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Not a wee house! Saudi prince to build a 16-bedroom mansion in Scotland
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum is planning to build a 16-bedroom mansion at Wester Ross in the Scottish highlands, said a report.
Sheikh Mohammed, who is also the vice-president of the UAE, is seeking permission to build a lodge-style home on his 63,000-acre Inverinate Estate near the Kyle of Lochalsh through his company, Smech Management, reported the local daily Scotsman.
The report pointed out that the Dubai ruler had earlier submitted plans for a 14-bedroom home which faced objections from planners on Highland Council but were later approved by the local authority's planning committee in 2009.
The new project includes a swimming pool and gym, it added.
The Maktoum family, said the daily, had in the past made contributions to the local community, including building a £250,000 (414,675) Inverinate and Loch Duich Community Centre and donating funds towards its running costs.
He has also donated land for a care home for the elderly and, outside the Highlands, is patron of the Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education in Dundee.
The Scottish paper said Sheikh Mohammed had bought the Inverinate Estate 30 years ago for £2 million. His family still visits for a few weeks every year in the summer.
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Countdown to AES with Peter Katis
BRIDGEPORT, CT: In the old days, there were engineers who came up through the established studio system, rising from the ranks of interns, and there were engineers who worked their way into their living by diligently slaving away in hodgepodge basement studios on quirky indie releases. Peter Katis did both.
"I was always a DIY kind of guy," he says, "But I thought it would be stupid to reinvent the lightbulb. I figured there were a lot of people who were really good at it already, and I could pick up a lot from watching them. I think it was good to see both sides of it. Otherwise I always would have gone my whole life wondering if I was doing it wrong. Although nowadays I think that secretly, everyone still worries about that."
Katis had become obsessed with recording after taking a class at SUNY Purchase and never looked back. "For a long time every cent I made was another cent I could put into new gear, and every spare minute was time I could be in the studio."
He'd soon go on to work on breakthrough releases for artists like Interpol and The National and build up a clientele of some of the most active and unordinary independent rock bands of the day: Frightened Rabbit, Mates Of State, Mice Parade, Tapes N' Tapes, The Swell Season, Mobius Band, Guster, Mercury Rev, Tokyo Police Club.
Katis first worked out of his parent's basement, and then built out a residential studio in Bridgeport CT named after his brother, Tarquin.
"When I started interning in studios back in the early 90s, people would really beat into your head that there was a right and a wrong way to do things. Nowadays, I don't think anyone is that arrogant. I remember thinking 'wow, I'm coming from a really different place than these people are."
Recently, Katis has completed a solo project for Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Ros, signed on to another with Trey Anastasio of Phish, released an album of his own music, and was commissioned to teach a small class of recording enthusiasts and burgeoning pros at a private villa in the South of France. We asked him about all that and more in preparation for our "Studio As an Instrument Panel" at this year's AES Convention.
I hear you've been doing some recording workshops overseas. Can you tell us a little bit about this Mix With The Masters program? It seems to be getting a lot of attention lately.
The name of the program is hard to say without sounding insanely immodest, but it was a really great experience. The whole thing takes place in this really beautiful residential studio in the south of France [Studio La Fabrique] organized by two of the sweetest people. They've had a bunch of other speakers – Michael Brauer, David Kahne, Andy Wallace, Tchad Blake. Pretty good company!
I mean, it was hard work in the sense that it's not easy to talk to a room of people for 8 or 9 hours and try to be interesting and educational the whole time. It's harder than making a record I think! [Laughs] So in that way, it's demanding. People were coming from all over the world, so if you were really boring… well, that would suck.
But it wasn't all just talking. I also got to bring in some sessions from records I worked on. On the 4th day we actually got a French band in and pre-produced, tracked and mixed a song. In the last couple of days people played their own music and we all got to talk about that too. It was a great time.
People ask me sometimes if they should go to one of the other sessions coming up with other engineers. They'll ask if it's worth the money. It is expensive – but honestly, even if no one was there to lecture you'd have a great time, it's such a beautiful place. People are hanging out all day just talking about recording in this amazing environment.
Well hopefully it's left you prepared to talk to our crowd at AES. Thanks for agreeing to participate on the panel by the way.
Yeah, thanks for inviting me. The name "studio as an instrument" was kind of exciting to me. I think with my own band, The Philistines Jr., even more than any other, I get to approach things that way because there's no one to answer to. I've been intrigued by that idea of the studio being an instrument since I started, since the very first time I got my hands on a 4-track.
Can you tell us what that phrase means to you?
Sure. I mean, as an artist and a producer I've always been frustrated with the straight-ahead and normal approach to making music. It's always weird to see you words in print, so I hope this comes out right, but I can't stand to just pick up an acoustic guitar and write songs that way. What I like more is coming up with general ideas that I can stomach to start with, and then twisting them around in ways that aren't offensive to me. [Laughs]
Some people can do it the other way, just pick up a guitar and write songs, and that's great. Some of my favorite music is like that. But when it comes to making music, it's just not what I want. I'm not sure I would keep making music if I didn't have the studio as its own kind of instrument.
To me, part of what makes recordings interesting is when you experiment. You can make great plans, but sometimes the most interesting things come out when you set yourself up to make great mistakes also. That can happen in the studio – You're not under any direct pressure like you are in front of an audience. You can try anything, and if it's terrible, who cares?
From what I'm gathering here, when you work on your own music, it's an exaggeration of the approach you take with other bands, rather than a whole different process?
Yeah, exactly. In all the years I've been recording, I guess I've kind of noticed all the things one can do to end up with a record that sounds special. You'd be surprised, but the worst people to do that with are often the young bands who come in and just want to play their songs the way they wrote them and perform them and be done with it.
Sometimes in the studio we'll mess around with a guitar sound and you get it to a point where everyone's thinking "Wow, that sound is amazing!" But then they'll go to do the take and they'll play their part and it just sounds kind of okay. So I always talk to bands about playing your part to the sound. "Play to the sound." If you play with no regard to the sound, just playing it the way you wrote it no matter what's coming back through the speakers then the odds are a lot lower that it's going to be very interesting.
Some of the more commercially successful records you've worked on, the ones a lot of our readers will be familiar with, like Interpol and The National, were they immediately receptive to that process?
Interesting question. I like both the records I did with Interpol. The 1st record definitely has kind of a cool sound. But to be honest, those guys did not play to the sound at all. That's an example where things ended up sounding cool in spite of the fact that they just wanted to play them as they wrote them and arranged them. So that one is an example of where it worked out alright where they didn't do it that way at all.
Now the National is a tricky one. We have a funny relationship – I love those guys. They're some of my best friends in real life, even outside the studio.
I've known them and worked with them for so long, but we seem to butt heads all the time about sounds. In a way we agree on everything, but there's also loads of disagreement between us, and within the band. But in their case that's all part of some chemistry that really seems to add up to something in the end.
Interpol has this great gift where they write music, they play it and, for the most part, that's it. They like it, people like it, done. The songs end up sounding as they were initially envisioned. But with the National, it's kind of like with my own stuff. When we make music, at first we almost hate it, and we sort of have to beat the sh*t out of it to make it aesthetically acceptable. It's like if you have a really pretty, really beautiful song, the production can't necessarily be perfectly pretty and beautiful.
I remember playing in bands years ago and being frustrated and kind of envious of the Smashing Pumpkins sometimes. You know, Billy Corgan has this really strange whining kind of voice, so he can sing these really beautiful melodies and they don't come off as cheesy.
So with the National, it's kind of like that. In the end, on the records they're trying to mess their sounds up more because otherwise, it's just too pretty to hear.
The tough thing is that sometimes a band with those priorities doesn't get that I get that too! I like to really work for a great sound, but I don't want to spend all this time making everything too slick and perfect. It's so important to The National that they end up with things that don't sound phony.
But there's a fine line between having sounds that aren't too polished, and having sounds that are unintentionally lo-fi. There's this certain new lofi aesthetic that's developing now since so many bands are self-recording completely. It's not just purposefully rough around the edges avoiding overpolish, but instead it's lofi in the sense that it's just not well done. I hope that doesn't make me sound like a jerk.
A lot of the coolest sounding records I'm part of are the ones where people come here with the intention of making an interesting sounding record working meticulously from start to finish. But that's not always possible.
