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Looks like I'm the only person here who did much worse than they should have at GCSE. I took it lightly, barely revised and ended up with only 2A*s, 4As and 5Bs when I was predicted all As and A*s. I still regret not putting in the work then because I did so much better at AS, so I know I was capable of doing 10x better. But ah well, I guess it didn't really matter to my uni applications or anything so meh
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I did better in all my coursework pieces. In history by teacher was adamant I got a C which I was so disappointed with, and it turned out I got 98% hmmm....
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Looks like I'm the only person here who did much worse than they should have at GCSE. I took it lightly, barely revised and ended up with only 2A*s, 4As and 5Bs when I was predicted all As and A*s. I still regret not putting in the work then because I did so much better at AS, so I know I was capable of doing 10x better. But ah well, I guess it didn't really matter to my uni applications or anything so meh
Not really a high mark (well, it is for me) but in GCSE Maths I gained a C! What's the big deal you ask? Well I'd never ever achieved a C in Maths. Recent mocks were poor (U's and E's) and I'd never attained a C in any progress report etc. Of course, I thought I was doomed to failure. However, a miracle seemed to take place and I passed! The first time I ever got a C was in the actual exam, what are the chances eh?!
The rest of my grades I'd been roughly predicted close enough to and came out overall with A*A*A*ABCCCC, so I'd say that mostly your predicted grades will be quite near the real grade you'll get.
I didn't think I'd get an A* at history or RE. I barely revised for RE and with history, I thought I flopped on the Native Americans bit. It had a really ambiguous question on the roles of women in the tribe, there wasn't much to build on so I had to elaborate upon my elaborations.
I remember there being a question on the Mormons which I absolutely destroyed though. xP
I wasn't expecting a B in Maths either, I'd given up on getting help in class because my teacher spent more time shouting/helping people who already had extra tuition. Mum had bought me some random work books from WHSmith that I used.
I came out with A*A*A*A*AAAAAB
I cam out of both my history gcse exams sure I had done badly, and I seem to remember running out of time in the second one. However, I got an A* in the end!
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Was predicted 7A* 4A
Expected 4A* 6A 1B
Got 2A* 8A 1B
Wasn't too dissapointed at the time because I knew I didn't do anywork, but when I got to AS I wished I'd worked harder for GCSE's.
Was predicted A*A*A*A*A*AAAAB And got A*AAAAABBCC...Completely ballsed up French and drama (my C's) and don't know what happened with history as I got an A* in my mock (although the same thing happened in my June AS paper - A in mock, E in the real thing) but dead chuffed with my B in Maths!
I expected to fail Product Design (I was shocking), but got an A*, and I got an A in PE which was really unexpected, but everything else was okay
I was predicted 11A* but this was completely unrealistic because pretty much if you were in top set you were predicted an A*. I actually got 7A*, 3A, B. I came out of my textiles exam feeling like I'd done really badly, and thought I'd just about get a B overall (coursework was A*) but I'd gotten an A*! And English was my absolute hated subject, couldn't understand why anyone would want to analyse a book that deeply and so didn't try all that hard when it came to revision and came out with an A* and an A in Lit/Lang. I actually cried on results day I was so happy!
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Given that, for the majority of the proceeding months I was in hospital, and basically did all my coursework there and therefore was rarely in school, the fact that I got straight A's and A*'s was rather surprising.
Thought I messed up Geography as I literally couldn't care less about it. We didn't even have a textbook to learn from. Was very lucky though and must have only scraped an A. Also Citizenship - we had about 4 lessons on it before the exam. Managed an A in that too. But was ever so slightly disappointed in a couple other subjects, I guess I set my own personal targets too high. Ended up with 4A*s and 8As overall.
Edit: I forgot English Lit - I despised it at GCSE yet I carried it onto AS o.O WHY
Geography I just couldn't be bothered with and got bored during the exam, but got an A* in that; so if you think geography went badly then chances are you'll have done better than you though as this was the general consensus
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Given that I had done absolutely no work on chemistry in Y11, I was expecting a B/C in that, and got an A. On the flip side, I thought I'd get A* in Geography and Physics, but only got an A in both.
I thought I did well in my Geography exam and that I would get a high A but I got a low B instead.
Few grades were dissapointing. I got A in maths (stupid silly mistakes ruined me) and i am one of the top students for maths in our year and doing fm and recieving 95+ ums in every unit i've taken so far (c1 c2 s1 s2 m1 m2). I got A in classics which wasn't unexpected, but when i looked at units grades i was shocked - i got 3 very high a* on exams and c on my coursework (i blame the teacher). Getting A in Physics and Chemestry was dissapointing as well.. The rest i expected.
Thought i messed up my maths in the last module but my other modules must of bumped me up to a C Did a retake of the exam the year after, did the linear paper and got a B also i got 2 D's in french and media studies :O subjects that i despised and never really payed any attention what so ever in lol, so was expecting F's. I got C's in my English somehow which i dont understand because my Cw was all A/B and i thought the exam went pretty well tbh .
