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Trey Songz continues to release new tracks and visuals for his upcoming album. Trigga teases fans with a 50 second clip of his next single, "Foreign." The clip shows a Trey with a variety of women of all nationalities. Trigga is set to be released July 1.
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Carbon nanotube memory is based on the carbon nanotube, "CNTs", cylindrical carbon molecules about a nanometer across and up to a millimeter long, which exhibit extraordinary strength, unique electrical properties and efficient heat conduction, making carbon nanotubes a highly promising material for future memories
"After review of the progress to date by Nantero and its manufacturing partners, we decided that this CNT-based non-volatile memory has multiple very attractive characteristics for next-generation highly scaled memory," said Luc Van den hove, CEO of imec. "By taking a leadership position in this area of development, in partnership with Nantero, we will be able to bring substantial benefit to our member companies."
Nantero has already fabricated high-yielding 4Mb arrays of NRAM in CMOS production environments, with several important performance advantages: write speed has been shown to be as fast as 3 nanoseconds; endurance is expected to be unlimited and has been tested so far to over a trillion cycles, with low operating power and superior high temperature retention.
"Together, Nantero and imec can develop and demonstrate this form of memory for future applications below 20nm such as terabit-scale memory arrays and ultra-fast gigabit-scale nonvolatile cache memories," commented Jo de Boeck, CTO of imec, "NRAM holds clear promise in aggressively scaled Non-Volatile Memory applications and, if we can demonstrate the suitable endurance and speed specifications, NRAM could even provide an alternative for DRAM that is facing scaling limitations beyond 18nm."
"Nantero is pleased to work with imec as a partner," said Greg Schmergel, Nantero's co-founder and CEO. "Nantero is already working with world-leading manufacturers, and working with imec will enable these efforts to bring carbon nanotube memory to market to move even faster."
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Located at Republic Plaza, Ba Xian @ Tower Club specializes in Chinese cuisine. The nice view and good dim sum and lovely dessert never fails to draw back customers.
Dining at the top of the world is a luxury one would say... Dining at the top of CBD is a luxury of most bankers and traders especially when exclusive membership (by invitation oni!) is needed for such dining privilege at the prestigious Tower Club.
Located on top of Republic Plaza and spanning from 62nd - 64th penthouse floors.. Tower Club offers spectacular views and 3 floors of delectable cuisines... I've tried both e Chinese Restaurant Ba Xian or 8 immortals and Straits Bar for e buffet n drinks and i gotta say.. dining at e top of CBD? Is quite a great feeling!
Dining at Tower Club is quite a style.. Upon reaching 62nd floor.. one is greeted by e grand decor n friendly concierge n shown to another private lift that takes u to e respective level... Ba Xian is surprisingly a very nicely decorated classy yet spacious fine dining Chinese restaurant.. It has e best ambience n style of all e cheena makans i've been to.. It surprisingly oozes a business-like yet non-intimidating ambience and tables r quite spread out for that much needed privacy esp when u r talking business! It's quite a far cry from a noisy chinese resto but yet it's not quite atas tat u feel uneasy so kudos on ambience though!
The food on e other hand is less memorable than e ambience.. oh boy even the tableware is more memorable! U do realise that u r dining in luxury when your tea cups r branded! Huh branded? yes i can see your confused faces.. but i kid u not! e tea cups r from VERSACE! yes Versace! e medusa looking head n all! Boy even e chopsticks r beautifully plated with Tower Club symbol! Talk abt dining like e celebs!
I've never been impressed with e food at Ba Xian n i duno why... It's definitely good n one can even call innovative but it was never outstanding to me.. I shall review my most recent visit which i was impressed with only 2 dish! We started with some roast pork with mustard on e side.. e roast pork skin is real crispy but on e whole it's quite hard n not juicy... I suggest Tung Lok's instead. The wasabi prawns r quite decent n lightly fried n seasoned but it still lacks e wow factor unlike Golden Peony.. The fried squid with salt n pepper is light n nice but forgettable..juz go to Crystal Jade man..
Next we had e peking duck.. this i likey! The skin of e duck is real crispy n flavourful! It comes with a slice of non fatty meat which i appreciate becoz i prefer having some meat in my wrap to have more punch! The sauce n wrap n peking duck's all good so do order this! The soup tat we had is a clear broth with "san yu" (watever tat is) n some shrooms.. It's a light broth but i never really like clear fishy soup so nah.. Next came a steamed fish HK style ie soy sauce base but me no hugh fish fan so nah...
I do like e kurobuta pork in coffee sauce.. i tink it's yummy! Kurobuta pork is kinda like wagyu beef so it's a premium meat.. The pork slices we had r nicely charred on e outside yet tender n tasty on e inside.. nice! e sauce of coffee is a tad bitter n me no drink kopi so would prefer a lighter version but somehow i felt that e stronger taste is needed to bring out e whole dish so no complains! The accompany cabbage is very tastily sauteed n is a nice addition to e pork.. in all i tink it's a great dish! Although i've a colleague who juz tot it sux.. oh well..
I did not like e minced pork with salted fish wrapped in cabbage at all... i tot it was yucky!!! There's a strong yucks taste to it n i'm not sure if it's e pork or salted fish but it's soooo not good together! yucks! The carbo dish of fried rice with e peking duck meat is quite alright.. except that there's beansprouts so nah for me...
Overall i do not feel tat e food's all tat great but e view ambience n tea cups sure won me over! I'm not sure how many ppl would actually bother to read this review since most ppl on e street dun really tink of gg tower club to makan and those who do couldn't care less abt e food coz they r talking biz but at least i've said my piece n i'm happy! versace happy!
The lifts take you up to the entrance of Tower Club on the 62nd floor. From there, you take an internal lift from the club's lobby to the 63rd floor where Ba Xian is located. The furnishing is plush with full length windows that look out into the South China Sea. There are capsule like seats for 2 that offer a somewhat quirky dining experience. Crispy Cuttlefish - Nicely seasoned but the flour coating was a tad too thick for my liking and so was the oil content. Makes you sick after a while. Pork Belly Char Siew - The BBQ pork belly had a proportionate fat to meat ratio which made for great texture. However, the meat was rather bland and lacked any sweetness that I would usually associate with char siew. Roasted Pork Belly - Although I love my sio bak, this was honestly a little hard to stomach and both of us were struggling to finish all 12 cubes of it. Sure, the skin was crispy but it was a tad too thick and dry for my liking. Also, as with the char siew, the meat was almost tasteless. A little more salt perhaps? Pork & Century Egg Congee - Apart from the sticky texture of porridge that I personally like, this dish was average tasting with quantity of ingredients bordering on miserly. Prawn with Crab Meat - Generous serving of prawns and crab meat stuffed within the crispy deep fried shell but strangely enough, there was a rather strong ginger aftertaste which I didn't like. Thank god for mayonnaise. Sweet Corn Cake - This was the first time seeing sweet corn cake on a dim sum menu so thought it would be interesting to give it a go. Alas, it tasted like normal carrot cake with sweet corn and tiny bits of Chinese sausage embedded within. Texture wasn't exactly smooth but overall still palatable. Chee Cheong Fun -The chee cheong fun came in 3 varieties of filling - char siew, scallop and prawn. For starters, the cheong fun was a little too thick but I was impressed by the generous amounts of scallop and char siew within. This was one of the rare occasions where I could actually make out the texture and taste of the scallop wrapped within. That said, the prawn filling was rather underwhelming though. Siew Mai - Served with a slice of topshell, the siew mai was decent without coming across as too oily. Har Gao - Instead of the de facto prawn taste that I was expecting, the har gao tasted overwhelming of vegetables instead. And the thicker than expected skin didn't help matters. Even with 7 items at 50% off, the two of us still managed to chalk up a bill of $94, which is terribly expensive for the quality of food. Service and ambience is great but that hardly justifies the ridiculous price tag. So much for the positive online reviews. See pictures here.
Had a business lunch there. Always love the scenes, but too bad today's kinda hazy.
Pretty good dim sum and lovely dessert. However, we waited very long for our food to come. At first it's because we were waiting for everyone to come. But when everyone was present, we asked the food to be served, yet still we have to wait..bleah...
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JWC TO CHARLOTTE SOUTHAM ; 10 September 1858; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18580910-JWC-CSO-01; CL 34: 180-181
Lann Hall / Tynron / Dumfries [ca. 10 September 1858]
Dear Charlotte
It is one of the natural attributes of girls to like Balls and all that sort of thing; so having taken a girl for servant, I must not wonder at her propensities!
I have no objection to your going to this Ball, provided as you propose, that your Father1 will take care of the House for you— But you must on no account leave it to take care of itself—
It WAS taking care of itself one night when Mrs Hawkes2 made a great row at the door, and could get no answer!
We have dreadfully rainy weather—but mercifully there is a close carriage as well as an open one so I still get some driving daily
I hope you are attending to the ceiling in the spare bedroom—to get Mr Chalmers3 to look at it if any more wet come in—
Also you should let off all the water from the upper cistern from time to time—a quantity of stagnant water is not desirable in the house
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What shocked me after the operation was my sheet exhaustion. I asked Chang what was wrong. "Let's recap," he said. "You've been hit by a grenade in Sri Lanka. You've traveled halfway across the world, not to mention the trauma. You have just undergone a five-and-a-half-hour operation, and we're not even taking into account what is going on in that stubborn head of yours."
When I was up and around and walking on the streets of New York, people glanced at my eye patch and looked away. American friends said they loved the patch, but wanted to see what was behind it. On a week's recuperative holiday on the Ligurian coast, I was told by Italian men that the patch was very sexy. Back in London, where I live, I find that friends are surprised I don't appear worse. People in the street still glance away, but children ask me why I am dressed as a pirate, which is delightful. And the Prince of Wales pronounced it "very fetching" when I was introduced to him at a reception.
I have become very fond of my patch. At home I usually take it off; but when I see myself in the mirror without it—rarely, as I am not a great looker in mirrors—I am taken aback. What I see doesn't look like me.
In some ways it is harder to cope with the frustrating tiredness. I used to be so energetic; now I have to have a nap after lunch, like a little child. I can't drive—which is fine, as I have always hated driving in London. But the Underground is also out, as I don't trust myself on escalators. I now know what "blindsided" means.
Ridiculously, I can't even light a cigarette—I'm always lighting them in the middle of the waving flame two inches from the end—but I'm learning to pour a glass of wine without missing.
At the back of my mind is the fear for my good eye. As I understand it, the autoimmune system can react to the injury and the surgery by attacking the other eye. At Moorfields Hospital two weeks ago, I was assured there was no sign of this. But the retina in the injured eye had become detached again. This isn't unusual, but it was depressing.
I have been asked if my trip to Sri Lanka was worth it. One blunt BBC reporter argued in an interview, not unkindly: "Some people would say it was stupid, Marie." Was it? That's a hard question to answer.
Certainly, Sri Lanka is a forgotten conflict. Some 83,000 people have died since the country exploded in civil war in 1983, a loss barely noticed except by their families. The public message for the Sri Lankan government that I was given by the Tamil Tiger leadership was barely noticed, either. They said they were willing to negotiate for autonomy rather than the independence they had sought for 18 years. After I left, they ended a four-month unilateral ceasefire, saying the government had refused to reciprocate. Fighting has resumed. On a smaller scale, however, the trip did seem worthwhile. I may be exhausted and haunted, but not all the images that flash back to me evoke dread. I remember a government agent who put his neck on the line to give me information. He received me late at night in his office and asked me not to reveal his name for fear of retaliation from the very government that paid his salary.
Not everyone was as easily persuaded that I was worth talking to. Father Xavier, the Roman Catholic priest of Mallawi, was garrulous, opinionated and angry. He told me he had given up on the West; nobody cared about the plight of the Tamils, so why should he waste his time talking to me? When he calmed down, he served me sweet tea and we talked about his parishioners. He said people were tired of the war, mostly that it had its own dynamic.
Weeks after my operation, a letter arrived, wrapped in brown paper. It had been smuggled out by Father Xavier—no doubt at great risk. "I was sorry to hear of your injuries," he wrote. "You are remembered here as a brave and honest person." It meant a lot to me.
A surprising amount of mail arrived from Sri Lanka during my weeks of recuperation. Messages from Tamils were mostly sympathetic. None was under the impression that I supported their cause, but they sent heartrending appreciations for providing the first report on their homeland in years.


