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A report on the state of specialist nursing for multiple sclerosis has revealed a shortfall of about 200 nurses.
The report, published this week by the MS Trust, found there are around 245 MS specialist nurses in the UK, with wide variation in availability between the four nations.
"The report gives us important information to help plan for the future of MS services"
Amy Bowen
While MS nursing has grown steadily over the past 20 years, the report found a clear shortfall of specialist nurses. The charity concluded that between 126 and 214 more posts were needed to ensure acceptable caseloads.
Currently there are around 550 people with MS per specialist nurse, but this should be more like 300, it said.
The charity found the lowest level of specialist availability was in England, where more than 40% of MS nurses covered three or more clinical commissioning groups.
This compared to specialist nurses in Scotland who generally only covered one health board.
Almost all – 97% – MS specialist nurses responded to the survey that formed the basis of the MS Trust report and which was carried out from March to April this year.
Most nurses – 87% – were solely funded by the NHS with only 18 posts funded by charities or pharmaceutical companies.
The survey also asked nurses where they saw patients. More than 70% said they saw people in more than one setting.
Meanwhile, 60% of MS nurses employed in hospitals said they also saw patients in their own homes while 64% of community nurses said they also saw patients in hospital.
"The report gives us important information to help plan for the future of MS services and demonstrates how vital the right commissioning and funding is," said Amy Bowen, director of service development at the MS Trust.
The charity said it would be carrying out further research to explore the challenges facing MS nurses and analyse regional variations in MS services.
"The report strengthens the case for continued focus on the availability of MS nurses"
Amanda Cheesley
Its research was welcomed by the Royal College of Nursing. RCN long term conditions adviser Amanda Cheesley said: "This report is much needed.
"We thank the MS Trust and all of the MS nurses who responded, as it provides not only important information about the current situation, but strengthens the case for continued focus on the availability of MS nurses across the NHS," she said.
The report comes ahead of revised National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on MS services, which are expected later this year.
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My wife was suddenly diagnosed with MS five years ago. It changed our lives. Our MS Nurse was amazing. I don't know how we would have coped in the early days without her.
Peter Jones | 14-Jun-2014 11:22 am
thank you so much for pointing it out. it is so good to get some seemingly rare positive feedback about our professional colleagues among so much doom and gloom. we need to win back public confidence and let them know that it is not the whole of the NHS and those working in it which is rotten to the core as many seem to be convinced it is cf many of the newspaper comments, but at the same time, the constructive feedback must be filtered out and used to influence future change and improvement to all services.
have you considered naming him/her and letting his/her employers know or putting them up for some reward such as that of the NT?
I wish your wife and yourself well in what must have been a shock diagnosis and what can be a devastating disease although encouragingly many have longer periods of remission and cope with it well.
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Wednesday marks the start of Global Pet Expo in Orlando. The pet industry's largest annual trade show, presented by the American Pet Products Association (APPA) and Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA), will include 835 exhibitors, 2,380 booths and more than 3,000 new product launches.
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Macalester Today Summer 2010
For Macalester alumni working in the financial industry, the last two years have been a ride.
by Jack Gordon
Illustrations by David Hopkins/Phosphor Art
The economic meltdown of September 2008 looked scary to anyone who could read a newspaper. But to the people who work in the financial sector—Macalester alumni included—it looked at times like an outright apocalypse.
Trouble clearly had been brewing for a while. The subprime mortgage crisis began to reveal itself in 2007. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed in March 2008. But nobody was prepared for the events of September. In that appalling month alone, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the big government-sponsored mortgage-lending enterprises, were placed into conservatorship. Lehman Brothers collapsed. Merrill Lynch was forced into a shotgun wedding with Bank of America. Taxpayers were introduced to the phrase "too big to fail" when they were told they would have to bail out insurance giant AIG . Washington Mutual, the country's sixth largest bank, was seized by the FDIC . To avoid the same fate, Wachovia Bank sold itself to Wells Fargo.
By the end of that gruesome September, the credit markets had essentially shut down. The world economy plunged into a deep recession from which we are still recovering in a sputtering and uncertain fashion. For some the phrase "Wall Street Greed" vied with Osama bin Laden for the title of Public Enemy No. 1. As this is written, in early summer, Congress is arguing about a new regulatory framework for the national financial system.
New worries continue to arise. Americans spent the spring of 2010 learning that the phrase global economy, tossed about so glibly, means that financial problems in a country the size of Greece can threaten to cripple the entire economy of Europe and exert a huge drag on our own.
What impact has all of this had on Macalester alumni who work in the financial industry? How has it changed their lives and their jobs? Do they agree that "Wall Street greed" was the primary cause of the 2008 meltdown? Was there a silver lining? `And what lessons do they think should be imparted to current students of economics? Here is what we learned from four of them.
Scott Barrington '90
Managing partner, Piper Jaffray Private Capital
After graduating from Macalester with a degree in math and economics, Scott Barrington earned a law degree from the University of Michigan. As an attorney at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, he advised startup companies and private equity firms about leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and initial public offerings.
After a few years he moved to Piper Jaffray, and in 2000 he helped launch the company's fund of funds team for private equity investing. He explains his role as creating investment opportunities similar to mutual funds, but with the investments going into private companies instead of public ones. "We'll pool $100 million or $200 million in capital and invest with 10 fund managers, who in turn will invest in maybe 200 private companies for one of our funds," Barrington says. For instance, in 2005 Piper Jaffray launched the first private equity fund of funds devoted entirely to clean technology. That portfolio includes investments in everything from water-treatment companies like Seven Seas to Tesla Motors, the California– based outfit that makes a fast-accelerating electric sports car.
Thus Barrington was pretty far removed from the mortgage-backed securities business that precipitated the events of Black September. But he remembers 2008 vividly. Early in the year, his team was raising money for its second clean-tech fund of funds. The usual sources for that money—foundations, college endowments, pension plans, and wealthy individuals—were very interested. On September 1 he had $500 million in "indications of interest" for the new clean-tech fund. By October 1 that interest had evaporated. "We eventually ended up with only a $100 million fund, and it took all of 2009 to raise that capital," he says. "The world kind of came to a stop for about a year, not just for us, but for everybody."
