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The seven page report, titled, "Domestic Violent Extremists Pose Increased Threat to Government Law Enforcement" dated, July 22, 2014, said, "After years of only sporadic violence from violent domestic extremists motivated by anti-government ideologies, I&A has seen a spike within the past year in violence committed by militia extremists and lone offenders who hold violent anti-government beliefs. These groups and individuals recognize government authority but facilitate or engage in acts of violence due to their perception that the United States Government is tyrannical and oppressive, coupled to their belief that the government needs to be violently resisted or overthrown."
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Anne Hathaway: I Was "Obsessive" About Looking "Near Death" for Les Miserables
If fans thought Anne Hathaway looked deathly ill earlier this year, then mission accomplished.
The one-time Oscar nominee says she was "obsessed" with losing weight for her role in the upcoming film version of Les Miserables.
To shed 25 pounds from her already skinny frame, Hathaway tells Vogue she first started with a cleanse, and then spent two weeks eating nothing but dried oatmeal paste.
"I had to be obsessive about it — the idea was to look near death," she tells the magazine in its December issue.
"Looking back on the whole experience — and I don't judge it in any way — it was definitely a little nuts," continues Hathaway. "It was definitely a break with reality, but I think that's who [my character] Fantine is anyway."
Hathaway goes on to admit that when filming wrapped, she was in "a state of deprivation — physical and emotional."
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Texas Tech.......... 124 2X - 9 8 0
Umpires - HP: Sally Keller 1B: Doug Keller 3B: Scott Sparks
Start: 3:30 Time: 1:35 Attendance: 206
Weather: 60s with sun-soaked skies!
2010 Texas Tech Softball
Boise St. at Texas Tech
Mar 05, 2010 at Lubbock, Texas (Rocky Johnson Field)
Boise St. starters: 10/lf Barcellos, B; 12/ss Hanna, J.; 17/dp Alvarez, V.;
20/c Harvey, M.; 11/1b Viers-Gordil; 2/cf Weatherly, T; 21/3b Work, L.; 18/rf
Collier, A.; 3/2b Caplan, K.; 61/p Zell, A.;
Texas Tech starters: 1/lf Drewry; 4/ss Legler; 2/2b Hall; 3/3b Bledsoe; 26/cf
Kenney; 12/1b Richardson; 7/rf Hamada; 22/c Gentsch; 25/dp Clemmons; 11/p
Boise St. 1st - Barcellos, B singled to first base
(0-1). Barcellos, B stole second. Hanna, J. flied out to ss (2-2). Alvarez, V.
walked (3-0). Harvey, M. lined into double play rf to 1b (2-2); Alvarez, V. out
on the play. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Texas Tech 1st - Drewry grounded out to 2b (0-2).
Legler singled to left field (2-2). Legler stole second. Hall singled, advanced
to second, RBI (2-2); Legler scored. Bledsoe grounded out to 1b unassisted
(1-1); Hall advanced to third. Kenney hit by pitch (2-2). Kenney advanced to
second on a passed ball. Richardson grounded out to ss (1-1). 1 run, 2
hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Boise St. 2nd - Viers-Gordil grounded out to 1b
unassisted (1-1). Weatherly, T struck out swinging (2-2). Work, L. struck out
swinging (2-2). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Texas Tech 2nd - Hamada reached on an error by 2b
(3-2). Gentsch singled to shortstop (0-1); Hamada advanced to second. Heath
pinch hit for Gentsch. Clemmons lined out to cf (3-2). Drewry reached on a
fielder's choice, SAC (0-0); Heath advanced to second; Hamada advanced to
third. Legler reached on a fielder's choice, RBI (0-1); Drewry advanced to
second; Heath out at third cf to 3b; Hamada scored, unearned. Hall singled,
advanced to second, RBI (0-2); Legler advanced to third; Drewry scored,
unearned. Bledsoe hit by pitch (3-0). Kenney popped up to 2b (0-2). 2
runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 3 LOB.
Boise St. 3rd - Gentsch to c for Heath. Collier, A.
grounded out to 2b (0-0). Caplan, K. out at first p to 2b (0-0). Barcellos, B
grounded out to p (3-2). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Texas Tech 3rd - Richardson reached on an error by
p, advanced to second (1-0). Hamada singled, stole second (1-0); Richardson
advanced to third. Gentsch singled to left field, RBI (2-0); Hamada advanced to
third; Richardson scored, unearned. Peterson to dp for Clemmons. Peterson
reached on an error by 3b (3-2); Gentsch advanced to second. Clemmons to dp for
Peterson. Drewry popped up to ss (0-0). Legler singled, advanced to second on
the throw, 2 RBI (2-0); Clemmons advanced to third; Gentsch scored, unearned;
Hamada scored, unearned. Alvarez, V. to rf. Cox, K. to 3b for Weatherly, T.
Work, L. to p. Collier, A. to cf. / for Zell, A.. Hall flied out to lf, SAC,
RBI (0-0); Clemmons scored, unearned. Bledsoe flied out to ss. 4 runs, 3
hits, 2 errors, 1 LOB.
Boise St. 4th - Reeves to 3b for Legler. Bledsoe to
ss. Hanna, J. flied out to lf (0-0). Alvarez, V. singled to left field (3-2).
Yurek, M. pinch ran for Alvarez, V.. Harvey, M. struck out looking (2-2).
Viers-Gordil popped up to 2b (1-2). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1
Texas Tech 4th - Crump, A. to lf for Barcellos, B.
Alvarez, V. to dp for Yurek, M.. Collier, A. to rf. Barcellos, B to cf.
Barcellos, B to cf for Crump, A.. Yurek, M. to lf for Barcellos, B. Kenney
walked (3-2). Richardson struck out swinging (3-2); Kenney stole second. Hamada
hit by pitch (0-0). Gentsch struck out swinging (1-2); Hamada advanced to
second on a passed ball; Kenney advanced to third on a passed ball. Matthews to
dp for Clemmons. Matthews walked (3-2). Drewry singled to left field, 2 RBI
(0-0); Matthews advanced to second; Hamada scored, unearned; Kenney scored,
unearned. Legler to ss for Reeves. Bledsoe to 3b. Legler grounded out to p
(2-1). 2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Boise St. 5th - Legler to dp. Bledsoe to ss.
