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I am a triathlon focussed swimmer without any formal training. I am concerned about the strong impression that my goggles leave in the soft tissues around my eyes after long periods in the pool. After a 45 minute swim, I will have noticeable marks for several hours and maybe bags under my eyes the next morning. I wonder if I might be doing long term damage to these tissues and if I am wearing the goggles wrong. The goggles have to be fairly tight to keep the water out, so it doesn't seem that there any options about how to wear them. I am 49 years old, so the skin isn't as supple as it used to be. Thanks
For training, wear the goggles as loose as possible without having them leak. For races, you may want to tighten them more in case of wave action, fists in the face, etc. I am no doctor, but your problem is quite common, and I don't think it's a big deal.
Different faces need different goggles to maintain that "loose enough to not leak" I love socket rockets, but they don't work for other people.
I don't think you will be doing any damage.
I became allergic to one of my pairs of goggles, I ended up with the sunburnt panda look for a couple of days.
I find its trial and error finding the best googles. What works for one person may not work for another.
I personally find Zoggs or Speedo work best for me.
when im searching for goggles, i find that rubber leak gaurds work the best, for the longest time, i had the same problem. maybe you should try the womens speedo vanquisher?!
I recommend the Barracuda foam goggle. They are expensive (around $35) but worth it, and the package says they were developed especially for distance swimmers. Besides a leak-proof seal, they are comfortable and leave no imprints on your face. My last pair lasted over 10-years. They are available in different lense shapes that fit faces differently, so you should try on the different shapes at the store for the best fit.
One warning though. I can only use the white foam versions. The black foam gives me severe eyelid dermatitis, and there is a medical paper abstract on teh interweb that says the same thing.
I swim an hour per day, by the way.
You might try out swedes (or Swedish racing goggles). I swear by them.
They fit right into your eye-socket and do not need to be tight. There
is no rubber seal.
The good thing about these is that they are very very inexpensive
($4.00) . I have tried $40 baracuda's speedo's... you name it. They all
leaked... or hurt my eyes.. but the swedes never let me down. I swim
60min 4-5 times a week.
If you try them... I recommend using dental floss rather than the string they sell
with them for the nose piece. Run it through a few times. The string
stretches out and causes the goggles to leak after awhile. Floss holds.
They are not for everyone, but at $4.00 it may be worth trying out. They have them online and at swim meets. I have never seen them in chain sports stores.
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I am Drigg's founder and developer. Drigg and Pligg are pieces of software that will allow you to create Digg-like sites. People sometimes ask me if they should pick Drigg or Pligg. When it happens, I am not sure what I should answer. This article will hopefully solve the dilemma for most of them. Please note that I am bound to be biased here. I am an ex-Pligg users, who happened to have the both the need and the skills to create an equivalent product. I would have never forked Pligg had I liked Pligg in the first place. So... well, feel free to tell me what I got wrong with facts -- I will correct this post accordingly.
Where Pligg wins
Availability of themes
- Drigg: Very few. In fact, one. There are countless Drupal themes. However, it's not super-trivial to adapt them so that they have all of the "drigg" stuff
- Pligg: Tons. And tons. Which is surprising, seen how themes are done.
Learning curve
- Drigg: It's based on Drupal. So, it takes a little while to "get the hang of it".
- Pligg: Easier than Drigg. Especially since it's so much more limited.
User base
- Drigg: Excluding the huge Drupal user base, Drigg has a limited user base especially compared to Pligg's
- Pligg: Huge user base.
It's easy to see why quite a few inexperienced users would pick Pligg here: it's easier to get a decent site up and running without battling a learning curve or getting lost in Drupal's configuration options. However...
Where Drigg wins
Underlying framework
- Drigg: based on a rock-solid, award-winning CMS: Drupal
- Pligg: not based on any particular CMS
- Drigg: Tons and tons of [Drupal modules](See: http://drupal.org/project/Modules) available for Drupal.
- Pligg: Very few modules. All the interesting ones are not free, and are sold through the "Pligg shop". The legality of this is dubious, since they are pushing users to link non-free software with GPL software
- Drigg: Fast. The drawback is that Drigg does require a large number of queries (this is something "inherited" from Drupal). However, queries are very easily cached, and Drupal can be scaled a lot by using "memcached".
- Pligg: slow. It does require fewer queries. However, there is no support for "memcached". So, it won't scale easily.
- Drigg: Uses Drupal's PHPTemplate. A theme is made up of 4 basic files (plus CSS) which will be always completely independent from the program's logic
- Pligg: Has its own templating system, with a huge "but!". Templates hold amazing amounts of logic. The code sometimes will change its logic according to the theme (!). Security fixes often require changing the templates.
Source code
- Drigg: Very neat. It follows the Drupal coding standard. It's extremely easy to read it and extend it.
- Pligg: Horrific. The template system holds half the software's logic. The templates are immensely complicated. The program itself is basically impossible to read, and it's immensely hard to figure out what is going on. A lot of security issues require changing the templates.
Adding extra pages
- Drigg: Admin → Create Content → Page → Fill in the form
- Pligg: You will need to create two files, taking one from an existing template. This is because there is no "real" CMS underneath.
Extending it
- Drigg: There are thousands of Drupal developers out there, available for consulting. Creating modules is extremely simple. You can add blogs, forums, and pretty much anything you like.
- Pligg: Very few people understand Pligg's code. That's no surprise. Creating modules is nowhere near as neat as Drupal's module hooking system. There is no support for blogs, forums, etc.
- Drigg: As secure as Drupal. See: "very secure".
- Pligg: Security problems are found consistently. Upgrading is a nightmare, because so much logic is in the template system, and security bugs are often found in the templates.
Database structure
- Drigg: Neat. It's Drupal's, with a couple of extra tables.
- Pligg: It's so messy that the Pligg to Drigg importer needs to guess several things, and the import doesn't always succeed.
Activity and development
- Drigg: Active. Three programmers are working on it a lot. There are some feature requests in the queue, which are being closed.
- Pligg: Not very active. Development has apparently stalled since Pligg's main programmer apparently left around February/March.
Politics around it
- Drigg: Fun to work with. Tony Mobily is the maintainer, but others have joined in and are helping out immensely.
- Pligg: The main developer left Pligg and created a competing system. According to Socialcmsbuzz.com, the Pligg team is now actively "taking" code from the main developer's SVN archive and keeping Pligg in sync (!).
Politics around it, take 2: forums
- Drigg: Never a forum post was deleted from Drigg's forums. Ever. Well, unless they were full of links about performing better in bed!
- Pligg: There are countless reports of Pligg's maintainer deleting unfavourable posts. Here is A fine example -- with evidence that the post actually existed.
Open source principles
- Drigg: GPL. Always. No doubts.
- Pligg: When Pligg was "for sale", some members of the core team stated clearly that the license might well change according to the buyer's wishes and conditions. Nobody bought Pligg.
Bug tracking
- Drigg: Clockwork bug tracking using Drupal's system. For example, see Drigg's issues (80 issues have been reported, discussed, and closed) or EVF's issues or User Karma's issues.
- Pligg: Bug tracking is vaguely done through the forums. A lot of bugs are never closed. There is no real tracking system for bugs.
Karma calculation
- Drigg: Clear. The Karma subsystem written for Drigg ended up becoming the best Karma subsystem used by Drupal users, wven without Drigg.
- Pligg: Nobody has managed, to date, to give me a detailed explanation on how the users' karma is calculated in Pligg. The code won't help you.
- Drigg: Drigg-related issues are promptly answered in Drigg's site. Other queries that are Drupal related are answered by the huge, friendly Drupal community.
- Pligg: Pligg's forums are active, but they are mainly crowded with people wondering where the weirdness XYZ will be dealt with.
So, what would you pick? What's your experience with Pligg? And with Drigg? I am obviously biased. If I got things wrong, please let me know... in the meantime, excuse me: I am busy maintaining my great software project!
Pligg Fork
I'm the ex-lead dev for Pligg and the new lead dev for a Pligg fork... Social Web CMS http://www.socialwebcms.com/. Many, if not all, of Tony's observations are correct. At Social Web CMS we agree with Tony on many of the points and are working to fix them.
Our first focus is on bug and security fixes followed by performance. There will be some new features along the way based upon community feedback. Security patches will be made available immediately. Anyone who wants to help contribute will be welcomed. The idea is to have a happy, helpful community.
Thanks ash...!
Thank you Ash :-D
I look forward to see the first release of Social Web CMS!
Competition is good :-D
How about reddit?
Thanks for the thorough write-up. Though, I'm curious to know what you think of reddit as an open source alternative? (Or simply as a platform vis a vis user-created reddits).
As I told Dave, if Reddit had released their system a little earlier (say November 2007), Drigg wouldn't exist, FSDaily would be a Reddit site, and I would know Python.
In fact, I think today it's either Reddit or Drigg -- it depends on what you want to do. Drigg is immensely more flexible. Bur Reddit is definitely better if what you want to do is... well, a purely "voting" site ala Digg.
But it's a lot harder to configure. If a lot of people stopped in fear in front of Drigg...
It might be a good idea to add a section on Reddit. I do think that one problem with Reddit is that it's very lightweight. That's good for speed, but it's also a tad low on features, especially compared to Drigg.
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Tony you should do more research before you write such a blatantly biased article. I monitor pligg's code updates from twitter and both changes and additions are made almost daily.
The security issues you mention could have only been caused by pligg's former lead developer Ashdigg, so that should tell you how secure this fork is going to be.
