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While the economy is still staggering toward better days in 2010, the stock market started the party last year.
While the economy is still staggering toward better days in 2010, the stock market started the party last year.
Despite a down trading day Thursday and a very turbulent year, stocks closed strongly up for 2009.The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at 10,428.05, after falling 120.46 for the day. The almost 19 percent annual gain was the best performance since 2003.
"It was one hell of a ride and I'm glad to say it's over," said Rick Dupuis, president of Royal Capital Management in Boca Raton, which manages $80 million.
South Florida stocks moved up in pace with the market. A Bloomberg index of South Florida companies practically doubled from its low point in March. The leading South Florida stock was Q.E.P., a Boca Raton firm that manufactures tools and flooring products. Its shares soared 238 percent. At the bottom of the local list were BankAtlantic, down 50 percent, Singing Machine, off almost 61 percent and Catalina Lighting, down 87 percent.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 11.32 points Thursday to close at 1,115.10 and the Nasdaq composite index fell 22.13 to 2,269.15.
To many investors, who are trying to protect their portfolios from the roller coaster ride in stocks, even an up year won't be cause for celebration, because their portfolios haven't grown since 1999.
2009 will be remembered as the end of the Lost Decade, because major market indexes are virtually flat over the last ten years.
And that hides all the tumult that has happened to investors since 1999: The dot com stock boom and bust of 2000-2003, the housing boom and bust, 9/11, the bailout of Wall Street and the worst recession since the 1930s.
When stocks finally did start moving up in 2009, the surge was sudden in markets here and abroad. Some of the strongest gains, ironically, came in U.S. financial and banking stocks, even as the number of domestic bank failures rose during the year.
Early in the year, it didn't look like any stocks would be winners. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 25 percent between the start of the year and March 8. In that carnage, investors worldwide lost $24 trillion, according to Colbert Investment Management of Miami.
Since then, the Dow has risen more than 61 percent.
That makes 2009 the first year of a new bull market – a period in which stocks are rising strongly. Standard & Poor's says stocks have always continued to rise in the second year of a bull market, throughout history, although gains in the second year are weaker than in the first.
Eight out of ten professional money managers expect a rising market next year, said a survey by Russell Investments.
The pessimists look at the economy as still struggling and the prospects for business profits uncertain. Unemployment nationwide is expected to stay above 10 percent until the end of 2010. The pessimists point to other threats -- rising government spending and the threat that inflation will come back to life, perhaps after government support of financial institutions begins to ease off in a few months.
Individual investors seem to be on the pessimistic team. hey pulled billions out of U.S. stock mutual funds and put more than $348 billion into the relative safety of bond mutual funds.
But those bond funds would be hurt if interest rates rise from current levels, as expected.
Dupuis, the Boca money manager, says investors should keep an eye on rates, corporate profits and watch out for "wild cards" such as the price of oil as they try to discern the market's direction in the new year. He's optimistic that it'll be up – at this time last year, he said there was a 50-50-chance of stocks rising in 2009 – but making market predictions, he said, are about as easy as "nailing Jello to a wall."POSTED IN: Wall Street (26)


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BALTIMORE, Aug. 19--The Yankees had to settle for a split of their four-game series here when the Orioles came up with three runs in the seventh inning to win today's finale, 3--2. A crowd of 20,844 saw the game at Memorial Stadium.
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News from the front porch: Christ still loves, offers redemption
The news reports following the aftermath in the Boston tragedy were compelling in how the FBI was able to observe every movement of the terrorist hidden in the boat with pinpoint accuracy.
He could not hide. He was apprehended, although it took law enforcement a little while to convince him of that. Perhaps he thought that he could kill anyone who tried to look into the boat.
I did not watch the movie that came out several years ago, "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark." I'm told it portrayed people being killed that tried to look inside the ark. What was inside the ark that a movie-maker would depict as bringing judgment to those who looked inside it?
The Bible tells us that the ark held the two tablets of the Ten Commandments, the pot of manna and Aaron's rod. These items were tokens of man's rebellion. The two tablets of the Ten Commandments represented man's rejection of God's standards. The manna represented man's rejection of God's provision, and Aaron's rod, man's rejection of God's appointed priesthood.
God did not want to look at these tokens of rebellion.
Once a year on the Day of Atonement, the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies to sprinkle on the mercy seat the blood of the animal that had been sacrificed.
When the blood was there, the entire nation of Israel was forgiven. God's judgment passed over them and they were blessed for another year. (Leviticus 16.)
Today, the blood sprinkled on the mercy seat is not the blood of bulls and goats, but the precious, eternal blood of the Son of God. Jesus is our "mercy seat."
When we believe in Christ and receive him as savior; God does not see our sins and count them against us because he sees his son's blood. He does not want us to look inside the ark by focusing on your sins. He wants us to focus on Christ and his finished work. The miraculous spiritual life through Christ living on the inside of us flows to the outside and perpetually renovates our mind, will, emotions, and body.
This could even happen for the terrorist after all he has done. Justice will come full circle upon him.
However, Christ still loves him and offers redemption from his sins before God.
