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We have all heard the saying "To thine own self be true." For many that might not resonate, but for Ricky Whittle there could not be a truer saying that explains the success he has been able to have.
Many in the United States have gotten to know him from his role as Charles on VH1's hit show SINGLE LADIES, but the U.K.-born model and actor had already made a name for himself on shows like Dream Team and Hollyoaks and now he is ready to conquer the world. On Feb. 11th fans of Whittle will be able to see him in the DVD release of his latest offering Austenland.
"It's always a pleasure and an honor to be doing something that you love," Whittle told me during our conversation. When I mentioned his growing fan base through SINGLE LADIES he told me he saw it as an amazing opportunity. "For starters it's fantastic. For them (the fans) to appreciate it is a job well done for me. " He says that his start in the states is "a great start" for him in expanding his based. "It's onward and upward from here."
The internet has been a large part of how the word has spread about this talented actor. Whittle says it's taken some getting used to, but he is adapting to how people are getting their information about him. "The world is ever changing," he says. "It really is becoming a technological place. It can be scary, but I am enjoying the opportunity to have that instant connection with my fans. That part is fantastic. I definitely like to reach out."
As much as Ricky Whittle loves what he does, acting and modeling weren't his first choices for a career, but it quickly became the only thing he wanted to do. "I didn't know until I stepped on the set of the show the Dream Team that this is what I wanted to do. I fell into acting. I wanted to be a soccer player, but being on that show changed everything. I learned from the director, cameraman, everyone I could. I am still learning. One of the best lessons came from Terence Maynard. He told me 'Don't act it just feel it. Don't try to act it because that is when it is going to look fake' That is by far the best advice I got, and I never looked back. Now I honestly can't see myself doing anything else. I'm like Peter Pan. I get to play make believe for a living."
Though he has been fortunate, Whittle realizes that the business is not all glitz and glamour. "Some just see an easy way in or a quick buck," he says. "It's a very competitive and aggressive industry. You have to be patient and understanding. You're not going to get the chance to be seen in a lot of jobs. You have to never give up and believe in yourself, following your heart's desire."
Outside of promoting his current project online, the star also uses social media to encourage those connected with him. On Twitter he is known for such motivational messages as "It's your life. Don't let anyone make you feel guilty for living it your way.", "Never let the things you want..Make you forget the things you already have." and "You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be."
His belief for all of is that the key to finding success is being the best form of who you can be. "You shouldn't try to imitate anyone else," he says. "Just be you. Don't be disheartened. If you're not being true to yourself you might miss out on your opportunity. Stay faithful to yourself and what you want. What's meant to be will be."
Stay in contact with Ricky Whittle on his website at www.rickywhittle.com and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/mrrickywhittle.


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Young designers face a huge challenge: how can they catch the eye of the world and show people what they can do? One of the best ways is to compete at the International Talent Support (ITS), a visionary showcase for designers. Covering the fields of fashion, jewelry and accessories, ITS is also open to the field of art, thanks to the support of Swatch.
ITS – the 15th Utopia is the fifteenth edition of the annual event that draws young designers from all over the world to Trieste, Italy. ITS ARTWORK is the contest category supported by Swatch, focusing on pure artistic creativity. Open to all participants, the contest challenges them to make a work of art expressing their personal vision of artistic utopia.
Swatch Creative Director Carlo Giordanetti and ITS founder Barbara Franchin reviewed dozens of applications and selected ten finalists from seven different countries. These talents have been invited to the final ITS event, set for July 16th in Trieste, to meet an international jury, who will review their artworks and choose the winners of two exceptional prizes:
• ITS ARTWORK AWARD - The winner receives €10,000 and the opportunity to exhibit a special project at ITS 2017
• SWATCH AWARD - The winner receives €10,000 and a 6-month paid internship at the Swatch Creative Lab in Zurich, Switzerland.

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by George Eliot
Middlemarch Book 4, Chapter 38 Summary
- Sir James is visiting the Cadwalladers' house, complaining about Mr. Brooke's going into politics as a Whig.
- Remember, Sir James has married Celia, Mr. Brooke's niece, so he has a family interest in keeping Mr. Brooke from making a fool of himself.
- Context Time: most old, wealthy families, like the Brookes or the Chettams, were conservative Tories. They had an obvious interest in maintaining the status quo – after all, the status quo meant that they got to continue being rich and powerful.
- The Whigs wanted gradual change, and the Radicals wanted, well, radical change.
- So the fact that Brooke has bought the liberal newspaper is just adding insult to injury.
- Mr. Cadwallader and Mr. Farebrother say that Brooke isn't just publishing the liberal newspaper now; he's actually thinking about running for Parliament as a Whig.
- But they don't think he stands much of a chance against Bagster, the other Whig candidate.
- Bulstrode, though, is campaigning for Brooke, and Bulstrode's opinions carry a lot of weight in Middlemarch.
- Sir James then brings up "young Ladislaw," Casaubon's relative and Brooke's newspaper editor.
- Mrs. Cadwallader calls him a "troublesome sprig."
- Sir James doesn't want Brooke to run for Parliament for all kinds of reasons – Brooke is a bad landlord, and the opposition newspaper, called the Trumpet, has already started dredging up bad stories about the state of the cottages on Brooke's property.
- Brooke walks in just then, and Mrs. Cadwallader points out the article in the Trumpet that criticizes Brooke's estate management.
- Sir James hints that Brooke should consider putting in new gates on his estate, at least, and suggests that he hire Caleb Garth to do the job.
- Brooke dismisses the idea as too expensive, and Mrs. Cadwallader points out that running for Parliament will be even more expensive.
- But Brooke dismisses that, too, and then leaves in a hurry to avoid more criticisms from his friends.
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by Herman Melville
Billy Budd Chapter 13 Summary
- Passions are just as common in the lower classes as in the higher, and can be set off by the tiniest and least consequential of things. Billy spilling his soup set off such a passion in John Claggart.
- The thing is that Claggart's pride prevents him from even conceiving of the fact that his malice toward Billy could be unreciprocated.
- Thus, unlikely at is to an outside observer, Claggart perceived Billy spilling his soup as a disguised sign of some antipathy (dislike) toward him.
- He has Squeak, a cunning little corporal, come and report to him on Billy's doings. Squeak, noticing that his master-at-arms doesn't like Billy and wanting to please him, elaborates on the most innocent jokes of Billy's to make them seem like digs at Claggart.
- Claggart doesn't doubt this for a second because he knows how disliked masters-at-arms tend to be.
- In general, Claggart is both careful and cunning as he does everything he can to raise the phantasm of a reciprocal dislike between him and Billy.
- In the words of the ever-keen narrator, "An uncommon prudence is habitual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide" (13.4). Claggart, for his part, is determined that the roots of his ill-founded antipathy not be found out.
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MIAMI — In its initial review of No Child Left Behind waiver requests, the U.S. Education Department highlighted a similar weakness in nearly every application: States did not do enough to ensure schools would be held accountable for the performance of all students.
The Obama administration praised the states for their high academic standards. But nearly every application was criticized for being loose about setting high goals and, when necessary, interventions for all student groups — including minorities, the disabled and low-income — or for failing to create sufficient incentives to close the achievement gap.
Under No Child Left Behind, schools where even one group of students falls behind are considered out of compliance and subject to interventions. The law has been championed for helping shed light on education inequalities, but most now agree it is due for change.
Indiana's proposal to opt out of the federal law's strictest requirements was criticized by the Education Department for its "inattention" to certain groups, like students still learning the English language. New Mexico's plan, a panel of peer reviewers noted, did not include accountability and interventions for student subgroups based on factors like achievement and graduation rates. In Florida, the department expressed concern that the performance of some groups of students could go overlooked.
The concerns were outlined in letters sent last December by the administration to the 11 states that have applied for a waiver. Since then, state and federal officials have been talking about how to address the concerns; some states have already agreed to changes.
The letters were obtained by The Associated Press for all of the states except Tennessee and Kentucky, which declined to provide them until an announcement is made on whether a waiver is granted. The Education Department has previously said it expected to notify states by mid-January.
"Our priority is protecting children and maintaining a high bar even as we give states more flexibility to get more resources to the children most in need, even if that means the process takes a little longer than we anticipated," said Daren Briscoe, a department spokesman.
Jack Jennings, president of the Center on Education Policy, said federal officials are in a challenging spot.
"The current law means that each group of kids, whether they are children with a disability, or African-American, or poor kids, have attention paid to them, because the schools are accountable for each and every group," said Jennings. "But what the states are asking is that they all be lumped together."
The Bush-era law is aimed at making sure 100 percent of students reach proficiency in math and reading by 2014, a goal states are far from achieving. As that year draws closer, more and more schools are expected to fall out of compliance, subjecting them to penalties that range from after-school tutoring to closure.
While there is bipartisan agreement the 2002 law needs to be fixed, Congress has not passed a comprehensive reform. President Barack Obama announced in September that states could apply for waivers and scrap the proficiency requirement if they met conditions designed to better prepare and test students.
The 11 states that applied for the first round of waivers were Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico and Tennessee. Many more states are expected to request waivers in the second round — meaning all eyes will be on the first approvals.
The Center on Education Policy analyzed all the waiver requests and found that in nine of the 11 states, almost all decisions on penalties and interventions would be based on the performance of two groups: all students and a "disadvantaged" group that would replace the current system of separate categories of students according to race, ethnicity, income, disability and English language proficiency.
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The park offers a variety of activities for outdoors enthusiasts. There are trails for biking and hiking and a newly created multipurpose trail that will accommodate hiking, biking and horse riding. Facilities include a boat rental, a fishing pier, an interpretive center, picnic areas, primitive camping areas and tent cabins.