Business has improved greatly since, he says, but fund raising remains more difficult in the private-equity niche because investors are still nervous, and nervous investors like liquidity. "When you invest in private equity, which is what we do, it's not uncommon for your money to be tied up for five to seven years," Barrington explains. "You're investing in private companies to help them grow. That takes time."
Uncertainty makes his proposition a harder sell, even with the prospect of higher returns. Institutional investors "who are worried about what will happen if Greece blows up, followed by Spain and Portugal," are reluctant to tie up their funds for five years, he says.
Barrington remains close to Macalester, volunteering annually as a guest speaker in Karl Egge's economics classes. What would he tell students today about the causes of the 2008 crash? For one thing, he'd say that "Wall Street greed" is largely a red herring. Yes, he says, "some Wall Street bankers were greedy and maybe even immoral" for packaging up collateralized debt obligations and various bundles of what became known as "toxic assets," and selling them to other institutions. And yes, he agrees that some new financial regulations probably are necessary.
But he is outraged that Washington's proposed solutions do not address the root cause of the subprime mortgage debacle that brought on the meltdown. "At the core of it was bad government policy, as implemented by HUD, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac," he says. "The unintended consequences of Washington's social engineering policies— policies that interfere with the free market—led to Fannie and Freddie directly and indirectly making mortgages to people who never should have been given one in the first place. These policies allowed mortgage originators to sell all their loans to Fannie, Freddie, and Wall Street, which led to ever decreasing lending standards and loans to people who could not afford them, all just to keep the money-making machine turned on. None of this would have happened without Washington's tinkering and if loan originators had born a substantial amount of the risk that the loans they originate might someday default."
Denitza Batchvarova '06
Associate, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
New York City
Denitza Batchvarova came to Macalester directly from her native Bulgaria, attracted by the school's reputation for friendliness toward international students. She majored in economics and math. When she graduated in 2006, at age 21, Batchvarova accepted a job with Citigroup. A year later she found herself in a ringside seat at the epicenter of the subprime mortgage fiasco.
Citigroup was one of the bellwethers of disasters yet to come. Its former CEO , Chuck Prince, resigned in November 2007 as losses from the company's mortgage-backed securities mounted into the billions. By April 2008 the company had announced layoffs totaling at least 13,000 jobs. By the end of 2008, Citigroup reportedly suffered at least $65 billion in losses, most of them mortgage-related. Its stock tanked to such a extent that at one point 73 percent of the company's value had disappeared. As one of the too-big-to-fail institutions eligible for taxpayer rescue, Citigroup received $45 billion in federal bailout money.
Scary is the word Batchvarova uses to describe the period. Even after it was clear that the subprime bubble was bursting, she says, nobody anticipated a freefall so horrendous that it would wipe out Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. "It was scary to think that Citigroup might be next to come down. We had confidence that we could refocus and find our way out of the hole, and that we should survive, but the market wasn't rational at that point. You didn't feel that the most rational thing would be what happened next."
Batchvarova works on the investment-banking side of Citigroup. Her group specializes in the paper and packaging industry, helping companies acquire other companies, sell divisions, and raise capital. "We work with real companies that make real products," she stresses, as opposed to companies that create exotic financial instruments. "But the blowup on the mortgage side scared investors away from everything, not just from risky investments…. The markets froze entirely." Frightening though the period was, she discovered a silver lining. "For me, what changed was that we started working on more interesting things," Batchvarova says. Before the meltdown, she explains, with capital for mergers and acquisitions readily available, "all deals were pretty much the same." Life was easy, but the work involved little creativity.
After the meltdown, "we had to think more strategically about how to create value and how to fund deals," she says. "It used to be, 'here's a deal, here's how we'll fund it.' With new projects, it's now, 'Okay, how can we do this?'"
Batchvarova is surprised but happy at the stock market's recovery since 2009. Despite continuing jitters, "I think investors' sentiment is that the economy has bottomed out. They're asking, 'How do we invest in companies that will benefit from an economic recovery?'" That's good for her niche in the financial world, she says, because what kind of firms are those? "Real companies with real products."
Elizabeth Hoffm an '93
Principal, Berkshire Partners
After graduating with an economics degree from Macalester, Elizabeth (Beth) Hoffman earned an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business. She worked as a financial analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co. and for two venture capital firms before joining Berkshire Partners in 2003. Boston-based Berkshire Partners is a private equity firm, with seven institutional funds totaling $6.5 billion. Berkshire has invested in a wide range of industries for more than 25 years, frequently by acquiring a majority or minority equity ownership position in mid-sized private companies. "Often we utilize leverage to enhance potential equity returns," Hoffman says. "Without available credit, there is more pressure on earnings growth alone to generate equity returns."
For months following September 2008, "the credit markets effectively shut down," she recalls. The nature of her dayto- day work changed dramatically. "Our focus was on maintaining liquidity for our existing portfolio companies," Hoffman says. Many companies operate with revolving lines of credit, for instance, and "there was some uncertainty about whether the bank would be there tomorrow to honor its revolver commitments."
Without functioning capital markets, leveraged buyouts are difficult to complete. "With the new-deal market dormant, we were forced to think more creatively about where new opportunities might exist," Hoffman says. That translates to figuring out where the next phase of growth will be in a sector. She was involved in Berkshire's creation last year of Tower Development Corporation, a new entity formed in partnership with Crown Castle International Corporation of Houston to pursue new wireless tower builds and acquisitions. Within the communications sector, they are betting that demand for new wireless infrastructure will continue to be strong.
The markets have come back more quickly than she and others expected, Hoffman says. "There's a lot of worry about Greece, so right now it's a little fickle, but generally the credit markets are open again." For Berkshire, that's actually a double-edged sword, because it can lead to price inflation. "When credit is available, people can and will pay more for companies, so valuations tend to creep up. Right now, we're trying not to overpay."
Who is to blame for the 2008 meltdown and how can we prevent a repeat? The government push to increase home ownership played a role by "fostering an environment of extremely relaxed credit-writing standards," she says.
Also central to the problem, however, was that "people forgot about gravity…. It all would have worked if housing prices kept going up forever," she says. "People just didn't think the music would stop—or that it would stop on their watch."
