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Definition of hardly in English:
- A degree in theatre arts hardly qualifies me as a nutritionist or a psychologist.
- If Judas were among the saved, these statements could hardly be true.
- If true, it's hardly inspirational to the troops.
- The reforms of the NHS may have tested his ability to carry the party with him but they have hardly begun.
- I mean, a person can hardly sit down today without a movie or without music or something going on.
- Southwell had hardly sat down when the price was being paid, with Jerry Flannery on the tail end of an irresistible maul.
- I could hardly sit down the whole of the next day.
- We could hardly eat, never sit still, and chattered endlessly about the hopes and possibilities for Christmas Day.
- I could hardly stand it, sitting around another hour or so with the adults.
- Now being a Texas resident for the past five years might make me a citizen of the state, but it hardly qualifies me as a true Texan.
- Nonetheless, despite the seemingly narrow focus, this outline is hardly insignificant.
- Still, at 58 degrees, that was hardly bath water lapping onto the sand near SeaWalk Pavilion.
Words like hardly, scarcely, and rarely should not be used with negative constructions. Thus, it is correct to say I can hardly wait but incorrect to say I can't hardly wait. This is because adverbs like hardly are treated as if they were negatives, and it is a well-known grammatical rule of standard English that double negatives (i.e. in this case having hardly and not in the same clause) are not acceptable. Words like hardly behave as negatives in other respects as well, as for example in combining with words like any or at all, which normally only occur where a negative is present (thus, standard usage is I've got hardly any money but not I've got any money). See also double negative (usage).
hardly any
- 1.1Almost none: hardly any had previous convictionsMore example sentences
- In 1979, there were hardly any production companies and none of us were on the radar at that point.
- There were people like that in my village too, as a child, but hardly any to speak of, and possibly none now.
- At first this sounds truly minimal: slow-moving layers of overlapping sound with hardly any pulse.
hardly ever
- Very rarely: we hardly ever see themMore example sentences
- We can hold our liquor and hardly ever shoot each other unless it's important.
- In fact, they hardly ever come to buy anything from my shop and even if they do I refuse to sell anything to them.
- Children I know spend more time playing on computers and hardly ever read books.
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another onerous legacy from Greg Noval. L&T has "breathing room"
Still, they have not developed a long term strategy for capitalizing on their shale assets in WC,
and now seek partners for just about everything...
or they can always sell their WC lease assets to pay the salaries of Dirks and Schanks,
slicing and dicing - what a scam!
well, at least we know they won't be building a LNG import facility in New Jersey!
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With all the NG in the Marcellus,, it doesn't sound too crazy after all. You have to give Greg N. credit for thinking BIG. Triadad. NJ, North Africa. Too bad he he couldn't manage what he found. I'm down about $47,000 on this stock, so I need it to succeed.

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The Mesa County School District 51 Board is wasting little time using the bond money voters approved last November. The board has already selected plans for new schools, as well as making preliminary plans for school boundary adjustments.
The four new schools, which include Pear Park Elementary, Fruita Elementary, the Fruita 8th and 9th Grade School, and Bookcliff Middle School, will look familiar. The school board has decided to model the new schools after already existing schools in Grand Junction. The schools will follow the model of the Redlands Middle School and Rocky Mountain elementary.
The board will discuss a few possible changes to the models, like additional Kindergarten and Special Education space. They will also look at a preliminary plan showing the boundary adjustments.
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With the lay public now moving their businesses and lives online, everything they do has an electronic component. But, being lay people, they're using the most antiquated, bug-ridden, security-deficient, poorly-implemented solutions and services possible. And this is despite being told better. They indulge in PayPal, eBay, FaceBook, DRM, MySpace, and on-line shopping. All of which suck...
There are times I hate being me. The times when I lay awake trying to produce an O(n) algorithm to an O(n^2) problem because there just has to a better solution. The times when I'm standing on a train platform because I can't telecommute. And the times I'm trying my luck with the cute blonde at the bar, and a Neanderthal with a negative IQ walks off with her while I'm ordering drinks! But what I hate most is the fact that some of us who built this world are slowly being excluded from it. Let me explain.
PayPal sucks! It has all the allusions of being a bank, but without needing to fulfill any of the regulations necessary. It doesn't have to answer to its customers in the way that a real bank does, and it doesn't provide a balanced service. They are judge, juror, and executioner of any dispute. I don't want to give my credit details to such an establishment. Alas, I can't attend the next meeting of my local magicians group if I don't. So I must duly submit my attendance fee by creating a temporary account, since it doesn't support one-off transactions. Stupid! I then closed the account, and when submitted the "why have you closed your account" form by ticking the box "other". Alas, it then required me to fill in a description for "other". With a final sense of irony I wrote, "because I am required to fill in a description for 'other'".
Ebay sucks! There are no longer any real-world auctions in my area, so I must travel for a couple of hours, or use Ebay. But nothing's as cheap as you think it should be because too many people can find the bargains and push the price up, and too many sellers only accept PayPal which further excludes me because of the above. Egads!
Facebook sucks! I'm beginning to feel like a social leper because I won't put family photos and personal information in front of the world. Or random people I haven't seen for five years feel slighted because I haven't created an account for the sole purpose of looking at the picture of their new cat. What's wrong with sending a few photos by email, or going to a (private) web page. They can do this to see the party photos I took last night, as well, instead of bullying me into joining Facebook. And when/if you do sign up, everyone that's ever met you insist of adding you as a "friend", despite none of them ever phoning me for a beer.
DRM sucks! When I buy music it is to listen to. When I buy films, I'd like to watch them. When, where, and how I like. So when artists claim to have a world-important statement to make, it's either so impenetrable as art, or made solely available through one or more DRM-ridden services.
