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Excerpt from: Norbert Hedderich, "When Cultures Clash: Views from the Professions,"
Die Unterrichtspraxis
(1999): 161-65.
Style of Interaction
The interviewees generally agreed that a more business-like atmosphere characterizes the German work environment. The most frequently cited example was small talk. Most of the Americans were initially taken aback by the lack of casual conversations about family and hobbies. Eager to quickly establish a certain level of rapport with their German colleagues, many were puzzled by the lack of interest in casual conversation on part of the Germans and took it as a personal affront. One American interviewee, in a managerial position in Germany, felt especially handicapped by this phenomenon. 'At home, I like the interaction with my team. Here, it doesn't seem possible. If I had this kind of relationship with team members in the US, it would be considered dysfunctional." As time passed, this issue became less of a problem for the Americans, and they developed a greater comfort level in interacting with their German peers. For the Germans describing their experience in the US, this phenomenon was a source of confusion in a different sense. The more casual style of interaction (die lockerere Umgangsart) among Americans was a pleasant surprise. In addition, Germans found a degree of helpfulness toward the newcomer in the US that they were not accustomed to. This welcoming into the culture and the feeling of having been made part of the group - one German engineer used the metaphor mit ins Boot nehmen - clearly made a lasting impression. About half the Germans went on to explain that their German cultural frame of mind misinterpreted the openness of their American counterparts. A classic example is the invitation into the home of a co-worker, which, according to the interviewees, is by far more likely to happen in the US than in Germany. To the culturally uninitiated Germans working in the US, such an invitation signaled at least the interest in establishing a longer-lasting friendship, but the expected follow-up often did not occur. Some of the Germans considered this a "superficial attitude." One respondent called it "a form of self-protection resulting from the high degree of mobility in the US."
Attitudes toward Work
German interviewees commented on a different system of attitudes relating to work in Germany, which explain some of the items mentioned earlier. In their opinion, there is a clear separation between work and home in Germany; in the words of one American, "work is work and play is play, there is more emphasis on family, free time, Urlaub, and other values among Germans." Overall, Germans spend far more time away from work than Americans do. The American engineers were surprised at the shorter working hour of their German counterparts. "Everybody leaves work when it is Feierabend. At the managerial level, though, considerable overtime is expected in Germany as it is in the US."
Positive Thinking
Both Americans and Germans noticed more positive thinking and an upbeat attitude in the US culture. Maintaining an overall positive atmosphere is considered a high priority in the American work environment. One American observed, "In Germany praise is the absence of criticism." While in the US, Germans were confused when they were repeatedly praised for what they considered accurate completion of routine tasks. Other examples include presentations and letters of recommendation. In presentations given by Americans, some of the German interviewees found that negative aspects of a particular issue were not labeled as such but were listed under a heading such as "items for improvement" or were dropped altogether. One of the German interviewees commented as follows: "Ich fand das positive Denken der Amerikaner sehr verwirrend. In Deutschland wird viel weniger gelobt. Das Loben in Deutschland tun wir nur verhalten. Amerikaner sagen immer 'good job'; wenn etwas schlecht war, sagen wir dagegen 'das war Mist.'" To one of the German interviewees American positivism was "distraction from genuine problems." Letters of recommendation were another example. "Deutsche Referenzen sind im Ton zurückhaltend, amerikanische dagegegen sind eher überschwenglich." This example supports the notion that Americans display more high-context behavior than Germans.
Core Values: Rapport vs. Truth
In American meetings, it was observed, the manner in which a group arrives at a consensus is important. Keeping an overall positive, friendly rapport and avoiding personal attacks ranks high among Americans. "In the US, it doesn't rock the boat if the rules have to be bent a little to achieve the goal," said one American. Interviewees observed on the other hand a stricter adherence to truth and exactness in Germany as a core value. An interesting example is the American practice of signing a document for someone else. In many US offices, there is a mutual understanding that a subordinate or colleague can sign routine paperwork using the superior's name in case of absence of the superior. "In the US signing when the boss is out makes the wheels run," said an American interviewee. When trying to do so in Germany, the same person was met with shock, disbelief, and a clear message that he could be put in jail for such an action.
Greetings and Forms of Address
In Understanding Cultural Differences, Edward T. Hall and Mildred R. Hall comment on the concept of space and increased territoriality in Germany. Almost all the American interviewees observed more formal greeting rituals in Germany, particularly when entering people's offices. One American described the following situation, which he observed at the beginning of his stay in a large southern German firm. Early in the morning, he and his three colleagues who shared an office were sitting at their desks, discussing an urgent production problem. Their supervisor came in and - before delving into details - he went around to each desk, greeted each member of the group and shook hands. Other American interviewees similarly reported that it took time to get used to the daily handshake as well as the ubiquitous lunchtime greeting "Mahlzeit." Most Americans also commented on the use of the formal Sie versus the familiar du. Overall, the familiar form is used much more frequently in the workplace than commonly assumed. Most of the Americans reported that du was used in their immediate, German-speaking peer group. Age and position in the company tended to be the key factors for the use of Sie versus du. Interviewees reported that managers and persons considerably older were not addressed in the familiar unless that person offered the du. At the managerial level, the du address is found less frequently. The use of du between supervisors and subordinates continues to be rare. It was most common in those companies that had a high degree of internationalization or were American-owned.
Fast Pace vs. Detail
Almost everyone mentioned clear differences between Germans and Americans on the following concepts, which tend to be linked with each other: pace, attention to detail, and short-term vs. long-term thinking. These points were major sources of friction between the two sides. In the German firms, the planning process of a project tends to be long and very detail oriented. Plans are not implemented until they have been reviewed thoroughly. In the words of one American chemist: " The Germans will say: 'Let's try it one more time'; the Americans think Germans are testing things to death." For the Americans, gut feeling that a plan will succeed is enough. A German personnel manager whose company had recently been bought by an American firm said: "In groups where German and American engineers work together, we experience over and over again that the Germans want to plan far more thoroughly (gründlich), whereas the Americans are content with having completed 80% of the planning and then say; 'Let's begin.' The Americans constantly tell us to 'move faster.' We are struggling with an immense pressure to make faster decisions."
