs were ethnically cleansed from Palestine through violence and terror, and since then the state of Israel has encroached upon more Palestinian land and continually harassed, dehumanized, and erased Palestinian life, both physically and from history. This is the starting point; this is the origin of the conflict.
Jurich: SJP recently organized a well-attended candlelight vigil after the latest outbreaks and attacks on Gaza. What can come out of these gatherings in Toledo, and is there a buildup or momentum of resistance and protest around the world around the violence against Palestinians?
SJP: The outcome of these gatherings, and others like it, are that community members and people of conscience are beginning to see that this is not a "conflict" between two equal sides, but, like Desmond Tutu says, a situation of injustice where there is an oppressor and an oppressed. Our goal as an organization is to build off this growing awareness, and to use the momentum to push forward tangible campaigns such as the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
TFP: What can individuals in Toledo do to support peace and justice in Palestine?
SJP: Individuals who support peace and justice in Palestine can begin by taking a stand against oppression and speaking out in favor of Palestinian liberation. The second step people can take is by actively engaging in the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDSmovement.net) and specific BDS campaigns like the one found at WeDivest.org. As good as it is to have the awareness of the situation in your heart, we need more people willing to actively organize for justice in Palestine. Anyone who is interested in getting involved should also contact SJP at email@example.com.
Jurich: Tell me about SJP's involvement in the TIAA-CREF divestment campaign.
SJP: We stand in the shadow of past activists and organizers from the University of Toledo who have taken up the broad call for divestment, such as the Black Student Union activists who forced UT to divest millions of dollars from South Africa in the late 1980′s. As far as the TIAA-CREF campaign, it is part of the WeDivest campaign headed by the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). We are currently in the planning stages of the campaign, but we hope to begin the campaign sometime soon in the future.
TFP: Anything else that SJP wants Toledo to know?
SJP: May we one day see a free Palestine!


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Local writer introduces novel based on murder
Author and Charleston resident Steve Kohlhagen will sign copies of his new historical novel, "Where They Bury You," 4-7 p.m. Friday, at Dulles Designs, 89 Church St.
The book was published by Sunstone Press and is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and independent book stores.
Inspired by a murder recounted in Hampton Side's book "Blood and Thunder," Kohlhagen delves into a crime that resulted in the death of a U.S. Marshal in Santa Fe.
The story takes place in 1861-63, during the Apache wars, the Navajo wars, the arrival of the Civil War into the Territories and the embezzlement of millions of dollars by con artists.
Kohlhagen is a former college professor and Wall Street banker.
For more information about his book, visit www.WhereTheyBuryYou.com.
Orangeburg writer publishes S.C. thriller
Holladay House Publishing will release on Nov. 29 its debut novel, "Tidal Pools," a crime fiction story by Lawrence Thackston of Orangeburg.
"Tidal Pools" is a southern thriller set in the fictitious Galeegi Islands off the coast of South Carolina, where the prime suspect of a controversial, 40-year-old murder case is found dead.
A rookie policeman and an Environmental Protection Agency research biologist join forces to unravel a mystery rooted in an ancient religion and find an elusive serial killer.
The "Tidal Pools" release party will be Nov. 29 in Orangeburg.
Call 803-249-0917 or email email@example.com for more information and to RSVP.
"Tidal Pools" will be available in three formats and can be purchased in stores and online at www.holladayhousepublishing.com and www.amazon.com.
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SACS superintendent to co-chair task force
Southwest Allen County Schools Superintendent Steve Yager will co-chair a task force making recommendations on how best to design a new A-F accountability system for Indiana schools.
The panel was created through a memorandum of understanding among Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz, Gov. Mike Pence, Senate President Pro Tem David Long and House Speaker Brian Bosma. Each entity appointed four members, with Ritz as the 17th member and co-chair.
Bosma and Long announced Friday they have chosen Yager as the other co-chair.
Ritz also named her members of the panel: Evansville teacher Keith Gambill; Gary Principal Cheryl Ramsey; Portage Superintendent E. Ric Frataccia; and technical adviser Michele Walker of the Indiana Department of Education.
The group must have recommendations finished by Nov. 1.
INDIANAPOLIS — Adjustments made to boost a charter school's accountability grade from a C to an A were plausible, according to a bipartisan report issued Friday on the state's troubled A-F accountability system for schools.
