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Ok, sort of sad story coming but maybe it will be "inspirational" to ya...
I smoked through my first pregnancy and didn't think much about it. I thought "My mom smoked through pregnancy with both my sister and I, and we turned out fine" and kept coming up with other reasons not to quit. My son was born full term, and I thought I was right.
When he was around a year old, we noticed he had a lazy eye. We took him to a pediatric opthamologist at the Kentucky Clinic, where we found out he was born with optic nerve hypoplasia (underdeveloped optic nerve) in his left eye. Luckily, only his vision was affected, but he has to be monitored at least until puberty to make sure there are no other issues.
When I asked the dr's what caused it, they said they couldn't say for sure but it could be because of my smoking.
I haven't smoked since...
And yes it sucks, but it really is whats best for the baby! So be strong ladies!
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Its SUPER hard trying to quit, last time i was preggo i tried and tried again and never could succeed, this time i made myself a promise when i got my postive test i would quit cold turkey. Now mind you its still hard as hell but really the only reason im able to do it is cuz my motivation is to have a stress free happy healthy pregnancy. Not that me smoking last time caused any harm to my son but i still wanna be able to say "I was able to quit for this child" and thats pretty much what keeps me from smoking when i want a cigarette i think about the new little one growing inside, i know that sounds really cliche but its the truth. Good luck on quiting i know its hard. but talk to your doctor they might have some good suggestions for you.
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June 9, 2011
I had been bopping around town with my Pocket Llama, lovin' life.
I gravitated to the Llama because I used to ride my mountain bike all the time.
Yes, I was one of those who rode my dual suspension mountain bike on the road as much as off. That's because I call it my comfort bike. That's code for just loving it.
Don't get me wrong, I do ride trails. You have to if you live in Oregon. We have some of the sweetest mountain bike trails in the U.S. Just another reason for you to put Eugene on your vacation map.
Now, I have to be honest. I had been itching to take the Pocket Llama onto the trails. We bill the Llama as a mountain bike. As the new guy around (I started in October), I still had plenty to learn.
Part of me hesitated. I really didn't want to find out that the Llama couldn't hold its own the trails. My background is as a journalist. You don't spend a couple decades being objective and honest and just toss that out the window because your job now involves marketing.
So, if that happened — if the Llama didn't live up to its billing — I'm not sure how I'd handle it.
That's not true, now that I think about it.
I know how I'd handle it. I'd ride my Llama around town, jump curbs on the way to work like I do each morning, and take my mountain bikes on the trail. Just keep it on the down-low.
With some atypical dry and warm weather hitting the area for a few days earlier this year — including a weekend — I finally had my chance for my test ride.
I tossed the Llama in the back of my SUV and headed for the Middle Fork Trail.
It's just outside Oakridge, and one of the really popular rides in the area.
The trail hugs the Middle Fork of the Willamette River.
I've ridden it a number of times on a number of different bikes.
The first time I hit it on my GT i-Drive.
I've hit it on my Marin mountain bike.
And on my brother's Gary Fisher Cake.
So, the Llama had some serious standards to live up to.
The Middle Fork Trail isn't the most technical around. Many of our trails in Oregon are pretty smooth. Sure, there are rocks and roots. But no outta control challenges here.
It's a rolling trail.
Lots of ups and downs.
It's a fast trail.
A fun trail.
But not fun if you can't keep your bike under control.
So here's my disclaimer. I'd have to rate my mountain bike skills as intermediate at best. I never raced BMX. I have no advantage with small wheels.
And it's Bike Friday's small wheels that grab most people's attention.
I could easily see myself pole vaulting a lot on a trail. Fear that small wheel would dig in.
I hit the trail with apprehension. Careful at first. But in a matter of seconds, I realized a couple of quick adjustments I had to make.
I dropped the handlebars a little lower than I've been riding them. Suddenly, WHOOSH!
I was off and rolling.
Oh, sure, I crashed once. Got my rear wheel in trouble on a dip and rise through a creek.
I usually crash at least once, though. One of those slo-mo events.
For the most part, though, I was amazed at the control I had with the Pocket Llama.
I got comfortable with the little wheels a lot quicker than I thought I would. Once I knew how to squeeze them through rocks and roots, it was a breeze.
The little wheels let you gun up a hill with an added zing. A big zing. In the spots I did have to dismount, I found myself back on the bike a lot sooner because of the ease of getting on and off a Bike Friday.
Without the top tube there threatened my manhood all the time, I started taking some more chances than I'd normally take. I call dual suspension training wheels for mountain bikes. Once I had dual suspension, I started going over things I'd shy away from on a hardtail.
Since there is no front suspension on the Pocket Llama, I expected to be thrown around a lot. But the Thudbuster suspension seat post delivered. It kept me in the saddle, centered, balanced. Wow.
If I didn't say that it felt like my most fun trip on the Middle Fork, I'd be lying. It was as much fun as I've had. It felt quicker. Faster. Sweet.
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Nice article. I'd like to know how your llama is set-up compared to mine and maybe a map link or similar reference to give me ideas of places to go? I haven't used mine much for trail riding and it's way too flat around here for a whole lot of that anyway. I do like the idea of opening my llama and me up to a whole new set of adventures.