When i opened my results i went straight to the maths and was like YEEEEEEEEEE then i saw my science grade for additional which was an A and was like **** YEEEEEE then i saw my core science grade which was a B and was like Cool Then i checked my individual module results for Chemistry and saw C4C5C6 50/50ums . everything else was expected C in history B in AiDa.
overall results ABBCCCCDD, could of been so much better but i didnt really try that much in anything but Science lol
Expected a C in English Literature, got an A
However, I was told I had worked to a Merit in my PE BTEC but only received a Pass.
But nevermind, it's only GCSE..
Hate GCSE. Finished it in one year completed 6 games while doing it! Achieved All As and a C in biology and Cs in eng lan and literature
spent 1 week revising cuz GCSE is bull ...
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KALAMAZOO — One year ago, making the travel roster for the Western Michigan University women's soccer team was the sole motivation behind Megan Putnam's hard work and training.
"Especially coming in as a walk-on, I was just looking to work hard and I remember my main goal was to try to get on the travel roster," the Hackett Catholic Central product recalled. "Playing was just beyond anything I ever thought I would do."
These days, the fact Putnam joined the Broncos as a walk-on is a very fuzzy fact to most associated with the program.
After moving into a starting role during the spring season, the former Irish standout has earned a scholarship and is a starter at midfielder, taking over for Nicole Dulyea, who had locked down the middle of the field with returners Anina Cicerone and Nikolette Rivera.
"Megan, herself, is just a special person," WMU third-year coach Suzie Grech said. "She's someone that doesn't really look at anybody being either better off, or better, than her. She's someone who will put in the work and the time and make sure she gets better.
WMU BroncosHead coach: Suzie Grech, third year
Last year's record: 9-6-2, 5-2-4 in Mid-American Conference (fifth)
Top returners: With 16 players returning, the Broncos flex plenty of depth. Senior Caitlin Henderson and junior Kelsey Baskins anchor the back line with returners in junior Anina Cicerone and senior Nikolette Rivera manning the middle of the pitch. Up front, Mid-American Conference Offensive Player of the Year Stephanie Skowneski, a senior, returns after tallying nine goals and four assists last year. Sophomore Michelle Watson takes over in goal following four-year starter Julia Francy's tenure.
Newcomers to watch: Grech said a key to the season is getting her whopping class of 10 freshmen experience. Of the newcomers, Rachel Chaney (Fr., MF), Aubrey Sudomier (Fr., F), Diana Dedvukaj (Fr., F) have garnered significant minutes and will work into the fray this year.
Outlook: The Broncos were pegged to finish third in the MAC West and MAC Tournament by league coaches. They'll see Toledo and Central Michigan, both teams projected to finish above them in the West, at home this year. Western Michigan, which takes a 3-3 record into today's game at Wright State, retains four of its top five scorers from last year and has plenty of weapons to make a return trip to the MAC Tournament championship.
"In the end, her transition into the college game, even at the end of last fall, surprised us a lot. Just seeing how quickly she caught on to the college game and speed of play — especially being a center-mid, it's extremely difficult."
Sporting a cast on a freshly broken hand, Putnam has started the first six games for the Broncos (3-3), reeling off 12 shots. She competed in 19 games last year, but never started. Putnam's climb from walk-on to a starting position in one year was an improbable one.
"Is it common? No. It certainly isn't common, but we have high expectations for everyone on this team," Grech said. "We have expectations that they have the desire to want to be a starter and a big role player on this team. She's just one of those players that has managed to accomplish that early in her career."
2011 Home Schedule
18: Illinois State, 11 a.m.
23: Ball State 4 p.m.
25: Toledo, 1 p.m.
30: Ohio, 4 p.m.
2: Akron, 1 p.m.
14: Central Michigan, 4 p.m.
16: Eastern Michigan, 1 p.m.
Putnam, who totes the third-highest GPA on the team at 3.94, gives the Broncos a little different feel in the middle this season. Her predecessor, Dulyea, was a defensive-minded midfielder while Putnam often gets forward and will play a big factor on offense.
This is the same role area high school fans know Putnam for after she fueled Hackett to a state championship in 2009 and runner-up finish in 2010.
Her fellow midfielders saw Putnam as a real asset from day one.
"I didn't know that, as a freshman, she was a walk-on," said Cicerone, WMU's second-leading scorer last year with five goals and three assists. "I thought she was on scholarship. She played so hard and I was like 'Wow, she's really good.' I thought she would get more time than she did. But we had Nicole Dulyea and Riv in there and they took up most of the time."
Putnam is the only West Michigan native on WMU's roster.
"I love representing my hometown, it's awesome," Putnam said. "My parents are always here. Even at the away games, they always come. It's really nice knowing I have the support of my hometown."
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One lawmaker wants America to "wake up" and stop allowing terrorism to proliferate.