I also work with a lot of very-indie bands that don't have the budget to come into the studio and experiment. That means that a lot of the projects I do now are this kind of hybrid where the band will come in and track a bunch of stuff and then leave for a month or two, sometimes more. They'll do a lot of overdubs on their own, sometimes spend time getting the vocals right at their own studio, and then come back here for a couple weeks to mix.
That way, they spend a fraction of what they would have, but they get the luxury of starting off with some proper sounds to judge everything else against, and they get a proper mix, but they also have months to tinker away and use their own home studio as an instrument. I think more and more bands are about that now, which probably, they should be.
Sure, I'm definitely seeing a lot of that. A while back, I mixed a DeLeon record you tracked drums on. I think that when the band went to record a lot of the extra stuff at home they did so well with it because everything else they tracked had to live up to that drum sound in some way, which was just a great foundation.
But what effect has that had on you? If more and more of your projects spending less time with you is it good because you get to take on more projects? Or bad because you get to spend less time on each of them?
I like it. I like the fact that I get to do a lot of both of those things.
Lately I've been doing a lot of projects start to finish which is great, but it can also be harder on you in some ways.
I'm not a fan of really long, long projects — you can get kind of beat down, you lose perspective, and some of the inspiration can be lost. So I really do like these projects where the band comes in, you do a lot of hard work, the band goes away for a little while. When they come back to you, its all fresh in your head and you say "Oh, yeah! I can mix this!"
Since I work with a Pro Tools system I'm kind of mixing as I go. Even though the final mix happens in the analog domain, I like to tweak and clean things up as I go. So it can be hard sometimes to think of doing a fresh mix. What am I gonna change? I mean, if I didn't like the way something sounded, I would have changed it already!
So yeah, I like the combination of full-album projects combined with mixing other people's records, or mixing albums I've worked on partly. I've even done that with bands like Frightened Rabbit on their second record, or The National on their most recent one, High Violet. They wanted to take a year to record it in their home studio. After that they came here for two-and-a-half months to mix it, which of course meant we were doing a lot of overdubs and fixes and rethinking at the same time.
Wow, that's a long time for a mix.
It is, but it's the way they work. The one before that, Boxer, was an agonizing process in many ways. They were nervous about time and money so I gave them a kind of an unprecedented deal. I don't want anyone nervous about that stuff if I can help it. [Laughs]
We were going to do 3-months straight over the summer of 2006. But at the end of the 3 months, nothing that had to do with the album was really done. There was a lot of trying things out, re-doing and re-doing, scrapping whole songs. The National guys call it"circling the vortex".
So that was the first time where I kind of sent them on their way to go flesh things out. With them it's become this kind of hybrid situation and that's great. They're the kinds of guys who need time away so they can just throw everything at it. When they came back we mixed for about 6 weeks, which is a long time too. When we're mixing we're still doing massive amounts of overdubs and changing things and rearranging.
It's interesting to hear about that kind of tension on some of your biggest projects. Do you think a degree of tension sometimes it leads to better results? Have their been projects that you're just as happy with that were a dream to work on?
That's a good question. I think one of the best records I've ever been a part of was for Jónsi Birgisson from Sigur Ros. I worked on his solo record Go a couple of years ago and I just loved that one. That was truly using the studio as an instrument, I think.
When you hear that record, its hard to remember that there were no electric instruments on the whole thing. They're all acoustic instruments but it sounds almost like an electronic record. It's just acoustic guitar and voice with a string ensemble, a brass ensemble, a woodwind ensemble, an upright bass and crazy percussion, no drum-kit. It's just that it was manipulated to all hell in the end.
It's interesting because that wasn't the initial intent. So that might be a good an example of the recording process completely overtaking the initial vision of what the project should be – but in a really good way. Every time I did something weird or crazy with a sound, Jónsi would say "More! Yes, yes!". I would tell him: "You know there's no way we can undo this? We're going to be recording all overdriven like this and he'd just say "I don't care".
On that record, no one was scared if it would be screwed up. I think that's one of the benefits of working with people who've already done a whole bunch of records. They can have this attitude of "I've been there, I've done that, I just want to do something different."
That can be a really exciting thing. He wanted it to be very different from Sigur Ros. One of the only frustrating moments I can remember was working on one of my favorite tracks on the record. It had this beautiful harmonium intro that he'd recorded at his house, and I thought it had to go on the record. But in the end, he said "No, no, we can't use that, It sounds too much like Sigur Ros". I just thought "Nooooo, it's so good!" [Laughs]. I mean, it ended up being great without it, but it took a minute to get over.
Sounds like you'd be a good choice for an artist looking to reinvent what they do.
Yeah, if they want that. I'm hoping the record I'm going to be doing with Trey Anastasio has some of the same potential to have some of that kind of energy. He's the lead singer of the band Phish, and he wants to do something totally out of left-field for him. They're the kind of band that's always been about live performance more than anything else. But this time I think he wants to make a record that's just about making a record, and it doesn't have to be the kind of thing that you could re-create live. We'll see!
Hear more from Peter Katis at the AES Platinum Engineers panel on Saturday, October 22 from 11AM – 1PM, at the Javits Center (exact room # TBD).
Justin Colletti is a Brooklyn-based producer/engineer who works with uncommon artists, and a journalist who writes about music and how we make it. Visit him at http://www.justincolletti.com.

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Personally, i would like to see an extended equip-screen.
I would like a hood-equip screen. With every robe, you get a hood-equipable.
I you dont equip, it stays the normal way. But if equiped, the hood will turn on.
Also, a cybernetic-slot should be added. So you can 'equip' a cyber-arm, or legs, with unique bonusses. The hand could give more strenght, since it has a battery instead of muscles. The legs could give more dexternity, since they respond better than normal legs. Ans these implants should be a texture or something, and they should come in different versions. Players who would like a bonus, but no weird robot-hand, could get the Luke-model. And players who really like it, the Anakin-model with the yellow lights or the cool glove.
Also, some bosses should have some cybernetic parts. Darth Sion with a cyber-arm is cool, aight? Also, this makes the PC stronger, thus making him more 'godlike' as the movies tend to show. But the gameplay won;t weaken, since bosses (and strong npc's ) have cybernetic parts too.
This coul make the game a bit cooler, since implants are quit common. The navigators on the bridge of the Trade Federation in Episode 1 have cybernetic-eye implants for faster information absorbing. Also, the slaves had a cybernetic implant preventing them from fleeing. And off course Anakin/Vader/Grievous with their Cybernetic parts that make them stronger.
We all know a battle-style relies very much on footwork. That explains Vader's smash-bash-power style, since his legs are that strong.
I believe Rage of the Wookies features implants too, but i'm not sure. COul be Jump to lightspeed too.
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Disease Proof
Keep a Tight Limit on Saturated Fat
Just as eating the high salt content in the Standard American Diet will almost certainly cause you to develop high blood pressure, the high saturated fat content in that diet will eventually cause high levels of blood cholesterol, which can then be deposited in plaque on blood vessels. This leads to cardiovascular disease and also depresses the immune system and increases the risk of cancer.1 Autopsy studies on adult Americans who die in car accidents, unrelated to heart conditions, demonstrate that heart disease is present in the vast majority of American adults. Almost all people over the age of 40 are found to have a significant amount of atherosclerosis in their coronary arteries.2 The bottom line is if you eat the Standard American Diet or something close to it, you most likely will develop the same diseases—heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, dementia, and cancer—that most Americans get. You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect. If you eat the diet most Americans eat, you will get the diseases most Americans get. Our long-term health is determined by our food choices.
Saturated fat comes from many food sources, including processed foods, meat, cheese, and other animal products. Thousands of scientific research studies demonstrate that saturated fat promotes both heart disease and cancer and powerfully raises cholesterol.3 It is exceedingly clear that avoiding all fat is not the secret to protecting your heart. It is avoiding saturated fat, trans fat, and processed oils.4 We get heart-healthy fats in their natural, high-antioxidant environment when we eat raw seeds and nuts. Indeed, avocado, nuts, and seeds are rich in fat. They may even contain a small amount of saturated fat, but their consumption is linked to substantial protection against heart disease. But, in the American diet, fats come primarily from meat and dairy, which are saturated, and we compound the problem by the low level of food derived antioxidants and phytochemicals we ingest.
