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- Li X, Vradii D, Gutierrez S, Lian JB, van Wijnen AJ, Stein JL, Stein GS, and Javed A. Subnuclear targeting of Runx1 is required for synergistic activation of the myeloid specific M-C SF receptor promoter by PU.1. J Cell Biochem. 2005. 96(4): 795-809.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida's children's hospitals are pleading with state lawmakers not to proceed with proposed budget cuts for pediatric programs.
Hospital advocates gathered at the state Capitol Monday to say the cuts would threaten medical care for the state's poor and sick children. They are concerned the reduction in funding would force hospitals to close high-cost programs.
Susie Elmore of Ft. Lauderdale said her five-year-old daughter Brooke was born prematurely at 29 weeks and weighed only 2 pounds, 6 ounces. Brooke spent 60 days in the neonatal intensive care unit at Broward Health. She said the skilled doctors and state-of-the-art medical equipment saved Brooke's life.
Now Elmore is urging lawmakers to think closely about the budget cuts that could affect programs like the one that gave her daughter a chance.
"You have time to see who this decision is affecting because when you make these decisions it trickles down to the bedside, to the mothers and fathers that are praying at the incubators and the neonatal intensive care units and children's hospitals all over the state of Florida. I beg you to really think about those decisions."
Tish West of Tampa was also there with her 14-year-old daughter Caroline, who gets extensive care through Medicaid for a neurological disorder. West says her family never dreamed in a million years that they would be part of a government-funded program, but she is grateful for the care it offers Caroline.
Caroline receives treatment at a chronic care medical clinic in Tampa and West fears Medicaid budget cuts would eliminate the care that's been so beneficial to her daughter.
"If we didn't go there we would have to go to five or six doctors, which would cost the state a lot more than what it's costing to have us go to the chronic clinic. Further cuts to the hospital may jeopardize this really important clinic for all of us. I'm a realist and I understand we have to cut the budget. But please, let's not do it on the backs of children that can't speak for themselves and that have no other safety net."
The Florida House is considering $86 million in cuts to Florida hospitals, while the Senate goes further with $146 million in cuts.
The Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida says the state's 14 children's hospitals would face a disproportionate share of the budget cutting and that would threaten care for thousands of children.
"Tragically, these cuts may spell the end of programs that are saving children's lives every day. Keep in mind we're not just talking about numbers on spread sheets. These cuts affect real people and real children," said Lindy Kennedy of the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida.
The Alliance says two out of three children treated in Florida hospitals are insured through Medicaid. The number of people in the program has grown dramatically during the recession.
Florida's Medicaid program currently serves 3.3 million people. In 2006, that number was 2.1 million.
State lawmakers have been trying for years to rein in Medicaid's soaring costs. It's the fastest growing item in the state budget and accounts for about 30 percent of the state's $70 billion budget.

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The Alternative Is Catastrophe
January 11, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Reaching agreement on a health care bill is harder in theory than it will be in practice. Between now and the day the measure goes to President Obama's desk, there will be many crisis points, much posturing and dire warnings of impending failure. There are real differences between the bills passed by the House and the Senate. The last few votes are always the most difficult to get. But more than negotiators can afford to acknowledge openly, there is broad agreement on the kinds of concessions the Senate can make to the House and still preserve the 60 votes needed for passage.
Medicaid (Help) For All?
January 08, 2010
Under heavy political fire from left and right for his so-called "Cornhusker Kickback," Ben Nelson said Thursday that he has begun negotiating with the Senate leadership to expand his Medicaid funding deal to all states.
Red States vs. Blue States on Medicaid
January 08, 2010
Though Republicans were among the first to assail Ben Nelson's Medicaid carve-out for Nebraska, they've hardly been the only critics of the deal and the bill's expansion of the entitlement program. In recent weeks, Blue State governors and other officials have piled on the Democratic leaders of the reform effort for forcing their states to pony up too much for the Medicaid expansion. Even Democratic allies who had previously been supportive of the reform effort – including Mike Bloomberg, David Paterson, and Arnold Schwezenegger – have begun airing their criticisms.
Playing With House Money
January 07, 2010
If there's one area in which the House health care reform bill is obviously superior to the Senate version, it's coverage and affordability. There's more financial assistance for buying insurance and much stronger protection against out-of-pocket medical costs. That means more people getting coverage and fewer people struggling with expenses. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies, both on and off Capitol Hill, have made clear this is one of their top priorities for the coming negotiations over how to merge the two pieces of legislation.