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., recently released a 10-point plan she hopes will stave radical elements of Islam from infiltrating the military, school rooms, and other elements of society.
If that means revoking the passport of a former U.S. president or examining the preaching of prison chaplains, that's what she's prepared to do, according to a report in The Charlotte Observer.
Last week, she called for President Jimmy Carter's passport to be revoked because he met with Hamas, a Palestinian group that the U.S. government says supports terrorism.
''His actions reward terrorists, lend support and provide legitimacy to their belief that violence will eventually get them what they want,'' Myrick said.
Myrick acknowledged that her 10-point plan, called ''Wake Up America,'' might hit some road blocks in Washington -- but she thinks it's time to start demanding answers.
''We put this together really to try to get a dialogue going,'' she said. ''It's a beginning point.''
Here is Myrick's 10-point plan to tackle threats posed by radical elements of Islam:
1. Investigate all military chaplains endorsed by Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was imprisoned for funding a terrorist organization.
2. Investigate all prison chaplains endorsed by Alamoudi.
3. Investigate the selection process of Arabic translators working for the Pentagon and the FBI.
4. Examine the non-profit status of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
5. Make it an act of sedition or solicitation of treason to preach or publish materials that call for the deaths of Americans.
6. Audit sovereign wealth funds in the United States.
7. Cancel scholarship student visa program with Saudi Arabia until they reform their text books, which she claims preach hatred and violence against non-Muslims.
8. Restrict religious visas for imams who come from countries that don't allow reciprocal visits by non-Muslim clergy.
9. Cancel contracts to train Saudi police and security in U.S. counterterrorism tactics.
10. Block the sale of sensitive military munitions to Saudi Arabia.
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Show Us Your Most Treasured Cookbook-The Roundup and a plea!
It's time for the roundup for the Show Us Your Most Treasure Cookbook and let me begin to say that even though there are far from as many entries as the other Show Us Your…, this is the one I like the most! The stories and the cookbooks that we are shown are wonderful and I when I did, I realized that I want more of this, I want to read more stories and see more cookbooks so I have decided to give it another month with the hope that there are more of you who want to show your most treasured cookbook and share the stories with us. Please do it, do it for me! I find the stories behind so moving and above all so human and vivid that I wish I could read on forever, wouldn't it be nice to make a book out of it? Who knows, maybe one day so until then I'd love to keep on collecting here. So send me your stories about your most treasured cookbook(s) and if you want, cook your favourite recipe from it, blog about it or send me (luculliandelights AT gmail DOT com) the link or a text and maybe a photo if you don't have a blog and I post it here in the roundup. End of March is the next deadline, I really hope you will participate! And you who don't want to, please comment on the stories you will read here.
Now it is time to head over to the roundup, this will be long one because I have had three entrie from readers without a blog. The first to send me her entry was Megan whose favourite cookbook is an Italian one and her story is profoundly moving:
"Favorite cookbook – what an idea! To me, cookbooks are infinite potential, and just looking at the rows and rows of brightly colored cookbooks makes me happy. So many enticing dishes are captured in these old friends that have travelled with me from the East coast to the West coast, and back again.
That being said, a few cookbooks do stand out in the crowd. Some are the go-to cookbooks, plain and simple. But a few pack an emotional wallop: a cookbook with a dish from childhood, or a cookbook from a loved one.
For me the biggest standout is VENETIAN COOKING: 200 AUTHENTIC RECIPES ADAPTED FOR AMERICAN COOKS by HE Bruning Jr. and Cav. Umberto Bullo. I spent many summers as a child in Venice. On the cheap, flying Freddie Laker and living in sublets of all shapes and sizes, but Venice nonetheless. It was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with spaghetti, Venice, and all things Italian.
Beyond being Venetian, the cookbook was a Christmas gift to our family from my sister, who also adored Venice and lived there for a time studying art during high school. When she died a few years later, the cookbook became irreplaceable. Fortunately it has found its way to my collection, and sometimes I open it simply to read again her inscription in Italian, to look again at her handwriting. And it tickles me that the cover photo is of the vegetable boat in the neighborhood our family loved best – perhaps this was why she picked this particular Venetian cookbook! (For those who follow such things, this same boat appeared in the scene in SUMMERTIME when Katherine Hepburn fell into the canal.)
But the recipes stand up, too. One in particular is a fast favorite: Spagheti Col Ton, in Venetian dialect. Presented as a classic "emergency" pantry dish, it is quick – dinner on the table in the time it takes to cook spaghetti! And so easy you make it once, and never look at the recipe again. Except I did look at the recipe again, recently, only to realize I'd somehow simplified it even further over the years! As a shortcut to the comfort food it has become, I suppose.
However it's made, it's one of the most satisfying sauces I've ever had, especially on a cold winter night. It's won over many a doubting friend – hot tuna sauce? really? – and never fails to set me right. Feel free to share as well the poignant Venetian proverb from the author's foreword: A tavola non s'invecchia mai, or, At the table one never grows old.