Thanks, Dale
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Keira Knightley needed relief after dark scenesKeira Knightley "watched football and drank beer" to lighten her mood after filming "dark" scenes for 'A Dangerous Method'.
The British actress plays a troubled patient who falls in love with her psychoanalyst, the renowned Carl Jung - played by Michael Fassbender - in the movie,and admits she was so drained by their emotionally and sexually charged scenes, she turned to simple comforts to relax.
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The 26-year-old actress achieved worldwide stardom as one of the lead characters in the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' franchise, but refuses to move from London to Hollywood and has recently taken on more low-key roles, a decision which has lessened some of the negative side-effects of fame.
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Tim Krieder wrote an opinion in a recent New York Times Sunday Review (17 November 2012) called the Quiet Ones about the Quiet Car on Amtrack. His observations are prescient. We have lost quiet in our world and we have also lost the civility that supports quiet.
He notes how one individual puts her phone to her ear as soon as she sits down on the train as if she were "unable to bear an undistracted instant in her own company." What happens to us when we have no place of quiet in our lives? No place where we are unplugged from our connective technology, no place where our minds stop going in the ways they are accustomed to going?
Krieder laments, "Respecting shared public space is becoming as quaintly archaic as tipping your hat to a lady, now that the concept of public space is as nearly extinct as hats, and ladies." The problem has troubling roots in changes in society that may be born of this connective technology. "I suspect in part because people now spend so much time in the solipsist's paradise of the Internet that they carry its illusion of invisible (and inaudible) omniscience back with them out into the real world."
I observe this in the movie theater sometimes. It appears that people think they are in their living room watching a DVD, oblivious to the impact they are having on others. I think he is right, solipsism (that is, self-preoccupation) is the culprit.
How can mindfulness help? It is interesting that there is a growing counter-trend to noise pollution in the mindfulness "revolution". There is, perhaps, a growing hunger for some place of quiet–without and within.
I see the "holy trinity" of mindfulness as silence-containment-engagement. It helps to bring some sense of silence into our lives. It helps to contain emotional and appetitive impulses while at the same time engaging us more with what we are doing.
Mindfulness meditation creates a relative quiet. We have a quiescence of activity. We are just sitting or just walking slowly. For a few minutes, we give up the noisiness, bustle, and commotion of doing things.
Of course, we can have this activity quiescence while our minds keep chattering away, talking, planning, opinionating. Yet, we can also have the opportunity for moments of quiet. The mind shuts up. Goes silent. Stops, even if just for a second. When that quiet was complete, a previously unexperienced world of experience is revealed. The Buddha called this nirvana.
Quiet is relative and selective. We hear sounds of nature, sounds of our bodies and might include these in "quiet." What is considered bothersome noise for one is not for another. What is noise for you? For me, television noise is most distracting.
Absolute silence is never happening unless we are in a sound-absorbing room. There is a lab in Minnesota that has an Anechoic Chamber–the quietest room in the world. Apparenlty the silence is so intense no one has been able to stay inside of it for more than forty-five minutes. We are used to some sounds, many sounds, and now without any sense of quietude in our lives, I can readily imagine how being in this room of resolute silence can be disturbing. I'd like to try it.
Silence and quiet are values. It does not appear that they are cultural norms. We have the "uncomfortable silence" instead of the "welcome silence." We are generally oblivious to how loud we and our environment s are. I wonder why people talk louder when they are on their cell phones than if they were talking to the person walking next to them. Every day I hear people having loud conversations on their phones as they walk down the street. Actually, I only hear one half of the conversation. I admit that on occasion, I will walk and talk on my phone. When I do, I am mindful of my volume. In part to be courteous and in part to be private–I don't really want people hearing my half of any conversation.
Mindfulness suggests the possibility and the skill that we can bear undistracted instances of our own company. We can allow things to become quiet in the relative way that they can be. We can investigate quiet, feel the richness of silence–touch its texture with attention. We can give ourselves the okay to investigate the quality of now with whatever sounds are present.
It is possible to meditate in a quiet, secluded meditation hall and in the midst of a crowded railway car. We are always investigating the landscape of now with openness, interest, and curiosity. Yet, it might be a revelation to bring some silence into your life by segregating yourself from cacophony for some extended time at a meditation retreat. When you return you might be able to find silence in the midst of bustle, noise, and the ceaseless doings of life.


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Opening hours of The Beauty Therapy Centre, a professional Beauty Salon in Milton Keynes:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10.00am to 6.00pm
Wednesday: 11.30am to 7.00pm
Thursday: 9.30am to 4.00pm or 12.00noon to 8.00pm (running on alternate weeks)
Friday: 12.00noon to 8.00pm or 9.30am to 4.00pm (running on alternate weeks)
Saturday: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Cancellation Policy:
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From OLPC
Incredibly Simple Interactive Storytelling
SUMMER OF CODE 2007 PROJECT : designing an engine for adventure stories or interactive fiction authoring system for the XO. This should be a robust but simple system that will allow users to create their own adventure stories on the laptop. This project isn't based on Z-Machine, neither pure-text engine. The proposition is to allow children constructing IF games with media objects (images, videos, sounds) easily. The system has Python w/Pygame elements.
