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A pit bull saved his owner as flames ripped through the Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Shelter early Thursday morning, but a dozen cats died in the flames.
Johanna White, who lived in an apartment above the shelter, said the dog, Baby, jumped on her as she slept and woke her during the fire.
White told television station KTVU-TV Channel 2 that Baby saved her life.
"I'm so grateful my dog woke me up," White told KTVU. "I'm just so, so lucky. I have a good dog. I was not a dog fan either. He's my husband and daughter's dog. I may have to re-evaluate my stance. He's definitely a keeper."
The blaze broke out after midnight in the society's shelter in the 2700 block of Ninth Street.
Berkeley Fire Department spokeswoman Sabina Imrie said the fire is under investigation but officials suspect it was caused by a dryer in the first-floor laundry room. She estimated damage to the building at $500,000.
Imrie said employees and volunteers arrived shortly after firefighters at the two-story shelter and worked side by side with firefighters to rescue about 25 cats and dogs.
They were too late, however, for the cats.
"It's absolutely devastating," said Katherine O'Donnell, communications director for the society.
Tears streamed down O'Donnell's face as she gave a tour of the burned-out building where the cats were housed.
"The door between the cat and dog rooms was closed, so that kept some of the smoke from overwhelming the dogs." About 15 dogs are housed in outdoor kennels next to the main building and none were harmed, she said. They were taken to the Berkeley animal services building.
The 15 cats that survived were brought to an animal hospital, O'Donnell said.
"Right now we need to find foster homes for the dogs and cats," O'Donnell added.
"We save about 800 animals a year and this fire will put a significant damper on what we do."
Lost in the fire were cat quarters, a cat adoption area, restrooms, a laundry room, an office, a two-bedroom apartment and a board room.
The building now has no electricity, phone or water service.
A fire official on the scene said the humane society had its annual safety inspection about two months ago and the facility was in compliance.
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When the 10 East Palo Alto students selected to participate in Facebook's inaugural high school internship program stepped off the shuttle bus Monday morning for their first day at the social network company's headquarters, they looked a little awe-struck.
Several television news cameras caught their arrival as Susan Gonzales, head of Community Engagement for Facebook, led them into one of the nine buildings on the sprawling Menlo Park campus at the corner of Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road.
"Welcome to Facebook, your new job," Gonzales said, greeting them with a smile. "We hope this will change your life."
Talofa Feao, a tall 17-year-old dressed in a black T-shirt, khaki shorts and athletic shoes, said he was "excited, very excited" about being selected for the internship.
"It's a new experience," said Feao, who just finished his junior year at the Sequoia Community Day School, an alternative campus for at-risk students. "And I'm hoping to learn some tech skills."
The four-week high school internship program -- called Facebook Academy -- is one of the "public benefits" the company promised to deliver in exchange for Menlo Park's permission to let it eventually employ more than 6,000 people on the former Sun Microsystems campus.
Yolanda Mendoza, who will be a junior at East Palo Alto Academy this fall, said she "yelled for like five seconds straight" when she got the call saying she was accepted for the program.
"It's nice that they're investing in us," said the 16-year-old, who wore a pink top, jeans and sparkled pink loafers.
After putting on company badges so they could walk around the high-security campus, the teens were led to a cafeteria for breakfast and told employees get free meals.
"There's smoothies, fruit juice, oatmeal, wheat grass shots. The toast and bagels and everything are over there, and hot food is here," said Facebook employee Adam Ward, who wore a T-shirt proclaiming "Stay Focused & Keep Hacking."
After eating with Facebook employees assigned to be their mentors, the high school students posed for a class picture and went on a campus tour.
Kerrie Ashley, 31, an IT department employee with tattooed arms and several facial piercings, said she was looking forward to supporting the students and showing the young women "that they can be in the tech industry."
Strolling along the walkway at the center of the nine-building complex, Gonzales pointed out clusters of beach-style cruisers along the way.
"If you're ever late for a meeting you can just jump on a bike and ride across campus," she said.
Inside, the students walked through Facebook's industrial-style offices of exposed ceiling fixtures, white walls, graffiti-like murals and splashes of color. Employees work on laptops in clusters at long tables.
"People don't have offices," Gonzales said. "So they can collaborate."
Zoe McKenna, who will be a junior at Menlo-Atherton High School this coming year, said she was as worried about getting lost on the campus as she was in awe of the interactive map monitors that can spot everything from employee desks to unoccupied conference areas.
"I thought this stuff only existed in movies," she said.
During their summer at Facebook, the students will learn about information technology and other aspects of the business including marketing and Internet security, said Facebook spokesman Tucker Bounds.
Their first assignment: design the internship program's logo.
"There are Ivy League students who would tear each other apart for this opportunity," said David Mack, an outside public relations consultant.
To recruit the students, Facebook partnered with Foundation for College Education, an East Palo Alto nonprofit that also gave each intern a $500 stipend.
By mid-day, Feao said Facebook was his dream job.
"I wouldn't have thought any of this existed, just how laid back and carefree everyone is," Feao said. "And they still seem like they're really into their work."
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It turns out that a step was missed, a button was not clicked. I am very relieved to learn that no problem with the account existed, after all. Thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts. They worked.
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I need to report that a problem may exist with donations.
I do not receive a great deal in donations, but every little bit does, in fact, help. In addition, two ladies have been extremely generous, and I want to take the opportunity to thank them again.
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The Nebraska state high school wrestling tournament has been at the Devaney Center in Lincoln since the 1970's. But growing crowds and limited floor space mean tournament officials take other bids very seriously. Director Bob Colgate says, "We'll have to wait and see if Omaha puts another bid in for it again. Which more then likely they will, and we will see what happens.
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Pfizer Inc. will pay $60.2 million to settle a federal investigation into bribery overseas, in the latest deal by a big drug maker trying to move past a U.S. government crackdown on using illegal payoffs to win international business, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The world's leading drug maker by sales, Pfizer was accused of bribing doctors, hospital administrators and regulators in several countries in Europe and Asia to prescribe medicines. Authorities uncovered evidence that company units rewarded high-prescribing doctors in China with cellphones and tea sets, while plying Croatian physicians who ordered Pfizer drugs with cash and international trips, according to court filings.