4 quarts water
2 _ TBS salt
_ lb spaghetti
3 oz butter
5 oz canned tuna, packed in olive oil
3 TBS tomato sauce (p 218*, or diluted tomato paste in a pinch)
3 TBS dry white wine
Salt and pepper
(grated Parmesan cheese)
1. Bring the salted water to a boil. Start the pasta to cook as described above. (To paraphrase, don't overcook the pasta, and start the sauce before adding the pasta if using thin spaghetti, or afterwards if using regular spaghetti.)
2. Melt the butter in a frying pan over a low to medium flame. Break the tuna into small pieces and add it, along with the oil in which it was packed, to the butter. Add the tomato sauce, wine if you wish, and some salt and pepper. Cook for 5 or 6 minutes, mixing the ingredients thoroughly.
3. Drain the pasta and dress it with the sauce. Serve in warmed spaghetti dishes. A tablespoonful or two of grated Parmesan cheese may be added at the table.
*prepared with chopped tomatoes, garlic, onion, carrot, celery and fresh basil.
My adaptations have been to use plain olive oil in place of butter, stick with the tomato paste shortcut (tomato paste in a tube really comes in handy here), and omit the wine. Though, as one who cooks with wine routinely, I feel sure that I simply forgot along the way that wine had been an ingredient and will rectify this immediately!"
Next out was Britt-Arnhild of Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods who has created her own recipe book over the years, 30 to be exact and I can imagine all the memories that are hidden between those pages, the traces of good times and maybe not so good times! It reminds me of my favourite short story by the Swedish author August Strindberg, Ett Halvt Ark Papper ( I could just find it in Swedish, maybe someone know if there is an English translation available online?) where the short annotations on a piece of paper make the main character's remember his life over the past two years. Read it if you don't know it already, it is very short but beautiful.
I am very happy to include two of my fellow Babes in this roundup, first we have Gretchen of Canela and Comino who remembers her grandmother who recently passed away through her collection of cookbooks. It is interesting how many people's lives, especially women, are connected with their cookbooks, I for my part, felt that it was very important to me to keep my parents cookbooks and Gretchen pays a touching homage to her grandmother through her cokbooks.
Anna wrote to me about her most treasured cookbooks, both in the kitchens where they were used and I was happy to read that we share the same memory cake, Solskenskaka ! and the same cookbook, it shows what an important that single cookbook, Sju Sorters Kakor (Swedish Cakes and Cookies) have played in the lives for generations of Swedes:
"I can't send a photo of my treasured cookbooks because they're not with me at the moment; they're still in the kitchens they were originally used, even though my mother and grandmother are no longer with us to cook from them. These books are falling to pieces, just like the one you show, and I would probably throw them away when it eventually comes to emptying these kitchens, although after this post I might think otherwise.
And it's funny you should choose solskenskaka, because that'd be one of my memory cakes, from one of these books (but I would never accept it without almonds – unless cooking for someone allergic – the almonds is what makes the difference between a solskenskaka and a plain sockerkaka in my view). The book was once publicity for a Marabu baking powder which no longer exists. And it's from there I take the recipe for sandkaka at Christmas. A cake I didn't like as a child, now cherish, despite the endless beating of eggs and butter and the fact that it always comes out a bit soggy. It calls for brandy, but of course as a citizen of Porto I use portwine these days.
The memory book from my grandmother's kitchen would be an old copy of Sju sorters kaker, don't know which edition. That's where last summer I found a recipe for Sacher torte which uses only hazelnuts, eggs, sugar, chocolate and apricot jam. It might not be the original one, but it'll be the one I use from now on, as it's gluten free and full of healthy nutty fats. Well, it's delicious too, of course.
My own cookbooks are not old enough to fall to pieces yet, but clearly you can judge from the stains which are the ones I really use: Annas mat and Sju sorters kakor."
Katie of Thyme for Cooking is another of my fellow Babes who shares her most treasured cookbook and I was happy to see a children's cookbook because one of my other treasured cookbooks is just that (but obviously another one than Katie's, I'll blog about that next month), I think that many of us have been dreaming over cookbooks as children, reading and tasting the recipes in the mind, and I do recognize the feelings that Katie is talking about in her post! It also seems to me that you do share at least a cookbook author with Gretchen, if not the same cookbook, is that right Katie?
There is nothing that says a treasured cookbook has to be old and tattered, no it is enough that it is… treasured and Simona's of Bricoles cookbook is a confirmation of this! Her most treasured cookbook is the first one she bought for herself and her new life. You will learn a lot of Italian when you read her post and there are also some lovely quotations but that is typical of her blog, you don't only get food to eat there but also food for the mind.