"So Christ has now become the high priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that great, perfect sanctuary in heaven, not made by human hands and not part of this created world. Once for all time he took blood into that most holy place, but not the blood of bulls and goats and calves. He took his own blood, and with it he secured our salvation forever." Hebrews 9:11-12
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There have been a lot of Motobecanes showing up here lately, and for some reason fate (and CL) have brought three of them into our family fleet of bikes. The one I'm most excited about is, naturally, the one that's for me, a mid 70s Grand Record. And as it seems to be a particularly well liked model and there are only sporadic mentions of it in the archives, I thought I'd put up a thread that could be a general resource for folks who might look for information in the future. The immediate conversations we have in these threads are actually only the smaller part of their lives, people will be finding them for years to come. (So hello, future thread-finders!)
I picked up this GR last weekend. It is filthy and has some scratches and a bit of spot rust, but I think it'll clean up well. The seatpost and stem came loose easily. The stem and bars were changed out by some previous owner, presumably the one who fitted the Suntour barcons. Other than that the bike appears to be stock. It seems close to the 1974 AND 1975 catalog specs, so could be either. It has a pat 74 Campy RD, so is definitely no earlier, and the seatpost's Reynolds decal is the French version of '3 main tubes,' while the 1976 catalog specifies that the GR is 531 'throughout' (like the Le Champion and Team Champion), so this is probably not that late.
Wheelset is the correct Normandy Luxe Competition hubs but with Weinmann 700c rims, dimpled alloy (I guess at this point they still felt the dimples helped braking). These seem so close to the catalog spec that I wonder if they were a factory option. Brakes are Weinmann 999. In 1974 the catalog says they could be that, or Universals. Actually the 1974 catalog states that the lugs could be either Nervex or Prugnat! These are the classic ornate Nervex. Crankset is 3-arm TA, another detail that changed frequently; hopefully the chainrings are still usable. Pedals are the original Atom 700.
I expect to put Campy shifters on, and will probably find appropriate bars and stem, though those seem to have changed every year for this model, including Nittos in 1974, so I'm not going to be compulsive about it. Actually I'm going to ride it with the 'dirtdrop' style that are on it now, just to see how it feels.
The seatpost is unmarked as far as I can see, and is likely the original, which is just named as 'alloy.' (Probably SR.) I have an older Brooks Pro or Ideale 90 that would be a good fit for the bike.
The only real change from original I expect to make is a pair of fat-handed Tektro aero brake levers, a major requirement for comfort. These ones have 'gum' hoods so hopefully won't look too out of place.
This is a bike that I've admired the looks of, and I know many here love them, so I am hoping it'll be a long term keeper.
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Is Math a Sport?
And what about target shooting, Skee-Ball, and standing on one foot?
Suits, along with everybody else who thinks about the meaning of words, works in the shadow of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who famously addressed the question we're discussing in his Philosophical Investigations:
Consider for example the proceedings that we call "games." I mean board-games, card-games, ball-games, Olympic games, and so on. What is common to them all? Don't say: "There must be something common, or they would not be called 'games' "—but look and see whether there is anything common to all.
Wittgenstein rejects the idea that there exists a finite list of criteria like Suits' that precisely delineates games from non-games. He continues:
How should we explain to someone what a game is? I imagine that we should describe games to him, and we might add: "This and similar things are called games." And do we know any more about it ourselves?
Wittgenstein is skeptical that the set of "games" can be exactly circumscribed at all. At best, one gives examples and draws out "family resemblances"—activity X looks a bit like checkers and a bit like whist, and there's something in it that recalls hacky sack, so we call it a game.
That doesn't mean there are no right answers. It is a fact that basketball is a sport, and it is a fact that sautéing zucchini isn't. And I think it's a fact that the math Olympiad isn't a sport either. Sports have goals—to score touchdowns, to pin the opponent, to strike a distant target. On the surface, a math contest has the same nature—you're supposed to solve a set of problems within a certain time span. But that doesn't reflect my experience. Working on a math problem is a solitary, contemplative act. That's true whether you're in a room full of precocious teens in Athens or at home in bed before getting up for breakfast; whether the problem is the Riemann hypothesis or something you solve in nine hours at the Olympiad. You're alone staring at the guts of the confusing, inexplicable, irritating universe, and the problem you're working on seems like a small part of an impossible-to-finish job. If it's like anything physical, it's like mountain climbing—only what mountain climbing would be like if the whole world were a 45-degree upslope, with no peak and no opportunity for final triumph. That's not a sport. It's something better: a game you can't ever really win.
Special thanks to Graham McFee, author of Sport, Rules, and Values, for helpful philosophical advice.


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Pediatric Intensive Care at the Penn State Children's Hospital continues to be one of the nation's leaders in providing excellent, quality care to the children of central PA. As of February 2013, the hospital opened its doors to a new dedicated children's hospital. Our new intensive care unit boasts 18 state of the art private rooms.
The children's hospital has active programs in all aspects of pediatric medicine and surgery including trauma, transplantation, and cardiothoracic surgery. Penn State Children's Hospital is a level one trauma center. Technologies offered include invasive and non-invasive cardiorespiratory monitoring, conventional and non- conventional modes of mechanical ventilation, inhaled respiratory gases including nitric oxide therapy, renal replacement therapies, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The Pediatric Critical Care Service is the primary service responsible for the management of all medical admissions to the PICU. A unique and strong collaborative relationship with our surgical colleagues enables our team to be integrally involved in every aspect of the hour to hour management of all trauma and surgical patients in the PICU.
