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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the seventh consecutive year, Newstex has been named to the EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry released by EContent magazine today. The list was determined by a panel of content industry experts, including editors, journalists, and consultants from EContent magazine, Information Today, Streaming Media magazine, Info-Pro Publications, Guident Technologies, and ONLINE: Exploring Technology and Resources for Information Professionals.
The twelfth annual EContent 100 list includes companies that led the digital content industry during 2012 in eight categories: content creation, content commerce, digital content provider, distribution and delivery, social media, mobile content, SEO and search analytics, and web content management. Newstex was named to the 2012 EContent 100 list in the distribution and delivery category.
"What truly makes a company successful in the digital world? That's the question we set out to answer with this year's EContent 100 list," explains EContent magazine editor Theresa Cramer. "Submissions for this year's EContent 100 list were better than ever, and again, Newstex came out on top as one of the companies that is leading the way in content delivery and distribution."
The 2012 EContent 100 distribution and delivery category recognizes companies that provide distribution and delivery networks and tools to make publishers' jobs easier by creating new ways for digital content to get in front of people in their inboxes, web browsers, mobile devices, and televisions. "Newstex worked diligently in 2012 to expand our Authoritative Content delivery and distribution offerings, particularly through mobile devices," says Newstex president Larry Schwartz. "We're honored to be included on the EContent 100 list for the seventh year in a row and to be recognized for our hard work creating more opportunities for publishers to distribute their content and for consumers to access it."
The complete 2012 EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry can be viewed in the December 2012 issue of EContent magazine or online at www.econtentmag.com.
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Newstex LLC (www.newstex.com) editorially selects Authoritative Content producers from offline and online sources (including thousands of top newspapers, publications, experts, professionals, government officials, companies, and more), enhances that content to make it easier to find relevant information, and delivers that content through respected content distributors and mobile applications to end-users in professional fields such as journalism, business, academia, law, government, and more. Newstex provides content from leading news and blog organizations (such as Gizmodo, Gawker, Above the Law, Foreign Policy Association Blogs Network, Talking Points Memo, 24/7 Wall St., The National Law Review, ProPublica, and The Business Insider), and popular Twitter publishers. Newstex also develops and operates mobile apps for companies like LexisNexis, PR Newswire, and CQ Roll Call.
Since the company's inception in 2004, Newstex has been recognized for its innovation and contributions through numerous digital media and content awards and has been named to the EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry for seven consecutive years. For more information, visit the Newstex site at www.newstex.com and the Newstex blog at newstex.com/newstexblog.
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Project suffered an excess of ambition, irresponsible contractors, and a broken management structure
The plan was to consolidate a slew of expensive and largely redundant data service platforms at the
U.S. Air Force
(USAF) down to a more cohesive collection. The move was supposed to yield billions in savings by locating and selling redundant parts (roughly half of the USAF's
$31B USD in parts
is thought to be redundant or unneeded). The new platform of services would come online, just in the nick of time to complete a massive looming 2017 audit.
I. Too Much Ambition, Too Little Execution
Grover Dunn, the Air Force director of transformation at the time remarked, "We've never tried to change all the processes, tools and languages of all 250,000 people in our business at once, and that's essentially what we're about to do."
However, the transition never finished. And last month the USAF was forced to make the embarrassing admission that after investing $1.03B USD since 2005,
the transformation was being scrapped
after it was deemed that the program had failed to yield "any significant military capability".
The USAF is being forced to stick with dated hardware stretching back to the 1970s, after fumbling a major infrastructure upgrade bid. [Image Source: A1C-Meyer]
The decision was also made when contractor Computer Sciences Corp. (
) -- the lead system integrator -- gave a dire prediction that the project would not be ready until 2020, would only implement a quarter of the original promised scope, and would cost $8B USD.
The military plan, which was based off of commercial off-the-shelf software ("COTS"), would be rather ambitious for a more homogenous large corporation. Amidst a defense division with a myriad of special needs it was incredibly over ambitious, as Director Dunn's comment suggests.
II. Experts Predicted Program Was in Trouble
So the question people are asking is why it took the USAF $1B USD -- mostly handed to CSC -- to recognize the futility of the effort.
Jamie M. Morin, assistant secretary of the Air Force,
testified before a subcommittee
of the
Senate's Armed Services Committee
and did not mince words about the astonishing nature of the software services SNAFU. He comments, "I am personally appalled at the limited capabilities that program has produced relative to that amount of investment."
Paul K. Ketrick and Graeme R. Douglas of the
Institute for Defense Analyses
warned of the upcoming failure last year, and suggested the sinking USAF effort was not alone. In their
2011 report
they estimated that since 2009 $5.9B USD was spent on such software across the
U.S. Department of Defense
, with only some smaller programs showing success.
The pair believe that a key determinant of success or failure is the size of the program and whether the DoD makes the mistake of appointing a single director over an overly broad effort, as with the USAF program.
Mr. Douglas to
The New York Times
, "[The successes] got there because they had strong leadership who committed to the program and had the authority to make the changes necessary for success. It's rare that a single leader in the Department of Defense has the authority over the span of activities [as with the USAF]."
USAF has terminated the $1B+ USD data project, and now may lose up to $15.5B USD in savings the project would have gained by cutting redundant parts. [Image Source: Unknown]
Now left with software and hardware that dates as far back as the 1970s, the USAF is expected to have to try to scrape by on the 2017 audit with the old platforms. Most expect the audit to go poorly. So is the USAF to blame for poor planning? Experts certainly think so.
But so far there haven't been reports of cohesive repercussions for the DoD officials and contractors involved. The USAF is carrying on as if the situation is normal when in fact it is all [fouled] up.
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RE: Why blame the Dod without blaming the Contractor(s)?
Use English. Gubment? Erm...
Anyway, the government doles out cash to mega corps to design and estimate costs for production. They have to oversee even this research process, because if they do decide to go with any of the proposed options then it must be secure from the start.
Just PLANNING something like a superior fighting aircraft or naval ship costs in the multi-millions. Actually building it will cost so much more if proper research isn't done ahead of time, because if they have to do research to figure issues out as they're building it then they have wasted waste time/material/payroll, The original estimated building costs will have to be raised and spiral out of control. This makes the DOD quite unhappy but these mega corps have to remain profitable and canceling a project midway is not good for anyone's business. Switching plans would simply cost the government double. Once they choose a design plan they must stick with it, even if it seems to be a poor choice (ie the JSF).
This is why the DOD forces companies to compete within set limitations, and why it scruitinizes plans so heavily. You have to realize though, that making a choice on proposed plans from multiple defense contractors also costs the government a lot of money. So at some point they have to curb THOSE costs and just make an educated decision to the best of their ability. We should all know that with state-of the-art technologies sometimes things don't work quite as they should. As an aircraft mechanice, I know that it often takes years to iron out issues with aircraft. What seems like a minor change can affect flight quite a lot. Maintenance practices change, maintenance schedules change, parts change, pilot pre-flight checks change, etc. It's a lot more complicated and livid than people realize.
Modern day aircraft have little in common with an automobile, but many people still think they do. Most people don't even understand how a jet engine works even though it is perhaps the simplest of any engine, or how an airfoil and differentiating pressures above and below a wing cause lift.
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5 Parental Dick Moves You Hate (Until You're a Parent)
Being a teenager means realizing your parents are dicks. It's not just that they set rules, it's that sometimes the rules are clearly wrong. And instead of discussing things with you like adults, they just shut down and tell you to go to your room. They forbid you from seeing the girl who is the pure love of your life. They overreact to every little thing.