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So this is what my other pic 'Sherlock Ink' was to go towards.
As I wrote on my last pic, i was originally trying to emulate a similar style to the Guy Ritchie film adaption end credits of Sherlock Holmes. However, after playing around with a few things I found that this kind of style worked much better. I followed a similar pattern when creating Moriarty and obviously used on of the stills as a starting point. The two character images were made as separate photoshop files and then i inserted them into the book and adjusted blending modes as well as curves to get them to look right. Then it was a case of adding ink, tea-like stains etc.....finally, the text is from Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Final Problem' where Holmes discusses Moriarty's brilliance.
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The annual event in Pennsylvania high atop Gobblers Knob this morning brought out Punxsutawney Phil who did not see his shadow and, therefore, proclaimed an early spring.
Wonder if Mother Nature was listening….
Goundhog Day, anyone?
In all due respect, with our transportation infrastructure near failure in many places in the Commonwealth, and the pundits on Bearing Draft essentially silent on this crucial topic, an article about Phil is a bit absurd. With the Governor providing a tepid, insufficient proposal which exhibits no leadership, no action to put the problem where is exists, that is, in the House of Delegates, frankly, why have executive leadership at all if he won't lead?
Bearing Drift seems, by its silence, to share this disgust at the failure to actually deal with big important issues like the collapse of our transportation infrastructure. To see a Governor who claims to be a leader fail to lead on this most crucial issue to our Commonwealth is disgusting. Frankly, those of you who are in the republican party and have seen this degradation first hand ought to be more active in stimulating leadership and change, or your party will be marginalized as it ought to be.
… and a happy Groundhog Day to you, too, Mr. Barrett!
Yes, my apology, I mean no offense to you. I am just amazed that with these crucial issues facing our Commonwealth, the gang and Bearing Drift is strangely silent.