Short-Term vs. Long-Term Thinking
This item is a frequently discussed topic in the German-American business context. It can be partially explained by the different reporting systems American and German stock corporations must adhere to. Publicly traded German companies must report results to their shareholders only once a year, whereas American companies are required to do so four times a year. In addition, many companies in Germany are privately owned and therefore have no reporting requirements at all. There is considerable pressure on American management and things change at a faster pace. Personnel changes are one example. An Amencan plant manager who had been on assignment in Germany was informed at the beginning of the month that he was to return to the US at the end of the same month. "Unthinkable in Germany," responded a German personnel manager. Many the interviewees in this study, both Germans and Americans, commented on this aspect. They labeled the American style "goal-oriented and action-oriented." "Achieving the goal in a given time period is critical in the US. There is an emphasis on meeting expectations," said one interviewee. Germans, on the other hand, are more concerned with exactness and providing all the necessary details. One German interviewee said: "Americans work two to three times faster than Germans, they are very goal oriented, but if the plan does not work, they will completely throw it overboard after three months. It is much more difficult to change a plan in Germany once it has been implemented." A strong orientation toward action among Americans was a major and recurring theme in the interviews, expressed mostly by German interviewees (Aktionismus). It was perceived as a pervasive concept in the American work culture. As it clearly dashes with the detail-oriented, long-term thinking of the German work culture, some of the Germans viewed it critically. One of the German interviewees said: "Die Deutschen denken, die Amerikaner tun etwas, damit etwas gemacht wird."
Creativity, Innovation, and Independence
Action-orientation versus attention to detail lead to the topics of creativity and innovation, which were on the mind of all American interviewees and were mentioned as a significant difference by some of the Germans as well. "My American colleagues and I keep a list of creativity killers," said a dearly frustrated American-trained engineer working in Stuttgart. "I often hear: 'No, this won't work'; 'we've tried this before,' and here is my favorite one: 'Things are different in the US.'" He reported "a resistance to alternatives," a "box-like thinking," an "unwillingness to just talk about a subject if unprepared" and a "general risk aversion in the culture." One of the German interviewees who had spent a year in Texas pointed out. "In den USA findet man mehr Kreativität. Man geht nicht immer den geraden Weg zum Ziel. Die Amerikaner schränken sich weniger mit Regeln ein. Sie sind innovativ. Auf der anderen Seite sind sie weniger gut beim sturen Abarbeiten - Dinge, die getan werden müssen." In Hidden Differences. How to Communicate with the Germans, Hall and Hall call this phenomenon compartmentalization. Many of the interviewees, particularly the Americans, mentioned it by talking about different approaches to teamwork in the two cultures. In general, they reported less interaction with colleagues in the German work environment and said more independence was expected in Germany. One engineer described his notion of compartmentalization very vividly as the "over the wall" phenomenon: "You develop the idea yourself. Then you throw it over the wall to the next person. You are done with it. It is now someone else's responsibility." He considered this procedure inefficient. The same person observed difficulty interacting with people from different departments in Germany with the following example: "I needed to have something done by a person in a different department in order to move on with my project. As I would have done in the US, I went to that person and asked him if he would provide me with the necessary information. He said no, claiming that was not part of his responsibilities. I then asked my boss, who asked the other person's boss to talk to his subordinate and request the information. This way it finally got done."
The interviewees also observed a different role of the manager in the two business cultures. Many observed that American managers play a more active role and appear to have more power in the decision-making process. Although the Americans are given plenty of room for brainstorming, the final decision often rests with the manager. One German interviewee observed that American managers, even though they encourage brainstorming, tend to give more detailed instructions. "Deutsche Manager dagegen erwarten in der Regel selbstständiges Handeln, sie würden genaue Instruktionen als Bevormündung auffassen." Many interviewees commented on the relationship to management on working independently and on having open discussions with supervisors. An interesting issue is challenging a manager's decision or opinion. Americans were surprised by the degree to which Germans challenged the opinion of a superior. In one American-owned company, the American managers found it unusual that their German subordinates wanted to talk about performance reviews. In the words of the German personnel manager of this company: "Die Welt denkt die Deutschen seien obrigkeitshörig. Ein weitverbreitetes Klischee. Die Tatsache ist, das ist ganz anders seit '68. Die Menschen hier haben Schutz vor Entlassungen durch das Arbeitsrecht."
Communication Style
The above mentioned different attitudes toward time and detail can also be seen in different styles of communication. One interviewee used presentations as an example for culture clash. In his company Germans and Americans worked closely together in the first years after an American takeover. The presentations given by Germans tended to be long (about an hour), included the historical development of the project, and contained numerous details about how the project was to be implemented. The important items were placed at the end. "The Americans got bored and grew very impatient," reports one interviewee. "The presentations given by Americans on the other hand tended to be shorter (30 minutes), were animated, and often began with a joke. The presenters focused on the action to be taken, provided the key information at the beginning, and supplied less detail than their German counterparts." In this company, the Germans reported that the culture clash described above was compounded by the language barrier. The Germans had to present in English, and despite extensive language training in English, they experienced difficulties expressing themselves and "selling" themselves. "If everything goes through the English-language filter, you just cannot get the message across very clearly. I felt reduced to one quarter of the person I am," remarked one of the Germans in this group. As problematic as this issue sounds, the most hopeful signs for resolutions to the culture-clash issue came from companies where the contact between Germans and Americans was most intense. In the company described above, mutual feelings of culture clash decreased as the American boss made progress with his German language training, began to speak German, and experienced the kind of helplessness (kam sich wie ein Kind vor) the Germans had gone through. The above-mentioned German manager, while disagreeing with many of the business practices of his American counterparts, saw positive changes in his firm because of the American influence.
Wir sind im echten Sinne internationaler geworden und haben unseren Horizont erweitert. Die Amerikaner haben eine offenere Informationspolitik, und wir haben davon gelernt. Unsere Vorstandssitzungen laufen jetzt entspannter ab. Zum Beispiel nehmen die einzelnen Abteilungsleiter jetzt auch 'mal junge Sachbearbeiter mit, die etwas präsentieren. Ihnen wird applaudiert. Das ist sonst in Deutschland nicht üblich.