Well, being a parent means finding yourself doing all of that shit, from the other side. Yes, compared to the way I grew up, I like to think of myself as a fairly normal, level headed parent. But I also let my kids get away with a lot more than most, trying to base their privileges around whatever ability they've shown to handle them. I do it, because I remember when I was growing up, the reason behind being told "no" was, "Because I fucking said so. Now get me a beer before I punch your goddamn soul in half."
So as the guy who tries daily to be the cool but responsible parent, here's why your parents pull dick moves like...
#5. Telling You to Shut Up, Rather Than Discussing It
From a Kid Point of View...
My dad was so good at this. We've already established that he was a violent man, so the biggest rule in the house was to never, ever do anything to even remotely affect his mood. That always ended badly. But as teenage biology demands, eventually you rebel, and even the terrifying atmosphere of that house couldn't keep the dam intact when the waters finally rushed in.
Here's one particularly stupid example: All of us in the house were huge Chicago Bulls fans, and my uncle and I were watching a game when my dad chimed in with, "God, I fucking hate Michael Jordan." I asked why and he responded, "Because he's married to a white woman."
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I forgot to mention that my dad was a racist. You should also know that he was six feet, five inches tall and weighed around 240 pounds. He got into bar fights once a month, and it was usually against more than one guy. I was two inches shorter and one hundred pounds lighter at the time, and the extent of my fighting was with playground bullies half his size. So it was probably unwise of me to correct him.
"No he's not." All of his attention immediately swung my way. He stuck to his "interracial marriage = bad basketball player" argument, but I didn't let it go. I pressed that her name was Juanita Vanoy, and if she was white, she had one hell of a tan. And then I asked why that would even make a difference. He lost his shit, going off about "unnatural relationships" and using a slew of racial slurs that would make Hitler blush. Finally, he cut me off mid sentence, glared into my eyes and threatened, "Say one more fucking word about it."
A tumbleweed blew across the living room.
Now that I'm a Parent...
In an effort to be absolutely the polar opposite of my own dad, I had always promised to never do that "shut up because I'm bigger than you" thing. Good parents want to be like Cliff Huxtable, always talking things out on the sofa, working through the logic of every rule, patiently explaining their side in every disagreement. But there are limits. And as a parent, you will find yourself doing the, "And I don't want to hear any more about it!" thing. There are three reasons this comes up, and if you're a teenager reading this, you're going to love the first one...
Some of the time, yes, it's because we have realized that we're wrong and our ego has been bruised. You have to remember that even though we're parents and we're considered authority figures, we're also still human. We have egos just like you do, and we want to win, and to be right. Once we realize that we're on the losing side of an argument, or that we have in fact been unreasonable, the easiest way to back out is to launch the argument nuke that is, "This conversation is over. Go to your room!" Boom. Instant win.
But don't stop reading there, kids. Because the second reason we do this is that the child is using a tactic that they know often works: Making so much noise, for so long, that we just give in. These are pointless arguments that are designed to never end. No matter what I say, they automatically say the opposite because to them, that's what an argument is. It's not an attempt to bring the other person around via any kind of logic, it's just a test of stamina. And ultimately, the kid has more time and energy than the parent. So for us, it's just a choice between shutting it down, or giving in. And the thing the teenager wants us to give in to is often stupid as hell.
And then there is that third reason, the one you have to be careful of depending on what type of parent you have. Sometimes we cut off the argument because we can feel it escalating into the red zone. No, I'm not talking about gluing shards of glass to my hands and punching my kids like Jean Claude Van-Damme in Kickboxer. I'm saying that for every parent, there is a level of anger that is dangerous -- you'll say something, or do something, or show something that's not good for anybody involved. When the kid gets to be a certain age, it can work the other way, too -- you can see that the argument is winding the kid up to a level where they're not in control any more. In cases like this, the argument nuke is saving you both.
#4. Forbidding Relationships
From a Kid Point of View...
I had just graduated high school, but I was dating someone who was younger than me. She was nine.
Well, no, not really. But she was still in high school and legally underage, and we weren't having sex for that reason. My parents knew about the relationship and it pissed off my father, even though both of us were white. Dad and I had full-blown arguments about it. This is a man who wanted to get me a prostitute for my twelfth birthday because he was clinically fucking insane.
"Oh, you're so cute, I could just eat you up! For fifty bucks, I'll put my tongue in your ass!"
Anyway, my girlfriend came over to visit one day while my dad and I were outside, working on his car. Which meant I would bring him beer while he yelled "stupid cocksucker" at an engine. When she arrived, he sent me back inside for another beer. When I came back out, she was gone. Which was strange because we were around each other pretty much every day, and we were closer than any relationship I had ever been in at that point in my life. We never left without at least saying goodbye.
It turns out that dad had sent me inside on purpose, and while I was away, he said some pretty brutal things to her -- which to this day, I have no idea what they were. But they were bad enough to have scared her off, and we pretty much never saw each other again. I didn't find out for quite some time, but when I did, I hated him for it.
He wears a hood to hide his soulless eyes.
Now that I'm a Parent...
Understand that with my father, there is every chance in the world that he did it to be malicious because I'm convinced he was half demon. And the way he handled it was about as mature as a fifteen year old cheerleader calling another girl fat until she cries in front of the whole class... just because. But I believe that there is a part of him that truly worried about what our relationship could mean for me if anyone pressed the age issue. He probably assumed I was lying about the sex thing, and that's not an unreasonable thing to assume about an 18 year-old male.
And that's the thing. Every teenager thinks that any kind of parental disapproval instantly means their romance is goddamned Romeo and Juliet, a forbidden love too pure for the world to understand. It's easy to sit back and view the parent as a black-hearted, bitter shell of a person, jealous of what you have (the "You've never felt a love like this!" situation). And trust me, no parent enjoys having to intervene and put a stop to a relationship. You don't do it unless you're really, really worried about it.
"No, you're not going out with a guy who legally changed his name to 'Buttfuck McCoy.'"
And sometimes we have reasons to worry. It's easy for a kid to forget that, yes, Dad has dated his share of ladies. Including crazy ladies. Dad has also known many a douchebag male, and can see their type coming a mile away. Dad can spot a meth addict at a glance.
And no, you can't always just let them learn from experience. Obviously I'm not going to hand-pick a girl for my son and arrange a marriage against his will -- if he winds up with a girl or guy or transsexual who I don't personally like, but who makes him happy, so be it. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the kind of relationship that can ruin a person's life. The addict, who wants company in their addiction. The manipulator. And yes, I may some day have a conversation with my daughter about The Creepy Guy Who is Too Old For You.
And they'll hate me for it. Because I've been down those destructive roads, and they haven't, they don't have any context for what I'm saying. Tell them that the butterflies in their stomach shouldn't trump the fact that the object of their love is a meth dealer, and they'll simply interpret that as, "Dad doesn't believe in love." They won't truly get it for years. Most likely until they're parents themselves. But more on that in a moment.
#3. Punishments Way Too Severe for the Offense
From a Kid Point of View...
My parents never cared if I drank. Being alcoholics and drug addicts themselves, maybe they thought they'd be hypocrites if they stopped me. Or maybe they just didn't see anything wrong with it. Regardless of their reasons, one school night when I was fifteen, I decided to go out. Mom didn't see much harm in me replacing my dinner with vodka and Keystone, but I had to be back home before 2am. You know... responsibility and all. The night went exactly as you'd expect, and I walked through the door around 4am.