ISIS design - here are the drafts from ISIS project.
ISIS code is in constantly changing, so if you want to test the last version, you can download from GIT OLPC's repository:
git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/games-misc/
If you prefer, here you can find some 'stable-test' tar versions:
- August 20th - Can be used to test chat, action and parser tools. Game UI is under development, so still not playable.
Development Tasks
These are the tasks/systems which ISIS will have, with (weight) and percentage of complete. I'll (try to) update percentages every end of the week (Thursday or Friday).
- (4) 80% - Parser system: this is probably the worst task to do, a little error there can be very hard to repair later. This read the script file, like script.isis, and construct the basic story game.
- (3) 90% - Action system: basic engine for story telling games, this handle actors, actions and game events. It's fully integrated with parser system.
- (2) 80% - Basic engine: almost done, stuffs like display, core and pygame event handler. Probably will have more to do when I work on UI and Media systems.
- (2) 80% - Chat system: store and handle chat possibilities and chat data (texts).
- (1) 90% - Database system: almost done, stores and load data from files.
- (3) 50% - Media system: can handle video, images and sound objects and associate them with basic game.
- (5) 00% - UI developing system: this will help children to create this game, with some GUI elements like showing possible actions to write on script, manipulating media with simple clicks (and associating them), and so on. This system will be probably made by "prototype" software engineer model, as only with children playing and testing this can being upgrade.
- (4) 30% - UI game system: I think will be easier than UI dev., this will do the interaction between XO and story written by a child, so this need to be very easy to use (possible without using mouse device, only the gamepad keys if it is possible)
- (5) 00% - Share system: This system isn't projected for the first stable release; this system turns possible to children develop and maybe play the games with mesh network.


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The best divorce advice for men who have cheating wives is that cheating doesn't have to lead to divorce. There's still time to save your marriage even after you've been cheated on. Are you ready to take the plunge? It might be hard to be the one making the effort to save your marriage when your wife is the one who cheated but the best divorce advice for men not interested in divorce after their wives have cheated is exactly this.
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Advice For Men - Divorce - It's Not Easy For Men
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Here's a little advice for men, divorce is a tough thing and you need as much help as you can get. The divorce world is not friendly to men. Women initiate the majority of divorces and usually men get the short end of the stick. So here's a few things I've learned from some of my own experiences going through separation, child custody and divorce.
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Methods And Divorce Advice For Males
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In case you are a person concerned in divorce you most likely already know in regards to the uphill battle that men face in divorce court. First your wife has most likely initiated the process. Ladies file for divorce 2 to 1 over men.
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Finding Marriage And Divorce Advice On The Internet
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Perform an on-line search for marriage or divorce advice and you will probably get a thousands of hits (at least). There is clearly a real need for this advice in our present society. However, how to assess the kernels of grain from the deadwood can be a large problem.
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One question you are likely to face when you finally realise that your marriage is over is when, and how do I hire an attorney? This article will address the first question, when do I hire an attorney?
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Divorce involves a lot of mental trauma apart from the obvious financial strains. Couples undergoing divorce require considerable support and understanding from their colleagues and their family. Most divorces cost thousands of dollars and take months to complete. A significant part of the costs involved in divorce proceedings is the fees to be paid to the divorce attorneys involved. There are many attorneys who specialize as divorce lawyers for men.
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Ash and co. arrive back in Hearthome City, so that Ash can challenge Fantina to a battle. He then bumps into another Trainer named Barry. Barry reveals that he knows about both Ash and Paul. He says that he idols Paul and trains his Pokémon just like Paul. This upsets Ash and they decide to battle.
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Clairvoyance is the ability of "clear sight" in which the psychic experiences messages in the form of pictures, colors, symbols etc. seen through the third eye or minds eye. This phenomenon is experienced differently within each individual, so I will cover some different ways that this may occur.
auras: Often strong clairvoyants can see the colors of the aura of individuals. The aura is comprised of 7 layers of electro-magnetic energy that flows through and around every living thing. By viewing the auras of another the psychic can interpret the emotions, blockages, illnesses etc. within the person.
Symbols: Often the psychic is shown a symbol that corresponds to a feeling or event. For example when I am doing readings and they show me balloons, it means talk about a birthday. We can each develop our own symbol language, and later on in this lesson we will learn how to do this.
Colors: Rather than being just literal, often we will perceive color around certain emotions. For example: Red may mean anger to you, so when you are picking up on someone's anger you may see red. For illness you may associate with another color, and may see this color around the affected area, this ties into aura reading, but doesn't have to be the same. I tend to experience this more as "feeling" and a color will appear to validate the empathic message I am receiving.
Pictures: sometimes pictures of a place appear like a snapshot, where we see almost a still photo of a place or an event. This usually comes as a brief flash. For others who are more strongly clairvoyant you may get a longer lasting snapshot, or you may see rapid series of images. Usually the more important aspects of these pictures stand out , they are bolder in appearance, or a strong feeling may accompany the image. There may be other ways that you will see things clairvoyantly, including dreams, visions, and more. The main thing to remember is that clairvoyant ability pertains to anything seen by the third eye.