As mentioned on pligg's blog, they even had to hire an outside security expert to fix all Ashdigg's mistakes. I'm beginning to think that the true story is that AshDigg was fired from pligg.
O dear...
1) You entitled your post "false facts" (!)
2) You did NOT provide a list of false facts or corrections
3) You mention that you monitor Pligg's changes. It may be changing *now*, but I know for a fact that Pigg's SVN stalled on February.
4) You blame the security problems on Ash. Ash was *the* previous maintainer of Pligg. Of course it was his fault! The same applies to me: of course Drigg's bugs are my fault! However, I would find it *immensely* annoying if I quit a project, and people blamed every problem on *me*
5) As far as I've _seen_ (say it with me: "seen"), Pligg fixed its security problems only by copying what Ash had done to his fork. Please provide a link to the code changes made by this security expert -- and please don't mention any changes which match what Ash had done a day or so earlier
6) Fired...?!? You entitle your post "False Facts" and then start a speculation about a free software project _firing_ its maintainer and main coder? Oh dear...
Guys, _facts_. Show me that Pligg's code is not a humongous mess. Show me that the modules in the "Pligg shop" don't break the GPL. Tell me how karma works in Pligg. Show me that Pigg's database structure is not ^%^$%$%. Show me that the post deletion happening on the forums is a huge conspiracy theory. Tell me which part of what I wrote is wrong.
Fired? If I had been fired (which I was not) please explain why Pligg continues to take code from the SW CMS SVN. http://socialcmsbuzz.com/yet-more-proof-of-pligg-ripping-code-straight-f... Also, take note that some of Pligg's SVN notes say 'Thanks Ash' or 'Thanks AshDigg'.
This is the exact type of 'spin' that people have become sick of.
is there a dedicated support site for Drigg? I can't seem to find anything current. Most of the search results show post that are at least 2 years old. I'm having problems with a new install and need some direction. Thanks.
There is a strong competitor
There is a strong competitor in the social cms scene. The name is HotaruCMS, I suggest you update the article and add some information about it.
You can find it here: http://hotarucms.org/
Which Software Has Kept Up Lately?
The first thing that I noticed was that this article is three years old. It would be interesting to see how it might apply today.
i have to say the Pligg is
i have to say the Pligg is winner!

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Last week, a skydiver somehow survived a 12,000 foot plunge into a parked van. He was, of course, severely injured and required more than $33,000 worth of emergency transport and surgery, putting him into serious debt. Thankfully, the internet rallied and raised nearly $50,000 for the man and his family to pay for the surgery and follow-up care.
Ben Cornick, who has made more than 1,000 jumps, lost control of his chute as he attempted the jump in Fiji last week, and eventually crashed into a van at more than 40 mph. Because he was uninsured, he was forced to pay $37,500 Australian dollars (or $33,000 U.S.)—most of which was for the emergency flight to New Zealand—before doctors could operate.
Friends and family set up a Facebook page for donations for Connick, whose first child was born just last month. Within days, they'd raised the money and then some; the fund is estimated to top out at over $82,000.
The surgeries were a success and Cornick seems to be in good enough spirits, even though he's facing another three weeks in the hospital.
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The Best 'On the Record' Songs of 2013
Each week, Speakeasy's "On the Record" offers streaming video and audio of new and previously unreleased music by established superstars and rising talents, from Eric Clapton to The Tontons.
Here's a look at some of the best songs from "On the Record" in 2013.
The Tontons Hit the Road in 'Veida' (Video Premiere): Although members of the Tontons have been playing together since 2007, the Houston band is only now starting to garner some national buzz–helped along by this video for the group's song "Veida."
Eric Clapton Rips Through 'Layla' From 1974 Concert (Premiere): Guitarist Eric Clapton's collection "Give Me Strength: The 1974/1975 Recordings," featured remixed, live and previously unreleased songs including this version of "Layla."
Listen to Anoushka Shankar, Norah Jones Perform Together on "Unsaid": Anoushka Shankar worked with her half-sister Norah Jones on some of the songs on her album, "Traces of You"– including the song "Unsaid," which premiered on Speakeasy.
Mary J. Blige Kicks Off Holidays With 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' (Song Premiere): Blige this year released her first holiday album, "A Mary Christmas," and Speakeasy premiered her take on the holiday standard "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
Hear 'Glee' Star Lea Michele Sing The Beatles' 'Yesterday' (Premiere): Although "Glee" had been working on a Beatles tribute for four years, the timing proved especially poignant for Lea Michele, whose character Rachel Barry sang a version of "Yesterday" that premiered on Speakeasy.
Fela Kuti Gets His Due on 'Red Hot + Fela' (Song Premiere): Fela Kuti never shied away from politics in his music, and neither did Baloji on his cover of the pioneering Nigerian musician's song "Buy Africa," which premiered on Speakeasy. The song is part of "Red Hot + Fela," a compilation of artists covering Kuti's songs as part of Red Hot's efforts to raise money to combat AIDS — a resonant cause, given that Kuti died of an AIDS-related illness in 1997.
Listen to Elvis Costello's Exclusive Song From 'Boardwalk Empire': "Boardwalk Empire Volume 2: Music From the HBO Original Series" follows up the Grammy-winning first installment from 2011 with period songs performed by latter-day artists, including Elvis Costello, whose version of "It Had to Be You" premiered on Speakeasy.
Bob Marley's 'Legend' Gets a Remix: Listen to an Exclusive Track: Universal Music's "Legend: Remixed" featured 15 new versions of Marley's classic songs reimagined by artists including two of Marley's sons, Ziggy and Stephen, along with Thievery Corporation, Pretty Lights, Nickodemus and My Morning Jacket leader Jim James, who took on "Waiting in Vain," which debuted on Speakeasy.
The New Girl's New Song (She and Him Exclusive Premiere): After She & Him dabbled in vintage rock 'n' roll and old-school country on two previous albums, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward fully immersed themselves in a classic sunny pop sound on "Volume 3." They certainly didn't skimp on the hooks in "I Could've Been Your Girl," which premiered exclusively on Speakeasy.
Madeleine Peyroux Jazzes Up Ray Charles: There's a proud tradition of interpretation in jazz, and Madeleine Peyroux embraced it wholeheartedly on her latest album, "The Blue Room."


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Ten Belly-Bloating Foods
Avoid most bagels.
Not every bagel is a belly bloater. However, the typical bagel is. If you go to the bagel store or a deli, you almost always get a huge bagel made with 100 percent refined flour. Even though it tastes good, that refined flour sets off the cascading events of elevated blood sugar, elevated insulin levels, and increased belly fat storage.


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LSU turns back Stephen F. Austin, 9-2
Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 10:39 a.m.
BATON ROUGE -- No. 3 LSU received RBI contributions from seven different players en route to a 9-2 victory over Stephen F. Austin, 9-2, Tuesday night at Alex Box Stadium.
Andrew Stevenson (2-for-3) hit his first career home run over the right field wall in the third inning, increasing the Tigers' lead to 3-0.
The Tigers scored the first two runs in the second inning on an RBI single by first baseman Mason Katz and a sacrifice fly from second baseman JaCoby Jones.
LSU went on to add two more runs following Stevenson's homer in the third with an RBI double from designated hitter Raph Rhymes and an RBI single from Katz, increasing the lead to 5-0.
Rhymes (1-for-2) and Katz (2-for-4) each have now recorded a hit in 10 straight games.
Stephen F. Austin chipped into the Tigers' lead with an RBI single from catcher Zach Marberry in the fourth inning.
LSU widened the gap in the sixth with an RBI double from Chinea, followed by an RBI single from McMullen.
Third baseman Christian Ibarra added an insurance run in the seventh with an RBI single to center field.
LSU reliever Kevin Berry (2-0) earned the win with two scoreless innings.
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Lampert's CEO Gig Doesn't Change Much at Sears: Analyst
The fact that Edward S. Lampert is now taking the corner office at Sears Holding won't change much for the struggling department store chain Credit Suisseys.
"Let's be realistic," says Gary Balter, a retail analyst at Credit Suisse. "At the end of the day, there is only one person who makes the big decisions from the divisions to dispose of, the capital expenditures budget, stores to sell, etc., and that person is Mr. Lampert.
"Giving him an additional title does not change that reality, and in our opinion, does not change the direction of the company."
Lampert's hedge fund ESL Investments controls roughly 56% of Sears shares.
Late Monday night, Sears announced Lampert, the hedge fund billionaire, will become CEO, succeeding Lou D'Ambrosio, who had been Sears' chief for about two years.
"We have a team of folks driving this company in concert with the board of directors," Sears spokesman Chris Brathwaite told MarketBeat. "For continuity of leadership, the board wanted Eddie to step in, take the reins and keep the momentum going."
D'Ambrosio's departure was influenced by a close family member's medical condition, WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter. From WSJ:
The move puts Mr. Lampert formally in charge of the company at a time when its sales continue to slide and losses are piling up.
The former Goldman Sachs created the company in 2005 by merging Sears and Kmart. But he lacks a retail background and has been criticized for skimping on investments at the chains' base of 2,000 stores and turning off customers.
His task will be to stem the decline in sales and cut costs to preserve Sears' cash flow.
Sears shares fell 7% to $39.91. The stock, which is notoriously volatile, has dropped about 40% since early November.
Balter, who has an underperform rating on Sears, says the stock still looks overvalued at current levels.