Matthews to 3b. Cox, K. flied out to cf (3-1). Bourke, H. pinch hit for Work,
L.. Bourke, H. singled to second base (2-2). Capobianco pinch hit for Collier,
A.. Capobianco hit into double play p to 2b to 1b (3-1); Bourke, H. out on the
play. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.


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"Sons of Anarchy" won't be back until the fall with season 7. With the death of Jax teller's wife, Tara, fans are wondering if the final season of the series will bring a new love interest for him. International Business Times posted the answer to that question and others in Jan. 22.
Rumors are running wild that Jax will be reconnecting with his first wife, Wendy Case, because of the announcement that actress Drea de Matteo has been promoted to series regular and will have a much bigger role. Wendy is, after all, Able's birth mother.
Show creator Kurt Sutter recently revealed that a new love interest isn't in the cards for Jax, though. The SAMCRO president will be spending some time in the slammer. It is unknown if he will be arrested and charged with Tara's murder, a crime actually committed by his mother, Gemma.
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Whole30 D38 : Impending Vacation, beach running tips
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
The next three days are going to be chaotic. To say the least.
- I work till 5p. Have to skip my lunch break b/c I lost time yesterday taking my 6 yr old for testing.
- I have to hit the grocery and grab a couple of items we will need for our trip
- DQ has therapy at 4:45, Dance starting at 5:00 (she will be late to dance), and won't be done with dance till 7:30p.
- V has karate from 4:30 - 5p. Good thing we have a rent-a-teenager and the dojo is so close to home.
- Have to bake cookies for DQ's dance lock-in tomorrow
- I have two totes to finish tonight and a house to start cleaning
- Work till 5p, again skipping lunch to keep my hours in.
- DQ has dance at 4:00p, and won't be home from it as the instructor is having a lock-in for the girls.
- Have to run two sold totes to cities that are 15-20 minutes away from my home and get the money for them.
- Have to drop the dog off at my parents house.
- Have to finish cleaning house and pack. I've asked the Rent-A-Teenager to help me with the cleaning/laundry while she is home with the girls all day.
- Work till 3p (hopefully i can get out that early)
- Leave for Savannah!!!!
It's crunch time. High stress. But you know what? I'm going to just do what I can with the time I am given, and things will work out. I have taken this Whole30 lifestyle on the road before. When I did it was a month ago. I had just started out with it. I could smell the french fries my children were eating when we stopped at Wendy's, and I WANTED them. I ate my salad, resisted the cravings, and went on with life.
I think this time will be a little easier. I don't want those foods anymore. I know how bad it is for me. I honestly don't want it. I know how to make good choices while I am on the road. I know how gluten makes me feel miserable, and I honestly don't want to spend my only vacation this year feeling miserable, so it is easy to make the choice to stay away from it. I have yet to try gluten free grains (such as corn chips, rice, etc), and legumes (peanut butter, black beans, etc.) But I will get to them. I may try corn chips today as there are some sitting in my office, with some home made salsa a co-worker brought in.
My weight is still 184.4 this morning. That is a 13.6lb loss since being on Whole30. Which averages out to around .35 lbs per day. Isn't too bad at all in my book. The last time I took measurements and put them in my SP tracker was 01/12.
Anyway I took measurements today, and I am down 8 inches total from that point. This all reinforces that this is working. I'm not going to let myself start obsessing over numbers, because I will drive myself crazy with it. But this reinforces my decision to keep doing this.
I found this article to give me tips for running on the beach. Very informative. I thought I might share it with my fellow SPers just in case they want to try running on the beach as well!
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The men's tennis team picked up a pair of wins Wednesday in Birmingham, beating UAB, 4-0, and Samford, 4-3. The Crimson Tide now stands at 10-13 on the season, while the Blazers drop to 16-6 and the Bulldogs to 14-4.
"It was a tough day playing against two good teams, and we're pleased to get through with the wins," said Alabama head coach Billy Pate. "We were a little tired in the Samford match, but we were fortunate enough to come away with the win."
In Alabama's first match of the day, the Tide won the doubles point and took care of business quickly in singles, winning three matches to secure the win. Alabama's Vikram Reddy and Carlos Taborga dropped an 8-4 decision to UAB's Danny Manlow and Daniel Moser before the Tide's David Vieyra and Filippos Tsangaridis evened the match with an 8-3 win on court three over Chris Helliar and Lucas Dirube. Alabama's 34th-ranked duo of Ricky Doverspike and Jarryd Botha sealed the point in a tiebreaker on court one, winning 9-8(4) over David Zimmerman and Tom Puetz.
In singles, Vieyra was first to finish, collecting a 6-3, 6-4 win over Puetz before Doverspike made it a 3-0 lead with another 6-3, 6-4 win against Manlow. Senior Michael Thompson would clinch the win, topping James Gardner, 6-4, 6-1 on court six.
In the night match against Samford, the Tide swept all three doubles courts as Harris Barnard and Rens van der Vis beat Fernando Costa and Carson Kadi, 8-5 on court three, which was followed by an 8-6 victory for Doverspike and Botha on court one against Zac Dunkle and Alex Sajonz. Vieyra and Tsangaridis would finish things off on court two, dominating Elliott Barnwell and Ryan Shidler in the tiebreaker to take the match 8-7(1).
Singles began evenly with each team winning three first sets. The Tide would go on to win each of those matches in straight sets to take the team victory. Stuart Kenyon was first to finish on court six, collecting a dominant 6-1, 6-1 win over Shidler. Dunkle gave the Bulldogs their first point of the match as he posted a 6-4, 6-3 win over Botha on court one. Thomson would put the Tide back in front by two, winning 6-1, 6-2 from the No. 5 position over Sajonz. Daniil Proskura clinched the victory for Alabama on court two, with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Kadi.
Alabama will return home for its final regular season match on Saturday when it hosts Auburn for a 5 p.m. CT start.
"Samford played very hard and pushed us," added Pate. "I'm glad it was tough because that's what we want and need in terms of preparation for Auburn on Saturday."