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The city of Colorado Springs released its Initial After Action Report detailing strengths and weaknesses during the Waldo Canyon Fire.
According to the report, the city was under-trained when it came to handling the logistics of a large-scale disaster and staff would require more training in years to come.
During a meeting Tuesday morning, Fire Chief Rich Brown said it's hard to train for the unknown. He described the afternoon of June 26 when the fire peaked and caught several agencies off guard. Up until that point, coordination between emergency agencies was strong, said Brown. He agreed with the report that improvements can be made to provide important information immediately to first responders.
Brown also said the city struggled with documenting times, dates and decisions made by officials. He said it is why this report took so long to come out. The report suggested training scribes for the next disaster.
Brown highlighted three strong steps the city took before the disaster, including public safety collaboration, the number of personnel and wildfire-mitigation plans.
Mitigation in the Cedar Heights neighborhood was a win, said Brown. It helped reduce the risk of damaged homes and saved lives.
The Final After Action Report is expected to be complete in March 2013.
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Story of Her Life: Waxing nostalgic about Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose
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It's been almost a decade since Loretta Lynn's last record, Van Lear Rose, hit the shelves. A lot has gone down in those nine years. We've seen some of the worst natural disasters in history (BP anyone?), and we've also seen a further-magnified shift from music being played on LP devices to almost exclusively digital formats. Yet that's one of the great things about a record—it has the power to take you back. Back to where? That depends on the person, but the whole premise of a good album rests on the fact it doesn't lose its touch as the casing weathers or when the charts don't signify its importance, as it once did.
So, why is Loretta Lynn's latest record so important? Take for instance the fact that she released the album when she was 72. And, instead of having country music aficionados take the reins in the production booth, she enlisted the help of contemporary garage-rocker Jack White (most famous then for his work in The White Stripes). Seeing these two walk down the red carpet at the Grammys together might seem odd out of context, but having listened to the album, it makes perfect sense. The bond created during the recording of these 13 tracks isn't something that disappears once the lights go out and the track is deemed fit for airplay. Because if you listen to this record, you can hear the molding of this friendship manifest in the way Lynn sings—with the same vibrant twang that made her a household country name—and the way White offers a rock and roll background, letting Loretta shine amidst electric guitars, booming drums and the quieter, softer moments; see "Miss Being Mrs."
Van Lear Rose is one of those albums that are meant to be played all the way through—no skipping. It tells a story: from the time Lynn was a girl, sitting with her coal miner father, listening to him tell the story of how he met her mother ("Van Lear Rose") to reflecting on what made her life so joyous, but at the same time wondering where it all leads ("Story of My Life"). Looking back, I'm not surprised it won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album or ended up in the top 10 of so many year-end "best of" lists. It's a gem. Simple as that.
Part of the reason the album hit so hard is that Loretta Lynn is still that hard-talking, freewheeling, lovable woman she started out as—with her classic hit "Coal Miner's Daughter" and other notable songs like "You Ain't Woman Enough" and "Rated 'X.'" Even in her golden years, she is the same person, and she covers the same emotional ground that made her famous in the first place, ie. cheating husbands, childbirth and motherhood and struggling to make ends meet. Just listen to tracks like "Mrs. Leroy Brown" or "Family Tree," where she takes her kids to the home of the woman their dad is cheating with and asks the husband to come out and see what he's doing to their family. That's real talk.
But it's an album that couldn't exist without the confluence of measure. What I mean by that is the importance of knowing your limits and knowing when to let someone help out. I'm not saying Lynn has limits; maybe she does, but they're not shown on this record, and she wrote all the songs. But she knows when to let White work in his expertise, particularly on lead single "Portland, Oregon." A drunken love song in every sense of the word, the lead guitar moves through the track like a forceful river yet calms down enough for the duo to shine—while asking the bartender for one more sloe gin fizz and "a pitcher to go."
But don't take my word for it. I'm not even that into country music, but I've had a soft spot for Loretta Lynn since I watched Coal Miner's Daughter as a toddler. She was just one of those singer/songwriters who always had a presence in my childhood. This is not only one of the best albums of 2004. This is one of the best albums ever recorded, and I'll stand by that like a man whose britches are in sync with love for all kinds of music. It's a masterpiece. Enough said.
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Alibi alum Michael Henningsen and Mark Lopez, our beloved copy editor and staff writer, listened to new releases from Shining, Dew Scented and George Strait. Read their micro reviews in this week's Sonic Reducer. Peep related A/V below.
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Indulge your wildly eclectic taste in music—hip-hop, bluesy rock and roll, country, post-rock, prog and post-metal art-rock—with a smidgen of assistance from this week's Music to Your Ears. Check out related A/V below. Sister • Talib Kweli • Zoology Crew • Sat Feb 23 • 10 pm • $35 • 21+ • sisterthebar.com
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My obsessive-compulsive aural tendencies have undoubtedly been noted by careful—and dare I say, patient—readers who've been inundated with Halloween, Xmas, Valentine's Day and themed playlists of all demoninations during my brief tenure. And now ... cover songs. Whether you love 'em or hate 'em, they've been around forever and appear to be here to stay. Nihil novi sub sole, eh? Refresh your cover memory with this week's music feature, The Art of the Cover Song. Below, listen to a playlist of covers created by New Mexicans like Veery (Jessica Billey), Mama Coma (Marisa Demarco), The Rondelles, Steve Hammond, Cobra//group, Treadmill, Mistletoe, The Handsome Family, The Rivet Gang, Ant Farmers, Knife City, The Morticians, Sad Baby Wolf and Strawberry Zots.
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Refresh your redux memory with Alibi Music Editor Samantha Anne Carrillo and rock out to a playlist of Nuevo Mexicano cover songs.
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V.21 No.18 | 5/3/2012
Courtesey of Leeches of Lore
Song Roulette
By Jessica Cassyle Carr
Random Tracks from Leech of Lore Andy Lutz
Leeches of Lore is a three-headed monster responsible for disassembling brains far and wide with its warp-speed metal stylings. Steve Hammond (guitar, vocals), Noah Wolters (organ, Mellotron) and Andy Lutz (drums) complete the pulchritudinous trio, which is releasing dual albums at Launchpad on Friday. We asked Lutz to take his music library for a spin and see what random tracks might surface. Below are the results.