Up to ten full-time and three part-time board certified critical care attendings staff the intensive care unit at all times. Recent outcomes evaluation comparing PICUs nationwide demonstrated that the Penn State Children's Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit's severity of illness adjusted mortality to be amongst the highest in the nation which allows for a quite expansive clinical experience for physicians in training.
PCCM Faculty:
- Steven Lucking, M.D.
- Michael Dettorre, D.O.
- Eric S. Halstead, M.D., Ph.D.
- Neal J. Thomas, M.D. MSc
- Gary D. Ceneviva, M.D.
- Robert F. Tamburro, Jr., M.D. MSc
- Toah Nkromah, D.O
- Conrad Krawiec, M.D.
- Adrian Zurca, M.D.
- Theodore DeMartini, M.D.
Our fellowship:
The Department of Pediatrics at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and the Pennsylvania State Children's Hospital accepts one fellow per year in its critical care fellowship.
The role of the PICU fellow:
Our fellows will acquire knowledge and skills in providing excellent care to critically ill children. They function on the front line for the clinical management of all medical and surgical patients admitted to the PICU and will have daily exposure to post-operative cardiothoracic surgical patients as well as primary responsibility for these patients during night-call and on weekends. Scholarly activity in the form of a primary research project as well as a quality improvement project is encouraged and required.
The curriculum:
The 36 month fellowship training program includes:
• 1 month of pediatric anesthesia
• 15 months of clinical pediatric critical care
• 2 months of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery
• 18 months of research
There is some flexibility that can be applied to accommodate special interests during clinical months (such as outside clinical rotations, participating in the CT Surgery trip to Ecuador), that will be considered and arranged on a case-by-case basis.
Four weeks per year of vacation may be divided during the research rotations.
Faculty and fellows in the PICU at Penn State Hershey are committed to excellence in patient care, and this includes conducting research to improve the care we provide. Members of our division are active participants in several key centers here at Penn State Hershey and our faculty and fellows have been fortunate enough to work in the labs of established researchers.
- Akif Undar, PhD
- Joanna Floros, PhD
- Zissis Chroneos, PhD
- Simulation center
- International health/Global health
Members of our division are leaders in several national and international research consortiums and advocacy programs. Fellows will have the opportunity to witness and participate in the activities of these programs:
- PALISI (Pediatric Acute Lung Injury & Sepsis Investigators)
- EPIC (Education in Pediatric Critical Care)
- PALICC (Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference)
Our faculty have the following research and clinical interests:
Gary Ceneviva
- Post-op Cardiac Critical Care
- Shock
- Ethics / Palliative care
Michael Dettorre
- Chronic home mechanical ventilation
Scott Halstead
- Immune Modulation
Steve Lucking
- Septic Shock
- Outcome measures / Quality Improvement
- Bronchoscopy
- Make-A- Wish Regional representative
Toah Nkromah
- Global Health and Advocacy
- Public Health Masters
- Psychological impacts of critical care
Robert Tamburro
- PREP ICU Editorial board member
- Critical Illness in Hematopoetic Stem Cell Transplant patients
- Palliative Care
- PALISI member
Neal Thomas
- PALISI member
- Acute Lung injury
- Surfactant proteins
- Genetic Epidemiology
- PALICC Organizing committee
Conrad Krawiec
- Use of technology in medical education and clinical care
Adrian Zurca
- Education
- Medical Simulation
- Communication
Thaddeus Demartini
- Process Improvement
- Quality & Safety
Our faculty members are involved in patient advocacy programs. Fellows may have the opportunity to participate in the activities of these programs:
Ecuador Mission Program: In the second and third year, Fellows may have the opportunity to participate in the Penn State Children's Hospital annual mission trip to Guayaquil, Ecuador with a team of pediatric heart surgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, intensivists, perfusionists, nurses, and residents, to assist in carrying out life-saving heart surgery for Ecuadorian children. In this role they provide guidance and assistance in needed pre-operative and post-operative care. This gives fellows the opportunity to integrate their understanding of the complex world of congenital heart physiology in a developing country with different and limited resources.
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Is there more to life than money?
06 Dec 2011 04:33 GMT | Business & Economy, Europe, France, Germany, Greece
The leaders of Germany and France have agreed on the need for a new European Union treaty to set out mechanisms for controlling the budgets of eurozone members.
After talks in Paris, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, the leaders of the single currency bloc's largest economies, said they wanted a new treaty by March which would include automatic punishments for governments that overspend.
French President Sarkozy said that the new proposals would include a modified EU treaty, ideally for all 27 EU members, but that they were also ready to draw up a treaty for the 17 members of the eurozone single currency bloc, though this would be open to others.
The two leaders told a news conference that they would ensure "imbalances" that sparked the crisis in the eurozone were not repeated.
"We want to make sure that the imbalances which led to the situation in the eurozone today cannot happen again," Sarkozy said.
"Therefore we want a new treaty, to make clear to the peoples of Europe, members of Europe and members of the eurozone, that things cannot continue as they are."
'Remarkable detail'
German Chancellor Merkel wants eurozone states to surrender budgetary control to a European authority with veto power, which would require changing the EU treaty.
As announced, France had wanted governments to have control of imposing sanctions on member states who fail to observe budgetary rules.
Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland, reporting from the French capital, said that for the first time, after months of uncertainty and apparent dithering and disagreements over how to respond, the two leaders spoke in greater detail about how they intended to tackle the crisis
"We're used to these meeting ending with vague statements, not specifics. Here we had a whole list," our correspondent said.
