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Previewed 24 May 2005, Opened 8 June 2005, Closed 3 September 2005 at the Playhouse Theatre in London
A new stage adaptation by Andrew Rattenbury of the original James M. Cain's 1930s crime thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice in London starring Val Kilmer and Charlotte Emmerson and directed by Lucy Bailey.
When Frank drifts into their roadside cafe, Greek immigrant Nick and his American wife Cora have no idea of the devastating effect he'll have on their lives. But then Frank and Cora begin a passionate affair that leads to murder, double-crossing and dubious courtroom deals...
The cast for The Postman Always Rings Twice in London features Val Kilmer as 'Frank' and Charlotte Emmerson as 'Cora' along with Joseph Alessi, Rae Baker, Keith Bartlett, Aran Bell, Mac McDonald, Ian Pirie and Adam Rayner. It is directed by Lucy Bailey with designs by Bunny Christie, lighting by Nigel Edwards, fights by Renny Krupinski, music by Django Bates and sound by Mic Pool. This production comes into London's West End following a season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse where it was originally seen with a different cast.
"A terrific piece of theatre - Val Kilmer delivers a splendid performance. I was enthralled" The London Evening Standard
The author James M Cain said: "I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort."
"Lucy Bailey's production is steaming with suppressed sexuality" The Daily Express
"It is an overwrought, heaving bosom of a story, the kind of thing that strives for hard-boiled noir, but comes out as half-baked gris instead. Given the lurid nature of the plot - the characters are too busy lusting to go in much for slothfulness, but otherwise, the seven deadly sins are well represented - Lucy Bailey's production is surprisingly dull and epically slow. For much of the second half, it becomes a drama about insurance policies... There is no doubt that a lot has been thrown at this production... for a start, Bunny Christie's extravagant set is scene-stealing enough to demand a limo and personal trainer all of its own. From its neon sign to its grimy menu, the Twin Oaks Tavern is authentically seedy... When the full-scale car accident occurs, however, it becomes clear just how hard this set is working for its money. It soon becomes distracting, and Val Kilmer can't quite compete, even if he is the big-name muscle (quite literally)... As a relic of a mythic America, The Postman Always Rings Twice retains a dusty cachet; as a West End show, however, this is a potboiler that has long since boiled dry." The Sunday Times
"Charlotte Emmerson thrills as Cora - great on-stage chemistry" The Independent
"The plays 'international casting' director Jim Carnahan must have felt he had done well to persuade Val Kilmer to take the leading role, but I fear he persuaded him ten years too late. The actor is carrying a lot of weight these days and that, together with a curiously expressionless face, poor vocal projection and the director Lucy Bailey's perverse need to have him deliver so many lines from a prone position, makes for a curiously inanimate object centre-stage for much of the play. It is debatable whether any actor could have done an awful lot, however, with Andrew Rattenbury's lines: though the playwright's unshowy, matter-of-fact style might work perfectly well for Casualty, Holby City and The Bill, it makes for unappetising, stagnant theatre. The final straw is Bunny Christie's set. Quite what she thought she was doing having the car in which Nick was killed come crashing through the ceiling is anyone's guess. And it is even more mystifying why the thing had to remain there throughout the whole of the second act, causing all sorts of health-and-safety implications for the cast, who had to try to act around it." The Sunday Telegraph
"Lucy Bailey's steamy production of James M Cain's murderous erotic thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice has been packed off to London from the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Alas, much has been lost in transit. It isn't helped by having the two-storey set - flyblown diner downstairs, murder most foul upstairs - squashed into a stage a third of the size of the one in Leeds. Moreover, pretty much everything comes to a grinding halt with the car crash in which Cora and her lover bump off her Greek husband." The Mail on Sunday
"Val Kilmer may be a little weightier in the face and body now than in his heyday, but he's lost none of the visceral power that dominated the screen... While Charlotte Emmerson's Cora is a hot, slinky, almost feral creature and the connection she creates with Kilmer's Frank as they go at it on tables, the floor and over the car bonnet is intense, Kilmer fails to ignite a wider passion until he is given free rein in the second half to destroy the set. Despite excellent direction, a slick set and a production that does all it can with Cain's story, Postman is a bit, well, second class." The Observer
James Mallahan Cain was born in 1892 into an Irish family in Maryland. Although the family attended mass regularly, by the age of 13 Cain did not believe a word of the "whole mumbo-jumbo, especially the confessional, where I was faking and suddenly knew that the priest knew it." An aptitude for first-person confessions was to stand him in good stead in his writing career. In 1926 Cain wrote a play, Crashing the Pearly Gates, about economic conflict and sexual temptation in the coalfields, but it closed after a week. In 1931, when Paramount offered him $400 a week to be a scriptwriter, he moved out to Hollywood. Released after his first studio contract there, Cain continued to write articles and also began a novel he called Bar-B-Que. It took him six months to write what was eventually published in 1934 as The Postman Always Rings Twice. It set new standards of 'hard-boiledness'; the New York Times reviewer called it a "six-minute egg" and Cain was suddenly in great demand. His next project was an eight-part serial for Liberty magazine called Double Indemnity. Both these pieces were made into films by Billy Wilder, with screenplay by Wilder and Raymond Chandler. Cain's style was sparse, which is the way he believed writing should be at the time of the Depression in America. His preference was for a first-person narrator, with the male characters tending towards the self-destructive or manipulated by stronger women. His talent for dialogue and the confessional form gave his narratives the suspense only achieved by other writers through the medium of a detective. He also tried to avoid any moralising. In France, Cain was considered to be one of the most important American writers and The Postman Always Rings Twice is said to have inspired Albert Camus' existential novel The Outsider. Cain died in 1977 at the age of 85.
The Postman Always Rings Twice in London at the Playhouse Theatre previewed from 24 May 2005, opened on 8 June 2005 and closed on 3 September 2005.


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Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.
Philip Doddridge (1702 - 1751)
Source: Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race.
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Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies. Lord, in my views, let both united be: I live in pleasure when I live to thee.
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|The Locke-Irey garden alone (seen here with a hint of Buffalo's many charming streetscapes), will have as many as 4000 visitors over the Garden Walk weekend.
That was before, through Twitter and other social media, we met amazing, hard-core gardeners who are actual Buffalonians. In 2010, the lid was blown off our outdated notions (Fire in North Tonawanda!) by visiting Buffalo on a Fling – a big annual meet-up of garden bloggers – as a preview of their annual Garden Walk, always on the last weekend in July. We immediately fell in love.
|Oh, just another house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
|Arlan has opened his garden to the public for 19 of Garden Walk's 20 years, and his miniature moss village is only one of the surprises there. We're also ready to steal his idea for a greenhouse, which we'll share later.
Buffalo isn't perfect by any means. However, it really is more than Toronto thinks it is, and Garden Walk, with the month-long garden festival leading up to it, has helped make it so. You owe it to yourself to think outside of the discount malls and get yourself downtown. Do it during Garden Walk, and you'll want to return. Guaranteed. We certainly do!
|Where else would one buy a house, tear it down, and replace it with a garden, accented with art and open to the public – as Mike did? Buffalo, you're our kind of gardening city. P.S. That isn't an eagle, it's an osprey.
|These are folk who relax in their gardens, and make them work hard, too. We love Gordon and Brian's tiki bar. But just around the corner by the garage is a whole passel of home-made grow boxes full of peppers and tomatoes.
|Over two decades of Garden Walk, Buffalo has developed a culture of gardening and its own style of garden – it's great to see, and you should. So, get thee hence, and let's bring some of that big garden spirit back to Toronto!


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This is for middle-aged women ONLY. If you do not qualify, look away, please! Are you gentlemen and youngsters gone? O.K. Ladies, here goes:
Do you ever see yourself unexpectedly in a mirror, perhaps in a department store, and not realize that it's you? Have you ever been strolling by a large, glass windowpane and think that your hairstyle suddenly is terribly wrong? Do you find yourself preferring to face the wall in a yoga or exercise class instead of the mirrors that are there to observe your body's movement? Do you avoid peeking at yourself in the rear view mirror knowing you will be disappointed? Does the light in your bathroom magnify all the flaws that have appeared on your face over the last several years?
