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The Alzheimer's Association, Georgia Chapter has been serving the Georgia area since 1982 and has seven regional offices, along with the state office in Atlanta. It is estimated that more than 130,000 Georgians have Alzheimer's and nearly 506,000 others are affected through their roles as caregivers. In fiscal year 2013, the Georgia Chapter was able to serve over 102,000 individuals through programs and services.
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While the Democrats flex their muscles, Republicans try to learn how to just say no.
Just days before "change" comes to Washington, Capitol Hill Democrats are already sounding a discordant note. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein was briefly off-message when President-elect Barack Obama chose Leon Panetta as his new head of the CIA. Key Democrats have balked at the tax cuts in Obama's stimulus plan and the House has already voted to pare them down. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointedly told Roll Call, "I don't work for Barack Obama -- I work with him."
How well Democratic congressional leaders, eager to flex their muscles after eight years of George W. Bush, actually work with the new president remains to be seen. If recent history is any guide, it is perfectly understandable why Obama might prefer to have dinner at George Will's house. "Don't you expect for Democrats to act like Republicans," House Majority Whip James Clyburn told Bloomberg News. "Democrats will be Democrats."
And Republicans will be Republicans, it seems. Already leading GOP legislators seem ill at ease in the role of loyal opposition. Take for example the confirmation hearings of Hillary Clinton. The conservative case against Hillary is nothing new -- Whitewater, Travelgate, her conduct on the Watergate Committee staff, and countless other Clinton scandals well known to faithful readers -- and her credentials for being secretary of state are, one might say, thin.
Yet when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on her nomination, Republicans could muster little more than a few questions about donors to Bill Clinton's well-endowed foundation. Every Republican on the committee except for one -- Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana -- voted to advance her nomination. Some conservatives outside of Congress reacted to Obama's choice of Hillary as if it were a positive sign about the direction of his administration.
For Republicans, this is nothing new. When Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a former chief litigator of the ACLU's women's rights project (giving some hint as to where she might stand on the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade), to the Supreme Court, Republican leaders like Sen. Orrin Hatch praised the choice. Only three Republicans -- conservatives Jesse Helms, Don Nickles, and Bob Smith -- voted against her confirmation. Ginsburg went on to become arguably the most liberal member of the Supreme Court.
A case could be made that senators should respect a president's right to appoint qualified judges, regardless of party affiliation. Whatever her constitutional and political views, Ginsburg possessed solid legal qualifications. Unfortunately, ever since the Senate rejected Robert Bork over twenty years ago, it has been clear that any Republican senator who takes this approach is practicing the political equivalent of unilateral disarmament.
Why? Because, as Congressman Clyburn would put it, Democrats will be Democrats. President Bush's nominees John Roberts and Samuel Alito were supremely well qualified for seats on the nation's highest court. Half the Democrats in the Senate voted against the mild-mannered Roberts. Alito, whose conservatism was somewhat better documented, won just four Democratic votes. All of the Democrats who voted for Alito came from red states, like most of the Democrats who voted for Clarence Thomas in 1991.
Republicans often don't take matters of moral and constitutional principle like Roe v. Wade as seriously as their Democratic counterparts do. That's why Democratic presidential candidates habitually promise to make Roe a litmus test for their major judicial nominees while GOP nominees usually decline to do so. Democrats, on the other hand, will pick fights with presidents of their own party to preserve the power of their committee chairmanships more readily than some conservative Republicans will fight on issues like Roe.
There are exceptions, of course. House Minority Leader John Boehner is showing signs that he won't simply sign off on a stimulus package regardless of content or price tag. "Oh my God," he stammered in response to Appropriation Committee Chairman David Obey's $825 billion handiwork. Unfortunately, the Democratic leadership has taken away much of the Republican minority's ability to reshape legislation by restricting motions to recommit and add amendments to bills. Democratic committee chairs have also been freed of term limits.
Despite their tough talk, congressional Democrats will probably turn out to be fairly eager to please Obama. Dianne Feinstein quickly backed away from her early skepticism about Panetta as CIA director, announcing "all systems are go." And Republicans do face a difficult task in finding their footing as an opposition party -- rejected by the country in the last two elections and faced with a new chief executive with positive approval ratings, it won't be easy to find ways to constructively oppose the Obama administration without appearing obstructionist.
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The Steppe Highway
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The terminology for the regions inhabited by the nomadic and seminomadic peoples of Inner Asia in pre-historical and historical times is inherently unstable, given that geographic areas such as Central Asia, Inner Asia, the Northern Zone, and Central Eurasia are usually defined ad hoc.1
Because the present work is concerned mostly with what Owen Lattimore has called the "Inner Asian frontiers of China, " I have adopted "Inner Asia" or "Inner Asian frontier" as a general term for the eastern part of the continental mass of Eurasia. In practice, it includes three geographical areas: in the east, Manchuria; in the center, Mongolia, including parts of Kansu, northern Shensi, and northern Shansi; and in the west, not only today's Sinkiang but also the Minusinsk Basin and the northern part of the Altai Mountains.
This central definition must be accompanied by two others. The narrower term, the so-called Northern Zone, is used, especially in China, to describe the ecological and cultural frontier between China and Inner Asia. Today this area is entirely within China's political boundaries and runs from the Liao Valley in the east, to the T'ai-hang Mountains up to the Ordos region in the center, and to the Ning-hsia–Ch'ing-hai cultural region in the west. This term often refers to the area of the Great Wall, but to avoid____________________


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Every week, photographer and conversationalist Jenny Jimenez ventures out into the city and brings back photos and notes about the folks she encounters. This week she found Jeff at the Wild Mountain Cafe eating his usual veggie benedict.
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What kind of music are you into?