This is an excerpt from Dr. Fuhrman's book Eat For Health.
1. Duwe AK, Fitch M, Ostwald R, et al. Depressed Natural Killer and Lecithin- Induced Cell Mediated Cytotoxicity in Cholesterol-Fed Guinea Pigs. J Nat Cancer Inst 1984;72(2):333-338.
2. Roberts JC, Moses C, Wilkins RH. Autopsy Studies in Atherosclerosis. I. Distribution and Severity of Atherosclerosis in Patients Dying without Morphologic Evidence of Atherosclerotic Catastrophe. Circulation 1959;20:511. Berenson GS, et al. Bogalusa Heart Study: A long-term community study of a rural biracial (black/white) population. Am J Med Sci 2001;322(5):267-274.
3. Huxley R, Lewington S, Clarke R. Cholesterol, coronary heart disease and stroke: a review of published evidence from observational studies and randomized controlled trials. Semin Vasc Med. 2002;2(3):315-323.
4. Hu FB, Manson JE, Willett WC. Types of dietary fat and risk of coronary heart disease: a critical review. J Am Coll Nutr. 2001;20(1):5-19.
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I have suffered from angina for 17 years now. One of the most frustrating aspects of this problem stems from the apparent contradictory information heart patients receive from doctors and health researchers. We are told that the oils in avocado, nuts and seeds, are protective of heart health. But an equally large number of doctors tell us precisely the opposite, that these fruit and nut oils are dangerous and damaging to the heart. How can there be such violently different notions concerning lipids in foods insofar as they affect the development of heart disease?
Flame grilled to perfection. This post illustrates the classic dilemma:"We know its bad for us but we eat it anyway".
Summer BBQ's is one of the most difficult social experiences as a vegan in a toxic food culture. Not only do you abstain from meat, but often times, at a BBQ, you end up without any food at all, because the only food traditionally brought to such events is meat, encased meats, and mayonnaise smothered dishes.
A smart vegan eats before hand or better yet, brings his own veggie-kabobs.
Why eat the oils from nuts, seeds and avocados when you can eat the raw nuts, seeds and avocados? Use fitday.com or some other dietary analysis program and start comparing refined foods like oil and sugar with their whole food counterparts. You will see that refined foods like oil a) are much higher in calories than their whole food counterparts and b) have almost all vitamins, minerals and fiber stripped from the product. Oils are unhealthy junk food, period. Avoid them like sugar and HFCS. Eat whole high-nutrient foods like greens, beans, fruits seeds and avocado. Just make sure to limit the quantity of high-calorie foods if you need to lose weight. Dr. Fuhrman's books focus on nutrient per calorie density and focusing on whole foods. I highly recommend "Eat To Live" or "Eat for Health".
John, sorry you are so confused. However, I disagree that there is a legitimate controversy here and equal number telling one thing or the other. The scientific literature is consistent and conclusive here. Whole seeds and nuts, not oils, are cardio-protective. Their inclusion in the diet is dramatically protective against sudden cardiac death and heart attacks. Every study done on these foods has showed dramatic benefits. You could not show one study that showed otherwise.
I instruct my heart patients that if they exclude seeds and nuts completely they will receive no advantages and be increasing their risk of sudden death from an arrhythmia. In other words, everything worsens, it is harder to lose weight, and actually impairs the potential reversal possible.
I have no heart disease patients that still suffer from angina for years, and have cared for hundreds with great success. They use my nutritional advice to reverse the condition and get well. The question here is, why are you still suffering? Please, join the member center at drfuhrman.com and read my protocols for reversing your condition in the newsletters and converse with me in the "ask the doctor" forum there. I want to help you get over this quickly.
Here are some references for you if you need more convincing:
Sabaté J. Nut consumption, vegetarian diets, ischemic heart disease risk, and all-cause mortality: evidence from epidemiologic studies. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 70, No. 3, 500S-503S, September 1999.
Hu FB, Stampfer MJ. Nut consumption and risk of coronary heart disease: a review of epidemiologic evidence. Curr Atheroscler Rep 1999 Nov;1(3):204-209.
Mukuddem-Petersen J ; Oosthuizen W ; Jerling JC A systematic review of the effects of nuts on blood lipid profiles in humans.J Nutr. 2005; 135(9):2082-9.
Lamarche B; Desroche S; Jenkins DJ; et al. Combined effects of a dietary portfolio of plant sterols, vegetable protein, viscous fiber and almonds on LDL particle size. Br J Nutr 2004:92(4):654-63.
Ros E; Naatez I; Parez-Heras A; et al. A walnut diet improves endothelial function in hypercholesterolemic subjects: a randomized crossover trial. Circulation. 2004; 109(13):1609-14.
Ellsworth JL ; Kushi LH ; Folsom AR. Frequent nut intake and risk of death from coronary heart disease and all causes in postmenopausal women: the Iowa Women's Health Study. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2001; 11(6):372-7.
Albert CM ; Gaziano JM ; Willett WC ; Manson JE Nut consumption and decreased risk of sudden cardiac death in the Physicians' Health Study. Arch Intern Med. 2002; 162(12):1382-7.
Coates AM ; Howe PR Edible nuts and metabolic health. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2007; 18(1):25-30.
Segura R ; Javierre C ; Lizarraga MA ; Ros E Other relevant components of nuts: phytosterols, folate and minerals.Br J Nutr. 2006; 96 Suppl 2:S36-44.
Rajaram S; Sabat AJ. Nuts, body weight and insulin resistance.Br J Nutr. 2006; 96 Suppl 2:S79-86.
Bes-Rastrollo M ; Sabat ÃJ ; Gamez-Gracia E ; et al. Nut consumption and weight gain in a Mediterranean cohort: The SUN study. Obesity 2007; 15(1):107-16.
Megas-Rangil I ; Garca-Lorda P ; Torres-Moreno M ; et al. Nutrient content and health effects of nuts. Arch Latinoam Nutr. 2004; 54(2 Suppl 1):83-6.
Lovejoy JC The impact of nuts on diabetes and diabetes risk.Curr Diab Rep. 2005; 5(5):379-84
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- 2 cups finely chopped fresh mushrooms
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 4 whole wheat hamburger buns, split
- 4 lettuce leaves
- In a large bowl, combine the first nine ingredients. Shape into four 3/4-in.-thick patties.
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add burgers; cook 3-4 minutes on each side or until crisp and lightly browned. Serve on buns with lettuce. Yield: 4 servings.
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Reviews for Mushroom Burgers
"These were lovely and actually quite "Meaty". I used the same ingredients but changed the method. I didn't want the burgers to be soggy inside once cooked due to the mushrooms releasing water so I finely chopped the mushrooms ( I used large flat mushrooms) and onion and threw them in a frying pan on a high heat till all the released water had evaporated, then allowed them to cool and added the rest of the ingredients. The mixture was quite wet so once patty shaped, I coated the burgers in leftover breadcrumbs and placed the in the fridge for 2 hours in firm up. Then to keep the calories down, I placed them on greaseproof paper and baked them for about 20 mins on quite a high heat, turning once halfway through. They were firm and moist on the inside and crispy on the outside. Will definitely do again but will double the recipe and see how well they freeze for future quick meals. Far better than any "veggie" burger I've tasted."
"This sounds like a great substitution for ground meat !"
"Very good and tasty. I used baby bellas, gives a nice rich earthy flavor, left out the cheese, used homemade soft bread crumbs and added another 1/4 c. of white whole wheat flour because it was too wet and refrigerated for a couple hours. I placed a 1/4 c. mound (I got 5) on a foiled cookie sheet with cooking spray and baked at 375, flipped once until done. I served on a round sandwich flat bread."
"Just made these for lunch today. Cooked them for about 5 minutes each side just to be sure they were cooked through. Nicely browned and tasty! The patty held up well to eat on a bun with "standard" burger extras. Very nice flavor.Definitely on our list of regulars!"
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The Nashville Predators Coolest Beer Festival in Town moves to June 28, from 1-6:00 p.m.
Back for a second season, the Predators Craft Beer Festival brings the Coolest Beer Festival in Town back to Bridgestone Arena. Nashville's only indoor beer festival takes place in the beautiful, soaring main concourse at Bridgestone.