One Vote Down, Three to Go
December 21, 2009
In the wee hours of Monday morning, the Democrats won the first of four votes necessary to pass health care reform legislation. The vote was procedural, over whether to end debate on Harry Reid's "manager's amendment." With all forty Republicans joining a filibuster, it took the votes of all sixty senators in the Democratic caucus to proceed. The moment was not exceptionally dramatic, given that the last Democratic holdout, Nebraska's Ben Nelson, had declared his support on Saturday. During the floor debate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made a plea for "just one" of the bill's supporters to
BREAKING: Nelson Says Yes; That Makes 60
December 19, 2009
The Washington Post is reporting, and multiple independent sources are now confirming, that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson has said he will support the Senate Democrats' health care reform bill. That would give Majority Leader Harry Reid the 60 votes necessary to break a Republican filibuster and pass the legislation. After weeks of negotiation that culminated in a 13-hour session yesterday, the clincher was some tinkering with Medicaid to help his state and modified abortion language. Critically, the language does not seem to have cost the support of abortion rights advocates in the Senate.
Ben Nelson, Still a Big Problem (Updated)
December 17, 2009
In a local radio interview this morning, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson indicated that he remains a "no" for now. He's not satisfied with the compromise on abortion that Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey proposed. He's not happy about the burden the Medicaid expansion places on states. He's not content with the level of cost control. He could be posturing, of course, but this is entirely consistent with what he's been saying all along. And it's why insiders have been warning he'd be harder to win over than Joe Lieberman. (Time's Amy Sullivan is among those not at all surprised at this deveopment.
Pssst. This Isn't Over. (Updated)
December 15, 2009
Via Politico, here's what Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson said as he left a White House meeting with the rest of the Democratic caucus a little while ago: I'm not on the bill. I have spoken with the president and he knows they are not wrapped up today. I think everybody understands they are not wrapped up today and that impression will not be given. A lot of people are treating today as the end of the debate, for better or worse, now that the Democrats have shelved the public option and Joe Lieberman appears ready to support the Senate bill.
Reid Has the Votes, At Least Tonight
November 21, 2009
Tonight, at around 8 p.m., the Senate will vote on a "motion to proceed" with the debate over health care reform. To be clear, this isn't actually a vote on whether to pass health care reform--or even a vote on whether to hold such a vote. It's a vote on whether to begin talking about whether to have a vote on whether to pass health care reform. And yet the outcome is not a foregone conclusion.
The Dodgy Political Punditry of Moderate Dems
November 05, 2009
One of the most frustrating consequences of an Election Day like Tuesday is that it invariably (if fleetingly) transforms moderate politicians with no particular insight into the dynamics of public opinion into all-knowing sages. More to the point, it elevates their perfect-for-every-occasion view of politics, which says that if your party suffers a setback, the reason must be that it was too far to one side of the political spectrum, and so the answer is obviously to move back to the middle.


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London Calling is a book to keep an eye on. Bloor weaves contemporary and historical settings, a ghost story, and a coming-of-age tale. The result is an emotionally and intellectually satisfying read that will appeal to fans of all genres.
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Martin Conway comes from a family filled with heroes and disgraces. His grandfather was a statesman who worked at the US Embassy in London during WWII. His father is an alcoholic who left his family. His sister is an overachieving Ivy League graduate. And Martin? Martin is stuck in between--floundering.
But during the summer after 7th grade, Martin meets a boy who will change his life forever. Jimmy Harker appears one night with a deceptively simple question: Will you help?
Where did this boy come from, with his strange accent and urgent request? Is he a dream? It's the most vivid dream Martin's ever had. And he meets Jimmy again and again--but how can his dreams be set in London during the Blitz? How can he see his own grandather, standing outside the Embassy? How can he wake up with a head full of people and facts and events that he certainly didn't know when he went to sleep--but which turn out to be verifiably real?
The people and the scenes Martin witnesses have a profound effect on him. They become almost more real to him than his waking companions. And he begins to believe that maybe he can help Jimmy. Or maybe that he must help Jimmy, precisely because all logic and reason argue against it.
This is a truly remarkable and deeply affecting novel about fathers and sons, heroes and scapegoats. About finding a way to live with faith and honor and integrity. And about having an answer to the question: What did you do to help?
"Bloor (Story Time; Tangerine) continues to demonstrate his range, this time mixing historical fiction with time travel in a poignant adventure story about fathers and sons. Martin Conway is a troubled scholarship student at a private Catholic school where his mother works. He has a run-in with Henry M. Lowery IV, whose family has established a million-dollar trust fund at the school in memory of their patriarch, a WWII hero. Martin exiles himself to a bedroom in the basement, first outfitted for his manic-depressive Uncle Bob as 'a place of shame,' and then used by his alcoholic father (before he left home). Oddly, Martin's life is reinvigorated when his grandmother dies, bequeathing to him an old Philco radio. One night, the radio magically transports him to 1940 London during the Blitz, and into the company of a boy named Jimmy, who insists he needs Martin's help with something very important. It's at this point (roughly a third of the way into the novel) that the narrative takes off, too, as Bloor deftly evokes the terror of wartime, weaving in interesting threads about U.S. diplomatic history (and allowing readers to witness for themselves the true nature of General Lowery's character). During a series of visits, Martin figures out not only how to answer the question Jimmy says everyone is asked when they die — 'What did you do to help?' — but the answers to many of his own questions as well. Have tissues on hand for the final pages. Ages 10-up. (Sept.) " Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Seventeen-year-old Matthew Walsh narrates this account of his tumultuous South Boston childhood with one of literature's most despicable mothers: Nikki is 34 when the book opens — pretty, reckless and dangerously manipulative. Through the course of Werlin's (Double Helix) taut story, Matt and his sisters, Callie and Emmy, tiptoe around her mercurial behavior in a calculated effort to survive into adulthood — hiding in their rooms when she brings strange men home, saying whatever they believe she wants to hear, doing whatever they must to avoid a violent outburst. The children's father and unmarried aunt know the kids are in danger, but their fear of Nikki outweighs their willingness to act. The novel unfolds as a letter Matt is writing to Emmy as he heads off to college. He possesses the insight of a teen who has rocketed into adulthood out of necessity. If some readers find his maturity implausible, Werlin deflects attention from his nearly dispassionate recollection with short chapters and a thread of palpable tension that will easily carry readers along to the hopeful ending. Ages 12-up. (Sept.) Agent: Curtis Brown Ltd." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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PIC: Aishwarya Rai Dresses Up Post-Baby Curves in Stunning Cannes Return
World's most beautiful woman? Sounds about right!
Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made her red carpet return to the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night at the star-studded AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala. The Bollywood star and former Miss World, 38, has been a mainstay at the film festival for years, but 2012's proceedings are her first since giving birth to daughter Aaradhya with husband and fellow actor Abhishek Bachchan last November.
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Since becoming a mom, the beloved star has been the subject of harsh criticism in her native India for her supposed failure to drop her baby weight. (One critic said it was "her duty" to get thin ASAP to maintain her superstar image.)
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Bachchan shrugged off that negativity at Thursday's gala with a jaw-dropping ensemble: a gold embroidered sari, coordinated with a tailored jacket and Mandarin collar; the Bride and Prejudice star wore her hair up with a slim gold headband, and accentuated her world-famous eyes with dark eyeliner.
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Stepping out in a casually classy look, Rachel McAdams catches a performance of Avenue Q at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles on March 1. Rach made her way out of the theatre covered up in a cute floppy hat, layering a tweed jacket (like Mike Gonzalez's Astrud Convertible Jacket in Multi) over a striped top (similar to Laila Jayde's Bold Stripe Top in Grey/Black) with one of spring's staples, a light pencil skirt (check out Nicole Miller's Pencil Skirt in Olive). Rachel stayed warm in black stockings, wearing a pair of strappy black peeptoes (try Farylrobin's Jessica in Black) with a femme heart necklace (like Calico Juno Designs' Necklace 85 in Gold) and a black tote (try Jalda's Fabric Masha in Black) completing her look. What do you think of Rachel's theatre-going style, does it work for her? Floppy hats were all over the runway in both Spring presentations and the Fall 2011 shows that just ended in New York, Paris and Milan, so I'm excited to see her taking this trend from day to night, even if it is just to ward off the paparazzi. Have any of you indulged in a wide-brimmed accessory for spring? Rach is enjoying some downtime right now in between projects, as her new film Midnight in Paris starring Owen Wilson and Marion Cotillard will be released in theatres in just a few weeks. When she's not in front of the camera Rachel loves the outdoors, so it's no surprise she was spotted getting down n' dirty on a Hollywood Hills hike last week. According to Daily Mail, Rach is back on the West Coast after traveling to Ireland with her low-key beau Michael Sheen, who likes to stay close to LA to be near his daughter Lilly, who lives with her mother Kate Beckinsale. Having an excuse to stay in sunny LA probably isn't a bad thing when it's freezing in Rachel's native Canada brrr!
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Here's another over the top embellishment. This time I covered a pebble. Makes a great paperweight.
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Thanks for that! And you know the great thing? They're addictive because every one is very different. Also the 'ingredients' are small and very portable and I can do it on a plane (using a floss box as a cutter). The one above even has tyvek in it.
I am truly impressed, really love this piece,colours and textures, reminds me of an underwater scene at the beach here in 'down under'
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Love this piece, Polly! I am in awe of your work and your enjoyment in it really shines through.
Delicious. Very meditative. I can see sitting and looking / touching this for long periods of time wile my mind wanders to lovely places.
Funnily I am looking in here again and came across your "pebble". I started to write and went to hit enter when I saw that I have already written a note to you. Well I repeat that note and tell you I am extremely inspired by your art.
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In the mood to try something new when you decorate your home for the holidays this year? A few years ago, I was too. So I started experimenting with creating wild and majestic floral displays in garden urns and large vases. I was blown away by how powerful these displays are, rivaling even the venerable Christmas tree for head-turning results. Plus, they can be super easy to create. What could be better? That's why decorating with wonderful winter bouquets has become a mainstay at Nell Hill's during the holiday season. Want to try one in your home this year? Here are some tips to get you started.Big and Beautiful
When people think of bouquets, they usually imagine small, tame arrangements. At Nell Hill's, we like to walk a bit on the wild side and create bouquets that are large, powerful and a bit edgy. This approach is especially effective during the holiday season, when more isn't less, it's definitely more.