Seth Levine '94
Cofounder and Managing Partner, Foundry Group
Boulder, Colorado
Seth Levine originally intended to become a psychologist, majoring in psychology and economics at Macalester. But when he left school, he got a job as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley. Then he moved to Colorado for "lifestyle reasons," working for a communications company and then in the venture capital world.
Foundry Group, which Levine cofounded in 2006, is a venture capital firm that specializes in funding new companies in the information-technology industry. Although he's a bit embarrassed to admit it, from his point of view the 2008 market meltdown actually had a positive impact on his business.
"We raised our fund [from institutional investors] in fall 2007. So we had fresh capital to invest throughout the downturn" of the next two years, he says. Downturns are good times to invest in young businesses. In a recession, when investors are extremely cautious, "there are fewer dollars chasing those opportunities. So there was less competition for us," Levine says.
In fact, he says, a recession can be an excellent time to start a business. A startup has easier access to talent, office space, and even basic equipment like desks and computers. He points out that Microsoft and Cisco Systems both were launched during downturns.
"I think the world will look back on 2008 and 2009 and realize that a number of meaningful businesses were founded in that period," he says. "We were fortunate in our timing. We've been able to put together an exciting portfolio of companies." As an example, he cites Zynga Games Network Inc., founded in 2007, which makes social games for online players.
Levine recognizes that the recession has meant "a lot of hardship for a lot of people," including many of his own friends, "who have suffered dearly in this market." But the plain truth is that for him at least, the meltdown of 2008 was no disaster.
Now he's in a more mainstream position, hoping that the current recovery continues and strengthens. "We need to exit companies, too, and the landscape needs to adjust for us to see realizations from our portfolio," Levine explains. Then again, he's in no hurry for a strong sellers' market to develop. The oldest companies in Foundry's portfolio were bought in 2008, and he expects to hold onto firms for at least five years. "So we have lots of time," he says.
The main lesson he'd draw from the subprime crash? The same one that should have been learned from the Internet bubble of the '90s: that "economies are cyclical," Levine says. A mortgage market that made sense only if housing prices kept rising forever was doomed because "markets behave as markets. The rules don't fundamentally change."
Jack Gordon is a Twin Cities writer who specializes in business topics, writing frequently for Twin Cities Business and similar publications.
Feature Stories
Business leaders continue to come up through the ranks at Macalester, among them three rising senior women who are interning this summer at New York City investment banks. They are Eshita Sethi (Gurgaon, India), Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Diarra Gueye (Dakar, Senegal), Credit Suisse; and Varini Sharma (New Delhi), UBS . All three took "Introduction to Investment Banking," taught by Joyce Minor '88, the Karl Egge Professor of Economics. photo: courtesy seth levine « Shown here near their Wall Street offices are summer interns (from left) Varini Sharma, Diarra Gueye, and Eshita Sethi, all rising seniors.


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In downtown LA and many other places, not as quiet as last year. Last year was glorious. I wish it could turn into a yearly event. It seems for this day, people are pretty much staying away from the 405 on the West Side. Not so much on many of the our surface streets and other …
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The Herbalife Triathlon Will Shut Down Miles and Miles of Surface Streets on Carmageddon Weekend!?!
Are you kidding me? Nope, miles and miles of surface streets are going to be shut down from Venice to and into downtown for the triathlon and the nearly 3000 triathletes.
7:15 a.m. – Professionals start at Venice Beach
7:15 a.m. – 5K Fun Run at 11th St and Flower to Grand and 1st and return to start line
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Complete closure at midnight.
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The Bureau of Land Management says the odds are against that, but that it's likely something courts would have to decide.
Researchers at the Center of the American West began looking last year into the claims held by the Smalley Creek Oil Shale Co. out of Collbran, where Jerry Reed's great-grandfather Clarence Surrey lived.
The Smalley Creek claims, however, no longer exist and the land to which they applied now are owned by the federal government and administered by the BLM.
"I think they were illegally taken" by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Reed said.
"The most plausible—although still highly unlikely—scenario in which the Reed family has a valid case today hangs on the possibility that the federal government improperly relocated the claim while the original claimants were still performing annual maintenance or had demonstrated their intention to resume it," researchers Ryan Rebhan and Jason Hanson wrote in their paper, "So You Think You've Got An Oil Shale Claim."
To be sure, Rebhan and Hanson noted, the Interior Department likely was acting within its rights in relocating the claim and placing it under the government's leasing authority.
That doesn't mean that the Smalley Creek holdings couldn't be valid, however.
The claims date back to before the 1920 Mineral Leasing Act became law. Claims that precede 1920 could be patented or held by the owners of a private property.
A patented claim can be used by the owner for any purpose, just like any other real estate.
Reed could have lots of company. More than 35,000 oil shale claims were made between 1915 and 1920. About 10,000 claims were made in Colorado and more than double that amount, 25,000, were made in Utah, where oil shale outcrops are easily seen.
His family had claims covering 60,000 acres, Reed said.
The Green River Formation in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming contains the world's richest oil shale deposits and the federal government controls 70 percent of the land that overlays it.
The likelihood in the case of Smalley Creek Oil Shale Co. and Reed is that the company failed to meet the annual work requirements of the General Mining Act of 1872 and that the Interior Department placed it under the federal leasing authority in the 1930s.
Reed, 50, said he recalls going to the BLM offices routinely in the 1970s to deal with the family claims.
As for whether the claims are valid, Reed said many are patented, meaning that once the deed, or patents, were issued, there is no longer an assessment or annual labor requirement of $100.
Rebhan and Hanson see it slightly differently, concluding that if the family did the annual labor, or resumed work after a lapse but before relocation, those are the important issues.
"If the answer is yes to either of these questions, then the family may have a case against the Department of Interior," Rebhan and Hanson conclude.
It's true, as well, that the legal history of oil shale is convoluted and confusing.
"I had actually been to some of the legal swamp of oil shale claims" when he learned of Reed's claims, said Rebhan, a native of Rifle, near the heart of the Colorado oil shale deposit.
Reed's claims are mostly placer claims, meaning that they would apply to rock visible on the surface and so they're unlikely to get to the deepest—and richest—deposits in Rio Blanco County, said Glenn Vawter, executive director of the National Oil Shale Association.
That's the reason that Utah claims outnumber those in Colorado. The Utah side of the deposit is shallower, with outcrops.