Supported by all four local beer distributors, Lipman, Bounty, DET and Ajax, all the festival proceeds go to support the Nashville Predators Foundation. In fact, the Craft Beer Festival is one of the five main fund raising events for the foundation. Others include the GnashVegas Casino Night and Auction and the Brent Peterson Celebrity Golf Classic.
Last year's event drew about 1,500 people, a very admirable turnout for a first year event. The ticket sales were slow early but picked up significantly in the last week. This year, don't expect to be so lucky if you delay in purchasing tickets. Tickets are limited, of course, and this is actually the best bargain in town for beer festivals. The general admission ticket is $50, which is high, but it includes a voucher for an upper level hockey ticket. And with a great new hire at head coach, the hockey tickets will be in high demand.
Another great feature of the event last year was the knowledge of the people serving the beer. The Music City Beer Society handled those duties last year, and they have been invited back to handle all the beer pouring duties again. The Music City Beer Society is one of the largest beer aficionado groups anywhere, and they are dedicated to the advancement of beer culture and education.
This has quickly become a destination craft beer event in Nashville. More information will be coming soon, such as the super special beers that will be available to the VIP ticket holders. So don't sweat the weather, get your tickets to the second Nashville Predators Craft Beer Festival.
Time for a pint. Cheers!


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Former Phoenix VA official Brad Curry threatens suicide
MESA, AZ - Mesa police were called out to a home earlier this month after a former Phoenix VA employee threatened to take his own life.
Brad Curry was terminated from last month after a scandal broke out about the VA hospital neglecting patient care and a so-called secret waiting list.
Curry was the Chief of Health Administration services. He along with three others were terminated after it was discovered at least 40 veterans died while waiting for care.
Curry's family called 911 claiming he had a gun and was going to hurt himself.
Mesa police fired three beanbag rounds and used a stun gun on Curry before he started to cooperate.
The police report states an ER doctor allowed Curry to deny care.
Curry also didn't want any information on mental health counseling.


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A market trend is a distinguishable pattern or cycle established over a period of time.
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A drop of between 10%-20% in a short period during an overall Bull market defines a correction.
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If I use my colleague's computer to georeference the file, I can keep the georeferenced .tif and delete the .tfwx, tif.aux.xml, and .tif.ovr files, and the .tif will still appear in the correct location. ArcGIS recognizes the correct projection. But if I georeference the file on my computer and delete the .tfwx etc. files, the georeferencing information from my file is completely lost and it does not appear in the correct location. The coordinate system information is lost on my .tif file.
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Heitkamp was right to vote against comprehensive background checks
April 18, 2013 - Andrea Johnson
Good for Heidi Heitkamp.
Heitkamp was one of four Democratic Senators who voted against comprehensive background check legislation yesterday, attracting criticism from the party at large. North Dakota Senator John Hoeven, a Republican, also voted against the legislation, as did the majority of Republicans.
Heitkamp said, and I agree, that "the focus should be on mental health issues, full and accurate reporting into the NICS database and ensuring that we are prosecuting criminals in possession of or trying to possess fire arms. The conversation should be about what is in people's minds, not about what is in their hands." She added that the legislation would have imposed too great a burden on law-abiding gun owners.
Heitkamp is entirely correct. A comprehensive background check would not have prevented the recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut that claimed 26 lives or other mass shootings. The perpetrators in those cases used legally obtained firearms.
However, a stronger mental health system might have saved some of those victims. Jared Loughner, the perpetrator of the January 2011 Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage, is a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. James Holmes, the suspect in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting last summer, also reportedly suffers from severe mental illness. Adam Lanza, the killer of the children and teachers at Sandy Hook, also apparently had serious mental health issues.
It should be easier than it is for the relatives and friends of people like those men to get them help. Unfortunately, the mental health system has been gutted in the past 30 years and existing laws make it extremely difficult to force an adult with an untreated mental illness to get help until he has actually hurt himself or others. Parents are sometimes forced to surrender custody of a child with severe mental illness to the government to get them the help they need because the cost of treatment is so prohibitive. I encourage Heitkamp and others in Congress to tackle the broken mental health care system.
However, Heitkamp was right to vote against comprehensive background checks for all citizens. Her vote represents the wishes of most North Dakotans, those who voted for her and those who didn't.
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Apr-19-13 6:28 PM
Whenever I see the phrase "the usual suspects," I hear it as Claude Rains said it in "Casablanca." One of my all time favorite pictures.
Hurray for our republic! If the rural states wouldn't have its two senators to match the two senators each from large urban states like CA and NY, all the urban measures would be shoved down the rural states' throats. Always.
Time to address the mental health issues that need addressing, instead of only focusing on further gun regulations, "reasonable" or not.
Apr-19-13 5:12 PM
The problem appears to be yet another cultural divide between rural and urban locales. Judging by comments in the New York Times, people in the eastern United States are completely aghast and disbelieving that this legislation was defeated; guns are simply part of the landscape in rural states where many schools take off the first day of the hunting season because so many kids and teachers will take it off anyway.
I see the usual suspects (Robert Reich, among others) moaning about our "undemocratic" constitution and complaining that states like North Dakota and Alaska have two Senators just as New York and California do. Apparently they have forgotten that the United States is actually a republic, not a democracy, and believe we should change the entire Constitution to advance their particular point of view. I think that's likely to happen when hogs are ice skating in Hades, but they're certainly welcome to try.
Apr-19-13 4:30 PM
"Even if they know, it's very hard for parents to force an adult child into treatment without concrete evidence he's harmed himself or others. How do you tackle those issues without trampling on civil rights?"
Apr-19-13 11:52 AM
I think there are several problems with the mental health care system. First of all, there simply are not enough beds in psychiatric hospitals and insurance companies will not pay for a long enough stay. They keep these people long enough to stabilize them and then send them home before they're completely well. It's hard for parents to get help for teenagers with mental illness. Schizophrenia, in particular, tends to strike in the late teens to early twenties -- college age -- and privacy laws prevent colleges from contacting parents or providing much information about a student's erratic behavior. Even if they know, it's very hard for parents to force an adult child into treatment without concrete evidence he's harmed himself or others. How do you tackle those issues without trampling on civil rights?
Apr-19-13 11:10 AM
Andrea, as a person with a family member fighting addiction, what we were told in trying to get our loved one help was that the person had to be in danger of harming others or self. What to do? The "harm" was to self and the "harm" happened only when using. Hard to prove, hard to get the needed help, evaluations, etc. I also agreed with Sen. Heitkamp's vote and with her reasons.
Apr-19-13 8:57 AM
Andrea.. I think it's the older students that are in HS who show anti social tendency's that should be evaluated.
Apr-19-13 8:53 AM
Yeah and that is the problem we never see a problem in the ones we love. I think all or most schools have guidance counselors, maybe they need to step up to the plate a little more.
Apr-19-13 8:46 AM
I'm not interested in labeling little kids based on schoolyard fights. Family members and friends of those with severe mental illness are in the best position to know who might be a danger to themselves or others and their hands are often tied.
Apr-19-13 8:31 AM
Andrea.. I agree fully with you. I've wrote this here before, we have records of everybody's disposition in school records I hope. If not this is an opportunity to start documenting who is a childhood bully and who is the victim of childhood bullying. I know parents will say my little one is to young to know what they are doing when they are overly or under aggressive. But should we deny anyone their rights based on juvenile actions, there are no easy solutions to such far reaching problems.
Apr-19-13 8:08 AM
I think there are plenty of laws already on the books that should be enforced. There are also too many guns on the street already to hope for effective gun control. Areas with the strictest gun laws also tend to have higher crime rates.Only the law abiding follow the laws. I don't own guns and will never even pick one up but I don't like the idea of more limits on our rights just because people feel they should do SOMETHING, even if background checks would not have prevented any of the mass shootings they're responding to. Reforming the mental health system WOULD likely prevent some of these tragedies.
Apr-19-13 7:18 AM
There are 50 States with 50 State Governments in this country. I think each state is at least somewhat different than each of the other states. Heidi is a ND Senator not the Senator of some other states and hopefully will always stay in tune with the majority of us that live here.
