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IMPULSE (Southern Arcana #5)
RELEASE DATE: Nov 2012
PUBLISHER: Samhain
GENRE: Paranormal Romance
ARTIST: Unknown
Sera Sinclaire is a New Orleans rarity: a submissive coyote trapped in a town overrun by dominant shapeshifters. Worse, she lacks the willpower to deny the alphas-in-shining-armor who need her soothing presence, even when their protectiveness threatens to crush her hard-won self-reliance. The only shifter she doesn't want to push away is Julio Mendoza, a wolf so dominant he's earned a place on the Southeast council.
Julio doesn't have the luxury of indulging in the vacation his psychic shrink insists he needs. He can't turn his back on responsibilities he's beginning to wish he'd never shouldered. When an obsessive ex endangers Sera, though, instinct drives him to get her out of town. Watching her come to life outside the city makes him feel like he's finally done something right, and her touch ignites desire he doesn't want to ignore. But soon, light-hearted flirting becomes a dangerous game of seduction, where every day spent falling into each other is another day avoiding the truth. Sera's ex isn't the only one who'd disapprove of their relationship. There are wolves who would kill to get Sera out of Julio's life–starting with his own blood kin.
I'm on the fence on this book cover. I like the wolf in the background, the funky pendant and earrings the girl is wearing, her black top and the font used for the author's name. I think her hips look weird though, and she definitely looks a touch too skinny. I'm also not sure about the swirls over the river and the two contrasting colours used. I would still pick this one up, I just don't love it.
I'm in agreement with Laura. I like this cover, although I don't think it's the best one in the series (that gong goes to Crux) but it does look part of the series. Take away the models head (those lips are just too collagen-icky for my liking) and the floating wolf head, this would be a lovely cover, as everything else works really well.
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"Playing Wide Receiver at NIU is understanding the tradition of this position and that you have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. With this comes the responsibility of preparing yourself in all aspects of the game to be a great player. Each and every play, you have a specific job and role. You must be a player that has confidence and intensity to dominate your opponent in every aspect of your game. To do this you must develop habits. Your habits will either be good or bad. Those habits will appear when you are fatigued and you will revert to whatever habit you have developed in practice. That is why we must always out-hustle and out-work the defense. If you practice at a tempo where you constantly out-work and out-hustle the defender that will become your habit.
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According to Thursday's WESH News, police in St. Petersburg, Fla., instigated an investigation after the body of a small, female pit bull was found inside of a blue, hard-shell suitcase that was floating in a canal on Wednesday night.
It turns out that the disturbing find does not appear to be linked to a twisted case of animal cruelty, reported the St. Petersburg Tribune. The dog, named "Beloved," had been placed in the suitcase by her mentally disabled guardians after she died following a fatal run-in with a car.
Samuel Orsini, told the authorities that Beloved had slipped away from him on a walk and she was hit by a car. Orsini claims to have carried the dog back to the apartment that he shares with Gina Glass, and they contacted the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to see if they could take her body.
The couple indicated that they could not afford the $55 fee that the SPCA charges, so they found a suitcase in a dumpster and put their dog's body inside. The canal was selected because it was reported to be the dog's "favorite spot."
Officials are having a necropsy completed on the dog's body to verify the information that they were provided by the distraught couple. The investigation will remain open until the results are back.
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SUCH has been the pace of progress in a few short years that we've come a long way from the novelty of cars with low CO2 ratings.
Even engine stop-start systems are steadily becoming the norm - we often expect them to be standard now.
No company can take more credit for exposing the motoring public to such things more than BMW. Through the German firm's Efficient Dynamics programme, numerous cars within its range boast class-leading levels of CO2 and economy figures. And nowhere more than in the company car sector has such progress been so welcome.
Just when rival manufacturers think they've gotten close to BMW it moves the goalposts again, though. Digging deeper to further reduce emissions and fuel consumption, it's the end user with growing tax bill that benefits.
Nowhere is this more obvious than with BMW's new 3 Series model, the 320d Efficient Dynamics variant. It might sound ungainly, but BMW has thrown the high-tech kitchen sink at its key, fleet-friendly model in a bid to get the numbers to new highs - and lows.
Although BMW's range has grown in recent years, the 3 Series remains a cornerstone of the firm's popular line-up. This is most obvious in the compact premium fleet sector, and when you're paying serious sums in tax you want your car to keep most of your hard earned money in your wallet.
So important is the company car market to BMW in the UK that it lobbied hard for its German bosses to agree to a super-efficient 3 Series to maintain its already strong position in the market.
And what a car it got. At the end of the day it's a numbers game in the fleet sector, and the numbers are stunning. Boasting a CO2 figure better than most superminis - 109g/km - plus and equally impressive combined economy figure of 68mpg, only the taxman is likely to be disappointed.
This is no real-world compromise, though. At this car's heart is a 163 horsepower, four-cylinder diesel motor capable of outputting a healthy 280lb/ft of torque, helping to send the car on its way to 62mph in a very un-green eight seconds.
As a showcase for what's possible - and affordable - this particular 3 Series nails it. The kitchen sink approach to the underlying technology works as you'd expect. We're all used to seeing various Efficient Dynamics elements on an increasing number of BMW models, and this 320d has it all.
From an engine tuned to run cleaner and greener and the inclusion of an ignition stop-start system to low rolling resistance tyres, subtle aerodynamic improvements, a gear shift indicator and modified gear ratios, all these individual features combine to deliver that magic 109g/km CO2 figure and, for the accountants in the room, road tax on a par with a one-point-nothing city car.
On the road this car drives like any other 160-odd horsepower 3 Series. This is good news, as the last thing you want is to have to modify your driving style to achieve the sky-high mpg figure. Being realistic, it's likely that the car will be driven sensibly by the fleet community, making it a relatively easy job to keep the fleet manager happy and the expense account solvent. There's no bone-hard ride and engine and road noise has been kept to a pleasing minimum - pretty much as you'd expect from any 3 Series BMW.
As an example of what can be done to reduce emissions and fuel consumption, this 3 Series is an impressive achievement. That is has been done without any hint of a compromise regarding the driving and ownership experience shows that making savings doesn't have to hurt.
And remember, this is a compact executive saloon we're talking about here, not some city car with only enough room for a briefcase in the boot. If you think this is impressive, just think what's possible with the rest of its range. As it stands, this 3 Series is something of a game-changer.
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BRISTOL — Allene Slabaugh, 100, passed away at 5:10 a.m. Feb. 16, at Morningside Memory and Care Center in South Bend.
She was born Oct. 27, 1913, in Elkhart, to David and Fern (Newman) Helman.
On May 15, 1937, in Warsaw, she married Howard Slabaugh.
He preceded her in death March 27, 1994, in Elkhart.
Surviving are a daughter Shonne (Clyde) Durr of Bristol; a granddaughter, Stacey (Terry) Rodino; a great-granddaughter, Allison (Patrick) Bailey; and a great-great-granddaughter, Meredith Bailey all of Elkhart.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Gerald Helman.
Allene enjoyed reading, crossword puzzles, bird watching and traveling with her family, but most of all she was a super Nana.
Visitation for family and friends will be for two hours prior to the 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.19 funeral service at Walley-Mills-Zimmerman Funeral Home. Pastor John Hogsett from Faith United Methodist Church will preside and entombment will follow in Rice Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be given to Salvation Army or the Humane Society of Elkhart County.
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LeBron James has brought the entire NBA to a stand still before his second Decision. In fact, since the four-year anniversary of "The Decision" fell on July 8, James has now drawn out his second free agency even longer than his first. But his future plans, and that of the Miami Heat, Chris Bosh, Carmelo Anthony and many others may take a big step forward once James meets with Pat Riley on July 9.
According to ESPN's Chris Broussard, James and Riley will meet in person at Las Vegas today, making this the first time James himself has participated in a meeting over his free agency. His agent negotiated with the Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks while he was on vacation, yet James will have his own meetings before he attends the World Cup final this weekend.
It is uncertain if James will choose to stay with the Heat or pick another team before then, although many likely wish that he would. So much hinges on his choice, as Anthony, Bosh and Dwayne Wade's future decisions -- and that of teams like the Rockets, Lakers, Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls -- will likely come shortly thereafter.
When Riley last publicly spoke on this matter on June 19, he said that "you got to stay together, if you've got the guts" in a message directed at James and the Big Three. That kind of public calling out may come back to haunt Riley and the Heat if James decides to leave.
Riley and Wade brought the Big Three together in 2010, yet it seems it all hinges on Riley now to keep them together. Wade has been relatively quiet, while Bosh may soon have to choose between taking a pay cut to stay in Miami, and taking a max deal with the Rockets. Once James' future plans are revealed, the choice will become simpler one way or another.
Meanwhile, the wait continues on whether Anthony will stay with the New York Knicks, go to the Lakers or Bulls, or go wherever James ends up at. As for the city of Cleveland, it once again relived the memories of July 8, 2010 while wondering if the sequel will be equally tragic, or shockingly redemptive.
Either way, all eyes are now on Las Vegas, and on James and Riley, for the turning point of this latest saga.