To give my foyer added drama for my holiday open house one year, I created a big, beautiful bouquet for the table that sits by my front window. I selected a tall, thin clear glass vase as my base. Then I filled it with some craggy fallen sticks that extended several feet from the top of the vase, which gave the arrangement the height it needed to hold its own in this lofty room. Next, I filled in with faux seasonal greenery, like pine boughs, cedar branches and picks loaded with pinecones, letting the branches drape down randomly over the sides of the vase. Since I was going for a more edited look that year, I stopped there. I love how it came out!
If you want a bit more pizazz in your holiday arrangements, start with a base like the one I did in my foyer, then bring on the baubles to give it more zip. The photo above is from a dining table display at Nell Hill's Atchison, and the goal for this one was to make it fun, fun, fun. Our visual team started with sticks and greenery then tied brightly colored ornaments to the sticks, letting them hang down over the table setting. How could you not feel as giddy as a child when you sat down to a table decorated with a centerpiece like this one?
To add a touch of holiday elegance to the tabletop display in your entry or living room, use beautiful urns and vases made from transferware or blue and white pottery. Keep the arrangements refreshingly simple – just a few sprigs of fresh or faux mixed evergreens. Or, dress them up by adding carefully chosen accents, like pheasant feathers, fresh white lilies or red roses.
I also love to put holiday displays in containers that look like they have a history, like an olive vessel with an aged patina or a rustic urn. One season, when I decorated a designer show house for the holidays, I dressed up an entry table by filling a distressed white pottery urn with a loose and lanky mixture of pine branches. The look was wild and simple, which provided wonderful design contrast in this formal foyer.
Glitz and Glam
At Nell Hill's this year, we are in love with anything that shines. Metallics are bigger than ever for the holidays, and you can't go wrong with silver, gold and bronze. Chery, a member of our visual team at Nell Hill's Atchison, created some fabulous floral arrangements for the stores that sparkle and pop. In the simple but stunning arrangement pictured above, she started by making a wreath of sorts out of gilded faux flowers, letting them lop over the edges of the simple pottery jar she used as a vase. She finished off by filling in the center space with frosted faux pine and metallic picks. In seconds she created a striking display that would work wonderfully on your dining room table, buffet, mantel, side table – you name it.
Using a similar jar as a base, Chery went for a bit more drama with this sensational bouquet. She mixed a variety of picks, from natural looking pine boughs to beaded jewels to fashion an inverted triangle shape that brings the eye up and out.
This year, we are using lots of metallic picks in our displays, like the ones pictured here. They look amazing paired with real or faux pine branches. I also like to tuck accent picks like these into the branches of my Christmas tree to give it a bit of shimmer and shine.
Chery went with a more rustic look for this holiday display. She used one of my favorite cream pottery vases as a base, then inserted fallen sticks, crisscrossing them at the bottom so they would hold together and not fall out. Notice how she went with shorter sticks for this bouquet because she was working in a room with a low ceiling. She filled in with very simple pine picks to give the display more fullness. Then, she had some fun threading in a red plaid ribbon and tying red plaid ornaments to the outer twigs of the branches. I like how she also added in a few gold picks to make it pop.
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Holiday floral displays aren't just for inside anymore. If you have garden urns, you can fill them with bold and beautiful bouquets that will bring your exterior holiday décor to a whole new level. Place a garden urn in a strategically significant spot, like next to your front door, at the entrance of your garden, on either side of your garage door or in a garden bed. I put mine at the entrance of my courtyard, against a blank wall. Next, find several long, fallen sticks in your yard and insert them into the urn, letting the sticks drop to the bottom so they won't blow out. If you want a glitzy look, spray paint the sticks silver or gold. Or leave them natural for a woodsier feel. Add a few boughs of faux or fresh evergreen branches for seasonal color. This is a great place to use the cuttings from the bottom of your Christmas tree or old evergreen picks you no longer want in your interior displays. Stop here if you want a more natural look or add a splash of color with holiday ribbon, pinecones or winter berries.
For a completely different look, place a wreath at the mouth of the urn, then fill in the center with an interesting focal point. It could be a gazing ball, a large lantern holding a battery operated candle, a garden figurine, a candelabrum or a moss ball. To give the display a bit of sparkle, use a pre-lit wreath. Or make the wreath look wilder and more natural by twisting in some honeysuckle vine.
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Thanks for the lovely ideas. Always look forward to each week's catagory. So nice to see the fresh and the dried pieces work together. Love the look of candles inside different glass pieces lining a walkway. So beautiful. With the good look of the new flameless candles you doin't have to worry about them . Wishing you and all your staff a blessed Thanksgiving. Pat and Gene Pennington
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87-year-old Toms River man builds Yankee Stadium replica with 75,000 matchsticks
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Yankee Stadium made from matchsticks: Match stick Yankee Stadium made by Toms River man survives Sandy and goes to the Bronx
TOMS RIVER — You've heard of "The House That Ruth Built"? Now there's the house that Bill Becker built. And they both are Yankee Stadium.