And to conclude we have Sonny's most treasured cookbook, the one his mother used and that really is one of those historical and sociological monuments of a time that is no more, read his lovely story:
"Ica-Kuriren's Det godaste jag vet [The Tastiest I Know], published in 1973, is my most treasured cookbook – a mix between traditional swedish recipes and recipes from other countries adapted to swedish taste. The preface says that it was the readers of Ica-Kuriren that write and tell; "…what's the tastiest thing they know".
My mother was born in Mauritius – a multicultural society influenced by hindus, chinese, european and creoles. As a child I ate exotic dishes every day – Indian Masala Dosa, Chinese Beef Szechuan and Coq au Vin. But when we were entertaining my mother always cooked and served Swedish food. She learned about Swedish food through the weekly magazine Ica-Kuriren, who has published the book Det godaste jag vet.
I can still see it in front of me – it's the early 70s and my mother is making the Smörgåstårta from Det godaste jag vet – our guests are soon to arrive and my mother is very nervous – though she lived most of her life, close to 50 years, in Sweden, as far as I know, she felt never mastered the art of Swedish cooking – so it is with perfectionists. I, myself know that I have had a culinary childhood vouchsafed not many.
Today, I get great pleasure reading the recipes from the book with an authentic chronicle and make a trip back to my childhood. The simplicity in all recipes strikes me, of course, first and foremost, the contributors they were all amateur cooks, but also the availability of ingredients and certainly living standards. With an eye and with a bit of philosophy, the book shows that we have come amazingly far in these 37 years since it was printed in 1973.
As a curiosity I must mention – typical of the times – among the 90 recipes are three Russian inspired dishes. For example Russian Pancakes (vodka in the ingredient list) with Swedish Herring Filling. I have chosen two recipes typical of the period Lemon Chicken in Clay Pot and Brown Sugar Glazed Bananas with Sour Creme Sauce.
Lemon Chicken In Clay Pot
Lars Segemark, Lidingö, is cooking as a hobby and has sent in a recipe for Lemon Chicken in a Clay Pot. He writes that he likes that it is cheap, good slimming diet, very tasty and easy to make.
1 fresh chicken
1 small lemon
2 big sprigs of parsley
_ – 1 tsp salt
_ tsp pepper
1 tsp dried or fresh basil
4-5 big champignon
Olive oil for greasing the pot
Dry the chicken inside and outside, prick the lemon with a sharp fork and put the whole lemon into the chicken. Rinse and cut the champignon into pieces and stuff it into the chicken together with the parsley. Brush the chicken with oil and add salt and pepper. Put the chicken in an oven safe pot for example a Römertopf. If you use a Römertopf don't forget to moist it in water about an hour before. Put the chicken into a cold owen. Heat the owen to 250°C and cook for 1_ to 1_ hour.
Brown Sugar Glazed Bananas with Sour Creme Sauce
Sometimes you can buy a big bunch of bananas 'for a penny'. They are nice to eat as they are but occasionally you want to make something special. Elisabeth Levin, Storvik has sent in this recipe for a tasty banana dessert. Warm bananas glazed in sugar and with a cold sour cream sauce.
4-5 bananas
2-3 tsp dark brown sugar
Juice from _ to 1 lemon
Sour cream sauce
2-3 dl sour crème
1 tbsp vanilla sugar
1-2 tbsp ground cinnamon
Heat a little butter in a frying pan. Add the peeled bananas and fry them on very low heat. Strew in sugar and turn the bananas so they glaze all the way around. Pull in a little lemon juice. Serve the bananas warm with cold sour crème sauce made from sour crème, vanilla sugar and ground cinnamon."
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WASHINGTON - Graduate student Danni Jackson tallied 22 points and 11 assists to lead the George Washington women's basketball team to an 83-68 win over Atlantic 10 rival Rhode Island on Saturday afternoon at the Charles E. Smith Center.
GW improves to 15-7 overall and 6-3 in A-10 play. The Colonials' 15 wins surpass last season's total, when they finished 14-16, and are the most since 2008-09.
Jackson posted her second double-double of the season and of her career. Her 22 points came on 8-of-10 shooting, including 4-of-6 from three-point range. Sophomore Jonquel Jones recorded 17 points and added three blocks, while grad student Megan Nipe added 16 points and three assists off the bench.
Freshman Hannah Schaible gave the Colonials four players in double figures with 10 points and game-high four steals, while grad student Brooke Wilson pulled down a season-high 12 rebounds to go with eight points.
Jackson set the tone early, draining a three-pointer on the first possession of the game. The Colonials scored 18 straight points over a four-minute stretch to jump out to a 26-4 lead before Kallie Banker ended the Rams' drought at the 11:30 mark.
The Colonials were hot from long distance in the first half, making six of 10 attempts, including their first five of the game, with three from Jackson and two from Nipe.
Back-to-back jumpers by Jones gave GW a game-high 26-point lead, 34-8, with eight minutes to play in the half, and though the Rams (6-16, 1-8 A-10) chipped away, they never got closer than 16. The Colonials led, 46-27, at halftime.