He is also concerned about J.C. Penney future moves could hurt Sears on multiple levels. "If J.C. Penney returns to discounting, we believe that they may take back some of their lost share at lower prices, hurting Sears' apparel results," Balter says. "However, we believe a bigger problem for Sears would be further deterioration of the J.C. Penney franchise, because if JCP starts liquidating locations, that could seriously undermine the real estate asset support argument for Sears."
Same-store sales for the combined Sears/Kmart company has dropped for six straight years. Sears said a year ago it would close 120 stores in a cost-cutting effort.
On Monday, Sears said it expected losses in range of $280 million to $360 million for the quarter ending Feb. 2 amid pension costs.
UPDATE: This post has been updated with a comment from a Sears spokesman and additional details from the Credit Suisse analyst.
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Fluffhead, well I was 2nd row, and when this came on I lost it, jumping up and down. Trey zoned in on me I guess feeding off my energy. When I realized he was staring at me, I guess I entered fanboy phase (I had just turned 20), and made a confused face because he was staring right back at me. He made a dorky face pretty back at me and looked away. Thought it was quite cool that band like this was so in tune with the audience.
During Contact I swear I remember Kuroda having wheel silhouettes rolling around then venue, and then Phish logos rolling around the venue. Big Ball Jam, I fell try to bop the ball, and Big Phil caught me. Brain, Fish has just gotten a haircut, and told some story about his hairstylist talking to him about the haircut.
Being the newbie that I was at the time, I cheered when they started Sweet Adeline. I was second row and Page GLARED at me. I STFU.
Great, great time. Forget about the next two nights! AMAZING!
Not much of a review, but its what I remember from 17 years ago.
Oh, one other thing, this was pre-Wilson chant. I miss those days. And I also think the clapping in Stash was just starting to begin. Lots of whistles and hooting instead of clapping if I remember correctly. Fish on wood blocks was the most audible.
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Trucking industry eyes higher speed limits in New Hampshire
When the New Hampshire Senate joined the House in approving a speed limit increase of 5 mph on interstate 93 from Canterbury to the Vermont border, Governor Maggie Hassan was still not keen on the idea. On Friday, with the backing of the Senate, Gov. Hassan now says she's ready to sign the bill into law.
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With Easter arriving especially early this year, local resorts are making a strong push with spring skiing, inviting skiers and snowboarders to come enjoy a host of events through the months of March and April.
At Copper Mountain, spring will bring back the Eenie Weenie Bikini contest in honor of the resort's 40th anniversary. The event began in 1986 drawing national attention. It's return to the mountain this year is timed to coincide with Copper's Saint Patrick's Day O'Fuego festivities.
Competitors will ski or ride from the base of the Main Vain superpipe into the plaza in swimwear, ahead of a live music performance and green fireworks display over the lake.


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Associated Organizations & Clubs
Club Bio
The Biology Department has an active biology club – 'Club Bio' - which is involved in service projects, field trips, social events, seminar planning and assists the Department in career planning events and internship workshops. The club also plans a year-end Bio Party for all students and faculty at an off-campus location. All Biology majors are welcome to join! You can also check out Club Bio on Facebook.
Sigma Xi – The Scientific Research Honor Society
The Department of Biology at Merrimack College has an active Sigma Xi chapter on campus. Sigma Xi was founded in 1886 to honor excellence in scientific investigation and encourage a sense of companionship and cooperation among researchers in all fields of science and engineering. The Merrimack College chapter sponsors a symposium each year highlighting the best senior thesis research projects. Selected individuals are nominated for Associate Membership into the Society. Students have also been successful in obtaining Grants-in-Aid-of-Research for their research projects.


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Our 2012 Annual Report included a month-by-month "Year in Review" section. Here is the fourth quarter excerpt.
Food choices in the Gifford cafeteria get even healthier as the hospital transitions to a healthy breakfast bar; healthier, lower salt meats; less butter and heavy cream in foods; and more grains and legumes as starches.
Lt. Gov. Phil Scott stops at Gifford on his "Cycling Vermont's 14″ 500-mile bicycle tour of the state's 14 counties. He tours Menig as part of his stop.
Dr. Josh Plavin, a National Health Service Corps scholarship recipient, speaks out for the federal program supporting primary care providers on Corps Community Day on Oct. 11, and for the need for more primary care providers, especially in rural regions.
Two local women, Krista Warner and Teresa Bradley, organize a bowling tournament in support of Gifford's Woman to Woman fund and raise $1,485 for breast cancer awareness.
The CT scanner is upgraded from a 40-slice model to a 64-slice model, offering patients faster service, clearer imaging, and less radiation.
A new system, a CAREpoint Workstation, for transmitting EKGs from ambulances in the field to the Gifford Emergency Department is brought online. The system, generously paid for by the Gifford Auxiliary, is for use with heart attack patients to determine if they should be brought to Gifford or directly to a cardiac catheterization lab at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center or Fletcher Allen Health Care.
Menig residents work with school children from the Baptist Fellowship of Randolph to create 100 boxes of gifts for children in Third World countries through Operation Christmas Child.
Working with Connor Contracting Inc., Gifford staff and community members Stuff a Truck for Hurricane Sandy survivors in the Rockaway neighborhood of Long Island, New York.
The first patient is seen in the Radiology Department's new fluoroscopy room. The room is utilized for interventional radiology procedures, which have grown in number.
All Gifford grounds go smoke-free in concert with the Great American Smoke Out on Nov. 15.
Gifford's Annual Craft Fair raises funds for the Adult Day Program.
Married couple Elvira Dana and Jason Kass travel 36 hours from their home in Armenia to give birth at Gifford, for a second time.
Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire, the Vermont Ethics Network, and Gifford's Advanced Illness Care team join together to offer a community discussion around end-of-life care planning. Other talks on death and dying continue at Gifford in the months that follow.
Family physician Barbara Lazar joins Gifford, bringing a love of geriatrics to the Randolph team.
Chef Wendell Fowler leads a free talk on the pitfalls of the American diet. He suggests cutting the food additives, chemicals, hydrogenated oils, and high fructose corn syrup in favor of fresher, less-processed foods to improve our health.
Gifford once again supports the community through its holiday gift certificate program – a buy local program where employees receive "gift certificates" redeemable only at regional, locally-owned businesses.


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Means is a rapper associated with Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang record label and goes by the name "Quay Meanz." Ironically, Khalifa rose to the top of the Billboard charts with "Black and Yellow," his ode to Pittsburgh sports teams and their colors. He even performed the song at Heinz Field during the AFC Championship game in January 2011.
Means is accused of pulling a gun on Adams early Saturday morning on the South Side and telling him, "Gimme your car." According to the criminal complaint, Adams told Means, "You aren't gonna shoot me on the street in front of people." Means then told Adams, "I want your car or I'll shoot you in the face and kill you in front of everyone."


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Alleged terrorist Shaker Aamer cites NH motto in appeal for trial
"It's hardly a novel idea. I lived in America many years ago, and I remember the motto on the New Hampshire licence plate: Live Free or Die. I may have to die. I hope not, because I want to see my wife and family again. But the Americans should understand what it means to fight for liberty. They began their revolution with the "shot that was heard around the world" on 19 April, 1775. Some lackey to King George III doubtless labelled them the "worst of the worst", for they were the terrorists then. If demanding a fair trial makes me a terrorist, then we are all terrorists now, and on that anniversary, we celebrate our own revolt."
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The Manhattan Project National Historical Park is here. Can you feel the excitement? Word is getting around. People are coming here looking for it.
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Mainstream scientific theories on climate change are supported by an overwhelming consensus among experts on the subject, and polls show that two-thirds of Americans in general describe the climate problem as "serious." But denialism...
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Call it the bull market that everyone loves to hate. dissed by professionals and deserted by individual investors, the U.S. stock market climbed the proverbial wall of worry in 2012, despite a climate of economic unrest and enough political uncertainty to give any sane investor pause. "Bleak is the new black," quips Larry Hughes, chief executive of BNY Mellon Wealth Management, who says he's never seen market sentiment so negative.
SEE ALSO: Katherine Nixon Sees "Decent" Outlook for Stocks
And yet, stocks have beaten -- by far -- asset classes more beloved by investors. Over the past year through November 7 -- the period since we published our last annual outlook story -- Standard & Poor's 500-stock index returned 13.2%. The U.S. bond market returned 4.8%, and cash pretty much earned nothing. Now, with the economy still sputtering, corporate earnings faltering and sales at many companies sinking, it's fair to ask: Can the stealth rally continue? Or will the stock market finally succumb to its poor reputation in 2013?
We think investors should hold their noses and stick with stocks. Patient investors can pick up bargains during periods of weakness -- of which there could be plenty in early 2013, when things will likely be messy in Washington and on Wall Street. But with economic disaster averted overseas, and as the clouds of fiscal uncertainty at home begin to part later in the year, we think that corporate profits can continue to grow modestly on the back of good-enough economic growth. Cash-rich companies that can manufacture growth in a tepid economy will deliver the goods to shareholders.
Bottom line: The market has a good chance of posting gains of 7% over the coming year, with dividends kicking in another two percentage points. That would take the S&P 500 to 1492, while an equivalent gain in the Dow Jones industrial average would take it to 13,838. The S&P and Dow closed at 1395 and 12,933, respectively, on November 7.
