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Returning for the first time since Sept. 16, 2012 on NBC's "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, 49-year-old former U.N. Amb. Susan Rice defended her past statements on Benghazi when she told a national TVaudience that the attack was due to "spontaneous" rioting. Less than two months from the 2012 presidential election, it's unclear why President Barack Obama tapped Rice to explain the al-Qaida-linked terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 52-year-old Chris Stevens and three other Americans. "What I said to you that morning, and what I did every day since, was to share the best information that we had at the time," said Rice, repeating a factually incorrect statement that the Benghazi attack was a due to in inflammatory YouTube video defaming the Prophet Mohammed. Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said they knew Benghazi was a terror attack.
Rice's statements the Sunday morning after Benghazi infuriated conservatives in Congress, especially Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), declaring Rice's remarks incredulous. "The information I provided which I explained to you, was what we had at the moment. It could change. I commented that this was based on what we know on that morning, was provided to me and my colleagues and indeed to Congress by the intelligence community, and that been well validated in many different ways since," said Rice, failing to acknowledge that five days after the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack, the White House knew its was a carefully planned terrorist plot. Rice's public comments were so off-the-wall that it prevented her from succeeding Hillary as Secretary of State. Her continued denials show a stubborn streak and make matters worse for Democrats.
Rice can't admit she blew smoke to the media on national TV talk shows to protect Obama's reelection bid. Despite getting Osama bin Laden May 1, 2011, there would have been hell to pay in the polls had the public blamed Obama for the Benghazi terror attack. Rice insists that no one knew any more than she reported Sunday, Sept. 16, yet Obama and Hillary have openly admitted the administration knew from Day 1 that Benghazi was carefully planned terror attack. "That information turned out in some respects no to be 100 percent correct," Rice told Gregory, not admitting that she was used the White House to protect Obama. What she hasn't acknowledged is the way the White House threw her under the bus. Rice didn't become Secretary of State because key member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would not have voted to approve her nomination.
Rice insists that the "intelligence community" prepared her briefing or talking points on Benghazi. That's not the way it works. White House officials digest intelligence then write the talking points, whether or not they make any sense. In the case of Benghazi, Rice's talking points made no sense, certainly not to anyone with any knowledge of Benghazi. "But the notion that somehow I or anybody else in the administration is patently false, and that's been amply demonstrated," said Rice in a classic Orwellian reversal. Withdrawing her name for Secretary of State, Rice admitted that she misled the public about the events in Benghazi. If she did nothing wrong, why would she withdraw her name? Handing Secretary of State to former Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass), wasn't easy for the ambitious Stanford and Oxford graduate, tragic career mistake at the hands of the White House.
Rice's excuse that she simply read the intelligence community's talking points about Benghazi doesn't pass the smell test. As U.N. ambassador, Rice was required to apply her own common sense to public statements. When she blamed the Benghazi debacle on "spontaneous rioting," she knew it didn't match with the facts a good five days after the incident. McCain and Graham scoffed at Rice's denials of what prompted her to deceive on Sunday morning talk shows. While Obama wasn't really challenged in the waning days of the 2012 campaign, his handlers didn't want to get upended by Benghazi. Should Hillary decide to run in 2016, Rice's public testimony will come back to bite her. While she can't denounce Rice without backfiring, Hillary walks a tightrope on Benghazi. Her best defense is that it's impossible to stop all terrorist attacks, especially in lawless regions like Libya.
Rice's continued denials about her remarks on Sunday morning talk pose problems for Democrats down the road, especially Hillary. Instead of blaming the matter on the CIA or FBI, Rice should have accepted responsibility for misstatements that she knew were false within hours after Benghazi. Insisting she didn't know the facts makes her look naïve and inexperienced, all the more reason to withdraw her name from consideration for secretary of state. McCain and Graham have hammered the White House on Benghazi because Rice's so-called talking points did more to protect the Obama campaign than get the real word out about Benghazi. While there's plenty of criticism for Rice, Hillary can't be held accountable for lax Benghazi security. Ultimately that lies with former Defense Secretary Bob Gates who should have ordered better military security.
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Most of the vegetable oils and animals fats contain triglycerides, which on simple processing give fatty acid esters, called "Bio-Diesel". The chemical reaction involving a lower alcohol (Ethanol or Methanol), producing Glycerine as a coproduct, is called trans-esterification.
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Installation of Tinna's Bio-diesel plant will give confidence to all the farmers and plantors of Jatropha as they will have a ready buyer of Jatropha seeds.