MySpace sucks! Perhaps it's because I'm not a 14 year old emo with guyliner trying desperately to become friends with Lily Allen, but I don't need a web page to keep in touch with my friends. If I were lucky enough to be Lily's real friend she'd have my email and phone number. She could call me. We'd talk. We'd hang out. We'd do friend stuff. MySpace doesn't feature into this equation. I am not a lesser friend because I won't join and add you. If you want a MySpace friend, talk to Tom...
Online shopping sucks! I tried to buy a few bits and pieces today with my credit card. In case you were wondering, yes, I do use my CC online - I'm not that paranoid! But, after having payment approved by Visa, two other sites popped up (Nochex, and SecureSuite, in case you're interested) asking for my credit card information again. And date of birth. Although I've been assured these are not phishing sites, how am I to know? Since my schooling in security says that I shouldn't give my details to any domain that doesn't explicitly belong to my bank, I can't shop. So, I'm being edged out of the virtual shopping malls, too. And don't get me started on the firms that want me to send my CC number via email...
That said, if you're happy to live in a world of antiquated, bug-ridden, security-deficient, poorly-implemented, and unnecessary online "solutions" then you're entitled to inherit it. I don't want to live there...
I want nothing to do with web 2.0. I value my privacy so whenever I can, I post on the web anonymously. The value of a comment should be judged by the comment itself and not by the identity of the poster. I do not want my life archived for anybody to collect with a little hard work. I don't want my online actions to be traced at all.
I abhor digital restrictions mismanagement and treacherous computing because of the implications they involve. I don't bother buying watching tv or buying DVDs; instead I rent the stuff I want to watch from video stores.
People just don't know about the implications of doing all these things that they do. I let them be as well as advocate to not participate in these things activities.


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RALEIGH, NC – Doug Warf, Vice President of Marketing for the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes and Executive Director of the Carolina Hurricanes Kids 'N Community Foundation, today announced that the Kids 'N Community Foundation has completed its 2012-13 year of funding and has donated a total of $436,600 to 26 different children's charitable organizations in the Triangle and North Carolina. This grant cycle brings the Foundation and team's donation totals to $11 million in cash and in-kind services since 1997.
GOAL (Growing Opportunities and Leaders) Grants are distributed each fall to two children's non-profit organizations that focus on the health or educational needs of underserved populations. The Kids 'N Community Foundation introduced GOAL Grants in 2012, and two organizations, Triangle Family Services and Marbles Kids Museum, each received two-year commitments of $100,000 ($50,000 per year). In addition, InterAct of Wake County and the YMCA of the Triangle each received three-year, $150,000 commitments. In the Fall of 2013, and each Fall afterwards, two non-profits will be awarded a new three-year, $150,000 GOAL Grant.
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Future Canes Grants, awarded to seven youth hockey organizations, totaled $86,600. Future Canes Grants are provided to grow the sport of hockey throughout North Carolina, and the funds go towards scholarships and program costs to ensure that children who suffer financial restraints or disabilities are able to play ice hockey. Future Canes Grant recipients are: Carolina Lightning Hockey, Cape Fear Youth Hockey Association, Raleigh Youth Hockey Association, Triangle Special Hockey Association, Triangle Youth Hockey of North Carolina, Wilmington Icehawks and Winston-Salem Youth Hockey Association.
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Longwood math student receives two first-place awards at regional conference
April 23, 2010
Longwood University senior Yuri Calustro received two first-place awards for research he presented recently at a regional meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
Calustro's talk on his research project "Intersecting Cylinders at Arbitrary Angles" was judged the best talk at the spring meeting of the Maryland-District of Columbia-Virginia section of the MAA, held April 16-17 at Virginia State University. His poster on the same research project, one of 12 posters presented by undergraduates, was judged the best poster.
Calustro began his research project in summer 2009 and finished it that fall. "It was based on some Math Club talks given by Dr. Phillip Poplin (associate professor of mathematics and club adviser) on drilling a cylinder through a cube," said Calustro. "It's calculus with a little bit of geometry mixed in. It doesn't have any practical applications, which I'm often asked about. It was just a fun thing to do."
The research is "an extension of the calculus problem in which the volume of intersecting perpendicular cylinders is calculated," he wrote in his abstract. "Given that both cylinders are of equal radius and intersect at an arbitrary angle, the volume is determined by expressing as a series of shifting ellipses. This knowledge is then applied in determining the total volume of a chain of n cylinders in which two cylinders intersect at each joint. The figure created will resemble a regular n-sided polygon, represented by a series of pipes connected at various angles."
Dr. Poplin was his research adviser. "Yuri started this research as a 'fun' problem that I had mentioned the previous semester," he said. "He spent a lot of time working on this problem and came up with a very different solution from that which I had envisioned. The 'pipe' figures was also something that he developed. It was great to work with Yuri on this topic."
A paper Calustro wrote on his research project, with the same name, will appear in the fall issue of INCITE: Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship, published by the Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences at Longwood.
In another recent accomplishment, Calustro was a member of a three-person Longwood team that earned the second highest designation in an international competition in which teams develop a math model to solve a difficult open-ended math problem. The Meritorious ranking was achieved by only 19 percent of the 2,254 teams from 14 countries that participated in the annual Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) contest Feb. 18-22.
Calustro's COMAP teammates were Daniel Honey, a senior computer science major, and Nikole Varhegyi, a junior majoring in math and minoring in computer science. At the invitation of the MAA's Maryland-D.C.-Virginia section, Calustro and Varhegyi spoke about their solution to their COMAP problem at the group's recent meeting. (Honey was presenting at another undergraduate research conference.) Their talk was "To the Bat-Swing: An Impulsive Approach."