Becker, 87, of Toms River, is a master builder of models made of matchsticks. Perhaps his greatest triumph to date is the massive replica he has built of the original Yankee Stadium — 75,000 matchsticks strong — using photographs, memory and a lot of Elmer's glue.
It took four years to build.
Becker's masterpiece is one of only a few items in his Toms River home that was not washed under by floodwaters during superstorm Sandy. And now he is getting recognition for his work.
"For once in his life, my grandfather is speechless," said Kelly Herrington, 37, of Suffolk, Va., who with her cousin Sara Becker mounted a massive social media and email campaign to make her grandfather's dream come true — to get his model to the real Yankee Stadium.
Last week Bill Becker, known among family members as Brother Beans; his matchstick stadium; and two busloads of relatives traveled to the real thing: the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Becker's tale will be told on the YES Network, which filmed the story for a pregame show to air at 6:30 p.m. today.
"I can't believe it. I can't believe how the fans came up and wanted to take pictures with me," Becker said of his trip to Yankee Stadium. "I was very surprised the Yankees wanted it. I couldn't believe how nice they were to me."
Among the many matchstick structures Becker has built over the years is one of Lambeau Field, the fabled NFL stadium in Green Bay, Wis., where the Packers play. He has built dollhouses for his granddaughters, a matchstick manger and a Christmas train. His Lambeau Field was on display at the Vince Lombardi Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1975 and 1976. Lombardi brought prominence to the Packers as the team's head coach in the 1960s.
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Becker's matchstick Yankee Stadium was on display behind Plexiglas for three days last week in the real stadium's 200 level near the press box.Bronx News, Bronx People, House That Ruth Built, new yankee stadium, Sandy, Site News, Sports, The Bronx, Toms River, YES Network
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CHICKS DIG SCARS: How about a nice cuppa SHUT UP, JAY.
Charles Woodson: "Same old Jay. We don't need luck, we just need to be in position. Jay will throw us the ball."
Wow. Upon further review ( see what I did there? ), Mr. Woodson may seem a bit pompous, making such a comment. But, after basically being called out by Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall in the media this week, the future Hall of Famer was a bit pissed. Here's a hint, Jay. Next time, don't question the man who's going to be stalking you for three and a half hours. It's just not smart. Neither is KICKING HIM in frustration while he's lying on the ground at your feet. Woodson's bust will be sitting in Canton while you're shopping your wares to other teams after the Bears finally get sick of your moody, petulant, million dollar arm, ten cent head, yell at your linemen and receivers when things go bad, Jeff George act.
Oh, and Mr. Marshall, I'd like you to meet the man that YOU called out this week. His name is Tramon Williams. Behind the dreadlocks, insane smile, and slight Cajun accent, is one of the BEST corners in the National Football League. Oh, sure. You're taller than him, but do you think you're the first taller, stronger, WR he's ever met? The guy has to blanket Megatron twice a year. He's known as a "shut-down corner," and part of the reason that the Packers pass defense was so porous last season, was that he was injured.
So basically, you questioned the manhood of Charles Woodson and Tramon Williams. Let's sit for a minute and let that sink in. CHARLES WOODSON and TRAMON WILLIAMS.
Yeah, that sound you hear is everyone outside Chicago laughing at you. I have a feeling no one in the Second City is laughing today.
But, hey, don't be discouraged, Jay. People used to say the same thing about Brett Favre and his interception habits. But, even on his worst days, where he served up INT's like Snickers to Betty White, I don't recall Brett ending games with a 28.2 passer rating.
Karma is a beautiful thing.
The morning after the Green Bay Packers disposed of the Chicago Bears, 23-10, in front of a national audience on Thursday Night Football, I am feeling a bit smug, even if it only lasts 10 days, which is how long the Packers have until their next game. Perhaps I wouldn't be in this mood if it weren't for the fact that I live around so many Bears fans, who this week acted like they'd won the Super Bowl in Week One, and the rest of us shouldn't even bother showing up. Oh, and I'm not just calling out those idiots. I'm also calling out the Packer fans who FELL for it, too. You know who you are. The Packer fans on my Twitter timeline and the ones on ESPN Milwaukee yesterday who thought that the Packers were going to lose this game. What a contrast, as I drove to work, my eyes rolling into the back of my head as I listened to ESPN 1000 out of Chicago talk about the upcoming game. They were happy, jovial, and couldn't wait to lay a beat down on the overrated Packers. No respect. No self-awareness that the Bears had just beaten the WORST team in the NFL with a rookie starting quarterback the week before, and that the Packers had lost to a Super Bowl contender. It was a done deal. It didn't matter that Jay Cutler was 1-6 versus the Packers (now 1-7). He had a couple of new toys and those new toys were all that the Bears needed to put the rest of the division behind them. I was so infuriated that I slammed my iced, venti, non-fat Pumpkin Spice latte with an extra shot of espresso in record time. It made me hyper and irrational, and willing to kick anyone who said "Bear Down" to me, straight in the nads. I had to go to an exercise class at lunch to bring me back down ( and turn my aggression to the evil instructor, rather than random Bear fans ). You see what bragging and bravado does? It infuriates your opponent. As much as it frustrates me to listen to Aaron Rodgers' polite, canned, sports cliched, complimentary comments regarding his opponents every week, there's a good reason for it. He doesn't want to be bulletin board material.