V.20 No.30 | 7/28/2011
Music to Your Ears
By Jessica Cassyle Carr
A Wild Party
Only 20 minutes east of Albuquerque (in the mountains where it's 10 degrees cooler) Wildlife West is equipped with venue facilities and hosts regular events. Beginning on Friday, July 29, and running through Sunday, July 31, is the biggest of the year: The ninth Wildlife West Music Festival. The three-day fest features two shaded stages (attendees will not be sitting in the sun, promoters say) and more than a dozen performing acts of the acoustic persuasion—bluegrass, Western swing, old time and folk, to name a few.
V.20 No.16 | 4/21/2011
By Jessica Cassyle Carr
Two very different local acts are releasing shiny new recordings on Saturday, April 23. Read all about it after the jump.
V.20 No.13 | 3/31/2011
Song Roulette
Random Tracks From the Music Library of The Porter Draw's Ben Wood
By Jessica Cassyle Carr
Ben Wood plays banjo in The Porter Draw. He's also a woodworker and projectionist, knows how to grow a fine mustache, and is descended from Jewish cowboys in Arizona from way back when. Below are five random tracks from his music library.
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Tonight! Merle Haggard
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These days, country music, which was long ago swallowed into the homogenizing pop culture machine, is like any other element of entertainment media: It lacks decorum, glorifies wealth and is geared toward the basest concerns of the masses. The only thing that distinguishes it is a Southern accent and that boot in your ass. Once upon a time, though, country music had its own identity, one that was far from the artless, soulless corporate goo oozing out of your radios and televisions. It was proud, pastoral, working class and sometimes a little rowdy. Long associated with that kind of country (and the right wing), these days the legendary Merle Haggard seems a bit pained by the country's corrosion. A few years ago, the Okie from Muskogee, who is now in his 70s wrote and sang, "What happened, does anybody know? / What happened, where did America go? / Everything Wal-Mart all the time / No more mom and pop five and dimes." See Haggard, poet of the common man, shun artifice down in Mescalero tonight.
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Minority- and women-owned businesses garnered a slightly higher share of Erie County construction and service contracts in 2012 than they did in 2011, according to figures released by the county this week.
The county's 2012 Minority & Women Vendor Usage report for businesses working on county contracts showed gains for women-owned businesses, as well as for local businesses that are primarily owned by African-Americans.
Purchases made by the county in 2012 totaled over $24.1 million.
Women-owned businesses accounted for $2.2 million of that, or 9.3 percent of total contracts awarded by the county last year. That is a 0.3 percent increase from the 9 percent of contracts that these businesses accounted for in 2011.
Gerri Hutton owns Anything Goes Advertising on Eileen Court in Buffalo and provides custom printed promotional materials for the county and other clients. The company was first certified as a Women's Business Enterprise in 1990, and she praised the county's outreach to women-owned businesses.
"Any of the county contacts that I have worked with, including the Purchasing Department, have been friendly, helpful, courteous and kind," said Hutton, who was contacted by The Buffalo News.
African-American businesses accounted for $663,893 in county business, or 2.8 percent of total contracts last year. That represents a significant increase from the 0.6 percent of county contracts that black-owned businesses garnered in 2011.
Hispanic-owned businesses accounted for $149,496 in contracts, or 0.62 percent of total contracts, up 0.1 percent from 2011.
There was a slight dip in the number of contracts awarded to Native American-owned businesses, which accounted for $106,405 in contracts or 0.44 percent of total contracts in 2012, down from 0.70 percent in 2011.
Asian American-owned businesses also saw a slight dip in county business, accounting for $238,820 in contracts or 0.99 percent of the total in 2012, down from 1.1 percent in 2011.
The numbers are compiled by the county's Department of Purchasing and the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, and reflect the participation of minority- and women-owned businesses on county contracts in construction, as well as for the county's purchases of services and materials.
"The County of Erie and the City of Buffalo have a joint certification committee to certify that they're actually minority- or women-owned," said Jesse Burnette, director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity.
Once the businesses are certified, the certification is good for three years, Burnette added.
The Division of Purchase and the EEO are tasked with the shared goal of building the county's minority- and women-owned businesses list.
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A Visa-Fraud Case Against Two Sisters Who Helped Hundreds of Parents (including Angelina Jolie) to Adopt Shines a Light on the Murky World of Cambodian Adoptions
"My daughter's gesticulating at the house, and there's all sorts of excitement," says Mosley. "Suddenly a young woman comes down the steps with a baby on her hip, and the translator tells me, 'This is your daughter's sister.' There are tears all around and hugs and the sister invites us in to sit down." By the time she and her daughter left, Mosley had learned that the girl not only had a sister and nephew but a brother and five aunts, and that contrary to the paperwork, her mother had died just months earlier and she had never lived in an orphanage. "All her paperwork was bogus," says Mosley, 48. "My mind was just spinning."
In December federal authorities, long concerned about allegations of child-trafficking in Cambodia, shut down the agency, Seattle International Adoptions, charging its owner Lynn Devin, 50, and her sister Lauryn Galindo, 52, with fraud and money-laundering. Though Devin and Galindo helped hundreds to become parents—including Angelina Jolie, who adopted son Maddox, 2, in March 2002 (see box on page 76)-court documents allege the sisters falsified visas, switched the records of living children with those of the dead, and in one instance swapped a sick child for a healthy one midadoption without changing the paperwork.
On Dec. 10, Devin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit visa fraud, and Galindo, who lives in Kauai, Hawaii, was expected to meet with prosecutors in Seattle Jan. 7. Neither the sisters nor their lawyers would comment for this story. "There are three potential victims—the children, the birth parents and the U.S. families," Christopher Bentley, spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says of adoption fraud. "We have an obligation to protect all three."