Bypassing my mother's road map eyes, I sprinted to the bathroom and threw up so much, I was pretty sure whatever I had been drinking was alive and reproducing like liquid Gremlins in my stomach. She followed me to the bathroom and slurred out a verbal smackdown as I calculated the monetary value of the booze that was filling our toilet.
We call this an "Illinois shotglass."
"...and all I ask is that you get your ass home when I tell you to. Well, you can kiss your partying goodbye for the next two weeks because you're fucking grounded!"
"Grounded? How can you tell me I'm grounded when you blarrrrrgghhhlllbbllgll!"
She stormed out of the room and left me to my misery. But the next two weeks were filled with nonstop fighting. I made all the points a normal, rebellious teenager would make. She drank, so why shouldn't I be able to? She stayed out late, why shouldn't I? I mean, I was younger and could actually handle the hangover and lack of sleep better than she could. How could she possibly give me shit about coming home two hours late when there were times we didn't see her for twenty-four hours solid?
Our mom was studying to be Courtney Love.
Now that I'm a Parent...
OK, if you're a kid, I'm hoping your example of "Mom is being unreasonable!" is more along the lines of her grounding you for a month for catching you with a single beer at age 17, or for being a half hour late for curfew even though you totally had a good reason. The point is, every kid has a time where it seems like Mom and Dad just threw out a punishment for the hell of it. Well, here's why they do it:
Fear, that we're not doing enough to teach our kids, fear that they're going to stop listening to us, and mess up their lives in some unfixable way. Remember, parents are trainers. Our job isn't to just keep you alive until you're legally allowed to get the fuck out of our house. It's to pass along as much knowledge as possible to ensure that you have every fighting chance of being successful when you're on your own. And this is all done under an extremely tight deadline. We're cramming 30-plus years of our own experiences and lessons into a tiny decade-long window between the age when you're actually old enough to listen, and when you're old enough to shut us out.
"Shit, two minutes! Quick -- learn finances!"
So to a parent, the clock is always ticking -- faster and faster every time you have a birthday. Our job is to make sure that we leave as little as possible for you to learn by trial and error, because the error isn't always something you can recover from (for instance, drinking and driving). So an out-of-the-blue punishment that seems way out of proportion to the crime is often due to that fear, that we're not getting through. If it gets to where the kid just factors in the punishments as part of the price of having fun, then we've failed.
So when you do something wrong, it isn't a case of us using the punishment as a weapon. Yes, we may be mad when we hand that punishment out, but that's not why we do it (hopefully). We do it out of sheer panic. Even if the grounding is because you refused to listen to us, the lesson isn't so much, "You'll pay for your insolence," as it is, "We don't have time for this. You have to learn that there are consequences for disobeying me because all of the other lessons you'll learn from me require that you listen."


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Our Solar System seems like a pretty tight club. We've got the Sun keeping it all together and eight planets, including us, the self-proclaimed "blue marble," Earth. There's also a cabal of moons, asteroids and tiny Pluto, which was downgraded (to much Facebook lamenting) to a "dwarf planet" in 2006.
What you might now know, though, is that Pluto actually joined a mysterious group of four faraway dwarfs orbiting our sun, a sect scientists know little about. They do have awesome names, though, like Ceres, Haumea, and Eris (which is actually bigger than Pluto).
The one astronomers are currently excited about is Makemake, a dwarf planet about two-thirds the size of Pluto circling around in the outer solar system. Details about Makemake have eluded researchers until this year, making it the most secretive of the dwarfs.
In April, 2011, Makemake passed between the Earth and distant star Nomad 1181-0235723, allowing astronomers to make crucial judgments about the dwarf's atmosphere, size and density.
"As Makemake passed in front of the star and blocked it out, the star disappeared and reappeared very abruptly, rather than fading and brightening gradually. This means that the little dwarf planet has no significant atmosphere," says José Luis Ortiz of Spain's Andalucian Institute of Astrophysics and leader of the international team that tracked Makemake. "It was thought that Makemake had a good chance of having developed an atmosphere — that it has no sign of one at all shows just how much we have yet to learn about these mysterious bodies."
Makemake's distance means observing the dwarf is difficult and stellar occultations (when an object passes between the Earth and a star) are very rare because it orbits in a region with few stars. Observers cobbled together data from several telescopes around South America, especially a handful in Chile.
The international effort required intense collaboration and attention to detail. Timing was critical; Makemake only blocked the light of Nomad 1181-0235723 for about a minute.
Astronomers originally thought chilly Makemake had developed an atmosphere like Pluto or Eris, but this appears to not be the case.
"Pluto, Eris and Makemake are among the larger examples of the numerous icy bodies orbiting far away from our Sun," Ortiz continues, "Our new observations have greatly improved our knowledge of one of the biggest, Makemake — we will be able to use this information as we explore the intriguing objects in this region of space further."


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MARTINSBURG - Voters in the Eastern Panhandle have long felt disconnected from Charleston, Patrick Morrisey said.
After his victory over longtime state Attorney General Darrell McGraw in Tuesday's election, though, Morrisey said he hopes to change that.
"I'll ensure that all parts of the state are going to get effective representation, and that includes the Eastern Panhandle, who has suffered for too long without adequate representation," Morrisey said in a telephone interview with The Journal late Tuesday night.
The race was tight, with Morrisey winning 51 percent to 49 percent over the five-term incumbent.
Morrisey said he plans to restore ethics to state government and the attorney general's office, especially in light of the concerns of his home region.
"The Eastern Panhandle was not happy with some of the unethical practices going on in the attorney general's office, and we're going to follow through on our plan to change how that office operates," he said. "That's going to be important, because if people in the Eastern Panhandle and across the state see that their attorney general acts with ethics in office, that's going to make the state more friendly from a business perspective. Businesses like predictability and want to have consistency from their attorney general, and that's what they're going to have as a result of this election."
Morrisey is the first Eastern Panhandle native to be elected to a statewide government role in several decades. He said he looks forward to helping the area, and the whole state, flourish from his new office.
"We're going to be sitting down with people from across the state, including the Eastern Panhandle, to talk about ways we can create a more dynamic business environment in the state," he said. "The Eastern Panhandle will be poised to benefit from that approach."
Morrisey is a health care lawyer from Harpers Ferry.


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GENEVA (23 October 2013) – States that have ratified the UN Women's Rights Convention are obliged to uphold women's rights before, during and after conflict when they are directly involved in fighting, are providing peacekeeping troops or donor assistance for conflict prevention, humanitarian aid or post-conflict reconstruction, a key UN women's rights committee has said in a landmark document.
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) also said that ratifying States should exercise due diligence in ensuring that non-State actors, such as armed groups and private security contractors, be held accountable for crimes against women.
CEDAW's position is set out in General Recommendation No 30*, a document that gives authoritative guidance to countries that have ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women on measures they need to take to ensure women's rights are protected in conflict prevention, conflict and post conflict situations.
"This document is comprehensive. It includes recognition of women's central role in preventing conflict and in rebuilding devastated countries," said CEDAW Chair Nicole Ameline. "Women's experiences are regularly dismissed as irrelevant for predicting conflict, and women's participation in conflict prevention has historically been low," Ms. Ameline said. "But in reality, there is for example a strong correlation between an increase in gender-based violence and the outbreak of conflict."