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The Cottonwood-Jackson Community Health Service Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) has been working with health care providers in the Windom area to help develop resources and increase access to high quality nutritious foods, opportunities for physical activity, and tobacco cessation. This project is part of a larger effort by Cottonwood-Jackson-Redwood-Renville which is funded by the Minnesota Department of Health SHIP grant. In 2010, 19 counties in southwest and south central Minnesota including Cottonwood County conducted an adult health survey to learn about health and health habits, including tobacco use. This survey was conducted in the spring of 2010 as part of the SHIP program that aims to help Minnesotan's live longer, healthier lives by reducing the burden of chronic disease. This survey indicated that 17% of Cottonwood County residents are current smokers, and 23% are former smokers. Of the 40 % who are current and former smokers, 5 out of 10 said that they had tried to quit in the last 12 months. In addition, an assessment of area health providers revealed 44% of providers indicated that about quarter to half of their patients were smokers and there was no systematic way that patients were referred for tobacco cessation services. With the help of SHIP, the Tobacco Fax Referral System, which is a collaboration among seven of Minnesota's major health plans to connect patients to appropriate tobacco quit line services was implemented in January, 2011 at the Sanford Windom and Mt Lake Clinics, Windom Area Hospital, Avera Medical Group Windom, and the Cottonwood-Jackson Community Health Service. This system enables health care providers to use a single form and fax number to refer patients who want to quit using tobacco to tobacco cessation support. All Minnesota residents, whether or not they are covered by a health plan, have access to this free tobacco cessation program. From January 2011 to June 2011, the tobacco fax referral system was used by five health care providers to varying degrees with a total of 60 people referred to the program, and 30 people agreed to enroll in the program. Judy Trotter, Clinic Manager for Avera Medical Group Windom is excited about what she sees happening with the tobacco fax referral system in their clinic. She stated "working together on this project was a good opportunity to get local clinics and health care systems to work together on common goals. We identified the need and made it happen. SHIP helped us get this going by helping arrange the details with the Center for Prevention at BCBS to get us started." Shannon LaCanne, Wellness Director at the Windom Area Hospital also saw benefits for patients seen at the hospital. She stated, "Putting the tobacco fax referral system in action was a success for our group. It is an easy program for providers to access." Laurie Stenke, Clinic Manager for Sanford Windom and Mountain Lake added "We know how important it is for all of us to ask our patients about using tobacco and a patients desire to quit. If all of us are asking people about tobacco use, it should increase the odds of quitting." According to a Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Minnesota study entitled "Healthcare Costs and Smoking in Minnesota, November 2010, smoking was responsible for $2.87 billion in excess medical expenditures in 2007 in Minnesota. In this same study, smoking also claims the lives of 5,135 Minnesotan's each year and its the number one preventable cause of death in the US. Trotter concludes "it only makes sense for all of us to help our patients manage and prevent the harms of tobacco. This is a big system change and one that we know can continue even if SHIP can't support our efforts. We now have the data to show this!" SHIP seeks to change systems by working together to identify ways to support practices that help manage chronic diseases. "This is a great first step in getting public and private providers to jointly implement a practice that will impact the lives of many people in our community and help them become tobacco-free," commented Bonnie Frederickson, PHN and SHIP Coordinator. "This is exactly what SHIP is about, and this group has been so committed to make things happen!"
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Center for Advanced Medicine (CAM): this 150,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art outpatient facility houses many of Mount Sinai's community health care programs
East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP): Located in the CAM building, Icahn School of Medicine student-run clinic, EHHOP provides affordable, high-quality, comprehensive care
Jack Martin Fund Clinic: A New York State Department of Health-designated AIDS center, also provides screening and treatment for infectious diseases including tuberculosis and hepatitis C co-infection
Linkage House: A residence for the community's elderly, offering safe and affordable housing, access to quality health care and programs to help its residents remain active
Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai: provides elderly adults with access to medical care, healthy living activities, educational programs and resources to support specific needs and interest
Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center: offers confidential, comprehensive medical, mental health, and prevention education services to your people from ages 10-22. Map
Mount Sinai Diabetes Center: the center designs personalized plans for treating and managing types 1 and 2 and pregnancy-associated diabetes and related disorders
Mount Sinai Health Home: a free service for Medicaid patients, funded by the New York Department of Health, dedicated to coordinate health care services for it's members.
Mount Sinai Comprehensive Health Program – Downtown: this Chelsea location is a full-service clinic offering HIV/AIDS testing, quality health care and counseling
Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program: the largest academic home-visit program in the nation, provides superior home-based care to adults with complex and serious illnesses
Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program (SAVI): offers free and confidential counseling, referrals and support to survivors of sexual or domestic violence
World Trade Center Health Program: offers monitoring, physical and mental health treatment and medication at no cost to eligible WTC first responders, workers and volunteers
For your immediate and easy access to high-quality health services, Mount Sinai Urgent Care Upper West Side is in the neighborhood. Our doctors are available 7 days, no appointment is needed.More information
Community Needs Assessment [PDF]
Community Service Plan: 2013 - 2017 [PDF]


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Most healthy/nutritious food you have experienced while in The Philippines:
"We always incorporate vegetables in our meal. It's not only affordable but healthy! I love Pinakbet (mixed veggies) and Chopsuey (stir fry veggies). We have different ways of cooking base in one's region. As to where I got my cooking recipe which is from my Papa (Dad). He cooks it sauteed in garlic, onion, tomato then pork cuts. Add basic vegetables including squash, bitter melon, eggplant, string beans, okra, and chili peppers. Some delicacy adds shrimp paste, better known as 'bagoong' to taste.
Another classic chinese dish is Chopsuey which has become part of our meal. Sauteed in garlic and onion. It includes vegetables which are cauliflower, carrots, cabbage, broccoli and mushrooms. The pork may be substituted with diced chicken meat. You can always substitute the vegetables and meat according to what you want but the staple should be there which is garlic, onion, soy sauce, salt and pepper to taste.
I also enjoy grilled fish. Having to lived in a tropical island rich in seafood one cannot missed to have this delicacy especially during summer! The fish is flavored with lemon grass, garlic, onion, salt and pepper and brushed with mixed tablespoon of soy sauce and vinegar. Now in our tradition when you serve grilled fish you need to have soup to have a perfect meal. It's always best to have soup with it and what i like best is pork stew known to us as 'Nilagang Baboy'. This is cooked with onion, tomatoes, lemon grass, pork cubes and vegetables which includes string beans, radish, chili pepper and bok choy. Some region would add tamarind to make a sour broth which becomes 'Sinigang na Baboy'."
"Lastly, a meal wont be complete without rice.