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With the eyes of the nation on a horrific case of horse abuse in Enoch City, on Jan. 22 KUTV reports that calls are being made in Utah to stiffen laws to protect the state's horses. KUTV has been covering a horse cruelty case in Southern Utah that involves two horses, a one-year-old filly and her mother. The filly was discovered frozen to the ground, literally a few hours from death. Both horses were put into the safety and care of a rescue. This case was so alarming to the public that it became nationwide news. Unfortunately, help for the filly came too late and she died.
Animal control officer Chris Johnson stated that this is one of "the worst cases in my career."
Ginger Grimes, founder of the Dust Devil Ranch Sanctuary for Horses located in Iron County, Utah, assured the public that they will pursue this matter. She said, "We want the law to change."
Dust Devil Ranch Sanctuary worked around the clock with volunteers to nurse the two horses. While the mother, Anna, rallied and began to show positive signs of life, the young filly called Elsa was failing. She gave up her valiant fight to live on Jan. 18.
Police charged the owner with animal cruelty, which carries a class B misdemeanor in Utah. As an outraged public heard this, the calls for tougher felony charges were being voiced.
Enoch's Chief Jackson Ames said that the police cannot exceed the laws - In Utah, horses are not classified as companion animals.
Ames told KUTV,
No animal should have to go through this experience and suffer like it did. If people want to champion this cause and try and get the law changed, I encourage that.
On Feb. 6 Grimes and volunteers plan to go to the Utah State Capitol as part of the Utah Humane Lobby Day. Their first order of plans is to change the status of horses.
Also read Heidi Rucki story about Elsa and Anna
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It's two o'clock in the morning in the Arabian Gulf. Tom Grifford, commander of the Royal Navy frigate HMS Carlisle, receives a phone call telling him his wife Jaine has been abducted.
Surrendering command of Carlisle, Tom returns home to find his family in uproar and a police investigation led by a detective who refuses to examine the evidence that could identify the prime suspect.
Aware that the longer it takes to find his wife, the greater the chance that she will never be found, Tom plunges headlong into his own investigation. Aided by a group of Jaine's colleagues, each with his own reason to find her, Tom is forced to draw on every ounce of his self-belief and skill as a seaman.
Tested as never before, Tom's search takes him inside the criminal mind of Jaine's abductor and leads him on a terrifying journey to one of the most inhospitable areas of ocean in the world ...
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hating the new spark page and Continuation of last blog from last week!
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Yikes. I suck at updating my blog. I guess its good to get off of the internet and not waste time. Right? or something.
Anyway.. my weekend LAST weekend was AWESOME, as I posted about it. it was wonderful surprise.
Last week after that, was interesting to say the least....
My husband got sick shortly after we got home... I am fine.. Just stressing about all the testing I had done the past few weeks.
Pap, Mammogram (came back great/normal). Blood work, BRCA testing. just stressful. I hate it.
I still need to go to the foot doctor for my PF, but I know there isnt much they can do about it, so I am just working out, wearing footbeds, rotating my shoes, icing, stretching. Thats all I can do, right? Its only painful in the AM, mostly. I can deal with it. I think its getting a bit better with all that I do for it.
I stretch it a few times a day, I try to ice it every night, I wear different footbeds every day (all too match my shoes), rotate my shoes not to wear the same ones everyday...
Workout wise, I am just doing my own thing.. I was doing JM BR again, but since the husband got sick, he hasnt worked out in a few days/week and half- so I am just busting out my own plan.
6 week 6 pack abs, Kickboxing, Just Weights, Killer Abs, Yoga Meltdown, Yoga Inferno, whatever floats my boat. Its been working better that BR.. so I will continue with that in addition to the extra stuff.
I took off yesterday due to my woman problems of period pain, discomfort and just not wanting to work out.
I usually dont go off the deep end, but I ate my weight in totsie rolls and other candy. I tracked it though and it wasnt terrible. I also ate so much brown rice with my soup. oh well. I am not stressed about it. I know WHY I ate all of it and I am paying the bloated price today.
Eating wise, I have really been doing well aside from yesterday, so I dont take it harshly that I went crazy yesterday...
I do NOT like the new spark page and am thinking about skipping town on Spark...
i dunno. I feel like its done all it can. i HATE the new page and i hope they change it back. its HORRIBLE and not easy to use. but if i do leave. i will let you know (i probably wont).
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I hope you don't leave just because of the start page change, though I agree it's pretty horrible.
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You're welcome! YES get one! it was a HUUGGE help. HUGE.
Yeah I love going barefoot at home but have started wearing shoes if I'm gonna be on my feet, cooking or something. I also have worn my night splint if I'm lying on the couch watching tv! I don't need it now but I couple weeks ago when I first got it, ANY time I got up from sitting/lying I had the limpy pain, so I wore it if I was going to be lying down for more than a half hour.
I have been wearing my "work shoes" (I have to wear a uniform) every day for like 2-3 years. ha. Yep. Long past new shoes time!!!
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OMG! yes! I want to get one of those night splits. i will go afterwork and look for it! I heard they are magic. i am a total toe pointer. Thank you thank you!
yeah- i read somewhere about not wearing the same shoes everyday, something i usually used to do because, when you have a pair of shoes you love, you wear them everyday. I also read going barefoot is really bad for us... so.. ive been wearing ugly shoes at home.. it seems to help.
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At least it's just the start page! haha. I would say noooooo don't leeeeeeeeeeeave but you have to do what works for YOU.
OMG, I feel your pain - literally!!! I have PF too, but haven't seen a doctor about it since I knew what it was. I figured there wasn't anything they could do. I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be wearing the same shoes everyday, though. OOPS! hahahahahaha. I need new shoes anyway, so... guess I'd better get on that. Do you have a night splint? That has made a HUGE difference for me. Mine is cheap, I got it at walgreens - ace bandage brand I think? It isn't a huge boot, just a plastic "L" thing and velcro straps. Velcro to your calf, then your foot to the other part and it keeps your foot in an "L" shape so you can't sleep "toes pointed". It's supposed to keep stuff from tightening up like it can when you're "pointed" all night.
Anyway. It works for me for the morning pain - between that & stretching a bit before I get out of bed, I don't have that painful limping in the morning anymore. It's worth a shot if you don't have one! Don't try the ones that are like a sock with a strap from your toes to your calf though; I have one of those too & it just makes my toes fall asleep.
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Two Shasta County High School students are the first in the country to receive a ROBOTC certification.
Landon Woollard is the first in the nation, and his classmate Marissa Kuntz is the first female student in the country to receive the certification.
The RobotC course teaches a combination of robotics, engineering and computer science. The robot itself is programmed using a version of the computer language C.
The students have to design, build and program their robots to perform various challenges.
The RobotC certification is a distinction given by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy in Pennsylvania and is designed to help students both get jobs and get into better colleges.
Both Woollard and Kuntz say this class has helped push them into engineering and computer science majors for college.
The class is quickly building in popularity. Students say one of the best parts of the class is that it lets them learn by building something instead of just reading about it.