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RealNetworks RealPlayer SIPR Stream Frame Dimensions Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityTPTI-10-17: December 10th, 2010
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Vulnerability DetailsThis vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of RealNetworks RealPlayer. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaw exists within the drv1.dll module. Code responsible for parsing SIPR stream metadata trusts frame width and height values from the input file. By crafting particular values an integer value used in a loop can be made to wrap negatively. The loop will subsequently overflow a static heap buffer during an inline memory copy. By crafting a malicious .rm file an attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely using the RealPlayer ActiveX control.
Vendor ResponseRealNetworks has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
Disclosure Timeline
2010-02-26 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
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'Who? What? So Fast?'
Marcin Sobczyk writes this morning in New Europe, news dispatches from Dow Jones writers across Eastern and Central Europe.
Poland is stunned to see the Nobel Peace Prize given to President Barack Obama. You can always count on Poland's outspoken ex-president and its best-know Nobel Prize laureate Lech Walesa to be undiplomatic:
"Who? What? So fast?" he said when reporters told him about the latest Obama win.
"Well, there's hasn't been any contribution to peace yet. He's proposing things, he's initiating things, but he is yet to deliver," he said.
Walesa went on to say that we should see this as encouragement for Obama.
Others in Poland are also amazed, so much so that they began questioning the value of the prize.
"Nobel Shnobel," said Bartosz Weglarczyk, commentator for daily Gazeta Wyborcza. "Obama has great potential, great possibilities, but the peace prize for plans to do something? Chinese dissidents lost as usual because they can no longer plan anything. It's absurd."
"Maybe an award like that would be more justifiable in a year from now," said Tadeusz Iwinski, a Member of Parliament representing the post-communist camp that is traditionally pro-Democrat.
Political scientist Zbigniew Lewicki, professor at Warsaw University, also thinks "it's absurd."
"For the first time the prize was given to someone who has plans, but no achievements," he said. "This is a purely political decision that could also be called a perverse verdict."
Envy? Not really. It's just a matter of comparison.
When Walesa received the honor in 1984, he had been an anticommunist dissident for more than a decade, kept in custody by the communist regime in 1981 and 1982, fired from his job, with his name banned by communist censors.
It was given to him in the darkest era in Poland's 20th century history, at the height of the Cold War that could at any time transform into a very hot and nuclear conflict.
In 1983, the prize went to someone who had an impressive record, a complicated present and an uncertain future in a country oppressed by the Soviet tyrant.
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It is what it is - an all-manual solidly built SLR. It is made for students and experienced photographers who prefer a tough built, reliable camera that gives total control to the photographer rather than a bunch of computer algorithms.
In this task, the K1000 performs flawlessly. I highly recomend it.
The "K" series was introduced in 1975, replacing the screw mount Spotmatics. The KM was a basic manual, KX had more viewfinder information, and the K2 added an automatic exposure mode. These had short lives because small cameras became the rage, and after only a year Pentax brought in the "M" series and dropped the KM and KX. The K2 hung on until 1980.
But Pentax had invested in the "K" design and production, so to get some return they launched the budget K1000. It was a KM with its features stripped out. It lost the self timer (surely essential for this "family" camera) and was given a cheap insensitive CdS exposure sensor (left over from the Spotmatics). Metering is by getting a needle horizontal in the viewfinder, with no indication of aperture or speed. It was a harbinger of Pentax's downmarket move in the late 1980's with the "P" series.
Though short on features, the quality is fine. It uses the same lenses as the professional K2 and LX for example, and the same shutter as the MX. The mighty Pentax 6x7 also has the simple meter needle and no self-timer. Millions of people were happy with the K1000, and still are. But it is a puzzle why it was sold for so long when there was the similarly manual tough little MX, which was far more up to date and had all the normal features, including full viewfinder information - and for the same new price!
It has everything you need and is incredibly durable and sturdy. I've taken this camera with me all over the world, and trekked with it to India a few times- which if you've been there, you understand. It'll withstand almost anything. I've taken it mountain climbing, white water rafting, through steamy jungles- the SMC A 2.0 50mm lens it comes with has withstood all weather conditions. No problems with fogging.
I highly recommend this to anyone looking for an affordable camera to start out with that they hope to have for a very long time. If you want to make sure you learn the ins and outs of photography, you'll have fun with this camera. I use it now to shoot bands at clubs professionally, and the pictures come out great. And for scenery, a polarizer on the lens adds a lot to pop the colors.
I don't plan on getting another 35 mm unless I hit it big in business. Professionally, I think medium and large format are used most often, and my next buy will most certainly be the medium. The best thing about the Pentax- it's less likely to give you problems in the long run, because there aren't so many extraneous features, and no computer chips and what not to worry about breaking down. Highly recommended.
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Red Raiders Top Sooners, 65-47
Robert Lewandowski chipped in 16 points on the night against the Sooners.
Feb. 11, 2012
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Javarez Willis scored a career-high 21 points and Robert Lewandowski had 16 to lead Texas Tech over Oklahoma 65-47 on Saturday night, giving the Red Raiders their first Big 12 win.
Texas Tech (8-16, 1-11) ended an 11-game losing streak. The Red Raiders never trailed in the second half and used a 17-5 run, with Lewandowski getting 12 of the points, to go up 51-37 with about seven minutes remaining.
Oklahoma (13-11, 3-9) lost its fourth straight.
The Sooners didn't shoot like a team that ranks third in the Big 12 in 3-pointers. Sam Groom hit the team's first shot from behind the arc with 4:42 remaining.
Andrew Fitzgerald scored 14 points to lead Oklahoma. The Sooners' leading scorer, Steven Pledger, had just four points, far below his 17.8-point average.
The win ended Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie's longest losing streak. Gillispie lost eight straight in his first year at UTEP in 2003.
SPOTLIGHT ON: Javarez "Bean" Willis
Javarez Willis had a career game Saturday night. Coming off of an ankle injury in the opening minutes against Kansas State Tuesday night, the sophomore scored a career-high 21 points against the Oklahoma Sooners in Lubbock, Tex. Willis did not let the nagging injury get into his head against OU, and did as much as he could during the week to get back on track.
"I did treatment as much as I could, and I didn't really worry about it," said Willis after the 65-47 victory.
Red Raiders head coach Billy Gillispie credited the Homer, La.'s commitment.
"They said there was no way he's going to be able to play tonight. But he spent every single second he had from Tuesday night until today getting better," Gillispie said. "When he wasn't in class or in study hall, he's just in there trying to get ready to play, and that shows his commitment."
Willis said his ankle starting bugging him during halftime, and in response, he kept it loosened up in the locker room.
The guard was 2-of-4 behind the 3-point arc, and was 8-of-12 over-all, making his field goal percentage 66.6 percent.
Willis knew he had to battle through the injury to get the win for his team.
"I just felt like the team needed me. It's a sacrifice. Whatever I have to do to help my team win, that's exactly what I'm going to do. If I had worried about my ankle, then I could defend like I was supposed to.
"I just have it in my mind where if I get hurt for the team, then that's good. I'm still going to go out and give 110 percent," said Willis.
Gillispie commended "Bean" on the effort he gave over the injury.
"He wanted to play and he probably played his best game as a collegian," Gillispie said.
- Alexandra Ellis / Texas Tech Athletics Communications


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Our new addition has arrived…
…and what can we say, he's perfect (not that we're biased or anything!)
Everyone is doing well and now resting at home after a somewhat hectic few days. Little Aidan made his way into the world on Saturday, August 18th at about 11am–he was 7lbs, 7oz and 20 inches long with a nice bit of black hair on top.
Thanks to all who have written with kind words and thoughts, it is appreciated more than you know. We hope to get back to somewhat regular posting in the near future and we do have a couple guest entries that we'll shoot to get up over the next few days.
The Cork Board Team