The General Recommendation, the drafting of which was led over a three-year period by Committee Vice-Chair Pramila Patten of Mauritius, spells out States' obligations under the Convention, including due diligence obligations to prevent, investigate, punish and ensure redress for crimes against women by non-State actors.
"No longer is it enough to say that such acts are outside the scope of state responsibility of the Convention," Ms Ameline stressed.
CEDAW adopted its General Recommendation on 18 October, the same day as the UN Security Council Resolution 2122, which stresses the importance of women's involvement in conflict prevention, resolution and peace-building.
The General Recommendation highlights the need for a concerted and integrated approach that places the Security Council agenda into the broader framework of the implementation of the UN Women's Rights Convention.
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By Carolyn M.
Clancy, M.D.
September 15,
It's easy to take
medicines for granted. When we're sick, we may
take a drug a few times a day to relieve our
symptoms. Then, when we're feeling better, we go
back to our daily routine.
But some
medicines, such as blood thinner pills, require
you to make lifestyle changes, such as taking
them at the same time each day and making sure
you don't injure yourself. These changes are
important for you to stay safe and healthy.
Each year, nearly
2 million Americans start taking a blood thinner
pill to prevent
blood clots from forming in their
bloodstream. Blood clots can lead to strokes,
heart attacks, or other serious health
If your doctor
thinks you are at risk for having a blood clot
because you can't move around easily or you've
had recent surgery or an injury, your doctor may
put you on a blood thinner.
Blood thinners,
also called anti-coagulants, work very well when
they're taken correctly. Because they help your
blood flow more easily, blood thinners lower
your risk of developing dangerous blood clots.
But blood
thinners also increase your chance of bleeding.
When taking a blood thinner, you need to be
careful when going about your daily routine. For
example, you should take extra care to avoid
getting cuts from sharp instruments, such as
knives, tools, or other sharp objects. You must
also carefully follow your doctor's instructions
about your diet and how much of and how often to
take your blood thinner.
Like learning to
drive a car, taking blood thinners will require
you to learn and practice several important
steps so they become habits. To help patients
remember these steps, my agency, the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), recently
made a
video (17.6 MB [Transcript])
and produced a
consumer guide. These tools will help you
get the best results from your blood thinner.
The video
describes the "BEST" way for you to remember
important tips about blood thinners. BEST stands
Taking a blood
thinner does require you to make adjustments in
your lifestyle. But just a few changes, followed
each day, will ensure you're getting the
benefits you need from this medicine. By
following the BEST way and talking with your
doctor, you'll help your blood thinner work well
and safely for you.
I'm Dr. Carolyn
Clancy, and that's my advice on how to navigate
the health care system.
Staying Active and Healthy with Blood
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for Healthcare Research and Quality
Blood Thinner Pills: Using Them Safely
Your Guide to
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Current as of September 2009
Internet Citation:
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So Bad It's Good – This Means War
By Alexander Goodlive
Imagine that two secret agents coincidentally fall in love with the same, down-home blonde-haired Reese Witherspoon… Just imagine that. Now let's imagine that these two secret agents are actually James T. Kirk and Bane in a series of one-upping Bash Brothers mayhem. Witherspoon meets Tom Hardy on an online date, while Chris Pine heaps a massive dose of Casanova fail on her, though she is slowly charmed by his loveable narcissism. Oh, and Chelsea Handler is the best friend, obliging her duties by giving exposition to the NSA-style setup the agents arranged in order to learn everything about the girl.
Doesn't that sound awesome?
Oh, it is, but not for the reasons it intended to be.


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Students enrolling in the MBA, MBATM, and the Project Based MBA programs during the 2016-2017 academic year will pay a "fixed" price of $53,550 for the entire program (39 credits), charged at the rate of $1,373 per credit hour.
Tuition is charged each semester based on the number of credits the student is taking in that semester. Tuition for the semester (including 1st and 2nd blocks) is due the first day of the semester. Tuition for any classes that are added after that day will be due the same day the class is added.


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Hoard's Dairyman: Free spreadsheet lets you ask feeding "what ifs"
Free spreadsheet lets you ask feeding "what ifs"
By Victor E. Cabera, Randy D. Shaver, and Michel A. Wattiaux
The authors are in the Dairy Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Large milk and feed price fluctuations create anxiety and uncertainties. Profit margin may shrink rapidly when milk price goes down and supplemental feed prices go up. In today's economic climate, it is more important than ever to make sure you make decisions that maximize return on feed expenses. The cost and the milk response to feed supplements especially are important because these are critical economic factors. Supplements, on one side, make more of the feed expenses, which at the same time are the big ticket expense in your dairy, and milk, on the other side, is by far the most important revenue generator.
Traditional diet formulation is based on finding the least-cost ration that provides the lowest level of required nutrients for a desired level of milk production. Typically, traditional diet formulation does not consider changes in milk production due to changes in protein (CP), rumen degradable protein (RDP), and rumen undegradable protein (RUP) that could be fine-tuned to get the most income-over-feed cost.
Consider this situation for a group of Holsteins with an average of 100 days-in-milk and 80 pounds of milk per day. According to the National Research Council equations, these cows should be consuming 53.7 pounds of dry matter intake per day.
Now, suppose that 50 percent of the dry matter is provided through forage which is composed of equal parts of corn silage and alfalfa silage. Therefore, these cows already are receiving 7.7 percent of crude protein (1.8 percent rumen undegradable protein and 5.9 percent rumen degradable protein) from the forages. If the target protein in diet is 18 percent (6.5 percent rumen undegradable protein and 11.5 percent rumen degradable protein), then the supplements could provide the difference, up to 9.2 percent crude protein (4.8 percent rumen undegradable protein and 5.6 percent rumen degradable protein).
Keep in mind that the supplement sources have different compositions of crude protein, rumen undegradable protein, and rumen degradable protein which not only complete the protein requirements but also impact milk productivity. Assuming that the proportion of forage in the diet is fixed for the farm, our goal then is to find the combination of supplements that will provide the greatest difference between milk value and feed supplement costs.
We will use an example to illustrate what we have learned in developing and using the Income Over Feed Supplement Cost (IOFSC). (See link below.) Let's suppose that the group of cows described currently receives 20.9 pounds corn and 6.0 pounds soybean meal. Under this diet, each cow in this group would have on average a $5.20-a-day of income- over-feed supplement cost (IOFSC) using February 2009 feed and milk prices . . . $9.40 per hundredweight milk, $3.54 per bushel corn, and $300 per ton soybean meal.
However, under the same price structure, this IOFSC could be as much as $5.54 a day if the sources and proportions of supplemental feeds are fine-tuned. This 34 cents additional IOFSC could be realized, for example, if the supplements are 17.6 pounds of corn, 4.2 pounds of soybean meal, and 5 pounds of corn distillers grains (at $140 per ton). However, this is just an example. The actual combination of supplement will vary substantially, depending on the availability of feed supplements, your own feed costs, and your milk price.
You also should consider fine-tuning total crude protein in the diet. The targets of rumen undegradable protein and rumen degradable protein and, consequently, the target for crude protein in diet is a parameter that could be adjusted further. Knowing the main supplement sources, there still is an opportunity to define a level of crude protein that would improve your return.