The case against the sisters is part of a broader problem with adoptions from Cambodia. "We know bad stuff has been going on there," says Adam Pertman of New York City's Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. "This includes baby-selling, coercion and more subtle ways of inducing women to give up their babies." U.S. families have adopted 97,064 children from foreign countries over the past five years, including 1,467 from Cambodia. U.S. federal law requires that foreign adoptees be certified as orphans, but a U.S. Immigration Service investigation found Cambodia's record-keeping so unreliable that, concerned about child trafficking, the U.S. stopped processing visas for Cambodian children in December 2001. (Since then the government has allowed nearly 400 adoptions to proceed because they were initiated before the ban.)
Most Americans who adopt children from Cambodia pay agents like Galindo and Devin about $13,000 to take care of paperwork and smooth the process. Some of this money may go to "facilitators" on the ground who help find the children; they in turn may pay fees and costs to orphanages and "gratuities" to government officials along with their own expenses. But the idea that they might also use money or other means to purchase or coerce children from their birth parents, then alter the paperwork to conceal it, is what has U.S. investigators and human-rights groups particularly concerned.
"The [Cambodian] system," says Jason Barber of Licadho, a human-rights agency based in Phnom Penh, "doesn't distinguish between real orphans and those who have been obtained through dishonest means."
But adoption advocates argue that without U.S. adoptions, many genuine, needy orphans would be left behind. Dr. Daniel Susott, who has facilitated adoptions for a Honolulu agency for 13 years, says a Cambodian orphanage director told him half his facility's children die within a year. "It was like getting kids out of a burning building," he says. Says the Donaldson Institute's Pertman: "We should be trying to serve [those children] at the same time we're trying to clean up the process."
Meanwhile, many grateful adoptive parents have nothing but praise for Devin and Galindo. "Lynn has been made a scapegoat," says Melanie Curtright, 44, of Sammamish, Wash., a single mother who paid about $15,000 to adopt son Nicholas, 2, in May 2002. Curtright credits the sisters with getting her visa in the pipeline before the government ban. "They truly care."
Mosley, for one, would beg to differ. A British native who lives with her husband, Tony, 47, a New Jersey-born telephone company manager, on the island of Saipan, a U.S. territory in the western Pacific, she hired SIA to find a 6-or 7-year old child because its fees were reasonable. In April 1999 the company identified a girl named Songkea. In December, Mosley flew to Phnom Penh, where she met the girl almost immediately upon arriving at Galindo's apartment. "I was surprised at how hasty and informal the arrangement was," she says. "It's all a bit of a mystery."
The intrigue only heightened when Mosley made that trek to Siem Reap. Songkea's relatives told her that the girl, now named Camryn, had been approached in her village and asked if she wanted to go to a better life in America. "She was recruited, solicited—call it what you like—for adoption," says Mosley. When she told Galindo about the family, she says, "her reaction was, 'Oh, really? That's nice.' " Mosley gave Camryn the option of returning to her family. She decided to stay with her new parents. "What a terrible decision to place on a little girl," Mosley notes. "She could see her life had improved no end, but she missed her Cambodian life." Five years later, Mosley reports, Camryn is a happy, bright 6th-grader; they hope to visit her original family this year.
Troubling as it is, their situation, and the alleged business practices of SIA, aren't unique. In 2001 a different agency asked for $19,000 from Dale Edmonds and her husband, Jimmy Yap—a New Zealander and Singaporean, respectively, who live in Singapore—to handle the adoption of an orphaned Cambodian brother and sister. Instead, Edmonds did it herself, paying $3,000 to the agency only for identity papers and $4,000 in government fees. Soon after Edmonds picked up the pair, the girl, Emma, told her that her parents, two sisters and a brother were still alive. The adoption agent said that the mother had abandoned the family. But back in Singapore a few months later, Emma revealed that her father had in fact sold her. "My husband and I looked at each other in horror," she says. "She thought we had bought her, and unwittingly, horribly, we felt we had." They returned to Cambodia and found the children's biological family, who told them the father had collected $200 for them. The mother thanked Edmonds for caring for the children she couldn't support and asked her to keep them.
Officials say there is no risk that foreign children who have been adopted and brought to the U.S.—and are therefore considered U.S. citizens—will be forced to return if they are found to have families in their native countries. The moratorium, however, will continue until immigration authorities are convinced the problems are cleared up.
Meanwhile, parents like Edmonds and Mosley live with the emotional fallout. "There are still secrets locked away that my children are too frightened to tell," says Edmonds. "The happy ending is that they've learned to talk and to trust—and to understand what happened to them was not their fault."
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Ohio State picked up a big road win at Iowa thanks to surprisingly hot shooting. The Buckeyes shot 44 percent on threes, a number that stood in stark contrast to the Hawkeyes' unusually cold outside shooting (3-for-20, 15 percent). Iowa dominated the glass and shot 60 percent on twos, but the three-point shot is the great equalizer, and it carried Ohio State to a huge win.


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Blood pressure regulation by baroreceptors
Reports or information related to blood pressure variations in the arterial system (the level, volume and chemical composition of the blood) can be sensed and gathered through specific receptors. There are the following receptors: baroreceptors, chemoreceptors and receptors from heart atrium chambers and chambers (A, B and C type, natriuretic peptide).
Picture 1. Anatomic picture of aortal /carotid nerves. Main nerves connecting the area of the baroreceptors with the hypothalamus through spinal chord with Nervus Glossopharygeus (IX nerve) and Nervus Vagus (X)
There are two types of baroreceptors shown in the Picture. One type is found in the carotidal sinus at the point of forking of the carotidal artery, and the other type is in the aortal wall. There are also receptors scattered between these "main" receptors. Baroreceptors are terminal part of nerve fibrils, which forks in adventitia and meiya of the carotidal sinus and the above mentioned part of the aorta.
In which way does the increased blood pressure stimulate baroreceptors?
Increased blood pressure in the arterial system causes the stretching of the blood vessel wall, and even of the receptor itself. It means that the increased blood pressure causes the stretching of elastic blood vessel. When stretched, the receptor reacts and has effects on the newly generated situation. The activity of baroreceptors is continuous, or we could better say they are always "awake" and continuously responding to blood pressure variations. Received stimuli due to blood pressure variation, its increase or drop, are sent to corresponding brain centres. These "centres" are also continuously active, sending the received "information" toward parasympaticus or sympaticus. If the influence of sympaticus is decreased, the heart rhythm slows down and the diameter of blood vessels increases, resulting in the drop in blood pressure in the arterial system.