text: mental health Students Fill A Gap In Mental Health Care For Immigrants Patricia Becerril comes to Bethesda Health Center in Charlotte, N.C., every other week. And it's a slog. "It takes her two hours to get here," says University of North Carolina at Charlotte master's student Katherine Wilkin, translating from the Spanish as Becerril speaks. "She takes two buses, so coming here, she's definitely devoted to getting this treatment. She comes every time." Wilkin is Becerril's mental health counselor, and Becerril says Wilkin has helped her deal with depression. Coffee Shop Serves Up A Sense Of Belonging By Maddie Bernard • Jun 6, 2016 Maddie Bernard The connection between a local coffee shop and a community's mental health seems unlikely, but that is exactly what convinced a local nurse to purchase Northern Pacific Coffee Company in South Pierce County. A New Film Explores The Challenges Of Raising Kids In A Digital World By Jennifer Wing • Apr 26, 2016 Delaney Ruston Listen Listening... / 1:58 Several years ago Delaney Ruston, a doctor who specializes in internal medicine, started to notice that most of the kids coming into her office were glued to a screen. Probing The Complexities Of Transgender Mental Health Experiencing the world as a different gender than the one assigned to you at birth can take a toll. Nearly all research into transgender individuals' mental health shows poorer outcomes. A study looking specifically at transgender women, predominantly women of color, only further confirms that reality. UW Study Shows Positive Mental Health For Transgender Children Supported By Their Families By Gabriel Spitzer • Feb 26, 2016 Tim Evanson / Flickr Listen Listening... / 1:16 Mental Health Patients' Families Seek Right To Challenge Forced Commitment By Taylor Winkel • Feb 4, 2014 Listen Listening... / 0:59 More than 10,000 mental health patients were involuntarily hospitalized last year in Washington. But not every patient qualifies for forced hospitalization under the law. Now some families want the right to appeal when a mental health professional says their loved one is not sick enough to be committed. They told their emotional stories to Washington lawmakers Monday. New Rural Mental Health Funding Called a Good Start By Anna King • Dec 10, 2013 Northwest mental health experts are cautiously optimistic about a new federal grant program. But they call it a modest attempt to improve mental health care in rural areas. The Obama administration announced Tuesday, the federal Department of Agriculture's plans to spend up to $50 million over the next three years. State's mental health reform focuses on preventive care By Alexandra Kocik • Mar 29, 2013 Alexandra Kocik / Northwest News Network Health care advocates are pushing Washington state lawmakers to keep up momentum toward expanding access to Medicaid. About 100 people rallied on the Capitol steps in Olympia Thursday. They argue one group that will especially benefit is people with mental illness. Inside the Capitol, that's one of many issues related to the mentally-ill. Several measures focus on broadening access to community mental health services as opposed to big institutions. The idea is to get help for mentally-ill people before they get into trouble. Eating disorders flare up during holiday season By Keith Seinfeld • Dec 31, 2012 Listen Listening... / 1:23 For anyone who loves holiday meals, the last hurrah comes tonight or perhaps New Years Day. But, those big buffet-styles meals are tough on people with eating disorders. The evidence comes from a surge in people seeking treatment this time of year. For the complete story, click the "listen" button above. Seattle's mentally ill on streets helped by 'roaming counselor' By Keith Seinfeld • Nov 5, 2012 Keith Seinfeld / KPLU If you've been to downtown Seattle, you've probably seen people talking to themselves on street corners, or shouting at strangers. Now there's a fresh face trying to help those in psychiatric crisis. He's a roaming mental health counselor, hired by the Union Gospel Mission and downtown's business-funded Metropolitan Improvement District. Advocates: Veterans with PTSD should get purple hearts, benefits By Monica Spain • Jun 29, 2012 Monica Spain / KPLU Advocates for the mentally ill say the federal government isn't going far enough to help veterans who return from war with psychological wounds. They're in Seattle this week, demanding a change in military culture and better mental health care for veterans. Learning 'mental' first aid, before the next crisis By Keith Seinfeld • Jun 11, 2012 renjith krishnan / freedigitalphotos.net In the wake of the recent murder spree at Café Racer, there have been questions about how to get help for someone whose mental health is deteriorating. Social service agencies are filling part of the gap, by training volunteers to provide what they call "mental health first aid." The idea comes by comparison to CPR – a type of first aid any of us can learn. The mental health version is a 12-hour course for anyone who wants to be better equipped to help someone in a mental health crisis. Brotherly bond clouded by schizophrenia By Jessica Robinson • Nov 17, 2011 Zoe Cooley Some of the longest relationships are the life-long ties between siblings. But that connection can get complicated when one sibling suffers from a mental illness. Many support programs don't focus much on the sibling relationships. Northwest News Network reporter Jessica Robinson recorded the story of two brothers: one in Moscow, Idaho, the other in Anchorage, Alaska. One has schizophrenia. The other grew up in the shadow of it. In rural northwest mentally ill teens struggle for services By Anna King • Nov 16, 2011 Rajah Bose / Northwest News Network Experts say mental health services for teens are especially inadequate in rural areas. That describes huge swaths of our region. Early intervention key to treating mentally ill teens By Chris Lehman • Nov 15, 2011 Michael Clapp / Northwest News Network The research is clear that the key to keeping a mentally ill teen in treatment and out of trouble is early intervention. Yet, most counties in the Northwest do not offer comprehensive treatment to kids in the initial stages of a mental breakdown. Mentally ill juveniles cycle in and out of detention By Austin Jenkins • Nov 14, 2011 Every year in the Northwest, thousands of mentally ill teenagers get caught up in the juvenile justice system. In fact, some counties estimate more than half of the kids they place behind bars have a diagnosable mental health condition like schizophrenia, bi-polar or personality disorder. Yet many of these teens do not get the treatment they need. Instead, they cycle in and out of detention. More Lewis-McChord soldiers seeking mental help By The Associated Press • Jun 27, 2011 United States Marine Corps Officials at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are hopeful they're making progress against the stigma that keeps some soldiers from getting help for mental health issues. "Next to Normal" tackles tough subject of mental health with lighthearted song and dance By Bellamy Pailthorp • Feb 20, 2011 Photo by Craig Schwartz. / Courtesy 5th Avenue Theatre. Bipolar disorder has been the inspiration for many artists and many works of art…from the movie A Beautiful Mind to Sylvia Plath's autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar. Now it's showing up in a musical, called "Next to Normal." Ten years ago, the production had its genesis at The Village Theater in Issaquah. Now, after numerous revisions, it's back in the Seattle area at the 5th Avenue Theatre. For the latest in our series ARTSCAPE, KPLU's Bellamy Pailthorp caught up with Bryan Yorkey, the writer of the show, who together with the composer, Tom Kitt, was the surprise winner of last year's Pulitzer Prize for drama. Listen Listening... / Alternative for mentally ill in crisis stirs debate By Keith Seinfeld • Feb 7, 2011 GoogleMaps Listen Listening... / Crisis centers for the mentally ill are gaining popularity across Washington, as a way to help people and potentially save taxpayers' money. They're an alternative to jails and emergency rooms. But these short-term treatment centers are also running into hostility. Potential neighbors are unhappy about being next door to a facility where patients arrive by police car and ambulance, in the middle of a mental health or drug crisis. In central Seattle, an angry backlash of homeowners is threatening to delay the opening of a proposed "Crisis Solutions Center." The location is on a block near Rainier Avenue and Dearborn, where businesses and stores give way to single-family homes. Crisis center for mentally unstable opposed by neighbors By Keith Seinfeld • Jan 20, 2011 A diversion program intended to keep drug abusers and troubled mentally ill people out of hospitals and jails has run into opposition. Neighbors of a proposed new facility in Seattle don't want it. They say the "Jackson Park" area between Rainier Valley and the Central District already has enough challenges and has become a dumping ground. Mental health advocates criticize reporting on funding cuts By Paula Wissel • Jan 3, 2011 Washington State Coalition for Mental Health Reporting Mental health advocates say news stories of social service budge cuts are unfairly stereotyping people who suffer from mental illness. They say a case in point is a recent cover of The Stranger, which included the headline "How a decimated state budget equals more unmedicated loons with hatchets."


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Laying out the basics for an event cards deck to use with the basic 12 missions from Space Hulk 3ed. We're using the Strange Eons application to do it.
So far, the plan is to make a 63 card deck.
The construction is as follows.
24 general use cards. These cards will have general effects that can be applied to any mission, such as extra blips, access to the broodlord, door jamming, hull breaches, genestealer variants, extra ammo etc.
36 mission specific cards (3 per mission) These cards have the title Complication on them, and modify the victory conditions for each mission.
3 chapter specific cards. These cards will be relevant only when using Blood Angels. This is important to our deck construction as we have Deathwing, Grey Knights and Space Wolves missions written up in our gaming group and will likely be expanding on the deck.
You shuffle the 3 cards used for the mission you are playing with the general use & chapter specific cards. Each turn, prior to the Genestealer reinforcement phase, you turn over one event card and apply the effects. The idea is to inject a little more random excitement in to the missions.
Two things.
1) Would you be interested in having access to the deck once it is completed?
2) Do you have any ideas for cards for any of the three decks? Please keep ideas confined to a) general use with Genestealers and Terminators b) chapter specific cards relevant to the Blood Angels c) complications relevant to one of the 12 missions.
We have complications written up for Suicide Mission to give you an idea.
1) The heavy flamer must now be used on both rooms on the map.
2) At least two terminators must escape the board after the room(s) are destroyed.
3) The Genestealer player may win by getting 3 models off the board via the SM entry area.
Random Events so far include
1) Broodlord
2) +1 Blip this turn
3) Add one blip to every entry point
4) Extra ammo (+1CP)
5) Spooked (all overwatch models must roll two dice. A double = a jam)
6) Vent (Add a Genestealer entry point on a wall at least 10 squares away from any Terminator.)
7) 2 Armoured genestealers (no sustained fire bonus against these models)
8) 1 Leader genestealers (+1 AP to any genestealer starting movement within 3 squares of a leader)
These are very early ideas. Some won't make it in. Give me your ideas and feedback. This is being worked on by one of my group, so he'd appreciate the help.


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Date: November 19 2012
Sunderland registered their first Premier League away win since February and ended a run of five games without victory by overcoming 10-man Fulham 3-1 on Sunday.
Brede Hangeland was sent off after half an hour for a reckless tackle.
Steven Fletcher's opener for the visitors was cancelled out by Mladen Petric but goals from Carlos Cuellar and Stephane Sessegnon gave Sunderland the win.
With 10 goals to their name, Martin O'Neill's men are no longer the lowest-scoring team out of England's 92 league clubs.
Victory lifted the Black Cats above Wigan Athletic into 15th place, three points above the relegation zone, while Fulham remains ninth.
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The Purchase Repertory Theatre presents The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, a comic fantasy in Purgatory where the conviction of Jesus' betrayer is being appealed. Performances are October 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 at 8 PM and October 18 and 19 at 2 PM at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $20 general public and $15 for seniors and students and can be purchased by calling the Box Office at 914-251-6200 or visiting www.artscenter.org.
Purchase College, State University of New York, is located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase , NY.
Set in a courtroom in Purgatory, the witnesses at the trial include Satan, a hanging judge from the 19th century, Mother Teresa, Sigmund Freud as well as Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate. In this play the author of Jesus Hopped the A Train and Our Lady of 121st Street creates a wild comic fantasia. At issue is not only the fate of Judas's soul but the nature of God Himself and the very meaning of forgiveness.
A. Dean Irby directs the play. He is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Acting at the Purchase College School of the Arts, Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film. Irby is a veteran director and actor of Broadway and Off-Broadway, as well as regional and college theatre. A professional director for the past 20 years, he has directed more than 60 stage productions for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Crossroads, Theatre and Arizona Civic Theatre, among others. He is recipient of two Audelco Awards for his direction of the original production of Home for the Negro Ensemble Company and Boogie Woogie and Booker T, for the New Federal Theatre. He is a former acting coach for the cast that featured guests of The Cosby Show and for Malcolm Jamal Warner of the NBC situation comedy Here and Now.
The Purchase Repertory Theatre creates exciting and bold interpretations of classic and contemporary plays while bringing to the stage for the first time the next generation of actors, designers and technicians.