Now we will explore some ways to further exercise the clairvoyant ability.
Stimulating the Brow Chakra: (important to note is that we should never just work with only the psychic sense chakra, but should make cleansing and balancing of ALL the chakras an important part of our daily rituals to retain balance and not harm ourselves) The Brow chakra is connected to clairvoyant ability. You can meditate and center the meditation around gently opening up and clearing this chakra. Don't try to force things. Close your eyes, Relax and picture this chakra, envision the white light coming into this chakra. State the mantra "cleanse and balance". When you do this you avoid trying to "force open" that chakra before you are ready. During this meditation pay attention to anything you see. It may be swirling color, it may be symbols, it may be nothing at all the first few times, and that's ok too. When you are ready it will happen, don't try to force things.
Establishing your own symbol language
You will want to come up with your own Symbol language to use with your readings. Communicate with your guides and let them know that you would like to establish this system. Start off simple and then add a few at a time. Record these in your journal. To start off with, you may want to come up with symbols for emotions, or a symbol for common things such as birthdays or symbols that would help you distinguish between the name of a person vs. the name of a place. For example, when I do readings and Spirit gives me a name of a person there is no symbol accompanying, but if they are telling me to name a place, they show me a green rectangle, which tome looks like a street sign, thus indicating to me "place" Another good thing to come up with may be colors or symbols that represent the emotions. For example, a message of caution to me comes up with the color of orange or yellow depending on the seriousness of the warning. This comes in handy trust me ;).
Below are some examples from my symbol language, yours will be different based on what feels right for you. Because I am most strongly clairaudient and empathic, my symbols are really just backups for me, and I really don't see as much as I hear. For others of you, your sense of second sight may develop more strongly, and you may use much more developed or in depth symbols.. again it's back to what feels right for you.
Here are my examples:
anger/jealousy: Reddish orange color for negative emotions
Warning or Caution: Yellow caution, orange is more of a warning.
B-days, anniversaries, celebrations: Balloons
Weddings/Anniversaries: Doves
Births or pregnancies: Pink/Blue (if you establish something like this never express gender unless they ask, and even then I still probably wouldn't ;).
You will also find that a lot of this will just occur spontaneously as you begin to read others. To reinforce them sit somewhere quiet. Think of what your symbol expresses. For example in mine, reddish orange indicates an angry or negative feeling, so I would sit and focus briefly on the feeling. Notice what you feel when you pick up on anger from others (Note empaths I said pick up not take on ;) )... envisioning the color or symbol while focusing on the accompanying feeling helps reinforce the new "language" for you and allows you to develop it more rapidly.
Other exercises:
Review the visualization from lesson five of the first course, this is a good one to use in developing all the senses, but in particular the ability of second sight.
Meditate or relax with your eyes closed. Cover your eyes so that no physical light comes through to obstruct the following exercise. Relax, take the attention off of your physical eyes, and just sort of drift. You will start to notice swirly colors perhaps, or little dots of white light, just let this flow and as you do you may start to notice shapes or images in these swirls and patterns. Don't focus on the expectation of it, or you may miss something. The key to success with these exercises is to just let things come to you in their own time. This is a lot like the first exercise of stimulating the brow chakra. This is a good one to use after you have been developing for awhile and now how to open/close the chakras at will. As you become comfortable doing this, you may ask that your totem animal or spirit guide appear to you. Wait patiently and see if they appear, if not know that they will when the time is right, and don't become impatient.
Finally, continue developing your symbol language as we discussed, record this progress in your journal and every couple of weeks make a brief report of anything significant as far as blocks or breakthroughs.
Remember time and patience have to prevail. It will come to you. Some "see" things faster than others, and many others don't use second sight really at all, that's fine as well. Most people feel that the best psychics are most strongly clairvoyant. I personally believe that is a misconception, and that all psychic abilities are equally special and important. Don't fixate on developing one ability over another because of preconceived notions or expectations. You may just end up slowing the whole process down. Start in the area most natural to you, where you are strongest, and you will find the rest tend to follow.
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Aspirational examples of doting mommys, can-do multitaskers and patient keepers of the hearth and home? Not today's TV mothers.
The essence of motherhood means different things to different characters but rarely involves an apron. Mothers can show up in any form, wed or unwed, faithful or unfaithful, competent or not, and we recognize a modern truth in them. Even TV moms from other, mythical time periods speak to us of contemporary challenges.
Nasty moms, jealous moms and desperately afraid of aging moms are on the rise this year.
Glam moms
Don Draper's mother-in-law is not your average mom. On "Mad Men," Marie (played by Julia Ormond), the French-speaking mother of Don's young wife Megan, is determined to grab the gusto and generally cut loose from her uptight husband. Glamorous and poised, she steps out of an awards banquet for a liason in the next room with newly separated Roger Sterling. Not what Don's curious daughter Sally meant to observe.