Jones and Jackson combined to score 19 of GW's first 28 points of the second half and 22 of 37 overall, as the Colonials shot 57.1 percent (16-28) in the period.
Tayra Melendez led URI with 17 points, five rebounds and five assists, while Sydney Lewis, Kallie Banker and Kiara Palmer each had 10.
GW shot 53.4 percent in the game and matched a season-high with eight three-pointers. The Colonials outrebounded the Rams, 39-30 and had 22 assists on 31 made field goals.
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If you go for a check-up at the doctor's and they do a routine blood work,if there was something wrong with your blood, like if you may have HIV, will the test results show up like something is not right in your blood? AND THEY WOULD WANT TO DO FURTHER TEST, OR DOES ROUTINE BLOOD SHOW NO ABNORMALTIES OF HIV
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Most of the time, routine blood work does not include a test for HIV.
You, or anyone, who even suspects that they may have been exposed to
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obligation to see that all of their sexual partners are informed.
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Reply to Oreport's Post: But you didn't answer my question. I understand you have be tested to only know for sure, but will routine blood show that there is something not normal going on???
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Routine blood work will show abnormalities for whatever enzymes are
being tested -- I am not aware of any possible pattern of lab
values (from from typical bloodwork) which would signal the presence of HIV.
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There are routine blood tests that clue a doctor into a possiblity of
HIV. For example, a CBC (complete blood count) is a very common
blood test that is used to diagnose a number of illnesses ranging from
leukema to infection to anema, etc. It cannot directly confirm or
diagnose HIV, though.
A CBC is a common blood test that works by counting your red blood
cells, your white blood cells, and your platelets. This count is
done by a machine in a lab. For example, if your total white
blood cell count is high, it is highly indicitive that the patient has
of some type of infection. If your red blood cell count is low,
it is indictive of anema or substantial blood loss. These are
just a few examples.
With a CBC, the doctor can take the test a step further by ordering what is called a CBC with "
A differential is a manual count of blood cells under a microscope by a
trained laboratory technician. There are a number of white blood
cells in the body, so the lab tech views those cells under microscope
and notes if certain blood cells are too high or low. A person
with HIV will lose what are called "helper T lymphocytes." So a
manual count (differential) can alert the doctor to possible HIV if
these lymph cells are low and may ask for your permission to perform an
HIV test. Remember, no doctor or hospital can perform an HIV test
on you unless they have your written consent to perform an HIV test, so
it cannot be done without your permission and knowledge.
More commonly, HIV is discovered when patients start showing signs of
the virus such as continuous swollen lymph nodes which stay
swollen. Also, soon after transmission of HIV, the patient may
experience symptoms like mononucleosis, fatigue, and a fever that can
last up to two weeks. These symptoms usually go away in a couple
weeks, however the lymph nodes stay swollen. The other symptoms
usually come back once HIV has turned into full blown AIDS.
My advice is, if you are concerned about this, you need to talk to your
physician about it. Tell him/her your concerns. Try not to
be embarassed. It is a responsibility we all have to know our
status in order to help stop the spread. I had myself and my
husband tested before we got married. It's the responsible thing
to do.
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The neighbor says a menagerie of wildlife has sprouted up next door -- "There's rats, possums, snakes, rabbits, dogs, cats -- the whole nine yards," Magnotti said.
Last summer, Magnotti and his daughter both caught poison ivy after the plant popped up next door and spilled onto his driveway, he said.
"My kid can't go out in the backyard because it's growing everywhere," Magnotti griped.
Numerous 311 complaints made by Magnotti eventually led inspectors from the Health Department to issue violations against the property owner, Anthony Davino.
Since July 2013, the agency has visited the site multiple times, issuing violations for "conditions conducive to rodent infestations, including high weeds, dense vegetation, and accumulation of debris and garbage," according to a statement from the Health Department.
No rodents were observed on its most recent inspection this past July, the agency reported.
Still, many conditions remain poor.
The Department of Sanitation has issued more than $2,000 in fines against Davino for letting garbage accumulate on the sidewalk, according to the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings website.
Meanwhile, the Department of Buildings also cited the property owner this summer with a violation for loose shingles falling off the roof and onto the adjacent driveway, according to the department's website.
Despite the visits from inspectors and numerous fines, Magnotti maintains that 311 proved useless in actually getting anything done.
"So what if they fined him -- I'm still living next to this dump," he said.
The only governmental entity that seemed to help, Magnotti said, was the office of Borough President James Oddo.
According to a spokeswoman, Oddo's office received a complaint on July 14, and reached out to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
The agency sent inspectors who found the property to be in violation, the spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
"They issued a notice to correct the violations, as is required by law," the statement read.
The owner missed an August 6 deadline to correct the violations, and HPD is now "preparing a scope of the work and are bidding it out for correction by the agency."
"The violations will be corrected by one of their contractors and the property will be accessed for the work," the statement reads.
