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LISBON - The man who could become the next House speaker conceded that at one time the Republican leadership didn't believe GOP candidate Bill Johnson stood much of a chance of beating U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson.
"I tell you the race wasn't on anyone's charts," House Minority Leader John Boehner, told a crowd of about 200 during a campaign rally held Saturday outside The Spread Eagle Tavern.
"I met Bill in August for the first time, and he kept telling me, 'We're going to win this, you'd better keep an eye on this," Boehner recalled.
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House Minority Leader John Boehner, addresses a crowd of about 200 during a campaign rally held Saturday outside The Spread Eagle Tavern. He appeared in our area to throw support behind GOP Bill Johnson who is opposing incumbent Charlie Wilson in Tuesday's 6th Congressional District race. (Salem News photo by /Patti Schaeffer
But that was then and many political observers are now saying Johnson has a shot at defeating Wilson in Tuesday's election. The Republican Party apparently thinks so too, as evident by the number of TV advertisements it has been funding on Johnson's behalf over the past several weeks and Boehner's campaign appearance.
"The reason we're all here today is because Bill Johnson and his campaign have done a whale of a job putting them on the map," Boehner said.
The Columbus Dispatch, in a story that appeared yesterday, wrote that Wilson, D-St. Clairsville, is a now considered vulnerable by some political experts because of the anti-incumbent/Obama backlash sweeping the nation. They said the presence of two conservative third-party candidates, Martin Elsass and Richard Cadle, could still siphon enough votes away from Johnson for Wilson to survive.
The Dispatch reported that although Republicans probably don't need Wilson's seat to reclaim majority status in the House, a Johnson victory could very well presage a political catastrophe for other Democrats previously thought to be safe.
Boehner's and Johnson's speeches were short on specifics but long on political rhetoric designed to fire up supporters heading into the final days before the election.
For example, Boehner referred to comments President Obama made last week while being interviewed on a Hispanic TV program, telling Latino voters that instead of staying home on election day they should go to the polls and "punish our enemies" and "reward our friends."
"You know, when President Bush, President Reagan, President Clinton and George W. Bush used the word enemies, they were referring to global terrorism or dictators around the world who hated freedom and hated America. For the president to use that word about people who oppose bigger government, people who are freedom loving and love our Constitution, I tell you I find that very appalling," he said.
"Mr. President, I've got a word for those people who oppose you're policies, those people who love our country and Constitution, who love freedom and the principles America was founded on. You know what I call them? Not enemies. They're patriots," Boehner said.
Johnson, a businessman from Poland and retired Air Force officer, said the nation is at a crossroads whether it wants to continue down the path of what he characterized as out-of-control federal spending or attempt to rein in the federal budget.
"It's going to determine whether or not we re-establish hope and prosperity for our children and grandchildren," he said of the election.
Following the rally, Johnson said he was going to the airport to meet his one-month-old granddaughter for the first time.
"She can't talk, but I guarantee you if she could she'd tell us she's pretty ticked off. You see, she came into this world approximately $40,000 in debt. The Office of Management and Budget says by the end of this year our national economy will be 62 percent national debt. Now, I wasn't a math major in college but my computer works, and I think it means the federal government is borrowing 62 cents for every dollar it spends and putting us and future generations further in debt," he said.
Johnson said Wilson has voted for nearly every major spending program put before him by Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, such as TARP, stimulus and health care, all the while portraying himself as a fiscal conservative.
"This is the kind of irresponsible leadership that says one thing, that I'm a blue-dog conservative in the district and then going to Washington and voting with Nancy Pelosi 98 percent of the time," he said.
Boehner recalled what President Obama said earlier this year, when the Republicans disagreed with the president and the Democratic leadership's approach to overhauling health care. "He said, 'That's what elections are for.' Well, he's right. Because if you're tired of the bailouts, tired of the stimulus, tired of the government trying to take over everything, remember what the president said: That's what election are for."


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I've spent the last two days reading, and beginning to implement, David Allen's Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. My blogging family over at Book Riot mostly swears by it, and they're the most productive people I know. When I was a student, my first mentor (the woman who gave me my first academic-ish job and set me on this path, for better or for worse) swore by it and even bought me a copy by way of encouragement to apply it to my own life. The most together people I know all swear by this system.
I have resisted.
Why? I don't really know. Because I've always been proud of my ability to keep it all together on my own, I guess. But the wheels have been coming off the bus for a while, now, and I am spending way too much of my time in a panicked state. I survived the entire fall semester without using an agenda — that was stupid, and I don't need to do that again ever — and missed my first deadline and slipped my first meeting ever in my life this year. Something had to give.
Because many of my friends have been dabbling with this system, I thought I'd post some initial thoughts on implementation. You'll still need to read the book if you want to see what this is all about, but these are some early thoughts on how Getting Things Done is finding its way into my life.
The problem with GTD, and what has alienated me from its obviously good ideas in the past, is that it is written in business-speak, that kind of simultaneously clear but jargonized, aphorism-prone gobbledygook that makes me bored and crazy. So I'm going to avoid engaging with any of that here, and just try to outline what I understand. As Allen says, "Share anything of value you've gleaned from this with someone else. (It's the fastest way to learn.)"
The premise of GTD is really simple: your brain is not the best place to keep stuff. Here's something that resonated with me: say you need to put the turkey leftovers in the freezer. How many times do you think of it before you actually do it? Maybe when you open the fridge to get something; maybe again when you're thinking up meals for the week; maybe again when you're trying to focus on the book you're reading. Your brain sucks at prioritizing, and it just keeps thinking about turkey until you do it. It's a minor example, but how much energy did you waste thinking about the damned turkey?
Obviously, the solution is to put the turkey away the first time you think of it, but you can't always do that. Your brain, again, sucks at prioritizing, so it might remind you about the turkey when you're trying to complete something time sensitive or delicate, or when you're falling asleep, or when you're not even home. So you don't do it, and your brain files it to remind you about later.
The GTD method is really about making sure you only think a thing once, deal with it, and move on. What if the first time you thought about putting the turkey away, you immediately made a note to yourself to do that, set a time when you could, and move on? If your brain trusts the system — if you understand it fully and adhere to it religiously — it doesn't need to tell you about the turkey again, because the turkey no longer represents an un-dealt-with-thing.
So the first step is collecting all the shit you need to do — professional and personal, big and small — and put it in a pile for sorting. To do this, I'm using another resource the Book Riot folks swear by: OmniFocus (academics, be aware you can get an educational rate on OmniFocus by clicking here). OmniFocus lets you first dump everything you can think of — a process that can take an hour to really do thoroughly — and then assign Projects and Contexts, as well as due dates or deferral dates, to each one.
Projects are straightforward. I have a "project" for every class I'm teaching, for example, and for each site I write for. I also have projects for my Reading Week trip to Ontario, for Education Council matters, et cetera. Contexts took me a lot longer to figure out, but basically it's the shit you need to do the thing. So, I have an "Email: Send" context for everything that needs to go out, an "Office" context for things I can only possibly do at the college, a "Writing Time" context for things that require sustained writing attention, and so on. I also have a context label for my Department Chair, for things I can't address without her, and one for my writing partner.
Everything that goes on the list, though, has to be an action. Every time you need to move forward on a project, you need an action that you can actually complete. So "haircut" doesn't go on the list: "call salon to book appointment" does.