When the blood pressure reaches 220 mmHg, the frequency of impulses from corresponding nerve is close to the maximum response. Normal heart (provided that also CNS is balanced) imposes to the receptors alternately the systolic and diastolic pressure. During variation of the blood pressure, when it is in the phase of dropping, the receptors stop their activity, even when the pressure is above the threshold when their intervention normally begins. It means that the receptors are sensitive not only to medium arterial pressure, but also to the speed of arterial pressure variations
The hypothalamus, as the emotion centre, may cause the increase in the blood pressure, by sending gathered information (impulses) through the sympaticus in case of: anger, fear or uneasiness (feelings that the modern man goes to bed and wakes up with). Over a certain period of time a chronic hypertension will appear. This is, to some extent, an explanation of the mass occurrence of hypertension in our region.
When will we write the diagnosis: dg hypertensia arterialis?
Systolic pressure
Diastolic pressure
Normal - increased- 130 - 139 mmHg
Increased- 9o mmHg and more
Normal - increased- 130 - 139 mmHg
Normal - increased - 85 – 89 mmHg
Ideal 129 or lower
Ideal 84 or lower
A physician will write the diagnosis hypertensia arterialis if the blood pressure measurements made during more than two visits to the physician, show the values exceeding the ideal pressure values.
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Some states of pain, or suffering, which may be increased by worry, or strong desire which cannot be realized (in case of poverty, struggle for survival, unfair competition, constant psychic tension), cause the increased secretion of cateholamines. Cateholamines have effects on the pancreas (on beta cells), which causes the decreased secretion of insulin. Insulin suppression increases the activity of the cyclic AMP, which increases FFA (free fatty acids) in the plasma. They cause damage to the metabolism of myocardium.
Cateholamines produce bad effects also to the liver. They cause in the liver the glycogenolisis increasing in this way the content of glucose in the blood. It also causes disorders of the metabolism of myocardium (the heart muscle). Decreased quantity of insulin causes additional metabolic disorders. The increased blood pressure and obesity occurs with most of these patients. This is still the realistic picture of our everyday survival and the cause of the occurrence of the hypertension disease.
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
On the Road Theme of Sadness
In Sal's eyes, sadness is everywhere in America. He sees it in people, places, and in his own dreams. Most of all, sadness is tied to solitude. Sal feels worst when he is unable to connect to those around him through deep conversations. Sadness becomes a key element in the relationships between men and women, as Sal yearns for a soulful connection with women, not just a physical one. Sadness is also reflected in the music of the times, the jazz blues. Sadness is a large part of the Beat Generation, in the sense of "beaten" or "beaten down."
Questions About Sadness
- What is Sal so sad about?
- Does Sal characterize anything as sad that seem not seem to be remotely sad?
- At one point Sal calls a night both "merry" and "sad." How is this possible?
- What elements of On the Road are both merry and sad?
- Would you characterize On the Road as a sad tale?
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In his solitude, Sal says that "all he does is die" when he is "down in Denver." Later, he tells Dean that he (Dean) doesn't die enough to cry. This notion of dying, of recognizing sadness, is what makes Sal different from Dean, and can be traced throughout their actions and travels.
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"Django Unchained" is, on its surface, a fairly straightforward "man is wronged and loses his woman, then meets a man who helps him achieve his quest to avenge himself and get his woman back" sort of story. It's certainly easy to enjoy the film on that level, especially if you're a fan of Quentin Tarantino's violent, over-the-top style. However, there are also layers of character development, complex themes and enough references to fill a book. This is a movie that seems destined to spawn art student theses, not just a Western set in the South.
Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave who's been branded as a runaway and sold to a different owner than his wife as punishment for their attempt to escape. When a roving bounty hunter, Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz), buys him because he can identify Schultz's current targets, he finds himself with an opportunity to get revenge and rescue his wife. Foxx brings a weariness and rage to the part that raises his character out of the cookie-cutter stereotype he's based in and makes him a person we can care about and really empathize with.
Anyone who's seen "Inglourious Basterds" knows that Waltz is a delightfully sly scene-stealer, and if you loved him there, you'll love him here. His Schultz has a sense of humor, delights in the ridiculous, and is also a master sharpshooter completely untroubled by his grisly trade. He trains Django to be a bounty hunter after giving him his freedom, and decides to help the former slave on his quest.
Django and Schultz's quest takes them to the home of Monsieur Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the thoroughly evil man who owns one of the largest plantations in the South. His casual cruelty (including having a runaway torn to bits by dogs in front of his guests and the audience) to slaves is nothing new to Django but horrifies Schultz, and seems designed to horrify viewers as well. Of course, anyone who's studied the period knows how awful slave-owners could be to the people they considered their subhuman property, but seeing it on a screen in full color, screams and all, is something else.
What many people will likely find more difficult to bear than the gruesome violence is the characterization of the villains and the regular folks who are background characters. For one thing, there's the language not the swearing (of which there is plenty), but the liberal use of the various historically-authentic terms for black people. ÊDiCaprio's character, in one deeply disconcerting scene, muses on the subhuman, submissive nature of black people and then prepares to split a slave girl's head open to demonstrate his theory with phrenology. This is not a film for the faint of heart in a number of ways.
If "Django" has one weakness, it's a tendency for dramatic pauses and long reaction shots that some may find annoying. Its pacing is fine, thankfully, but its just-over-three-hour runtime will feel longer if you don't like long shots.
Of all Tarantino's films, "Django Unchained" is most reminiscent for me of "Inglourious Basterds," and not just because of Waltz's presence. Both are essentially wish-fulfillment (who doesn't want to see a slave get free and kill some evil white slavers in a huge gunfight complete with anachronistic dynamite?), but with a generous helping of violent sequences and dialogue meant to make us uncomfortable, meant to make us think. Tarantino is maturing more and more as a filmmaker, and it's a pleasure to watch, at least for those who are OK with the discomfort.Ê
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A man was arrested after he was caught breaking into a vehicle Wednesday night, Idaho Falls police said.