We prefer white rice since brown rice is more expensive and there's abundance in white rice. The portions may vary and we always have them with our meal.But a healthy portion would be a cup per meal."
What made it so healthy/nutritious:
"We make use of portion having more vegetables than the meat. You get all your healthy ingredients in one tasty dish! From your carbohydrates to your green food. That's why portion and choice of food always matter."
What is the setting in which you ate this food:
"We Filipinos always prefers it homemade. Nothing is better than enjoying your meal with your family! On some special occasions we can enjoy it in restaurants. In a busy day, there are mini eateries that serves variety of Filipino food known to us as 'Karinderia' especially during lunch time." ~Michelle R.
Michelle was born and raised in the Philippines. She currently resides in Florida, USA. This is a picture from her Filipino wedding. Thank you for your contribution Michelle, very insightful!!
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Apparently I didn't even set my alarm this time. Although now I've acertained my magic oversleep number is 2 hours. Does this mean I have to start over?...Just say the word, I need a YES or NO from both Neetu and Ty on this one.
Last night I had the most vivid dream yet. I had no idea dreaming could be so intense. I was at school, but it was in front of this DAM that had just blown over. I swear I could feel the water...very intense.
I set my alarm on that dream for only 20 mins. I don't really know why, but for some reason I felt like I had to try that out to see how I'd feel. It was about the same as the standard 30, although the REM time was cut short by the alarm, which went off right in the middle of the intense dreaming.
I had my first
I had woken up naturally after about 15 minutes of sleep, and as I was drifting back into dreamland, I realized that I was sleeping right as I started to dream. I thought "wow... let's try out this lucid dream stuff" and leapt off some stairs. I hit the pavement and it felt like real pain, although it didn't last. Then I figured that I needed to think about flying, and as soon as I did, I could feel myself being yanked way into the air.
It was a strange experience. I could barely see what was happening in the dream... everything was really fuzzy. But I could feel it as if it was actually happening. I woke up after just a minute or so.
I recall recently having a dream, where I was exploring an area something like the Grand Canyon. I was at the top, hiking, enjoying the view of the canyon below, feeling the tiredness in my legs as I walked endlessly, but none the less feeling good. It was a pleasant dream.
My perspective changed when I suddenly became aware that I was dreaming. I remember pausing, taking a moment to try little, impossible things to verify this. There was a rock I owned as a kid, dug out of the clay bank near Lake Kashagawigamog, that I had carried with me for weeks after the visit. I knew the weight, the smooth feel, the dimensions, and I knew, it had been lost almost forty years ago, so there was no way it would be in my pocket. Yet, there is was, and my lucid dream state was confirmed.
One thing I've been able to do since I was a kid, when I would accidentally lucid dream, was fly. At first, it was more like hovering in place, then slight movements. As years past, I learned how to move up and down, then how to adjust my speed. Yes, I actually had to teach myself how to fly properly in my own dreams. Now, as an adult, I can soar as high and as fast as my imagination can take me, and here I was, on the edge of a giant chasm, so I took the plunge. It was exciting, invigorating and memorable.
When I woke up, I felt so alive and refreshed, like I often feel after a good run, or a particularly satisfying writing stint. I felt like I had accomplished something, yet in reality I hadn't - it was all im my mind.


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Due to an unforeseen set of circumstances in the last two days, Libertarian Congressional Candidate Lucas Overby, who had originally intended to wait until 2016 to run for the Congressional District 13 (CD--13) seat here in Florida, announced Friday afternoon (May 2) he would in fact enter the race for Congress in this November's election.
With Wednesday's unexpected withdrawal of the Democratic Candidate Manuel Sykes from November's CD--13 contest, Overby and his team felt the relatively unpopular Republican David Jolly should not go unchallenged this fall. After the deadline for a Democrat to file for election had passed Friday afternoon, Overby publicly announced his campaign for CD–13.
Overby's reputation and experience gained from the March Special Election
During the special election held in Congressional District 13 (CD--13), covering the majority of Pinellas County, Libertarian Congressional Candidate Lucas Overby gained a lot of recognition and respect from his constituents in his district. Thousands of supporters verbally promised to support Overby over Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly in the March 11 Special Election.
However, establishment Republicans campaigned hard the last weekend before the race, using the cliche "lesser of two evils argument", trying to scare constituents into believing voting for Overby would sweep Sink into office. Karl Rove commissioned Rand Paul to record a robocall on Jolly's behalf, specifically targeting the 20,000 voters most likely to support Overby in the Special Election. By Tuesday, bringing a 15 percent in increase in support for David Jolly in the last two days of the election, and leaving Overby with a disappointing (though respectable through outsiders eyes) five percent of the vote.
Major differences between March's and November's Elections
The Republicans ability to convince their supporters to voter for the GOP over anyone else, as "any vote for a minor party is a vote for a Democrat" is not applicable this time. There will not be $12 billion spent on mudslinging between the Republican and Democrat, working jointly to keep the Libertarian out of the limelight. This November, the well-known and well-liked Libertarian Lucas Overby will run alone against the fairly unpopular and rather in-consistent David Jolly.
Overby speaks with Examiner
On Friday evening, Libertarian Congressional Candidate Lucas Overby took time to answer a few questions for the Tampa Bay Libertarian Examiner about his upcoming campaign for Congress.
When did you decide to campaign for the November Election? I started thinking about it Sunday evening. After the Democrat dropped out of the race Wednesday evening, I officially made the decision Thursday morning. However, I waited until early Friday afternoon to publicize my decision.
What made you decide to run for the race in November? After the Democratic Candidate Maunel Sykes was basically pushed out and disowned by his own political party, my staff and I could not let Jolly go unchallenged. The way the Pinellas Democratic Party treated him (Sykes) was uncalled for.