Misunderstandings also arise from the issue of directness versus indirectness in the language. According to the interviews, verbal messages in Germany tend to be more direct than in the US, where they often are softened with expressions of politeness. The following example of a communication between Germany and the US illustrates this point. In a fax to a US firm, a German employee writes: "We need this information by..." For the US partner, this is an unambiguous message, and she provides the required information in due time. In a comparable situation, the US employee faxes to her German counterpart "We would like this information by...." To the German counterpart, this type of wording may signal that this matter is not urgent and consequently the request is not completed by the required date. One of the American interviewees adapted to the more direct style of communication. "I have noticed the more flowery language of Americans; now I find the directness of the Germans refreshing, there is no doubletalk."
Interviewees' Advice
In the last question of the interview, the participants were asked what advice, based on their own personal experience, they would give young Americans who are going on an internship to a German-speaking country. While focusing on adjustment at work, interviewees were also encouraged to comment on all aspects of the overseas experience. There were numerous comments, and they covered a wide spectrum of suggestions, from attitudes to very practical advice. As this information was given in the form of "dos and don'ts," it will be rendered here in that fashion.
Before Going Abroad
Become as proficient in the language as possible before you leave. Take advantage of intensive courses in the US or in Germany.
Read as much as possible about the country as you can (survey knowledge of history, geography, politics, economy, current issues, etc.). You will get more out of your stay, and the people you are interacting with will appreciate it if you come informed.
At Your Place of Work
Lower your expectations, especially in the first three months of your stay. It takes time to get used to living and working in a different culture.
Don't be brash and try to impose American ways. Try to take in what you experience without immediately making judgments.
Expect to work independently. You may see your supervisor less frequently than expected.
Don't be afraid to take initiatives, to ask questions, and to ask for a different type of work or projects. You won't get it if you don't ask. This holds true especially in Germany.
Outside Work
Expect diversity. Germany is not a homogeneous culture. Life is very localized. Language, food, customs will vary from region to region.
Don't take it personally if people seem distant and reserved to you at the beginning. It may be as difficult for you to get used to this as it is for a German visitor to the US when asked by a stranger "How are you?"
Be patient when it comes to getting to know people. Closer contact comes with time.
You will achieve the best results in your language proficiency and your stay will be more enjoyable if you have German friends. As most Germans separate work and private lives more than Americans, don't count on being able to get together with colleagues after work. Instead, find people with whom you share a common interest, join a Sportverein, Schachklub, etc. You will find a number of Vereine in even the smallest town.


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You might be tempted to purchase pulse oximetry equipment and screen your baby yourself, however not all pulse oximeters are made equally and these over-the-counter models will give improper results.
Getting your home birth baby screened:
A note about equipment: You might be tempted to purchase pulse oximetry equipment, however not all pulse oximeters are made equally. The inexpensive machines available on popular sites won't be appropriate for this screening. Hospital-grade pulse oximeters are required. Vendors that make properly cleared equipment include Masimo, Coviden and Nellor.
For midwives and home birth providers, this is an excellent resource from Masimo explaining technology and tools needed to start a CCHD screening program.
The Wisconsin SHINE program has a section dedicated to home births and birth center births.
I encourage you to take advantage of the resources on this site and accompanying blog, where you can find information about the screening algorithm, placing a pulse ox probe, educational resources to give to your patients, and the science behind the screening.
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2 Eggs
1.5 TB Splenda (to taste)
tiniest pinch of salt
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edited 2012: the original recipe uses agar FLAKES. If you have Agar POWDER instead (I finally found some), you need a scant/level teaspoon.
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Inspired by the BBC series A History of the World in 100 Objects, we decided to ask listeners to suggest objects that tell the story of New York City. We collected a great list of items and then asked listeners to vote for the 10 objects that best tell New York's story—from its first days to 2012.
Recently in The Story of New York in 10 Objects
Object #1: The Greek Coffee Cup
Friday, March 16, 2012
The top object in our countdown is perhaps the most accidental of New York icons. In its heyday the Anthora cup, with its crisp blue and white Greco design, was the way you drank hot beverages on the go. But, as Leonard pointed out, sometimes the coffee itself wasn't always that great. Oh, the power of nostalgia. (continue reading)
Object # 2: The Subway Token
Friday, March 16, 2012
It might seem odd that our listeners chose an object that hasn't been used in New York City for nearly a decade as number two on our list. But as Robert Del Bango of the New York City Transit Museum told us, it's actually "a very smart object" to tell the story of New York. (continue reading)
Object # 3: The Food Cart
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Eating outside has always been a part of the New York City way of life. "The early colony was downtown," Fabio Parasecoli of The New School told us. "Food had to be brought to southern Manhattan from the nearby farms." Often, that food was sold and consumed on the street. (continue reading)
Object #4: The Oyster
Monday, March 12, 2012
Our listeners chose the lowly oyster—not the exalted bagel— as the only edible object on our list of ten items which define New York City. In a number of ways, the rise and demise of the harbor oyster is the story of the city itself.
"The history of New York is the history of gobbling up everything," Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster explains. "When there was deer and elk and lynx and all sorts of things on Manhattan, people ate that stuff. The wild fruit trees that once covered New York are all gone too. It reaches the point where the one natural resource that's left to eat are oysters." And by most accounts, early New Yorkers ate oysters by the bucketful. They were harvested by the Lenape Indians and loved by the Dutch and British colonists. The bivalve was once synonymous with New York City. "Today, people come to New York and take in a Broadway Show—it used to be that people from all over the world would come here for the oysters," Kurlansky said. (continue reading)
Object #5: 18th-Century Ship Excavated from WTC Site in 2010
Monday, March 12, 2012
This object is an example of New York's past colliding with its present.