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What is a cochlear implant?
For patients with severe to profound sensorineural hearing losses, hearing aids are often not able to improve speech understanding. While very powerful hearing aids exist, that increase intensity to very high levels, they may not improve hearing if there are too few or no remaining sensory cells to stimulate. Therefore, the sound information cannot be properly delivered from the ear to the brain. For these patients, a cochlear implant, or ''bionic ear'' may be recommended. Cochlear implants attempt to restore hearing to people with severe to profound hearing loss by delivering electrical stimulation directly to the nerve, bypassing the damaged structures of the inner ear. Cochlear implants are prosthetic devices with internal components that are surgically placed and external components that require fitting and programming. Cochlear implants are considered the only medical treatment for severe to profound hearing loss.


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You may have noticed that we're hardly perpetual rays of sunshine around here, but even so, we seem to spend a lot of our time enthusing about one gewgaw or another. Doubtblush exists to make it clear that we do not, in fact, like everything.
Sure, there's a huge percentage of people who just love UGGs. We get that they're comfortable but they also look ridiculous and make your feet sweat/smelly. We'd much prefer to find a cute snow boot or rain boot any day to avoid wearing these clodhoppers but for some reason the UGG craze hasn't died down yet. These UGG Sunset Boots ($200) have a new embroidered design that really make them just pop! They'd go great with denim miniskirts, just leave your dignity at home!
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I completely agree! They make everyone who wears them look like they have cankles. Plus my boyfriend can't stand them either.
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We hate to be those people, but when a friend borrows our first three seasons of Lost and still has them a year and a half later, it's time to remind them (again) that we're gonna need them back. After a few friendly verbal prompts, we're moving on to a Borrower's Reminder ($6 for eight). Is it passive-aggressive? Oh, most definitely! Is it our best chance to see our stuff again? We can only hope!
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Shayne Lamas lost her baby and is in a coma. On Feb. 10, TMZ reported that Lamas was rushed to the hospital via ambulance around 7:30 last night after she unexpectedly collapsed. When Lamas arrived at the hospital, doctors determined that Lamas was "bleeding internally around her uterus" and they needed to do emergency surgery. According to the report, Lamas' baby was lost during the surgery.
After coming out of surgery, Shayne was in a coma. It's unclear if this coma was medically induced but given the fact that doctors are "optimistic about her recovery" that seems to be the case.
Shayne Lamas and her husband, Nik Richie, recently announced that they were expecting their second child together. It's unclear exactly what happened but it is believed that Lamas was nearly 20 weeks along in her pregnancy.
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Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
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Moll Flanders
This one isn't too hard to figure out. Moll's positions in life range from mistress to wife to whore, and we readers follow her through every twist, turn, and change of fortune. Like all good protagonists, she triumphs in the end, using her wit, resources, and ingenuity to come out on top, with a love interest and property in the New World, to boot.
In many ways, Moll is like an upside-down Cinderella: she starts out in poor conditions and her great beauty allows her to make romantic attachments with apparently quite eligible men. Okay, we realize that sounds exactly like Cinderella. However, after that, everything's backward: the men she gets involved with are all totally inappropriate in one way or another, and she moves from one to the next in a downward trajectory that Cinderella would probably never take part in. This is not a woman who waits around for Prince Charming.


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Less than two months after giving birth and fresh off her split with Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards is hard at work on the UPN series, "Sex, Love & Secrets."
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She said she is getting parenting help from her estranged husband, which provides "a wonderful escape" as she is "able to just focus on work."
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Nutritious and delicious, yogurt is a versatile food that can be used in a variety of ways for meals and snacks throughout the day. Whether you're looking for a quick and easy breakfast, a post-workout snack, or a tasty addition to soups, salad dressings, sauces, or desserts, you can enjoy yogurt on all Phases of the South Beach Diet. In addition to adding tangy flavor and a creamy texture to dishes, yogurt is an excellent source of protein, B vitamins, and calcium.
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On the South Beach Diet, your best bet is to choose nonfat or plain yogurt on Phase 1. We especially like nonfat (0%) plain Greek yogurt, which is thick and creamy because it is strained to reduce the water content. You can enjoy this as well as artificially sweetened low-fat or nonfat flavored yogurt on Phase 2. Whatever Phase you're on, avoid any brand of yogurt that contains high-fructose corn syrup. If you're following the South Beach Diet Gluten Solution Program, read labels carefully for gluten, which is sometimes added to flavored yogurts.
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On both Phase 1 and Phase 2, you can choose between milk and yogurt when it comes to fulfilling your dairy servings. You can enjoy 2 cups of nonfat or low-fat plain yogurt, including plain nonfat Greek yogurt, daily on Phase 1 and 2 to 3 cups of plain or artificially sweetened low-fat or nonfat flavored yogurt (6 oz. servings) daily on Phase 2. On Phase 2, consider adding 3/4 cup of nutrient-rich raspberries, blueberries, or sliced strawberries to your yogurt. Here are some other healthy and tasty ways to enjoy yogurt:
- In place of light or reduced-fat sour cream, use plain nonfat Greek yogurt to add creaminess to soups, sauces, and salad dressings. Greek yogurt also makes a rich addition to baked goods. Remember it is more tart than sour cream.
- Prepare a flavorful cucumber-mint yogurt dip for veggie platters or as an accompaniment to kebabs. To make it, combine nonfat plain Greek yogurt with chopped cucumber and chopped fresh mint, ground cumin, ground coriander, black pepper, and a pinch of cayenne.
- Enjoy a refreshing smoothie. On Phase 1, combine 1/2 cup nonfat plain yogurt, 1/2 cup unsweetened or low-sugar plain or vanilla soymilk (4 g or less fat per 8-ounce serving), 3 ounces firm silken tofu, and 1/4 cup dry-roasted almonds in a blender and blend until frothy. Add a little natural sugar substitute to sweeten, if desired. Or, instead of the soymilk, try unsweetened almond milk, if you like. On Phase 2, blend the yogurt and soymilk with fresh or frozen fruit, such as blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, peaches, or bananas. Add an extract of your choice and a little natural, no-calorie sugar substitute, if desired.
- Whip up a delicious frozen yogurt. In a blender, combine nonfat plain Greek yogurt with ice cubes, a little natural no-calorie sugar substitute, and pure vanilla extract to taste. Transfer the mixture to an airtight container and freeze for about 2 hours. On Phase 2, blend in some frozen fruit, if you like.