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Nearly 150 local young and older Iranian Jews as well as a handful of other Jews packed the Nessah Synagogue's main sanctuary hall in Beverly Hills on February 5, 2009 for a unique lecture event on the largely unstudied 2,700 year history of Iran's Jews. The gathering was the first of its kind in English language and organized by the L.A.-based Iranian Jewish Cultural Organization of California to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Professor Amnon Netzer. "Tonight, we are doing what Professor Netzer loved the most— sharing the long and rich history of Iranian Jews with the community and with the young generation living here in Los Angeles who may not be aware of their heritage," said George Haroonian, one of the event's organizers. Nezter who died last year of cancer, was a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem as well as one of the world's foremost experts on Iranian Jews, Judeo-Persian language and literature and Iranian studies.
The event featured lectures about the secrets behind Jewish survival in Iran for more than two millennium and was given by two of Nezter's long time protégés, UCLA professor of Iranian Jewish studies Dr. Nahid Pirnazar and Dr. Daniel Tsadik, assistant professor of Sephardic studies at Yeshiva University in New York. The gathering was also unique as it was one of the few in recent years where local Iranian Jews have openly discussed the forced conversions, public humiliations, persecutions and murders their ancestors experienced for 27 centuries at the hands of Iran's clerics, kings and other Muslim authorities. "I was very pleased with the turn-out of this event, it's always great to see members of the community taking an interest in their history and origins," said Tsadik. Young Iranian Jews in their teens and 20's said the event was eye-opening because they were unfamiliar with the hardships their ancestors had face for hundreds of years in Iran. Haroonian said his group plans to organized additional similar Iranian Jewish historical lecture series in the coming months. The evening's event was also sponsored by Nessah's Young Professional group and the L.A.-based 30 Years After organization.
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The hotel is in Bormio
Bormio, an alpine town 1225 mt., above the sea level, is located at the centre of High Valtellina. The High Valtellina is located where the borders of Italy, Switzerland and Austria meet, in the heart of the Rhaetian Alps
How to get to Bormio
- Orio's Airport located in Bergamo-Malpensa
- Airport Milano -Bormio
- Linate Airport Milano-Bormio
- Trains from Milano to Tirano- Bormio
- Coaches from Tirano to Bormio
Sommer access routes
- From the main road 38
- From Bolzano (Brennero feeway) through Stelvio Pass
- Through Tonale Pass and Gavia Pass
- From Engadine trough Forcola Pass and Bernina Pass
Winter access routes
- From the main road 38
- From the Gallo Pass'Tunnel (closed during night-hours) coming from Engadine, Alto Adige and Austria.
Railway links
- The rail link reaches Tirano (40 km from Bormio).
- From Tirano to Bormio there are several buses or we can pick you up.


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Planning applications submitted to Lakeland District National Park Authority.
Ambleside: Ground floor internal extension of Masonic Lodge into garage and store room, at hillard Rooms, Kelsick Road, for Hillard Rooms Ltd; fell 1 beech tree, at Sweden Bridge Cottage, Sweden Bridge Lane, for J. Smith; prune 2 oak trees and fell 1 beech, at Oaklands, Millans Park, for H. Thornton; house extension, at Peter Place, Barnhowe, Elterwater, for S. Caldwell; retrospective application for amendments to previous consent 7/2008/5490, at Ivy Cottage, Skelwith Bridge, for Dr T. Smith; rear extension 2 storey, at 15 Greenbank Road, for Mr & Mrs Britt; change from ancillary domestic space to separate use for holiday accommodation, at The Hayloft, Outgate, for Dr M. Bethell.
Bassenthwaite: Replace timber boardwalk with recycled plastic boardwalk, at Lakeside Wood, for M. Eccles.
Broughton-in-Furness: Convert garage workshop and store below Bellman House to provide flat for disabled persons use, at Ground floor, Bellman House, New Street, for Mr and Mrs P.& F. Speakman.
Cleator: Replace timber boardwalk with recycled plastic boardwalk, at The Mill, Ennerdale, for M. Eccles.
Cockermouth: Single storey lean-to extension to increase the size of the living room, at Beckside, Low Lorton, for S. Irlam.
Grasmere: Retrospective permission for timber pergola, at Ash Cottage Hotel, Red Lion Square, for B. Davies; extension to existing dwelling to form sun room, at Howe Head Cottage, Howe Head Lane, for N. Lucas.
Ireby: 2 porches, at Dale View Cottage, Aughertree, for Mr and Mrs Hannah.
Keswick: Form a dormer window to rear elevation, at 32 Lakeland Park, for Mr and Mrs Venworth; replace existing wood framed double glazing with upvc double glazing, at 1 Saddleback View, Threlkeld, for Ms K. Stuart; to place two tables and four chairs outside, at Cones and Cakes, 1 Lake Road, for Ms J. Wallace; roof over midden, at Wanthwaite Farm, St John's In The Vale, for W. Hartland; variation of condition 4 on 7/1984/2019 - use chalets for long term holiday use, at Scotgate Holiday Park, Braithwaite, for Stuart Bros; conservatory/day care centre extension to existing retirement home, at The Millfield Retirment Home, Penrith Road, for The Millfield Retirement Home; confirmation of compliance with conditions5,6 and 8 conditions of planning permission 7/2012/2093 relating to a construction method statement, planting and landscaping and sustainable drainage, at Forge Close, Forge Lane, for Messrs Read, Bell and Edmondson; fell 2 ash trees (G31), at verge on Bridge Terrace, for Mrs L. Plant, United Utilities; fell 5 norway maples and 3 rowan trees, at Rawnsley Centre, main Street, for Mrs L. Plant, United Utilities.
Staveley-in-Cartmel: Single storey extension, at Barrowbanks House, for Mr and Mrs B. Slater.
Windermere: Removal of conservatory and first floor bedroom following fire damage, enlargement of lounge area and related alterations to roof and walls, at Spring Beech, Holbeck Close, for M. Green; 3 x non illuminated fascia signs and 1 x non illuminated projector sign, at 33 main Road, for Scope; Demolition of outbuilding and reconstruction to form garage and summerhouse, at land adjacent to 15 Priory Cottages, Rayrigg Road, for Mrs Holt; remove boathouses 15-19, refurbish and widen boathouse 14, construct 2 no. new jetties and walkway, at Windermere Marina Village, The Marina, Bowness-on-Windermere, for J. Dearden.


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According to an Apr. 2 report from MMA Junkie, Johny Hendricks is legitimately sad that Georges St-Pierre suffered what could be a career-ending ACL tear.
It does bum me out; it does stink. It sucks when you hear about anybody getting injured. It doesn't matter when it is, who it is or how it happened. It always sucks. You don't wish anything bad upon anybody. So when I heard about him getting injured, I felt bad that he got injured again. My thoughts and prayers go out to him and hopefully he comes back.
Here's the thing: Hendricks might be really sad that St-Pierre is injured, but it's not because he feels bad for him.
Hendricks is actually upset about St-Pierre's ACL tear because the injury means he won't get to fight the Canadian legend again any time in the near future.
St-Pierre walked away from the UFC following his win over Hendricks at UFC 167. Ever since then, Hendricks has been gunning for the opportunity to avenge the loss.
Now that St-Pierre is injured, it's looking less likely than ever that Hendricks will have the chance to fight him again.
As for Hendricks, he's also going to be on the shelf for an extended period of time. Hendricks suffered a torn bicep during his recent fight against Robbie Lawler, and he isn't likely to return until at least September.
I want to push myself to the limit, but I want to keep it within the doctor's range. I'm saying I'll return anywhere from September to November. I know that's a huge spread, but if I'm healing up quickly, which I believe I'm going to, then September is easy. Then again, I don't want to push it too quick because if I reinjure it, I'll be out even longer.
While Hendricks is recovering, he's hoping the welterweight division moves forward to narrow down the top five contenders into one.