"We've never seen a boat like this before," Warren Reiss a maritime historian and archeologist at the University of Maine explained. "There are a number of things about how this vessel was built that we are still scratching our heads about." Reiss was the principal investigator of a ship the New York Times dubbed the "S.S. World Trade Center." "We don't even know if it had one mast or two," Reiss said. (continue reading)
Object #6: Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
It was slightly surprising that Frank O'Hara's 1964 collection Lunch Poems came in at number six on our list, but it turns out to be a very good way of looking at New York City. As NYU professor Lytle Shaw, author of the book Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterieexplains "Lunch Poems is a condensed and highly accessible book that is smaller than a subway map." That feature makes it easy to take the book anywhere. Shaw described it as having the potential to "acclimatize you to the things New York has to offer." (continue reading)
Object #7: The Brooklyn Bridge
Monday, March 05, 2012
The seventh object on our list violates the central rule of our contest that it "must be able to fit in a museum"—but just this once we'll make an exception. Richard Haw, a professor at CUNY and author of the book, Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History, told us that the bridge is a particularly good selection for this project. "It helps illuminate different parts of the history of the New York: political, economic, demographic, social, transport, technological, literary and artistic." (continue reading)
Object #8: "Wall St." Sign
Friday, March 02, 2012
The Wall Street sign is the first object on our list that is central to both the long history of New York City and the current moment. William D. Cohan, author of Money And Power told us "You can not overstate Wall Street's importance from either a literal or symbolic point of view. It's not up there with the Statue of Liberty, but it's a symbol of what America is all about. That's why there is so much disappointment about their behavior over the last few years." (continue reading)
Object #9: Manhattan Schist
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Who knew so many of our listeners were geology enthusiasts? Or that, to use a pun Leonard would probably dream up, they really know their schist? Charles Merguerian, chairman of the Geology Department at Hofstra University, seemed surprised and then pleased that New York City bedrock made the top ten of our list. He said "People always ask: What came first the chicken or the egg? But the answer is rocks. Rocks are so fundamental and basic to us and our existence that there is a natural tendency towards wanting to know about them." (continue reading)
Object #10: The NYC Subway Map
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
It's fitting that we kick off our countdown of the 10 objects that tell the story of New York with an object that, quite literally, lets us explore the city. Even the most savvy, life-long New Yorker ends up consulting the subway map regularly. That's probably the case because — for better or worse — a subway map is the map that explains much of the city's geography to us. (continue reading)


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Deep Space Nine was originally acquired for viewing/distribution by WGN (and/or affiliates) which was Channel 9 in the Chicago area. Coincidence?
I left the Chicago area in 1990, and at that time, WPWR Channel 50 was carrying TNG. They didn't stick with the franchise?
Regarding syndication, apparently WGN pulled off a feat and stopped letting all the big series pass them by. Before DS9, WPWR-50 had gotten TNG, Baywatch, and Highlander. After then? WGN got DS9, Hercules, Xena, and every Tribune series (obvious why). WGN had more spending power than WPWR. They got the WB and now CW affiliation. They're still affiliated with the Cubs, Bulls, and now air Blackhawks games (since that idiot owner of their finally died and his son got with the 20th century and started televising games), air some White Sox games (split with WCIU. All these teams air about half or more of their games on the RSN).
WPWR was great for many years with syndicated series and syndicated cartoons. They became the UPN affiliate and were one of the stations Fox bought around 2000 or so. It's been downhill for them ever since. After UPN ended, they became the affiliate of that junkbin of a network My Network TV. The dual-ownership (WFLD & WPWR) ran the station into the ground (WFLD has taken a nosedive too. Their news operation is in shambles and is a complete joke with high turnover behind-the-camera, distant last in the ratings for many years, they have idiots running the controls [messed with the signal right as the Giants won the World Series. Literally everything's fine til the last at bat, numerous weather warnings for non-existent weather during the World Series]. IIRC WPWR was always better-run back in the day but WFLD's quality has definately gone down the past several years). WFLD dumped many shows it no longer wanted on WPWR. WFLD & Fox used the channel as its garbage can. It's quite sad to see it now (judge shows 7 days a week, crappy MNTV remnant syndication, AHL hockey). WPWR-50 did have the strip-synd reruns of TNG thru IIRC 1996.
Off the top of my head, the rest of the syndicated series in the Chicago market...
* WGN: Vanishing Son, Universal Action Pack, Adventures of Sinbad, Nightman, Adventure Inc, The Lost World. Everything except DS9 IIRC was 2-weeks behind due to WGN laziness with splitting their signal between WGN & WGN America. I'm not sure why DS9 was exempt from that (it aired Sundays in the first 3 seasons, Saturdays in the back 4 seasons as part of a block with Hercules, Xena, Earth: Final Conflict).
* WPWR: PTEN series (Babylon 5, Kung Fu: TLC, Time Trax, Pointman), Baywatch Nights, Tracker, Highlander: Raven, V.I.P. Amazon.
* WCIU: Conan, Tarzan, Flipper, back 2 seasons of Poltergeist: The Legacy. I think they had the Mortal Kombat series. They clearly got what was left, what WGN & WPWR passed on. The station's original lineup resembled METV + Svengoolie. Later on they added Stooge-a-Palooza before both ended up being switched over to the Me-channels.
* WFLD Fox-32: syndicated reairs of Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits, 2 seasons of Poltergeist: The Legacy. A pretty stupid move because so often it ended up being pre-empted for baseball or football. Actually seemed worse than WGN for pre-emptions.
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In its 10 years, Overnights of Hospitality has provided more than 30,000 overnight stays in area churches for homeless individuals.
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It's been a couple of years since the Los Alamos Hilltopper girls golf team has earned its way into the state Class AAAA tournament during the regular season.
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Los Alamos won Monday's Los Alamos Fall Invitational, finishing with an overall team score of 386, 18 shots better than St. Pius X. The score gave Los Alamos its second state qualification leg in as many tournaments. Three are required for state qualification.
The Hilltoppers couldn't have picked a better year to get hot early, as a rule change for 2010-11 states that a district champion no longer automatically qualifies for the state tournament. The Hilltoppers didn't pick up the necessary three regular season legs in either of the last two seasons but went on to win district both times.
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In a survey commissioned by the American Institute for Cancer Research, 78% of respondents said that eating certain types of food while avoiding others was more important to their weight loss efforts than eating less food.
By all means, make healthy choices, but … effective weight loss plans place equal importance on both kind of food and amount of food ingested. Portion size most certainly matters, because weight loss is based on how many calories you take in and burn off.
What is a serving size?
A 'serving' is simply a measure of unit and often does not represent the amount that you're actually eating. If you're confused, you're not alone. There is no one definition for a serving size. The food pyramid indicates that an English muffin is two bread servings, but the English muffin box indicates that one muffin is one serving. The standard USDA serving for French fries is about 10 (Yikes! I'm in trouble.) Would you like to know how many fries are in a Wendy's Great Biggie?About 100, at 530 calories.