Also at the MAA section meeting, Calustro was part of a team that finished second in a math game based on the TV show Jeopardy! "Some of the problems were computational math problems, and some were just fun problems," said Calustro, whose teammates were sophomore math major Crystal Peoples and freshman math and computer science (double) major Jeff Anway.
Calustro, from Arlington, is majoring in mathematics and minoring in economics. He is president of the Math Club and senior class treasurer. He will give the invocation at Commencement, representing the senior class, and he gave the benediction at Convocation in September 2009. He plans to attend graduate school and study economics. He has been accepted to grad school at George Washington University, and he is waiting to hear from George Mason and Virginia Commonwealth universities. He is a graduate of Yorktown High School and is the son of Marina and Rene Calustro.


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My 3 year old has been taking Singulair for 1.5 years. He has a majority of the "psychiatric" side effects. He had sinus surgery last week and all of a sudden he mellowed out when we quit Singulair. We tried it again for a couple of days and it's back to bad dreams, sleeplessness, anxiety, uncontrolled anger. So we have stopped it again and he is slowly mellowing out again. Also, the sinus infections increased on Singulair. He was on Antibiotics all the time. Hypothesis: Singulair has dangerous disruptive side effects: Experiment: Take it, then don't and repeat It's testable, it's repeatable... it follows the scientific method. Case Closed.... USE AT YOUR OWN RISK but this medicine has totally disrupted our lives for 2 years!
I have never had allergies in my life or asthma. It took me 3 days on this medication to realize that my anxiety attacks, sweating, heart palpitations and panic were being caused by it. Took myself off and the very next day I am feeling like my old self. I am treating my symtoms with childrens' fast melt Benedryl tablets and using my enhaler when my chest or neck starts to feel tight.
Please be aware of the posts about mood/behavior changes in children. My 5yr old was put on a dosage of 1 5mg per day for allergies. My very happy go lucky child became depressed, angry and violent within 1-2 weeks after she started taking it. She also was having terrible dreams. We could not figure out what was going on, thought it was school, maybe someone picking on her, just really guessing at what was wrong. I finally thought it may be the Singulair. After taking her off it, she came around to normal behavior in about 1 week or so, but it was very scary. Please be careful and watch your child's moods with this drug. While like any drug, I am sure it works well for many. However, I do not feel that this is a good medication for all children, and some may need to be supervised for mood/behavior changes while taking it.
My daughter took this for about a year and 1/2, beginning at age 6. He behavior changed dramatically - she became very paranoid, worried about her and our family's safety, clingy, and panicky. Coincidentally, as she started this medicine, one of my friends had her car stolen from her driveway, and my daughter's sitter's house was broken into. Being that I was given NO warning of side-effects, I attributed her change of behavior as reaction to these scary events. But as time went on, her symptoms worsened, and we started to look into taking her to a counselor. I then stumbled upon a website and read many reviews, with many commenting on similar negative symptoms. I was shocked that this could possibly be the cause and so angry that I was unaware. I immediately took my daughter off of it, and gradually her behavior returned to normal. Like other parents have said, I feel so sad that my sweet daughter was "robbed" of that year and 1/2. Parents, if you start your child on this medication, please please watch for any change in behavior. If your Dr. says it is not the cause, go with what you know and your instincts and do what is best for your child.
My son took this drug for 3 years,in that time his quality of life detirorated to such a degree,he was afraid to leave my house,he could not attend school,was hospitalized for depression,treated in a sleep clinic,and still the doctors insited it was safe.I removed him from this medicine,it has been a year and a half now,he is fine something i never thought i would be able to say,i really thought he had a severe mental illness but no it was an adverse reaction to this snake oil.
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My 10 year old has been on this medicine for about 2 years. This past year we have noticed he has become very hateful, moody, rude, and has episodes of anger. He has always been a very laid back child, and we have never had any anger problems with with. As I sit to watch the news I see a broadcast of how singular can cause his type of symptoms and worse. I always blamed the mood swings on early puberity, I guess I was wrong. I will be taking my child of this medicine. He has told me in the past he doesnt want to take it anymore, I just figured it was because he was tired of taking it, not because he was feeling different. But it did seem to help his asthma and allergies.
WARNING: Go to http://www.medications.com/se/singulair to read people's horror stories about this drug. While it may work for some it has been an absolute nightmare for MANY (thousands). If you think this is cheap news think again. My 5 year old son was diagnosed with mild asthma and put on Singulair. Within a few months he began having uncontrollable fits of rage, displayed self-loathing behavior, had night terrors, and was unconsolable during these episodes. He became very destructive and was a danger to himself and our family. He even talked about killing himself and would say things like "I don't want to be in this life anymore" and "I want to kill myself". He would threaten my wife and his siblings and told them he wanted to kill them. It was a truly terrifying experience. Our pediatrician was clueless to these side affects and recommended we have our child go through a psychological evaluation. I knew this was not my child's normal behavior so I searched the internet for Singulair side affects and found some message boards where parents just like myself were telling their stories of their children''s agressive behavior. I immediately took my son off the drug and within a couple days he was back to his normal self. He told us that he no longer has "that feeling inside of him". Five year old children don''t even know what suicide is and to see my son talk like this was extremely frightening. He is a sweet, intelligent, loving boy who had never exhibited behavior like this until he went on Singulair. We have not seen this behavior after taking him off the drug. Merck has a serious problem with this drug and while not everyone is going to experience these same side affects, they are real!!! BEWARE!!! You will be hearing MUCH more about this drug in the near future...guaranteed.
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Post subject: TMI, but im worried and dont know who else to ask....