Bernadette Peters plays the worse-than-a-stage mom to Ivy, the Marilyn Monroe wannabe in "Smash," delivers a whithering put-down to her daughter. She was the musical theater star in her day and has trouble ceding the title to her offspring.
Then there are the severely punished mothers, who are held up as bad examples. Quinn, single teen mom in "Glee," who never meant to get pregnant, this season was struck down while texting and driving. She is, once again, made an object lesson.
On "Game of Thrones," the Red Priestess Melisandre (Carice van Houten) had the wildest birthing scene in TV history. Smoke monster baby! Of course she doesn't have much on the dragon mom: "Game of Thrones" Emilia Clarke plays Daenerys Targaryen, the mother of dragons in the medieval fantasy.
More ordinary working moms proliferate in primetime. On "Grey's Anatomy," Dr, Callie Torres and Dr. Arizona Robbins are attentive lesbian moms who happen to work full time as docs (alongside the sperm donor, Dr. Mark Sloan). Meanwhile, round the clock duty keeps Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) away from her son on "The Killing." The two are living in a motel room; when her ex- visits, she pulls a gun on him.
New moms
Spring brings an abundance of new mothers on TV. Lily was in labor while her baby daddy was away getting drunk on "How I Met Your Mother"; a baby is due before the season ends. In the real world, "reality" star Jessica Simpson just delivered a daughter named Maxwell.
Aspiring moms
Perhaps the most typical mom onscreen for years has been the indomitable Marge Simpson, powerful blue-haired matriarch who is the glue in the (yellow) family. In a "Simpsons" episode called "The Food Wife," Marge was sick of doing ordinary Mom errands, so she explored an Ethiopian restaurant with Bart and Lisa. She enjoyed it so much, she started a food blog, "The Three Mouthketeers," which became wildly popular. And Homer felt left out.
An upwardly mobile mom, Nene Leakes transitioned from reality-TV "Real-Housewife-of-Atlanta"-mom to an actual acting job in a scripted musical drama. She played coach Roz on "Glee." And she wasn't bad.
Rich mom, poor mom
Annie Potts as Elizabeth "Gigi" Stopper, a filthy rich, self-righteous Dallas socialite and member of the Good Christian Belles or "GCB," is constantly ridiculing her daughter's decisions. And spoiling her grandchildren. But she can be surprisingly supportive in a pinch.
Three generations in more or less maternal roles on "Raising Hope" are the flip side of Gigi. Far from a mansion, Lucas Neff, Garrett Dillahunt, Martha Plimpton and Cloris Leachman make do.
Most anticipated mom
Finally, there's the Mom we can't wait for: Shirley MacLaine, destined to make "Downton Abbey" even more delectable when she joins the cast as Lady Grantham's mother. MacLaine head to head against Maggie Smith, it should be a matriarchial smackdown for the ages.
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ALPHA: Friends of Antiquity continues its series of lectures at 7:30 p.m. today in room 102 of the Jack Arends Visual Arts Building on the Northern Illinois University campus. Founded in 1971, ALPHA is dedicated to the study of the archaeology, literature, philosophy, history and art of the ancient world.
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February 13, 2012
Talks are underway between the Swiss drug maker Lonza and the government of South Africa to produce HIV medicines in that nation, where 5.6 million people are infected. "This joint venture, named Ketlaphela ["I will survive" in the Sotho language], will establish the first pharmaceutical plant to manufacture active pharmaceutical ingredients for antiretroviral medicines in South Africa," said Science Minister Naledi Pandor.
The plant will help control the price of AIDS drugs in South Africa, which currently imports the main ingredients needed. South Africa will invest 1.1 billion rand (US $143 million) in the project, while Lonza will commit 500 million rand (US $65 million), said Pandor.
"Lonza's high Swiss standards, plus their superb track record of establishing and maintaining successful commercial operations in developing countries, make them a valuable and desirable partner," Pandor noted.
On its website, Lonza said discussions are "still in an early stage and nothing has been signed." But talking to media in Cape Town, spokesperson Simon Edwards said the company is "looking forward to a long-term involvement in this project ... and to long-term success."


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The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says it has positively identified 23 of 24 people killed in the tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, including 10 children. Officials still were trying to contact eight victims' relatives Wednesday, but released the names of 16 others:
-- Terri Long, 49
-- Megan Futrell, 29
-- Case Futrell, 4 months
-- Shannon Quick, 40
-- Sydnee Vargyas, 7 months
-- Karrina Vargyas, 4
-- Jenny Neely, 38
-- Antonia Canderaria, 9
-- Kyle Davis, 8
-- Janae Hornsby, 9
-- Sydney Angle, 9
-- Emily Conatzer, 9
-- Nicolas McCabe, 9
-- Christopher Legg, 9
-- Cindy Plumley, age unknown
-- Deanna Ward, age unknown
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We used to play a game when I was a child (and later played this with my own children), called "I'm Going on Safari." You might remember it as well. Great fun on long car trips or over a campfire.
The game helps develop memory and learning skills. Apparently, I didn't play it enough since I have the memory of someone who is on the other side of sunny-side up.