Details of the Merkel-Sarkozy plan would be put in a letter to be presented to the president of the European Union and to individual national leaders for approval, she said.
"I think, really, the key quote was from both ... Sarkozy and Merkel where they repeated what has happened must not happen again. Very specifically what happened in Greece must not be allowed to reproduce itself," she said.
Al Jazeera speaks to Clem Chambers, CEO of ADVFN, a European financial website, about the EU economy
The duo, increasingly dubbed "Merkozy" as they intensify bilateral efforts to restore confidence in the battered eurozone, had held discussions over lunch, their latest attempt to fix a crisis that is threatening trigger a global financial crisis.
Mario Draghi, the chief of the European Central Bank, signalled that a eurozone "fiscal compact" could nudge the bank to act more decisively to fight the crisis.
European markets responded positively to the announcement, with London's FTSE closing up 0.28 per cent, Germany's DAX gaining 0.42 per cent and Paris' CAC up 1.15 per cent.
But credit agency Standard & Poor's increased the pressure on European Union leaders to reach agreement on tackling eurozone debt by placing 15 eurozone states, including Germany and France, on "credt watch negative", meaning they could be downgraded.
Analysts cautioned that opposition in other eurozone states to a more intrusive and stringent fiscal regime could yet derail a rescue plan that has eluded eurozone leaders for two years.
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The University of Chicago Institute of Politics [1] will hold an event with leading policymakers and scholars on Tuesday, Jan. 15 to discuss the complicated issue of gun violence.
The non-partisan Institute organized the panel discussion, "The Politics of Guns in America" in response to the recent mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Leaders representing different views in the gun control debate will examine ways to reduce gun violence and prevent future tragedies.
Panelists will include journalist Tom Brokaw, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former U.S. Rep. Steven LaTourette, columnist Steve Chapman, and University of Chicago Crime Lab Director Jens Ludwig [2].
"The tragedy at Newtown has reignited a national debate on guns," said David Axelrod, Director of the Institute of Politics. "In this panel, we hope to explore the politics of the gun issue. What are the barriers to gun safety laws? What is their utility in dealing with episodes such as the shootings in Connecticut?"
The Jan. 15 event will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Performance Hall at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis; however, to help gauge attendance for the event, please RSVP here [3]. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m. The event also will be webcast on the UChicago Facebook Live tab [4].
Participants will include:
Tom Brokaw, moderator: A leading American television journalist and author, Brokaw is currently a Special Correspondent for NBC News. From 1982 to 2004 he served as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News. An avid hunter, Brokaw has participated in the national debate on gun violence and gun ownership.
Steve Chapman: Chapman is an editorial writer for the Chicago Tribune. He brings a broadly libertarian perspective to a range of national and international issues, including gun rights, in his twice-a-week syndicated column.
Rahm Emanuel: The current mayor of Chicago [5], Emanuel previously served as Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He also served as the U.S. Representative from the 5th District of Illinois from 2003 to 2009, and was a senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton.
Steven LaTourette: A Republican who recently retired after representing Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives for 18 years, LaTourette has been active on issues of crime and gun violence. Before his time in Congress, he served as a county prosecutor in Ohio, where he prosecuted the Kirtland serial murders.
Jens Ludwig: Ludwig is Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, which studies how to reduce crime and violence by evaluating new approaches by government and non-profit groups. He is also McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy.
Announced in January 2012, the Institute of Politics has three main components: a program of visiting fellows and policy practitioners, an expanded set of policy and public interest internships, and a series of public lectures about policy and political life.
"Since the Institute of Politics was announced last year, the outpouring of student interest on campus has been inspiring," said Darren Reisberg, Executive Director of the Institute. "We are working hard to meet the needs of our student body for topical events and to ensure that as many students as possible who want to participate in civic life in Chicago and around the nation can have that opportunity."
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Belated answer to Kersten's smear of Keith Ellison
As I was doing a media clip search in the course of reporting the story on Keith Ellison that will be published tomorrow, the June 8 column from Strib writer Katherine Kersten stood out. I won't go into the entire thing, but do want to address her last point, which was quoted in at least one other national story.
"Imagine that a Republican seeks his party's endorsement for the U.S. House of Representatives, despite having been allied with a white supremacist organization just a decade earlier," Kersten smugly wrote. "You're right. That man wouldn't get his party's endorsement."
We'll leave aside Kersten's equation of the Nation of Islam and a white supremacist organization for others to quibble over and go straight to her assumption of moral superiority on the part of Republicans. Because while Kersten is encouraging us to imagine hypothetical scenarios, we need only remember relatively recent history--not on something as small potatoes as Congress, but regarding the current occupant of the White House--to rebut her smug analogy.
It is well documented that with his presidential campaign on the rocks after losing to John McCain in the 2000 New Hampshire Republican primary, George Bush was determined to shore up his right-wing base (and smear McCain, but that's another story) in the next battleground state of South Carolina. To that end, his first campaign stop in the state after New Hampshire was at Bob Jones University, the institution notorious for defending its policy of racial segregation all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The university was still banning interracial dating at the time candidate Bush appeared before them and said, "I look forward to publicly defending our conservative philosophy."