As we look toward the new year, it's rare -- and ironic -- that stocks are so disrespected. Investors yanked money out of stock mutual funds and poured it into bond funds throughout 2012. And the so-called smart money doesn't like the market any better. Wall Street strategists haven't been this bearish since Bank of America Merrill Lynch started keeping track in 1985. "Equities are as hated as they've ever been," says Savita Subramanian, Merrill Lynch's chief stock strategist. That suggests, she says, that people are underinvested in stocks and that they've overdone it in bonds. "When investors get their statements for the year and see single-digit gains in bonds and double the returns in stocks, they'll come back to the market."
Despite a rally that has seen the market more than double from its bear-market low in 2009, stocks still represent good value, says Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets. At this stage in bull-market rallies going back to 1970, the S&P 500 is typically 14% higher than its previous peak, he says. But the index recently traded more than 10% below its 2007 high.
Stocks in most market sectors, including consumer staples (companies that make the things we use every day, such as soap and cereal), energy, health care and technology, are trading below their long-term average price-earnings ratios. At the same time, the companies are sporting profit margins and cash levels above their historical norms. Only utilities and telecommunications stocks are trading at above-average P/Es. Belski's bullish conclusion: "We expect the market to hit new highs sometime during 2013."


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Berkshire also houses the departments of English, communication, theatre arts, foreign languages, and health promotion and exercise sciences, as well as labs for math and computer science, study skills and writing. Berkshire also is home to the theatre box office.
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Have you seen our new "Terrific Twenty" Holiday Gift list? This list, posted on the Melissa & Doug website, gathers the top toys of 2012, with items for every child in every age range. Including arts and crafts, wooden favorites, educational toys, classic toys for toddlers, and gifts for big kids, too, this is a great place to start as you kick off your holiday shopping!
To celebrate the launch of our Terrific Twenty list, we're having a very special Giveaway on our Facebook page! Starting November 6, 2012, we'll be giving away one item from our Terrific Twenty list to at least one of our lucky fans EVERY day!
To Enter:
- Visit us on Facebook and "Like" our page to receive updates regarding the Terrific Twenty Giveaway.
- Enter the Giveaway using the posted form (also available here).
What Should We Give Away Next?
Check out our Terrific Twenty list and tell us: What toy should we give away next?
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Recently replaced my media server, it was running version 1.10.51 on the old system. I had updated to version 1.90.1 but found significant issues with audio sync when streaming movies ripped from dvdshrink (.vob) to my PS3.
Installed the older version 1.10.51 from 2009 and there is NO issue with sync. In comparing options between the versions, there is an option under MEncoder to "Switch to tsMuxer when H264 video is ps3 compatible....". Looking through the version history documentation it appears the option was removed in version 1.72.0. The note simply says:
Engines:◦ Removed option to automatically switch to tsMuxeR (available manually via the #--TRANSCODE--# folder)
During my troubleshooting I was able to get playback to work correctly when I invoked tsmuxer, but as the note implies it is a manual solution done per movie.
Is there a way to get the same functionality automatically in version 1.90.1?


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February 16, 2006
Millions of women are victims of violence every year. Attackers could be anywhere, from parking lots to right around your home. Some things women do after dark, or anytime for that matter, practically invites danger their way. News 12 went through the self-defense class with the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. They showed me tactics attackers use. My instructor was twice my size, and he didn't go easy just because it was a class. I had to react as if the attack was real.
Taking John Wheeler down was no easy task. He outweighs me by at least a hundred pounds, and is taller by about a foot.
Women can fight back and win no matter how big the man is. It just takes a clear head in a time of crisis.
"It's the heart inside the person, it's the will inside the person."
Robin Cole has that will. Back in 1989, a man grabbed her from behind as she was unloading groceries at her Martinez home. Robin thought it was a friend playing a joke until she turned around and saw a face she didn't recognize.
"You just feel this adrenaline rush, your heart starts pounding," Cole said.
"I got mad. I got really mad when that happened. Just, how dare he! How dare he!" Cole said.
Robin had just taken a self-defense class, so she knew how to protect herself. Major Wheeler teaches the class with Investigator Stephanie Carani. Both are black belts in
Tae kwon do. Stephanie had no problem inflicting some serious pain.
"You find a curve in your jaw and go in behind the bone," she said.
Or jab the attacker's neck, right in the jugular.
"It causes a gasping, choking kind of feeling," Wheeler said.
Then the time came for the Stephanies to switch. I'm no black belt, but we're about the same size. That was encouraging as I stepped up to Major Wheeler. Stephanie taught me to twist out of his grip as he grabbed my arms.
"You wanna try to pull out where the weakest part of his grip is where the thumb and finger come together. Getting into a pulling match with him is not gonna work."
We went through the same scenario that happened to Robin Cole. He picked me up from behind, I couldn't move my arms.
"Tuck your chin and slam it as hard as you can."
So I used his balance against him. This also works if the attacker has you pinned on the ground. The time to act is when he takes one hand off of you. When he does, use your hips to throw him off. After a little practice, I escaped every hold, and inflicted a little pain in the process. But Robin Cole warned me things change when the situation is real.
"Until you can do it as an instinct, it's gonna be difficult for it to kick in automatically," Wheeler said.
I knew Major Wheeler would attack, I just didn't know exactly when or how. He followed me out to my car, watching my every move. In a split second, I had to keep a clear head, and remember everything he taught me to escape.
I got away, but Deputy Sheila Wahman says I should have been paying more attention.
"You need to be aware of your surroundings at all times, be aware of the people that are around you," she said.
Robin Cole's attack was similar to mine, only hers was real.
"So many people say oh, it will never happen to me, I live in a good neighborhood. Well it does," Cole said.
So you won't see her talking on a cell phone on the way out to her car anymore. Deputy Wahman says not paying attention is a common mistake.
"A lot of times, people don't listen to their gut instinct. They'll see something they think is suspicious, and they just blow it off."
She says if someone looks suspicious, don't look away. If you look intimidated, you look like a victim.
"You can be observed in a parking lot, people do scope out parking lots and ride around looking for people who make themselves a victim, who are easily victimized."
She taught us not to dig for keys outside.
Walk around the car and check underneath to make sure no one's there. And then check inside.
"People can be in the back seat of your car."
And once you're safely in, lock up.
But doing all these things is no guarantee that an attack won't happen. That's where the training comes in. Major Wheeler says it isn't the size, it's the fight.
"Sometimes a person can be bigger than me and not have any fight in them. Sometimes a person can be tiny and be just about impossible to beat."
I'm not impossible to beat by any means. But I did manage to get away.
This is the move Robin Cole used when a man grabbed her outside her Martinez home. And this is what it all comes down to, did it work in a real attack?
"I freaked out and head butted him and started pounding him in the ribs, turned around to face him and busted him in the nose and he took off."
It sure did. We did it. And you can too.
If you want to take the four-hour class, it's free through the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. Just call the sheriff's office at 541-3970. They set classes up once they get a group of about twenty people.


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Which State Distorted Jobless Claims Data?
An unexpected shift in seasonal reporting by one state sent jobless claims tumbling last week.
Initial jobless claims–a measure of layoffs–were down by 30,000 to a seasonally adjusted 339,000 in the week ended Oct. 6, the Labor Department said Thursday.
Raw figures show claims typically drop toward the end of the quarter and spike at the start of the next quarter. A worker may decide to wait to file until the end of the quarter in efforts of boosting the weekly check because the amount is based on a rolling average of income before the layoff. As a result, there can be a bulk of claims that are not processed until the turn of the quarter.
The Labor Department factors this trend into its seasonally adjusted figures. But last week, a Labor economist said one "large" state didn't report additional quarterly figures as expected, accounting for a substantial part of the decrease. The official wouldn't disclose which state, but said it would be released with next week's report as usual.
"One omission by one state–you wouldn't think it would be a big deal, but in this case it drove the number down by 10%," said analyst Stephen Stanley with Pierpont Securities.
Economists are speculating the state could be California, the most populous state in the nation.
"It was likely a state with a large population and we suspect that it was California based on the occasional massive swings that have occurred in its claims data in the past," said Daniel Silver, an economist with JPMorgan, in a note.
"In short, this reading is worthless in terms of informing on the general economy," Mr. Stanley wrote in a research note.


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bend 2
verbo (past and past participle bent)
1 [with object] Shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle: the wire has to be bent back tightly
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- By contrast, steaming and bending the same straight grained piece of wood to the desired shape will result in a much stronger part.
- Shapes were created by bending the hammered bars around angles on the anvil.
- The force of the winds bent their wings, sending them crashing to the ground below.
1.1 [no object] (Of something straight) be shaped or forced into a curve or angle: poppies bending in the wind
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- Even the palm trees bend at a picture-postcard angle.
- A hull plate that has bent into a large curve marks the halfway-back point on the starboard side of the wreck.
- A gun is a black object made of plastic and bent at a right angle.
1.2 [no object, usually with adverbial of direction] (Of a road, river, or path) deviate from a straight line in a specified direction: the road bent left and then right
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- This time, though, we walked in the other direction, and sat on a bench where the river bends dramatically, before finding its way to the Lock.
- Every scene looks as though it is a beautiful painting of a clean and fresh outdoor scene - the river bends at just the right spot, the sun glints off of the water at just the right angle.
- The river bends inwards away from here, and they could have lit a fire and camped with their tents against the cliffs for protection against the winds.
2 [no object] (Of a person) incline the body downwards from the vertical: she bent down and yanked out the flex I bent over my plate
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- And then, before I knew it, he had bent down and softly kissed my lips.
- Jason bent over and kissed her on the temple of her forehead.
- With a laugh and a burst of affection, Brian bent down to kiss her.