All kinds. I play bass and am in a band called Publish the Quest, a 7 piece. I'm in another band called Sunshine Junkie. Brand new, just started. Last week was our first show.
How did you get into music?
I was into music from the get go. My parents had vinyl albums, so I listened to theirs. We had an 8-track player in the car. I remember when cassette tapes came along. I had this little red cassette player and I'd set it next to the radio speaker and wait for a song and press record, then stop when it was done in order to make your mixed tapes. I wish I still had those. I have a lot of stuff but not that.
What was the first album you remember buying or really identifying with?
When I was a little kid I liked John Denver and used to fake play along to his songs on my little guitar. Country Roads was a favorite song. Then there was another guy, Cat Stevens. When I was a teenager it was probably Led Zeppelin IV. That's about when I started to get into reggae, at around age 15.
What reggae musicians turned you towards the genre?
Marley was the first, and then the band Culture. They were out of Jamaica. I think they produced the best catalog of music from that genre. And possibly the largest, although Burning Spear has a ton, too.
What was your first show?
I think it was a reggae festival at the Woodbury Ski & Racquet Club in Connecticut. I'm from the Northwest corner of Connecticut. They used to run it all summer. I think they still do.
What was the last show you saw?
Brett Dennen at the Moore. He's fantastic. You should check him out. He had a full band. Kind of a fusion approach. They play a little Afrobeat and dabble in a little Americana. I saw him at Bumbershoot the first time. We were kind of walking by the Mural Ampitheatre late Sunday night and we had had it, we were so tired and there he was singing and it was one of those moments when you feel you're never gonna forget this time so we stopped to listen to him. I bought all his records and now I'm a total fan. The Moore isn't my favorite venue, but we were fortunate enough to get on main floor and it was pretty good. I've had bad experiences up in the balcony where you couldn't hear anything and the sound was bad.
What were you listening to this morning?
What were you listening to this morning?
I was sort of brushing up on my songs for tonight. Publish the Quest has a show on Vashon. I was listening to our first record and our new stuff that is coming out next year, which is in production right now.


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GHD, makers of the must-have hair straightening irons (many a woman's best friend, let me tell you) have just joined the cool offices club. The company's new 15,600 sq ft head quarters in Leeds is more space ship than corporate office. And that's exactly how they wanted it, according to UK firm Carey Jones interiors, who designed the futuristic space, which features a "catwalk" in the reception area.
The objective of the two-year long project was to capture GHD's sense of style and uniqueness in the market place and translate that into their HQ's design. Mission accomplished. - Lisa Evans
One of the easiest ways to make a boring space more vibrant is to use colour. However, as so many of us can remember, obvious opportunities to do this have been missed for decades in schools, universities and hundreds of other places where young people are more or less stuck for long periods. Luckily, today's kids have better luck – at least in the schools where Amsterdam's i29 has had its say.
i29 Interior Architects consists of two interior designers – Jaspar Jansen and Jeroen Dellensen – and is known for clear, bold solutions. A good example of this is their custom furniture project for a Het Veer. It is a public school in Almere, a city located 25 kilometers east of Amsterdam and often referred to as the most modern city in Europe. Het Veer is a school for children with learning and concentration difficulties and the objective of i29's work was to express and entice concentration, playfulness and movement. Their eight different white and red tube furniture pieces can be mixed and matched creating various formations. They play off the Buzz Wire science game that teaches about electric circuits and is based on concentration and hand coordination.
At the Caland Lyseum in Amsterdam, 1,500 students work in a sport-centric environment where they receive coaching for their specific sport and in academic topics. i29 was asked to envision the public spaces – including the main hall, staff room, library and computer/media room – for the new Bos & Partners architects-designed building with its gray brick, glass walls and unusual floor plans. They used large images of the school's famous sports hero alumni and then custom-created multi-functional tables, benches and signage, plus a color scheme for the common areas. The award-winning solution matches the dynamic and multicultural life of the school yet lets the buildings features dominate. - Tuija Seipell


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ImagineDesign Gets Creative With Comcast Business Class Internet And Business VoiceEdge
BALTIMORE, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Corporation, one of the nation's leading providers of information and communications products and services, today announced that ImagineDesign, a national integrated marketing firm based in Manassas, Virginia, has selected Comcast Business Class Internet and Comcast Business VoiceEdge™ for its data and voice communications needs. With Internet service from Comcast, recently named the fastest Business Internet Provider by PC Mag for the second year in a row, ImagineDesign is able to transfer bandwidth-intensive video and graphics files used in the firm's creative and production processes. Having Comcast's Business VoiceEdge service also allows company employees to more easily communicate with clients and colleagues with advanced communication and collaboration features. In addition to improved reliability, the new data and voice services will save ImagineDesign in reduced communications costs. ImagineDesign offers a range of integrated marketing services for its clients, including graphic and Web design, TV commercial storyboarding, production and media placement, search engine optimization (SEO) and social media. This type of work often leads to the creation of large image and video files that must be transferred quickly to foster collaboration and meet client deadlines. With decades of investment by Comcast in building infrastructure to make its advanced network available to meet the bandwidth needs of business customers, ImagineDesign was able to increase its bandwidth to 27 Mbps, with the ability to add more capacity in the future.ImagineDesign also improved the reliability of its phone system with the addition of Comcast Business VoiceEdge, and can take advantage of advanced Unified Communications (UC) features from this cloud-based platform. Previously, the firm used T1 lines (1.5 Mbps) and a virtual PBX from another provider, but experienced slow Internet service as well as dropped phone calls.
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if you live around north or east Texas please tell me
I did 11 years in Amarillo. Glad to be out of that $heot hole.Originally Posted by Justin Time
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Dallas for me.
Frisco for me
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what does that Mean???
I live in east Texas.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
I've driven through east texas!