RESULTS VS. UAB Doubles 1. No. 34 Doverspike/Botha (UA) def. Zimmerman/Puetz (UAB) 9-8(4) 2. Manlow/Moser (UAB) def. Reddy/Taborga (UA) 8-4 3. Vieyra/Tsangaridis (UA) def. Helliar/Dirube (UAB) 8-3 Order of Finish: 2,3,1
Singles 1. No. 121 Ricky Doverspike (UA) def. Danny Manlow (UAB) 6-3, 6-4 2. Jarryd Botha (UA) vs. David Zimmerman (UAB) 6-4, 3-6, unf. 3. No. 102 Daniil Proskura (UA) vs. Chris Helliar 6-2, 5-4, unf. 4. No. 119 Vikram Reddy (UA) vs. Daniel Moser (UAB) 6-2, 4-3, unf. 5. David Vieyra (UA) def. Tom Puetz (UAB) 6-3, 6-4 6. Michael Thompson (UA) def. James Gardner (UAB) 6-4, 6-1 Order of Finish: 5,1,6*
RESULTS VS. SAMFORD Doubles 1. No. 34 Doverspike/Botha (UA) def. Dunkle/Sajonz (SU) 8-6 2. Vieyra/Tsangaridis (UA) def. Barnwell/Shidler (SU) 8-7(1) 3. Barnard/van der Vis (UA) def. Costa/Kadi (SU) 8-5 Order of Finish: 3,1,2
Singles 1. Zac Dunkle (SU) def. Jarryd Botha (UA) 6-4, 6-3 2. No. 102 Daniil Proskura (UA) def. Carson Kadi (SU) 6-2, 6-4 3. Elliott Barnwell (SU) def. No. 119 Vikram Reddy (UA) 7-6(4), 6-4 4. Fernando Costa (SU) def. David Vieyra (UA) 6-1, 3-6, 5-1, ret. 5. Michael Thompson (UA) def. Alex Sajonz (SU) 6-2, 6-1 6. Stuart Kenyon (UA) def. Ryan Shidler (SU) 6-1, 6-1 Order of Finish: 6,1,5,2*,4,3


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TALLAHASSEE-- In the red corner: Florida's Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater.
In the blue corner: The Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo.
Florida's top financial man is throwing down with the Empire State. The CFO is blasting New York and their governor over both state's business climates. Atwater came out swinging against some New York TV spots.
The $113 million TV and radio ads hype up New York's business climate. It's an effort to draw employers back but Atwater says the ads are deceptive.
In the letter penned to Governor Cuomo - Atwater says the images can't be supported by facts, especially compared to Florida. He also mentions Florida being the second best place to do business in America compared to New York's 49th ranking.
But New York is fighting back.
A Cuomo spokesman said the CFO must be pretty bad at math if he doesn't understand that new businesses in certain New York zones won't have to pay state taxes.
The Florida chamber stood by Atwater's statements that Florida trumps New York when it comes to business.
"It's fun to go to New York once and a while to have a slice and see a show, but Florida has a lot more to offer and we got to encourage those New Yorkers to keep moving down," David Hart of the Florida Chamber of Commerce said
It's estimated that Florida will deliver another knock out blow to NY later this year, when the Sunshine State takes over as third most populated state in the country
Atwater has some supportive jobs numbers to back him up. Florida lead the country in job creation last month.


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Illinois State Treasurer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Rutherford adamantly denies the charges filed against him in a federal lawsuit on Monday. Edmund Michalowski, a 43-year-old former top deputy from Chicago, claims in the federal lawsuit that Rutherford pressured him into doing political and also sexually harassed him, according to a Chicago Tribune report on Monday.
Michalowski, who says he complained to Rutherford's chief of staff about both concerns, alleges that the pressure to do political work dates back three years and the sexual harassment started in April of 2011.
Michalowski accuses Rutherford of creating a hostile work environment for him and other employees from April of 2011 until last December, as well as accusing him of repeatedly "hitting on him" and touching him inappropriately. Therein lies, the sexual harassment allegations.
In response, Rutherford said, "I strongly deny any, any inappropriate conduct, regardless of the date." The State Treasurer said that there were no witnesses to the allegations – other than the accuser –and that the accuser and never complained about any inappropriate behavior. Rutherford strongly believes the allegations were timed to destroy him just before the Republican primary election which is to be held in Illinois on March 18.
After speaking at a news conference about the matter in Schaumburg, Rutherford moved on to Hoffman Estates to participate in a Republican gubernatorial candidates' debate hosted by WLS-AM radio.
The GOP gubernatorial candidate that refused to take part in the debate, Bruce Rauner, is the person who Rutherford has said is most likely behind the allegations currently against him.
At the debate, Illinois State Sen. Kirk Dillard asked Dillard, "Are there any more allegations of sexual harassment coming at you from anyone else?" Rutherford said, "Sen. Dillard, I believe that was inappropriate," and the audience applauded. Rutherford continued, "I'm tell all of you right now, these allegations are absolutely false."
Later, speaking to reporters, Dillard tried to defend his question of Rutherford by saying, "This has become quite a distraction from the issues… It's perfectly appropriate for a Republican gathering to ask a nominee if there is anything else that could derail <the Republican's> ability to beat Pat Quinn in the fall."
Kyle Ham, Rutherford's chief of staff, vehemently denies all allegations against himself and Rutherford. He insists that there is no merit to Michalowski's claims, after his office conducted an initial review.
Additionally, Michalowski's attorney, Christine Svenson, has had business dealings with the Rauner campaign. Last year, the attorney received $3,500 from the campaign to review an office lease.
Rutherford asserts that he is in the governor's race to stay.


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|Early bilingualism acquired from home or community is generally considered to positively influence cognitive development. The purpose of the present study was to determine to what extent bilingualism acquired through a second-language immersion education has a similar effect. Participants included a total of 106 French-speaking eight-year-old children drawn from two language groups: 53 children enrolled in English immersion classes since the age of five years (the immersion group) and 53 children enrolled in monolingual French-speaking classes (the monolingual group). The two groups were matched for verbal and nonverbal intelligence and socioeconomic status (SES). They were administered a battery of tasks assessing attentional and executive skills. The immersion group's reaction times were significantly faster than those of the monolingual group on tasks assessing alerting, auditory selective attention, divided attention and mental flexibility, but not interference inhibition. These results show that, after only three years, a second-language immersion school experience also produces some of the cognitive benefits associated with early bilingualism.