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From now on, I will be posting about Brazilian Law at my new blog: www.brazilianlawblog.com.
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More than 50,000 unaccompanied minors have been taken into custody by border agents after crossing the border illegally this year, more than doubling the total number for all of fiscal 2013 and resulting in a humanitarian crisis on our nation's southern border that will have long-term negative consequences, both fiscally and on the nation's social service network.
The crisis, which up to now has been something many have seen only on TV, is now going to be front and center in cities across the country as a result of thousands of the minors being relocated to "relatives already in the country," as reported by Homeland Security. Atlanta, Georgia is one such city.
Local nonprofits in Atlanta are working to help place what is projected to be thousands of the unaccompanied minors with family here. During an interview with Atlanta's WSB-TV's Chanel 2 on Wednesday, attorney Rebecca Salmon said that "They've been flooding into Atlanta for the past probably month and a-half" when asked about the local situation by Kerry Kavanaugh.
Salmon heads the Access to Law Foundation, a Gwinnett County-based nonprofit foundation that ensures "no vulnerable person goes without Access To Law, based solely on inability to pay," that represents minors who crossed the border alone and have been placed with family in Georgia, Alabama, parts of Tennessee and South Carolina. The foundation currently has a caseload of "well over a thousand kids," according to Salmon.
While the White House continues to say that most are unlikely to qualify for humanitarian relief, meaning that most unaccompanied children would be returned to their home nation, the reality is that children are being placed with "relatives" that often are also in the country illegally, then given notices to appear for deportation hearings months down the road. Is it any wonder that the large majority fail to appear for their hearing?
Even as the federal government works to relocate thousands of minors to cities across the nation, questions about costs not only go unanswered- they often go unasked by those trying to advance the open-borders agenda. As cities become responsible for more of the cost, the fiscal questions will have to be answered, even if just on the local level.
There is a growing awareness about the southern border situation as a result of this crisis that is giving momentum to those that argue that the border must be secured before discussions about comprehensive immigration reform can take place.
With more than 10,000 unaccompanied minors a month projected to be apprehended, and another 50,000 adults, the nation cannot continue to debate the causes of the increase of those crossing illegally while doing nothing to stop the flood across the southern border.
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I'm working on a Python application that runs in the system tray and displays notifications to the user in the form of popups. It uses Growl on Macs and Growl for Windows on Windows. I've tried notify-send in Ubuntu, but it won't display a new message until the last message displayed goes away. Sometimes, I need to display 2 messages in quick succession, so that's no good. What else is out there that I could use?
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Bank of America Swap: Analysts React, Not Always Happily
Bank of America shares are down nearly 4% this morning, worse than the broader market and the worst performer in the Dow industrials, after the bank last night disclosed its interest in maybe swapping some preferred stock for common stock.
Sounds entirely reasonable — build up capital a bit, cut down on the debt. We get it.
But it raises a couple of problems, analysts (and investors) are noting this morning: First, it could be dilutive to existing shareholders. And we all know how painful that can be. Sorry, let me get this call. That was 1984 David Letterman, wanting his joke back.
Second, it kind of flies in the face of hopes that the bank doesn't really need to raise more capital.
Here's a sampling of what the sell-side set is saying:
Evercore Partners, which has a buy rating on the stock: Overall impact likely negligible if BAC issues common stock in exchange for prefs/TRUPs. We est this could be 2-3% dilutive to EPS if assume BAC raises 400m common shares priced close to current market value and uses proceeds to repurchase about $3.0b of debt (est'd coupon in 6-7% range). Transaction could be accretive to regulatory capital, adding about 14 bps to Basel III Tier 1 Common ratio (we est T1C B3 of 5.3% at 9/30) but would reduce TBV/share by $0.25 (TBV/share was $13.22 at 9/30). Should mgmt chose to issue senior debt instead of common equity, transaction likely to be mildly accretive to earnings (replacing higher-cost debt with lower-cost debt) and relatively neutral to TBV and Tier 1 Common. In addition, BAC is likely to book a one- time gain if it repurchases debt below par/book value.
That said, we find it notable that topic of common issuance continues to resurface despite mgmt's previous comments that they see no need for common raise and this follows Buffett's $5.0b preferred investment earlier this year that also gave him $5.0b common equity warrants.
While not changing our view that no capital raise is needed, our confidence is wavering in mgmt's ability to reach its capital target of 6.75-7.00% (B3 T1C) by end of '12 given current 10Q disclosure, incremental deterioration in the economic backdrop, weakening fundamentals, and tougher asset sales environment.
Mike Mayo, CLSA, who has a sell rating on the stock (and is in the midst of a spat with Bank of America): The exchange would have no material impact on long-term EPS (per the company), but we estimate it would reduce book value by 2-3% and increase its Tier 1 common ratio by about 20bp to est 8.8%. An increase in common equity is probably a necessary step given unresolved mortgage-related issues, the Fed's unwillingness to grant a dividend increase in 2H11, and a Tier 1 common ratio that is lower than peer; however, this also reflects poorly on management who were previously adamant that BAC did not need to raise any additional common capital.
Barclays Capital, which has a neutral rating on the stock: We believe this could add 20bps Tier 1 common. Still it dropped the word "non-dilutive" from its MDA, as well as the sentence it can meet minimum capital requirement without raising new capital.
UBS, which has a neutral rating on the stock: We have been concerned that BofA would dilute shareholders, as the company's capital ratio continues to meaningfully trail peers on a Basel III basis (we estimate this transaction could add about 15 bps to Basel III capital ratios). However, given the size of potential liabilities BofA faces through the State AG settlement and private-label RMBS lawsuits, we believe capital concerns are likely to persist.
Morgan Stanley, which has a neutral rating on the stock: We view this as a net positive as it's likely to generate 20-30bp of Basel 1 common tier 1 for a net cost of 1-2c of EPS dilution (4% higher share count offset by lower after-tax cost on servicing sr debt vs pref/trups). On a Basel 3 basis, we see this as possibly generating 17-22 bp of CT1 and could potentially lift BAC's B3 guidance from current range of 6.75-7.0% by Jan 1, 2013 to range of 6.92% to 7.22%.
Guggenheim, which has a neutral rating on the stock: We believe this is purely a financial engineering tactic to enrich BAC's capital base in an earnings per share neutral transaction. However, we also believe investors are in no mood to give any bank management team the benefit of the doubt and will likely sell shares on this news. Additionally, this transaction edges BAC closer to issuing incremental common equity after the management team has reiterated that they don't need to raise capital to meet Basel III requirements or to resolve overhang residential real estate issues.