But the analysis from consultants John Grew and Bill Sheldrake also found some errors and questionable management of the system under then-Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett.
Senate President Pro Tem David Long said Bennett's administration underestimated the challenges of crafting the rules, and staffing changes complicated the process – "leading possibly to a rush in the end to implement it."
But Long went on to say that he saw "nothing nefarious" in the grades.
The report also included recommendations for crafting a new A-F system, which won't be in place until the 2014-15 school year, as well as how to deal with the flawed system in the meantime.
For instance, the report encouraged policymakers not to subject schools to state intervention until a new system is implemented. This would affect only a handful of schools that are at risk of spending a sixth year ranked in the lowest grade category.
For years, Indiana schools have received annual accountability rankings based mostly on student test scores. When Bennett came to office, he changed the categories to reflect an A-F grade. Then he pushed a new calculation for the grades that many educators didn't understand or trust.
The meat of Friday's report focused on the 2011-12 A-F grades given to schools under that new calculation.
It found that Christel House Academy's initial grade was a C, causing an "energetic response" from Bennett and his staff to find solutions for what they perceived to be an unfair result.
Christel House was essentially used as a "quality control indicator," or benchmark school, when testing the new data because of its history of excellence.
Two adjustments made to determine the final grade "were plausible, and the treatment afforded to the school was consistently applied to other schools with similar circumstances," the report said.
One of those changes was an error in the computer programming that affected hundreds of schools. The other was a policy change that allowed state education officials to throw out failing algebra test scores at Christel House as well as at a small number of similarly situated schools.
Even before emails about Christel House's grade change were leaked, legislators had passed a law to move away from the formula in the future. The new formula will focus more on students' improvement in scores rather than just a passage rate.
By law, the Indiana Department of Education must still issue grades under the existing formula until then.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz – who defeated Bennett in last November's election – said she didn't know when the 2012-13 grades would be issued.
"We have to wrestle with some decisions," she said. "We need an accountability system that is fair, transparent and trustworthy."
Bennett declared vindication with the release of the report. He had resigned from his post as Florida's education commissioner Aug. 1 amid the scandal.
"The report clearly shows that accusations of manipulation of the A-F system for a single school are false and malicious," he said Friday.
"I am pleased with this vindication, not for me, but for the work of my colleagues at the Department of Education and for the 1.1 million Indiana students who have benefited and will continue to benefit from a clear and rigorous school accountability system," Bennett said.
"I hope the unfounded political attacks will now stop and we can focus our attention on providing a great education to Indiana students and building on the success of the past four years."
Long and House Speaker Brian Bosma noted the importance of any new A-F system having a pilot year – a lesson learned from the most recent breakdown.
And a task force has been appointed to help advise the State Board of Education on new grades.
"What has happened has happened," Long said. "We can't be bogged down in quicksand by what's happened in the past. Our task is to move forward."


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The South Carolina Aquarium added five sharks to their largest exhibit, The Great Ocean Tank, Wednesday.
The sharks included three blacknose shark, one sandbar shark and one nurse shark. The new additions bring the total number of sharks in the Great Ocean Tank to 11.
Twelve tarpon were also moved into the 385,000-gallon exhibit. There are approximately 750 animals in the tank, according to a press release.
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By Master Sgt. Stephen Barrett, USAAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 16, 1996 The U.S. military is sending 30 wrestlers to U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling trials in Concord, Calif.
Athletes will compete for 10 spots on the U.S. team competing at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Rob Hermann of Pensacola Naval Air Station, Fla., coaches the U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling team.
Ten of the 30 wrestlers earned automatic Olympic trial bids by winning weight classes at the armed forces tournament at Quantico Marine Corps Base, Va., in March. The other 20 earned positions through regional and national competition.
Army leads the military delegation heading to California with 15 wrestlers. Marine Corps is sending eight grapplers, while Navy has six and Air Force one.
Leading the armed forces team is Army Spc. Rodney Smith of Fort Benning, Ga., a bronze medalist at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain. Smith will again compete at 149.5 pounds and will compete against two other armed forces wrestlers, Army teammate Spc. Laurence Jackson (Fort Benning, Ga.) and Marine Corps Sgt. Keith Wilson (Quantico).