I have experienced all of these uncomfortable moments in my recent past. Looking in a mirror used to be an enjoyable, at least easy, thing to do. There would be a reflection looking back at me that was pleasing, that matched my self-image. Vanity, I believed, was something every woman needed to tend to for the purpose of being presentable, to enhance her attributes, to feel good about herself. It used to be fun! That, of course, was prior to the onset of middle age. Now, it is a puzzlement catching a glimpse of that mature woman looking back at me in the mirror. Who is she, and what did she do with my younger, prettier self?
Middle age is strange and sneaky with all its unexpected body and image changes. It's one thing to watch your parents, older family members, senior friends, mature neighbors getting older. Seeing it actually happen to the person looking back in the mirror is another thing completely. Seeing the changes happening to my own body, my own face, my own image is rather mind-boggling. Why? Because inside my head and inside this body, I still have the idea and the feeling that I am the younger version of myself from years ago. I forget my real age because I feel the same as I did about 10 years ago, when none of this aging was noticeable quite yet. My imagination and my reality no longer mirror one another (no pun intended). Can you relate?
I think mirrors and shiny windowpanes should be banned from stores and yoga/exercise rooms. I prefer to keep the image of my younger self in my mind's eye and not be shocked out of my dream world where I still look really good. I want to wear the cute clothes that I see my daughter don and not have to remember to dress more for my aging body. There is nothing worse than a middle-aged woman who makes it obvious to the world that she is in denial by wearing inappropriate styles. I prefer to keep my denial private, thank you. I want to look as good doing exercise and yoga as I imagine in my mind. I don't care to see the unfamiliar older me, who is no longer lithe and graceful like the me in my memory used to look.
Unrealistic, vain, and unhealthy, I know. In reality, I know that I must learn to adjust to my new look. The aging process must be accepted and embraced. It is an unavoidable fact of life, and I should be grateful to be alive and fit for the experience of this phase. I am still me — just more mature and, hopefully, better. I must, in my mind, find a way to integrate my younger self with my middle-aged self, and become comfortable with the me of today. Life prior to middle age is what makes us who we are when we arrive in middle age. This can and should be a smooth transition, just another passage along the path of life.
Fine, but let's do it sans mirrors. I am all for self acceptance, adjusting to the odd body changes over which I have little control, appreciating life in middle age, giving up the ego, growing old gracefully. Do I need mirrors to be able to do this successfully? Let me just enjoy the image in my mind of my younger self; it helps me to feel younger. When I feel younger, I look younger. When I look younger, I want to look into the mirror more often. When I look in the mirror, it ruins the whole illusion. I rest my case.


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On Jan. 2, 2014, over on the Drudge Report Twitter page, folks are responding to news that a high profile USPS Christmas delivery from the First Family went astray. One would never think that this sort of thing would happen to the president; after all, despite Megyn Kelly's claim of a white Santa, a poll found "Santa is a Democrat."
A resident of Chicago suburbs, Alane Church, erroneously received a package that provides a peek into the private life of the Obama family. It was a homemade photo scrapbook of the Obama family intended for "Mama Kaye," the godmother of the Obama girls, Sasha and Malia. According to a Politico report, "A picture of the gift showed a tag addressed to 'Mama Kaye and Papa Wellington,' from 'Barack, Michelle and the girls.'"
Must read: Drudge Report's 'Hillary makes her move' tease, too early with no proof
Steve Dawson reflection on the contents of the gift was a flashback to former presidential gifts. He tweeted, "Pretty much sums up his entire presidency -- gifts of himself and always about the 'O.'"
Back before the Obama administration hired a protocol secretary for the president, Obama was, indeed, panned for what some presidential etiquette experts considered eyebrow raising errors, primarily in bowing and gifting. Although the president does not personally select his dignitary gifts, his first presidential gifts resulted in some embarrassing press.
In particular, the London newspapers howled when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the White House. From the Browns, the president was presented with "a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the 19th century British warship HMS President (whose sister ship, HMS Resolute, provided the wood for the Oval Office's desk), Obama offered up ... 25 DVDs of American movie classics."
It got worse before it got better: Obama gave the Queen of England an iPod reported to be from Best Buy. The British press was appalled.
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Next to every fire hydrant in Syracuse, New York, there is (or used to be) a six-foot-tall sign with a picture of a fire hydrant on it, so in winter the firemen know where to dig. Syracuse averages well over a hundred inches of snow a year, most of it in small increments—an inch, two inches, three inches, day after day. In my memories of childhood, it's always snowing, and I'm always slogging through it to school with red knees, a dripping nose and frozen mittens, muttering under my breath. Snow is piled in crusty, increasingly dirty drifts by the roadside, and you can tell where the neighborhood dogs have been. (This was before leash laws.)
Or I'm riding in an overheated car with the windshield wipers pushing away endless clumps of fat gray flakes spilling out of a white sky. Cars had rear-wheel drive then, so there was a certain amount of drama involved in making it up the hills. To get out of our garage, you had to back out over what was usually a sheet of ice, negotiate a curve and race up a steep incline before the ice realized you were there and tried to stop you. From all over the neighborhood you could hear the buzzsaw whine of spinning tires. Winter music.
My father was a physician who made house calls, day and night, in his tiny yellow-and-white Nash Metropolitan. He would leave me sitting in it next to some enormous snowbank while he went into an unfamiliar house carrying his black medical bag. Both my older brothers and I went on calls with him when we were little. It was his way of spending time with us, though I mostly remember sitting by myself in the car. Also lying awake at night—my bedroom was over the garage—hearing his tires spin as he left, then waiting for him to come home safely. I have never been able to kick the worried-waiting habit.
We lived in the same house the whole time I was growing up. When my parents moved there in 1950, three years before I was born, it was the only house on an elm-lined block, a 1925 colonial with a Tudor-style brick front. (My mother had the brickwork painted white. She once told me the painter had protested, "You can't paint tapestry brick!" And she'd said, "Watch me.") By the time I was 10, the elms were dead and gone, and both sides of the street were lined with tiny ranch houses over which our place loomed like an old church. My friends lived in ranches or split levels with finished basements. We had a cellar with a cracked cement floor, a big red furnace and those scary long-legged spiders that live only in basements. And we had an attic that was freezing in winter and stifling in summer and smelled like someone else's past. The attic had real stairs going up to it and full-size windows. It was meant to be living space but had never been finished. The floors by the windows were thick with dead flies every summer until Mother swept them away.
We had ancient radiators that clanked and sputtered and occasionally leaked but gave off plenty of heat that enveloped you when you came in from the cold. I'd put my mittens on the hall radiator to dry, and the house would smell of wet wool and whatever Mother was cooking. She was a butcher's daughter and a good, if impatient, cook. I'd open the oven or lift the pot lids to get a good whiff of dinner, but not if she was standing there. The kitchen was her territory, and she didn't want me messing with it. I learned to open the fridge quietly so she wouldn't yell from some far corner of the house to ask what I was taking. All my friends have the same memory of eating cookies over the wastebasket so as not to leave telltale crumbs.
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Finally, Chris Brown has publicly apologized to Rihanna via this video. Aside from wondering why he hired the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to do his styling for the clip, (He looks like he's filming an early 90's commercial for Campbell's Tomato Soup!) we're mainly hoping that Rihanna will emerge from this stronger than ever. Which is why, in the spirit of grrrl power, we'd like to suggest she purchase James Piatt's PeaceKeeper 400 handbag. ($85) The brass knuckle-inspired silver handles will remind her to be independent and unafraid, and could conceivably double as self defense if any bleeping idiot is ever stupid enough to try and attack her, ever again. And before she leaves the house, she can drink her morning coffee from this.
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"True Blood" is preparing to air its seventh and final season on HBO, but fans still have a few more months to wait. Thankfully there are spoilers and casting updates that can get viewers excited for the vampire series to return. On April 11, Carter Matt revealed some information about Bill's family connections and there is also an update to casting.
When "True Blood" season 7 airs, fans will meet William Compton, Sr. as well as Bill's mother, Margaret. Not too much information has been released on the details of these two characters, but International Business Times did write that the year will be 1855. They wouldn't be appearing if there wasn't an important reason and something major must have happened during that year. Fans can also expect to see Caroline Compton, Bill's wife. Spoiler reports state that fans will travel to the 1850s to see her give birth to one of their children.