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The average person, roaming supermarket aisles with their trolley, is under the impression that our modern globalised food production system, despite being damaging in every other respect, brings one major benefit to consumers -- that being more food choices.
It's a myth. The corporate takeover of agriculture is seeing a rapid and systematic decline in seed and crop diversity, as they seek to standardise all aspects of global food trade. This means that plants that have been developed and optimised for specific micro-climates and soil conditions over thousands of years are vanishing -- fast, and forever.
That's what makes the work of Stephan Fayon, who directs an international seed bank in Auroville, India, so significant. Check out this inspiring clip on his work:
It might be argued that, the issue of unnecessary transport aside, an increase in trade invariably leads to increased choice for consumers. After all, are not consumers now exposed to all kinds of new and exotic foods in their supermarket, foods that cannot be produced locally? While in a sense this is true, the reality is that the purported diversity offered by the global economy and its supermarkets is based on modes of production that are condemning producers to monoculture. The perceived expansion of choice obscures a startling loss in real diversity. Whereas a few decades ago, one could find more than a dozen varieties of apple or tomato in the local market, today there are typically just three or four. These are the same three or four varieties that you would find in a supermarket on the other side of the country, or on another continent - the few select varieties that have the characteristics that are most conducive to the demands of long-distance transport. As part of this process the diverse cheeses from France, the apple varieties of Devon and the olive groves of Andalusia are progressively being replaced by standardised hybrids, to suit the long distance, large scale marketplace. Examples of the once-famed range of more than 200 regional English apples are now a rarity in English shopping baskets - an example of what 'choice' actually means in the global economy.It's that old short-term thinking thing happening again. Just so a few large agribusinesses can make a killing in the market, we're rushing headlong towards major vulnerability with our most basic of needs -- food. Just like with cloned animals, genetic uniformity equates to natural, and social, instability. Reduced diversity has broad reaching impacts on our world and also our personal health. With cloned animals we could essentially end up with people eating 'the same cow' all their lives. With monocrop farming, the result is similar - "Astonishingly, a full 95 percent of the calories we eat come from only 30 varieties of plants, according to the FAO." (Alternet).
This lack of real diversity at the market is mirrored in an increasing number of the world's agricultural fields. The consequence of more and more farmers orienting their production towards far-away markets has been a startling loss in agricultural biodiversity. In China, of the 10,000 wheat varieties in use in 1949, only 1,000 remained in the 1970s. In the US, 95 per cent of the cabbage, 91 per cent of the field maize, 94 per cent of the pea, and 81 per cent of the tomato varieties have been lost. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), approximately 75 per cent of the world's agricultural diversity has been lost in the last century. The implications of this trend for food security are ominous. Not only are there fewer kinds of foods being raised and eaten around the world, but diversity within the few remaining staples is being lost as well. Since a field planted in monoculture is more susceptible to devastation by pests and blight, the risks rise exponentially when much of the entire planet's arable land is planted in virtually identical strains. In 1970, for example, 80 per cent of the corn planted in the US shared a common genetic heritage. When a maze blight struck, it quickly destroyed more than 10 million acres of corn. -- From the Ground Up. Rethinking Industrial Agriculture, p. xvii - xviii, by Helena Norberg-Hodge/Peter Goering/John Page
"I have heard . . . that people may become dependent on us for food. I know that was not supposed to be good news. To me that was good news, because before people can do anything they have got to eat. And if you are looking for a way to get people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific. -- Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, in naming US Public Law 480 the "Food for Peace" program, Wall Street Journal, May 7, 1982Supporting local farms, particularly those that concentrate on crop diversity and soil health, is one way you can help reverse this trend. The value of what we are losing cannot be measured.
The hope of the industry is that over time the market is so flooded [with GMOs] that there's nothing you can do about it. You just sort of surrender. -- Don Westfall, biotech industry consultant and vice-president of Promar International, Toronto Star
By growing all of our crops in monocultures, industrial agriculture not only limits what we can eat today, but also reduces the choices of future generations. -- AlternetFurther Reading:
- The Doomsday Vault and Seed Preservation
- The Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture: Myth five, Industrial food offers more choices
- Chemical Based Farming Systems Robbing Us of Nutrients
- Pay Monsanto, or Starve
- Synthetic Biology - Opening Pandora's Box v.2.0
- The Rise and Predictable Fall of Globalized Industrial Agriculture
- A Growing Food Revolution
- The Future of Food
- An Apocalyptic Vision of a Post Fossil Fuel World


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Friday, Jan 10th , 9:00AM - 5:00PM
If you were on Santa's "nice" list this year, you may be receiving new technology tools and toys. St. Elizabeth's Hospital and its Reverence to the Earth Committee invites you to recycle any old, out dated electronics at a recycling drive on Friday,
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The new app – called Aluminate – will help consumers find recycling centers, track how many aluminum cans they recycle, and calculate the cash they can earn as they help protect the environment through recycling aluminum cans.
Alcoa's Aluminate recycling app has several unique features that allow users to make the most of their recycling efforts. It allows them to:
"This app is the most comprehensive available for anyone who wants to recycle aluminum cans. It's a cool way to keep track of the cans you recycle and the cash you're earning while you take positive steps to protect the environment," said Beth Schmitt, Director of Recycling for Alcoa. "It's great for organizations that want to create a recycling campaign and to encourage others to join their efforts."
The Aluminate app is a perfect addition to the other educational tools and actions Alcoa is undertaking to boost recycling rates. Alcoa and the Aluminum Association have a goal of increasing the recycling rate of aluminum cans in the U.S. to 75% by the year 2015. According to Schmitt, if every American recycled just one more can per week, that goal could be reached.
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Awesome! love it when ya see people react so quickly...so rare nowdays. Rasta would be proud
Very cool. Even the best watermen make mistakes. I think the dolphins underestimated how close they were to shore, something must've messed up their senses.
coolest thing Ive seen in a while thanks for sharing amigo
great video, thanks! nice to see there are still some decent people in the world
Awesome, I wonder if they went down the beach and did it again. Sometimes the commit mass suicide for unknown reasons.
the lead dolphin navigator has since been relieved of its duties. lol.
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A new 'supply and demand model' for GP and practice nurse services is now available, the programme for government 'report card' has revealed.
Researchers were asked to develop an interactive model to inform workforce planning for universal primary care, which will be introduced in phases so that additional doctors, nurses and other primary care professionals can be recruited. The outcome is a "functional and adaptable computer programme model", the Department of Health has said.
The Universal Primary Care Project Team will make use of the model in the course of its work.
The Department of Health commissioned a study to develop the supply and demand model so as to facilitate workforce planning as the implementation programme on universal primary care is rolled out. According to the DoH, the study addressed a number of elements, including an estimation of current utilisation rates of GP and practice nurse services. This involved a breakdown by geographical area and a projection of the effect on utilisation/demand for GP and practice nurse services of demographic changes. These changes included population ageing and epidemiological trends. An assessment was also carried out on mismatches between demand and supply.
The 45-page Annual Report on the programme for government, released last week, listed 167 policy commitments and claimed that more than 150 had either been delivered or had been substantially progressed.
While Taoiseach Enda Kenny said his evaluation of Ministers was not intended as a public exercise, the report pointed to a number of health initiatives, including establishment of the Special Delivery Unit to deal with problems in hospital emergency departments. The Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Act 2012 would also be commenced in March — it now has — allowing a wider range of registered medical practitioners to provide medical services to eligible persons under the GMS scheme.
The Taoiseach also stressed changes at the HSE — the new board and a new relationship with the Department, as well as more direct Ministerial responsibility — in his 'report card' assessment. The Government has agreed to introduce a new governance structure for the HSE for 2012, as a first step to it ceasing to exist.
Consultation on the Carers' Strategy is set to commence shortly, and an extension of the cervical cancer vaccination programme — which began in September 2011 — was also highlighted.
In addition, extra funding for mental health services was stressed, and the Government has established a Universal Health Insurance (UHI) Implementation Group and a Universal Primary Care Group to play a central role in the introduction of UHI.
Jointly launched by Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore to mark the Coalition's first 12 months in office, the report noted the Minister for Health had announced the establishment of two hospital groups in the West of Ireland, centred around Limerick and Galway hospitals, and it was the intention is to roll-out hospital groups for rest of the country in 2012.
The tax incentives for private hospital developments have been abolished, and a review of the Fair Deal system was currently taking place.
An Expert Group will report back to Government by June with options on how to implement the A, B, and C versus Ireland judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. The Government submitted an Action Report to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on January 13 in relation to the judgement.