In the above example, corn is the main energy supplement, and soybean meal is the main protein supplement. Therefore, you could, for example, substitute corn grain for soybean meal targeting crude protein levels between 16 and 18 percent to find out the level of crude protein that maximizes your margin. In the above example, the IOFSC would reach a plateau at 17.6 percent crude protein level after which no further increment of crude protein content is warranted. Furthermore, if, for example, the soybean meal price would go up 50 percent ($450 per ton), a diet containing 16.7 percent crude protein would have a better IOFSC ($4.76) than a diet containing 18 percent crude protein ($4.69), although milk production would not be as high.
Run your numbers . . .
Nevertheless, you need to run your own numbers. Every situation is different, and because of that we have created a user-friendly computerized (PC-based) tool that could help you with this task. The IOFSC, along with a fact sheet and instructions, are freely available at the University of Wisconsin Extension Dairy Management website: http://www.dairymgt.info/ under "Management Tools." Click on the title "Income Over Feed Supplement Cost." This Excel spreadsheet tool uses linear programming to maximize the IOFSC for defined parameters of cow productive characteristics, availability of supplements, and economic parameters. After finding the optimal IOFSC, the tool could further assist you to analyze whether a drop in crude protein is justified under your own conditions.
Where to find the spreadsheet
Application: Income Over Feed Supplement Cost (IOFSC®)
Available at: http://www.dairymgt.info/tools.php
Income Over Feed Supplement Cost (IOFSC).
Victor E. Cabrera, Assistant Professor,
Extension Specialist,
279 Animal Sciences Building,
Madison WI 53706,
(608) 265-8506


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From London to late night!
After captivating the nation during the Olympics, gold medalist Gabby Douglas appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Monday.
Douglas – who told Leno she "definitely" plans to compete in the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro – carried her two gold medals on stage, giving one to Leno and one to fellow guest, Michelle Obama.
Douglas made history when she won the all-around gymnastics competition at the Olympics, making the young athlete the first African-American woman to do so. She also won gold in the team final alongside fellow Team USA gymnasts Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney, Alexandra Raisman and Kyla Ross.
With the London Games finished, Douglas admitted she celebrated her victories by indulging in fast food.
"You're setting me back, Gabby," Obama, who is a health advocate, teased.
"Sorry!" Douglas replied.
Leno later asked the gymnast if winning gold at the Olympics was everything she had dreamed.
"I think it's very different and when I mean 'different,' it's in a better way. I mean, I never thought I would be doing the show with the First Lady, or even you, Jay," she said.
Gabby Douglas Shows Off Gold Medal to Michelle Obama on Tonight Show
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Since 2007, Britt has held the position of assistant professor of management at Charleston Southern University. During this time, he has served as a faculty trainer for online programs and the assistant dean in charge of online program expansion. He has also overseen the development of more than 50 online courses, and developed and implemented a faculty training certification program for online instruction.
His many contributions to the CSU College of Adult and Professional Studies have allowed Britt's name to be known among students and colleagues alike.
Since the day Kelly Cooper, online campus recruiter and adjunct instructor, came on board at Charleston Southern University, she began to hear Britt's name in conversation, starting with fellow staff members and then faculty across campus. Once she began working with students, it never failed that his name would come up, especially during registration when they would always ask which courses he was teaching.
"Not only is David an excellent professor who knows his subject matter well, but he is also a great communicator and shows genuine concern for his students," she said.
A frequent traveler, Britt even goes so far as to let his online students know if he's in a city near them and makes every effort to meet with them in person, bringing the online classroom to a face-to-face environment whenever he can. Cooper also described Britt's attentiveness in the online classroom, as he comments on every discussion post and contacts struggling students to see how he can help.
"David is an inspiration to me as an online professor," she said. "He does his job incredibly well, and this is evident in the success of his students as well as our department as a whole."
To bring the online classroom face-to-face, Britt likes to use instructional tools like Screenr Presentations, Skype, and Jing. He uses Skype as a virtual office to meet with students, Screenr Presentations to visually and orally guide students through their papers, and Jing for instructional occasions — for example, a virtual demonstration of how students can use and access peer-review research through the university's online library's database.
And his effort to reach students through multiple technologies is certainly effective. They praise him for his informational video lectures, frequent feedback on assignments, quick responses to emails, and willingness to go the extra mile to make sure course material is understood and mastered.
Jessica Boensch, a former student of Britt, described him as an outstanding professor who did whatever it took to personally reach out to his students and ensure they were successful e-learners.
"Even though he teaches in the online platform, he tries to make personal contact with the students," she said. "I was having problems in one of my courses and he arranged a phone conference with me for two hours. He encouraged every student in the class to do this. He seemed to really care about his students in and out of the classroom."
Former student Christy Jackson agreed that Britt is amazing at what he does, noting that while his class was one of the hardest she has ever taken, it was also the one that taught her the most and made the most impact on her education.
"He doesn't just put assignments out there and leave you to figure them out on your own," she said. "He gives you support and supplemental information to help you gain a true understanding of the topic. He goes above and beyond the call of duty to ensure students are successful."
A successful student himself, Britt holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University and a Master of Business Administration from Charleston Southern University. Currently, he is working on a Doctor of Business Administration at Walden University.
In addition to his teaching experience and academic accomplishments, Britt's resume boasts 25 years of extensive business experience in the areas of small business ownership, business consulting, and sales and marketing. This includes 20 years of consumer products sales management experience and more than 10 years in which he combined successful business experiences and principles into actionable solutions for clients, the majority of which was targeted toward small businesses, associations, and nonprofits. It is this business experience in multiple industries that Britt tries to integrate into his teaching to help the material come alive for students.
It's a method that appears to be working, as evidenced by current student John Strubel's response as to why Britt deserved to be the 2013 Online College Professor of the Year. "Professor Britt is a skilled communicator and his experience in the field he teaches provides students with knowledge that goes far beyond what can be gleaned from a textbook," he said. "When we want to learn something, we also approach a person who's done it. Professor Britt has successfully worked for small and large corporations. His knowledge is relevant and educational."
While his breadth of experience beyond instruction, including program and course development, gives him a well-rounded approach to online education, his passion remains with instruction. As an instructor in a virtual classroom, Britt connects with students through his online personality and encourages online faculty to do the same.
"Successful online faculty are those who can transcend the technology and not just use it," he said. "My online 'personality' is one that provides quick responses, detailed comments, and a mentoring spirit."
Britt plans on donating the $1,000 award he receives as the winner of the 2013 Online College Professor of the Year contest to CSU's University Scholarship Fund, as the online program is targeted toward working adults.
"Many (most) of my students are making a tremendous commitment to return to college and complete their degree," he said. "This commitment includes time, money, and much more. This commitment encourages me. I just wanted to recognize their commitment by giving the money back to the university's scholarship fund.
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lets debate on who is cooler!
Well, seeing as how I compare Lelouch and Light Yagami I'd have to go with Sasuke. lol I know LIght wasn't a part of this question, but the two of them seem to be very similar which makes me lean towards Sasuke, even though I'm a Kakashi fan-girl. "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever! "
"I Am The 'Who' When You Call, 'Who's There?' "
i like lelouch. it is amazing how he creates his plans and executes them like a chess game. his geass power is also practical for his plans.
But I pick Lelouch because... I dont know really, smarter? (Smart over Strength?)
i like lelouch more! "blood isnt enough..."
I like Code Geass much more than Naruto, but I would probably like to meet sasuke more.
i dont know about that one i like both if they are on ill watch them
Although Sasuke comes pretty close.... Likes headphones... A lot.
"some things are better left unknown"
I'll so really like to meat him becasue I love strategy games for the computer and games like checkers.