And your email inbox isn't a to-do list in this system. So either answer the email, or turn it into an actionable item and put it into OmniFocus. My email inbox is sitting at zero and there's no reason for it not to stay that way with this system.
Also, this works in conjunction with a calendar, but only if you stop using a calendar aspirationally. I am VERY GUILTY of this. I book off "writing time" that I don't use for writing time at all, for example. Everything that goes on the calendar needs to be concrete and immovable. This way, you trust the calendar as gospel.
So here's where I'm at, resource-wise:
What I've realized is that (a) I have a shit-tonne to do before I'm ready for the semester to start on Monday, and (b) I'm totally comfortable with that knowledge because I know it's all been systemically addressed and I'm not forgetting or missing anything. For the first time in ages, I don't feel like there's a whole 'nother to-do list lurking around a corner somewhere. That is a very liberating feeling indeed. It's hard to explain, but the 102 items in OmniFocus right now feel totally and completely under control.
When I was nine, Jian Ghomeshi was the first boy who ever kissed me.
That used to be the start of a super-cute story about my life-long love affair with the CBC and Canadian culture, and thanks to the events of last week it now sounds like a headline in the Toronto Star.
And it is a cute story, by the way. I was nine and my friends and I had gone with someone's mom to see Moxy Früvous play outside in the amphitheatre at the National Gallery in Ottawa. It was a summer day and a great show, and afterwards we got our tapes (the pre-Bargainville self-titled debut tape) signed and our pictures taken, and the guys hugged us and Jian kissed me on the cheek. A happy day.
I had that picture for years. I don't have that picture anymore.
Since then, I have followed Jian's career (as well as Mike Ford's, and Dave Matheson's, and Murray Foster's): I read all the Globe and Mail essays, listened to the solo tracks, watched the segments on The Hour, watched Play, and listened, avidly, to Q. And it was when Jian got to Q that I, like so many others, celebrated: his talent seemed to have finally stuck the landing. I was — still am — a devoted listener to the program.
When I was in grad school in Fredericton and Q came to town to cover the East Coast Music Awards, my friends and I waited in the cold to get into the Playhouse and watch him record the show. Joel Plaskett was there, and Wintersleep I think, and the whole thing was perfect; afterwards, we waited around to have our photo taken with him, and were generally star-struck (too star-struck to tell him the story about when I was nine, which I really regretted).
I had that picture for years, too. I don't have that picture anymore.
Right up until Sunday afternoon, I would have described myself as a Jian Ghomeshi super fan. But as soon as the CBC broke the news, even before Jian's Facebook post, I knew. I knew in the way you know you've just failed an exam, in the pit of your stomach, far below reason and sense. In the guts. In the viscera. I knew.
As a minor league book blogger, I am so tangentially related to Canadian arts and culture as to be a fruit fly in the bowl in the green room at the Giller Prize Gala, but even I had heard the rumours. That he was a bit of a sleaze, a bit of a womanizer. But then, I rationalized to myself, what media guy isn't? I had never heard anything of the magnitude that has emerged in the last few days, but I'm struck by feeling complicit in the abuse of god-knows how many women.
That's a bit insane. But then, is it? Jian Ghomeshi is incredibly talented — one of the most gifted interviewers in Canada, surely — and his status protected him from so much. But not just his status: his image. His image as a Good Guy. Because he goes on Q and says the right things about feminism and promotes female artists and says all the good, progressive things and we think, "He's a Good Guy. He's an ally. He's one of us." And because our image of what it means to be a good guy and an ally doesn't include predation, sexual violence, and trauma.
Except guess what? It should. Guys who rape and strike and ignore withdrawn consent don't wear the mark of Cain. They're all around us: in our classrooms and our faculty meetings, on the bus and at the Starbucks, in the grocery store and at the movies. They are people who, in other facets of our lives, we call Good Guys. When we try to tell ourselves that these acts can only be perpetrated by monsters, we tell ourselves a comforting fiction.
Jian Ghomeshi is a Good Guy in Canadian arts and culture. Jian Ghomeshi is a violent predator. There is evidence in support of both these claims. These claims can both be true. And the reality is that we all just have to be uncomfortable with this; we can't make these women's claims disappear and we can't erase Jian's contributions to our cultural lives. And god, does it ever suck to not be able to square the circle.
I feel betrayed. Disappointed. Let down.
I feel desperately naive.
I feel foolish.
I feel like part of the problem.
The reality is (and this is also the tragedy) that Jian will be fine. Just like Sean Penn is fine and Woody Allen is fine and Roman Polanski is fine. And people will always say, "Well, we don't know what happens behind closed doors." And people will always say, "Why didn't they go to the police?" And people will always say, "She's just trying to get her fifteen minutes."
And there will always be a group of people who hate women so much that it makes more sense to them that eight (or more) women would collude on a story of sexual violence for literally no benefit or gain — ladies, remember that time we all promised to bring down Jian Ghomeshi because reasons — than that one guy whose folk rock sounds they grooved to in the mid-nineties is also a violent sexual predator.
But we can choose not to be those people. We can choose to look at the facts and say, "It is reasonable to believe the women." We can extend the presumption of innocence to alleged victims that we do to alleged perpetrators.
Some advice to Jian, in the words of Früvous:
Look straight at the coming disaster,
Realize what you've lost.
You keep handin' out horseshoes,
Horseshoes have gotta be tossed.
(And it only took me to the end of October to remember to post.)
This summer has been completely insane. I actually managed to meet all my most important goals. I finished the collaborative book chapter early in the summer, wrote and revised another chapter mid-summer, and just recently finished a chapter for a third book project — and revisions for that one just came through and are pending.
Oh, yeah. And. Uh. I finished the book. It's en route to peer review as we speak, and so far no one at the publisher has recoiled in horror, so that's a pretty good plus I think.
All that's left on my plate are the CFPs for this year's Congress which are due soon. Very soon.
But once those are finished (tomorrow? later today?) the #summerofwriting will really be over. I have accomplished a lot this summer, and I'm proud of that. But. But. Whooo doggie, the cost. I am so far behind at everything at work (I had to grade all night last night, because I am the worst… ever…) and it's hard to see when it will all be righted again. And I'm very tired.
When these things all start to emerge as real publications, this will all feel like it was worth it, right? Right?!
I'm so tired.
Hello. Hello! I know I am the worst at remembering to blog. But for once, I wasn't avoiding blogging because I felt guilty about not writing. I was… wait for it… actually writing. Actually, actually writing.
Here were the original goals for the summer:
And here's where I'm at:
All in all, I feel pretty good about how things are going with this #summerofwriting. Oh, and did I mention that the book is drafted? THE BOOK IS DRAFTED.
This week, I wrote a lot.
In fact, I wrote my two papers for Congress (and their attendant Keynote presentations); at 3000-odd words each, that's 6000 words of productive academic prose this week. Finally covering some ground!
I also blogged this and this and this and this.
I'm away for the next two week, first at Congress and then in New York City for Book Expo America, so I don't anticipate a lot of writing time. But I have packed an absolutely massive stack of articles to dig into so that I can start thinking about the next project in line: a book chapter due the first week of August.
And then. Of course. There's the book.
But I'll get there. Slooooooooooooooooooooowly.
You know. If I don't get distracted by…
I really want to post about ALL THE WRITING I did this week, but I can't. Because I got distracted.
