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03/06/16 12:26:40
Hello, Mr. Geary! I appreciate and approve the method you are employing to further your campaign. My name is James. I'm 34, a veteran of the US Army infantry ('02-'05), a husband, father, and Omaha native. Your website is full of information about you as a person and as a candidate, I appreciate that. My wife and I plan to vote for you as our choice in 2017. Thank you for joining the race for Mayor in Omaha! ~ James G.
Emily B.
11/01/15 14:16:59
Christopher, my name is Emily and I live here in Omaha. After reading through your website, I have to say I am extremely impressed with the platform on which you are running and the blatant refusal to give in to monetary donations. Thank you for allowing questions that go directly to you!
Holly Stout
07/29/15 10:01:28
I like your campaign site for Mayor of Omaha. When the time is closer, I will be happy to put a sign in the yard, but I don't want to do it too soon because I don't want you to be over exposed. That can happen, right? I like that you are a teacher! I hate people who are in office to "do something about education" and don't know the first thing about it; that is annoying beyond belief! I didn't see anything in your platform with which I would take issue. How rare!
Danny Garcia
06/08/15 20:58:35
Have a great b-day, to our hopeful future Mr. Mayor.
Dan Megill
06/08/15 17:13:06
Peace Happy Birthday Hon Geary GM many many more peace.
05/07/15 04:59:17
I have read your campaign web site for mayor of Omaha and I like your platform. I am a middle of the road democrat. We agree on the political spectrum. Congrats also on your martial arts accomplishments. I have seen your videos online and it is very cool. Pardon my ignorance about the subject as I only took basic karate lessons in 1st grade but your accomplishments are worldly awesome. Maybe you can take a tour of my work place sometime. I sell school bus cameras for a living. Not only on the inside of the bus but also on the outside catching people running the stop arm of the bus. It is a nationwide epidemic and is really bad in Omaha. We have a couple of units in buses in Bellevue just to test it out. On my way to work (I live in Benson) I see violations every day. Something needs to be done to protect the safety of our children.
Mike G.
05/03/15 06:11:30
Mr. Geary, I was genuinely surprised when my roommate told me we had a Mayoral candidate that ran on a common sense platform. I immediately came to check out your platform page and agree whole heartily with what I have found there, especially considering I am a part of the LGBT community. Unless someone else comes out of the woodwork for 2017 with an even better platform (doubtful), you have my vote. Also on a final note, you may or may not have heard of the Wolf-PAC.com campaign. It is a strong and succeeding movement to call for a 28th Amendment to overturn Citizens United and ban Corporations and Unions from donating to politicians and buying of our government. With your stance on this issue coinciding with this groups efforts, there may be some mutual benefits such a campaign could have if aligned. I wish you the best of luck in your campaign.
Alan K.
Holly Richardson
04/20/15 17:55:41
Mr.Geary is very friendly and takes time to make me feel comfortable being in the school. He is very good at listening and offers good advice.
02/05/15 12:41:37
I have read your www.Geary2017.com campaign site and I am impressed on what you stand for as mayor or soon to be mayor. I am also a poet as well. I have only had one published but, I have a book I created with different poems maybe someday I can share them with you. I look fwd. volunteering my time for your campaign when the time comes.
Chris Lynch
01/28/15 17:51:26
Thanks for the nice info, I got in the mail, about your political aspiration to be mayor-I think we can & should do much better than what we have now!
Good talking with you awhile back-was in your office & commented on the NYC former WTC-remember? Anyway-check me out & will be in touch more later-thanks!
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There is a company in Oklahoma profiting from kids being shot -- but their business isn't as nefarious as it at first seems. No, quite the opposite. The company ProTecht is in the business of helping save lives. They manufacture a bullet-resistant blanket called "Body Guard" that has seen sales skyrocket in the aftermath of a wave of school shootings that have swept the United States in the past 18 months since the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting.
Reuters reported (via Yahoo News) June 12 that ProTecht actually developed the product to help protect schoolchildren from dangerous flying debris sent aloft by the twisting winds of tornadoes, a common threat in Oklahoma. But as an unfortunate byproduct of all the school shootings that have continued to occur in the U. S. (74 since the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in Dec. 2012), the company says that parents have also begun viewing the blankets as protection against flying bullets as well.
In fact, Oklahoma podiatrist Steve Walker got the idea for the protective blanket after the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting and the devastating Moore tornado that devastated the Oklahoma City suburb just a few months later. The former saw 26 people killed (including 20 schoolchildren) by a lone gunman; the latter left 24 dead (including 7 schoolchildren) in its wake.
Stan Schone helped develop the missile-resistant blanket. "The government is not going to do anything in law about guns," he said, "and there is nothing else out there to protect the children."
The "Body Guard" is a 5/16th-inch (7.9 millimeter) pad made from bullet-resistant materials. It can be folded and strapped on an individual's back and/or unfurled to hide or cloak the owner in emergency situations. The protective blankets sell for about $1,000 each.
Although ProTecht would not divulge sales figures for the "Body Guard" blanket, the company noted that school shooting violence and other disasters have increased their orders. Many of those orders originate from countries like Canada, France, Germany, South Korea, and others.
With school shootings becoming "the norm," as President Barack Obama gravely noted after the recent school shooting in Oregon, concerned parents and school officials have been hard-pressed to come up with better ways to safeguard their children. The "Body Guard" blankets provide parents with a protection option for their children if they should be faced with dangers where flying objects -- from debris to bullets -- could become an imminent hazard.
As Crimefeed reported following the Oregon school shooting, 73 schoolchildren have been killed in 74 separate school shooting incidents since the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

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On 25 April, BNP Paribas Real Estate and Future Cities sister magazine Property Week ran a conference called London: The Global City? in the City of London. Speakers looked at the challenges facing London over the next decade, and how to retain its status as a leading world financial centre in face of competition from New York and emerging economies.
The biggest concern was the lack of a detailed plan for investing in London's transport infrastructure after 2019, when construction finishes on Crossrail 1, the east-west first phase of rail scheme Crossrail. Anthony Bickmore, Transport for London's head of property, told the conference that the property sector must lobby government more.
"There is no significant transport investment planned for London post 2019," he warned. Bickmore added that, as well as new projects, there was a need to maintain investment in the Underground system, as some areas had not been upgraded for 40 years.
Steven Norris, chairman of Soho Estates and two-time mayoral candidate, said it would make most sense for government to invest in Crossrail's proposed second phase -- Crossrail 2 -- crossing the city from Chelsea in the south to Hackney in the north.
"Wouldn't it make huge sense if we kept the tunneling technology and expertise and, when Crossrail 1 completes, move on to Crossrail 2?" he asked, saying this would let the city take advantage of the skilled people and technology when they become available.
However, Norris said there is resistance within government to investing in Crossrail 2: "We need to convince government to believe their own rhetoric about the benefits that infrastructure brings," he urged.
Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London -- who defeated Norris twice -- agreed, and warned: "No great city can stop investing. You constantly have to seek new projects to keep modernizing your city," he said. Livingstone said transport upgrades were crucial as central Londons population is set to grow from 8.3m now to 9m by 2020, and 10m by 2035.
Such growth would worsen current problems with the cost and availability of housing. Livingstone said government must invest more in housing as the cost is increasingly unaffordable. He said the average wage in London is £26,000, and the average annual rent is £12,000.
"You can't have a successful global city if people can't afford to live in it," he said. He urged government to invest in the housing sector by buying sites for housing schemes that have stalled and building them itself. Investing in the housing infrastructure would support jobs, and start to address the problem of how expensive it is to live in London.
Norris agreed: "It is simply becoming an unaffordable city."
The other big challenge is immigration policy, specifically the coalition government's attempts to restrict numbers of people who can enter the UK. Livingstone said London would suffer under these policies as they would stop talented people entering the city.
The point was echoed by James Lock, managing director of Blackstone's real estate group: "We do need to attract the best and the brightest people into London, and so I'm a little alarmed by some of the current immigration policy."
Yet despite these challenges, London is well-positioned to maintain its place as a leading financial hub, not least because its main competitor New York also faces challenges.
These include the need to guard against extreme weather events, particularly hurricanes of category three and above. Livingstone told the London audience that some businesses were not fully functioning until four weeks after Superstorm Sandy -- a category two storm -- and that it would take ten weeks or more to get back to normal after a category three hurricane.
"There will be a force three hurricane, and that business community will be devastated," he said, adding that it would force some businesses to move their corporate headquarters away from New York. In that event, London would be an obvious choice.