Reed contends his claims stretch up Piceance Creek and could very well take in some of the best lands.
There are outcrops along the eastern edge of the deposit that could lend themselves to some of the techniques now being tried in Utah on state and private lands, Vawter noted.
"There are places where you could do what Red Leaf is doing," he said, referring to Red Leaf Resources Ecoshale process. Red Leaf digs out a shale deposit to build a capsule, complete with a heating and oil recovery system, then replaces the shale and covers it. As the shale is heated, it releases oil, which the system is to collect.
It's one thing to speculate, said Colorado BLM spokesman Steven Hall, and another to prove a claim.
"It's not uncommon to have academics offer their own points of view regarding these claims," Hall said in a statement. "But whether or not the claims or the academics' point of view is correct is a question best left to the courts."
Claims such as Reed's are not unusual, Hall noted, but "having those claims substantiated or verified is not common."
Reed, who has spent most of his free time since 2009 delving into records in Garfield County and other locations, said he has the legal right of ownership to the Smalley Creek Oil Shale Co. lands under state and federal law.
He's pursuing them, he said, on behalf of his family and Collbran, which once was a haven for oil shale speculation and exploration.
"I felt I was obligated," he said. "I felt Collbran was owed something."


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Nominee testifies before Senate panel, says Fed stimulus is necessary
Janet Yellen made clear Thursday that she's prepared to stand by the Federal Reserve's extraordinary efforts to pump up the economy when she's chairman, if that's what it needs.
During a two-hour confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, Yellen embraced her so-called "dovish" reputation and expressed strong support for the Fed's low-interest rate policies. And she warned critics that any potential harm those policies pose are outweighed by the risk of leaving a recovering economy to survive without them.
"I believe that supporting the recovery today is the surest path to returning to a more normal approach to monetary policy," said the nominee to lead the Fed. Yellen, 67, faced tough questions, particularly from Republicans. But she also drew praise from senators in both parties and is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate, becoming the first woman to lead the powerful central bank.
"It's important not to remove support, especially when the recovery is fragile and the tools available to monetary policy, should the economy falter, are limited given that short-term interest rates are at zero," she said.
Stocks extended records as Yellen's testimony signaled she will maintain the strategies of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, whose term ends Jan. 31. As Fed vice chair, Yellen has helped Bernanke craft the most aggressive easing program in the Fed's 100-year history, including a commitment to buy $85 billion a month in bonds until the outlook for the labor market has "improved substantially."
"It will be a pretty smooth transition," said Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James & Associates. "The evidence that we're seeing now — the continued slack in the economy, the low trend in inflation — suggests the Fed will maintain the course at least for the time being."
An aide said that Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., plans a vote as soon as possible, potentially next week.
Her testimony represented a strong defense of the Fed's policies pursued under Bernanke, which were launched to combat the Great Recession and the financial crisis.
The latest efforts include spending $85 billion a month on bond purchases, which are intended to lower long-term interest rates and promote faster economic growth.
Some Republicans expressed concerns at the hearing about the bond purchases, which have swelled the Fed's balance sheet to $3.8 trillion. They are worried that the money flooding into the financial system is inflating stock and real estate prices. And that could be creating asset bubbles, which would have a disastrous economic impact if they burst.
Yellen repeatedly assured senators that the Fed is mindful of those risks. While calling for stronger regulation to help protect the financial system, she said she'd like to see more progress lowering unemployment, now at 7.3 percent, and that she doesn't see asset-price bubbles emerging in equities or property.
Pressed by Republicans to specify when the central bank might begin scaling back the bond purchases, Yellen said "there is no set time that we will decide to reduce the pace of our purchases."


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- Title
- Metropolitan evolution
- Author(s)
- Newton, Peter W.
- Abstract
- At the outset of the 21st century, the overall structure of Australia's settlement pattern is judged to be relatively fixed. Australia is a relatively 'empty' continent, with approximately 0.2% of the land mass accommodating three-quarters of the population. We are a nation of coastal dwellers, with 85% of the population living within 50 kilometres of the coastline. We are a highly urbanised society with 87% of the population living in urban centres of 1000 or more people. There is a high metropolitan primacy, with the capital cities of the seven states and territories accommodating two-thirds of the total population. Within this spatial framework, however, there are a number of key shifts that are occurring.
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Source
- Transitions: pathways towards sustainable urban development in Australia / Peter W. Newton (ed.), Chapter 11, pp. 171-188
- Publication year
- 2008
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Sustainable development; Urban planning
- Publisher
- CSIRO Publishing
- 9780643094192
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Warmer water help guppy give birth faster?
I have some hippies that I have with a smaller than needed heater. The temperature is at 74, but steady. I am working on getting another heater, but I was wondering if putting the heater right underneath the intake pipe of the breeder would make it warmer in the breeder, and help her give birth faster.
I hate to see her in there! The other female guppy I have only hangs out near the side with the breeder!
I know it's unhealthy to keep her in there for long.
What can I do to help her?
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Warmer water has no effect, that i know of, on inducing birth. I do know that the tank temp can effect the sex of the offspring, though it probably won't make any difference if she is ready to pop.
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Darn. I just wish it'd happen already! She's been in the breeder since about 1 pm. That's 14 hours so far.
How long should I leave her? Her gravid spot looks huge!
What's the longest I can leave her?
She has water supply from the tank and oxygenated water.
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Twenty-four year-old Ernest Valles was driving westbound on Highway 78 just west of Milepost 30, when his car drifted towards the right side of the road. Valles then over-corrected, sending his car into a spin off the other side of the road. His car then rolled and went airborne before coming to rest in a field next to the highway.
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Del Oro gymnast attracting attention from college scouts
Del Oro High junior gymnast Ann Stockwell is having a successful year and is already competing at nearly a college level.
Stockwell, a second-year Level 10 gymnast at Miyagi Gymnastics Academy in Auburn, is attracting attention of scouts and has already been approached by four colleges in the western United States.
If you watch college gymnastics, you are usually watching Level 10 competition. Generally, Level 10 gymnasts are on college teams or are very successful high schoolers.
During Stockwell's spring meet, she has already topped numerous personal bests.
