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Alleged theft leads police to heroin, meth
POULSBO — An act of kindness unfolded into an alleged jewelry theft and a drug bust, in yet another drug case for Poulsbo police.
The suspect, Stephanie Lynn Luzzani, 18, was charged in Kitsap County District Court with second-degree theft and possession of heroin.
On Nov. 24, a Poulsbo couple answered a knock at their back door on Viking Avenue where they found a young woman — later identified as Luzzani — cold, wet and without a jacket. The girl told the couple that she had been at a party and was dumped in the woods off of Highway 305.
The couple gave the girl something to eat, warm clothes and a shower. She stayed with them overnight before they drove her to connect with a friend.
The couple later found multiple items of jewelry missing from the bathroom where Luzzani took a shower.
Eleven pieces of jewelry were allegedly taken, valued at approximately $2,592.52.
Luzzani reportedly used the couple's phone while she was with them. Using phone records, police were able to link Luzzani with the couple. Police also showed the couple photos of Luzzani, and they identified her as the woman who had stayed with them.
A sergeant with the Poulsbo Police Department checked common hangouts Luzzani is known to frequent and spotted her at the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale on Dec. 6.
Luzzani, carrying a backpack, was allegedly found with $330, three digital scales with heroin and methamphetamine residue on them, 172 unused ziplock bags, four ziplock bags with residual amounts of heroin, a small canister with residual amounts of methamphetamine, and a methamphetamine bong with the drug coated on the inside.
Luzzani has also reportedly been recorded on phone calls with her boyfriend, who is in Kitsap County Jail. Police believe the couple have been talking in code over the phone about Luzzani selling heroin and meth to raise money to bail out her boyfriend.
The boyfriend, Sean Patrick Morse, 20, of Suquamish was recently charged in Kitsap County District Court with possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell, while armed with a firearm. He is being held on $52,500 bail.
Luzzani was booked into Kitsap County Jail. Bail has been set at $40,000. She is expected to be in Kitsap County District Court this month and in January.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Two months ago, Bishop England let Garrett slip away with a tournament win in the final seconds. Tuesday night, a seasoned Bishops squad made sure the Falcons wouldn't get away again, holding on for a 69-66 region win at home.
When the Falcons made their push in the third quarter, the Bishops weathered the storm. And when their lead crumbled in the fourth, the Bishops stayed calm and eventually iced the game at the free-throw line with seconds to play. At the end, it was the Falcons who panicked, throwing away a chance at a final-shot opportunity into the chest of a Bishops defender.
"We're a better team now than we were," Bishop England head coach Bryan Grevey said. "After going through some of those 4A schools and having four games under your belt in region play, it's kind of a wakeup call. You better be ready to play every night. And I think now we know how to win this type of game. Early in the season we were still figuring that out."
Bishop England (8-7, 4-1) controlled the first half, taking a 12-point lead into halftime. With guard B.J. Grevey sitting most of the half in foul trouble, the Bishops bench stepped up to score 17 of the Bishops' 34 points.
Garrett (8-5, 2-3) stormed back with four players scoring at least five points in the third quarter and a 13-3 run lapsing two minutes midway through. The Falcons came within one point of tying the game before Taylor Howell halted the charge with a three from the corner. Grevey – scoreless in the first half – awoke with back-to-back threes and four free throws, while Nick Vecchiolla scored nine in the frame to turn the Falcons' run into a 16-point Bishops advantage in the final two minutes of the quarter.
While the Bishops played conservatively to burn the clock in the fourth, Garrett made its final push with a 15-5 run to come within one point with 19 seconds to play. The Falcons couldn't take advantage of late opportunities and were forced to send Grevey to the foul line, where the Bishops captain sank both. One last attempt by Garret to tie the game was thwarted by Vecchiolla who corralled the inbounds pass.
Grevey finished with 15 points, Howell and Dillon Corbett both added 11. Lawton Fosberry scored nine points and Reed Fosberry handed out seven assists to go with five steals on defense. Bishop England received 31 points from its bench, while the Bishops defense limited the Falcons to 39 percent shooting on the night.
Jamie Cooper led Garrett with 15 points. Derek Smith added 14, Jascere Stokes 12, and Carlos Scotton and Devoran Jett each added 11.
"The momentum shifted at times but the kids stepped up when they had to and that's what it took to win this game," Coach Grevey said. "It was really nice to see some of the other guys come in and really do a wonderful job of not only protecting the lead but extending it. Our guys stepped it up and I'm really proud of the effort they made."
With the win, Bishop England stays tied with Ridgeland/Hardeeville for second place in Region VI-2A. The home region win is especially important as the Bishops prepare for a five-game region road stand beginning Jan. 28 at North Charleston.
Lady Bishops power past Falcons
Another game Region VI game, another dominant Lady Bishops win. Bishop England had no trouble putting away Garrett, 90-17, Tuesday at home.
The 73-point win is the second largest margin of victory for the Lady Bishops this season. Through five region games, Bishop England (13-1, 5-0) has dismantled its opposition by a 53-point average margin of victory.
Caroline McQueeney and Erin Rose both scored 15 points and gathered eight rebounds to lead both categories. McQueeny shot 7-8 from the field overall and scored 13 points in the first quarter. Bishop England handed out 26 assists as a team and committed just 7 turnovers, a 3.6 assist-to-turnover ratio.
The Lady Bishops allowed Garrett just one field goal in the second quarter, while they reeled off 20 unanswered points through the final six minutes of the half.
Garrett was limited to just 14 percent shooting on the night. Marjzani Burke Jordan led the Falcons with 11 points.
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After a long winter of getting skunked at every creek i've been to, this was a nice change of pace. I have been fly fishing for a little under a year now so i'm still working on nymphing and finding out what works. I wanted to attempt to hook into some wild browns so I gave this creek a try. Fished from 2:30 to 5:30 and had 3 hits early on but couldn't set the hook right. Kept fishing up the creek with no action. Saw one brownie, at least 12 inches, sitting in the bottom of a deep hole which took me by surprise. I just watched him for a bit before he swam under an embankment. Headed back to the holes I got hook-ups in and threw a few casts. Ended up hooking into one 6 inch brownie on a BHPT. Tied on a cooper john and immediately hooked into another brownie, around 8 inches. Both very pretty wild browns. Both fish jumped out of my hands before I could get pictures so i'll head out soon to try and catch them again Only two fish came to hand that afternoon but it was still a great day and nice to be out in the warmer weather!
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Two fires early Sunday on Buffalo's East Side heavily damaged two homes.
Buffalo firefighters battled a fire at 4:05 a.m. in the one-and-a-half story home at 47 Leslie St., which caused $50,000 damage to the building. Firefighters had to use several hoses and 40-feet of ground ladders. When Engine Co. 31 arrived, the front of the home was fully engulfed, with the flames spreading inside to the first and second floors.
No injuries were reported and the fire's cause is under investigation. An additional $500 in damage was caused to the home at 51 Leslie St. due to exposure to the nearby fire.
A second fire, which was called in at 5:28 a.m. Sunday, caused $35,000 in damage to a vacant home at 20 Montgomery St. The fire began in the rear first floor and spread to the second floor and attic.
Firefighters used several hoses and 40-feet of ladders to bring the fire in the two-and-a-half-story home under control.


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Here's a whole new way to enjoy the game of people, places and things: between the covers! This smart little book features a spinner on the cover and a cavalcade of clever clues inside. Spin the spinner, find your challenge and start guessing. Want to try one? OK, I am a Person. First clue: I wore pinstripes to work. Second clue: I was a hit man. Third clue: 1939 was a streaky year for me. Fourth clue: Simon and Garfunkel looked for me in the 1960s. Fifth clue: I was married to America's most beloved blonde. Got it? Yes, I'm Joe DiMaggio! This is one book that will keep you guessing every time you pick it up.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Labor reported a few wins in the 2-to-1 Republican Florida legislature, while fighting anti-worker initiatives by both rank-and-file lawmakers and right-wing Gov. Rick Scott, a wealthy former hospital chain CEO.
A laundry list of legislation released by the Florida AFL-CIO showed a ban on project labor agreements on state-funded construction failed. So did a move to automatically decertify public worker unions when they "fall below 50 percent active membership," as did a "paycheck protection" measure. "Paycheck protection" is not about protecting paychecks; it's about preventing unions from using funds which come from dues paid by workers) to help elect people who will stand up for workers.
Also failing: An anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic "identification" bill, modeled on Arizona's drastic law, which lets local law enforcement officers stop anyone they suspect of being undocumented and force them to produce immediate proof of legal residence - or face arrest and deportation.