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A few weeks ago I met a very-good-friend of a very-good-friend. They hadn't seen each other for a few years and were catching up, talking about their mutual friends. They kept mentioning this one girl, saying that they 'used to be friends' with her. Want to hear why they are no longer friends with this girl? It was a combination of bat-shit crazy behavior topped off with one of the weirdest blows I've ever heard off.
She Photoshopped them to look fat and posted the photos to Facebook.
I can remember reading this article about Facebook sabotage by Zoe Foster a few weeks ago and thinking it was bad enough deliberately posting photos of your friends looking less than amazing but actually PHOTOSHOPPING them to look fat? That's like all kinds of Single White Female creepy. The friend had the photo on her phone and it's pretty scary stuff. It's the Psycho Photoshopper in question looking taut and clear skinned (of which she is neither apparently) and everyone else looking like chubby, ruddy-faced hobbits. Bizarre.
This got me thinking about other bat-shit crazy behavior and I was wondering…
What's the worst/weirdest thing a friend as ever done to you? The more bizarre and hilarious the better!
I'll start in the comments…
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I had a friend in high school who stole a necklace from a shop and gave to me as a present in front of a whole bunch of our friends. She then told everyone that I stole it. When everyone pointed out to her that they had seen her give it to me and that she was obviously lying she started crying and told everyone she was stressed because she thought she had cancer.
That was a really week in year 8.
When I was 10 I had a friend who told her brother that I'd kicked her in the eye. IN THE EYE. I knew nothing about this until one day I was walking home, and her monstrously large, 15 year old brother and his mate pulled a freaking pocket knife (I'm smirking now, but at the time it was terrifying) on me and started accusing me of being … well, insert a lot of swear words I'd never even heard of at the time … because I'd kicked his sister. IN THE FREAKING EYE.
I go to school the next day and ask her if she told her brother that I'd kicked her in the goddamned eye, and she says 'yes.' I ask why she'd say such a thing, and she looks away and says 'because you did.' And then tells me how her eye was all bruised and swollen for 'several weeks' after I apparently did this.
I just … there were no words. Happily no one except her idiot brother and his thug friend believed this bullshittery.
I had a friend back in grade two who loved that we both had really long hair. Then one day she got a haircut and it was SHORT. So she decided that the next best thing was for me to be the same as her and conspired with another friend to chop my two braids off and flush them DOWN THE TOILET. My mum thought I was a boy when I came home from school that day.
I also had another childhood friend who blew off my wedding because she was going to some 3-person surprise party for her then 1-month old boyfriend. Yep.
one of my best friends from highschool wanted to date my ex-boyfriend. i said that was fine (it was!) but she remained convinced that i still had feelings for him. they started dating the summer after we finished high school. i found out they were together ON FACEBOOK when they announced they were moving in together. i tried to say i was happy for them, but he told me to leave them alone because i was just ruining everything with how "pathetic" i was. when i questioned him about this, he said that i was pathetic and trying to get sympathy by lying about my dad having a brain tumour. my dad died a month later. she told him i was lying and that she had seen my dad and he was fine. they're still together now. i haven't spoken to either of them in 4 years.
When I was 8 we all had assignments on sea animals that we had to do. It was common in my class to put a 'comments' section at the end of the paper so when classmates read it, they could write something encouraging. My 'best friend' and another friend decided to write horrible comments and deface my assignment.
Sometimes I would also get to school in the morning and she would have told all my friends that they weren't talking to me for the day. I don't know if it reflects worse on her or them…or me for staying friends with her for so long…
I had a friend who was also travelling to our college besties wedding. She and I were already on rocky ground b/c she never called to say hi or hang out just to complain to me about every 3 months. She called me about 2 weeks before the wedding asking about my dress and saying she hadn't picked one up yet. Clue number 1.
Then, I drive with my parents to the wedding location and meet up with the bride for rehearsal dinner antics. Everyone is waiting outside for this "friend" to show up and nothing. We think maybe she hit traffic and go to eat, but still no word. We go out for an impromptu bachelor/bachelorette drink fest, and still nothing. We're all really starting to worry that something has happened at this point but she's not answering her phone and her husband isn't answering his.
We arrive back at her house not too late and the bride has an email. The friend's husband said that she was pregnant (which no one knew about) and had to go into the hospital. So, maybe that was true but who has their husband email their friends who are obviously going to be worried sick about accidents and injuries rather than just placing a quick phone call.
We were all pretty sure especially after I mentioned the no dress call that she just decided not to go and couldn't be bothered to be honest about it. Seriously, who in the right mind would think wife's in the hospital, better send an email to everybody. We stopped talking after that. Whenever she called me, I told her I was busy.
Wow. Some shockers here. Have to say this is all reassuring too. Have been having a right load of arse with two friends and thought it was just me. Apparently not! And really, I keep thinking – we are getting too old for this crap now.
Couple of months back I went to stay with 2 friends when some bad news came through – a friend and colleague of mine had been murdered. I jumped on a train straight back home. It was a horrific few weeks. I called, texted, and eventually emailed these 2 friends to tell them what had happened, and how I was feeling. Neither of them responded. They had apparently decided 'it was a bit too difficult to deal with' so decided, jointly, not to respond. These are friends I've known for 15 years, who I've looked after through illnesses, family bereavements, surgery, relationship break-ups, all sorts. Sometimes, it's not until the shit hits the fan that you really find out who your friends are. People I thought I barely knew, or who were miles away, were the ones who came out strong. And it made me realise – it's not how long a friendship has gone on for, or how geographically close people are that makes a good friendship – good friends are good friends no matter how long the friendship. or how far away that person is.
Right. That's enough of homilies. More wine.
I Had a good friend from highschool, and once i had moved out of home and was living in an apartment with some friends she started scheming on one of my housemates and eventually they started seeing each other (sleeping together)-after a few weeks of this she staged an elaborate pregnancy lie which then turned into a fake miscarriage (including a pretend desperate dash to the hospital) this in itself was bizarre, but all this time she had been saying horrible things to my housemates about me and how i hated them etc etc… eventually i couldnt stand to live there anymore and moved in with some other (lovely/not un-hinged) friends..
stupidly i had paid the entire $2500 bond for the apartment-which i then lost due to the house mates i left there trashing the place and dissapearing back to brazil!
…strangly she facebook stalked me last week and left me a message saying " ïm pregnant!! for real this time! 😀 "
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Just seperated from a toxic friend a few weeks ago. For FOUR YEARS I put up wIth her calling me fat, CONSTANTLY telling me everything I did wrong, gossiping about me, and I even forgave her for causing my first breakup and telling one of my boyfriends(along with a group of seniors who bullied me) I had herpes(false). I drew the line when I found out she had was (very wildly) making out with my boyfriend of a year even though she already had two boyfriends. On the bright side my true friends were there for me and now everyone at school calls her "crazy Sarah". she even had a breakdown last week and went ape shit on a teacher. Messed. Up. Chick.


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Softball Cancels DePaul Game Due To Weather
April 10, 2013
CHICAGO - The UIC softball team cancelled its 5:00 p.m. (CT) game against DePaul Wednesday due to rain. Head coach Michelle Venturella announced the cancellation Wednesday morning.
The Flames return to conference action Saturday in a doubleheader against Valparaiso at Noon (CT), followed by a single game Sunday at Noon.


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Japan has supported United States' candidate Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American, as the next head of World Bank, Jim is competing against the Nigerian and Colombian candidate in the election.
Jim Yong Kim who was on the "listening tour" in Japan, which apparently is United States' close ally, to seek support for his candidature in the election was successful in winning Japanese finance minister Jun Azumi's support.
Jun Azumi after the meeting expressed that Jim is a competitive individual and is best suited for the job to head World Bank.
Jun Azumi said, "We decided he is an extremely suitable candidate for the World Bank presidency and we will support him. He is a highly competent individual who spearheaded efforts and contributed to AIDS issues. We judge he's an appropriate candidate for the World Bank and support his bid."
Competition For The Helm Of World Bank
Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-lweala and Former Colombia finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are also competing to preside the apex financial institution of the world. The two competitors are looking to challenge US supremacy in the World Bank.
In an interview Jose Antonio said that he and Ngozi have a good chance of winning if the selection is based on merit.
Jose said, "Maybe it will not change this time. But in that case we're putting up the fight so that the system will be changed forever."
World Bank has always been headed by an American since its inception and developing countries are demanding change in that practice. If any of the above two manages to win the election it will be history, and even if Jim Yong Kim wins the election he will be the first Asian-American person to have this post.
Kim Lobbies To Garner Support
Jim Yong Kim met Japanese finance minister Jun Azumi in Tokyo after his arrival from Beijing, which hasn't officially backed any candidate till now.
After Tokyo Kim would be visiting Seoul, New Delhi, Brasilia and Mexico City. He would be touring the world between 27 March and 9 April to meet heads of state, finance ministers and others to convey his priorities for the World Bank.