There will also be other flashbacks, including Bill clashing with Bon Temps locals. Back in 1862, there were some issues with his ideas about the Civil War. This particular scene will include 5-year-old Sarah Compton according to a casting sheet that was released.
E! Online reported that there will be another new character on "True Blood" season 7. Her name is Brigette and she is described as a gorgeous microbiologist. Fans are speculating that she could have some sort of connection to the Hepatitis V infection. Of course, there is always the possibility that she is another villain or there could be some other interesting twist.
Speaking of villains, TV Line recently reported that a character called "The Figure" will be introduced. He is described as being similar to Jason Voorhees or Leatherface. The website wrote that the villain will be scary, ugly, hulking, crafty and mean. There is also another enemy on the way who goes by the name Mr. Gus. He is a Japanese native who is out for revenge.
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Russell Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004) was an American rapper who went by the stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard (often shortened to ODB). He was one of the founding members of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
- Ladies don't love shit. Ladies just act like they love. You understand what I'm sayin'? It's an act when it comes to Ol Dirty Bastard. They ACT like they love Ol Dirty - ladies don't love Ol Dirty Bastard because … Ol Dirty Bastard is busy lovin' them. They might like Ol Dirty Bastard, know what I'm sayin? They might listen to his music or something, but really they don't pay no mind. They pay nothing no mind, nothing is paid a mind to, really, on this earth. It's just living, and dying. The world is a big ball of fire and it's just burning with no feeling.
- Dirty Minded Documentary
- I'm into all assholes. I like it because it's tinier than a pussyhole. It's so tiny, it's tinier than a clitoris. When i get the feeling of licking a york peppermint patty, it's a sensation.
- Dirty Minded Documentary
- Everyday, like probably three times a day, I'd jerk my dick off so much that the prisoners would say yo Ol' Dirty chill the fuck out. Every girl I saw on T.V., her ass looked funny to me, and i just kept jerkin my dick off, every fucking day and night.
- Dirty Minded Documentary
- "Yeah nigga, fart that shit." [referring to a vulgar method of lighting marijuana]
- Unofficial Rolling Stone interview, 1994
- Do I let my children listen to my music?' Of course I do. Shoot, the worst curse is a lie.
- From an MTV News video segment. 1995
- When it comes to children, Wu-Tang is for the children.
- 1998 Grammys
Quotes from ODB songs[edit]
Got Your Money[edit]
- "Oh oh baby, this is dedicated to all the pretty girls. All the pretty girls in the world, and the ugly girls too cause to me youre pretty anyways."
- "I don't have no trouble with you fuckin' me/ But I got a little problem with you not fuckin' me"
Return To The 36 Chambers[edit]
dirty dancin- u know dam well i dont smoke dat shit..u know dam well..
- "Introducin -yo FUCK that nigga's name; my hip-hop drops on your head like rain"
Nigga Please[edit]
- "Please nigga, I'm immune to all viruses; I get that cocaine, it cleans out my sinuses"
- "I kill all the government microchips in my body; I'm that paranoid nigga, at ya party; I kill all my enemies at birth; SHUT THE FUCK UP, bitch and let me stick my hands up your skirt"
Protect Ya Neck[edit]
- "First things first, man / You're fuckin' with the worst / I'll be stickin' pins in your head like a fuckin' nurse / I'll attack / Any nigga who slack in his mack / Come fully packed with a fat rugged stack"
Proteck Ya Neck II The Zoo[edit]
- "While you sleep I be the God on point, with Scottie Pippen / as I, jump on stage, flip rip a show / Strip a rippa' hoe, wayyy like Bo / Jackson while I'm still taxin maxin / Relaxin sittin back lickin tracks and yeea "
===Windpipe= MY name russel jones and i run dis
Dirty Dirty[edit]
- Keep it nappy or braided up
Dirty in the cockpit, blazin' up
The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones[edit]
- Here Comes The Judge:"nominated at awards; back in the days drivin' an Accord"
Wu Tang Forever[edit]
- From Triumph: "What y'all thought y'all wasn't gon' see me? I'm the Osiris of this shit!"
See also[edit]
- Wu-Tang Clan
- Gza, member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
- Method Man, member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
External links[edit]
- Inspectah Deck, member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
- Raekwon, member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
- Ghostface Killah, member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
- U-God, member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
- Masta Killa, member of the Wu-Tang Clan.


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Major League Baseball today announced that all 30 teams have voted to approve expanded use of instant replay.
With the MLB Players Association and the World Umpires Association on board, the new policy will go into effect at the start of the 2014 season.
"I am very pleased that instant replay will expand to include additional impactful plays," Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. "The new system will give managers valuable recourse in potentially game-changing situations…I thank the Major League Players and Umpires for their cooperation with this change, which will serve our shared game well."
Teams will also be allowed to show all replays on stadium scoreboards, whether the play is reviewed or not. Selig applauded the move.
"The opportunity for our fans to see more replays in our ballparks is also an important modification that the Clubs and I favored," he said.
A designated communication location will be established at all 30 Major League stadiums at which the Crew Chief and at least one additional MLB umpire will have access to the Replay Command Center in New York. Big league umpires will be staffed at the Replay Command Center and will make the final call based on clear and convincing evidence.
Instant replay will be used during televised Spring Training games to prepare on-field personnel for the implementation of the new rules for the regular season.
Other protocols of the new system for instant replay are as follows:
The following play types will be subject to review:
· Home run
· Ground rule double
· Fan interference
· Stadium boundary calls (e.g., fielder into stands, ball into stands triggering dead ball)
· Force play (except the fielder's touching of second base on a double play)
· Tag play (including steals and pickoffs)
· Fair/foul in outfield only
· Trap play in outfield only
· Batter hit by pitch
· Timing play (whether a runner scores before a third out)
· Touching a base (requires appeal)
· Passing runners
· Record keeping (Ball-strike count to a batter, outs, score, and substitutions)
All other plays will not be reviewable; however, the Umpires may still convene on the field at any time to discuss the play.
· Field managers may initiate replay review on one reviewable play per game by verbally indicating his intention to challenge, in a timely manner, to the Crew Chief. Guidelines will be established to determine whether a challenge is timely.
· The manager may request that the umpire review multiple portions of the same play, but he must specify exactly which portions of the play he is challenging.
· If any portion of a challenged play is overturned, the manager who challenged the play will retain the ability to challenge one more play during the game. No manager may challenge more than two plays in a game.
· Once the manager has exhausted his ability to challenge plays during the game and after the beginning of the seventh inning, the Crew Chief may choose to invoke instant replay on any reviewable call. In that circumstance, the Crew Chief is not obligated to invoke instant replay if requested by the manager.
· Home run calls that are currently subject to instant replay review will continue to be reviewed at the Crew Chief's discretion. Managers may request that an Umpire review a home run call, but managers cannot challenge home run calls.
· Once instant replay review is invoked (either by the Manager or the Crew Chief), the Crew Chief will signal to the official scorer that the play is under review.
· The Crew Chief and at least one other umpire will then move to a designated communication location near home plate, where they will have access to a hard-wired headset connected to the Replay Command Center in New York.
· Major League Umpires will be staffed as Replay Officials at the Replay Command Center, located at MLB Advanced Media headquarters, for all Major League games.
· The Replay Command Center will have direct access to video from most cameras in the ballpark in real-time, regardless of whether they are shown on the live broadcast.
· The Replay Official will look at the video feeds and determine if there is clear and convincing evidence to overturn the call on the field. If the Replay Official overturns a call on the field, he will also use his judgment to determine where to appropriately place runners if the play had been called correctly on the field.
· The umpires on the field will not have a monitor to review the play and they will not leave the field at any time.
· The Replay Official will make the ultimate determination of whether to overturn the call.
· On-Field personnel may not argue with the decision of the Replay Official.
· To determine whether to challenge a play, personnel in the dugout will be permitted to communicate with a video specialist in the Clubhouse who has access to the same video that is available to Replay Officials. This communication will occur via the dugout phone.
· Both the home and visiting Clubs will have standardized technology to ensure each Club has equal access to all video.
· No monitors or additional electronic equipment will be permitted in the dugout.
· Clubs will now have the right to show replays of all close plays on its ballpark scoreboard, regardless of whether the play is reviewed.