Officers responded to the 700 block of Eighth Street in reference to a vehicle burglary in progress around 11:30 p.m.
The suspect was later identified as Marshall David Lufkin, 29, of Ammon. Police found him at Seventh and Cramner.
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text: Submitted by Katia on Mon, 08/03/2015 - 8:26pm Columbus Day Weekend Getaways and Fall Day Trips from New York CityRecently we asked you to tell us about your favorite fall outings, and the response was fabulous. We received lots of tips about fall festivals, apple and pumpkin picking places and your favorite spots to get outdoors and enjoy playing in the leaves. Below, we've compiled our readers' favorite fall day trips and outings in or near New York City, perfect for a last-minute Columbus Day weekend getaway. Apple Picking Enjoy cider doughnuts, crisp fall air and the sweet smell of apples. Favorite destinations include Lawrence Orchard in Congers, NY—so close, yet so far away from the city—and Warwick, NY, where there are many orchards to choose from. Terhune Orchards near Princeton, NJ, is known for its apple and pumpkin picking, hay wagon rides, petting zoo, a corn maze, pony rides, live music and delicious food. It's just a short ride from the city, but feels like a different world. See our roundups of pick-your-own-apple places within an hour of New York City, or read all of our posts about apple orchards in the tri-state area. Pumpkin Picking, Corn Mazes and Festivals We've got great roundups of pumpkin patches, corn mazes and harvest festivals in New York City, New Jersey and Long Island. Reader favorites include the corn maze at the Howell Living History Farm in Lambertville, NJ, and the one at the Queens Country Farm Museum. Bonus: You can go through the maze at night with flashlights! Plus the South Jersey Pumpkin Show Festival in Egg Harbor. More Day Trips Readers love to drive out to the country to look at leaves. Some head to Hudson Valley, others to the Berkshires or even Vermont and Maine. Here are some favorite destinations. The North Fork of Long Island is great for leaf peeping, cider doughnuts and a visit to a family-friendly vineyard. Don't forget a stop at the Village Cheese Shop in Mattituck and Briermere Farms for pie. You can pick up pumpkins and gourds on the way at any farm stand. Visit Storm King Art Center. Enjoy the art, let the kids run around and marvel at the changing leaves. Afterward, head to a nearby orchard for apple picking and cider doughnuts. Ride out to Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, NY. The children can learn about President Theodore Roosevelt and the foliage on the grounds is fantastic. There is also a great train down to Cold Spring Harbor. Hint: Walks on trails and grounds are free, but the tours are reasonable and well worth it. It's amazing to see what they can do with pumpkins at the Great Jack O' Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson. The Mid-Hudson Children's Museum in Poughkeepsie is a great tot spot. Take a picnic and go ice-skating at Bear Mountain State Park. Enjoy New York City's Parks Bike riding and playing in the leaves are favorite activities. Here are some of the parks people enjoy the most for fall and why. Kissena Park, Queens has beautiful trees that are gorgeous and diverse. Ride bikes, admire the pond with its ducks and turtles, and play in the playground. Leaf crunching in this park is superb! Playing football and shuffling through the piles of leaves in Riverside Park. The Salt Marsh Nature Center in Brooklyn. The Park Rangers run great programs; you can hike around the marsh and go bird watching. Walking through piles of leaves in Prospect Park then heading to the Prospect Park Zoo. Enjoying the evening sun rays falling on the sculptures at Socrates Sculpture Park. A walk to Fort Tryon Park and the playground right outside the entrance. The park has great views of the river. Wave Hill is gorgeous this time of year and offers family programs. And, of course, Central Park. Listening to some great musicians, watching the characters at the "roller rink" loop, playground hopping, renting a boat at the Lake and taking in the foliage against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. This post originally published in September 2011. Area/Neighborhood: New York CityUptownDowntownBrooklynQueensBronxLong IslandCategory: Fall ActivitiesPumpkin Picking Farms & Corn Mazes On Long Island Harvest Festivals, Pumpkin Patches and Hayrides in NYC This Fall Top Pumpkin Picking Farms for Families in New Jersey Free Winter Fun at New York City Nature Centers


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Growing up, in the days before the Internetz, I was a total newspaper junkie, devouring three a day. One of my favorite sections was the letters to the editor page (called by "The New York Daily News," aptly, "The Voice of the People"). Some of the comments were cruel, some astute, some funny. None of them were overtly embarrassing any more than the bloviating of a drunken relative at a family party was.
When people began to flock to the Internet fifteen years or so ago, I was encouraged both by the news gathered and the opinions offered by blogs. I've always been a great fan of wit and saw, at times, the chance for the Internet version of an Algonquin Table for the masses to appear, with new Wollcotts, Parkers, Benchleys and Kaufmans arising from out of nowhere. Their blogging brand of snide commentary was eventually labeled "snark." Their numbers mushroomed on line during the reign of King Bushed.
Lately, however, I've noticed that a lot of bloggers have jumped the snark. Their opinions have as much to do with wit and knowledge as hot cow pies do to layer cakes. They've managed to tap into their inner-Neanderthal and have spewed something I call "blomit," or "blog vomit." It's messy. Ignorant. Ugly. Stinks to high heaven. Worse yet, it's everywhere – perhaps launched to new heights by the bucketful via the recent Clinton-Obama soap opera.
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In times past, inflammatory web remarks along the lines of "you suck!" used to be deemed the work of "trolls," skulking folks intentionally trying to get one's goat for their own amusement. I'm not so sure that's the case, anymore.
I can barely read commentary on the net, these days. There are a few sites I still go to - like "The Smirking Chimp," where people actually debate various topical subjects with passion, knowledge and humor, very seldom resorting to a wave of blomit to make a point. The deal is, most people comment on political, religious and sociological happenings. Exactly WHEN did folks begin to feel the need to comment on news events that have no good guy or bad guy involved? ("If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, DOES IT STILL SUCK?")