Still, Magnotti blames the homeowner Davino for not doing enough to maintain his property from the start.
"He's just gone too far with this," Magnotti said.
When reached by phone, Davino, a general contractor, blamed financial difficulties.
He agreed with Magnotti that the property was a mess.
"It looks horrible," he said. "It shouldn't look like that, but my hands are tied."
For now, Magnotti says he's given up on trying to get results.
"I stopped putting in 311 complaints after a while because nobody was doing anything," he said. "It has been over a year and things have only gotten worse."


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This week I reached out for a new Bacon & Blue Burger from America's No. 3 burger blaster, Wendy's, with 6,700 restaurants all over this great land.
This is a pure indulgence. It's not a slider or miniburger for delicate eaters who hold their pinky out and ask for 10 extra napkins as if restaurants don't have to pay for napkins.
This is a burger for grown-ups who aren't counting calories and don't mind a little mess in their laps. Give Wendy's credit for breaking the burger mold. They're not playing it safe with the Bacon & Blue Burger.
Here's the blue-cheese blueprint: a quarter-pound beef patty, four strips of thick-cut Applewood smoked bacon, seasoned sautéed yellow onions, real blue-cheese crumbles, creamy steak-house sauce, lettuce and tomatoes on a premium split top bun.
Total calories: 680. Fat grams: 40. Dietary fiber: 3. Carbs: 44. Manufacturer's suggested retail price: $4.29 (your mileage may vary).
Of course, even with all of those ingredients, this is the basic, stripped-down model of the Bacon & Blue Burger. Wendy's lets you customize your burger. The extended-cab version has mayo, pickles, ketchup, onion rings, mustard and cheese. Now we're talking 790 calories and 48 fat grams.
And if you make it a double patty burger, or triple — you can get this bad boy up to 1,230 calories and 78 fat grams — or as we like to say in the drive-through … "Ooh, I better make that a Diet Coke."
What makes the Bacon & Blue Burger so different? It's the blue cheese, which I always thought was bleu cheese. But I'm here to eat, not win a spelling bee. Blue cheese is a cow's milk cheese with added penicillium cultures that cause blue-green mold. Just eat and don't look.
Blue cheese is the sharpest cheese in the room, and it looks prettier than the rest but eventually ends up crumbling. It's the Enron of cheeses.
Wendy's uses only fresh, never-frozen beef. So you can't get a better start. The bacon is thicker than at most fast-food joints, and it's also prepared fresh in each Wendy's restaurant. None of that pre-cooked, microwaved bacon silliness here. The apple-wood smoked flavor is an unexpected touch for a drive-through burger.
The creamy steak-house sauce is a little tangy, too. Between the sauce and the blue cheese, that's a lot of tang. I'm surprised NASA is ordering 20 Bacon & Blue Burgers to go … into outer space.
The sautéed onions are an absolute bonus. They add juiciness and texture. But they have a higher dropout rate than All-American basketball players in college. Hold that burger tight, or you'll have onions and blue cheese crumbles on your pants, on your car's floor mats, in between the seats, everywhere.
Technically, the Bacon & Blue Cheese Burger is a cheeseburger. Until you get it in your mouth.
There's a ton of powerful flavor that definitely breaks your burger boredom.
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Amy Puckett, a senior at Bend High School, is going on to compete in the World Archery Tournament in July. She finished second at both the state and national competition, but the journey to this lofty point hasn't taken as long as you might think.
Puckett didn't even pick up a bow until last September.
"I don't know -- I thought it would be fun, and I heard about the club being offered at school, so I thought I'd try it out," Puckett said Tuesday.
According to her coach, her genuine interest in the sport is what has allowed her to get better over a relatively short period of time.
"It's very special," said Jon Brickey. "It's very unique. Kids work a lot of hours and a lot of time to perfect their craft, and for her to pick it up as quickly as she did is pretty amazing."
This isn't a surprise to her mother, though. She said Amy is one of those people who excels at anything she does.
"She's always been that way, whether it's been her music, or drawing, pottery, art work or school work," Stephanie McGolrick said.
Puckett also has a 4.0 GPA. The best part of Nationals for her was scoring a career-high 293 out of 300 possible points.
"I'm so excited," Puckett said. "I worked really hard to get there, so I'm really glad that I did well."
With this kind of success, who knows where she could go? Her mother hopes she'll be representing the Red, White and Blue.
"Of course, as a mother, I'm hoping she'll head for the Olympics," McGolrick said. "That's my dream."
"A lot of people have been asking me about that," Puckett said. "I think it's something to consider, at least."
The world's competition is this July in Madison, Wisconsin.
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A fresh round of public records released by the state of Florida's Department of Financial Service this morning reveals the number of consumer complaints against travel agencies alleged to have sold illegal travel insurance, as well as the claims paid and their estimated value.