If you're a fan of the game, you'll want to visit Baseball Hall of Fame page on Facebook to offer your opinions and talk baseball. While you're there, hit the "Like" button so you can receive updates.
As always, Jim Smiley encourages your email comments.
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This matter is simple, the children must be forced to leave Australia and live with their Father in Italy, I mean it is a part of the Australian justice, these poor kids are seeing. It does not matter what they want, it matters that they do as they are told. It is expected a last decision will be made after a High Court Hearing on 7th & 8th August 2012
If you support their position please visit https://www.facebook.com/kidswithoutvoices and let them know.
The Australian-born mother of the girls, all dual Australian-Italian citizens aged nine, 10, 13 and 15, made a last-ditch bid in court yesterday to keep them in Australia permanently since bringing them here on holiday two years ago. Because they are Dual Nationals, they are committing no crime in remaining in Australia, however after 2 years the father finally realised they weren't there in Italy and decided they must live there ? So he has started court action to gain custody and have them returned to Italy.
Nobody involved in the case can be named for legal reasons.
One of the children apparently wrote: "I remember Mum coming to pick us up from school and she had a bruise on her face and she told us that she was splitting up from dad and told us that he hit her. I dont [sic] actually remember that well but I do remember that I would always hear her screaming. After that, Mum said we had to move and she found a house in Pontassieve and so we started living there but we went on the weekend to our Dad's house," .
Laura soon left the country altogether with her four daughters.
They've been living with Laura's family on the Sunshine Coast. The girls had all re-settled and been doing well at school, their grandma says. But recently, their father came to Brisbane to take his daughters back to Italy, allegedly against their wishes and the wishes of their mother.
Now, faced with the order for the girls to return to Italy, things have suddenly escalated. The children's 70-year-old great grandmother Carol picked them up from school this week and helped them run away. The four girls and their Great Grandmother have been officially declared 'missing' by Queensland Police.
What legal system does this country have when a 70 year old grandmother is forced to hide away with her Australian citizen grandchildren to stop the courts returning them to Italy with their Father, once there they will be under Italian law, and the Australian rights of the Children and mother will be a low consideration. And because of this action the courts will prosecute the Grandmother for protecting her family in Australia.
Justice Colin Forrest found last year while he did not absolutely accept "the truthfulness of all of the evidence deposed to by the father", he was satisfied that the father did not consent to the children's relocation. The judge found that the mother merely had the father's consent to bring them for a holiday.
The burden of proof fell on the mother, who represented herself, to satisfy the court she had the father's consent to bring them to Australia. The mother said she had been compelled to take her battle to the media. She said her daughters, who did not want to return to Italy, had opened their own Facebook page, "kidswithoutvoices".
Justice Forrest did not accept the fathers truthfulness in the evidence he supplied, and yet he is willing to cast Aussie kids out to Italian Law to decide on their fate. The mother could not afford representation for these hearings, and the Australian Government did not provide assistance, therefore she never had a chance against the Father's alleged evidence, which was left in doubt as to it's truthfulness, and his lawyer.
The children had stated they wished to remain in Australia with their mother, and yet, it was decided they weren't forceful in that desire. What do they need to do yell and scream at them they want to stay, or tell them their wishes in what would have been a quiet and shy way with all the attention this has attracted.
It is often said kids who witness the result of domestic violence are themselves traumatised, and this is what they in fact were witnessing until the mother moved out of his home with the children.
Laura pleaded with the Prime Minister: "At this last minute I beg the Prime Minister to put a hold on the passports and so they can be heard and not have their human rights violated and handcuffed and sedated at the airport and forced on a plane for somewhere they don't want to go," she said.
A judge presiding over an international custody case involving four missing sisters has refused to hear any applications as part of a last-ditch attempt to keep the siblings in the country.
This case is already a travesty of Justice and another case of the Gillard Government clinging to a convention until it does not suit them. In this case a stay should be put on the kids passports UNTIL this matter is resolved. If they were Asylum Seekers, the Government would go out of it's way to help them, in fact it would be protecting them and providing legal support. But these are our precious Australian children and future of our Nation, and they are being denied the fundamental right of choice.


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DeKALB – Peg Rozhon wakes up every two hours throughout the night to feed five kittens born less than two weeks ago.
Rozhon is the volunteer coordinator at TAILS Humane Society, 2250 Barber Greene Road, DeKalb. She is caring for the kittens as a kitten foster home caretaker until they are spayed or neutered at 8 weeks of age, when they will be ready for adoption.
"It's an immense amount of work, much more work I even anticipated," said Rozhon, who said she has been sleeping on the couch lately. "Being at the shelter, you learn animal care is hard work, but it's rewarding."
May marks the unofficial start of kitten season, the time of year when animal shelters are flooded with kittens abandoned by their mothers or in need of extra care. TAILS does not currently have any kittens available for adoption because they are too young.
Last year, TAILS took in about 500 kittens younger than 6 months old. When it receives a litter of kittens, it places them to a kitten foster home whose residents are trained to care for them. It presently has about 15 foster families.
TAILS is a no-kill animal shelter. It is always in need of more kitten foster homes so that it turns away fewer kittens, said Adrienne Beeman, TAILS animal care manager.
Kittens are placed in one of three lobby cages and kept apart from adult cats to prevent spreading diseases.
"Due to overpopulation, we aren't always able to take all of the kittens," Beeman said.
Meanwhile, DeKalb County Animal Shelter, 16173 Baseline Road, Genoa, is caring for three 1-month-old kittens and five pregnant cats. Cats have a gestation period of about nine weeks.
Roberta Shoaf, president of the animal shelter, said kitten season is dependent on the weather. She anticipated the shelter could see more kittens later this year because there was a longer winter.
Some people become interested in adopting kittens in early spring and lose interest later in the season. DeKalb County Animal Shelter still has 6-month-old kittens from last fall that have not been adopted, Shoaf said.
"People are always looking for kittens now," Shoaf said. "All of a sudden, everybody that wants one has one. Then the rest sit here until they're adults."
TAILS sometimes faces the same problem. Beeman said it has trouble finding homes for black cats toward the end of the summer because of the stigma that they are bad luck. To combat that, TAILS sometimes holds promotional events in October for black cats.
Kittens younger than 4 months old are vaccinated at TAILS. If kittens are adopted when they are younger than 6 months old, owners pay a $150 adoption fee. Cats between 6 months and 6 years of age cost $85. Senior cats cost $50.
Benjamin Dahl, animal care technician at TAILS, fostered two litters of three kittens each last year. Three of the kittens were very sick, and one had to be euthanized, he said.
Two of the kittens, however, were adopted. Dahl said it feels really good to be able to care for sometimes sick and fragile kittens.
"It's probably one of the most rewarding things to know you saved a life," Dahl said.
How to help
TAILS Humane Society is accepting applications for kitten foster homes. Applicants will meet with TAILS officials for orientation and discuss whether they are suitable to take in kittens. To apply, visit tailshumanesociety.org/foster.


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The 10th Annual Rootenanny Music Fest, featuring local music legends Rootstand, was held at the beautiful Rocky Top Preserve in Ellsworth, MI (just a few miles from Traverse City) on July 31 - August 3. This is one of the best intimate, local music festivals that is truly "Out of this World!"
The four day camping music festival had over 30 performances, featuring Rootstand, who played each night. The other artist performing this year were UV Hippo, The Macpodz, Covert, Dragon Wagon, G Snacks, Jahman Brahman, October Babies, Joe Smith, Blake Elliot, Sweet Melissa, Matt Calendine, Mister F, Soul Patch, Thick As Thieves, The Ridge, Ben Daniels Band, Ghost City Searchlight, B-Rant, Hunter Burt, Michael Godman, Kyle Mayer, Elizabeth Landry, Anna Lee's Co, Ethan Keller, Amanda Pilarski, Grant Jacobus and the Traveling Horse Club, Paul's Big Radio, Joel Rydecki Band, Honorable Spirits, Kayla Jo, Roister and Kedree A. Young.
Rootstand is an acoustic country blues, bluegrass, Celtic roots, rock and reggae band consisting of members from the Flint, Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor area. They have been putting this festival together every year and it has grown to be something quite special among its annual attendees. Rootstand has a huge following of fans and this years fest was bigger and better than ever. Their performances each night were packed with folks of all ages, dancing like it was the end of the world!