But in neighboring Georgia, the 3-to-2 GOP majorities in the legislature passed, and GOP Gov. Nathan Deal signed, an anti-immigrant law similar to Arizona's. The Obama administration, following the lead of several unions - notably the Service Employees International Union - and the American Civil Liberties Union, has challenged and stopped Arizona's law in court.
"The 2011 legislative session was one of the most damaging in Florida's history," the state AFL-CIO said in a summary. "Working families, the unemployed and the impoverished faced numerous assaults in the continuing drive to make the rich richer and give more power to the powerful. This legislature did nothing to fix our economic problems and create the jobs we desperately need.
"Fortunately, a brave group of Democrats and Republicans stood up for the basic American principles of fair play and freedom of association to beat back attempts to silence organized labor in Florida. This ensures that workers will still have an opportunity to organize, speak with a unified voice, and fully participate in the political process."
State AFL-CIO President Mike Williams said the GOP's "attempts to silence Florida's unions brought together workers from all walks of life to create the strongest labor coalition in the history of Florida." He promised "we will hit the ground running in an aggressive campaign to right the wrongs committed during the past 60 days."
But the wins he cited were overshadowed by other losses. They included imposing so-called "merit pay" systems on teachers statewide and capping state revenues, similar to an infamous "taxpayer bill of rights" restriction that hobbled Colorado for a decade before its repeal. Lawmakers cut jobless benefits by 54 percent and made it easier for employers to deny benefits to fired workers. They also cut pensions for newly hired state workers, and changed local police and fire fighters' pensions.


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From photos on her Instagram account, to Tweets (that were quickly deleted) by her collaborators, there were signs that sneaky Queen Bey was working on something big.
Check out these signs you might have missed ...
The anticipation began in January, when Beyoncé told GQ that she had already recorded about 50 songs for the follow-up to her 2011 album 4 and was working with Justin Timberlake, Pharrell, Timbaland and The-Dream.
Then in March, she released "Bow Down/I Been On," followed by "Grown Woman," which was featured in her Pepsi commercial.
Ne-Yo added fuel to the fire when he admitted in June that he was "putting stuff together for Beyoncé's album."
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As PEOPLE reported in August, Beyonce filmed a music video at New York's Coney Island. Nobody knew it at the time, but the scenes were for her "Xo" video.
The 32-year-old, who was in the middle of her Mrs. Carter Show world tour, also began dropping visual hints on her Instagram account and Tumblr throughout the summer.
On Sept. 18, she shared a shot of kids playing on the beach that ended up in her "Blue" video (which also features her daughter Blue Ivy, 23 months). ).
The following month, Aussie singer/songwriter Sia (who wrote Rihanna's "Diamonds") told a fan on Twitter, who'd suggested that the Hunger Games song "Elastic Heart" would have been a great single for Beyoncé, that she'd given Bey her "other best song." Clearly she revealed too much, because the Tweet was deleted.
A couple of weeks later, on Oct. 16, Bey posted an adorable shot holding Blue Ivy that was taken during the "Blue" shoot.
With just weeks to go before her new album came out, the singer was spotted leaving an L.A. studio on Nov. 12 wearing a Louis Vuitton ski mask and eye makeup that resembles her look in the new "Superpower" video.
And on Dec. 9 – four days before her secret album came out – Rob Stringer, the chairman of Beyoncé's record label, Columbia, stated the obvious when he told Hits Daily Double, "At some point, Beyoncé will put a record out, and when she does, it will be monumental."
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TUNEFILM for iPad 2 is available in two types. The Clear type adds a layer of protection while reproducing the iPad 2 screen's glossy finish. The Anti-Glare type adds protection while reducing the reflection of ambient light on the LCD screen.
A squeegee found inside the package can be used to remove air bubbles when applying the film. Also included is a cleaning cloth to wipe away any dirt after use. The home button cover is made from a soft, raised material for easy operation.


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Sharp to quit making personal computers
According to a report from Nikkei, the folks at Sharp have decided to officially pull the plug on their PC operations. While this may sound surprising, it's not entirely shocking given that the company has not released any PCs at all in the past year.
The report further states that Sharp will "focus on marketing its Galapagos tablet devices coming out in December, along with providing content such as e-books, music and video for these products." This portion is a little more intriguing, since Sharp's consumer electronics repertoire spans across televisions, video players, LED, LCD, and solar technologies.
Does the Galapagos hold that much promise? My brief hands-on at CEATEC 2010 left me feeling, shall we say, less than optimistic. But combined with the current marketing blitz that the Galapagos Tablet enjoys leading up to it's year-end release, Sharp's decision to abandon traditional PCs shows that the company is – if nothing else – focused.
Sharp's decision raises a question that's been much debated of late, that being whether it's profitable for companies to stay in the PC business when mobile technologies are so lucrative. Amid fears that Apple was moving away from the Mac, Steve Jobs underscored this past week that personal computers can be extremely profitable, pointing to the $22 billion that the Mac hauled in over the past 4 quarters.
We'll just have to wait and see how this PC/tablet/mobile drama plays out.
In related news, Sony has decided to stop making Walkman cassette players. No, really. Something tells me there will be a little less debate surrounding that decision.


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UPDATE #43 - December 4, 1998
PART 1: Upcoming Chats
Thursday, December 10, 1998, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Chat with Orville and Wilbur Wright!! Just for fun we have two experts acting the roles of Orville and Wilbur Wright for this special chat. It will be fun to see how well they can answer the questions you would like to ask Orville and Wilbur Wright. We will reveal their identity at the end of the chat. To prepare for the chat review the information at: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/background/ Registration information is available at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/chats/#chatting Wednesday, December 16, 1998, 9 AM Pacific Time: Narrottam Bansal, senior materials research scientist Narrottam works with a group of researchers to develop materials that can withstand extreme environmental conditions. The work done in this area will be important to the development of high speed aircraft. Recently, Narrottom has been working in collaboration with engine companies on the development of a special coating material for the engine of the High Speed Civil Transport. Read Narrottam Bansal's autobiography prior to joining this chat. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/bansal.html Registration information is available at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/chats/#chatting
THE WRIGHT FLYER STATUS REPORT Wright Flyer Online Status Reports appear on the site at: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/news/ Plans for moving the AIAA 1903 Model of the Wright Flyer This week members of the Wind Tunnel Operations group have been reviewing plans to move the Wright Flyer Model to the low bay of the 40x80 wind tunnel. Special considerations must be made because the model is very light, is not waterproof since it is made of cloth and wood and is very delicate. It is definitely not the usual metal model being transferred. Currently the move is planned for Friday, December 11, 1998. ADTO and the Learning Technology Channel plan to broadcast the event at 9 AM Pacific. For information about attending this event go to http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ltc/adto/wfo.html CELEBRATE THE 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF FLIGHT See how you can celebrate the 95 Year Old Journey with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Visit http://www.faa.gov/education/wright.htm POETRY CONTEST! Create your own original poem about the Wright Flyer, the Wright brothers or the Windtunnel Test or more! For more information go to: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/events/contest/poetry.html WRIGHT FLYER WIND TUNNEL DATA LESSONS The wind tunnel data lesson plans for the 1903 Wright Flyer Wind Tunnel Test are being written up for the Internet. Watch for news of these lessons in future updates. Your class will be able to use the near real time test data with these lesson plans!
[Editor's Note: Ray Oyung is the Research Coordinator for the Fatigue Countermeasures Program. Read his bio at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/ray.html ]
by Ray Oyung
November 5, 1998 We're on flight day seven (FD 7) and things are going nominally. You might have heard this word often during media interviews and discussion on STS-95 and it's definitely a good thing. It basically means things are going normally as per scheduled flight plan. The mission is scheduled to end this Saturday (as of this writing) and it's been very educational being part of this segment of the project. I'm currently in one of 3 Science Centers with dozens of other researchers listening to several key people who manage daily operational shuttle activities. Everybody in Mission Control is connected on the "loops" which is a huge networked chat line. Imagine having 12 way calling on your telephone and listening into 6 different conversations! We can select various channels or loops (for example, air to ground 1; air to ground 2; payload operations director; crew interface coordinator; payload coordinator, etc.). We can listen to some or all of these loops. The structure for communication with the astronauts is quite elaborate. Communications are divided into 2 groups. One is the mission control group. The other is the payload group. Only one position is allowed to speak directly to the astronauts from the payload group. That person is called the Crew Interface Coordinator (CIC). On the orbiter side, the Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) and the Flight Director are the only people who can communicate with the crew. With 83 experiments in the payload on this mission, there may be quite a few questions that the astronauts have when carrying out these experiments. This is when we have to be on our toes. If an astronaut has a question about our experiment we answer back to the Experiment Systems Engineer (ESE) who then relays the message to the Crew Interface Coordinator (CIC), and up it goes to the astronaut. So here's a typical scenario. Astronaut Ray calls down with a question about strange sleep signals showing up on the laptop just after instrumenting one of the other crewmembers. Ray calls down to the CIC. Since the Sleep Team is listening on the loops, they say to change from nominal procedures 03 to malfunction procedure 01. The ESE relays this to the CIC and the CIC sends the message to Astronaut Ray. Whew! I told you it was an elaborate communication system. So now you might be wondering why it's so complicated. With so many acronyms, experiments and people involved in a shuttle mission, communication to and from the crew must be clear and concise. Mistakes are rare and this is one of the reasons why they're rare.