2.1 [with object] Move (a jointed part of the body) to an angled position: extend your left leg and bend your right
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- He gave a shuddering sigh, and bent his body into a fetal position.
- She bent her body and laid herself on her side above Archie's paper.
- He just stood there for a while, and then bent his massive body over to get the bill when he thought no one was looking.
3Force or be forced to submit: [with object]: they want to bend me to their will [no object]: a refusal to bend to mob rule
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- What is to stop him from forcing us all to bend to his might?
- Would they bend to her willful forces and persuasion?
- I also wouldn't kidnap her against her will and force her to bend to my will.
mould, shape, manipulate, direct, force, press, influence, incline, sway, bias, warp, impress, compel, persuade;
subdue, subjugate
3.1 [with object] Interpret or modify (a rule) to suit someone: we cannot bend the rules, even for Darren
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- They're under the impression that throwing more money at the problem, and trying to bend the laws to suit their needs, will keep them afloat.
- In this epoch of lawlessness, all warring nations have bent the law to suit their interests sometime or another.
- These people… In their desire to get a majority, the rules are bent, the laws broken, institutions are destroyed.
4 [with object] Direct (one's attention or energies) to a task: Eric bent all his efforts to persuading them to donate some blankets [no object]: she bent once more to the task of diverting her guests
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- With characteristic energy he bent his efforts to the immediate development and improvement of the land, which he converted into a fine farm that he cultivated throughout his remaining days.
- He bent his thoughts to see if he could pick up on Chanet's thoughts.
- With a mental shrug he bent his thoughts to the serious changes lying ahead.
5 [with object] Nautical Attach (a sail or cable) by means of a knot: sailors were bending sails to the spars
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- The main mast top mast was bent to the deck with cordage and sail draping across to starboard.
- With this view we got on board the observatories, the Instruments and bent the sails.
- Saturday, Dave and I finished rigging the boat, raised the mast and bent the sails on.
1A curve in a road, river, path, or racing circuit: the van screeched round a bend a bend in the river
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- So we finished our trip having traversed the distance along the mountain side, by rail or road, the river echoing the bends and curves with a constant murmur that kept us company.
- One day we came round a bend in the river and saw a big boat with a strange flag.
- They rounded a bend in the path and could now see a river up ahead.
dog-leg, oxbow, zigzag;
British hairpin bend, hairpin turn, hairpin
rare incurvation
2A curved or angled part of something: make a bend in the wire
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- Wire mesh lends itself to gentle curves and sharp bends, so you can use it to construct fences in any configuration you like.
- In the 70°C samples, semicircles and sinusoidal bends are observed.
- Hold the fold and squeeze it for a few seconds to make a bend in the neck.
3A kind of knot used to join two ropes together, or to tie a rope to another object, e.g. a carrick bend.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Even so it is a very secure bend and can put up with a good deal of strain and movement. It can also be used to tie a bend with thin line.
- But then I tied a Hunter's Bend and another similar knot, comparing it to the pictures.
- The most important use for the Carrick bend which comes to my mind is the is the joining of two towing lines or anchor cables.
4 (the bends) Decompression sickness, especially in divers.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The disease suffered by divers known as the bends (decompression sickness) is an example of the same phenomenon.
- Often called the bends, decompression sickness causes nitrogen bubbles in the tissues of a diver's body when he attempts to surface too rapidly.
- And then you're in the same problem that divers have when they come up from a great depth, the problem of nitrogen bends, decompression sickness.
bend someone's ear
- informal Talk to someone, especially at length or to ask a favour: she regularly bent his ear with her problemsMás ejemplos en oraciones
- Once the artists have bent your ear, you'll want to take to the streets to tour the city's galleries and put your newfound perspectives to the test.
- Mother was on at me for ages to make her a webpage, and one night she had a couple of glasses of wine and completely bent my ear about the subject.
- I managed to collar him and bent his ear about the American situation.
bend one's elbow
- North American Drink alcohol: not many wives or girlfriends were too interested in watching us bend our elbowsMás ejemplos en oraciones
- Sometimes he bent his elbow in the company of other convivial fellows, and drank toasts which he would not have liked his wife and daughters to hear.
- He was jovial, and bent his elbow frequently.
- For the next thirty minutes Darren bent his elbow with the fluency of a gypsy fiddler while the others admired his strong drinking.
bend over backwards
- see backwards.
on bended knee (s)
- see knee.Oraciones de ejemplo
- He is one through whom the King of heaven makes his plea and implores on bended knee, with all his soul, that you be reconciled to this great King.
- It was in the year of forty three when George and Elizabeth took their vows on bended knees.
- They had screamed for mercy on bended knees but to no avail.
round (or US around) the bend
- informal Mad: I'd go round the bend looking after kids all dayMás ejemplos en oraciones
mad, insane, out of one's mind, deranged, demented, not in one's right mind, certifiable, of unsound mind, crazed, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, frenzied, raving, distraught, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare;Latin non compos mentisinformal crazy, mental, off one's head, out of one's head, off one's nut, nuts, nutty, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's rocker, not (quite) right in the head, raving mad, bats, batty, bonkers, cuckoo, loopy, loony, bananas, loco, dippy, screwy, touched, gaga, doolally, up the pole, not all there, out to lunch, not right upstairs, away with the fairiesBritish informal barmy, crackers, barking, barking mad, round the twist, off one's trolley, as daft as a brush, not the full shilling, two sandwiches short of a picnicNorth American informal buggy, off the wall, nutsy, nutso, out of one's tree, meshuga, squirrelly, wacko, gonzoCanadian & Australian/New Zealand informal bushedNew Zealand informal porangi
- You can't really blame me because I'm round the bend.
- She has gone completely around the bend.
- It's the little things that really drive me around the bend, though.
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- By definition, flexible packaging encompasses packages and containers that are more bendable or pliant in their appearance.
- His limbs and fingers were extraordinarily long and bendable, as if made of rubber.
- Neon comes in tubes that are bendable and allow for design flexibility, and has a faster rise-time than traditional rear lights.
Palabras que riman con bendamend, append, apprehend, ascend, attend, befriend, blend, blende, commend, comprehend, condescend, contend, defriend, depend, emend, end, expend, extend, fend, forfend, friend, impend, interdepend, lend, mend, misapprehend, misspend, offend, on-trend, Oostende, Ostend, perpend, portend, rend, reprehend, scrag-end, send, spend, subtend, suspend, tail end, tend, transcend, trend, underspend, unfriend, upend, vend, weekend, wend
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Definición de Bend en:
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An ordinary in the form of a broad diagonal stripe from top left (dexter chief) to bottom right (sinister base) of a shield or part of one.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- This device of a fountain appears in the arms of the family, where six wells, which form the source of the River Stour appear with a bend on the shield.
- Its own name is of heraldic origin and refers to the three roses in a bend on the shield of the counts of Wasserburg.
- Something bothersome about this particular image is the way in which the bend alternates direction to become a bend sinister.
Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French bande, Old French bende 'flat strip'.
In Old English bendan (of Germanic origin) was 'put in bonds' or 'make a bow taut by means of a string', leading to an association with the curved shape of the bow.
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Tools & Tool BoxesTool boxes come in all sizes and with all sorts of purposes. When you are away from home, it pays to have a few basic tools along. Whether you end up using them to fix your vehicle in an emergency or never take them out of the cargo bin, it is reassuring to have them along. Additionally, you can add a bed tool box for your truck. This box will hold many tools as well as all sorts of other things.
The same is true when you are on your bike. A small, portable tool kit will allow you to change your tire, tighten your spokes, or take care of adjustments on the road. These can be stored in a under seat bag along with a spare tire, a small pump, and other biking essentials.


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Maraviroc/Potent CYP3A4 Inhibitors
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Serious. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Your medicine may slow down how quickly your liver processes maraviroc.
What might happen:
The amount of maraviroc in your blood may increase and may cause more side effects than normal.
What you should do about this interaction:
Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. Your doctor may want to change the dose of your medicine. Stop taking maraviroc and call your doctor right away if you develop yellow eyes or skin, dark urine, vomiting, or abdominal pain. Let your doctor know right away if you develop nausea, fever, flu-like symptoms, or fatigue, but continue taking your maraviroc. Let your doctor know if you have any kidney or liver problems, which may make the interaction more severe.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.Reference:1.Selzentry (maraviroc) US prescribing information. Pfizer Inc. April, 2015.


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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is expecting to see some snow today when we awake after the county's weeklong Ullr Fest celebration. C'mon Norse god, hit us right between the eyes with at least 3-6 fresh for our day or two away from the office. After all, we've had five or six days of honoring you, that seems like a pretty reasonable request.
Also, not that a Norse god would have much interest in this, but we'd like to request a Broncos' victory.
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Our FAIRS bring living wisely to life with hands-on workshops in organic gardening, country skills, renewable energy and more.
At the 2015 MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, I attended a talk by Sandor Katz on an introduction to the fermentation of vegetables, and checked out some of the cool new vendors who have joined the fermentation revitalization.
Sandor began by saying that we might think of canning as old-fashioned, but its a relatively new form of preservation, invented in 1815 or so in France. Fermentation is a much older, ancient process that predates recorded history. Sandor calls himself a fermentation revivalist. He says, people think of biodiversity as about whales and wolves but "no less important is the biodiversity inside of us." In fact, "fermented foods are the embodiment of biodiversity."