At the Spirit of the Flame meet in San Jose on Feb. 23, she earned a 9.525 on vault, 8.4 on bars, 9.125 on beam and 9.475 on floor. This gave her a solid all-around score of 36.525, far more than the 32 needed to qualify her for the State Championship meet.
At the March 9 Delta Classic meet in Stockton, Stockwell outdid herself, with a 9.6 on vault, 9.3 on bars, 8.875 on beam and 9.35 on floor. She totaled an impressive all-around score of 37.125.
All of these scores were good for first or second in her level and age group.
An all-around score of 32 is required at an invitational meet to qualify for the state championship meet. A score of 34 is needed at state to qualify for the regional championship meet.
The highest scorers at regionals qualify for the national meet. Stockwell has already qualified for the state meet in Livermore on March 23.
If she performs there as she has so far, she will likely go to the regionals in Phoenix on April 13.
Stockwell has high hopes to culminate her meet season at nationals in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 10.
Those who want to see Stockwell performing her events can visit youtube.com and search for Ann Stockwell to see her floor, beam and bar routines.


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Height: 6-2 Weight: 192 lbs.
Born: August 10, 1947 in Goodland, KS
High School: Goodland
College: Kansas St. (school history) (Jones college stats)
Drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the 11th round (280th overall) of the 1969 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 1 (13070th overall since 1950)
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Three Deaths While Shooting Reality Show For Discovery Channel
Tragedy happened early Sunday morning, while shooting a reality show for Discovery Channel. A helicopter crashed in California killing three people onboard.
The victims were helicopter pilot David Gibbs, 59, cameraman Darren Rydstrom, 45, Michael Donatelli, 45 and a castmember.
The military show is being produced for the Discovery Channel which issued the following statement
"A production company was shooting a show for Discovery Channel when this tragic accident occurred. We are all cooperating fully with authorities. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families." And the reality TV show's producer Eyeworks USA just said: "We can confirm that a helicopter crash occurred this morning while shooting a new series for a cable network which resulted tragically in three fatalities. We are cooperating fully with the authorities. We extend our deepest sympathies to the families of those involved."
Los Angeles County Fire Department officials said the crash happened around 3:40 AM at Polsa Rosa Ranch. The men were thrown from the helicopter and pronounced dead on the scene.
A filming permit lists the show as untitled military-theme TV program and had just begun filming on Saturday.
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the crash. A preliminary report is generally published on the NTSB's website within a week or two of an incident. The probable cause of the crash often takes several months to determine.
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WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 20, 2009) - The Army's G-1 staff launched a redesigned Web site last week that consolidates all Army benefits information at one location and includes calculators that Soldiers can use.
The  MyArmyBenefits.us.army.mil site has calculators that allow Soldiers to see how much money they can expect to receive upon retirement or how much their family would receive if the unthinkable happens.
"Soldiers owe it to their family to let them know they will be taken care of if something happens," said Lt. Col. Jay Carlson of G-1, the program manager for the site.
The site also lists information on 150 different benefits ranging from child care to education assistance. Fact sheets are provided on a variety of family services, recreation programs, Space-A travel, Army Emergency Relief, health care, spouse employment assistance and many other programs.
In addition, there are 54 state and territory fact sheets that break out different benefits for Soldiers who live in each state.
"The state (and) territory benefits page is helpful because all I had to do was click on my state on the map and I could see all the benefits my state offered," said Staff Sgt. Michael O'Brien. "Also it lets you estimate your retirement pay which is a cool thing to know."
The retirement calculator allows Soldiers to figure out what their benefits will be under the three different retirement systems: High Three, Final Pay and REDUX.
"MyArmyBenefits is the Army's one-stop official resource for all benefits information," Carlson said.
Until now, there was no one place to go for benefits information, according to Carlson, who explained that the info was "disseminated through a broad variety of channels."
Benefit resource locators are part of the site, along with special Wounded Warrior and Casualty modules.
The Survivor Planning Calculator provides a personal report projecting lifetime Social Security and survivor's benefits. The report also factors in the Thrift Savings Plan, Servicemembers Group Life Insurance, or SGLI lump-sum payments and other benefits.
The benefits calculator provides a vehicle to assist Soldiers and spouses as they plan for the future, giving them peace of mind, Carlson said.
Personal data for the calculators is drawn from the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System known as DEERS.
The calculators, including one for disability benefits, require Soldiers to log in using their Army Knowledge Online password.
The only weakness of the site, according to one of its designers, is that the calculators currently are available only to active-duty Soldiers. However, Carlson said plans are underway to develop benefits calculators for National Guard and Reserve Soldiers as well.
Other sections of the site already address reserve-component Soldiers. One is the Deployment Planning Toolkit. This section provides information on mobilization and deployment support, family assistance, pay and allowances, and programs such as the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
Sgt. 1st Class Pete Mayes said he was impressed with the site.
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Gestation Period Of A Swordtail
Started by Lorna , Jul 24 2007 07:22 PM
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Posted 24 July 2007 - 07:22 PM
I've got 2 swordtails (not sure what breed) they are orange with 2 back stripes at the either top and the bottom of the caudal fin running from body to tip. I have had these 2 swordtails for over 2 months now and 2 weeks ago one of them gave birth. I have always thought that they are 2 females as neither of them have a sword and I can't find the gonodopium on them either. I have read that the gestation period of these fish is between 24 to 30 days so they couldn't of already been fertilised at the shop when purchased as I have had them longer then this period of time.
Any ideas? Also do you know what type of breed they are?
Any ideas? Also do you know what type of breed they are?
Posted 24 July 2007 - 09:37 PM
Gestation period is normally one month for the common livebearers. Most are pregnant already when you pick them up in a shop unless they've been separated since birth with only the same sex. Do you have a picture so we can see what type of Swords these are that you have?
Posted 24 July 2007 - 09:38 PM
Live bearers can have multiple births from one mating i believe.So they were probably mated with before you got them.
Posted 24 July 2007 - 09:39 PM
swords have also been reported to have a gestation of up to 8weeks but it depends on the type of sword ofcourse
Live bearers can have multiple births from one mating i believe.So they were probably mated with before you got them.
Posted 24 July 2007 - 10:18 PM
Here are the pictures of my swordtail
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Posted 24 July 2007 - 10:33 PM
the normal time is about 28 days and i also read they can store sperm for around a year.
correct me if im wrong
correct me if im wrong
Posted 25 July 2007 - 12:49 AM
I thought they could only store sperm for 6 months. but anyways cool fish good luck with the fry.