Candidate Bush also refused to take a position on the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina State Capitol. The Confederacy was a treasonous government that specifically took up arms against the United States to fight for the right to own slaves--would that fit Kersten's definition of a white supremacist organization? We all know what happened next: Coddling the folks at Bob Jones and others nostalgic for the Confederacy helped Bush defeat McCain in South Carolina, giving him enough momentum to eventually capture his party's endorsement.
Keith Ellison has repeatedly repudiated--using words like "reject" and "condemn"--any affiliation he had with the Nation of Islam. George Bush has never apologized for his more recent affiliations: Kissing the rear ends of Bob Jones University administrators and those who chose to fly the symbol of the Confederacy over a public building.
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Introduced in: Introduction; airport cutscene (on the phone)/cemetery cutscene (in person)
Sean "Sweet" Johnson is CJ's older brother, living in single floor home just next to the Johnson House. Sweet also has an unnamed girlfriend, who only appears one mission. After the death of his brother, Brian, Sweet blames CJ for the murder of their little brother, prompting Carl to leave Los Santos. As "shot caller" of the Grove Street Families, Sweet remained in control of the gang while Carl was away, albeit in a sorry state. Throughout the storyline, Sweet remains caring and dedicated to his family, gang, and neighborhood.
After his return to Los Santos, CJ aids Sweet and the rest of the gang in restoring the GSF to its former glory. This would end in the middle of the storyline, however, when Sweet was badly wounded and jailed for a period of time, after Sweet and a portion of his gang was ambushed by the Ballas, and were subsequently arrested by the police; with some members also killed.
After recovering in a prison hospital, he is placed in prison between two psychopaths. In the left cell a child killer, who wants to rip his throat out. In the cell to the right of him, a white supremacist, who wants to eat his heart.
Sweet was released from jail later in the game, after Mike Toreno had agreed to Carl that he would arrange for Sweet's release in return of a favor. Sweet would then return to Los Santos, and rebuild the GSF's dominance in the neighborhood again, for good. Sweet's carnumber is GROVE4l.
It is suspected, that due to the familiarity with the film Boyz N the Hood, Sweet is a copy of character Doughboy. Sweet was voiced by Faizon Love.


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Mikey never guessed fatherhood was one of his destinies to be fulfilled. He was diagnosed with a medical condition in his early twenties, which required a form of chemotherapy treatment to help him heal. This was a decade before we met.
At the time, his doctor told him to put some of his "boys" on ice just in case he wanted to have kids one day. When I became pregnant, saying we were shocked is putting it mildly—I was on the pill too. You know that little disclaimer about using backup contraception if you're on antibiotics? Well, it wasn't there back in 2002.
And thank heavens it wasn't.
To think one simple sentence could've changed the course of our lives would've surprised me 130 days. Now, I know how one split-second can change a life forever.
The change that happened on August 7th sucked.
The one that occurred on one day in July of 2002—that was one of the best things that ever happened to both me and Mikey.
Are you listening to mommy Isabella? One day, if you're reading this when you grow up, I want to remind you that YOU are special.
YOU were our miracle.
YOU were our gift.
YOU coming into our lives was the most defining moment in daddy's life.
Loving you helped daddy realize his full potential as a person. You opened his heart in ways I never could've. The love a father and daughter share is a bond that death can never take away.
Today, Isabella and I had to relive the day Mikey died. In watching her talk about the events of the day, and answering her questions, I learned something too—confronting the fear takes away its power. Yes, sadness will take its place, but the fear cannot rule you anymore.
My fears have been many. The last few days I've been forgetful. When I opened the pantry tonight to get some chocolate for a recipe, I couldn't remember where I placed it. This may not sound like a big deal, but it lead to me to start thinking I had a brain tumor and only months to live.
Maybe I'm being dramatic, but forgetting where something I use everyday was stored, unnerved me. It's all about a sense of control these days. The truth is, sleep is something that doesn't come easy this last week. As the holidays draw closer I miss Mikey so much.
I do my best to harness happiness every step of the way, but the quiet nights are not easy. So I retreat to the kitchen and bake at 10:00pm. Tonight I realized I need to confront my fear.
Sharing new recipes with you doesn't make his death permanent. A disease that affects one in a million—literally, is what ripped him from our lives.
One in a fucking million! (pretend you didn't see that if you're still reading Isabella)
My husband had to be the one millionth person in line for Good Pasture's Syndrome?
Are you kidding me?
Tonight I'm giving fear the middle finger. You won't own me.
Tonight I'm going to soak my pillow with tears.
Tonight I will let the sadness take hold, and hope as I always do that Mikey will come to me in my dreams.
But first, I'm going to do something that makes me happy. As I typed that last sentence the tears stopped flowing, and now cling gently to my eyelashes. Just the thought of sharing a new recipe with all of you made me stop and smile.
So many of you say I inspire you, but really it is all of you who give me hope, and for that gift I come bearing chocolate gingerbread cake doughnuts. Wrap your arms around yourself and hold on tight—that's me hugging you, wishing you a happy and merry. Here's to peace, love and happiness—and leaving fear behind as 2011 weaves into 2012.
Chocolate Gingerbread Cake Doughnuts
makes 18
These doughnuts are lovely to eat, and look at, with a simple sprinkling of conectioner's sugar. I couldn't stop there, though, and decided to dip them in some of this homemade caramel sauce I had in the fridge. The gold glitter is always a pretty touch, and can be found at most cake decorating stores.