Im even worried/shy about writing this on here, but need some opinions... i have a growth near just inside my vagina, it is an odd shape, and kind of like two or three different growths in one ??? I only just found it today. hoping its nothing but just wondered if anyone has had anything similar. (sorry for TMI)
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I would get your GP to take a look. Dont be shy, your only human and we all get lumps and bumps.... at one point or another. You shouldnt have to live with/ worry about it. you should get it seen to, I am sure it will be fine. With this type of thing the thought is always worse than the reality, you GP wont bat an eye lid and you will feel better once you have had it treated. Good luck.
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Hi hun, I found a lump inside my vagina, I went to docs and got referred to a gynae, it turned out to be a vaginal cyst but I was worried at the time, I still have it (10 years on!!) but there is no point having it removed. Mine was round and more white in colour. Get it checked hun, better safe than sorry and they way I see it, doctors see this kind of stuff everyday, it may feel a bit embarrassing at the time but its over in a few minutes and docs are used to it xxxx


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Jamie Oliver Aims to Spark a 'Food Revolution'
British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver comes stateside with a camera crew in tow to teach Americans how to eat right. But will we listen? At least in the first episode of his ABC series, "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," which premieres on Friday, the people of Huntington, W. Va., don't necessarily want his advice. (In 2008 an Associated Press story used Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data to determine that the Huntington metro area was the most unhealthy in the country.)
"Who made you king?" a local radio deejay asks Oliver in a tense (but delicious) on-air interview. And you can feel the tension in the school cafeteria when Oliver suggests the cooks marinate fresh chicken and make their own salad dressing instead of serving elementary school kids a more convenient (and as it turns out, more popular) processed menu of "breakfast pizza" and chicken fingers. A highlight of the episode is the drop-dead looks Oliver gets when he refers to the cafeteria cooks as "lunch ladies."
Speakeasy talked to Oliver about why he decided to take his eat-healthy initiative (famous in the UK) to U.S. prime-time TV, how America presents unique (er, obese) challenges, and how on Earth did Ryan Seacrest get involved…
The Wall Street Journal: Why come to America to do this show?
Jamie Oliver: I've been trying to do stuff and get other people to do stuff and work with other groups of people for five years now so it's not a new thing. Ever since we did the UK thing [to get British schools to improve lunches] and got some significant change from the British government, I've been wanting to do it. America always came up in our research and not for all the right reasons. To cut a long story short, I don't necessarily know why but for the last five years no one has been interested anywhere and in the last 10 months it's all changed. Who would've thought we'd get a prime-time slot in the 'Desperate Housewives' hour to tell this story?
Why do you think people are suddenly interested in your message about healthy eating?
With the First Lady, you just feel change is inevitable…People want change and they want it because not doing it is starting to become more painful than doing it. I'm biased but I think the next year is a really important moment in time. The child nutrition bill is without question some important political work in the next decade. If we don't get it right in the next five months, if congress stops Michelle [Obama] from doing her job, in another five years time I believe it will be too late for this generation.
Were you surprised that people in Huntington greeted you with such animosity?
I've been working in change for the last seven years and it's never, ever easy. The hard thing for me was I was away from my wife and my family and my kids. That, combined with being seen as an outsider, was really hard. The only reason I was in Huntington was because I care. To be honest, I always knew it would be really tough. I've done enough things back home in my own country, and all the great work I've done I had a hard time doing…The statistics that took me to West Virginia are only 3 to 4 percentage points away from the national average. I didn't want to make a freak show. This is a slice of life. No American can say that's me, that's not us.
I hate to sound cynical, but if you just want to make a difference, then why take a TV crew with you?
We're living in a time where that's the only thing that can make a difference. Real change is about skin on skin and people coming together but we live totally different lives than 30 years ago. We wouldn't have gotten a billion dollars out of the British government and created a new white paper that supports lunch cooks if it weren't for TV. The word reality TV is really misused. What I've done is a documentary. I just had crew follow me doing a genuine campaign in Huntington…I'm using TV for the reason it was invented which is to communicate important issues and hopefully inspire people.
How is this different from other reality TV series that make people change their lifestyles for the better?
If it was the usual format, it would be the "Biggest Loser." This is not a weight loss show. It's a story of food and health in America.
We see kids eating pizza for breakfast and drinking strawberry milk. How were the school meals different in the UK when you took up the cause?
It was exactly the same in the schools. There's not a thing in that show that I've not seen in normal everyday places in England. This is not an English guy coming around thinking I'm better than you. It's never been that. I'm just someone who's seen it a lot, done it a lot, worked in thousands of schools….We're fighting the same things. In England we're not fit. We're in transition.
Surely there have to be some differences between the UK and America. Doesn't size and diversity of the population alone make the U.S. unique?
The big difference in England is we've had about five years of TV and media that has prompted the public to expect more. When you've got a public that expects more, guess what? You get more. McDonalds in the UK is profoundly different than McDonalds in the USA. It has organic foods. It's the same brand. The difference is the public demands more and you've got a CEO willing to stick his head out. Five years ago you would've heard me screaming about how bad this company is… all I can pray for is that the moms and dads of America get pissed off. They have every right to get pissed off. Don't get fluffed and think everything's great. Look at the menu. Look in those boxes. If you don't understand what's on the package, it's a problem. Are you reheating or are you cooking? Are kids being educated about food? I could've gone to many schools. I've done it in England. Kids are very bright, intelligent and brand aware. They can spot a global brand in the distance but yet they don't know the difference between a tomato and a potato.
Isn't obesity very linked to class and income level?
Kids with more money go to different supermarkets with no additives. Money generally buys you a shop that has better ethics. The ones selling cheap shit are good at selling cheap shit. It's easy to sell cheap food. All of my good teachings of cooking…are about the ability to turn nothing into something wonderful. It's not about the cost difference…Good cooking is generally about the ability to knock up a mixture of things. If you have $5, $10 or $50 if you can cook, it doesn't really make much difference. The deal breaker is knowledge.