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Delusion: A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence.
Used to live in Arlington... smack dab in the middle of DFW. I escaped to Rhode Island.
arrr...I used to live in Arlington too. Went to Jr. High and High school there. moved to Austin as soon as I graduated.
I live in Austin, have my whole life
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I live in Burleson, a smallish town south of Fort Worth.
Why did you want to know?Originally Posted by Justin Time
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Austin as well. Hammer's probably seen me, red ponytail on an Allez, probably falling 'cause he forgot to unclip.
Houston here.
Hahaha, I haven't Red. You ride road or mountain?
I am Signature-less
Generally road; I have a mountain bike I use for light trails and commuting to campus, but lately it hasn't seen much trail use. I want to get started more seriously on the mtb this spring. (i.e. when it quits raining.)
all these baja oklahoma folks. Sad. Go hogs!!
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Citizens Group Says Libel Suit from Landfill Company Meant To Silence
The company charges that the citizens' group knowingly and maliciously published falsehoods about its landfill, which has accepted millions of pounds of coal ash from the 2008 Tennessee spill. The group complains that the landfill violates their civil rights. The community surrounding the landfill is predominantly poor and African-American.


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I have a hd7770 and every time i have a game session after a while the video crash, the image freeze, i have black screen for a couple of seconds, and the game minimizes (Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered.). I tried all latest amd drivers and with all of them i have this problem, i tested the video card on another pc and works perfectly, i tried to replace the 7770 with an nvidia 280gtx and the nvidia with its drivers do not crash, i also tried different psu on my pc but the problem persists. Could this be incompatibility between the video card and the motherboard ? i also noticed it crashes more often with some graphic engines, less with others.
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itss realllllyyyyy goooooodddddd
Racher looks beautiful. Congratulations.
wow!! so freaken cool!! better than mine!! lol...OH..wut do u wnat my drawings wolf to be?
Haha, it might not be, your are so cool too
nd what?? What are you asking me??
nd what?? What are you asking me??
Wow, this a really good drawing. 0_0
Thank you, it could be better, I did this when I was 10 xD
Well then, I'm going to check out your gallery,If this is what you made when you were ten I can't wait to see what you do now. I honestly thought this was a sketch by Skailla for a minute, it's that well done.
Haha thank you, when I read this it amde me so hard, I almost fell off my chair! REALL!? OMG THAT MEANS ALOT TO ME, I DID A DRAWING THAT LOOK ALOT LIKE SKAILLA'S, LIKE MY BIGGEST INSPERATION EVER!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOO MCUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a REALLY good drawing, you did a great job
SOOO COOL. The paws are best!!
Best ideas comes from dreams! My dreams But its very hard to draw it xD
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Cancer and Childbirth: Mutually Exclusive No Longer
Published: May 28, 2002
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Dr. John J. Mulvihill, a pediatric geneticist formerly with the National Cancer Institute and now at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, has studied this question in thousands of patients who were treated for cancer early in life and were followed for decades. He said in an interview, ''We can be quite reassuring that if fertility is maintained, there will be no increased risk of birth defects or genetic disease.''
There are, however, cancers that run in families, and susceptibility to these cancers could be transmitted to patients' children, but the treatment itself is not now considered a factor influencing genetic risk.
Dr. Mulvihill said he would like to do more detailed studies to determine whether subtle injuries to the human genome might occur from the chemicals and radiation used in cancer treatments.
''Our knowledge of the genetic effects of environmental insults come largely from studies in mice,'' Dr. Mulvihill noted. ''Maybe people are protected against environmentally induced genetic insults. Perhaps the testes and ovaries are different, less vulnerable than other tissues. We know that mutations must occur, but maybe it's a rare event. We have to study this at the DNA level.''
While there is still much to learn about reproductive issues following cancer, even information available now fails to reach a very large percentage of cancer patients. Only about half of cancer patients of childbearing age receive adequate information about the possibility of having children after treatment, according to the findings of a pilot survey conducted in 1999 by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
While men and adolescent boys with cancer who wish to preserve their fertility can easily bank sperm for future insemination before starting treatment, only about a quarter of childless men do so, the survey indicated.
Dr. Dan Shapiro, a clinical psychologist at the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson, fathered two children with sperm stored more than a decade earlier, before he underwent extensive fertility-destroying treatments for Hodgkin's disease. ''The possibility of banking sperm before treatment,'' he said, ''is still not being mentioned to many young cancer patients.''
The reproductive issues for women with cancer are far more complex and less certain to succeed. It takes weeks to stimulate the development and release of mature eggs, and during that time, cancer treatments must be delayed. Then, the eggs must be fertilized and grown into early embryos before they can be frozen for future impregnation. For some cancers, like breast cancer, the potent hormonal stimulation needed to harvest eggs could further endanger a woman's health.
Although at some research centers, ovarian tissue is being frozen for future egg development, no human pregnancies have been achieved with this approach, Dr. Cardonick said. And in girls and women whose cancers must be treated with extensive abdominal radiation, including young girls with Wilms's tumor, the walls of the uterus can become unable to support a pregnancy.
Even if cancer treatment leaves a woman's reproductive organs intact, some lifesaving cancer drugs, for example, adriamycin and bleomycin, can damage the heart or lungs, making it difficult to go through pregnancy. But it is possible to assess in advance, with various tests, a woman's ability to withstand the biological and physical demands of pregnancy.
Also, refinements in radiation therapy often make it possible to protect reproductive organs from radiation damage without compromising the success of treatment. Modern diagnostic tools, like magnetic resonance imaging, may permit an accurate assessment of the extent of a tumor without exposing the patient to radiation, and high-dose radiation used in treatment can now be delivered to a more circumscribed area.