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Rapper Flavor Flav was arrested Thursday morning on Long Island after cops caught him speeding and driving with more than a dozen suspensions on his driver's license, New York State Police said Jan. 9.
The music icon – whose real name is William Drayton – was clocked traveling 79 mph in a 55 mph zone along the southbound side of the Meadowbrook State Parkway in Hempstead around 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, police said in announcing his arrest.
The 54-year-old Las Vegas resident, who was a member of the hip-hop group Public Enemy, was also allegedly driving with 16 suspensions on his license.
He was arrested and charged with a felony, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, as well as other traffic infractions, authorities said. Drayton faces up to 4 years in prison, if he's convicted of the top charge.
Police said he was released from custody Thursday on an appearance ticket so he could attend his mother's funeral. He is scheduled to face a judge on Jan. 28 at First District Court in Hempstead.


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For two people who seem so different, Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron have great offscreen chemistry. In our "MTV First: Snow White and the Huntsman," they made each other laugh with their comments and played off each other's answers — like when Stewart described Theron in three words, saying, "I want you," and Theron replied, "You got it," and spread her legs apart.
When MTV News' Josh Horowitz caught up with the "Young Adult" actress, she chalked up their friendship to the age-old "opposites attract" phenomenon, saying that what specifically attracts her to Stewart is her genuine personality.
"The first thing I noticed about her was when she says 'I don't give a f—,' she means that," Theron said. "She's not just trying to be cool. She's not trying to be edgy. She's very, very authentic, and that's what I like about her."
The two actresses star in an original adaptation of the classic fairy tale "Snow White," which follows the princess as she fights alongside the Huntsman to reclaim her kingdom from the evil Queen Ravenna. The film hits theaters June 1, and Theron got to know Stewart as they worked on the project together.
"I think that there's an incredible girl there," Theron said. "And I like that she's so different because I think that it's authentic — and there's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not. And all these, kind of, quirks that she has, they're authentic to who she is and she's not putting it on, she's not trying to do it. She's just really who she is."
While the "Twilight" actress has received bad press in the past when people mistook her timid nature for rudeness or conceit, her co-star had nothing but praise for her character.
"You know, a lot of people at that age can still be [finding themselves]. And of course she's still going to be finding herself in certain [ways], but I'm pretty impressed with where she is already at her very young age," Theron said. "And I have so much respect for someone who can just authentically be themselves."
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Organisers were bowled over by the standard of cricket on show as youngsters from across Calderdale took part in the Drax Cup at Copley Cricket Club.
Around 160 year nine school children participated in the annual event, with Beech Hill Primary and Parkinson Lane Primary schools, both Halifax, winning their respective hears.
They will now face schools from across West Yorkshire at Pudsey St Lawrence CC on Thursday 19 June.
Organiser Colin Crowther said: "It's a very popular event and the standard of cricket is superb.
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Brian Bendis unofficially revealed that fans can expect a new "Alias" title from the original creative team, after "Civil War II."
"Jessica Jones" may be Marvel's darkest live-action adaptation yet, but Jeph Loeb tells CBR that at its core, it's a classic Marvel story.
Created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, and featuring a cover by David Mack, the comic serves as an exclusive preview of the Netflix series.
Archie's Dark Circle imprint delivers advanced first looks at Frank Tieri & Fernando Ruiz's "The Hangman" and Michael Gaydos' "Black Hood" art.
Swierczynski and Gaydos bring a new vigilante in a familiar mantle to Philadelphia. Both sides of the law are left to discover who this new hero is.
"The Bullet's Kiss" continues as Duane Swierczynski & Michael Gaydos tell a crime story like no other in "Black Hood" #3 from Archie's Dark Circle.
When "Archie" #1 debuts in July, Mark Waid and Fiona Staples will be joined by an all-star roster of cover artists.
"Despite the shift in the story's focus, both Duane Swierczynski and Michael Gaydos evoke a darker and seedier mood" in "Black Hood" #2.
Trouble is a step ahead in this exclusive preview of Dark Circle Comics' "Black Hood" #2 by Duane Swierczynski & Michael Gaydos.
Comics retailer conference ComicsPRO has given Archie Comics the opportunity to unveil a new "Black Hood" cover, and CBR has the reveal.
Swierczynski and Gaydos' "The Black Hood" #1 marks "a thrilling start to a new publishing initiative" for Dark Circle Comics, Archie Comics' new superhero imprint.
Take a look inside Michael Gaydos' art from "The Black Hood" #1, and read why Archie Comics is making the issue returnable for retailers.
Before "Archie" relaunches in 2015, "The Fox" gets a new #1 in April -- here's a look at covers and solicits for that issue and "Black Hood" #2.
Archie's superhero/crime noir imprint is set to launch in February, and CBR has the first look at covers by Francesco Francavill and Howard Chaykin.
The writer's take on Dark Circle Comics' most famous vigilante is more crime book than superhero story as Archie's Black Hood goes it alone.
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The Teekane Group, parent company of both Teepack and the Teehaus corporation based in Dresden, maintains eight production and office facilities worldwide in addition to a robust international network of distribution partners. Last year Teekanne exports rose to account for 54% of consolidated revenues as the company moved into several new markets. In the Czech Republic Teekanne overtook the former market leader, likewise becoming number one in the herbal tea segment in Japan. Plans are to continue expanding and growing the business to occupy additional markets.
"The Irvine Spectrum is perfectly situated the 405 and 5 freeway, which makes it a great transportation and logistics hub," says Binh Tran, logistics manager for Innovative. Principale adds that "utilizing the services of a logistics company in L.A. that was less than dependable contributed to poor on time deliveries in the past. Our customers depend on our products at their coffee bars and we wanted our quality products to be under our roof." The Irvine Spectrum is one of the most desirable and prestigious sought after address in all of Orange County. The Irvine Company that owns the land nearby is also in the process of building "the Great Park," which will be larger than New York's Central Park when completed in 2009.
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The first contract, currently underway in Ethiopia, is a training agreement with Fintrac, Inc., a company specializing in agricultural development programs around the world, and Boot Coffee Consulting, a consulting firm specializing in strategic marketing and quality improvement programs for the coffee industry. The work is supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) - funded Agribusiness and Trade Expansion Program (ATEP) which includes an emphasis on developing the specialty coffee industry in Ethiopia. The second project, scheduled to start in September, was awarded by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a division of the World Bank Group, whose purpose is to promote sustainable private sector investment in developing countries, helping to reduce poverty and improve people's lives.
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Many people who attend Art-A-Whirl—the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District's annual art orgy, May 18 to 20—never get beyond the Northrup King Building, which is understandable. The NKB houses more than 200 artists and is often thought of as ground zero for Art-A-Whirl. But there are several other buildings on the Art-A-Whirl circuit that house hard-working artists and their studios.
Casket Arts is really three buildings—the main building, the Carriage House, and the Factory—and houses about 150 artists working in all kinds of mediums. Dozens of painters, sculptors, and photographers call the Casket Arts Community home. You'll also find custom furniture makers, jewelry artists, a Zen center, and at least one masseuse. 681 17th Ave. NE, Minnepolis
A bit off the beaten Art-A-Whirl track, the California Building is home to many fine painters and artists—close to 80 of them working in 25-plus studios. Of particular interest is the Potek Glass gallery, where some of the city's most beautiful kiln-fired glass jewelry, tiles, and custom lighting sconces are made. 2205 NE California St., Minneapolis
Located across the street from each other, at the end of 13th Avenue Northeast near the Mississippi River, these two buildings are locked up tight most of the time. So go, snoop, and discover--you'll feel like you're in on one of the Twin Cities' greatest arts secrets. 77 13th Ave. NE and 79 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis
Home to one of the most interesting and adventurous galleries in town, Altered Esthetics, the Q.arma Building also houses more than a dozen other artists. Fine arts, painting, and ceramics are what you'll find here. 1224 NE Quincy St., Minneapolis
The Thorp Building is known as the birthplace of Art-A-Whirl--because it is. Located across the rail yard from the Northrup King Building, it still houses an impressively eclectic assortment of studios and workspaces. Also, be sure to check out Costume the Cities, one of the most impressive collections of rental vintage clothing in town. 1620 Central Ave. NE, Minneapolis
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Ferris State goaltender CJ Motte and Union forward Eli Lichtenwald have been named the national player and rookie of the month, respectively, for December.