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FACT note: Hats off to the brave scientists who are who are publicly denouncing this bad study design. It seems like the secret is getting out about studies that are "inconclusive by design." I'm glad public health still has honorable (and employed!) people to cry foul at these devious methods.
May 26, 2006
Greenock, UK -- MORE than 70 cancer deaths at Greenocks Nat-Semi plant could be the tip of the iceberg, warn acitivists.
Campaigners pressing for answers about health concerns at the Larkfield computer technology plant say fresh cancer cases are coming to light all the time.
Experts have identified several types of cancer including brain and breast tumours which are four to five times higher than normal.
Jim McCourt of Phase Two, a support group for Nat Semi workers, said: "This could be potentially the tip of the iceberg. Former employees and their survivors should be very concerned.
The claim that at least 71 people have died so far as a result of exposure to chemicals at the computer chip plant comes in a letter signed by an international team of medical experts who are worried about proposed new research into the factory.
They allege the Government's Health and Safety Executive, which is carrying out the investigation, is coming under "undue political pressure to obtain equivocal or negative results".
Former employees have branded chemicals used at the plant "the asbestos of the future" because of projected care costs and payouts.
"For many years the public has been told that semiconductor and other hi-tech industry was the way forward. We are now having to look at the 'jobs at all cost' strategies that created this catastrophe.
"They are spine chilling working conditions, to work with these chemicals in such a haphazard manner."
A spokesperson for National Semiconductor said: The health and safety of all our employees is absolutely paramount to National Semiconductor.
We are continuing to work with the Health and Safety Executive and are committed to co-operating fully with its plans for a study.
HEALTH experts from the US, England and Scotland have signed a letter condemning upcoming research into high rates of four cancers at National Semiconductor in Greenock.
The study is to be a follow-up to a 2001 report that found some employees at the Larkfield plant were up to four times more likely to develop cancers such as brain and breast.
But a year after it was supposed to be launched and six months before results were due, the study has yet to start.
The Telegraph ran a letter from research leader Dr John Osman in recent weeks and now global leaders in the field have slammed his comments.
The row stems from how many people are interviewed and studied this time round. In the 2001 research there were thousands of employees checked. Now they want to focus on about 200 while experts call for the entire semiconductor industry to be examined.
Professor Andrew Watterson of the University of Stirling was one of the six experts who signed the letter. He said big studies are better because they pick up any adverse health effects of chemicals.
He warned: "Employees should be concerned we won't apparently see large, preferably international studies, of the industry in the foreseeable future.
"Recent US studies indicate continued cause for concern about the industry and have not given it a clean bill of health. Small studies may show no problem when there may be a problem and lead to complacency or inaction.
"There are concerns are about public health threats to former workers which historically have been neglected.
"We have seriously under-estimated or downplayed the contribution that work-caused and work-related health plays in Scotland. If we don't look, we won't find. If we don't look properly, then we may miss serious occupational
health problems.
"It is important if people have been adversely affected by work that their illnesses are recognised, recorded, that they get appropriate support and are compensated. It should also lead to better standards and prevention in workplaces as we learn from past failures rather than repeat them.
"We should still be pressing for bigger UK and indeed international studies of the semiconductor industry that look at a wide range of cancers."
"The group of scientists and clinicians who have signed this letter are deeply concerned about the HSE proposal to study the cancer incidence in semiconductor workers, and suspicious that the agency is operating under undue political
pressure to obtain equivocal or negative results.
"No serious scientist would agree with your statement regarding the decision to study just four cancers in a very small study population.
"One way to obtain a reliably negative result is to design a study with limited statistical power to demonstrate an effect.
"It is remarkable that four apparent excesses in cancer were found in a study with a weak design and a total of only 71 deaths.
"The findings are used by the semiconductor industry to create a false reassurance that there is no cancer risk in the UK plants.
"HSE appears to be using the same small study tactic to dismiss the possibility that work with carcinogens in the semiconductor industry poses a risk for its workers.
"We strongly encourage the HSE to reexamine its plan to study cancer in semiconductor workers and to submit its study design for review and comment by unbiased scientists in a public process."
John C. Bailar III, PhD, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago; Martin Bobak, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Medical School, London; Bruce Fowler, PhD, Toxicology Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Joseph LaDou, MD, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco; Daniel T Teitelbaum, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Mines, Denver; Andrew Watterson, PhD, Occupational, Environmental and Public Health Group, Stirling University; Charles Woolfson, PhD, Scottish Occupational H&S Research Network, Glasgow University.
Some of the chemicals used in making semiconductors:
Arsine (gas): Toxic and flammable, exposure to this gas can kill you within hours as it attacks the red blood cells. It was used in World War I by the Germans in artillery shells. Used as part of a process to improve the electrical conductivity of the silcon for chips.
Arsenic (solid): Can cause lung cancer if inhaled.
Hydrogen fluoride (gas): Can burn under the skin, damaging internal tissue after hours being exposed to it ? even if you can't feel pain at first.
Hydrofluoric, nitric and phosphoric acids: Silicon wafers are exposed to the acids in a chip-pan-like process. They can all burn the skin in the short term and add to long-term health problems.
Silane: This gas ignites if it touches air and has seven times the energy of the same amoung of TNT explosive. Also used in the process to improve conductivity of silicon.
Greenock Telegraph
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Jerry Schwartz: signed his mother's death certificate. Photo: Supplied
The death of the co-founder and matriarch of the famous Schwartz hotel chain - Eve Schwartz - occurred in "unusual circumstances", with slash injuries found on her wrists, but no blood found on the bed where she reportedly passed away, a coronial inquest has heard.
Ms Schwartz's son, plastic surgeon Dr Jerry Schwartz, then filled out his mother's death certificate and a cremation certificate with no mention of the wrist injuries.
What was the basis for Dr Schwartz concluding the cause of death given...the wrist injuries, the absence of blood loss, the issue of whether the injuries were self inflicted, [and] the question of whether the injuries were inflicted post-mortem?
Instead Dr Schwartz listed the cause of death as a loss of oxygen relating to lung cancer and a collapsed lung.
Wrists slit: Eve Schwartz.
The inquest into Ms Schwartz's death at Glebe Coroner's court heard on Monday that she died at her unit on Wolsely Road, Point Piper on the night of August 20, 2005 at the age of 76.
The inquest is also examining the death of Ms Schwartz's close friend, Magda Wales, who died three weeks after the hotel matriarch. Her death certificate was also filled out by Dr Schwartz, with the cause of death listed as "acute cardiac event" ischaemic heart disease, obesity and diabetes.
In his opening address to the court, counsel assisting the coroner, Mark Higgins, said that the inquest would examine a series of questions, including whether Ms Schwartz's death should have been reported to the authorities for investigation because it occurred in "suspicious or unusual circumstances".
"The presence of the injuries to the wrist are capable of being interpreted as unusual given that the was no history of mental illness," Mr Higgins said.
"What was the basis for Dr Schwartz concluding the cause of death given...the wrist injuries, the absence of blood loss, the issue of whether the injuries were self inflicted, [and] the question of whether the injuries were inflicted post-mortem?"
It would also examine, he said, if Dr Schwartz had acted inappropriately, given that medical board regulations advise against medical practitioners treating family or filling out their death certificates.
The behaviour of another doctor, Dr Konstantin Bosnic, would be examined for his role as the attending medical practitioner when Ms Schwartz's cremation certificate was completed.
The inquest heard this certificate may have been filled out without a proper examination of the body and did not include any reference to the wrist injuries.
The Schwartz Group owns an array of large hotels in Sydney and across the country, including the Rydges Hotel at World Square, Crowne Plaza at the Hunter Valley, the luxurious Fairmont Resort in the Blue Mountains and Melbourne's Victoria Hotel.
The inquest heard that, following Ms Schwartz's death, there had been a civil dispute in the NSW Supreme Court over the distribution of her estate.
The inquest, before NSW State Coroner Mary Jerram, continues.


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PhD University of Cologne, 1992
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Klaus Larres is an expert on contemporary transatlantic relations, European integration and twentieth-century American, German and British foreign policies in comparative perspective. His work focuses on the impact of post-1945 American hegemony and the repercussions of U.S. driven globalization on the political, economic, security related and cultural transformation processes in Europe and elsewhere. His research interests include the international history of the Cold War and the economic and geo-strategic developments in the post-Cold War world. The history, politics and economics of the EC/EU also feature prominently in his work. Since 2009 he has been a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Transatlantic Relations (CTR), a leading Washington, DC, based think tank and EU Centre of Excellence. Click Here to Read More.
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- Editor, The U.S. Secretaries of State and Transatlantic Relations (Routledge, 2010)
- Editor, Companion to Europe since 1945 (Blackwell, 2009)
- Churchill's Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy (Yale University Press, 2002)
- Editor (with the assistance of E. Meehan), Uneasy Allies: British-German Relations and European Integration since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- Politics of Illusion: Churchill, Eisenhower, and the German Question, 1945–1955 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995) [written in German]
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FINLAND — Swedish performer and VNA Girl Puma Swede and Penthouse Pet of the Year 2011 and VNA Girl Nikki Benz will headline a large adult show in Salo, Finland on Friday and Saturday, February 1 and 2, with performances at the Astrum Arena (http://www.salosex.info/).
Swede was born in Finland and speaks the language fluently. She recently released her autobiography, which has been a hit in Europe and will be released in English soon. This is the first ever joint appearance in Finland by Benz and Swede, who are hash tagged on Twitter as #Swenz. Last year they toured Madrid, Barcelona, Sweden, Morocco, Turkey and the largest club in the world in Ibiza. The girls are documenting the antics on their official "Swenz" YouTube page. Benz and Swede are both part of Vicky Vette's popular VNA Network of websites.
Swede says, "Nikki and I always have a blast when we tour Europe. I can't wait to see how Finland likes #Swenz. European clubs are not like American clubs — zero restrictions and lots of alcohol. Luckily, we can't get arrested for indecent exposure… I think."
Benz adds, "I haven't performed in Finland for over three years. I can't wait to get crazy with Puma. Finland may never be the same again. It's minus five degrees… but I still plan on being as naked as I can during the trip."
Swede will also be signing and doing a meet and greet with fans on Thursday at Cicciolinos Aninkaistenkatu, 14b 20100, Turku, Finland where she is available for pictures and signing DVDs, autobiography, pictures and her Fleshlight.
On her return from Finland, Benz heads to Platinum Kisses in Toledo, Ohio (February 15 and 16), Legz in Martinsburg, WV (February 21 - 23) and then Blush in Pittsburgh (March 14 - 16). Both girls do live camshows for members of their respective official sites.