What did you learn from the first race that will continue into this race? Well I learned $12,000 does not go as far as $12 million. However, my high approval ratings and hard work also helped to re-engage and re-empower voters who had given up on voting, and show citizens they had more to choose from than just the "lesser of two evils".
What do you plan to do differently this time? Well, I plan to raise more money for one. Also, we are crafting a better get-out-the-vote strategy. We have realized a verbal promise to vote for me does not always carry itself to the polls where the cold feet happen.
How do you plan to raise more money? We will ensure we have more solid base fundraisers, and be more proactive in asking for donations. Without a true "other evil" in the race, we can concentrate more on raising funds. We plan to put together a money bomb this weekend.
How do you expect the attacks to differ this time? We believe the attacks will remain on the public level. I myself am not an attack candidate. However, we know we will be treated as a real threat this time.
Final words from Overby's interview
Overby finished up the interview by saying he has some good opportunities, and that his staff is really excited this time. While he was disappointed the stormy weather interfered with coverage from the news crews, Overby feels he has a big advantage over the Special Election, as Jolly has not acted nor voted the way many Republicans had hoped.
Overby believes with this being the second round, and with both he and Jolly having the name recognition from the previous election, both candidates will spend time getting out and meeting with the public. Overby still plans to remain on the two committees he serves on with the Libertarian Party of Florida (LPF), including the Candidates Committee, on which he serves as the chair.
Help Libertarian Lucas Overby's Campaign and the LPF
To help support Libertarian Candidate Lucas Overby's Congressional Campaign, whether through activism, monetary donations, or both, please visit his campaign website and Facebook page. To get involved with the Libertarian Party of Florida (LPF), please visit the party's website and Facebook page.
Suggested Links
- Libertarian Wyllie officially invited to Florida's biggest gubernatorial debate
- Wyllie speaks to two Tampa Bay LP affiliates this week
- Adrian Wyllie attending and speaking at events this week all across Florida
- Team Overby feels well prepared for Tuesday's Special Election
- List of canceled candidate debates and forums keeps growing for Jolly and Sink


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Kate Corrigan, PA-C, chose to become a cardiovascular surgery physician assistant because of the heart's complexity and because she enjoys a team-based work environment. "Communication and teamwork are strongly emphasized among the surgical team, nurses and the patient," she says. "This is essential for coordinated patient care."
"What I enjoy most about being a PA is being involved with patient care from the operating room, through recovery, and then seeing them at the post-op clinic," Kate said. "It is wonderful to see the patient's progress at the outpatient visit and get to know their personalities when they are feeling better."
After earning her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., she completed her master's degree in physician assistant studies from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
Born and raised in Portland, Kate married her husband in the summer of 2013. She and her husband purchased a house last year and they are enjoying making it into a home. In her spare time, Kate enjoys spending time with her friends and family and is excited to get a puppy.
Cardiovascular surgery
Bachelor of Science, chemistry: Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash.Master of Science, physician assistant studies: Oregon Health & Science University, Portland


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Surpassing the standards of all the smartphones and the tablets, Samsung Note 3 helps you climb the new standards of style and technology. A great smart phone in the size of tablet. So, calling it a Phablets wont' be wrong, i.e. Tablet + Phone = Phablets.
A brand new Samsung Note 3 in the box comes with the phablets, Quick Guide, USB cable, and charger connector. Since Oct 2011 Samsung Note 3 has successfully won millions of hearts worldwide raising the levels of expectations. It is available in two basic colors, white and black. Right after its launch, some of the critics called the superb device has ugly toad. But the high acceptance levels acclaimed by the users all over world proved the critics all wrong. Ask anyone, their first choice of phone is Samsung Note 3. The marketing skills and strategy Samsung has followed to promote the super-awesome device is simply breathtaking.
The Samsung Note 3 is readily available in the markets of the every country of the world. Some countries offer some mesmerizing deals to promote the purchase. The phone can be bought on contractual basis. Some deals include Free SIM card, a screen guard with pay as you go phones. Even the sponsorships or the Easy EMI options are open for the amazing Samsung Note 3. In accordance to your pocket, you can opt pay out option, EMI or contract basis for your phone. The key point is that the contractual phones comes along associated with the network service providers like Airtel, Vodafone, etc. for a limited duration of 12 or 24 months.
It nothing but a lucrative deal, why would not a person love to buy such an amazing phone in the pants of tablet. The big phone is the style statement among the people these days. Apart from the looks the magnificent features it is endowed with lures you to buy Samsung Note 3.
• Display: A big screen of 5 inches comes with the phablets giving word best experience of media files and games. A 12.7 cm screen with a super fine resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels with Super AMOLED capacitive screen brings out the best.
• Processing Unit: We all know that a good processing unit is the heart of good phone. The Central processing unit sported by Samsung Note 3 is 1.5GHz dual core processor. It aids a faster processing and promotes an ease with applications to run.
• Operating System: The Operating systems of any device acts as an interface between the hardware and user applications. Originally Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread was installed in the device. Since October 2012, it is installed with Android 4.1.2 Jellybean with TouchWiz user.
• Memory and Storage: It supports an internal memory of 16GB. With the internal memory, there is also the support of Micro SD card expandable up to 16GB. The RAM supported by Samsung Note 3 is 2GB.
• Camera: The picture quality endorsed by the Samsung Note 3 kills the need of the addendum camera. Not only the rear or back camera, the front camera pictures are of high quality. It supports a front camera of 16MP and rear camera of 2MP.