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Employee engagement has long been viewed as the key to promoting productivity and increasing retention. However, the actual definition and process of engagement requires rethinking for a workforce that is seeking greater meaning on the job. A typical annual survey to gauge employee attitudes does little to create organizational change. A few company events that give workers a chance to rub shoulders with upper management in an atmosphere of forced joviality won't make employees feel more like family. Here are three ways to think differently and engage your workforce more deeply as a result.
#1 Start Building a Community
Instead of running a workforce like a machine, consider the organization as more of a tribe (a la Seth Godin). In this model, each person understands their role, willingly takes on responsibility for fulfilling it, and sees an obvious connection between promoting the good of the whole and enjoying their own life and career. Instead of asking employees the standard engagement survey questions, ask them to describe their organization as if it were a tribe and define their own role within it. Let them be as creative as they like in their answers. You might be surprised by the results. Pinpoint the areas where people see their roles differently than managers or coworkers do. These are likely to be the areas of greatest friction where engagement suffers.
#2 Speed Up by Slowing Down
When workers feel overwhelmed, it can be difficult for them to even identify what would make them feel more engaged. One day per month, set aside one hour of the day during which employees are asked to perform all but the most time-sensitive tasks as slowly as possible (guarantee they won't get in trouble). This change of pace provides an opportunity for employees to breathe deeply and notice what they enjoy most and least about their job, their physical work environment, their manager, and the overall workplace culture. At the end of the day, gather feedback on how workers felt, what they noticed, and what they would like to change. Simply slowing down gives employees a chance to feel more involved in what they are doing—they may even notice that they love their job!
#3 Turn Workers into Innovators
"Big Data" and analytics are providing deeper insight than ever into what makes customers tick. In addition, the advent of cloud infrastructure and development platforms has reduced the cost of technical innovation to a fraction of its former cost. Now, even small businesses can afford to develop new ways of interacting with customers through improved websites, mobile apps, and internal CRM software. Make business intelligence available to your workforce and ask for ideas on new ways to engage and satisfy customers. When employees strengthen their role in bridging the gap between your company and your customers, they feel more connected themselves.
Today, the opportunities to create true engagement are greater than ever. Now is the time to embrace doing things differently as the way to help employees realize how much you really have in common.


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Reviewing some Japanese restaurants presents a bit of a challenge in that the food so deceptively simple, that one is at a loss for describing the art behind it. Just as with sushi, in its elemental, stark composition of fish and rice, a discussion of soba will eventually descend into ethereal subtleties that sound more like spirituality than proper food criticism.
Soba is essential, in the truest form of the word -- these buckwheat noodles are about an essence of flavor that mirrors many of the attractive elements of the traditional Japanese minimal aesthetic. Soba is to food what an impeccably clean tatami room is to interior design.
An impeccably clean tatami room, however, is not where you will most likely find the best noodles however. soba is a workman's meal -- a cold plate of noodles that can be served in minutes and consumed even faster. Its most common form is fast food, sold at little shops in train stations and in alleyways throughout Japan.
Some restaurants, however, take soba seriously, even reverently, and these restaurants are invariably a little classier than standing counters in train stations. Such restaurants are also inevitably magnets for Japanese food lovers, who think nothing of standing on line for 45 minutes for a dish that they might consume in 10.
Certainly one of the ways you might stumble on Kanda Yabusoba might be the line of such food lovers that usually snakes out of its little garden and into the street around lunchtime. Of course, you would have to have accidentally wandered into a nondescript street in the middle of a relatively quiet Tokyo neighborhood, which isn't likely. Practically no one ends up at Yabusoba by mistake -- instead they come seeking some of the best soba noodles in Tokyo, crowding along the bamboo-lined cobblestone path inside the gate, listening to the sound of the woman singing out each noodle order from the edge of the tiny bustling kitchen. It's not hard to imagine, as you stand there in line, that apart from the fashions things didn't look a whole lot different when the restaurant first opened its doors in 1880. Good noodles, apparently, never go out of style.
The menu (which is available in English for anyone who asks) is quite simple. The restaurant offers 13 different variations on soba, from the classic seiro soba which consists of cold noodles to be dipped in the cold tsuyu sauce, to versions served in hot broth, or topped with tempura fried shrimp, dried seaweed, or fish paste. Perhaps in a small concession to more catholic noodle lovers, the restaurant also offers a single bowl of udon noodles -- the thicker, wheat flour cousin of soba.
Yabusoba serves a type of soba noodle known as cha-soba, which is made using buckwheat and a bit of powdered green tea. While everyone has their favorite version of soba, most certainly the best way to truly savor the simple, subtle flavors of these masterfully hand-made noodles is to order the seiro soba, a simple pile of noodles on a bamboo mat.
In this form you experience soba at its most pure. And what is that exactly? It's hard to say just how much a simple noodle made from buckwheat flour, a little wheat flour, and a pinch of green tea can convey in a bite. But like all great delicacies there's nothing like it in the world. Fantastic soba is a study in texture and in flavor. In the mouth, the best noodles are something of an enigma, perfectly poised between firm and soft -- beautifully smooth as if made from glass, yet yielding to the bite. The flavors tend to remind me of a forest just after a spring rain -- woody, grassy, fresh.
Soba noodles tend to disappear quickly, both because they are served in modest portions, and also because they are so easy to slurp up. But as long as you want more the aproned ladies that clip-clop around the stone floors on their wooden sandals are happy to bring more.
Guests can sit either at standard western dining tables and chairs, or they can leave their shoes in the center of the large main room and sit at the traditional low tables over tatami mats in their stocking feet. You can request either, but if you do not, you'll just end up at the next available table. From both, depending on which direction you face, you'll be able to see both out into the little landscaped garden or across into the kitchen -- both views that hold fascinating details for keen observers that might let their attention wander from the noodles for a moment.
Of course you can't linger in reverie too long, because there are thirty people waiting for your seat. Such is the essential nature of noodles in any century, it seems.
How much?: Seiro soba runs about $7 US, with other soba dishes priced at around $13. Two people can have a nice lunch for $40.
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Excerpts you can use for invitation/power. All things are possible to God. Explore how to overcome fear and experience permanent cure. The divine laws of God can heal and save you. Healings of anorexia, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and more.