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Pass under high stone arches through the doors with red brick walls into one of the country's most important collection of fire related artifacts and artwork from 18th century to the present. Kids can wear fire-fighting outfits to create memorable photographs documenting their visit.
New York City Fire Museum tells the story of early firefighting days in New York City. Permanent and temporary exhibits show the evolution of firefighting technology. A memorial honors the 343 members of FDNY that sacrificed their lives on September 11, 2001.
The collection of 10,000 artifacts include pre Civil War hand pumped fire engines, horse drawn vehicles and early-motorized apparatus. It has one of North America's earliest fire engines, a "Farnam" style engine built in New York in 1790. There are rare painted parade hats, helmets, speaking trumpets, leather fire buckets, lanterns and tools, dating back to the 1650's.
Tools and clothing of modern Firefighters give a perspective of how firefighting has progressed. Modern tools include the Jaws of Life and the Halligan forcible entry tool. The Jaws of Life is well known from exposure on TV programs. The Halligan bar is a multipurpose tool for prying twisting, punching or striking. It was named for NYFD's first Deputy Chief Hugh Halligan.
The museum also has a vast collection of fire insurance marks. They were lead or copper plates embossed with the sign of the insurance company's fire brigade. Each insurance company maintained its own fire brigade during early days of firefighting. Each brigade extinguished fires in building insured by its insurance company.
'The Friends of the New York City Fire Department' was formed as a non-profit organization in 1987 raising funds to renovate old Engine Company Number 30 firehouse to create a museum. The building on Spring Street was a 1904 Beaux-Arts style firehouse. The museum annually attracts 40,000 visitors yearly, with the exception of in 2002 with 46,000 visitors.
New York City Fire Museum is 1 block north of the Holland Tunnel between Hudson and Varick Streets. Ride subways 1,9 to Houston Street and CE to Spring Street.
278 Spring Street
Manhattan, NY
Admission Hours
Monday – Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday 10:00 Am – 4:00 PM
Closed major holidays
Admission Fee
Adults $8
Seniors and students $5
Children under 12, $1
New York City Fire Museum is a 5:15 minute drive of 313 miles from Rochester NY. First drive east on thruway I-90 to Syracuse, US 81 south to Scranton Pennsylvania, then US 380 to Bethlehem PA. Continue east through New Jersey on US 78 to Newark NJ, then US 95 south to route 495 across George Washington Bridge and route 9A south. Turn east on Spring Street to New York City Fire Museum.
A museum visitor made this comment:
"I think I would go here every time we visit NYC, even if exhibits never change."


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Steve Schwarzman's Great Library Gift, Writ Small
The Blackstone billionaire's name will only appear on the building in letters under three inches tall.
When we learned that Steve Schwarzman's name would not be emblazoned on the architrave (bet you didn't think we knew that word) above the columns at the Public Library, we were relieved for the city of New York. It's wonderful that Schwarzman donated $100 million to the institution, but it will always be the "Public Library," that legendary place that was haunted by ghosts in Ghostbuster and where Jake Gyllenhaal fled when the world ended in The Day After Tomorrow. The "Schwarzman Library" wouldn't sound public at all — it would sound exclusive and rich (and also, let's face it, bald). Instead, the Times reports that the name of the Blackstone Group CEO will be subtly added in five places, as indicated above. "If not shouted," the paper observes, the name was "quietly yet firmly spoken to the world." It will be written in a special old-timey font in letters under three inches high. We'd imagine Schwarzman was bummed that his surname will not join the names Astor, Lenox and Tilden that are written on the attic of the façade (again with the terms!) — except that part of the deal was that no other name will ever again be emblazoned on the building. Schwarzman can rest easy that for the foreseeable future, as we're just he has long dreamed, his name, and only his, will be grouped with those of the great philanthropic shapers on New York.


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It's so easy to get stuck in each day. To think about today's laundry (piles!), today's dinner (no idea!) and today's to-do list (too long!). In Tricia Goyer's book Balanced: Finding Center as a Work-at Home Mom, she encourages parents to sit down and discuss their family goals. She states that,
I know it's something I need to do at least once a year. My family grows and changes, and my work opportunities also grow and change. It only makes sense to spend time with God and re-clarify family goals, too.
The Challenge:
Determine what your priorities as a family are. Ask yourself a few questions: What do we want to achieve as a family? What will matter five years from now—ten years from now? What will mold our children into God-serving adults? What will bring peace—not stress—to our home?
In 10 years Malachi, Brittany, Mason and Collin will be young adults. They will be entering into the real world doing life – college and/or career. Lily will be 15 getting closer to that day that she will do the same. Chad and I will be in our mid- forties preparing for life without dependent children in our home.
- As a family, I would like to be close to one another, not physically since we already live in two separate states. I want to be doing life together, Sharing in one another's successes and lifting one another up in there failures.
- As a wife, I want to have a strong marriage with Chad. I want to be a team that together we can get through everything with Christ. I want to be the wife that he needs me to be.
- As a homemaker, I want to provide a healthy and comfortable home to all that enter.
- As an individual, I want to be an established writer with published books and articles in many newspapers and articles. I want to be an active member in my church, school and community.
- As a Christian (not that I am separating this part of my life from the rest) I want to do what God is calling me to do. Today I am in prayer to find my WANT TO.
Considering ten years from now reminds me of things I need to do to prepare my children and the things I need to do to prepare myself!
In order for this to occur I believe that we must be a family of action!
Finding love, joy, peace, faith and hope in my home --- filling ourselves up with what God has for us --- so that we may share what we have found with our neighbors next door and around the world!
- Make communication with one another a priority with family nights, family meal times, phone calls and visits. Making time to spend time together as a whole as well as each individual family member. Making birthdays the biggest celebration of the year including the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Raise our children to be spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally healthy adults that are prepared to live life to its fullest by providing them with a loving educational environment and opportunities for growth in church, school, sports and activities.
- Make couple time a priority with daily prayer with one another, weekly date nights and several weekend getaways each year.
- Maintain the home with small daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal tasks for those inside the home. So that the needs of the family and the family home are taken care of
- Write, write, write, write, write, write, write and write some more!
- Weekly church attendance and volunteering where I am needed outside of the home (keeping balance with the needs of our home FIRST!)
- Stay in His word, pray and commit to what God has called me to do!
- To make each day the best that it can be by choosing to be intentional in how I live.
- Make Sunday the day of rest and refuel.
How about you? How would you answer that question?
This post is part of the Balanced Challenge at www.triciagoyer.com


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I am trying to prove the following:
Let $E/F$ be an arbitrary extensions. Show that $E/F$ is normal if and only if $E$ is the union of all those intermediate fields $K$ such that $K$ is the splitting field for some $f(X) \in F[X]$.
My attempt at the solution is the following:
Let $A$ be the union of all those intermediate fields $K$ such that $K$ is the splitting field for some $f(X) \in F[X]$. Assume $E/F$ is normal. Clearly $A \subseteq E$. To prove the opposite containment let $\alpha \in E$ and $f(X)=\text{min}_F(\alpha)$. Since $E/F$ is normal we know that $f(X)$ splits over $E$, and so $E$ contains the splitting field of $f(X)$, call it $K_f$. Since $f(X) \in F[X]$ we know $K_f \in A$ and thus $\alpha \in A$. Therefore $E\subseteq A$.
Assume $E=A$ and let $\alpha \in E$ and $f(X)=\text{min}_F(\alpha)$. The splitting field of $f(X)$ is contained in $E$ by definition, so $f(X)$ splits completely over $E$. Thus $E/F$ is normal.
One immediate problem with my proof is that fact that I implicitly assume $E/F$ is algebraic when I start talking about the minimal polynomial of an element of $E$. My question is:
Is there any way to fix this proof so as to not assume $E/F$ is algebraic?