The Rules of the Game
1. Players choose a category. For example, animals, in alphabetical order.
2. Each person, in turn, says "I'm going on safari and I'm taking a …"
3. First person says "I'm going on safari and I'm taking an aardvark."
4. Each person after that has to say all of the things that the people before them stated, in the correct order.
5. If something is forgotten, or the order is incorrect, then that person is out until the next game.
Well, I'm weaving this favorite game into a bit of blogging fun.
Like many of you, I'm way behind on recognizing so many great bloggers who have nominated my alter-ego, mjmonaghan, for awards.
"I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks."
William Shakespeare (click to tweet)
So, as my way of saying thanks, I thought I'd share:
* 12 interesting bloggers you may not know, and then give you
* My Top 7 ½ Things I'd Take on Safari …
I'm Going on Safari, and I'm taking these bloggers!
1. zonapellucida – Dana is coming along with her tales of interesting signage and for yacht-naming (never know when you need to name a yacht, right?).
2. Kristy K. James – Since we're on safari, my new friend Kristy will help us out with her knowledge about mosquitoes.
3. Tameri Etherton – Should we encounter beasts, I'm confident Tameri will be our kick-ass heroine, if necessary.
4. Julie Bird – As we sit around the campfire, Julie's going to regale us with old sayings in the voice of Yoda – yep, heard that right, you did. hehehe
5. You've Been Hooked – What would a safari be without stories from the world's foremost bellman, The Hook?
6. GoJulesGo – Sidling with Chipmunks in the wild requires certain skills only Jules could bring to the table. Well, that and fake mustaches.
7. Melissa Not Dusting – Well, we must have great photographs, and Melissa's got the touch with wildlife.
8. Jane Thorne – As the nights fade, we'll have Jane reciting beautiful poetry to warm the soul.
9. Day By Day the Farm Girl Way – who better to chronicle our safari adventure than someone who loves, lives, and enjoys working with animals on her farm every day.
10. Simply Charming – A trip without the positiveness of Sunshine would be pretty gloomy, so we better take her along with us.
11. Being Arindam – Once moonlight falls on our Blog Safari, we turn to Arindam to cut straight to matters of the heart. Asking each of us "truth" questions that make us think.
12. Ellie Ann Soderstrom – I've just recently connected with Ellie, but quickly realized that if there's going to be fun and quirkiness, she's coming on a safari with my group. Be careful she doesn't turn you into a monkey!
7 ½ Things I would definitely take on safari with me:
1. iPhone – purely for taking pictures. You thought I was going to check my blog?? Really? We're on a safari, people. [Okay, I probably would check my blog].
2. MLB – would have to have My Lovely Bride there. Wouldn't be the same without her. Besides, who else would listen to me, other than those who love me!
3. Television – oh, I can't take that with me? Honey, set up the DVR.
4. Books – something Hemingway-ish with good safari-type stuff in it.
5. A Shower – would have to get a shower at the end of the day. Can't be smelling like three, 100-day-used, Egyptian cotton sheets to the wind.
6. Snake Repellent – I hate snakes!
7. Mosquito Netting – those little biters love me. Don't know if it's my type O+ blood, or because I'm so sweet. hehe
7 ½. Xanax – no explanation required.


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Shawn DeVries
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Employed at DeVries Electric, Inc. as an Assistant Project Manager and Estimator. I am also a serving member of the Pella Christian High School Buildings & Grounds Committee.
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Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Pella, IA
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I am excited to participate and give back to a great Christian institution like Trinity and I hope my small part can create opportunities for more students and alumni in future years.
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Life n Relations
Dayanand Shetty wife and married life
Dayanand Shetty a popular cop in Indian Television. Daya was born in 1969 in Karnataka.He graduated his B.com from Bandra.
He started his career as sports man but later on due to injury he was selected for popular show CID in sony tv. After that he never had to go back than he started getting film offers in Johnny gadar, runaway.
He is married to Smitha Shetty the couple has a daughter. The couple live in Mumbai with two sisters of Daya Naina and Sandyha.


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Samaritan Center receives 50 air conditioners
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Before the full heat of the day had set in on Monday, officials with Ameren Missouri had already given 50 Energy Star window air conditioning units to the Samaritan Center, which will the distribute them to clients with medical needs.
For the sixth year, Ameren gave the units to the center to help combat the heat.
Marylyn DeFeo, volunteer executive director of the Samaritan Center, said with the heat they have seen an increase in the needs for all of their services. Last week they handed out all 128 box fans.
"It was hot then already and everyone needed a fan, so in one day we gave out all we had," she said.
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By Rabbi Daniel Lapin
May 1, 2011
Why is it that people who excessively indulge their physical appetites for food, sensuality or material goods, to the point we could call it an addiction, often yield to many other temptations as well?
Shakespeare created his character Sir John Falstaff to highlight this very truth. Not only is Falstaff a glutton and a drunkard but he is also a liar and a coward. In yielding to physical appetite he also yields to decay of character.
Before I was ever taught Shakespeare's depiction of this principle, I had already been taught it from the Book of Numbers.
rabble that was among them cultivated a craving
and the Children of Israel wept crying, 'Who will feed us meat?'