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Weigh and measure first. Invest in measuring spoons, cups, and a food scale. While you're shopping, you might as well pick up a Calorie Count Guide Book and a notebook to honestly keep track of what you put in your mouth! These are great tools in determining portion size and calorie count and are well worth the investment.
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Science Odyssey: A Year Later, the Large Hadron Collider is Still Smashing!
By Clay Farris Naff
When it first fired up, the Large Hadron Collider was the object of both outlandish fears and ridicule. Now, after a year of nearly continuous operation, the LHC is producing results. We hear from two high-energy-particle physicists work work on various aspects of the LHC project.
In Part 1, Ken Bloom of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln tells us that the best news to date is how well the particle collider is working.
In Part 2, Jim Brau (at left) of the University of Oregon describes some of the experimental results to date.


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In a food processor bowl, mix yeast and water; let set until foamy (about 5-10 minutes).
Add salt, oil and most of the 3 cups of flour (save 1/4 to 1/2 cup and only use as needed to make a very soft dough)
Turn out into an oiled bowl. Let rise until doubled in size (about 1 hour). Punch dough down, pat down in an oiled pizza sheet pan (I like to use the biggest I can find). Let rise for 1 to 2 hours longer.
Preheat oven to 415 degrees. Bake for 5 minutes - longer if using a smaller pan.
Top pizza with favorite ingredients. Bake for an additional 10 - 12 minutes or until preferred doneness.
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What I love most about this series of photos is that you can see the snow melt. Brilliant.
Flats via Modcloth's Stylish Suprise Sale, $10; Everything else via Stitch Fix, $208 (read my review and pictures of the clothes here)
Total: $218
Yeah...lotta money. But, it's good, quality stuff that I love. I also really love those flats. They just got here last week and I haven't had a chance to wear them yet, but they're so fun and cute. I can see them getting a lot of wear this summer.
7 - This was great. It really made me think, and I can't wait to tackle some spring cleaning.
What Would Audrey Do? - Loved this. Such a fun read.
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Readership: Scholars and students of comparative
politics, public policy, multi-level governance, and European integration
Edited by Arthur Benz, Professor of Political Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and Jörg Broschek, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt
Arthur Benz's research, over the last decade, has focused on politics and policy-making in multilevel governance and constitutional change in federal or federalising systems. The results of his research have been published in books and journals such as Public Administration, Regional and Federal Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and West European Politics. He is Professor of Political
Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
Jörg Broschek is author of a book on Canadian federalism (Der kanadische Föderalismus. Eine historisch-institutionalistische Analyse, Wiesbaden 2009). His articles have been published in academic journals including the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Regional and Federal Studies, and the Swiss Political Science Review. He is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. His current research focuses on institutional and policy change in federal systems.
"The volume is an excellent starting point for a broader effort of integrating the comparative study of federalism around a structure and change framework while anchoring it in the field of comparative politics... a notable contribution to both federalism studies and comparative politics." - Paul Dragos Aligica, International Affairs 89
"This edited book is ambitious and insightful, drawing on the distinct and diverse theoretical traditions of constitutional design and reform, historical development, comparative federalism and institutionalism, to better elucidate the ontology and dynamics of federal systems. Students will find it
a challenging but not inaccessible text, which will abundantly reward their diligent attention." - Federal Governance
1: Arthur Benz and Jörg Broschek: Federal Dynamics: Introduction
Part I: Models, Varieties and Dimensions of Federalism
2: Arthur Benz: Dimensions and Dynamics of Federal Regimes
3: Thomas Hueglin: Comparing Federalisms: Variations or Distinct Models?
4: César Colino: Varieties of Federalism and Propensities for Change
Part II: Timing and Sequencing and Historical Evolution
5: Jörg Broschek: Between Path Dependence and Gradual Change: Historical Institutionalism and the Study of Federal Dynamics
6: Kathleen Thelen and Sebastian Karcher: Resilience and Change in Federal Institutions: The Case of the German Federal Council
7: Tulia Falleti: Decentralization in Time: A Process-Tracing Approach to Federal Dynamics of Change
9: Mikhail Filippov and Olga Shvetsova: Federalism, Democracy and Democratization
10: Anthony Sayers and Andrew Banfield: The Evolution of Federalism and Executive Power in Canada and Australia
Part III: Social Change and Political Structuring
11: Daniel Béland and André Lecours: Federalism, Nationalist Politics, and Social Policy: How Ideas and Institutions Interact to Produce or Prevent Change
12: Lori Thorlakson: Dynamics of Change in Federal Representation
13: Wilfried Swenden and Simon Toubeau: Mainstream Parties and Territorial Dynamics in the UK, Spain and India
Part IV: Actors, Institutions and Internal Dynamics
14: Jenna Bednar: Constitutional Change in Federations: The Role of Complementary Institutions
15: Bettina Petersohn: Constitutional Reform and Federal Dynamics: Causes and Effects
16: Nicole Bolleyer): Paradoxes of Self-Coordination in Federal Systems
17: Dietmar Braun and Philipp Trein: Economic Crisis and Federal Dynamics
Arthur Benz and Jörg Broschek: Conclusion: Theorizing Federal Dynamics


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In the waters off the coast of Gabon, a humpback whale lunge-feeds in the near vicinity of an offshore oil platform. Recently, scientists from WCS and other organizations used satellite tags to track the movements of more than a dozen humpbacks as they traveled between breeding areas off western Africa and distant feeding grounds in sub-Antarctic waters. The research showed how often the whales came in contact with offshore oil rigs, major shipping routes, and potentially harmful toxicants.
"Throughout numerous coastal and offshore areas, important whale habitats and migration routes are increasingly overlapping with industrial development, a scenario we have quantified for the first time in the eastern South Atlantic," said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, Director of WCS's Ocean Giants Program.
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The Report "Comprehensive Guide To Solar Photovoltaic Certifications" V. 2 will be released October 2015.
This information would be very helpful. Due to every company saying they are the best quality and that all the other big companies buy cells off them.