Six wrestlers will compete for the 105.5 pound title, with the Marines sending three in the lightest weight class. Two-time armed forces champion Cpl. Jeremy Walker will battle Marine Corps teammates Sgt. George Williams and Staff Sgt. Eric Wetzel for a shot at Atlanta. All three wrestle out of Quantico. Navy competitors are Petty Officer 3rd Class Bob Demeritt (USS Kitty Hawk) and Petty Officer 2nd Class Mike Kimmerly (USS Gunston Hall). Army is sending 2nd Lt. Ben Runkle of Fort Benning.
Army Spc. Keith Idelburg of Fort Benning is one of three military wrestlers competing at 114.5 pounds. Idelburg, winner of the 1996 armed forces Greco-Roman title, will compete against Army teammate Spc. Andrew Norden (Fort Benning) and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Steven Mays of Pensacola.
At 125.5 pounds, the services are sending four wrestlers, led by Army Spc. Jason Tolbert (Fort Benning). Tolbert beat Marine Corps Cpl. Duaine Martin (Quantico) for the armed forces title in March. Martin, Marine Corps Cpl. John Gonzales (Quantico) and Army Capt. Trevor Humphrey (Fort Benning) will compete with Tolbert for the weight class title.
The 163-pound class also has multiple entries, with Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Nathaniel Jackson of Bethesda Naval Medical Center, Md., leading four Olympic hopefuls. Also vying are Army Specialists Keith Sieracki and Miguel Spencer (Fort Benning) and Air Force Senior Airman Jeremy Edwards (Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.).
It's also crowded in the superheavyweight class, where three wrestlers hope to earn the Olympic spot. Army Capt. Jeffrey Green (Fort Benning) won the armed forces title, but will face challenges from Army teammate Staff Sgt. Ed Mitchell (Fort Benning) and Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Matt Lamb (Pensacola).
A pair of junior officers will compete at 220 pounds. Army 1st Lt. Jerry Jackson (Fort Benning) and Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Dan Hicks (Quantico) qualified in regional competition. Hicks beat Jackson for the armed forces freestyle title in March, but the two did not compete in the Greco-Roman meet.
Another Army-Marine Corps rematch may occur at 180.5 pounds. Army Spc. Kenny Owens (Fort Benning)and Marine Corps Sgt. Chris Vike (Quantico) both earned slots. Owens beat Vike at the armed forces tournament, but Vike earned a spot through regional competition.
Army Sgt. Derrick Waldroup (Fort Benning) and Navy's Lt. j.g. Tom Storey (USS South Carolina) may also renew acquaintances at 198 pounds. Both qualified for Greco-Roman through the armed forces tournament, with Waldroup winning the 198 title and Storey taking gold at 220. The two met in the 198 freestyle competition, with Storey earning the top spot.
Army's Sgt. Shon Lewis of Fort Benning is the only military wrestler competing at 136.5 pounds. Lewis qualified by winning the class at the armed forces tournament.


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Town of Westminster MA
11 South Street, Westminster MA 01473
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11 South Street
Westminster ,MA 01473
978 874-2527
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June 30, 2015
Mary Waight
June 30, 2017
Valerie Antoniac
June 30, 2016
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June 30, 2016
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June 30, 2015
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June 30, 2016
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June 30, 2015
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June 30, 2017
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June 30, 2017
Our goal is to fund diverse cultural programs for a variety of audiences/participants.
The Westminster Cultural Council is one of 329 Local Cultural Councils (LCCs) in Massachusetts. Local Cultural Council Program Guidelines describe the LCC program as follows:
In Massachusetts, public funding for the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences is provided through a central state agency, the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), and through a network of local cultural councils that serve every city and town in the state.
"The MCC receives funding from the Massachusetts Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
"Local Cultural Councils (LCCs) are made up of volunteers who are appointed by the community's chief elected official and who are responsible for making decisions on how they will award the money granted to them by the MCC in ways that will serve local cultural needs."


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By Mike Van de Elzen on 2nd February 2014, in Dessert, Food & recipes, Recipes
- 6 plums (not too ripe)
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 sheet puff pastry
- 2 tbsp dessicated coconut
- 1 tub Vanilla Bean Nice Cream
1 Preheat the oven to 200°C. Halve the plums and remove the stones. In a large cast iron frying pan, heat the brown sugar and 1 tbsp water until the sugar begins to bubble and caramelise. When it starts to turn dark brown, carefully add another tbsp of water to halt the cooking process (the sugar can spit, so use care). Remove the pan from the heat and arrange the plums cut side down, allowing 1cm around the edge to tuck the pastry in.