In some cases, as with Ms. Gaier of Pennsylvania, a woman's ovaries can be moved surgically as far as possible from the radiation field to reduce the risk of permanent damage in cancer treatment.
Even for the thousands of young women who develop cervical cancer each year, there are now treatments that can preserve their fertility. For example, Dr. Priore's team noted, surgical removal of only the cervix and not the neck of the uterus, is now routine. Surgeons can then place purse-string sutures at the end of the uterus to improve the chances of holding on to a pregnancy.
For women whose ovarian function is permanently suppressed by cancer treatment that results in premature menopause, pregnancy is possible through in-vitro fertilization of a donated egg, Dr. Cardonick said. ''Even if there is no ovarian function as a result of chemotherapy, a woman can carry a pregnancy,'' she said.
Cancer specialists agree that it is unwise for a woman to become pregnant during cancer treatment because it can be difficult to predict whether she will survive her current disease. Also, if a pregnant woman must be treated with radiation, the chances of harm to a developing fetus are considerable.
Chemotherapy, however, is different. Even as long ago as 1987, scientists at the National Cancer Institute reported that ''if a pregnancy is begun, there is room, with present limited knowledge, for reassurance that the human fetus may survive unharmed even after exposure to modern multiple-agent chemotherapy during the first trimester.''
Dr. Mulvihill, who took part in this report, suggested the possibility that ''there are protective mechanisms in transporting substances across the placenta or other factors that somehow protect the fetus.''
Dr. Cardonick recommends that decisions about future pregnancies be dictated in part by the time period during which a cancer is most likely to recur, if ever. Since most recurrences of breast cancer and melanoma occur within two years of diagnosis, a woman may delay pregnancy until that high-risk period ends to increase the likelihood that the child will have a healthy parent, she and other experts said.
Photos: Randi Gaier, above, was treated for Hodgkin's disease 15 years ago. Surgeons moved her ovaries out of the radiation field before administering the therapy. Dr. Dan Shapiro, right, stored sperm before receiving treatment for Hodgkin's. (Joshua Trujillo for The New York Times); (Sal DiMarco Jr. for The New York Times)


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CHICAGO -- If the Chicago White Sox thought all their hot-button distractions had migrated south to Florida, well, they had to cinch it up and hunker down this week after the ol' Hawkaroo put a classic "You gotta be bleeping me" umpire rant on the board.
So, of course, that's what we were all talking about the last two days: Hawk's red-faced verbal hurricane against some umpire. Some Sox fans would say it was the best rant they ever saw.
Hawk (real name Ken Harrelson, but only Yaz and Luis Tiant call him that) was his own pick to click when he tore into umpire Mark Wegner on Wednesday at Tropicana Field, driving Internet traffic and fostering debate on his standing as an announcer. Sports blogs, radio shows and fans of Hawk's folksy brand of insanity loved the outburst, which I've heard about 250 times by now.
Bud Selig, Jerry Reinsdorf and the umpires, not so much. But while Hawk drove the discussion the last two days, it's the White Sox who are worthy of our attention.
The first-place Sox won their ninth game in a row, 7-4 over Seattle on Friday night. Gordon Beckham hit two homers, Adam Dunn continued his monster comeback season, Jake Peavy took a shaky no-hitter into the fifth and the White Sox hitters showed resilience, erasing a Mariners comeback by scoring three runs in the eighth against a shaky Seattle defense.
According to some Pulitzer-worthy investigating, I found out it was the first time Beckham hit two home runs on the same day that the New York Mets recorded a no-hitter.
Not much of a crowd to watch the Sox improve to 13-13 at U.S. Cellular Field, though. The announced crowd was 19,168, with weather at first pitch sunny and a little chilly. Maybe everyone stayed home to hear whether Hawk would apologize to Wegner on the broadcast. I don't believe he addressed it on-air, though he talked to reporters about it before the game.
I know he has his detractors, and for good reason, but I'm an unabashed fan of Hawk. You know what you're going to get with him. His shtick is going after umpires, talking about Paul Konerko's 19,000-square-foot house in Scottsdale and repeating old Yaz stories. It's not Vin Scully, but at least he's not boring.
"Hawk is one of a kind," Konerko said. "I think we all know that. Hawk is going to say what is on his mind usually. That's that. Obviously as players, we find a lot of the stuff comical, but it's good stuff to keep us occupied. But a lot of time he's right as well."
White Sox chief marketing officer Brooks Boyer laughs when he gets a letter complaining about Harrelson being a homer. Uhh, duh.
"He's a homer," Boyer said. "It's unique. The style is not for everybody, but it's for a large, large percentage of our fans."
Boyer said he's told Hawk before that he's the last of his kind. The genial homer is going the way of the 100-steal baseball player. Everyone wants to be "a network guy," Boyer noted.
In Chicago alone, we've lost Johnny "Red" Kerr and Ron Santo in the past few years. Hawk's only 70, and seemingly in good shape. He said he wants to die in the booth calling a Konerko home run. I hope he outlasts Konerko.
Then again, if he's as popular as the Sox think he is, maybe they should fire Harrelson just to get people away from their TVs. Attendance continues to underwhelm. The Sox are averaging 20,566 a game.
Boyer said TV ratings have shown consistent gains since the Sox reversed a slow start. Attendance might take time to really climb, but Boyer said it always follows ratings, which bodes well, as long as the Sox keep winning.
"We've sold more season tickets in the last week than in the last four weeks combined," Boyer said.
He also knew there wouldn't be a big crowd Friday night and he was right. A walk-up crowd never materialized. The players notice, trust me.
"Obviously you'd like to see a little more support, there's no doubt," Peavy said after his no-decision. "When we won eight in a row, nine now, and you come and the ballpark on a Friday night, Mariners' Cy Young winner in town, it would be nice.