Description for lecture committee (not for invitation): This lecture is all about handling fear and utilizing the law of God to heal disease. We will discuss five specific ways to remove fear and how removing fear results in healing. We explore 7 specific spiritual laws of God that are effective in healing so-called incurable disease. The emphasis is on prayer and healing not on problems. Healings of tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lump in breast, cancer, accidental drinking of household chemicals, effects of a serious auto accident, anorexia, heart condition, and polio are mentioned or described in depth. A handout provides Bible references and references from Science and Health for use during the lecture and to take home. Rather than superficially addressing an array of arguments in an hour, this lecture focuses on handling fear specifically and illustrates in a comforting, practical way how handling fear heals every problem.
The Healing Power of the Bible
Excerpts you can use for invitation/poster... The Word of God heals today. Healings of unemployment, a tumor, skin ulcer and more. You will be given a handout with healing Bible verses and hear effective ways to pray for yourself and others. Unlock the healing power of the Bible.
Description for lecture committee (not for invitation): This lecture includes 5 healings in which Bible verses were the key in the cure. The audience will participate in discussing Scriptural names for God and the qualities related to these synonyms. A list of specific healing Bible verses will be given along with helpful passages from Science and Health. This lecture explains Christian Science theology regarding baptism, salvation, and original sin in a way that newcomers appreciate and understand. A person from any religion or denomination will feel welcome in this lecture. We discuss what to do when pray doesn't seem to work. This lecture is good for newcomers from any denomination as well as people unfamiliar with the Bible. Christian Scientists will gain specific ideas to use in their own healing and see ways to explain Christian Science to others. This lecture is Bible-based and is suitable for general audiences and special interest groups including interfaith, ministerial groups and Bible studies.
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"I request that you pray once everyday for the principal editors of the principal periodicals in your city and for the clergymen in your pulpits. The lying influence sent forth to deceive our clergymen and our pressmen would, "if possible, deceive the very elect." This must be met with a counteracting influence through prayer. Let Truth be heard above error, and God will bless your efforts. Jesus saith, "All things are possible to him who believeth." Ask other members of your Church to do likewise, each day to pray as above, and pour in the truth that destroys the error." Setting the Course p22,23
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Excerpts you can use for invitation/poster… Hear 9 real stories of people protected and healed by God. Healings of stroke, difficulty walking, kidnapping avoided and more. God speaks to people in prison, in a movie theater, in a junkyard, anywhere! Anyone can listen to God. God is speaking 24/7 and you can hear it! I know prayer works because it saved me from being abducted when I was 10 years old.
Description for lecture committee (not for invitation): This lecture has 9 compelling examples of healing including healings of stroke, a chronic debilitating illness and averting suicide. Stories include a homeless man, a woman in prison and 5 dramatic experiences of kids and teens. This lecture specifically discusses how to tell the difference between God and your own wishful thinking, how to tune in to God, how to pray effectively, and what gets in the way of healing. This is a nuts-and-bolts lecture for general audiences who want to know how to pray and heal, and for Christian Scientists who want fresh inspiration to heal chronic problems. This lecture is very kid friendly. It is an excellent lecture for prisons and juvenile facilities.
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Description for lecture committee or invitation: This lecture describes silent prayer with short effective one word prayers like: Help! ThanksJ No! This lecture includes handouts with short prayers for kids and adults. Three keys to make your prayer more effective. *Healing sickness *Finding a job *Life issues We'll also discuss the wordless prayer of love. This lecture is for general audiences, is youth-friendly, interactive, Bible-based and has plenty of in-depth practical healing truths for Christian Scientists dealing with chronic or acute problems. If you've sponsored one of my lectures before, this would be an excellent follow-up! This lecture is excellent for general audiences of every age as well as youth groups.
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Description for lecture committee (not for invitation): Feeling safe at night, feeling safe in a war zone, feeling safe in a place that feels like a war zone…this lectures addresses how to prevent violence in our individual lives. Examples include a WWII veteran finding safety at Dunkirk and behind enemy lines, a rape prevented, freedom from nightmares, and finding peace and safety after years of sexual abuse. We'll discuss ways to overcome fear, be safe, and help other escape from dangerous situations. Prayer and preventing violence isn't ignoring evil. It's learning to be a victor, not a victim.
The Possibilities of Prayer
Excerpts for invitation/poster… Healings of unemployment, ear ache, and cancer. You can pray effectively. Discover answers and how to pray effectively for yourself and others! Anyone can be healed through the power of God. Come hear specific ways to pray.
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Elise Moore is an international Christian speaker and has lectured in over 300 cities, 5 continents and 17 countries in North America and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Caribbean. Elise has appeared on radio, television and internet programs in both English and Spanish. She has been a guest speaker at universities, men's women's and juvenile prisons, Bible study groups, interfaith conferences, and other public venues.
Elise was a chaplain in a homeless shelter, where she led Bible study groups and was involved in spiritual counseling. She organized and participated in interfaith conferences, adult literacy programs, and an after-school program for minority youth.
Elise has published more than 250 articles on prayer and healing for Christian Science magazines and in a weekly column for the Gallatin, Tennessee, News Examiner and the Nashville Metropolitan Times.
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2. Bill Chaplin, "Saw Ye My Saviour"
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5. Alison Krauss, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack "Down by the River"
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Studer, G; Furrer, K; Davis, B J; Stoeckli, S S; Zwahlen, R A; Luetolf, U M; Glanzmann, C (2006). Postoperative IMRT in head and neck cancer. Radiation Oncology, 1 : 40:1-8.
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BACKGROUND: Aim of this work was to assess loco-regional disease control in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients treated with postoperative intensity modulated radiation therapy (pIMRT). For comparative purposes, risk features of our series have been analysed with respect to histopathologic adverse factors. Results were compared with an own historic conventional radiation (3DCRT) series, and with 3DCRT and pIMRT data from other centres. Between January 2002 and August 2006, 71 patients were consecutively treated with pIMRT for a squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the oropharynx (32), oral cavity (22), hypopharynx (7), larynx (6), paranasal sinus (3), and an unknown primary, respectively. Mean and median follow up was 19 months (2-48), and 17.6 months. 83% were treated with IMRT-chemotherapy. Mean prescribed dose was 66.3 Gy (60-70), delivered with doses per fraction of 2-2.3 Gy, respectively. RESULTS: 2-year local, nodal, and distant control rates were 95%, 91%, and 96%, disease free and overall survival 90% and 83%, respectively. The corresponding survival rates for the subgroup of patients with a follow up time >12 months (n = 43) were 98%, 95%, 98%, 93%, and 88%, respectively. Distribution according to histopathologic risk features revealed 15% and 85% patients with intermediate and high risk, respectively. All loco-regional events occurred in the high risk subgroup. CONCLUSION: Surgery followed by postoperative IMRT in patients with substantial risk for recurrence resulted in high loco-regional tumor control rates compared with large prospective 3DCRT trials.