2 Cut the pastry into a circle slightly larger than the pan. Cover the plums and tuck the pastry in so that it touches the bottom of the pan. Bake for 25 minutes.
3 Very carefully flip the tarte out onto a serving plate and sprinkle with dessicated coconut. Serve with large scoops of Vanilla Bean Nice Cream.


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NEW YORK (AP) About 350 homeless Superstorm Sandy evacuees who have been sleeping in New York City-funded hotel rooms for nearly a year may be forced to check out for good.
Lawyers for the city argued in Manhattan's state Supreme Court this week that the program must end Monday. That's when the Federal Emergency Management Agency says it will stop reimbursing the city for the program.
City officials say it has cost $70 million to house the refugees. More than 3,000 people have been sheltered as part of the program. Only about 350 of them are left.
Housing advocates say some evacuees would have no place else to go. The city says those who don't have other housing arrangements can apply to stay in one of the city's homeless shelters.
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New Line on Mount Robson by Steve House and Colin Haleyby Colin Haley Alpinist Jun/2007
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That afternoon we flew by helicopter into the Helmet-Robson col at the base of Fuhrer Ridge (IV 5.4, 2500m, Carlson-Hainsworth-Fuhrer, 1938) to avoid the twenty-seven kilometer trek. Steve had made the approach a number of times before and didn't want to chance the traverse under The Mist Icefall, a dangerously active serac, again. We left the col (10,200') at 4:30 a.m. on May 25 and descended the Mist Glacier to 8,000 feet, where our line on the Emperor Face began.
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COLUMBIA CITY — A 73-year-old woman was booked Saturday for threatening employees at Superior Auto with a screwdriver.
According to a Columbia City Police case report, Jeanne Wiedman, of Columbia City, was upset after her vehicle was repossessed, and went to the car store to dispute the action.
Wiedman allegedly pulled out a screwdriver and told an employee she was going to stab him, holding the tool a few inches from his stomach, and saying, "I'm going to hurt you if you don't give me my stuff now."
According to police reports, Wiedman called the Columbia City Police Dispatch to file a complaint about her car repossession.
In his report, CCPD Officer Jon Stoffel said he was in dispatch when the call came in.
"Our dispatcher explained there was nothing the police could do because Superior Auto repossessed her vehicle," Stoffel said in his report. "The female (Wiedman) then hung up on the dispatcher."
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Petitions to place a half-cent sales tax to fund conversion of the city's outdoor pool into an indoor recreation center were turned in Tuesday afternoon.
Spokesperson Mary Lecher says 302 signatures were needed and well over 600 were obtained.
Lecher says the Dawes County Clerk's office must now verify the signatures to be those of registered voters. She hopes the verification is finalized in time for the issue to be placed on the Chadron City Council's August 18 meeting agenda so the council can vote to put the issue on the November 4 ballot.
Lecher says if not, then the council will hold a special meeting to act on the issue.
The pool conversion plan has an estimated price tag of $5.9-million dollars. $4-million would come from the sales tax, $1-1/2 million from grants and foundations, and half-a-million dollars would be raised through a capital campaign and donations.
The deadline for the city to submit the sales tax issue to the Dawes County Clerk's office for the November election is September 2.


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When Facebook launched its social search engine "Graph Search" last week, I suggested that Facebook stalking would now be limited only by users' creativity in coming up with search queries. Well, congratulations to Tom Scott who has won the creativity prize with his Tumblr, Actual Facebook Graph Searches. He's posting and crowd-sourcing a series of searches that surface potentially embarrassing, hypocritical, threatening or unsavory information about Facebook users, such as:
- "Current employers of people who like Racism"
- "Spouses of married people who like [cheat-on-your-partner dating site] Ashley Madison"
- "Family members of people who live in China and like [the very very banned] Falun Gong"
- "Islamic men interested in men who live in Tehran, Iran"
- "People who like Focus on the Family [anti gay marriage] and Neil Patrick Harris [very gay and due to be married with kids]"
- "Single women who live nearby and who are interested in men and like Getting Drunk"
- "Mothers of Catholics from Italy who like Durex"
There is no private information unintentionally exposed here. It isn't as Gizmodo quipped in a post last week that "people are now sharing horrible things about themselves thanks to Facebook Search." They were already sharing these things. These are simply interesting juxtapositions of public information that was previously harder to access and display. For example, one could have gone to the public "Racism" page and looked at a list of everyone who liked it (hopefully ironically) and then looked through their profiles to figure out who their employers were, but it involved more steps. Facebook has simply done what any good tech company should do — remove those onerous steps and make it much easier to find out who's racist, who's cheating, who wants to get drunk tonight, or, perhaps best of all, all of the above.