But the whole point of blogging is accountability, right? And next week is a whole new week that I haven't completely wasted yet. To be fair, I didn't completely waste this one (I did well on the blogging front, submitting two posts to Book Riot and one to Food Riot, and I did write 600 words for one of my conference papers), but I do have to get my head in the game, pronto.
I seem to only resurrect this blog when I need public accountability about my writing, and then I hide from it the rest of the time… Hmm…
So today is May 1, and that's the launch of my #summerofwriting. This is the first summer in a while that I'm not leading a field school to Wales, so I want to take full advantage of it. I'm trying to refocus myself from the phenomenal amount of energy I spend on pedagogy and service during the fall and winter semesters to really focus on my academic writing for the four months of summer. That's the goal, anyway.
Actually, the goals are more concrete than that:
Which is a lot, I know. But I've broken it into weekly goals:
At the start of this term, I'm looking at having already written about 23,000 of the 60,000 words I need to complete my manuscript draft (that's 23,000 of completed prose; I'm not counting notes, etc. in this total). So I have a long way to go and some other projects to get in my way. But the commitment is the hardest part, or has been for the last few years.
Today, I reread Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (for my CACLALS paper) and made a few pages of notes.
Just 844 words — an article review I had promised to do for today. Baby steps, babies. Baby steps.
So, you know, I only have to write 10,000 words tomorrow to meet my goal. Hahahahaahahaaha.
But! Guess what I realized? My first goal? To write 500 words per day? That one I met! Even if I wrote nothing tomorrow (and I have a good writing day planned, so I don't anticipate I will write nothing tomorrow), I have written 518 words, on average, every day of November. That's AWESOME. Compared to where I though I was when November started? Yeah, I'm smugly self-satisfied, goshdarnit.
I've had a really good day, just me and my MacBook and my Spider-Man snuggie. This is what grown up people look like when they work, right? And though I've had two good days — maybe because I've had two good days — I'm flipping tired, man. This is what I have to say about my work right now:
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh my god wake me up when November ends.
Funny story: every October 1 I delight myself by wondering aloud, "Did anyone remember to wake up the guy from Green Day?")
I don't think I will get a lot of writing done this week — I have a lot of assignments to mark and return before classes end on Friday — so I needed a productive day. (There's basically no chance of my meeting my #AcWriMo goal. I'm okay with it.) And it was a good day. Today's work:
Now. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to treat myself to decorating our apartment for Christmas. Because we're one month to Christmas Eve, baby!
How do other people manage the grading bonanza that is November alongside #AcWriMo? Cuz I think I'm failing! There has been writing in these here hills, but not enough of it, really.
So there's been:
So my original #AcWriMo goal would, it appears, be a little pipe-dreamy. But one has to try. And really, this process has taught me that I need to move the book to the front of my mind, which means I need to keep a word count goal around — something a lot more reasonable — once #AcWriMo wraps. I think 10,000 words / month on the book is a reasonable goal to hold myself to — that's 2,500 each weekend even if that's all I get to, which fits the pattern I've been on so far.
Someday I might blog about something other than the book…

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Cavernous bodies
The structures in the shaft of the penis that engorge with blood during sexual arousal.
A highly sensitive think strip of skin that connects the glans to the shaft on the underside of the penis.
Spermatic Cord
A cord attached to the testis that contains the vas deferens, blood vessels, nerves, and cremasteric muscle fibers.
Intersitial Cells
Cells located between the seminiferous tubules that are the major source of androgen in males.
A condition in which the testes fail to descend from the abdominal cavity to the scrotal sac.
What happens to the testicles what the environment is hot.
heat causes the scrotal skin to relax and the testes to descend.
Which testicle hangs lower?
The left hangs lower (because the left spermatic cord is generally lower than the right testis.
2 Structures within the testicles that are the site of sperm production.
1. Seminiferous Tubules
2. Epididymis
3 Structures that supply the fluid portion of semen.
1. Seminal Vesicles (provides most fluid)
2. Prostate Gland
3. Cowper's Glands
Seminal Vesicles
Small glands adjacent to the terminals of the vas deferens that secrete an alkaline fluid (conductive to sperm motility) that constitutes the greatest portion of the volume of seminal fluid released during ejaculation.
Prostate Gland
A gland located at the base of the bladder that produces about 30% of the seminal fluid released during ejaculation.
Cowper's Glands
Two pea-sized glands located alongside the base of the urethra in the male that secrete an alkaline fluid during sexual arousal.
A cheesy substance of glandular secretions and skin cells that sometimes accumulates under the foreskin of the penis or hood of the clitorus.
The medical specialty dealing with reproductive health and genital diseases of the male and urinary tract diseases in both sexes.
Average volume of seminal fluid produced by a man as a result of ejaculation
Roughly 1 teaspoon on average
What is the physiologic process that causes an erection?
When a male becomes sexually excited, the nervous system sends out messages that cause expansion of the arteries leading to the 3 erectile cylinders (cavernous bodies-2, 1 spongy body) in the penis. As a result, the rate of blood flow into these parallel cylinders increases rapidly. Because blood flowing out of the penis through veins cannot keep up with the inflow, it accumulat3es in the spongelike tissues of the erectile cylinders, causing erection. The penis remains erect until the messages from the nervous system stop and the inflow of blood returns to normal.
Emisson Phase
The first stage of male orgasm (ejaculation), in which the semnial fluid is gathered in the uretheral bulb.
Expulsion Phase
The second stage of male orgasm (ejaculation), during which the semen is expelled from the penis by muscular contractions.
The purpose of for the sugar secreted by the seminal vesicles.
seems to contribute to sperm nutrition and motility.
3 adverse conditions that occur less frequently in circumcised males.
1. Childhood urinary tract infections
2. adult penile cancer
3. genital wart infections
4. increased protection against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS
3 arguments that have been raised against routine circumcision.
1. the foreskin could serve some important function yet to be determined.
2. some investigators have expressed concern that sexual function may be altered by excising the foreskin
3. traumatic for a newborn and invites possible surgical complications.
condition that occurs in 50% of men aged 50-70 and causes problems with urine flow.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia


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- Preamble to the Constitution of Girl Scouts of the United States
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Girl Scouts of North East Ohio is governed by an efficient and effective democratic process that includes the core values of a representative democracy, access to decision-makers, and participatory involvement valued at all levels of the council.
GSNEO is now accepting applications for positions on our Board of Directors and Board Development Committee.
For more details on these volunteer positions, including position descriptions, criteria, and application, please visit our Nominations page.
October 4-8, 2017 - Girl Scout National Convention in Columbus, OH
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* Personal: Daughter of Jennifer Kantzabedian and Bryan Thompson of Kula
* At School: Student Body Co-President, Leo Club President, National Honor Society Historian, varsity tennis team captain, Maui District Student Council Organization, Advancement Via Individual determination (AVID) tutor
* Off Campus: International Karate League member and United States Tennis Association member
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Michaela Thompson
* Beyond High School: Study psychology at a Mainland college, preferrably on the East Coast
* Who is your personal hero and why?
"My personal hero would have to be my little brother, Shayne. If it was not for my brother, I would not be the person I am today. He is the reason I strive to be the greatest I can be. I aim to be the perfect role model for my brother so that he can grow up to reach his full potential. Shayne has been through many obstacles in his life, but has never once given up. He serves as an inspiration for me every day because if a 12-year-old can keep perservering, then so can I."