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More: Have you thought about plastic surgery, Botox, fillers?
CS: I did have some work done on my eyes last summer but no one would really know. This is the thing about that: We're coming back to choice—for women or men. If you want to have work done, have it done. Don't let anyone tell you not to do it. I think the thing about aging is, don't fight it too hard. It's going to happen. If you're lucky enough to live long enough, you live through menopause. And then you come out the other side and you go, "Life is still great."
More: Do you imagine working until just the day you drop?
CS: Yes, I do. I love what I do. I'm fortunate that I can be selective enough to not have to do anything. I did a couple of pilots over the years and the scripts were great, but the pilots weren't very good. And I was really happy they didn't get picked up.
More: What's one thing you wish you could tell your 25 year old self?
CS: "Relax, will ya?!" (Laughs) Gosh! You know, I became world famous at 18, and dealing with fame like that at an early age, and coming to New York, I don't think I felt very confident. I don't' think I started feeling confident until… (Pauses) Well, I gave birth to Clementine at 28, and then I think at that point, the center of the universe switched from me to my child. I was the sole supporter and that, actually, is what I'm most proud of—my children.
More: Time for some random questions. What's left on your bucket list?
CS: Well there's a couple movies I'd like to produce and star in. One of them is based on an extraordinary book written by a friend of mine, Deborah Strobin, called An Uncommon Journey: From Vienna to Shanghai to America. It's a story of how a brother and a sister who escaped to freedom during World War II. And the other thing I'd love to do is some kind of tribute to Doris Day. She's under-appreciated and brilliant in everything she did. She was the number one box office star and she was the number one vocalist in America.
More: You've been married twice—would you do it again?
CS: I would love to get married again, but live separately.
More: I think a lot of women can relate to that thought! Now, please say the first word or phrase that pops into your mind to describe some of your male costars. Jeff Bridges [from The Last Picture Show]?
CS: Fabulous.
More: Robert De Niro [Taxi Driver]?
CS: Unbelievably attractive.
More: Burt Reynolds [At Long Last Love]?
CS: Love him forever.
More: Bruce Willis [Moonlighting]?
CS: Sexiest man alive.
More: Mark Harmon [Moonlighting]?
CS: The best! I would like to go out with him now.
More: Robert Downey Jr. [Chances Are]?
CS: We had a lot of chemistry. He will always be my boyfriend.
More: What's your biggest indulgence?
CS: Chocolate! I like darker chocolate. They say it's good for you.
More: It is—it has anti-oxidents!
CS: I know! And I'm going to have some right now…
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AT&T Sony Xperia TL Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update now available
The update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for the internationally-sold Sony Xperia T started rolling out a few weeks ago. Naturally then, people who own AT&T's version of that phone, called the Xperia TL, have been wondering when their devices would be graced with this update.
The answer seems to be – starting now. Over on the XDA Developers forum, there's a thread dedicated to people seeing the update in Sony's PC Companion desktop software. For now, it's unclear whether the update is also rolling out over-the-air, or if you can only use the aforementioned computer app in order to get it. Though if you're in doubt, you can always manually check for the update in your phone's Settings. Then, if you're not presented with it, just use the PC Companion and get it from there.
The new software version is said to be a lot smoother in operation than the previous ones, thanks in no small part to Google's Project Butter we assume. You'll also get an 'extended battery mode' option, which is what Sony thought of cooking up instead of just using bigger batteries in its devices. The camera now has HDR abilities, and the Wi-Fi connections should be more stable. Of course, everything that Google baked into this first version of Jelly Bean is in as well.
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It's ironic that the last words of the New York Times Green Blog come from Dieter Helm, who used to be the UK's name brand energy economist but suddenly persona non grata now he points out the utter failure of Kyoto to UK and EU policy makers at the same time he suggests natural gas is the obvious solution that lies if not under our nose, then certainly under our feet.
I'll miss the Green Blog but perhaps all the Green blogs of Europe can learn something.
The blog didn't actually solve anything. It provided a forum for countless environmentalists to nibble around the edges and to have counter productive vendettas. It allowed everyone to vent: Cuomo was a traitor. Shale gas is a Cheneyite plot. Everyone could argue about the best energy, completely losing sight of how the argument should have been against the worst. Assuming we all agree that whale oil is no solution, the blog got blindsided by the success of gas in replacing coal: The US's gift to the planet. In the meantime, they nibbbled around the edges, providing arenas for any number of 1% solutions or concentrating on which science fiction scenario was the most pure.
The Green Blogs of especially the Guardian, but also people like Business Green or 2 degrees or Ends long lost sight of actually wanting to accomplish anything except perpetuating themselves. The very last thing they would want to do is to put themselves out of a job. Solving CO2 would be the true environmental catastrophe, or at least to their little echo chamber cum eco-sphere portion of the environment. To varying degrees, they have all been hostile to natural gas, seeing it not as enabler of green targets but as enemy. To them, the simplistic all carbon fuels are bad narrative is getting carried away and threatens to take equally important issues along with it.
By shutting themselves out of the real world, where natural gas actually provides solutions, as imperfect as they are, greens run two risks:
1. All the sites, in common with allies like the CBI (!) and the Lib Dems, are so convinced of their righteousness that they are missing how the rest of the world is moving on. They too will one day wake up to find that it isn't 2004 anymore.
2. Most dangerously from a left/liberal perspective, they damage progressive politics by their all or nothing approach. We could end up not with the far off catastrophe, or not, of runaway climate change but with a far more dangerous threat.
Pretending climate change is the only problem of our time ignores the others. Pretending that natural gas has no role and is in fact the enemy of the green economy enables not only coal in Europe, but parties of the right and all they include.