The revival seems to be going well, as the number of fermentation vendors, workshops, and books at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIRS are growing quickly. They are a creative, energized lot, the fermentation revivalists.
Last year, Tara and her fermentation bus, Fermentation on Wheels, attended the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR. Fermentation on Wheels, established in 2013, is a traveling culinary research hub with a mission to harvest & preserve, encourage sustainability, and teach fermentation. Tara travels around in her bus and teaches and demos, sharing the word and the starters for all kinds of ferments.
This year, my local friends from Maryland, Rachel and Luke of The Sweet Farm, brought their spankin' new fermentation truck to vend at the fair. It has that old-timey old truck feel, but its a decked out refrigeration truck with pull down wooden bars, chalkboard walls and three fermented soda taps for three flavors: ginger beer, lemon lime and blood orange. They also sold brine pickles on a stick and dilly beans, along with their line of Sweet Farm krauts. The Sweet Farm has been going strong since 2011.
Fermented products need to be kept at the earth's temperature or lower, ideally around 55 degrees. They can be refrigerated or kept in cold storage, like a basement or cellar. Sauerkraut at the store is processed to be in the jar, on the pantry shelf, so it loses its beneficial properties. Health food stores sometimes sell refrigerated fermented products, like Bubbie's Pickles.
Sandor says you really need to make fermented foods yourself to get the healthy benefits that our bodies need. If you are lucky, there might be a local small business making and selling small batch fermented products near you. They can keep you stocked when you can't make your own, and provide valuable expertise in the revival of fermentation.
I would say Sandor Katz has been an exceptional revivalist. His books are considered must-have guides to fermenting food for good health and easy, effective preservation. Since his first book Wild Fermentation came out in 2003, he has been educating people about the benefits and easy methods of fermentation. Sandor's newest book is The Art of Fermentation. His books have been guiding me with my at-home pickling and kim chi making these past few years.
Fermenting vegetables is easy to do. Search Mother Earth News for many resources, including a couple blog posts I wrote about fermentation: Sarah's Farm Chi, Make Old-Fashioned Dill Pickles. You can also sign up for the new Food Preservation newsletter on MOTHER EARTH NEWS.
Photos by Ilene White Freedman
Ilene White Freedman operates House in the Woods organic CSA farm with her husband, Phil, in Frederick, Maryland. The Freedmans are one of six 2013 Mother Earth News Homesteaders of the Year. Ilene blogs about making things from scratch, putting up the harvest, gardening and farm life at Mother Earth News and Blog.HouseInTheWoods.com, easy to follow from our Facebook Page. For more about the farm, go to www.houseinthewoods.com.
As much as I love this quiche hot, I like it even better cold out of the fridge the next day. It makes a great, fast breakfast or lunch (paired with a side salad). The quiche in the picture uses broccoli, but you can make it with pretty much any kind of vegetable. Some of my favorites are roasted green chilies and cheddar, winter squash with goat cheese, zucchini and tomato, or spinach and olive. Spreading out onions on the bottom of the quiche adds a crust-like layer and a bit of crunch. Serves four
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 large onion, sliced into half-moons
• 1 tsp salt, plus more to taste
• 1/2 tsp pepper, plus more to taste
• 3 to 4 cups chopped vegetables*
• 8 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup grated cheddar or other cheese
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Melt the butter in a cast-iron or ovenproof skillet over medium heat. (If your skillet isn't ovenproof, transfer everything to a pie plate in Step 3 to bake it.) Add the onion slices and sprinkle a bit of salt and
pepper over them. Cook the onions until they are golden brown and starting to caramelize, about 10 minutes.
3. Remove the pan from the heat and spread the onions evenly across the bottom. Spread the vegetables evenly over the onions. The dish or pan should look fairly full.
* For hardier vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, or winter squash, I suggest steaming or cooking them before adding them to the quiche to ensure they'll be fully cooked. For tomatoes, zucchini, spinach, or any other quick-cooking vegetable, just use them fresh.
4. In a bowl, use a fork to beat the eggs lightly with the milk, cheese, 1 teaspoon of salt, and ½ teaspoon of pepper, just enough to break up the yolks and whites. This is a savory custard mixture. Pour the custard over the vegetables and onions and enjoy watching it fill in all the open spaces.
5. Transfer the quiche to the oven and bake for 1 hour. Once the surface is lightly brown all the way across, it's fully cooked.
6. Let the quiche cool for about 20 minutes, then slice into wedges.
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Sage is an herb of ancient repute, long valued as a culinary and medicinal plant. The Romans called it herba sacra or "sacred herb. Both the common name and botanical name, Salvia officinalis, originate in the Latin salvare, meaning "to save" – perhaps referring to its ability to save health. Sage, a native of the Mediterranean region and cultivated worldwide, is a familiar herb, with a fresh, warm-spicy, herbaceous aroma that many of us associate with the Thanksgiving holiday.
It has a stimulating, heating, and drying energy, and in the herbal medicinal realm, is a well-known cold germ and flu fighter, having particularly potent antimicrobial, respiratory antiseptic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, astringent, mucolytic (mucous thinning), antispasmodic, and vulnerary (tissue healing) properties.
With summer's warmth waning and the fall/winter season rapidly approaching, it's prudent to start thinking about stocking your natural medicine cabinet with beneficial herbs that will arm you in your preemptive strike against the onslaught of cold and flu "bugs." Sage is definitely one of those herbs.
The recipe below is of my favorite culinary sage medicinal formulations and a bottle of this lovely infused oil is always in my arsenal of herbal remedies against colds and flu. My suggestion is that you make a batch now and start using it as soon as the fall weather hits. As the saying goes, "An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure." So true!
Preparation Note: If you have plenty of sage growing in your garden right now, and want to use the fresh leaves in the making of this recipe, you will see that the ingredient list calls for either dried sage or "freshly wilted sage leaves." Allow me to relate what "freshly wilted" means and explain the procedure:
Wilting is the drooping and withering of the leaves or other parts of a plant – it is the first stage of drying. When you make an infused oil from fresh herbs, you need to wilt the herbs first; the process removes sufficient moisture from the plant material to inhibit mold and bacterial growth without affecting the healing properties.
The process of wilting is simple, and I'll use fresh sage leaves in this example. To make 3 cups of freshly wilted sage leaves, pick approximately double that amount to allow for shrinkage. Some delicate plant parts, such as rose petals and calendula petals, shrink considerably, while lavender buds and chamomile flowers don't as much. Thick leaves such as rosemary and sage will shrink a moderate amount, while more tender leaves, such as lemon balm and peppermint can shrink significantly.
You'll learn through trial and error how much fresh material to pick – it's not an exact science.
To begin, simply snip the sage leaves from the stems after the morning dew has dried, but before the sun gets too warm; or, harvest them on a cool, dry evening. Spread the leaves on a clean screen, pillowcase, or length of lint-free cloth (a long strip of paper towels will do as well) in a warm, still location that is mostly shady and is protected from wafting animal dander, dust, and flies. I usually wilt my herbs on a table in my study or in the backseat of my car – away from my curious cats.
Allow the leaves to wilt for 24 to 48 hours, depending on temperature and humidity. If humidity is very high, add another 24 hours. You should notice a distinct change in texture, from firm and fresh to limp and soft, or even a bit on the leathery, resinous side, especially if the temperature is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity quite low.
The size of each leaf will diminish as the water evaporates out of the plant material. The amount of shrinkage depends on the temperature and level of humidity; the warmer and drier, the greater the reduction in herb size.
Keep this in mind: Unlike dried herbs, which can be stored in airtight containers at room temperature for up to 1 year, wilted herbs are still relatively fresh and cannot be stored for any length of time. They must be prepared a couple of days prior to when you intend to make a given recipe.
Traditional healers around the globe have used sage for centuries. With sage growing in your garden, you have an elixir of good health right outside your door. Their soft, gray-green leaves will be at the ready for making this potent, aromatically earthy, warming infused oil.
When massaged into the skin from head to toe on a daily basis, sage-infused oil aids in strengthening the body's immune system, supporting its defenses against outside invasion of the three main sources of disease: bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The oil conditions the skin, too, keeping it soft, elastic, and healthy.
I can hear you thinking, "If I put sage oil on my skin, won't I smell like Thanksgiving stuffing?" No worries. The fragrance may be rather potent in the bottle, but it becomes quite subtle upon application.
Note: I prefer to use the stovetop method of extraction for this formula, as I feel that the resinous sage leaves release their best medicinal properties and strongest aroma when processed in this manner.
• 1 ½ cup dried or 3 cups freshly wilted sage leaves
• 3 cups extra-virgin olive, soybean, or almond base oil (use almond or soybean oil if you want a lighter fragrance and texture)
• 2,000 IU vitamin E oil
Equipment: 2-quart saucepan or double boiler, stirring utensil, candy or yogurt thermometer, strainer, fine filter, funnel, plastic or glass storage containers
Prep time: 4 hours
Yield: Approximately 2 ½ cups
1. If you're using freshly wilted sage leaves, first cut or tear the slightly leathery leaves into small pieces to expose more surface area to the oil.
2. Combine the leaves and base oil in a 2-quart saucepan or double boiler and stir thoroughly to blend. The mixture should look like a thick, pale green herbal soup.
3. Bring the mixture to just shy of a simmer, between 125 and 135 degrees Fahrenheit.
4. Do not let the oil actually simmer — it will degrade the quality of your infused oil. Do not put the lid on the pot.
5. Allow the herb to macerate in the oil over low heat for 4 hours. Check the temperature every 30 minutes or so with a thermometer and adjust the heat accordingly. If you're using a double boiler, add more water to the bottom pot as necessary, so it doesn't dry out.