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I don't get why so many people were going for the Habs last night?.. So short sighted in my opinion, I'd prefer to look at the bigger picture.
With the Habs winning in regulation it put them six points ahead of us and the Leafs just one point ahead of us with two games in hand on both. So, yes it made it much easier to pass one team but we could potential pass both teams and lock up a top three spot in the division.
If the Leafs had won in regulation it would have put them three points ahead of us and the Habs four points ahead of us with two games in hand on both. Both teams would be within reach, we would just have to continue playing well, which I believe we will.
Even if we pass Toronto we are still in a wild card spot, I would much prefer be in a fight for one of those guaranteed top three spots. Just my opinion....
Hmm I see your point but don't agree. The Leafs are ultimately our best chance of getting in right now as stands because frankly, they've got the entire world of pressure on their shoulders and a goalie who can't hack it. They are vulnerable and at risk of falling out of a spot completely. Thus, the more they lose, the more the pressure mounts, and the worse everything becomes for them. A win right now in any of their games essentially stops the bleeding, and thus, the longer they keep haemorrhaging for, the better for our chances to get in.
We've got our own game remaining vs the Habs and still games in hand so we can take care of them that way. At least if the Leafs keep sliding we've got a better chance to make it in.
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The Acer is one of the leading company in laptop market; they have the wide range of laptops, Aspire AS 4310 Laptop comes with 1.6GHz Intel Celeron Processor (M530) among 1MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB (Intel 943GML express chip-set mother-board), 512MB of DDR2 SDRAM (2GB max), 80GB SATA HDD as well as 24x DVD/CD-RW optical drive.
It comes with characteristics like, weight 2.4kg, linux Operating System, 14.1 wide-screen TFT LCD screen (Intel GMA 950 graphics chip-set) among 64MB shared memory providing maximum screen resolution. Built-in Intel PRO/Wireless 3945BG network connection providing dual-mode 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN connection, built-in 56 kbps v.92 fax/modem, built-in VGA resolution webcam, Intel HD audio h/w, two-built-in 3DSonic hi-fi speakers, 8cell battery (Li-ion) 3.5hrs backup.


text: You've only got two hands, and one of them is holding a cigarette, right? Well then the Orvis Ultimate Travel Jacket is going to be your new assistant. Removable sleeves and hood make this ideal for most zombie survival climates, so you can look good all year round. This monster has 27 pockets (5 on the inside!), allowing you to carry mp3 players, keys, eyewear, water bottles, spare ammunition, and even books to keep you occupied while you scan the horizon for zombies. Also, almost as if Orvis had this in mind, the fasteners and hardware are all corrosion resistant, so you don't have to worry about a little gore keeping you from zipping up when the winds start whipping.


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A large city south of the states capital, Columbus, Ohio. This area is inhabited by unusually wealthy people that do not have real jobs. The city is very diverse, people in all shades of white. 1988 chevy camaros and jacked up trucks cruise the streets, every girl between the ages of 16 and 21 is pregnant or a proud mother of a couple kids. Beer flows like water and every person rocks a cut off tee or a jesus piece. Each citizen owns 7 or 8 cars most of which can start and even be driven.
"I need me some oxys let's head to orient"
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Can you define these popular missing words?
The word which most people mean when they say orientate.
Turn the map over and orient it toward that landmark.
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Something that used to be okay, but is now run down and useless.
You're not going there, are you? It's so Orient!
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text: Although winter is upon us, Maison Martin Margiela is ahead of everyone with the release of a new sneaker style that's part of its Spring/Summer 2012 pre-collection. Actualized with references to their highly successful high top sneakers from past seasons, this new piece variant features an intriguing aesthetic thanks to a more futuristic finishing and creative lace system that runs around the upper construction. Made of premium suede, the shoe employs luxurious nappa-leather on the cuff and trim. Now available at oki-ni for £400 GBP (approximately $627 USD).


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In his second trial on the same murder charges, a towing-lot attendant was convicted yesterday in Delaware County Court of third-degree murder in what the prosecution described as the senseless shooting of an irate customer on the towing lot last summer.
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WARREN — Trumbull County Landbank board this week approved providing $10,000 for a study examining what can be done along a stretch of U.S....
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"Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!" Larry Kudlow and others.
We don't need no "master plan". We aren't children. We don't need government central planners to tell us what kind of economic development we need and where it should be located. Read the works of Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman and you'd see that free people interacting with other free people will automatically allocate resources to their most advantageous uses.
Shut down every government planning commission in this country and no one would miss them, and the economy will be better off, too.
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sounds like they are going to make someone rich to do a study that will never produce the benefits to equal what the study costs. i call it a white collar scam!!!
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Remember these special rabbit cookies I made?
Well look at this......it makes me smile. Here's the birthday boy, Aidan, with a cookie. =)
A photo like that makes it all worth it.
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OMG, he's as cute as the cookie! Thanks so much for sharing this ray of sunshine.
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Julie-Larson Green is still here ! at least !
(Also, that was the video for C6, from 1989, not VC6). Microsoft C 1.0 goes back to 1983, making the product line actually 30 years old.
Yeah I know, those years I'm basically a QuickBASIC kind of guy, and use Borland Turbo series for C or Pascal
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This is excellent. Thank you, Felix.
Channel9 should build a archive library for these records, just like the PDC archive, right ?
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How often should breastfed babies poop?
How often should breastfed babies poop?
I've searched that phrase in Google no less than twenty times since my daughter was born, and I've never really found a great answer to the question.
You see, my breastfed baby only poops about once a week, and sometimes goes as many as 10 days between bowel movements. Since my experience with my son was so different, (he was formula fed), I was worried sick that something was wrong with my daughter. I mean, babies are supposed to poop all day, every day, right?
Is my breastfed baby constipated?
Of course, my first step was to consult our pediatrician.
The first doctor we questioned about the poop issue did little to settle our fears, and I was left with the concern that something could be wrong. We were instructed to give our 2-month-old baby pear juice (even though her poop was not hard) and we were even set up with a referral to a GI specialist to rule out disorders like Hirschprung's Disease.
Filled with worry, I wrote a post on Babble about Kara's poop issues, and I also polled my Facebook community to find out what was normal as far as a breastfed baby' poop.
I was reassured by many parents that it is completely normal for breastfed babies to go several days between poops.
Not wanting to subject my baby to unnecessary testing, I sought a second doctor's opinion.
Normal breastfed baby poop
The second doctor told me that it is indeed quite normal for a breastfed baby to poop 10 times a day, or every 10 days.
He described breast milk as, "A clean burning fuel," and told me that my baby was by all appearances, healthy.
Baby poop update
At 5-montshs-old, my breastfed baby still only poops about once a week. I no longer worry that anything is wrong, and I know that this is just what is normal for her.
I didn't write this post because I have a strong desire to type the word poop on my blog thirty times. I wrote it because worrying that there is something wrong with your baby because her poop isn't coming as frequently as you think it should, or because it's green instead of yellow (I'll do a post on what normal breastfed baby poop looks like next, haha) can be terrifying.
So, if you're here after Googling: "How often should a breastfed babies poop?", rest assured, your baby is most likely absolutely healthy and normal. If you have remaining worries, please consult a pediatrician—or two.