In short, the Greens, if in fact they are true progressives, are walking us into a trap. We'll end up with the worst of all possible worlds: A dirty world built on right wing fantasy.{jacomment on}


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Does anyone in gaming really care about the whole 3D fad? It's never done much for me; not in movies, nor in video games.
Even during the Avatar monomania of '09, 3D was never going to surmount to anything but a passing novelty and an excuse to ramp up already overpriced ticket prices. Sure it looked cool, but it wasn't the revolutionary progress some fanboys were making it out to be.
But I understand its appeal in movies. Video games, however, I'm not so sure.
I've never played a game in 3D that's made me stand up and take notice. I nearly always play 3DS games in 2D nowadays, to conceive battery life, and because 3D really doesn't make all that much of a difference.
Nintendo is on the same page. "I don't think we'll present [3D graphics] as one of the key features of our consoles but will probably stick with 3D as one of the minor elements," said Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.
And he's right. I'm relieved to hear a man with such power inside the upper echelon of Nintendo utter those words. 3D hasn't been the revelation it was marketed as. There's no need to diminish the impact of the 3DS by pretending it's the key point of difference for the next four years.
It isn't. 3D will continue to be an interesting novelty, but it isn't a reason to buy or even play a 3DS. There isn't one game worth the $70 price of admission to experience a new generation of visual pleasure.
It's all just a resounding sense of meh.
Likewise, Sony seems to be off the idea. The execs assure us they aren't, but E3 this year was all about connecting the Vita and PS3. Not 3D. Their own TV was a failure, at least in Australia where it was doomed with a laughably limited release, and only a minority of the population has bothered to upgrade to a 3D TV.
There's the main problem; 3D televisions haven't flourished as they might have, and games aren't a viable reason to upgrade. 3D video games on home consoles are reliant on movies being the drawcard. A majority of tech-savvy users are unlikely to upgrade for games alone, and movies clearly haven't done enough to entice the masses.
The whole situation isn't helped by the gameplay itself. No game markets itself as a '3D only' adventure, because it's a novelty, nothing less, nothing more. At least the 3DS can keep its audience in awe for a few hours with its glasses-free party trick.
The poor PS3 is hassled by the need to wear bulky glasses, and then there's a negligible difference -- if any to the gameplay.
We haven't seen any benefits to 3D gaming. That's the problem. There's no reason to upgrade to a 3D television, or even waste an extra 25 percent of 3DS battery. We're better off just playing games in 2D. That's why 3D gaming is nothing but a minor novelty, and why it's arguably a horrendous failure compared to what the big-wigs had in mind.
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Jakerz said: I feel like 3D is a cheap (well pricey actually) gimmick. I would go to a 2D session of a movie, that is if cinemas in Sydney bothered to keep them in 2 dimensions. But it's all about the money :\ 3D = extra $$$ to be forked out.
CptAwesome said: like i said before, i love 3D, but it really depends on the actual product... for instance, when i went to imax as a kid, the 3d had more of a 'popping out' effect, and felt like it was really coming right at me, where as watching avatar in 3d back in '09 was more of a 'slightly off the screen' and more of a depth 3d (going into the screen, rather than popping out).
has anyone been to jb hi-fi lately? the latest 3d is called 'cinema 3d', which uses the normal glasses from cinemas (no battery). there is this LG 3d tv which is most likely on the floor for display as it is the best 3d tv out... put on the glasses and watch the 'pre-made' 3d video... IT IS AWESOME. but thats probly cause the video was made for that sole purpose... so in the end it depends on the 3d product itself lol
Nintendo said: I'm a baller, so it's all good.
Nintendo said: IMO, yes due to the fact that 99% of the population could actually live without 3D.
stublu said: Nintendo said: IMO, yes due to the fact that 99% of the population could actually live without 3D.
Stupid comment is stupid
99% of the population could live without video games too.
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FireVapour said: (a) can't afford one, or (b) bought a HD TV just before the 3D TVs came out & are now pissed.
FireVapour said: I'm just curious, of all the people on here who are 3D TV bashers,how many of you actually own, or have had a decent sitting down with the tech to form an opinion? I'm guessing none of you. In a lot of cases I think you will find that a lot of the people who can 3D TV, only do so because they are jealous that they either (a) can't afford one, or (b) bought a HD TV just before the 3D TVs came out & are now pissed. I can tell you, while watching 3D movies/Doccos etc, that if mastered correctly, the effect is simply amazing. Also, there is plently of content already out for 3D, you just got to open your eyes !!
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SEATTLE - Last winter, Megan Goethals was near self-destruction.
Essentially, she was disintegrating.
She weighed less than 100 pounds. She wasn't eating enough to refuel a body she was demanding to run more than 80 miles per week. In her second race at Washington as the most decorated of Huskies coach Greg Metcalf's star-packed recruiting class of 2009, the Gatorade national girls cross country runner of the year essentially crashed and burned into the cross-country course at Notre Dame.
Mention Notre Dame now, and Goethals winces.
"That was probably one of the worst experiences I've ever had," she says. "My body was just failing me. They had to shut me down for the season."
Metcalf and Huskies assistant Lauren Denfeld sent Goethals away from the track for three months, the rest of the cross-country season into the beginning of the indoor one.
It would be like Steve Sarkisian taking the football away from Keith Price two games into a Huskies football season and telling him to stay home for three months.
"I got really depressed," Goethals said.
"Yeah, I had a really rough start to my college career."
Rougher than you or I can imagine.