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From the road, all you see is a roughhewn wooden shack with tables on the patio and an outdoor bar.
But don't pass by 2nd Street Bistro because of the outside appearance. Go in and go over to the dark, comfortable and cool side, along with a menu that features both bistro classics and new cuisine.
The interior is dark woods, flat screen TVs and old advertising signs, with a bar that runs nearly the length of the restaurants. Large north and east-facing windows let in enough light to keep the place from being dim and gloomy.
The 2nd Street Bistro menu has so many selections that shout, "Try me!" You look at the menu, you decide and then you see something even more interesting. There are plenty of pastas, seafood, wraps, salads and beef choices, and over fifty beers on tap. A feature of the menu is the "Brooklyn Bangers," sausages made by owner Gary Sofen's company of the same name. You'll find them as an appetizer (tossed with hot wing sauce) or on a hoagie roll with sauerkraut, Asian slaw or cheese. Don't miss the burgers, with ingredients ranging from Portobello mushroom, salmon and chicken to pineapple, fried eggs, Brie and lemon garlic aioli. There are vegetarian selections: deep fried pickles, a roasted vegetable stack side, fish dip and baked Brie with fruit. The menu weaves Latin influences (Cuban sandwich, fajitas, tacos) with Asian influences (the slaw topping), diner classics (meatloaf, ribs, fish and chips) and the American South (pulled pork sliders, shrimp po'boys). The choices seem all over the place, but there are a lot of basic ingredients, used over and over in different ways. It's a sign that the kitchen knows what it does well, knows what customers want and keeps them happy.
The service was fast, friendly and efficient; you're not left waiting long for drink refills, napkin replacements and sauces or condiments. The noise level ought to be bad, given the high ceilings and single-room layout, but even when it's busy, you can hear conversation just fine. The location is perfect after a morning shopping at the nearby farmer's market, downtown stores or sunning on Hutchinson Island.
Prices are closer to the fine dining end of the spectrum: appetizers $7 to $14, wraps, sandwiches, burgers and bangers $9 to $14, salads $9 to $13 (note that some salads can be ordered half-size for $5), small plates and platters $12 to $20. But there's no way to leave hungry or ignore the fact that the ingredients are great and the staff cares about what they serve.
2nd Street Bistro opened in the historic district just two years ago. Here's to hoping it makes some history of its own by staying a long, long time.
2nd Street Bistro, 122 N. Second St., Fort Pierce, FL. Phone (772) 293-9191. Hours: daily from 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Outdoor seating, private room, children's menu and Sunday brunch available. Happy Hour daily from 3 to 7 p.m.


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FT. WAYNE, Ind. — Jackson Stevenett scored 19 points and pulled down seven rebounds but Southern Utah showed the effects of eight days on the road Tuesday night as IPFW claimed a 79-58 win over the Thunderbirds. The loss snapped SUU's modest three-game winning streak and dropped them to 2-2 in Summit League play (7-7 overall) while IPFW improved to 2-3 in league play (8-6 overall).
Coming off perhaps their best game of the year in a 91-77 win last Friday at UMKC the Thunderbirds struggled, particularly down the stretch, committing 17 turnovers, finishing out a season-low seven assists and losing the rebound battle 34-27. The 58 points are SUU's second-lowest total of the season.
After shooting 53 percent in the first half, the Thunderbirds finished at 44 percent (20-of-45). SUU also had its worst free throw shooting performance in the last seven games, hitting just 18-of-26 attempts (69 percent), marking the first time the team has been below 70 percent since the Southern Virginia game on Nov. 23.
"I thought we came out and had heavy legs, we were a step slow, our legs were not there," SUU coach Roger Reid said. "The guys were trying, the guys played hard, but sometimes the travel shows up and I think it did tonight. We got two wins on this road trip though, and although we're disappointed to lose tonight, we lost to a good team that really played well against us tonight. ?
"We rarely get out-rebounded and tonight we just weren't able to keep up on the boards," Reid said. "I think our foul troubles also had something to do with being a tired team."? The Thunderbirds' only lead came after Matt Massey scored inside to give SUU a 2-0 advantage. The Mastodons scored the next seven points, however and although the biggest IPFW lead in the period was nine the Thunderbirds weren't able to get back within three in the rest of the half. IPFW took a 36-29 lead into the break.
Frank Gaines scored on a put-back to give IPFW a 38-29 lead early in the second half but the Thunderbirds battled back to pull within 42-39 on a 3-point play by Damon Heuir. The Mastodons pulled away, however, pushing the advantage back to nine at 50-41 on a Justin Jordan layup at the 11:11 mark.
Two minutes later Jordan hit a 3-pointer to push the IPFW advantage to 55-45 and the Thunderbirds were not able to get back within single digits.
In addition to his 19 points Stevenett pulled down a team-high seven rebounds, blocked two shots and had a pair of steals. Ramell Taylor, who finished with 10 points, was the only other Thunderbird to break into double figures.
Ray Jones was whistled for his second foul with 14:18 to play in the first half and the Thunderbirds down 9-6 but when IPFW built a 19-10 lead Reid opted to return Jones to the floor. The strategy backfired, however, as less than 30 seconds after re-entering, Jones picked up his third foul with 8:29 remaining in the first half. Jones wound up with a season-low one assist.
With Jones — who was 24th in the nation in assists heading into the game — on the bench, SUU managed just three assists in the first half, two by Heuir who picked up his third foul with under two seconds to play in the period.
"Jackson had a good game but we really missed Ray (Jones, Jr.), who picked up three fouls in the first half," Reid pointed out. "We really miss Ray when he's not on the floor and that was evident in the first half."
WYOMING 76, UTAH VALLEY 70: At Orem, Keith Thompson's potential go-ahead bucket was waived off with 10 seconds remaining and Wyoming iced the game at the free-throw line as UVU dropped a tight one in front of a season-high 6,556 fans.
"I like the way we competed. I like the way stayed with the game and the way we kept fighting," said UVU head coach Dick Hunsaker. "We had to come up with a plan that we thought would give us the best opportunity to win and we played well enough to win the game, it just didn't happen."
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TC TO ROBERT MITCHELL; 23 December 1822; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18221223-TC-RM-01; CL 2:242-244.
3. Moray-street, Leith-Walk, / 23d December, 1822—
My dear Mitchell,
It is many a day since I wrote to you or heard from you; yet there are few of my early friends whom I have more cause [to] feel an interest in, few periods of my life that I look back to with more pleasure than the period when our pursuits were more similar, our places of abode more adjacent than they are at present. It is in the hope of recalling old times and thoughts to your memory that I have taken up the pen on this occasion: I am still ambitious for a place in your esteem, still anxious to hear of your welfare.
Since your return to Kirkcudbright, little intelligence respecting you has reached me; but that little fortunately of a pleasant kind. I am happy to learn that your health still keeps improving, that you feel yourself able to discharge the laborious duties of your office without assistance. I need not advise you to keep a strict watch over this matter, you have already suffered too severely to need any such caution. The whole Earth has no blessing within its circuit worthy to be named along with health; the loss of it I reckon the very darkest item in the lot of man. [I] often think I could snap my fingers in the face of every thing, if it were not this. Pandora's box was but a toy compared with biliousness or any other fundamental bodily disorder. Watch! watch! and think mens sana in corpore sano [a healthy mind in a healthy body]1 is the whole concern.
It is so long since you have been in Edinr, that all except the general interests connected with the place must have become indifferent to you. I know few people here myself, you I suppose still fewer; and of these even only a very small portion seems to merit much attention. They are getting into Kirks gradually, or lingering on the muddy shore of Private teaching, to see if any Charon will waft them across the Styx of Patronage into the Elysium of tiends [tithes] and glebe. Success attend them all, poor fellows! They are cruising in one small sound, as it were, of the great ocean of life; their trade is harmless, their vessels leaky; it will be hard if they altogether fail.
James Johnston is gone to Broughty-ferry (Dundee) some weeks ago. He seems to aim at being a Scottish Teacher for life: I think if he stick to it, he must ultimately prosper. In the mean time, however, things wear a very surly aspect with him. He has got planted among a very melancholy race of people—Psalm-singing Captains, devout old women, Tabernacle shoemakers &c &c, who wish him to engage in exposition of the Scripture, and various other plans, for the spread not of grammar and accounts, but of the doctrines of Theosophy and Thaumaturgy. It is galling and provoking! You must write to console and encourage poor James: he is a true man as breathes; has no natural friends, and feels at present I can easily conceive, very lonely and dejected.
For myself, I lead a very quiet life here. The Bullers are exceedingly good people; and what is more comfortable, having still a home of my own, I depend less on their good qualities. I am with them only four hours a-day: and I find the task of superintending the studies of my two pupils more pleasing than I had reason to expect. I sit here and read all the morning—or write, regularly burning every thing I write. It is a hard matter that one's thoughts should be so poor and [scan]ty, and at the same time the power of uttering them so difficult to ac[quire.] I should be happy, if I were in health—which in about a twelvemonth or so I keep hoping I shall be. I am greatly better than I was, tho' yet ill enough to break the heart of any but a very obstinate person.
Have you seen the "Liberal"?2 It is a most sappy [lively] performance. Byron has a "vision of Judgement" there, and a letter to the Editor of "My Grandmother's Review," of the wickedest and cleverest turn you could imagine. The vice society, or Constitutional Assocn are going to prosecute. This is a wild fighting, loving, praying, blaspheming, weeping, laughing sort of world!— The literati and literatuli with us are wrangling and scribbling; but effecting nothing, except—to "make the day and way alike long." At present, however, it is mine to make the sheet and story alike long; a duty which I seem in danger of forgetting. Write to me whenever you can spare an hour. I want to have all your news, your difficulties and successes, your hopes and fears, a picture of your whole manière d'être [way of life]. Salute Mr Low in my name. I am always,
My dear Mitchell, / your sincere friend, /
Thomas Carlyle—
My Brother is with me at present studying Medicine and Nat. Philos.—he desires to present his compliments. Leslie has a Book half-out of press on the latter science.3 It is a monstrum horrend—&c cui literally lumen ademptum.4 If I were a Reviewer I would scatter it to the four winds, or on the waters and make the people drink thereof. Adieu!