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My breastfed son poops about 2-3x a day during the first 3 months! I didn't know some breastfed babies can go for so many days without pooping! But if your doctor says everything is fine…
Now my son is 6 months, poop frequency has lessened, sometimes only once in 3 days (then I panic). It's because rice cereal can cause constipation.
When my girls were little, they must have pooped about twenty five thousand times a day. It felt like a constant job to keep their diapers clean. I'm glad Kara's pooping schedule is a little lighter and completely normal, although, I admit, I'm a wee bit jealous.
You know even after having seven children I worried about how often my eighth pooped and the color, well, if it's green baby is getting too much fore milk and yellow is perfectly normal and the right combination of hind and fore milk! ;)
My midwife was the one to tell me that some breastfed babies can go days while others go numerous times per day.
I would never have thought to write a blog post about my baby's poop! ;)
My DD was the same way. She was my first and pooped every week to 10 days as well. I'd always heard that BF babies pooped every time they ate, so I was worried! There was not a problem, though, and now at (almost) 7, she's a pretty "normal" pooper…usually, but not always, once a day, and sometimes, still up to a week!
My DS1 was the typical poop after every feed baby. He's almost 5 and EVERY night after dinner he gets a belly ache. He doesn't have to poop, he says, but when I send him he goes. Every day.
DS2 pooped 97,000 times a day as a baby, and also vomited 84 million times a day. He was diagnosed at 2 months with a condition called "gastroparesis," which he was supposed to outgrow. Now, at 26 months, he's typically down to about 5-6 poops a day, unless he should happen to catch a stomach bug (which we avoid at all costs), and then all bets are off, and the virus will hang on for no less than 3-4 weeks!
Anyway, I'm saying all this because EVERY baby, even with the same parents, same "food," etc., is different–and even as they grow they'll be different. You'll figure it out!!
I agree! My BF girl would poop every 5-10days… my BF son pooped every feeding, seriously.
Different strokes for different folks. I was very concerned about it, but my daughter never had hard poo either, so I didn't consider her constipated and neither did her pediatrician. That is just HER normal. She's almost two and has started pooping a little more often, but I've also started giving her a splash prune juice if it's been a few days. :)
My babies pooped like every 30 mins to an hour it seemed like!!
Isn't it amazing the little things that can make us worry? My 2nd and 3rd really were constipated, and it was not fun. You could see them straining to get something out, and then just crying in pain :( Now my 4th is pooping with almost every diaper change, so like 8-10 times a day, and I shout with joy over each successful poop, lol. I'm making sure what I eat this time isn't causing problems. Recently discovered I can't eat spinach without it hurting baby's tummy and causing a rash on his poor bum :(
My first son pooped once every 7-10 days, and my parents told me he was sick (and I was a bad mother for not giving him laxatives, even though his pooping habits were none of their business and the peds and books I read said this is normal for a breastfed baby). My second son poops about 4 times a day, so I miss those once a week poops!
Once you realize that it is normal, and get beyond the worry, the once a week poops are definitely NICE! :)
I haven't had a newborn in a couple of years but wouldn't it be AWESOME if it were normal for newborns to poop ONLY ONCE DAY?! Ahhhhh…a girl can dream can't she??? =)
for my LO it was once a week :)
Man I could have used one or two of those "only poops once a week kids" All four of mine pooped multiple times a day. And continue to not miss a day! Would have saved a bundle on diapers!
But in all seriousness I am glad you are no longer worried. I just discovered this myself! :)
My now six month old breast fed baby poops about once a week. She's been on that schedule since about 4 months. I was so worried the first time she went a week without a poopy diaper. Our doctor also suggested pear juice. She wanted nothing to do with it and I never forced her to take it because the lack of poop seemed to bother me a lot more than it bothered her.
I breastfed all 4 of my babies & my youngest (3 months) only poops every other day. Like you said that is completely normal!
Hi! I don't know how old this post is, but |I thought I'd share my experience. My breastfed only daughter went 47 days without pooping!! Seriously. 47 days. I had her to our gp, he referred us to a pediatrician, who said "she just uses up every last bit of stuff from your breast milk, she's fine!" She has a quick metabolism still to this day, and does not poop every day and she's 7.5 now. Enjoy the savings on diapers :)
Wow. This was an eye opener for me. My son has about 3-4 BMs a day and one day, had none! I was alarmed, but thankfully all is well. It just goes to show that just like all humans, babies are unique to their own.
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SiWC 2007 conference presenter, author and playwright Dennis Foon is a part of an upcoming production called TRUE BELIEVERS. In his own words:MY ACID TRIP is a man's look back at his first hallucinogenic experience, and how that illuminated the hidden truths about his immigrant family, their secrets, and the day his great uncle got a boiled potato stuck in his mouth. From the Solocollective website:TRUE BELIEVERS
three monologues by Dennis Foon, Lorena Gale, and Ian Weir directed by Camyar Chai, John Cooper, and Rachel...
Lotsa questions coming this way about the Masque, mostly (I guess) since it's new this year. I'm going to do up a little FAQ here, and if you can fire any questions you may still have into the comments section at the end, I'll pop back and answer them over the next few days.
Okay...here goes:
1. Timing. Technically the Masque is our Night Owl event, and therefore does not begin until 9 pm. However, you certainly may come to all the evening festivities, which have been delayed an extra 15 minutes to allow a bit more preparation time, all ready for the Masque, and thereby not miss a minute of the fun.
Here's the way Saturday evening is scheduled to progress:
Workshops end at 5:00 pm. Cash Bar opens.
5:30 pm -- 7:00...
The blog posts are going to be coming fast and hard over the next couple of weeks, so grab a tight hold of your keyboard and get ready for a wild ride!
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One of the folks on the forum who is attending the conference sent me off a few questions, and I thought this might be the best place to answer some of them...so here goes.
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Long-time presenter, agent and friend to the conference, Donald Maass has just given a literary gift to the public, making his book THE CAREER NOVELIST available online by pdf download.
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I have the paperback version sitting on the bookshelf above my head, at the moment. Now you can get your copy on-line for free!
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Just wanted to let you know, you've done an excellent job with this SIWC website. It's been very informative and helpful and I'm looking forward to attending again. In case you have visitors to your website vacillating on the decision whether it is worthwhile to invest the time and money in attending this conference, I just want you (and them) to know it's done wonders for me. I had no intention of meeting with an agent last year, but as fate would have it, I hooked up with Jenoyne Adams. I signed a formal contract this past March with Bliss Literary Agency International and Jenoyne is currently hard at work preparing my first three fantasy novels for representation....
Back from my book tour of the Kootenay Region of BC (you can read all about it on my blog here: kc's blog) and next on the agenda is the gathering of information and insight from the contest committees.
Contest shortlists should be out this week. As soon as the shortlisted authors are notified, details will be posted here. Please note we will not publish the names of the shortlisted authors, as the judging is always done blind, but the authors themselves will be notified of their success.
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At SiWC last year, author (and long-time librarian) Lois Peterson spearheaded an effort to raise funds for 'Library Grove'. The 25-tree grove in Holland Park is an initiative of the Surrey Public Library to celebrate 25 years as an organisation. As of today, the grove is a reality.
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Many 2007 SiWC participants contributed to the cost of a tree in the 25-tree Library Grove that Surrey Public Library planted on October 2, 2008 in Holland Park, Surrey. This project is designed to recognize '...the value trees bring to the environment, our community, and library collections,' and is one of a number of projects celebrating the library's 25th anniversary in 2008. LIbrary...