Both awards come from the Hockey Commissioners Association, which selects winners from nominees made by each conference.
Motte was 3-0-1 with a 1.47 GAA and a .952 save percentage in December, helping the Bulldogs rise to No. 2 in the USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll.
For the season, Motte is 14-0-3.
Lichtenwald had four goals and seven points in six games in December for the Dutchmen.
He had two goals and an assist in a 6-4 win over Quinnipiac on Dec. 7, helping Union to sole possession of first place in ECAC Hockey.
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In the past year, I've fought many bears. Some of them said the European Union would break up, China would have a crash landing, and even some big-name guys said equities are dead. I've been on CNBC numerous times talking about the "Road to S&P $1700 by 2015" and I've also talked about how to navigate the market with a plan, using a portfolio approach with position and size management in order to stay the course.
At this point, I think equities are fairly priced and should end higher this year, but entries and exits matter. The U.S economy is getting a bit better, Europe has stabilized and China has found some support.
The S&P just broke out of its decade-long slump, and we will probably see the SPX rise above $1600 this year. My "Road to S&P $1700 by 2015" could happen quicker than planned.
In my 2013 thesis, I wrote back in December that I liked Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), Boeing (NYSE:BA), Mosaic (NYSE:MOS), Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB).
Lots of my picks have had major moves and I do think they can go higher.
I also stated Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) could see $420 and now it has sunk to that level. It's still a weak stock that's hard to trust.
The beauty of this rally is that there is lots of participation across sectors. You can pick positions that you like and the important thing is to trade around them. Use a tier system and also have hedges on when the time is right.
Unfortunately, I think this economy is the new normal. The market will probably never fully get away from the Fed's accommodation and the jobs market may never feel strong.
Companies are increasing dividends and buybacks in order to increase shareholder equity. At some point, if Washington stops being dysfunctional, federal lawmakers will increase capital expenditures (CapEx), or assets acquisition, which I think would be better for hiring and Main Street.
My positions change every few weeks, based on which direction the market takes. My focus is the intermediate trend and where there is relative strength.
Metals have been weak and out of play. Gold broke its intermediate trend last month and now it is hovering on macro support, so it is key to see which way this might go.
As for the S&P's short-term technicals, $1530 is the support level and the big resistance area is $1550-$1576. The S&P is inching up this morning, alongside the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq, the weekly jobless claims numbers were lower than expected, and the bears are taking a beating.
One of today's notable movers, Boeing (NYSE:BA) saw another nice breakout as the stock is up 3.3% to $81.67.
Recently, there were some headlines about the company's potential cash drag in 2013 relating to its 787 battery issues. But the stock took all this negativity in stride. It held the important 200-day moving average in late January and made a methodical move back to the upside after that.
After inching higher into the intermediate resistance at the top end of its macro wedge pattern, the stock saw its first breakout move at $77.80 on Tuesday when it broke above this downward trend line. On the same day, the stock reclaimed all key moving averages which added some power to its rally. After that BA saw some nice follow-through on Wednesday showing commitment at higher levels which lead to today's explosive move.
BA was mentioned in my 2013 predictions as it was breaking out of a multi-year mid-level base and looked poised for a move higher. My first target was $80 which was achieved after its recent 3-day move. For macro investors, the stock has room to the next real resistance level of $85 in the upside.
*Disclosures: Scott Redler is Long: MS, MSFT, FB, MGM, CIT, NKE, BAC, F, BA, BAC. Short SPY.


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"The Real Housewives of Atlanta" is already filming for Season 7. When the Season 6 reunion aired there was plenty of drama. Cynthia Bailey and NeNe Leakes are no longer best friends, and Kenya Moore and Porsha Williams are obviously not going to be doing much talking. Recently the ladies took their annual trip and chose Puerto Rico as the destination. According to an August 27 report from S2S magazine, there is a clear divide among the cast. NeNe Leakes is hanging with the original cast members while Cynthia Bailey and Kenya Moore have taken up with the newbies.
There is going to be plenty going on this season of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." Fans are hoping Phaedra Parks will shed some light into her marriage with Apollo Nida. He is set to turn himself in for his eight year prison sentence on September 10. The physical fight between Kenya Moore and Porsha Williams is still being talked about. It will be interesting to see how they act when they are in the same room together.
While there has not been a premiere date released for Season 7, fans are excited to see what is going to happen. With eight cast members, you can be sure the drama will not be lacking. The photos from the Puerto Rico trip showed a clear divide among the members, but will it affect the entire season? Fans are hoping the show will balance out and there will be a nice mix of drama and fun moments.
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N'Dambi, Fusicology & Stax Records are offering a great opportunity for producers and DJs. It's a remix contest for the hit song "The World Is A Beat" off the album Pink Elephant, and the winner will receive $500 cash c/o the legendary Stax Records.
If you're interested, fill out an application here and you'll get the official entry form and separate track parts.
Get crackin'!
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Ayurveda is a system of Hindu traditional medicine native to the India, and comes from a Sanskrit word, which translates to "life-knowledge." This alternative branch of naturopathic medicine has risen in popularity in recent years as people are looking for more natural, chemical-free alternatives to pharmaceuticals, and invasive forms of treatments offered by Western medicine.
Beyond health, Ayurveda approaches beauty from the inside-out. Many of the skin issues like acne, dryness, blotching, and discoloration, are often linked to excesses or deficiencies in our diets. I was on the hunt for a natural solution to my sluggish metabolism and oily skin, when I came across an article about doshas, or body, mind, and personality types. According to Ayurvedic medicine, a dosha is one of three bodily humors: Vata, Pitta and Kapha characteristics that make up a person's constitution; there are many great sites devoted to discovering your dosha. Deepak Chopra covers doshas in great depth, offering diet suggestions, recipes, lifestyle changes as well as a quick and easy diagnostic test to help you identify your type.
Kapha dosha
A Kapha dosha is generally typified by a sluggish metabolism, lethargy and oily skin. If you find that you're suffering from a lack of energy, poor digestion, and shiny, clogged pores, you'll want to try this delicious detox tea for beauty.
Detox Tea
You'll want to opt for a caffeine-free tea base. Decaffeinated green, white or black tea work well for this recipe, but it's up to your personal preference. To aid digestion and balance oily skin, Kapha doshas should use pungent spices like pepper, cayenne, cinnamon and ginger.
- 3 decaffeinated tea bags of your choice
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 4-5 cardamom seeds
- A pinch of cayenne
- 2-3 cloves
- A pinch of ginger (or 1/2 tablespoon freshly grated ginger)
In a large ceramic or glass pitcher (safe for hot liquids), add three tea bags (remove the paper at the end of the strings). Once the water has boiled, pour it to the brim of the pitcher. Add the spices, and allow the ingredients to steep for 10-15 minutes. Once the tea has cooled, you can strain the spices or keep them in the mixture.
You shouldn't drink this tea scorching hot, but enjoy it warm to aid digestion. Since this tea is decaffeinated, feel free to drink 2-3 cups a day. You'll notice your skin improve and your sluggish metabolism get a much needed boost, if you replace your coffee with this detox tea two to four times a week.


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Kaui Hart Hemmings' novel The Descendants, set in Hawaii,magnificently captures the struggle of marriage, children and family relationships. Director Alexander Payne (Alexander Constantine Papadopoulos) compliments the book wonderfully with his ability to set the film scenes vividly using Hawaii's dramatic beauty and uniqueness to depict asense of loneliness encompassing the main character. Payne also wrote the screenplay with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.
Shailene Woodley, Nick Krause and Amara Miller, cast as children struggling to grow-up, are able to maintain the subtlety needed for their characters. Working with a star like George Clooney could be a difficult task for any young actor, yet all of the young actors in The Descendantsget and hold your attention in all of their scenes. They show just enough emotion to make their performances supportive of the main character.
The Descendantsis musically scored exclusively with Hawaiian music, created by such masters as Keola Beamer, Sonny Chillingworth, Rev. Dennis Kamakahi, Ray Kane, Lena Machado, Gabby Pahinui, and Jeff Peterson, Director Alexander Payne. It incorporates the soulful music essential to the story as director Payne emphasizes Hawaii's floral landscapes, tranquil waters and its breathtaking natural beauty.
The Descendants cast local actors for the minor characters throughout the film. It is often simultaneously superbly comedic and dramatic, which lead actor George Clooney masters. His performance as well as director/writer Alexander Payne's endeavors and even the film itself is Oscar worthy.