1 1/4 cup (168 grams) flour
1/2 cup (45 grams) dark cocoa powder (I use Guittard or Valrhona)
1/2 cup (100 grams) natural cane sugar
2 teaspoons (10 grams) baking powder
1/4 teaspoon (1 gram) baking soda
1/2 teaspoon (2 grams) fine sea salt
1/4 teaspoon cloves
3/4 teaspoon (2 grams) ginger
1/4 teaspoon (1 gram) cinnamon
2/3 cup (175 ml) milk
1 large (50 grams) egg
4 tablespoons (2 ounces/60 ml) brewed coffee, cooled
2 tablespoons (28 grams) butter, melted & cooled
Preheat the oven to 425ºF with the rack adjusted to the center position. Coat three 6-doughtnut nonstick baking pan with cooking spray; set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices; set aside.
In a measuring cup or small bowl, use a fork to beat together the milk, egg, coffee and butter until well blended. Pour over the flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until just combined and there are no visible traces of flour. Evenly spoon batter into the prepared doughnut pans.
Bake one pan at a time on the center rack for 8 minutes, until the doughnuts spring back when touched*. Remove from oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with remaining filled doughnut pans.
* Really, don't try to bake two or three at once. They won't bake evenly, and since the cooking time is so brief, opening the door to alternate trays would throw off the oven temperature. The doughnuts cool enough to release from the pan after about 5 minutes, so you'll have the third tray ready by time the
Update 12/16/2011: A few people have mentioned they don't have doughnut pans and are wondering if they could bake this recipe in another type of pan. I can't 100% confirm baking times, but do think trying a smaller size pan, such as cupcakes, mini-loaves or even a mini-bundt pan, as one person suggested, would work. If you do try this out in a different pan, please feel free to leave a note in the comments with baking times and serving sizes. Thanks so much!


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The creation of strategy – and importantly the collaboration in that process by the stakeholders – is crucial. It ensures understanding, ownership and alignment of all the moving parts. The all important aspects of the strategy. And it stops you becoming distracted by every seemingly great idea or fancy.
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Lady Gaga says "ARTPOP" isn't just her new album; it's also an app!
We all know Lady Gaga is 110 percent invested in making ARTPOP her best album yet. Truthfully, we don't know how she finds the time, in between getting tatted up constantly, preparing for her upcoming tour, taking matching pics with her dog, and spending time with the boyfriend. But rest assured, Mother Monster is ready to exceed all expectations with her new album… and perhaps more? According to Gaga, "ARTPOP is not just an ALBUM; its a PROJECT." Orly? YA RLY!
Read more about Lady Gaga's plans for ARTPOP after the jump.
In a post on Littlemonsters.com, Gaga explained the details behind ARTPOP's multimedia experience. "ARTPOP will be released as an IPAD, iPhone, mobile and computer compatible application (WORLD) that is completely interactive with chats, films for every song, extra music, content, gaga inspired games, fashion updates, magazines, and more still in the works," Gaga wrote. She also talked about updating the app on the fly, just like she does her Twitter and LittleMonsters.com. While she promised that the album will have a physical and digital release as well, she did urge her fans to "start asking for IPADS FOR XMAS!!" Um, no problem, Gaga. I'm practicing my pitch to the 'rents right now!
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Funny gameLirks | Jan. 19, 2013 | Review of Dead Rising 2 Off the Record - PC
DR2:OTR is far better than the first DR and DR2, so if buying one of them this is the version to get as it offers more. I play the PC version using a X-Box 360 controller. This game has a lot of adult content: gore, violence, plenty of sexual references so it is definitely not suited for the Squeamish.
MmmmkayLirks | Jan. 18, 2013 | Review of Chivalry - PC
This game is pretty sweet. I've been waiting for a good first person slasher. The gameplay is a bit slower than other FPS games, but it gives it a more realistic feel. It's a bit glitchy at times, but I hear a patch is coming out in January, 2013. It doesn't affect the actual gameplay, just the leveling is a bit wacky.
Good MMOLirks | Jan. 18, 2013 | Review of Guild Wars 2 Digital Edition (1) - PC
Personal Story 2.5/5: This is probably the most disappointing aspect of Guild Wars 2. The story, at first, seems fun and somewhat engaging (appropriate for the early levels), but later changes for the worst as it devolves into a disastrous journey to kill Zhaitan, the undead Elder Dragon. Not only are characters wooden and dialogue cheesy, but for some reasons the writers thought killing off random characters left and right would evoke some sort of emotion -- instead, it ends up seemingly a pointless death, and rather unnecessary. There aren't many characters that will grab your attention, and the narrative needs some work. Cutscenes are lazy, and character facing character conversation scenes, while novel at first, eventually makes you realize how immersion breaking they really are. The choices you make... really don't matter too much in the end either. Graphics and Sound 5/5 The atmosphere of the game is beautiful. Everything in the game feels like a piece of art. There is rarely a dull moment when it comes to the art direction of Guild Wars 2. The attention to detail is absolutely grand. The soundtrack is also equally stunning, composed by famous Jeremy Soule, known for his previous work in the Elder Scrolls Franchise and Guild Wars 1. The sound effects in the game are also grand and plentiful. The most notable track: Fear Not This Night. Gameplay 5/5 The leveling experience is probably one of the best I've played in any MMO. Dynamic Events pop up left and right, each with their own unique context and story. The only problem is that dynamic events truly do not serve 100% as a placeholder for quests. This is where hearts come in. Hearts are basically quests without the text or the need to walk back and forth between NPC to accept the quest and turn it in. Exploration is one of the strongest points of the game. Jumping puzzles, and unique little discoveries are everywhere. Instances 3/5 A mixed bag. Some of the dungeons are a lot of fun, while plenty of others are extremely mundane. Fractals of the Mists was also introduced as a new form of gear progression. Fear not, GW2 is still mainly about cosmetics. Ascended items aren't worth all the controversy. It provides a new goal to work for, and I believe Arenanet will continue to balance time and reward. World v World v World 4/5 A lot of fun, but needs a better reward system (which is coming in February). You fight massive siege battles against 2 other servers. What is there not to like? Structured PvP 3/5 Great fun, but only has a single mode. Capture points. Hot-join games may get stale over time, but they're great for trying out new builds before foraying into Tournament PvP. Right now this mode needs a lot of work, but once Arenanet implements the much needed infrastructure later this year, I have no doubt sPvP will continue to grow. Overall: 4.5/5 Well worth the 60 dollar admission. You can get hundreds and hundreds of hours for no monthly fee. Regular monthly content updates continue to improve the game and add new ways for players to enjoy the game. Arenanet will continue to learn from their mistakes and further improve their game.