Right, but you have to admit that in some low-income neighborhoods in the US you can't even find fresh produce.
It's a supermarkets general DNA, they'll sell what a community wants. If it's not selling why would they keep trying things? Huntington used to have lots of mom-and-pop restaurants and now they've got hundreds of fast food restaurants…That's part of the problem, and that's why I kinda think everyone can do their bit. I don't want to say supermarkets 'you're all bad you bastards.' We need to encourage them to activate now and many of them have done great things. Wal-Mart has a really impressive list of things they're doing.
You've been on the Food Network for years but how'd you get on prime-time network TV with a show that Ryan Seacrest is producing?
I never thought I'd be wanted or allowed but I knew this show had to be told on prime time TV. For me to devote the time I have over here, it had to have a good chance of making genuine change so I knew it had to be a network. I asked Ryan to present the show since he's a much loved American presenter. I didn't know him. He was a friend of a friend. I told him I didn't think anyone is going to want me to do it. I mean, I've been working on the ass end of food network for the past 5 years…We got together and basically we came up with a plan to speak to ABC and CBS and we went and told them our vision and passion. Ryan has been key in backing me up and leading the charge even though he's not in the show. We've co-produced it and 12 hours later we got offered the show on both channels CBS and ABC. I thought ABC was the biggest and best to do the show.
Actually, CBS has more prime-time viewers than ABC.
They do? Maybe we should've gone there.
Do you have any plans to collaborate with Mrs. Obama?
I'd do anything to help her. She's driving the charge…From what I've seen what she's doing is really impressive. The big difference in England is we don't have Congress to stop you. We don't have sugar people or various advocacy group representatives of the fast food industry or food processing industry stropping the first lady from doing her work.
I know you're trying to do good, but getting into the American market must also help sell cookbooks and boost your profile.
My attitude is very un-American but I work in 120 countries around the world. America has never been a big territory for me. There are lots of other countries, so even convincing the people in my life to let me spend a lot of time here was hard. I'm sure being on prime time would benefit me.
So no second season?
I've got a wife pregnant with our fourth child and I live in England. Would I take advantage of this [and do a second season]? Of course I would if I could…Money doesn't really make much of a difference to me at this stage of my life. Happiness does. Commercially or socially…People back home don't want there to be a second season but, genuinely, if I was given a second season, I'd want to do it because there's more work to be done.


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It went viral because it made: St. Louis, Denver, Wichita TV Stations. (But, it was KFOR sister station besides Wichita)
I'll admit, it's difficult for me to write about Emily Sutton right now. And no, it's not that I'm jealous about her engagement to Mr. Haha Imtotallybetterthanyou Fireman Dude. That's old news. I'm totally over that just like I am the James Harden trade, which will probably go down in history as one of the worst NBA trades of all time.
The issue is that now when I think of Emily Sutton, I find myself thinking about fireman, and when I think of fireman, I think of heat, and when I think of heat, I think of Miami, and when I think of Miami, I think of beaches, and when I think of beaches, I think of breasts, and when I think of breasts, well, I find it difficult to focus on writing for this website.
I bring all that up because Emily Sutton and Oklahoma City Community College Hall-of-Famer Lacey Lett were on the air Tuesday morning when another totally natural, not-induced-by-fracking-injection-wells earthquake hit the Edmond area. Thanks to it, we now know how Emily reacts when she sees a tornado or Serge Ibaka at the gym.
As is standard operating procedure, KFOR made a big deal about Emily and Lacey's reaction to the quake. It's not as erotic as the threesome Lacey Lett, Tammy Payne and Stan Miller had the last time the ground shook, but for a split second it looks like Emily and Lacey may kiss.
Here's the clip:
Dammit. See what I mean?! I thought about Emily, then I thought about firemen, and then yada yada yada, I find myself posting pics of KOCO's Tiffany Tatro. I could really use some therapy.
Here's the video of Emily and Lacey.
Did you miss the kissing part? Here it is:
And here's a GIF of Emily dancing:
Because earthquake reaction videos are becoming so common, this video didn't go viral like the Danielle Dozier clip from a few months ago. In fact, I think the only other media outlet to give it any pub was Fox 13 in Utah. The channel is now home to the O.G. of Social Media Bandits, Ms. Mother Nature's Furry, Ashton Edwards:
Hilarious: News anchors freak out during earthquake on live TV
A 4.2 Magnitude earthquake hit Oklahoma Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake's epicenter was near Guthrie, just over 30 miles north of Oklahoma City and was felt for miles.
Our sister stations in Oklahoma City, KFOR-TV and KAUT, were live on air when the tremor hit, as you can see in the video above.
Meteorologist Emily Sutton and anchor Lacey Lett had pretty good reactions.
No one was seriously injured.
Boy, that was a trip down memory lane. It was like reading a classic KFOR.com post from a year or two ago. I wonder how the folks in Salt Lake City like their Frugal Friday?
Anyway, I guess that concludes this week's edition of Emily Sutton Theatre. I swear to Gary England I'm not jealous about her engagement at all. I wish her the best of luck. Now excuse me while I take a break and search for Tiffany Tatro earthquake videos.
It went viral because it made: St. Louis, Denver, Wichita TV Stations. (But, it was KFOR sister station besides Wichita)
I don't get the infatuation with Emily Sutton. I mean, really, she's ok, but she's not all that…
That looks like two people doing a pretend show in their basement. Do they realize this show actually goes to people's homes?