Posted 26 July 2007 - 09:56 AM
i may be wrong then, just say 6 months its a safer guess
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No strangers to the event, January Jones and Jessica Pare supported their hit AMC series at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday evening (September 22).
Giving her little guy a head start on education, January Jones took Xander to a baby class in West Hollywood on Tuesday (September 17).
The "Mad Men" star sported a white and black tank top, black skinnies, and flats as she toted her tired tot on her hip.
There's widespread melancholy over the ending of "Mad Men's" amazing run on television, however AMC has good news for those in mourning.
According to a press release, the Lionsgate series will conclude with a 14-episode final season that will be split into two segments.
Doing her part to prevent wildlife abuse, January Jones appears in a new Public Service Announcement on behalf of great white sharks.
The "Mad Men" starlet teamed with ocean conservation organization Oceana for the spot, urging viewers to stand up against shark extinction.
Stepping out for a social call, January Jones showed up at Little Dom's restaurant on Thursday afternoon (June 13).
The "Mad Men" hottie looked gorgeous as she strolled into the popular Los Felizz eatery to meet up with a gal pal, sporting a summer hat with a yellow top and capri jeans.
Arriving for an evening to honor one of their own, stars came out for the 2013 Crystal + Lucy Awards on Wednesday (June 12) in Beverly Hills.
Looking lovely as she strolled the red carpet, sleeveless blue frock was "True Grit" cutie Hailee Steinfeld, who posed for shutterbugs in front of the Beverly Hilton.
Spending a sunny day with her family, January Jones took her mother and son out and about in Larchmont in Los Angeles on Tuesday (June 11).
The "Mad Men" star looked cute in a brown and cream striped top, black jeans, and aviator shades as she toted little Xander on her hip.
Starting off her week with a family day, January Jones went to lunch at Houston's and then to Whole Foods with her son and mother in Pasadena, California on Monday (June 10).
The "Mad Men" star looked fresh in a short-sleeved white top and blue jeans as she carried little Xander on her hip with mom Karen close behind.


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Gurode practices with Cowboys, should start Sunday
Updated: October 5, 2006, 9:02 PM ETBy Len Pasquarelli | ESPN.com
Just four days after requiring 30 stitches to close the facial lacerations caused by Albert Haynesworth stomping on his unhelmeted head, Dallas Cowboys center Andre Gurode participated fully in the team's Thursday practice and likely will start on Sunday at Philadelphia in a key NFC East showdown.
"I think he's playing unless something unforeseen happens," Cowboys coach Bill Parcells said after practice. "I think his cuts are healed up pretty good."
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I've shared a lot of them on Twitter, but some are guilty pleasures/secrets or old clips that I like to rewatch now and then. I still don't have anything makeup-related to talk about, so I just wanted to share some of these and hope you'll have a laugh with me.
I found out my brother also secretly loves this song. We blast it when no one else is around and I like listening to it in the morning on the commute. It's such a 15 year-old kind of song. You know, when you're at that stage when the world is full of romance and possibilities.
This one is just too plain adorable for words:
I love Winnie the Pooh and love the song.
This is one of my all-time favourite songs and I never get sick of it:
Puppies are too much work but I think that a litter of blue-eyed white holland lop bunnies is exactly what I need:
This is one of the funniest videos I've come across on YouTube. Just do yourself a favour and watch:
Douchebag or not, one of his best songs and one of the few of his songs I enjoy (also good for the morning commute):
I liked Jimmy Kimmel much more before when he played the lovable pudgy fellow. Lately his sketches haven't been as good as, say, this one:
Ellen's "Dance Dares" have been making my day. I love it when the dancers get caught!
This one is so dumb that my siblings and I end up laughing until we're on the floor crying. Star Wars fans will love it.
Bring It On is, believe it or not, one of my favourite movies ever. "Hey, Mickie" always has a cheering effect:
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I just got back from Petsmart, and saw a product which claimed to keep ph at 7.0, called Neutral Regulator (white powder). Says to add monthly or twice monthly, though I'd assume you'd add it with each water change. Anyone have experience if it works, without fluctuating ph? Our tap has high ph at 8.3 and I'd do this in my community tank, as it would be "better" for the fish, even though they are doing well in the ph they are in.
Thoughts please?
I have not used that particular product. My general feeling is not to use these, since the initial GH and KH of the source water is what causes the pH to be what it is, and only by effectively dealing with softening (in this case) the GH and KH will the pH be safely lower and stable. I have the same issue only in reverse; my water is so soft some tanks need higher GH, but here too I prefer the natural method of using calcareous gravel rather than the available preparations.
The other thing is that a neutral pH of 7 is not natural for any fish. Mind you, I don't know how effective this chemical may be in getting a pH of 7 and keeping it.
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Celebrity Riders: What the Stars Demand on Tour
By KRISTA WICK
March 20, 2013
Which artist is the most divalicious of them all when they're on the road?
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Once in a while, top-secret lists containing stars' often extravagant requests on tour are uncovered, and these demands, referred to as riders, reveal a lot about their famous counterparts.
Which musician requires a nude mannequin in her trailer? Who expects a $200 bottle of wine waiting for them? You might be surprised!
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The concept of Psychology in the markets can be broken in 2 broad ideas - Trader Psychology and Market Psychology (or Sentiment).
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There is an oft quoted statistic that 80 percent of traders fail. They lose money ââ¬â they either retire or go broke. It is not that they make a lot of mistakes. It's all in the mind.
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Trading requires management of the emotional states. Emotional imbalance impairs the ability to make congruent decisions. The most optimal state is one of complete emotional detachment, to remain calm and to act in accordance with your strategy. That includes negative as much as positive emotions - the key word is to stay "cool".
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It doesn't matter whether you trade stocks, indices, commodities, futures or any tradeable instrument, the most importnat part of the trading game is your own mind.
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Fire investigators say it looks like the lightening bolt struck a home in the Pine Ridge mobile home park. Damages are estimated at about $10,000.
Another fire occurred early Friday morning at 510 Hillcrest Road. Firefighters say they still don't know what caused the fire that gutted half of the duplex. Damages are estimated at about $100,000.