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Exhibitors from all over the world — including some from Madera — will meet in Tulare this week to show off their agricultural wares at the 45th World Ag Expo.
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War and Words: The Australian Press and the Vietnam War
Melbourne University Publishing, Jan 1, 2007 - Armed Forces and mass media - 340 pages
Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War threw up moral dilemmas that divided the nation. The changing ways that Australian newspapers covered the conflict both reflected these dilemmas and enflamed them. Trisha Payne's insightful analysis of Australian reporting of the Vietnam War traces the shifts in emphasis of the coverage, the influence of government on what news reached the public, the extent of allegiance to the American viewpoint and the lack of a Vietnamese perspective. The Australian Press and the Vietnam War presents clearly the influences that shaped the media agenda of the time and identifies patterns of press coverage that continue to be discernable in the reporting of current military conflicts.
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The Sacred History
The Sacred History is the epic story of human interaction with angels and other forms of higher intelligence, starting from Creation all the way through to the operations of the supernatural in the modern world.
So, what's the problem? Why the bad blood? Because Genesis says that God planned this sequence of events. He meant creation to happen and made it happen. He said, 'Let it happen,' and saw that it was good.
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I'm a Jack of all trades and this post of mine justifies this pretty well. Just look at these snaps how I filled life in 'em and yea these snaps are worth A MILLION!! These snaps have been scaled to 1024 x 768 . their actual sizes are s 1632 x 1224. If you want these snaps as your desktop background then click on the image.
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Lots of you (rightfully) hate spreadsheets. REALLY hate them. So for Spreadsheet Day, you might want to have a good old giggle at the worst spreadsheet mistakes ever.
This weekend produced some extraordinary scenes at the Diving World Series in London and we're not talking about the somersaults
Aimee Fuller on her way to full bike licence
See the boys performing What Makes You Beautiful in front of FOUR BILLION people worldwide, no pressure
David Beckham seems to have lived at the Olympic park for the past two weeks, but he's not the only famous type to get behind Team GB
They've turned out in their hundreds of thousands, but not all in jeans and T-shirts. Here are the finest examples of wardrobe creativity at the Games
As David Beckham cheered on Tom from the stands, Cheryl Cole was busy Tweeting him for a lesson in love, sorry diving
Bored of the athletics? Wondering what the competitors get up to out of hours? Let us stoke your imagination...
From celebratory kisses, cheeky Twitter messages and, er, one night stands – here's an introduction to the hottest Olympians and their partners
The marginal difference between success and failure in sport has been highlighted once again during the Olympics - here are examples of where it can go spectacularly wrong
Unfortunately for German athlete Robert Harting, his night ended with him sleeping rough outside the Olympic Village after his accreditation was stolen
The proud Team GB Olympian stripped off early this morning holding just a Union flag over his other prized possessions
After the most magical weekend of the London Olympics so far, Mike Revell looks at five athletes who could transcend their sport and impress in one of the toughest leagues in the world
As well as winning actual medals the Olympic athletes have caught our attention for many other reasons. So we've given them some very special 3am awards to add to their collection
The Olympic wrestlers are some of the toughest competitors at London 2012, but judging by our picture gallery below it seems some of them love nothing better than a good hug...
German diver has Olympic nightmare before pulling out after receiving scores of zero from all the judges
Never mind a fish out of water, synchronised swimmers look pretty strange above the water line
The camera catches the moment ping pong balls seem to meld with players' faces
The Olympic Games features some of the fittest (and attractive) people in the world, but none of them have made our "Faces of the Games" gallery
It's one of the toughest sports in terms of sheer stress and strain on the body, so it's no surprise these weightlifters are pulling such incredible faces during their lifts
Newly crowned fencing champion treated London underground travellers to a close-up of his gong
Yes comparing the achievements of Olympians with reality stars is a bit mean, but it's also funny
This is the Twitter Olympics - and London 2012 is sharing an unusual view on the action with its Twitter cameras
Jessica Ennis, Tom Daley, Chris Hoy, Dai Greene, Victoria Pendleton and Rebecca Adlington will all succeed in the next couple of weeks
Ecstatic father Bert le Clos couldn't contain his joy as son Chad claimed victory in the men's 200m butterfly last night
Their dives are incredible works of athletic art, but what about the London 2012 divers' faces? Our gallery reveals the strain these amazing athletes are under during their spectacular Olympic event
The woman was filmed talking through a loudhailer before Friday night's stunning opening ceremony
The smartly-dressed man CROUCHED slowly so he could be seen - and then cheekily flashed a knowing grin!