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Les Voleurs
This film begins with the observations of a young boy as he discovers that his father, Ivan (Didier Bezace), has been killed. Do we want to know why Ivan was killed or who killed him? No, instead we just hope that this isn't another version of "My Life as a Dog" in which the kid starts barking or something.
Director Andre Techine isn't particularly interested in why Ivan was killed either, but he sure is hell-bent on elucidating the detailed thought processes of everyone with even the remotest connection to Ivan. First off, we explore Ivan's cold relationship with his brother, Alex (Daniel Auteuil). Alex is sleeping with Juliette (Laurence Cote) who's sleeping with Marie (Catherine Deneuve), which irritates Alex. If you're keeping score, Juliette also happens to be the sister of Jimmy (Fabienne Babe) who works for Ivan as a car thief.
As Techine switches narrative voices -- going from the kid to Alex to Marie -- we're expected to fancy him as the French cinema's Faulkner. Unfortunately, such a structural facade takes neither a genius to understand nor one to create -- it only masks the French fascination with being unnecessarily difficult and annoying.
If only the theater managers could have provided a fat, sweaty guy's armpit for me to bury my face in, the whole French savoir-faire experience could have been complete.
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Insider: Magic fans boo Dwight
The Magic's locker room is not as excited about the Dwight Howard's return as some may think. The only active player that played with Howard is Jameer Nelson and even he is treating this game just like any other game.
Glen 'Big Baby' Davis and Hedo Turkoglu both played along side Howard but will be inactive for the game. Big Baby is recovering from a broken left foot and Tukoglu is currently serving a 20 game suspension after?violating the NBA?s Anti-Drug Program after testing positive for methenolone.
When asked about the playing the Lakers back in December and now the Magic's players say that this is for the fans.
The Orlando community has been anticipating this game all year. They were happy when the Magic beat the Lakers in the Staples center 113-103 back in December.
It is to no surprise that the Magic fans will boo Dwight Howard throughout the game. Booing will probably be one of the many things Magic's fans chant to Dwight Howard. Ideas of what should the Magic fans should chant have been floating around social media and websites. Here are some of my favorites:
"Shaq was right" (Last year Shaq said that Dwight Howard was not the best center in the NBA)
"Nik is better" (Nik Vucevic has started all the Magic's games this season at the center position)
"Lets go Kobe" (It's no secret that Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard have had their differences this season)
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Having gained an unlikely point from Stamford Bridge and also from the Smoggies away at The Riverside with two back-to-back scoreless draws, it seems that Joe Kinnear is bringing some much needed stability to our battered and bruised football club. The point at Stamford Bridge was a hugely uplifting and deserved result at a stadium where we would normally concede three or four goals and go home very fed up. The team showed fight and spirit, whilst super Shay Given proved once more that he is one of the greatest goalkeepers in the land with a string of superb saves, repeating the achievement a week later at Boro. Also worth a special mention is the huge improvement seen in the heart of our defence, with Fabricio 'the hair' Coloccini and Sebastian Bassong putting in memorable shifts recently, the latter looking excellent, especially considering his tender years.
I have to say that although I do not want Kinnear to stay as manager in the long run by any means, I am pleased that he has been given the job at least until the end of this season. He will bring fight and determination to the team, as well as some (probably short term) stability that should see us avoid relegation with ease judging by recent performances. Also, he has stated recently that funds will be available in January to strengthen our tiny squad, without the need to sell. However, if I remember rightly, isn't this what Keegan said, only to be left somewhat embarassed and humiliated by a disastrous regime that broke promises? Kinnear has also insisted that he is the man who chooses the players to bring in, with Dennis 'inch-high, private-eye' Wise simply given the task of going out and getting them, which is surely what should have happened whilst Kev was the boss. Strange, eh?
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War of the Roses is a team based third-person action game set in 15th century England. Two rival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet - the house of Lancaster (the reds) and the house of York (the whites) – fight over the throne, and the player is thrown into the fray.
The game launches on October 2, but if you want to give the game a try you can take part in the beta which runs until September 9. We've got 1000 keys to giveaway to VideoGamer.com readers.
Once you've got your code you'll need to head over to the official website to redeem it. If you haven't got a Steam account you'll need one of those too.


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Northwest NEWS
ugust 10, 1998
Are traffic and soccer field problems really self imposed?
It's weird how the King County Council (purposely) fails to admit that many of its traffic/soccer fields problems are self-imposed.
The council has purchased and obtained, free from developers, thousands of acres of open space land in which, by Council-passed law, only passive recreation is permitted. No roads or athletic fields are allowed.
And even in parks purchased for active use, such as the 628-acre Section 36 Park on the Sammamish Plateau, purchased originally for "46 much-needed sports fields" and for bicycle trails for cyclists, shut out of the 4,000-acre Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park in which sportsfields also are forbidden) the sports areas are whittled down to such as the eight fields now allowed in Section 36.
And there's the redone master plan for 630-acre Marymoor Park which shorted the soccer fields there, too.
As to traffic tieups, in April the Council prohibited linking two access roads through Section 36 Park that would have solved a lot of traffic congestion east of Redmond.
Likewise there's no through traffic allowed on the road already built in Marymoor Park, which could act as a much-needed bypass to Redmond's massive traffic congestion, at least during weekday commuting hours.
The County Council and the County Executive have no compunction whatever about placing high-cost, public-benefit burdens on private property owners as a condition of obtaining building/development permits which are the chief factor in driving up housing costs and taxes.
But when it comes to public land, the goal is to limit as much as possible public use of that land.
And then they whine because the Growth Management Hearings Board wouldn't let them use Sammamish Valley ag fields for sports fields, and wring their hands about traffic congestion.
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The Governors
Governors have a way of being relaxed and candid when Chris Graff interviews them. Vermont Public Television began a series of talks with Vermont's former chief executives in 1989, beginning with Robert Stafford, F. Ray Keyser Jr., Philip Hoff, Deane Davis, Thomas Salmon and Richard Snelling. Programs about Madeleine Kunin, Howard Dean and Jim Douglas followed later. These historical gems are out of the archives and into the schedule starting in January.
Extended versions! For a limited time, many of the specials available here are extended cuts of what originally aired.
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War Is NOT Good For Children
June 8 is the anniversary of the iconic photograph depicting the barbarity of war –and how it affects mostly civilians. June 8, 1972 Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut captured the little girl running from Napalm with her siblings. One lost an eye, another was killed. But Kim Phuc survived, thanks to Ut's perseverance, and they are now close friends. A good description of the Napalm and phosphorous bombing is at digitaljournalist.org, along with a biography of Ut.
"As soon as she saw me, she said: "I want some water, I'm too hot, too hot," – in Vietnamese, "Nong qua, nong qua!" And she wanted something to drink. I got her some water. She drank it and I told her I would help her. I picked up Kim and took her to my car. I ran up about 10 miles to Cu Chi hospital, to try to save her life. At the hospital, there were so many Vietnamese people – soldiers were dying there. They didn't care about the children. Then I told them: "I am a media reporter, please help her, I don't want her to die." And the people helped her right away." -Nick Út
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This gau-style pendant is worn for special protection from obstacles and negativities. It contains a seed blessed by the State Oracle of Tibet, the protector of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people. The Tibetan seed syllables, "Om, Ah, Hung," which signify Buddha's enlightened body, speech and mind are inscribed on the back.
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I cant believe we are in Part 3 already! Most, if not all of us, are now in our second trimester...and hopefully feeling much better!