(Numbers 11:4)
Though they had God's miracle food, Manna, they still lusted for meat. Their desire for variety in food was quickly followed by desire for variety in another area.
heard the nation crying about their families…
(Numbers 11:10)
Ancient Jewish wisdom explains that they were angry about the limitations on physical relationships and the rules for moral family life which they had received in the Torah a year earlier on Mt. Sinai.
What can we learn from the juxtaposition of problems with these two appetites? Can this section help us deal more effectively with situations in which we or people with whom we have to interact are controlled by physical desires rather than in control of them?
The clue is the rule of sevens. We frequently find the most important clue in a perplexing passage of the Torah by looking to see what Hebrew root word appears seven times. Once we have located the word which appears exactly seven times in this section of chapter eleven, we will have identified our motif.
It turns out that variations of the Hebrew root ASF, which means gathering, appear seven times in noun or verb format.
The rabble (ASaFsuf) that was among them...
(Numbers 11:4)
God said to Moses, 'Gather (ASFah) me seventy men from the elders...
(Numbers 11:16)
...if all the fish of the sea were gathered (y'ASaF) for them would
it suffice for them?
(Numbers 11:22)
...and he gathered (vay'ASaF) seventy men from among the elders...
(Numbers 11:24)
And Moses was gathered (vay'ASaF) into the camp, he and the elders
of Israel.
(Numbers 11:30)
...and they gathered (vayASaFu) up the quails...
(Numbers 11:32)
...the one with the least still gathered (ASaF) ten measures...
(Numbers 11:32)
The motif word 'gathering' implies gathering for a specific purpose rather than a bunch of people or things in the same place and time by happenstance. While gathering the manna was good, gathering the food here was bad, having little to do with real hunger and everything to do with lust. Moses gathered himself and the seventy elders into the camp, where, injected with God's spirit, they successfully countered the gathering of fleshly rabble.
In other words the solution to excesses of the flesh is an injection of the spirit. Over-indulgence of a physical substance reflects a lack of spiritual completion. There is a reason that Alcoholics Anonymous and other successful rehab groups focus on building the person and connecting him with a higher power rather than just treating the physical addiction. There is a reason that people who exert tremendous effort to wean themselves from one physical addiction frequently succumb to another. People who mistreat their bodies reveal pain-filled souls.
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We all need to gather enough to fill our needs. The more successful our spiritual gathering is, the less we need to over-emphasize the physical realm. One of the tragic aspects of many people's lives is feeling no spiritual energy from their daily work. Working leaves them drained rather than invigorated, feeling somewhat dishonorable rather than principled. Not surprisingly, those who feel this way rarely flourish economically. I spent many years compiling three resources to help people become successful at making money and to do so with heads held high and joy-filled souls. I urge you to take advantage of the sale on The Income Abundance Set this week and gather both physical and spiritual blessings into your life.
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Continuation Requirements for Students in the Special Education Sequences of Study
- An earned GPA of 3.0 or higher through the first 18 credits of graduate study.
- If conditions were placed on the initial matriculation involving additional course work, all conditions must be met on or before the completion of 18 graduate credits. In order to register for course work beyond 18 graduate credits, the student may be required to provide a 15- to 30-minute videotape of a lesson with a whole class as part of a performance evaluation. Students will receive appropriate feedback and concrete suggestions for improvement, where needed. Each student may be required to integrate feedback and demonstrate improvement on a second videotape to be presented prior to graduation.
- Students must take and submit grades earned on the Special Education Content Specialty Test.
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- Diamond Coast Hotel, Enniscrone Co, Sligo
- Dundrum House Hotel, Co. Tipperary
We also offer a range of packages in many of our hotels that include golf. A number of our hotels are also partnering with local golf courses to offer golf packages in Dublin, Sligo, Mayo, Limerick, Galway and Wexford.
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On the heels of handing out a full-season order for freshman drama Nashville, ABC has requested three additional scripts each for comedies Malibu Country and Last Man Standing.
Launching their seasons two weeks ago, both shows posted great ratings in the 8:00 and 8:30 PM timeslots on Friday night, although the numbers dropped by double digits in the second week. They both entered the fall with orders for only thirteen episodes, so this news brings the total up to 16 if the scripts meet with the Alphabet network's approval.
Starring country music legend Reba McEntire, the series premiere of Malibu Country gained one million viewers over its lead-in—the season premiere of sophomore sitcom Last Man Standing—and scored ABC's highest numbers in the 8:30 PM half-hour in nearly five years. Although this is the second season for the Tim Allen vehicle, Last Man Standing is debuting a revamped cast this fall, as the eldest daughter and her infant son were replaced and aged forward between seasons.
Still awaiting word from ABC on their fates are new dramas Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue. Nashville was the second new show to receive a full-season pickup from the network, following the aliens-in-suburbia comedy The Neighbors. In its second season, ABC drama Scandal recently received a full-season pickup after starting off with a 13-episode order as well.