Let me back into an example. Growing up in a working class New Jersey town, replete with bad air from nearby refineries, chemical plants and passing DDT trucks, TV and movies were a great source of escape for us kids. I loved ALL movies, but I really, really got off on monster movies. I'd read "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine and seek out all the new offerings, as well as staying glued to the tube to catch up on such golden oldies as "Frankenstein," "Dracula," "The Mummy," "The Wolfman" and all their progeny. Movies, to me, were magic. It didn't matter if they were made up or not. They were the manifestation of dreams and pushed me into launching dreams of my own.
A lot of the old horror movies were made at Universal Studios and, decades later, when I finally visited what was left of their back lot (a chunk of it already co-opted as a tourist attraction) on a job interview, no less (didn't get it), that euphoric sense of magic swept over my adult body just as strongly as it did when I was a kid.
I knew I was on hallowed ground. This was the place that the Wolfman howled, the Hunchback of Notre Dame sought sanctuary for Esmeralda, Frankenstein shuffled, the Mummy arose, Dracula beckoned, the Creature from the Black Lagoon did his deadly dog-paddle and Rod Serling hung the portraits in his "Night Gallery." Hell, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Francis the Talking Mule, Holmes and Watson, Beaver Cleaver and Norman Bates even called this place "home."
As an adult, I realized that, although this studio was steeped in nostalgia for me, personally, it also represented a slice of American history. America, by its nature, is a transient society; it bulldozes its landmarks, both man-made and natural, in its Sisyphusian quest for expansion and perfection. The history of America is best reflected through its entertainment and, for better or worse, Universal had been manufacturing entertainment on that spot since 1915.
So, I was pretty upset when a chunk of Universal burned down last week, anywhere from between three to five acres destroyed, with a cost exceeding $25 million. Ten responders were injured. A lot of pristine copies of classic films were lost. At the computer on a Sunday, I tried to glean as much information as possible. I found myself even more upset by the blogosphere's reaction to the fire.
Granted, the story wasn't up there in marquee value with floods, earthquakes and twisters but it was still important to anyone who had ever surrendered to the magic of moviedom, as in: most of us in our childhood years.
The comments at The Huffington Post, fast becoming one of the leading blomitoriums of the Internet, were, uh, interesting. Alongside of those commenters who worried about the firemen, who recalled visiting the lot, who saw the fire as a real threat to the economy of Los Angeles since the studio employs tens of thousands of people, were a lot of knuckle-draggers who offered such gems as:
"Universal Studio has been taken over by Scientologist. If they lose out that makes me happy." (By the by, I'm not going to correct any of the gammeer or speeling on these gems cause blomitacious folks tend not to. puntuate! VERY WELL OR SEEMS TO BE SCREAMING ALL A TIME!@)
"What a coincidence… Hillary's Dream of a Presidency went up in flames today!" wrote another scamp, linking apples with oranges.
"What? Its Hollywood and nobody was even injured. What makes it tragic?" offered another reader.
"Shame it wasn't a New's or Oil corp that lit on fire."
"Is God punishing Hollywood for Susan Sarandon?"
"Is this the beginning of Hillary scorching the earth? I hope everyone there is safe."
"I hear they were filming the story of the Democrat convention in Denver."
"I believe Flavor Flav may have foreseen this.…"
One fellow wrote in that he was taking his first two-week vacation in over twenty years and, confusing the California Universal Studios with Florida's amusement park, said that he was looking forward to taking his 13-year-old son to Universal and Disney World and having Cuban sandwiches. One of the readers replied: "Cuban Sandwiches, YUCK! Don't forget to speak English while you're here. The last thing we need is another person here refusing to speak English. If that's your deal, stay home!"
And, so it went. Okay, you may say, Ed, you went to the wrong site for info. You should have gone to straight news sites. Surely, the commentary on those sites was more sensitive. To thee I say: nay, and get out of there!
At "The Los Angeles Times'" site, there were such bon mots as: "Let's go to Disneyland. No loss Universal was started by the Chicago mobster Jules Stein (now blessedly dead) so who cares. Was it an insurance fire?" (Note: WTF?)
And: "Let Hollywood burn. It's the most racist industry on planet earth. The Feds need to investigate their hiring practices."
And how could anyone argue with such touching comments as: "Hey, Sharon Stone, must be karma…….For all the bad anti-American military movies that Holley Wood been shoving down are throats!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"I hope the whole cess pool of a place burns down, without hurting anybody. This country would be better off without Hollywood. Maybe it would also put many of those loud mouthed bleeding heart so called 'actors' out of work."
"boy howdy partner! You are so true in your statement! Hollywood is the terrorist of the world and they take money from the poor struggling Americans who can hardly buy milk for the children and gas to go to work. And sit back and enjoy the richest doing drugs, having *** with everyone, and showing the world that Americans are dirty, filthy, drug infested, std, racist, cop killing, etc,etc,etc, people. when in reality, we are not."
Apparently, we're not literate people, either.
CBS offered similar insights.
"God is displaying his displeasure with Hollywood values. BTW, whats with all the commercials showing fatherless families?"
"guess you are glad sean penn was not hurt in that fire, or any of the other lala fairy tale Hollywood cant decipher between reality and real life terror actors."
"God did it to punish those that make vile movies!"
"Hollywood is the terrorist of the world"
ABC pretty much continued the Al-conkin' table witticisms with: "Did the republicans finally go after the evil liberals?" and "Obama's friends the pastor and the priest did it." (It should be noted that nearly half of the ABC comments were pulled, some really spewing anti-Obama venom.)
At the ol' "New York Daily News," home of "The Voice of the People" and my personal fave paper growing up, there were such gems as, "LETS HOPE ALL THE LIBERAL HOLLYWOOD STARS ARE CAUGHT IN THE BUILDING."
"The Chicago Tribune" blomited: "typical L.A. report, more worried about a dumb park than homeless people" and "My guess it was caused by someone doing another job Americans don't want to do."
"USA Today" championed: "so, let's see…tens of millions in damage…that's about 1 days receipts from 1-2 films. Maybe the studio can get some of their overpaid 'stars' and other employees to cough up a few $$. hopefully, it maybe be awhile before we get more garbage from this studio. put some public housing on the lot! the liberal holly-wood elite would love that!"
"Newsday" presented more erudition with "Ha ha ha, die Hollywood, die!!!" and "Hollywood churns out so many vulgar films, and TV shows plus left wing propaganda movies. Universal Studios got what they had coming."