I think 4/43 realizes that everyone is jumping ship, both their staff and their viewers, for other channels. They no longer produce a show for us, they produce it for themselves. When some random guy isn't laughing at something that isn't even remotely funny, the producer is yelling at them in their earpieces to STFU and do the news/weather. Nine times out of ten they even comment on the fact that they are getting told to STFU and do the news/weather.
Emily's dance looks like when Kermit the frog gets excited about something.
I guarantee you Emily, when she is at the bar, is totally a woo! girl.
I bet that's the same face she made the first time she took it in the … well, use your imagination.
Emily Sutton has become the Ice Bucket Challenge of The Lost Ogle. Enough already.
I have noticed that her attire is much more conservative than it was before the engagement, not that is was that revealing to begin with. Some of her dresses look like they belong on a 65 year old.
oh that face is good for more than earthquakes
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1A poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which bears hooded pink or purple flowers. It is native to temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.
- Genus Aconitum, family Ranunculaceae: many species, including monkshood and wolfsbane.
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- Other plants in the fragrant garden include a cherry plum which is allegedly a remedy for stress and anxiety and aconite, a toxic plant which in small doses is claimed to be good for colds.
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Neil Nitin to romance Ameesha in Shortcut Romeo
Thiruttu Payale has been directed by Susi Ganesan and it is a real life experience based entertainer. The movie has witnessed huge success at Box Office with its collection crossing Rs 50 crores. Now, Susi is said to be debuting in Bollywood with the remake of the same film. Sources claim that he has roped in Neil Nitin Mukesh and Ameesha Patel for his first Bollywood project.
However, Thiruttu Payale is a thriller about love and betrayal and has shocking twists and turns. It is not a routine romantic-comedy and it has a mature touch. Sources say that the movie Shortcut Romeo requires experienced actors. So the director has roped in Neil and Ameesha as he thinks that they have great potential to play the lead roles.


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a3 Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust, Chester, UK
We describe the largest outbreak of measles in Central and Eastern Cheshire (North West England) since the MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988, the majority of cases were not vaccinated and more than 20% of the cases belonged to the travelling community. Over 4 months, 147 clinical cases of measles were notified locally to the Cheshire & Merseyside Health Protection Unit (CMHPU). Of these, 67 (45·6%) were laboratory confirmed, 42 (28·6%) were negative, and one was equivocal, leaving 23 probable and 14 possible cases. The primary case was probably an 8-year-old unvaccinated travelling child, symptomatic on 1 October 2008. Measles spread locally and within school-aged children until early February 2009. Most of Central and Eastern Cheshire, including 23 educational institutions (playgroups, nurseries, primary schools, secondary schools, colleges), were affected, showing that there were enough susceptible/unvaccinated children to sustain an outbreak. Nearly a quarter of the confirmed cases (15/67, 22·4%) were aged <13 months and too young to be vaccinated under the UK immunization schedule. This outbreak is a reminder of the importance of achieving herd immunity to prevent spread and protect those at risk of severe illness or complications. There were no fatalities in this outbreak and no significant complications were reported.
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"Perfidious Albion hands murderous Assad a spectacular victory," read the headline on a blistering editorial in The Times of Israel, written by its founding editor, David Horovitz. "How a perfect storm of British ineptitude and gutlessness sent the wrong message to the butcher of Damascus and left Israel more certain than ever that


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Hardship in America
A recent study confirms what many working class families know from experience - the official Federal poverty level is inadequate to meet their bare minimum needs. Released by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), it studies the real cost of living for working families and is based on 400 basic family budgets reflecting locations in the 50 states (including metropolitan, suburban, and rural areas in each state) for families ranging in size from one parent with one child to two parents with three children (under 12 years old).
Good response = fewer cases
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Dr. Paulo Teixeira, director of Brazil's Sexually Transmitted Disease/AIDS Program, told a CBC 'brain trust' that Brazil's energetic grassroots-oriented program has slashed HIV/AIDS infections in half.
Free speech group attacks anti-terror bill
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is waging a last ditch struggle to block a so-called 'anti-terrorism' measures adopted by the House and Senate that grants the Bush Administration sweeping new powers of detention and surveillance without judicial review.
Fast track is the wrong track
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - In Tennessee, we have felt the loss of more than 25,000 textile and industrial jobs due to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Many of these jobs were union jobs that paid workers good wages for a 40-hour workweek.
Crisis spurs need for action
The crisis in everyday living that too many people face in our country generated a national health movement that has been pressuring local, state and national government officials to protect the public's health.
Congress stiffs workers
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said the Senate filibuster that defeated legislation providing immediate aid for the 140,000 airline workers who will be laid off as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack 'signals an intention to serve workers last and least at the table of economic recovery.'
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Colombian union leader killed
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Reporting Live
By Lesley Stahl
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Carl Sessions Stepp (firstname.lastname@example.com) began writing for his hometown paper, the Marlboro Herald-Advocate in Bennettsville, South Carolina, in 1963, after his freshman year in high school. He studied journalism at the University of South Carolina, where he edited The Gamecock.
After college, he worked for the St. Petersburg Times and the Charlotte Observer before becoming the first national editor at USA Today in 1982. In 1983, he joined the University of Maryland journalism faculty full time.
In the ensuing 30 years, he also has served as senior editor and book reviewer for AJR, writing dozens of pieces. He has been a visiting writing and editing coach for news organizations in more than 30 states.
Like a growing number of other journalists these days, Lesley Stahl doesn't do that.
Stahl has written a testament, instead, to disturbing changes in the news business, especially television, and characteristically she doesn't tiptoe around the point. This is the story, in her words, "of my ride on the decline of network news."
For a quarter century, all at CBS, Stahl has performed in a variety of high-profile capacities: covering Watergate, reporting from the White House, hosting "Face the Nation," corresponding for "60 Minutes."