Lelouch! Sasuke's awesome and all, but Lelouch is just so much better!
sasuke is better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lelouch cheats and sasuke don't ha!!!!!!!


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This is the state of my bike at the moment. I'm in the middle of tearing down/rebuilding my bike with a little help (Ok…a lot of help) from a couple friends who are much more adept at auto work than me. We've got it stripped down to the frame and got it cleaned up quite a bit by hacking off unneeded tabs and filling unneeded holes. The plan is to clean and rebuild the engine (where necessary) and build the bike back up as sort of a cafe/brat style bike, while taking inspiration from older british bikes. There's not a lot on this bike that will be left untouched or unmodified. It should have a really clean and classic look when we're done with it. Can't wait to get it up and running, but then again, I'm really enjoying the process. This is how I'll be spending most of my free time while I'm back in OC. Fun stuff. I've been snapping some pics on my phone as we've been working and so here's the tear down process at various stages:
The bike when I brought it home. It had crash bars and a sissy bar (not seen in picture) and some weird electronic ignition unit mounted off the triple clamp. Not that appealing looking. It wasn't running.
The bike cleaned up a bit and running. Pretty much bone stock at this point.
The bike before we started it tearing it down. Only a couple small cosmetic modifications — Drag bars and bar end mirrors.
Pressure washed, seat, battery/battery pan, toolbox, and rear fender assembly removed. Ready to start hacking the frame.
Frame hacked and cleaned up in various places, various holes welded and filled. Exhausts removed.
Pressure washing the exhausts. These will be sent out to be rechromed along with some other parts.
Gauges and mirrors removed. Tank mocked up for knee dents.
Headlight, tank and some other stuff removed.
Engine removed.
The engine.
Everything else removed. Down to only frame.
Paint stripped with Aircraft Remover (stuff is gnarly). From here, the frame will be sanded to complete removal of paint, body filler will be applied to clean up various places. That oughta get it fully prepped for paint. To be continued…


text: Competition law developments in East Asia Publication | April 2012 Introduction Hong Kong Competition Bill nears final vote Abuse of dominance probe into China Telecom and China Unicom likely to end with settlement Table of contents of the full report Introduction This month's editors: Maxime Vanhollebeke, Julienne Chang, Zhao Jingjing and Lydia Fung.Below is an excerpt from our monthly Competition Report. More detailed commentary on these issues and other recent competition law developments in the Asian region is to be found in this month's edition of our report available on a free subscription basis (see further below). Hong Kong Competition Bill nears final vote There were many signs this month at the Legislative Council's Bills Committee meetings that the Committee was nearing completion of its review of the proposed Hong Kong Competition Bill. The Administration submitted an updated draft of the Bill, reflecting all of the amendments agreed by Committee members to date. Attendance at the meetings was low, and the reading of the last few technical clauses proceeded quickly without causing much debate. The Committee's Chairman tentatively agreed to shorten the review timetable, cancelling six meetings to allow the Committee to complete the first reading on 8 May instead of 19 June as originally planned, with the second reading of the Bill set to resume in the plenary Legislative Council on 30 May. This will leave the legislature with more than one month to consider any further amendments before proceeding to a final vote on the Bill, ahead of the lapse of the current legislature in mid-July.The Bill as it stands today is different from the original Government proposal in several respects. The statutory maximum for fines is lower (while still significant); stand-alone private rights of action are limited; small- and medium-sized enterprises benefit from broad exemptions; the Competition Commission can no longer apply pecuniary penalties without the involvement of the judiciary; and the conditions for obtaining an "economic efficiency" exemption are more stringent as they now clearly require parties to show that benefits accrue to consumers.The Administration has however been steadfast in its defence of the Bill's core policy choices. These include a comparatively low standard for market power, with a differentiated approach between the telecommunications and other sectors; a blanket exemption for most statutory bodies; far-reaching sanctions, including the confiscation of profits, the award of damages and the disqualification of directors; and broad discretionary powers for the Competition Commission to decide on competition policy.Some of these choices remain controversial and there may be room for further debate and challenges during the plenary review by the Legislative Council. The deadline for adoption is now nearing, and we will know within the next three months whether Hong Kong chooses to introduce its first cross-sector competition law or if the next Administration will have to re-introduce a new Competition Bill. Abuse of dominance probe into China Telecom and China Unicom likely to end with settlement Six months after the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced its investigation into allegations that China Telecom and China Unicom had abuse of their dominance through the application of discriminatory broadband interconnection fees, the deputy director of the NDRC's Price Supervision, Inspection and Antimonopoly Bureau reportedly revealed at a forum on 18 April that, since the two State-owned telecoms operators had improved their interconnection efficiency by 40 per cent and promised to significantly reduce broadband fees within three to five years, "the investigation may not necessarily result in heavy penalties as the ultimate goal of our enforcement is to ensure rectification".Last December, China Telecom and China Unicom announced that they had submitted settlement applications to the NDRC under Article 45 of the Antimonopoly Law, with commitments to enhance interconnection among backbone networks, adjust interconnection fees according to market principles, increase broadband coverage and speed while reducing fees charged on public users. The press reported that at the time, the NDRC found the commitments vague and unmeasurable, and requested the two companies to submit more specific remedial plans. It is not clear whether new proposals have been made and if so whether the NDRC has now formally decided to close its investigation. Table of contents of the full report Table of contents of our April 2012 report (Issue 41)China Qihoo v Tencent lawsuitChina Settlement in sight for China TelecomHong Kong Updated competition billJapan Criminal investigation in bearings cartel caseJapan JFTC merger proposals adopted by ICNKorea Standard setting guidelinesKorea Korean companies fined abroadKorea The North Face sanctioned for resale price maintenanceMalaysia First exemption applicationsTaiwan Piper betel cartel finedRead the full report - Please register if you are interested in subscribing to our monthly East Asia competition reports (free subscription). Practice: Antitrust and competition Top


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6-year-old boy dies mysteriously after injury at elementary school
A 6-year-old boy died Thursday morning after hitting his head on a pole during an after-school program at a Dallas elementary school.
Robert Llanas was declared dead shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday at Methodist Charlton Medical Center, according to a police report. Authorities are still investigating the matter, and the Dallas County Medical Examiner has yet to release a cause of death. Police said the boy was hospitalized after he suffered the schoolyard injury Wednesday afternoon at John W. Carpenter Elementary School in Central Oak Cliff.
Dallas ISD spokesman Jon Dahlander said the boy was under the supervision of an outside organization's after-school program at the time. He said the district sent a letter home to parents, and had additional counselors at school Thursday. The counselors will be back tomorrow, he said.