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The Green Sabre
|The Green Sabre
|GTA San Andreas
|Los Santos
|Badlands, countryside and San Fierro access
|Unlocked by
|Reuniting the Families
The Green Sabre is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, given to protagonist Carl Johnson by his brother Sweet from his home in Ganton, Los Santos, San Andreas.
The mission begins in Sweet's house. The three feuding families have come together to due to Carl's efforts and Sweet decides to finally get back at the Ballas. Sweet also makes good with Carl and calls him his running dog. He then orders everyone to get heated, and meet him under the Mulholland Intersection.
Once CJ leaves the house, Cesar gives him a call. At first, CJ explains he is too busy to meet but Cesar is insistent, so Carl heads to the meeting place under the freeway north of Verdant Bluffs to meet Cesar. Carl then steps inside a Bravura with tinted windows. Cesar and CJ look ahead, as some Ballas exit a garage, followed by Ryder and Big Smoke, and finally Officer Frank Tenpenny. Officer Pulaski then reverses the green Sabre out of the garage, the same green Sabre that was used in the drive-by in Grove Street to kill CJ's mother.
Suddenly, CJ remembers about Sweet. Carl realizes that Sweet and the rest of the Grove Street Families are walking into a trap. But first, he orders Cesar to get Kendl to a safe place. CJ races over to the underside of the Mulholland Intersection before Sweet and the homies are killed.
Upon arriving, Carl sees a deadly shootout taking place. CJ sees that his brother has taken a hit. Out of loyalty, CJ stays with his brother to hold off the Ballas hordes. Numerous Ballas members will come and shoot at Carl and the rest of the gang. Carl wipes them all out until the police arrive.
Once cops arrive, the rest of the Grove Street gang flees. Sweet is taken into a prison hospital, while Carl leaves with C.R.A.S.H. and heads for the countryside. Tenpenny explains what happened and what will happen. From now on, he wants Carl to do what he wants Carl to do. His first task is to eliminate a former cop.
Sweet: So this is it - this is when we show the Ballas what bangin' is all about. Grove Street is king! Say it with me niggaz, Grove Street is KING! Yeah! HOMIES GROVE STREET IS KING!
(CJ enters.)
Sweet: Whassup, CJ. Where you been?
CJ: Hey sorry, bro, I got caught up.
Sweet: Yeah, you probably was hittin' one o' them Ballas rats. Yeah I know what you was up to, nigga!
(To the four homies)
Sweet: Listen up - y'all down with CJ, right? He's been through a lot, I mean we all been through a lot. But CJ's helping us clean up the 'hood. He's taken the fight to the enemy
CJ: Yeah.
Sweet: Showing all of us how we used to bang, what it used to mean to be a Grove Street Family. CJ, you're my brother, my running dog. I should have never doubted you.
CJ: It's nothing.
Sweet: But you're home now, partner - home.
CJ: For sure.
Sweet: Listen up! I want all y'all to go get heated, and meet me Downtown under the Mulholland Intersection. We're gonna roll on these Balla mother-fuckers!
Homie 1: A'ight, a'ight!
Sweet: I'll see y'all in traffic.
Homie 2: Yeah, let's roll!
(Throughout Sweet's speech the homies were constantly agreeing.)
Sweet: (to CJ) You in?
CJ: Hell yeah, I'm in, I'm your running dog, Sweet.
Sweet: Yeah, my nigga... Alright, you go get heated up, and I'll meet you at the crossroads.
(CJ and Cesar are in a car down an alleyway.)
CJ: So you dragged me way across town to see... what?
Cesar: Just in time, ese, take a good hard look over there.
CJ: So, some Ballas hanging around a dope spot, so what?
Cesar:Just watch, homie.
(Ryder and Big Smoke come out of the door that the Ballas have just walked out of.)
CJ: What the fuck? Oh, no! Shit, Smoke, what you into?
Cesar: Ssshhh, ese, look at that ride...
(Big Smoke and Ryder pull open a garage door, Tenpenny is inside the garage along with a green Sabre.)
CJ: That's the mother-fucking green Sabre! Shit, Smoke... C.R.A.S.H. makin' you sell us out! Moms!
Cesar: Sorry ese, I heard a rumour and poked around. I didn't believe it myself but...
CJ: No, no, you did the right thing. I owe you, Ces. I gotta go tell Sweet about - Oh, fuck! Sweet! Look, go get Kendl and take her to a safe place!
Cesar: What you thinking?
CJ: It's Sweet, I think him and the homies is walking into a trap! Just go, GO!
(CJ arrives under the intersection)
CJ: Eh, Sweet man, you alright? You been hit!
Sweet: CJ... Where you been?
CJ: Cesar called, showed me some shit. It's Smoke, and he in deep with Tenpenny and some Ballas! He sold us out!
Sweet: It doesn't matter, man - you gotta get out of here. The cops gonna arrive any second.
CJ: Nah man, I ain't runnin' out on my brother! Yo', Ballas! I'm taking you mother-fuckers, you hear me? I'M TAKING YOU ALL DOWN!
(Police close in on the battle. CJ holds his hands up in the air whilst Sweet is clutching his stomach on the floor. The rest of the Grove Street gang flees. CUT TO CJ, Tenpenny and Pulaski in a police car in the middle-of-nowhere. CJ has a bag over his head. Hernandez is outside the car having a piss.)
Tenpenny: You got a bag over you head, boy. How you feel about that?
CJ: Man, take it off. Please, man, I can't breathe! Please!
Tenpenny: Oh, alright. But only because you said please.
(Tenpenny takes the bag off CJ's head.)
CJ: You fucking sick mother-fucker!
Tenpenny: Intimidate those who intimidate others, Carl. It's my job. Right, Ed?
CJ: Hey, man, where we at?
Tenpenny: The middle-of-fucking-nowhere. Nice, clean air.
CJ: Fucking Smoke! Oh, Sweet!
Tenpenny: Sweet is alive. Alive and inside. He's in a prison hospital being treated for gunshot wounds, awaiting trial.
Pulaski: Yeah, somehow, nobody's caught you yet.
Tenpenny: Oh yeah, you should be glad, Carl. Your moron brother's alive. Your street trash, soon to be turned out sister's alive. And, she's only sucking one grease-ball's dick. Things are going pretty well for you, Carl. So behave, nigga.
Pulaski: We want you to do a little favour for us, Carl.
CJ: I can't believe that nigga Smoke turned on me.
Pulaski: Smoke? Smoke does exactly what he's told. He learned that lesson a long time ago.
Tenpenny: Homies for life? Street loyalty? That's all bullshit, Carl. Didn't you learn that when they ran you out of town, just 'cause you let Brian die? Huh? Eddie, I can't deal with this guy. He's an idiot!
Pulaski: Let me air this fucker out, I...
Tenpenny: No no no no no no no, Officer... For once, let's let the kid do something good with his useless life. He's gonna help us with the fight against crime. Right, Carl?
Pulaski: Yeah. By any means necessary.
Tenpenny: Now you stay the fuck away from Smoke, and stay the fuck away from us. Otherwise Sweet is going to find himself on a Ballas block getting in touch with his feminine side. Hey Hernandez, you going to piss all day?
CJ (to Pulaski): Get your hands off me, man.
Pulaski: For some reason, we've got a little problem with a former friend of ours, he seems to disagree with some of our methods. CJ: Now who could do that?
Tenpenny: Yeah, you'll never find anybody as fork-tongued as this snake ass bastard. Soon as he gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar, he'll whistle any tune Internal Affairs want him to.
Pulaski: See, they've got him hiding up Mount Chiliad someplace, so they can manipulate his testimony any way they want to.
Tenpenny: I want you to pay him a little visit, Carl. And destroy all his evidence before he testifies.
Pulaski: Sort this out, Carl, so Officer Tenpenny can sleep easy at night. We want evidence he ain't gonna talk.
There is no monetary reward for this mission, but the Badlands mission is unlocked. After the end mission cinematic, the player's weapons will be stripped. The player may now buy the safehouses in the countryside, and the player may now save at the Angel Pine Save Point. Also, the player can now traverse the countryside and San Fierro without any police attention.
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External Links
- The Green Sabre mission on YouTube by GTAmissions - PlayStation 2 Version
- The Green Sabre mission on YouTube by GTAmissions - PC Version