American swimmers record pop video on the plane, on the coach and even underwater!
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How crazy is it that we only have two more Saturdays of the school year? I find that very difficult to wrap my mind around. More distressing than this shocking realization is that there are only two more Thursdays as well, my favorite day of the week. You might be thinking, "Oh, I see you Bode, you're all about that Thirsty Thursday, right?" What? No. My favorite parts of Thursday all tend to happen before 8:00 at night. I'll explain.
Some background information first: I have a bit of a morning alter-ego. We'll call him
Esteban. It's well-known within my pledge class that I am easy-going, patient, understanding, and easy to get along with.
It's also understood that Esteban is none of those things. Esteban has yelled at people, physically accosted people, thrown things, broken other things, and even stolen alarm clocks because he is not a morning person at all. So when my Thursday Psych class starts at 8:00 in the morning, I will admit, when my alarm goes off at 7:45, Esteban is usually not too keen about dragging his butt out of bed. This is the low point of my day, when I sometimes have to vocally coax Esteban out of bed. Profanity, persuasion, encouragement, all wrapped into my morning pep talk to actually get myself to class. Once I'm there though, things get much better.
The two classes that I have on Thursday are Psychology 201 and Spanish 302, both of which are part of my Psych/Spanish double major. Therefore, I find these classes very interesting, and I really feel like I'm learning useful stuff in them. By the time 9:15 rolls around, I'm fully awake and pumped for the rest of the day. I've come to appreciate being forced to start my day at 8:00, because I feel like I get a lot more out of the day. A highlight of my Thursday morning is the half-hour break between my classes when I can swing by the library and pick up some coffee. By then I've usually tweeted about three different things about how much I love Thursday.
I could devote an entire blog about why I love going to Chapel Talk (I probably will, actually), so that's another high point to Thursday. Then, when classes are finally done, I have the entire day to relax, study, work out, and anticipate Friday the next day. It may seem like an odd day to enjoy, but for some reasons, Thursdays always do me good.
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text: How to: Fake tilt-shift photography Technology 23 September 10 by Duncan Geere CC-licensed: nurpax Tilt-shift photography can be incredible, but getting hold of the gear to take real tilt-shift photographs isn't easy or cheap. So why not fake it in an image editing program like Photoshop?Tilt-shift photography is a technique that makes it look like you're looking at a model of something, rather than the thing itself. By selectively blurring the foreground and background of an image, and fiddling with the colours slightly, you can very carefully fool the brain into believing that a scene has been painfully constructed in miniature -- we have put together a gallery of some of our favourite examples.How to make your own (without special equipment)Image choice is essential. You need a photo that has a lot of depth, and encompasses multiple subjects. Ideally, it'll be taken from a slightly raised perspective, too, so that the end product looks like the photographer is leaning down from above.Let's look at some examples. This is a bad source image, because it's all at the same depth. This is bad, because it only really has a single subject. This is bad, even though it appears to satisfy most of the criteria, because there's nothing in the foreground or the far background to offer any perspective. In contrast, this is a great source image, and it'd be even better if it didn't have the big camera in the foreground. This is a good one, too, which I'll show you a tilt-shifted version of at the end.Once you've got your photo, load it into your favourite multi-layered photo editing software. Photoshop's always a good choice, or you can use GIMP or Paint.net if you prefer a free option. You won't be able to do it in Microsoft Paint, I'm afraid. For this tutorial, we'll use Photoshop.Next, you need to work out which area of the picture you want to be in focus. The middle is a good start, but if you're feeling experimental you might prefer to place the extreme foreground or extreme background in focus instead. Whatever you focus on, make sure that there's something interesting there to draw the eye.Next up, put your image editing software in mask mode, which in Photoshop is as easy as hitting Q. Select the gradient tool, and put it in reflected mode, so that it fades on both sides. Then, draw a line on the image, approximately in the direction of the photo's perspective (usually vertically). Start in the middle of where you want things to be in focus, and end approximately where you want things to fade. Essentially, the shorter the line, the more depth-of-field you'll apply.Get out of quick mask mode by hitting Q again, and you'll see a dotted line around the out-of-focus areas. Now it's time to get your blur on. Go to Filter > Blur > Lens blur, and you should see a nice perspective effect added. If it hasn't worked very well, then hit undo a few times and try again, altering the settings a bit.You're nearly there, but one feature of models is that the colour is often a little exaggerated. Doing the same thing to your fake tilt-shift will make it look a little less real. Clear your selection by hitting ctrl-D, and then goto Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Pump up that saturation to about +30 or +40, until the colours start to pop out but before it begins to look ridiculous.(CC-licensed: denipet) Voila! You're done. Check out some amazing tilt-shifted images in our gallery of the best we've found on Flickr, or post links to your efforts in the comments section below. Edited by Nate Lanxon Latest on wired.co.uk