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The Bewitching Tale of Stormy Galeby Christine Bell
London, 1841 There I was, retired from time pirating, enjoying a full if somewhat conventional life as a wife and mother. Then a chance encounter with a stranger drew me back into a world I'd thought I'd left, quite literally, in the past. From his odd behavior and even odder answers to my questions, I knew Phineas Grubb was up to something. I should have trusted my instincts-before he pulled out a time-travel mechanism and dragged my brother, Bacon, back with him...Salem, 1698The infamous Witch Trials may have ended a few years earlier, but the people of Salem are still pretty touchy about outsiders that appear in town as if by magic. Thanks to Grubb, my brother's been accused of witchcraft and thrown in jail. Now it's up to me and my husband, Dev, to save Bacon's bacon before the hysteria starts up again, and the course of history is altered forever...Sequel to The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale. 48,000 words
The Twisted Tale of Stormy Galeby Christine Bell
I'm a time pirate-born in 1810, now a 21st-century woman. I travel through time trying to right wrongs without disrupting the fragile balance between what is and what can never be. That's why it's vital that I go to 1836 and find the man who conned my brother out of his Time Travel Mechanism as quickly as possible. If the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could change the world as we know it. The notorious Duke of Leister definitely qualifies as the wrong hands. An amateur scientist of the slightly mad variety, he's bound to figure out how to use the TTM sooner rather than later. I knew this wouldn't be easy. But I wasn't counting on him being as sexy as hell. Or winding up chained to his bed...25,900 words
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Island Plan consultation extended
The Minister for Planning and Environment, Deputy Rob Duhamel, is to extend the time available to Islanders to comment on proposed amendments to the Island Plan by States Members.
He has rescheduled the planned States debate on proposed changes to the Island Plan, from 1 July to 14 July 2014, to make time for the extra consultation, which will now close on 3 June 2014.
"I'm conscious that these proposals, if adopted, affect people's homes and businesses and I consider it only right that they be exposed to scrutiny for a reasonable period of time," said Deputy Duhamel.
The Minister's own changes to the Plan aim to boost the amount of affordable housing being built to meet demand. Other recommendations in the revised plan are to further control development in the Coastal National Park and the Green Zone to protect the Island's coast and countryside.
The current draft Plan (P.37/2014) is the result of a long consultation and public examination, with more than 250 people and organisations making approximately 700 comments on the proposals. These were all considered by independent planning inspectors at a public examination in January 2014 and were taken into account when the Planning Minister drafted the Plan that is before the States for debate.
States Members have now lodged their own amendments to the Plan. There are 11 of these in total, four of which raise new issues that have not been through the same process of assessment, consultation and independent review as the Minister's own changes. Deputy Rob Duhamel has, therefore, extended the consultation period and arranged for a mini examination in public, led by independent planning inspectors to be held on 7 July 2014, so that these new amendments proposed by States Members can be commented on and scrutinised by the public and independent planning inspectors.
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Another Valentine…
February 14th, 2014
In spite of commercialism of this day, it's always a good idea to let people you love, know it.
"Today we are obliged to be romantic
And think of yet another valentine.
We know the rules and we are both pedantic:
Today's the day we have to be romantic.
Our love is old and sure, not new and frantic.
You know I'm yours and I know you are mine.
And saying that has made me feel romantic,
My dearest love, my darling valentine."
by Wendy Cope (1945 – )
A celebration of new hopes and dreams in 2014
December 31st, 2013
Noruz in Paris with Venus and Samad, the goldfish
March 21st, 2013
It's the first day of spring and the Persian new Year of 1392 starts with Noruz (No: new, Ruz: day):
We are celebrating in Paris with a newly converted Venus,
I have extensively written about the Noruz (or Nowruz, Norooz) before in my blog, so if you've been with me in the past 4/5 years, you must know all about the items that go on the Noruz spread.
The famous "haft seen" of 7 S's:
My fish, Samad (his name has nothing to do with the S's… ;)), has been with us since two Noruz's ago and he is happy to play his role this year with the famous Haji Firouz , the politically incorrect Persian messenger of the New Year:
Haji Firouz's face is covered in soot and he is wearing bright red clothes and hat. People consider it only as a face paint and there is no racial implication.
Do you remember Samad on my previous year's Noruz card?
One of the S's is Sekkeh or coin; the last Shah of Iran is overthrown even in my Haft Seen…
It was raining in Paris on the first day of spring:
but I didn't care because a bunch of hyacinths can bring the spring to your room.
Happy Noruz and,
happy 1392 to all of my Persian friends!
Some links to my previous Nowruz posts worth your time (I promise):
Nowruz 1390 here
Nowruz 1389 here
Nowruz 1388 here
My most visited blog post (and most used images without my permission) Haft seen here
Just decided to add this photo of myself (3 months old) on my mom's lap having my first Noruz and not terribly impressed…
2012: to boldly go where no man has gone before
January 1st, 2012
The dawn of the new Middle East?
March 2nd, 2011
"The age of US dominance in the Middle East has ended and a new era in the modern history of the region has begun. It will be shaped by new actors and new forces competing for influence, and to master it, Washington will have to rely more on diplomacy than on military might." Richard N. Haass
Bourguiba Square in Tunis, Tahrir Square in Cairo, Azadi Square in Tehran , Pearl Square in Manama are witnessing a collective awakening of the Middle Eastern world and this means a major American policy shift in the region. Now that the Arab world is being remade from within, European policy must change too.
I am both thrilled and scared by the middle eastern earthquake…
An Egyptian Valentine
February 12th, 2011
Pharaohs are trembling
January 29th, 2011
Egypt is awakening…Pharoahs are trembling…Pyramids are cracking…and I am hoping for more Cleopatras than the Muslim Brotherhood…
From Maureen Dowd (a few days after my blog got published):
Egyptians rose up at the greatest irony of all: "Cleopatra's Egypt was modern in ancient times and Mubarak's was ancient in modern times. The cradle of civilization yearned for some civilization."
How to distill complexity to minimum…
November 22nd, 2009
Calling Dante from the burning California
September 1st, 2009
Every summer, we somehow expect to see Red looking out our windows in Southern California…Only Dante can describe this Inferno…
The world witnesses Angelinos running away from wildfires one more time with the very similar images being (again) broadcast all over the world; my friends call me from everywhere to make sure that I am not one of the "evacuees".
Every year's fire seems more dangerous and more capricious; the picture above is taken from west Los Angeles with the fire mushrooming in the background (the red building on the right is the Die Hard building).
Just look at the downtown above…
You somehow never get used to the fire's anger and unpredictability; after 30 summers in california, they still scare the hell out of me!
My eyes have been burning from the ashes and smoke all day and I am not even near the fires but my green mood is turning into red because of the wild fires.
Are we ever going to learn how to prepare for inevitable disasters and calamities?…
And of course we blissfully close our eyes to the fire dangers for another year and act surprised the following summer when it comes back; if you don't believe me, read my posts on the subject for the last two years:
This is my post from two years ago.
This one is from last year. I still believe on what I wrote then: Southern California fires are pretty democratic, they hit the mansions and trailer parks and everything in between with the same cruelty… The current definition of a Californian is still "did or did not escape the fires?"
How Enrico Fermi killed all the Aliens
July 21st, 2009
An expression that can mean anything means nothing; when you want to please everybody, you please nobody.
Enrico Fermi, the great Italian physicist, killed all the aliens in 1950 by asking this simple/innocent question: "if extra-terrestrials exist, where are they?" This question has become the Fermi Paradox.
Even though I am a science fiction fan I do agree with the skeptics that, Houston, we have a problem:
a) the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) program to detect radio transmissions from other civilizations has been a failure.
b) the question of the Great Silence remains unsolved; if life is common, why don't we detect their radio transmissions?
Today is the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing (July 20, 1969).
I remember the thrill of hearing about it on a hot summer day in Iran; the moon has not looked the same since!
Unlike my father, I am a lousy philatelist (postage stamp collector) but I was able to find the above page I bought in 1994—on the 25th anniversary of "the big step"—among my loose leaves.
The Drake Equation—an attempt to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way with which we might come into contact— is still fascinating to me but I see its light getting dimmer with every "silent year"…
N = R* × fp × nE × fl × fi × fc × L
This once serious equation looks more and more like this cartoon from this very funny site:
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's historic walk on the moon, Google is offering Internet users a virtual trip to the moon.
I empathize with Fermi's passion for clarity. I am simply unable to let things be foggy. The Drake equation is literally meaningless because "an expression that can mean anything means nothing."
Related and Suggested Posts and Resources:
Carl Sagan explaining the Drake Equation.
Google earth lands on the moon.
Other Life not likely to be intelligent.
The new Drake Equation by Susan Blackmore.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The fragile economy and wildly gyrating financial markets could put enormous pressure on the congressional supercommittee charged with finding ways to shrink the government's huge debt. Yet even as leaders finished naming the bipartisan panel's members, it remained uncertain that the committee will ultimately agree on a savings plan.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced the panel's final three members on Thursday, and like the previous nine all are congressional veterans. They are Reps. James E. Clyburn of South Carolina and Xavier Becerra of California, members of their party's House leadership, and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, top Democrat on the Budget Committee.
Last week's agreement between President Barack Obama and Congress creating the panel gives it until Nov. 23 to propose $1.5 trillion in savings over the coming decade. If the committee fails to agree on a plan — or if Congress doesn't approve one by Dec. 23 — automatic spending cuts would be triggered affecting hundreds of federal programs.