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by Gary L. Aguilar, 21 Dec 2007
Ed note: This review first appeared in the Nov/Dec issue of The Federal Lawyer.
"[A]lthough there have been hundreds of books on the [JFK] assassination," Vincent Bugliosi writes in the introduction to Reclaiming History, "no book has even attempted to be a comprehensive and fair evaluation of the entire [italics in original] case, including all of the major conspiracy theories." Indeed, no book has – not even this 1612-page book, supplemented by a CD-rom containing 958 pages of endnotes – although not because it is too short.
The gigantic swing that Bugliosi takes is easily the most ambitious one-person undertaking ever published on the Kennedy assassination. Bugliosi, the famous Charles Manson prosecutor, devotes more than 1400 pages of text and endnotes to "reclaiming" the lost truth as first set forth by the Warren Commission. He then devotes 900 more pages of text and endnotes to pounding myriad "conspiracy theorists" whose efforts over the years, Bugliosi claims, have wrought a grave injustice on the Commission and performed a "flagrant disservice to the American public."
It is not just that critics have convinced 75 percent of Americans (Bugliosi's figure) to reject the official truth, which he says happens to be the real truth. These critics, Bugliosi contends, are also responsible for a widespread loss of faith in once-respected institutions. Such widespread skepticism, "gestating for decades in the nation's marrow," he writes, "obviously has to have had a deleterious effect on the way Americans view those who lead them and determine their destiny. Indeed, Jefferson Morley, former Washington editor of the Nation, observes that Kennedy's assassination has been 'a kind of national Rorschach test of the American political psyche. What Americans think about the Kennedy assassination reveals what they think about their government.'" To those who might wonder if more than 1600 pages of text and 900 pages of endnotes were really necessary, Bugliosi says that the problem is so severe that nothing less would have sufficed.
Although Warren Commission skeptics might not welcome this gargantuan new salvo, there is no denying that Bugliosi's Herculean effort is an historic and important contribution. It is valuable not only as a reference for the myriad facts in the case and for debunking some of the pro-conspiracy codswallop that has not elsewhere already been debunked (most of it has been, if one has the time to find it). The book's use also lies in demonstrating that it may not be possible for one person to fully master, or give a fair accounting of, this impossibly tangled mess of a case. In fact, despite Bugliosi's pugnacious pummeling, he hasn't laid a glove on major elements of the case for conspiracy.
And, regrettably, it must be said that the most distinguishing characteristic of this book is its demagogic pugnacity. Bugliosi cleaves the world of opinion holders neatly in two – sensible Warren Commission loyalists and conscious evildoers, the "conspiracy theorists." He allows, however, for the occasional sincere dupe. Although his prosecutorial, conclusions-driven style is redolent of Gerald Posner's in Case Closed, the last attorney-written book to defend the Warren Commission, Bugliosi's endless self-congratulation and his arrogant condescension make his book far more insufferable.
These traits may have served Bugliosi well as a Los Angeles County prosecutor where, he boasts, he won felony convictions in 105 of 106 jury trials. They may have helped him knock out true-crime books, including his famous book about the Manson murders, Helter Skelter. But his arrogance is of little use in untangling the hopelessly conflicted facts in this 44-year old national tragedy. His incessantly hurling slurs such as "deranged conspiracy theorist," "crackpot," "con man," "kook," and "huckster" at virtually all critics inevitably carries a whiff of buffoonery and anxious self-promotion about it. And that's particularly the case when he's flat-out wrong on the facts.
A typical example is Bugliosi's mocking of skeptics who say that Robert Kennedy was, to borrow from Bugliosi, a "conspiracy theorist." He counters not with an informed discussion, but by producing an RFK quotation of support for the Warren Commission. Ironically, in the very week that Bugliosi's book premiered, a new best-selling book by David Talbot, Brothers, was published proffering book-length documentation of something skeptics have long known and Bugliosi could have known if he had really looked: While RFK toed the official line in public for the obvious, political reasons, in private, and until the day he died, he remained active as, to borrow from Talbot, "America's first assassination conspiracy theorist."


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Securing the Promise of Renewables
By Jennifer Taylor
Since the 1970s, electric co-ops have been actively engaged in promoting renewable energy resources like wind, solar, hydropower and biomass (including landfill gas, livestock waste, timber byproducts and crop residue). Today, nearly 90 percent of the nation's 900-plus electric co-ops provide electricity produced by renewable sources, all playing a key role in powering rural America while increasing our nation's energy independence.
"Renewable energy makes up approximately 11 percent of all co-op kilowatt-hour use (10 percent hydro and one percent non-hydro), as compared to nine percent for the nation's entire electric utility sector," says Kirk Johnson, Vice President of Environmental Policy at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), the Arlington, Va.-based service arm of the nation's 900-plus consumer-owned, not-for-profit electric cooperatives.
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a non-profit, utility-sponsored organization whose members include electric co-ops, released a study in 2007 outlining a seven-step plan for how U.S. electric utilities could reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by 2030, while still meeting a 40 percent boost in electricity consumption. One of these measures includes increasing non-hydro renewable energy sources, primarily wind and solar, from 24,000 MW to 94,000 MW by 2030.
So, what needs to be done to enable a far greater use of renewable energy?
Currently, 150 electric co-ops either own wind turbines or buy output from wind farms, most of which are located in America's "wind tunnels"–the Upper Midwest and Great Plains, as well as down the spine of the Alleghenies in the East. However, wind and solar power face challenges: transmission; intermittency and the need for advancements in storage technology; and increased construction costs and delays. Overcoming these challenges is not impossible but will require strong leadership and investment from government.
Challenges to Increased Use of Renewables
- Transmission – Renewable resources are abundant in rural areas, but that also means they are located far from the concentrated power needs of cities and towns. To move electric generation from renewable sources (i.e., wind farms), new transmission lines will need to be built to enable greater availability of renewable power sources.
- Intermittency – Most renewable sources are intermittent: the sun doesn't always shine, and the wind doesn't always blow. Improved storage system technology would make it possible to store electricity produced by a wind turbine or solar system. When a storm cloud rolls up, stored solar power could be ready and waiting. Electric co-ops are studying ways to boost storage technology, although major breakthroughs have yet to be made.