Now, I'm not entirely pleased with certain aspects of the Packer game last night. It wasn't perfect offensively. But, it always seems that Aaron Rodgers has mere mortal performances against Chicago, so it wasn't really surprising. Rodgers took five sacks and threw a pick in the fourth quarter, as the Packers' offense struggled to find points. His receivers still can't hold onto the ball, and they did miss Greg Jennings. No Jennings means that defenses can focus on Jordy Nelson more. The Packers need both of them on the field. I also yelled at the TV, pleading them to throw it to Driver, again, since he was the only player who evidently didn't coat his hands with that greasy Country Crock and Heinz ketchup concoction I saw on Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo last night.
Favorite parts of the evening included the perfect passer rating of the Ginger Wolverine ( a.k.a. punter, Tim Masthay ), Mason Crosby outscoring Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb in Fantasy Points ( actually, that made me happy AND pissed me off all at once ), and the pass rush, Clay Matthews, in particular ( 3.5 sacks, and was unblockable ). Welcome back, Thor. We missed you. Seven sacks and four interceptions? Beautimous. Yeah, I think the defense had something to prove and were helped out by some bulletin board motivation, thanks to Cutler and Marshall. Enjoy the lovely cheese and sausage tray that you'll be receiving from the Brat Stop in Kenosha, Jay and Brandon. Thanks for the help.
Not to toot my own horn ( yeah, right ), but I Tweeted something in the first half when the Packers finally went ahead:
@ Chezhdchick Some things are guaranteed when the Bears fall behind: Lovie will start wasting challenges, Cutler will lose his shit & start tossing INT's
I'd like to point out that I made this bold prediction before Cutler began making mistakes and screaming at his teammates. Some things are so predictable that even a chick can see them coming, right guys?


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by Marilyn Odneal, Horticulture Adviser
(Mountain Grove) – This year, we are harvesting Sunbelt grapes in the first half of September at the State Fruit Experiment Station at Mountain Grove. Sunbelt, as the name implies, was developed at the University of Arkansas to be the "Concord of the South." Last year, when the weather was very hot and dry, our Concords did not ripen evenly. The clusters remained a mix of dark blue, red and green berries due to the heat and were difficult to use. Our Sunbelts, on the other hand, ripened evenly and all of the berries in the cluster turned blue at about the same time despite the heat.
Sunbelt is a seeded grape cultivar that was released from the University of Arkansas Breeding program in 1993. Like Concord, its large berries in small clusters are slipskin – the skin does not adhere to the pulp but slips off when squeezed. They taste like Concord too, but generally ripen earlier at Mountain Grove. As far as winter hardiness, Sunbelt is similar to the very cold hardy Concord. The vines are vigorous and easy to establish as long as you keep your eye on weed control and regular watering if needed in the first couple of years after spring planting.
Sunbelt is a good all purpose grape that is easy to harvest. It is not attractive to birds, so netting is not required for protection. It is great for fresh eating and for making juice, jams, jellies and pies. In fact, Sunbelt juice was rated as good to better than Concord. It also can be made into a Concord style wine.
Sunbelt is even more disease resistant than the mighty Concord with moderate resistance to black rot and anthracnose and high resistance to powdery and downy mildews. Japanese beetles may like it, but it has large leaves and can withstand light damage without a problem.
Edible landscapers find Sunbelt very useful in home plantings. Due to its winter cold hardiness, its large leaf canopy, its disease resistance and the fact that the birds don't care for it, it is an ideal grape to use for arbors and trellises where people gather for shade. Even if you plant it in a row, due to its disease resistance, it will look good even with a low spray or organic production program.
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Babinski reflex
Babinski reflex is one of the reflexes that occurs in infants. Reflexes are responses that occur when the body receives a certain stimulus.
The Babinski reflex occurs after the sole of the foot has been firmly stroked. The big toe then moves upward or toward the top surface of the foot. The other toes fan out.
This reflex is normal in children up to 2 years old. It disappears as the child gets older. It may disappear as early as 12 months.
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When the Babinski reflex is present in a child older than 2 years or in an adult, it is often a sign of a brain or nervous system disorder. Disorders may include:
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Griggs RC, Jozefowicz RF, Aminoff MJ. Approach to the patient with neurologic disease. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 403.
Lehman RK, Schor NF. Neurologic evaluation. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW III, et al., eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 584.
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PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Volunteers have spent three months painstakingly recording and preserving thousands of letters, photographs and other items left at a memorial wall for 19 wildland firefighters who died in a north-central Arizona blaze. Now they say they're weeks away from wrapping up the project.