Apr-18-13 9:47 PM
Sorry Andrea..I disagree...Background checks, that's it...That's all she would have been voting for...90% of Americans want Background checks...What's so "hard" to understand??? I do agree that we need to do SOMETHING about the mental health issue, BUT...Have no fear, the ND legislature is sure as s**t is not here!!!...This is from Legislature Josh Boschee..."Fun morning session in the North Dakota legislature! At a time, when we as a nation are seeking greater understanding of the relationship between behavioral and mental health issues to gun violence, the ND House of Representatives, just defeated a bill that would have required a study of the behavioral health needs in the state."
This state's legislature this year has been the most worthless (expletive!!) EVER!!!! But they sure as the dickens gave themselves a hefty pay raise...Didn't they!!!
Apr-18-13 9:04 PM
Heitkamp is entirely wrong and she is unlikely to get my vote again.
Even the parents of the Newtown shooting said the law would not have prevented that particular shooting, but that doesn't discount its usefulness. However, if Lanza's mother had been asked if she had anyone in her household with mental issues and she answered truthfully, that may have prevented the shoot. Any background check should ask that question.
How are we to ascertain someone's mental health unless there is some compunction to know it? Everyone insists that it is a mental health issue, but it shouldn't be a mental health issue until someone wants a gun. I don't care how crazy a person is, but I do want to know how crazy a gun buyer is. That's when it becomes important. That's when a background check needs to be done. Or do you want universal mental health checks? It seems that a gun buyer can't be slowed down in the least in his pursuit of wrapping his palm around a bigger gun.
Apr-18-13 8:05 PM
Laws against murder don't prevent people from killing people either, no sense in keeping those laws on the books I guess. Same goes for DUI, rape, child abuse, arson... Here is the thing, some people believe that your health care is your problem, not mine or theirs. My familie's health care is my problem to deal with. If I can not get someone in my family the care they need because the cost of health care in this country is flipping out of control, what are we as a nation to do? I think there needs to be movement on both sides of this issue. Along with some laws on trigger locks or something of that nature, if you have children in the home or have someone who may be mentally unstable.
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Unemployment: It's probably worse than you think
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There are a lot of indicators used to assess the health of the nation's economy. There is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is the sum of all we buy, sell, and produce. There is also industrial output, orders for durable goods, various leading economic indicators, and surveys of consumer sentiment. However, for most people, the ultimate measure of economic distress or well being is unemployment. While the other economic statistics are just that, statistics, unemployment is personal.
As Harry Truman said, "a recession is when your neighbor loses his job and a depression is
when you lose your job." According to the most recent unemployment data released by the federal government, the percentage of Americans without a job and looking for work is 9.1 percent. That's bad enough, but it doesn't begin to tell the whole story.
The percentage of the workforce that's unemployed is calculated using data collected by the US Census Bureau — and you thought they just ran the Census every 10 years. Each month they survey up to 60,000 households concerning their employment status. They also gather payroll information from as many as 100,000 employers. This data then goes to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics for analysis. It's a big sample and U.S. unemployment statistics are considered some of the most reliable in the world. However, what's often released to the public and what we see quoted in the media reflects only a part of the data that's collected.
The percentage commonly quoted in the news is referred to by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in their coding system as U1 and represents the number of persons unemployed and actively looking for work as a percentage of the total civilian workforce. However, many economists have their doubts that this number accurately reflects the nation's unemployment picture.
What the number doesn't include are those Americans who have given up looking for work altogether or who have become what the government calls "only marginally attached to the workforce" and are engaging in occasional employment when they're able to find it. It also doesn't capture the number of Americans who are working part time jobs, but would rather be working full time. The BLS does calculate this data, they even have a code for it, U6, but it's almost never quoted. However, it should be.
Last month's U6 unemployment figure — part timers who don't want to be, marginally attached workers, and those who have simply given up looking for work — was 16.5 percent. That's a staggering number and what it implies is that there is a far larger number of Americans who are unemployed, as well as a group that's also never mentioned, those who are underemployed.
If you've ever looked at the officially reported state-by-state unemployment data, the difference between the standard unemployment report and the broader definition under U6 is staggering. But it's also more believable. Using the conventional definition of unemployment, Michigan, a state whose principal industry all but collapsed two years ago, has a jobless rate of 10.5 percent. However, if the broader number is used, the U6 data, the percentage rises to 22 percent. While that sounds like a large number, and it is, to anyone who realizes just how many people have lost their jobs in Michigan it seems like a much more reasonable assessment of the situation.
The same is true for Nevada. It has a conventional unemployment rate of 12.5 percent. That's bad enough. However, given the state's near economic basket case status, with the second highest foreclosure rate in the nation, and not too far behind in bankruptcies, as bad as the monthly unemployment report sounds, like Michigan, it seems a little low. With the broader definition it rises to more than 20 percent. The same kind of difference between the reported rate and the expanded definition of unemployment, is also evident, though not quite as bad, in California, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
U6 unemployment hasn't always been so large. In 2001 it was 7.5 percent. However, with the start of the recession it's been steadily increasing. One of the reasons is that manufacturing employment, the source of jobs for entire regions of the country, has declined sharply since 2007. The idling of the construction industry has had a similar effect. Workers, even those who are considered skilled or semi-skilled, can't find jobs and the result has been the kind of long-term unemployment characterized by discouraged job seekers, part time employment, and workers considered only occasionally attached to the workforce.
The broader unemployment rate, while rarely quoted (and I can understand why), probably does a better job of reflecting what's really going on in the economy than does the conventional number. It's also an indicator of the depth of this recession. And sadly, while that official number might, hopefully start to decline, the people who are in that chronically unemployment or underemployed status are going to take a lot longer to find their way back into the workforce.


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7/6 WWE house results from Taipei, Taiwan
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* The Great Khali & Yoshi Tatsu def. Epico & Primo
* Wade Barrett def. Zack Ryder
* Curtis Axel def. The Miz to retain IC Champ
* Natalya def. Aksana via submission
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Almost 30 days into the new year and I had yet to decide which records blasted the dust out of my bones in 2012. Quite a difficult task considering the year was filled with veterans shouting they're alive by making high quality/very sellable albums. Plus the 90's revival. However, many newcomers (up-and-comers, too) spared no creativity and came up with beautiful acts of music. Not easy to narrow down to only six but let's say I'm on a Nick Hornby + 1 phase. In my pseudo-humble opinion, here are the 6 albums that charted high on my list:
El Efecto - Pedras e Sonhos
When it comes to praising nationality traits in music as if it's nothing short from cult-like obligation, the majority of bands tend to board on boredom and tiring sonic territorial marking. The beauty of this record lays on balancing that out with boldness and hints of tradition without losing the group's personality.
Léo Brasil e a Máquina - Quanto Mais Livre Melhor
Hailing from the unknown, I present Quanto Mais Livre Melhor, by Léo Brasil e a Máquina. To say little about a lot, this record is what a love child bred barefoot in Rio by Thievery Corporation and Madlib would sound like. The brilliance of any instrumental effort falls highly on whether or not the music speaks regardless of words. Léo Brasil achieves such state in a sweet, classy fashion. Enjoy.
Silva - Claridão
This one is a mind twister. Not because it's brain-melting awesome. It isn't. Claridão resembles a creative mix-tape dubbed under one single voice and, as any grade A mix-tape, it rises and falls more often than not. Silva ranges from Beirut-esque vibes to discreet flirtations with electronic music. Dangerous grounds.
However, he pulls it off. Some say the record is minimalistic though such claim barely begins to touch it.
I resisted this album for far too long.
BNegão e os Seletores de Frequência - Sintoniza Lá
In an era where Brazilian hip-hop is taken up - mainly loosely - by pretty much whoever feels angry our misunderstood whilst wandering around stone jungles and crowded beaches, old schoolers BNegão e Os Seletores de Frequência's Sintoniza Lá is a rescue boat that will take you to the lands of quality "urban" music.
Macaco Bong - This is Rolê
Heavy. Dirty. Awesome.
Tulipa Ruiz - Tudo Tanto
Tulipa is a rather interesting character, a sure pump of fresh air in modern times. In Tudo Tanto, she keeps up the good work, carefully slipping away from the ever-changing concept of Brazilian Popular Music. Not too complex to sound cocky and not too simple to disguise vintage outfits. Not too much, not too little, right on the spot. A solid work by an impressive artist.


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I went to the last Let's Eat! Charles Street event and it was truly fab! The shopping, the food, the historic architecture! I absolutely adore Charles Street! So much so that I just need to pack my bags and move there!