She was 18, far across the country from her mother Diane and father Kevin, her younger brother and two younger sisters, her friends - her support system - way back in Rochester, Mich. But shutting her down was the only way to stop Goethals' unknowing self-destruction.
Her coaches helped assemble a UW support group that became known as "Team Megan." Each week for more than three months, she walked alone into regular appointments. With doctors. With trainers. A nutritionist. A psychiatrist.
"I was by myself out here, out here from Michigan," she says now. "I didn't have anybody."
Except "Team Megan."
Her psychiatrist told her to find a new pursuit... that she likely wouldn't run competitively again.
But at first, they weren't exactly her pals. Her psychiatrist told her to find a new pursuit, a new love, that she likely wouldn't run competitively again. Not if she wanted a healthy life, anyway.
"It was almost surreal. I would think about it sometimes. `Wow, a year ago I won cross-country nationals. Now, I can't even run three miles,'" Goethals said. "It was really, really hard to handle hearing the doctors - they were trying to be positive with me - but them saying, `You have to accept that you might not be able to do this anymore.'
"The hardest, definitely, was seeing the psychiatrist. She made me tell her everything that happened, how it happened. Talk about the past and such. It was just hard to know that I really gone through just a couple of months on the track and everything had changed and I wasn't the national-caliber athlete that I hoped to be here."
She is now.
Strengthened with 15 added pounds - 15 percent more than her total body weight was at her lowest points - and revived from a renewed career, Goethals chatted cheerfully with me Tuesday afternoon as we sat on blue foam mats in the high-jump pits at one end of Dempsey Indoor.
Her hair was pulled back by a similarly dark band. Her now-fuller cheeks were a rosy shade from a bike ride she took through the 40-degree chill to get there. She wore a puffy, black down coat - plus a proud smile that said, "I'm back."
Wednesday, Goethals left for Boise, Idaho, and her third national championships since she bottomed out 14 months ago. After finishing sixth in the country in the NCAA outdoor track and field finals last June and 18th at the NCAA cross country championships in November, she will run Friday in the NCAA indoor championships in the 5,000 meters. Saturday, she is scheduled to race in the 3,000-meter final.
"She kind of came back to life," said Denfeld, who trains UW's distance runners.
More than kind of.
Goethals has gone from trauma to triumph, depressed to determined, in one remarkable year. Fourteen months after her psychiatrist told her to find something other than running to love, Goethals is back among the nation's elite distance runners.
It's a story of her perseverance in conquering fear, of conquering her own mind and her own body.
And it's a story of Washington's coaches and support staff noticing danger, shelving a top-flight career -- and then reviving it in a way that will benefit this sunny-again sophomore far past graduation.
"It's a testimony to everything I've put in," she says, allowing herself a well-earned smile. "It's been a very long road.
"I think I'm finally into a place where I am comfortable with who I am and where I'm at."
That's a victory so obvious, so mammoth, she doesn't need a stopwatch to measure it.
Goethals was the princess of high-school distance running in this country in 2009 and `10. She did not lose a race in cross country or in track, winning three national high school titles out of the Detroit suburbs.
When she arrived at Washington in the fall of '10 she was driving herself to go even faster and farther to be a national collegiate champion in a powerhouse program.
It nearly ruined her running career.
She was running the 80-plus miles a week while eating just 3,000 calories a day. That's not low according to some recommended daily caloric intakes for normally active, 18-year-old women. But it was dangerously low given how fiendishly Goethals had been training for years to become the nation's elite girl distance runner.
The national leader in 5,000 meters - three-plus miles - could barely run a 200. She couldn't lift a medicine ball past her chin.
"It was hard, honestly, just walking around," she said Tuesday. "Even climbing stairs was a BIG task. My energy stores were just depleted. I was allowed to run 20 or 30 minutes, and that felt like a marathon. The rest of the day I'd just be done.
"It was just really hard to think about. Here I am doing a 20-minute run and dying and a month and a half before I was doing 14-mile runs. It was just very hard to handle."
Metcalf and Denfeld had seen enough that race day at Notre Dame. So they acted decisively. They shut her down from running from mid-October until into January, sending her away from the team for three months.
"By not training her, we were training her," Denfeld says now.
Not that Goethals saw it that way initially, of course.
"I was absolutely crushed," she says. "When I first came here I had all these dreams of winning everything. That's the way it was in high school - you win everything. I mean, I'd heard how everyone comes in and has a hard time adjusting to college. I said, `Oh, that's not going to be me. I'm fully prepared for this.'
"I had a really hard time with it, because I came from Michigan and that's why I came all the way out here, I loved the thought of being on this team," she said. "It was kind of like being told I wasn't allowed to do it anymore, the one thing I love to do.
"Really, at that point, that was the only way I identified myself was as Megan, the runner. I had to go through a period when I wasn't a runner, and I was depressed for a while. And then it was, what do I do now?"
She did next to nothing. She went to class. Came back to her room. And stayed depressed.
"It lasted for three months, wondering if I would ever compete again, at all," she says. "It's a lot hard work. I had issues with weight, I had to gain a lot of weight. It was a very slow, frustrating process. It was hard, not having my parents here. I was homesick. My body was treating me badly. I wasn't able to run.
"Kind of my whole world came crashing down at that point."
Doctors showed Goethals how her caloric deficit has been growing into a monster for years, without her knowing it.
"The way the doctors described it I'd kind of dug myself a hole, and I had to fill the hole back up before I could even add anything on top of it," she said. "It just really depleted myself. It had gotten to a point that it had gotten so bad."