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tag:raisethehammer.org,2016-06-30:2016630 2016-06-30T12:00:00-05:00 Raise the Hammer Newsfeed - Blogs Raise the Hammer is a non-partisan citizens group dedicated to sustainble downtown revitalization in Hamilton, Ontario. http://raisethehammer.org/blog/2947 2015-07-29T12:00:00-05:00 2015-07-29T12:00:00-05:00 Der Zug

Playwright: Valeri Kay

Director: Alison Nicholson

Cast: Patti Cannon, Valeri Kay, Frank Rocchi, Ciaran Neely

Warnings: Mature Content, Gunshots

Show Type: Drama, Science Fiction

Audience: Mature

Running Time: 20 Minutes

The first words that struck me came out of Patti Cannon's mouth like gunfire: "These Germans know their way around food!" Instantly I knew she was basically portraying a twelve-year-old who just came from Berlin with her big sister.

I have the great pleasure of working occasionally with not just one but two musicians from Berlin, and I can assure anyone who asks that whatever the positive attributes of the Germans are, cooking is probably not on that list!

Affectionately, I watched the scene transpire in which these two sisters pretend to know a little bit about Germany and are each lying to each other about pretty much everything that comes out of their mouths. Very clever dialogue. If you ever had an older sibling or aunt or cousin, you would immediately feel at home.

Just as you feel like you are on board with this particular train, the locomotive spins out into the great world of the surreal. Even Guy Maddin in Gimli might have given a quick wink had he been there. These poor little Canadian girls get spun off into some pretty dangerous territory as Frank Rocchi becomes the Nazi invasion writ large. I'm not even sure if he was acting!

Winnipeg famously ran a D-Day adventure for which the local police and fire fighters and so on pretended to be Nazis such that the general public could understand the war effort. In some ways, this little bit of theatre made me consider some of those kinds of issues.

I would be remiss if I did not point out how perfect the music was. Ciaran Neely was ruck-a-chuck-chucking on the guitar in a percussive manner to give us the perfect soundtrack to our German misadventure. Der Zug? Well... the train kept a'rolling.
 Mackenzie Kristjon Jenkyns http://raisethehammer.org/authors/354/mackenzie_kristjon_jenkyns 2 http://raisethehammer.org/blog/2946 2015-07-27T12:00:00-05:00 2015-07-27T12:00:00-05:00 Ornithology

Playwright: Philip-Dimitri Galas

Director: Anne Meighan

Cast: Ryan Anning

Warnings: Strong Language

Show Type: Comedy

Audience: General

Running Time: 20 Min

Anyone who saw Baby Redboots' Revenge at the Pearl Company not so long ago already knows that anything written by Philip Demetri-Galas is probably amazing. Alternately, fans of his sister Diamanda would be quick to take a look. After all, she was the first singer after Robert Plant to inspire John Paul Jones to make an album again... So the only questions for me were: how good is it going to be? And how quickly can I find out?

This play is excellently adapted by Anne Meighan from Demitri-Galas's novel Cigarette Waltz and concerns a woman who is coming to grips with her own relationship to an older and very powerful woman with whom she works.

Something about all of this made me think of Kevin Kline's The Extra Man in which he portrays a flamboyant professor who escorts older women and picks up a cross-dressing protégé! Yes, it was THAT interesting.

In many ways, the minimalist but compelling performance of Ryan Anning as Edie sets a real tone that allows the viewer to focus on the words. Although the text made me feel like I was in a Camille Paglia dream sometime in the early '80s just as that particular brand of feminism was blossoming, something about the gauzy '60s-ish shirt and the wig (the wig!) that our protagonist was wearing put me in an earlier era. It felt quaint yet somehow sinister.

I only wish I could have seen this twice. Within twenty minutes, I felt like I absorbed more content and drama than I had in an entire week!
 Mackenzie Kristjon Jenkyns http://raisethehammer.org/authors/354/mackenzie_kristjon_jenkyns 2 http://raisethehammer.org/blog/2945 2015-07-25T12:00:00-05:00 2015-07-25T12:00:00-05:00 ONEymoon

Playwright: Christel Bartelse

Director: Paul Hutcheson

Cast: Christel Bartelse

Show Type: Comedy

Audience: General, Mature

Running Time: 60 Minutes

Oneymoon is hilarious. It is the tale of a woman who, although her finance has backed out of the marriage at the last moment, goes ahead with her wedding ceremony and honeymoon, which likely happens more than we'd think.

It's a one-woman show from Canadian comedy veteran Christel Bartelse. The performance opens with Bartelse, playing abandoned bride, Caroline Bierman, dazzling in a wedding dress, explaining the scenario to ceremony's guests (we, the audience).

Bartelse uses a perfect combination of embarrassment, anger, sadness, hope, and determination, to set the stage for the ensuing comedy romp as she marries herself, takes a romantic oneymoon, maintains the absurdity of her self-marriage, and celebrates the anniversary.

Bartelse's extensive training in performance and clowning coupled with her stage experience has resulted in tremendous comedic sense and sensibilities. A clever, sharp, well-pared script delivered with an expert's timing moves the energetic show quickly.

At various times, audience members are brought on stage to take part, like reading the vows she wrote to herself. Christel picked me to help her make an imaginary cake. My job was to whisk. Once I got going, Bartelse left the stage and, from the shadows, called my name lustfully, while encouraging me to whisk, "Faster! Faster!"

Did I ever. Like the rest of the show, it was great fun.

After the performance, Bartelse explained she's taking Oneymoon to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the granddaddy of them all. "It's on my bucket list," she said. "The Hamilton Fringe has 48 shows; Edinburgh has over 3000."

I wish her all the best. Despite the competition, I'm sure it will stand out; Oneymoon is hilarious.
 Kevin Somers http://raisethehammer.org/authors/36/kevin_somers 2 http://raisethehammer.org/blog/2944 2015-07-25T12:00:00-05:00 2015-07-25T12:00:00-05:00 The Abigail

Playwright: Aidan Tozer and Dylan Stavenjord

Director: Aidan Tozer and Dylan Stavenjord

Cast: Aidan Tozer, Dylan Stavenjord, Hilary Wirachowsky, Soroush Toloue, Jennah Foster-Catlack, Damian Murphy, Marienne Castro, Kayla Vanderlip, Richard Mojica

Warnings: Mature Content, Strong Language, Gun Shots

Show Type: Drama

Audience: Mature

Running Time: 90 minutes

"You should have taken the money, old man," says one of the two Edwards who make up Edward, Edward, and Associates, a pair of gangsters who kill Abigail Brown's father and sisters in the middle of the night. Their plan to seize the family's home and land doesn't go as planned when Abigail, just a child, manages to escape the senseless crime.