As if that weren't enough pressure, recent days have seen world financial markets endure breath-taking ups and downs, Standard & Poors downgrade the nation's credit rating and continued fears of economic weakness in the U.S. and Europe.
"The thrust of the committee must be to grow an American prosperity enjoyed by all Americans," Pelosi said in announcing her choices.
She also said that when Congress returns from recess next month, it should pass jobs legislation, including stalled highway and aviation bills. Job creation legislation usually costs the government money at least initially and drives up short-term deficits, in hopes of sparking longer-term economic growth.
With next year's presidential and congressional elections looming ever closer, there have been no indications that the two parties will back down on their bedrock demands: Democrats unwilling to accept cuts in Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits, and Republicans refusing to allow tax increases. That deadlock has shoved huge potential savings off the table for bargainers.
That same stalemate prevented Obama and Congress from going beyond the roughly $2 trillion in debt reduction that last week's deal yielded, an amount budget analysts consider half or less of what is needed to begin taming the red ink. All 12 members of the supercommittee — evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans — are long-time Washington politicians who seem likely to hew to party priorities.
"When you're dealing with really tough issues in which the public will have to give up something, the main impetus for acting is when the pain of not acting is greater than the pain of acting," said Eugene Steuerle, a former Treasury Department official who now studies budget issues for the nonpartisan Urban Institute.
Steuerle said that so far, it's unclear whether the public would hold the supercommittee — and by extension, Congress — accountable should they fail to broker a deal.
Pelosi's choices brought racial diversity to the supercommittee, since Clyburn is black and Becerra is Hispanic.
The panel's co-chairs will be conservative Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, part of the House GOP leadership, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who heads the Senate Democratic campaign arm and will be the supercommittee's only woman.
Other Republicans on the panel are House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, two long-time Michigan lawmakers; Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, a conservative and confidante of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; GOP Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, a House veteran who joined the Senate last year with tea party backing; and fellow freshman Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, a former House member and budget director for President George W. Bush.
The other Democrats are 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., a centrist who strayed to back Bush's 2001 tax cuts.
Four supercommittee members — Baucus, Becerra, Camp and Hensarling — were members of a White House commission that recommended trillions in budget savings last year. All voted against the commission's recommendations, which have not been implemented.
With the supercommittee split evenly between the two parties, seven of its 12 members will have to approve a debt-cutting plan before it can be sent to Congress for votes. That means at least one lawmaker would have to agree to a plan backed by the opposite party.


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"Defending the Dream" was the theme of the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Day Celebration.
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Walking in the east end of town one fine sunny day and saw the corner of this old gem peaking out of the trash. It is a hole punch of some sort. Used by Canadian Pacific Railway Company. It has B P & Company stamped on the cast iron. Has a neat little brass drawer underneath to catch the holes. It is quite heavy and built to last. Maybe used for punching holes in the schedules that were posted -- but that is a complete guess. Most likely one of those multi-purpose office items from the turn of the century.


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Cincinnati upends Connecticut
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Shabazz Napier led the Huskies with a career-high 27 points, as they suffered their first loss of the season at home.
Cincinnati is 5-1 on the road and 5-1 in conference play.
The Bearcats had won nine of their last 10 games, including consecutive conference wins over Georgetown and Villanova.
Cincinnati are off to their best start since joining the Big East in 2005.


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This paper explores various traditions of self-representation in seventeenth-century New England Puritan writings and situates them in relation to twentieth-century scholarly claims about Puritan subjectivity. Taking as a central case study Edward Taylor's "Preparatory Meditations" (written c.1682-c.1718, but only published in 1937), the paper argues that Taylor's poems (and the representational conventions and oddities of seventeenth-century religious writings more generally) anticipate the rise in the eighteenth century of aesthetic projects like the novel, which more forcibly construct and reflect normative dimensions of human interiority.
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From the University of California, San Diego, Medical Center, La Jolla, California; and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado.
Acknowledgments: The authors thank their colleagues who participated in the 3rd World Symposium on Pulmonary Artery Hypertension and who served on the ACCP Evidence-Based Guidelines panel, from whose work they have drawn in the preparation of this manuscript.
Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest: Consultancies: L.J. Rubin (Actelion, Pfizer Inc., Schering, CoTherix, United Therapeutics, Myogen), D.B. Badesch (GlaxoWellcome/GlaxoSmithKline, Actelion, Berlex, Astra Merck, AstraZeneca, Myogen, Intermune, Forest Laboratories, Encysive, Exhale Therapeutics/CoTherix, Pfizer, Scios, MondoBiotech, PR Pharmaceuticals); Honoraria: L.J. Rubin (Actelion, Myogen), D.B. Badesch (Glaxo Wellcome/GlaxoSmithKline, Actelion, Pfizer Inc., Encysive, United Therapeutics); Stock ownership or options (other than mutual funds): D.B. Badesch (Johnson & Johnson); Expert testimony: L.J. Rubin (Appetite suppressant litigation), D.B. Badesch (Appetite suppressant litigation); Grants received: L.J. Rubin (Actelion, Pfizer Inc., CoTherix, Myogen, National Institutes of Health), D.B. Badesch (Glaxo Wellcome/GlaxoSmithKline, United Therapeutics, Boehringer Ingelheim, Actelion, ICOS Corp./Texas Biotechnologies, Encysive, Pfizer Inc., Myogen, CoTherix, Lilly/ICOS, American Lung Association, American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, Scleroderma Foundation).
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Dr. Badesch: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Box C-272, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, CO 80262.
Increased pressure in the pulmonary circulation, or pulmonary hypertension, is a common disorder that may complicate various cardiopulmonary conditions, including severe obstructive airways disease and left ventricular dysfunction. An increase in pulmonary arterial pressure that is not due to coexistent cardiopulmonary disease, known as pulmonary arterial hypertension, may occur in the absence of a demonstrable cause (idiopathic or familial); as a complication of systemic conditions, such as connective tissue disease, HIV infection, or chronic liver disease; or as a result of the use of fenfluramine anorexigens, amphetamines, or cocaine. The development of disease-specific therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension over the past decade underscores the importance of diagnosing pulmonary hypertension early in the course of the condition and implementing a treatment strategy that is based on the condition's cause and severity. In this review, the authors present approaches to the diagnosis and management of pulmonary arterial hypertension, using a hypothetical case to highlight the key management points.
CHD = congenital heart disease; CO = cardiac output; CT = contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the chest; CTD = connective tissue disease; ECG = electrocardiogram; Echo = Doppler transthoracic echocardiogram; IPAH = idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension; LA = left atrial; LV = left ventricular; MRI = magnetic resonance imaging; PA = pulmonary arterial; PAH = pulmonary arterial hypertension; PCWP = pulmonary capillary wedge pressure; PE = pulmonary embolism; PFTs = pulmonary function tests; PVR = pulmonary vascular resistance; RA = right atrial; RAE = right atrial enlargement; RV = right ventricular; RVE = right ventricular enlargement; RVSP = right ventricular systolic pressure; SLE = systemic lupus erythematosus; SvO = mixed venous oxygen saturation; TRV = tricuspid regurgitant velocity; VQ = ventilation–perfusion. (Adapted with permission from reference .)
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We read with interest the recent review by Rubin et al on the evaluation and management of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Whilst the authors have pointed out the importance of assessing for underlying autoimmune ¡Vcollagen vascular disease, the need to assess for thyroid dysfunction and autoimmune thyroid disease was not addressed. Previous studies have suggested a link between primary pulmonary hypertension and autoimmune thyroid disease (1). More recently, it has become apparent that thyrotoxicosis is itself an important risk factor for pulmonary hypertension (2, 3). This may partly be due to the haemodynamic effects of hyperthyroidism, as biochemical improvement in thyroid function following treatment has been associated with improvement in pulmonary hypertension on Doppler echocardiography (2, 4). However, there is also evidence suggesting that thyroid autoantibodies present in autoimmune thyroid disease may have a direct role in the pathogenesis of the pulmonary hypertension by contributing to pulmonary vascular endothelial injury. This is supported by a report of pulmonary hypertension associated with neonatal thyrotoxicosis due to transplacental passage of thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulins, and complete reversal of pulmonary hypertension following treatment of the thyrotoxicosis (5). All patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension should be evaluated for thyroid dysfunction as this may be a readily treatable and reversible cause of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
1. Chu JW, Kao PN, Faul JL, Doyle RL. High prevalence of autoimmune thyroid disease in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Chest. 2002;122(5):1668-73.
2. Nakchbandi IA, Wirth JA, Inzucchi SE. Pulmonary hypertension caused by Graves' thyrotoxicosis: normal pulmonary hemodynamics restored by (131)I treatment. Chest. 1999;116(5):1483-5.