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iOS is beloved by millions of customers, but some of them find Apple's walled garden to be constricting. For them, there is jailbreaking. Though there is typically a gap between the releases of iOS software and their corresponding jailbreaks, iOS 6.0.1 was jailbroken in rapid-fire fashion, and we have the full instructions.Read More
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Earlier this year, the company pulled off a significant coup when it signed an agreement with Viacom for exclusive streaming rights to more than 250 TV seasons and thousands of episodes of programming from MTV, Comedy Central and, most importantly, Nickelodeon.
The deal includes a number of children's shows that had previously been available on Netflix like "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Dora the Explorer," "Go, Diego, Go!" and "The Backyardigans."
If that wasn't enough to convince some parents to go with Amazon Prime Instant, the company also secured rights to more mature (though, not necessarily TV-MA) shows like "Downton Abbey," "Fallling Skies," "Grimm" and "Suits," among others, giving it a lineup that may not top Netflix's, but at least offers something different.
As far as original content goes, Amazon is a little behind its competitors, although earlier this year, it greenlit five new series — two comedies and three kids shows — and announced five more pilots aimed at kids, including older, grade school-age children.
What really sets Amazon Prime Instant apart from the other major streaming services, though, is that it's a feature included at no additional charge with every Amazon Prime membership. At $79 for a year-long subscription, which comes out to $1.41 less per month than either Netflix or Hulu Plus. That might not sound like a lot, but when you include other Prime member benefits like free two-day shipping, it turns out to be a surprisingly attractive deal.
Amazon Prime Instant also offers parental controls that allow users to restrict the types of content accessible to stream.
Completely separate from the Prime membership, Amazon also has a huge catalogue of movies for rental and purchase, meaning that if you can't find the one you're looking for, you can always just pay a little bit more and watch it anyway.
In a nutshell:
- A smaller selection, but lots of kid-friendly options
- Exclusive content that might appeal to parents
- Included as part of an Amazon Prime membership
- Costs less per year than Netflix or Hulu Plus
- Parental controls
Cost: $79 per year ($6.59 per month)
Hulu Plus
With the smallest archived selection of movies and TV shows, Hulu Plus might seem like the obvious loser in the three-way battle for SVOD supremacy. Depending on one's viewing preferences, though, it could actually turn out to be the best option.
Unlike Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant, which mostly specialize in movies and past seasons of TV, Hulu Plus' main selling point is the ability to stream primetime TV shows the day after they air. Some of the titles include hit ABC series like "Revenge" and "Once Upon a Time"; brand-new shows like "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and "Sleepy Hollow"; Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" and 39 full seasons of "Saturday Night Live."
Along with newer series, Hulu Plus also features plenty of vintage content that might appeal to families — titles like "Fragglerock," "He-Man" and "I Love Lucy," to name just a few.
The selection of movies, on the other hand, is pretty sparse compared to other streaming services. For art house and foreign film junkies, though, Hulu Plus includes access to more than 800 titles from the esteemed Criterion Collection, including films by the masters of cinema like Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman. That alone could be well worth the $8 per month.
Along with Netflix, Hulu Plus also has the biggest lineup of original content, although the quality isn't quite up to par.
One of the other big differences between Hulu Plus and its competitors, though, that could be a deciding factor is the presence of advertisements that periodically interrupt programming. The one exception is on the Hulu Kids page, an ad-free selection of family-friendly programming similar to Netflix's "Just for Kids" option. Unlike the other two services, though, Hulu Plus does not offer other forms of parental control for the regular selection of movies and TV series.
In a nutshell:
- The smallest archived content library
- Next-day viewing of current TV shows
- Access to hundreds of hard-to-find foreign and art house films
- A large selection of original content
- Streaming experience regularly interrupted by ads
- Hulu Kids
- No parental controls for regular viewing experience
Cost: $7.99 per month
A native of Utah Valley and a devoted cinephile, Jeff Peterson is currently studying humanities and history at BYU.
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The Honolulu-based liner carrier will launch its South Pacific Express service in August, which will transport U.S. West Coast cargo transshipped at Honolulu to Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga and Fiji.
The French ocean carrier said it intends to have Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines delisted from the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange as it pushes forward to acquire all of the shipping company's shares.
A new port navigation system consisting of 12 off-shore buoys and two land-based range markers, will allow for night time operations at the Liberian port for the first time in three decades, APM Terminals said in a statement.
Registration takes less than 1 minute.
The 19 ocean carrier members of the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association are collaborating with six major East and Gulf coast ports to establish a common streamlined "Terminal Weighing Approach."
The agricultural export group, which has been a critic of the container weight regulation implementation process, praised South Carolina Ports Authority CEO Jim Newsome for suggesting the use of port scales to obtain verified gross mass.
Peter Friedmann accused container lines of bungling the International Maritime Organization's new container weight verification requirement, and said some now realize they face high internal costs unless they offer a more flexible approach.


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STATE 2-A BASKETBALL - The Big Horn Rams finished 4th in the 2-A state basketball tournament Saturday dropping the third place game against Greybull after that game Head coach Ryan Alley.
In all the Rams had a very good weekend getting into the semi finals with an opening round victory over Wyoming Indian before falling in the semi finals to Wind River the Rams played tough in all three games.
Saturday Sports Scores
Score Updates
Sheridan Lady Broncs - 59
Gillette Lady Camels - 62 Final
Big Horn Rams - 37
Greybull Buffaloes - 45 Final
The Sheridan Lady Broncs take on Gillette in the 4-A East regional tournament championship game this afternoon.
Tip off is scheduled for 1:00 you can hear it live on 14-10 KWYO.
The Big Horn Rams play Greybull in the 3rd place game at the state tournament in Casper you can hear that game on 87.7 FM tip off is scheduled for 1:30.
Friday Tongue River was eliminated from the state tournament by Wyoming Indian.
Big Horn lost in the semi finals against Wind River.
The Lady Broncs beat Cheyenne East in their regional semi final Friday night.
The Big Horn Rams take a loss against Wind River in the 2A State Championship Semi-Final round.
Final Score:
Big Horn Rams- 54
Wind River- 66
The Rams will play for third place tomorrow at Casper College at 1:30pm. We will broadcast that game on 87.7 FM
Sheridan Lady Broncs - 52
Cheyenne East Lady Thunderbirds - 40 Final
Score Updates
Tongue River - 57
Wyoming Indian - 74 Final
The Tongue River Eagles play Wyoming Indian at noon on KWYO and 87.7 FM
The Sheridan Lady Broncs play Cheyenne East at 4:00 on KWYO and 87.7 FM.
The Big Horn Rams play Wind River at 7:30 on KWYO AND 87.7 FM.
BRONC / LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - The 4-A East regional tournament opened in Cheyenne last night for the Broncs and Lady Broncs, the Lady Broncs survived and advanced the Broncs were knocked out of the post season.
Laramie beat the Broncs 52-50 to advance to the semi finals that loss ended the Broncs season.
The Lady Broncs held off Laramie 50-40 to advance into the semi finals the win also gives them an automatic bid into the state tournament.
They will play Cheyenne East at 4:00 this afternoon in the semi finals you can hear the game live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM.


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In a thrilling match the Socceroos gave up a 3-0 lead as they fell 4-3 to Ecuador at The Den in London on Wednesday night.
It was a young squad from the Socceroos with Mile Jedinak handed the captaincy for the first time and the Australians got off to a phenomenal start taking a 3-0 lead in the first half.
Curtis Good made his debut, starting at the center of defense, while Mat Ryan laid his claim for being Mark Schwarzer successor as he was handed the start in goal.
Australia used their speed to surprise the South Americans and take control of the match early, allowing Tim Cahill a chance in the sixth minute that he headed just wide.
It didn't take long for Tim Cahill to make up for that miss as Tommy Oar sent in a corner that allowed Mark Milligan to head it for Cahill who headed home a record breaking goal, his 30th international goal making him the leading Australian goal scorer.
A penalty allowed the Socceroos their next chance after Tim Cahill was pulled by Gabriel Achilier, allowing new captain, Mile Jedinak, to step up and slam home the second.
It was all Australia and in the 32nd minute Cahill extended his record as Matthew Leckie's impressive run allowed him to send in a cross that allowed Cahill to score with a diving header.
At half-time Mitch Langerak came on to replace Ryan in goal, but it would be a decision that Postecoglou, and perhaps even Langerak would regret as he did little to boost his chances of getting the number one jersey in Brazil.