There were two stages featuring constant live music. The huge main stage resembled an alien spaceship with flickering lights. Within a short walk was another, more intimate stage, within a beer garden. There was plenty of vendor shopping, good food and even a beautiful sunset wedding among the cherry trees. Rootenanny also received a special visit from a lit up UFO and some friendly dancing aliens!
The Rootenanny Music Fest was truly an amazing time. It is one of the cleanest and most well organized music festivals around. It was a fabulous weekend filled with fantastic music, wonderful weather, and some of the most happiest, friendliest, dancing folks around.


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I've always liked Barilla pasta products, especially their no-cook lasagna noodles and their delicious whole grain pastas. We made the switch to whole grain pasta years ago. At first, my family complained that the pasta was too dry, but they got used to it and prefer it over regular pasta now. Since it's important that you include whole grains in your diet, I won't buy anything else.
Barilla's whole grain pasta challenge and coupon
To get your family to make the switch to whole grain pastas, Barilla has created the Whole Grain Taste & Share Challenge on their Facebook page. To participate in the Challenge:
- Try a box of Barilla Whole Grain pasta, then look for the code on your box.
- Go to Barilla's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/barillaus and "like" the page.
- Then go to the Whole Grain Taste & Share Challenge page and enter the code. (The page shows you where the code is on your box.)
- Then you can share the Challenge with two friends on Facebook.
- Barilla rewards you all by giving your friends a coupon for $1 off their next box of Barilla Whole Grain Pasta. You get a coupon for $1 off when you buy two boxes of Barilla.
To learn more about Barilla whole grain pastas and get recipes the whole family will enjoy, visit Barilla's Dinner Kit.
Barilla Whole Grain Pasta Taste & Share Challenge Kit giveaway
Three of my lucky readers will win a Barilla Whole Grain Taste & Share Challenge Kit worth approximately $100. (Suggestion: make holiday gifts out of the olive oil, salt, vinegar and apron. Or keep it all for yourself!)
Each kit contains:
- Barilla Whole Grain linguine, thin spaghetti, spaghetti, medium shells, rotini and penne
- A Barilla apron
- Academia Barilla 100% Italian Olive Oil
- Academia Barilla Balsamic Vinegar of Modena, aged 3 years
- Academia Barilla Pesto Alla Genovese
- Academia Barilla Canned Cherry Tomatoes
- Academia Barilla Sicilian Sea Salt with Black Olives
(You can see a picture of all the items on Blog By Donna. I forgot to snap a picture before we ate the pasta and I packed away the apron and bottles.)
The Academia Barilla line of products are made with the best ingredients and support local artisans, regional differences and innovation, while maintaining the most genuine traditions. I'm looking forward to trying them out. (Don't want to open any new bottles before we move, which is why I haven't done an olive oil taste test yet.)
How to enter to win your Barilla Challenge Kit
Giveaway closed. Congrats to Sarah C., Karen M. and Kristen of Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker
- Share what type pasta (spaghetti, shells, etc.) is most popular with you or your family in the comments below for ONE entry.
- Sign up for This Mama Cooks! Review's RSS feed for ONE additional entry.
- Sign up for my enewsletter for ONE additional entry.
- Spread the word about this giveaway by submitting a link to this post on Twitter for ONE additional entry. You must leave a link to your tweet in your comment so I can check.
- Follow @amnichols on Twitter for ONE additional entry.
- If you have done any of these additional activities you MUST come back here and leave a comment telling me what you did. I will be checking!
- Maximum amount of entries at This Mama Cooks! On a Diet is FIVE.
- You have until midnight MST on Sunday, December 4, 2011 to enter.
THREE winners will be chosen at random. You must be willing to send me your full name, mailing address and phone number so I pass your info on to Mom Central so they can mail out your kit. I'll also announce the winners on this blog. I won't share your mailing info with the public, just your first name and last initial. If you have a blog, I'll link back to it when I announce the winner.
The giveaway is valued at approximately $100 and is only open to legal residents of the United States. No purchase required. Odds of winning based on number of entries. Up to FIVE entries per person. THREE Barilla Whole Grain Taste & Share Challenge Kits will be given away to THREE readers (one kit per winner). Void where prohibited by law.
By submitting your name and email address, you agree to receive relevant promotional emails and contest follow up communications from This Mama Cooks! On a Diet in compliance with my privacy policy and giveaway rules.
Disclosure: I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Barilla and received a Taste & Share Challenge Kit to facilitate my review, kits to giveaway, and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate.


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I just happened to find myself in the mall the other day, and whenever I'm there I make sure to pop by the See's Candies store to see if they have anything new and delicious. I was in luck, as I saw this limited edition of "Double Caramel" truffles right on the shelf. New See's candy, yay!
So what is "Double Caramel" exactly? According to the box it's a brown sugar caramel layered with a chocolate butter caramel. This is all surrounded by a coating of their milk chocolate to boot, so you can bet I was salivating while I was reading this description in the store.
Once I had these prettied home and photographed, I was finally ready to open the box. They are sizable bonbons, and I mean sizable. There's six of them to the box, which is 5 ounces. To give you an idea, they're size of golf balls. Awesome, right?
The smell sweet and chocolatey.
They are very dense to bite into. The chocolate is thick, but soft, and the caramel is extremely smooth and dense. The caramel is extremely soft and you get all the buttery, creamy, sweetness that you expect from a good caramel. Mixed with the luscious milk chocolate exterior, it's heaven. You can't really taste the difference between the two different caramels. You get the flavors all mixed so you taste the best flavors of each part.
What can I say? These are simply wonderful. Since they're so big, you only really need one at a time. They go fantastically with a cup of coffee. I saw these in both stores and online, so you should try some if they're still available!
Also check out Cybele's review of the over at Candyblog.net.
Rating: Will Buy Again
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post114979670692206109..comments2016-06-26T20:02:31.731-06:00Comments on Kalyn's Kitchen®: B-L-T Salad and Teacher GiftsKalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1150746035676799862006-06-19T13:40:00.000-06:002006-06-19T13:40:00.000-06:00It is hard sometimes to find a good gift to give t...It is hard sometimes to find a good gift to give to your child's teacher. What I do, as a suggestion to others, is I get a fridge frame, have you seen these?, you can get it at www.fridgeframe.com, or on QVC, or my local hallmark stores sells them, and then I put pictures in it that I've taken throughout the school year. I usually volunteer at the school. Then the teacher has a rememberance of the year, and they can change the pictures and use the fridgeframe on their fridge to showcase their favorite memories. Or they can put it on their file cabinents at school. I like to think the personal touch in the gift makes it email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1150312393790341692006-06-14T13:13:00.000-06:002006-06-14T13:13:00.000-06:00Kalyn, I'm so glad you got a mandoline! I know you...Kalyn, I'm so glad you got a mandoline! I know you wanted one, and on my trip to India I did check in two stores (could not do much shopping...it was a short hectic trip) but did not find one like the one I have :( Oh well now you have a mandoline so YAY :) Love the idea of a cookbook-gift too!Nupurhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1150256963895883632006-06-13T21:49:00.000-06:002006-06-13T21:49:00.000-06:00Vanessa, bacon is something I could never give up!...Vanessa, bacon is something I could never give up!

Erin, love that story. I only remember ever having one student whose birthday was on mine. I took him out to lunch and he was scared to talk.

Cyndi, it's true. Those poor secondary teachers never get anything.Kalynhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1150256115813928182006-06-13T21:35:00.000-06:002006-06-13T21:35:00.000-06:00A mandoline! Lucky you! I remember all the years...A mandoline! Lucky you! I remember all the years I was teaching I didn't get many gifts - and it wasn't that they didn't like me, but that I taught 9th grade. Elementary teachers always get lots of gifts; secondary don't.Cyndihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1150253095773456522006-06-13T20:44:00.000-06:002006-06-13T20:44:00.000-06:00In elementary school, my favorite teacher and I sh...In elementary school, my favorite teacher and I shared the same birthday, so I always gave her a special present and she always gave me one... aw, those were the days.