3. Marvisi M, Brianti M, Marani G, Del Borello R, Bortesi ML, Guariglia A. Hyperthyroidism and pulmonary hypertension. Respir Med. 2002;96(4):215-20.
4. Merce J, Ferras S, Oltra C, et al. Cardiovascular abnormalities in hyperthyroidism: a prospective Doppler echocardiographic study. Am J Med. 2005;118(2):126-31.
5. O'Donovan D, McMahon C, Costigan C, Oslizlok P, Duff D. Reversible pulmonary hypertension in neonatal Graves disease. Ir Med J. 1997;90(4):147-8.
Dear Sir:
We agree with Ma and Chow that there is some justification for screening patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) for thyroid dysfunction. We were among the first to make the observation that thyroid abnormalities might occur with increased frequency in patients with PAH (1). In that report, we speculated that there might be a common underlying autoimmune disorder. The concept that antithyroid antibodies could play a role in the pathogenesis of PAH is indeed quite intriguing, and there have been a number of subsequent reports of both hypo- and hyper-thyroidism occurring in patients with pulmonary hypertension (2-5), although a causal relationship has not been proven.
Irrespective of whether thyroid disease and PAH share a common pathogenic mechanism, their frequent coexistence is important to recognize: thyroid disease produces cardiovascular stresses that are poorly tolerated in the setting of PAH and should therefore be treated aggressively. However, beta adrenergic-receptor blockers, which are commonly used as adjunct therapy in hyperthyroidism, may precipitate worsening of right ventricular dysfunction and should be avoided or used very cautiously.
Lewis J. Rubin, MD La Jolla, CA
David B. Badesch, MD Denver, CO
1 Badesch DB, Wynne KM, Bonvallet S, et al. Hypothyroidism and primary pulmonary hypertension: an autoimmune pathogenetic link? Ann Intern Med 1993; 119:44-46 2 Arroliga AC, Dweik RA, Rafanan AL. Primary pulmonary hypertension and thyroid disease. Chest 2000; 118:1224-1225 3 Curnock AL, Dweik RA, Higgins BH, et al. High prevalence of hypothyroidism in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension. Am J Med Sci 1999; 318:289-292 4 Ferris A, Jacobs T, Widlitz A, et al. Pulmonary arterial hypertension and thyroid disease. Chest 2001; 119:1980-1981 5 Kashyap AS, Kashyap S. Thyroid disease and primary pulmonary hypertension. JAMA 2001; 285:2853-2854
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April Witch
Longing, loneliness and loss are the stuff great love stories are made of, like the affair between photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa farm wife Francesca Johnson. At the end of 1992's 12 million-selling novel The Bridges of Madison County, the two parted, apparently forever. In this 181-page "epilogue," Kincaid—he of the gray hair and orange suspenders—returns to Roseman Bridge 16 years later at age 68 to relive those four passionate days. Will he unburn his bridges with Francesca? Disappointingly, much of the focus here is on Kincaid's 35-year-old son, who yearns for his father.
Waller's prose is less upholstered now, but flashbacks and a pat ending are dim reminders that the first book had the power of a once-in-a-lifetime meeting of souls. (John M. Hardy Publishing, $19.95)
Bottom Line: An irrelevant sequel
by Iris Johansen
My, Iris Johansen can stack up the corpses. In her latest suspenser six victims lie dead from bombings and poisonings by page 5, with many more to come. It's enough to rattle even our heroine, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, who reconstructs faces from anonymous skulls that she enjoys talking to.
Johansen's plots are tough on the stomach but too easy on the mind, with few taxing twists. A mess of characters—the shady senator, the sassy adolescent daughter, the fawning but rugged love interest—prove that chats with skulls or no, Johansen is no Shakespeare. (Bantam, $24.95)
Bottom Line: Out of shape
by Christopher Byron
There's enough dish to feed Martha Stewart lovers and loathers alike in this scrupulously reported bio. The author says he spoke to more than 100 people, but most of the revelations feel unsurprising.
Byron paints Stewart as a remote mother to her daughter and a cold wife who berated her husband until he walked out on her 25 years later. (She once called him "f------ stupid" in front of guests when he failed to stack firewood to her liking, a friend of the pair's said.) And (gasp!) power has made her no sweeter. Walking through the corridors of her corporate offices one day, she stopped to watch her dog poop on the carpet, telling an assistant, "I just wish I could get my employees to do that when I say."
The book goes on too long though, and Byron, a New York Post business columnist, wastes ink endlessly reworking his idea that Stewart is a sour apple who didn't fall too far from the tree: Her dad emerges as a nasty bully. Byron does nail Martha's undisputed genius for exploiting women's domestic fantasies, and the stories of how she wiped the floor with some of America's top male execs at Kmart and Time Warner go down like a delicious dessert. (John Wiley, $27.95)
Bottom Line: Needs pruning
Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line
by Art Linson
In this brief, blunt memoir, producer Linson, whose past hits include The Untouchables and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, runs through his crow-eating final days in the studio system. At Fox from 1996 to 1999, he was the force behind a string of movies—The Edge, Great Expectations, Pushing Tin, Fight Club—that sputtered at the multiplex. He's now an independent producer.
As cautionary showbiz tales go, Happened is a fun read. The tone—raw, wounded, sarcastic—is lively, and the story is seasoned with anecdotes about the stupid or bizarre behavior of suits and stars. (Alec Baldwin, cast as a seductive fashion photographer in The Edge, arrived on the set looking more like a lumberjack, with a paunch and a beard.) But consider again that list of movies: Not hits but by no means artistic failures, they feature top directors (David Fincher), writers (David Mamet) and stars (Brad Pitt). More of their offbeat sophistication should have made it into these notes from a fast-talking player. Happened reads like a pitch meeting for a book still to be written. (Bloomsbury, $24.95)
Bottom Line: Spite club
by Clara Olink Kelly
In this memoir of her upper-class Dutch mother, first-time author Kelly chronicles the nearly four years of terror she, her two siblings and their parents endured after the Japanese invaded the Dutch colony of Java in WWII and put thousands of Westerners in prison camps.
Despite long roll calls that forced women and children to stand under a sweltering sky, deplorable food and rampant disease, the family persevered as their dad survived a men's camp and their mom dutifully cleaned sewers. Kelly sometimes undermines herself, though, with clumsy attempts at a kid's perspective. (Random House, $21.95)
Bottom Line: Fascinating but flawed
by Johanna Lindsey
Page-turner of the week
Among the Ten Commandments of romance novelists are: In the Beginning, thy heroine shall hook up with her hero; they shall not have a smooth time of it; and thou shalt have no endings but happy ones. The suspense rests on the how, not the what. Kudos to Lindsey for the inventive circumstances she's concocted in this tale of courtship between a stubborn English lord and the lovely young daughter of a Highland Scots aristocrat.
are named Ian. They've got a history with her boyfriend-they think he beat up one of the less pugilistic brethren—and are determined to stop the wedding. Lindsey has a rousing good time with the clash between the rigid social structure of the London courting season and the uninhibited passions of her Scots.
Lines like "Takes skill tae fight fair.... Aye, resorting tae trickery would be yer only option" take some getting used to, but romance buffs will sigh. (Morrow, $25.95)
Bottom Line: Aye candy
by Suzanne Kingsbury
Ah, the summers of youth, when romance electrifies the air and the days seem to go on forever. This first novel has some of the magic of the former feeling—and, unfortunately, the tedium of the latter. Fresh out of prep school in the 1980s, Fletcher Greel returns home to Mississippi to work for his father, a judge, and falls for Haley Ellison, a beauty with a past. Fearing disapproval from Haley's dad, the pair keep their love a secret. But it's their pals, a white boy named Riley White and Crystal Nash, his black girlfriend, whose taboo passion has devastating consequences.
Maybe it's because not much happens for long stretches or because the obviously talented Kingsbury, who writes powerfully of Haley's eye for one of her dad's dangerous friends, is less evocative with healthy love. Either way, readers may find themselves longing for fall. (Scribner, $25)
Bottom Line: Endless Summer
by Majgull Axelsson
While Desirée lies in a nursing home, limbs gnarled by cerebral palsy and seizures, her mind takes her on fantastic journeys. She is an April Witch, clairvoyant and omniscient, able to leave her body and experience the world beyond her bed.
A hit in Axelsson's native Sweden, April Witch is both dreamlike and gritty. Born severely disabled in the 1950s, Desirée was abandoned by her mother and dumped in a series of nursing homes where she developed a passion for physics and for a doctor who nurtured her paranormal powers. As the end of her life nears, Desirée uses those forces to get inside the minds of the three "sisters" she has never met—foster children raised by her mother—to piece together the mystery of the life she was denied. Their lives are dismal, but you don't know whether to love, hate or pity them.