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State Department Official: "War on Terror is Over"
Well that seems a little early doesn't it?
"The war on terror is over," one senior State Department official who works on Mideast issues told me. "Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism."—Michael Hirsh, National Journal
Well this is fantastic news isn't it?! The War on Terror is over! This must mean that all of our troops are home from Afghanistan. This must mean that the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, all Al-Qaeda affiliates, Hezbollah, the Taliban, the Islamic Jihad Union, and the dozens of other Islamic terror organizations have hung up their suicide bomber coats and called it a career!
No? That hasn't happened yet? Oh….
Fact of the matter is, this administration has been in such a state of denial over threats facing America. The War on Terror is the politician's way of saying "the war against radical Islam." This administration—way more than the Bush administration that came up with the War on Terror label—has been terrified to identify America's enemies for who they are.
To basically say that the threat of radical Islam is over is possibly the most naïve thing that has ever been said.


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The probem is I have 2 conflicting solutions.
Solution 1:
Since there is $n$ people who each choose any one of $n$ doors, the total number of ways $n$ people enter the hall is $n^n$. (correct?)
then I used, $P($one door not chosen$)=1-P($all doors chosen$)$
which (to me) implies a 1 to 1 matching of people to doors, which can only happen in $n!$ ways (equivalent to the number of arrangements of $n$ objects).
ie. $P($all doors chosen$)=\dfrac{n!}{n^n}$
and so the required probability is $1-\dfrac{n!}{n^n}$
Solution 2:
Consider all cases where at least $1$ door is not used:
If $n$ people enter through $1$ door there is $1^n=1$ arrangements
If $n$ people enter through $2$ doors there is $2^n$ arrangements
If $n$ people enter through $3$ doors there is $3^n$ arrangements
If $n-1$ people enter through $n-1$ doors there is $(n-1)^n$ arrangements
(Note: $n$ cannot enter through all $n$ doors or required condition is not met)
In this formulation the required probability is given by $\dfrac{1^n+2^n+3^n+...+(n-1)^n}{n^n}$
So which solution (if either) is correct?


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The 2010 International Freeform Fiberarts Guild show, "Somewhere in My World", includes 61 freeform fiber artists from all around the globe. The artists were given the choice of creating one freeform piece interpreting the theme any way they chose using any materials and any techniques.
The artists were not restricted to scrumbles and many of the pieces are wearable art and sculptural as well. None of the artists saw each other's pieces until the online show was published.
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This morning I testified before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction—the body created under the Budget Control Act to propose further deficit reductions totaling at least $1.5 trillion over 10 years. I focused on CBO's August publication, the Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update, what we have learned about performance of the U.S. economy since those last projections were prepared, and CBO's analysis of the fiscal policy choices facing the Committee and the Congress.
If current policies are continued in coming years, the aging of the population and the rising cost of health care will boost federal spending, as a share of the economy, well above the amount of revenues that the federal government has collected in the past. Putting the budget on a sustainable path will require significant changes in spending policies, tax policies, or both.
Addressing that formidable challenge is complicated by the weakness of the economy and the large numbers of unemployed workers, empty houses, and underused factories and offices. Changes that might be made to federal spending or tax policies could have a substantial impact on the pace of economic recovery during the next few years as well as on the nation's output and people's income over the longer term.
The Economic Outlook
The financial crisis and recession have cast a long shadow on the U.S. economy. Although output began to expand again two years ago, the pace of the recovery has been slow, and the economy remains in a severe slump. CBO published its most recent economic forecast in August; that forecast was initially completed in early July and was updated in August only to reflect the policy changes enacted in the Budget Control Act. Looking at incoming data and other developments since early July, our current assessment is as follows:
- Current economic indicators are not pointing to the kinds of imbalances that have preceded previous recessions. We expect that the economic recovery will continue, but at a weaker pace than we had anticipated—with growth in the vicinity of 1½ percent this year and around 2½ percent next year.
- With output growing at only a modest rate, we expect employment to expand very slowly, leaving the unemployment rate close to 9 percent through the end of 2012.
- A large portion of the economic and human costs of this downturn remain ahead of us. Since late 2007, the cumulative difference between output and our estimate of the potential level of output—a level that corresponds to a high rate of use of labor and capital—amounted to about $2½ trillion; by the time output rises back to its potential, probably several years from now, we expect the cumulative shortfall to equal about $5 trillion. Not only are the costs associated with the output gap immense, but they fall disproportionately on people who lose their jobs, are displaced from their homes, or own businesses that fail.
The recent recession was unusual compared with previous ones in terms of its causes, depth, and duration—and the recovery has had unusual features that have been hard to predict. Consequently, the economic outlook remains highly uncertain. Many developments could cause economic outcomes to differ substantially, in one direction or the other, from those we currently anticipate.
The Budget Outlook
If the recovery continues as CBO expects, and if tax and spending policies unfold as specified in current law, deficits will drop markedly as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) over the next few years. Under CBO's baseline projections, which generally reflect the assumption that current law will not change, deficits fall to 6.2 percent of GDP in 2012 and to 3.2 percent in 2013, and then fluctuate within a range of 1.0 percent to 1.6 percent of GDP from 2014 through 2021.
But those baseline projections understate the budgetary challenges facing the nation, because changes in policy that will take effect under current law will produce a federal tax system and spending for some federal programs that differ noticeably from what people have become accustomed to. Changing provisions of current law to maintain major policies would produce markedly different budget outcomes. For example, if most of the tax cuts that were extended through 2011 or 2012 in the 2010 tax legislation were extended indefinitely, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) was indexed for inflation, and Medicare's payment rates for physicians' services were held constant, then cumulative deficits over the coming decade—shown by the entire bars in the figure below—would total $8.5 trillion rather than $3.5 trillion in the baseline. By the end of 2021, debt held by the public would reach 82 percent of GDP—considerably more than the 67 percent anticipated at the end of the current fiscal year and higher than in any year since 1948.