I hope you had fun at the Utah bloggers thingy, tonight - I'm looking forward to your update.Erin Eatshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1150235677973055502006-06-13T15:54:00.000-06:002006-06-13T15:54:00.000-06:00what thoughtful gifts! especially since it involve...what thoughtful gifts! especially since it involves the use of bacon :)vjchanghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1150232385700871832006-06-13T14:59:00.000-06:002006-06-13T14:59:00.000-06:00Ilva, I wish I could fly over to Italy and bring y...Ilva, I wish I could fly over to Italy and bring you some bacon in my suitcase. We could make this together and talk for hours!

Sam, of course the gifts influence me! Ok, just kidding about that! No kids have brought me anything remotely like a box of Krispy Kremes, but I have gotten a lot of candy. The best present I ever got was a father who had a tree trimming business who cut down two trees for me and then refused to let me pay.Kalynhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1150218974534078342006-06-13T11:16:00.000-06:002006-06-13T11:16:00.000-06:00what great gifts. But you don't let them influence...what great gifts. But you don't let them influence you, do you? What grade does the student who brings you a box of Krispy Kremes get ;)Samhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1150214273768539142006-06-13T09:57:00.000-06:002006-06-13T09:57:00.000-06:00This sounds like a wondeful summer lunch! My only ...This sounds like a wondeful summer lunch! My only problem is that it quite difficult to find bacon here, There is always pancetta but it's not the same...Sometimes I see normal bacon and the next time I do you can be sure of what I'm going to eat!ilvahttp://email@example.com


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As hundreds pay their respects to Monica Spear, it emerges that a stolen camera was key to identifying the seven people arrested.
22:45, UK, Friday 10 January 2014
The funerals are taking place of a former Miss Venezuela beauty queen and her British ex-husband who were murdered as they returned from holiday.
Monica Spear and Thomas Henry Berry are being laid to rest a day after their families held a private wake in Caracas before allowing fans of the model-turned-actress to view her body.
The pair were killed in a robbery on an isolated stretch of highway while they were returning to the Venezuelan capital with their five-year-old daughter.
Although the weapon used in the robbery has not been found, it has emerged that a digital camera stolen during the attack led police to a criminal group which allegedly preyed on motorists on the stretch of road between Puerto Cabello and Valencia.
The camera was found at the home of one of seven people arrested over the killing and helped officers trace other suspects in the case.
According to Jose Gregorio Sierralta, chief of Venezuela's criminal police, at least 11 people were involved in the crime - four of whom remain on the run.
The commissioner claimed the 32-year-old alleged ringleader of the group, known as Fat Danilo, supplied younger men in the gang with guns and drugs.
The deaths of Ms Spear and her ex-husband provoked a national uproar over Venezuela's rampant violent crime.
Hundreds of mourners waited in long lines outside the Caracas chapel to pay their respects to the 29-year-old, who had a starring role in a popular TV soap series.
District mayor Ramon Muchacho said: "It is a crime that shakes the foundation of the country. And that puts in front of our eyes the awful reality we live in.
"Sometimes Venezuelans live in escapism, looking one way or the other, trying to forget what happens every day. But this crime reminds us that there are more than 20,000 families, who are left in mourning every year in Venezuela (due to violence)."
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Health Points: Wednesday
- Living healthfully can add years to your life, 14 years in fact. Maria Cheng of the Associated Press reports:
To get an extra 14 years of life, don't smoke, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, exercise regularly and drink alcohol in moderation.
That's the finding of a study that tracked about 20,000 people in the United Kingdom.
Kay-Tee Khaw of the University of Cambridge and colleagues calculated that people who adopted these four healthy habits lived an average of 14 years longer than those who didn't.
"We've known for a long time that these behaviors are good things to do, but we've never seen these additive benefits before," said Susan Jebb, head of Nutrition and Health at Britain's Medical Research Council, which helped pay for the study.
- If this makes you worry, then your problems are twofold, apparently anxiety may be bad for your heart. More from Lauran Neergaard of Associated Press:
Those Type A go-getters aren't the only ones stressing their hearts. Nervous Nelsons seem to be, too. Researchers reported Monday that chronic anxiety can significantly increase the risk of a heart attack, at least in men. The findings add another trait to a growing list of psychological profiles linked to heart disease, including anger or hostility, Type A behavior, and depression.
"There's a connection between the heart and head," said Dr. Nieca Goldberg of the New York University School of Medicine, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association who wasn't involved in the study.
"This is very important research because we really are focused very much on prescribing medicine for cholesterol and lowering blood pressure and treating diabetes, but we don't look at the psychological aspect of a patient's care," she added. Doctors "need to be aggressive about not only taking care of the traditional risk factors ... but also really getting into their patients' heads."
- According to new research, low vitamin D can be tied to heart disease. John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is on it:
Low levels of vitamin D, a chronic problem for many people in northern latitudes areas such as Wisconsin and Washington, were associated with substantially higher rates of heart disease and stroke, according to a new study.
In one of the strongest studies to date linking the vitamin to cardiovascular disease, researchers followed 1,739 members of the Framingham Offspring Study for more than five years.
They found the rate of cardiovascular disease events such as heart attacks, strokes and heart failure were from 53 percent to 80 percent higher in people with low levels of vitamin D in their blood.
"This is a stunning study," said John Whitcomb, medical director of the Aurora Sinai Wellness Institute in Milwaukee. He was not involved in the study.
- Apparently the movies make kids smoke—who knew? Alan Mozes of HealthDay News has more:
Young people who start smoking may be influenced to do so by movies they saw in early childhood, new research suggests.
What's more, the study found that almost 80 percent of the exposure to smoking scenes in movies came through films rated "G," "PG" and "PG-13."
"Movies seen at the youngest ages had as much influence over later smoking behavior as the movies that children had seen recently," said study author Linda Titus-Ernstoff, a pediatrics professor at Dartmouth Medical School.
"And I'm increasingly convinced that this association between movie-smoking exposure and smoking initiation is real," she added. "That's to say, causal. It is quite improbable that the association we see is due to some other influence, some other characteristic inherent in children or parental behavior. The relationship is clearly between movie-smoking and smoking initiation."
- The United States has ranked the worst in preventable death—we're special! Will Dunham of Reuters reports:
France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.
If the U.S. health care system performed as well as those of those top three countries, there would be 101,000 fewer deaths in the United States per year, according to researchers writing in the journal Health Affairs.
Researchers Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tracked deaths that they deemed could have been prevented by access to timely and effective health care, and ranked nations on how they did.
They called such deaths an important way to gauge the performance of a country's health care system.
- China appears to be working real-real hard to improve food safety. More from Reuters:
China defended its fish farming industry on Tuesday and said it was making progress in curbing use of illegal additives, from pesticides to banned steroids, as the country's food safety record remains in the spotlight.
China has suffered a rash of scares over the safety of its food and manufactured products in the last year which highlighted shoddy oversight and prompted a wave of new regulations and clean-up campaigns from the central government.
Vice Minister of Agriculture Gao Hongbin said the country had made encouraging progress.
- Ladies, did you know? A girl's social standing can affect her bodyweight. Diet Blog is on it:
Those who perceived they had low subjective social status had a 69% increased odds of having a 2-unit increase in BMI (this is around 11 pound weight increase).
The results were adjusted for a large number of factors including age, race/ethnicity, baseline BMI, diet, television viewing, depression, global and social self-esteem, menarche, height growth, mother's BMI, and pretax household income.
The study highlights yet another piece in the very complex obesity puzzle.
- Maureen Callahan of CookingLight looks at all the hubbub surround seafood safety and danger. Take a look:
A 2004 study in the journal Science raised concern among fish lovers with news that farm-raised salmon, the type found at most supermarkets, contained higher levels of cancer-causing pcbs than wild salmon. (Banned in the 1970s, PCBs still contaminate the environment. They are released by incinerators and toxic waste sites.) But two more recent studies, one on farm-raised salmon and the other on wild, found that both harbor similar levels of this pollutant. The first study, done with Chilean- and Canadian-farmed salmon, found an average of 11.5 parts per billion PCBs. The second, conducted by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, sampled 600 wild salmon from the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea, and found 8.2 to 10 parts per billion PCBs. It's important to realize that the amount of PCBs being talked about is very small, says Cornell University seafood specialist Ken Gall, who has studied fish safety issues for 22 years. "High doses of PCBs, like the kind of contamination that occurs with an industrial accident, can be dangerous," Gall says. "But it's uncertain whether the tiny amounts of PCBs found in many foods such as fish, meat, or milk can cause cancer."