The volunteers have been processing the remembrances that grief-stricken family members, friends and strangers left on the fence bordering the fire station that the Granite Mountain Hotshots once called home.
"One day, I really lost it," said Deborah Balzano, who has worked four days a week on the project. "I found an infant's onesie with the words, 'My daddy is a hero.'"
The 19 men died June 30 while battling the Yarnell Hill Fire.
After dismantling the memorial wall in early September, the core group of volunteers has returned week after week to meticulously sort, photograph and assign numbers to the items before storing them away, for now, on tidy shelves.
City officials are still deciding on a permanent home for the items. City spokesman Pete Wertheim said he expects an announcement to be made next month regarding a memorial.
The official end of the Tribute Fence Preservation Project is scheduled for Jan. 17, but volunteers hope to have much of the work done before Christmas, the Daily Courier reported (http://bit.ly/1fqhPzo).
Just like the fence served as a forum where the community could show its grief, volunteers say the preservation process has helped them deal with the tragedy.
"I wanted to do something," Marian Powell said. "That was the same motivation people had for putting things on the fence — they wanted to do something. This is my way to do something."
Ered Matthew said that for many, the fence served as "therapy through art and creating something."
Ted Pohle, a retired schoolteacher, said he found the children's tributes — including many miniature toy fire trucks — especially touching.
As for the future of the archived items, Prescott officials say a decision is pending.
Until then, Wertheim said he called other communities that have experienced large-scale tragedies such as Tucson, Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., where mass shootings occurred in 2011 and 2012.
"The one common denominator in all of their advice is to not rush things," said Wertheim, adding that some communities take years to develop plans for permanent memorials.


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Editor's Note: Make no mistake – new cyberbulling laws grease that slippery slope towards total net censorship, but now states are pushing for felony charges for what looks to be a legal mine field. And it's all in the name of "protecting children".
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The states — Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine and New York — want to put penalties on the books for the types of digital bullying that led students in several states to commit suicide. Among the victims was Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman who jumped to his death in 2010 after his roommate used a webcam to spy on his gay encounter. The roommate, Dharun Ravi, was convicted Friday on 15 counts in a case that drew national attention.
North Carolina passed a law in 2009 to criminalize cyberbullying, making it a misdemeanor for youths under 18.
The trend in legislation is "bringing our laws into the digital age and the 21st century," said New York state Sen. Jeffrey Klein, a Democrat who sponsored a bill to criminalize cyberbullying. "When I was growing up, you had a tangible bully and a fight after school. Now you have hordes of bullies who are terrorizing over the Internet or other forms of social media." Under Klein's proposed law, anyone found guilty of using electronics to stalk or harass someone could face a misdemeanor or felony charge that could carry a prison sentence.
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More watercolors. Another of my favorite artists is Marc Simont.
He won the Caldecott medal in 1957 for A Tree is Nice. All the pictures in this book are not in color. It was too expensive back then to do every picture in color, so publishers just printed every other spread in color when they made picture books.
So. Today's entry is about one of my favorite artists: Hiroe Nakata. She illustrates with watercolors. Sometimes she also uses gouache (which is basically a thicker watercolor) or ink.
Most of the characters she paints are humans, but she's done three duck books.
Are those ducks cute, or what?
I totally forgot to list two of my absolute favorite picture books (for big kids. Some of my favorite picture books *are* for little kids). Me and My Cat? is not very long, but its humor just won't be fully appreciated by little people.
Once upon a time, a little girl, about 8 years old was walking down the picture book aisle, when her mother said, "get out of those baby books." ACK! How's a kid supposed to learn to love reading if she can't read what she wants.
Picture books are not *baby* books. Picture books are basically stories with pictures. Some picture books are for babies. Some picture books are for preschoolers. There are even lots of picture books which are for kids in elementary school, even 4th or 5th grade--even junior high--even high school!
Think of it this way--are ice cream cones *just* for little kids? No, of course not. But will little kids appreciate rum raisin ice cream, or coffee ice cream? No, those flavors are for bigger people. It is just the same with picture books--some are for little people and some are for big people.
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Here's mine (me being Waylon Lewis): On one of James' visits to New York, Max took a fancy to his ten-gallon hat. James sent one to Perkins, and it fit perfectly. "I happened to be walking in it with a portrait painter," Max wrote in thanking him, "and he begged me to let him paint me in it, and that never happened before I got this hat." From that day forward, there was hardly a moment when Perkins did not wear a hat, indoors and out. Eventually he traded off permanently to a sort gray-felt fedora, size seven, which he wore so low that it folded his ears forward.
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Cory Booker's emotional televised plea to "stop attacking private equity" may have been the single greatest service he could perform for the Romney campaign.
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Progressives have yearned for President Obama to follow Harry Truman's strategy from the 1948 campaign by giving his Republican opponents hell. Now that Obama is doing just that, his critics say he's not looking presidential.
Who are the dastardly enemies of free enterprise who decided to make an issue of Mitt Romney's tenure at the private-equity firm Bain Capital? Er, those would be his fellow Republicans.