On top of that, doctors diagnosed Goethals with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
UW team sports nutritionist Monica Van Winkle prescribed a program that gradually increased Goethals' consumption from 3,000 to 4,200 calories per day.
For someone so wedded to daily routines, of everything being just so in her life for years, it wasn't as simple as just adding a couple of sandwiches a day and driving on.
"At the same time I was also having issues with OCD. So it was very, very hard to make that change," Goethals. "I had to talk to a psychiatrist. I had doctors' appointments every week. Nutritionists. I had to go to my psychiatrist every week.
"I'm just really thankful for all of them being there, because I mean, I had a lotof issues that they had to help me with."
She went home for 2½ weeks over Christmas break of that freshman year in December 2010. At last she was back with mom, an administrator for her hometown's soccer program, and her dad, a treasurer for a factory-built housing company. She was with her brother Matthew, now a freshman at Michigan State, and her sisters Jennifer (now 17) and Jessica (15 and also a competitive runner).
But she felt the same as when she was away at school. She was depressed. Idle. Lost.
The day she returned to UW in the first week of January 2011 changed her life.
"It was weird, the day I got back here, all of a sudden I could do - it was simple - I could do strides!" she says, still sounding excited with the breakthrough. "I hadn't been able to do that for months. It was very strange, like it just switched. And I don't know what changed.
It was very strange, like it just switched. And I don't know what changed.
"It was actually like I woke up one morning and I was fine. I don't know if everything had built up from what I'd been doing for a couple months, or me being home around so much positive and being able to get the support of my family. I don't know.
"It was weird. It was, like, the best day of my life."
She still remembers warming up that day and thinking "Whoa! That wasn't even hard. That was just like a warm-up!" where before that warm-up taxed her like half a run would.
The next day, the first day of classes after Christmas break, Goethals completed her first team practice with the Dawgs since September.
She was a Husky reborn.
"It just felt normal - that's the word I would use. Running didn't feel like a struggle. It was just natural. "Just walking around felt different," she says, laughing. "After that practice I called my parents right away. They were SO excited. I had called them every day in the fall. I was usually pretty upset. So they were ecstatic.
"They are not the kind that obsessed about me being good. They just wanted me to be happy."
Finally, she was.
Her first race back was on Valentines' Day 2011 in the Husky Classic at Dempsey Indoor. She was not in UW uniform, running unattached.
In designation only, that is. She was totally attached to her sport again -- and more important, to herself.
"The first race, when I was unattached, it was the best feeling in the world just to be able to race again," she said. "At that point I hadn't actually raced in college. I mean, I raced in cross country, but it was pretty bad. So I actually hadn't really raced since my senior year of high school.
"The adrenaline I had, it was probably my best feeling ever that first race. It was like, `I can actually do this!'
The next race was her return in Huskies uniform at the MPSF meet. Her reaction to being back in purple and gold competitively that day: "Oh, my gosh!"
"I stopped and thought, `Two months ago I thought I was never going to race again. Now, I am finally able to do it,'" she says now.
"Then I won the conference meet and I was like, `Wow, I can do this again!'"
"That was when I really started to feel like my high-school self again," she said.
Yes, Goethals didn't just return. She ran wild again. At the NCAA West Prelims in Eugene, Ore., she ran a personal-best 16:02.64 in the 5,000 meters and won.
Weeks later, five months after rock bottom, Goethals was even faster at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in Des Moines, Iowa. She ran the 5,000 in 15:47.79, breaking the UW freshman record with the third-best time in school history. She finished sixth in the nation, the best placing ever by a Husky woman in that event, and she earned the UW women their only points at the national finals meet.
From out of action to All-American in five months.
She's continued her resurgence as a sophomore. In the fall cross-country season Goethals was the only UW woman runner to improve her time in every race. In November she ran 20:06 over 6,000 meters, third among all sophomore or freshman finishers at the national championships to finish 18th. She was second on the team to Katie Flood, as Washington took second in the country as a team.
I asked Goethals if she truly, at her darkest hour 14 months ago, thought she'd ever race again.
"I thought I would. I think deep down I knew it probably wasn't going to happen," she said.
"But I am a pretty optimistic person. And I love it so much I could not picture not doing it again. But I knew I probably wasn't going to be able to."
Goethals is a self-described "track geek, definitely." She knows times of competitors across the nation, and will have a mental scouting report on the fields she faces in Boise Friday and Saturday. She devours all the running information she can.
That means she read disparaging internet comments inside the track community about her weight and her health when she first got to UW, and while she was idled. Critics wondered why UW ever signed her. They recklessly diagnosed her from afar with eating and emotional disorders.
They added more hurt onto an 18-year-old young woman who was already suffering internally.
"She just wasn't eating enough for all the training she was doing."
Now that Goethals is back up to 115 pounds on her way to Denfeld's goal for her of 120, back to stacking up national championship appearances in outdoor track, cross country and now this weekend at the NCAA indoor finals, I asked if a part of her screams "TAKE THAT!"--or worse -- to those cowards behind anonymous keyboards.
"I would like to say no. But, honestly, yes," she said, laughing.
"When I was having issues and such Coach Metcalf would come to me and say, `You've just got to use that stuff as ammunition. Kind of show them, `Look me now. I actually did it.'
Her parents will be there watching her line up in Boise Friday for the NCAA finals in the 5,000 meters. It will be the first time they have seen their daughter run at a college indoor meet.
They are among the select few that know all Megan went through to get there.
"All my hard work has gotten me to this. I just have to believe in myself and my abilities," she says, smiling again.
"Sometimes I have feelings like, `What if that happens again?' I know it's not going to. I just have to keep reminding myself of that."
About Gregg Bell Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director of Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
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