The exposure of this information in this form isn't a matter of private information being breached; instead it's a matter of obscurity being reduced — a differentiation well explored by Woodrow Harzog and Evan Sellinger in The Atlantic. Increasingly, in this age of big data, better search tools, and ease of posting information, we're encountering more and more often discomfort around the idea of public data being made more public, as a New York newspaper discovered when it put public information about who had guns into an interactive map. Lots of people shot off about that one, including lawmakers, leading the newspaper to take down the map.
Tumblr creator Tom Scott realizes the issue isn't explicitly a privacy one.
"I'm not sure I'm making any deeper point about privacy: I think, at this point, we're basically all just rubbernecking – myself included," says Scott by email. "Facebook does have good privacy settings: but there are many, many people who don't know how to use them!"
That is a problem, and one that Graph Search could potentially help solve by demonstrating to people how public much of their content really is if they haven't fooled around with their privacy settings.
"People are confused about their settings. Facebook has changed them so many times. If you haven't locked down your privacy settings before, you should do it now," says consumer privacy expert Justin Brookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology. "There's a lagging awareness as to whether information should be public in the first place. The positive result of all this, though, is that people are becoming less and less stupid about information sharing. We're catching up and we're getting better."
Though some people, like Ryan Tate of Wired, will likely want to share more because of Graph, because it just became a much more useful vehicle for searching for information about venues, restaurants, and vacation spots.
Another problem with all this is the expectation we bring to the data. We're looking at these results as if all of this information is accurate, and that's almost certainly wrong.
"There's the fact that Facebook 'likes' and profile settings aren't necessarily accurate reflections of reality," writes Will Oremus at Slate. As commenter Julie Popp remarked on my last Facebook article in a seemingly endless series about the downsides of 'Liking':
A common joke among the males (especially freshman year) in a group of friends was to hack each others' Facebook accounts when they left their computer unattended. Then the hacker would "like" incredible amounts of things that were usually funny, opposite of the victim's political views, really awful boy bands or romantic comedies. It was all in good jest.
It's all fun and games until your friend's photo winds up on Gizmodo's front page.
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Eagles claim win over Aggies
N.C. Central made four free throws with less than 23 seconds to play in Saturday's game against rival N.C. A&T to wrap up a 66-62 win.
"Typical Central-A&T," NCCU coach LeVelle Moton said. "We knew it was going to be a barn burner, a dogfight."
With neither team able to significantly distance itself from the other, the game ultimately came down to which squad could best reprise the role as the heavy.
The Eagles were the tough guys, first-year A&T coach Cy Alexander said.
"Their bigs outplayed our bigs, just from a physical toughness standpoint," Alexander said. "And that's what bothers me — they were tougher than us physically and mentally."
NCCU figured out that nobody but A&T's Adrian Powell was hitting anything from outside, so the Eagles went to a zone defense that the Aggies couldn't overcome, leading to a bunch of long faces in the locker room, Alexander said.
"It's like a morgue in there right now," Alexander said. "It's sad, it's tough because we felt like we had the game, and we didn't make the plays.
"Down the stretch, (NCCU) didn't miss a free throw."
But Powell misfired on three freebies when NCCU was up by four with less than three minutes left in the game.
"That kind of hurt us," Powell said. "Those were crucial free throws I missed."
"When you're still learning how to win, you've got to be able to do all of those little things," Alexander said.
Moton has expressed concern this season that NCCU's new additions weren't up to speed, but he changed his tone after the win over A&T.
"My newcomers kind of grew up before my eyes," Moton said. "Can't say enough about Stanton Kidd."
Kidd had 24 points and nine rebounds.
Powell didn't give much credence to the notion that all of the Eagles who played were tougher than the Aggies, but he did single out Kidd for coming up with crucial rebounds and baskets.