Ecuador made plenty of changes to their side at the half-time break to try and come in to the match and they did so, taking control in the second half.
12 minutes in to the second half Ecuador pulled one back as Enner Valencia sent in a good ball for Fidel Martinez who was able to send the ball home and put Ecuador back in the match.
One minute later disaster struck for Australia as Mitch Langerak severely hurt his chances of becoming the new number one as he rushed out to clear but only ended up kicking Antonio Valencia, earning himself a straight red card.
Brad Jones' first action as keeper was to pick the ball out of the back of the net as Segundo Castillo hit a powerful penalty to make it 3-2.
Ecuador were looking incredibly dangerous and so with a lead Postecoglou went to his bench to sure up the defense, handing a debut to Alex Wilkinson.
In the 78th minute Ecuador drew level as Antonio Valencia made a great run and crossed in for Enner Valencia to send past Jones.
Ecuador kept up the pressure and in stoppage time they had their lead as Edison Mendes snuck in behind Wilkinson to hit the winning goal.
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Purple became redistributed in 2009 as a top-rated color to have in any wardrobe. That's right! Anywhere from eyeshadow to undergarments and main outfit pieces to shoes it was seen. Its impossibility to overlook made it that more noticeable and trendy.
As a color seen in numerous facets, purple will not disintegrate. Why? Mainly because purple can pop when it's bright but hide when it's dark (think wrap dresses hiding the waistline). Plus, in terms of giving off two different vibes, the deeper the pigment, the more intense the feeling and the impact on others. To be captivating try deep purple. To be romantic try light purple. Therefore, it seems that purple is acting like black and red, black in terms of camouflaging imperfections and red in terms of impact and feeling. It is next to impossible to wear red and not get an automatic sense of confidence. Purple does the same thing!
Zoe Saldana was spotted in purple at the 2010 Oscars. A strapless bodice decked-out in sparkles and glamor fanned out into a bottom ascending in shades of purple ruffles from muted lavender to popping plum and ending in deep violet. The designer? A Givenchy couture piece by Riccardo Tisci. Due to the extensive slit in the front middle of the dress, it deemed to be extra important to showcase a matching shoe. In this case, a purple blended combination of shades from the dress itself.
Another reason purple seems to have risen on everyone's radar? The outbreak of vampire hysteria. How else would it be possible to look like the Cullen's and Salvatore's as well as other vampires decades older than ourselves? The make-up artists on these sets are incorporating deep violets and blackberry on lips to make a dramatic effect.
Pick your poison carefully this spring. Utilize neon purples on tootsies and fingertips from Estee Lauder Pure Color Nail Lacquer (Ruby) and other bright selections from O.P.I or your nearest Sephora (try The Somerset Collection and Twelve Oaks Mall). On eyes brave Dior 5-Colour Eyeshadow (Night Butterfly) or accentuate brown eyes in Maybelline New ExpertWear Stylish Smokes (Amethyst Smokes). Have a little vampire in you wanting to show itself? Experiment with shades of purple on lips from CoverGirl Vibrant Hue Lipstick (Black Currant) and Chanel Rouge Allure (Maniac). Otherwise, make a statement with accessories and individual pieces from Issac Mizrahi, Bottega Veneta, and Jason Wu. Great cheaper locations to investigate: The Limited, JCPenney, Target, and H&M.
Be courageous this season. Look to numerous locations for inspiration (you'll be surprised how many you find utilizing purple). Show off. Represent. Be an individual. Be you.


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To All Faculty and Staff,
On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Stony Brook Foundation, I
invite you to join us for this year's Stars of Stony Brook Gala as we
honor one of our own faculty members, Emma Walton Hamilton, and her
world-renowned mother, actress Julie Andrews, on Monday, April 4 at Pier Sixty in New York City. The Gala is truly a night when Stony Brook shines and I hope you will celebrate with us.
Ms. Walton Hamilton is the Director of our annual Children's Literature Conference, Executive Director of our Young American Writers Project in area schools, and Co-Director of the Southampton Playwriting Conference. As the Editorial Director for The Julie Andrews Collection publishing program, she is dedicated to publishing quality books for young readers and has co-authored 20 children's books with her mother, six of which have been on The New York Times best-seller list. Julie Andrews is one of the most recognized figures in the entertainment industry. Best known for the iconic films The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Victor/Victoria and The Princess Diaries, her legendary career encompasses theater, film, television, the recording industry and children's publishing. It is our pleasure to recognize Ms. Walton Hamilton and Ms. Andrews as our 2011 Gala Honorees for their many contributions to children's literacy.
In addition to raising money to support scholarship programs, this
year's Gala will benefit the Stony Brook Long Island Children's
Hospital. We are enhancing our ability to offer the best in
specialized, compassionate medicine to children and adolescents in
our area and beyond. Your support of the Stars of Stony Brook Gala
will have a direct impact on these young patients and their families
as they look to us--the only university-based children's hospital on
Long Island--for state-of-the-art technology and world-class specialty physicians, nurses, and researchers.
We are again offering faculty and staff tickets at a reduced price of $500 per ticket or $5,000 for a table of ten. In addition, we are pleased to offer chartered coach transportation to/from the Gala. Buses will depart from campus and return immediately afterwards. Space is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Reservations are required.
To purchase tickets and reserve seats on the bus, please complete and
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Thank you in advance for supporting our students through the 2011 Stars of Stony Brook Gala. I look forward to celebrating with you on April 4.
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The R Cookbook should be on your bookshelf if you work with R.
The book is as self-described, a collection of tasks and how to accomplish those tasks in R (recipes). This is not a tutorial on the language, but is definitely recommended for novices. One of the most frustrating aspects of R for the beginner is to know what manipulations you require for a dataset, but to be clueless as to how to perform those steps in R; this book can help close that gap.
For intermediate users, it can serve as a reference. I'll often use this to jog my memory as to how a particular technique is applied, e.g., run a function on each row of a dataframe. Since the book has been available on the O'Reilly Safari system for several months, it's become one of my most-used options for R info.
Technically the book appears to be accurate, with the recipes I've used functioning well. Caveat, I have not tested any of the higher-end statistical recipes, as they aren't required in my work.
In summary, this should be one of the first books purchased when building an R library.


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Men's Basketball Notebook 1.1 - Offseason Update
Bulldogs' guard Tyler Johnson was named the team's Most Valuable Player for the 2012-13 season by the Fresno State coaching staff; roster taking shape for 2013-14 season.
#BulldogMBB Hosts AFA In Last Home Game
The Fresno State men's basketball team needs to win one of its final two games for a chance at the No. 7 seed and an automatic spot in Quarterfinals of the upcoming Reese's Mountain West Basketball Championships.
Red Wave Leaves Lasting Imprint on Seniors
Fresno State will honor its four seniors in a pre-game ceremony before Saturday's Mountain West clash with Air Force.
Post-Game Notes: Fresno State 64, UNLV 55
No. 25 UNM Up Next for Bulldogs
Fresno State will play its second-straight Top 25 opponent when the Bulldogs travel to the Pit for the first time since 1999.
Fresno State vs. Colorado, 12/12/12
Fresno State vs. Colorado, 12/12/12
Army ROTC Boot Camp
Men's Basketball, Day 5
Heroes Night at the Save Mart Center
Fresno State 60-54 over Utah Aggies
FS vs. Idaho
Fresno State Bulldogs vs. Idaho Vandals
'Dogs fall to Hawaii in WAC home opener
Hawaii 74, Fresno State 68 (OT)
Photo by Keith Kountz
Last updated: June 21, 2013
2012-13 (SENIOR): Appeared in 18 games with three starts ... on the season, he averaged 2.0 points and 1.2 rebounds per game ... converted all four of his free throw attempts ... hit 14 out of his 37 (37.8 percent) field goal shots and logged a total of 195 minutes of game time ... made four out of 15 (26.7 percent) from beyond the 3-point arc ... also recorded four assists, 11 steals and one block ... earned team's Four-Year Achievement & Commitment Award.
2011-12 (JUNIOR): Appeared in 31 of 33 games ... on the season, he averaged 3.9 points and 2.3 rebounds per contest (14.4 min/game) ... scored 120 points and logged a total of 425 minutes of game time ... converted 45 of 108 field goal attempts (41.7%) and 12 of 19 from the charity stripe (63.2%) ... made 18 out of 56 (32.1%) from the 3-point line ... also recorded 15 assists, 12 steals and eight blocks.