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Even with our jam-packed schedule this year, we will hold our annual author Book Fair and Signing on Saturday evening from 5:30 to 7:00 pm, as usual. You can bring books in to be signed by your favourite author, and local authors will also be on hand to sell and sign their own books.(* Come ON! You too can have your bedside table look like this if you try hard enough!)
If you ARE a local author, and are planning to join us for this event, you must contact us before October 1 to reserve a spot. Places are filling fast -- so be sure to check in with our Conference Assistant and Bookfair Coordinator Ingrid Roeske at bookfair@...
The Word is hitting the streets tomorrow with events right across Canada. Here in the Lower Mainland you'll find a gorgeous fall day, with tons of books, magazines and words of every description on the streets around the main branch of the Vancouver library.
For me, WOTS marks the true beginning of fall -- all the author events, book launches and fun with the written word really commences with this celebration of all things literary.
Your humble (but intrepid) blogger goes on tour to the Kootenays starting tomorrow, but first I'll be down getting a taste of...
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Report of a Case.—A previously healthy 11-year-old boy was referred to the University of Minnesota Hospitals for examination of an enlarging mass in the neck that had been noted by the patient's mother four weeks before admission. He denied any cough, sore throat, rhinorrhea, pain, fever, chills, night sweats, weight loss, respiratory embarrassment, change in voice, recent exposure to vaccines, or infectious disease. Medical history was remarkable for mechanical orthopedic manipulation of his feet at an early age for talipes equinovarus deformities. The patient's father reportedly had
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Marilee Hartman feels shes always been linked to Summerville.
Playing the violin and Summerville have been connected since the 1990s, said the Illinois native.
Shes been traveling to town since 1995, whenever her Summerville-based best friend invited Hartman to play events with area churches and performance groups.
Ever since then Ive always wanted to live here.
In January Hartman decided to make her dream a reality and move to Summerville by herself, while her husband remains at their family farm in Minnesota.
Hartman said the chance to play her violin with the Summerville Community Orchestra was a huge draw, ever since sitting in on an SCO rehearsal a few years ago.
She enjoys playing with the orchestra because of the opportunities to grow as a musician and to work with fellow orchestra members.
The music is challenging, but I see Im improving. Alex [Agrest, the conductor] is very patient and encouraging, it makes me want to work on the parts. My goal is to continue to improve my technical skills so I can be a better part of the orchestra.
Hartman offered the insight, Youre never done improving, a mantra she lives by; the 66-year-old has been playing the violin for more than 40 years and still practices nearly every day.
When she was a child Hartman began her musical career playing piano and then the clarinet. After attending an orchestra performance she said she fell in love with the strings, and her grandfather gave Hartman her grandmothers violin as a gift.
Today her daughter plays that violin.
Ive always just loved the looks of the violin. I dont have words for it. You can be a part of an incredible beauty with music, and theres a spiritual connection with music Its just something words cant describe.
Hartman is particularly fond of playing Baroque music and enjoys playing in smaller ensembles in addition to the larger orchestra performances.
Professionally, Hartman was a social worker by trade. She has degrees from the University of New Hampshire, Lawrence University in Wisconsin, and earned her masters from Columbia University in New York City.
The violin has always been a hobby of hers, but it has played a role in her professional life as well.
God has given me many uses for the violin besides orchestra, she said, including playing the instrument for hospice patients.
Hartman has been married to her husband Bob for 32 years. The couple has two children, a 29-year-old son and 23-year-old daughter.
The Hartmans have spent much of their life traveling, including to visit their son when he was a teacher in Kenya. We actually lived with the Maasai tribe in their village for a month. One day we hope to go back to see our friends again.
Locally she is also hoping to travel. Destinations on her must see list include Beaufort, S.C., and Savannah.
Her violin is a usual travel companion.
Its a life-long treasure to be able to play, whether youre alone or playing for others in hospice, being in a community orchestra... There are just so many things you can do. If you love it, you dont give it up.
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Morning temperatures remained in the low 40s across the Valley Thursday morning.
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Gulf World veterinarian Linda Staggs told the News Herald she detected inflammation in the abdomen of the adult female Atlantic spotted dolphin, but further testing would be done in Orlando.
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Rejoice all ye owners of the GSM version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus because not only is it time for an Android software update, it's coming the easy way, too - right over the air. All you'll have to do is go into your settings and hit the software update button inside your device info near the bottom of your setting list and bam! There it is, ready to bring you up to an ever-so-slightly changed user interface.


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Conair Infiniti Pro Styler Ceramic
Infiniti Pro Styler by Conair Is An Essential Beauty Item for Modern Women On the Go Straightening hair has never been as simple as it is with the Conair Infiniti Pro Ceramic Styler . You can get a professional style in the comfort of your own home for the fraction of the cost of a salon style. Whether you straighten your hair every day for work or school or you save styling for special occasions, the Pro Styler is a great tool to have in your beauty collection. You get a peace of mind knowing that you won't fry your hair or burn yourself with this high-end Conair product. The Infiniti Pro Styler by Conair straightens, waves and creates body for hair all in a single stroke, which maximizes the options for styling. The Pro Styler has a unique design with a motorized rotating barrel that combs hair as you style it. The motorized barrel also reduces styling time and tangling. With two-inch tourmaline ionic ceramic plates that heat to professional temperatures in mere seconds, you get beautiful, straight hair quickly.
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CONGENITAL heart block is rare, as evidenced by the number of cases reported in the literature. Jaleski and Morrison,1 in their article on congenital heart block, reported that only 80 cases had been described prior to 1942.
Yater2 set forth certain criteria for the diagnosis of congenital heart block. These criteria are as follows: (1) The presence of heart block must be established in a young patient by graphic methods; (2) there must be some evidence of a slow pulse at a fairly early age, and (3) there must be no history of any infection which might cause the condition after birth, such as diphtheria, rheumatic fever, chorea or congenital syphilis. Yater also stated that the presence of signs of congenital heart disease, although not essential, adds weight to the congenital origin of the disease.
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Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Providence
Monday, July 13 at 9:00 p.m.
Look back 15 years to see what some memorable objects appraised in Providence are worth today.
Some have increased in value, while others haven't fared so well. Highlights include a Maurice Brazil Prendergast color monotype, ca. 1895; a Cartier ruby and diamond compact; and an Edward Farmer jade and gold box first appraised at $80,000-$125,000.


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The Circulation Improving Leg Wraps are used for Compression Therapy to improve circulation in the legs. Manufactured by Nitring, the circulation leg wraps come with two Compression Leg Sleeves that soothe achy legs and swelling. The Leg Compression Sleeves have six airbags built into a leg garment that is wrapped around the entire leg and inflated and deflated to help blood vessels expand and contract. The compression intervals of the Nitring circulation leg wraps stimulate circulation in the thighs, hamstrings, calves, and feet. The Intermittent Compression provided by the Compression Pump with Circulation Improving Leg Wraps help facilitate blood flow back to the body from the lower extremities. The circulation leg wraps compression pump comes with a corded remote that allows you to select from three levels of intensity. Used by hospitals as well, the hospital circulation leg wraps offer the choice between seven compression programs that pinpoint different areas at varying intervals. The Compression Wraps have adjustable Velcro® closures that offer individual adaptation.