"But it's not for us to worry about. We're going to show up and create our own intensity. And we've been doing that for the most part. It would be nice for fans to jump on board with a first-place team playing as good as we are."
Even if the fans aren't on board, it doesn't change the fact that the biggest sports story in Chicago is the White Sox. Well, that and Bears offseason practice. But mostly the Sox, who are back to playing classic Summer Sox ball. They're hitting .312 with 38 extra-base hits (18 home runs) during their winning streak.
On Friday, Dunn hit his 17th home run in the fifth, following Beckham's second off Felix Hernandez.
"Gordon Beckham: Felix Hernandez Hunter" is seemingly less plausible than "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
"Yeah, he's been swinging the bat really good and having really good at-bats," Dunn said. "He just looks 'hitterish' now. He looks like every at-bat he's going to do some damage. So hitting has a lot to do with confidence, and he looks like he has it right now."
With a favorable homestand to open the month against Seattle, Toronto and Minnesota, the confident Sox have no excuse not to keep, or improve, a slight cushion in the AL Central. And they seem locked in, and the eighth inning was a good example of why they have to be.
"Any time you get overconfident, baseball will let you know," manager Robin Ventura said.
Peavy lost a no-hit bid in the fifth when A.J. Pierzynski lost a pop-up in front of home plate. Third baseman Orlando Hudson touched it before it rolled foul, and the two later had words in the dugouts. But it didn't hurt the Sox.
Seattle, fresh off clubbing the Rangers, scored two in the seventh and two more in the eighth off Peavy, Matt Thornton and Jesse Crain. But the Sox rallied in the bottom of the eighth when Konerko's fly ball hit centerfielder Michael Saunders in the face. Pinch-runner Brent Lillibridge scored from third on Alexei Ramirez's infield single and two more scored on Alejandro De Aza's hit.
"The guys in the eighth inning did all the work," Beckham said.
While the Cubs build for the future and ignore the present, the Sox are playing for today. While optimistic Cubs fans study minor league box scores, Sox fans have an excuse to care about real-life major league baseball.
Yes, there's a buzz on the South Side, and the good news is it's not just Hawk's chirping.


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Anyone here on beta blocker? Been doing some research and found out that people that exercise are limited if they are taking beta blockers. Can produce asthma like condition if you really push yourself. Have had this happen to me. Sprinting up a hill hard will result in this happening.(as will really good sex!)
Have to see my doctor in next couple of weeks and I am going to ask him if there is something else that does not have these side effects.
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Evergreen's most talented residents were greeted with applause — and donations — as part of the fourth annual Evergreen's Got Talent on Saturday night at The Wild Game.
The talent show is a fund-raiser for Operation Homefront, an organization that provides assistance to military families and wounded veterans in need. The organization has an office in Colorado Springs.
As Parmalee Elementary third-grader Riley Sullivan walked into Shadow Mountain Gallery in downtown Evergreen on Friday afternoon, she silently pointed to an art display.
Her piece, a tinfoil bug with five legs, was hanging in the gallery as part of the annual Elementary Artists 2016 show. The show featured the work of young artists from Bergen Meadow, Carlson, King-Murphy, Montessori School of Evergreen, Parmalee and Wilmot.
The Evergreen Chorale's production of "Guys & Dolls" — in addition to having great music and a comedic plot — has some special elements.
First, Pat Payne is back directing his second show for the Chorale. Payne is well known in the Denver area theater scene, most recently at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities.
Second, the cast is a 50/50 mix of Evergreen Chorale regulars from the area and those coming up the hill to be part of the production.
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
— Albert Einstein
Area high school artists are demonstrating their creativity and artistic prowess at an annual show just for them at Center for the Arts Evergreen.
This is the 12th year for the show, which highlights talented teens from Platte Canyon, Conifer, Evergreen and Clear Creek high schools. Nearly 70 pieces of art will be displayed through Feb. 25.
The ninth annual egg-decorating contest sponsored by the Evergreen Downtown Business Association is filled with opportunities for amateur and professional artists. Newly named the Art of the Egg, the contest features displays of creative works at Evergreen National Bank and local art galleries from the end of March through April.
You can hear John Denver singing "Rocky Mountain High" at the Trading Post at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre.
The late musician is featured prominently in a Colorado Music Hall of Fame exhibit, which includes a video of his performances at Red Rocks in the 1970s. In a room dedicated to Denver, visitors can gaze at a guitar he once played and see stage outfits he wore and handwritten lyrics he composed.
While excited about the recent purchase of the Bergen Park Church building as the new home of the Center for the Arts Evergreen, Steve Sumner, CEA executive director, is now facing the challenge of acquiring funds to renovate it.
"We badly need help," Sumner says. "The building needs to be totally gutted and rebuilt."
Last month the CAE capital campaign committee purchased the property for $500,000. To complete the renovation, another $600,000 is required, according to estimates.
Sometimes it seems the yule season is all about ugly holiday sweaters and who makes the best eggnog. "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," presented by StageDoor Theatre's Junior Company, offers a message of acceptance, forgiveness and recapturing the true meaning of Christmas, even if it's delivered by the most unlikely messengers — ones who probably where ugly holiday sweaters themselves.
For most kids, the best part of baking is licking the spoon or savoring that first bite. But for Evergreen first-grader Ava Guyton, the best part of baking is giving her treats to others.
"She loves to give them away at school," says Ava's mom, Allison Guyton.
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Has anybody used this seat and can you recommend it? I am considering it.
Has anybody used this seat and can you recommend it? I am considering it.
Never tried it or even seen one on a bike. The concept looks good though. The saddle looks weird but if it works, then it's well worth it.
We put that seat on a semi-recumbent, with success. There are several models, and we got the firmest seat for long rides. I can't imagine being able to use this seat on an upright, because you need a nose to help with steering.