2010-11 (SOPHOMORE): During his sophomore season, he averaged 8.1 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game ... played in all 31 games, with 21 starts logged at an average of 20 minutes in his 31 games played ... drained 84 of 227 (37%) field goal attempts, 45 of 141 (31.9%) from beyond the 3-point arc and 39 of 49 (79.6%) at the charity stripe ... in WAC contests, he averaged 8.3 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game while shooting 36.4 percent from the field.
2009-10 (FRESHMAN): With his hard-working attitude and passionate approach to the game, he earned his role a key bench contributor and played at least 12 minutes in each of the Bulldogs' final four games of the season ... during his freshman season, he averaged 1.4 points, 0.6 rebounds and 0.2 assists per game while shooting 13 of 50 (26.0%) from the field, four of 19 on 3-pointers (21.1%) and four of 11 on free throw attempts ... scored a career-high eight points on four of six shooting on field goal attempts on the road at Boise State on Jan. 30, 2010 ... grabbed career-best three rebounds and drained a career-best pair of 3-pointers in 79-68 win over CSU Bakersfield ... converted career-high two free throws in 69-37 victory over San Diego, Fresno State's largest margin of victory in four seasons ... registered five steals and one block ... logged at least 10 minutes in eight games ... in WAC contests, he averaged 1.1 points, 0.4 rebounds and 0.1 assists per contest.
HIGH SCHOOL: During his senior season, he averaged 20 points, seven rebounds and six assists per game and served as team captain for Diamond Ranch High School ... finished career as second-highest scorer in school history ... a three-year letterwinner ... named 2009 San Gabriel Valley Player of the Year, League MVP (2x) and First Team All-SGV (2x).
PERSONAL: Born May 24, 1991 in Pomona, Calif. ... parents are Gary and Freda Johnson ... has two older brother, Kris and Larry, and one older sister, Tammi ... enjoys going to church, playing video games and chess, sleeping, working on his basketball game and rapping ... favorite athlete is Ben Gordon because he is a great basketball player and has always been underrated ... biggest athletic thrill is to be blessed enough to compete everytime he gets the chance to play in front of people ... most admires his mother and father because they have been supportive of everything that he has done ... also recruited by Long Beach State, San Jose State and the University of San Diego.
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- Ennis & Ennis News
02/19/2013 - The first trial of many lawsuits alleging that diabetes medication Actos causes bladder cancer is scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles. The case Cooper v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc., CGC-12-518535 contends that Actos manufacturer, Takeda, failed to warn consumers that Actos could cause bladder cancer. Plaintiff, Jack Cooper, who is gravely ill, took Actos for more than two years and was diagnosed with bladder cancer in November 2011. This trial comes just a month after Takeda received regulatory approval for Nesina, a new diabetes drug to replace Actos, which went off of patent protection last year. Actos was previously the world's top-selling diabetes drug.
Takeda is now facing more than 3,000 lawsuits claiming Actos caused bladder cancer or other health problems. Sales of Actos reached $4.5 billion in 2011 and accounted for 27 percent of Takeda's revenue at that time according to Bloomberg. More than 1,200 lawsuits have been consolidated before the Honorable Rebecca Doherty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The first federal trial is scheduled to start on November 3, 2014.
Takeda officials are defending Actos, claiming that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found it to be a safe and effective drug. Further, the company claims that studies do not establish a causal link between Actos and bladder cancer, according to Takeda attorney, D'Lesli Davis. However, in 2011, FDA officials found that an analysis of a company-sponsored study showed some Actos users faced an increased risk of developing bladder cancer or cardiac issues and ordered Takeda to add new warnings to its label. [1] Takeda has pulled the drug off of the markets in Germany and France due to its association with bladder cancer.
Plaintiffs contend that Takeda employees knew about Actos' link to bladder cancer even before the company won approval for use in the United States in 1999. Plaintiffs assert that Takeda executives resisted FDA requests to add bladder-cancer warnings to Actos's label for years in order to protect the drug's profits. Takeda steadfastly maintains that there is no causal link between Actos and bladder cancer. However, a recent study published in the British Diabetic Association journal, "Diabetic Medicine," has confirmed an association between Actos and bladder cancer. The article analyzed six separate Actos studies involving over 215,142 Actos users who were followed for an average of 44 months. The risk of bladder cancer was significantly higher in patients using Actos. [2] The British Medical Journal also concluded that taking Actos for two years can double the risk of developing bladder cancer. [3] An additional study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in July 2012 noted that patients taking Actos incur a 22 percent increased risk of developing bladder cancer. [4]
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1. fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/ucm259150.htm
2. ncbi.nim.nih.gov/pubmed/23350856
3. bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e3645
4. health.usnews.com/health-news/news/news/articles/2012/07/03/another-study-links-diabetes-drug-actos-to-bladder-cancer.
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The Monday, June 30 episode of "Teen Wolf," 402, "117," sees the pack trying to figure out what to do next with a teenage Derek. What does Kate want? Why is the episode titled "117"?
Let's be honest. The "Teen Wolf" characters make some really stupid decisions sometimes, but you could always blame that on the fact that they are actually teenagers. Sure, they might spend more time at the school fighting things and for their lives than attending classes, but they are actually high schoolers. (Then again, their parents aren't the brightest all the time either, considering they bought that they all went camping when they took off for Mexico, and they probably didn't even bother pretending to pack tents and backpacks.)
Just because they barely go to school and rarely make it through a class without death, a teenaged Derek on the loose or something that's not studying that doesn't mean they're suddenly experts in dealing with everything the supernatural aspect of their lives throws at them. Still, Stiles should have known not to leave Derek alone for even a second, and Kira should have known that in the middle of fighting something with an animal skull on its face not to turn to smile at the boy she likes.
Ready to get into what happened in "117"? Read on for the recap.
Girl bonding over electrocution and gore A gas station attendant makes the mistake of checking on Kate in the bathroom, only to get attacked by the were-jaguar and ripped apart, as Lydia and Kira discover when they stop for gas for Lydia's car with a full tank. They then proceed to walk all over the crime scene, and sure, they may have Sheriff Stilinski on their side and can cover it up with the fact that they're teenagers, but still, they walked all over a crime scene.
What does Kate want with Derek? Scott, Stiles and Lydia bring Derek to Deaton, but if they think he'll have any answers, they're wrong. "Wow," he says upon seeing the teenager. "I think you might be overestimating my abilities." Deaton's at a loss, so he sends the kids home and to school, only to call them back, via Kira's father in the middle of class since he keeps telling his students to turn off their phones, after Derek skips out on him and Lydia.
Derek's not only physically younger, he's mentally younger too, and that means that he heads to the Hale house since he doesn't remember the fire. Welcome to your history, Derek. It's in pieces, much like your life. That's not the worst part. Deputy Parrish and another deputy, let's call him Deputy Idiot, find him there and Deputy Idiot tasers him when Derek doesn't cooperate. When his prints come back as Derek's at the station, that's when Sheriff Stilinski steps in and fortunately, Scott and Stiles arrive at that precise moment. "Have you been time traveling? Because if time traveling is real, I'm done. I'm out. You'll be driving me to Eichen House," the Sheriff tells his son. (Speaking of Eichen House, Stiles sees a second notice on his father's desk.) No, they haven't been time traveling, and Stiles has to explain that their camping trip was in Mexico and Derek was under an Aztec temple and all this other crazy stuff.
Scott wins Derek over with his alpha red eyes and successfully lies to him about his family being out of Beacon Hills and sends him with Stiles to wait at his house. The only problem is Scott's father is hanging around trying to be a father, which means dinner, and so teenaged Derek is introduced as Miguel, Stiles' cousin. Things spiral out of control, Stiles leaves Derek in Scott's room while he goes to call Scott, and Kate shows up and takes Derek.
Meanwhile, Malia's waiting at the loft when Scott show up to see Peter because he's "Satan in a V-neck," according to Lydia, and fortunately, any lengthy conversation about Malia's parents takes a backseat to the whole "scratching someone can turn them." Peter says it's too rare, "one in a million," growling the last word, and now he knows that Kate's alive too. No, Peter, no one you want to stay dead in this town does – "I think they were hoping you would," Malia tells him – but he does know what the others need to know. Kate turned Derek into a teenager because that's when they first met and he trusted her.