"No. 11, I feel like he's the one that won the game for them," Powell said. "He's was their hustle guy tonight."
Kidd (6-7, 215), a transfer from South Plains, a community college in Texas, said he didn't feel particularly pressured while playing in his first Aggie-Eagle game. Frenzied gyms were the norm back home in Baltimore, he said.
A&T's Lawrence Smith was whistled for a flagrant foul that sent Kidd to the foul line with 22.6 seconds left in the game.
Kidd knocked down the first free throw and laughed at the crowd before burying the next one.
The Eagles also maintained possession on the flagrant foul, and NCCU guard Ray Willis was fouled before knocking down two of his 17 points.
Kidd made all 13 of his free throws against A&T, and Willis hit his five attempts.
"I thought the free-throw line was critical," Moton said. "I thought that was the determining factor, because we got our opportunities and we really converted and that's what you've got to do on the road to come out of a place like this with a win."
While NCCU held A&T to 34.5 percent shooting from the field, Powell, who scored 29 points, got too many open looks, Moton said.
"Powell caught fire," Moton said.
NCCU committed 18 turnovers, too many of them unforced, Moton said.
"We've got stop trying to (be) spectacular," Moton said. "These kids watch too much SportsCenter. I just need to probably strip their cable in their dorm rooms."
Copeland Jr|31|3-4|3-5|3-10|0|4|9
Percentages: FG .417, FT .840. 3-Point Goals: 5-14, .357 (Ingram 4-5, Kidd 1-2, Anyaorah 0-1, Ferguson 0-3, Chapman 0-3). Team Rebounds: 3. Blocked Shots: 7 (Willis 3, Copeland, Jr. 2, Jawara, Kidd). Turnovers: 18 (Kidd 5, Chapman 4, Ferguson 3, Ingram 3, Copeland, Jr. 2, Jawara). Steals: 4 (Copeland, Jr., Jawara, Chapman, Ingram).
NC A&T|MP|FG|FT|Reb|A|F|Pt
Percentages: FG .345, FT .722. 3-Point Goals: 9-26, .346 (Powell 6-10, Louisme 2-8, Witter 1-4, Underwood 0-1, Buck 0-1, Middleton 0-2). Team Rebounds: 6. Blocked Shots: 5 (Witter 4, Upchurch). Turnovers: 11 (Underwood 4, Middleton 2, Powell, Witter, Louisme, Beckford, Buck). Steals: 10 (Powell 3, Underwood 2, Louisme 2, Beckford, Middleton, Witter).
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Here's what you'll need. This makes about 10 tacos. Cook and prep time is about 45 minutes.
1lb ground beef
1 med. onion
1 container of fresh salsa (mild/med/hot your choice)
1 teaspoon cumin powder
1-2 tomatoes
1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese.
1 head of lettuce
1 package of corn tortillas (12 count)
1 cup of vegetable oil (enough to fill your fry pan about 1/2 inch)
1 can refried beans (if you want to stretch your beef to make more tacos)
I'm hungry already, it must be lunch time.
Step 1: Start cooking beef + onions
Add onions and ground beef to largish fry pan.
Put them on medium heat and mix them up.
Step 2: Add salsa and cumin
Add 1 teaspon of cumin.
Add all of the fresh salsa.
Mix and cook for about 15-20 minutes. Do not cover. You don't want it too wet at the end, but it will be juicy.
Step 3: Get cheese, tomatoes and lettuce ready
Sharpen your knife. Cut up the tomatoes.
Wash and dry your lettuce.
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Immigrants working in the U.S. are just as likely as the native born to have a college degree, but they are far more likely to lack a high school diploma, according to a report released in March by the Brookings Institution.
Immigrant labor is concentrated in two different worlds of employment, representing disproportionately large shares in industries as divergent as agriculture and information technology, the report says, citing 2010 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Immigrants account for nearly a quarter of those working in information technology and high-tech manufacturing, the report says. In high-skilled industries with a large number of immigrant workers, like healthcare and life sciences, foreign-born workers are more likely than their native counterparts to have a bachelor's degree.
In healthcare, they were more likely than the native born to be physicians and surgeons, though in raw numbers, native-born physicians and surgeons outnumbered the foreign born nearly 5 to 2.