6. Stir the infusing mixture at least every 30 minutes or so, as the herb bits tend to settle to the bottom. After 4 hours, remove the pan from the heat and allow to cool for 15 minutes.
7. While the oil is still warm, carefully strain it through a fine-mesh strainer lined with a fine filter such as muslin — or, preferably, a paper coffee filter — then strain again if necessary to remove all debris. Squeeze the herbs to extract as much of the precious oil as possible. Discard the marc.
8. Add the vitamin E oil and stir to blend. The resulting infused oil blend will be a rich medium to dark green in color, depending on which base oil you chose. Pour the finished oil into storage containers, then cap, label, and
9. Store in a dark cabinet.
Storage: Store at room temperature, away from heat and light; use within 1 year
Application: Once daily
Application Instructions: For maximum benefit, massage this infused oil into slightly damp, warm skin — fresh from the shower or bath. Apply daily for at least a month prior to cold and flu season, and continue to use it throughout the winter.
Bonus Sage oil makes a terrific diaper rash preventive and is wonderful added to salves and balms to help heal minor skin afflictions, respiratory infections, and dry, rough skin on the feet, elbows, and knees.
Find this and more recipes for smoothies, green drinks, frappes, shakes, nut milks, and other luscious, health-boosting, raw food beverages in my latest book, Hands-On Healing Remedies: 150 Recipes for Herbal Balms, Salves, Oils, Liniments & Other Topical Therapies (Storey Publishing, c2012). I've also written many other books, including my best-selling, Organic Body Care Recipes (Storey Publishing, c2007), Hands-On Healing Remedies(Storey Publishing, c2012), and Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body (Storey Publishing, c2009). Please visit my website to learn more about me and what I'm up to these days.
Stephanie Tourles is a licensed holistic aesthetician, certified aromatherapist, and gardener with training in Western and Ayurvedic herbalism. She is the author of ten books — which are available at MOTHER EARTH NEWS Shopping— including Raw Energy in a Glass, Hands-On Healing Remedies, Organic Body Care Recipes, Raw Energy, Naturally Healthy Skin, 365 Ways to Energize Mind, Body & Soul, and Natural Foot Care. She lives in Orland, Maine.
By Lisa Mason Ziegler
Caption: Spring blooming Scabiosa will attract bees from the get go of the season. Scabiosa Blue Cockade.
I didn't set out to fill my farm with pollinators and other beneficial insects. You might say it has been a side effect of all-natural cut-flower farming. As simple as it sounds, it's true. Just plant flowers. Don't use pesticides — organic or otherwise. Soon a wave of these guys will overrun your garden.
As my awareness of beneficial insects has grown, I find that it is getting easier to farm. It has become my second nature to consider and provide a place for them to live, eat, and raise a family year round. This practice is not only the right thing to do for the future of all, but it totally impacts my business bottom line for the good.
Caption: We have pollinators following our harvest trailer around the farm! Harvest buckets of zinnias with a swallowtail butterfly left and a hummingbird moth on right.
This little-known community of good bugs is as diverse a mix as the population of NYC. And don't underestimate their entertainment value, either. A fairly common comment directed at me on our farm: "Are we harvesting flowers today or are we taking photos of bugs?" There is a reason they make movies about bugs — they are fascinating!
How to attract them? Provide flowers from the first crack of spring and throughout the season until frost. It's those early spring blooms that really kick start our insect population. Bachelor buttons and calendula are two of the heavy hitters in our gardens. They bloom in spring when the nights are still chilly but the days are warm. Their foliage secretes nectar even before the flowers bloom, making them a great favorite of hungry bugs.
Caption: Fall blooming flowers will keep the garden full of pollinators until winter arrives. Left: Salvia Leucanth. Right: Salvia Mexicana.
Pleasing the pollinators requires providing a continuous supply of flowers throughout the growing season. This fits perfectly with my flower farming because my customers want the same thing! Monthly succession planting fits the bill for us.
To reap the benefit of these guys as pollinators and pest control, you must resist the urge to treat a possible problem that may pop up in your garden. Be patient and do not be afraid of some pest damage. To keep your community of good guys home and fed, they have to have some bad bugs to eat, right? Give them time to do their job.
It is my opinion that if you have a 10-row vegetable garden, you should also have 2 rows of flowers to support them. I won't get on my wagon here about the vegetable gardens I visit. There are some that don't have a flower in sight, while the gardener complains of a lack of bees for pollinating. It couldn't be simpler: Plant flowers and they will come.
To learn how to supply your garden with a vast population of pollinators and other beneficial insects, attend my Seven Springs, Penn., MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR workshop, Restoring Pollinators; Grow Organic Flowers. I will share how to grow flowers from the first crack of spring up until frost. Perhaps the most challenging blooming times are spring and fall — both can be full of abundance growing hardy annuals as featured in my books Cool Flowers and The Easy Cut-Flower Garden (available in the MOTHER EARTH NEWS store).
Lisa Mason Ziegler is a commercial cut-flower farmer in Newport News, Virginia; she lectures and writes about organic and sustainable gardening. You can email Lisa, call her at 757-877-7159 or visit her website, The Gardener's Workshop.
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Green smoothies or green drinks are a wonderful way to get your kids or other finicky family members to down their daily greens with joy! "Yeah right," I hear you say. "Nobody in my family will ever drink anything that's green other than green beer on St. Patrick's Day or an artificially dyed, mint ice cream shake from the local Dairy Freeze."
I understand your sentiment, indeed I do. Over the years, I've had my share of vile-tasting, raw, cabbage-like kale smoothies and vowed I'd never have another. That was before I learned how to camouflage the green flavor with other ingredients that are sweet and creamy or tart and tangy.
In addition to the plethora of restorative, revitalizing, immune-boosting, and energizing nutrients contained within green superfoods, such as kale, spinach, arugula, spirulina, chlorella, lettuce, parsley and alfalfa grass, consuming greens in your smoothie is a great way to prevent blood-sugar swings and keep things in balance. (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
Greens add more fiber to the blend than results by simply using whole fruit as the star player, and furthermore, the moderate protein content of greens helps slow carbohydrate digestion, resulting in a steadier, more stable blood-sugar level. As a bonus, this effect makes you feel fuller longer – more satisfied and less likely to snack between meals or overeat at mealtime.
Below is one of my favorite summertime tart and tangy, refreshing green drinks. It fills me up, cools me down, is relatively low in calories, tastes fabulous, and packs a powerful punch of dynamic nutrition and fiber in every sip. It's quick to make and clean-up is a snap! Give it a try, won't you? I'm sure you and your family members will love it. Enjoy!
Recommended Kitchen Equipment: You will need a high-speed, powerful blender such as a NutriBullet, Nutri Ninja, Blendtec, Vitamix, or KitchenAid in order to make this recipe and ensure that the finished drink is ultra-smooth and silky.
You may find this combo of sweet and sour fruits to be one of the best green drinks ever — I certainly do — plus you'll never know there's any spinach in it at all. The tanginess brings to mind the sour apple flavor of the Jolly Rancher brand of hard candies, but it's immensely better for you.
This pale green, frothy, energetically cooling, ultra-filling beverage delivers a dynamic blend of nutrients that will supercharge and strengthen your body, fend off illness, promote regularity, and beautify from within. Yields 2 generous servings
• 1 cup purified water
• 2 cups baby spinach, packed
• 2 medium Granny Smith apples, cored, cut into small chunks
• 2 cups green grapes, with or without seeds
• 1 tbsp flaxseed oil, unfiltered preferred
• Pinch of sea salt
1. Put the water, spinach, apples, grapes, flaxseed oil, and salt in a blender and blend on high until the fruits and spinach are pureed and smooth, but still a hint on the fibrous side, about 30 seconds. Expect tiny specks of green apple skins in the finished drink.
2. Serve immediately and feel incredibly energized. This blend has a moderate amount of sugar, but a lot of fiber, so sip slowly — no gulping. Please "chew" each sip, mixing well with your saliva so that it digests with ease.
A good source of: blood-building iron and chlorophyll, potent antioxidants, vitamins B, C, E, and K, boron, silicon, other trace minerals, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, protein, omega-3 fatty acids, natural sugars, and fiber.
Find this and more recipes for smoothies, green drinks, frappes, shakes, nut milks, and other luscious, health-boosting, raw food beverages in my latest book, Raw Energy In A Glass: 126 Nutrition-Packed Smoothies, Green Drinks, and Other Satisfying Raw Beverages to Boost Your Well-Being (Storey Publishing, c2014). I've also written many other books, including my best-selling, Organic Body Care Recipes (Storey Publishing, c2007), Hands-On Healing Remedies (Storey Publishing, c2012), and Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body (Storey Publishing, c2009). Please visit my website to learn more about me and what I'm up to these days.
Stephanie Tourles is a licensed holistic aesthetician, certified aromatherapist, and gardener with training in Western and Ayurvedic herbalism. She is the author of ten books — which are available at MOTHER EARTH NEWS Shopping — including Raw Energy in a Glass, Hands-On Healing Remedies, Organic Body Care Recipes, Raw Energy, Naturally Healthy Skin, 365 Ways to Energize Mind, Body & Soul, and Natural Foot Care. She lives in Orland, Maine.
Ever thought about designing and building a space for your worker-owned business, intentional community, local co-op market, or any other cooperative organization?