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Mets Fans Vent Over World Series Loss, But Agree Future Is BrightSome fans now wonder if Harvey gave too much by returning to the mound in the ninth after tossing eight scoreless innings.
Keidel: Chins Up, Mets And Mets Fans, Because You Still Own This CityIt was a perfect microcosm. Of the men and the Mets.
Palladino: The Temptation Will Be To Blame Collins -- But You Shouldn'tThere is no sugar-coating the fact that the end of the Mets' season early Monday morning came during an animated dugout conversation between Matt Harvey and Terry Collins.
9th Inning Of Game 5 Put A Cap On A Bizarre Season For Mets' HarveyMatt Harvey demanded the ball in the ninth inning of the Mets' biggest game in years, the biggest start of his career. He got it. And once again in the World Series, Harvey did not get the result he hoped for.
Mets' Collins On Harvey In 9th: 'I Let My Heart Get In The Way Of My Gut'Terry Collins knew what he wanted to do. And he didn't do it.
PHOTOS: Mets' Dream Dies With Late Game 5 MeltdownThrough eight innings on Sunday, the Mets appeared destined to send the World Series back to Kansas City for Game 6. Then everything fell apart.
Mets' Cespedes Leaves Game 5 After Fouling Pitch Off His KneecapAfter being attended to by trainers, Cespedes stayed in the game, but popped out weakly to short two pitches later and was visibly hobbling as he ran down the first base line.
Costly Error Leads To Role Reversal For Mets Postseason Hero Daniel MurphyThe second baseman let a grounder get under his glove in the eighth inning and the Kansas City Royals quickly pounced for three runs, beating the Mets 5-3 Saturday night to take a 3-1 lead.
Keidel: Win Or Lose, Mets, Their Fans Have No Reason To Hang Their HeadsYou don't want to eulogize the Mets. Not after this enchanted run, from their laughable June lineup to their July awakening to their glorious summer run to the charmed October roll.
Fans Turn Out With Enthusiasm, But Mets Lose World Series Game 4The Mets stepped up to the plate Friday night and cut their World Series deficit to 2-1, but after Saturday night, they had found their way back into a 3-1 hole.
World Series Game 4 Lineups PostedBoth teams will have the same batting orders in Game 4 that they used in Game 3.
Big Bats Return, Syndergaard Holds It Together As Mets Take Game 3Two balls launched over the wall, one fired over an opponent's head and just like that, David Wright and the New York Mets are right back in this World Series.


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The Effect of Labor Market Regulations on Educational Attainment
Aparna Mathur
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
May 21, 2010
American Enterprise Institute Working Paper 2010-02
This paper develops a theoretical and an empirical model to study the effect of higher employment protection on investments in tertiary education. The mechanism driving this link is the effect of employment protection on worker flows. Worker flows (which are synonymous with job flows in my model), are significantly lower with firing taxes, leading to fewer vacancies available per unemployed worker (also referred to as market tightness). This reduces the probability of finding a job and therefore lowers the expected return to education. In equilibrium, with high firing taxes, only the highest ability individuals invest in costly education. I test my model using panel data for more than a 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. Using data from the World Bank as well as from the Barro-Lee dataset on education, I find that, controlling for other factors, more flexible labor markets (or those with lower employment protection) are associated with relatively higher tertiary enrollment and graduation rates than more rigid markets.
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With our society's pressure to always watch what we eat, it might be a refreshing change to be a caterpillar. Their main goal is to consume as much as possible, growing ever bigger.
Okay, they don't get to munch doughnuts, pizza or wings, but they do a bang-up job on leaves.
But not just any leaf. Each species has its own group of host plants that it likes; some have a wide variety and some only a few.
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail caterpillar prefers Black Cherry and Tuliptree. Cabbage White caterpillars eat plants from the mustard family, which includes radishes and cabbages.
A caterpillar hatches from an egg and only has a week or two to pack on weight before it enters the pupa stage of its life, when it becomes a chrysalis on its way to metamorphosing into a butterfly or moth.
"A caterpillar's growth happens so quickly that it goes through five to six stages of molting called instars, where it basically sheds its skin like a snake does as it grows," said Thom Almendinger, Duke Farms Foundation director of Natural Resources and Agroecology.
Caterpillars can expand 100 times their size before they progress to the pupa stage.
While caterpillars are so focused on growing their girths, how do they defend themselves against predators such as birds, wasps and parasites?
What birds can't see, they can't catch. Camouflage accomplishes that for some caterpillars.
"A lot of the species will mimic plant parts that they are associated with, like leaves, thorns, and some will blend in with bark," said Almendinger.
A group of caterpillars resemble twigs, including the Feathered Thorn moth caterpillar.
Some caterpillars employ chemical defenses; the plants they eat make them toxic to predators, but do not adversely affect them.
The classic example is the Monarch butterfly caterpillar, after eating milkweed. Many of these caterpillars and the butterflies or moths they become advertise this toxicity with their bright colors.
The monarch butterfly caterpillar wears a unique pattern of yellow, white and black bands, which metamorphoses to the showy, iconic butterfly.
Caterpillars have 12 real eyes, but weak vision. Some caterpillars fake out predators with additional eye-like spots on their back end or even in the front.
The Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillar has false eyes and another diversion. "They have these little split forked appendages that come out of their head so to speak," said Almendinger. "They are called osmeterium, and they release really bad smells when they are approached."
Despite all these stealthy defenses, loads of caterpillars get eaten. They form a critical part of the base of a giant food web.
"Most of the neotropical migrant birds that come up from the south to the northern territories depend upon tens of thousands of little caterpillars to feed their babies," said Almendinger.
Caterpillars also help recycle nutrients from trees back into the ground again. The leaves they eat pass through their guts and comes out as revitalizing fertilizer.
So providing a pesticide-free habitat full of native plants for the very hungry caterpillars in Hunterdon benefits a range of wildlife.
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A car dealership was dealt a disgusting blow when someone used one of the cars and the American flag flying on it as a personal toilet.
Someone recently smeared feces on the flag and took aim at the side of a truck for sale at a Roadrunner Auto Mart. The mess was power-washed Monday.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The American Red Cross assisted a family of three, two adults and one child, whose St. Stephen residence on Union Lane was destroyed by fire last week.
The Red Cross provided financial assistance for food, clothing, shoes, and temporary housing, as well as comfort kits containing personal hygiene items and referrals to partner organizations to help with the familys long-term recovery.
Since Jan. 1 the Palmetto SC Region of the American Red Cross has assisted more than 1,000 individuals who have been affected by a disaster.
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Fug Girls: Rita Ora's Surprise Showing at DKNY
She led the models' finale walk down the runway.By The Fug Girls
She led the models' finale walk down the runway.By The Fug Girls
From red cowboy hat to front row at J. Mendel.By The Fug Girls
Fern Mallis attempts model rescue; Jessica Stam "loves that the men were tied up."By Jada Yuan
And his thumb. Of course.By Maureen O'Connor
The weather denier. The ski gear show-off. They will all fail.By Maureen O'Connor
The former J.Crew VP on her new label, engagement, and not shopping for a year.By Diana Tsui
For battery, assault, libel, and slander.By Charlotte Cowles
Ideas you can try this weekend, with things you probably already own.By Veronica Misako Gledhill and Stella Bugbee
Embellishment gets extreme, the Le Smoking gets reimagined, and grunge grows up.By Veronica Misako Gledhill and Diana Tsui
Plus tips and product suggestions in case you want to try these looks
for Halloween at home.