Okay. It's exhalation time. What I've just presented is disturbing on a couple of levels. People were actually editorializing about a fire. They were critiquing a news event that was started by a blowtorch. This is like criticizing a car crash ("They were probably in a car not made in America! They deserved to die!), an earthquake ("They knew when they moved to California there were earthquakes! It's their own damned fault!") or a tornado ("If they're dumb enough to live in Kansas, they were asking for it. They probably voted for Bush!").
The above blomiting is also both sad and informative. America is, and has been, a country obsessed by money, class distinction, race, sex and the amount of "stuff" one has. It's a country where a lot of people feel that everyone is out to get them. (In my case, I know this to be true. They all want my psychedelic record collection, those bastards!) We've also been taught to tow the line and shut the hell up. Our opinions don't count. We're supposed to feel helpless and fearful, especially in this Bush Age of manufactured doom. So, the Internet presents us with a perfect place to vent.
However, if we feel frustrated enough, if our sense of helplessness has reached the boiling point, we don't know what topic to target – so, we just blomit EVERYthing out in one ineloquent, confused tidal wave of words. It's understandable but it's counter-productive. If HALF of us took our frustrations and spoke about them with our friends, our family and, yes, even our local leaders, maybe we could actually take a couple of baby steps forward to lessen our woes, both real and imagined. If one person shares the same attitude as you, it's TWO people against the world, not one. That's a 100% difference.
The deal is: our opinions do count. We're not helpless. We just have to get together with like-minded people to push things forward.
It's this sense community that has given rise to everything from political parties to local theater groups to community gardens. It's easy to complain about things. It's harder, but a lot more rewarding, to try to change them. Wit can be used effectively as a tool. Heck, good snark can even be inspirational.
Here's Dorothy Parker at her snarkiest in "Frustration."
"If I had a shiny gun,
I could have a world of fun
Speeding bullets through the brains
Of the folk who give me pains;
Or had I some poison gas,
I could make the moments pass
Bumping off a number of
People whom I do not love.
But I have no lethal weapon-
Thus does Fate our pleasure step on!
So they still are quick and well
Who should be, by rights, in hell."
Now THAT's well-aimed snark. We can laugh about it. Identify with it. Share it with others. And you can be sure it'll be around long after all those "yooze guys stink" epics are flushed down the toobz of the Internetz.
Last week, fire damaged a chunk of Universal Studios, which, since 1915, has employed millions of Americans and represented the dreams of tens of millions more.
Dreams are never a bad thing.
Let's not forget that.
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You may be having a freak-out session right this minute over a set of "spy shots" released to the press via Android Central - if you'll have a closer look, you'll see some photoshop magic. [UPDATE: not so fast!*] These images show the HTC DLX with a 5-inch display, 4G LTE from Verizon, Beats Audio integrated, back-facing camera with single LED flash, and a rather thin/tall body overall. All of this photoshopped nonsense doesn't disprove, on the other hand, that Verizon could be planning their next big DROID Incredible device.
The name HTC DLX is an extension of what we've seen in Japan with the HTC J Butterfly, a 5-inch smartphone with rather similar specifications to the one we're seeing here. This USA version of the device takes the name DELUXE_J from the code-name given to the J Butterfly and turns it into DLX for Verizon. It's not yet known whether Verizon will keep this name or extend their DROID dominance over their chosen ones here in the States. Expect a possibility of the name DROID Incredible X as well.
*Have a look at the final release of the device that's now called DROID DNA by HTC and you'll find that these photos actually did knock out the look of the final product after all. How about that!
As far as how real/false these images are, you've only to compare them to the images of the HTC J Butterfly that has been offered up for hands-on experiences over in Japan already this past week. The ease in which one could forge these photos is too much to ignore. That lovely little rectangle near the main lens is also rather telling on the back of the handset. That said, again, we've heard enough about this phone to believe that these mock-ups are close enough anyway - thusly, let the rumors continue.
This device has been tipped to be working with a display that's comparable in sharpness to the iPhone 5, has a 12 megapixel camera on the back (perhaps 8 megapixels for the USA, given the trends), and a 2 megapixel camera on the front. The processor inside is almost certainly going to be the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro as we've seen in the LG Optimus G, and 2GB or RAM has been displayed inside - just enough of a motor to play all your favorite racing games very, very wide.
HTC's first Verizon phone in many moons here in the HTC DLX will be rolling out with 16GB of internal storage, almost certainly a microSD card slot for expansion up to 64GB extra (or 32, you never know), and you'll have at least a 2500mAh battery inside - removable, of course. Inside you'll have Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Sense 4+, and one whole heck of a lot of pixels up front.


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uShip just completed our 2 week long canned food drive as part of CANville – the Capital Area Food Bank's (CAFB) annual drive organized by BuildASign.com.
The initiative consists of community minded businesses collecting monetary donations and physical cans to donate to the CAFB. Collectively, participating Austin businesses help the CAFB meet its Summer Meals That Matter campaign goal of distributing 500,000 meals. To reach this goal, each company will donate a minimum of $250 towards the drive.
But there's a twist.
Each participating company competes against each other by constructing an Austin landmark entirely out of canned goods to be donated to CAFB following the competition. A minimum of 1,000 cans is required.
The 2014 contest raised 24,668 in can donations and $12,000 in cash overall. These donations will provide approximately 54,668 meals for hungry Central Texans.As part of that, uShip donated over $1,000 dollars and constructed a rather tall iconic Austin landmark to donate.
Can you guess what it is?
To see what else was constructed this year, follow the #CANville hashtag on Instagram or visit www.facebook.com/CANville.


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Tonight, Bill O'Reilly opened the Factor with an angry rant related to yesterday's highly anticipated WikiLeaks event, during which he stated that those who leak to the "despicable" web site are "traitors" who "should be "executed." O'Reilly's full statement, inside.
Here's the rant, during which O'Reilly also went after President Obama for not making a statement related to the leak, and PFC Bradley Manning—suspected of a previous leak to WikiLeaks—who he said should be given life in prison with hard labor:


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