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March 26, 2007
The Pontiac Game Changing Performance competition added four new potential season-defining plays with the announcement of the Round 4 nominations from the 2007 NCAA® Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
After each round leading to the Final Four, CBS will nominate four pivotal plays. Alumni, students and fans voting online at ncaasports.com/pontiac will determine which of those four represents the single outstanding example of "Pontiac Game Changing Performance" for that round. Voting for Round 4 runs through 11:59 p.m., March 27 on ncaasports.com/pontiac.
Fourth round nominations include:
Ohio State 92, Memphis 76
Ohio State (#1) stormed into the Final Four for the first time since 1999 with an impressive win over a dangerous Memphis (#2) squad. The Buckeye's earned a Pontiac Game Changing Performance nomination on an outstanding all-around effort by hitting a combined 20 straight free throws in the second half to seal the win.
UCLA 68, Kansas 55
UCLA (#2) is on its way to an NCAA-record 17th-straight Final Four by holding off top seeded Kansas (#1) for the impressive win. The Bruins earned a Pontiac Game Changing Performance nomination thanks to timely scoring including a 3-point buzzer beater by Arron Afflalo with 10 minutes remaining to hold off Kansas and preserve the victory.
Florida 85, Oregon 77
The University of Florida (#1) is back in the Final Four for the second straight year thanks to a convincing victory over Oregon (#3). The Gators earned a Pontiac Game Changing Performance nomination on a balanced scoring attack, which included seven 3 pointers by Lee Humphrey and three players reaching double digits. Florida now has a chance to become the first school since Duke (1990-1991) to win back-to-back NCAA basketball championships.
Georgetown 96, North Carolina 84
Georgetown (#2) rallied and then dominated in overtime for a stunning win against top-seeded North Carolina and is now headed to the Final Four for the first time in more than twenty years. Georgetown overcame an 11-point deficit in the second half and tied the game when Jonathan Wallace hit a three pointer with 31 seconds left earning them a Pontiac Game Changing Performance nomination. The Hoyas then went on to score 14 straight points in overtime to seal the victory.
Northwestern State, winner of last year's Pontiac Game Changing Performance of the Tournament is a great example that winning is not based on the size of your school, winning is determined by the fans that stand behind you. Encouraging alumni, students and fans to vote when your team is nominated brings your school one step closer to the $100,000!
On March 28, CBS will announce the four Pontiac Game Changing Performance finalists. And, once again, fans can vote online to determine who will be the overall $100,000 winner. The winning school of the Pontiac Game Changing Performance of the Tournament will be announced on CBS during the Championship Game on Monday, April 2.
"The `Pontiac Game Changing Performance' is the most successful NCAA® scholarship award program of its kind because it's the only one that truly connects college sports fans with their favorite teams," said Chris Hornberger, Pontiac Advertising Manager. "College basketball fans are among the most passionate and intense of all sports enthusiasts and Pontiac continues to lead the way in bringing fans closer to their favorite NCAA® sports by giving them a major voice in determining which schools will earn a Game Changing Performance nomination and, the ultimate prize, a $100,000 general scholarship contribution."
In a new twist for 2007, each round one lucky individual who visits ncaasports.com/pontiac will win a $5,000 scholarship for themselves or their family. In total, Pontiac will be providing close to $200,000 worth of scholarships to NCAA® colleges and universities from both the men's and women's NCAA® tournaments and individual scholarships this season.
Following this year's award presentation Pontiac, the Official Performance Machines of the NCAA®, will have contributed $1 million to NCAA institutions since the program began in 2004.
Full program details can be reviewed by visiting ncaasports.com/pontiac
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The Zen Master has arrived in New York City. It took many years for Phil Jackson to return to the New York Knickerbockers in some sort of capacity, and could not have come at a better time for the franchise as they go through one of the most disappointing seasons in the history of the Knicks.
"There's no better place to win than New York city," said Jackson, who was officially introduced as the team's president at a news conference Tuesday at Madison Square Garden. " Now to come back to where I've started in basketball, it's a great feeling," Jackson said.
Jackson confirmed that he is working on a five-year contract that will reportedly pay him at least $12 million a year. He didn't waste time on what he intends to do with the troubled Knicks.
" We want to build a team, " said Jackson. "A team doesn't have an "I" in it This is a franchise that developed a team back in the 60's that was consistently playing team basketball for seven, eight years and won a couple of championships that can attest to that."
Jackson was a member of the Knicks' championship-winning teams in 1970 and 1973, but the team has not won since and have made only two Finals appearances. Jackson went on to become one of the most successful coaches in sports history, winning 11 championships with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers.
He also shared some of his Zen like methods and approach when talking about what he envisions as the culture of the Knickerbockers.
"I believe in system basketball" Jackson said. " Developing a health record in which injuries are limited. Developing a mindset in which focus is a capability. Developing system where balls move, passes are made, and people make cuts to give open opportunities for teammates. These are things that are important to me."
Jackson also touched on the team's rocky relationship with the media, and indicated that he will not shy away from the media the way GM Steve Mills or Owner James Dolan have done during this troubled season.
"I'll be accessable," Jackson said, adding that there will still be walls between the club and the people who cover it. "I'm reaching out to say to you today that we'll have an open relationship and a good one.
Jackson will report to Dolan, the Knicks said. However, Dolan said that Jackson will make " All Basketball decisions" as President of the team. He also said that he was "willingly and gratefully" giving up control of the Knicks, now that he has someone that has won 13 NBA championships
"I am by no means an expert in basketball," Dolan said, "I admit I am a little bit out of my element," when it comes to making personnel decisions with the Knickerbockers.
"When you get the chance to have Phil Jackson run your team you do it, plain and simple," Dolan said.
One of the first big decisions that await Jackson is the impending free agency of Carmelo Anthony. Anthony, who has a player option for this summer, can sign a deal with New York that is worth $33 million more than any contract he can sign with another team. He has said that his first priority is to re-sign with the Knicks, but he would like to sit down with Jackson and discuss the team's plans for the future before making a decision.
"I have no problem committing in saying Carmelo is in the future plans," Jackson said.
Jackson indicated that Anthony is part of his future plans, and believes that Anthony can still take his game to another level.
"There's no doubt about Carmelo being one of the top scorers in the league, maybe the best individual isolation player in the game," Jackson said. "I have no problems with committing to saying Carmelo is in the future plans.
"I think there are a number of things I see Carmelo doing as he moves forward. And I think I was on record saying a year ago that I think Carmelo, as great a player as he is, still has another level he can go to. And I hope together, with the team we create, he can get there."
On Monday, Anthony said that he was willing to change his game if Jackson wanted him to if it meant winning championships.