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Conviction Fitness and Martial Arts is not the kind of gym you sign up for if you're looking for the eucalyptus steam room and air-conditioned cardio areas. The members at Conviction go there to sweat and that's they way they like it.
Likewise if your martial arts goals are limited to simply rolling through class until you collect several belt rankings to hang on your wall, this may not be the place for you. Students at Conviction either train in martial arts for the pure joy of learning the art while they exercise or to compete; where any titles and awards would be hard fought and won.
Owener Jean (John) Cueva, no stranger to competition himself, gives Examiner the run down on what the Lincoln Square warehouse gym has to offer.
What types of martial arts can one study at Conviction Fitness? We offer a complete range of martial arts classes; muay thai kickboxing, Brazilian jiu jitsu, MMA, boxing and wrestling. (See a full martial arts schedule here.)
How are beginning and advanced students divided up? We do not have separate classes. All levels participate in the same classes, however, people are always paired up with members of similar skill level. Our instructors are excellent at helping beginners and making them comfortable in our classes. We do have separate training sessions for fighters that have upcoming fights.
Does Conviction host any seminars regularly? At the moment, we do not, but we plan to start hosting seminars later in the year.
What do the training facilities offer? In addition to excellent martial arts classes, we offer classes in yoga, spin, boot camp, kettle bells and crossfit. Plus we have the biggest free weight room in Chicago with platforms, cages, tracks and all kinds of weights for any type of conditioning or weight training program.
What are the basic price packages for new members looking to join? $79 a month or $749 per year is the Gold Membership which includes complete access to the gym plus all classes including any martial arts class. (Conviction also offers lower priced memberships with more limited access, not including the martial arts classes, but those classes can be purchased with a $20 drop in fee at any time.)
What do real people think of this place? Ogee Muniz came to Conviction originally to enroll her son in some martial arts classes for additional exercise. Then she saw some women in a muay thai class. "They were pretty passionate about it," she says, "and it made me curious to see if this was something for me. I took it on and loved it. And it wasn't a Zumba class. It was something to take seriously, especially as a woman where you feel you have to prove yourself in a 'man's sport.' Eventually, I started taking Jiu Jitsu, which I absolutely adore. It has become a huge part of my life and it's like this cool culture. We all support each other and I don't think I've ever seen that at any other gym." Wayne Hayer, another student who was more interested in competing, feels like Conviction gives him the best bang for his buck in addition to being a supportive environment. "Conviction fitness is basically my home now because of how supportive the owner and instructors are to me and most of the students," Hayer says. "We have the perfect training facility and it comes at a reasonable price with help and support from positive people."
Conviction Fitness and Martial Arts is located at 4430 N. Western Avenue in Chicago. To learn more about their program or to join, check out their website or give them a call at 773.267.2170.


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Part of the frustration we conservatives feel, is simply the refusal of the political left to debate within the confines of what actual reality would dictate to be the starting point for any discussion in the arena of ideas. The spin of events as a regular interpretation to fit a narrative before any substantive discussion takes place has become so regular an occurrence, that whenever anybody questions the given premise, watching liberals try to comprehend the objection is a little like watching the science fiction cult classic, "Scanners." In that movie, a psychic killer would strike, and we were treated to 15 or so seconds of film time devoted to people's heads vibrating with a glazed look in their eyes until their heads literally just exploded. We,ll of course have to review some examples.
The President has been traveling the country lately, drumming up popular support for his Buffett Rule, which as it turns out is nothing more than a proposed increase in the Capital Gains Rate. During his latest attempt to legislate, "fairness," otherwise known by sane people as class envy, he claims that this is his attempt to solve our deficit spending problem. The media's part of the spin, not one person associated with the major media openly laughed at our President when he made this statement. Let's be honest with one another, that statement not only deserves derision, but outright open guffaws. According to the CBO, using the laughably inaccurate baseline budgeting technique, estimates that the Buffett Rule would increase our revenues by $3 Billion per year. Baseline budgeting of course, as we've discussed before, is a purposefully dishonest accounting trick which by law, forces things which have been proven to create a decrease in revenue to be viewed as an increase, and vice versa. In this instance, it assumes that the Warren Buffetts of the world will not take steps to shelter their wealth from taxation by placing their investments over seas, as they have every other time we've penalized their capital gains. Assuming however that we did actually increase the federal revenues by $3 Billion rather than what historically has always been the result of such measures, how much deficit reduction would this rule actually accomplish. Well, as luck would have it, a simple amount of 3rd grade level math can answer this question for us. Our deficit currently is $1.6 Trillion per year. We'll round down to 1.5, just to make it easy. A Trillion is exactly 1000 time a Billion. So, the $3 Billion would be able to cover the $1.5 Trillion in 500 years, assuming no interest, inflation, future deficits, book keeping errors, or future total collapses of our entire economy as predicted by the CBO in 2027. That entire discussion takes place even before we consider the already in place whopping debt of $15 Trillion and change. With all of this, not a single main stream media source has ever questioned their masters about the math, spending as a part of the problem, introducing more and even more expensive entitlements to the legally obligated portion of our non existent budget, which by the way, has not been passed since the Democrats took control of the House in 2007.
Another example happened during the Obamacare debate. When asked by a conservative blogger about where in the Constitution the Democrats found authority to pass such sweeping legislation that clearly violates every principle upon which our republic was founded, Nancy Pelosi simply laughed and answered, "are you serious?." Within each reporting of the main stream media, there was a plethora of liberal pundits, posing as objective news reporters who were gleefully pointing out that anyone who thought that the challenges of the law in the court system had any merit were intellectually inferior. So, when Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy pointed out, very astutely, that this particular legislation has some real problems with the Tenth Amendment, namely that it gives the Executive Branch an unchecked authority to just grant itself new power, the same liberal press had a fun to watch meltdown. There was nothing quite like watching Jeffrey Toobin, the CNN Legal Expert, describe the oral arguments at the supreme court to be a, "train wreck," as if the vast majority of the American People were not dead set against this law, and indeed hoping for the high court to strike this monstrous destruction of our entire way of life down. Yet when President Obama described it days later, he proclaimed it to be bi-partisan effort passed with approval of a large majority in our Legislative Branch. Not a single laugh was recorded amongst the press covering the President at that moment, which is something reality would have dictated.
I read somewhere this morning that when the President or any of his minions speak, we should expect to hear the theme music from the, "Twilight Zone," and that famous Rod Serling narration. My apologies to whomever I quoted, I can not remember where I had read it. That statement really strikes at the nub of the matter doesn't it. In order to see things through the liberal prism, you need to exist, mentally anyhow in an alternate universe, where facts are indeed subjective, and distinctions between good and evil, honesty and falsehood are merely a matter of semantics. It doesn't matter in the slightest that decreases across the board in marginal tax rates have always resulted in increases in federal revenues, we will still assume that by increasing taxes on people we don't want you to like will result in a deficit reduction. It doesn't matter at all that our spending on asinine uses of our money, and that the government has not ever succeeded in any of its endeavors into what should be the private sector, those who wish to make their own decisions as to what to do with the fruits of their own labor are labeled as selfish, and the people who did nothing to produce those fruits are labeled as righteous when they come to confiscate that wealth. We have real live examples of the model cities,(Detroit,) fiasco in existence already in America, yet I am still seeing it being taught as a part of our elementary education curricula.
About a year ago, a friend of mine signed me up for a facebook group of liberals who wished to discuss politics on line. It seems that they wanted a few conservatives to debate. It took me about 10 days to be kicked out of the group. One of the college kiddies told me after the third day that he thought it would be nice if, as a conservative, I would write about why all conservatives were knuckle dragging redneck morons who were not smart enough to just accept the liberal worldview. He thought I would be spending my time explaining why we supported Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, even when everyone, wink wink, knew that they did not deserve to be defended for their obvious crimes against dear leader. Cue the Twilight Zone music. As it turns out, they were completely unprepared for any actual argument which went against their worldview, and they certainly were not willing to read such blasphemous words. Tough to debate with someone who is unwilling to at the very least acknowledge your side of the debate. This is where we are in America now. Compromise is just another word for let us have our own way. I used to think that the left worked so hard at censorship because they did not feel capable of defeating us in the arena of ideas, but I realized something even more nefarious is happening here. They would never know if they were capable of defeating us in that arena, as they have never once contemplated any of our arguments. How could they? They simply don't want to take the chance that an alternative view point exists, anywhere. In order for people to be continuously against their will to behave as the political elites wish, they must be totally controlled. That is why they are always striving to silence the right. It's not that they fear losing the debate, it's that they don't want to allow a debate to take place.