In the years that follow, the Browns' home becomes known simply as The Abigail, a tribute to the little girl who got away. The home is blindingly beautiful, but evil lurks inside, and all who live there are in various ways touched by it. The landmark home becomes a historic hotel and later a brothel. The audience doesn't know it right away, but one of its inhabitants is a grown-up Abigail Brown looking to reclaim the house that was stolen from her family.

The Abigail spans many decades, beginning with gangsters and ending with hippies who adopt the Abigail as their own. Filled with many twists and turns. The Abigail is epic; possibly too epic for a small Fringe Festival stage, but you can't help but applaud the young cast for embarking on such a lofty production. Despite it's long run-time (90 minutes), The Abigail uses both humour and drama to keep its audience engaged.

Overall, The Abigail is an amusing trip through time, but often, it's unnecessarily profane. Baby-faced actors employ slurs that may have once been commonplace, but aren't appropriate today. This production employs every gender stereotype possible, but in the playwrights' defense, they're not dealing with decades that were kind to women.

The Abigail explores many heavy themes, among them violence and greed, but in the end, it's love that triumphs. This ambitious journey is one worth taking.
 Jessica Rose http://raisethehammer.org/authors/423/jessica_rose 2 http://raisethehammer.org/blog/2943 2015-07-24T12:00:00-05:00 2015-07-24T12:00:00-05:00 Form and Fixation

Playwright: James Farrington

Choreographer: Mateo Galindo Torres, Lisa Emmons

Collaborators/Performers: Lisa Emmons, Mayumi Lashbrook, Mateo Galindo Torres

Show Type: Contemporary Dance

Audience: General

Running Time: 50 Minutes

Form and Fixation consists of two distinct dance/movement pieces ("Reverie" and "Blue(dot)Political"), both of which are too abstract and take themselves too seriously to really connect with the audience.

While the dancers are capable, Lisa Emmons and Mayumi Lashbrook in particular, their performances are not grounded in a deeper emotional understanding of what they are doing. This could have been a helpful entry-point for the audience to understand the fractured "Reverie", and to buy into the narrative of "Blue(dot)Political". Technical proficiency is always less important than the ability to communicate clearly.

This collective of creators has a lot to say, but the expression of their ideas is fractured and opaque. James Farrington gives a dramaturgical introduction to each piece; these introductions unfortunately presuppose a clarity and emotional impact that isn't delivered in the performances themselves.

The second piece in particular suffers from a mismatch of description and reality, as Farrington praises the collaborative work of the various designers and creators, but the performance demonstrates an overabundance of competing ideas.

There is too much pre-recorded text, too many disparate symbols, and too many costume changes, especially when the costumes themselves, though visually interesting, force the dancers to pause and fiddle with zippers and buttons.

Although this is a minor fault compared to the larger structural and storytelling issues, "If I Had a Heart" is a particularly bad choice of music for a show like this: the theme song for a TV show already comes with visual and emotional associations, and is guaranteed to distract anyone who recognizes it.

Form Contemporary Dance Theatre obviously has ambition and a great deal of creative energy, but they desperately need a strong editorial eye to rein in their tendency to overcomplicate and obscure their art.
 Paige Louter http://raisethehammer.org/authors/420/paige_louter 2 http://raisethehammer.org/blog/2942 2015-07-24T12:00:00-05:00 2015-07-24T12:00:00-05:00 Death and Dating

Playwright: Magdalena BB

Director: Mark Kalzer

Cast: Magdalena BB, Dramaturgs: Joanne Latimer, Raymond Ho

Warning: Strong Language

Show Type: Comedy, Musical

Audience: General

Running Time: 45 Minutes

It takes a lot of courage to get up on a stage without the security blanket of any props or fellow cast members. With the exception of a sombrero, this is exactly what Toronto-based stand-up comedian Magdalena BB does in her one-person show, Death and Dating, which takes audience members on her journey of a breakup, dating, and recovery.

Beginning with a gritty version of "You're So Vain," Death and Dating is classed as a musical, but be warned. This isn't The Sound of Music or Chicago. Between the screeches of intentionally bad karaoke versions of pop songs from the 1990s, Magdalena recounts her experiences as a newly single thirty-something.

Death and Dating explores similar themes as another Hamilton Fringe Festival play, ONEymoon, but it's a much darker journey. There's a lot of yelling and a lot of anger. Quite frankly, Death and Dating can be grating. This play won't be for everyone.

In Death and Dating, Magdalena BB takes on multiple roles, which prove confusing, mostly the result of poor transitions and awkward timing. However, this is Magdalena BB's first one-person show, so with practice there's room for growth.

In the play's final moments, Magdalena BB finally asks herself the question she needed to ask all along. She asks herself how she's going to pick up the pieces and move on. We've all been there.

Death and Dating may not be polished, but it's relatable for every one of us who has ever suffered a broken heart and has had to pick ourselves up off the floor.
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Playwright: Outrun The Mill

Director: Outrun The Mill

Cast: Bessie Cheng, Chelsea Haraburda

Warnings: Mature Content, Strong Language

Show Type: Drama, Physical Theatre

Audience: Mature

Running Time: 40 min

At the opposite end of the spectrum from the hammer-wielding hard-core intensity of A Language for Dogs that this company brought last year, this piece is a delicate two-hander about young women having to make the tough decisions that will initiate their adult lives - or maybe not, depending on which way they go.

The emotional difficulty of their choices puts great pressure on their friendship, but it survives. That's about it for the story, which is slight and could be deepened by giving each character an awareness of the political dimension of their predicament. (I know, I know, it is hateful to complain about what a play is not, instead of focusing on what it actually is, but this is the Fringe where things come for R&D so I'm allowed.)

One woman is a prospective environmental scientist but the value of her possible contribution as a researcher does not seem to weigh with her.

Her friend and room mate has family in China, and mentions her fears for her father's safety during the "riots" - a reference that had me baffled until I found in the program the information that the actress playing this role hails from Urumqi. This fact also explained an image that had puzzled me during the performance.

However, this character seems oblivious to the political implications of her father's choice to return to this place of great tension between the Han majority and the Uighur minority. Or is she suppressing something which emerges in that puzzling image?

Setting that aside, it is fascinating to see Outrun the Mill carrying their formal investigations into a whole new area. What they have done here is to set up a double shadow-play structure.

One of the women is an artist whose work is presented to us as stencils on a light table. The silhouette of the stencils is then back-projected onto a scrim so that we see the drawings. The same scrim serves as a flat, behind which the actors go when they turn in for the night, and on which images from their dreams are projected.

The effect is to make the imagination itself a third character, as it were. This obviously has tons of potential and OTR explores this realm with great finesse, floating fish and tigers and all manner of curious things in the dream space, accompanied by spare, precise sounds.

Consequently we watch the two women wrestle with their decisions both consciously in the day, and unconsciously but imaginatively, at night. The piece is a little unbalanced still, because the nightwork becomes more engaging than the daywork, but clearly both are need to accentuate the other.

This is brave and skilful work from a very interesting collective. Long may they run!
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Playwright: Michael Posthumus

Director: Rosemary Doyle

Cast: Michael Posthumus

Show Type: Comedy, Drama

Audience: General

Running Time: 60 Minutes

This is a terrific show. A densely written script is performed at high energy throughout but with a great deal of nuance and detail.

Playwright Michael Posthumus is working with a text that could stand alone - not usually a recommendation in a theatre piece but in this case every witty turn of phrase is delivered.

From the hellhound entrance to the omni-gendered torch-song finale, this thing moves. Among many amusing twists is the late appearance of a remote musical ancestor common to both Neil Diamond and David Bowie. Can't imagine who this might be? See this play for the startling truth.