Deficits in CBO's Baseline and Assuming a Continuation of Certain Policies (Percent of GDP)
Beyond the coming decade, the fiscal outlook worsens, because the aging of the population and rising costs for health care will exert significant and increasing pressure on the budget under current law. If current policies are extended, federal borrowing to finance the resulting deficits would clearly be unsustainable. Interest payments on the debt would rise dramatically and consume an ever-growing share of the federal budget. Even before the interest burden became unsupportable, a fiscal crisis could arise if participants in financial markets lost confidence in the government's ability to manage its budget and became unwilling to lend to the government at affordable rates. Thus, under current policies, the federal budget is quickly heading into territory that is unfamiliar to the United States and to most other developed countries as well. (See CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook released in June.)
Fiscal Policy Choices
As the Committee considers its charge to recommend policies that would reduce future budget deficits, its key choices fall into three broad categories.
How much deficit reduction should be accomplished?
There is no commonly agreed upon level of federal debt that is sustainable or optimal. At a minimum, federal debt cannot continually increase as a share of the economy because the interest payments on that debt would then continually grow relative to the size of the tax base that would be available for generating revenues to cover those payments and all of the other activities of the government. Under CBO's current-law baseline, debt held by the public is projected to fall from 67 percent of GDP this year to 61 percent by 2021. However, stabilizing the debt at that level would leave it larger than in any year between 1953 and 2009.
Lawmakers might determine that debt should be reduced to amounts closer to those we have experienced in the past, relieving some of the long-term pressures on the budget diminishing the risk of a fiscal crisis, and enhancing the government's flexibility to respond to unanticipated developments. If, for example, the Committee chose to make recommendations that would lower debt held by the public in 2021 to 50 percent of GDP, roughly the level recorded in the mid-1990s, it would need to propose changes in policies—relative to those embodied in current law, which underlie CBO's baseline projections—that reduced deficits by a total of about $3.8 trillion over the coming decade, rather than the $1.2 trillion needed to avoid automatic budget cuts.
Furthermore, lawmakers might decide that some of the current tax and Medicare payment rate policies (described above) scheduled to expire under current law should be continued. In that case, reducing debt in 2021 to the 61 percent of GDP projected under current law would require other changes in policy to reduce deficits over the next 10 years by a total of $6.2 trillion.
How quickly should deficit reduction be implemented?
Determining the timing of deficit reduction involves difficult trade-offs:
- Cutting spending or increasing taxes slowly would lead to a greater accumulation of government debt and might raise doubts about whether the longer-term deficit reductions would ultimately take effect.
- Implementing spending cuts or tax increases abruptly would give people little time to plan and adjust, and would be an added drag on the weak economic expansion.
Credible policy changes that would substantially reduce deficits later in the coming decade and beyond—without immediate spending cuts or tax increases—would both support the economic expansion in the next few years and strengthen the economy over the longer term.
Moreover, there is no inherent contradiction between using fiscal policy to support the economy today and imposing fiscal restraint several years from now. If policymakers wanted to achieve both a short-term economic boost and longer-term fiscal sustainability, a combination of policies would be required: changes in taxes and spending that would widen the deficit now but reduce it later in the decade.
What forms should deficit reduction take?
Federal spending and revenues affect the total amount and types of output that are produced, the distribution of that output among various segments of society, and people's well-being. Many observers wonder whether it is possible to return to previous policies regarding federal spending and revenues. Unfortunately, the past combination of policies cannot be repeated: The aging of the population and rising costs for health care have changed the backdrop for budget policy in a fundamental way.
Under current law, spending on Social Security, Medicare, and other major health care programs—Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and insurance subsidies to be provided through exchanges (the darkest line in the figure below)—is projected to reach about 12 percent of GDP in 2021, compared with an average of about 7 percent during the past 40 years.
Spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Other Major Health Care Programs (Percent of GDP)
If the laws governing Social Security and the major health care programs were unchanged, and all other programs were operated in line with their average relationship to the size of the economy during the past 40 years (more than 11 percent of GDP), total federal spending excluding net interest would be nearly 24 percent of GDP. That amount exceeds the 40-year average for revenues as a share of GDP by nearly 6 percentage points—even before interest payments on the debt have been included.
At the same time, the sharp increase in federal debt and a return to more-normal interest rates will boost the government's net interest costs. They are projected to reach 2.8 percent of GDP in 2021, compared with only 1.5 percent of GDP in 2011 and an average of 2.2 percent of GDP during the past 40 years.
What do those numbers imply about the choices that policymakers—and citizens—confront about future policies? Attaining a sustainable budget for the federal government will require the United States to deviate from the policies of the past 40 years in at least one of the following ways:
- Raise federal revenues significantly above their average share of GDP;
- Make major changes to the sorts of benefits provided for Americans when they become older; or
- Substantially reduce the role of the rest of the federal government relative to the size of the economy.
The nation cannot continue to sustain the spending programs and policies of the past with the tax revenues it has been accustomed to paying. Citizens will either have to pay more for their government, accept less in government services and benefits, or both.


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Flash Review 2, 12-7: With Tankard
in the Senior Circuit
Making 'Merry' with NDT III
By Joshua Monten
Copyright 2001 Joshua Monten
THE HAGUE -- Meryl Tankard's evening-length
"Merryland" was premiered last weekend at the Theater Zwembad de Regentes by Netherlands
Dance Theater's senior company, NDT III, as one of the closing acts in this year's
Holland Dance Festival. The collaboration was a widely noticed event around here,
a Tanztheater "Dream Team" of sorts.
Flash Bio of Meryl Tankard: an Australian
dancer/choreographer who performed with Pina Bausch's Wuppertaler Tanztheater...
formed her own Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre ensemble in the 1990s...
has also been a free agent for the past couple of years, travelling and choreographing
for venues as diverse as the Lyon Opera Ballet, the 2000 Sydney Olympics opening
ceromony, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Beautiful Game" musical, and, now, Netherlands
Dance Theater.