Palm Coast Travel had just three claims worth $27,787 — far below those of other large travel agencies such as Vacation Superstore (33 claims worth $131,061) and Legendary Journeys (174 claims worth $503,957). That figure suggests Palm Coast Travel, which also does business as Smartcruiser.com, aggressively moved to settle claims related to its alleged sale of illegal Prime Travel Protection products even before Florida regulators stepped in.
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The Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS):
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Six CEUs -Psychologists
This workshop introduces the new, empirically-grounded Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS). R-PAS uses the task as a verbal and perceptual behavior sample obtained under standardized conditions such that personality inferences are based on observed performance rather than self-description. We assume participants have some previous Rorschach-based assessment experience.
Presenter: Gregory J. Meyer, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo, where he has been since 2003. On four occasions the Society for Personality Assessment has given him Distinguished Contribution Awards for articles in the published literature. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Personality Assessment.
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A strong upper level disturbance moved across the Ohio Valley on Friday, April 10, 2009, sweeping a cold front through Georgia late in the evening. Ahead of this front, a very warm and moist airmass was in place across the state, with temperatures rising into the mid and upper 70s. Strong southerly winds at the surface and strong westerly winds aloft combined with this unstable airmass to produce an outbreak of supercell thunderstorms beginning Friday afternoon across north Georgia, and spreading south and east across the state during the evening and into the early hours Saturday morning. Surveys conducted by meteorologists from the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, and county Emergency Management officials confirmed that at least 14 tornadoes occurred across north and central Georgia, Friday evening So far, no fatalities have been reported with these storms, and one serious injury was reported in Hancock County.
The images below show some of the damage caused by the Pickens County tornado. The Pickens County areas were surveyed by meteorologists from the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City.
The tornado touched down in Pickens County at 6:04 PM EDT near Georgia Highway 136 and Grandview Road just northeast of Jasper. damage was greatest along Old Grandview Road. Numerous 18 inch or less in diameter hardwood trees were uprooted or snapped along the path of the tornado. Many power lines were downed and several utility poles were snapped along the path of the tornado. This EF1 tornado had a path length of 4 miles and a width of 440 yards, with maximum wind speeds of 90 MPH.
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Weight loss can be very overwhelming. For some people who have tried dieting, exercise, drugs and other ways to lose weight, bariatric surgery can be an option. The Backus Weight Loss Center offers three surgical procedures to help patients lose weight and lead healthier lives.
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In this minimally invasive procedure, a silicone ring is inserted as a "belt" around the upper abdomen. The ring, or "band," is connected by thin tubing to an access port just below the skin, and the surgeon tightens or loosens the fit of the LAP-BAND® system by injecting or withdrawing saline. The LAP-BAND® system creates a pouch in the upper stomach, providing patients the sensation of fullness despite smaller meals. Additionally, patients' appetites are satisfied for longer periods of time, so they tend to eat less.
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This surgical option reduces the amount of food that the stomach can hold and decreases the amount of nutrients that are digested and absorbed. The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery divides the stomach in two to create a small upper stomach pouch. The stomach pouch is designed to hold about three tablespoons of food. After the pouch is formed, the second part of the small intestine is cut and the lower portion of the cut intestine is attached to the stomach pouch. Food now passes from the mouth through the esophagus to the small stomach pouch and directly into the second part of the small intestines – bypassing the larger part of the stomach and the first portion of the small intestine, which results in less digestion and less absorption of nutrients consumed.
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In this surgical procedure, the surgeon removes a large portion of the patient's stomach. The remaining stomach is stapled together, creating a banana-like shape. This procedure limits the amount of food that can be consumed and consequently makes the patient feel full after eating a small amount of food.


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Public or Private Drinking Water? The Effects of Ownership and Benchmark Competition on U.S. Water System Regulatory Compliance and Household Water Expenditures
Scott Wallsten
Technology Policy Institute
Katrina Kosec
Stanford University
March 2005
AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper No. 05-05
Whether water systems should be owned and operated by governments or private firms is intensely controversial, and little empirical research sheds light on the issue. In this paper we use a panel dataset that includes every community water system in the U.S. from 1997-2003 to test the effects of ownership and benchmark competition on regulatory compliance and household water expenditures. We find that when controlling for water source, location fixed effects, county income, urbanization, and year, there is little difference between public and private systems. Public systems are somewhat more likely to violate the maximum levels of health-based contaminants allowed under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), while private systems are somewhat more likely to violate monitoring and reporting regulations. The results are reversed for systems that serve more than 100,000 people. Household expenditures on water at the county level decrease slightly as the share of private ownership increases, contradicting fears that private ownership brings higher prices. While direct competition among piped water systems is practically nonexistent, we find that benchmark competition among water systems within counties is associated with fewer SDWA violations and, when combined with private ownership, lower household expenditures. Overall, the results suggest that absent competition, whether water systems are owned by private firms or governments may, on average, simply not matter much.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 48
Keywords: drinking, water, public, private, benchmark, competition
JEL Classification: H00
Date posted: April 20, 2005
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