Let's Eat! is a celebration of the Charles Street district and all of the fine restaurants and stores located there.
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Head Coach Spike Dykes
"I tell you it was a hard fought-hard earned game. Kansas has a good football team. They have a great defensive team. They came to play just an old fashioned shoot-out. I thought we did a good job. I thought we overcame some things. We got started really good offensively. Defense, I thought was stellar. It was the best defensive game we have played in a long, long time. There were a ton of great plays. Defensive coaches served a great plan. All of them did a great job. The kids played hard and smart. We got a punt blocked. That is a bad thing. It puts a bad taste in your mouth like eating sour pickles. We just weren't ready. We still can't put everything together. It was great to beat Kansas. We have a lot of respect for Kansas. We did a decent job. We were not quite as consistent the second offensivley as we should have been. We lost two big catalyst on the offensive team. I though we all came in and did a great job."
Cody McGuire
"That was our job to keep them out. Our special teams played great and gave us the position on the field. Coach Goodner has confidence in us to shut down the running game. Nebraska has All-American offensive linemen. We are going to have to prepare well in practice."
Ricky Williams
"We had the chanceto run the ball today. Our passing game against Baylor was good so we knew we'd have the chance to run the ball tonight, since they would be keying in on the passing game tonight. We executed well tonight we got a couple of new plays in."
"Kansas had a great defense. We still have a lot to work on. I jumped off sides a couple of times. We got a lot of flags and penalties. Otherwise we did a pretty good job on most plays we ran."
"Our offensive line did great. We executed the new plays perfectly and got the yards we needed. I dedicated it to the offensive line. They pushed and we got the yards."
Montae Reagor
"Kansas had a great offense. Our defensive staff and coaches prepared us well. We swarmed the plays, hit the gaps. We did a great job."
"Defense picked it up a notch, we took it to another level. We ran to the ball. We knew if we got to the person before they got started, they would have a long night."
"We corrected the mistakes from earlier in the season. We are excited about getting things started up again."
"Kansas was doing everything they could--two or three people on one of us, thenthat left someone else to make the tackle. The team kept its focus and concentrated on what was at stake."
Dane Johnson
"We knew going in that they have a solid defense. And that if we played like we did against Baylor, then we could win the game."
Brian Roberson
"Special teams had a really good game, Jeremy and I punted well and had them inside the five a couple of times. Dane also had an excellent game. We're very pleased with the win."
Head Coach Terry Allen
"It was a very frustrating lost. We lacked offensive production. The first half we did not play good. After halftime we made adjustments. At the first our linebaskcers got exposed and out of position. Then we adjusted and kept our linebackers settled in and improved our defensive play. We gave up close to probably 400 or 500 yards. We had expected them to pass more and not rush so well. Our quarterback did okay, but he cannot throw from the back. You can't rush because they are going to come after you. The second half we kept in their offensively and stirred thing up. I can't believe as much as we were manhandled we still had a shot to win the football game. I can't say I was surprised at them running the football so well. I was disappointed in our inability to stop the run. They won the battle at the line of scrimmage."
Tony Blevins
"It is just frustrating that we could not come out and win. We have got to go back and work to get back on track. It is most important for us to come together as a team. We had a chance still at the end. That last seven they put on the board really wasn't indicative of how the game went. (On Tech's opening TD) We don't feel like we should let anyone do that to us. We made some adjustments and pulled it together."
Zac Wegner
"I thought the defense played a great game. Offensively we struggled once again. Tech stopped us when we tried to run. If we don't have balanced attack it is going to be rough. If we can't run the ball, eventually we won't be able to throw the ball."


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Why do frogs croak? Why do they stay by rivers and other marshy areas? Well, scientifically speaking, that's very easy to explain. But how was frogs' behavior explained before people became well-versed in froggie habits? According to Sung-Bong, a research associate at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Koreans have a story that explains it all while also teaching young children to mind their mothers.
Once upon a time, before science had all but eradicated folklore as truth, there was a family of frogs. Every day Mother Frog would care for her two sons though the going was very hard as the two sons never did what their mother asked of them.
Every morning Mother Frog would come to their rooms and say, "Get out of bed! It's time to start a new day!" And every morning the two boys would pretend to stay asleep and remained in their beds. Then when she had made breakfast, she would call out to them, "Breakfast is ready!" The boys would immediately jump out of bed and run to the kitchen.
"Please sit down and eat," Mother Frog would say. So the boys would hop around the kitchen and all over the table, not sitting down and not eating. Mother Frog would sigh and tell them to clean up at which point the boys would sit in their seats and gobble up all their food, making a huge mess as they did. Mother Frog cleaned up after them.
When they went out to play, the boys croaked, "Gul-gae! Gul-gae! Gul-gae!" This is the Korean word for the sound frogs make, except the boys didn't say it right. Mother Frog tsked and corrected them.
"No, dears," she said. "That's not the right way to say it. It's gae-gul, gae-gul, gae-gul." The two frogs just laughed and continued to say it backwards.
Mother Frog swore to herself that she wouldn't say anything else to them because they were always doing the exact opposite of what she wanted. But she couldn't help calling out one last time as she went back to the house. "Be careful and don't get dirty!"
Did those frogs listen to their mother? Most certainly not. They immediately jumped into the mud and played there till it was time to go inside. Then of course they tracked mud all over the house because they were so dirty. To be continued…


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This coffee-table book chronicles the past five years of travels with the Grandy family. Not only does it cover some of the best wilderness destinations in the United States, but it also features favorites in Canada and Mexico as well.
Intended as a gallery of memories, it can easily be a motivation to follow in our visual footsteps. Be sure to buy "the ad-ven-tur-ers" in hopes that places formerly unknown to you will become favorite destinations.
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"Teen Mom" star Kailyn Lowry has been focusing on her family over the past couple of months, but before she got married, she was working as a dental assistant. But it sounds like her future is not in the medical field. In fact, she has been working on a new career direction after making some great connections with the MTV crew. According to a new Wetpaint Entertainment report published on July 10, "Teen Mom" star Kailyn Lowry is now revealing that she is ready to take her education to the next level.
She has been working with the crew on "Teen Mom 2," and they have become close friends. But now she is thinking that she may turn her passion into a reality, so she can be in front of the camera full time. She has announced that she is going back to school to get her bachelor's degree. "I can't believe I'm actually going back to school," Kailyn has revealed. "Tomorrow I pick my classes! I may be late getting it but I will have my bachelors!"
She has revealed that she hopes to study TV, Radio and Film at Delaware State University. She has applied, but since she already has a partial degree in social work, it is possible that she can carry some of those electives over from her first degree. This would be able to save her some time. In addition, she does have a completed 12-week program in dental assisting and X-ray certification under her belt as well.
"If the opportunity arises I would love to be a host at some point," she dished. "I'm willing to work to get there and do behind-the-scenes production and that kind of stuff." She adds that she now has the support system to be able to finish school and do something great with her life. Even though she has two children, she has a supportive husband who would do anything for her, including help her out with the children.
She also adds that she is thrilled to have a supportive husband. "I need him to be able to take the kids if I need to go to class," she said. "I went to community college for two years with Isaac and I didn't really have anyone to help me so I felt like I slacked off a lot more than I should have. I definitely want to give it my all this time."
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There has been much debate over the release of new music by Michael Jackson, set for release on his album Michael , due out December 14. Some fans and some of Jackson's collaborators, such as will.i.am, have spoken out about the release of the tracks, many of which were finished after Jackson's death. It's an argument that Akon, who worked with Jackson on the song "Hold My Hand," understands.
"Michael Jackson's new album and the new releases, of course, there's been comments about whether or not [it] should actually be released or whether it would reflect his true authenticity, but naturally because of the fact he's not here to see it through, it definitely wouldn't reflect what he had in mind for it because there's other minds working for him," Akon told MTV News about the tracks. "But I think at the end of the day, we have two choices: We can put out the little that we do have to hold onto, or we can just never ever put it out again. … The material that he did have that was finished, he would have loved to put it out.
"[The songs] were created by him, now whether or not they were finished by him is a different story," he added. "And that's just a collective effort of all of us. It's a double-edged sword."