What are you hoping to accomplish, comfort? There are better options.
Comfort yes. What are other options? Thanks for the feedback.
It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you want to go on long rides you need a firm seat, if you want to go on short rides, a soft/gel seat will seem most comfortable. Short rides are 3 miles, long rides are over 30 miles. Firm seats are Brooks leather saddles. I haven't tried them. I ride around the 30 mile range and have a Specialized Body Geometry saddle. More info needed...
Looks like for hybrid and recumbent only. Wonder if it eliminates the need for padded bike shorts
Tried it. Couldn't stand it. It may work for a hybrid or comfort bike. One where you are riding with a very upright posture. But for a road bike the nose on a seat is there for added stability. By pressing your legs on one side of the seat or the other you gain additional ability to steer the bike with something other than your hands.
Noseless saddles don't really work. You can't ride no handed on them, and you aren't exactly stable when gripping the bars, either. Just get a saddle with a centre groove, a gel insert or a cutout if you're worried about the boys.
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I disagree, I advocate firm saddles at all times and in all situations. I do agree, though, that Brooks, Specialized Body Geometry, and Terrys are all good saddles.Originally Posted by Redrom
Safe, efficient, and comfortable transportation.
Is that all a nose helps with? its essential?Originally Posted by Redrom
Would inserting a seatpost backwards give you a good indication of riding without a seat nose would be like?
Haha, that sounds like a few minutes of amusement. I might try it this afternoon, but please report back your experience.Originally Posted by godspiral
Safe, efficient, and comfortable transportation.
OK, you're right, I could have worded that better. Gel seats won't annoy the hell out of you as long as you keep your rides to as short a length as possible (3 miles or less).Originally Posted by GTcommuter
No, wait I'll try again. Gel seats suck, but you won't realize why until you're riding more than 3 miles.
Now this is just getting fun... A gel seat on your bike just shows that you live more than 3 miles from a bike store.
Man, I know the perfect one is out there... any help?
No you don't. You don't even need a seat. They work fine on uprights.Originally Posted by Redrom
Yes you can, it just feels that way at first, you can get used to it. I can ride no handed with no seat.Originally Posted by LóFarkas
I know 5 or 6 ladies that use a simlar saddle on uprights. One of them has two on different bikes. They eliminated the need for shorts for them. The problem area is not touching anything.Originally Posted by vrkelley
The Easy seat is used around here for people with lots of seat problems, mostly ladies. All on upright bikes.
Google "Easy Seat" the pads on the Easy Seats tip up and down with your legs.
I've never tried a noseless seat, even though it looks rather skethcy to me, but I'm sure one could get used to one if necessary. Nonetheless, even though I'm not really a trendy sorta guy, they just look way too goofy for me and I'll stay away from them for that reason alone.
Regarding looks... There is no cooler loooking saddle then the "easy seat". I just can't imagine it working better than a traditional 'cept for short, slow rides under sensitive people. Which is what the situation of the "ladies" may well be.
Actually, a messenger rode one. Less padding than the one pictured here. The bike won a "show us your ugly crap bike you messenger on, we'll give you a shiny new one" contest.
I bet you a dollar it's not as comfortable as a broken in brooks...Originally Posted by BikeLite
I could have entered that contest.Originally Posted by LóFarkas
They feel terrible at first, it feels like you are falling forward. It takes time. The woman who has two seats does centuries on hers. I have seen it with my own eyes. If one likes them they are great on long rides.
Ready for this..................are you sitting down?...She has one on her Litespeed. I know a guy who loves his but can't bear to see it on his best bike, so he does not use it on both bikes.
They look funny! They are heavy. It's love em or hate em.
I have one of the Ergo seats on my old British 3 speed. It's the firm one. It forces you to sit properly -- on your sits bones. If you sit like this on a seat with a nose, you won't have a problem. However, people with a weaker back/abdomen will have a tendency to roll their pelvis forward when they get tired, causing pressure in the wrong places. In a seat without a nose you simply don't have the option of supporting your weight in places that you shouldn't.
It took me a while to get used to the seat. I tried different heights and tilts and was pretty patient until I found the best position. Maybe this took a couple of weeks. I don't know how you could judge the seat with less than a dozen hours of experience. It's different, you'll have to make adjustments. As for looks, I don't care; but I really don't think it's ugly, certainly not compared to a lot of biking gear and clothes out there.
I have another bike with a standard seat. However, since getting the Ergo seat for the 3 speed, I'm more conscious of how I'm sitting and don't let myself get into bad habits. So there has been a happy spillover. For some people, then, it could be sort of training thing, a temporary form modification intervention.
There are some interesting split seats and other designs that have the same goal. There are some threads on them -- Spiderflex, Spongy Wonder, ISM, etc. I have no experience with them, though. Check out the threads.
Nashbar is selling 'pre-softened' brooks saddles, any idea how those would break in?Originally Posted by aadhils
I tried riding one of those 'the seat' seats on another bike, was totally brutal on my arms (bend over to drop bars, basically all my weight on my arms). Two friends do love it, but they use it in a truly bolt upright seated posture.
Originally Posted by HardyWeinberg
Much as I like Nashbar and the cleverness of the good folks at Brooks, you are sitting on the ideal device for breaking in a Brooks saddle. Unless the looks of the distressed saddle are important, using your sit bones for the break-in is the better way to go. I like Brooks saddles a lot and have several, but I won't go so far as saying they are the best thing bar none. But they are very good.
I suggest you give the saddle a little nose-down attitude if you don't like the horn too high. A good seatpost is almost as important in getting a comfortable fit. The beauty of a Brooks is that once broken in it feels almost like nothing, no pressure spots, no after-ride soreness. And it stays that way. You will never get that in a gel saddle.