Axelsson's irresistible story combines suspense with the supernatural, setting up a haunting confrontation between a soaring mind and a body shackled by disease, family and society. Within the darkness there is a dash of hope—the ability to love in spite of unthinkable hardship. More than her clairvoyance, it is Desirée's greatest gift. Readers will be disturbed and exhilarated. (Villard, $24.95)
Bottom Line: Bewitching
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By Ed Silverman // January 3rd, 2013 // 8:54 am
From November 1990 to December 2005, Jill Osciecki was a sales representative for Amgen , mostly in the Midwestern US, where she promoted the Aranesp medicine that is used to treat anemia caused by chemotherapy and chronic kidney disease. However, she was one of a handful of Amgen reps who eventually chafed at allegedly illegal marketing tactics that have now become a familiar refrain in the lore of pharmaceutical marketing over the past two decades. Last month, the biotech paid $762 million to settle civil and criminal charges of off-label marketing and paying kickbacks (back story). The US Department of Justice found these practices induced physicians to use Amgen (AMGN) medications unnecessarily when lower-cost alternatives were available, causing federal healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid to overpay. We spoke with Osciecki, who wore a wire during numerous meetings with her former Amgen colleagues, about her experience and why she decided to go to the feds…
Pharmalot: What prompted you to become a whistleblower?
Osciecki: I didn't understand all the ins and outs of a qui tam or whistleblower lawsuit. I'd actually gone to the government first to report this activity before I filed this lawsuit. But the morale at the company was extremely low. My morale was low. People were being fired all over the place. This was in 2004. The culture had changed very dramatically after a managerial change. Amgen had been the kind of place where people loved to come to work, but then the management change made it miserable. But there wasn't necessarily any place better to go in terms of the pharmaceutical industry.
So people were trying to make the best of it. But I'm a very stubborn person and I wasn't likely to quit. I felt I may very well be fired as other reps had been. So I knew that if I ever intended to do anything about what I felt was unethical behavior, I had to do it while I was still at the company. I mean there were other things I could do (for a living) even if I got blackballed. I had a master's (degree). There was a family business.
Pharmalot: What was the tipping point for you?
Osciecki: I'd seen a couple of times in the company where all kinds of policies, HR policies, were ignored. One of the things that put me over the top was an unwillingness to enforce some of the HR policies. One person was retaliating against me because I responded to the company after being called about potential discrimination in our work group. I reported that. They sent me a letter saying they investigated it, but they had not done that at all. I felt they were rotten to the core. They didn't follow their own policies and I was fed up and experiencing retaliation.
Pharmalot: I see. And what about Aranesp?
Osciecki: We all knew what they were doing is illegal. The quickest way to get fired was to not hit your numbers and the only way to hit your numbers was to compete as everyone else was doing, which was to sell drugs through illegal mechanisms – promoting off label. [EDITOR'S NOTE: The feds accused Amgen of illegally promoting Aranesp at unapproved doses that were larger and less frequently administered, and also promoted the drug for treating anemia caused by cancer, regardless of whether a patient had been prescribed chemotherapy. The FDA determined this increased the risk of death.]
Osciecki: There were also the spread marketing techniques (in which Amgen manipulated pricing so that physicians could bill higher reimbursement rates to federal healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid). I was disgusted with that. It was clear that this (marketing) was not about safety and efficacy. It was all about getting reimbursement levels from Medicare. That's all that the company cared about. Once we got reimbursement, then all restrictions were off. We could talk about how much more money doctors or their surrogates could make.
Pharmalot: Can you explain that a little? What wasn't kosher?
Osciecki: Two things are not kosher – getting a compendia listing is supposed to be based on a broad overview of the literature and reflect accepted medical practice supported by peer-reviewed journal articles. Amgen had one, 30-patient study, which was not placebo-controlled, and took it to a compendium and convinced them to list it for approved use. The second thing is promoting or advocating for reimbursement of off-label use. And we had a clever way of getting around it. We were able to provide info to physicians in response to unsolicited questions. So we'd show them info on the disease state and we prompted them to ask questions about whether Aranesp could be used for anemia of cancer.
Amgen knew what the legal requirements were for providing reimbursement of off-label use. But there was not even a published study, just a poster from ASCO (the American Society of Clinical Oncology). That should have been a red flag. It was not peer reviewed. But once it's in a compendium, they went around to cancer specialists. It was a huge end run around FDA approval.
Pharmalot: You portray this in the lawsuit as a rather widespread effort…
Osciecki: There was a national meeting where they rolled out the entire plan. There were also pre-meeting materials and working materials that we all had to read. You know, we're talking about studies with glossy slides. Everyone had a role in this – marketing managers, scientific liaisons. There was a push to have anemia for cancer added as a reimbursable use of Aranesp. And once the listing was in that compendium, you'd have to get Medicare directors to change coverage documents.
Pharmalot: And the big competitive threat was (J&J's) Procit, right?
Osciecki: We were aware of Procrit studies where patients had died and asked experts who said there was concern about providing (Amgen's) Epogen in these patients, which could feed the tumor. I knew scientifically there was an unanswered question… Was it really even safe to use an ESA (erythropoiesis-stimulating agent, such as Epogen or Procrit) in patients who were not being treated with chemotherapy? There were large, placebo-controlled trials that had been done with Procrit. It's almost the same drug as Aranesp and had shown an increased death rate in a controlled group versus a placebo group in anemia of cancer setting. The question was: Why were more patients dying on the drug? It was in the back of my mind that placebo-controlled studies showed a higher death rate and we were pitching a non-placebo controlled study to get a compendia listing and now all sorts of people would be taking it. It was risky.
Pharmalot: But why did you go to the government before complaining internally?
Osciecki: I was afraid. I had seen Amgen either punish people who expressed concerns or fired them out right. So I'm not going to risk that by raising this issue. It's too big. I'm going to provide evidence to the government. Originally, I called and couldn't get anybody on the phone, but I did get a call back from an agent and set up a meeting at a government building. It was a hole in the wall, a very unimpressive office. This was an OIG agent I met with (from the US Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General). They weren't interested in a rogue district manager, though. They were interested in anything that would involve a regional manager or higher officials, or things that took place at regional and national meetings. I showed them evidence and was asked to get more evidence. As part of that, they asked me to wear a wire. I decided that I had to go to a higher authority. I thought the company was rotten to the core.
Pharmalot: It must have been stressful wearing a wire.
Osciecki: I did so on 13 different occasions. Sometimes I did it for a full day or multiple days. There were lots of logistics involved. I had to meet agents at various times each day to get new batteries and recordings changed out. It was quite stressful. There were special meeting places. What I was most concerned about was (creating noisy) feedback from the mechanism I wore. At one point, I went through a medical detector at an airport and the wire set it off. But luckily, none of my coworkers were with me.
There were times I was disappointed that I wasn't wearing the wire on certain days when I heard certain things said… I also remember that one of my coworkers accused me of being the type of person who would report illegal behavior to the government. So yes, that was stressful. But I knew the financial incentives involved and, as a result, that off-label use was increasing the amount of money that the government and individual people were paying. I knew someone who was paying a $2,000 copayment for one shot. This was a real hardship on people. And I really wanted to stick around and do what I could.
Yes it does matter. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!! and pretty soon America will wake up (Anonymous has spoken)
Sentiment: Strong Sell
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NORTON SHORES -- Sections of Sternberg, Hile and Shettler roads will receive a new surface coat this year.
The micro-surfacing process, which typically adds seven to eight years of life to the road, covers the sections of Sternberg from Porter Road to Grand Haven Road; Hile from Grand Haven Road to the U.S.-31 overpass; and Shettler from Airline Road to the U.S. 31 overpass.
The planned projects were announced as part of a contract extension for the micro-surfacing process with Strawser Construction of Columbus, Ohio. As part of a bid proposal approved last year, a clause was included to extend the agreement if the company was willing to honor its prices from last year, which was agreed.
Micro-surfacing is a polymer-modified cold-mix paving system used to seal and extend the service life of roads. It begins as a mixture of aggregate, asphalt emulsion, water and mineral fillers.
The cost for the contractor is expected to be $174,967. A total of $236,000 is budgeted for the project, and Public Works Director Jerry Bartoszek said the remainder of the money will be used by city crews to perform preparatory work for the micro-surfacing.
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During spring training, every team is confident about its chances, but then again, with players and front office types regurgitating cliches and hope, the talk can be easy to dismiss.
Roster makeup, age, recent history and quality of opposition usually tell a different story for teams expected to finish near the bottom of their divisions.
This spring, the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies were talking resurgence, not easy sells to those outside those organizations. But as the season's third weekend begins, both clubs are division leaders and have double-digit wins.
Surprising Sox and Rox
The Red Sox (11-4) are doing it with really good pitching—their 2.69 team ERA and .209 opponents' average lead the American League, and their 149 strikeouts are second.