Thanks to crime scene photos from the gas station, Peter realizes that Kate wants to learn control, and that's where she's taking Derek – to the school, because she wants the family triskelion that apparently helped the Hales learn to control themselves. He may not remember telling her, but he does remember kissing her (are we supposed to just ignore the fact that he's a teenager and she's clearly not?), and so it's time to head to the vault that under the school. Because everything is at, around, in or under Beacon Hills High. In order to get to the vault, Derek just has to open the entrance that's under the sign, and it's so obviously marked, you have to wonder why it's never been mentioned before.
He's been robbed! Peter joins Kate in the vault and reveals that the pendant is not her magical answer to control. He taught Derek another way to control the shift, by using anger. "Let's get angry," he tells her, channeling the Joker. But before anything can happen, someone throws flash grenades down into the vault, and Kate leaves. Someone (the Benefactor?) comes in, opens the big safe in the middle of the room, takes out a briefcase and leaves. When Lydia and Stiles join Peter in the vault, he reveals that he's been robbed – of $117 million.
Trouble at school. Again. Scott, Peter and Malia arrive at the school only to face off with Berserkers, and when they think there's just one, Peter takes off running. Scott and Malia end up having to face two Berserkers and are nowhere near successful. Kira shows up with her katana and seems to be doing an okay job, until she turns to look back at Scott, then she too joins them on the floor. Then Derek shows up and starts fighting, and when the Berserkers have left and the fight's over, he's back to being Tyler Hoechlin Derek – with yellow eyes.
"Teen Wolf" season 4 airs Mondays at 10 p.m. on MTV. What did you think of episode 2 "117"?
Suggested Links
- 'Teen Wolf' extended promo: What's coming up in season 4
- 'Teen Wolf' season 4 premiere recap: What happened to Derek?
- 'True Blood' season 7 episode 3 preview: More death in Bon Temps?
- 'Rookie Blue' season 5 episode 5 photos: Undercover at a bar
- 'Doctor Who' season 8 premiere date and new teaser: Is the Doctor a good man?


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> View the full list of poets in the Marin Poets Archive
Marin Poets Live! is a public access television show presented by Marin County Free Library and features host Neshama Franklin, who works at the Fairfax Library.
The show introduces local Marin poets and delves into their reasons for writing and the influence that living in Marin County has had on their poetry. The monthly show appears the second Thursday of each month at 7:30pm PST. Check the Community Media Center of Marin for schedules.
The interview with Albert Flynn DeSilver aired on Marin Poets Live! on Thursday, July 11 2013 at 7:30pm. (Credits - Director: Nancy Finston, Cameras: Lori Greenleaf, Technical Director: Brad Flaharty, Producers: Neshama Franklin and Brian Jones).
Albert Flynn DeSilver is a poet, author, artist, publisher, and speaker.
Albert served as the first Marin County Poet Laureate from 2008-2010. Albert has published several books and more than one hundred poems in literary journals worldwide. His latest book is Beamish Boy: A Memoir, which Kirkus Reviews called "(...) a beautifully written memoir...poignant and inspirational, comical and terrifying!"
Albert taught with California Poets in the Schools for many years throughout Marin and the wider Bay Area. He currently presents at workshops, conferences, and institutions throughout the United States. More information can be found on his Web site.


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I love how Vika Gazinskaya makes everything she wears her own. A beautiful combo of double denim with a touch of rusty red, and the head scarf is the final touch.
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Sometimes it's the little things that make an outfit. The pattern of the pants, the velvet fabric of the bag and the nice knit with the elbow patches.
Now that fashion month is over I can finally post my Fashion's Night Out pictures! Better late than never, right? I went to Stella McCartney in the Meatpacking district with a plan to continue on to Prada, Opening Ceremony and a couple of other places, but a combo of Stella's veggie hot dogs, my long lost headless twin and a nice ambience I ended up staying. They had put together a little exhibition of Helena Christensen's beautiful photos on the walls, and they had Selma Blair signing Fashion's Night Out T-shirts.
I am so happy 'cos fashion month is coming to an end, although part of me will miss it and all the fabulous people I've seen every day. I have had such an amazing time in all the four cities; New York, London, Milan and a two day pit stop in Tokyo and now finally Paris. I am so looking forward to having a day off.
This dress is just exceptional, I feel like a chic Pocahontas wearing it. It's by Acne, the belt is from a beach stand in Cannes, bag is vintage from London, boots are Whyred. I'm thinking of getting these boots in black as well, they are very comfortable for being so high.
Oh, and a BIG thank you to all the kind and sweet models I have shot for Vogue.com <– that have stopped and given of their time, every time – so I could shoot them in their lovely, inspiring outfits.
I am spellbound just looking at Gwyneth's hair. I wish my hair could take chemicals better so I could do this without destroying it. Impressively enough, Gwyneth Tang did it herself. I love it!
This is Eva Fontanelli and she looked lovely every day of Milan fashion week. Another day she was wearing a swan-like dress that reminded me of Bjork's famous Oscar moment, only it was different and more subtle. Thank you, sweet Eva, for letting me take your picture even if it wasn't your favorite thing to do.
Alexa Chung wearing a beautiful dress by Burberry Prorsum. The color is so rich and suits her wonderfully.


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Not only am I glad that Israel has chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, but I want to know that Israel is prepared to use them in an emergency situation. It is nice to know about anti-missile systems such as Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow III yet they are purely defensive weapons but putting the fear of God (or Allah) into your enemies is even more important.
by Mitch Ginsburg
Syria's consent to a deal that would catalogue, locate and eventually see the destruction of its vast chemical weapons arsenal has brought Israel and its various arms programs closer to the international spotlight, raising questions about what it does and does not possess and what strategic purposes its weapons serve.
Speaking to Russia's state-run Rossiya-24 TV last week, Bashar Assad called on Israel to sign all relevant international treaties. "If we want stability in the Middle East, all the countries in the region should stick to [international] agreements," said the Syrian president, who is believed to have gassed his own people on seven different occasions, according to a new report from the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. "And Israel is the first state that should do so, since Israel possessed nuclear, chemical, biological and all other kinds of weapons of mass destruction."Israel, built on the ashes of the Holocaust and with a sense of persistent persecution etched into its consciousness, has in fact been drawn, since the earliest days of its existence, to those sorts of weapons. In April 1948, before the state declared its independence, future prime minister David Ben-Gurion, according to Michael Keren's "Ben-Gurion and the Intellectuals," instructed a Jewish Agency official in Europe to seek out Jewish scientists who could "either increase the capacity to kill masses or to cure masses; both are important."
The search began with biological weapons. Avner Cohen, a professor of Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and an outspoken critic of Israel's policy of ambiguity as regards WMDs, put the date at February 18, 1948, when the Haganah's chief operations officer, Yigal Yadin, sent a microbiology student named Alexander Keynan down to Jaffa to establish a unit called HEMED BEIT.
This potential, at least in part, apparently existed even before the founding of the state. Abba Kovner, the famous poet and partisan fighter, is depicted in Dina Porat's "The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner" as having traveled to pre-state Palestine after the war and receiving poison from Katzir in order to kill incarcerated SS officers in Europe.
He was apprehended on board a British ship and threw the poison overboard before his arrest.
Several years later, in May 1948, forces from the Carmel Brigade of the Haganah allegedly used a biological weapon in the battle for Acre.
"I spoke to the company commander from Battalion 21 of the Carmel Brigade, who poured the stuff into the water supply," said military historian Uri Milstein in a phone interview. Milstein, a controversial figure in Israel, said that the man had since died, that the material had been delivered to the battalion by Moshe Dayan, and that the container had been filled with the typhus bacterium.
After the war, HEMED BEIT relocated to a building in an orange grove just outside Ness Tziona, where it has remained. Today it is called the Israel Institute for Biological Research, "a governmental, applied research institute specializing in the fields of biology, medicinal chemistry and environmental sciences."
The institute publishes a great deal of defense-related research and is widely cited academically and is highly regarded.
In terms of possible offensive capacities, very little is known.
What is clear is that Israel has not signed the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention; that the deputy director of the biological institute, Professor Marcus Klingberg, was covertly arrested by the Shin Bet on January 19, 1983, and subsequently charged with spying for the KGB for more than three decades (Klingberg, perhaps the most damaging spy in Israel's history, spent the first 10 years of his 20-year sentence in solitary confinement, under a pseudonym); and that on two occasions the Mossad attempted to assassinate people using biological weapons.