PRe aged brooks is different from pre-softened. I have a pre-softened team pro S because that was the only type they had in stock in black. I cannot really tell the difference in it and the B17 regular and my champion flyer S(I mean except for the regular differences in the three saddles)


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Over the next few weeks, you might hear a few wild-eyed fans claim that Windows 7 is perfect. Don't listen to them—they're just a bit giddy. The new Windows operating system, which goes on sale today, may be a terrific product, but it's not perfect. You'll still find a few of the niggling quirks found in Windows versions past. For instance, the OS still requires "activation" by a 25-character code, an anti-piracy measure that annoys legitimate users while doing little to crush actual pirates. And if you buy a new Windows 7 PC, you might find it clogged with crapware—useless pre-loaded software installed by computer makers in exchange for money, a practice that isn't technically a flaw in the OS but that nevertheless ruins what Microsoft likes to call the "Windows experience."
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That Microsoft has produced such an impressive OS is a real kick in the pants. The company's last operating system, Windows Vista, was a lead balloon; though Microsoft did move quickly to fix its multitude of flaws, Vista remains dogged by a perception that it sucks. More than two years after its release, Vista has been installed on only about one-fifth of the world's PCs—which would be impressive for any company except Microsoft, whose entire business is predicated upon the idea of global market domination.
So when Microsoft first began talking up Windows 7 about a year and a half ago, you would have been forgiven for expecting a marketing gimmick, a quick fix to save a crashing brand. Indeed, as detractors have pointed out, Windows 7 shares much of Vista's codebase and could be thought of as just a service pack—a fix-up—for the unpopular OS. Yet that's like saying Rachel Weisz has pretty much the same DNA as Washoe the chimp—the technical differences may be small, but the way things are arranged matters a great deal. The new OS so thoroughly outshines the old that after using it for a few weeks, you'll remember what it was like to be in love with your PC.
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In the second installment of the position battles for week two, it is the mirror of the first one with the Buffalo Bills rookie corner back Stephon Gilmore against Kansas City Chiefs star wideout Dwayne Bowe.
Stephon Gilmore got his growing pains early and often last week versus Stephen Hill and the New York Jets as it seemed like the whole secondary was lost and out of position. I hope that was a one time thing since Dwayne Bowe is extremely better at running routs than Stephen Hill, other wise this might yet be another long day if you are a Bills fan for me.
Last week, Dwayne Bowe had three catches for 53 yards, while the Chiefs looked on par with Atlanta in the first half, they quickly fell apart in the second half; the team looked tired and worn down. While in comparison the Bills tried to fight back and while it was mostly garbage duty and stat padding but they didn't give up and played as hard as they could.
This is one of my intriguing match-ups of the week as both players have something to prove it seems. In addition, they are both big physical players who will stop at nothing for their individual and team's success.
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Once again thank you again for reading and I hope for a good clean match up between these two guys with a lot of give and take going on. If you have comments or questions leave one here and I'll get back to you or hit me up on twitter at @TheProfessorSD!! Let's see how the games turn out tomorrow.


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Rainy day requires simple survival kitPublished 12:01pm Thursday, January 31, 2013
Rain and I do not get along.
No matter how I stock up on umbrellas, rain boots and raincoats, arming myself with a small store's worth of hair products to battle the frizz that always arrives at the first sign of precipitation, I can never seem to end up looking presentable at the end of the work day.
To be honest with you, I mostly end up looking like a hot mess.
I always start off a rainy day, such as this past Wednesday, in a hopeful state of mind – like this will be the instance in which I don't look like a drowned rat by the end of the day.
I'll dodge every single rain drop, I think, and my hair will look perfect all day.
So I'll style my hair and walk out the door, only to have the vindictive wind instantly blow my perfect coif out of place.
I'll fumble with my umbrella when exiting the car and get soaked in the process, stumbling into work looking like I'd decided to take a fully-clothed, pre-workday swim in Lake Martin, rather than the perfectly presentable woman I'd left the house as a mere 10 minutes before.
I had a haircut scheduled for Wednesday, and even my stylist told me there was no hope for the frizzy, tangled mess with which I presented her.
"I thought everybody would cancel their appointments today, with the weather the way it is," she said.
So here are my nontraditional ways to survive through those wet, rainy days, as the methods used by the general public don't tend to save me.
- A ponytail holder and bobby pins. These are the perfect tools to save a doomed 'do. With these items in tow, I can twist my bangs away from my face, wrap my hair into a messy bun and (almost) make it look like I intended to start off my day looking that way.
- Warm, fuzzy socks. Oftentimes, I forget to utilize my rain boots, leaving my work-appropriate flats soaked through. If I am at my desk for the afternoon, I slide these on to keep my bare feet from freezing solid.
- A scarf. I like sticking one of these in my purse so I can wrap it around my neck as I'm drying off in the office. If my neck and feet (see bullet point above) are warm, I'll stay toasty.
For those of you who have seen me on a rainy day where I was lacking one or all of my above listed items, my apologies.
But as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, "Into each life some rain must fall."
It just applies to my own life in a more literal sense than Longfellow probably intended.
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On a recent visit to SLU's Re:public, folks were surprised by the treat of a somewhat impromptu concert by Grammy Award-winning composer (ever hear of that one movie "Juno"?) and local boy Mateo Messina and American Idol finalist (and local boy) Blake Lewis.
Cindy Parks Blake Lewis and Mateo Messina.
Turns out these two have teamed up to help some kids in need and are paying visits to some of Seattle's favorite eating and drinking spots to spread the word about the upcoming Primal Symphony - Messina's 13th annual benefit concert for Seattle Children's Hospital.
Also joining Messina in his quest to help kids are the Georgetown Brewing Co., the Red Door, Efeste Winery and the band (and local boys) Barcelona.