Boston's rotation leads the league with a 2.32 ERA and 98 strikeouts. The bullpen had the second-lowest opponents' average (.195) despite being bunched in the middle in ERA (3.43).
"Our pitching has been unbelievable," second baseman Dustin Pedroia said.
But these are the Red Sox, who host the Kansas City Royals this weekend, so it's not all happening on the bump. The offense is third in the AL with 75 runs, is fourth in on-base percentage and tied for fifth in OPS.
The Rockies have not pitched terribly well. If it weren't for their bullpen's 3.81 ERA in 52 innings (the third-most in the National League), their record might not be as good.
With pitching that mediocre, the offense has to do damage, and it is. The Rockies, who host the Arizona Diamondbacks starting Friday, led the league with 93 runs scored, 156 hits, a .297/.366/.499 line and .865 OPS. They also are second with 25 home runs.
Carlos Gonzalez, Dexter Fowler and Michael Cuddyer are major reasons why the offense has clicked. Gonzalez has a 1.222 OPS with four home runs; Fowler has a 1.084 OPS with seven homers, and Cuddyer is checking in with a 1.079 OPS and three homers.
Happy homecoming
Detroit Tigers right fielder Torii Hunter was a fan favorite in Anaheim for five seasons, producing on the field and always flashing a trademark smile.
Friday will mark his first trip to Angel Stadium since his not-so-sweet departure from the Los Angeles Angels. While Hunter and his former teammates will greet each other warmly, and the fans likely will welcome Hunter as well, the 37-year old doesn't have as shiny a relationship with owner Arte Moreno.
After the Angels signed free agent Josh Hamilton to a $125 million contract, Hunter took to Twitter. "I was told money was tight but I guess Arte had money hidden under the mattress," Hunter tweeted. "Business is business but don't lie."
Hunter later said he had no hard feelings toward the organization and that his comments were "a joke gone bad," but he had reason to feel unwanted by the organization after posting the highest OPS-plus (132) of his career in 2012.
He is off to a strong start this season, hitting .413/.439/.587 with a 1.027 OPS to go with a league-leading 26 hits. Those numbers could improve against an Angels' pitching staff that has a league-worst 5.43 ERA.
Walking the walk
Cincinnati Reds MVP candidate Joey Votto has led the NL in OBP in each of the past three seasons and in walks the past two, and he is well on his way to repeating those feats this year.
Entering Thursday, Votto had walked a major league high 24 times as teams continue to pitch around him. That total is just two fewer than the entire Chicago White Sox roster. Those free passes have helped Votto post a ridiculous .526 OBP.
The problem is, Votto is paid to be a run producer, and there has been a heated debate in certain circles about whether Votto should expand his strike zone. He has one home run and three RBIs at this point, yet the Reds are just one behind the Rockies in runs.
Votto walked twice more Thursday in the Reds' series opener at home against the Miami Marlins. Miami's staff has allowed the third-most walks in the league.
Struggling sluggers
Adam Dunn, Ryan Braun and Matt Kemp have been among the game's best power hitters in recent years, but they have not been so potent this season. Kemp's struggles for the Los Angeles Dodgers have been documented; he has struck out nine times in his last 18 at-bats heading into LA's weekend road series with the Baltimore Orioles.
Braun homered Thursday while going 1-for-4 against the San Francisco Giants, but in his previous five games the Milwaukee Brewers' left fielder was 1-for-18 with 11 strikeouts.
The Brewers host the Chicago Cubs this weekend, and Braun will face Jeff Samardzija on Friday. Braun is 6-for-13 with a home run and three walks lifetime against Samardzija.
Dunn's .105/.164/.228 line with 20 strikeouts and three walks is proof of his struggles this season. He is 1-for-33 with 11 strikeouts in his last nine games. Things could get better this weekend against a soft Minnesota Twins pitching staff.
A Giant concern
After another ugly start from the rotation Thursday in Milwaukee, the Giants' starters have a 5.07 ERA, tied for worst in the NL.
Matt Cain has not looked like an ace lately, allowing 18 runs (all earned) over his last 16 2/3 innings. That stretch includes one start in which he allowed two runs over seven innings. Ryan Vogelsong has a 5.89 ERA through three starts, and Tim Lincecum (5.63 ERA) still hasn't solved his problems.
Barry Zito was solid in his first two starts, then was pounded in Milwaukee. He now has a 4.86 ERA. Only Madison Bumgarner (3-0, 1.77) has been consistent this month.
The Giants return home to pitcher-friendly AT&T Park this weekend to host the San Diego Padres, so it wouldn't be a stunner if this rotation begins to right itself over the next three games.


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There's something magical about a Tralf show, something transformative about the best musical experiences in that building at 622 Main St. There is a feeling of having gone through the looking glass when you arrive in the Theatre District, take the staircase – or the escalator, back in the day – up to the second floor, walk down the long hallway, greet the amiable, enthusiastic doorman who's there at every show and has been for years, and make your way into the club.
Past the doorway, and there's another hallway leading down into the bar area. This one boasts a hall-of-fame ambience. Lining the walls is a photo gallery of greats from the Tralf's history, among them jazz giants Chick Corea and Pat Metheny, Buffalo-born rocker Willie Nile, Kris Kristofferson, Leon Redbone, Richie Havens and even clown-rock legend and guitar god Joe Walsh.
Jeremy Hoyle, local musician and promoter with ESI, who books the majority of the acts at the Tralf these days, wrote to me in hushed text-tones about the autographs scrawled by performers on the walls and ceiling in one of the Tralf's sound equipment storage rooms. Dizzy Gillespie, Warren Zevon, Gregg Allman, Prince – it's an autograph sculpture that stands as a monument to the greats who have passed through the joint.
Point made – you're in the presence of the ghosts of greatness, and anyone taking the stage within this hallowed hall must stand on the shoulders of some serious giants.
At the end of the "gallery of the greats" hallway, the bar is on your right, and usually the always pleasant Kathy Marfione is behind it. There's the balcony seating to the left – always full by the time I stomp my way into the building, but I did manage to sneak up there once when Adrian Belew was simply tearing the place down, something I've seen him do nearly a dozen times at the Tralf over the years.
Dead ahead is the stage, fronted by what is sometimes a dance floor, and sometimes a seated area with tables – again, for the lucky (and planning ahead-adept) folks who get their early enough to claim them. The Tralf is not a huge place, which means that as long as you're in the house, you're going to be a part of the show – the intimacy of the room is ingrained in the experience of the music itself on the best nights. The sound is almost always superb in the venue, too, which is important when you consider the wide variety of musical idioms that have been blasted through the Tralf's PA over the years.
Last week, as I watched the Robert Glasper Experiment blow the minds of the full house with a program of music that suggested what the future of jazz might look, sound and feel like, I was jolted into a mood of reflection. I've seen hundreds of shows at the Tralf over the past 22 years, and though I don't like to break all of those experiences down into a "Top 10"-type list, it's interesting to wander down memory lane for a while.
I can recall seeing the late Chris Whitley playing a solo show at the Tralf, and it was a dark, intense and absolutely spellbinding show. I had a seat for that one, and Whitley's performance had me nailed to it. I never even got up to hit the bar, to say nothing of the men's room.
I remember a particularly poignant set from Dicky Betts; Seattle prog-rockers King's X melting my face and battering my eardrums, the after-image of lanky bassist/vocalist Dug Pinnick standing on one of the tables and towering over the assembled; standing dead-center in front of the stage, with Los Lobos' David Hidalgo a foot away from me, leading the band through a smoking encore of the Allman Brothers Band's "Whipping Post." There was the night I took my son to see one of his guitar heroes, prog-jazz virtuoso Alan Holdsworth, for the first time, and introducing him to Holdsworth just before he hit the stage, too; freaking out as cult legends and space-rock icons Ozric Tentacles asked us to come along as they toured the cosmos for a few hours, then delivered us safely back in our seats.
There was the night Prince played a show at Shea's, and then kicked out the funk all night long in the "after-hours jam session" tradition at the Tralf. (A major regret in my musical life – I missed this one. Had to give my ticket away at the last minute, having contracted a nasty case of food poisoning. Talk about blowing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.)
I recall sharing a few pitchers of beer with Marillion singer Fish, who lived up to his name by drinking like one, following a strong solo set on the Tralf stage. A few years later, I met Ike Willis of Frank Zappa/Project Object fame in that same dressing room. I've had a handful of transformative experiences during Todd Rundgren's many Tralf shows, too.
I fondly recall sharing a table with my colleague Jeff Simon as revered jazz drummer and Buffalo native Bobby Previte came back to town to lead a home-grown collective of musicians through a startling interpretation of Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew."
OK, then. Enough reminiscing. I'm ready for the next 30 years!
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