Visa programs for skilled workers, like the H1B program, launched in the '90s, bring hundreds of thousands of workers with at least a bachelor's degree to the United States every year. The number of international students enrolled in the nation's universities has nearly tripled since the '70s; many of those students stay after college and become part of the labor force.
And as the American population has become more educated, immigrants without high school degrees have increasingly filled the demand for low-skill labor. In 1994, 72 percent of those who had a job but lacked a high school diploma were born in the U.S. By 2010, that number was down to 48 percent.
That same year, immigrants represented about one-fifth of all construction, food services and agriculture workers. Nearly 50 percent of people working in private households and more than 30 percent of those working in the accommodation sector were born outside the country.
Immigrants working in agriculture and accommodation were less educated than natives working in the same fields.
In the accommodation sector, for example, more than half the foreign-born lacked a high school diploma, compared to only 25 percent of the native-born workers. Immigrants generally filled "back of the house" roles, taking jobs as housekeepers, cooks and dining attendants, while native workers were more likely to work in the "front of the house" as desk clerks and managers.
Most immigrants working in agriculture were low-skilled farm workers, while native-born workers were farmers and ranchers who primarily owned and operated farms.
Immigrants of all educational backgrounds come to the United States for jobs, according to the report. The growth of the foreign-born population living in the U.S. slowed during the recession -- as did their share of growth in the labor force. From 2000 to 2005, immigrants made up about two thirds of the growth in the labor market; from 2005 to 2010, they contributed about 42 percent.
The report finds reason for optimism among immigrants working on both ends of the labor market: Seven of the 15 occupations expected to grow the fastest between 2010 and 2020 have a high percentage of immigrant workers, including iron workers and home health aides on the low-skill end, and interpreters and market research analysts on the high-skill end.


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HTML5 Animation and Transition [Video]
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- Learn how to harness the power of HTML5's latest APIs to develop incredible animations and transitions
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Whether you come from a technical background or not, HTML5 Animation and Transition will teach you everything that you need to know in order to develop compelling motion graphics using the latest HTML5 graphics rendering methods.
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- Learn the mathematical foundations that form the basis of any complex animation, such as vectors, vector operations, interpolations, and easing and acceleration
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From modern websites and data visualizations to video games or hybrid applications, animations and transitions are nowadays something that everyone—your clients, users, or managers—will expect your application to have. Thankfully, the latest HTML specification, HTML5, includes many tools to aid you in that mission. In this video series, you'll learn how to get the most out of all of them.
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Using the first chapters, you will learn (or refresh!) concepts such as vectors, vector operations, interpolations, and easing and acceleration. Then, you'll learn how to display static graphics on the screen using several rendering methods available in HTML5, such as DOM, CSS3, SVG, Canvas, or WebGL. Once you've learned how to display things on the screen, you'll dedicate entire chapters to implement several animation examples using every single rendering method.
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All videos in HTML5 Animation and Transition include hands-on, practical examples to follow along with. This course is geared towards beginners in HTML5 development and anyone who wants to learn transitions and animation.


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The ceremony will be held on the River Parade Field of the Pentagon.
Cohen and Arens will hold a joint press conference in the Pentagon Briefing Room, Room 2E781, at 11:15 a.m. (EDT).
Media must be at the River Entrance no later than 9:40 a.m. (EDT) for the honor cordon. Media without Pentagon credentials who are interested in attending the press conference must be at the Mall Entrance of the Pentagon no later than 10:55 a.m. (EDT). Media interested in audiovisual coverage of these events may contact Terry Mitchell at (703) 695-0169.


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Is Thomas Jefferson's famous phrase "wall of separation between church &
state" too broad an interpretation of the First Amendment? Historian Jon
Butler argues that original intent of the First Amendment was even broader
than that.
The Separation of Church and State Is Rooted in American Christianity
Johann Neem: Some Americans today believe that the separation of church and state is a threat to Christianity. But historian Johann Neem argues that Americans in the era of the Revolution promoted the idea of separation of church and state as a way to protect Christianity. They supported separation precisely because they were Christians.


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You've heard it or have seen it posted…
Someone saying they can say whatever they want, post whatever they want and no-one can do anything to them.
As if the First Amendment is their sword and shield. And you can't do anything about it.
Freedom of speech. Three words that get thrown around and written about so often that what the expression means is more about misinformation than truth.
And misinformation can be
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