Great video! Very interesting content guys
Hello Dricus,
Regarding your testing regime, received the following from my solar system supplier & installer:
"Oddly enough, They failed to mention flash testing in the their video. I think climate and mechanical load testing is great but there needs to be a flash test to check electrical connections, particularly the soldered collection points at the end of the cell circuits and that the actual rated wattage is within +- 5% or thereabouts. California was very strict about this and had very high standards."
Thanks for you comment John!
That's a good remark from your supplier. He's right, the video above on solar panel
certifications doesn't mention the flash test. However the flash test is used several times during the
certification process. For instance before and after a mechanical load test, to see if
the load actually did any damage.
The full Guide that we offer for sale above includes the flash test and dozens of other tests that
are performed in a certification lab. Unfortunately we couldn't include all test already in the Introduction Video.
It is a very informative and detailed guide, excelent work guys.
Hello,it may be a wonderful idea to think out of the box, I'm in Cameroon having problems in getting solar materials for my installations, and the are expensive that my customers can afford what can i do. i thought of having partners in order to have materials and pay back later at lower cost.
Hi Chi Charles, perhaps you can work with an NGO to finance your projects.
Did you build the hydro power in the river yourself? I saw the picture on your website.
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Remember long lazy days at the beach? Remember building sandcastles, playing pirates, dangling legs over the jetty as you waited for a bite? Order fish and chips for dinner as the sun sets on a perfect day.
Pack away the DVD player. Take the kids fishing. Teach them how to cast a line, catch a squid and feel the sand between their toes as they hunt for cockles on Goolwa beach. Take them swimming, bushwalking, canoeing or sailing.
Visit Greenhills Adventure Park or try paint balling. Let them hand feed kangaroos at Urimbirra Wildlife Park. Watch in awe as the little penguins come ashore at night on Granite Island.
Treat them to old time sweet shops and sticky buns from bakeries that are legendary across the state. You haven't lived until you've eaten a cream kitchener bun from the bakeries around here.
Put them right at the front, up the very top of the double-decker horse drawn tram that runs from Victor Harbor to Granite Island. Spot stingrays gliding under the causeway or seals playing in the waves, as the big draft horses clip-clop along.
Take them up the mighty Murray River on the paddle steamer Oscar W, which operates from Goolwa. Go for a ride on the Cockle Train from Goolwa to Victor Harbor and back again.
Stay overnight at Narnu Farm on Hindmarsh Island, where the kids can enjoy pony rides and learn how to milk a cow. They'll get to see where food actually comes from. See their cheeks flushed with excitement!
Take flight in a biplane and soar above the beaches with the wind whipping through your hair. It's a once in a lifetime flight.
He's the host of South Aussie with Cosi, a family man and most importantly, passionate about South Australia. Andrew 'Cosi' Costello shares his top five tips for a great family holiday in South Australia.
1. If you want to go exploring, look up Off Piste 4WD Tours. Ben will take you to spots you would never find on your own. Let him drive so you can reconnect as a family.
2. Did you know a seal colony has established at the lock near
Goolwa? Ask a local to point you in the right direction. Take a kayak tour out there for a closer look and some great photos.
3. Port Elliot bakery is so good and has been family owned for forever and a day. Drive past in summer and you'll often see line-ups out the door!
4. Stop for an ice cream and sit and relax at Horseshoe Bay at Port Elliot.
5. Get adventurous and try a surfing lesson at Middleton.
There are plenty of events on in South Australia. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Here are some great ideas for you to try while you're in the area.


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This interview is long over due! If you been keeping up with [Sliktron] you know 50% of the interviews shot, or events sponsored by us have been in collaboration with Sneaker Politics of Lafayette, LA. Get to know the big homie from behind the register, Derek Curry, as he shares about his favorite kicks, music, and whats next for the brand! Personally, D is one of the most down-to-Earth homies I've ever met, always showed tons of love, and I will ALWAYS be a customer.
Recite your favorite lyric of your fav song. [Of any genre, also name the artist]
Damn, hard question. My life revolves around dope lyrics every day. Let's
run with "Walk it like I talk it like I bought it out of Politics!"
Curren$y- 4 hours n 20 Minutes (feat. Killa Kyleon) Since the homie Killa
gave us the Shout out. I had to hit him back. What's up Killa?
How did you come up with the name of the store? Any specific meaning
behind it?
My homie Deion at Concepts in Boston helped me open the store. He would
always tell me that I will have to go through a lot of Politics to get the
store open. The dude was right! When it came time to name the store that was
the first thing that popped in my head. Sneaker Politics!
Why did you choose Lafayette La, for the store's 1st location?
Hurricane Katrina hit NOLA the year I wanted to open the store sooooo
Lafayette just made sense.
What sparked the idea of creating your own business, let alone your own
I went to college in Lafayette and worked at Finish Line. While I was
working there I would always wear hard to find kicks and people would pay me
4 times the price I paid for them to get them off of my feet. I started
ordering extra sizes and selling them on the side and making money. That
proved to me that there was a market so I just ran with it.
Who is apart of your team?
Lafayette spot- Sam, Dustin, Fletcher, Lee, and DJ
NOLA spot- Patrick, Bryan, Spin, Joe, and Wendell
Then we have the homies. You guys know who you are.
Whoever supports the
store is on the TEAM!
How did you get connected with Curren$y and Jets? How did you become
one his brands official venders?
I was in NOLA one day and the homie Law told me that Spitta wanted to talk
to me. I hooked up with him that day, and we started throwing out ideas on
how to make cash together. Curren$y had just left Young Money and I had just
opened up my first store. We joined forces and never looked back. Sounds
like a super hero movie right? haha
What artist is getting the most plays in the store right now?
What artist are you listening to heavily [Personally] [Any Genre]
Curren$y defiantly gets the most love in the store. He's the homie.
Personally, I have been jamming the Generationals (thanks to sam) and Big
What is your favorite sneaker of all time
Nike Air Max 1's. I just like the way they look on my feet with shorts or
jeans. Perfect shoe to wear in any season.
Any new locations coming soon?
Baton Rouge in a few weeks! Shhhhhhh.
What new products are you looking forward to arrive?
Air Jordan Retro 5 - Black/Varsity Red-Metallic Silver (My first Jordan ever!)
Air Jordan Retro 3 - Black / Cement Grey (My favorite Jordan Ever!)
I have also been pumped on all of the Adidas Skate and Vans stuff we have
been getting. Fall 2011 is no different.