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Stephen Colbert has one. So does Sarah Palin. And now, billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump says he wants his own super PAC too.
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President Obama is to be applauded for questioning Mitt Romney's legacy, although his motives seem to be as opportunistic as those of Romney's opponents in the Republican primaries who took the same tack.
For Mitt Romney, the president's greatest vulnerability seems to be that Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton—and he is seeking to exploit that perception in his public speeches attacking the incumbent.
Mitt Romney has a new economic goal, one that ostensibly backtracks from the benchmark he set for himself earlier this month. The presumed GOP presidential nominee told Time magazine's Mark Halperin on Wednesday that he would get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent in his first term.
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In this election, we're not having an argument that pits capitalism against socialism. We are trying to decide what kind of capitalism we want.
Actor with a capital "A" James Lipton has a master class for the presidential contender: "Since politics and performance have become pretty much fused, and since you've been criticized by some for not coming across as authentic to your public, maybe we can sort of work on that today."
Did Mitt Romney, the likely Republican presidential nominee, just have his "John Kerry moment" of the 2012 campaign?
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When did Mitt Romney start loving Bill Clinton? Since the presumed Republican presidential nominee evidently realized that praising the former Democratic president could earn him the votes of political moderates.
Mitt Romney was against Bill Clinton before he was for him.
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George W. Bush announced his support for Mitt Romney on Tuesday in an unorthodox manner for a politician: He blurted it out from an elevator while the doors were closing.
Republicans say they're eager for the presidential campaign to turn away from "distractions" and focus instead on the economy. Someone should warn them that if they're not careful, they might get their wish.
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We have been, like nations on the periphery of empire, colonized.
President Obama's evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation's long march toward equality and justice.
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Strict headmasters, effete manners and practical jokes both harmless and humiliating pepper the memories held by the probable Republican nominee's boyhood friends and acquaintances of their time behind the arches at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., almost 50 years ago.
Two incidents tested Mitt Romney this week—and both times, his ambition overwhelmed his judgment.
Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that's what it was, given Sunday's election results in Europe.
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He may have lost to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in both caucuses, but Ron Paul won a majority of the delegates in each state.
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In an effort to improve upon the 2008 slogans of "Hope" and "Change," the Obama campaign insisted before an Ohio audience Saturday that the president would take the country "Forward" if voters (and corporate sponsors) elected him to four more years in the White House.
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May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election?
A novel aspect of the Republican campaign for the party's presidential nomination has been the importance placed by some candidates, their admirers and some voters on the Catholic religion and certain claims to formal academic certification or endorsement.
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Does anyone care that the economy is floundering and that we are not getting out of this crisis anytime soon?
It turns out that there is at least one question on which Mitt Romney is not a flip-flopper: He has a Utopian view of what an unfettered, lightly taxed market economy can achieve.
Steve Brodner of The Washington Spectator imagines what it would be like for politicians and their wealthy donors to consummate their relationships. Like a car crash, it's hard to look away.
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Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that he would retire his run for the White House and that he had told Mitt Romney he would give him his full endorsement.
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The wealthy financiers of Americans Elect are trying to get a so-called centrist on the ballot in all 50 states. That label doesn't apply to Anderson, who is vying for their nomination anyway and tells me "amazing things can happen."
It's quite possible that on Election Day, voters' most urgent concerns—economic or not—will be driven by overseas events that neither President Obama nor his Republican opponent can predict or control.
We are about to have the worst presidential campaign money can buy.
Once upon a time there was a political tribe called "liberal Republicans," led by chieftains named Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, Mac Mathias and others.
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An artist's book is a work of art that takes the form of a book. But what does that mean? And what counts as a book, anyway? Is it a bunch of pages that have been bound together, or is there more to it than that?
These are the kinds of questions that artists' books try to answer. They play with both the form and the function of books as objects, encouraging onlookers to question traditional conceptualizations of "books." They are usually handmade, often unique, and all different from one another. Because most artist's books are hand-made and only crafted in small, limited runs, they offer artists a special opportunity to create books that are intensely personal.
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This thesis sets out to provide a deep analysis of the mechanisms for review of convictions in New Zealand and England after initial appeal rights are exhausted, and to identify the key areas of similarity and difference between these systems, the reasons for these differences, and their implications.
The appeal systems in each jurisdiction are briefly examined, alongside the pressures and restrictions on their functioning. Particular attention is paid to the options for appeal out of time, and for revisiting appeal decisions if new material comes to light.
The main discussion is of the specialist procedures for review of suspect convictions in each jurisdiction: the Royal Prerogative of Mercy process carried out by the New Zealand Ministry of Justice and the work of the English Criminal Cases Review Commission. This discussion presents the results of empirical research carried out by the author utilising the files of each of these bodies. It investigates the legal context in which each body functions, and provides an account of how each body functions in practice, by examining the circumstances in which each body will contemplate referring a matter back to an appeal court and the means by which a determination is made as to whether to do so in an individual case. In addition it examines the various factors (legal and non-legal) which impact on their work.
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