Since when did raising money for a good cause get to be so much fun? Knowing Voracious readers won't want to miss out on any of the action - here's the details:Wednesday, Oct. 6, 7pm, Red Door: Celebrate the release of Georgetown Brewing Co.'s Lucille IPA at a party benefiting Seattle Children's Hospital. Those who purchase tickets, which start at only $40, to Primal Symphony before this time are invited to a private pre-party from 6-7pm to meet the brewers, sample from a special Lucille cask, munch on appetizers, and win cool stuff. And maybe even challenge Lewis to a beatbox-off.
Friday, Oct. 8, 6:30pm, Efeste Winery: Enjoy an evening of wine tasting - be sure to taste the "Final Final", gourmet wood-fired pizza (do not put your face near the oven - trust me), and music by Barcelona at Efeste's gorgeous Woodinville tasting room. Tickets are $25 (advance) and proceeds also go to Seattle Children's Hospital.
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Do We Really Need More Submarines and Aircraft Carriers?
The brewing battle over the defense budget.
Much of this largess stems from the pay-off late last year to get enough hawkish senators to ratify the New START treaty. But it's time to ask some basic questions: How many nuclear weapons do we need? A case can be made for building a new nuclear-missile-carrying submarine, as at some point the existing ones will get too old to send out anymore. Submarines form the most stabilizing "leg" of the "nuclear triad." They can't be detected; thus they can't be targeted; therefore they post the ultimate deterrent to an enemy's first-strike fantasies. Try to knock out our land-based ICBMs and bombers, and the subs will still be around to blast you to smithereens.
Is anybody thinking about the idea of phasing out the ICBMs? These are the weapons that, over the decades, have spurred first-strike temptations to begin with. They are at once the most accurate and the most vulnerable nuclear weapons. That is, they are capable of destroying, and being destroyed by, the other side's ICBMs. In other words, their very existence creates temptations of pre-emptive strike in the event of a crisis. They are the weapons, in fact, that generated the nuclear arms race of the 1960s to 1980s. Now that the Cold War is kaput and the notion of first-strike scenarios more improbable than ever, let's get rid of them—rather than plan to build more of them—while the climate is clear.
Many high-priced elements of the Obama-Gates defense budget are unassailable, or at least invulnerable to political assault: $154 billion for military personnel (including a 1.6 percent pay hike), $52 billion for military health programs, $4.8 billion for more unmanned aerial vehicles (popularly known as "drones"), $1.3 billion for cyberwarfare defense, $500 million for global "train and equip" military-assistance programs. … The list could go on. (There's also $10.7 billion for missile defense—quite assailable, though for political reasons few will go there.)
It's also very much worth noting that Secretary Gates, with President Barack Obama's full backing, has swung a sharp ax the last two years at programs he considers wasteful or ineffective. He's canceled a few dozen weapons systems, including several that the military services held dear (most notably the F-22, a new Marine landing vehicle, and whole chunks of the Army's Future Combat System), and forced the chiefs to weed out more redundant or outmoded programs, commands, and whole bureaucratic subcultures than any defense secretary in a half-century, maybe ever.
However, as many of Gates' champions (and possibly the man himself) are beginning to realize, he hasn't gone far enough. The politics and economics of federal budgeting dictate a still wider swing of the ax. With domestic programs suffering a freeze at best, the assumptions underlying an ever-growing defense budget are almost certain to come under harsher inspection.
Gates has taken close looks and bold swings at specific military programs. He hasn't much questioned the missions underlying those programs. For instance, he's canceled some of the Navy's more gold-plated ships and some of the Air Force's more overdesigned jet fighters. But he hasn't challenged those services' contentions that a certain number of ships and jet fighters are necessary for national security.
Until very recently, those who proposed to cut the Pentagon budget fell prey to charges of endangering the troops and being soft on defense. More and more lawmakers and analysts are realizing, or saying, that bigger budgets don't necessarily boost security—and, as a corollary, maybe smaller budgets won't hurt it.
The question is whether the extra slices will come as the result of serious analysis or whether they'll just be ripped out arbitrarily, as part of the theatrical rush to slash deficits. The question, alas, answers itself.
Gates is properly concerned about this. At his Monday press conference, he spent most of his time urging Congress to pass the FY 2011 defense budget—the one that he proposed a year ago. That's right, Congress hasn't passed it yet. If they don't pass it soon, a "continuing resolution" will go into effect, unleashing considerable chaos. Several contracts will be halted, forcing manufacturers to lay off skilled workers (who may not easily be rehired if the money is ever re-appropriated) and gumming up the logistics that supply the troops. (Yes, it's deliberate congressional inaction that's, more than anything, "hurting the troops.")
Congress won't raise the defense budget, for FY 2011 or 2012, to the levels that Gates wants. And probably they shouldn't. But it's irresponsible to slash blindly—cutting, say, 5 percent or 10 percent "across the board," leaving the shreds and shards for the Pentagon's managers to smooth over. It may be that Gates and his crew have to go back into the budget and scrub out several billion dollars more.
Also in Slate, John Dickerson suspects a better, secret budget deal may be in the works. Timothy Noah explains why the GOP favors such inconsequential discretionary cuts. David Weigel reports on Republican Paul Ryan's critique of the White House budget. Annie Lowrey describes how your household budget would look if you spent money like the federal government. Become a fan of Slate on Facebook. Follow Slate and the Slate Foreign Desk on Twitter.
Also in Slate, John Dickerson suspects a better, secret budget deal may be in the works. Timothy Noah explains why the GOP favors such inconsequential discretionary cuts. David Weigel reports on Republican Paul Ryan's critique of the White House budget. Annie Lowrey describes how your household budget would look if you spent money like the federal government.
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