Stahl considers herself less flamboyant than some of her contemporaries (Sam Donaldson, for instance) and less glamorous than some female peers who pioneered alongside her (Diane Sawyer, for one), but when you think of it she has been a steady, friendly and capable companion through a lot of years and a wealth of news.
Her experiences mean something, and her book, though imperfect and incomplete, will speak to journalists on many levels. It is, first, a readable autobiography of a determined reporter. It is an inside look at the special pressures TV piles onto women. It is a lesson in surviving the jungle of newsroom politics. It is a candid study of how a news job shreds hopes for a normal personal life. And it is a depressing account of riding the dinosaur of quality broadcast news.
This is a lot to attempt, but while Stahl has little that's truly original or surprising to report, her story offers insights and lessons on each theme.
• The autobiography: Oddly, Stahl tells almost nothing of her life before joining CBS in 1972 with two other "affirmative action babies," and she stops the book abruptly with her move to "60 Minutes" in 1991. But we learn much about her work habits (she's tenacious, a tough questioner, a master at gathering scoops by pestering source after source after source); her sweet-and-sour relationship with CBS anchor Dan Rather ("intense and barbed-wiry," but "one of the most generous men in the company"); and her dates with, among others, Bob Woodward and Bob Dole.
Describing the presidents she covered, Stahl jabs like a prizefighter. Jimmy Carter comes across as ineffective, cold and "petty," Ronald Reagan as lazy, erratic and perhaps senile, and George Bush, though likable, as an image-oriented lightweight.
• The matter of gender: Smart, able and attractive, Stahl discloses a surprising insecurity and self-consciousness. She refers to herself as "this new face with the long blond hair" and even as "helmet head," for the buckets of hair spray she applied. She succumbed to taking both smile lessons and acting lessons, and she confesses to being "a sucker for anything that suggested an entrée into the Men's Fraternity." Early on, for career reasons, she ducked a chance to join a fledgling women's committee at CBS, but eventually she "began to crave the company of women" and helped start a lunch group of powerful media women. As late as her arrival at "60 Minutes," she was enduring sexist insults. "I hate your hair," "60 Minutes" commander Don Hewitt is quoted as telling her. "You have to change it." And she did.
• Surviving the jungle: Joining a CBS Washington bureau brimming with broadcast hall of famers, Stahl was assigned a back-corridor desk (but no chair) and generally snubbed by the high-riding sons of Murrow. I don't know if it is petty score-settling or welcome candor, but Stahl's shots hit some big names: David Brinkley calling her a "pretty blonde" who should stay out of journalism; Roger Mudd considering the Senate press gallery his "private domain" and fleeing the room, complaining, "You're wearing too much perfume"; Daniel Schorr falsely accusing her of stealing papers from his desk and leaking them to another reporter.
She acknowledges being difficult. "Trust me," she confides at one point, "I lived up to all the 'bitch' whispers." But she ascended steadily, despite the obstacles, through talent, doggedness and a nose for good stories.
• Balancing the family: Most journalists should appreciate Stahl's brutal honesty about the personal-professional conflicts dogging the news business. Stahl lays out everything from her complicated relationship with her mother (who warned her "never have children" and "bought my clothes until I was 30") to her husband Aaron Latham's excruciating battle with depression. From her daughter Taylor's birth in 1977, Stahl "fretted that I wasn't a good parent," felt guilt that Latham served as Taylor's primary caregiver, and seemed to alternate between being an invisible parent and orchestrating family vacations.
One of the book's most vivid scenes occurs in a taxi, where Mike Wallace, who himself has struggled with depression, grabs Stahl by the shoulders and commands her to get Latham to a doctor. "You find a way," Wallace orders. "Whatever it takes."
"My eyes burned with tears," Stahl confesses. "Why hadn't I come to this on my own?"
• The decline of TV news: Stahl documents the sad decline of the once-golden CBS News department: the slashed news staff, a growing fixation on profit, tabloidization, increasing demands to water down critical copy. "There was a new ethic at CBS...going for the buck was the first, second and third priority," she writes. Again, she names names. She felt onetime CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter "was downgrading us to some second-rate tabloid" and toning down coverage in hopes of winning business concessions from federal regulators. Former CBS Chairman Larry Tisch, who masterminded cutback after cutback, "was the reason I was having a recurring dream that CBS was crumbling."
After building her dismal case, Stahl then devotes just one final paragraph to her leap to "60 Minutes": "I smiled all that day...and I haven't stopped yet, eight years later." Is that her message: News is dead, long live newsmagazines? She doesn't say, and I guess we will have to wait for her next installment. Maybe she'll call it "60 Minutes II."


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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
October 05, 2011
First Entry Joins High-Efficiency Commercial AC Challenge
DOE announced on October 4 that it has received the first official submission by a manufacturer to a voluntary challenge for a new generation of high-efficiency air conditioners for commercial buildings. DOE will begin testing the new Daikin McQuay's "Rebel" unit from McQuay International to determine whether it meets the high energy-efficiency performance levels outlined by the challenge. The challenge aims to reduce current AC energy use by 50% to 60%. The challenge is part of DOE's broad efforts to partner with industry in support of innovative building technologies that will reduce energy use, save money, and increase competitiveness.
The new performance criteria and challenge were developed through DOE's Commercial Building Energy Alliance. DOE brought together major U.S. companies representing a significant portion of the U.S. market to develop new performance criteria for 10-ton capacity commercial air conditioners, also known as rooftop units or RTUs. Participating companies have shared their intent to purchase equipment that meets the challenge. Entrants to the challenge will undergo testing by DOE in partnership with its Oak Ridge and Pacific Northwest national laboratories.