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BRUNSWICK — City police are searching for a robbery suspect who stole cash and cigarettes from BP gas station, 3119 Center Road.
Nick Solar, public information officer for the Brunswick Police Department, said the man entered the BP store at 8:35 p.m. Saturday and asked a clerk for a pack of Newport 100 cigarettes. He fled the scene on foot with a pack of cigarettes and up to $80 in cash.
No weapon was brandished during the robbery, Solar said. There were no injuries to the store clerk.
Police are looking for a white male in his early-to-mid-20s, 5-feet-7 inches to 5-feet-8 inches tall and between 140 and150 pounds. The suspect was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, a dark buttoned up shirt and black sneakers.
Solar said the suspect has tattoos on the top of both of his hands. He is linked to recent robberies at Discount Cigarette Mart in Parma and a Mini Mart Express in Cleveland.
Anyone with details about the robbery is asked to call the Brunswick Police Department at (330) 225-9111.


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Published: February 3, 2011
Rick and Laura Glass built this refrigerated ice rink on their property in McDonald in 2005, where friends and family from all over skate all winter. Laura Glass conducts classes for young skaters on weekends.
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Acupuncture for Sleep Disorders
by Dr. Nithin Jayan on August 18, 2011 at 12:22 PM General Health News - G J E 4
Acupuncture may be the answer for a cheap and effective treatment of sleep disorders. Obstructive sleep apnoea is the most common sleep disorder affecting about 4% of men and 2% of women.
Obstructive sleep apnoea is a sleep- related breathing disorder in which there is repeated obstruction to the upper airway, while the person is sleeping.
AdvertisementApnoea literally means "without breath". A treatment called nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is considered the 'gold standard' treatment for the condition.
CPAP helps to hold the airway open and prevents collapse during sleep. Though it is nearly 100 per cent effective practice is difficult. Most of the patients do not tolerate treatment with CPAP. It was in this context that alternatives were sought. New research asserts that acupuncture is a good choice.
Acupuncture has been practised for thousands of years in China for the treatment of various diseases. It is a part of traditional Chinese medicine that treats patients by inserting and manipulating needles in the body.
The past century witnessed the advent of electro-acupuncture (EA) as an effective alternative of the widely used manual acupuncture (MA). In EA, a small electric current is passed between pairs of acupuncture needles. It was applied extensively in clinical and basic research. Studies showed that the results of EA and MA differ.
Prolonged and multiple sessions of acupuncture are usually required to treat obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). The latest study concentrated on the immediate effect of a single session of OSA. It also weighed electro-acupuncture against manual acupuncture. The study took place at the Public Hospital of the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the Division of Sleep Disorders of the Department of Psychobiology.
Forty patients were involved in the study and they were assigned into different groups randomly. All the participants, aged between 30-70 years, were ones with significant OSA confirmed by polysomnographic studies (commonly called 'sleep studies').
A single session of either MA or EA of 10 Hz was found to provide significant benefits for patients with obstructive sleep apnoea. A significant decrease in Apnoea-Hypopnoea Index, a measure of the severity of sleep apnoea was noted. The number of nocturnal respiratory events in patients was also found to have lowered.
Further research is hereby called upon since the positive results point to a cost effective means to improve the quality of life of multitudes suffering obstructive sleep apnoea.
Reference: Immediate effect of acupuncture on the sleep pattern of patients with obstructive sleep apnea; Anaflavia O Freire et al; Acupunture in Medicine.
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Yesterday, Aug 13, Atari announced the return of the beloved "RollerCoaster Tycoon" series as a PC title with a teaser for the upcoming "RollerCoaster Tycoon World" due out in early 2015. Atari promises this will be a full-fledged effort to bring the series back to its established roots featuring a combination of fan-favorite features and completely new gameplay elements. The game will include a more innovative track builder, more rides than ever before, and all-new cooperative multiplayer functions in addition to the classic single player modes. Most importantly, developers Pipeworks – who are the minds behind games such as WSOP: Full House Pro for Xbox 360 and Zumba Fitness for PS3, Wii, and 360 – promise the release will be a full premium PC experience, meaning it will be completely micro-transaction free.
According to Atari CEO Fred Chesnais, "Many of the new features in 'RollerCoaster Tycoon World' were not possible a few years ago." Thanks to advancements in technology, fans can now look forward to visiting other player-created parks, share blueprints of coasters, and chose from multiple landscapes to build upon. In addition to the classic single-player mode full of ride designing and deep simulation, players will be able to collaborate with up to four players to create one massive amusement park together.
This marks the sixth title overall in the "RollerCoaster Tycoon" series. After the original "Chris Sawyer" Trilogy and an eight year hiatus, fans were thrilled to hear that Atari had plans to reboot the series with an all new version of the game for the Nintendo 3DS. Unfortunately, it fell a little short of fan expectations and received mainly negative reviews from the critics. In response, Atari decided to move the development to a mobile platform, releasing "RollerCoaster Tycoon 4" exclusively on iOS. This title was more successful, however its heavy use of micro-transactions were heavily criticized. This must be what ultimately led to the decision to return to PC, as the interest was clearly there, but hardcore fans of the series wanted the classic titles they know and love. Although much information really hasn't been released, the train of through looks very promising for those looking for a trip down memory lane.


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Brian Meech
Brian is a random character found on the streets of Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV. He is a banker and a major crack addict, and despite his Ivy League education, he has stooped to the lowest levels for his addictions, giving blowjobs for crack. At first, he is a pathetic loser, and is so high the first time he meets Niko Bellic that he just hands him $100 for nothing and walks off. After a short absence, Niko meets the down-on-his-luck college man for the third time; it is here that Brian states that he has finally turned his life around, getting himself cleaned up and getting engaged. He then apologizes to Niko about "being a dick to him", and asks this protagonist for a favor: he is going to go pay back his old dealers to make things right, but is afraid that the temptation might be too great, and as he does not want to go down the same stupid path again, he asks Niko to join him to keep him from slipping. Niko then takes him to the dealer's location, off of Onion and Asparagus Avenue.
Brian states that this is the ninth step of his rehabilitation program, and that his case worker refused to go with him, inciting that he needed to do it on his own. He then mentions that this step has been very expensive to him, and that he has hurt a lot of people through his addiction.
Niko waits in the car while Brian goes to talk with his former drug pushers alone. Unfortunately for Brian, he forgot about the interest that the dealers wanted, and they start beating him with baseball bats, inciting Niko to go and save him from them. Once the two dealers feel their lives are threatened (all Niko needs to do for this is brandish a weapon), they flee, and Brian stands up. He then thanks Niko and asks him to return him to his home on Wappinger. Once home, he gives Niko $500 as a token of his gratitude, and goes inside with his fiance.
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