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The school year has come to an end for the graduating students at the Wayne D. Boshears Center for Exceptional Programs at 3450 Chandler Hwy., in Tyler. These students have the honor of being the first graduating class at the new location. The students graduating are: Cynthia Arriaga, Austin Bradley, London Hendricks, Charles Hogue, Wesley …
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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
September 24, 2012
Saint Vincent College players will present Commedia, a comedy by Dr. James Ragan, in the Performing Arts Center of the Robert S. Carey Student Center at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29, 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, and at 2 p.m. Sundays, Sept. 30, and Oct. 7. General admission tickets ($10) will be available at the theatre box office prior to each performance. "Mr. Ragan, a 1966 graduate of Saint Vincent College who is a poet, playwright and teacher and who was director of the master of professional writing program at the University of Southern California for 25 years, approached me during the summer of 2011 and said he would be happy for the college to do this if we were interested," commented Colleen Reilly, who is directing the production. "He gave me a copy of the script and I thought it was something we would want to do and have fun with." Ms. Reilly said that the show is unusual. "It is a modern take on commedia dell'arte – a form of theater in Europe, particularly Italy and France in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries," Ms. Reilly continued. "It roughly translates into comedy of art or comedy of the artists. The people who performed it were professional actors, which was something Europe had not really seen for many years. It was performed by professional actors who relied on stock characters and some stock or common situations. Some of the stock characters are still familiar to us today. Harlequin for example is a figure of this type of theater. Punch and Judy shows grew out of this. The clown, the old miser, the lawyer, young lovers, the comic relief, and the scheming servants are others. They found themselves in situations that would even be recognizable to audiences today such as a wealthy man scheming to protect his fortune or marry off his daughter for money, for example. A lot of these scenarios still appear in contemporary comedies. These actors would start with a basic scenario and build most of the dialogue and events themselves through rehearsal. They would run through it and build it up until they had a performance ready to go. The style that emerged combined complicated verbal humor with broad and very physical slapstick. In this play, most of the dialogue is provided but Mr. Ragan leaves a lot of freedom for improvisation and physical activity that the actors can discover themselves in rehearsal. He takes a traditional situation, two old men trying to exploit one another, a daughter being married off, young lovers, and clowns. He takes these stock figures and characters and puts them in a contemporary setting. The show is set in the wine country in North America in the present day. It's not a very realistic depiction of wine growing in California but it allows them to throw in a few references and digs and do what commedia del arte did but apply it to contemporary ideas and concerns." "The show is a comedy with a happy ending and a lot of silliness and laughter along the way," Ms. Reilly concluded. A special feature of the show is the custom-made masks all of the actors and actresses will wear. "Commedia dell'arte was sometimes performed in masks," Ms. Reilly explained. "And, we are going to use the masks. Each character has a different style as they would have originally. They are exaggerated and silly. Old men, silly harlequin masks. I think it will be a striking look. As an actor it is limiting because it cuts off part of the face for use but on the other hand it's freeing. It's like if people lose one sense, people who go blind, their hearing becomes better. That's what happens with this. The rest of your body becomes more expressive." Commedia was originally produced by actor Raymond Burr at the Sonoma State University Theater on Feb. 2, 1984 with later productions in Moscow (1986, 2008), Athens (2008) and Beijing (2008) among others. The production features Sheena Chopra, a continuing education student from Weirton, West Virginia; and Alison Kertz-Brooks, a freshman music major from Kirkwood, Missouri, as the magicians; Mark Harris, a sophomore performing arts major from Belle Vernon, as Pangrazio, a vintner; Alex Policicchio, a senior studio arts major from Johnstown, as Bolardo, a lawyer and enemy of Pangrazio; Rona Gehring, a sophomore music major from Robinson, as Zinfandel, daughter to Pangrazio; Cameron Smith, a sophomore history major from Kittanning, as Grignolino, oldest son to Bolardo; Mary Kathleen Cassidy, a freshman music performance major from Bridgeville, as Petite Sirah, friend to Zinfandel; Ed Graybill, a freshman music performance major from Pittsburgh (15215), as Pinot Noir, younger son to Bolardo; Jordan Ralph, a sophomore English major from Irwin, as Harley Quinn, friend to Pinot; Casey Ciocco, a senior Criminology, Law, and Society major from Latrobe, as Che, a grape picker; Felicia Watt, a junior Criminology, Law, and Society major from Blairsville, as Caesar, a grape picker; Tessa Hennessy, a freshman elementary education major from New Market, Maryland, as Bolley, a shadow to Bolardo and as a Vine and a Hunter; Abigail Sugrue, a freshman music major from Export, as Pansy, shadow to Pangrazio; Sean Nolan, a continuing education student from Greensburg, as a Vine and a Hunter; and Alexis M. Mozga, a freshman undecided major from Apollo, as a Vine and a Hunter.
Photo: Student actors, left to right, Rona Gehring, Alex Policicchio, Cameron Smith and Ali Kertz rehearse a scene from the Saint Vincent College Players production of "Commedia" which opens Friday.
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At Dallas police headquarters today, New Black Panther Party leads peaceful protest of officer-involved shootings
Representatives of the New Black Panther Party and several other community members and activists protested outside Jack Evans Police Headquarters today in response to a recent string of fatal Dallas police shootings, mostly of minority men.
A little more than a dozen protesters led chants of "black power" and called for an end to what they said is a "shoot to kill policy" by police here and in other major cities.
"It's not just happening in Dallas," said Darrin X., a New Black Panther member who declined to provide his last name. "It's not just happening on Dixon Circle. But it's a national shoot to kill policy on black and brown men."
Dallas police officers have fatally shot eight men this year, including suspected drug dealer James Harper who was killed in South Dallas last week. Harper was not armed, but the officer who shot him said he was assaulting the officer at the time and appeared to be reaching for something in his pocket.
Most of the other men fatally shot by police this year were armed and in every case officers have said they were in fear for their lives when they fired their weapons.
A riot nearly broke out following the Harper shooting last week, but area pastors and some police helped cool the rising tensions. Even some members of the New Black Panther Party, who arrived in anger, turned peacemakers as pastors urged them to help people remain calm as police investigate the shooting.
In an email sent following today's protest, Police Chief David Brown called for calm.
"We continue to pray for cooler heads to prevail in the Dixion circle community and our officers are continuing to reach out to that neighborhood to calm any tensions that remain," Brown said in an email.
A news release advertising today's event indicated the protesters were coming with a specific list of demands for Brown, but it appeared there was no list.
Eventually the group made its way inside police headquarters, where they asked unsuccessfully for a meeting with Brown. They continued some of their chants inside the headquarters lobby for several minutes, before officers told them they were being disruptive and needed to leave the building.
As we reported earlier today, the official autopsy report on Harper says that he was not shot in the back as some in the community have claimed. Yet protesters today continued to claim that the autopsy report said Harper was shot in the back.
The New Black Panther Party is thought to have been founded in Dallas in 1989, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC describes the group as a "virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law enforcement officers."


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- Heats up to 320°F
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The heat resistor is 100% ceramic, maximizing the penetration of negative ions while avoiding damage to the hair. Utilizing both the heating element along with the negative ions, Enzo's curls are meant to last up to 10 times longer than any regular curling iron.
Place glove on the hand in which you hold the hair. Select a small even strand of hair to place in a curl. Place the base of the curling iron handle near the scalp of your head with tip facing down. Wrap the hair from the base of the curling iron to the tip in a downward direction. Hold for 2 to 5 seconds. Without pulling the curling iron down, release the hair from tip allowing the hair to slide out. Slide the curling iron out of the hair. DO NOT pull it down; it will make the curl tangle.