Commercial buildings currently account for 18 percent of U.S. energy use. Nationwide, if all the 10-ton commercial units currently sold in a given year were built using these criteria, businesses could save about $50 million a year in energy costs. Those savings would continue to add up over the life of the unit. See the DOE press release, previous coverage in EERE Network News, and the Commercial Building Energy Alliances website.


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A thick, unrelenting heat permeated the Louisiana sets of "12 Years a Slave" -- 100-degree-plus temperatures so intense they stifled breath. The moment a scene wrapped, cast and crew would take refuge in air-conditioned cars parked nearby. One member of the ensemble, however, stayed outdoors: Lupita Nyong'o, a 30-year-old newcomer who plays Patsey, the favorite slave of a sadistic plantation master.
"In that kind of condition, we all wanted to find even the tiniest comfort we could get," recalled Chiwetel Ejiofor, the lead actor in the movie about a free Northerner who is abducted and sold into slavery in the South. "We were all sitting in the SUV, and she'd be standing outside, just out there in the mode of it."
Portraying Patsey would be a harrowing challenge for even a veteran actress -- the character is raped, whipped, beaten and assaulted. But Nyong'o arrived in Louisiana last summer only weeks after graduating from the Yale School of Drama, having beat out 1,000 other actresses for the part -- her first feature film role ever. To prepare, the Kenya native visited Baltimore's National Great Blacks in Wax Museum to learn more about slavery and had intense discussions about the character with director Steve McQueen.
"Patsey didn't have the luxury of making her situation precious, so I felt I owed it to her memory to just roll up my sleeves and do the work," Nyong'o explained. "I wasn't ever truly rid of Patsey. From the moment Steve called me to offer me the part to the moment we wrapped -- and maybe a few weeks after that -- I couldn't sleep. The place I had to go emotionally, the intimidation of working with these actors -- there was a lot going on in my head."
Her efforts appear to have paid off. With critics heralding her turn in "12 Years a Slave" as the movie's breakout performance, Nyong'o is already being called a lock in the supporting actress category at the Oscars.
"It's kind of unprecedented for one of our graduates to have this much success so quickly," said Ron Van Lieu, chair of the acting program at Yale. "It took Meryl (Streep) many more years. I think it's a little scary."
If all the attention is fazing Nyong'o, she's not showing it. In the week leading up to the film's opening, she had, in the span of seven days, flown from New York to New Orleans to Los Angeles, attended multiple screenings and participated in more than half a dozen Q&A sessions. Despite the grueling schedule, her face showed no sign of exhaustion over lunch recently at a Beverly Hills hotel, and she carried herself like an off-duty model. Even her outfit -- a simple sweater-and-shorts combination -- looked like the kind of ensemble that would have her singled out by a street style photographer for a fashion magazine.
Ejiofor, a veteran actor who has been by her side throughout the promotional duties, said he has been surprised by how tranquil Nyong'o has remained amid the flurry of attention. "The first time I did a press junket, I was kind of confused," he said. "But you sort of feel like she's been there 1,000 times before."
Nyong'o says she has never been particularly impressed by fame. Her father, Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, is a prominent politician in Kenya who often made the headlines. A political science professor with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he has served as a minister of medical services and is now a member of the Kenyan parliament. But when Nyong'o was a little girl, her dad was still fighting for local democracy and would sometimes disappear for weeks at a time -- in 1989, he was detained for 26 days at a government complex and held in a torture chamber. "I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous," she explained. "So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled."
Nyong'o, who now lives in Brooklyn, says she has been keeping a journal to track her journey through awards season. And she has been calling upon Patsey too to remind her to stay present as she travels from one red carpet to the next.
"Patsey had to be that present, because she had a volatile master whose whims could change at any time," said Nyong'o. "In playing her, I had to employ that kind of mind-set: Just be here right now. It's a principle I've valued since."


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Definition of crummy in English:
(also crumby) informal
adjective (crummier, crummiest; crumbier, crumbiest)
1Dirty, unpleasant, or of poor quality: a crummy little room
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- I've read everything this man has written, with delight: he can't stand crummy design, poor execution, or indifference to the end-user.
- I began going to the local council gym, but I found it unpleasant and crummy so I gave that up too.
- After reviewing his notes in his crummy little room, The Bank Robber comes up with a Plan.
1.1Unwell: I've been feeling pretty crummy the last few days
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- When asked what he thought was making him feel crummy, the young doctor drew a blank.
- When teens are depressed, anxious, insecure, angry, frustrated or just plain feeling crummy inside, they often act out as a way of expressing negative feelings.
- Clearing the air beats sitting home and feeling crummy.
nounNorth American
A truck used to transport loggers to and from work.
Example sentences
- The inside of cabooses reflected the conductor's personal habits and the degree of cleanliness varied with some men being noted for spotless vans while others were much less so giving rise to the age old term for vans as 'crummies'.
- Sure, this comes at the cost of some additional potential wear and tear on the caboose, but crummies are tough and the learning experience seems worth the price.
crummily adverb
- Example sentences
- Viva and I decided to go to some crummily cheap airport hotel just so we could relax for a moment.
- So if you see someone being treated crummily, stick up for them.
- I love paperbacks because I'm very good to my books and I've only had a couple of crummily made ones fall apart, which I can usually fix by repairing the spine with rubber glue.
crumminess noun
- Example sentences
- Saturday was kinda crummy, but not really awful, just general level crumminess.
- I was pretty numb when dad died, but the sheer crumminess of it all sort of dawns on you slowly.
Mid 19th century (earlier in the literal senses 'crumbly' and 'like or covered with crumbs'): variant of crumby.
Words that rhyme with crummyBrummie, chummy, crumby, dummy, gummy, lumme, mummy, plummy, rummy, scrummy, scummy, slummy, tummy, yummy
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