A very funny, very smart meditation on the joys and perils of that tormented teenage drive for autonomy - terribly prolonged and tortuous for this poor guy, but all the more entertaining for the rest of us, and all the better for him in the end.
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Germany won't back down on its austerity plans
German is holding firm. It is amusing to see that they are starting to speak down to Obama in the same way that he has constantly been lecturing them. Are they behaving irrationally? From Der Spiegel:
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble rebuffed recent criticism of Germany's handling of the euro crisis from Barack Obama, telling the US president to get his own house in order before giving advice.
"Herr Obama should above all deal with the reduction of the American deficit. That is higher than that in the euro zone," he told German public broadcaster ZDF on Sunday night. It is easy to give advice to others, he added, Obama, worried about the impact of the debt crisis on the global economy and financial markets — and on his own prospects for re-election –has been urging Europe to step up its efforts to tackle the problem.
In the interview, Schäuble also reiterated his opposition to euro bonds, saying countries must remain individually liable for their public debt as long as they were taking sovereign decisions on how the money was being spent.
"If you spend the money from my account, you won't be frugal with the money," said the finance minister. He added that he was against devoting large sums of money — for example from the European Central Bank — to fight the crisis. The roots of the crisis needed to be fought credibly, he said, adding that that was succeeding in Ireland and Portugal, which have both received international bailouts. "It's not succeeding so well in Greece," he added. . . .


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It lives… but only for one final weekend at the Beck Center for the Arts! The current production of the Mel Brooks musical "Young Frankenstein" is almost at the end of its hilariously monstrous run on the Mackey Main Stage. The shtick-filled romp into Transylvania Heights can be enjoyed now through August 17, 2014.
The creators of "The Producers" take on the Frankenstein story, and twist it into a goofy good time. The musical is based on the "Young Frankenstein" 1974 comedic film by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder.
When Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced FRAHN-ken-steen) leaves his hands-off fiancé in New York and travels to Transylvania Heights, he finds himself swept into his dearly departed grandfather's world of monster-making. With the help of the ever-faithful Igor (pronounced "EYE-gore"), the Frankenstein creature is brought to life through a series of surprising antics.
Dr. Frankenstein wants the world to know he is not a madman – he is a rational scientist! He and Igor pair with blond, buxom, yodeling lab assistant Inga and settle into his castle with the scary housekeeper, Frau Blücher (*insert terrified horse whinny here*). But when the spirit of his grandfather tempts him to "Join the Family Business", Frankenstein decides to continue the legacy. With a fresh corpse and an "Abby Normal" brain, the giant is brought to life and begins to wreak havoc on the town.
Scott Spence (Artistic Director/Director) has done a great job creating a world of melodious Transylvanian chaos on the Lakewood stage. Filled with old-school Mel Brooks jokes, "Young Frankenstein" is a classic journey into how the "Frankenstein" name and The Monster are perceived.
The performances are intentionally campy and well-done within the Mel Brooks framework. Jamie Koeth is a strong Frederick Frankenstein. He captures your attention on the stage and is delightful in numbers like "The Brain".
Leslie Andrews is bubbly and energetic as Inga. Her effervescence shines through especially in the jaunty "Roll in the Hay" number.
Amiee Collier nails the proper style of the production as Frau Blücher. Her vivid facial expressions and powerful vocals are especially entertaining in "He Vas My Boyfriend".
Mark Heffernan is an enjoyable surprise as the blind hermit named Harold. His simple want to interact with another human being is touching and comical in "Please Send Me Someone" and in his interaction with the Monster.
Christopher Aldrich is endearing as The Monster. Played with the right amount of confusion, bumbling, and anger, he gives The Monster a fearful quality, but also adds a layer that challenges the audience to pull for him in the end. The Monster and Frankenstein's performance of "Puttin' on the Ritz" is especially funny.
Other actors of note include Alex Smith as the eager Igor, always the instigator to the mayhem, and Lindsey Mitchell as the wishy-washy, high-maintenance Elizabeth.
Larry Goodpaster (Musical Director) and the band hit the right notes with the lively music, and Martín Céspedes (Choreographer) keeps the entire ensemble on their toes with his choreography.
Design team members include Trad A Burns (Lighting Designer), Benjamin Gantose (Associate Lighting Designer), Carlton Guc (Sound Designer), Ian Hinz (Video Designer), P.J. Toomey (Special Effects Designer – The Monster), Cameron Caley Michalak (Scenic Designer), Aimee Kluiber (Costume Designer), with Joseph Carmola (Technical Director) wrangling it all into one cohesive look.
Once again – don't miss this final opportunity to see corpse-inspired comedy brought to life! Tickets for "Young Frankenstein" can be purchased online at beckcenter.org or by calling Customer Service at 216-521-2540.
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Carlos Tevez
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Sometimes I don't even want to play for Argentina."
- Carlos Tevez, 2007.
No, Carlos Tevez will never be adored by his country the same way Diego Maradona was. That mantle has been passed to the young phenom Lionel Messi. Instead, Tevez has been forced to carve his own path, one that's seen him travel from team to team and league to league, while being unable to secure a major trophy as an Argentinian international (we don't count gold at the Olympics, do we?). After a tumultuous stay at Manchester United, Tevez has found new life at crosstown rivals Manchester City. If he can maintain his rediscovered form when his country clashes with the world's best at this summer's World Cup, Argentina just might win its first championship since its legendary victory in 1986.
Carlos Tevez BiographyLike Many Argentinian boys, Carlos Tevez was raised in the gritty working class section of Buenos Aires known as Fort Apache, where football was a vital source of escape. Even from an early age, Tevez displayed a ferocity, aggression and passion on the pitch that characterized his game for years to come. After soaring through Argentina's youth ranks, Tevez joined the Boca Juniors at the tender age of 16. The club offered to remove a jagged scar that extended down his neck, but Tevez -- who received the scar after he was accidentally scalded by boiling water as a child -- rejected their offer, insisting that the scar was a part of who he was.
carlos tevez emerges as one of south america's top footballersUnder the mentorship of his coach Carlos Bianchi, Carlos Tevez honed his technical skills and became one of the most dangerous players in Argentina's Primera Division. But after leading his club to a league title, a Copa Libertadores, a Copa Sudamericana, and an Intercontinental Cup, as well as being named Argentina's Footballer of the Year, Tevez was unhappy with the departure of Bianchi, and decided to leave the club as well.
In 2004, Carlos Tevez transferred to Brazil's Corinthians for a fee of £13.7 million, and signed a five-year, £6.85 million contract, the biggest ever in South American football. While there, Tevez won the adoration of his club's supporters by captaining them to the Campeonato Brasileiro. At season's end, Tevez became the first non-Brazilian since 1976 to be named the league's best player by the Brazilian Football Confederation.


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Lets show af a lesson and have a bun cooking in the oven for Thanksgiving!!! POAS DATES : Daniel : Diamond: Regina: BirdLadysmom: Whiteleycheck:BFP 11-15(9 dpo) DiscoCoconut: Plasticponies: Fordgirl:11-27
Unlovely Af 11-20 or around
I am glad I'm not the only one who thinks they can't keep a secret. We just have never been good at that. LOL. I had barely even told DH that the first hpt I took was positive and he was on the phone with his parents. I def understand the reasons why NOT to tell people though.
Oh, what a cute idea about the extra stocking!!!! We don't have a mantle or anything, and we are at other relatives for Christmas... so it probably wouldn't work for us, but what a clever idea!!!!
Regina + Scott -est. 5/9/09
Lydia Jane- 2/18/09
Cora Dale- 12/6/13
^i^ Afton N. 11/18/12
3 furry kids - Balyn, Roxanne & Bea
BFing, BWing Mama
Boy am I tired. Have been the last few days. I don't even have time in my day think about any of this, which may be a good thing.
Last month when AF was so late we had talked about doing a wrapped present for my mom for her birthday, and have his parents there when we told my mom. The issue is having everyone keep it quiet until we are ready to tell everyone.
I do not think for one nanosecond that my parents (MOM) would keep it under wraps after we tell them. For that reason, and for supersticious/friends have had MC reasons I'd like to wait til 12 weeks. If we find out on Thanksgiving, when would the 12 week mark be? Around Valentine's Day? That could be cute...
DD 9/2013 Gold (.Y.)
Team Green #2 was a girl born 6/2/16!
Does anyone have any dpo symptoms??
I'm about 4DPO now (if my temp stays up tomorrow I think I will finally get crosshairs! Ugh. Lol) and so far the usual symptoms. Yesterday and today I've had some dizziness, headache & cramping, and today has been dizziness and nauseous. I really hate progesterone. Lol
What do the crosshairs mean? I don't think I've O'd yet-for one thing I have a longish 32 day cycle and I haven't felt any middleschmertz yet.
Thinking of getting some election night lovin' anyway, even though it's not our "day."
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Team Green #2 was a girl born 6/2/16!
Mine have been wacky so I was worried maybe I didn't O this cycle, but I plugged in a higher temp for tomorrow just to see what would happen and they popped up. So I'm hoping it stays elevated :)