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Title: Admission of offenders to an external Mental Health Facility
Category: Safety and Security
Version: 02
Implement Date: 3 March 2009
Application: Custodial Operations/ Offender Health Services
Availability: Public
Appendices and Forms
Performance Measures
|Custodial Response
|Legal requirements for documentation
|Transfer to an authorised mental health facility
|Private hospitals
|Change of Legal Status
|Changes in Circumstances
|Return to custody - patients under custodian's assessment authorities
|Notification of Next of Kin or offender contact person
|Contact People
To facilitate and provide continuity of mental health care, including transfers to external Mental Health facilities, for offenders who have been clinically assessed as requiring specialist mental health treatment.
This procedure covers the assessment, treatment, admission and return of offenders to an authorised mental health facility.
Medical records must not accompany offenders to an external mental health facility.
Offender Health Service staff must ensure that-
Refer procedure - Transfer of Offenders
If an offender is examined by a doctor or an authorised mental health practitioner (Queensland Health) and the examiner is satisfied that the person meets the criteria for involuntary assessment, as outlined in the Mental Health Act 2000, a Recommendation for Assessment may be made.
The nurse unit manager or the senior nurse on duty will notify the General Manager or his/her nominee as soon as a Recommendation for Assessment has been completed.
Once the Recommendation for Assessment is made, an Agreement for Assessment must be sought from an appropriate authorised mental health service. Refer Mental Health Act 2000, Part 2 Requirements for involuntary assessment, ss 16-21
Each Offender Health Service must have the contact details for the administrators of authorised mental health services.
* NB - The administrator of an authorised mental health service will only sign an agreement if they can manage the patient.
Following the completion of the Recommendation for Assessment and when an Agreement for Assessment is in place, all the relevant information is to be conveyed to the General Manager or his/her nominee.
The General Manager or his/her nominee is required to complete a Custodian's Assessment Authority, thus transferring the offender into the legal custody of Queensland Health.
The authority must state the name of the service where the assessment will be carried out (ie the service that provided the agreement).
Refer Mental Health Act 2000, Part 3 - Procedures leading to involuntary assessment ss 25-32
The authority authorises police or corrective service officers to transport the person as soon as practicable (but within 7 days) to the in-patient mental health service stated on the order.
*NB Please ensure Sentence Management within the Queensland Corrective Service (QCS) facility is notified when arranging an Involuntary Mental Health Transfer.
The General Manager or his/her nominee need to make decisions on operational grounds and in accordance with QCS procedure - Transfer of Offenders.
The offender's property, that is clothing and all personal effects, including radio, cassette etc, must be transferred with the offender to the authorised mental health service (refer procedure - Property of Offenders).
A copy of each form must be placed in the offender's medical record and the offender management file. Original forms must be transferred with the offender to the authorised mental health facility.
The offender's medical record must remain at the Offender Health Service within the transferring corrective services facility.
A referral letter or discharge summary must accompany the offender providing full clinical assessment details of the current episode, any past relevant medical history, current medications, known allergies and any other relevant material that could impact on the provision of health care for the offender.
When an offender is transferred to an authorised mental health service, the following documentation is required by the authorised mental health service-
Offenders may have access to private medical practitioners and private medical treatment at their own expense. This will also include associated costs such as transport and corrective services officers escorting the offender. Refer procedure - Private Medical Treatment
The number of corrective services officers required will depend on the offender's classification. Refer procedure - Escort of Offenders (in-confidence); appendices - Escort Staffing, Weapons and Restraint Matrix (Location) (in-confidence); Escort Staffing, Weapons and Restraint Matrix (Method QCS) (in-confidence)
Offenders may apply in writing for private medical treatment by a doctor or psychologist nominated by them in accordance with Corrective Services Act 2006 (CSA) s 22.
The chief executive or delegate may give approval for an offender to be treated by a private medical practitioner if satisfied -
Offenders and doctors must be aware that offenders in a high or low security facility do not have Medicare cards or Medicare numbers and are therefore ineligible for any Medicare reimbursement.
Specific provisions of the Mental Health Act 2000 relate to the transfer of an offender from the Corrective Services Act 2006 to the Mental Health Act 2000.
Once the offender has been received into the authorised mental health service, the patient becomes a classified patient under the Mental Health Act 2000 and the administrator of that service assumes legal custody to detain the patient within the health service facility.
The authorised Mental Health facility must notify the general manager/ nominee of the QCS transferring facility of all changes of circumstances inclusive of-
Refer Mental Health Act 2000 ss 88-90A
When the patient no longer needs to be detained as a classified patient the process for returning a patient to custody is outlined below -
The general manager or nominee of the facility must notify the offender's next of kin or contact person of the offender's intended transfer to a mental health facility.
This contact information must also be provided to the mental health service accepting the transfer. This will ensure that Queensland Health staff are able to advise next of kin or the offender's contact person of any changes in the offender's mental health condition and/or when the offender is being transferred back to the corrective services facility.
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This food is fantastic! Our babies love to play with it before they eat it.
They toss it around, bowl with it, tug of war, you name it. When they finally do eat it, they eat all of it, and I mean all of it.
We would like to thank you and those who came up with this wonderful food.
Not only is it good for them, they will actually eat it too.
- Debbie and Casey K
I just came from my vet and he is THRILLED with the new ingredients of Wholesome Balance...and
my vet is very renowned in the exotic world.
- Kris
My order arrived yesterday of the new staple food and a toy, just in time.
I was running really low on the Zookeepers. I put some Wholesome in their bowl for their evening meal.
I can honestly tell you that the level of excitement they had over this new food was off the charts!
This morning, when I changed out their food, ALL of it was gone!!!
And Murphy stayed up until 9AM to get some more!! I guess that's a real vote of confidence.
Both boyz came out of their sleeping pouch again at 2PM to munch on more!
- Sandi
Hey Lisa, i just read the newsletter on the new staple food.
I got the sample of it with my last order of zookeepers secret and fed it to my glider boys for a few nights.
I found they loved it! ate more of it than they usually do of zookeepers secret.
I was glad to see this because most of the time I feel I am wasting a good portion of their staple food simply because they
don't eat it all and it dries out. As I said I did just buy a bag of zookeepers secret but will surely buy the wholesome balance for my next time around.
Thanks for the updates and information in the newsletter:) I'm attaching some super cute pictures of my boys
too :) Hope you like!!
- Kayla
Finally, a staple food that my glider will actually eat.
He LOVES it! I had tried them all, even Zookeeper's with no luck.
I was afraid that he was not getting proper nutrition with fresh fruits and vegetables, gut-loaded crickets, and
Leadbeater's, but that's all he would eat. Thank you for such a great product.
- Melissa and Cruiser
Ingredients: Chicken Meal made from Human Grade Chickens, whole
grain brown rice flour, whole grain barley flour, flaxseed oil,
dried whole egg, oat groats, fish meal, flax meal, calcium
carbonate, blood meal, animal plasma, dried kelp, Vitamin E
supplement, salt, potassium chloride, Vitamin A acetate, D-activated
animal sterol (source of Vitamin D3), DL-alpha tocopheryl acetate
(source of Vitamin E), menadione sodium bisulphate complex (source
of Vitamin K), Vitamin B12 supplement, calcium pantothenate, niacin
supplement, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride,
thiamine mononitrate, biotin, folic acid, ferrous sulfate, zinc
oxide, zinc sulfate, maganous oxide, sodium selenite, manganese
sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, dried tomato pomace, yeast
culture, monosodium phosphate, sodium sulfate, ferric sulfate,
manesium oxide, cobalt sulfate, cane sugar, di-methionine,
pyridoxine hydrochloride, ferrous fumarate, sea salt, l-lysine,
lecithin, potassium iodide, beta carotene, zinc methionine complex,
hydrochloric acid, yucca schidigera extract, algae meal,
diatomaceous earth, cobalt choline citrate complex, ferric choline
citrate complex, calcium pantothenate, copper choline citrate
complex, magnesium amino acid chelate, zinc amino acid chelate,
calcium amino acid chelate, iron amino acid chelate, manganese amino
acid chelate, copper amino acid chelate, cobalt amino acid chelate,
thiamine mononitrate, ferrous carbonate, amylase, cellulose,
maltase, phytase, protease, lipase, mixed tocopherols, citric acid,
ascorbic acid, lecithin, rosemary extract.
product uses natural preservatives and should not be stored unfrozen
longer than 6
months to ensure the nutritional value of the food is protected.