Akon points out that one of those finished tracks is "Hold My Hand," making the argument that his contribution to the album is Jackson-approved.
"If he was here today, I think he would definitely approve of 'Hold My Hand,' because it was already preapproved," he said. "But the rest of the songs, I'm not quite sure how far those songs went 'cause Michael's a perfectionist. He wouldn't let anything go unfinished. Me knowing him from my standpoint of viewing him, I'm not quite sure, because he won't stop; he will go and go until there's not one doubt left in his mind that this record is perfect.
"So, I hope he would [have approved of the album], then again, you never know. He's the only one that can answer that question."
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I got the game today and I think its even better than sliced bread. I'm in sky city and I have just basic jedi sabre swings. I was wondering about the fight I saw in the jedi academy, they were twirling around and spinning about, generally doing every move my kyle is currently able to do only with more style and elligence. What forces allow you to do some of those over head spinning stylish moves I witnessed. Is it key combos or something to do with offensive and jump levels?


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Organograph: Giant Kinetic Flower Sculpture is Powered by the Sun
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- Organograph Climate Clock Sculpture in San JoseOrganograph is a 75-foot-tall solar-powered kinetic flower sculpture that invites the public to observe, investigate, and respond to the processes of climate change. The artists imagined the sculpture, a heliotropic flower that "blooms" thanks to the solar panels that line its "petals", as a captivating civic beacon that teaches the public about climate change by providing an unusual window into worldwide climate data.1
- Organograph Climate Clock Sculpture in San Jose
Bill Washabaugh, Chico MacMurtie, and Geo Homey developed the sculpture with five fundamental elements: The Clock, A Carbon Cycle Simulation, Incubator Dome, Time Trail Garden, and an external education component called the Seed to Plant Program.2
- Organograph Climate Clock Sculpture in San Jose
When asked about the inspiration for the project, Bill said the trio was all very interested in organic explorations of sculpture and wanted to create something that was iconic, beautiful, and rational. The team got together two or three nights a week to discuss various ways they could illustrate climate change data that would carry an impact long time in the future."There was always a pint of Ben and Jerry's involved," Bill recounted.
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The Clock is a 75-foot kinetic sculpture powered by large solar petals that open in the morning, harvest natural energy all day, and close again at night.4
- Organograph Climate Clock Sculpture in San JoseA series of gears operate the entire mechanism of the structure: its daily rotation, opening and closing, standard timekeeping, simulation timekeeping, and its continuous slow movement along the garden path.
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The Organograph runs a simplified, but accurate, scale model of the global carbon cycle--a balance between plants and animals has largely been unchanged for 400,000 years. "We found our way to the carbon cycle because this is totally factual---it will still be relevant 50 years from now in terms of something that drives climate change," Bill told Inhabitat.
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CO2 is represented in scale by small glass carbon spheres within the sculpture. Clear glass spheres indicate CO2 that was present prior to the industrial revolution and black spheres indicate CO2 that has been added to the atmosphere as a result of burning fossil fuels. The entire cycle is sped up 1000 times to displace slow changes and provide a clear mechanism for visualizing human impact.
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The main purpose of the Incubator Dome is to plant the Time Trail Garden. Hundreds of plants are arranged inside a 40-foot diameter ring that slowly rotates inside the glass dome. Visitors are welcome to walk inside the opensculpture to observe the mechanisms of timekeeping in action.8
- Organograph Climate Clock Sculpture in San JoseThe plants are individually seeded in an organic growing medium and nurtured by students, teachers and volunteers. Each day a specific plant is selected by the Organograph's climate monitoring systems to be planted at noon in the Time Trail Garden. The plant is identified with a History Tag (QR code) and becomes a living and digital document of the climate event of that day.9
- Organograph Climate Clock Sculpture in San JoseTogether the plants form a historical garden representing the evolution of global average temperature variations.

A CO2 Path simulates the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. As the Organograph moves forward in time it paves the path with marbles drawn from the Cabon Cycle model. Colors are used to differentiate between naturally occurring CO2 and manmade CO2.
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Visitors are welcome to walk into the open sculpture and observe the mechanisms of timekeeping in action. A spiral ramp and staircase ascends four levels to give observers an inside look at the carbon cycle, time trail garden, and the plant incubating mechanisms as well as the garden below and city beyond.
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By extracting and burning fossil fuels, humans are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is leading to increased global temperature, sea level rise, desertification, and the unbalancing of an entire ecosystem. The Organograph and its ancillary website aim to serve the community by encouraging learning, sustained interaction, stewardship, and social awareness around climate change and the mechanisms driving it.
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"The design and architecture is open source. It will all be on the website and public information. The idea is that the whole thing is constantly open to use, reuse and reinterpretation and part of that is to keep the people of San Jose involved."
Visitors are welcome to walk inside the open sculpture to observe the mechanisms of timekeeping in action.13
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Samsung Anycall SCH-C220/SPH-C2200/SPH-C2250 – slimmest slider for CDMA networks
Those darn lucky GSM network operator subscribers. All the newest and best phones always go to them. Case in point – Samsung U600 Ultra Edition II, 10.9 mm slimmest slider. Why on earth it had to be made only for GSM networks. Why can't I have it with my CDMA network operator ?!
Well, now I can. At least in Korea. Samsung has released CDMA version 10.9 millimeter slider over there, called Samsung SCH-C220/SPH-C2200 /SPH-C2250. (different numbering schemes for different carriers).
The specs for Samsung C220 slider include:
- CDMA200 1xEVDO connectivity
- 2.2″ 240×320 px 262K color display
- 2 mpx camera
- Support for GPS function
- 96MB of internal memory
- microSD memory card slot
- Dimensions : 103.3X49.3X10.9mm
- Weight : 81g
As you can see Samsung SCH-C2200 is pretty similar to Samsung U600 slimmest slider. The main difference here is smaller camera (2 mpx instead of 3.2), but CDMA slider supports GPS functionality, which is a nice feature to have.
Samsung SCH C220 is headed for the main Korean mobile operators – SKT, KTF and LG Telecom – for now and will cost 500K Won (~500 US$)


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An examination of mental illness in Canadian workplaces
|An examination of mental illness in Canadian workplaces: a content analysis of trends and directions in Canadian arbitration case decisions
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|Master of Business Administration
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|Charlottetown, P.E.I.
|Mental illness has become one of the leading reasons for absenteeism in Canadian workplaces. Employers are challenged to become more aware, educated, and active about mental illness in order to assist employees with workplace accommodations. In the 2006 report by Kirby and Keon, stigma was highlighted as a significant barrier to progress in disclosure and handling of such cases. As a result, cases arise where employers, unions, and employees struggle to resolve situations requiring accommodation, with some ending up in arbitration to seek a third party ruling. To examine this phenomenon more closely, a content analysis of Canadian arbitration case decisions relating to mental illness both pre- and post- the Kirby and Keon report was conducted. The overall trend indicates that arbitration cases involving mental illness have more than tripled over the past 20 years. The preliminary findings from this study show that arbitrators are struggling in their assessment of the medical evidence, but they have made it very clear that the employer has a duty to gather medical information if a mental illness is suspected. Arbitrators in their case analysis are looking for a connection between the employees conduct and mental illness. The case decisions also show that employer practices are contributing to and/ or exacerbating an employee"s mental health disability.
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New Orleans Saints rookie receiver Brandin Cooks didn't arrive in the Big Easy until the last week of OTAs. But at training camp in West Virginia, his brilliance and versatility are showing.
On today's edition of Black and Gold Today, sports reporter Rachel Whittaker and Saints beat writer Katherine Terrell discuss their takeaways from the Saints' first five practices as the team takes a rest day July 30.
Cooks highlights their analysis - what impact has he had/will he have in the screen game and return game as well?
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When you have hunted, hiked, worked, and snowmobiled – you name it – on Forest Service land for decades you can begin to feel as if you had an entitlement to that land. Call it the right of possession by proximity and use; but because no one knows that land like we do, or uses it like we do, we feel we should have a say in how it's managed.
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Game of Thrones.
I'm still reading the third book, so I have a lot to handle. But one thing I will tell you for sure:
It's so difficult to endure all injustices in this story that I won't be surprise if one day I start to whisper the names of all the characters that I want to be dead, just like Arya Stark does.