Curious about the intersection between green and natural building, between DIY and professionalism, or between commercial and residential construction and design?
When heirloom seed business Southern Exposure Seed Exchange decided they couldn't wait any longer for a seed office, there was an opportunity for in house worker owners to make this happen. With essentially no experience, a design team of highly idealistic building novices formed with the challenge of designing the most efficient, functional, sustainable, and beautiful building, for both small commercial and residential functions.
To give a little taste of what we learned during the building process, here are some metrics that we adapted and expanded upon to help us make decisions:
Embodied energy
Energy efficiency
Accessibility for diverse populations
Ease of Construction
Skill level required
Up front
Over time
These metrics can apply to any building and homesteading projects you embark on, but I must forewarn you: They might lead you to quandaries, such as whether or not super-insulated and sealed buildings are worth the upfront material investment or the equipment typically associated with it (which use energy ongoing), or whether an earthen floor or straw bales are appropriate for high-traffic spaces. Or whether these natural building materials work well for commercial applications or for applications where inhabitants of the space are already stretched thin and have a high turnover rate.
If you want to learn more about what systems, materials, and designs we came up with for the Seed Office project, how it's working out for us thus far, and the lessons we learned along the way, come to my presentation, "Green and Natural Building: A DIY Case Study" at the Albany, Ore., MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR on Saturday, June 6, 2015.
One of the first things I do at any MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR is locate the Ford test drive booth and decide which green vehicle I'm going to take out for a spin.
It didn't take me long to find the Ford display at the 2015 Asheville, N.C., FAIR, where Ford Motor Co. was a title sponsor. Ford's electric-blue tent drew many visitors with the promise of a chance at winning prizes, including a vehicle of their choice. But, to my way of thinking, the opportunity to test-drive a Ford hybrid car was prize enough.
Among the Ford vehicles available for test-drives at Asheville were the C-MAX hybrid, the Fusion hybrid, and the Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid. I chose the plug-in hybrid and sank into the driver's seat while Tiffany, the Ford representative, settled in on the passenger's side. We rolled out of a side gate on the fairgrounds and began a quiet tour of the Asheville terrain as Tiffany pointed out the Ford plug-in hybrid's features. Each time I braked, the Energi's dashboard display screen showed the value of the car's regenerative braking, as the lithium-ion battery pack captured and stored kinetic energy to boost the overall gas mileage.
According to Tiffany, Asheville FAIR visitors understand that gas prices are going to go up again, and they want to be prepared for that eventuality. The energy savings represented by the Ford hybrid cars at the FAIR attracted many people. Tiffany also encountered some owners of non-Ford hybrids who, she said, sought vehicles with better battery reliability and a higher comfort level.
In an exceptionally flat landscape such as Tiffany's native Arizona, or in my native Kansas, hybrids can get great mileage. Tiffany described a friend living in Arizona who averages more than 560 miles per tank with his Ford hybrid.
As we drove back onto the fairgrounds at the end of our Ford test-drive, I sensed that Tiffany was a bit distracted. We said our goodbyes and, before we parted, Tiffany pulled out her phone to glance at the clock. She exclaimed, "Oh good, just in time to see a chicken get processed!" and rushed off to join hundreds of fairgoers watch Joel Salatin and David Schafer's live poultry demonstration on the main stage.
Such is a MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR: the juxtaposition of a Ford hybrid's comfort and homesteading's gritty reality. Both are practical and informative experiences that we're happy to bring to fairgoers.
Please visit the FAIR website for more information about future FAIRs: June 6-7 in Albany, Ore.; Aug. 8-9 in West Bend, Wis.; Sept. 18-20 in Seven Springs, Pa.; and Oct. 24-25 in Topeka, Kan. Tickets are on sale now.
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Rebecca Martin is an Associate Editor at MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine, where her beats include DIY and Green Transportation. She's an avid cyclist and has never met a vegetable she didn't like.
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February 21, 2006
Maurice Wilson was found barely breathing at the Edgefield Jail Tuesday afternoon. He's the man charged with killing his wife, Gwendolyn Denise Wilson late Sunday night. News 12 has the latest.
It was a short stay at the Edgefield County Jail for Maurice Wilson after he was brought in from Laurens County around midnight. Officers say he stabbed his wife to death, a reality he could not live with.
Investigators say 32-year-old Maurice Wilson was taken to what is called the "dayroom" at the Edgefield County Jail. It's an area where inmates can go when they are let out of their cell. They only amenity is a TV.
Officers say he was there alone. It wasn't until about one o'clock in the afternoon that they discovered he appeared to have hung himself, just barely breathing.
He was being held for murdering his 25-year-old wife, Gwendolyn Denise Wilson, on Sunday night. Family members say Gwendolyn's nine-year-old son watched Wilson stab her to death.
"They said Maurice killed my mom, and I walked in the house and she was laying in all the blood," said Gwen Morgan, victim's mother.
Her grandson told her Maurice stabbed Gwendolyn because she wouldn't talk to him.
"She said I'll talk to ya, I'll talk to ya and he kept doing it," Morgan said.
Gwendolyn was one of Thelma's regular customers at the County Line Store, although she never told her, Thelma knew Maurice beat his wife.
"She didn't have to, I saw it, I thought she was going to lose her eye," Thelma Ouzts said.


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Born near Buk in the Poznan region of Poland, Melchior showed early signs of religious devotion; family members nicknamed him "the little monk." After completing his studies at the Jesuit college in Poznan, Melchior joined the cavalry and was promoted to officer rank within three years.
In 1715, against the urgings of his military comrades, Melchior joined the Conventual Franciscans in Krakow. Receiving the name Rafal, he was ordained two years later. After pastoral assignments in nine cities, he came to Lagiewniki (central Poland), where he spent the last 13 years of his life, except for 20 months ministering to flood and epidemic victims in Warsaw. In all these places, Rafal was known for his simple and candid sermons, for his generosity, as well as his ministry in the confessional. People of all levels of society were drawn to the self-sacrificing way he lived out his religious profession and priestly ministry.
Rafal played the harp, lute, and mandolin to accompany liturgical hymns. In Lagiewniki he distributed food, supplies, and clothing to the poor. After his death, the Conventual church in that city became a place of pilgrimage for people throughout Poland. He was beatified in Warsaw in 1991.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Both speakers at the first meeting of the West Virginia Senate's select committee on child poverty said that the state's high teen pregnancy rate is a leading cause of childhood poverty.
The statistics presented Wednesday show a vicious circle: children who grow up in poverty are more likely to become teen parents and then drop out of high school, meaning their children are more likely to grow up in poverty and become teen parents themselves.
West Virginia ranks 40th nationally in teen pregnancy rates.
Edcuation Alliance president Patricia S. Kusimo said that it is crucial to focus on early childhood in order to break the cycle.
Kusimo said that poverty and poor living conditions create toxic stress in very young children that adversely affects brain development.
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Andy Murray was sucking in deep breaths, trying to recover from his exhausting win over Roger Federer. Pain was very much on his mind.
The U.S. Open champion defeated Federer 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2 in a four-hour Australian Open semifinal Friday night (Australia time) in Melbourne. It was Murray's first victory against the 17-time major winner at a Grand Slam event.
But with the clock about to strike midnight, Murray was already thinking about Sunday's final against two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic, who is on a 20-match winning streak at Melbourne Park. This will be a rematch of their U.S. Open final.
"Every time we play each other it's normally a very physical match," Murray said. "I'll need to be ready for the pain. I hope it's a painful match -- that'll mean it's a good one."
Murray had a 10-9 record against Federer, but had lost his three previous Grand Slam matches to the Swiss star. One of those defeats came at Wimbledon last year. Murray says the disappointment of that loss triggered his run to the gold medal at the London Olympics, and then his drought-breaking triumph at the U.S. Open.
"You know, I've obviously lost some tough matches against him in Slams," Murray said. "So to win one, especially the way that it went tonight, yeah, was obviously nice."
Murray ended a 76-year drought for British men at the majors when he beat Djokovic in five sets in the final at Flushing Meadows.
He's hoping the step-by-step manner in which he has crossed career milestones off his to-do list will continue Sunday. He lost four major finals, including two in Australia, before winning a Grand Slam title. Murray wasted a chance to serve out in the fourth set as Federer rallied.
"Those matches ... have helped obviously mentally," he said. "I think going through a lot of the losses that I've had will have helped me as well. Obviously having won against Novak before in a Slam final will help mentally."
A packed Rod Laver Arena, including the great Laver himself, jammed in to see if Federer could reach a sixth Australian final. The 31-year-old Swiss has won four of his 17 titles at Melbourne Park.
He showed flashes of his customary genius, but also rare bursts of anger. Murray showed his frustration as well. The crowd started to turn on him after he challenged a call in the eighth game of the fourth set, booing each time he complained to the umpire. His unforced error into the net on the next point prompted a huge cheer.
In the 12th game of the fourth set, Federer appeared to yell across the net after Murray stopped momentarily behind the baseline during the rally.
Murray shrugged it off and seemed to dig in. He'd won that point but lost the game and was taken to another tiebreaker, which he lost.
"We were just checking each other out for bit," Federer said. "That wasn't a big deal for me -- I hope not for him."
Murray said "stuff like that happens daily in tennis," and added that it was "very, very mild in comparison to what happens in other sports."
"It's big. I never beat Roger in a Slam before. It definitely will help with the confidence," Murray said.
Djokovic already owns three Australian titles and is aiming to be the first man in the Open era to win three in a row.