A 2 month supply for 2 sugar gliders
Larger and Smaller sizes available
Product ID # 5060
Wholesome Balance Chicken and Brown Rice Blend is the first
dry sugar glider food to use animal protein as the main ingredient while at the same time
providing a more natural approach to sugar glider food.
to developing this food, ZooKeeper's
Secret was one of two commercially available sugar glider foods
where animal protein is the primary nutrition source.
However, both these foods are moist and uneaten portions should be
discarded and replaced each day.
Because it's a dry food, Wholesome Balance does not have to be replaced each
day. Sugar gliders
love the taste and it's easier and more economical to
to feed, according to the detailed
feeding study we conducted.
Wholesome Balance Chicken and Brown Rice sugar glider food is a healthy alternative approach to
nutrition that can save you time and money too! And for those
of you concerned about soy in pet food, this product contains no
soybean meal or soybean oil.
Why is Animal Protein in
Glider Food Important?
The selection of chicken was based on the knowledge
that diets using animal protein as the primary ingredient (as opposed to vegetable protein like soy or
corn) contain a better balance of essential amino acids to help gliders maintain health and
thrive, not just survive.
This dry food was designed to balance amino acids that may be lacking in other components of the diet; the animal proteins also mimic consumption of insects eaten in the wild.
walk through some of the main ingredients:
Chicken Meal made from Human Grade
We found a plant that creates Chicken Meal from
broiler chickens processed for human consumption. The unused
meat from these chickens is cooked off the bone and ground to make
the meal. Some fine bone is ground and intentionally added
back to the meal for the mineral content, but this chicken meal
contains no feathers, viscera, heads, or feet. Besides the
animal protein, chicken meal brings omega-6 through the fat content,
which helps maintain healthy skin and shiny coat. This chicken meal is preserved with all natural tocopherols, rosemary extract, and Vitamin E,
and contains no synthetic preservatives.
Grain Brown Rice
The processing of Brown Rice removes only the outermost layer, the hull of the rice kernel, preserving much of the nutritional value of the rice.
Among grains, rice is easily digested and least likely to cause allergic reactions.
Brown Rice is rich in fiber, B vitamins, calcium, and phosphorus, an excellent source of manganese, and a good source of the minerals selenium and magnesium.
Flour, Flax Meal and Oat Groats
Barley Flour is very high in
fiber. Flax meal supplies omega-3 fatty acids, and oat groats
are high in several amino acids, particularly lysine, methionine,
Flaxseed Oil, Dried Whole Eggs, Fish Meal
Flaxseed oil is low in saturated fat, contains no trans fat, is high in monounsaturated
fat and very high in polyunsaturated fat - a great source of omega-3 fatty acids.
Flax oil also increases the palatability (improves taste) of
the food - who knew gliders love the taste of flaxseed oil? The whole eggs are for added protein, and the fish
meal provides both added protein and those great fish oils including
omega-3 fatty acids.
What about ZooKeeper's Secret?
important to have a staple food
available "free
choice" for your sugar gliders. For years, our choice
for the job was ZooKeeper's Secret.
The selection of this food was
based on the knowledge from our vets that a food with animal
protein as the primary ingredient (as opposed to vegetable protein
like soy or corn) would result in healthier animals. In this
respect, Wholesome Balance is no different than ZooKeeper's Secret -
animal protein is the main ingredient.
However, over
the past 8 years, customers have brought forth some challenges to
ZooKeeper's Secret: some gliders just don't like it (even a few of our own,
which is why we started this project), and it needs to be replaced each day
because it dries out and gliders don't seem to like it much when
this happens.
even though Zookeeper's is a "gold standard" used in zoos
all around the world, some people have a personal concern with meat
by-products as the main ingredient; they prefer more selective
ingredients. This is a husbandry choice, and certainly OK with
We view all the above as valid
concerns, and SunCoast has set out to answer these customers. The result is Wholesome Balance Chicken and Brown
Rice Blend.
You don't need to follow a special "food
switching plan" with sugar gliders; if you'd like more info on
this topic see our newsletter here.
For those
concerned about switching to a dry food, we have tested this food on
our own glider population for 5 years now. Our gliders
generally liked Wholesome Balance better than ZooKeeper's and ate
more of it per day, while not experiencing lumpy
jaw or any other negative effects associated with some dry
foods. If you want to avoid the "dry food issue"
completely, ZooKeeper's Secret
is the animal protein-based staple food choice for you.
What about the rest of the Diet?
Like ZooKeeper's Secret,
Wholesome Balance Chicken and Brown
Rice Blend is intended to meet only part of the sugar glider's nutritional needs.
You will need to continue supplementing your sugar glider's
balanced meal plan with a single serving of fresh fruit
or veggie, a fresh protein such as mealworms,
hoppers, crickets,
boiled chicken, or other low
fat / high protein food sources, and a vitamin and
calcium supplement each evening. If you are currently feeding
ZooKeeper's as the "free choice" part of the SunCoast
Diet, simply swap the Zookeeper's for Wholesome Balance. You don't need to change
any other parts of the diet.
Wholesome Balance
is nutritionally balanced as a freestanding food, but Vionate
and RepCal are still needed to balance the fresh food offerings that are recommended for the overall
SunCoast diet plan. Wholesome Balance can also be fed free choice with the other
sugar glider diets such as BML, Leadbeater's, or popular variations
on these mainstream diet plans.
We suggest that you offer one tablespoon of Wholesome Balance in
the evening per sugar glider. If they don't eat all the food
and don't spoil the food, you can "top off" each evening to
bring the offering up to one tablespoon per sugar
glider. 1.5 pounds of Wholesome Balance sugar glider food will feed
2 gliders for 2 months or 4 gliders for 1 month.
in a cool dry dry place and keep bag sealed between
uses. Refrigeration or Freezing of this Product is not Required, as long as
the product is used within 6 months. This product can be frozen for storage over
6 months.
Balance Chicken and Brown Rice Blend, 1.5 lbs feeds 2 gliders
for 2 months:
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Bulls Beware: Bond and Currency Charts Say It's Not a Pretty Picture Outside of Stocks
Treasury yields may flip the bullish switch with a rally into today's close. Shy of that, though, bonds and currencies are telling us that all is not yet well underneath the surface.
The yen is staying on the rails of the crazy train (to the downside) – with all due respect to Ozzy and friends.
One of the only charts looking worse (for those bullish of the yen) than the chart of the Canadian dollar is that of the Japanese yen (@JY). The yen crossed and looks destined to close the week out below the 161.8% Fibonacci price projection for this third wave move to the downside. A break of that support at 1.0683 should theoretically open up the door for a continued move in the yen down to the 261.8% projection line all the way down at 0.9291. Under normal circumstances, I would read the free-falling yen as a "risk on" message. Should the fact that their own government is pushing things around like this matter? Part of me says, "Yes," but the trader in me says, "Who cares what the reason is?" Let's just give this one to the bulls for now.
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Outside of the falling yen, I'm not seeing anything from the currency markets that would confirm the bullish action in US stocks right now.
All in all, not a pretty picture outside of stock land.
So currency markets are a wet blanket for the bulls. For that matter, not much in the bond markets is exciting me either. Perhaps we will see Treasury yields break out above "correction resistance" and push some money out of bonds and into stocks. But nothing else in bond or currency land is doing anything but acting as a bearish divergence from what we're seeing in our stocks. This is not a recipe for the warm and fuzzies.
I'll put it this way: Were it not for our Fed and the Bank of Japan, where would we be? I'm sure that's why Bennie and his Japanese counterparts are so adamant about not only remaining dovish but also really pushing their agenda forcefully down everyone's throats. The big question is: Can they do this in perpetuity and without negative consequences? "Perhaps – and not likely" would be my initial answers.
That's all for now – have a great weekend!
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