The first known Israeli assassination with biological weapons was Dr. Wadi Haddad, a Palestinian terrorist, who was the first to hijack an El Al plane, in July 1968, and one of the commanders of the Entebbe hijacking in 1976. One year later, he was given Belgian chocolate "coated by Mossad specialists with a lethal biological poison," according to Aaron J. Klein's "Striking Back." [Full disclosure: this reporter translated the book.] He lost his appetite, he lost weight, and his immune system collapsed. On March 30, 1978, in an East German hospital, he died.
On September 25, 1997, shortly after 10 a.m., two Mossad combatants approached Hamas official Khaled Mashal and released into his ear a potentially fatal dose of a synthetic opiate called Fetanyl, according to foreign sources. "I felt a loud noise in my ear. It was like a boom, like an electric shock. Then I had shivering sensation in my body like an electric shock," Mashal told Alan Cowell of The New York Times.
Within two hours he was close to respiratory collapse and would have died had Mishka Ben David, a senior Mossad officer, not provided the Jordanian authorities with the antidote.
Chemical weapons
In 1955, sure that war with Egypt loomed on the horizon, Ben-Gurion pushed the defense establishment to produce a nonconventional capacity to respond to any such assault from Egypt. "He ordered that this nonconventional capability be operationalized – i.e., weaponized and stockpiled – as soon as possible and before a war with Egypt broke out," Cohen wrote in an article published in The Nonproliferation Review in the 2001 Fall-Winter edition. [……..]
In June 1963 Egypt used chemical weapons in the Yemen civil war. The first usage was considered primitive. But in subsequent years and, most alarmingly from an Israeli perspective, in the months and days leading up to the Six Day War in 1967, Egypt fired chemical bombs on villages, killing hundreds; the last attack occurred on May 10, 1967, three weeks before the start of the war and four days before Egypt began amassing troops in the Sinai desert.
In July 1990, in perhaps the most straightforward indication of Israeli capacities, then-science minister Yuval Ne'eman was quoted in The New York Times as having told Israel Radio that if Saddam Hussein attacked Israel, "In my opinion, we have an excellent response, and that is to threaten Hussein with the same merchandise."
Finally, last week Foreign Policy magazine discovered an old CIA document, which revealed that US spy satellites in 1982 located "a probable CW [chemcial weapon] nerve agent production facility and a storage facility… at the Dimona Sensitive Storage Area in the Negev Desert. Other CW production is believed to exist within a well-developed Israeli chemical industry."
Syria and Israel
Presuming the CIA is correct and Israel has those weapons, or at least had them at one point and maintains the capacity to create them on demand, in what way does Syria's recent agreement to destroy its chemical weapons change the picture?
The first element is time. Syria has agreed to list and locate its enormous chemical arsenal and for it to be destroyed by mid-2014. This is a highly optimistic timetable. "I'd say it's somewhere between unreal and surreal," said Ely Karmon, a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism and the teacher of a masters course on WMDs.
In Libya, another Middle East state that is a signatory to both the chemical and biological weapons conventions, a mustard gas facility was found in the Jufra district in late 2011, Karmon noted. Aside from the fact that the discovery points, yet again, to the limits of any inspection regime, even a highly regarded one such as the Chemical Weapons Convention, it also speaks to the timetable. "More than two years later," he said, "and the Libyan experts are now in Germany studying. They haven't even begun the work [of destroying the weapons]."
That is the cautious method. In Syria, it remains to be seen whether the deal includes the conveyance of the weapons to a destruction facility in Russia or the US or whether the intent is to destroy the weapons in Syria. Both options have drawbacks.
In Syria, Karmon said, there would be no way to build a destruction facility so long as the war raged on. This would mean either crudely disposing of the weapons, as was occasionally done in Iraq, or transporting them out of the country, either by truck or ship, which Karmon said is "very complicated and very dangerous."
While the two experts basically agreed that implementation within Syria was highly unlikely during the war, they largely disagreed about Israel's reaction to Syria's moves. Shoham said that while Iran had signed and ratified the CWC in March 1997 and the Biologocal Weapons Convention in 1973, the Islamic republic has amassed significant covert stores of chemical weapons. "So long as Iran and Egypt maintain their arsenals, Israel should not change its position," he said.
Israel has clung to a policy of ambiguity. But while it has not so much as spoken a single official word about the BWC — Syria and Egypt signed the treaty but didn't ratify it, and the latter is suspected of possessing some such weapons — it did sign the CWC on January 13, 1993. When the treaty was put into force in 1997, though, Israel remained on the sidelines and refrained from ratifying it.
This position was wholeheartedly endorsed by Cohen, the author of "Israel and the Bomb" and "The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb."
He said he "strongly doubts" Israel has deployable chemical or biological weapons in its arsenal at this time. If Syria stays on the path of disarmament, he added, Israel would do well to itself, to the region and to the world to follow suit, and of its own volition. "Already now Israel should tell the world we will contribute our own share at the right time to the international effort," he said.
Ambiguity about those weapons makes no sense, he contended, "especially because Israel probably doesn't have any. It's just posturing."
Regarding Israel's alleged nuclear capacity and the possibility that ratifying the CWC and the BWC might, as he wrote in his article in The Nonproliferation Review, "be abused to infringe on the sanctity of Dimona," Cohen said that "there are various safeguards in place" and that the likelihood of such an eventuality was low.
Moreover, from a military perspective and from a deterrence standpoint, Israel, which today is said to possess 80 nuclear warheads, according to a recent report in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "has all the reasons in the world," he said, "to join the global consensus in abolishing both chemical and biological weapons from the face of the earth."
Read the rest – 'Should there be a need': The inside story of Israel's chemical and biological arsenal
Tags: Bashar Assad, Chemical Weapons, David Ben-Gurion, Dimona nuclear reactor, Khaled Mashal, Mitch Ginsburg, Wadi Haddad


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Attorneys for former Atlanta Public Schools superintendent, Beverly Hall have filed a motion in Fulton County court asking the judge for a continuance in Hall's upcoming trial due to cancer treatment.
Beverly Hall is one 13 APS educators set to stand trial in late April facing charges of racketeering and conspiracy in the Atlanta Public School's Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) cheating scandal. A total of 35 educators were indicted.
Hall's legal team told the judge Monday that she is battling stage four breast cancer and was hospitalized in early March. The motion states: Hall is "physically and mentally unable to attend the trail" and "going to court could put her life at risk".
Attorneys asked the judge to delay Hall's trial for up to 6-8 months, until after her chemotherapy treatment is complete.
According to Fox 5 News, attorneys presented an affidavit from Hall's physician, Dr. Laura Weakland, explaining Hall condition. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and since then the cancer has spread to other parts of her body.
No word yet on the judge's decision.


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Buried in the Christmas edition of The New York Times was a story that might be characterized as the religion reporter's version of the "last man in town who can whittle worth a damn" genre: "Commune to Close, After Years of Strife and Striving." As a representative of the category, Sarah Kershaw's report isn't bad; Kershaw tells the tale as one of zoning battles, which is a nice reminder that The Book of Zoning Regulations should be on every religion writer's scripture shelf.
But Kershaw hits all the cliches of the "last commune" story, too. There are quips about the funny names of the commune members (all share the surname "Israel"; their spokesman is Serious Israel), and there's a bittersweet tone for the "end of an era."
And yet deep down in the story — in talking head territory — the reader comes across this insight: "'Counterculture is a permanent tradition,' said Bennett Berger, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California at San Diego. 'There will be waxing and waning. It's been waning for 20 years, but that doesn't mean it's disappeared.'"
A lesson Kershaw doesn't seem to have learned, despite the fact (reported by her) that communes and would-be utopias have been an ongoing religious experiment in America since the beginning. The names and places may change, the details of the faith may vary, but there's a continuity all the same.
Given such a venerable tradition, American utopianists merit more than a bemused nod; they are as much a part of our spiritual geography as the mainline denominations from which many of them emerge.
Find a commune story near you: Intentional Communities Website, The Farm(Tennessee), Zendik (North Carolina), The Hermitage (Pennsylvania), Breitenbush Community (Oregon).
Relatively new to the commune scene is the "Radical Faerie" movement, self-described as "queer country living," with Pagan spiritual emphasis. Radical Faeries have established several communes, of varying size and permanence, including Zumi Mountain Radical Faerie Space (New Mexico), Planet Ida (Tennessee), Faerie Camp Destiny (Vermont), Nomenus(Oregon), and Kawashaway (Minnesota).