What are 3 essentials you can't leave your home without?
Phone, Hat, and a duffle bag full of money. Haha. Throw keys in the place of
duffle bag. Duffle bag just sounds a lot better.
Shout outs?
Everyone that supports the store! Seriously, I love our customers.
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Microsoft is still struggling to make Windows 8 a successful product, but Windows 7 remains very appealing for many buyers, an IT expert revealed.
While Windows 8 still strives to grow beyond its current 5 percent market share, Windows 7 continues to top the market with more than 44 percent, according to market researcher Net Applications.
And as far as Aristeo Torres, owner of Post Computer Systems in Wilbraham, Mass., is concerned, these rankings pretty much make sense. Windows 7 continues to be a top-selling product, even though the company has already launched Windows 8 and is getting ready to debut 8.1.
"We've seen recent growth in hardware sales, and Windows 8 is actually driving -- but not because we're selling Windows 8," he told CRN.
"The great majority of customers that are buying hardware from us are buying Windows 7 machines. And, our sales are being driven by the fact that Windows 8 was such a radical departure."
Microsoft's biggest challenge right now is to move users from Windows XP to a newer platform, be it Windows 7 or Windows 8, as the 11-year-old OS will be discontinued on April 8, 2014.


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91 Hua Hin - Khao Takiap Road, Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan
Hot News
Published date: January 13,2012
By Hyatt Regency Hua Hin
The celebrations started in the morning with a monk ceremony and alms offering to 19 monks in order to start the day with good fortune, and for the hotel to be blessed for the years to come. The evening started with a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in the hotel's lobby, where guests gathered, waiting to see the charity Christmas tree lit, marking the start of the festive celebrations. This was followed by a pre-dinner cocktail at Talay Thai restaurant, where photos were exhibited to show the numerous special events that had happened at Hyatt Regency Hua Hin in the past ten years.
The dinner was arranged on the hotel's huge pool lawn overlooking the ocean, where guests enjoyed special delights featuring cuisine from ten different countries such as Thai, Italian, German, Swiss, Mexican, Lebanese, Chinese and Japanese, to name just a few. This allowed guests to enjoy a culinary journey within one evening. Guests were entertained by Rose Sirinthip, a singer from GMM Grammy, the house band Dejavu, and a performance from the hotel's employees.
It was called 'Appreciation Night' because Hyatt Regency Hua Hin wanted to spend this evening expressing its appreciation to clients who continually support the hotel, employees who have worked hard to deliver authentic hospitality to guests, and the community who welcomed Hyatt Regency Hua Hin. During the event Mr. Supol Wattanavekin, Executive Chairman of Chai Talay Hotel Co, Ltd, the owning company of the hotel, together with
Mr. Sammy Carolus, the hotel's General Manager, presented a donation which came from the fundraising activity 'Stay and Share: 10 Baht 10 Projects'; the hotel donated ten Baht from the room rate of every guest staying in the hotel from 1 September to 17 December 2011 to ten organisations in Hua Hin and Prachuap Khiri Khan province, focusing on education, economic development, environmental sustainability, and health and wellness.
During the dinner, guests also participated in a charity event, as there was an auction for
Mr. Sammy Carolus and Khun Rose Sirinthip to sing a song. All the distinguished guests, including Khun Jira Pongpaiboon, the Mayor of Hua Hin, joined together to mark the hotel's first decade with champagne toasts and fireworks. The night ended with a lucky draw, giving out many fantastic prizes such as a three-night stay at Grand Hyatt Bali with round-trip air tickets for two from Thai Airways, a three-night stay at Grand Hyatt Singapore with round-trip air tickets for two from Singapore Airlines, a three-night stay at SixSenses Hideaway Samui with round-trip air tickets for two from Bangkok Airways, and a three-night stay in Grand Hyatt Berlin.
Hyatt Regency Hua Hin celebrated its 10th anniversary with a commitment to continually delivering authentic Thai hospitality to guests in order to continue being a preferred hotel in Thailand.


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Sir Ronald Ross was born in India - at the hill station of Almora - on 13 May 1857 to a captain in the Bengal Army and his wife. His childhood appears to have been similar to that of most British children in India of the time, which entailed his being sent home to England at the age of eight for his health and education.
He did not return to India until 1881, by which time he was medically qualified (MRCS and LSA) and had been commissioned into the Madras branch of the Indian Medical Service.
In 1883, after various temporary postings, he was sent as Acting Garrison-Surgeon to Bangalore, which he considered "probably the best station in southern India". It was in Bangalore that Ross first became interested in the breeding habits of mosquitoes. He discovered the ones that regularly fed off him while he shared a bungalow with the adjutant were breeding in the water butt under his window, and he conducted his first attempt at mosquito control by overturning the tub.
When he suggested to the adjutant that life in the mess would be a good deal more pleasant if there were no water containers in which mosquitoes could breed, his suggestion was treated with derision.
For the next few years, Ross led a peripatetic life, holding temporary appointments in various stations in the Madras Presidency. During his first home leave from 1887 to 1888, he met and married Rosa Bessie Bloxam and acquired the Diploma in Public Health. During the second, in 1894, he met Patrick Manson, who showed him 'Laveran's bodies' (malaria parasites), and convinced him of the possibility that mosquitoes carried malaria. Ross returned to India fired with the intention of proving this theory.
Ross rejoined his regiment at Secunderabad, where he bred mosquitoes for experimental purposes and fed them on malaria patients by putting the patient under a mosquito net and releasing the insects into it. Manson advised him to 'follow the flagella', and suggested that malaria was carried through infected drinking water. Ross pursued the flagella and also tested the enteric theory by paying a man called Lutchman and two others to drink water in which mosquitoes had died. Lutchman developed a fever, but recovered three days later, and Ross could not find any malaria parasites in his blood; the other men remained healthy.
At the beginning of September 1895, Ross was posted to Bangalore to deal with an epidemic of cholera and to report on the sanitary condition of the town. He remained at Bangalore until May 1896 and earned a glowing tribute from the British Resident.
Despite the pressure of his sanitary work Ross was still occupying his spare time with malaria, and at the end of May 1896 he made an observation which, with the benefit of hindsight, was very important. He wrote to Manson: "The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner." Unfortunately, as he was using Culex mosquitoes, which do not transmit malaria, experiments to test this theory came to nothing.