And as for a Flash Bio of NDT III,
the ensemble of highly-experienced, over-40 dancers based in The Hague: it would
probably be easiest just to listen to the cast itself. In one unsettling and unabashedly
auto-critical moment in "Merryland," the performers chat among themselves, quoting
their reviews with brittle smiles and condescending good humor. "People say we
are 'full of ageless grace,'" patiently explains the woman in the Little Red Riding
Hood get-up (Sabine Kupferberg). "People say we are 'inspiring to young dancers,'"
muses the muscly Tarzan in loincloth and feathered arm-bands (David Kruegel) with
ersatz wonderment. The man in the giant white bunny suit, complete with floppy-eared
hood (Egon Madsen), quotes the reviewer who observed "We 'really know how to bow'"--
which is met by the Ballerina-Bride's (Gioconda Barbuto's) uncomfortable rejoinder
that "The New York Times said that we are 'rubbish.'" These newspaper tidbits
form part of a larger pattern, whereby the performers look into their pasts, talk
about their childhoods and careers as dancers, and remember the encouragement
or discouragement they received over the years. The corny costumes they wear --
faithfully reconstructed from childhood photographs by a Joke Visser -- are some
of the props which assist them with this imaginative labor.
Compared to many of the other styles
of Tanztheater which one sees on Benelux stages nowadays, "Merryland" stands out
for demonstrating a certain moderation: a moderato tempo, a gentle tone, an easy
sequencing of episodes. It is not notably death-defying, frenetic, or absurdist
-- although at times, to a certain degree, it acquires each of these qualities
in turn. More often, however, the four dancers marshal their performing skills
to achieve more understated effects, delicately reconstituting moments from their
earlier lives. For instance, in one galloping folk-dance duet, Barbuto and Kruegel
conjure the giddy first pleasures of a dance-school pageant: eyes on each other's
feet (to make sure they get the steps right), wandering on and off the beat, huge
grins plastered over their faces. In what is perhaps their first time on stage,
they become immensely endearing eight-year-olds. Earlier in the piece, the dancers
arrange themselves in a series of of tableaux vivants, forming the frozen cast
of characters in some photograph from one or another of the dancers' childhoods.
That person walked around the scene, giving the audience a tour --explaining,
say, why the Christmas tree is sitting in the middle of the kitchen, or that her
stony-faced brother is wearing a cardigan and she a pink dress -- before assuming
his or her place in the picture. Each of the performers, in turn, made this moment
a magical one. Sinking into a graceless posture and pressing his or her features
into a grimace, each adult was transformed into a guileless, awkward small child
who hasn't yet learned how to pose for the camera.
Other compromising childhood episodes
are recreated in turn: chaotic Eurythmics Classes; a Christmas Pageant with the
entire cast dressed as kitschy angels in giant white paper gowns and crooked golden
haloes; the Audition, where silver-haired Egon Madsen performs a series of timorous,
wobbly pas de basque while a committee of jurors commands him "Don't overcross
your tendu!" "Lift from your chest, show your jewels!" "And RELAX!!" Also: a stomping,
armpit-scratching Tarzan Dance performed in howlingly bad taste by David Kruegel.
The tawdry and sometimes maudlin
quality of this hour-and-a-half long string of episodes belies the considerable
craft with which it was created. Jan van Woerkom's lighting and Regis Lansac's
background slideshow encase the performers in a gleaming environment. The extended
use of silhouettes, and images such as Formica kitchens, autumnal trees, and bright
blue and white skies (a la Microsoft XP, omnipresent here in a massive ad campaign),
all lend the proceedings an air of coolness and gravity. "Merryland" is a connoisseur's
dance, an album of carefully-chosen and preserved photos brought back to life.
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My usual way of putting her down was lightly swaddling her in a light blanket, and putting my hand on her chest. Usually she's out in a matter of minutes, and is a heavy sleeper.
So this week, mom is trying to sleep train her at home, which is really affecting her sleep here. She goes to sleep as usual, but wakes up every few minutes to check if I'm still there. Yesterday, after 3 attempts to get her to sleep, I left her in the pnp for the duration of nap time - another hour. And felt so mean about it. She was screaming the whole time. She had a miserable day, was super tired and cranky.
Today, I did the same thing. She slept for 15 minutes and woke up screaming when she didn't find me there - and didn't pick her up until nap time was over. It's is really affecting me, as I really hate to listen to her scream, and she's really loud! I think because she's co-sleeping with mom, she doesn't know how to settle herself back down.
Any ideas on how to help her learn to settle back down? She should be old enough, I should think, to be able to do that!


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Lundy appeals conviction to Privy Council
Double-murderer Mark Lundy has applied to the Privy Council in London for permission to appeal against his conviction.
Lundy is serving a life sentence for bludgeoning his wife Christine and young daughter Amber to death at the family's Palmerston North home in 2000.
In 2002, the Court of Appeal threw out his case and increased his minimum non-parole period to 20 years.
The Privy Council says although Lundy has no automatic right to appeal against that ruling, he has sought permission to do so.
A decision is due next year on whether the Privy Council will allow him to pursue the case.
Ultimately, the Privy Council's law lords have the power to quash Lundy's conviction, which could lead to a retrial.
Christine Lundy's brother Glenn Weggery told Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint programme on Wednesday he just wants Lundy to get on with the appeal process so the family can get it over with and forget him.
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If you have oily skin, acne, or both, you may have heard of something called "The Oil Cleansing Method" either from a friend or from browsing the Internet. In that case, you're probably wondering whether it's (finally) the solution to your shiny face, or perhaps an end to constant breakouts.
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This book is a 25 year retrospective of my nude fine art photography.
The nude is classic, timeless, primal, and universal. It has been my subject of choice since the first time I picked up a camera for an elective class in college.
To me, the nude represents the complexity of what it is to be human – from the most flawed to the most beautiful. Recently, my work has evolved from mere explorations of the human form, to attempts to connect with the subject more intimately to reveal the variety in the human condition, from joy to despair, from sensual to erotic.
Michael has been a photographic artist for over 30 years. His artwork has been shown in galleries throughout the east coast. He is an award winning photographer, educator and lecturer on art photography.
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