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Check out South Beach Wine and Food Fest Part 1
Schrager grew up in Long Island and moved to Miami at age 15. He graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and in 1988, opened up the South Beach gay club Torpedo. He also owned and managed the
South Beach eateries Chow and Spot. Schrager then embarked on a 17 year career with the InterContinental Hotels group, making a name for himself in the Food & Beverage department. He joined
Southern Wine and Spirits in 2000, and turned what was then known as the Florida Extravaganza from a one-day event on FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus into the weekend retreat that many consider to be the greatest wine and food festival around the world.
Schrager said 20 years ago, Miami had a small culinary scene, but events like the festival have given local chefs the chance to shine, not to mention helped boost South Beach's tourism dollar.
"I'm confident that the media that comes down here for festival weekend has catapulted some of the chefs to the recognition they are getting," Schrager said. "Also, we fill a lot of hotel rooms. We bring people down here that really help to stimulate the economy on the beach. It's good for everybody."
Many credit Schrager for having the vision to expand the festival every year and bring in big-name talent that really attracts the crowds.
"He's truly the rainmaker," said Hedy Goldsmith, the openly-lesbian Executive Pastry Chef at Michaels Genuine Food and Drink in Miami. "I've seen Lee evolve from this dynamo catering guru into this businessman with an enormous vision. But the best part is that he involves all the local chefs."
Schrager said his favorite benefit from his job is he is the guy that gets the final say on all the big decisions.


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Since the midsection of California is so big in regard to its wine country, it has taken three weeks just to get to the southern end of it. This week's San Francisco Wine School California Wine Appellation Specialist (CWAS) adventure takes a look at San Luis Obispo county and the five AVAs (American Viticultural Area) contained therein. The wines from this region, which includes Paso Robles, York Mountain, Edna Valley, Arroyo Grande, and Santa Maria, are as diverse as the territory from which they come.
This up and coming area is producing some great Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, and Rhone Varietals, as well as Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot, and the popularity of the wines from this area is growing every day. A quick trip to your local Trader Joe's is all it takes to find a sizeable selection, and for the most part the prices are almost too good to pass up. If you happen to be passing through the vast expanse that is Central California, it would certainly be in your best interest to check out a few wineries, especially since there's almost 400 from which to choose.
This week I tasted a 2012 Gewurztraminer from Vintjs, and a 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon from Baron Herzog. Both of these wines were surprisingly inexpensive, and I think I know why. Neither of them really blew me away. Both lacked depth on their own, and when paired with food, neither stood up to the challenge. This isn't to say they were awful, but they certainly weren't great by any measure.
It must be mentioned that these two wines are not representative of San Luis Obispo County. When I was picking up the two wines for this week's tasting, I purchased four others from the same area and they were all quite good. I intentionally chose the least expensive for the tasting to see if price mattered in regard to taste. In this particular case, I think it may have played a significant role. They simply tasted like cheap wine. Live and learn.
If you want to take this or any of the other classes on offer or if you'd like more information about the San Francisco Wine School, click here. Stay tuned for the rest of the CWAS adventures of yours truly.


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Two boys ages 5 and 6 are still recovering Thursday after falling two stories from a bounce house that had been swept away by a strong gust of wind.
The boys were seriously injured Monday while playing in the bounce house that was in a yard near their apartment in South Glens Falls, New York. The bounce house was swept up in a "sudden and strong burst of wind," according to a police statement.
The boys fell to the ground after the inflatable house was lifted 15 to 20 feet into the air.The 6-year-old was found in the street, and the 5-year-old was found in the apartment building parking lot, police said. Another 10-year old girl was hurt but not seriously injured. The mother of the 10-year-old girl said her child was near the bounce house's door and was tossed out as it lifted off the ground.
Police say several adults were monitoring the children and the bounce house was properly staked to the ground..
Little Tikes, the bounce house manufacturer released a statement saying, "Providing safe and wholesome play experiences is of utmost importance to Little Tikes. We are looking into what happened in South Glen Falls. ... In the meantime, our thoughts and prayers are with the children and their families."
According to a study by Nationwide Children's Hospital bounce house-related injuries have been increasing in the U.S. as much as 1,500% between 1995 and 2010. From 2008 to 2010, injuries more than doubled.


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UMass Closes Out AIC, 89-76, In Exhibition
Nov. 5, 2013
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AMHERST, Mass. - Sampson Carter had 20 points to lead three players in double figures as Massachusetts defeated American International, 89-76, in exhibition play at the Mullins Center Tuesday.
Carter had an impressive stat line, contributing seven rebounds, three assists, two blocks and two steals in 20 minutes.
Cady Lalanne had 16 and eight, while Derrick Gordon scored 15 points and dished out a game-high six assists.
Maxie Esho came off the bench to post eight points and eight boards.
UMass shot 51 percent in the game but was just 3-for-19 from outside. The Minutemen controlled the paint with a 50-34 rebound advantage and a 42-22 edge in scoring in the paint.
UMass trailed three times with the last coming after a Bobby Harris layup with just under six minutes to play in the first half that put AIC in front 21-19.
Gordon sparked a 7-0 run with a fast-break layup and free throw. Lalanne then threw down a one-handed slam before laying in a Chaz Williams pass.
The lead stretched to 38-26 at the half. The Minutemen shot 45 percent from the floor and missed all nine shots from outside.
In the second half, they made three triples and connected on 56 percent of their attempts.
The lead grew to 20 late in the second half before the Yellow Jackets made four threes in the final few minutes.
All 11 players who dressed saw playing time and ten scored.
UMass will open the season on Sunday against Boston College at the TD Garden in Boston. The 3 p.m. start will be the middle game in the Coaches vs. Cancer Boston Tip Off tripleheader.
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When there's nowhere else to go, animals are glad Popcorn Park is here; and such was the case with a herd of Fallow Deer. Another zoo had too many, so you can imagine their fate. At Popcorn Park, if you sponsored one, you sponsored them all and that was great. These very beautiful deer have a variety of coats including snow white, as you can see. Over the years, one by one, the deer grew old and passed away, leaving just this one deer, who would greatly appreciate your sponsorship and perhaps an occasional visit.
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Bought this dress in 2003 for my wedding in 2004. Wore it to my church wedding, and then my pole barn style reception.
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2009 Dan Gable Coach of the Year, Mark Manning, shows you how to ride your opponent and set up back points and pins. He concludes this video clip by showing a drill that reinforces proper technique when securing a bar-arm.
He emphasizes getting your hips close to your opponent. Once you break down your opponent your feet go inside your opponent's legs and your knees go on the outside. Coach Manning stresses having heavy back pressure. He then shows how to secure a bar-arm. Coach Manning states that it is very important to pull your arm back in a circle towards your own hip.
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Ilé (OTA1027)
Since he emigrated from Cuba in 1993, Omar Sosa has forged a distinctive musical path, fusing an array of jazz, world music, hip-hop, and electronic elements with his Afro-Cuban roots. Omar's newest recording, ilé, marks a homecoming for the 7-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist and composer to the Latin Jazz influences of his formative years in late '80s and early '90s Havana.
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