Success in sight
After his return to Secunderabad, Ross began to wonder if he were using malaria-bearing mosquitoes and decided to continue his investigations with species from a highly malarious area. With some difficulty he obtained leave and went to the notoriously malarious valley of Sigur Ghat. Three days later he went down with malaria, despite having slept under a mosquito net and behind closed windows. When he returned to the Ghat, his attention was drawn to mosquitoes of a species he had not seen before.
The monsoon was late in 1897: the heat was appalling and Ross could not bring himself to look through his microscope for a month. "Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett," he recalled, "with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of 'eye-flies' - minute little insects which try to get into one's ears and eyelids - tormented me at their pleas-ure, while an occasional Stegomyia revenged herself on me for the death of her friends. The screws of my microscope were rusted with sweat from my forehead and hands, and its last remaining eye-piece was cracked!"
In mid-August 1897 one of his assistants brought him some larvae that he had not seen before and the following day the Hospital Assistant pointed out a mosquito similar to the ones that Ross had found in Sigur Ghat. Ross dissected it and found nothing out of the ordinary but the Hospital Assistant rushed in to the laboratory to tell Ross that the unfamiliar larvae brought in the previous day had hatched into similar mosquitoes. They were fed on a patient called Husein Khan but nothing was found when they were dissected.
More mosquitoes hatched out and were fed, and by 20 August 1897 Ross was down to his last two mosquitoes. He dissected one and found nothing - until he got to the stomach, "when I saw a clear and almost perfectly circular outline before me of about 12 microns in diameter. The outline was much too sharp, the cell too small to be an ordinary stomach-cell of a mosquito. I looked a little further. Here was another, and another exactly similar cell." The following day Ross killed his last mosquito and found similar but much larger cells. He wrote to Manson with his exciting news: "Now prick up your ears because the hunt is up again."
Ross took ten days' leave to write a paper, 'On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial blood', and was cautious enough to have his work verified by a colleague, Surgeon-Major John Smyth. He sent this off immediately to the British Medical Journal, which took three months to publish it.
By that time Ross had been transferred on another temporary appointment to a small and isolated station called Kherwara in Rajastan which was conspicuously free of malaria, and it was not until the following February that he was put on official duty to investigate the disease. He travelled to Calcutta, which endured its coldest winter for years, leaving hardly any cases of malaria to study. He was obliged to study 'bird malaria' instead, and it was by using birds that in July 1898 he was able to prove that mosquitoes carried bird malaria through their bite.
He had already written a report 'On the cultivation of Proteosoma Labbe 1898' for the Director General of the Indian Medical Service and had sent a copy to Patrick Manson. Manson was in Edinburgh for the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association and was able not only to report on Ross's work on the oocysts in mosquitoes' stomach but also, as Ross had telegraphed him, to announce that the parasite was transferred through the vector's bite.
Ross and his family sailed for home in February 1899. On their arrival in England, Manson encouraged Ross to apply for a post at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. His application was accepted and he remained at Liverpool until the end of 1912 in a sometimes stormy relationship with the School's authorities. In 1902 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, the first Briton to win it.
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Interview: Behind The Scenes With The Chosen One
The now three-month sober Loki has added value to a knack he's always known he's had—songwriting.
The now three-month sober Loki has added value to a knack he's always known he's had—songwriting.
Lounging with fellow DMS comrade Skam Dust, Ezec takes a trip down memory lane and recalls an incident where he confronted a junkie that stole $150,000 worth of jewelry from his girlfriend's friend's house..
"Welcome to my world, a labrynth of death and deceit. I've been on the frontline of the streets."– Skarhead
"I am the master killer, fall to me, pray for a way out which you can't see, I the master killer, strike you down can't be detected, I own the crown." – Merauder
When I was 15, and I'm 28 now! Used to chill out, me and M, we used to go bombing all the time and we met niggas through bombing. We'd go bombing, run into some dudes, they all knew each other.
"Hard times are coming through, but if you're hard they won't get to you, they're gonna try to drive you into the ground, but never surrender, never go down!"
This past Sunday FRANK hosted a Memorial Day pool party at the Standard Hollywood. The party not only kicked off the summer, but also celebrated that you can now find a FRANK book in every hotel room of both Standard hotels in LA.
People have traveled hella far to kick off the start of a crazy weekend leading to the Super Bowl of hardcore, the Black And Blue Bowl. Luckily I'm already here in NYC to partake in the madness.
Skam appeared on East Village Radio for the latest Black And Blue show, which is a segment that caters to the hardcore fans.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Carson Palmer threw two touchdown passes and the Arizona Cardinals held on to send the Houston Texans to their franchise-record seventh consecutive loss, 27-24 on Sunday.
Former Spring Valley and Citadel standout Andre Roberts caught a 19-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter that proved to be the difference in the game.
The Texans (2-7) were without coach Gary Kubiak, who collapsed on the sidelines against Indianapolis last Sunday night with what was diagnosed as a mini-stroke. Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips is filling in as interim coach.
Arizona (5-4) scored on the game's first play when John Abraham knocked the ball out of Case Keenum's arm and Matt Shaughnessy returned it 6 yards for a touchdown.
Keenum threw three touchdown passes, two on remarkable catches by Andre Johnson.
J.J. Watt forced two fumbles, recovering both of them for Houston. The second one set up Johnson's 5-yard TD catch that cut the lead to three with 4:34 to play.


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Pleasanton's two high schools garnered first and second-place finishes in the competition. Amador won the California state championship, the tenth time that the school topped all other California teams, giving them another chance to compete in the national competition scheduled for April.
Foothill High School finished second, with Arcadia High taking third. There was only a 5-point spread between Amador and Foothill's score. Centennial High School in Bakersfield finished fourth among 12 teams from high schools in the state that competed.
After two days of simulated hearings, during which students were required to apply constitutional principles and historical facts to contemporary situations, the class from Amador emerged as the state champion.
According to Attorney Ben Glickman, a former "We the People" participant, this is the eighth year that Amador competition civics teams have won state championships and competed in the national contest. He said the school fielded teams in the nationals in 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008. In 1995, Amador won the national championship.