- Increased Costs/Delays – Construction costs for power plants of all types are rising, and renewable sources are no exception. Three years ago it was estimated that a wind farm would cost about $1,000 per kW of capacity to build – today that estimate has doubled. In addition to increased costs, the skyrocketing demand for wind turbines has led to a manufacturing backlog of two years or more. For solar panels, costs for installation and operation can run five times higher than a traditional coal plant of comparable size.
New Renewable Energy Co-op Formed
To help electric cooperatives further tap into renewable opportunities, a National Renewables Cooperative Organization (NRCO) was formed in February. Operations are anticipated to begin this summer.
"Electric co-ops remain committed to an overall goal of fostering domestic energy independence while benefiting the environment and assisting rural economic growth," concludes NRECA CEO Glenn English. "While no single approach or policy is appropriate for every co-op, we see renewable generation as an important part of our future. It will not be easy, but it is needed."
You Can Help
Electric cooperatives are also asking Congress to seek out balanced solutions to energy and climate change. NRECA has introduced a public campaign, "Our Energy, Our Future: A Dialogue With America," to ensure that the voice of cooperatives and their consumer-members is heard as debates over energy and climate change legislation rage in state legislatures and Congress.
For more information about this campaign, visit www.ourenergy.coop.
Sources: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Electric Power Research Institute, U.S. Department of Energy. Jennifer Taylor writes on consumer and cooperative affairs for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
Wind Power Conference Hosted by Illinois State University in June
The Illinois Wind Working Group (IL WWG) is holding its second annual conference, "Advancing Wind Power in Illinois 2008," on June 25-26, 2008. The conference covers all aspects of wind energy including small wind, community wind and large wind farms. Sessions will cover "how to's", policy recommendations, case studies and more. The conference brings to Illinois nationally recognized experts and local policymakers to discuss the means to encourage the growth of wind energy. An optional tour of Horizon Energy's Twin Groves Wind Farm is available for the evening of June 25.
The conference will be held at the Interstate Center, Bloomington. More information about the organization and the conference is available at www.wind.ilstu.edu.
The conference is hosted by Illinois State University through a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and designed by the Illinois Wind Working Group, which consists of the key wind energy stakeholders from the state of Illinois. For more information contact David Loomis, 309-438-7979.


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Potato Torta
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Warm, comforting and sure to get you through the day's adventures, this hearty potato dish works for breakfast or lunch. Serves as a tasty side to omelets or any other breakfast favorite for up to six people. Try serving with your own signature sauce for a personal twist.
5 Yukon Gold potatoes sliced 1/8-inch thick
Enough canola oil to cover the potatoes
1/2 cup diced red bell peppers
1/2 cup sliced green onions
7 eggs
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon butter
- Place potatoes in medium saucepan and cover with the oil. Turn flame to medium.
- Be sure not to overcook the potatoes. Check them every few minutes.
- When the potatoes are done strain them and save the oil to use next time. Let potatoes cool.
- Whip eggs in a bowl and add potatoes when cool. Carefully fold in the green onions and red bell peppers.
- Heat butter in a nonstick pan; pour in potatoes and egg mixture. Turn heat to medium. Using a rubber spatula press down on top to level off. Let cook for 2 minutes.
- Once the mixture has set up a little it is time to turn out onto a plate and return it to the pan to cook the other side. Have burner on medium for a few minutes. Then place in oven 5 five minutes to finish cooking.
- When done turn out on a plate and slice into wedges.


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Lindsay Lohan's assistant quitsLindsay Lohan's assistant has quit her job.
Elinore left the position, which she held for just a few months, after deciding she couldn't cope any longer with the 'Mean Girls' actress' "24/7 demands" and erratic behavior.
A source told RadarOnline.com: "Lindsay met Elinore through a mutual friend and she began spending more and more time at Lindsay's apartment. She was still paying rent on her own place but essentially was living at Lindsay's.
"After a few months, Lindsay's up and down moods and her 24/7 demands just got to be too much. Lindsay can be really bossy and mean when she doesn't get her own way and Elinore wasn't even getting paid some of the time."
Friends of the assistant had been encouraging her to leave for some time because they knew she wasn't happy working for the 23-year-old star.
The source added: "Elinore's friends were telling her to quit months ago. Even the person who introduced her to Lindsay was like, 'Look, this is too much for you. You need to get out while you still can.
"But in the end, Lindsay's demands became too much for her. She couldn't take it anymore and she finally had to quit."
Lindsay recently got in trouble with the law again after breaking the conditions of her recent probation for driving under the influence (DUI) convictions.
Her bail was increased to $200,000 after the alcohol-monitoring SCRAM bracelet - which is worn on her ankle - went off at a party following the MTV Movie Awards last weekend.
Under the court ordered conditions Lindsay is not allowed to drink.
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To this came Day The Earth Stood Still (1964), played off as a sci-fi film it was actually a fantasy concerning a witch who freezes the world until she gets her evil desires.
Roger Corman, also anxious to participate in the move to color features, acquired a handful of foreign films and assigned the restructuring of them to his assistants who would then create new films for the drive-In market.
Here Francis Ford Coppola has redubbed and recut a Russian film into The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (!962) in an attempt to capitalize on Ray Harryhaussen's popular 7th Voyage Of Sinbad. Coppola's film is full of incredible special effects and lavish settings and should please every fantasy enthusiast.


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Bourbon Street scales back
Bourbon Street, the semi-new mega club on Guilford Avenue, will no longer hold regular weekend hours in the near future, according to owner Jim Temple.
Temple said the club will be open for live music shows, such as the performance by local group Kristen and the Noise.
"We anticipate some major changes in the next few months," Temple wrote in an e-mail. "Until then we are going to book just local bands."
Thanks to MS commenter Eutaw Street Historian for the tip.
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I am trying to create a rule in outlook but the rule is automatically becoming client-only. How do I prevent it?
The rule actions are: Move messages to a folder & display an alert.
The rule works fine if I just configure moving messages to folder. But, when I set display alert, it becomes client-only. I have read this. But, at least moving messages to folder part should work with server as well.
I read somewhere that there is fixed size for outlook rules. Does this have anything to do with it? I have just 5 rules btw and one of them is becoming client-only.