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Ideal For Hair NovicesI was never a fan of stick straight hair and was completely incapable of learning how to use a standard curling iron therefore, I would use my Solia flat iron to curl my hair. Though it did a decent job it didn't quite create the look I was yearning for. After researching clipless curling irons and watching tons of videos on YouTube about how to use it I felt comfortable enough to purchase one. I ordered it on a Sunday around 9:30 p.m. and by Tuesday afternoon it arrived. The only con is the heat protective glove just seemed like a plain black glove and isn't that resistant to heat. My first time using it I was able to accomplish loose beachy waves that seemed effortless. [I was never one for a perfectly polished look, thought you can achieve it with this product.] By the second time I used, I momentarily loss the glove in the jungle I call my room and decided to use the iron without it and managed to not have my hand contact the hot barrel once! I have a lot of hair and was able to curl my hair in five to ten minutes; a dream come true. It really is true that all you need is five seconds with your hair on the barrel for curls to last all day long. I strongly recommend this for hair novices like myself. Also while using this iron I noticed my hair seemed smoother and the "friedness" that is usually seen on hair ends when using a flat iron / regular curling iron does not exist nor do unsightly dents with this product. The barrel is also the perfect size for all curls whether they be waves, tight spirals, cascading curls, etc. I am in no way a hair connoisseur, but I fell in love with this clipless curling iron and I strongly recommend it especially since I noticed that if I curled my hair once like on a Monday the curls would stay defined and last until Wednesday. Thus, relieving the stress of hot tools on your hair. I just wished there was an adjustable heat option, but nevertheless this product does its job.Oct 30, 2010Jodiann / Queens, New YorkHAIR TYPEBlack / Dry Hair / Curly Hair
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Love At First Use....I love this curling iron! First time using a clipless, so it takes some getting used to but it makes BEAUTIFUL curls!! Curls that I just COULD not accomplish with a clipped curling iron.
I'm still trying to learn how to do different types of curls with it but it's coming along.
The glove gets in the way of me using this iron, so I rarely ever use it, however, you must be careful because it's very easy to burn the tips of your fingers.
I can curl all my hair in half the time of a clipped curling iron also! So thats a plus!
I am going to keep my clipped iron's just for variety, but this will be my primiary curling iron from now on!Sep 16, 2010Kera / NJHAIR TYPEBlack / Normal Hair
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You're Best Kept Beauty SecretThis is one of the best curling irons I've ever used! The fact that it's clipless makes it easy to curl your hair. I can curl my hair in about half the time or less than I normally do and because the iron heats up so fast my curl last all day and even into the next. The only downside is the fact that you have to wear a glove (it's annoying) and TRUST ME you want to wear the glove because it gets so, so hot. I would definitely be cautious of this if you have children. Other than that though it's AMAZING and totally worth every penny!Sep 2, 2010Abby / MissouriHAIR TYPELight Brown / Oily Hair / Color Treated Hair / Fine or Thin Hair
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Rafiq in line for Yorkshire landmark
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Azeem Rafiq could become the youngest ever captain of Yorkshire when they take on Durham in the Friends Life t20 this evening.
In-form club captain Andrew Gale is a doubt after sustaining a hip muscle injury in training on Wednesday, meaning 21-year-old Rafiq is in line to take over.
He would also become the first player of Asian origin to skipper Yorkshire if Gale fails a late fitness test.
The Dynamos will be looking to do the double over the White Rose following their win at Headingley Carnegie last week, and they have named an unchanged 15-man squad.
Luke Fletcher has recovered from a knee injury and is in contention to make his first appearance since April in Nottinghamshire's North Group tie against Lancashire at Old Trafford.
In the final North Group fixture of the evening, Derbyshire are set to field an unchanged side for their trip to Grace Road to face a Leicestershire outfit looking for a first win in this year's competition.
Sussex will be without England wicketkeeper-batsman Matt Prior for their South Group clash against Middlesex at the PROBIZ County Ground. He remains unavailable due to a minor Achilles strain.
Hampshire will be missing Danny Briggs, who is part of England's NatWest International T20 squad, for the visit of Kent to the Ageas Bowl.
The Spitfires, meanwhile, will be able to call on James Tredwell, the off-spinner having been released from England duty following the abandonment of today's final ODI against West Indies at Headingley.
Stuart Meaker, Jonny Bairstow and Samit Patel have also been made available for county action.
Meaker's Surrey side will travel to Chelmsford in their first fixture since Tom Maynard's tragic death on Monday for a South Group top-of-the-table clash against Essex, who will still be without Ravi Bopara.
Surrey captain Rory Hamilton-Brown, who shared a house with Maynard, has been left out of the squad on compassionate grounds, so Gareth Batty will lead the team.
Somerset welcome the Welsh Dragons to Taunton in the Midlands/Wales/West Group, and the hosts are expected to name the same side from yesterday's abandoned fixture against Warwickshire, with Steve Snell behind the stumps.
Northamptonshire will still be without club captain Andrew Hall due to a back injury for their trip to Bristol this evening.
Gloucestershire are without Benny Howell due to illness as they aim for their first t20 win of the season.
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9 Supposed Action Stars Who Clearly Couldn't Fight
#4. Cuneyt Arkin
Of the 300 Turkish movies Cuneyt Arkin has starred in, 400 of them are about jump kicks. No one on the planet has spent more time filming themselves do karate. Turkish scientists use Cuneyt's spectacular kicks to calibrate their earthquake warning systems, a complicated array of seasoned goat meats suspended in milk. With his unprecedented level of karate experience, his fight scenes should be breathtaking displays of precision, but they are nuttier than a Turkish seismologist in a room full of uncalibrated goat meat.
Really take in the vision that is Cuneyt Arkin. Does a man that handsome look like he could harm someone? His hands and feet were put on this Earth not to hurt us but to pull us closer for his moist kiss. This becomes very clear once you start watching him fight. He is so gentle to his co-stars that most of his films are sold as erotic massage videos. By the time you finish a Turkish action movie, you'll have seen Cuneyt Arkin delicately finger at least one ninja to orgasm. And there's no way to fix things like that in post. Turkish film editing is an imprecise process that involves placing the original camera negative under wizards while they sleep and hoping they dream about good harvests.
A lot of kung fu films use wire effects to make it look like the performers can fly or jump high. In Turkey, they have a much radder process. They push all their trampolines together, point the camera up and go fucking crazy. They trampoline around in every movie regardless of its relevance. Courtroom dramas, romantic comedies, bathroom security camera footage ... it's not even legal to film a wedding in Turkey unless the bride is doing a front flip. Seriously, clear your schedule for six minutes and watch this scene from Death Warrior:
#3. Pam Grier
Like most blaxploitation stars, Pam Grier seemed like the baddest, meanest person alive right up until the moment she threw a punch. After that, it turned into a temper tantrum of half-remembered karate moves. Her fight scenes would be almost indescribable if my language didn't have the word "boner."
#2. Rudy Ray Moore
When I was compiling this list of the worst fighters in film and television, I didn't intend to be making fun of so many legendary African-American entertainers. Because if that were my thesis, I would have certainly included this.
The best thing about Rudy Ray Moore movies is that it's never clear when he knows he's being awesome. He's hilarious when he's being funny, maybe even more hilarious when he's being tough, and the line between those two states is constantly blurred. I'll show you what I mean. Here's a scene from the first Dolemite, and I think you'll agree with me that every line, punch and kick is delivered in both the funniest and most badass way possible:
When he made the sequel, Dolemite 2: The Human Tornado, he made a full-on kung fu feature despite never having taken a single kung fu class. He had a theory that there were only three elements to every kung fu fight: waving your hands around, pressing fast forward and replacing all the audio with zoo animal sounds. He wasn't right, but holy shit, maybe he was:
#1. William Shatner
You knew the whole time there was no other choice for the top spot. Bill Shatner invented entirely new ways to look ridiculous while punching, and he did it all at one-quarter speed. He threw judo chops so slowly against space monsters that he was already on T.J. Hooker by the time they connected. They say the Gorn still roams the Vasquez Rocks, waiting for his cue to duck:
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