Joanna Hillman and Shala Monroque made our list, but there are some new faces, too.By Diana Tsui and Veronica Misako Gledhill
Hide-and-seek nipples and Sesame Street shoes.By Sally Holmes
An interview with the legendary makeup artist.By Charlotte Cowles
Time to wash your flannel.By Diana Tsui
So scan yourself.By Diana Tsui
Art Ortenberg joins the Oscar de la Renta hot-dog feud.By Charlotte Cowles
Meat-dress-wearer joins Horyn beef.By Charlotte Cowles
Bootals? Sandoots?By Diana Tsui
Runway stats!By Alex Rees
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Complete information and downloadable application forms are available at U.S. Department of State.
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Apply in person locally at one of the following locations. For locations other than Ann Arbor, see the U.S. Department of State web site.
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Passports normally take six weeks to process. To get a passport more quickly, you must pay an additional fee. For more information, including current processing times, see U.S. Department of State - How to Get Your Passport in a Hurry.
You can obtain a passport within 2-3 weeks by applying in person and paying for expedited processing at the following locations. Processing via express mail is also available. For additional locations in Ann Arbor and elsewhere see Passport Acceptance Facility Search Page.
The Detroit Passport Agency can issue expedited passports within five business days. Immediate processing is also available in particularly urgent situations. For more information and application procedures, see the U.S. Department of State Detroit Passport Agency web page or call 1-877-487-2778.
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To replace a lost or stolen passport, follow the procedures explained at U.S. Department of State Lost or Stolen Passports.
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Dial D-A-I-L for economic carnage
Laura Slattery
"What can the Government do to boost growth?" it asks on a fold-it-and-keep wallet-sized summary of "the National Recovery Plan, 2011-2014″. There will be plenty of room for it in our wallets anyway after it's finished mopping up its mess.
Well, it's going to start by hacking 24,750 jobs out of the public sector and cutting the minimum wage by €1 an hour to €7.65 (which will inevitably have the knock-on effect of deflating the salaries of all low- and middle-income earners). Not permanently employed but have managed to scrape together enough hours to get by? The point at which you will start paying tax will drop to €15,300, a fall of €3,000, by 2014. All tax credits and bands will drop by an aggregate 16.5 per cent by the end of the "recovery" period.
It's going to follow this up by "reform[ing the] welfare system to incentivise work and eliminate unemployment traps", which is fantastic, as we all know it's merely the lack of incentive to get out of bed in the morning, not the jobless economic deep-freeze, that's causing all our woes. Social welfare expenditure will be €3 billion lower a year by 2014 – the details of this particular misery have not yet been spelled out.
Thinking of waiting out the recession with, I don't know, a decade's worth of education? That's going to cost you €2,000 a year, as annual student fees increase 33 per cent.
But if salaries and welfare payments plummet, then that's okay, right, because we'll be more "competitive" and things in the shops with be a lot cheaper? Hmm. Not so fast. From 2013, there will be an increase in the standard rate of VAT – the tax that hits poorest people most – from 21 per cent to 22 per cent, with a further increase to 23 per cent in 2014.
There's lots of insulting guff inspiring words in here about "a blueprint for a return to sustainable growth" and "identifying the areas of economic activity" that will allegedly provide employment. There's also mention of confidence… vitality… dynamism… proportionate adjustment. The Business Expansion Scheme will be replaced by something called the Business Investments Targeting Employment Scheme, aka BITES. I'm not sure they've thought that one through.
And then: "We must all accept our share of the burden so that we can collectively share in the fruits that will undoubtedly flow from solving our current problems." So, what do you think? Do you have confidence that one day you will get to share in these magical, future fruits? Or has the Irish economy already rotted away in the stale IMF air?


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The last we saw from the Steelers was a poor third down-and-8 call compounded by poor tackling and a holding call that never came.
Jacksonville twice stole the show in the Steel City while Pittsburgh lost four of its final five games. Head coach Mike Tomlin's debut leaves Steelers fans cautiously optimistic. The 2008 black and gold bunch have the tools necessary, but do they have the tool box to protect them?
There has only been one issue that has been more publicized than the Steelers' offensive line woes last season, and that's the Rooney family's battle to keep control of the franchise.
The Steelers "hogs" up front were scorched for 31 sacks in the second half of last season. That was with perennial all-pro left guard Alan Faneca in the lineup. The Steelers opted to draft for potential in the first two rounds of this year's draft. Running back Rashard Mendenhall and wide receiver Limas Sweed look to add to what is already a talented group of skill players.
The only player they gobbled up in free agency was center Justin Hartwig of Carolina. He will replace Sean Mahan and has been OK at best in his preseason debut. Fourth-year guard Chris Kemoeatu will replace Faneca while left tackle Marvel Smith hopefully has seen the last of his back problems.
The right side sees Kendall Simmons and Willie Colon hoping to gain cohesion and stability. This unit is clearly under the gun and needs to protect quarterback Ben Roethlisberger light years better than a year ago.
The cliche is "defense wins championships."
This has always rung true in Pittsburgh. The 2007 version of "Blitzburg" was a solid unit for much of the season but fizzled late. The Jaguars showed the rest of the league how to "draw" the black and gold defenders in during both of their late-season meetings. The Steelers' defensive ends are solid with Aaron Smith and Brett Keisel, but where is the depth? The Steelers brought back 35-year-old Orpheus Roye to join Nick Eason as backups. This should be a position of emphasis in the 2009 draft.
The secondary will be bolstered by the return of free safety Ryan Clark. No more will we have to see Anthony Smith allow receivers get behind him. Nor will we have to endure another Tyrone Carter missed tackle. Clark is solid in the middle of the field and allows all-pro Troy Polamalu to do his thing at strong safety. The talk of the preseason has been about second-year outside linebacker Lamar Woodley. I feel the tandem of Woodley and James Harrison will wreck havoc on opposing QBs, reminiscent of the mid-90s with Greg Lloyd and Kevin Greene. Look for the sack total to return to normal in '08.
2008 marked the first time Roethlisberger has been named a team captain. This is just another in a line of accomplishments this Pro Bowler has earned, and he will continue to improve after signing a $102 million contract in March.
Ben has a group of receivers that can make plays. Hines Ward is the consummate pro and will again lead the wide receivers by example. Third-year man Santonio Holmes is ready to have a breakout season. Look for him to challenge for the Pro Bowl and become a superstar. Nate Washington, Sweed and Dallas Baker provide depth. Willie Parker returns from a late-season broken leg to join Mendenhall at running back. This tandem will have no problems producing yards and touchdowns, barring a meltdown by the boys up front.
Tomlin looks to avoid the "sophomore jinx" and return this team to the playoffs. He showed in '07 that he has what it takes to lead his team to a division title. The players seemed more in tune with Tomlin's demeanor as they exited Latrobe a few weeks ago. Look for all to be on the same page today as the Houston Texans provide the opposition. QB hunter Mario Williams and company should give the offensive line a stiff test, but Big Ben will once again shine with three TD passes as the Steelers get out of the gates with a victory.
Prediction: Steelers 28, Texans 16
Season record: 10-6 (division winners)
Craig Andros is a frequent contributor to Voice of the Fan, often commenting on the Steelers.