I've never seen an actual episode of Last Man Standing or Malibu Country, but the commercials make the shows look like remakes of Home Improvement and Reba. Am I right, or are the advertisements doing a great disservice to these stellar programs?


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By JAYSON JACOBY
Journalism, despite its occasional intellectual pretensions, is a blue-collar job.
You don't need a license to practice it.
You don't have pass a test or fill out a form or in any other way satisfy the edicts of government or industry before you gather information and then convey it to an audience.
It's sort of like carpentry, except you hammer together clauses instead of boards.
This is as it should be.True journalism can thrive only in the rambunctious atmosphere of a society where humans' instinctive curiosity is a quality not merely tolerated, but is extolled as a virtue.
Any attempt to throw up boundaries round this raucous scene, whether by public or private interests, taints the work of journalism with the indelible stain of propaganda.
I don't mean to suggest that journalists ought not to care about the quality of their work.
In fact their standards must be of the highest order — absolute honesty, and a ruthless reliance on facts which can withstand the cruel glare of scrutiny without going weak in the knees.
What I'm getting at is my belief that almost any earnest person can perform an act of journalism.
(Although journalists, except perhaps those who labor in the visual media, would do well to avoid thinking of their work as performing.)
Which is why I harbor an innate distaste for one aspect of Oregon's public meetings law, an otherwise admirable piece of legislation that was enacted in 1973.
That aspect is the executive session.
These are sometimes called "closed" sessions, which is apt because the doors of the meeting room are closed, and the public sent outside.
City councils and school boards and other public bodies that must comply with the law (which includes most boards whose members are elected or appointed) can convene in executive sessions to discuss certain topics.
A few common examples are meeting with a lawyer, considering the hiring or disciplining of a manager, and talking about buying real estate.
Boards can mull over such matters in executive sessions, but the law forbids them from making any final decisions inside that closed room and outside the public eye.
But there's a twist to the law.
Although boards can ban citizens from attending executive sessions, journalists get to stay and listen.
They're just not supposed to report what they hear.
This arrangement, which is unusual and possibly even unique among states, bothers me because it gives journalists, a tiny percentage of the population, a privilege which is denied the great majority of the citizenry.
And that privilege is no trifling thing.
Journalists, by virtue of nothing more than having a byline in a newspaper or a microphone on the evening broadcast, are allowed to watch elected officials as they conduct the public's business.
And not just ordinary business, either, but rather the stuff so sensitive (hence important) that it must be dealt with behind a locked door.
Trouble is, those officials are supposed to represent everybody, not just the handful of us who have a press pass.
The relationship that Oregon's executive session law has nurtured between media watchdogs and the officials they're ostensibly watching (or dogging, if you prefer) is even cozier, though, than what I've described.
As I mentioned, journalists are supposed to stay mum about what they hear during executive sessions.
The idea is that reporters who attend closed sessions can gain vital background — details that will help them write more thorough and accurate stories when the board, as the law requires, takes a vote in an open session.
Yet that law, contrary to a common misconception, doesn't prohibit journalists from reporting, verbatim, the entirety of an executive session.
In fact the public meetings law, for the obvious reason that such limits would violate the First Amendment, in no way restricts what journalists can report.
The law, to put it another way, applies only to the officials who attend public meetings, not to the people who report on those meetings.
Nonetheless, the vast majority of journalists voluntarily respect the spirit of this arrangement, and don't report on discussions which deal with any of the topics listed in the executive session exemptions.
I understand why this is so; I've done it myself dozens of times.
A journalist who repeatedly reports about executive sessions isn't likely to get any juicy tips from the board members.
This tacit deal between journalists and public officials is, then, a sort of blackmail.
Reporters agree to keep the officials' secrets, at least temporarily, in exchange for the on-the-record interviews and other access to information that journalists depend on to do their jobs well.
Which is precisely the sort of backroom conniving that watchdogs are supposed to expose, not join.
Nor is there reason to believe that the proliferation of technology — and in particular the blog — will infiltrate this cordial wall that journalists and public entities have erected in Oregon.
A group of media and government representatives recently drafted a model policy that boards could use when deciding who qualifies as a journalist and thus is allowed to attend executive sessions in Oregon.
The model includes a two-part test.
The first part requires that the would-be journalist regularly report on the activities of the board or committee in question.
That's reasonable.
It would be a travesty to allow someone, under the guise of journalism, to attend executive sessions merely to gather information with the intention of embarrassing, or worse, a member of the board.
The second part, though, reads to me like something that might have passed muster in the Kremlin during the heyday of the Warsaw Pact.
The policy blatantly discriminates against a lone blogger — indeed, against any individual who wants to know what his government is up to.
To get into executive sessions, a person would have to work for an organization that has "multiple personnel."
Further, the board could require qualifying "journalists" to sign a form stating that they agree not to report on executive session discussions.
In other words, keep quiet, you, or we'll revoke your pass to the club.
This is an unhealthy affiliation, it seems to me.
Journalists, as a rule, ought to avoid joining government-sponsored clubs.
In particular they should decline membership in anything which requires they take an oath to conceal from the hoi polloi that which they know to be true.
Jayson Jacoby is editor of the Baker City Herald.