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Los Angeles, indie uptempo downtempo upstarts Pollyn were our guests this week on KPFK's Melting Pot. I first heard Pollyn while I was at KCRW in 2009 when someone sent me their debut. Soon enough most of the other DJs were playing the disc, eventually leading to a stint on KCRW's flagship program Morning Becomes Eclectic. During our session they performed 3 songs, "How Small We Are," "Hot Air," and "Sometimes You Just Know," the last two of which are from their soon to be released (in September) sophomore album "Living in Patterns." During the interview we talk about how the band got together, their style/sound and about growing as a group between album's #1 and #2.
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Are Energy Drink Safe for Kids?
Would you believe there are now at least 200 different energy drinks on the market? Yep. It's a billion-dollar industry. But is it a good idea for parents or kids to get an energy-drink buzz?
A typical 12-ounce energy drink has about three times the amount of caffeine in a 12-ounce Coca-Cola and nearly the same amount of caffeine as in a cup of coffee.
"There was a time when we would get our caffeine intake from coffee and cola, but now there are a number of caffeine-containing beverages, and we need to be careful because over a period of 24 hours, that caffeine intake is cumulative," says dietitian Dee Rollins, PhD.
For both children and adults, too much caffeine can cause jitteriness and nervousness, upset stomach, headaches, difficulty concentrating, difficulty sleeping, increased heart rate and increased blood pressure.
For kids, the U.S. hasn't developed caffeine guidelines, and the amount of caffeine a child can safely consume depends on age and size. Canadian guidelines recommend limiting children's caffeine intake to no more than 2.5 milligrams per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body weight. Based on typical body weights, this translates to:
- 45 mg for ages 4-6
- 62.5 mg for ages 7-9
- 85 mg for ages 8-12
Dr. Rollins and other experts recommend that adults limit their caffeine intake to 400 milligrams per day. An adult who drinks two cups of coffee and one 12-ounce energy drink will usually stay within the 400-mg limit. For both adults and children, set daily caffeine limits, "keep track of daily caffeine consumption and check the back of (energy drink) labels and make sure that you don't get more than your daily limit," she advises.
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|Cup of brewed coffee
|5 ounces
|80-125 mg.
|Red Bull
|12 ounces
|115 mg.
|12 ounces
|106 mg.
|12 ounces
|90 mg.
|12 ounces
|71 mg.
|Coca Cola
|12 ounces
|34 mg.
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In hot weather, an extra reason to carefully limit kids' caffeine intake is dehydration. Caffeine is a diuretic that causes the body to eliminate water.
If a child or adult becomes used to a daily amount of caffeine, abruptly stopping its use can cause withdrawal symptoms, including headaches, muscle aches, temporary depression, and irritability.
Although low-calorie versions of some energy drinks are available, many contain very high amounts of sugar and sodium, well-known contributors to childhood obesity.
The bottom line is that energy drinks contain too much caffeine for small children. One typical 12-ounce energy drink (or cup of coffee) contains a bit more caffeine than the Canadian guidelines for kids ages 8-12.
Kathy Sena is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to MetroKids.
No, I don't let my daughter drink energy drinks, although she does indulge in the occasional Starbucks coffee. Two or three kids from her middle school were rushed to the ER about 18 mos. ago bec. they were showing weird symptoms--all three had started the day with energy drinks (many of which carry a warning saying not for kids)...
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My kids? Don't need energy drinks. They came with Automatic Energy Drink 1.0 installed. Any attempt to upgrade AED 1.0 with an outside energy beverage voids the warranty. Not to mention it could go very wrong on so many levels. My home would be destroyed and i would have to curl up in the fetal position outside until help arrived. Think Hammy in the movie Over the Hedge.
Seriously though - my kids are 6 and under. At this age, we do not let them drink anything with any caffeine. The 4yo and the 6yo get a coffee beverage on their birthdays but it's decaf and low on the coffee amount.


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Doomsdays might have made an entertaining short film. As it stands, it is not particularly long for a feature but it is way too long for this particular story. By the end of its runtime it has worn out its welcome. The story, like its protagonists, meander from place to place without very much happening. Both conflict and character development are thin, and by the end I might have pondered what it all meant, if the film had made me care enough to wonder.
Dirty Fred (Justin Rice) and Bruho (Leo Fitzpatrick) are a couple of petty criminals who wander around the Catskills and break into presently unoccupied vacation homes. They squat for a few deals, stealing and vandalizing, then move on. Dirty Fred is a hipster intellectual in love with the sound of his own voice, and Bruho has a mean temper and a fondness for destroying cars. Along the way they pick up an apprentice in Jaidon (Brian Charles Johnson), a misfit teenager who immediately idolizes the two. They eventually pick up Reyna (Laura Campbell), whose presence drives a wedge between Dirty Fred and Bruho as they both vie for her affection.
It didn't take long for the movie to begin to grate on me. It doesn't help that none of the characters are very likeable or demonstrate any depth. Fitzpatrick's Bruho has something of an arc but the twist about his character, if it can be called that, is out of left field and feels shoehorned in for a cheap laugh. Dirty Fred is one of the slimiest and unintentionally least likeable characters in a movie for quite a while. He's supposed to be a brainy iconoclast but he comes off as a creep. There's nothing funny about these two clowns breaking into peoples' houses and trashing them for no other reason than they can, and it happens over and over and over.
I'm not sure what writer/director Eddie Mullins was going for here. I could theorize about the themes of the movie, that it's a commentary on our materialistic society. Or maybe it's just a fatalistic allegory about our doomed civilization. Whatever the purpose, it comes across as pretentious nonsense that might have succeeded better had it been a lot shorter.
For more info on the Florida Film Festival, visit the official website, and be sure to check out my other reviews from the festival here.


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- Apply to the Gerontology Certificate Program
(the online form is sent to Beth Fauth, Gerontology Certificate Coordinator)
- Core Coursework and Electives, and SGA club participation:
- Gerontology Practicum (FCHD 4970)
You should receive an e-mail reply within two weeks of your application, letting you know if you have been accepted into the program.
Work on required and elective coursework as described in your application.
You will essentially be working on your required and elective courses, as well as participating in the SGA club on your own. When it comes time to prepare for gerontology practicum you will need to plan ahead and contact Grant Bartholomew or Judy Hendrickson (see below). You can contact me (Beth Fauth) prior to registering for the Integration paper, and for other reasons as needed.
This course is taught by Grant Bartholomew in the department of FCHD. Judy Hendrickson (Administrative Assistant in FCHD) processes practicum materials. The course requires you to commit 150 hours working (volunteer or for pay) in a setting with/on behalf of older adults. You choose the facility, and it does not have to be in Logan, Utah. Some common practicum sites:
- Assisted Living or Nursing Homes
- Senior Centers
- Agency on Aging Offices
- Hospice
- Rehabilitation Centers
The information on this web page is meant to be a quick summary. Detailed instructions for requirements for the gerontology practicum, the application process and so on, are provided in the handbook.
FCHD majors: You must abide by the same practicum application deadlines for the Gerontology Practicum as you do for the FCHD Practicum.
Other majors: You must have your background check and other materials approved by the start of the semester you wish to take the practicum. As there are often lengthy delays on background checks, please aim to get all materials submitted at least 6 weeks before the start of the semester.If possible, aim to follow the same deadlines as the FCHD majors.
The application for the Gerontology practicum is SEPARATE from the application to the gerontology certificate. Being accepted into the gerontology certificate program does NOT get you accepted into the practicum. Review the handbook for application instructions. The electronic Gerontology Practicum Application is available here. If you complete a paper copy (from the handbook), have it signed by Beth Fauth (Gerontology Certificate Coordinator) prior to submitting to Judy Hendrickson or Grant Bartholomew.
For questions about the gerontology practicum please email firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
You will need to email Beth Fauth when you are ready to register for the Gerontology Integration paper (FCHD 4940) course. Send an email stating that you wish to register for the course. Beth will forward the email to the Academic Advisor who can open the course for you to register. This course must be taken concurrently or after the FCHD 4240 and Gerontology Practicum (not before).
The semester you are graduating: Complete the Graduation Form for Certificate at the beginning of this semester.
After graduation, check your transcript. You will look for SPECIAL CERTIFICATE IN GERONTOLOGY (currently this appears in the notes section at the bottom of the electronic transcript)