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Results tagged ' Tim Hudson '
Two Good Teams
This past weekend, the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves (both leaders of their respective divisions) played some hard-fought games that brought to mind another series between each club that you might remember:
On Friday night, Francisco Liriano and Tim Hudson locked horns in an epic pitchers duel (I was at this one in person!). Frankie struck out seven batters in a row at one point (tying a club record), and the Twins did Hudson in with one productive inning in the seventh.
For Saturday's game, another pitching lockup commenced, this time with Nick Blackburn taking the hard-luck loss to Derek Lowe.
In the finale, Kevin Slowey came back down to earth after a series of outstanding starts, and the Twins effectively lost after the second inning (down 5-0). Delmon Young did continue his hot hitting with a three-run bomb, though.
-It was nice to see the Twins organization recognize Bobby Cox before the opening game of the series (Cox has announced his retirement from managing effective at the end of this season). He truly is a class act who will be sorely missed by Atlanta and all MLB.
-Boy, is Delmon ever on a tear! Of course, he is also prone to those bone-dry stretches as well, so is it really necessary to re-hash the Garza/Bartlett for Young/Harris trade every time he goes on a streak?!
-We need to get healthy. We may be able to beat some NL clubs (like the incoming Rockies) with the likes of Danny Valencia and Trevor Plouffe in the lineup, but we need O-Dawg and JJ back to compete with the big boys offensively.
Preview (36-27, 1st, 2.5 GA DET): Aaron Cook (2-3, 4.76) vs. Carl Pavano (6-6, 3.92). Does Pavano ever get a no-decision? I'm kidding…that's actually a positive thing, as it means he's pitching deep into games.
A Much-Needed Victory
If you read my blog post last night, it was pretty obvious that I was angry at the way the Twins (despite picking up the victory) let the game end on Tuesday night. Thus, I was very glad to see Liriano pitch a good game tonight, as well as the bats coming alive in the late innings (when was the last time THAT happened on the road?!) to get the ball to Joe Nathan in an opposing stadium.
I always just want to add tonight that, no matter what happens the rest of this season, I will be pulling for the Twins all the way. That sounds like an incredibly obvious thing to say, but it seems as if a lot of negativity has been floating around the Twins this season. Whether it is hating on the bullpen, the Baker/Liriano early-season disaster, or a few batsmen (Delmon Young, Brian Buscher, etc.), there hasn't been a whole of positivity so far into the '09 season. Though all those areas are ripe for criticism, I think that sometimes we all need (including myself) to remember that this really is just a game. It's like little league…you play your heart out on the field, but once the final out is recorded you don't take it with you whether win or loss.
A few years ago, while writing for the University of Minnesota-Morris campus newspaper, The University Register, I wrote an article entitled "Why We Watch Baseball". I would like to copy that into this blog post, as I think it really rings true this season:
Why We Watch Baseball
-With those who don't give a (hoot) about sports, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them. (Art Hill)
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. (Dave Barry)…A couple of months ago, a friend of my sister happened to be over at my family's home for dinner. This being summer time, my nightly ritual of watching the Twins game was about to commence. After the meal, she plopped down on the coach next to me and asked: Why do you like watching baseball? Not being mentally prepared for that kind of question, I gave the typical male answer: "Grunt…Because it's better than shopping…grunt". However, that was not good enough for her inquisitive mind, as she launched into a lecture of how professional sports mean absolutely nothing. As she mentioned something about starving people in Africa, I realized that I had nothing (at that time) to refute her claims. The games themselves do mean nothing in the grand context of history and there are more important endeavors in life than stealing second base. So, why do we watch baseball? The following argument could be applied to all professional sports, but I am going to keep it confined to a baseball context.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game – the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tends to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. (Walt Whitman)…A young boy idolizes his dad and wants to do everything with him. The dad, a big baseball fan, teaches his son about the game. They play whiffle ball in the back yard, watch Twins games together, and talk to each other about the game. Political events have no bearing on the young boy's life at this time, but baseball does. Through the sport of baseball they are able to form a common bond that will last the rest of their lives, through good times and bad.
Say this much for big league baseball – it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. (Bruce Catton)…The same boy has a grandfather who is 84 years old. The grandpa lived through the Great Depression, spent his childhood working on a farm, and served his country during World War II. The boy grew up playing video games, reading science fiction novels, and the closest he ever came to a battlefield was Risk or Fort Apache. The binding factor between the two–baseball. While each came from completely different backgrounds and ideologies, making communication with each other difficult, the love of sports provided a bond. They may not be able to bridge the generation gap, but it is easy to debate the merits of Johan Santana versus Dizzy Dean (the grandfather's favorite pitcher as a child) or how Rogers Hornsby (star player of the 1920's and 30's) would have fared against today's pitchers.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. (George F. Will)…Now that same boy has left home for college. He finds the transition difficult, but smoothened by one thing–baseball. Getting through the day might be a struggle, but at night he can watch the Twins on TV or listen to John Gordon bring the game alive on the radio. The games relax him and give him something other than school to think about. After a while his spirits raise and he is able to do much better in his classes.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. (Rogers Hornsby)…At the beginning of his second semester of college, the boy is feeling lonely again. Spring will be coming soon and he feels trapped, away from his family or anyone to talk to. He begins writing for the school newspaper–sports, of course. This gives him something creative to do and a way to meet new people. He becomes motivated to make himself more physically fit, letting the Twins take his mind off the treadmill he pounds every night.
Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. (Rodney Marsh)…When the boy goes home on weekends, the last thing he wants to do is talk about the hard week of studying that has transpired. He is tired from the week and wants to relax with his family. What a better opportunity than a baseball game? Whether it means making the trip to the Metrodome or watching on TV, baseball allows the boy to unwind before another tough week. It transports him (for a few hours at least) into a world where the concerns of real-life seem to melt away.
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking a baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. (Pete Hamill)… The boy has now passed his love of baseball on to his two younger brothers. They play in Little League over the summer, as well as endless games of the MVP Baseball 2005 video game. Once school starts again, emails are sent back and forth about favorite baseball teams and players.
I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. (Stan Isaacs)…So as you can see, the sport of baseball does have the power to enrich a life. Or, more specifically, my life; as I am the boy. While on occasion it has made stay up a little too late (darn extra-innings!) or ignore the outside world because "the game is on", baseball's positive influence in my life has outweighed the negatives.
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. (Roy Campanella)…To further appreciate the impact that baseball can have on one's life, please see the movie Field of Dreams. My favorite sports movie of all-time, it focuses on the relationship between father and son and how that relationship can be enhanced through a mutual love of baseball. At one point in the movie, James Earl Jones (aka Voice of the Baseball Gods) explains how baseball is able to leave its mark on a person. I leave you with his quote…
The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This game: it's a part of our past. It reminds of us of all that once was good and could be again. (Field of Dreams)
Preview (30-31, 2nd, 4.0 GB DET): Nick Blackburn (5-2, 3.30) vs. Trevor Cahill (3-5, 4.21). Another no-name Oakland pitcher…the days of Zito, Mulder, and Hudson seem so long ago!


text: When you wake up in the morning whats the first thing that comes to your head? Starbucks? 600 cal drink? with tons of sugar?, To get you through the day.. Or are you looking ways to eat light and small meals a day to keep your body burning, like a camp fire.. Next meal you go get or you make for you and your family, think about animals for a second. Have you ever seen a over weight tiger? or over a 100 pound over weight bird? Just next to you wanna grab something to eat think about how much smart you are than your dog or cat, and how you can make smart choices for eating, remember EAT TO LIVE, NOT LIVE TO EAT!